Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 31, Number 363, 25 March 1907 — Page 2

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OBSERVE PASSION WEEK. Special Services at the First Methodist Church. Flore About Flail Order Houses f

IS THE LAST STRAW Railroaders Make Some Additional Demands.

ABATTOIR WILL CLOSE

OWING TO THE DEATH OF JOSEPH CEIER, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE RICHMOND ABATTOIR CO. THE PLANT WILL BE CLOSED ALL DAY WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 1907. ALL THOSE WISHING ANYTHING IN THE MEAT LINE 8HOULD PLACE THEIR ORDER TUESDAY EARLY AS POSSIBLE TO ENABLE US TO MAKE OUR DELIVERY NOT, LATER THAN 5 O'CLOCK P. M. TUESDAY. Richmond Abbatoir Co. SPALDING'S GUIDE IS OUT. A Publication of Interest to the Base Ball World. ripalding's official base ball guide for 1907 the thirty-first year of its publication has just been published, end for size and quality of its contents far surpasses all previous issues of this well-known book. Its 600 pages comprise the history of the year in baseball and nothing illustrates the growth and popularity of the national game better than the amount of space required to chronicle the doings of the Tast army of professional base ball clubs whose records, classified under their respective leagues, are to be found in the Spalding Guide. It is a monumental work and is certainly a tribute to the energy of its veteran editor, Henry Chadwick, the "Father of Base Ball," who, though in his eightyfourth year, is still as interested in the national game as when he was helping to frame its first rules for an organized government. The great bulk of the Guide is devoted to the doings of the minor leagues, all of them being accorded space for their records, and a review of the state of the game in each organization, written by a competent authority of the section which each particular league covers. The pictures of all the teams are shown, and also groups of leading club officials of each organization, it being undoubtedly the greatest collection of pictures of professional base ball teams ever published in any book. INSPECTION IS COMPLETED. Repairs Will Be Made on the Panhandle at Early Date. J. J. Turner, second vice president, Unci G, W. Peck, general manager, and Beveral other officers have completed their inspection of the Pennsylvania lines west. The principal reason for Inspecting the Panhandle was to determine the damage done by the recent high waters and to arrange for necessary repairs. Two divisions "were partially out of service for a few Bays on account of the floods. Awful Warm at Milton. Milton, Ind.. March2o. Mrs. .David tiee states Hhat the mercury stopped at 3V4- on the south side of their house at 1 a. m., Friday. The thermometer tangs on the veranda on the , south tide, where it has hung for many rears. On extremely hot days in summer she has known It to register as high as 0-"J. but March 22 was the first time she ever knew it to register 104. Prudential Banquet. C E. Thomas, a representative of the prudential Insurance company of thus city, gave a banquet at the McFarlan totcl in Rushville Friday evening. Representatives of the Prudential were there from Rushville, New Castle and Itichmond and the occasion was one of Croat pleasure and profit. Breaks Birth Record. Milton, Ind., March 23. Paul Caldwell, a young farmer living about four Jniles south of Milton, had five sows that gave birth to a combined number of forty-five pigs inside of five hours. Mr. Caldwell thinks it a record breaker. his Week's Saints' Days. The following are the saints' days for this week: Sunday, March. 21, St! Simon; 2r, annunciation of the Virgin; i-V.. St. Ludger; 27, St. John Damascene; 2S, St. Sixtus; 29, St. Jonas and companions; GO, St. John Climachus. With New Trust Company. Walter Henley has arrived from Pittsburg and will take a position with the Richmond trust company. Stewards Will Meet. The board of stewards of " Grace Methodist church will meet Tuesday evening. ways Kanrnfrer the jmi. Name icnxsa Caret aCcU inOneDey, Crista 3 Days

THE SITUATION IS ACUTE. Chicago, March IT,. The railroad situation was rendered more acute this morning by the introduction of new demands for increased wages and reduced hours by thirty-seven thousand firemen and engineers, who were firemen and still retain membership in that order. The firemen demand an increase of fifteen per cent. This added to the already heavy burden of hostile public sentiment, railroad men declare is the last straw.

