Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 32, Number 165, 9 July 1907 — Page 4

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I'AGE FOUR. THE COMMERCIAL CLUB STANDING BACK OF CITY AUTHORITIES (Continued from Page One.) II GREAT WRITERS "BLIND BOSS" JOHN C0N30N, KING OF GAMBLERS. RICHMOND PALLADIUM Use A NEW PERFECTiOM Wick Blue name Oil Cook-Stove AND SUN-TELEGRAM. Ideas and inspiration Taken by One Author From Another. .Palladium Printing Cc Publishers. Cffice North 9th and A Streets. it' Jl tt - RICHMOND, INDIANA. BUT GENIUS BORROWS NOBLY

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Per Copy, Daily .....2c Per Copy, Sunday 3c Per Week, Daily and Sunday 10c IN ADVANCE One Year $5.00 Entered at Richmond. Ind., Post.office As Second Class Mail Matter. GOING TO PHILADELPHIA Frank I. Braffett Will Represent Local Elks. Frank I. Braffett, past exalted ruler of the local lodge of Elks, will leave Saturday for Philadelphia to represent the Richmond lodge at the KlkV convention which will be held in that city next week. It is understood that four or five other members of the Richmond lodge will attend the big 'Conclave. Indiana Elks will be well represented. HIS GREATEST Hh. Th Batter Was Home All Right, but the Run Didn't Count. "Tallting of homo plates, that reminds me," began Brick Morse, "of the greatest hit I ever made. It was bank at the recreation grounds in San Francisco, final game of the series with Stanford, score 3 to 2 against us. "Remember the way that angle of the fence came in at center field? There was one of those wooden drag. used to smooth oil the infield. It had been left tilted up agiinst that corner of the fence, supposedly out of the way. "I missed the first ball up. let three bad ones pass, had a rotten high one called on me, and It looked all off for yours truly. The next one came easy. I Just shut my eyes and swung with all my might. I felt my hands sting on the bat. I went to first! Second! Three thousand people were up jelling like maniacs. 'Oh, you Brick! Home run, home run!" I tagged third and went for thi plate. 'Slide! You gotta elide!' sounded in a roar like an express train crossing a trestle. Something struck me a terrible smash on the left side of the head. 'Out!' j-elled the umpire. 'Hit by his own batted ball! My big hit had gone to the center fence, struck the seat on that smoother seat was mounted on old spiral IkmI spring and the ball had re bounded clear back ty the plate!' "How near were yon to home, Clinton?" inquired a listener. "Oh. I was homo nil right. When I came to ruy f:ngrs were touching the corner of the" "Plate?" "Nope. The bureau." San Francisco Chronicle. SINKING FUNDS. They Originated In a Scheme Devised by Lord Stanhope. The general public has no Idea of the meaning of "sinking fund." The term had its origin In a scheme devised by Lord Stanhope in 1710 whereby certain taxes on the South Sea (Bubble) and general funds were made perpetual, and It was enacted that the surplus should Ik? annually Invested and applied to the discharge of the national debt. By means of It between the years 3T1G and 1733 the sum of $32,240,000 of the debt was actually discharged. So rich became the sinkIn fund that it exctted the cupidity of parliament, and the grafters laid violent hands on it, diverting It to other purposes, so that In the succeeding twenty-fire years only $42,300,000 more had been paid off. The fund got Into a condition so wretched that it did little in time of peace and nothing In time of war to discharge the; national debt. Dr. Price persuaded William Tltt to adopt his plan of Investing $5,000,000 every year at compound Interest until with the accumulations the sum amounted to $20,00,000, woTn it was to be invested at simple Interest only, leaving the amount of Interest annually redeemed at the disposal of parliament. Dr. Price said: "Let a state be supposed to run in debt $10,000,000 a year, for which it pays interest at 4 per cent. In seventy years n debt of $700,000.000 would be incurred. But an appropriation of $2,000,000 a year employed as a sinking fund at compound Interest would at the end of this time leave the nation beforehand $30,000,000.' New York P", One of the signs of growth in our postal system appears in the employment of women. Up to isr.j women had rover been employed In the service. Then they were admitted to the dead-letter office eight of them. Now of the 1,105 employes in the department in Washington are women, and there are in the whole country 27.000 women employed, generally in the stamp delivery or money order offices, and receiving salaries rvinning from $40 to $1,700 a year. PETOSKEY THE BEAUTIFUL Unequaled climate; balmy breezes; HAY FEVER UNKNOWN. Unexcelled steamboat and railway facilities. The Imperial Hotel Open July 1 to September 15. Thoroughly refurnished. Modern, Elegant, Homelike. European and American Plan. Buffet and grill-room in connection. Rates reasonable. Write for booklet and terms. Imperial Hotel Co., Proprs., Petoskey, Michigan.

