Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 32, Number 182, 29 July 1907 — Page 4
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RICHMOND, INDIANA. Hagerstown Association Has Not Decided Upon Course For Next Year.
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BIG INCREASE SHOWN
,L DEBT
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Statistics of City Clerks of In
diana Indicate Growth Of $1,574,245.47.
SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT
REGARDLESS OF THE ADDED
DEBT THE TAX LEVY OF A MA
JORITY OF THE CORPORATIONS
HAS DECREASED.
Reports submitted by city clerks of the state to the Bureau of Statistics
show some Interesting figures rela
tive to municipal ownership of public
utilities. The ownership of wate
plants by cities Is especially dealt
with In these reports.
The "reports show that the water
hydrants of Indianapolis which are
owned by private corporations cos
the city for the city's own use for
fires, street flushing, etc., $15 a year
for each hydrant.
. The town of Clinton maintains its own water plant at a cost of $65 a
year for each hydrant for city purpos es. .
The town of Butler operates its own water plant, and does so at a
cost of $13.65 a. year per hydrant.
At Elwood, where a municipal water plant is maintained, the cost to the city for city water is $60 for
each hydrant.
Elkhart pays $58.63 a year for Its city water, although owning Its own
plant.
At Kokomo a private corporation
charges the city $25 a year per hy drant. "This means," said Deputy
Statistician Peetz, "that the city must
pay $25 a year per hydrant for the water it uses in extinguishing fires, flushing gutters and supplying the city
institutions with water. As to wheth
er It navs for a city to maintain
water works is a question for experts to figure out." Debt Increases. The report of the city clerks also deals with the bonded indebtedness of the cities of the state. Tabulated figures at the office of the Bureau of Statistics compiled from these reports show that the outstanding city bonds amount to $10,540,656.11; outstanding school bonds aggregate $2,504,750; improvement bonds amount to $13a,62S.lS. The total bonded indebtedness of Indiana cities aggregates $13,275,034.29. The floating debt of the cities is $S92,624.1S. Other debts. Including court judgments, amount to $120,014.21. The total gross debt of all the cities of the state is $14,2S7,672.6S. After deducting a sinking fund of $493,256.85 three cities have a net Indebtedness of $13,794.415.S3. These figures show an Increase in city bonds over last year of $422,817.96. They show also an increase in school bonds of $1,318,630. The increase In improvement bonds this year in $17.65S.22. The increase in the net debt of Indiana cities over last year is $1,571,245.47. Tax Decreases. The greater part of this Increase Is due to the school Indebtedness of cities which amounts to $1,318,650.
These figures show that the school corporations of Indiana cities have made rapid improvements in the way of acquiring additional school properties. While the indebtedness of cities has Increased the tax levy in nearly every city has decreased. Union City has the lowest tax levy in the state 122 cents on each $100 of taxable property. East Chicago has the highest levy. It now reaches $3.SS on each $100 worth of taxable property. It is said this increase In the tax levy Is partly due to a long period of litigation In which the city has been involved. In 90 per cent, of the cities the tax levy has been decreased in the last year.
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MANY SUGGESTIONS MADE.
IT IS AGREED ON ALL HANDS THAT MANAGEMENT MADE MISTAKE IN HOLDING THE FAIR SO EARLY.
DAiiif,T i'mvtom PFTTUS. OLDEST MAN !fj THE SENATE Senator Pettus, of Alabama, who was eighty-six years old, and who died Saturday night, wanted another term despite his advanced age. He rode through to California, on horseback in 1S1!, served as a lieutenant in the Mexican war and as a brigadier general in the civil war and acted for a time as solicitor in his judicial district. It was said of him that he played poker, chewed tobacco, drank in moderation, carried a red bandanna, read his bible, worked hard, had a fine vein of humor and called his wife sweetheart.
News of the
Local and General.
STILL AT HIGH STANDARD.
TRAFFIC FOR WEEK JUST CLOS
ED PROVED TO BE HEAVY.
It
Is Now Believed That the Dullest
Period of the Year Is Now Past.
The traffic of the week ending July
27 shows that the volume of business
is still at a high standard, being but 2,000 or 3,000 cars a week below that
of the busiest season, but above the average of the years past for July.
Among freight men the opinion pre
vails that the dullest period of the
year nas been passed, as the new
wheat crop is in condition to move, the cerealine mills are pressed with
orders and are taking in all the corn offered and other cereals which they
convert into cerealine products, and the manufacturers are still enjoying the most prosperous time in their history at points reached by the Central
Traffic lines.