FAIRBANKS ASKED TO CHANGE METHODS (Continued From Page One. ber of other Indiana notables, at which time the decision was reached to try again to foist upon the people of this district George W. Cromer, a representative of whom the people had long since tired. Opposition is Harassed. These prejudiced reports, of one kind and another to harass every man opposing the state organization's methods with relation to this district, are well understood. They have deceived no one. It is a fact known to ever signer of this petition that the three newspapers are comprised in in the Star league were purchased by the United States Steel corporation and the Rock Island railroad now closely allied with the Harriman interests and that they were bought for the purpose and promptly placed in your hands as instruments for promoting your ambitions to the presidency of the United States. We likewise understand that you or members of your immediate family have a joint partnership in the Indianapolis News with Delavan Smith, a relative, and that any utterance by that paper on political matters must be taken as a personal utterance as much as if the words fell from your own lips from any platform in the eighth Indiana district. We protest against your methods. In shouting for you we do not feel that we must tear down or detact from the splendid record of Senator Beveridge, Theodore Roosevelt or any other good republican. Mr. Fairbanks is requested to send a reply to the petitioners, informing them whether he thinks it is better to fight republicans than democrats. The secret of fashionable beauty. I asked the question of a noted beauty specialist. 4,In order to be round, rosy, plump, very pretty and stylish, take Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea. 35 cents. A. G. Luken & Co. PLENTY OF REPERTOIRE. Both Local Theatres Will Present It Next Week. There will be plenty of entertainment for those of the local theatregoing public who like repertoire as both local theatres will present this style of entertainment next week. May Go to Oklahoma. Mr. and Mrs. John Maxwell, of South Sixteenth, among the most highly respected of the older residents of Richmond, probably will remove to Oklahoma this spring. They have a daughter living there. Cemetery Association. Next Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock, there will be a meeting of the Jacksonburg Cemetery association at Jacksonburg. The purpose of the meeting is to reorganize the association. A Visiting Clergyman. Rev. Frank Foster of Cincinnati, occupied the pulpit at the First Presbyterian church Sunday, delivering two acceptable sermons. Communion Services. Communion services were held on Sunday at the Fifth Street Methodist church. The day was one of much interest. Heard Louisville Pastor. Rev. A. G. Hill, of Louisville, Ky., preached at the Wesleyan Methodist church Sunday afternoon. Comes to Earlham. Linus Pace, of Winchester, formerly of Indiana university, will attend Earlham college during the spring term. A Little Krarh Into Sparc There are very few stars whose distance Is even approximately known to astronomers. Moreover, the different estimates of the distances of these few vary by large amounts. The nearest known star Is Alpha, in the constellation Centaur, not visible from the northern lands of the earth, and one of the next nearest Is the little star in the northern constellation Cycmns. called Sixty-one Cygnl." The latest determination of this star makes Its distance 53.000.000.000,000 miles. This is about 18,000,000,000,000 miles less than the distance derived from Professor Hair measurement of mo rue fifteen f ears ago.' on every box. 25c

In observance of Passion week, special" services" will be held at the First M. E. church each evening this week at 7:30 - o'clock. Tonight the men will have charge of the meeting the members of the Brotherhood of St. Paul being in charge. The Y. M. C. A. will be discussed. Tuesday night Miss Agnes Johnston, deaconess, will have charge of the services. Wednesday night S. II. Jones will be the leader while on Thursday night Henry Luring will have charge. The Rev. Raymond J. Wade will speak Friday night. '

