Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 31, Number 363, 21 March 1907 — Page 4
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The Richmond Palladium and Sun-Telegram.
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RICHMOND PALLADIUM
and Son-Telegram.
ably will be settled for all time, and hence It Is all the more Important that
it should be settled right.
Palladium Printing Co., Publishers
Office North 9th and A Streets.
RICHMOND, INDIANA.
Action; by the quarterly conference
of Grace Methodist church, in unani mously asking the return of the Rev
Wilbur M. Nelson, -will meet with pop
ular approval, as the tev. Mr. Nelson
has made an impression; upon the peo
pie of Richmond as a christian, gentle
man, devoted to his work and fully
-PRICE I possessed of the spirit of the gospel
Per Copy, Daily ...... ........ .2c which he is engaged in preaching. The
Per Copy, Sunday .........3c resolutions passed by the Quarterly
Per Week, Daily and Sunday 7c conference were complimentary not
only to the pastor, but to his faithful
IN ADVANCE
One Year ....$3.50 :
Anniiration oendina fn Richmond
Postoffice for Second Class Mail Matter. '
wife, as well.
Caution on the part of the county
commissioners In granting a franchise for a traction line from Richmond to
Hamilton, O., Is the proper course, as
there are two companies asking for such and the one most likely to bring
tangible results should be preferred
By all means care should1 be taken not to grant a franchise to a company that
bidder.
FROM THE EXCHANGES.
THE MAIL ORDER HOUSES.
In another column of the Palladium
today appears an article from Con
nersville. referring to a minister of
that city who has recently furnished cares for ifc only as a commodity that
Jiis house with furniture bought of a peddled about to the highest
Chicago mail order house. As an
Instance of base ingratitude this minister affords a shining example. Tin obtains his salary through the
liberality of his congregation, all Con
jiersville people and some of them probably Connersville merchants, he
3s enabled on account of hi3 calling to get cut rate3 on articles purchased
of Connersville merchants, and then when he Intends to furnish his house
fet a cost of maybe one hundred dol Jars or more he turns to the mail order houses, firms that In no way con
tribute to the upbuilding of his town
or bis church.
Sleepy South and R. F. D.
Georgia and other Southern states
bid fair to lose a goodly number of
their rural free delivery mail routes
unless there is an awakening of inter
est in the service to a point that will
justify their retention. Orders have
recently issued from the postoffice de
partment abandoning several Georgia
routes for no other reason than that
the patrons, as a result of their amaz
ine Indirierence. nave made It no
However, there 13 one thing that longer wortn the while to continue
may be said for thi3 Connersville
clergyman and that is that this is probably hl3 first experience with mail
order houses and the glittering promises they hold out aro but rarely if
ver fulfilled. Richmond and Wayne
county people have had plenty of ex
perienco with the .big1 mail
them. Atlanta Constitution.
Need For Reform.
South Bend Is making an effort to
give herseir a moral cleansing ana the good work has the active support
of the city council. There is quite
as much need of it in Fort Wayne.
order I Both cities have long been governed
jiouses and have found out to their own cost how little the good3 of the
onail order houses bear out their pro
mises. There was a time when the
mail order houses could boast of a
total business in this county of not
far from $400,000. In fact these fig-
under operation of that principle of
administrative do-nothingism denomi
nated "liberal." Ft. Wayne Sentinel
Predicts Brilliant Future.
The Richmond Palladium and the
Richmond Sun-Telegram, the first a
I morning and the latter an evening
fnaner. have been mereed and will in
tires field good no longer man lour or the future be published from the old five years ago. Today, however, the Palladium office as an evening paper.
mail order business In Wayne county The paper will be issued seven days
, . , (printed in the morning. A morning
lu Jr uuiium. """"" market edition will also be published In business commensurate with the daily for the benefit of the rural pat-
Joss in confidence of the people in the rons of the paper. The new combina-
mail order houses owine to their fail- tion promises to have the largest cir
tire to live up to their promises.
