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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 19, 1908)
t D THE OMAHA SUNDAY" KEE: JANXATtY 19. 1909. 'X MRS. POTTER PALMER WINS Triumph of Chicajo! Social Queen Over Waldorf Aitor. PRIMA BONIU SINGS FOR HER Mr. and Mrs. Astor Entertain Roy alty Affair Slow Beeeeaa of Death ef Klac Oscar. tVnnV Tan Ifl lRnll UMfl. Pot- Ptlmw V vnrd nvr .V 1 1 1 i ft ITT Wal- Sorf Aster. The wealthy Chicago widow, "who spends only half her time In Englsnd. haa triumphed over tha expatriated Ameri can plutocrat, who haa iwnrn that he will never revlalt hla natlv land again. And thla la how It comet about. For tome yeara paat Mr. Astor haa been In the habit of giving two or threa private concerts during the London aeaaon at his town residence In Carlton House Terrace. Hla aim haa alwaya been to make his private concerta auperlor to any other that take place In England. And he generally tuooeeda by virtue of hla great wealth, which enables him to engage the bent pro fessional talent procurable, regardless of the fees demanded. It waa natural, therefore, that after Tetraxxinl had made such a tremendous hit, at Covent Garden, he should seek to engage her for one or more of hla own forthcoming private musical functions. Poealbly he might have' succeeded, as he never hagglea over terms, but for the fact, ao the atory goes, he wanted the diva, to agree that she would not sing at any other private concert during the sea son. In' other words he wanted to make a "corner" in Tetraxxlnl. The prima dnnna took umbrage at this. She Is a high nirlteA woman and declared that she would not submit to any restrictions as regarded her private engagements, no mat ter how big the fee that might be offered her. Steal March on A star. Mrs. Potter Palmer, who Is now in Amer ica mav have heard something of this. She has friends In London who keep her posted on what Is going on in the social world here while she la filling her winter role of Chlcago'a social queen. Anynow, he conceived the notion of getting Tetraa iint to alne- for her at two private con certs, which she Intends giving at her London residence, Hampden House, this ..imm.r Rhe cabled over to the noren tine nightingale, so 1 am told, and the imnnm.nt was made. Tetraxxlnl win ling twice for Mra. Palmer and will not i.. t all for William Waldorf Astor. Just now Hampden House Is being made mirk and scan In readiness for tiie noney moon couple, the hostess's son and his hride-to-be. Miss Kohlsaat of Chicago. -rfumnr haa It that Mr. Potter Palmer meana to have a London house "of his hut T rannot say If this Is true. Hampden House is such a big mansion thmivh externally a hideously plain one that hla mother would have no difficulty m providing accommodation ror noin ntm and his wife whenever they want to take a nina In Tvtndon. The party that assembled at Clleveden at he Invitation of Mr. Astor. jr.. and his wife "to meet" the duke and duchess of Connaught waa distinguished, but I am told that for sheer unmitigated dullness the affair waa a record one. Of course this waa In consequence of the death of the late king of Sweden. At first It waa Intl- mated to the Aatora that the Connaughts y ' could not go. Mrs. Astor, however,, wrote and aaid it would be a very quiet gathering and that If the duchess wished there would be neither music nor bridge. Bo they went. As my friend explained to me, "One was made to feel all tha time that the Con naughta were doing something very wrong and were arald of being found out." The result waa that all the rest of the guests felt It Incumbent on them to assume an Sy sir of dignified gravity and the host and 'hostess must have been thankful when the day for departure arrived and they saw their royal friends off the premises. As a rule the Connaught family aj-e a breexy crowd and they love Americans bceauso 5f their liveliness and unconventlonallty. Mra. Aator'a Jewels. One pleasure at l"ast Mrs. Astor had. She waa enabled to exhibit her amaxins Jewels, ahlch showed up all the more gloriously because of the black dresses she was wear ing out of deference to the fact hal the Connaughls were In mourning. Since the elder Astor gnve Clleveden to nls son as a wedding gift the magnificent mansion, which occupies the finest site to be found along the whole length of the Thames, has undergone extensive altera tions. Outwardly it remains much as it was when It was the residence of the old uke of Westminster, but the living apart ments have been completely transformed. They are now arranged In suites, somewhat after tha style of fashionable flats, and for each bedroom there Is a sumptuous bath room. In the royal suite the baths are of the finest Cararra marble and when occupied a fountain of perfumed water mav bo turned on, and music, too, by merely touching a awlteh. Lady Paget' Bedtre. At her royal dinner party the other night Lady Paget'a