TRACT SOCIETY LABORS. The Rev. Mr. Foster Represents the American Society. The Rev. Frank Foster, who occupied the pulpit at the First Presbyterian church Sunday morning and evening, is a representative of the American Tract society with offices in Cincinnati and Is largely interested in aiding immigrants, who come to this country each year. The American Tract society by distributing pamphlets and tracts hopes to bring about a better condition of things among this class of people. Rheumatic Pains Relieved. B. F. Crocker, Esp., now 84 years of age, and for twenty years Justice of the Peace at Martinsburg, Iowa, says: "I am terribly afflicted with sciatic rheumatism In my left arm and right hip. I have used three bottles of Chamberlain's Pain Balm and it did me lots of good." For sale by A. G. Luken & Co. Observes Passion Week. Bethel A. M. E. church is observing passion week, beginning Sunday night. President R. L. Kelly preached a very impressive sermon. Tonight Dr. S. R. Lyons, pastor of Reid Memorial church, will preach on "The Authority of Christ." The meetings will continue all week. IS NOT AFTER HIS IDEA Bryan Sounds a Warning to The Public. WATCH THE RAILROADS. Chicago, March 25. The only political lesson of the present railroad agitation towards federal control is that the public ought not to give up its local authority over railroads at the request of managers who do not want to be regulated at all, is the position taken by William Jennings Bryan. Bryan said today that he didn't think federal control as advocated by Rockefeller, Harriman, Fish, etc., is at all along the lines proposed by him in his Madison Square Garden address of last fall. Use artificial gas tor light and neat 10-tf LARGE CLASS WAS Impressive Services at St. John's Church. SERMON BY THE PASTOR. A class of twenty-one was confrmed at Sunday morning's services at St. John's Lutheran church. Most im pressive services were held and special music was rendered by the choir. The text of the sermon, by the Rev. A. J. Feeger, pastor, was from Genesis 17:11): "Look not behind thee, neither stay thou in the Plains," It being the mes sage of the angels to Lot when lie left Sodom. Those who were confirmed are: Carl Kehlenbrink. August II. Bromeyer, Carl W. Stowe. Roy F. Long, Roy H. Schneider, Willard C. Dunning. Raymond H. Pilgrim, Carl E. Niewoehner, Carl L. Resch, C. S. Stadelmann, How ard Smith, Albert B. Keler, Earl Hormavious, Charlotte Schneider, Elza Horn, Martha E. Niewoehner, Martha Mott, Flora Kramer, Loreta Hoppe, Lizzie Niewoehner and Edith. Stegman. GOVERNOR HANLY IS SICK. He Has Been Detained in Pennsylvania for Two Days. Indianapolis, March 25 Governor Hanly has been ill for two days at Indiana, Pa. The physicians would not let him start home until today and he is expected tonight. Easter Plans Complete. The plans for the Easter services at the First M. E. church are already completed. Special services will be held Sunday morning and the choir will give the oratorio. "The Holy City," Sunday night. Was Decision Day. Sunday was decision day at the First Methodist church; and there weTe four accessions, while a large number of persons signed cards signifying their determination to live better lives. Not Generally Observed. Although. Sunday Vas temperance day, it was not generally observed among the churches of the city. Only one church held services appropriate to tie day.

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DO NOT TAKE THE CATALOGUE STATEMENT FOR IT. CASE OF A MAIL-ORDER BUGGY The Purchaser Was Ashamed to Use It and Sold It to His Hired Man It Pays- to Buy at Home. Copyright, by Alfred C. Clark.) The East End of London is an example of what the city does for humanity in creating poverty, misery, disease, drunkenness and crime. Jefferson was right when he said: "Great cities are great sores upon the body politic." 13 it any wonder that lovers of their kind are horror-stricken at the grinding of these gigantic mills whose grist is the bodies and souls of men? But there is another movement connected with this current setting cityward which, like it, is full of grave menace to the welfare of humanity. This is the dry rot now invading thousands of villages and towns. It is not lack of capital or business energy in the towns, or discrimination in freights or exhaustion of the eoil in the surrounding country that is bringing about this change, but a new and dangerous form of competition, and the caprices of those who buy. Go into these towns and you will find them at a standstill or going backward. Inquire of their business men or commercial travelers and you will learn that business is not as good as formerly and that the prospect i for a continued shrinkage in trade. An observant commercial traveler said to the writer: "I believe the day of the village and town Is over. The big fish are everywhere eating up the little fish. A few small lines of business that cannot be done by mail, such as

The mail-order habit will cut the limb of local prosperity from the tree of national life and drop you and your community into the bottomless pit of business stagnation. Are you wielding the saw that means certain disaster to you and your community? r

barbering, blacksmithing or the serving of soft drinks and ice cream may survive? but such lines of trade cannot sustain a decent town." The cause of this widespread loss of business is the aggressive and destructive competition of the catalogue houses In the big cities. It has been possible for 40 years or more to buy of some houses in the cities, if one felt that the merchants of his town were exacting too much profit, but this effort of the mail order houses to cut the retailer altogether is a new thing, the growth of the past few years. Starting with a few lines, of trade, this form of competition has come to cover almost everything that can be sold in a country town and it is even asserted that a savings bank department Is to be added by one of the catalogue houses. The claim that the mail order " houses of Chicago are doing an annual business of over $200,000,000 may seem large, but one house alone has sold goods to the amount of $29,000,000 in the past six months and is now incubating a new plan to increase its enormous business by selling shares of stock to thousands of people in the hope of making them regular customers. The skillfully worded advertisement and the big catalogue, with its pictures of articles in a hundred lines of trade, are very alluring to buyers, most of whom are not familiar with prices and qualities. Some of the articles below the usual prices are of an inferior quality, while the average price is usually fully up to what would be paid to the home dealer. As was shown last winter in a speech in congress, articles for the mail order trade are often mlsbranded at the request of the mail order people with deliberate intent to deceive. One of the instances given by this congressman was of some thousands of finger rings stamped "fourteen carats' when they were in reality only ten. The buyer who orders from his catalogue, or from an advertisement, does not see the articles till they come and is often disappointed in the quality of the most of them., bat there is no redress as there would be if he bought at home. He does not like to own ts he is disappointed, so he makes the best of it and tries to persuade himself that he has saved money. In many instances he is not well enough informed in values to Oxfords, Oxfords, Oxfords. Style, Service, Comfort. Humpe's, Humpe's, Humpe's. Artificial gas, the 20th century fuel 10-tf

