Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 32, Number 314, 26 December 1907 — Page 4

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TUE KICIIMOM PALLADIUM AXD SU'-TELEGKAJi,TIlURSDAY,DECEMBEU 20, 1907.

TOE RICI1F.10ND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM.

Palladium Printing Co., Publisher. Office North 8th and A street.. RICHMOND, INDIANA. PRICE Pap Copy, Dally 2c Pvr Couy, Sunday 3c Por Week, Daily and Sunday 10c IN ADVANCE One Year S5.00 Entered at Richmond. Ind.. Postcfflee As Second Class Mail Matter. SHALL THE LIGHT PLANT BE SOLD? The Palladium, City. Dear Sins: The writer notes that another agi Nation has sprung up 1'or the Kale of 1 the City light plant. This time the! proposition comes from the Light, Heat & Power company, accompanied by the statement that, the said Light, J feat & Power company, is losing anoney, and that the city is losing tnoney and don't know it. and therefore they are willing to employ a firm of chartered accountants and electrical engineers, trained in municipal innrestlgartion, satisfactory to the city and themselves, to examine, appraise avnd report on the above facts as set portb. You will bear in mind that, within xw . v.... fourteen months the city plant has "

keen examined by its fnends and ' imnoia steel company owners viz.. membens of the Commer-; KalntalM at Joliet Btepped ou an UQ. rial club. t ! protected gear and lost his leg just In the first place when this plant". he nad varned h,3 mtn not to avas built, we were regaled with state-, b t f such cuIpabIe negll.

xneni arier statement mat, nououj would want it. and nobody want to purchase it. Then came along a proposition to buy the plant. The peo-, jjle decided that they didn't want to ell it. Now comes along another Turopoeltion from our old friends the light, lleat & Power company, who through the kindness of their hearts, uddenly discover that the city is losing money and therefore they want to pay for the services of a chartered accountant to appraise our property, wlth a view to buying it. In the first place, if we wanted to sell the property, it belongs to the city. The city liaa all the value to offer, both in the shape of actual property and a franchise. They are not peddling this light plant to the public, nor are they trying to sell lime, nor does the writer know of anybody who would really want to sell the plant when be understand the srtaatlon fully. In thl proposition you will find covered p the usual "nigger in the wood-pile a the said chartered accountant and electrical engineer would probably bring in a report that tbe city la not making money. The next proposition would be that the city Is paying too much for its arc lights. Then after a sale basis was agreed upon and the city interests "aategtwrded" (please note the use of the worfi in quotation marks) the proposition wonld be to lower the price on the city lighting and advance the price on the consumers probably fifty per cent. Neither party would want, to make a franchise to continue longer than ten years. The price for private lighting and public lighting would be

et forth in that franchise, and at the j The Determination of Its Relation to end of the ten years it would be found j Mental States, that the Light, Heat & Power com-; in addition to those bodily raovepany or their successors whomever j naents which are called '"voluntary"

they might be. could not continue lighting the city at the "safeguarded" price. Then would come a scramble for an Increase. The city would have its hands tied, and nothing to do but to sit dorwn and submit to any proposition that the Light, Heat & Power .company or its successors, would be fnming to offer. Thla ia the road we are getting ready to travel if we go into any proposttion looking to the sale of this plant If we want to appraise the plant, there are plenty of men in the city of Richmond competent to say whatt their own property Is worth. It wants to be borne in mind, that this same Eight. Heat & Power company or its predecessors, made the light condition so obnoxious to the citizens of Richmond, that they voted seven to one to build this municipal plant. It wants to be borne in mind that this same Light, Heat & Power rompany in order to ,get business, continues to cut the rates on electric light, in some instances furnishing incandescent globes to consumers without charge, in order to get them to take their light. (If necessary, will name one party that the writer Vnows personally.) It wants to be borne In mind that th eitiiens are paying for their elec tric lighting, probably 40 per cent less than they would pay if there was no competition. It wants to be borne in mind that there is no objection to the competition of the Light, Heat & Power company. If they want to give away their electric light, the parties who take it are fortunate, and the party who does take it under those conditions, knows he is getting that light at the present low price, for the simple reason of the presence of the city plant, and the city plant should fiave the credit for the low price it is making and the public should be willing to let. the Light, Heat & Power company wear out their plant at the low price so long as they want to continue to furnish light at the present prices. The public does not want to forget that the AVestcott hotel paid $2,000 when the Light, Heat & Power company controlled affairs for light and power, and that under the present conditions they are paying $1,000 or thereabouts. The writer can cite another instance where a flat charge of ,442.00 per year was made for por

