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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-08-04
IN CASE Of STRIKE
Continued From First Paue.1

when the strike would go into effect.
In the meantime either party has
the right under the mediation law of
Congress to ask the assistance OF the
board OF mediation and Cancellation.
In case they should not invoke the
services of this board. the law re-
quires the board to tender its services
If an interruption OF traffic ts I'm
manent and fraught with serious detri-
ment to the public interest. OF course.
in that event the board will be ready
to offer it's services and put the whole
machinery of the law into affect with
every confidence that the disasters
that are agitating the fears Of the
country will be averted."
Wants Thorough Investigation.
The Chamber OF Commerce of the
United States has not yet decided
whether ii will call a conference in
Washington to consider the railway
strike situation. The Chamber. 1T
was said. desires the submission of
the problems of the railway men and
the roads to the consideration OF In
terstate Commerce Commission for a
thorough Investigation and report to
Congress 30 that the public might be
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-08-04
Mr. McAdaxns BETTER.

Reports late last night from the
bedside of Thomas b. McAdams. vice.
president and cashier of the Merchants
National Bank, who has been Ill sew
eral days with a typhoid attack. were
that he was resting well. Mr.. Nc
Adams spent fairly comfortable day.
It was said. and at 8 o'clock last
night his temperature was slightly
above 1903 Physicians and attendants
regarded this as hopeful. and they con-
rdently expect the recovery that his
many friends hope for.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-08-04
STRONG MEN NAME.



1t was said today, 10 receiving seriol
consideration. but Atlantic seaside 4
sorts and Niagara Falls also q
being considered.
General Carranza's reply to 4
American note suggesting the 81
largement of the commission powe
liz expected momentarily. Both Next
and this government desire. 1t wi
said, that the commission begin
labors Immediately after the formal
ties are concluded.
1t is believed that the conference
witt retire from the channels Of dire
negotiations the serious phases of Il
Mexican issues for at least thru
months, and that II the conferred
recommendations to their respectiI
governments on the three initial pr
posals of Carranza are accepted, Il
commit ssion then will take up Questio|
of claims. rectifcation OF the boundar
financial assistance for Mexico and r
lated matters.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-08-04

ntea that the Pope - prepAr-
~ Important document protest.
GA1nst German treatment OF the
xCh population OF occupied terri
- and especially the internment
NU0en and girls. and demanding
pontecs of their moral and physi.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-08-04
May send Denti.t. to Border.

Albany, n. Y. Aug. 3.-As result OF
the demand for the services of dem
lists by New York national guardsmen
along the Mexican border plans are
under consideration by the adJutant-
generals official assistants for the
formation of dental corps.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-08-04
Firth GhOlOm Authorized.

Colonel Joseph Button. head OF the
State Insurance Department has
granted license to the Independent Or
der Firth Sholom, OF Baltimore, to
engage In fraternal and beneficiary
work In Virginia.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-08-04
Genera, Bl,.. to visit p.xh,rx.

Columbus, N NJ. Aug. 3.--Major-
General Tasker II. Bliss. assistant
chief-ofstaff of the United States
Army, today left this base for Gen
eral Pershing's headquarters In Mexi-
co. His trip will be, in the nature sim
ply of . personal visit - General Per-
shinx.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-08-04
Canada Finance. Mother Country.

Ottawa, Ont, Aug. "a hundred
sniilion dollars worth OF temporary In
debtedness I'm Great Britain will be
funded by the Dominion OF Canada by
the issuance of Dominion low-interest
bonds redeemable In 1925 and l946. IT
~ intended that these bonds shall be
sUaed as credits for the purchase of
MATERIAL in Canada thereby saving ex-
khange.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-08-04
1H|RTY-S|X DEAD
Continued From First pasa1
VILE are washed away and train ser
vice is at a standstill.

Knoxville. Tenn. Aug. "A special
from Tazeweu, Tenn. says eight peo-
pie are known to be dead and thirty
or more are reported missing as a
result of n cloudburst on Barren Creek
in Claiborne County, which began
about o'clock Wednesday night and
continued for possible thirty minutes
Considerable property was damaged
and some destroyed.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-08-04
Two Italian Submarines Lost.

