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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1913-05-23
A GREAT SUCCESS WAS SCORED
Big Audience At the Coliseum Last Evening Was De-
lighted With the Musical Program-Symphony
Orchestra Will Render Program Tonight

first number was a march, Under the
Banner of Victory" by Won Blon and
played by the orchestra. Miss Mar
jorie Beck, a pupil of Miss Laura Gas
ton, was at the piano She is a gifted
musician and her playing last night
was exceptionally well executed.
1t is rare, indeed, that one finds
high school orchestra of the ealibre
of the Richmond organization, and To-
cal people should be proud of this
band of young musicians.
Ralph Campbell Sloane, who re-
Gently came to Richmond as superyi-
sor music in the Richmond schools,
made a marked impression on the
audience by the manner in which he
directed this orchestra last evening
Mr.. Sloane was born in Gallon, O., and
during his residence there was under
the direction of the late Prof. William
Hood CritZer, supervisor of music and
we'll known in musical circles. He was
graduated from the orchestral depart
ment of the Obe-iin Conservatory of
Music and from the Thomas
Normal Training School of Music at
violin with Earl Pfouts, of New York
Mr.. Sloane is a young man, and his
friends believe he has wonderful ca
reer before him.
The second number on the pro-
gram was The Bohemian Girl" by
Balfe. This number proved especially
popular and was well rendered. Just
before the intermission, Miss Marjorie
Beck, first piano, and Miss Laura Gas
ton, second piano, played the accom-
paniment for a string sextet, made
up of four violins and two 'cellos. This
number was one of the most pleasing
on the program.
"The Rose Maiden" a cantata, writ
ten by Cowen, was rendered after the
intermission. The soloists were Mrs.
F. w Kruger, soprano; Mrs Ray
Longnecker, contralto; Mr.. Glen Frier-
mood, baritone, and Mr.. Otto C. Krone,
tenor. Miss Elizabeth Myrick and Miss
Beck played the accompaniments Mrs.
Kruger took the part of 'Roseblos-
som; Mrs. Longnecker, THE Garden
er's Daughter" Mr.. Krone, The For
ester,' and Mr.. Friermood The
Spring" Mr. Krone was never in bet
ter voice and sang his part in a most
commendable manner. He possesses
an especially rich and clear tenor.
Mr.. Friermood sang his part with great
dramatic intensity, which added to
tie success of the cantata. To many,
Mr.. Friermood is not well known, as
he has only sung in Richmond few
times. However. he has appeared in
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1913-05-23
STREET STORIES

Mrs. Mary Ray today objected very
strenuously to paying a tax on a dog
which had died before the reports of
the assessors had been turned in. In
sofar as the canine was dead Mrs. Ray
believed an injustice was done when
she was compelled to pay for the dog.
Township Assessor Potter interprets
the law in such way that a tax must
be paid on all CANNES deal or alive if
they are seen by the assessor March
l. Dogs is dogs" said the official.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1913-05-23
BY ELIZABETH n. THOMAS

Beautifully decorated with flags and
ferns. the Coliseum presented a most
attractive appearance last evening
when the doors We're opened at 7:30
o'clock for the first of a series of
three concerts by the Richmond High
School orchestra and chorus and the
Richmond Symphony orchestra. The
scene presented by the large chorus
seated at one end of the building
was most picturesque. The girls all
wore white lingerie frocks.
The audience was representative of
social, musical and educational circles
Of this city The large Richmond High
School ORCHESTRA, under the personal
direction os Prof. Ralph C. Sloane, was
seated below the large chorus, a tier
of seats having been arranged for the
chorus.
The Coliseum was well filled, and at
Sis o'clock the program began. The
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1913-05-23

Ballade ct Polonaise 49,. Vieuxtemps
Miss Kirkpatrick.
March, "Militari," Op. 81. No. L..
Franz Schubert
Orchestra
(Intermissionl
symphony, "Eroica," Op 80, first
movement. L. Won Beethoven
Orchestra
Queen of Sheba- Cavatina: More
Regal in His Low Estate"
Charles GouRod
Mrs. Igelman.
Kronungsmarch. Aus der Opera:
Der Prophet" t"....G. Meyerbeer
Orchestra.
Overture, Fra Diavolo ....... Auber
Orchestra.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1913-05-23
OFFICIALS ON TRAIL