forming a certain service, and thai when that service was discontinued, and the city light put in, on meter, the same service cost less than $20.00 :i year. The public wants to take notice that l,e Light, Heat & Power company in their goodness of heart, are not cutting the rate on their gas, where they have the monopoly, but are selling it at the good old price of $1.50, 20 per cent off. The City of Richmond, need not get nervous. We have probably $14.n)0,000 on the tax duplicate and are probably worth twice that amount of money, and can afford to maintain a municipal plant without any loss because, if, for the sake of argument, there was a loss, that loss would come out of one pocket of the taxpayer and go into the other. Don't think that $250,000 is so enormous. Bear in mind that we gave away $225,000 and never issued a. bond for same, and this was done within the last ten years. Let the city plant alone, it belongs to us, and when we get ready to sell it, we will put it on the market and have no fear. There will be somebody else to buy it beside the Light, Heat & Power company. In conclusion, let the Light. Heat fc Power company go along, paying taxes and furnishing light, at whatever prices their good judgment may show them is to their interest, and if the price is low, take the light. Look pleasant, and give the city light plant the credit for the condition. Very truly yours. W. V. SCHCLTZ.

STEEL PLANT PERILS. Recklessness a Psychological Factor That Must Be Considered. Kecklessness la certainly a psychological characteristic of men in steel plants. All tradition teaches them to be reckless. The very example of their superiors teaches them to be reckless, " TVik iK1ntnnf- minor ntin(l(nr or tn I gence of their own safety. Iam will ing to admit the existence of culpable negligence altogether apart from the QegHgnc9 of the company. And not only that, but I am also willing to give a specific illustration. I was standing one day on the platform of a blast furnace. All at once, unexpectedly, I heard the four whistles that Indicate danger. There was a "hang" in the furnace. The whirling, eddying mass of ore, coke and limestone in the high interior of that furnace had got caught somewhere, somehow, and was refusing to come down. When it did come down there would be a erash and perhaps an explosion. I ran and got behind a brick pillar. On coming Into the plant that morning I had signed a pieco of paper, just the same kind of a piece of paper that every visitor signs, saying that I would not hold the Illinois Steel company responsible for anything that might happen to me. I reflected that nobody would profit by my demise. But observe what the other men around that blast furnace did! I could see them as I peered out from behind my brick pillar. Those of them who were already In front of the furnace looked up at it with an expression of profound curiosity on their faces. Two other men who had been standing at the back of the furnace ran all the way round it and came out in front. There they all stood hurling their mute interrogatories at the crafty, reticent volcano that might nevertheless the next moment hurl forth an indignant answer at their heads! Everybody's Magazine. BLOOD PRESSURE. various bodily phenomena which are clearly Involuntary accompany violent mental excitement. The blush of shame, the distinctive flushes of joy and of anger, the pallor and sweat of fear, the tears of grief and the "creeping" of the flesh provoked by horror are familiar examples. The respiration is quickened by joy and retarded by anxiety, and the feeling of relief finds expression In a deep sigh. Violent emotions often disturb the digestion. The heart "bounds with joy," is paralyzed by horror, "leaps to the throat" In terror. The connection between the heart and the emotions is so intimate that the heart wa9 long regarded as the seat of the soul. Most of these iu voluntary physical concomitants of mental excitement are brought about by a special part of the nervous system, the sympathetic nerve and its branches, which ramify to every part of the body. The best known branches . are those that govern the dilatation of the blood vessels, which are profoundly affected by mental states. These phenomena are susceptible of exact quantitative determination by means of a method devised by the Italian physiologist Mosso. The result is fairly accurate measurement of the variation of blood supply in the brain. The subject is laid on a board which is balanced on a fulcrum at the center of gravity. When the subject is quiet j and undisturbed the board lies horizontal. Now, if an unpleasant sensation or emotion is induced in the subject his head is involuntarily elevated, indicating diminution In the quantity of blood in the brain. An agreeable sensation of emotion produces the opposite effect Scientific American. $100 Reward, $100 The roaflers of this paper wilt be plrased to learn that there fs at last one dreaded disease that science has been able to cxire in all its stages, and that Is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is th only positive euro now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, therebv destroying the foundation of the disease, and jrlvinsc the patient strength by building- up the constitution and assisting: nature in doinsr its work. The proprietors have so much faith in Its curative powers that they offer On Hundred Dollars for any case that it fail to cure. Send for list of testimonial. Address F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold Vv all Druftcists. 75c. Take "Hall s Family Pills for constipation. 1

