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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-01-26
Here and There
in the Legislature

Speaker Houston was in bed yes
terday suffering from an attack Of
grippe, which physicians hope will not
prove serious. His duties were per-
formed by Floor Leader Willis and
Delegate Browning.
Delegate Hugh 4. White. of Rock
bridge, is patron OF n resolution pro-
viding for an amendment to the Con-
stitution. looking to the introduction
in Virginia OF the initiative and
referendum.
Under the terms of n bill introduced
yesterday by Delegate I.eedy. Of Page,
1t is provided that after July |, 1920,
in order to DO licensed as pharma-
cist within the meaning OF the present
law. an applicant shall not be less than
twenty-one years old. and shall present
evidence that no or she has
had not less than two years practical
experience under the personal super
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-01-26
APPROVES REPEAL
OF JUDGES PENSION

CONTINUED from First Page)
with the approval Of the court. may
grant immunity to any witness called
70 testify in behalf OF the prosecu-
Mon.
The House passed ono uneontested
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-01-26
Automobile StoIcp

Automobile stolen.
w. :. Bell, loo North Elm street
reported to the police last night that
his garage. at 2+li Floyd Avenue. had
been broken into and his automobile
CT oil
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-01-26

have graduated In pharmacy at some
school or college Of pharmacy of recog
ntzed standing. and also pass AN ex
animation satisfactory To- a majority OF
the board
y bin introduced yesterday by Dele
gate Moss provides for the appoint
ment of Il policcwoman In every city
in the Commonwealth credited with Il
population of $1,000 or more by the
last Federal census. Two policcwomcn.
the bin provides. shall be provided in
every city having a population Of
$4,000 or more.
Senator Byrd. OF Frederick in rcso-
luton adopted yesterday by the Senate
asks tho state Highway Commissioners
TO furnish that body. as soon as prac
ticable. with certain pertinent infor-
: hi;itioh concerning the conduct of his
Office. His resolution, the Senator said
was not intended TO ,CmbOdy any critt-
cism Of the way in which the cominiS-
sioncr had managed the affairs Of the
oihc.. but was intended simply to put
the Information within easy access
These arc some of the things asked
Tor: list Of all agents or employees.
with the salaries paid them, for the
year 1913. and a separate statement OF
, the expenses paid for each aud the
character of such expenses; the total
bond issue money, OBJ of state money
co OF county money. cd OF money
spent on convict labor camps since the
time the road law OF 1908 became
operative; whether any person audited
Inc vouchers contained on pages 1876
~ OF the report, and. if so. who.
whether or not the expenditure Of the
S'2,l26.13. as set forth on page l2G OF
the report is entirely within tn. dis
cretion of the Highway Commissioners
or. IT there is any check On him. VIVA,
ana who constitutes the check and
da'a as 10 the comparative efficiency
OF convict with ordinary labor.
Under the provisions of bill in
troduccd In the Senate yesterday by
senator Allen. of Luncnburg the min
mum wage for female workers i'm Njr
elnia VIII be 81 a day. or fraction
ihcrcof. Violation OF the statute viii
be accounted a misdemeanor punish
apie by fine Of not less than go, nor
NOR" than 500. The bill does not an
ply TO domestic servants
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-01-26

vision OF registered pharmacist. and I
have graduated In pharmacy at some
school or college OF pharmacy of recog-
nizcd standing. and also pass an ex-
animation satisfactory To majority OF
the board
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-01-26
Three Cigarette Faults
to Avoid

First, avoid cigarettes that
don't just suit your own taste.
Second, avoid those that
bother your throat OF tongue.
Third, avoid those that
make you feel mean" after
smoking all you want.
If Fatimas, for instance,
seem to you to be guilty on
any one Of those three counts,
we say, avoid Fatin7as.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-07-15
whsn We Feared the Indians.

At q recent gathering OF life insur-
ance men one of the old timers exhtb-
ited a copy of a permit which had
been attached to a policy issued In
1868. This permit read:
"The within assured has permission
to reside In any settled part OF the
states Of California, Nevada, Oregon
or Washington territory and while SO
residing to make trips (as passenger
only on first class steamers plying be-
tween the ports of Washington terri
tory, the states of California and Ore
gon and the Sandwich Islands and to
proceed to and return from In like
manner or by public conveyance over
land;
provided that written notice be CIV
en- by the assured whenever any trip
to the Sandwich Islands or to the At
lantic states is undertaken to the gen.
eral agent Of the company at San
Francisco, Cal, and provided, also, that
on the overland route the said assured
to take his own risk by death from
hostile Indians."-Wan Street Journal.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-07-15
Cnffee With Milk.

