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WEEKLY KSTABIJHHED 1831. DAILY ESTABLISHE u 1S75. RICHMOND DAILY PALLADIUM, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1904. ONE CENT A COPY.

EARLHAM EOIOREB

BY L. R WHO WON FIRST PLACE IN ORATORICAL CONTEST AT INDIANAPOLIS "GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS Was the Winning Theme And the Speaker Handled His Subject in a Masterly Manner. Tlie various delegations from the separate colleges that were represented in the contest last night, after having yelled considerably and having made their presence known in the capital city, gathered in Tomlinson hall. ' !'- The walls of the hall eonstanly rang with the yells of the different colleges. After the invocation and music hy a Pe Pauw quartet, silence reigned upon the announcement of Mr. Feeger rs subject, "Gustavus Adolphus."' As Mr. Feecer began to warm up to liis subject, one could feel the already sileut room become even more silent, and, when the scene of the battlefield of Leibnitz Avas being vividly portrayed to the audience, one could have heard a pin drop. Feeger 's oration on "Gustavus Adolphus" was a climax from beginning to end. It began with a description of the conditions that existed in Europe after the Reformation and at a time when the nev Protestant religion seemed to be on the verge of being extinguished by Catholicism.. At the right time and at the most impressive place Mr. Feeger introduced his subject, "Gustavus Adolphus." Mr. Feeger 's description of Gustavus' battle in his private chamber, alone, deciding which was better foi him to do, stay at home with his family and retain his beloved Sweden in peacej or to plunge his native land, which had just attained an important place among the foremost powers of Europe, into destructive war; to lead his country men to their death on foreign soil in the hope of battling for the right, in order to keep their free religious thought from being denied them, just held his audience in suspense until the decision was revealed to them. Then followed a brilliant description of the brave, persistent and irresistible campaign of the Swedes. Of their valiant march through the very heart of Germany, carrying everything before them. Finally after Ferdinand had called the retired WaHenstein to battle for the cause of Catholicism, the twe great armies meet upon the renowned held of Leibnitz. The two greatest generals stood face to face. On the one side stood an army representing the Catholic faith; the defenders of absolutism; the army for enslaved thought and restricted speech; and the significance of ignorance. On the other side the defenders of the new faith; the soldiers of free intellectual thought; of inspired freedom, and love. The world awaited the issue. Who was to win? Was it possible that the Swede could defeat the veterans of Wallinstein, the heroes of a hundred battles? Mr. Feeger then gave a brilliant description of the battle, the charges, and reptdses; the work of the artillery and and the cavalry; and, finally, the victory for the Swedes; but a the cost of the death of Oustavus Adolphus. This battle scene completely captivated the audience and won the contest. Nothing was its equal. When Mr. Feeger closed his oration one could tell that he had impressed the audience wonderfully. The .Earlham students felt sure that their orator had won, and he did. Depauw received second place. Her speaker, Mr. Manferd C. Wright, spoke on the sublet, "Our National Crime." Ilis thought and composition were very good indeed, but bis delivery was not so good. His oration showed much

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deep and original thinking and give a good, idea of the horrors of lynching. Chas. F. McElroy, of Butler, won third place, speaking on the "The Supremacy of the Public." His oration Avas well written, was delivered well and is deserving of much praise. Mr. McElroy showed plainly that public opinion, or the voice of the people always remains and should always re