We all know the promises the mail
order houses have made and not lived
up to. "Better goods for less money,"
etc. We all know the arguments they have used to prove that they real
ly were giving better goods for less
money,
culation of any newspaper published
in Richmond and has every prospect of a brilliant future. Marion News Tribune.
A Word to Advertisers. Do your own advertising. Make it
a study, study the wants of your
trade. When you get something they
They say that the scope of want, let them know you have it. Do
their business Is so large and enables what you say you will and a fortune is
thtun tn hnv innrh l.irfo mitmiiiios yours. Advertising is a study, and if
w rhoV om n ii ttr. man "waits until he has purchased
. a stock of goods and gets it placed on at jobbers prices. And some stand- the sheives before he thinks about Brd lines the price and quality of talking about them to the people, a which are well known, they do sell at schoolboy can predict his cavernous
Bobbers' nrfcrs. hnt tw nt. r ianure. xou cannot succeed on your
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their loss in these lines by the pro-It , , ,. lKr I keener. You must havfi other esspn-
Iits they make In other lines where tials, and the chief of these is to be
they are able to make use of their I able to get near to the buyer, and to
vell known methods of substitution. inspire in him that confidence which
A visit to th lnoaT ft.oi.rt, W1 duce long-continued good feel
liner, and tn this pnd th npwsna npr 1s
uUOt uy uay wm convince you as yours; and not that only, but the best toothing else short of personal exper- agency you can employ. Eaton Demo-
lence, of how many mail order arti- crat.
rles are returned under the return privilege owing to dissatisfaction with the goods; a fact that shows that discriminating buyers cannot be gulled by substituted articles. Personal ex
perience has led most mail order Appropriation Bill for Indiana
house patrons to adopt the third part f the famous saying by L.incoln,"You can fool some of the people all the
time; and all the people some of the OFFICERS GET BENEFIT
time, but you cannot fool all the peotllo nil hc timn
Announcement that the Second Na- priation biU Passed T the legislature
tional bank and the Richmond Trust of 1007' grants m000 more tna th comDanr will erect a hp- hniirifn.- act of 1005, $330,000 addiUonal going
having so decided after long consider- lo suPerior antr circuit judges ana ation. will be welcome news in that it 25O,O0O to state officers and, depart-
nipnna that rmir-h rn nr u.-rmfc- 4Vw h,a I HI 6 tit S.
- - w n w A AVI CUC. men of Richmond, and that much more added to the prosperity that already prevails. Outlook for the building
season Is believed to be of the best, Walter Cahill, of Lewisburg, O., one
with two new structures at Earlnam or tne nest amateur nan players in tnis
I iim ri f 1 1 I n i- l i ii i ii i i v hmv fzfrnTfn m. rrv
College in prospect, the Home Tele- out with mdianapolis of the American
phone company s building still under Association. He has been playin
construction, the immense addition to great ball for the last few years and the Hoosier Drill works under way and certainI deserves to jlay in fast com-
the prospect of a large addition to the
Starr piano works. In addition there
win De many minor structures go up, The mandrill baboon has the most
so that there will be no excuse for any brilliant colorings of any quadruped
able bodied workman to be Idle this season.
MAIL-ORDER VAYS
BAD ADVERTISEMENT FOR CATALOGUE HOUSES.
AT SCHOOL OF EXPERIENCE
8eener or Later It Teaches Every Mail Order Patron the Error of Sending His Mney from Home.
