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PAGE EIGHT. THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM ANT SUX-TEUEGB AM, TUESDAY FEBRUARY 6, 1912. LIGHT VOTE CAST Id TIGHTLY CONTESTED PRIMARY ELECTION Torrence and Johnson Had . It Nip and Tuck to Bitter End, the Latter Winning by 80 Majority. (Continued from Page One) J. Pierce, candidate for coroner; How ard Horton, candidate for surveyor, and Homer Farlow, candidate for com missioner, from the eastern district, bad no opposition, most of the voters took the trouble to endorse their work during their present terms of office by voting for them. Total Votes in Races. Mason received 2,545; Steen, 3,599; Pierce, 3,424; Horton, 3,265 and Par low, 3,248. The largest vote cast for any one office was in the prosecutor's race, the total being 4,606. Reller receiving 1, 689; Freeman, 1.100; Harlan, 946; Hoelscher, 465 and Husson, 406. A total of 4,525 votes was cast in the treasurer's rice. Johnson received, 1, 476; Torrence, 1,396; Ahl, 714; Jenkln aon, 424; Schepman, 287 and Medearis, 229. Parson's vote for recorder was 1, 733; Darnell 1,069; Peltz, 851 and King SIS. In the Western commissioner race Joseph F. Groves received a total of 1,946; Elias Hoover, 1,389; and Theo dore Crist 900. All candidates say that they are glad the primary election Is over. Each candidate did considerable work and was obliged to cover the entire county once or twice during the campaign, waaed In zero weather. The official canvassing board will go over the returns tomorrow morning. Here Is a message of hope and good cheer from Mrs. C. J. Martin, Boone Mill, Va.. who Is the mother of eight een children. Mrs. Martin was cured of stomach trouble and constipation by Chamberlain's Tablets after live years of suffering, and now recom mend thoHn tahlfla in thn imhlin. Bold by all dealers. A JAPANESE LEGEND. H Talis Pretty Story of the Origin of the Chrysanthemum. Tht Japanese barb an Interesting legend to connection with the origin of the chrysanthemum. In garden bathed In the soft moonlight a young girl plucked a flower and commenced to atrip the petals to see If her nance loved her truly. Of a sadden a little god appeared before her and assured her that her fiance loved her passlon- ! -Vrtiip huahanit will )! ha . - " " -.. died, "as many years as the flower which I will let yon choose has petals." With these words be disappeared. The young girl hastened to search the garden for a flower wblcb should bare Ml abundance of petals, but each one appeared to promise but a brief fa tor for her beloved. ' At length she picked a Persian, car nation, and, with the aid of a gold pin taken from ber hair, she separated each one of the petals of the flower no as to Increase the number of follolcs and of the number of years accorded by the god to her fiance. Soon under her deft Angers 100. 200, 300 petals, tbln, pliant anil beautifully curved, had been evolved, and the young girl cried for joy to think of the happy future which her ruse bad assured ber flance. So. runs the legend, was the crysanthemum created one moonlight Bight In a Japanese garden, where sil very brooks murmured softly as tbey van beneath the little bamboo bridges. -London Globe. CRY OF THE GIRAFFE. It Is a Peculiar Sound Something Like a Sheep's Bleat. Those who read the accounts of the giraffe In the textbooks and the d acrlpttons given by travelers may have noticed that no mention Is made of Its voice. Sportsmen, In fact, al lude to Its apparent voicelessness. Nor so far aa the records go has It jtver been beard In captivity. Up to the present It appears that no one could say whether the cry of a giraffe was a groan, a bellow, a bleat or a Belgh; hence the record of the recent experience of a naturalist in east Afri ca, who baa actually heard its voice. Is of special Interest Blaney Perclval, the naturalist In question, spent the dsy in concealment over a waterbole where the wild ani mals came to drink. lie had at times seen giraffe and sebra drinking with in thirty feet of him. While thus watching he bad the good fortune to hear the giraffe. It was making a bleating noise, but Sir. Perclval aays It la quite impossi ble to describe the sound In writing. "The nearest I can get to it," he says, la 'wart rather drawn out, not Just n baa, Ilk a abeep, but more pro and the softening at the end mw iwrtWatv.