Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 32, Number 251, 17 October 1907 — Page 4

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRA3I, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 190T.

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PRICE Per Copy, Dally 2c Per Couy, Sunday 3c Per Week, Dally and Sunday 1Cc IN ADVANCE One Year $5.00 Entered at Richmond, Ind., Postcffice As Second Class Mail Matter.. THE FONTANET DISASTER. Many who have read and heard of the horrors connected with the terrible powder explosion at Fontanet will at once Jump to a conclusion and lay the chief hlame for the affair to warfare, believing that the powder mills at Fontanet were en paged in manufacturing high explosives for warfare alone. As a matter of fact but very little of the explosives manufactured by the various powder mills of this country are used by our army or navy. Practically the entire product is used Jn commercial lines. Those who believe it goes for warfare alone nnturally would like to see the dangerous powder mills abolished. To do that would cripple many lines of operation throughout the country. High explosives nowadays are used chiefly for blasting purposes and in that connection are used not only all over this country but all over the world. Up in Alaska the miner gets gold from the soil by blasting. Immenso areas. Here in the United States we build our railroads through the hardest kind of rock formations by blasting with high explosives. Thus it is clearly seen that the high explosive of today Is an Instrument of peace and is used to further the progress of those things that render life and its necessities great assistance. Of course the manufacture of high explosives can not bo otherwise than a dangerous occupation and not only for those who are actively engaged In the manufacture but for those who live near a powder mill. Yet we can not do without the product and therefore must look upon the business as a necessary evil evil, that is, on account of the great danger surrounding Its manufacture. It is senseless to censure the powder manufacturers on account of such a great accident. They are the ones who stand to lose greatest from the effects of an explosion for they know their entire plant will be wiped out of existence and, therefore, as everyone knows who has ever visited a powder mill, take the greatest precautions to guard against accidents of any kind, j When a great and appalling accident such as occurred at Fontanet takes place the blame rarely if ever can be brought home. If it was due to carelessness the perpetrator of the careless act and generally all witnesses to It perish in the resultant explosion. And If it was from any other cause there is nothing left after the explosion to show what the cause was. This, much, however, can be under stood from human nature and will go a long way in most explosions to explain the cause. The man who engages in any dangerous business eventually becomes so accustomed to it that he loses to a great extent that realization of danger that is so necessary to absolute carefulness. And then some day the result of that familiarity with danger an explosion occures and widespread ruin and desolation is the result. Until human nature changes and the man engaged in a dangerous occupation remains perpetually careful the nation may expect to be shocked from time to time by dreadful accidents such as occurred at Fontanet. Political Gossip. CAUTION TO WATSON. (Noblesville Ledger.) If "Jim" Watson wants to be the next Governor of Indiana he had better not ride his hobby, "Ship Subsidy," too much in his campaign. The people are not enamored of this theory of spending their money. Silence would be golden just now with Mr. Watson. TUCKER IS HOPEFUL. (Noblesville Ledger.) Dr. A. R. Tucker is now making a canvass of the Ninth District in the Interest of his nomination for Congress. ; He feels much encouraged over the outlook and thinks that he will be nominated. A priest has been arrested at Agincourt, on the Franco-Belgian frontier, for smuggling. His luggage was full of cigars, and when he was stripped he was found to be wearing around his body a layer of tobacco and cigars over an Inch In thickness. The man was clothed in tobacco, and 2,000 cigars were taken from the layer.