The methods of the mail-order houses are their worst advertisement Sooner or later there will come a time In the experience of every purchaser of their goods when he will wish "he hadn't doae it," when he will wish he had spent his money with his home merchants. This is sot only because he will see the ruin wrought in his own community by the nefarious practice of sending the money of the community to the city, but also because of the practices of the mail order concerns. The story in the catalogue sounds well. It sounds like you would get the identical thing you wanted and at a mnch lower price than you had imagined it could be bought for, and you order it. The purchase arrives and when opened you feel that some mistake has been made, that the concern has sent you the wrong goods; it is not what you ordered. Ah, but it is! The difference is between the way it actually looks and the way it sounds in the catalogue. You explain that the goods you received is not what you ordered and ask for an accounting, and are told that it is you that Is in error, that you got just what you ordered, and then if you are wise you buy of the
better to call upon our local dealer and look over his stock where we can see the goods before buying. There are then no errors In change or refunds to be haggled over across a 300mile stretch. Yes, it is better to trade at home. Our home merchant's guarantee upon an article means something, as he wants our good - wilL Keeping the money at home benefits home industries and thus, indirectly, us. We cannot expect to sell our products to the local merchant and do our trading in Chicago. It is all one-sided and some time we would have no local merchant to do our buying. Catalogue houses. I have found from bitter experiences, are tricky. If those who are dealing with them will watch their purchases, they will find it so sooner or later. Our last deal, had it occurred here at home, would have been straightened out in five minutes and without feeling, but with you it takes me all winter to get my money back when the goods are not satisfactory, and even then I get only a credit card which is lost through studied carelessness upon the part of someone in your concern so that I have nothing to show for my claim. Every man should trade at home if conditions admit of purchasing a good article at reasonable prices. If not, then he had better trade at the next town or city that his money may go to build up the country around him. He sends it to Chicago that It may go into profits of some big mailorder house until there is enough sucker money to build and endow some great charitable institution as a monument to the greatness of the mail-order man
and the gullibleness of the easy public. I have already asked that you adjust the matter of our last deal. I want my money returned without further
ABE RUEF INDICTED
AT
FRANC SCO
He Is Charged in Many Counts With Having Been Guilty of Bribery.
HALSEY ALSO INDICTED.
BOND OF RUEF IS $640,000 AND FOR
$100,000 HALSEY IN IPPINES.
PLACED AT HALSEV AT
THE PHIL-
The one sure method of curbing the mail-order giant Is to bind him with
the thongs of home patronage. Are you helping in this work? . Are you spending your money at home and helping your town to grow, or are you sending it to the city to swell the fortunes of the mail-order man?
eiG INCREASE IS SHOWN
Jumps $600,000.
Cahill Gets Try Out.
pany. He will join the team Satur
day.
It shows blue, red and purple of vivid
i tints.
A meeting has been called at which
those property owners who are inter
ested In the matter of the freight line
of the traction company passing along the streets on which they live, will be given a chance to be heard. It is right they should be heard and It is right that as far as is fair and consistent, their wishes In the matter should be given consideration. The question of hauling freight through the city by the traction line Is an Important one, which, when settled, prob
Many good, healthful dishes are made from Grape-Nuts Salads, puddings, cakes, etc. Try it. "There's a Reason." RECIPES IN PKGS.
home merchant next time, and know what you get when you pass over the money for it. He may not be able to sell you what you thought you were buying from the mall-order house at
the catalogue price, but he can sell
you, if he has It, the same goods you get from the mail-order houses at an equal or less price than they ask for
it, and what is more, he can sell you what you really want at as reasonable a Drice as you can get it for else
where. The following letter, written by
Michigan farmer, explains in a clear and unmistakable way the danger of
buying of mail-order concerns. It was
addressed to one of the largest of this
class of institution in this country:
Baldwin, Mich., Jan. 12, 1907.
Gentlemen:
I have your favor of recent date,
and also your catalogues and accom
panying circulars offering premiums for distribution of the same among my friends. I have no doubt that, as you say, I will thereby confer a great favor upon you, but I am compelled to
take issue with you on the statement
that I will also confer a favor upon
my friends.