Every effort is being made by Of
fetal of the Y. NJ. c. 4. TO ascertain
the identity OF the person who delib-
erately slashed the cIotn on the pool
tables at the association building. 1t
will be necessary TO recover the Ia
bles. Ii is not known whether the
work was done by a crank, who is OPP
posed to pool playing in the institu-
ton. or whether il was done malicious
Iv by a member of the association.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1913-05-23

hers of the Elkhoru Baptist churc
south of this city, Sunday. May !
Rev. H. C. odell. pastor of the churc
viii deliver an address upon this d
casion. Several musical selections NJ
large number of Richmond persons ar
others who have been members of q
church at some time will attend Il
celebration. Those who attend Al
requested TO bring basket lunches
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1913-05-23
.1O6TH ANNIVERSARY
of Elkhorn Church TO Be Oh
served Sunday.

The 106th anniversary of its con-
struction will be observed by mem
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-03-30

the flatterer, but the foxy Indian had
himself learned some recent lessons of
Spanish character, and he is as anxious
to keep himself beyond the reach of
DeSoto, as DeSotos anxiety is to gain
possession of him. In one of the build
ings Tuscaloosa is holding a council
with his leading spirits, as message
after message comes from DeSoto. The
Indian is not so unskilled in the art
of deception that he does not see
through the thin guise Of the purpose
net is spread in the sight of any bird"
While the negotiations are thus pend
ing, while the parleying and dallying
are going on can Indian warrior dashes
from the assembled host and with stem
torian voices attended with grim eX-
pressions of heated hostility, denounces
the Spaniards as robbers, thieves and
urderers-denounces DeSoto for hold
ing in captivity the beloved chief who
Is as free as the Spaniards, and as
good as the Spanish leader himself
meanwhile making as though he would
shoot with an arrow into the Spanish
ranks. Truth is hard and sometimes
hurts. DeSoto is inclined to disregard
all this. The fact is, there was a mu-
tual and balanced fear between the two
parties. Each feared the other: each
was equally doubtful of an issue Joined.
What might have been the result had
not a most untimely occurrence taken
place. cannot be imagined, but Spanish
cavalier standing near the warrior who
gave vent to the speech just referred to,
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AN IDEALIST PRESIDENT-By George E
Eaves, D. d.