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charge of the work. It was not a bitter sectional feeling, but the speeches which were made on the subject showed that there was "a North" and "a South." Northern members of the meeting advocated a better condition of things among the negroes of the South. The Southern members said that in some ways, the Northerners do not understand fully the conditions in the South, and should therefore not biame the Southern people wholly for the conditions existing there. The negro question was discussed the greater part of Wednesday afternoon and for some time Wednesday night It was conceded one of the broadest fields known today for Quaker operation and influence. Hampered in Work. The report of Allen Jay showed that the work among the negroes had been greatly hampered in the past five years for the lack of funds. An appeal sent to the various yearly meetings netted only a comparatively few dollars for the cause. A great work has been done for the negro by Friends since the close of the civil war and the committee on negro affairs, thought it best to compile a book giving the history of this work. After much labor this work is now ready for, the printer. It was thought by the committee that unless such a work was compiled and published now, it would never be done, and therefore took the laborious job upon itself. Scored Convict System. Mr. Jay scored the convict system of the South, which calls loudly for reformation. Being so intimately connected with politics it is a very delicate question for Friends to handle, but a fight should be made for better conditions. The negro seems to be the greater sufferer from the convict system because of his ignorance and non-use of forethought, swelling their number in southern prisons. The matter should be brought to the attention of the governors of the various Southern states as well as the legislatures, it was maintained, and advice of the Five Years' meeting on the propriety of taking such action to accomplish the end, was asked for by the committee on negro affairs. Each state should have a board of associated charities as some few have none. The convict system is demoralizing and a convict is far more dangerous after his release than when first entering the savage convict camps of the South. Although it was said that the convict system of the South was bad, it was freely asserted that it could not be worse than some of the jails of the North at the present time. Kindergartens vs. Battleships. If the United States government would spend as much each year for the

establishment of negro kindergartens , jng an& jonn Woody of North Caroliin the South as it does for battleships. j na yearly meeting, spoke at length on whose sole purpose is to carry death tne subject. All were optimistic for anu destruction, the condition of the tne future condition of the black. Mr. negro would be bettered and at the woody maintained that the black was

same time the government would make a better investment twice over from an economic standpoint. The Five Years' meeting should, it was said, consider plans for the better education of the negro, and it is highly probable that the body will make some recommendations before the adjournment. James Wood, of New York, pointed out the many sidedness of the negro question, each phase of which needs care and attention, while Edward Grubb of England, decried the negro j condition in America today and advo cated radical reforms. He made an appeal to the Friends to do their part in showing faith in the better nature of the black, so as to give him encouragement. The prejudice of the whites against negro education in the South should be broken down, he said, and further maintained that it would be a better policy to educate the negro in the schools to be established, than to educate nim in the street or in the chain gang. Religious Instruction of the colored race is needed. Mr. Grubb also bitterly arraigned the convict sys tern of the South. Friends should take up a crusade for the industrial education of tne negro, while an appeal for aid from the better white minds Mas absolutely necessary if the work was to gain the scope necessary. North Carolina Replies. In answer to the speeches made about the South and its treatment of the negro, Elwood Cox, of North Carolina, maintained that the negro was better treated in North Carolina than IPn1tusinn!L

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The Austrian liner Giulia, which took fire at sea and would have been destroyed had not great seas swept the vessel at a critical time, subdoing the fire. While the flames were raging the majority of the crew mutinied and tried to take the boats as did althe poor white of the mountainous districts. The law is administered to the whites and blacks alike in his state, wnile both are given an equal right Jn the public school system. Mary M. Hobbs. of Guilford College, N. C. said she disliked to see all the credit for negro aid in the South go to the Northerners, when the Southern people were doing great things unsolicited and unknown to the country at large. She maintained that there was a better system of colored schools for the poor negro, than for the poor white. It is not because of ugly hearts that the people of the South are not doing more for the black, she said, but because of limited means with which to carry on the work. Francis W. Thomas of Indiana, also made a few remarks on the subject. Continued Wednesday Night. When tne discussions were continued Wednesday night, Thomas Edmundson of Dublin yearly meeting, expressed the sympathy of the Dublin yearly meeting in the negro work, while Timothy Nicholson of Indiana yearly meetdoing a greater work for himself than any others. The field and financial report of the American Friends Board of Foreign missions showed both to be in excellent condition. The report was submitted by Mahala Jay of Richmond, who is secretary of the board. The work is broadening and many people are being brought to Christ. The board is now handicapped in the work, in that it has only advisory ca pacity to the various yearly meeting boards, and a committee is to be appointed by the Five Years' meeting which will probably give the central board an administrative power all the minor mission boards. This is necessary that the work progress. The treasurer's report was submitted by James Carey, acting in that capacity. Wants Publishing House. Iowa yearly meeting presented the proposition of establishing a Friends' publishing house, the plan originating with Pleasant Plains quarterly meeting. It is hardly probable that this proposition will be given much thought . , , . . , The business committee, to which has been referred many questions confronting the meeting, made its first report Wednesday night. It was brief, however. Joseph Mills presented it. Clarence M. Case, of Rhode Island, Benjamin F. Trueblood of New England and E. H. Woodard of Oregon, were appointed by the committee to act as press committee, which appointment