In my dealings with you, extending
over some time past, I have received no favors from you I paid for all I
got, and the length of time I traded
with you, instead of establishing
friendly relations and gaining me additional favor as it would in a home
store, gave you the opinion that, un
like a new customer, to whom you give your very best, so they will come again, I was a steady comer and any old thing would do for me. Our last deal opened my eyes and convinced me of your policy. Your catalogues offer some apparently great bargains. But let us draw up our chairs and see if there are not a few things very essential to the rural citizen that are not mentioned within its voluminous bulk. For instance, there Is no reference to paying cash or exchanging goods for wheat, oats, corn, beans, butter, eggs and hay. How much will you pay for cattle, sheep and hogs, f. o. b., at Baldwin? How much will you pay to support the Lake county schools and educate our children? How much for improving our roads and bridges? For supporting the poor? For the general public expense? On what page do yon offer to contribute money to the support of our churches? What line of credit will you extend to me when my money is low because of sickness, or poor crops? What do jou provide in the way of entertainment for the public and in the way of providing those things that make a town desirable and thus keep up the value of my property? As a matter of fact, do you do anything to help locally, or do you merely take the money out of , a community, returning nothing whatever, beyond the value of the goods bought? Thinking it over carefully, I believe it is
dickering and unless I get It I shall certainly get its equivalent in advertising you and your methods among the people of Lake county. Awaiting your reply, I am. Yours truly, CARL SCHULTZ. Wolf Lake, Michigan. P. O. Baldwin, Mich. , , Can you, Mr. Purchaser, not profit by the experience of others and turn your money into home channels by trading with home merchants where you will get a dollar's worth for a dollar, or must you follow the mail-order man's lead to trouble for yourself and destruction for your community? Do not wait for that evil day when you have learned wisdom lnthe expensive school of personal experience, but profit by that purchased by others. You will find it far cheaper and more satisfactory in the end.
A Turkish Health Report. The French government, wishing to obtain definite statistics on points relating to certain Turkish provinces recently sent blanks with questions lating to certain Turkish provinces, to be answered to the Provincial governors. The replies received from the Pasha of Damascus are worth
quoting:
Question. What Is the death rate
In your province?
Answer. In Damascus it Is the will
of Allah that all should die. Some die young and some die old.
Q. What is the annual number of
births?
A. God alone can say I do not
know, and hesitate to inquire.
Q. Are the supplies of water suf
ficient and of good quality?
A. From the remotest period no
one has died in Damascus of thirst.
General remarks as to the local san
itation: Man should not bother himself or his brother with questions that concern only God.
A Squelcher. "I gave that odious Mrs. Dough-
purse something to think of this after
noon," says Mrs. Bankfull to her hus
band, who was amusing himself by tossing $20 gold pieces into the artifi
cial lake in the drawing room for the
pleasure of hearing the gold pieces plunk as they sunk.
"Whajja say to her?" asked Mr.
Bankfull, rolling himself a cigarette
in a hundred-dollar bill.
"She was boasting about the solid-
gold radiators they are having put Into their new house, and I told her we thought steam heat was so old-fashioned that we were going to heat our
house with radium hereafter." Judge.
Minister Discovers Comet. Ministerial duties do not prevent the
Rev. Joel H. Metcalf, of Taunton, Mass., from pursuing astronomical Investigations. His study of the stars has resulted in the discovery of a new
comet, which is now being closely ob
served by astronomers throughout the world. It has been named Metcalfs
comet.
Sailors to Get Benefit.
New York. March 21. Following the announcement of a few days ago that Mrs. Russell Sage had donated ?10,000,OX for charitable purposes, comes the additional bequest of $ir0,000. The money is to be used in the erection- of a sailors and seamen's home.
A large Filipino Methodist Episcopal church is in process of erection in a prominent location in the city- of Ma
nila.
Given Up to Die. B. Spiegel, 1204 N. Virginia St, Evansville, Ind., writes: "For over five years I was troubled with kidney and bladder affections which caused me much pain and worry. I lost flesh and was all run down, and a year ago had to abandon work entirely. I had three of the best physicians who did me no
good and I was practically given up to
San Francisco, Cal., March 21. The Iong-looked-for indictments in the municipal graft cases were returned last night. Shortly after 6 o'clock the grand jury filed with Presiding Judge Coffey of the supreme court seventy-
five indictments charging bribery. These were found on evidence pre
sented to the grand jury after six
months probing into the municipal affairs of this city by Assistant District
Attorney Francis J. Heney and Secret
Service Agent William J. Burns.