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JOHN CONDON. Thotograph of "Blind Boss" John Condon, who controls gambling in Chicago. He says, "Somewhere between a cigar and a million dollars, any man may bo bought." This is the declaration of the blind racing magnate and the newly crowned gambling king. By this standard he has measured men. By the practical application he has forced his way, uneducated and sightless, through hordes of envious politicians and gamblers to the throne of the "under world," and with politicians as pawns he builds up a fortune.

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A BIG PICNIC IS COMING. EMPLOYES OF THE PENNSYLVANIA LINE WILL VISIT GLEN. It Is Estimated That a Company of Four Thousand Will Be in Attendance. Glen Miller park of this city will be the scene of one of the largest picnics ever held on the Southwest system of the Pennsylvania lines, the second Saturday in August, as the employes of the Columbus, Indianapolis, Louisvllie and Logansport divisions will be here in thousands. It is estimated that the crowd will range around the 4,000 figure if the weather conditions are favorable. A grand time is predicted. Special trains will bear the employes to this city from their respective divisions. SURPRISED BY BUSINESS. Freight traffic officials are more than surprised over the volume of business now moving, as In former years in early Julys there was a decided decrease in loaded car movement. Cars are now 'being loaded to their fullest capacity and so large a number are cars of the largest capacity that the total movement does not show up to as good an advantage as in former years. But very little grain is now moving, while in other lines of freight handled in July by the iron industries, the car works, the hominy mills and other classes of freight usnally moved in the summer season are up to their full tonnage of former years. The heavily loaded cars are doing much to increase gross earnings over former years. TRAVELERS KICKING. There is one class of travelers who are not pleased with the recent passage of the 2-cent rate law and other laws governing railroads. That is the commercial traveler. The reduction from the 3-cent rate does not affect him, as the house pays the fare anyway, but it is the law which prohibits railroads from carrying passengers on freight trains that makes them howl. Every day the conductor hears traveling men grumbling because they are not permitted to ride in the caboose of his train as a passenger, and where there Is but one train each way every day. if not allowed to ride on the freight they make slow travel in making their rounds. MILEAGE IN BRIDGES. Figures recently compiled by the Pennsylvania Railroad officers show that 1.85 pex cent of the road"s total

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- -a 4 iailhroa,l& General mileage of running tracks is on bridges and that in the last twenty-five years it has been necessary to change and replace bridges to provide for the Increase In train load of about 100 per cent, owing to an enormous Increase of weight of motive power. Two per cent of all American mileage is carried on bridges, or in other words, 4,252 miles out of 212,634 miles are on bridges. STARTS IMPROVEMENTS. The Pennsylvania has started the improvements on the new division from Muncie to their Chicago division, formerly known as the Harry Drew road. People living on the line of the road are much pleased with the service that has been introduced and the better class of coaches that are used for traveling over the line, and with this an increase in business is noticeable. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS Furnished by the Wayne County Abstract Company. Third floor of Court house. Phone 116S. John P. Kuhlman to Charles O. Kuhlman, lot 19 in Price & Ferguson's addition to city of Richmond; $1.00. .Jesse S. Brooks to Esther G. Miller, lot 23 in Perry addition to city of Richmond, also part of the southwest quarter of section 33, township 14, range 1 in Wayne township; $4,500. Frank R. CordeH to John Deering et al. part of lot 7 in block 12 in Hagerstown; $S23. John Deering to Austin O. Deering, part of north half of northeast quarter of section S3, township IS, range 12 in Dalton township; $3,000. Joseph C. Teeter to Perry L. Holaday, lot 19 in block 27 in Hagerstown; $650. NATURE SPARES The Stricken Hose From Grief. What a fortunate provision of nature It is. that deprives tee rose of mental Buffering; for how poignant would be its rrlef to discover, in the height of its bloominj? frlory. that a canker fed at its heart, and that Its beauty and fragTance were doomed forever. Nature always spares the suffering; she is a veritable etore-house of pleasing rewards, lor those who seek her aid. In the years pone by falling- hair and prayness have cast a gloom over the lives of thousands of young women, but thanks to the investigations of scientists the true cauie of hair destruction Is now known to be a germ or parasite that burrows into the hair follicles. Newbro's Ilerplclda absolutely destroys' this germ, thus permitting the hair to grow as nature intended. Sold by leading druggists. Pnd 10c. in stamps for simple to The Herpiclde Co, Detroit, Mich. Tiro sizes 50 cents and $1.00. Leo H. Fine, Special Agent. -

