Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 31, Number 120, 22 May 1906 — Page 4

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The Richmond Palladium, Tuesday Morning, May 22, 1906.

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people how to live correctry to avoid

contracting it, and how to cure it ra

tionally when they have it.

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BEVERIDQE AFTER BEEF TRUST.

The bill which Senator Beveridge

proposes to introduce, and which will

greatly increase the powers of the federal government over the packing

houses, ought to be one of the most popular measures from the people's standpoint, laid before the Senate this

session. Among other things the

bill vill provide for sufficient inspectors to see that the moat sent out from the packing houses is not made from dead or diseased animals. An old adage states that "no man is stronger than his stomach," and therefore it is only right that the government should make it impossible for the Beef Trust to poison or wreck the health of the citizens of this country , by means of its impure and adulterated products.

TWO CENT8 AT ALL PLACES OF SALE.

Senator .Bailey, the Texan, who has

been kicking up such a rumps in

Washington simply because his veracity was questioned, is coming to Indiana to open the Democratic State convention. Indiana Democratic leaders have always been noted for doing foolish things. If their leaders expect that opening the Democratic conven

tion with an address by a man who has maligned the president, will bring

them Republican votes, they are sad-

y mistaken. Bailey may prove a

boomerang. JM';

TUESDAY, MAY 22, 1906

THE CITY'S LIGHT PLANT. No person whose mind Is unbiased and who believes that everything and everybody is deserving of a fair trial, can read the report of the special electric light committee and the statement of the city light plant's finances, by Mr. McMahan, without admitting that the city has too good a thing to part with even though the consideration offered be most flattering and tempting. The committee entrusted with the very important duty of investigating the conditions of the light department of the city government performed its work well. By this the Palladium does not mean that the work was well done because the report favors the retention of the plant, necessarily, but it was well done because It bears every evidence of being carefully done and of probing every avenuo that could possibly lead to some obscure Information concerning the condition of the city . light plant, physically and financially. The report, almost In Us entirety, will be found elsewhere In the Palladium, and here it may be summed up by referring simply to the closing para graphs which recommend the retention of the plant and which point out

the dangers that always underlie-a

complicated transaction such as the transfer of the light plant would be under existing conditions.

Mr. McMahan's report, or rather

his financial review of the Tight de

partment of the city shows that even

with a most liberal allowance for do

preclatlon of the property, tHere has been a steady and healthy growth in

the lighting business as carried on by

the city of Richmond. Not only that,

but Mr. McMahan's report points out

that the cost of street lighting has been decreasing from the time the

city took control. The' cost for the

past eight months, if the same ratio of expenso and receipts of the plant are maintained the balance of the year, will not average moraian $14

a lamp per year.

Mr. Witherby, representative ot the eastern syndicate that offered to buy the city plant is a business m"i who

knows a good thing when he sees It, Ho came to Richmond, made c

straight and bona fide proposition to purchase and he did not beat about

the bush In doing It. He acted in

entiro good faith, the Palladium be

lieves, and he has done the people of Richmond good service, for bad not the Witherby proposition been mfde It might not have been known until too late, Just what a good thing the

city possesses.

BENEFICIAL RESULTS.

The Tuberculosis exhibit held last week at the South Eighth Street Friends' Church, was a step in the right "direction in fighting the "great white plague." An opportunity was

afforded , everyone able ' to attend, of

learning just what this dread disease Is, and how it may be successfully combated. By , far the wst impor-

ant good likely to come from the ex

hiblt will be the formation of the pro

posed organisation to carry on a sys'

tematlc campaign against consumption. The ravages from this disease

are so frightful in this part of Indiana

that an organization of this kind can

undoubtedly do a great deal toward stamping out consumption by teaching

Now after this expd

evidences

of graft between, heeoal operators and the railroad companies, if some

body can devlseTroeans :by which the

consumer Is to Te benefitted next winter with cheaper fuel, there will be

reason for taking Interest in the revelations now being made.

Down

in Massachusetts the Sup

reme Court has delivered a body blow to the Tobacco Trust by declaring fts methods of rebating dealers who bought Its brands of plug tobacco ex

clusively is illegal. Now the trust

will retaliate against the cultured

chewers of the said old New England state by making it necessary to save two million tags Instead of one million In order to get a' $5 sewing machine.