said. Federal laws for the due protection
OF women and children are inevitable 1t
IS the joy of our age that what every OBJ
servant person knew long ago has been
forced upon the attention of all America.
National sins are all rooted in a false
economic attitude. To save women and
children. men and homes, health and
decency is a very simple process, like
getting born or dying.
You can easily tell how it's done. Mr..
Wilson is national acconcheur. and he is
going to see that this birth process. SO
simple, is actually put into practice as a
President may. Most men, however, de-
sire TO postpone the new birth, alike for
self and for the community.
?. Some OF my friends stare when |
utter to them the truism that the high
tariff has ruined perhaps half a million
American women, perhaps, a million.
Whether it be a half million or more or
less does not matter. What we know
is that high prices hinder men from mar
rying, make temptation for both men
and women, and PROMOTE the occasional
and the professional classes of vicious
women When Mr. Wilson frankly as
sails that high tariff and expounds the
reasons that actuate him and his party,
1t is not politics that speak, but high
morality. He knows that the economic
conditions of a land largely determine
its morals And he knows that for the
sake of children vet unborn and for all
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irritated beyond control, Glove him asun-
der with a heavy sword and his bowels
gushed out in sight of all present. This
is the touch of the match TO the maya
zine. Like the muffled roar of distant
storm, the savages quickly gather, ami
in fury rush on the Spaniards who stand
with entire self-collecton as though moth
ing was occurring. Checked by this mar
Vicious GOODNESS, the Indians hesitate and
with the utmost precision the Spaniards
march outside the walls, excepting 10,
who alarmed by the outbreak, flee into a
room of one of the buildings and close
fast the door.
Once beyond the gate, the Spaniards
wheel in defiance and show battle. Their
eyes flash terror, their attitude is one of
ferocity. DeSoto has less than a hun
dred men, as the infantry has not yer
arrived Soon it appears, however, and
gives fresh nerve. Save the unfortunate
killing of the warrior nothing has been
yet done to indicate an approaching bat
tie, though the signs thicken fast. The
low thud of hurrying feet within the
walls while all else is silent, betokens
trouble. The Spaniards have but a min
ute or so to wait, before indications of
hostility are manifest The camp equip
age IFS been left by the Spaniards on
the square, as well as the Indian pris-
oners who had been used all the way
from Coosa as burden bearers. The bag
sage is burned and the prisoners are
freed The iron collars are taken from
their necks and the chains from their
wrists and bows and clubs are placed
In their hands to avenge themselves of
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the generations TO come the problem of
living must be simplifed.
.. Shall we then say that President
Wilson is dangerous; that he. too. be-
longs to the class Of professional re-
formers" whose easy oratory. so blatant
and so disturbing to established interests,
ultimately wearies the solid common
sense of the people? I wish we could
get rid of that gihe. The ignoramus nat
urally believes that the things he has
been accustomed to are necessary parts
of the very constitution of things. Hence
il is the ignoramus, not the astute man
who gibes at professional reformers. Is
it not worth while to recall the fact that
the greatest souls of all time have been
classed as professional reformers? Isaiah.
jeremiah. Socrates and lie, the greatest
of all. were so dubbed. ] am not sur
prised to learn that Wilson is already
hearing the gibe. is already regarded with
alarmed distrust by men whose supreme
standard of values is the American dollar.
l. on the other hand. the revolt of big
business interests, however serious it
may prove, is Offset by the apparent fact
of Wilson'S progressivist succession. lie
comes into his kingdom after a period of
preparation The air has been charged
with rumbling and mutterings these many
years. 1t will be strange if such an IDEAL
list does not precipitate elemental con-
fict. He is nearer the point of view of a
Roosevelt or of Bryan than of a Blaine
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nit of the walls, and from the portfolios
the arrows are rained down on the Span
iards, but striking their encased armor
glide off. Huge pebbles, the size of a
mans fist, and larger, fall like hailstones
upon their helmets, but to no effect.
The gate begins to give way, it reels, it
falls with a creaking crash, and the
Spaniards sweep within. Indians and
Spaniards fight alike like demons. DeSoto
still leads, hewing down man after man
with his broadsword. His men follow
with equal execution.
Torches in hand. the walls are be-
ing fired The thick plastering is
knocked off and in many places the
fires begin. Ladders are improvised.
the walls are scaled and near the sum
nit the torch is applied. The Is pent-
up men are released, jump with eXhil-
aration into the fray and do deadlier
work than the others. The fires begin
to climb the walls. They toss high in
air their forked tongues. In a sway
ing column the smoke darkens the
heavens.
For nine long hours the battle has
ragged without cessation and the end
is not yet. Yells. orders, shrieks, the
clang of steel, the stroke of axes, the
roar and erackle of flames mingle in
one common confusion. DeSoto rushes
on a big warrior, raises his lance to
drive 1T through him and receives a
long arrow in his thigh. lie cannot
stop to extricate it now and while 1t
is protruding and is much in his way
he fights on like a demon unclaimed.
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attendance compulsory, 30 years ago,
appeared as foolish a March Hare's
dream and as mischievous as could be
conceived. Or again, to coordinate in
political party irish Catholics and
Scottish Presbyterians and English
Nonconformists seemed the vainest of
vain imaginations. Yet for many years
Gladstone held power by precisely that
coordination. He did it because he
was an idealist, a man of faith, whose
soul laid hold upon the unseen and
made things that were not come into
existence to justify his imperious eX-