Of the indictments returned sixtyfive are against Abraham Ruef, charging him with bribing the board of supervisors to grant franchises to the United Railroads, the Home telephone company, the San Francisco Gas and Electric company and the so-called prize fight trust. Ten are against T. V. Halsey, former general agent of the Pacific States Telephone and Telegraph company, who is charged with having bribed the supervisors not to grant a franchise to a rival company. One indictment against Ruef and four more against Halsey which, it is understood, were also returned were not filed in open court. Several more indictments, the exact number and against whom Heney and Burns refuse to divulge until the accused persons have been arrested, were returned by the grand jury, but not filed. Heney and Burns not even trusting the secret file. Trolley Franchise Graft. Of the sixty-five counts of bribery against Ruef, fourteen are in connec
tion with the granting of the overhead trolley franchise to the United Railway company immediately after the disaster of last April. Seventeen are based upon the money alleged to have been spent by the Gas company to secure an 83 ' cent gas rate as against a seventy five cent rate; thirteen refer to the passing of money by-the Home Telephone company to obtain a franchise for a bid of $23,000 and which it has lbeen declared was worth at least $1,000,000 and eighteen are based upon the alleged bribery of the supervisors by Ruef to grant fight permits only to the so-called fight trust of this city, which is composed ofxEddie Graney, Morris Levy, James Coffroth and Willis Britt. The money in all these cases is alleged to have been handled by Ruef, who, according to Heney and Burns, was the agent and broker between the public service corporations and the board of supervisors and a sort of general distributing agent for all the desired privileges from the supervi
sors. The indictments against Halsey charge the agent of the Pacific States Telephone and Telegraph company with having bribed fourteen members of the board of supervisors to refuse the rival company a franchise. , Judge Coffey fixed the bail at $10,000 on each indictment, or a total of $640,000 for Ruef and $100,000 for Hal- j sey. The latter is a brother-in-law: of the late John L. Sabin, former pres-!
ident of the' Pacific States Telephone and Telegraph company at the head of the telephone system of Chicago, and a brother-in-law of Louis Glass, president of the Philippine Telephone company. Halsey has been in Manila installing a telephone system. He has been under surveillance for several days, and papers for" his extradition are being taken out and orders for his arrest have been cabled.
Respect
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News of the Railroads Local and General
BV O.OWENKUHN
CALLS AN EXTRA SESSION. Governor Folk, of Missouri, Names Various Important Subjects That Should be Considered.
Jefferson City, Mo., March 21. Gov. Folk has Issued an official proclamation convening the legislature in extra session on April, 9, at noon. The subjects named In the call are: To enact such legislation as may be necessary to provide for the regulation of rates of public corporations. To control dramshops. To provide for the recall or removal of derelict officials. To provide legislative enactments for the enforcement of the dramshop laws throughout the state. To enact laws relating to the police system of cities of the state of .100,000 Inhabitants or more. To provide an enactment with an emergency clause for the suppression of race track gambling. To consider any other subject that
may be submitted by special message
during the session.