THE CITY IN BRIEF

Oriental Encampment, I. O. O. F.

will have work in the Royal Purple

degree tonight.

The UnIontlc"Co.. for Artificial Ice.

Telephones, ijfime 941, Bell 10R tf

Mrs. Fred H. Burnham arrived yes

terday from New Orleans, and is with her parents Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Roney, North D street. Mrs. Roney who has

been ill for a long period, is not Im

proved and his condition Is regarded

as very serious.

Underwear tf

t4 Linen goods at

V Kl

Klbbey & Co.

Telephoned tjfe Richmond Steam

Laundry, to t your laundry. tf

Mrs. Ellen Buell, wife of William

Buell former residents of this city, died of pneumonia at hei late home,

raoia, inaiana on tne ran ana was buried at Springfield, Ohio, her form

er home, on the 18th instant.

St.nn th V'hltn Wn

Union Ice CoV Otto Rettlg. Mgr. tf

Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Romey are the

parents of a ten pound baby boy who

has been christened William MInter

Romey.

We have the

VewNe

gllge collars.

Kibbey & Co.

The Whitewater Association of Un

iversallsts will meet at Dublin May

25-27. Free entertainment. Fine program. Prominent speakers. Members

and friends welcome. If you are

coming address F. B. Brown, Dublin,

Ind. .

$2.50, $2

Shirts at tf

.00, - $50yM

1.25 and $1.00

ibbey &. Co.

Webb Lodge No.24. F. and A. M. will have work in Master Mason degree

Wednesday evening. 1 Cool, luxuriouscomfort always at hand, if youviayte a VUDOR Chair Hammock. Vlte & Kemper sell them. V 22-2t

Shiveley & Shiveley have filed the suit of Dr. J. M. Bulla vs. Joseph L. Norris on account. The plaintiff demands $60 for services rendered.

CASTOR! A Fc T. Jr.ti and Children. ThQ Kind You Hare Always Bough!

Bears the Signature of

Chambers Divorce Suit.

EXPERT M'WAHAN'S REPORT

Continued From Page One.

The Second Year. Building and Equipment .............. . "....$188,240.68 Depreciation . .... 13,331.75 Valuation ...... .. ..... - $174,708.93 Operating Expenses ' 29.015.10 Receipts .....$33,426.42

Excess of receipts over operating expenses $ 4,411.32 Depreciation ... $13,531.75

Current Deficit

.$ 9,120.43

The Third Year. Building and Equipment $193,179.44 Less amount received on Dam '. 988.30

$192,191.14 Depreciation $ 13,976.11 Valuation $178,214.43 Operating expenses , $ 29,240.12 Receipts -. $ 48,572.87

Excess receipts over operating expenses $ 19,332.75 Depreciation 13,976.71

Current excess $ 5,356.04 The Fourth Year. Building and Equipment $189,347.17 Less amount received on dam 200.00

$189,147.17 Depreciation - .... 9,504.77

Valuation $179,642.40 Operating expenses $ 19,269.43 Receipts $ 39,452.51

Excess receipts over operating expenses $ 20,183.08 Depreciation 9,504.77

Current excess (8 months) $ 10,678.31 Mr. McMahan's Summary. In summarizing hi report Mr. McMahan places the assets of the plant, viz: Valuation, merchandise, on hand and cash on hand, at $181,853.60. The liabilities, including the bonds, money advanced from the general fund, deficits, and depreciation, as $197,342.37. The total cost of the plant up to date, Mr., McMahan places at $229,342.21; the total depreciation he figures at $49,699.81 and the present valuation, therefore, is $179,642.40. The net cost of interest up to April 1, 1906, was $31,187.45. Cost of Street Lighting. Mr. McMahan shows the cost of street lighting to have gone down wonderfully. The city was still under contract with the Richmond Light, Heat & Power Company the first year of the municipal plant's existence, for street lighting, hence it was not until the second year that the city had an opportunity to show what it could do. By deducting the receipts from

commercial lighting from the total of the operating expenses and depreciation, Mr. McMahan found the cost of street lighting for the last seven

months of the second year of the plant's existence to have averaged $144

78 per lamp, per year; for the third year, $54.90 per lamp, per year and for

the 8 months of the present fiscal year, but $14.00 per lamp.