pectancy. Through sordid and paltry
little wars he steadfastly sought place
for Europe and for England and be-
came the arbiter Of peace because of
that seeking.
Mr.. Wilson comes into power in these
days with a like confession OF faith.
Here Is his political programme. We
may study it as sketch of what he
reckons practicable, available good. For
these things he will spend his energy
and make his prayers. These are the
things that if he were Roosevelt he
would call my policies" They are the
splendid policies of religious idealist.
They are absolutely modern. They are,
in a sense, quite unqualified by any
other term, American. So that when
these next four years have gone and
March, 1917, has dropped anchor from
his biplane on these shores, we shall
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stunned by the steadiness and nerve with
which they are met. Now begins the bat
tie in downright earnestness.
DeSoto is at great disadvantage both
in numbers and in supplies of munitions.
Moscoso fingers with the reserves. He
is much in need, should be here, but
delays. With strained vision DeSoto
looks for his lieutenant, but he comes
not The fight is now hand to hand.
The Indians are perhaps 80 to against
the Spaniards, but order and discipline,
powder and ball, crossbow and sword,
horse and armor prevail against the odds.
DeSoto leads his troops in person. His
men are animated by his dauntless pres
sence and the terror of his execution.
He fights like a common trooper. The
blood still oozes from his wound, but
he fights on still. The Spaniards not
only hold their own, but force the saw
ages back.
At this juncture Moscoso arrives. The
Indians rush again within the walls and
make fast the gate. DeSoto now plans for
the final onset. His heavy ordnance is
to be brought into prompt execution. On
the spot he organizes his detachments.
and while the arrows are flying, he as
signs to each body its task in the clos
ing scene of the drama. Goodness like this
is almost superhuman, but DeSoto is not
cooler than his men.
The axes begin to ring on the sate.
Nerved now to desperation by this, the
Indians fight with more ferocity than
ever With resounding blows the axes
fall on the doomed gate. From the sum-
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X HANY there are who will think
MI it dispraise TO call President
LV1 woodrow Wilson an idealist.
To them the word signifies the i'm
practicable. the theoretical, tue vision
ary But such is not the case. Idealists
arc rather they who recognize an aim
or vision as worth striving for and
then bend their energies toward that
goal.
have read afresh the inaugural adj
dress and shall read it at least twice
again before l send these words to
the editor, lest | should unintentionally
misrepresent the great and good man
who spoke them. One thing Is cer-
tain They are the words of the po-
litical idealist. of a man who sees
visions and dreams Dreams not TO lose
them in beatific emotion, but to- win
them by hard and strenuous endeavor.
They are the words of great social
student who has measured the distance
between the age and its goal. They are
not the words of the sentimental Sob
Dist who snuffles a hypocritical prayer
and ends with an "Ah, but such can
never bel"
Gladstone was an idealist as we'll as
- statesman. The changes which he
wrought out were not attained easily
They seemed indeed far from prac-
ticable. TO give every child in Eng
land an education and to make school
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their oppressors. The 10 who fled into
one of the buildings are still cut off, and
the situation is ominously acute.
The delay is only temporary for soon
the savages pour through the gateway
with demoniacal yelling, while thousand
swift arrows pillow the air. Five Span
lards of the little band fall dead, and
DeScto receives wound. Regardless of
the flowing blood he leads his command
to meet the shock of the foe. Surprised
at courage so unusual, the savages fall
ter, then rush back within the gate and
struction of the 10 penned within the room,
and seek to force the door, but as each
savage shows himself the enclosed men
shoot him down. Some of the best of
DeSoto's fighters are shut within that
room-among them are five of DeSoto 5
bodyguard some crossbowmen, two
priests and friendly Indian. Their
doom seems certain, but they are fight
ing like bayed tigers. Unable to force the
door, the Indians climb to the top of the
walls, and begin to tear up the roof in
order to reach them, but again as an
Indian comes within view he is killed.
The dead are heaped before the door,
they lie i'll pile on the roof
Meanwhile there is no slack In the
fighting at the front. The Spanish as
sault the walls, but are driven back,
though in perfect order. Encouraged by
this, and believing the battle already
won, the Indians again throw open the
big gate and rush with fury on the Span
iards Indians know little of the value
of a retreat in order to rallY and are
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be able to ask. Did Mr. Wilson make
good? Did he in any sense realize his
ideals2.
Mr.. Wilson has the ideals of the peo-
pie whom many men call faddists, the
idealists that involve social regenera-
ton. He has been reading the latest
words of the latest political economists.
He is familiar with the movements that
are dragging America from her old in
dividualistic mornings, and he is ready
to shout with the youngest
"she starts. she moves, she seems to
feel
The thrill of life along her keel
He is ready, therefore, to aid the process
whereby the toilers of America shall be
guarded against the greed of America n
capital. He comes out not against capital,
but for labor. 1t is not capital that
thrusts the toiler into infamous condi-
tons of housing, makes him the prey of
the money lender, works him first for a
cruel profitAon his labor and then for a
cruel and humiliating profit on his pur-
chases. Honest capital refuses to be
nefariotis or cruel. But there is a sort of
capitalism even in this free land whose
activity is a denial of American law and
whose snews are the sinews of serpents.
forever coiling around free hearts to
hruise them unto deats Mr. Wilson'S
policies will consider American manhood
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OUR ENGLISH--No. by DR.. '