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so the 7C3 passengers in the steerage They were prevented from doing so by officers who held them in check with drawn revolvers. The portraits show the type of the steamers' passengt.s who were driven back from the life boat at pistol's point. was advocated at Wednesday morning's sessions. The business committee, without reflection t upon the committee of arvan pom cm i c riT if c r'Vi a ? t m a n rlaftrlc.rl i ' 4.1. , ti .4i , strike from the latter committee s report, that clause which showed Ohio yearly meeting had been invited to join the Five Years' body. This action will not be recorded in the regular Five Years' meeting minutes, however. It was decided that the various sessions should begin at certain hours iu the day. The morning session will begin at 9:30 o'clock, the afternoon session at 2:30 o'clock and the evening session at 8:00 o'clock. Each session will be preceded by a devotional meeting when doors will be ciosed. The hours were arranged that the committees might have mo-e time for their deliberations. Work Among Indians. There are now eleven Indian mission posts, according to the report of the associated executive committee on Indian affairs, which was heard Wednesday night. Beside these Friends' posts there are a number of Friends' Indian meetings and out stations. All these are located in Indian Territory and Oklahoma, six being in Indiana Territory. Walter Smedley has been chosen secretary of the Indian work to succede John Nicholson of Baltimore, who for many years labored in the work successfully. A written report of the condition of the Indian work was submitted by Mr. Smedley at the meeting. Ai. reports expressed a very optimistic view of the future. Abigal J. Hawworth, in charge of the Indian station at Shawnee, Oklahoma, spoke of the --1, i.j: A, . ATv iUU1"us l"ere ana said that the race was menaced by the eager, grasping politicians who desired io secure mucn or tne Indians' lands valuable for their mineral products. It is a shame that these conditions exist, she said. Amos K. Hollowell, of Indianapolis, submitted the treasurer's report and this was referred to the delegation committee. Interest in the deliberations is rapidly increasing, as manifested by the increased attendance at each session. Many of the most brilliant minds in the Quaker church are assembled and their deliberations are Instructive and interesting. At Wednesday night's sessions it was necessary to open the entire house to accommodate the audience. Henry E. Jones of Tampa, Fla., writes: "I can thank God for my present health, due to Foley's Kidney Cure. I tried doctors and all kinds of kidney cures, but nothing done me much good till I took Foley's Kidney Cure. Four bottles cured me, and I have no more pain in my back and shoulders. I am 62 years old, and suffered long, but thanks to Foley's Kidney Cure I am well and can walk and enjoy myself. It is a pleasure to recommend It to those needing a kidney medicine." A. G. Luken & Co. The King of Portugal is so expert a shot that he can pick off the fish as they rise to the flies in the palace lake. A report received at Pekin from Chang YIngtang, the Chinese resident at Lhassa, tells of the establishment of a native newspaper, the first one ever printed in the Thibetan language. "I suffered habitually from constipation. Doan's Regulets relieved and strengthened the bowels, so that Ihey have been regular ever since." A. E. Davis, grocer, Sulphur Springs, Tex. Have you noticed the improved service to Chicago via the C C. & L? Through sleeper leaves Richmond at 11:15 P. M. daily, arrives in Chicago at 7:00 A. M. Try 1L apr6-tf The Sunrise Of Uffe. Infants and children are constantly needing1 a iaxative. It is important to know what to grive tnem. Their stomach and Dowels are not strong enough for salts, portative waters or cathartic pills, powders or tablets. Give them a mild. ple,?a.t' tta. laxative tonic like Dr. CaldweU s Svrop Pepsin, which sens at the small sum of 50 cents or Si at drug stores. It is the one great remedy for yon to have iai the boose to give cbiUna when they seed ft.