PUTTING IN NEW WIRES. This Is Found Necessary at Pennsylvania Station. Owing to the heavy power supplyed by the new Pennsylvania lighting plant, located in the local shops, heavier wires, necessary to carry the
increased voltage, are being placedat the local station. At the time the plant was installed, the power being
taken from the Municipal plant, it
was found that the wires used in connections made for the later named concern, were not large enough to accommodate the increased power of the new plant hence the repairs that are now being made. Ticket Agent Elmer's office represented a busy scene Wednesday, electricians working on the change during the entire day. OHLINGER IN THE CITY. Superintendent L. Ohliger, of the Indianapolis division of the Pennsylvania was in the city Wednesday looking after the interests of his division here. Ohllnger came on a special train and was accompanied by a number of his under officers located in Columbus. STRIKE IS IN PROSPECT. It is highly probable that all -train
men west of Chicago will strike In the near future as they refuse to agree to the terms offered by railroad officials and will not under any circum
stances submit to arbitration on the subject of wages. The trainmen say that they must have what they demand or nothing. The railroad officials have offered the freight trainmen a general ten per cent Increase and passenger conductors an increase of $10 per month, brakemen and flagmen $5 per month and baggagemen $6 per month. This is entirely unsatisfactory however, according to the statements of the trainmen and they will not accept.
ground Is frozen several inches down, and it will take some time for this to thaw out. The roadbed will bo balasted thoroughly, according to the orders which they have received. Gravel pits have been opened up all along the line, and machinery placed in the best of condition that the work may move swiftly when it once be
gins. , . 4 LOCAL CAR FAMINE. The number of cars being left In Richmond in the past two weeks by the changing of freight consigned to one point, from a number of cars, has lessened materially, and according to the statement of a local freight official Richmond is now suffering a car famine. Not enough , cars can be secured to properly handle the business sent out by the large number of Richmond manufacturing establishments. Richmond was considered one of the luckiest towns along the entire Pennsylvania system, for a time, because the shippers had all the cars they needed at their service, but as the situation stands at present, It will be some time before enough, cars aro brought here to furnish transportation to the large shippers. Just as to how soon the situation would ease up, the local official would not state.
, Worked Like a Charm. Mr. D. N. Walker, editor of that spicy journal, the Enterprise, Louisa, Va., says: "I ran a nail Into my foot last week and at once applied Buck-
len's Arnica Salve. No inflammation followed; the salve simply healed the wound." Heals every sore, burn and skin disease. Guaarnteed at A. G. Luken & Co's., druggists. 25c.
POSTAL WEIGHERS INJURED Two Are 'Temporarily Off Duty as Result.
ndloYod In 24 floors Hcnoy Refunded.
. If Ton have RlMamattom. Ceut. SeUUea et La m Back try "SmKJt's UmIuki Cm-
TRACTION NEWS "BUTCHERS." The Union traction line has placeQ news "butchers" on its through cars and when asked whether or not the Indianapolis, Columbus & Eastern would probably take the same step on its through cars between Dayton and Indianapolis a local traction man said: "Yes It is probable. It has been agitated for some time and the higher officials of the road are thinking seriously of the move Passengers have demanded such for a long time. When the Dayton and Western limited was run between the two towns, reading matter was furnished but ot on the present through cars.
I The news "butchers" will sell canIdies and fruits and will also carry
the newspapers and periodicals. I believe myself the venture will work. If it should, boys probably will be placed on all cars running out of Richmond. , RICHMOND DIVISION REPRESENTED. The Richmond division of the Pennsylvania was represented at the meeting of the American Engineers' and j
Maintenance of Way association, which was held in Chicago Wednesday. Routine business was transacted and officers elected for the ensuing year. t PREPARE FOR SPRING WORK. Section foremen on the C. C. & L.
railroad located in this city, are mak-
N. D. Fisher and B. II. Hatfldw
(postal weighers running through
Richmond between Cincinnati and Chicago on train 18 were injured In a small wreck which occurred near Chicago, and are required to remain away from their duties. As to what time they will return Is not known.
At the request of Miss Mary Stubbs. state statistician, and a former well known student at Earl nam college. City Judge W. E. Converse is preparing some statistics regarding the business transacted In the city court last year. Judge Converse, in his report, gives a list of arrests made last year, where affidavits were filed and the cases heard and passed on in his court. This list shows that there were 504 cases heard In the city court In 1906.
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There are about 34.000 Chinese in the Transvaal gold mines, which fact Is giving the British some concern.
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