There are still some croakers, it Is
said, who talk about a dull traffic in the near future, but among the oldest
of freight men the opinion prevails
that unless some unforseen providence interferes, the fall movement is to exceed that of any year in the history of the roads. Track conditions
are excellent, freight car equipment is In good supply and rates apparent
ly satisfactory to a majority of the shippers.
cars 10 oe raised wnen not in use. Wisconsin will be the first state to
have such a law, and proposes to enforce it. PLAN IS A FAILURE. The clearing-house, or freight car pool, which it had been hoped would prove a radical remedy for congestion and car famines, has been shown a failure after a test of eight months. The reasons assigned for the failure of the scheme are the absence of power in the Clearing House Association to enforce penalties for the infraction of its rules and the refusal
of the roads to permit the clearinghouse to keep a record of all interchanges of cars and inflict penalties for keeping them too long or to col
lect tne per aiem rental, ine roads
insisted upon keeping these records
themselves and making their own col
lections.
PRAYERS BEFORE BATTLE.
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Are You Good at Spelling? If so, read the following paragraph carefully and correct the errors in It. There are In it eleven mistakes in thf spelling: 'These poems have every good gift exept that of poetry. The anther habrought together the many reckord of such fancies as have occured t him during a long and good life th result being a volume of tender tokens of personel affection sweet meddltatlon and remlnlseuces of half forgotten senes. But though we receive a grateful impression of the author's personel character from this collection It cannot be conceled that those meditations however pious and otherwise exellent have not the qualities ml poetry. "New York Mail,
A NEW WAGE SCALE. The general chairmen of the joint
protective boards of the Brotherhood
of .Locomotive rlremen and lungine-
men held a meeting for tho pur
pose of considering a new wage scale
and working hours for 64,000 men em
ployed on all the trunk lines east of
Chicago. By "Wednesday the new scale will be formulated and presented
to the railroads. Last April a similar
scale was presented to the thirty-one
trunk lines west of Chicago and ac
cepted.
FEELING OF SATISFACTION. The pessimis mwhich pervades
passenger circles all over the country
during May and June has given way
to a feeling of satisfaction. The sit
uation has undergone such a remarka
ble transformation since July 1 that railroad men are actually surprised. All Northern resorts are reported to be well filled with summer visitors. With the beginning of August, the biggest month of the season is anticipated. PATRONAGE IS HEAVY. Officials of the sleeping car lines state that their patronage at the present time is the heaviest that they have ever known, so heavy that all of their old cars are being put in order as rapidly as possible preparatory to
handling the extraordinary heavy
traffic. MUST BE RAISED.
The Governor of Wisconsin has signed a bill passed by the Legislature requiring upper berths in Pullman
Curious Invocations by Famous torical Personages.
One of the earliest records in his
tory of a prayer before battle is that
of Childeric, king of Gaul, a pagan
who before going into battle at Zuel
pich. some 4X years after Christ
prayed to vhe God of the Christians to
help him to victory. His foe was At
tila, king of the Huns, and Childeric vowed if God would give him the vic
tory he would embrace the Christian
faith.
The prnj'er of a Hungarian officer
before one of the battles fought for the
independence of Hungary in 1849 was
as follows: "I will not ask thee. Lord
to help us, and I know thou wilt not
help the Austrians, but if thou wilt sit
on yonder hill thou shalt not beasham
ed of thy children." This was the prayer of the "Fighting Bishop" Leslie before one of the battles fought in Ireland: "O God. for our un worthiness
we are not fit to claim thy help, but If we are bad our enemies are worse, and if thou seest not meet to help us
we pray thee help them not, but stand
thou neuter ou this day and leave It to
the arm of the flesh."
The one offered before the battle of
Edgehill by Sir Jacob Astley was, "Thou knowest. O Lord, that I shall be very busy this day. and if I forget thee forget thou not me." and then the
command followed. "March on, boys!" As King Edward advanced with his columns to Bannockburn he remarked to his aids, seeing the Scotch on their knees: "See, they kneel. The rebels are asking pardon." D'Umphraville was heard to remark: "Yes, but it Is to the King of kings. These men conquer
enr die on this field."
Oliver Cromwell had public prayers
before going to battle on several occasions, as, for instance, previous to the battle of Dunbar. It is a curious fact that the English prayer book contains prayers, or at least one prayer, to be
said before going Into action at sea, while nothing is provided for use before engagements on land.
Cream, Sugar, and a squeeze of lemon In ICED posTURa Delicious for hot days. Read "The Road to Wellvllle In pkgs. "There's a Reason.
