Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 32, Number 170, 15 July 1907 — Page 4

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(.Palladium Printing Cc Publishers.,, Office North 9th and A Streets. RICHMOND, INDIANA. PRICE Per Copy, Dally 2c Per Copy, Sunday 3e Per Week, Daily and Sunday 10c IN ADVANCE One Year $5.00 Entered at Richmond, Ind., Postoffice As Second Class Mail Matter. PROF. FISKE AGAIN RESIGJMSHlS PLACE Leaves Los Angeles High School for College. rtETURNING TO RICHMOND. Prcf. V. A. Fi.-:ke, who but recently resigned his position In the Richmond high fcchcol. to accept a position In enc of the Los Angeles high schoots. fca-i since his arrival in that city again 'resigned r.is position and accepted the chair of science in Occidental college, u flourishing Presbyterian school 1; that city. Prof. Fiske is very ruuc'i pleased with trc place and also the city. I'JOf. Fiske stated in his letter to frie?ids in tUs city that he very much rsgrMied leaving Richmond, but that he toped lo enjoy himself on the Pacific coas.t. Prof. Fiske i3 now on Ms way from Los Angeles to this city. On his arrival he will Immediately b3fin preparation to move his family co the coast. Kcyha.U Tenure In London. The curious custom of keyoold tenure still prevails at Crowland, the famoiw abbey town in the Lincolnshire fens, where there are a number of cottages which are neither copyhold, freehold, nor leasehold. They were rigi nally built on waste land, and in each case the possessor of the key holds an indisputed tenancy. Although some of the occupiers have replaced the mud and thatched dwellings of antiquity with brick and slated buildings, they have no power to sell or will them away, for they hare no deeds. On a tenant dying- the first person to cross the threshold takes his place if be so desires. Maiiy devices have been resorted to to obtata the keys. The propertles carry,, a county vote, but the poor law fxardlons always refuse to grant relief to the tenants. London Globe. A Vegetable Freak. California has one tree which is the personification of mystery. Found nowhere el? fa the world. It had a mysterious origin and thrives in a region of mystery. The Mojava yucca is a vegetable freak which has developed into a species. It has the characteristics of several Riant, .to which no relationship (in be traced. It is an endogen, yet its bark shows concentric rings such as characterise the exogenoua steins. It llvess and thrives in great numbers In a region nearly devoid of vegetation. P. E. Magazine. Elephants. People who really know nothing about, It used to say that elephants never lie down to. sleep. This is not true at all, says one writer. They have been known to stand for twelve months without lying down to sleep. This Is regarded as want of confidence In their keepers and of longing to regain their liberty, for when they are perfectly at ease and reconciled to their fate they will He down on their sides and sleep peacefully. A Flippant Jailbird. This confinement." said the long faced prison visitor, "must distress you greatly." "Yes." replied the facetious convict, I find thoprtsoa bars grating." "Ah. life t! yon is a falWrel" "Yes; It's nothing bnt a cell." Lazy. Some friends were discussing an artist whoso laness was proverbial. "He Is so lazy," said one, "that he paints nothing but winter scenes tc save himself the trouble of putting leases on 'the trees." The Seventh Time. She When I accepted Jack he saM he felt as If he was in the ferentb heaven. II I can well believe it. II? has been engrcred six times before. REUNION OF FORMER PENNVILLE STUDENTS It Will Be Held in Swallow's Grove in August. COMMITTEES APPOINTED. Cambridge Cit.v. Ind., July 13 The annual reunion of former students of the Pennville school and citizens will be held at Swallow's woods, the first Saturday in August. At a meeting which was held at the home of Jacob Wlckes recently, several committees were appointed and the usual arrangements were made. It is hoped that every citizen of that locality and all present and past pupils and teachers will feel it a duty as well as a pleasure to be present and fittingly celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of one of the best schools in the county. A free ' hack will convey passengers to and rom the stop at Swallow's. -

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JULY BUSINESS IS HEAVY. FIRST TWO WEEKS HAVE SHOWN A BIG FREIGHT BUSINESS. If Remainder of Month Continues as Heavy It Will Be a Record Breaker. Local freight agents declare that July has started out with two of the heaviest weeks ever known for that usually quiet month and that if busi ness keeps up it will be a record breaker. C?is are now being loaded to their fullest capacity and so large a number 3 re 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 usu ally moved in the summer season are up to their full tonnage of former years. The heavily loaded cars are c'oing much to increase gross earnings over former years. The cars are earn ing fully thirty per cent, more than a few years ago, and in some cases fifty rer cent more. A great deal of southern lumber is now coming north and fruits and vegetables make up the northbound movement