--London Field. TCE SPntKGS TDAT PUT There : are no springs mad anywhere which can compare with FOTAM "REST EAST CcicLE XZCtt ; SPfllufiS Bed Sprlno Co, V't'' Indianapolis. . for comfort and luxurious ease. They bring sleep to the sleepless. Taelr restfulaess will be a pleasiug revelation to you. YOUR RICHMOND FURNITURE DEALER CAN SUPPLY YOU. II not. write oa and we will give you the names of those who can. 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No other nrnara tion will work in this formula. This recipe for making cough remody with Pinex and Sugar Syrup is now used and prized in thousands of homes In the United States and Canada. The plan has often been imitated but never successful It. A guaranty of absolute satisfaction, or money promptly refunded, goes with this recipe. Your druggist has Pinex, or will srt it for vou. If not, send to The Pinex Co., Ft. Wayne, Ind. BULLETS IN BATTLE. Death Wounds and Flesh Wounds mni the Fsaling When 8truek. In "Serving the Republic" General Nelson A. Allies says that, like every other soldier who has seen much active service, he Is often asked bow it feels to be wounded;. He himself was wounded four times and twice almost fatally, so be is able to speak from experience. He says: "One is often asked bow It seems to be wounded in battle. The flight of a bullet is quicker than thought and has passed through a flesh wound before one realizes that be bas been struck. I have seen bodies of men dead on the Held of battle where the brain bad been pierced and death bad been in stantaneous. They would remain in every position of the 'manual of arms,' with an anslous look, a frown or a smile on their cold and rigid faces. "My wounds received at Fair Oaks. Fredericksburg and Petersburg were flesh wounds and disabled me but a sbort time. While riding .down the line at ChaneellorsvlUe one of the ene my's bullets struck my metallic belt plate with great force. This caused a slight deviation as It entered the body. The result was an instant deathly sick ling sensation. My sword dropped from my right band; my scabbard and belt dropped to the left. I was com pletely paralyzed below tbe whist. My horse seemed to realize what had oc curred. He stopped, turned and walked slowly back. I holding to tbe pommel of the saddle with my hands. We soon reached a group of soldiers, who took me off and. placing ne in a blan ket, carried me to the Chancellorsville House and pulled a dead man off a couch to make room for me." TOOK HISJIME. Bill Gave the Old Man a Long Wait For the Backlog. Skipper Norwood was born in a lit tle Nova Scotia town. During the long winter evenings young Bill used to lie out in front of tbe big open fireplace, and just about tbe time he bad got warm and comfortable and a trifle drowsy Norwood senior would make up bis mind the fire was getting low and send bis son out Into tbe snow to bring In n backlog from tbe wood pile. Eventually these nocturnal pilgrim ages got on young Bill's nerves, and one night when bis father sent him out after the backlog the son contin ued on past the wood pile and across country to the nearest seaport, where be shipped on a whaler. Nine years later Bill came back. It was a bitter winter night, and the snow was falling.. Bill sneaked up to the window and looked into the old sittlug room. Tbe fire was burning In tbe old fireplace, and Bill's father and mother were seated in front of It. He noticed that the fire was a trifle low. So be went to tbe wood pile, selected a big backlog, carried it into the house and stood for a moment by the fire with the log on his shoulder. "Father." said Bill. "I've brought In that backlog jpu sent me after." The old man never budged an inch. Instead be spat Into the fire and re torted testily: "Set it on the fire. You've been a long whl gittin' It!" Saturday Even ing Post. New York city Is the largest and old est incorporated of the 158 large cities in the United States. Its land area is 526 square miles, as against Chicago, which ranks second, with 190, and 129 in Philadelphia. SUITS AND OVERCOATS $10.00 and $15.00 e LATEST STYLES, NEW STOCK Hall's $10 and $15 Store Better Quality, Less Money T0EH1 ALL TO SLEEP Made bv Puritan DICKENS CONTINUES TO Great English Novelist's One Hundredth Birthday to Be Celebrated in Many Lands Today. Child ren Should Make Own Selection. BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE. January Seventh Is tbe centenary of Charles Dickens. Wherever English literature is read in the original there will this day be celebrated. It is the fashion among certain of the literati nowadays to decry those two great masters of English fiction, Dickens and Thackeray, who, on ac count