main supreme. The contest av.is verv eJo and good. Earlham ?s delegation numbered over two hundred, and they did much celebrating after the contest was over. Earlham lias been celebrating all day at the college and Avill have a great time tonight. Markings of Judges. The detailed report of the judges (Continued on 4th page.) LEEDSr COSTLY SUMMER HOME RENTS THE FAMOUS HOME OF I. TOWNSEND BURDEN IN FASHIONABLE NEWPORT And Pays $10,000 Rental For Four Months Highest Price Ever Paid. (Special to Palladium.) New York, Feb. G. William B. Leeds, formerly of Richmond, Ind., announces that he has leased the "Fairlawn" Newport summer home of Mr. I. Townsend Burden. It is one of the most beautiful homes in the country and Mr. Leeds and family will spend the summer there. As to the price paid for the rental of this magnificent home the information comes from a reliable source that Mr. Leeds pays Burden $10,000 for the use of the home for four months. This is the highest rent ever paid in fashionable NeAvport, even higher than that paid by William Waldorf Astor for the famous "Beaulieu," one of the great sIioaa- places and most expensive establishments in Newport. "THEfRl LOOKIIG FOR IE" Is What the Members of the Isle of Spice" and Fortune Teller Companies Are Saying. Patrons of the Gennett theater have tAvo rich treats in store for the coming week. The first Avill be "The Isle of Spice," which Avill be presented by sixty people with two cars of special effects. Tuesday evening. William M. Armstrong, Toby Lyons, Druman. Malay, Harry Kelley, James Francis, Ben Ginnell, Florence HayAvard, Leslie Leigh, Lisle Bloodgood, Salie Lomas, Stella Maury, Virginia Sidney and Lillian Frenehe and an ensemble of sixty pretty ehoresters, makes an irresistible attraction of "The Fortune Teller" one can truthfully say everything that's good. The cast numbers sixty-five and all of the original Alice Nielson production is carried by this company. The top liners Avith the Fortune Teller are Edna Bronson, Grace Orr Meyers, Cora Emory, Ada Gifford, Edward S. Metcalfe, Robert Lett, Phil Branson. May Grafton Baker, Bertie Dale, Herman Ilirshberg and Harry Tarpin. The Fortune Teller comes to the Gennett next Friday evening. HEALTH OFFICE. Births. To Mr. and Mrs. HoAvard ITavinpy, 12.1 north third street, a girl, first child: to Mr. and Mrs. J. A. 13 vans, 1.712 Main street, a girl, third child; to Mr. and Mrs. Harry R. Voder. r.'." north fourteenth street, a girl, fifth child; to Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Mote, k south eighth street, a girl, first child.

ISA! FINALE WITH CANDIDATES

THE "DEAR BOYS" AND THEIR FRIENDS IN EVIDENCE TODAY LAST BIG SATURDAY Streets of Richmond Present an Animated Appearance Speculation. Richmond is the candidates' Mecca today. Main street is literally alive Avith people from all OA-er the county, and each candidate has his quota of friends at work seeing the "dear people" and telling them Iioav it stands, hoAA they ought to vote and why their "favorites" ought to be elected. Eatery candidate on the ticket is here today and nearly every representative Republican in the county is here and each and every one has a burden. As to avIio Avill be elected Ave have nothing to say, but Avill tell all about it in Tuesday's paper. The candidates are a good lot of fellcAvs and Ave Avish them AA-ell. Reports. The County Central Committee has rented the Phillips opera house for Monday e"ening, where election returns Avill be received from the city and all over the county. The Election. The only thing to do iioav is to take a deep interest in the election Monday. Let every Republican go to the polls and vote for the men Avho, in their opinion, will make the best officers. A Correction. In A'iew of a report that is in circulation that the undersigned has AvithdraAvn from the race for county treasurer, I Avish to say that the report is entirely without foundation, and is circulated for no other purpose than to injure my prospects. I am in the race to stay. Robert A. Benton. BAIFIRE In New Paris Last Night About 7 O'clock. The floor of the Farmers' bank in NeAV Paris became overheated last evening and took fire. The local department was called out and the blaze extinguished Avithout great damage being done. The fire Avas cauesd by an overheated furnace. SERIOUS ACCIDENT Yesterday to a Richmond Lady, Mrs. Joseph Githens. Yesterday Mrs. Joseph Githens Avas in Knollenberg's store shopping. On leaving the store she slipped and feli and caught her arm on the sharj points of the iron fender in front oi the Avindow, lacerating it very badly, also bruising her side. She. was taken to her home on south tenth street and a physician summoned, Avho dressed the wounds and made her as comfortable as possible. Mrs Githens is a corpulent lady and fell very heavily. CIVIC IMPROVEMENT LECTURE. The lecture to be given by Mr. Albert Kelsey on "The City Possible" with stereopticon views, Avill occur next Tuesday, Feb. 9, at 8 o'clock, at the South Eighth Street Friends' church. M. Kelsey has written, he, hopes to arrive in the city in time to see it by daylight that his lecture may be .suggestively helpful to future improvement Avork here. The various literary clubs of the city, the Commercial club, the South Side Improvement Association, the mayor ami common council and other city officials, have all signified their intention of being present at this lecture. All citizens interested in the imp.ovement and beautification of Richmond are invited to be present. The lecture is free to every one.