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NO HOPE Of RESCUE LEFT WITH RESCUERS Work of Recovering Bodies Abundant Christmas. MANY WERE BURIED TODAY. Jacobs Creek. Pa.. Dee. r.. Little progress was made in the search for the bodies of victims of last Thursday's explosion at the Darr Mine. The last, faint hope of finding any one alive in the mine having passed away several days ago the desire of the men to spend the holiday with their families tended to deplete the rescuing parties. Twenty bodies were brought out during the day and remain unidentified. No attempt, was made to bring out the large number of bodies found in entry No. .7. among great hears of debris, but the. men worked beyond to entries Nos. JX and "J'.K A few more hours of work, it is believed, will result in the uncovering of all in these three workings aud the finding of a majority of bodies still missing. Up to tonight a total of seventy-six bodies has been brought out. In deference to the- day no funerals were held. Many were buried today, however. This is Worth Remembering As no one is immune, every person should remember that Foley's Kidney Cure will cure any case of kidney or bladder trouble that is not beyond the reach of medicine. A. G. Luken & Co. Too Much Cordiality. A certain young man in New York is looking anxiously for expert advice as to how he shall cease his weekly call upon a certain younj? woman without plunging: into all sorts of trouble. "Oh, I like the girl as well as ever," he explained to a friend, "but it's this way : Every time I go there she shakes hand6, and we go into the parlor. Then one of her sisters comes iu and shakes hands. During the next twenty minutes the other five sisters come in. one at n time, and I have to get up and shake hands with each. "When I've been there half an. hour, papa and mamma drift in separately. More handshaking. And Aunt Emma soon after brings up the rear. When 1 get through my time is nearly up, and my arm feels like a political candidate's at a campaign reception. Say, how can I quit it?' New York Globe. Number of Poker Hands. There are 2.508,060 different poker i hands In the deck. These hands work out as follows: Straight flush. 40. (The royal flush is a straight flush, ace high.) Four of a kind. C24. Full hand, or full house. 3,744. Flush. 5.10S. Straight, 10.200. Three of a kind. 5-1,912. Two pairs. 123.552. One pair, 1.093.240. No pair, 1.302,540. David A. Curtis la "Knles of Draw Foker."

MUNCIE THOGS BOS! IN HOLIDAY SEASON Bold Holdups and Robberies In Streets. BURGLARIES NUMEROUS. Muncie. Ind., Dec. 2(1 The holiday season iu Muncie brought with it an epidemic of outlawry. Footpads have been busy and burglaries numerous. Thugs have not hesitated to hold up their victims early in the evening, and have even plied their work a little later in the heart of the business district and under the very eyes of the police. Burglaries have been of nightly occurrence. Constipation and bad blood are twins, kill people inch by inch: sap life away. Hollister'a Rocky Mountain Tea relieves constipation and bad blood, 35c. Tea or Tablets. A. G. Luken & Co. A Historic Spot. In the wall of the five etory tenement at the southeast corner of Oak and Oliver streets on the side toward the latter are inserted five bronze tablets, two between the second and third floors, one between the third and fourth, and two between the fourth and fifth. It would be a safe wager that not one of the 150 persons living in the building knows the significance of those tablets. It was in a tavern on this spot that the articles of evacuation of New York were signed by the British on Nov. 23, 1783. The tablets were first placed in the walls of the old tavern. The builder of the tenement had some patriotism in his heart and built them into the tenements. New York Sun "How many people work in your es tablishmentV" orK.' rerhaps two-thirds of j them." Fliegende Blatter. Stokers Way Down in the boiler-room of the steamship shovel in the coal night and day that give her power to make a record. The bat coal gives the belt power. That is why Scott's Emulsion produces flesh when other things fail, it contains more power. It b truly a body fuel. Many a man, woman and child have broken their records for weight by the pounds of flesh gained from SCOTT'S EMULSION. It is a powerful flesh-producer. AUDruffgiats: 50 e. mad $1.00.