of their contemporaneity, are al- lmost invariably bracketed, although geniuses of different magnitude. Arnold Bennett, in instance, who re cently visited this country and freely expressed his "views"about everything from votes for women to poetry, is one of that class of supercilious littera teurs who delicately sneer and shrug the shoulder at his two famous com patriots. Why, is this? Nobody knows. For both these great novelists de picted life as it is. Human nature is the same in 1912 as in 1850. What more ruthless realism than that in "Vanity Fair," "Pendennis," and "The Newcomes," a realism as existent now in the same phasesof so ciety as at the time Thackeray wrote. What more brutal expose of the hid eousness of certain English schools of the period than that of "Dotheboy's Hall," in "Nicholas Nickelby" which resulted in an investigation of, and re form in, alleged educational institu tions of this character. And yet these modern "realists" rate both. Dickens and Thackeray as senti mentalists. Dickens was, at times, sentimental. None deny this. Nor that he indulged in pathos. Nor that he grew lachrymose over the woes of hi 8 heroines and his heroes. But what of that? Consider, for one thing, how most of his novels were produced. They ap peared serially and frequently the presses waited while he penned off the next installment. Compactness, under these circum stances, was not possible. But com pactness of literary construction is not always desirable. Discursiveness otteh holds the at tention when concentrated statement wearies. However, this Me. of course, neither here nor there. Despite the aspersions cast upon these two novelists it still holds that they are the most widely read of any of the English Hedonists. Recurring editions of Dickens, in the cheap and the de luxe, mark the pages of the publisher's catalogue. Thousands upon thousands of vol umes with his name on the title page are yearly thrown off the presses. Millions of readers still devour, with more or less avidity, the printed rec ord of his inimitable creations. He who has not read this superlative story writer has not completed his ed ucation. Children, as well as adults, delight in those characters which, as types, are known wherever life is lived. Who does not know a Sairy Gamp, a Uriah Heep, a ..licawaber? They are found in every civilized na tion. In the apogee of localism, they achieve universality. Dickens symbolized human traits, human qualities. Uriah Heep is not Uriah Heep but the sublimation of hypocrisy. "He's a regular Uriah Heep," you hear it said. Who other fhan Micawber ever waiting for something to "turn up" so typifies the domestic vagabond? And do we not see the pathos of all waifs and strays in Oliver Twist? (It is said, by the way, that there is soon to be a revival of the dramatiza tion of this novel, in New York, with Nat Goodwin as "Fagan.") Every Dickens impersonator will tell you that his characterizations are at USE ALLEN'S FOQMASE, rh antiseptic owiler to be shaken into the shoes. If yon want rest and comfort for tired, aching, swollen, sweating feet, nse Allen's Foot-Esae. Re lieves corns ana bunions of all pain and prevents blisters, sore and callous spots. Juct the uiiie for Dancing Parties, Patent Leather Shoes, and for Breaking in New Shoes. 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Great actors and actresses are asso ciated in the minds of tbe theater-going public of the past and present, with certain of the characters of Dick ens, as Joseph Jefferson in "Caleb Plummer." Sir Henry Irving appeared in a play made from "The Pickwick Papers," and the older actors known only to this generation by reputation Brougham, Fanny Davenport, Janau scheck, "Lotta," who played "Little Nell," Stoddart, and many others were notable in their respective days for their Dickens' roles. Elita Proctor Otis, of the contempor aneous stage, has made "Nancy Sykes," a distinguished place in her repertoire. And not long since, a version of "Pickwick" was presented successfully on the French stage. No matter what may or may not be written of Dickens' style, of his artis tic merits or defects, of his caricatures for he was an adept in caricaturing of his place in English literature and that of the world, the one, great, insup perable obstacle that his critics en counter is his hold on the reading pub lic. And this hold is that of the great artist, in whatever media the ability to tell a story. For above, beyond, every other con sideration, this is the quality that is