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know that he could have bought cheaply and selected much more satisfactorily at home. On a rural route with which I am familiar and over which most of the incoming letters are from mail order houses and the outgoing one3 carry back money orders, lives a friend of mine who bought a watch from the catalogue at what he considered a rare bargain. The watch came, to be sure, but it did not go, that is at the right speed and, although money enough was spent on it to bring the price up to a good figure, it was no better as a timekeeper than" that famous watch of Capt. Cuttle's. Another friend bought a buggy at $34 and was elated -over his purchase until it came and he saw that the top was & very ordinary article of oil cloth, instead of leather, and he was so ashamed of it that he sold it at a loss to his hired man and bought a better one in a neighboring town A lady and her two daughters bought shoes from the catalogue and when asked why they had trouble with fheir feet said it was because of i!!-fftting shoes. But such instances of the bad effects of buying "sight unseen" are daily occurring all over the country. It is only natural and inevitable that such things should happen. Let us see what will be the effect of this formidable diversion of trade, if carried to its logical conclusion. Nearly all the business houses of the smaller towns will become ' bankrupt, the value of town property will decline, churches and schools will receive a feeble support and the towns, instead of being centers of business and social activity, will almost cease to exist. The country in general will become like many portions of the south where the large plantations, by getting their supplies in the cities, have kept the neighboring towns down to the cross-roads type dreary, unpainted little places of a half dozen ramshackfe houses. The evil effects of this loss of trade and destruction of the value of town property will re

act upon the value of farm property by cutting off the home market. They will add to the taxes on lands by re ducing taxable values In the towns. Surely it is not to the interest of anybody, except the bloated corporations carrying on the mail order business, to see the towns and villages fall into decay. A live town is not only of value to the lands surrounding It, but Its well stocked business houses are a convenience and a benefit to the buyer. Even if money could, in the long run, be saved by ordering everything from the city, the inconvenience and uncertainty of It would always make such shopping unsatisfactory. Ordering from a catalogue Is a leap in the dark, except in the case of few articles whose color, shape and quality are always the same. To the man who can soberly look on both sides of the question and who can put himself in the place of "the other fellow" the query will come: Is it best from mere whim, or even for a certainty of saving from one to half a dozen dollars in a year to turn my back on the old, convenient ways of doing business, and to do my part f toward ruining the business of my old acquaintances and friends, and of destroying the value of property la the town where my friends -live? F. B. MILLER. Didn't Suit Him. People who patronize the cars running out to Forest Hills are familiar with Conductor Crowley, the man who wears six service stripes on his sleeve, says a writer in the Boston Herald. On the afternoon of election day in November one of his passengers was an old man who had been imbibing enough to make him go to sleep in the corner of the car. Just before it reached Dudley street the conductor announced with his usual rich roll of the r, "Cir-r-cuit and Guild." "Yer a liar! It's John B. Moran!" shouted the sleepy one, waking up suddenly. New Metric Chart. A new metric chart representing geographica!3y measures of the international metric system of weights and measures has been prepared by the bureau of standards of the department of commerce and labor, and will be furnished free to any school teaching the system. HAVE YOUR Horses Clipped NOW. It Promotes Health. Leave Orders at C21 Main Street Phone 51.