J 'holograph ot John Whitley. the healthy New ork mui, who, after killing his wile, as she slept in the Hotel IJelleciaire. would not trust to

the revolver as a certain agent of self; window in ine tenm tioor ot a hotel, una was crushed to death on the sidewalk. Mis. lutlev was many years th..tumor of her husband. Continual ((uarroluur with his children by his tirst wile, is said to be the reason for the murder and suicide. The diagram illustrates the t raged v and also includes a picture ot the Hotel IJelleciaire. OLD HIDDEN KETTLE CONTAINED MONEY Oldham Went and Dug Beneath Tree With Result. IT COMTAINED JUST $750. Shelby ville, Ind., Dec. L'G The next time Daniel Oldham has a revelation to make, his son Martin probably will not deride it as a pipe dream. The father, who is an old man, recently asked the son to so with him and dig up ?7r.O in gold, which he said was on tlit; farm of Hugh McFadden, in Sugar! Creek township, but the son smiled significantly and intimated that the story was a vagary. The son went to Franklin and the old man persuaded the grandson,' Charles, to accompany him. No one: was at home at. the McFadden farm, and Mr. Oldham asked the grandson to get a shovel and follow him. He did as requested, and they then went! to the north side of the house under; a tree in the orchard. The boy was requested to dig in a certain spot to a depth of two feet. He did so, when his shove struck an old kettle. It. was pulled from the ground, and a tin ; box taken from it. When the box was opened it was found to contain $7f0 in gold. Seven or eight years ago Oldham lived with his daughter, who was Mrs. Hugh McFadden. She died and he left the farm, having buried the mon- ' ey some time before, where it has ! been until last Saturday. We have secured the agency for Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup, the new laxative that makes tlie liver lively, purifies the breath, cures headache and regulates the digestive organs. Cures chronic constipation. Ask us about it. A. G. Luken & Co. GRAVITATION. The Mystery of Thi Wonderful Force In hature. When plants are grown in receptacles fastened to the rim of a rapidly revolving wheel, the shoots and leaves grow toward the center and the roots away from the center of revolution. This is remarkable as showing the influence of centrifugal motion upon growth. But the earth, any point ia whose ! surface at the equator passes through fifteen miles in one minute, has a centrifugal motion so swift and so great that it is almost inconceivable. Why, then, reasoning on the basis of this wheel experiment, do not trees and plants grow in the directions they are urged by this centrifugal force namely, with leaves and boughs toward the earth's center and roots pointing to the sky? The answer is because there is a force called gravitation which overpowers the enormous centrifugal force and practically reverses it. Whether this overmastering force which we call gravitation is electrical or what it is no one has yet been able to discover. There can be no doubt that it is the greatest force we know of. To unveil the mystery of it would be to become masters of a power whose possibilities dazzle the human mind. It would simplify the problem of building, water and air navigation, projectiles and many other branches of mechanics. It would revolutionize present methods. 5?t. Louis Post-Dispatch.

HISTORY OF TAPESTRY.