the vital one in the art of fiction. However crude the manner, if the matter has an alluring narrative form, success follows. The world is a great child. It loves a story. And it loves to have a story told it. It is the story-teller, in whatever artistic form, that goes down the ages. What is Raphael, or Michael AngelO, or Da Vinci, or Rembrandt but a prince of story-telling through the me mium of paint and marble? What is Wagner but a wonderful tel ler of tales through the combination of sound and action? They tell a story and they drive it home. So with Dickens. Every child should be turned loose ECZEMA CURED IN 10 TO 30 .DAYS. The Paris Medicine Co., 2624 Pine Street, St. Louis, Mo., manufacturers of Laxative Bromo Quinine, have a new and wonderful discovery, GROVE'S SA-NARE CUTIS, which they guarantee to cure any case of ECZEMA, no matter of how long standing, in 10 to 30 days, and will re fund money if it fails. This ointment is Perfectly clean and does not stain. If your druggist hasn't it, send us 50c. in postage stamps and it will be sent by mail. After using the treatment, if you are not entirely satisfied, notify us, and we will immediately refund your money. Any druggist will tell you that we will do exactly what we say. NOTICE? I take this means of ex pressing my appreciation to the voters for the splen did support given me at the recent Republican nomination for Prosecut ing Attorney. Very sincerely, Denver C. Harlan prini i rrxinrnmc OTnncx KkiULLi:kDicnu o o I unit Notion Dept. -:- East Room LZio)Dl9 fiailK Pyffi-DIH-HAKIi!5 0 received another lot The first shipment l-fl ..A LACMA them. Hero's another chance at the same ties, THPH It THE TT-. Off- ICl. hmon 3'v CLTU aUCTlUl JTICTCte -SaW ICrUVll VIEWS BaaaBaaa wa- -a-av -a aaa mm 'mm RICHMOND - - in a library to browse at his own sweet will. His instincts will never lead him astray. He will be just as safe with Rousseau's "Confessions." as with a Rollo book. The defections in a book, or lit erary work of art those things that may be accounted such but which real ly may be not will be to the child as water off a duck's back. The classics and the standards should be given to a child for con sumption the earlier, the better. Children delight in Dickens. The writer remembers her introduc tion to this fascinating author, when a little girl through finding a paper backed copy of "Nicholas Nickelby." on the top shelf of an old bookcase in which she was rummaging. She read day and night play or dolls or other children could not lure her. Following this "Barnaby Rudge" another old dog-eared copy and to this day she never hears things bang ing in a night "March wind she does not think of Sir John Chester and Barna by. and Dennis, the hangman and tbe horrid picture of the hangman uimself being dragged limp and shriek ing, to tbe gallows. Dickens is a wizard who charms, fascinates and hypnotizes the world. Not only the world of his day but as long as the English language remains. For the relief of the five grand daughters of Charles Dickens, whose financial embarrassment is known to the world, a fund has been started by a committee whose membership includes Lord Rose berry, William Dean How- Rat Bis-Kit Paste The new Poison in the Tube Juat proa tuba, poison apreada itaalf. Haven say kind of bait. Guamntead to txtamioati tats, miea. roaehaa or moMyraWnaM. Fullaiaa tubs ZS stall drum from ua. (Sana eota or stamps. j THE RAT BISCUIT CO. K. IJi i "You'll Do Better ID) M UJ UTT 9 FEBRUARY CLEARANCE SALE These are days of Real Clearance Here. 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One way of contributing to this fund is in the purchase of tbe Dickens Cen tennial bookplate, at twenty-five cents a dozen, post free, which can be se cured through the secretary. Francis Arthur Jones, Hotel Cumberland. New York, or locally through application to the writer at the Palladium office, who will be glad to take any orders and send them in. This bookplate is in the form of a small stamp, handsomely engraved with a portrait of Dickens, and of a size adaptable to any book. They are decorative, also, in a high degree, and add an effect to any volume in which they may be pasted. MENTAL ENERGY. It pays to think. It is like put. ting money out at interest. Dollars make dollars, and thoughts make other thoughts. We are so accus tomed to having this old world re ward us (or things we do in dollars that we forget there is such a re ward as brains mental growth. 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