'Plurals wr Nt-n, Enoing In rtO." In the formation of the plural cf nouns eudiug with o, the general rulii is that es is added to the singular, a? in potatoes, cargees. buffaloes, yet the following words add only s: grotto, junto, canto, cento, quarto, portico.
octavo, duodecimo, tyro, solo (all, by the bye, foreign words. and also all nouns ending in io, as folio, folios; or, in fact whenever o is immediately preceded by a vowel, as cameo, embryo, etc. A notable peculiarity Is to be ob-f-erved with regard to nouns substantive ending with the sound of o. If they be words of more than one syllable, they for ' the most part end simply in o. but if only of one syllabic, they take an e after the o, thus, canto, potato, quarto, hero, but doe. foe, roe. sloe, toe, woe. etc. Yet other monosyllables, not nonns substantive, have no final e, as so, lo, no. Literature of Typography. Usually. Newed Don't you believe marriage broadens a man? Oldwed Well, I don't know about that: bnt It usually makes him shorter. Cleveland, rials j Dealer-
Hagerstown, Ind., July 120. The Ha gerstown fair-ground looks like a de
serted village, the stand men, show
men, exhibitors and horsemen, like unto the Arab, having folded their tents and stolen silently away during the night. The great majority went to
Middletown. while a few went to North Vernon, some to Ohio, and some who went "broke" started for their homes. Of this latter class were a number cf stand men and showmen, who. on account of the association calling the fair off owing to bad weather, were out their privilege money and claimed to be down and out unless the association refunded all or a part of their ground rent. These people made a very determined appeal to the management of the fair for a rebate, and after considering the matter the association de
cided to refund twenty per cent of the
ground rent.
It has not yet been decided by the
association whether premiums will be
paid in full or whether a fair will be
held next year, but they will be
definitely determined at the meeting
of the association next week.
Now that the fair Is over all kinds
of suggestions are heard as to how a fair should be conducted. Everybody
agrees inai ine association makes a
mistake in holding the fair at such an
early date. To offset this claim the fair officers say that as long as the
fair is a member of the Eastern Indiana circuit that they have to take
whatever date is decided upon by the circuit. Not many perscms are in
sympathy with this argument, because they think that Hagerstown would fare
better if she should cut loose from the circuit and conduct the meetings as
they were when organized. No better county fairs were ever held than were the first three fairs held in Hagerstown, and they were held the latterl part of August and entireJy independent of other fairs. Again, every one
agrees that not enough attention is
paid to the various departments of
the fair, other than racing. It is a noticeable fact that days and weeks are spent previous to the opening of a fair in the perfecting of the race track, and all features that are incidental to the proper conduct of a good race meeting and the securing of good race horses for the races, while on the other hand little inducement is offered to the farmer, the manufacturer, the commercial man. the artisan or the breeder of fine stock to show the products of his toil and energy. Then right in this connection comes the question, does the fair as now conducted, really benefit anyone? The only people who are really benefited by
these annual meetings as now held, are the saloon men. It is true other lines; such as butchers, groceries, bakeries
and restaurants, enjoy a little increase
of business for two or three days. If
the interests of the mass of the people
are not' catered to. the people who make the fair possible by reason of their paid admissions, just in that degree will prosperity be a stranger to the fair association that allows itself to drift into this rut.
The Palladium and Sun-Telegram is the recognized Classified Advertisement medium in Richmond and Eastern Indiana, as is proven by the fact that we carry daily a GREAT MANY MORE such advertisements than any other paper published in this city or this part of the country. But we want more people to take advantage of the results that can be obtained from a Classified Advertisement in this paper, and to encourage them we are OFFERING AS A PREMIUM for every Classified Advertisement ,pr.ouchl into our office (costing not less than 25c)
THE BEAUTIFUL HISTORICAL PICTURE, IN COLORS, Cliristoplie? Columbus at the Royal Court of Spain.
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This beautiful picture is after the famous painting by Brozi and shows the intrepid Columbus explaining to Queen Isabella his great plan of sailing due west 'around" the globe until he came to Asia. Before the Queen on a table are her Jewels of fabulous worth, which she later sold to buy the lit tie fleet with which Columbus set out on his remarkable voyage of discovery. The scene which the picture portrays is shown as taking place in a beautifully decorated room of tha Queen's palace, and the two principals, Columbus and Queen Isabella, are surrounded by a group of richly dressed Spanish grandees. Remember, this beautiful picture is given ABSOLUTELY FREE to anyone bringing to the Palladium office a Classified Advertisement costing not less than 25c. Thus you are doubly benefitted You receive this beautiful picture free and get the results our largs circulation brings to all Classified Advertisements.