Vhe Art Was Known to the Ancient Greeks and Egyptians. t riomish artists are lelieved to have lt'U the first to make tapestry for use as a covering for walls. The art itself is certainly very ancient, many of the hangings used in Kgypt and CJtveec leing considered true t:jestry. its subsequent history is obscure, but it evidently maintained, a lingering existence in the- cast until the Saracens revived it and brought it to Europe. Tapestry wsis used by the Saracens only as drapery or curtains for the courts jf the:r bouses. llmbroidery apiears to have served for this purix.se in northern Europe uutii after the twelfth tvutury, and much of the Motk of this period wa really embroidery, such as the incorrectly named Uayeux taie.-;try. It was in the fourteenth cetitury that tapestry legati to Ih? largely made in Flanders, where the weaving industry leeaiue vc.ij iiniKrtant. At that time twenty-seven streets were occupied by the weavers of Uhent. in UJS2 there ere o0.xmi weavers in Lotivaiu and more still at Ypres. Very few samples of fourteenth century tapestry remain, but thoe that have come down to the present day closely resemble contemporary wall painting. I Hiring the latter part of the fifteenth century the golden age of tapestry existed, especially in Bruges and Arras. The Flemish tapestries of that time are models oi" textile art. The color Is rich, the decorative effect stiou;;, the drawing and composition graceful, and the whole arrangement shows consummate skill iu endeavoring to meet the exigencies of the loom and at the same time the aesthetic requirements of wail decoration. Argonaut. COOLNESS IN DANGER. Experiences of an English Military Official Ir. India. When Lieutenant Henderson was captured by the uatives f the Gold Coast hinterland they got into a wordy discussion as to how they would LIU him. The victim listened awhile till he was weary of it. "Oh. well," he said, 4,l can't be bothered w ith your arguments! I'm very sleepy. Let me know when you have made up your minds." And off to sleep he went. The unexpected performance saved ht life. His calm indifference persuaded Samory's men that they had to do with sume one of immense Importance. Unwilling to take on themselves the responsibility for his death, they sent him unharmed to Samory's court, In the Jimiui country. Once again Lieutenant Henderson saved himself by a like exhibition of courage. He found Sainory on a throne, surrounded by 4.t0O warriors, yet when motioned to do homage on his hands and knees he did nothing of the sort. He simply sat on the throne beside Saniory, shaking that monarch warmly by the hand. Thanks to this, and to nothing else, he was accepted as the representative of a great sovereign instead of a captive doomed to death. He talked to Samory of the queen, and Samory talked to him. Thus a mission which might have ended, as bo many African missions have ended, in a terrible silence and a suspicion of unspeakable horrors, did, in fact, end iu a valuable basis of future relations between Great Britain and a Mohammedan power. London Scraps. l The Shape of the Sky. What is the apparent form of the vault of the sky? There is probably no one to whose eyes it seems a true hemisphere, with the zenith appearing as distant as the horizon. At sea or in a flat country the neeming greater distance of the horizon is best shown. I'rofessor J. M. Pernter in discussing this subject reaches the conclusion that the form of the vault in vertical section is that of the segment of n circle the arc of which subtends at the center en angle of the order of forty degrees. If the reader will draw such a segment he may be surprised by the amount of flattening which is thus ascribed to the sky. From this optical illusion many curious effects arise, such as the seeming Increased magnitude of the mm and moon when near the horizon and the apparently oval forms of halos and coronas seen at low altitudes. A Financial Episode. A Milwaukee business man stepped op to the teller's window In one of the city banks during a financial flurry, presented a check and asked for the money it represented. "I cannot give you the cash," cald the teller, "but I can pay you in clearing house certificates." T would much prefer the currency," answered the man. "The certificates are just as good," said the teller. "Well," returned the merchant, "If that is the case I suppose I can go home to my baby and give it some milk tickets and say, 'Here, little one, thes are just as good as milk!' " Trimming. The other day at a golf club in Scot land a minister of the kirk was re- i proved by an elder in his church for using high flown words respecting a bad stroke he had made, and the rain- j ister replied: "Weel. Dauvid, I was nae sae mich I swearing as merely embellishing my j feelings." Shaky Logic. "You certainly told me to embrace my privileges." "Well, but I didat tell you to embrace my daughter." "No. But to embrace your daughter fs a privilege." London Express. A man must stand erect, not be kept erert by others. Marcus Aurellus. A Dangerous Deadlock, that sometimes terminates fatally, Is the stoppage of liver and bowel functions. To quickly end this condition without disagreeable sensations. Dr. King's New Life Pills should always be your remedy. Guaranteed absolutely satisfactory in every case or money back, at A. G. Luken & Co., drug etore. 23c. Chicago passengers asms CCA L. trains land at 12th sL (Illinois Central) Station; most conveniently located. Remember tbis. tt

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