while provisions, product of the hominy mills, etc., are o:ng to the south and southeast in a large tonnage. In west bound business the movement is unusually heavy for July, but by no means as heavy as it will be later in the year. However, this is off set by movements of freight of a local character more extenslely than at any time, during the pat two years. And summing all up. conditions are very favorable and satisfactory to the freight officials of the various lines. On some lines there is still some trouble to furnish cars, but a majority of the roads fill orders quite promptly and the situation is much improved of late. PASSENGER BUSINESS. Passenger officials without exception speak of their business as being heavy beyord part.l!el. More people are traveling in every direction, and wherever the 2-crrt-rate laws are in effect they are being utilized in making up through tickets. Excursion business, except as to Sunday excursions, i3 at low ebb, very few being run; in fact, noro at reduced rates unless to fill some old contracts that have not yet expired, but this line of service is very iim'ted. Passenger men are all very busy and the officials spend much of their time in arranging for the special trains to accommodate the business. A time seems to have been reached when people will travel without stopping to count the cost. WANTS A hTGHER PRICE. The Lackawanna Steel company has made demands upon the Pennsylvania railroad for a higher price than ?2S for the steel rails ordered for delivery next year. The situation in the steel trade precipitated by the Pennsylvania railroad in demanding better rails and furnishing specifications therefor, the steel companies admit cannot be built profit Nervous People Cured By POSTUM FOOD COFFEE "There's a Reason"

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JACOB A. RIIS, author and humanitarian, to his pretty ably at $28 a ton, is by far the most interesting one that has been created since the steel controversy began. If ihe other railroads follow the policy of the Pennsylvania, it is now consid ered that there will be a radical change in rail prices. STEEL AND WOODEN CARS. An interesting experiment has been gofng on upon the Harriman lines for several years to ascertain the average cost of repairing steel and wooden freight cars. It has been claimed by many persons that the cost of repairing steel freight cars was almost prohibitive, but the experiments made upon the Harriman lines does rot bear out the claim. It shows, to the contrary, that while 1)he averago cost of repairing the steel car is $2.7f per month, the average cost of repairing the wooden cars is $4.04 per month. This experiment is for the past two and one-half years. PAY TO BE REDUCED. The compensation paid the railroads for carying the mails is to be readjusted end the pay considerably re-1 duced. . THE BAY nORSE. An Old Arab Legend That Tells of His Unmatched Speed. The bay cotored horse is said to bthe swiftest of all the horses. A stor to illustrate this is told of a certain Arab sheik who, having been engaged in a fight with another tribe, was taking his flight with Us little son. They were both mounted on a magnificent white mare which belonged to the sheik and which had always been highly valued on account of the great speed at which it could go. After having ridden some little distance the sheik asked his son to look around and see if they were being followed. The boy replied that there was some one riding after theoa on a black horse. The sheik seemed satisfied on hearing, this report, but presently repented his question. The boy answered that they were still being pursued, but that -this time the horse was white. "Never mind," said the father; "mine Is faster." In a few minutes, he asked for a further report, and the reply was the same, with the difference that the horse was a chestnut. The shiek, however, put his question a fourth time, but upon being told by his son that the pursuer was mounted on a bay he cried out, "Then' we are lost, for thereis no horse which it cannot overtake." His words proved to be true, for in a short time they were caught up with and captured. CAMBRIDGE CITY, IND. Cambridge City, Ind., July 15 Mrs. Labby Flanders of Indianapolis spent Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Crossley at their home in East Cambridge. Miss Ruth Scheidler and Miss Katherine Ogborn are the guests of friends in Indianapolis this week. Stanley Guyton and family of Richmond spent yesterday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. Garrett in this city. M. G. Kreusch of Chicago is here spending a few days vacation with his wife and family. Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Reese and son Karl, will leave for Maple Rapids, Mich., next Wednesday to spend a fortnight with his sister, Mrs. F. P. Trotter and her husband, the Rev. F. P. Trotter. Mr. and Mrs. Loren Helmsing and family of Hagerstown, took Sunday dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wharton at their home in this city. Mrs. Edward Hogan and daughter, Julia, will return to Hughes Springs, Texas, Thursday after a visit of several weeks with her sister, Mrs. Fraunberg. Her son. David, will accompany them home.