Rome, Aug s-The admiralty to-
might issued a statement announcing
that two Italian submarines have fall
ed TO return 10 their base after an ex
petition against the enemy's coasts
and are considered lost
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-08-04

Douglas Ariz.. Aug. Second Mon
Akana Infantry outposts were fred on
here by snipers today. The militfarten
fsd not return the fire, having been
ordered not to DO so unless attacked
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-08-04
Greeks veering 20 Allies.

Rene Aug 5.-A dispatch from
Athens states that the eleventh Greek
division has left Saioniki for Thessaly.
Greek senri1en: Is veering steadily
towards the allies after the Russian
successes
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-08-04
Captain Morey Rejoins Regiment.

Headquarters American Punitts
Expedition. Mexico. Aug. 3.--Captsl
Lewis II. Morey. the only survivtl
American officcr Of the Carrizai fig1
returned to his regiment today att
being on sick leave.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-08-04

ent front swings around Pozieres all
of which Is now held by the British.
The Germans are supposed to hold
strong positions at the windmill on
the Bapaune Road and at Hill 1863,
northeast of Pozieres.
The arrow in the map points In the
direction of Bapaume, the important
road and railroad center which the
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-08-04

British wish to reach.
Many of the reports from the west
ern war front lay stress on the abund-
ant supply of ammunition Of ell
calibers for the guns of the French
and the British The photograph
shows worker on a big shell in a
French ammunition factory
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22
Athenian Climate.

Athens, according to Byron, was the
choicest spot in Europe, in respect
to climate. He found it "a perpetual
spring; during eight months never
passed a day without being as many
hours on horseback; rain is extremely
rare, snow never lies in the plains, and
a cloudy day is. an agreeable rarity.
In Spain, Portugal, and every part Of
the East which l visited, except Ionia
and Attica, found no such superiority
of climate to our own; and at Constan-
tinople, where passed May, June and
part of July, you might damn the eli
mate, and complain of Spleen five
days out of seven" But mems luck
differs. Gladstone and his party were
only few days at Athens in Decem-
ber, 1858; but, as Lord Morley says,
illusions as to the eternal summer
with which the poets have blessed the
Isles of Greece vanished as they found
deep snow in the streets, icicles on
the Acropolis, and snowballing in the
Parthenon."
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22
Madison souare Tower in spain,

have kept the unique wonder OF
Seville waiting too long already for
my recognition, though in its 800 years
it should have learned patience
enought for worse things.
From it's great antiquity alone, if
from nothing else, it is plain that the
Giralda at Seville could not have been
studied from the tower of the Madison
Square Garden in New York, which
the American will recall when he
sees it.
If the case must be reversed and we
must allow that the Madison Square
tower was studied from the Giralda,
we must still recognize that it is no
seryile copy, but in it's frank imitation
has a grace and beauty which achieves
originality.
Still, the Giralda is always the Cir
aida, and, though there had been no
Saint-Gaudens to tip its summit with
such fiying-footed nymph as poises
on our own tower, the figure Of Faith
which crowns it is at least good
weather vane, and from It's Office Of
turning, gives the mighty bell tower
its name.
Long centuries before the tower was
a belfry it served the mosque, which
the cathedral now replaces, as a min
aret for the muezzin to call the faith
ful to prayer, but it was then only
two-thirds as high.-Harper's Maga
zine.
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22
NOT ORDINARY "SoB" STORY
Rich Little Poor Girl Depicted as Her.
oine Of Incident That Is "Some-
what Different"

The rich little poor girl stood out
side her door. On the one side were
snow and ice and the little girl, with
her arms full of lockwood, which she
had CLEANED from the streets. On her
way home she had passed a fire, and
the water from the fire hose had fro.
zen to the heat stimulators All, but
let US look on the other side of the
door. A fireplace was there. with
three little ones and their mother
gathered about it. On the stove were
kettles full of various substances. Per
haps they were eatables-we shall
never know. But there was no fire in
the fireplace nor in the stove. No
warm glow radiated from the hearth,
nor did the kettles sing on the stove.
The rich little poor girl knocked. She
was let in. They had been waiting for
her since daybreak-she had been out
all night Her mother was the first
to speak And this is what she said.
it meanwhile being remembered that
the family was cold, destitute, forlorn,
but trying to keep up the pace: Have
you got a cigarette? l am half
starved. Harvard Lampoon.
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22
The Gift Packaue.