bodice, w hich was practically composed of diamonds, aroused more In terest than the king himself. Even her shoulder strape mere of diamonds, with Just a aoftenlng of white tulle. She wore no-tiara, only a single crimson rose In her hair. She waa the observed of all as she went In to dinner on the king's arm. Though at ill lame. It I hoped she will not be ao alwaya. But I think she looks younger than before her accident. She makes no aecret of the fact that she Is delighted to have her daughter settled down and off her hands. Daughters are an affliction to a really aniart mother and the office of chaperone la a moat trying " one. The duchess of Roxburgh waa one of the gueata at the dinner. She wore a spray tit wild rosea In diamonds which reached serosa her bodice from shoulder to shoul der. It waa a gift from her mother, Mrs. Ogden UoeJet. Ha effect, however, was nothing Ilka so sensational as that produced by the diamonds of the American hoetess. The king haa never cared for flowera on the dinner table, considering them a nuis ance, as they Interfere with hla vision. Before all thtnga he likea to have a. good view of everyone Billing at hla table. Thla having cunw to the knowledge or Mra. Lulu Harcourt, ahe decided to revive an eld notion for the king's tUieetatton. The Cinner table of the American hostess when she last entertained the king waa entirely bereft of bloaaoma. Instead there waa a uperb display of exquisite old cut glasa. tht .iinnMr tMrvim hefnr or ola Bevrea. a ro d rvntert.iece of the kind In vogue among the French ariatorrary about' a century nd a half ago waa uaed. LADY MARY. 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M' 1.20' 6 53 2.11.9.45 ! 7 111 2 25 9.21 9 121 8 12! 1.081 U 14' 4.15 9.0' 12 .23 4.6936 l.a I 12 51 7.07; 12 23 ... .80 21 ! 81 U00 8.44 j 6 19 12.14 .! 6 07 l. 9.28 8 1.08 9.47 10 12 1 M 9.2Sj j 1.17j 6.17 10. ill 1.17 7.o6j 1 33j 31 The dot between the hours f THIJ. reader has ever picked up aft almanac in order to finl out from It the times of the rising and setting of the sun and moon, he has purely found these times to diverge so widely from those actually observed by him, that it needed but a few trials of this sort to convince him that the almanac he had waa of no useto him whatever, and he may have been tempted to declare openly and before wttnesaes that the man that wrote that aim ana a knew his business as poorly as the weather man. and that the wtiole almanac, from one end to the other, waa only poor guesswork, that he could write a better one himself, and soforth. Such sweeping condemnations must, of course, be followed by remorse, as soon as quiet reflection has smoothed down the ruffles or declamatory disappointment. After all. reason will whisper to us. every place on earth cannot see the sun and moon rise and aet at the same time. The earth la a sphere, not a plane: Half the earth does not see tlie sun at all, and for the other half the sun is In all possible positions In the sky. This argument ought to b? sufficiently convincing to make anybody disclaim ever having said anything at all against an almanac. k Graft Rampant MONUMENT TO BRITISH The palatial Hammersmith work ho.use, with baths, that cost 175 each and a Palace. l.ONIKi.V. Jan. IS. (Special. i Englishmen who enjoyed talking about the corruption and dishonesty in American municipal life are singing very small Just now. Even the most patriotic Briton 1s apt to feci that for him to abuse America on this score is dangerously like the pot calling the kettle black. . It has alwaya been the boast' of English men that all departments of I heir govern ment were free from corruption and to a great extent tills has been the case. Lately, however, there has been a rude awakening. Investigation after investigation Into tlie workings of various Boards of Guardians and other local government authorities have disclosed a state of affairs which would put to shame the greatest grafters that Tammany Hall or the Philadelphia ring ever produced. It is true that the amounts of money Involved in the English disclosures Were smaller than those that JOHN B1TINS, Ex-labor leader, who. as president of the local government board, has taken the lead In xpoing municipal graft in England. we are accustomed to hear about from America, but the only reason that this was so was that the amounts that could bd stolen were smaller. Working on the per centage basis, the British grafter haa far eclipsed his American cousin. Credit Dai Jobs Barae. The one man to whom the credit for all this house-cleaning Is due Is John Burns, the ex-labor leader and socialist, who la now a member of the Cabinet as president of the Local Government Board. Thla board haa Jurisdiction over the work of all the local elected bodies and Is expected to wateh them an4 exerelae a check on their expenditures. Until the advent of John Burns, however, it waa chiefly conspicuous for Its