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secretary and stenographer, has HAGERSTOWN, IND. Hagerstown, Ind., July 13. Nelson Thornburg and wife had as their guests Sunday at dinner, Ed. Porter and wife, Thad McCown and wife. Porter Thornburg and wife and Miss India Keyes. Mr. and Mrs. Glen Bavender and children, came over from Greensfork Saturday evening and were guests of his parents on E. Main street, over Sunday. Eddie Ponnelly of Cincinnati spent Sunday with Win. Mathews and family. Wm. Roller went to Cambridge City Sunday morning and took the interurban to Dayton, at which place Mrs. Roller and daughter are visiting. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Backenstoe were guests of friends at New Castle Sat urday night and Sunday. James Canaday ancr wife entertained at their home on North Perry strett, Sunday at dinner, the show troupe which included Mr. and Mrs. Andy Adams, Mr. and Mrs. Barton, Mr. Llpetric and Doctor Dawson. Mrs. A. C. Walker, Mrs. Cora Clc-n-denin, Mrs. Pleas Davis, Mrs. Clifford Fouts and Miss Blanche HIndmau spent Saturday afternoon with Mrs. Sallie Hoover, southwest of town. Mr. and Mrs. Roe Worl and daughter Helen, of Millville, spent Sunday afternoon here. Benj. Paul has returned after a several weeks' absence and will remain until after the fair, when with his family, he will locate in the West. Mrs. Rachel Pelty had as her guests Sunday at dinner, James Thornburg of Beatrice, Nebraska, George Gephart and daughter, Pearl Hatfield, wife and baby. Commissioner Elwood Clark of Economy, made a business trip to ,thls place Saturday. Harry Davis spent Sunday with his sister, Mrs. Florence Nicholson and family. Mrs. Jacob Herchberger was the guest of her daughters, Mrs. Arch Campbell and Mrs. Faulk, at Richmond, over Sunday. RHEUMATISM CURED IN A DAY. Mystic Cure for Rheumatism and Neuralgia radically cures in 1 to 3 days. Its action upon the system is remarkable and mysterious. It re moves at once the cause and tho disease immediately disappears. The first cose greatly benefits. 75 cents. Sold by A. G. Luken & Co.. Druggists. NcXJ-d&w Mrs. Joe Modlln. Miss Carv Modlln and Herbert Snell of Richmond, Miss es Jrlo Leiter, Margaret Donnelly, Elizabeth Christ and Roy Modlin of Dayton, were guests of the Gibbins family, south cf Eaton, O., Sunday. Will Yon Send Your Daughter Away this autumn j0 complete "her musical education, or develop her budding talent? Here are three reasons why she should come to Cincinnati to the Ohio Conservatory of Music one of the highestclass institutions of its kind In America: (1) The vital advantage, to her, of study under a faculty including teachers of national reputation in the various branches of instrumental and vocal instruction; also elocution and dramatic art. (2) The assurance, on your part, that she is fully safeguarded while living a comfortable and congenial home-life In a- city noted for its atmosphere of musical culture. (3) For the coming season, we are making an entirely new and exceptionally liberal tuition preposition, both in our preparatory and artists' departments. For full particulars address: Mrs. E. C. Orannir.ger, Directress, Ohio Conservatory of Music. SO 7th St., West, Cincinnati, O.