A line of parcel-post salesmanship
that has been tested and found win
ner is selling apples in gift packages,
a certain number Of pounds put up in
a neat package and labeled Birthday
Apples" to be mailed from the grow
er's orchard to given address at the
paid order of the buyer. This has been
proved a pretty way of remembering
a friend, like mailing him postcard.
and saves the purchaser all trouble.
other than the writing Of the order
with inclosure of stamps or coin.
This method can cover fruits and
other produce in season. At the holi-
days every product of the farm and
woods may be utilized, and the gift
packages placed in store windows
where their attractively stamped cases
-
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22
CANNOT UNDERSTAND STEEL
Scientists Puzzled Oyer What They
Assert to Be a Most Unusual
Freak Of Nature.

If it were not for one tiny, erratic
break in natures orderly progression,
we should never have had the machin.
cry that has brought about modern
civilization. For we should not have
had steel. 1t is true we should have
had iron, but pure iron is almost USE
less. 1t is only when a small quantity
of carbon is added to it that it be-
comes hard enough to take cutting
edge Then it is called steel.
Why steel hardens is an unsolved
problem. The Scientific American re-
produces some extracts from an ad-
dress before the British Institute of
Mechanical Engineers, delivered by
Professor Arnold, who had for many
years been investigating the chemical
and mechanical relations between
iron, carbon and other metals, and Sir
Robert Hadfield's experiments that
called attention to this break" in the
order of nature which alone makes
steel possible.
Nickel and cobalt are SO closely re-
lated to iron in their properties and
in their position in the periodic classi-
fication = atomic weights, specific
gravity, fusing point and valence being
almost the same-that it might be ex-
pected they would behave identically
when united with carbon. Not so,
however. Sir Robert Hadfield found
that when the steel" made of nickel
and cobalt was heated or hammered
the carbon came OUT of the. compost
ton and was precipitated as graphite.
II iron behaved this way tool steel
would turn to cast iron as soon as
heated; and it is on the fact that it
does not-"a seemingly quite erratic
departure on natures part from her
orderly plan"-that modern manufac.
ture is founded.
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22
Copyright. 1915, by the Mcclure Newspa-
per Syndieate.)
GETTING A BETTER POSITION.

The stagnant pool is useless and a
menace to health. It's water is unfit
to drink, and its sluggishness will not
turn water wheel. 1t either dries
up or it remains blot on the land
scape.
The man who stays where he is,
without thinking of bettering his con-
dition is like the stagnant pool, for
sooner or later, unless he attempts to
create a current, he will, like the
pool, dry up or else remain an unwel-
come member of society.
Conversely, however, there is al
ways as much danger in attempting
to rush as there is in remaining placid.
The mountain torrent, although act
i've, does not have the body or the
quantity Of energy necessary for util-
izatiOn.
However profitable your position
may be, you have right to consider
advancement, but when you carry this
consideration beyond the lines of Or
binary caution, and plunge, leap and
run, you are likely to dash yourself
to pieces and to be no better of-per-
haps worse off-than you would have
been had you remained at a stand
still.
Do not be dissatisfied with your lot
to the extent of making yourself mis-
erable. Be dissatisfied only in so far
/ as it will encourage you to look ahead
and to attempt, with the use Of your
common sense, to better your condi-
tion.
Do not make move until you are
reasonably sure that it will lead to
improvements; and, further, do not
take undue chances.
If you have a family or others de-
pendent upon you, you have no right
to jeopardize their interests and your
own by taking speculative chances.
Plant yourself firmly upon the rock
CT your present position. Reach out
into the unknown with both your
hands. Look for opportunity. When
you think YOU have found it. subject it
to every reasonable test, for half Of
that which masquerades under the
name of opportunity is no tirmer than
the idle wind which seems to come
from nowhere and to go nowhere.
Half of the failures of the world
are due to stagnation, to placidity, to
a refusal to move when opportunity
suggests it. and the other half is made
up OF those men who are forever dis
satisfied, discontented, and over-ambi-
tious; who, without thought, jump for
the first line that bangles before them,
without waiting to see whether the
other end is firmly fastened.
Thousands of young men have
thrown up present positions because
something else seemed better. They
knew how badly off they were where
they were, and they did not investi-
gate the future or attempt to analyze
apparent or real opportunity. They
plunged ahead, leaving a good founda-
tion, that they might reach what ap-
peared to be higher ground, and many
of them f1oundered i'll the quicksand
between.
Keen your feet firmly planted upon
the foundation of the present, always
looking ahead and upward. But look.
and keep on looking, for days, and
weeks, and months, and years, before
you allow this looking to influence
your action, or until you have reason
able proof that what seems to be is
reality
The ship without an anchor is as
unsafe to navigate as one with torn
and battered rigging.
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22
pineappIe Dinner from sous to Poem.