For many years after coffee was first
drunk in Europe. says the Manchester
Guardian. no one thought of mixing 1t
with milk any more than the Turks
and Arabs do now. The use Of coffee
au lait seems to date from 1857. Nine.
de Sevigne. writing TO her daughter In
that year. said that doctor much In
vogue has taught us to mix sugar and
milk with our coffee. They make a
most delightful compound, which Will
help to support me through the rigors
of Lent"
In letter written seven years ear
lier she had mentioned as an eccentric
proceeding on the part of Nine. de la
Sabliere that "She drinks milk to her
tea" Readers OF "Unbeaten Tracks
In Japan" may remember that one or
the Anus thought it disgusting that
Mrs. Bishop should drink milk and
pollute her tea with fluid having so
strong a smell and taste.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-07-15
Fable of Two Maidena.

Once there were two maidens who
sought to catch a nice young man, and
II was a false start In the eyes or the
undiscerning, for the one was exceed
tngly fair to look upon and dressed
stylishly, while the other was plain OF
countenance.
The pretty girl smiled sweetly on the
nice young man and talked to him till
she dazzled him with her beauty and
charmed him with her wit The plain
one gazed wonderingly at him and
made him talk to her Of divers things,
while she listened, entranced at his
wisdom and learning.
He took the pretty girl out riding, to
the theater and bought her chocolates
and flowers, and all the knowing ones
said she had struck winner, when
one day he married the plain girl and
took her on the continent for their
honeymoon,
The pretty girl had made him very
much pleased with her, but the plain
girl had gone one better and made him
very much more pleased with himself.
Moral.-The people who read human
nature as they run generally get hrs'
to the wire.-Pearson's.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-07-15
Goino Without Food.

Science says that If he can get drink
ing water an ordinary man can exist
for about thirty days without food. At
the end of that time the machinery or
the body will not be ruined and can be
entirely strengthened back to its old
standard by careful feeding. About
one-quarter of our body weight Is fat,
and it is mostly this fat which Is alb
sorbed as food during the period or
starvation We can absorb and burn
up our muscles until 60 per cent Of
their weight has gone. We can do the
same with from 80 to 40 per cent Of
our liver and digestive organs and 20
Der cent of our lungs. Our hearts can
lose 10 per cent, and our brains and
nervous system can lose per cent. 1t
will thus be seen that the more vital
organs, brain and heart, yield least or
their valuable substance for the life OF
the body, while the less valuable sub
stances-fat, muscles, and so on-are
consumed first.-New York American.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-07-15
MRS. EDISON RAPS
ABBREVIATED skirts
Hundreds Present When Invsc4.y.
Wife Hits clothins-Urges Girh
to Be Modest.

New York.-Hundreds Of wona
Gently heard well known women vha
were delegates to the National F.d
Grafton of Women's Clubs convention
discuss dress-the right and vron,
kind of dress, the future dress and Tia
cost Of dress. All the speaker ad.
vocated greater individuality In dress
Mrs. Thomas A Edison made an an
peal for greater modesty in dresa par.
ticularly Of young women, and In m
unmistakable terms assailed clothinp
which, she said, tended to lead sons
down to degradation. She denounced
"the present abbreviated skirts and IN.
covered shoulders" saying: Il had a
father who frequently reminded me.
Daughter, be modest l think this
would be good advice to our gfris to-
day"
Her husband, Mrs. Edison said, had
declared there was not more than one
woman in a hundred who was well
dressed.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-07-15
DRIVEN INSANE BY 100
CIGARETTES A DAY
Sent to an Asylum Upon Saloon
keepers Complaint and Doc
tors Testimony.