somnolence. Mr. Burns' first Investigation after lis took office as lo connection wlt'i the administration of the poor law by the West Ham Board of Guardians. West Ham la one of the pooroet and moat ...,. .vi i ; vv iiir -s lzs-wt"i . ; t z - hi .j:a,-'i'..,--.T ' w-vai 3 ..rT i-L" fr ,iIl"-letrB 4Slr M f I" I "5 i li' I H': ; K - A' i v 4 J a of the Moon's Rising, and minutes Indicate P. M. Ye are not done, however. We all know that vast sections of the same country use exactly the same time to the second, aa, for example, the whole Mississippi valley uses what Is known as nineteenth meridian, or central time. Now. It is evident that when I see the sun set behind a hill, a friend of mine, living some miles to the west of me, surely does not see the sun setting at the same moment; his day will close a little later, while it has closed some mlnutis sooner for toy eastern friend. We will, therefore, without calling In expenslYexperts for consultation, con sider the case closed, and with perfect unanimity admit, that while the almanac we have in hand Is not correct for Omaha, it may be, and. let us say It magnani mously, probably Is, surely Is correct for the place for which It was computed As Is, or ought always be, the case In a recon ciliation, when one party Is generous and noble in yielding up what it considers Its sure right, the other party will not per mit Itself to be outdone. With this Idea In view, we rresent herewith a table giv ing the times of moonrlse and mponset for Omaha for the year 1908. rt has entailed a large amount of computation, but the cause was worth It. Now, to prevent the possibility of a re in English Municipal GRAFT AND WASTEFULNESS. which cost 31.675 for each or the paupers system of electric lighting King Edward thickly populated districts of London, and Its legitimate expenditure for the re lief of the poor must always be very large. The local taxation, however, rose at an alarming rate and the rate-payers complained so loudly that It waa evi dent that something was wrong. The investigation disclosed the state of affairs that Is so familiar to Americans who have followed tlie course of munici pal government In their own country. There was no appointment in the gift of the guardians that waa not put up for sale to the highest bidder. The mas ter of the workhouse paid $500 for his job, the medical officer paid $5,000, and relieving officers., who earn about $12 a week, paid $100 each for their appoint ments. The contractor who supplied coal to the workhouse was allowed to supply a quality Inferior to that he contracted for and to charge for twice the quantity lie actually supplied. Other contractors were treated In the same way and every contractor paid money regularly to me.n bers of the Board of Guardians and offi cials. The favored contractors were al lowed to examine their rivals' bids be fore they were formally opened and ad just their own bids so as to mako the granting of the contract tothem a cer tainty. The result of this Investigating waa that five guardians and the coal contractor went to Jail. Political Workhouse. At Greenwich an investigation f-howed that checks for $12i had panned be tween contractors and guardians and that there was Irregularity of much the same sort as that proved at West Ham. At Hammersmith, where a palatial work house, superior in many respects to the king's palace, has been built, the grossest extravagance was shown, and officials whose duty it was to watch the work of contractors admitted that they hud received presents from them. It was shown that the building and equipment of this workhouse cost $1,675 for each of the paupers It was designed to house. Baths which cost $75 each were fitted, and a system of electric lighting and wiring was Installed which had actually been rejected by the king whe-n It was proposed for Buckingham palace, be cause be considered It altogether too ex pensive. Experts swore that $3,000 had been wasted on thla lighting system alone. The total cost of this paupers' palace was nearly $1,500,000, and It was stated that It could have been built for little more than $1,000,000 and that a building whioW would have been In every way aa serviceable could have been se cured for $600,000. The Investigation Into the affairs of the Mile End Board of Guardians, which 1s now In progress, has shown an equally aniaxing state of affairs. The guardians there had a system of maintaining tha pauper children In what are known as scat tered homes. whJoh means that m dosen or niore children In charge ef a matron and superintendent are Installed In an ordinary dwelling house and form a sort of poor law family. Tha Mile End Ouardlana few years ego wanted half a dosen more houses for their scattered hemes. Six houses wra offered to them at 11.