Pineapple Dinner From Soup to Poem.
From the first course until the last
pineapple was intermingled in the
luncheon. First came pineapple soup.
There was a goodly portion of pineap.
pie fritters, and pineapple ice, and the
tables were decorated with pineapple
cans and real pineapples. In addition
to the pineapple speeches and pineap-
pie dishes there was pineapple poem
read by James D. Dole.-Honolulu
Star Bulletin.
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22
Most Deadly OF Diseases.

The fact that the germ of the pneu-
monte plague is a relative to the bu-
bonic germ and that no one knows
how it becomes pneumonia, as spe-
cialist has declared, make very little
difference to the sufferer from the dis
ease, for it is said to be about 100 per
cent fatal. It is the plague which
killed off 100000 Europeans in the
fourteenth century.
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22
PASSING Of The scen.er.

%Of course" said the bachelor
thoughtfully, there can be no such
thing as joint rule in family. Some
one must be the head" "True; but
the scepter passes from one to an
other" "How?" We'll, at the be-
ginning Of married life the husband
holds it; then it gently and unobtru.
sively passes to the wife, and he never
gets it back again" 'She keeps it for
ever?" ooh, no; the baby gets it
next"
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22
Quite Definite.

Edmund's mother, being busy, dis,
patched him to the corner store to
purchase a pair of stockings. She for
got to tell him what size to ask for.
At the hosiery counter he pondered
gravely the clerks question as to what
size, then Frightening he said: Il want
a pair of stockings for a woman thirty
years old"
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22
Everything found in an uP-tO-
date JeweIry Store
ESTATE OF MARGARET S. JOHN


ESTATE OF MARGARET S. JOHN
son, Deceased. Notice is hereby given
that Letters of Administration upon
the Estate of Margaret S. johnson, late
Of Blackbird Hundred, deceased, were
duly granted unto Harry s. Wood
keeper on the 23rd day of November A.
D. 1915, and all persons indebted to the
said deceased are requested to make
payment to the Administrator without
delay, and all persons having demands
against the deceased are required to
exhibit and present the same duly pro-
bated to the SAID Administrator on or
before the 23d day of NovemberA. D.
1916, or abide by the law in this be-
half. Address Martin B. Burris, Esq,
Attorney -at-Law Middletown, Del.
HARRY S. WooDKEEPER, Administrator.
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22

Muscovite, or common mica, is the
oasis of an artificial mother-of-pearl
described in the patent specification OF
three Paris inventors. Pellicles or lay
ers of the muscovite and such mate.
rial as gelatin are alternately super
posed, compressed while heated, and
immersed for short time in methyl
aldehyde. The muscovite may be first
treated with titanium chloride soIu.
tion and strongly heated. Fish scales
Or fine micaceous scales may be ap.
piled to the gelatin layers.
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22
Some Inference

Now, dis am de question, pahson:'
stated Brother Shinpaw. When de
millinnium comes will folks quit work
ing?'-
No, sah!" replied sage old Parson
Bagster. "Dey will quit bein worked.
Kansas City Star.
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22
TO Get Rid of Rats.