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LABOR SITUATICH Management of the Railroads, Especially in the West, Are Anxious. MORE WAGES DEMANDED. PASSENGER OFFICIALS ARE RID ING ON ONE OF THE FINEST TRAINS THE PULLMAN COMPANY EVER BUILT. The labor situation is causing rail road management seme uneasiness, j labor organizations are making demands for increased wages and threatening to strike. At the last session of the committee of general managers it developed that the presidents of nearly all the roads of the country had determined that there should be no further increase m wages. From the general managers points of view the labor organizatious have become somewhat unreasonable on account of the apparent ease with which they have gained an increase In wages the last few years. It is understood that these officials will resist all strikes for higher wages. . RIDE ON FINE TRAIN. Heads of passenger departments of a large number of Western roads are on a trip east on one of the finest trains the Pullman company ever turned out. Most of the passenger agents are accompanied by their wives and will be in Washington ta attend the annual convention of the American Association of General Pas senger and Ticket Agents, which be gan yesterday. The party was head ed by C. L. Stone, passenger traffic manager of the Missouri Pacific Iron " fe . , . , . . Mountain route and president of the association. The Big Four and the Vandalia will both be represented at this convention TWO BIG LOCOMOTIVES. The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul has just put in service two unusually large locomotives. The big fellows are of the balanced compound type with a double set of cylinders, making each equal in effective work to prac tically two ordinary locomotives Fnch of these new locomotives weighs 325,000 pounds or about 15 tons. They are much heavier than any other standard locomotive on that system. The boiler will carry a pressure of 220 pounds of steam twenty pounds greater than any other of the company's locomotives and the operation of these engines it Is stat ed, will be watched with much Inter est all over the country. RATES ARE STOPPED. The Transcontinental Passenger Association has decided to stop issu ing colonists' rates to California and other points on the Pacific coast, thus putting an end to the $33 second-class rate, which has been in effect during September and October for several years and of which many persons have taken advantage In going to al ifornia for the winter. REPORT IS DENIED. TVio r-onnrf that rnilrnnrla past nf i.v v. - Pittsburg are arranging for another advance in Coal freight rates of 5 per : cent is omclallv denied. The rate was advanced 5 per cent last spring and it was intimated that a second advance was to follow. LEAVE INDIANAPOLIS. President McCrea and his inspec tion party have left Indianapolis where they made an inspection of the Belt railroad and the viaduct and will visit the western divisions of the Pennsylvania before returning east. Manager G. L. Peck will also make an inspection of the western divisions on his own accovd. Lika ua.i.r.jj t-er a Drink. A hard drinker was told by his do tor that he could be cured if every tin: he felt that he must have a drink L. would immediately take something t eat instead. The man followed tb advice and was cured, but the habit o asking for food had become so fixe with him that once he was nsarl; locked up fis a lunatic. He was step ping at a hotel, and. hearing a grea commotion in the room next to his, h peeped over the transom to see wha the matter was. He saw and rushe madly down to the of3ce and shout? x the clerk: "The man In 153 has sho himself! Ham and egg sandwich please!" Wrong Frama cf Mind. "Caroline, aren't you ever goin? tr Join the church?" "Of course I am. Aunt Rachel. som day. But you ou?ht to know bettc: than agk me to do it when I'm rijrht ir the midst of this dratted house clean ing." Chicago Tribune. The 0!d Order Changes. The old Scots parliament decree' that "golf and football shall be utter.y cry it dune." and today the Scots par Hament does not exist, while football and solf have inherited the eartn. Edinburgh Dispatch. Every good action prompts to a repe tition thereof. The long service record of thirty years has been achieved by Anna Gabrieli, who died at Botzen, Austria, age ninety-three, after serving since her thirteenth year three generations of the same family. The Emperor of Japan has no fewer than thirty residences, each a model of comfort.