pressure of the fingers A "dowty" tree
near my barn? No, sir, The dowty
tree must come down. | shall here
after work that word for all its worth,
even if it is obsolete.
But l return from my extended di-
gression ! was writing of the losses
to the English language. Not only have
we lost such examinations of plural
nouns as those to which / referred,
but we have lost vastly by the desue-
tude of many natural and rational
preterits, which were once in universal
use. To instance: The preterit of the
verb ito blend" was formerly "blent,"
but offended" is used everywhere ex-
cept in poetic compositions. Why not
be consistent and say "spended," send
ed 'rended?' Because the old forms
are better--blent, spent, sent and rent.
Tho preterit of the infinitiye ito help
was formerly "holp,' and the par
ticiple was "holpen." How much bet
ter are these forms, now considered
archaic, than our present ones. "Shrive"
has its natural preterit preserved to
us in only one instance-"Shrove Tues
day." Suppose one followed the mod
ern tendency and should say "Shrived
Tuesday," The preterit of spit is as
often spit as "spat" The New Tesla
ment preserves "spat' to us But one
could easily fill a column with lost or
unused preterits
1t is amusing to see what fancies
certain commentators employ when
they come upon a word in Shakespeare
which they do not know Many words
that he used are lost to us altogether
it is true; but IL one will go back to
the Vision of Piers Plowman or to
Chaucer, he will be most likely to find
the word and it's original meaning.
Frequently the commentators will tell
you that a word should be this or
that" then they change the spelling
and the meaning entirely and thus cor
rupt the text
give an illustrations According to
a received text, old Polonius says to the
King, in Hamlet,
LET his queen mother all alone en-
treat him
To show his grief-let her be round
with him"
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as more important than any dlNidehas'
Your progressive statesman has great
task on his hands to achieve labor legis-
lation by federal authority. Much ideal
ism has grown weary in past years before
phases of this task. And vet federal laws
must follow the appointment of a cabinet
minister designated to represent labor. II
is a most happy augury that the first TO
become the minister or secretary on be-
half of labor gets his appointment from
the ldealist woodrow Wilson.
In effect the latest and most daring
announcement of the national confer
ence of charities and corrections, the
greatest group of progressive sociologists
i'm the land, is calmly endorsed by the new
President, a democrat, the last product
and the last hope of indiNidualismi Ii
means that the messages to Congress of
the next four years shall be good reading
for the man whose capital is his health,
his skill his agility. his strength, but not
his Dollars 1t means that the long injuS-
tce whereby these gifts of God have
been despised and bartered. like slave 5
body is now pronounced injustice by the
highest authority in the land. We are
promised an era of man to supplant the
era Of money. an end of the accurst his
torlc commerce which snapped the Son OF
Man for a little higher interest on bonds.
America is now pledged to have care
for her sons as we'll as for her coupons.
Concerning there is much that might be