A good way to get rid of rats is to
collect some thin chips, pieces OF
shingles, or tin, and pour over them
enough molasses to cover them well.
Sprinkle dry lye over the chips and
place them in every rat hole you can
find. The rats will soon move out.
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22
Too Many Have That Idea.

knowledge is power remarked
the party of the first part Maybe
so,' responded the party of the sec
ond part, "but you want to get rid OF
the idea that when you switch off
for the night the trolley cars have to
stop running. louisville Courier
Journal.
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22
Twins.

The tendency to produce more than
one child at birth runs in families
1t is handed down from mother to
daughter. If the former has given
birth to one or more sets Of twins, the
latter is rather likely to do the same
thing
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22
friendship.

Friendship supplies the place OF
everything to those who know how to
make the right use of it; it makes
your prosperity more happy, and it
makes your adversely more easy.-Se-
lected.
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22
The nALar sitla

Mix-"This paper says that a Kan.
sas farmer who is worth $4,000 is
considered rich enough to move to the
, city" Hicks-"Does it say how rich
city man ought to be to turn farm
er?"-Albany Argus.
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22
over-suspicious.

Some men is so suspicious" saio
Uncle Eben, "dat if fairy was to
come along an offer to grant 'em
three wishes dey'd have de fairy ar
rested fob bein' swindler."
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22
Couldn't Blame Him.

Clergyman-"Do you mean to say
that your wife goes to church every
Sunday without your Husband
"Yes,. but it isn't my fault. 1 can't per.
suade her to stay home" Boston
Transcript.
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22
rhnse nnnd ResnIu+ians

A New Year celebration, like any
other, is not a success if it postpones
the sincere regret which prompts a
good resolution until the morning Of
January 2.
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22
IackaI a Cleaner.

The jackal follows in the wake Of
lions and tigers and feeds from the
remains of the marauding expeditions
Of the larger animals.
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22
Nanoleon,s Idea Of Life.

Life is but light dream, which soon
vanishes. To live is to suffer The
sincere man struggles incessantly to
gain the victory over himself.-Napo.
leon.
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22
Excellent Artificial Coffee.

It is said that an artificial coffee has
been invented by a Japanese which
has large percentage of nourishment,
the right flavor and low cost.
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22
Humility Not All.

Humility is the part of wisdom and
is most becoming in men. But let
no one discourage self-reliance; it is,
Of all, the greatest quality OF true
manliness.-Louis Kossuth.
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22
Earth's Wettest Region.

With an annual rainfall exceeding
600 inches, southern Assam is the
worlds wettest region.
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22

The last thing Yaqui has to worry
about is what to do with his prison
err
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22
X-Ravs on Micrnsonne.
Artificial Mothe,.of-PearI.

A microscope using X-rays has been
perfected by French scientist
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22
The Old CAPITOL Building.

The structure in Washington city
known as the "Old Capitol Building
has a memorable history. 1t was
erected in 1900, and was originally de.
signed as a tavern, or boarding house
On account of poor management, the
tavern was closed after few years.
During the war of 1872 the British cap
tured Washington and burned several
of the public buildings, including the
capitol. The government then pur.
chased this tavern building for the
use of congress, and here both houses
met for several years. Within its
walls two presidents were inaugural
ed, and in it John C. Calhoun died.
Watch Runs Backward.
"A jeweler has devised watch which
runs backward, the figures on the dial
being arranged in opposite direction to
the usual kind. The watch was in
vented at the suggestion of a left-hand-
ed person who complained that it was
always hard for her to tell time on
the average clock, because she thought
'Ieft-handed." With the new type of
dial the process of reading the hands
was easier. Other left-handed per-
sons seeing the new watch agreed
that they could read it with more ia
cility than the other type.-Popular
Mechanics.
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22

With the supply Of peroxide threat.
ened, it begins to look dark for some
of our leading blondes.