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Amazing Skill of Captain John Scott at Whist. HIS RAPID ROAD TO WEALTH. The Winnings of the "Gentleman Gambler" at White's, In London, In the Eighteenth Century Exceeded $5,000,0C0 Fox's Reckless Play. Of all the gentlemen gamblers at the close of. the eighteenth century In England a single one is noted for the Immensity and the regularity of his winnings. This was John Scott, who, bepinninff as a iennilesa cantain. wound f up hia career as a millionaire general. i on tae suuject or ine campaigns na conducted history is silent, but contemporary London was full of talk of hi.iarvelous luck w'lth dice and cards, a5 the marital misfortunes of his later Lfe gave more material for the gossips. 1 Writing to Richard Bentley from Arlington street on Feb. 23, 1753, Horace Walpole say: "The great event is the catastrophe of Sir John Bland, who has flirted away hjs whole fortune at hazard. He t'other night lost in reckless play an Immense sum to a Captain Scott, who at present ha nothing but a few debts and his commission." Sir John Bland, to conclude here the history of that luckless dicer, shot himself dead, after losing the last of his fortune, in Kippax park. Captain John Scott was of that branch of the numerous Scott family of which Sir Walter was a member, and his ancestor in the thirteenth century was that famous chemist, Michael Scott, who won tho name of wizard. A later Scott distinguished himself in the time of Charles II. by marrying, when he was himself only fourteen years old, a lady who was three years his junior. The bride was Mary, countess of Buccleuch, in her own right the richest heiress in Scotland. The marriage was a secret one, and none of the friends and few of her family were informed of it until the day after. The youthful bridegroom did not profit greatly by this match, for his bride died at thirteen. Her sister Anne, who succeeded to her titles and estates, made a marriage with the pet son of Charles II., Monmouth, and bad a numerous family. It was sixty years later, or about 1750, that young Scott, son of the laird of Scott's Tarvet, entered King George's army. Two years later he was in London and in the midst of the most reckless set of spendthrifts, rakes and gamesters that English society has ever known. Sir John Bland was only ono of a thousand rich young Englishmen who threw away fortunes over the gaming table at White's. The one historic loser of that era was Charles James Fox, Pitt's rival. Fox gambled away, all told, no less than $3,000,000. Scott was the very antipodes of Fox. When he died, at a ripe old age, he left a fortune as great as that with which Fox had begun, and every penny of it had been won at the gaming table. Fox was a ripe scholar. Scott was almost illiterate. Fox said that losing was the next greatest pleasure to winning. Scott never lost or so rarely that it did not affect the serenity of his career as a winner. Fox would go home in the morning after a night in which he had gambled away 10,000 or 20,000 and immediately lose himself in a study of Sophocles or Eschylus. Scott, like the sensible fellow he was, would button his coat over the portemonnaie in which he carried away winnings of an equal or even greater amount and immediately go to bed so as to be fresh for play in the evening. When Scott found himself in London and amid the wild young men of his era, he determined that gaming was his only chance of getting money. When he engaged himself to throw a series of mains with Sir John Bland, he had, as Horace Walpole puts It, nothing "but a few debts and his commission." Ills shrewdness taught him that there was nothing iu dicing, at which a stupid man has as good a chance as a bright one, and so he speedily gave up hazard and applied himself to whist, at which game fortune fights on the side of the skillful player. Never in the history of play did men gamble .for such high stakes as Scott and his victims did at White's between 1733 and 17S0. Scott's system was aa exceedingly simple one. He gave himself the best of it in every possible way. He never went to the gaming table unless bis head and his stomach were In the very best order. He never lost his composure or his good nature for an Instant. He played a perfectly fair and honorable game, and at first he made it a rule never to play for more than a fixed sum, which he could afford to lose. He won so steadily that It wasn't long before he was prepared to risk any sum which even the wealthiest or the most reckless of his adversaries would venture to propose. A story which illustrates capitally Scott's patience in the face of hard luck has been preserved. One night while he was at the card table news was brought to him that his wife, the first Mrs. Scott, had given birth to a girl. "Ah." he said, "I shall have to doable my stakes to make a fortune for this young lady." But in a few hours he was 8.000 to the bad. Retaining his invariable serenity, he said he was sure of his luck returning, and at 7 a. m. he went home the winner of 15.000. That's the sort of play that went on at White's night after night during the yeflrs that John Scott was winning the largest fortune ever accumulated bv a gentleman gambler. " ' Server.. i' i..i,.:nca on Manners. "The women of my r.cquaintance," writes Josephine DasLaui Bacon In the American Magazine, "are more considerate in their manner to their servants than to their relatives and friends and for the bet of reasons they are more likely to loe the first mentioned through inadvertence than the laFt, and it Is practically of far more importance to consult their idiosvnerasies." Coco l, iSi-UiiiSii iur lm?, and it is said the cocoa nut was thus namel for Its resemblance to a distorted hunuu.