KILLED ON C. C. & L.

IN SIGHT OF HIS SON BENJAMIN HOCKETT . RAN UPON THE TRACK To Flag a Train and Was KilledEngine Knocked Him Off Platform. The C, C. & L. passenger train which left Peru yesterday morning at 5 o'clock killed Benjamin Hockett, a Avell known citizen of Jackson township, about 6 o'clock. The -victim's son witnessed the distressing accident. The train Avas under the charge of Conductor Bertram and Engineer GraA es and Fireman Lonahan were on the engine. The train does not stop at Amboy unless ordered or flagged. Hockett and his son desired to go to Sweetzer on the early train and had waited too long at home to reach the station in time properly to flag it, according, toj information received from Amboy over the telephone. Hockett ran I upon the track to flag the train "before he realized that it AAa s upon him, and the engine pilot struck him so forcibly that he was thrown against the station platform and killed instantly. The son, who did not run 'upon the track, Avas horrified at the sight of his father being killed, and his shrieks brought the people of the vicinity to the station. The body Avas removed to the Hockett home AA-here it Avas prepared for burial. Hockett was fifty-three years of age. RETORI TO Otho H. Williams to Re-Enter the Pulpit. NeAV Castle, Ind., Feb. G. The Rev. Otho H. Williams, of this city, who was a candidate for congress against James E. Watson and Avith-di-eAv, will, in all probability, again return to the ministry. It is understood that he lias reeeiAed calls from several cities of the state, who are without a pastor, and Avill p?-cnch trial sermons. Williams is a regular ly ordained minister of the Christian church and has had seA-eral charges in churches in the eastern part of the state. He resigned the pastorate of a church near here when he entered the race for representative. Miss Marie Serimsher entertained last evening in honor of her f,rienMiss Bertha Taylor, of Richmond, Ind. Indianapolis Str.r. - POLITICAL The New State Executive Committee Will Not be Named For Some Time. Members of the Republican state committee in a number of the districts have notified Chairman Goodrich of the selection of men for appointments as members of the State advisory committee. The selections made to date are as folloAvs: First district David Kronenberger Evansville. Second Oscar F. Shryer, Bloomfield. Third NeAvland T. De Pamv, NeAV Albany., Fourth Lucien Cravens, Madison. Sixth Owen L. Carr, Rushville. Ninth John L. Wingate, Wingate. Eleventh Albert C. Bearss, Peru. Thirteenth James H. State, Elkhart. With the exception of Mr. Carr of the Sixth, and Mr. Wingate, of the Ninth, all the members of the advisory committee so far named are new men, who have not, hitherto been

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identified with the state organization. Secretary Sims is now in correspondence with the committeemen from the Fifth, Seventh, Eighth, Tenth and Twelfth districts to secure their recommendations and it is expected that the entire advisory committee Avill be made up within a few days. The neAA state executive committee Avill, in all p robability, not be named