THE STRANGE CASE OF Kim SMITH

Indianian's Armless Wonder is Made Object of a "Fraud Order."

THE RULING IS UNJUST

CONGRESSMAN CRUMPACKER HAS INTERESTED HIMSELF IN THE GIRLS BEHALF HISTORY OF CASE.

Margaret I.' Chambers has filed suit through her attorney, Perry J. Freeman, against Oliver W. Chambers for divorce, custody of their infant child and for support. She alleges in the complaint that her husband failed to provide since they were married in 1903. Both parties reside in Center-ville.

Palladium Want Ads Pav.

Palladium Special. Indianapolis, May 21. Representative Crumpacker, of the Indiana Congressional delegation has arranged to go before the house committee on judiciary to make an argument in support of his bill giving persons and firms against whom fraud orders are issued by the postofflce department the right of appeal to the United States courts. The Case of Kitty Smith. The congressman Intends to tell the committee about the case' of Kitty Smith at South Whitely, Ind., the facts of which never have crept into print. When Kitty was a tiny, motherless girl she was left alone one day. She fell on a stove and her arms up

to the elbows were burned into a crisp. Both arms were amputated. Her father was .addicted to strong drink. He was arrested and charged with criminal negligence, but was acquitted and died not long afterward. Little Orphan Kitty, an object of inexpressible pity, was then cared for by good people. After a time she was sent to an orphan asylum in Chicago. Naturally bright, she acquired knowledge rapidly and it Is marvelous how many things she learned to do.

In lieu of hands she used her toes. She can adjust her eyeglasses with her toes and combs her hair by holding the comb between her toes. With her toes she can do exquisite needlework, each and a thousand and one other things. Filled With Ambition. Kitty has now grown to womanhood and Representative . Crumpacker says she is the very personification of ambition. .She has a great and consuming desire to raise herself above want and dependence upon others. Her earnings from her needle and her pen have been small but she thought she saw an opportunity to get something ahead for a dark and rainy day, so she wrote the story of her life and told in it what she had learned to do with her toes. She had photographs taken showing how she does these various thing's. Then she entered Into a straight and square business deal with a publisher whereby he agreed to publish her story in pamplet form and furnish all of the materials, receiving as his share one half of the proceeds of the sale of the book, which was to retail for twentyPeculiar to Itself In effectiveness, usefulness and economy, curing the widest range of diseases, and doing the most good for the money, is Hood's Sarsapari lla Linali or Ublate. 100 Doaaa On DoIIac .

five cents. Kitty then sent out copies

of these books to those persons whose

addresses she could secure, accompnying each pamphlet with a letter saying she believed it was worth twenty-five cents but If the recipient

did not think so would he please return it? Her Hopes Blasted.

The story is one that plays on the

heart-strings and from hearts over flowing with sympathy came gener

ous responses. Many persons bought the book. Others sent more than the purchase price but the publisher, an

honest man, gave all the excess above his one-half of the purchase price to

Kitty. For the first time in her dls

mal life Kitty experienced the novel

sensation of a bank account and was

radiantly happy. Just then some postofflce depart

ment official suffering from an abundance of wisdbm, with olfactory in air sniffed what he believed was a fraud. An inspector was hustled out

on double quick time to South Whit ley. The Inspector after an exanv

ation, reported back that Kitty was exactly what she pretended to be and can do exactly with her toes what she pretends to do but that she is a fraud because she has now received about $6,000 and Is still sending out her pamphlets, although no longer an

"object of charity". Denounced by Crumpacker.

Said Representative Crumpacker:

"Here is a poor girl, high-minded and

ambitious, who is filled with hope

tht she may be able to make her own way in the world. The book she has

written Is fascinating and Instructive

and well worth more than twenty-five

cents. The interest on $6,000 at

per cent provided she can keep It

constantly loaned is ?30l a year

certainly not a very princely income

and yet the postofflce department is holding over her head a threat that it will publish her to the world as a fraud and blacken her reputation and under existing law there is no ap

peal."

