Richmond Palladium (Daily), 19 January 1906 — Page 3

THE MORNING PALLADIUM FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1906.

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BEMInlSGEnOES OF' JAMES SHOEMAKER

(The following reminiscences were provided with a good rifle 'and from

contained in a 'manuscript left by oiie itt three dogs. The cows were

James Shoemaker, of Putnam county, now dead some year.' In a somewhat altered form it wf7j published in The Indiana Farmer, Dec 10, 1803.) My pareuts, Evan and-Kvc .Shoemaker) moved from the East Tennes

see about the year 1609, and settled

belief and turned out of range, the hjr.st'B were belled and, ( hobbled, Ea?hj settler could .identify the peculiar tjnkle of his bells among 20 others. ; ! In the spring of the year Ave had different kinds of tea-tolbit, spieejvood, sassafras, and ;the ehips

LIBEL LAW OF TEXAS

How It Makes Freedom of the Pres3

In that State a Farce.

The newspapers of Texas are hampercd by one of the worst libel laws in 'force in r America. ; The effect ot, such tapernieious -statute is explained, in the following letter to the Houston; Chronicle from its Austin correspond dent : . r ' '

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WITH

ITCHING HUMOR

"Texas needs. a new libel law. It

m Salisbury7, a small village midway i the sycamore, .an winch made ex- needs it the .-worst in the world. At betwe-.-n Centerville and Kichmond eelleiit tea for th spring of the yea. preent the press of, the State is renow( are, in Wayne county. There I ( Wliilf home-made sugar lasted, Store stricted to very narrow" limits and

Cwn's lm .Tnlv 'AO. Mv uarents tea, siurar and eoflee were not in com- uv,

remained in the vicinity of Salisbury j mow use. From 1815 to 1S23, there ment is but. final so far as a newspauntil after the ratification of peace .was; many, a .. youug -housewife who j,er is concerned, . , Criminals run

between the United States and (jreat coult spin, weave out, cut and, make rampant, the' affairs of government

Iiritajn in 1815. In the fall of 1810

her husband a decent suit of clothes

mv father, in company with three or that did not know how to make a cup

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four other pioneer families, settled ! ot store tea or eoflee.

in what ' is now Kandolph county. The pitched their tents in an almost impenetrable wilderness, surrounded by wild beasts and savage Indians. The nearest white man's cabin on the north Avas GO or 70 miles (at Fort "Wayne); the nearest settlement on the east was 15 or 20 miles. All west belonged to the Indians. Our pioneer fathers had all their provisions (except meat) to procure in the old settlement until they could raise the same at home, and that could not be done until they cleared, fenced and cultivated their ground. The roads over which they had to convey their provisions I will not describe, for they had none. The west line of my father's land was the dividing line between the old and the new purchase. Here (in the new purchase) the Indians were the bonafide owners of the soil, not having as yet ceded their lands to the United States. Notwithstanding the Indians professed friendship and came

daily either to beg or excange baskets, moccasins, leggings or different kinds of embroidery for salt, meat, tobacco, meal, flour, or anything you had to dispose of, yet they viewed each white person with jealousy and wished for an opportunity to do an injury. I recollect one day an Indian chief came to my father's house in his absence. He wanted some milk and butter. , He had a deer skin keg to put his milk in. After getting his milk, he wanted a saucer to carry his butler 'in. "Mother refused to let him have the saucer, whereupon he became very angry, brandished his tomahawk and swore he wished it would be war again, so that he could get to scalp my mother and a man named Jordan. At that time (ISlti) the Indians ' had a stake or post, around which they burned their .prisoners, in the adjoining county of Delaware. It was then neear where Muncie now is. I saw this post in 1S33. It was considerably burned and charred for several feet above the ground, and a rise or mound of IS or 20 inches around the post Was overgrown with bluegrass. It was then a standing monument of savage cruelty. When I was a lad six or seven years old I would go to the Indian camps and play with the young, Indians. Sometimes I would- find them at their favorite sport shoting with bows and arrows. At other times there would be a score or more young Indians lying in their camps, or in the shady grove, in a state of perfect nudity. In the morninig the adult Indians would take guns, tomahawks

and butcher knives, the younger class their bows and arrows, and start in pursuit of game, leaving the old squaws t perform the drudgery of the camp. They always went armed. From noon until dark the hunters would keep strolling in; one with a deer lashed on his back, another with a turkey, a third with a ham or shoulder of meat, or hog with the hair on, and still another with a raccoon, oppossum, porcupine, groundhog, etc. " . ' ' The Indian men, women and children, and the dogs would occupy the same tent. The dogs generally slept on the meal saaoks as they made them a nice soft bed. I have seen them bake their bread in this manner. They would iirst burn a brush pile, then rake off the coals and ashvs, then roll out their dough, lay it down on the hot ground and cover it up with hot embers and coals, and it would soon bake, and the dog hairs

would keep it from crumbling or falling to pieces. If I were to tell you Low annoying the horseflies and mosquitoes were in the summer and fall seasons, you would not believe me, therefore I will not tell you. Wild animals such as the bear, panther, wolf, catamount and wild cat were numerous and annoying. The settlers had to pen their hogs and sheep in their door yards around hAr cabins every night, and even then ."the wolves and wild , cats would often carry off the pigs , and lambs, and even young calves,