(00 saoh. They re fused tha offer, and a few weeks later . . -. f ' ..." ..' - , , - - Meridian Passage newed misunderstanding, a few precautions must be premised. The first Is that thla table Is computed for the city of Omaha. For every fifteen miles eaet or west" of Omaha the difference will be one minute, sooner for the east, later for the west. For every twelve miles north or south the difference will b one minute or fraction thereof, sooner or later, wherever the moon happens to be. More accurate terms cannot be used here, since they would prove uninteresting and technical. Secondly, all hills are supposed to be re moved, and, of course, the houses on the hills. At the Creighton university observa tory, the bluffs to the east are exactly on the horison line, and the sun and moon are always seen to rise on schedule time. To the west the hills are about two lunar diameters above the horizon, so that as the heavenly bodies set obliquely, sunset and moonset occur always about six min utes too soon. Thirdly. About once a month tha moon does not rise at all. What becomes of It? Well, there Is nothing to be alarmed at; everything goes on In Its usual way. Let the reader look at the first column, which gives the time of rising for January. He will notice thnt. as an average, moon rise occurs about an hour later every day. Undertakings It was designed to house. It Is equipped tliougnt too expensive lor Buckingham bought the same houses for $3,000 each. Needless to say, it was testified -that a good deal of the difference went Into the pockets of certain guardians. Market Price Doubled. This waa not the end of the graft in con nection with the scattered homes. When the houses were bought it wii) discovered that they were badly In need of repairs snd experts testified that the repair work was done by the only contractor who could se cure work from the board and was charged for at just twice the market price. Some of it was rharged for and was not done at all. In three years the guardians spent more than the original value of theso horses on them in repairs, and one mem ber of the board who was asked why this was so. gravely explained that pauper children were very hard on houses. TVe Investigation of the Camberwell Board of Guardians has Just begun. So far it has been brought out that the offi The- tim to save your liair, s hair, ftr which the hair ia bound I find that Herpicide will do all you claim for it. I am now on jny second bottle and it has cleansed my head nicely and I can see new hair coming In. It also stopped my hair from fall ing out and I am well pleased with It and will and do recommend It to all. (Signed) R. L. LEIGH. Hopklnaville, Ky. Send 10c in stamps to SHERMANT it McOOXXEIX Dltl THK OWI, DKl'U CY., Cor. 16th and Setting, at Omaha, During 1908. Computed at the Crelghto I say "on an average" because this In terval Is variable; It may be aa amall as twenty minutes or as large aa an hour and twenty minutes. Thus, on January 19 the moon rises at 6:33 p. m., the presence of the dot between the hour and the mtnutes denoting p. m., Its absence a. m. The next day the time Is 7:32; that la, not one hour later, but one day and one hour later, or after an Interval of twenty-five hours. Coming down to 'January 24. the moon rise occurs at 11:33 p. m.. and. as the next one must be about twenty-five hours later, It surely cannot be on the 25th, but in the early hours of the 26th. 12:36 a. m. ; that la, the moon does not rise at all on January 26, which was to be proved. For the same reason, the moon does not cross the merid ian or "south" once a month, nor does It set once a month. It Is surely reasonable to allow her one offday a month. Fourthly. On January 21 moonrlse hap pens at 8:32 p. m., the meridian passage at 2:41 a. m. This is clearly not the meridian passage following the moonrlse of 8:32 p. m. of the same day, but the one of the pre ceding 'day. Bo that the mpon that rises on Januarj 21 at 8:32 p. nr., crosses the meridian at 3:25 a. m. and sets at 10:10 a. m. on January 22. the next day. FiAhly. In order not to give too much at once, the pbases of the moon are not cials at the workhouse were accustomed to feast daily on Salmon and pineapples. That would be equivalent, as far as cost is concerned to terrapin and canvasback; duck In America. A most delightful Instance of municipal corruption was disclosed in an investigation at Monmouth In Wales, where a new elec tric light plant wtis laid down by the city council. About $50,000. was thrown away and In several streets mains were laid, and when It was found that there were no pos sible consumers of the light they were torn up sgaln. Tammany never did anything better than that. MA,TNARD EVANS. OTHER BANKS TAKE BUSINESS Bankers' Association ef Csisds Handles Affairs of Sovereign lastllatloo. TORONTO. Ont., Jsn. 18. Wbsn cus tomers of the head office In Toronto and seventy-six branches throughout Canada called a.t the Sovereign Bank of Canada, they found other banks In possession as a result of a transference