Judge Crumpacker Is confident that he will secure a favorable report from the judiciary committee on his bill and when it comes up in the house

he will repeat to the members of that

body the story of the unfortunate In

diana girl.

CITY AND COUNTY

HOT WEATHER

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UTENSILS See Our New Lines. Everything New and Elegant.

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THE FIRST SPECTACLES.

Ther Were Made In Italr I

Thirteenth Centnry. Spectacles were invented late In the

thirteenth century. The use of glass

to aid the sight of defective eyes Is,

however, much older. Nero looked

through a concave glass in watching the gladiatorial games, and many other historical men of his day were dependent on similar devices for lengthening

their sight. Till the latter part of the thirteenth century only the single glass was in use. In 1290 the double glass was invented, and in the fourteenth century spectacles were used quite frequently by the very wealthy and high born, although they were still so scarce that they were bequeathed in will with, all the elaborate care that marked the disposition of a feudal estate. The first spectacles were made in Italy. Somewhat later the manufacture of cheaper glasses sprang up in Holland, and it spread late In the fourteenth century to Germany, Nuremberg and Rathenow acquired fame for their glasses between 1490 and 1500. For many years glasses were used only as a means of aiding bad eyes, until the fashion of wearing merely for the sake of wearing them sprang up In Spain. It spread rapidly to the rest of the continent and brought about the

transformation of the old thirteenth

century spectacles Into eyeglasses and eventually into the monocle.

Quicksilver.

Quicksilver is found in veins of

rocks," like gold, silver and other met

als. Sometimes the tiny globules of

the mercury appear in the Interstices of the rock, but usually- it Is found in

the form of cinnabar, a chemical compound containing 13.8 per cent of sulphur and 86.2 per cent mercury. "When pure and reduced to a powder it is a bright red color. The principal uses of quicksilver are for removing free gold and silver in placer and quartz mining, for manufacturing vermillion paints and dyes, for backing mirrors, for making thermometers and many other scientific instruments.

What Water Did. A certain liquor dealer, a hard headed old Scot, grew rich in the trade. After he had grown rich the old man

built himself a fine house, a limeston

mansion on the hill, with a p

around it, with conservatories, staples

and outbuildings in a word, a palace. One day the old Scot rode In the jomnlbus past his fine house. A temperance man pointed up at the grand edifice and said, with a sneer, "It wis the

wmsky Dunt tnat, wasn't it?" "aa, na,

man; the water," the Scot answfred.

London Mail.

The First Sapphire.

There is an Indian legend that

ma, the creator, once committed

that he might know the former

remorse and thus be able to sj

thize with mortals. But the mot

he had committed it he began rel

lng the mantra8,-or prayers of pi

cation, and in his grief dropped or

earth a tear, the hottest that ever

from an eye, and from it was for

the first sapphire.

Marriage Licenses. Silas Fitzgibbons, 17 and Martha Wasson, 16, Richmond. Daniel Mulroney, 39, Richmond, and Anna McGuire, 25, Centervllle. Real Estate Transfers. Clem A. Jaar to Patrick F. Fuller, part of the northwest quarter of section 30, township 14, range 1, west $1100 William F. Reese to Henry W. Kluter, lot 25 In block 9. in C. T. Price's addition to Richmond $ 550 Benjamin Skinner to Joseph F. Skinner, the northwest quarter of section 16, township 15, range 1, west, forty acres ....$ 1 and other considerations. - Harry C. Downing, commission

er to sell real estate, to Minnie Addleman and Ada H.

Thompson, lots 21 and 38 in

that part of the city laid ou

by Jeremiah Cox I J 975

Happy Thought.

Doctor Your throat affectlonXls one of the rarest in the world andis of the deepest interest to the medical profession. Patient Then rememberldoctor, when you make out your bill chat I haven't charged anything for letting

you look down my throat.

The Strong Point.

He Really. I never loved anybody

before. She That Isn't the point! Are you sure you'll never love anybodjy by

and by?