until the next meeting of the state committee, which will be held some time the latter part of this month. The state chairman selects the members of the executive committee as his cabinet. Mr. Goodrich has not as yet, indicated his intentions in this respect. The members of the old executive committee are: Warren BigIer, of AVabash; Henry C. Starr, of Richmond; AA'alter M. Schmitt, of Evansville;" Elmer E. Crockett, of South Bend, and Sidney AA. Cantwell, of Hartford City.' " C G & E RAILROAD OFFICES WILL BE IN THIS CITY IN THE MASONIC TEMPLE. CINCINNATI & RICHMOND Offices to be Combined and Run Under One Management. The rooms occupied by the C. C. & L. in the Masonic Temple are not to be vacant long, as they have been leased by the Columbus, Greensburg and Richmond Traction company for office purposes. The office at Cincinnati Avill be closed and all business transacted from the Richmond office. This1 looks like business and speaks Avell for the enterprise of the new concern. The offices are admirably adapted for railroad purposes and relieve the minds of those who thought the rooms vacated by the C. C. & L. people Avould be empty for a time. The location of the offices here at this time means much for this city and gives our people the assurance that the C. G. & R. people mean business. MISS SCHAEFER'S MURDERER WHO HE IS STILL A MYSTERY, ALTHOUGH MANY LETTERS RECEIVED Tell of the Finding of Corpses and Claiming the Reward $1,100 Already Expended. (By Associated Press.) Chicago, Feb. G. Detective Halpin has received a letter from Sims, -i Louisville, purporting to tell of the discovery of a corpse supposed to be. the murderer of Miss Schaefer. It is similar to other letters of the same kind. Bedford, Ind., Feb. 6. Citizens have expended 1,100 in search foi the murderer of Miss Schaefer and $1,200 more Avas added to the fund in the last tAventy-four hours. I DEATHS AND FUNERALS. Brower. Mrs. Lolo BroAver, aged 31 years, wife of Josiah BroAver, diec last night at her home, eleven mile southeast of the city. The funera Avill take place Monday morning' ai 11 o'clock at Concord church. 1 terment in the cemetery at Coucord.

ADDDL HAMID AID HIS HORDES

THE BLACK SPOT OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. DR. JAMES ROSEDALE TePs in a Graphic Manner of Customs and Usages in Turkey. (AVritten for the Palladium.) The Turkish nation is made up from the residue of the renegade Kurds and Tartars, and has inherited the love of lust in its woi-st form and robbing the Aveak from his ancestors. Attila, the terror of his enemies, was the chief educator of desposist and cruelty, and his children have not only graduated with full honors in his school, but have outdone him in subtilty and a diplomacy that has Avorried Europe, for seA'eral centuries. The Sultan has dubbed himself with the name of Calipha or Successor of Mohammed, the founder of Islamism, and added to it, "Mawta Eddin" the Saviours of the faith. The Arabs, aaIio although the rightful descendants of the Prophet, dare not deny the assumption of their Master, and quietly Avait for their deIiverance. Now and then the Ivhoraish Arabs of Yumen, in the heart of Arabia, revolt, but OAving to their not being equipped with the modern engines of Avar, are immediately subdued and their leaders summarily dealt AA-ith. The Mohammedan religion is a mixture of all creeds Christian, JeAvish, Buddism and de-il worship and wholly immersed in fatalism. This being the reason 'of the courage of the Turkish army, in time of Avar, as they belieAe that no one can die before his time, for e"ery life and the resurrection of life is recorded by the Creator, and therefore immutable. Russia is no less a disgrace to Christianity, but the subjects of the Czar ha-e still days of jollifications and festivals to alloAV them to forget for a little while the heaAy burden put upon them by both church and state. But the poor subject of the Sultan, especially the Mohammedan, who has no protection Avhatever, is in trouble from his boyhood to the day of his death. The Turkish laws demand that eA-ery man support the goA'ernment. ' The farmer is expected to pay poll tax for eery male member of his family, and a tenth part of all products of his farm cattle, poultry, field and orchard besides that at stated times eery year, eAery male that reaches his eighteenth year, has to leave hrs home and go as a soldier for four years, end during these years of serA-ice he is promised the munificent salary of 30 cents per month Avhich for the last ten years has neA-er been paid. This money goes to furnish the soldier Avith tobacco, needles, shoes, blacking and in fact everything he needs to keep the only uniform he recciAes from the government during the year. You can readily understand then that the pocket money or salary is virtually giAen the soldier by his parents or friends. The Pashas or governors of the Turkish provinces, are as a rule, the most fanatical and ignorant felloAvs imaginable, and are generally chosen Avhen the gOA-emment learns that they have no heart in general, and no sj'mpathy whatever, but in order to get the appointment the candidate must have sufficient money to buy his position from the Vizier, or State Secretary, and as is invariably the case, the Pasha in reaching the province wdiere he is to rule arrives there penniless, the salary he is supposed to get has already been promised to the Arizier and his mermidons. So you will see Iioav hard the poor Pasha has to work in order to make up what he paid to get his position, and enough besides to keep his harem, usually made un with three or four wiA-es, and a feAv concubines, besides a large retinue of slaves and body guards, (Continued ou eighth rage.)