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STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS. Wabash College Athletes Are Elated Over the Showing They Have Made the Past Season. Crawfordsville, Ind., March 23 The winter term closed at Wabash College last week and from an athletic standpoint is regarded as the most successful in the history of the local institution. During the twelve weeks of the term, two State championships, basket ball and indoor track and field, were won by the "Little Giants." Not only did the State titles in these twgbranches of sports come to the Athenians, but the honor of going through the entire season without a single defeat accompanied the coveted distinctions. Give No More Rebates. Indianapolis, March 25. Believing that change in conditions of transportation makes such a course advisable, the Merchants' association of Indianapolis has decided to abandon the plan of giving rebates of car fares to out-of-town shoppers. No rebates will be given after April 15. CHOIR LEADERS ARE PRINCIPALS IN MURDER. ; Springfield, III., March 25. Peter Clark shot and killed Mrs. Hill, both prominent choir leaders, on an interurban car south of this city, today. Cottage Prayer Meeting. The regular Tuesday evening cottage prayer meeting will be held Tuesday evening at the home of J. W. Mount, 423 Richmond avenue, at 7:30. SOME CITY TEACHERS GOING TO DAYTON. In preference to attending the sessions of the Southern Indiana Teachers' association in Indianapolis next Friday, several local teachers will visit the schools at Dayton, O., and surrounding towns. There will be about fifty who will attend the sessions at the capital city. SMOKER FOR THE S. OF V Pleasant Event is Scheduled for This Body Tonight. There will be a smoker given this ! evening by the local post of Sons of Veterans and all members are requested to attend. Cigars, refresh ments and good stories will be features. Inspector in the City. W. D. McKorkle, rural route postoffice inspector, is in the city on business. Mr. McKorkle said some time ago that the rural routes In Wayne county were of the best In the country. Teacher Is Still Sick. Mrs. Margaret Schofield, primary teacher at the Finley school Is still confined to her home with illness. She has been away from her duties for a month. Rev. Clarence M. Case, Is In Indianapolis on business. Bwl aleesareT Teat These Sweet peneci tomo ior me saascie ana liga ments of the bowels; and this is why they do not pain, sicken or gripe, bat cause s delightful and almost ecstatic leaaaraalc smvcsmsI, in the raoct tarsi way and without creating a bad bsblt or weakening the system in any If Von H try them, "bowel pleasure" will be yaara far keeps. 10 cents, 25 cents, and SLOQ. All Druggists. . Fnyit iftyanTlif j iailyOi,aaalfllSfc

JOHN F. WELLENKAIYIP, .Jeweler Watches, Clocks and Jewelry Carefully Repaired. SPECIAL ORDER WORK. 519 Main Street. At Routh's Music Store. Now Phone 561 Richmond, Ind.

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MILLVILLE, IND. Mlllville, Ind., March 25. Miss Cora Hamilton and Miss Ora Peed of New Castle .and Mrs. May Hamilton, spent Thursday with Mr. and Mrs. Mart Hamilton. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wort, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Miller, of New Lisbon, took dinner Sunday with Mr. aud Mrs. Charles Miller. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Daniels and daughter Beatrice, Wm. Wood and Mr. and Mrs. Stokes Weaver and family, took dinner Sunday with Marcus Batcbfield and family. Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Nichols held an infair dinner In honor of their father. Mr. John G. Allen, who was married Sunday to Mrs. O. Dllts, of New Castle. A kitchen shower was held In honor of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Wood Saturday evening. Elmer Turner and son Jesse, of Ashland, called on Mr. and Mrs. Richard Wood Sunday. Mrs. Noi-a Reese has the measles. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Runyan and Mrs?. James Nipp and family, of New Castle, took dinner with Mrs. Rebecca Runyan Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Laboyteau visited relatives in New Lisbon Sunday. Frank Laboyteau will start his huck. ster wagon Monday. Miss Belle Modlin has returned to her home in New Castle. Mrs. Anna Chamness and son Robert, of Hagerstown, visited Mr. ami Mrs. James Welker. Claude Balser of New Castle is vis iyng Miss Angle Balser this week. Mrs. Ida Wort is on the sick list. RECONCILIATION RUMOR. Report Says that Mme. Eames and Julian Story Will Adjust Their Differences. , New York, March 23 A reconcilla tion is rumored between Mme. Eames, grand opera singer, and Julian Story, her husband and famous painter. CHILDREN INTERESTED IN NATURE STUDY. Children attending the city schools are at present taking a course in nature study, and the appearance of thi spring bird has widened the field, ami they are taking great Interest. Regular bird classes are being conducted and are proving highly interesting ad well as Instructive. If in need of a hog, sheep or cattle dipping tank, write before buying td the National Medical Co.. Sheldon, la. Use artificial gas tor light and heat. 10-tf PALLADIUM WANT ADS PAY. N! SUNDAY You will need some good Perfume with that new hat end gown. If you really want the most popular perfume of the day, try RIEGER'S ROYAL CHERRY BUDS. "It won't come out in the wash." IYI. J. QUIGLEY Court House Pharmacy Little PUla Marlsa the awlaervee and are a BL'ACKBtniN THE PLCASURA0LC PHYSIC.

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