In so far as you approach temptation

to a man, you do him an injury, ind If

he is overcome yon share his gpllt

Johnson. Fame.

etranger (In v ienna) Then this is

the hotel which Beethoven used tofrequent! I say. waiter, can you not saow

me trie table at which Beethoven

to sit? Waiter-Beethoven? Strane'

Why, he very often came here! Wait

er (bethinking himself) Ah, yes! The gentleman Is out of town.

' ITaeleaa Labar. Teacher Johnny. I don't believe yon have studied your geography. Johnny No, mum. I henrd pa say the map of the world wag changln every day, an I thought I'd wait a few years till things get settled. Milwaukee Wisconsin.

THE PEOPLES

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We make n earnest effort to accommodate all classes. Our aim is to make tms in every respect a bank for all the oeople : a batik where all may feel

at home: a place where those of limited means may

receive the same courteous attention as those n.ore favorably situated. We offer thlse things:

ABSO

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Our new Safety within a few weeks, ment also is solicited.

LUTE SECURITY

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FIRST MORAL

UNITED STATES

OFFICER8

A. D. GAYLE, Pretldentj

John L. Rupe, Vice President.

S. E. Swayne, Vice Presifenti

F. M. Taylor, Cashier.

A. T .Hale, Asst. Cashier.

DEPOSITORY

DIRECTOR8 Wm. D. Foulke Geo. W. Miller 8. E. Swayne Daniel Moss C. E. Shiveley Jas. W. Morrlsson John L. Rupe A. D. Gayle J. M. Crawford

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AFEST FUEL WE

EVER USED.

NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION PARTNERSHIP.

Notice is hereby given that the partnership heretofore toting between Timothv NicholsoC JoSfcah W. Nich

olson and ThomNichomon, in the

firm name of Nl

sellers, Statioj

dissolved by

of Josiah W.

Nicholson, and t

Josiah W. Jcholsl

The busing the firm namf

heretofore, bffTlmdi

Thomas Nicl

Bro., Book-

L8 this day

of the interest

to Timothy

rement of said

"om tne nrm.

continued under

poison & Bro., as

Nicholson and

rho will compose

the new firm. All obligations of the old firm are assumed and will be. paid by the new firm, and all bills and dej; mands due the old firm are owned by and payable to the new firm. Richmond, Ind., May 21st, 1906. TIMOTHY NICHOLSON. JOSIAH W. NICHOLSON. THOMAS NICHOLSON.

TO THE PUBLIC.

for

Lanyl

d has this day re-

of Nicholson &

tioners, etc., on

the impera-

lysician that I

busftess until my

lly retirement

he reasons given

interference with

will be continued

brother, Timothy

tomas Nicholson. All

ie old firm- will be

Daid by the new . and the new firm

own and are authorized to collect all accounts and claims due to the old firm. Richmond. Ind., May 21, 1906. JOSIAH W .NICHOLSON..

The undersll

tired from th

Bro., Bookseller!

account of ill heal

tlve command of l

must retire Jrom

health Is re

from the fi

will notXcaus

the bus!

by my

Nlcholso

demands upon

A WELL DRESSED MAN

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ANYTHING Yflll WANT

IN TUE f ARM LINE. Improved farms, large or Small Call on. X h. MOORE

Over 6 N. 7th Cj- Richmond. Ind

There Is nothfig about the clothes

which counts for so much as the fit.

When yoli put food material into the hands of p poof workman it's a waste of goods. jYVbe you put poor material into the land of a good taUo&'U's a waste of jtailr, When you put good material Int the 'x hands of a good

workman.

James Scully

922 Main St.

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Chicago

Tourist

Chicago, fUnion Pacific &. Noth-West

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under thd auspices ' of the

partmei of the Chicago,

Union Raclflc & Nprth-Western Line,

July 7th July 18t, and August 4th, for Ciorado' Jltah, ; Yellowstone National Park, f Portland, Puget Sound points, Tie ! Yosemite, San Francisco and Southern California. All expenles off the- journey are Included In vne Jlnitlal cost. All arrangements! fdr hotel accommodations, train scnedules, etc are pre?

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