going west, was roundly scored and the opinion was expressed throughout that this service should not be tolerated a3 it is "rotten" and can not be relied upon. President Merrill then stated that President McGowan would remedy this condition in Richmond by executive order placing the city cars in service west on interurban time. It was the opinion, however, that McGowan might turn turtle on his executive order and that this clause should also be insisted upon by the board of public works. O'Neal Gives Views. W. P. O'Neal, a member of the board of works spoke in regard to the franchise and transfer question and he said the one condition existing here, that of the interurban companies owning the city lines, is a condition which exists In other cities as well as Richmond and it is for this reason that the transfer clause is being insisted upon so firmly. If the conditions were otherwise the board of works and common council prolably would not insist so greatly upon this clause. Otherwise, he said. It would mean the revision of transfer schedules and would involve much work on the part of the separate companies to keep tab on all transfers given, lie said that when the interurbans came into Richmond the people were glad to give them anything they asked and since the interurbans are now here it is the duty of the people of Richmond to protect themselves. He said ftiat when Mr. McGowan first came to Richmond he carried a franchise which suited himself and now that the city is in position to do it, it is time for the city to suit itself.in the

'j provisions of the franchise to be giv en the street car and interurban companies. The only thing to do, Mr. O'Neal maintained, is to stop the cars until the interurban companies come to the city's terms. Forced to a Franchise. Adam H. Bartel maintained in his short speech that the interurban companies should be forced to take out a franchise favorable to the city, but at the same time reasonable. He said that the people of Richmond had tolerated the poor interurban service long enough and the thing to do is to force the present franchises upon the inter urban companies. He said that the merchants of the north end and in fact all the small shippers are being han dicapped by the actions of the inter urban company in hanging back on the franchise proposition; that the smaller wholesale shippers who desired to ship their goods out of Richmond now had to take them to New Paris and ship from that point to those in Ohio while the local .freight accommodations to the west were very poor. Ray Shiveley spoke again in favor of bringing the street car company to terms and at the conclusion of his speech was applauded. He said the entire question was one as to whether the city or the interurban railways were to have their way. He said that the question confronting the people of the city was whether or not they were to be hung up by the tails and ridi culed by the interurban officials, and further said that the Dayton and Western interurban company had en tered the city like buccaneers and that the company's past actions were such as to keep the people of Rich mond and the officials in the air. This is just what the interurban people want. The day ought to be set when they will have to come In and ask for the franchise, he maintained. Should Stand Firm. Sharon E. Jones spoke in behalf of an early settlement of the transfer clause which would benefit the people of the city, but maintained that the city officials should stand out in favor of the clause till they obtained it. He said that not to gain the transfer clause would confer a hardship on both the working men who come into the city and even the manufacturers, as the worklngman would have to pay ten cents more on the day for his transportation into and out of the city an item of expense which counts in the end. After a short address by Dr. Charles S. Bond in which he maintained that the transfers should be asked for by a rising vote, the following resolutions pertaining to the question were adopted: A resolution endorsing the action of the board of public works and the common council of the city of Richmond relative to a franchise for operating interurban railroads in the city of Richmond. Be it resolved by the Commercial Club of the City of Richmond that the action and the position of the board of public works and the common council in reference to the franchise of the corporations operating interurban railroads into and through the City of Richmond be commended, and especially in reference to the issuing of transfers by said Interurbans. and it is recommended, that if necessary, the proper city authorities prohibit said interurban railroads from using the streets of this city unless they enter Into, and agree to the franchise proposed by the board of works and common council and that it is hereby recommended that an early day be named as the limit for the acceptance of the provisions of said proposed franchise. RAY" K. SHIVELEY, A. H. BARTEL, CASH BEALL. E. W. CRAIGHEAD, HENRY GENNETT. Vienna has only thirty-nine inhabitants per acre, the city ground comprising 42,503 acres and the population being 1.C73.000.The Salvation Army Is established in fifty-two countries and colonies and preaches the gospel in. thirty-one-lan guages. - -