Detroit, Mich.-Frank Winters, the
man who smoked hundred cigarettes
q day, was committed to the Pontiac
asylum by Judge Hubert recently In
the probate court
The incessant use Of the cigarettes
was declared by DR.. s. L. Layton, who
examined Winters, to have affected his
mind. Frequenting a saloon at the cor
ner of Chamberlain and Lawndale ave-
nues, Winters smoked until his supply
gave out and his money too. After
that he begged smokes from the Gus
toners of the saloon, according to 10
seph Berman, the proprietor OF the
place.
Berman petitoned the court to have
Winters taken to an asylum. A Ger
man by birth, Winters was getting
along well In this country until the
cigarette habit got the upper hand
Given jobs by Berman, Winters even
lost his power of application to simple
work.
mo more work for me-" he would
say as he would sit down on the job,
Berman told Investigators
The nicotine undoubtedly had de-
teriorating effect on his mentality, DR..
Layton declared.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-07-15
Gethic Architecture.

The STYLES called Gothic, springihg
from q common source in Romanesque
architecture and developing through
out western Europe on differing lines,
are In general characterized by the
following features, although not all OF
these win be found in all examples:
Ribbed vaulting, pointed arches, the
fying arch and pinnacled buttress,
clustered shafting, traceried windows
In all but the earliest phases, stained
glass, a progressive tendency toward
loftiness, lightneSs Of supports and
suppression Of wall surfaces, sys-
tenn of decoration of which one ele-
ment was the emphasis and adornment
of structural features and another the
use Of sculpture and carving OF human
animal, vegetable and grotesque forms,
controlled by a definite didactc pur-
pose and significance, and finally the
use of available materials according to
their nature upon principles in part OF
structural logic and in part OF decora'
five effect-A. D. E. Hamlin In Arcni-
tectural Record
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-07-15
A Natural Born Spender.

When a long forgotten cousin died
and left Miss Mitfeld a round hun
dred thousand the entire village, after
having recovered from the shock, fell
to wondering whether the faded little
spinster, after having for sixty-three
years pinched and scraped and plain
sewed just to keep soul and body to-
gether, would, after all, get much COM
fort from her eleventh hour opulence.
The state of little Miss Mitheld's
mind was revealed when her next door
neighbor inquired what she should do
with her money did she mean to
save it?
"Save it, Her eyes flashed with
new found scorn. Listen to me,
Betsy; all my life long I've wanted a
pair of side combs with yellow glass
beads onto 'em, and now I'm goin' to
hev EN-: yes. ma'am, even II should
hey to go as high as 80 centsF-
Youths Companion.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-07-15
National Flags.

II the question were asked which
country's national flag had been long
est in use the answer would be either
the dragon banner Of China or the
chrysanthemum flag Of Japan The
former has been used from q very
early period, and the latter Is as old
as the present dynasty in Japan, which
Is the most ancient in the world.
Among European national flags That
of Denmark, white St Georges cross
on a red ground, is the most ancient
having been in use since 1219 NO
other flag has existed without change
for anything like the same period as
q national emblem, although there are
royal standards that are older.
The Spanish colors date only from
1855, and Great Britain's flag In It's
present form was first f1swn after the
union with Ireland In 1901. The stars
and stripes Of the United States was
first planned and ordered by Washing
ton of an upholsterer in Philadelphia
and formally adopted on June IA, 17T1
London Spectator.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-07-15
Tendency Is What Counts.

OF course there can be no such thing
as perfection in this vale Of tears, but
the man who turns his back upon it on
that account hasn't good common sense.
The man who is low down and tending
upward is nearer perfection than the
man who is high up and tending down
ward. Tendency is the profoundest fact
in life-in religion, education, society,
politics. When an astronomer sees a
comet for the first time he will ascer.
tain its direction, even if its progress
is only a minute or two. and will de-
scribe its course among the stars fol
weeks ahead. He simply studies the
tendency, and one can tell where
man will be ten years from now by
the same sort of mathematics. That
tendency may reach human perfection
If 1t is started right and the direction
maintained.-Ohio State Journal
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-07-15
SHAVING on One Side.

The shaving on one side only OF the
heads and boards Of prisoners OF war
was obviously done to prevent any at
tempt at escape. But there have been
other motives for such half shaving,
which occurs at all sorts Of points In
history. Sometimes the act has been
pure insult, as when Hanun, king OF
the children of Ammon, shaved on
half of the boards Of David's servants.
In these days the victims would have
mended matters by shaving the other
half. But Jewish reverence for the
beard forbade that, and David told the
men to "tarry at Jericho until your
boards be grown" Demosthenes, when
he shut himself up for months In a
subterranean chamber to practice ora
tory, shaved half Of his head to cut
of all temptation to 60 abroad.-Lon-
don Chronicle.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-07-15
s>rrn,xs of an Author.