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Tile DAi.i i Y L JTTEi.FLY. U Has a Prvcitrd Tsst In the Mai tor of Food and Drink. Deautiful butterf ies. a splendid an ileut host, fluttered aud fiouted abov the tall wUte lilies In the quiet gar lcn. "How lovely they are!" said a nr ture- student, 8lprLng his tea. "IIr very lore!;.- they are, yet the riehc their beauty tbe ranker their tast The purple emperor, one of the fine butterClea, lilies nr-thinjs for dinner well as a dead cat a oat five or si days dead. "Other beautiful butterflies subsb upon spoiled fruit. Fresh fruit the won't lock at. It must be falllii, to pieces with rottenness. "Even la their drink some of tlu loveliest butterflies have a perverte taste. TurniHg scornfully from dew: rose petals and from crystal spring they seek out the vilest, foulest pud dies whereat to quench their thirst. "And nearly all butterflies are drunk ards. Collectors entrap them bj means of stale beer mixed with mo lasses. This they smear on the hole? nt trees. Unable to resist the dose 'he most resectable butterflies fnhers of families, capitalists, elderlj natrons yet hopelessly drunk and In he midst of their wild, silent orgy art ranlnsed in biff handfuls into the col lector's pouch." New Orleans TimesDemocrat. THE GRAY EYED MAN. He Is a Fighter, So Bo Cautious In Prcvoking Him. "I always feel a bit nervous." remarked a sergeant of police, "when I have to arrest a man with ray eyes for I know that he Is a born flghtei ind that I am likely to have a tough job. "Most, men when they are fighting retain a certain amount of discretion and remember that a brutal assault on' fsa cnHru offense are brought into Chicago and the train service of

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utrl in any I and belt lor ail-round improved central drah r.u. i.-i tut? trray eyes. though be may in his calmer moments be quite aware of the folly of resistjince, forgets all about that when his blood is up. He thinks of only one thing, and that is to win the fltht. "It isn't among criminal only that the gray eye denotes the fighter. I have observed the same thing among professional pugilists, an enormous proportion of whom have gray eyes. "With soldiers and sailors it la Just the same. Many of our foremost generals and admirals have eyes of this color. It is the more remarkable when we remember that the number of people who have gray eyes la small compared with other shades. "The moral la that when yon are dealing with a gray eyed man you should be cautious in provoking him." London Answers. In most cases consumption results from a neglected or improperly treated cold. Foley's Honey and Tar cures the most obstinate coughs and prevents serious results. It costs you no more than the unknown preparations and you should insist upon having the genuine in the yellow package. A. Q. Luken & Co. The following occurred to a distinguished but modest divine who had undertaken the duty of a brother clergyman at an English church: "I am come," said he, addressing the silk gowned verger, "to take Canon Blank's place this morning." "Pray, sir," replied the official pompously, "are you the 'man who is to read the prayers or the 'gtnflemtn' t-t.r r . -.. Monks and nuns exiled from Franc by the recent laws are still seeking refuge in England In considerable numbers. Fifty nuns recently left Brest on board the Antelope, and 160 brothers of Christian schools, who have been expelled from their institutions, ar seeking a home in Jersey and England. close connection with east by the luxurious

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