The Crude Ore Is Refined and the Raw Material Fashioned Into a Thing of Beauty Shakespeare as a Most Brilliant Example. Our great writers are not great robbers. Literature is not a repository of stolen goods. What seem like stealings by the steel pei are rather the output of the lapidary or a reissue of the mint or, better still, the borrowings from a bank repaid with interest. "It is wonderful," says Charles Heade, "how genius can borrow." "All literature," remarks Oliver Wendell Holmes, "lives by borrowing and lending," and, he adds, "A good image is like a diamond, which may be set a hundred times In as mauy generations and gain new beauties with every change." This is not a question of originality. "The lighting a candle at a neighbor's lire." observes Dean Swift, "does not afTeet our projerty in the wick and flame." "Genius borrows nobly." The transference is often a transmutation. For brass, the borrower brings gold, and for iron, silver, and for wood, brass, and for stones, iron. The crude ore Is refined and the raw material fashioned Into a thing of beauty. It has been pointed out by Mr. Iluth In his "Life of Buekle" that there Is a kind of pedigree in literature. Dante avows his Indebtedness to Virgil, as the latter himself was under obligations to Homer. Ariosto owes much to Virgil, and Spenser borrows frequently from Ariosto. Spenser's "Faerie Queene" gave birth to Fletcher's "Purple Island." and this to Bernard's "Isle of Man," and this !n turn to Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe" and Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" all like so many blossoms rising from the one stem. Shakespeare has been called "the great Warwickshire thief," so Inveterate is his borrowing habit. Ho Invaded literature like a Napoleon and brought back the rarest art treasures to enrich and beautify his erse. One is surprised to learn that our dramatist has no original plots, that he has given to poetry' no new rhythm or stanza and that "he ran not only in the old road, but in the old ruts." His "As You Like It" is taken from an old romance. The characters of his "Julius Caesar"

are old Romans taken from Tlutarch. But what lMrrowing! Dry bones are turned into living men. The commonest materials are taken into the lambent flame of his genius and transmuted into airy, beauty. Milton, too. Is n free borrower. It Is this fact, indeed, that makes his verse so rich In learned reminiscence and so gorgeous with "barbaric pearl and gold." lie owes much to Shakespeare. Some critics think Milton's Eve is borrowed from Shakespeare's Miranda. In the "Taming of the Shrew" occurs the line: As morning roses newly washed In dew. While Milton In "L'Allegro" speaks of Fresh blown roses washed In dew. Milton i3 a very mine to many. Pope is his debtor. Milton's "Smoky Sorceress" a woman to the waist and fair, but "ending foul In many a scaly fold voluminous and vast" is made to say, "They call me sin and for a sign portentous hold me; but, familiar grown, I rleased and with attractive graces won the most averse." Pope sings: Vice Is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be sfen; But seen too oft, familiar with her face. We first endure, then pity, then embrace. Tennyson must have had In mind Milton's Hanging In a golden chain This pendent world when he wrote: The whole round world la every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God. Tennyson, indeed, derives much of his exquisite imagery and felicitous phrasing from authors whose names, even, many literary men do not know. Pope borrows his "Vital Spark" idea from an old poem by Thomas Flatman. Byron gets his "Eagle Feather" image in his "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers" from Aeschylus, who flourished in the fifth century before our era. Coleridge owes his "Ode to Mont Blanc" to a German poem by Frledrlch Brown. Bishop Ken is indebted for hi thought in "The Evening Hymn" to Sir Thomas Browne in his "Colloquy With God." In his own characteristic manner Rudyard Kipling has met the question of unconscious thievery with a bit of verse which commences: When 'Omer smote '! bloomin lyre 'E'd 'card men sing by land and sea. And wot 'e thought 'e might require 'E went an took the same as me. Let Shakespeare's lines close this paper: I'll example you with thievery: The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs the vast sea; the moon's an arrant thief. And her pale fire ahe snatches from the un; The sea's a thief, whose liquid surge resolves The reoon Into salt tears; the earth's a thief That feeds and breeds by a composture stolen From general excrement; each thing's a thief. " S. B. Dunn in Circle Magazine. For TRAVELERS and those who find it not convenient to use FATHER WILLIAM'S INDIAN TEA, wil1 receive the same excellent results from using .FATHER WILLIAMS' INDIAN HERB TABLETS. They are made from the same pure Herbs, and are a mild laxative but not a racking cathartic. For CONSTIPATION, SICK HEADACHE, INDIGESTION. DYSPEPSIA, SICK STOMACH, BILOUSNESS, and MALARIA they will be found invaluable. They are positively the best LIVER REGULATOR known. 25 doses, 20 cents; 50 doses, 35 cents. A. G. Luken & Co., Richmond, Ind.

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