Nsny of the SORROWS Of the author
hi this living present are quite as &C
tive as $50 years ago when William
oidys lived and died in London The
1blue pencil" was as remorseless then,
Though under some name now forgot
ten. Oldys tells how he wrote some
valuable article of nearly two sheets
and how the bookseller, "for sord1d
rain and to save a little expense In
print paper, got Mr.. John Campbell to
cross 1t and cramp it, and play the
devil with it, till he squeezed it into
less compass than a sheet" The book
borrower of that time was the same
neglectful person that many OF US
know today, and Oldys signs over
books he has lent which have never
been returned. He was a keen anti
quarry, delighting especially in musty
manuscripts, and, half In temper and
half in good humor, tells Of "Old Coun-
selor Fame, who gave me a parcel or
manuscript and promised me others,
which he never gave me nor anything
else besides a barrel of oysters"
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-07-15
LITTLE TOWN IN OHIO
! PLAINLY ON The MAP
Clyde Has Several Claims to Dis.
tinction In Connection With
Country's Wars.

SanduSky, O.-The village Of Cfyde,
fourteen miles southwest Of this city,
was the home not only Of the highest
ranking officer killed during the civil
war, but also Of the first American
killed in the Spanish-American war.
1t has the distinction also Of being the
nucleus of what is now the Womens
Relief corps. General ]. B. McPher-
son, killed at Atlanta in the civil war,
and George B. Mack, the first Ameri-
can killed in the Spanish-American
war, are both buried there.
According to Joel Elliot Of Clyde,
Mrs. Hattie Mcpherson, aunt Of Gen.
eral Mcpherson, organized the first
Ladies' Aid society after the civil war
began. and it was from the Ladies' Aid
society of the sixties that the Women's
Relief corps of the present day grew.
Elliot says further that army rec
ords at Washington will show that in
proportion to population, more men
enlisted at Clyde for both the cfvn and
Spanish-American wars than from any
other place of its size in the United
States.
Presid mt Garfield was to have been
the principal orator at the unwilling
Of the Mcpherson monument when.
on Saturday, July 2. 1881, he left the
White House to go to the seaside to
spend Sunday with his family before
proceeding to Ohio and was shot while
waiting for his train.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-07-15
An Early Ironclad.

Many people imagine that the first
armored ship was the iron cased frig-
ate" Gloria, launched for the French
navy in 1857, yet, according to the Pop
ular Science Monthly, the Dutch built
an armored vessel nearly 300 years ear
lier. That was in 1856, when Antwerp
was besieged by the Spaniards. The
Dutch took one Of their biggest ships,
cut her down and erected on the deck
battery with armored and sloping
sides, within which they mounted eight
Of the heaviest guns the factories OF
the day could produce. The roof of
the battery formed an armored breast
work for men armed with crossbows
and shotguns, and there were gratings
in the roof to provide ventilation for
the battery below. A contemporary
picture of the Finis Bell, as she was
called, bears a striking resemblance to
the Merrimac, which was designed and
built on precisely the same principles
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-07-15
Powers of Sheik uI Islam.

The office of sheik ul Islam-literal-
ly chief or ancient of Islam-ranks Sec
ond only to that of sultan in the Otto
man empire. Its holder is ecclesiasti-
cal head Of the empire and supreme in
terpreter of the Koran, with absolute
control over all imams, deryishes and
religious institutions, but he has ju-
dicial and political authority also, be-
ing, indeed, first magistrate, privy seal
and minister for education. In some
respects the sheik III Islam is superior
even to the sultan, for his edicts are
irrevocable. The sultan may dismiss
him before he issues an edict, but the
edict once issued takes automatic legal
effect, even though, as happened in the
case of Abdul Hamid, it DEGREES the
deposition of the sultan himself.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-07-15
Novel Methods of Warfare.

In ancient history there are two well
authenticated instances of wild AMI
mails being used by attacking armies.
The first is related by Appian when
describing the siege of Themiseyra, In
Pontus, by Lucullus in his war against
Mithridates. Turrets were brought up,
mounds were built and huge mines
were made by the Romans. The peo-
pie of Themiseyra dug open these
mines from above and through the
holes cast down upon the workmen
bears and other wild animals, togeth,
er with swarms of bees. The second
instance occurred in England when
the Danes and Norwegians were at
lacking Chester, held by the Saxon,
and some Gallo auxiliaries. After
adopting stoning and boiling water de
lenses in vain against the besiegers
the Saxons threw down all the bee
hives in the town upon the attackers
who were soon routed.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-07-15
Bin Van WinkIe-Himself.