When I was a boy six or seven years

old I: haerd my uncle say that after dancing with a large Dutch girl the night) before, he took a seat on a three-legged stool and invited her to take a seat on his knee. She did so. He'.'fjently laid his arm around her shoulder, when she turned head and

looked him full in the face. ' Half

affriglied and half delighted she

can be polluted, bu, while it is all go

ing on, the press is powerless to uncover it and let the people kno wthe true facts in the case. ' Of course, the press can tell about it, but it does

it at its own peril. A money-mak

ing newspaper can not afford to do it,

but the newspaper that has no back

ing is at liberty to say and do just

as it pleases. The present law in

this respect puts a premium on the

paper that has no financial standing.

"Not long ago an official skipped

Eruption Broke Out in Spots All i 1 Over Body Caused a Continual J Itching for Two Years Doctor's i Medicine Did no Good Cured at Expense of only $1.25 and Now

is it

THANKS CUTICURA i FOR COMPLETE CURE

said: "You hug mine mamma; she is out with funds belonging to a benev

olent association. His relatives

paid up the shortage, and he returned to the city and was not prosecut

ed. He had a pull with the grand

jury and the district and county at

torney."' Two of the big papers in the State chronicled the fact that he had skipped and that his accounts were short. This was all true, but upon his return horn ehe filed suit for

damages for $30,000 each against the large papers." He claimed that he had been libeled. ' Of course he had not, but look at the expense the papers

are put to in fi;htinr the ease. Is

bigger as I." I will now erive anoth

er instance where the ladv thought

she was big enough, but tlie chance

was ; llacking. One morning Esq.

Jones saw a young gent ride up with

a; young lady behind him. 'They dismounted; he hitched his horse and

they made for the house and were in

vited to be seated. After waiting

a few minutes the young man asked

if he was the 'squire. He informed him that he was. He then asked the

'squire what he charged for tieing

the knot. "You mean for marry

ing you?" VYes sir." "One dol

lar," says the 'squire; "Will you the press free in Texas? Lawyers

"Some time ago I wrote you for a book on the Cutioura Remedies and received it O. K. and went and bought the Soap, Ointment, and Pills. They did me more good than any medicine I ever used. They cured me of my skin disease, and I am Very thankful to you. Mv trouble was eruption of the skin, which broke out in spots all oyer rny body, and caused a continual itching which nearly drove me wild at times. I got medicine of a doctor, but it did not cure me, and when. I saw in a paper your ad., I sent to you for the Cuticura book and I studied my case in Yt. I then went to the drug store and bought one cake of Cuticura Soap, one box of Cuticura Ointment, and one vial of Cuticura Pills. From the first application I received relief. I used the first set and two extra cakes of Cuticura Soap, and was completely cured. I had suffered for two years, and I again thank Cuticura for my cure. If you wish, you may publish this. our friend forever, Claude N.Johnson, Maple Grove Farm , R. F. D. 2, Walnut, Kan., June 15, 1905."

take it in trade?" "What kind of trade?" "Beeswax." "Bring it in." The young man went to where the horse was tied and brought in the

beeswax, but it lacked 40 cents of be

ing enough to pay the bill. After

sitting pensive for some minutes the young man went to the door and

said, "Well, Sal, let's be going.

say no.

"Had the big life insurance scan

dals been pulled off in Texas, not a single Texas paper of any standing, would have dared to print the revelations. The present libel laws would

have frightened them off.

"Inspeaking of the libel law, a

well known Texas citizen had this to

"'A

Sal slowly followed to the door, when say recentlv:

turning to the justice, with an en

treating look, she said: "Well

'Squire can't you tie the knot as far as the beeswax goes anyhow," and

so he did, and tbey were maried.

I moved to Putnam count v October

25, 1830. At that time Floyd town-

newspaper is bound to be as

liable to err as any human being.

When a man makes an unintentional error and corrects it, he is generally

considered to have done all in his

power. In Texas, however, when a

newspaper makes a slight error, it

a - I

ship was as thickly settled, except m seems that it cannot correct it, un-

(roveland, as at present. There less it soothes the wound inflicted

were then (L,.)) J40 taxpayers: now with salve or monpv. . Tins means

there are 262 in the township. that the press of the State will be

When Ave commenced growing wheat hampered, and that crimes and erimit was sown in the corn among the inals will be aided by the very laws standing trees and stumps. It was that are supposed to protect the peo-

cut with a reap hook and either

threshed out with flails or tramped out in the field on the ground with

horses. In either case there was al-

wa3s dirt or gravel enough left in

the wheat to sharpen your teeth, if

not your appetitite. When the Avheat was threshed it was winnowed with a sheet, taken to a water mill

pie.