of all business of tho Sovereign bank to the Bankers' Asso ciation of Canada, consequent upon the de cision of the Sovereign bank to go Into liquidation. There will be no Interruption so far as theSovereign bank's customers are concerned. Other banks will take care of the bank's bunlness. Difficulty may be created, however, In the case of the borrow ers of the Sovereign bank. From early last evening until early this morning meetings were held In all the banks to discuss the situation created by the liquidation. The officials of the banks interested In the financing of the vartaua branches of the Sovereign bank were engaged In making arrangements to obviate any panic follow ing today's announcement. The heaviest shareholder Is the Dres den bank of Berlin, Germany, $700,000. MONTREAL. Ont.. Jan. 18. It Is an nounced In connection with the liquidation of the Sovereign bank that the Montreal uptown branch and its business haa beqn taken over by the Bank of Toronto and tl'.at the main office in Montreal has been taken over by the Bank of British North America. The depositors will be paid in full. Russian Discount Lowered. ST. PETERSBURG. Jan. 18.-The rate of discount of the state bank was lowered today from-"4 to 7 per cent. G-OIN& I. GOIN& ! G ONE HERPICIDE WILL JAYF. IT. HERPICIDE (N. B. These Drawings are SAVE Z WITH while you have hair to sr. Ne-wbro's to grow as nature) intended (except in I wish to say that I have used part of the bottle of Herpicide that you sent me and I think It la a good tonic and have recommended it to quite a' number of my friends. I believe It will cure dandruff and It Is a splen did and delightful hair dressing. (Signed) H. J. KOR8D1CK. Memphis, Tenn. Two Sizes" 50c and The Herpicide Co., Dept L, O CO., Oor. 16th and lUgm. ' and Harney. KPECIAL. AG K NTH. n University Observatory. printed In the table. They may be found with an accuracy sufficient for ordinary purposes in this way: We know that when the moon Is full It crosses the meridian at midnight. Running down the column m. p. (meridian passage) until we come to the midnight hour that Is. the line where no time Is given we can at sight find the date of the full moon. Thus. In January It Is on the 17th. In reality it Is on the 18th at 7:37 a. m., but our method Is sufficiently accurate for all except experts. In the same way the new moon crosses the meridian at noon, the first quarter near 6 p. m. and the last quarter near 4 a. m. Hence, from the table the new moon happens on January 2, (3. 3:43 p. m.). first quarter on tho 10 (10. 7:53 a. m.) and last quarter on the 26 (24, 9:01 a. m.) When I say "near midnight," "near 6 p. m.." I always mean "twenty-four minutes later." because central time, which we use In Omaha, Is that much fast of local time. In this way we shall always get the exact date of the moon's phase. Sixthly and lastly. The times In the table apply to the moon's center and have been corrected for refraction and parallax. If the reader will kindly observe these six precautions the man In the moon prom ises on his part to be always on time to the minute. WILLIAM F. RIGOE, 8. J. PEER- WITH MANY HOBBIES Lord Blythiwood at Work on New Flying: Machine. PRECIOUS STONES BY CHEMICALS In a Pine Laboratory He Pamaes ' a me rolls Experiments In Chemistry and Me chanics. LONDON, Jan. 18. (Special.) When the famous French airship "La Patrle" broke adrift and went voyaging on Its own ac count Into the unknown it was reported that It had been seen sailing over Clydebank, In Scotland. It subsequently turned out that It was a huge box kite with which Ixrd Blyth8Wood had been experimenting that had been mistaken for the French aerial derelict. That haa called attention to the scientific bobbies and achievementa of this remarkable peer. If there were many more men with the brains snd ability of Lord Blythswood in the House of Lords little would be heard of the popular clamor for the abolition of that venerable institution. As it Is, he Is one of the exceptions, which proves the rule that mediocrity la tlie men tal characteristic of most of the hereditary legislators. There Is hsrdly a branch of science of which he does not know something and In a few departments he Is in the front rank. At Blythswood, his magnificent country seat near Glasgow, he has built himself a J big laboratory filled with machinery and the latest scientific instruments for pursu ing Investigations In chemistry, optics, elec tricity and mechanics. There may be seen what is said to be the largest static elec trical machine In the world. It waa de signed and constructed by his own work men under bis superintendence. In strik ing contrast to this noisy, lightning-producing monster is another machine of Lord Blythswood'a devising which Is his particu lar pet. He describes it as a "dividing en gine for ruling diffraction gratings." With a diamond splinter It will make l,4u0 lines to the Inch