Joseph jefferson used TO tell a story
of his visit to village in the Catskil
mountains. He was taking a cup OF
tea In the hotel when he heard a negro
waiter giving a detailed account OF
legends.
Eyes. sah." he continued. RIP went
up into de mountains, slep' for twenty
years, and when he come back hyar In
dis berry town his own folks didn't
know him"
"why," said the listener, you don't
believe the Story's truer'
"True? Oh course it Is. Why" point
ing to jefferson. "dat's de man."
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-07-15
MINISTER GIVES GIRLS
TWELVE GOLDEN BtCES


Cleveland 'Fwelve Gea<1en Rules
Fer Yeune Ladies' was the subject q
the sermon dslfkssea ~ Rev. Thomas
Hughes, pastR u the Rocky River
Metheafst shsrch The twelve Tus0
are:
always remember to be lady.
Don't be loud and boisteroua
BE modest and virtuous.
Choose carefully yeur company q
both sexes.
"Open your eyes and ears, but keep
your heart closed to the gush and nom
sense from the so called lovers.
BE careful about yous dress Have
II becoming and tasteful
BE more careful about what u m
your head than what Is In your heart
Don't be self eonceited.
Don't keep company with a SINFUL
young man
think carefully and prayerfuIly
about your wedding day.
BE considerate about the time and
money Of your gentlemen friends
BE true to the best ideals Of woman
hood
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-07-15
PRACTICAL HEALTH HINT.
Nosebleed.

+ Whatever may be the cause OF
+ bleeding at the nose, always
+ send at once for a physician and
+ see that he Is told the cause Of
+ the bleeding If it is known.
+ While waiting for the doctor
+ to arrive take care Of the patient
+ as best you can.
= Unfasten all tight clothing
= around the neck; make the pa
= tent sit down on a chair or a
= sofa with his head slightly
+ thrown back never allow a pa
= tent to hang his head over a
= BASIN; open the window; raise
= the arms of the patient, stretch
= ed to their full extent well above
= and behind his head, and keep
= them In that position; apply a
= cold, wet sponge or a wet towel
= or a lump Of ice to the back Of
= the neck between the shoulder
= blades, also apply to the root Of
= the nose. If the bleeding does not
= stop pinch the nose just below
= the bridge (where the soft part
= Of the nose begins) between the
= thumb and forefnger, or a clean
= piece Of soft rag or handkerchief
= can be wrapped up tightly and
= passed gently into the bleeding
. nostril
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-07-15
UNABLE TO FIND A WIFE.

Farmer Has Been Searching Sixteen
Years, but So Far Has Failed.
Bridgeport, Conn-Joseph Cronan, a
farmer Of Derby, announced that he
had searched forty-two states and two
countries Of Europe and that, while In
q receptive mood, be had not found q
girl suitable to be his spouse.
Fl am strictly temperate, q healthy
and strong farmer, and have been
searching sixteen years for the right
kind Of q wife," be declared. 81 have
yet to find the woman, and wish the
newspapers would help me-"
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-07-15
EARRINGS Denote WidoWheod.

That India is land Of curious Gus
toms is confirmed by the Popular Sci
ence Monthly. A widow, instead Of
wearing black Grape, dons ponderous
earrings made Of solid brass. Since
her widowhood is perpetual she Is
obliged to wear them the rest Of her
life. Each year another ring is added.
The constantly increasing weight OF
metal stretches the lobe Of the ear, to
which it is attached, in an extraor-
binary manner. 1t is safe to say that
no widow ever forgets the fact Of
her widowhood when wearing such a
clumsy weight.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-07-15
lust by Good Luck,

A young man who had received the
privilege of shooting over the land Of a
farmer got rather close once or twice
to the home grounds. Late in the day
he met the farmer.
you've had pretty good luck" said
the farmer.
"Well, no." said the young man hest
tatingly. Il haven't had any luck at
all"
Eyes, you have" repeated the farm
er. This morning you just missed my
best Shorthorn. Country Gentleman.