Tho for Sale by M. J. EARLY ARITHMETICS. Struggles of the Pilgrim Children Witfe One cf the "R's." Next to penmanship the colonial school and schoolmaster took firm stand on -ciphering." "The Bible and figgor is what I want my boys to know," said the old former. I have examined with care a Wingate's Arithmetic which was ued for over a century in the Wius'ow family in Massachusetts. The first edition was printed in 1C20. It is certainly bewildering toa-mUem reader. "Pythagoras His Table" Is of course our multiplication table. Th&n come "The Rule of Three," "The Double Goklen Rule," "The Rule of Fellowship," "The Rule of False," etc., ending with "a collection of pleasant and polite questions to exercise all the parts of vulgar arithmetic" Wingate's Arithmetic and Hodder's Arithmetic were succeeded by Pike's Arithmetic. This had SG3 rules to be committed to memory, and not an explanation was given of one of them. It is the most barren schoolbook I have ever read. The3e printed arithmetics wrre not in common use. Nearly all teachers had manuscript "sum books," from which the scholars copied page after paga of "sums," too often without any explanation of the process, though there were also many and long rules, which helped the penmanchip if they did not the mathematics. Exchange. BARBED WIRE. A Lucky Device That Brought Millions to Its Inventor. "The luckiest invention in history," said a patent offlclal, "was that of barbed wire. It came about by accldcut. "Isaac L. Ellwood was the inventor of barbed wire. In his youth ho lived in De Kalb, III., and, having a neighbor whose pigs trespassed on his garden, he put up one day a wire fence of hi." own make. This fence had barbs and points on it. It was queer and ugly, but it kept out the pigs. "It was a real barbed wire fence, the first In the world, and there were millions of money in it, but yooug Ell wood and his friends laughed at it freak appearance. "One day two strangers naw this fence, perceived how well 'it kept out the pigs, realized how cheap it was realized. In a word, its value and or dered several tons of it from Ellwood.

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Quigley, Druggist. tor a lerii of years an uie uaroea wir he" could produce. "Ellwcwd borrowed $1,000 and set up a little facto . A few years later on he had paid bock that loan and was worth a small matter of $13,000,000 besiden." New York Press. The Water Lily. Almost everybody has observed ttm strange characteristic of the water Illy bud open lug its pti!s at sunrise and closin.? them Again at sun?et It was for this reason mainly that the an-c-iente held the water Illy auered to tho buu. PUay says: "It Is reported that in the Euphrates tho newer cf the lotus pluapo into ihe water attght, remaining there till roldeight andta snch a depth that it ennnct be reached with the hand. After midnight it begingradually to rise, and as the iua rUe above the borisom the dower also rise above the water, expands and raisei itself rome distance abovo the element In which it grows." It was also through this peculiarity that nancarviile proved that the Egyptians considered the lily an emblem of thi world as it rote from the waters of Ui deep. Scot Free. The expression "cot free." which id In iim every day, bark back to tho times of Scottish roxance and tragtnly so luminously described by Sir Walter Scott in "The Antiquary" and "Rob Roy." In thte stirfinir tales we nra told of one form of Scottish trials given certain offenders of justice. IIo who had broken the law was divested of nil of his clothing and placed at a certain distance from archers who had bows and arrows ready, waiting the command, "Fire!" When the command was given, the man under lnd!ct ment would hegiu running and the archers firing, and If in running thlj gantlet none of the arrows hit him ha was allowed to go scot free. Exchange, Files Cured in 6 to 14 Dayv PAZO OINTMENT is guaranteed to cure any case of Itching, Blind. Bleeding or Protruding Plies In to 14 days or money refunded. BOe. An editor was waited upon by a climber of Parnassus. "Thl8, sir," said the visitor, producing a maauKCilpt, "is the ouiy pooui I ever wrote." "Well, cheer up," replied the editor, "I'm not going t3 deprive you of it!" Bisctsct

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