on a metal plate. It Is used for spectrum work. Aerial navigation Is one of the subjects which Lord Blythswood has taken up with great enthusiasm and at present he is hard at work on a new flying machine. The WILL 5A3E IT TOO LATE FOR, Protected by I'. H. Trade Mark.; UMR Hrrpirid kills the) gemis) that cu cases of chronic baldness.) lierpiridc I have given your Herpicide a thor ough test. I can cheerfully aay that it is the best Hair Tonic I have ever used. It will be one of our household remedies from now on snd will surely recommend same to all my friends and acquaintances. (Signed) PETER PEHL. Sedalla, Mo. SI. 00 at Drug Stores. Detroit, Mich, for a sample. Be Sure You Get Herpicide AmxCATZOsTS AT PBOafX- Crnaraateed aadsr ths rare rA . ranrr buui shop. Drag big Nix kite which was mistaken for ths l.a Patrle" was one that he used for tesU in wind pr. ssuie. The artificial manufacture of precious stones Is another matter to which he Is de voting much attention. It has been dls covered that when the mineral corundum. which Is a colorless crystal oty exactly tha same nature as the tor-ax. smethxst. r il'T and sapphire. Is placed close to radium for a pet lod of about two months. It chans.-a t(. the color of one of these gvnis Two specimens at Blythswood. which have been under the influence of a speck of radium for several weeks, are already of s beautN fill topes color. The permanency of the . color has not yet been proven, but untie every possible test these stones sre In distinguishable from the gems they repre sent. Irl Blythswood Is 73 years old. hale ant hearty, with little about him save his snow white hair and beard to suggest the typlcat savant, which may bo accounted for by tho fact that he has other Interests be sides science. Ho Is a keen sportsman and particularly fond of fishing. He goes in activrlyfor politics and Is one of the bnU wntks of tlie conservative party In th w-st of Scotland, Before a peerage was conferred upon hint In U3 he was for 4. " . J V " , '; ' ! i., - , - A. ! i ! i LORD BLYTHSWOOD IN HIS WORK" SHOP. t several years a member of Parliament. Ha began life as a soldier. In the Crimean War he served In the famous Scots Guards and was badly wounded at Internum. Though he Is the first peer of his line, he comes of one of the oldest and most renowned of Scottish families, being de scended from the same ancestor as Uisj dukes of Argyll Sir Colin Campbell ol Lochow. He Is enormously wealthy, own ing a lot of valuable land In Glasgow, biig he has never succumbed to the temptation) to merely take life easy, as do so many men who Inherit riches In England. Hid wife is a sister of a prominent liberal peer. Lord Carrington, but she was converted) to her husband's political faith long ago. They have no children, and the heir t8 the barony is Lord Blythswood's brother. Rev. Sholto Douglas Campbell-Douglas, who assumed the last surname on succeeding- to the Douglas support estate In Lanarkshire some forty years ago. He) waa intended for the army, but early aban doned a military career for the churchy and was ordained In 1S66. Some three years sgo Lord Blythswood had an excltintr chase after burglars, who had broken Into his mansion. Springing out of bed, he pursued them along the) corridors Into the drawing room, where) they leaped through a window, slid downi a ludder and were soon lost to view. They left several thousand dollars' worth, of plate untouched. ' MASTERS AND MEN WILL ACT Coninrrrltl Parliament Convenes las Paris to Resist Knoronrhmenta of Hevolntionlsts. PARIS, Jan. 18. The significant events! marking the growing determination of th conservative classes to resist the encroach ment of revolutionary socialism were ob served here today. The first is the initial meeting of the "commercial parliament." The chief aim of this parliament ia ta meet the socialists en their own ground by promoting Joint action between masters) and men. The second event Is the appear ance In Paris today of a weekly pape called Opinion, on the model of the Lon don Spectator. Tha purpose of the pub lication is to marshal conservative repub lican opinion of all shades against thai demands of collectivism, such as premature) asplnttlons for disarmament, etc. The) prime movers In this movement are Paul Doumer. former president of the Chamber of Ieputies, ex-Premier Rlbot and Alexan der Miller, former minister of commerce. III HERPICIDS dandruff, itching; itrlp a ltd falling stops lu lling of w ain almost instantly ou very kindly sent me a bott e of your HerplciciH and 1 gladly answer your Inquiry .ns to Its qualities. 1 have used it now for some tune and know it to lie the best thing for the l:ar I have ever useil and It keeps my Imlr free from dandruff and as soft as silk. I have Induced several of mv friends to use It and they are bleutml with It. . ,.. 'Signed; W. S. SHOOK. Nashville, Term. Aot, Jane 30, 10. ftrUl Ho. tls. 1 - ' ds 1