BOSTON'S LACK OF HUMOR.
FOR THE SAKE OF HUMANITY HE
SUFFERED MANY HARDSHIPS.
Was at Last Rewarded by a Great
Discovery. The great scientist that devoted
twenty years of his life to travel and
study for the betterment cf human
kind, was at last rewarded by a dis
covery that is today filling hundreds of homes with health and happiness. Hundreds of letters of thanks are be
ing received from every direction; and while money is a much needed thing, the scientist in an interview said: "I would gladly give every dollar I have and every dollar I ever expect to have if all people now suffering with stomach, liver and kidney troubles understood the wonderful merits of Root
Juice. It is a compound that heals and
tones the blood-making and blood-filtering organs. It creates a healthy
appetite, prevents fermentation of food in the stomach and bowels, cleanses the system, stops bloating, belching and heart burn. It removes all causes
of constipation and kidney symptoms.
In after effects of La Grippe, when the
general health is bad. Root Juice has a truly wonderful toning action on the whole system. The great remedy Is sold for $1 a bottle at A. G. Luken's
drug store.
An Ilniclisli VIcvr of ll-.e Landmnr)t of tli? IIc'j." I have said that r.oston loves reliv rhe relies which It love best are tl'trelics of England's discomfiture. Th stately portraits of Copley are of snini; account compared to t'.ie memorials o! what was nothing olt than a civ; war. Faneuil hail, the Covent (Jardo?' Df Iioston, presented to the city by I'c ter Faneuil some thirty years beforr the birth of "liberty," h now but an emblem of revoH. The Oil South meet iug place is endeared to the citizens oi
Boston as "the sanctuary of freedom." A vast monument, erected a mere quarter of a ventury ago. commemorate- th" "Doston massacre." And wherever yon turn you are rendu led of an episode which might easily be forgotten. To in Englishman these historical land marks are inoffensive. The dipput which they recall aroused far less emotion, on our side of the ocean than on the other, and long ago we saw the events of the Revolution in a fair perspective. In truth, this insistence on the past is not wholly creditable to Boston's sense of humor. The passionate paeans which Otb and his friends sang to liberty were irrelevant. Liberty was never for a moment in danger, If liberty, indeed, be a thing of fact and not of watchwords. The leaders of the Revolution wrote and spoke as though it was their duty to throw ofT the yoke of the foreigner a yoke as heavy as that which Catholic Spain cast upon Protestant Holland. But there was no yoke to be thrown off, because no yoke was ever imposed, and Boston might have celebrated greater events in her history than that which an American statesman has wisely called "the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right." Charles Whitley in Blackwood's Magazine.
IMITATIVE WOMAN.
A Cynical EnrHh Ylevr of Feminine Human atore. Decidedly women are an imitative class. From her earliest nsre the small
girl aps tin u...- oi ner elders and, had she her own way. would be n miniature epitome of fashion. Such entertainments us s'e Is permitted to witness in her mother's drawing room she imitates, with dolls and nurses for com !any, in the nursery. In her school days she invariably "forms" herself on some npr'iil friend whom she elect' :is a model of feminine perfection. Ami at a certain stage of their lives girhare as much aKUe as peus in a pod As they mature a ad develop they may perhaps show some signs of individual ity. but in nil the main issues of lift they continue to be more imitative than
original. Fashions, housekeeping and enter taining are all more or less conducted ou the same lines, and the only trmsign of friendship that Is shown to the young married woman is to beg her to order her life and her home on her friend's principles. Any departure from those principles or any symptom of individual taste or strength of mind wili sound the first challenge of unpopularity for the budding matron. Her mother and her mother's friends will alike desire imitation of their methods as the "sincerest form of flattery," and every decline from the original system will be pronounced wrong or injudicious. Rita in London Mail.
GERTRUDE BRESLAU iHnurnr OF NORWOOD PARK Chicago, Ills. Will speak on "Industrial Servitude War and Child Labor"
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NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT. State of Indiana, Wayne County, bi. Notice is hereby given that the un
dersigned has been duly appointed by the Wayne Circuit Court as adminis
trator of the estate of Susana L. Nel
son, deceased, late of Wayne County,
Indiana. Said estate is supposed to be solvent. EENJ. P. NELSON. Administrator. A. M. Gardner, Atty. 15-22-29
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