Beware of Ointments for Catarrh

that Contain Mercury.

as mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell and completely derange the whole system when entering it through the mucous surfaces.

Such articles should never be yused

ITCH! ITCH1 ITCH I ScnATCii! Scratch! Scratch! This is the condition of thousands of skin-tortured men. women, and children, who

may be instantly relieved and speedily . i j i i a

cured by warm Datns witn uucura ooap and gentle applications of Cuticura Ointment, the great Skin Cure, and mild doses of Cuticura Resolvent Pills, when physicians and all else fail. Sold throughout the world. Cutieur Soap, &5c. Ointment, Wc., Kenolvent, fiOc. (in form ot Chocolate Coated Pills, 24c. per vial of 60), may be had of all druRginu. A. ingle let often caret. Potter Drug c Cheui. Corp., Sole frop.. Boston, Masa. , Uf Mailed Free, "All About tie Skin, Scalp, and Hair.

The Los Angeles Limited, electric lighted, new from the Pullman shops,

with all latest innovations for travel

comfort leaves Chicago 10:05 p. m daily, arrives Los Angeles 4:45 p. m

third dav. Solid through train via

Chicago, Union Pacific & North

Western Line and The Salt Lake

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cracker, bolted bv i,,i n,i tot-on except on prescriptions from reputa

home to be baked' in n billet fnr ble physicians, as the damage they

breakfast on Sundays. In the fall

season Ave took our Avheat to Craw-

fordsville where Ave got good flour.

From 1837 to 1842 or '43 times were extremely hard. Everything Ave

had to buy except sugar and coffee, were very high. For our surplus

produce Ave had almost no market.

In l.s.9 and "t0, prior to the completion of the Wabash and Erie canal, we hauled our wheat to different

points on the Ohio river, where Ave re ceived from 3S to 40 cents per bush

el. In 1841 I hauled a load of wheat

(25 bushels) to Hamilton, O., from

rioyd toAvnslnp, Putnam county, a distance of about 150 miles, for which I received 38 cents per bushel. Tu the fall of 1830 Copt. John Roberts of Jackson township, Maj. Ash of Greencastle, and John Allen of Floyd township, bought and packed hogs for Avhich they paid $1.25 per CAvt. gross. They sold their bacon in New Orleans for $1.50 per cwt. Roberts and Ash broke ui. Allen said he saved himself, but lost his monev.

will do is ten fold to the good you can possiblv derive from them.

Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio,

contains no mercury, and ! is taken

internally, acting directly Aipon the

blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In buying Half's Catarrh Cure, be sure you get tlie genuine. It is taken internally arjd made in Toledo. Ohio, by F. J. Qheney & Co. Testimonials free. Sold by druggists. Price, 75c per bottle.

Take Halyl's fa mil.f pills for constipation.

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reen r macs

These teas satisfy. Make them

right. One teaspoonful for tAvo cups. Add absolutely Boiling Water. Steep five minutes. Never Boil these teas. ARE SOLD LOOSE OR IN SEALED PACKETS BY GREAT ATLANTIC & PACIFIC TEA CO., 727 MAIN.

3Y AUTHORITY Cr.yHE .ND CE.YLON COMMISSIONER '

Drop by Drop the offensiA-e discharge caused by Xasal Catarrh falls from the lack of the nose into the throat, setting up an inflammation that is likely to mean Chronic Bronchitis. The certain, rational cure for Catarrh is Ely's Cream Balm, and the relief that follows eA-en the first application cannot be told in Avords. Don 't suffer a day longer from the discomfort of Xasal Catarrh. Cream Balm is sold, by all druggists for 50 cents, or mailed by Eiy Bros., 56 Warren Street, New York.

Next thing yon ' know, Tammany will be callins? Mavor Mrriplln

notw ithstanding eaech settler was Roosevelt Democrat."

) ) Minister's Sons Lose Game of Basket Ball for-Mt. "Union College, i Alliance, 0., Jain. IS. Earnestly singing a hymn, frye ministers' sons,

students of Mt. Union college, march

ed on to the , floor

j) re pa red to meet

husiness men in

f the gymnasium, the sons of five

i same of basket

ball. Lpon 'reacllmi? the center ot

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about him with

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respect.

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son, Manager, 212 Clark St.. and 120

Jackson Blvd., Chicago.

Sometimes nervous woman's affl

ictions are imaginary. Again they are

a form of actual and terrible illness,

In anv eA-ent. MIolIister's Rocky

Mountain Tea makes you well.

ere at nerve tonic. 35 cents, Tea or

Tablets. A. G. Lnken & Co.

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ALWAYS HAS

Nothing better can be for ground than the

had

FERTI

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