Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 33, Number 15, 1 March 1908 — Page 4

THE RICHMOND PALLADIU3I AXD SUX-TELEGRAM, SUNDAY, MARCH 1, lDOS. THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM.

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STORIES FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL From The Palladium's Special Correspondent, Ralph M. Whiteside

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RICHMOND, INDIANA. ' PRICE Per Copy, Dally 2c Per Copy, Sunday 3c Per Week, Daily and Sunday lOo IN ADVANCE One Year $500 Entered at Richmond, Ind.. Poetofflce As Second Class Mail Matter. Just Smiles DON'T LOAF! Don't loaf, and shirk, and dwadlc, I'itch in, and make things hum. In that way you can hasten The glad millennium. If you have been a dreamer. Wake up and work! Yoh you! Take off you coat and hustle. And make your dreams come true! Somervillo Journal. LET HER SLIDE! l)on't bo stewing over nothing All the while; Don't Imagine there is danger In a smile. There's for growling and grouching No excuse; JYetting never gets you nowhere. What's the use? Nashvillo American. WHY? 1b one always chilled to the martow? In an explorer always intrepid? Is a swoop always a fell swoop'.' Is a statesman always eminent? Is a bargain always extra special? Is drapery always clinging? Is sweetness always cloying? Is a ruffian always burly? Is one always within an inch of death? Why not two inches? And why, why, why, is a conclusion always foregone? Chicago Journal. YOU CAN! My friend get in the public eye. Let nothing hinder. You, too, can be, if you try, A human cinder. rittsburg Post. FISHY Deacon (meeting a boy on Sunday morning carrying a string of fish) Johnny Johnny, do these belong to you? Johnny Y-e-s, sir. You see, that's what they've got for chasing worms on Sunday! Pick-Me-Up. THE. LAUGH CURE. When your wife resumes her nagging. Laugh; When the stock you've bought Is sagging Laugh ; When you've lost your new umbrella, Or somebody starts to tell a Story you have heard a hundred times before, Do not fail to cling to gladness, Give the ha-ha to your sadness, Throw your head back and emit a cheerful roar Laugh, brother, laugh! Chicago Record Herald. POOR FELLOW! "They tell me that poor Jolly is a victim of his own fellowship." "That's so. He lost his own health in drinking other people's." Baltimore American. DEFINITION. A mollycoddle is tho other party to an argument. Chicago News. TRY LIMBURGER. Onions are said to cure lots of diseases, but what will cure onions? Baltimore Sun. THE INGLENOOK Oh, the comfort of a book In a cosy inglenook, When it snows, And the gloomy winter night Is a seething maelstrom white While my study gleameth bright (As the rose. New York Press. LIKE SHIPS THAT PASS. "T spoke to your father today." "Did you? What did he say?" Same as I did." "The same as you did?" "Yep. Howdy-do." Houston l'ost. HIS SHARE. "The world owes me a living," The lazy person said; The cynic cried, "You have it. That's why you aren't dead." Washington Star. GALL Modesty wins in the battle of life Once in a w hile. Modesty captures the handsomest wife Once in a while. )aut in the mixup and everyday cnish Modesty isn't ace high in the rush. Gall Takes it ail Or at least makes the haul Twice in a while. Nashhville American. BEWARE. Beware tho hasty word. Beware the cruel thought. The lack of tact. The spiteful act Th deed in anger wroughL Cleveland riain Dealer. But every puGIHstic bum Will fight old John Till kingdom come. Chicago Tribune. Virginia : "-'-l1 Aifdl K.our makes ri?k-iou Nki"d

BY RALPH M. WHITESIDE. Washington, Feb. 9. "Yes, there are two sides to the cpuestion of negroes voiing in the South the humorous and the serious." The speaker was a southern congressman one of those men who showed not alone a keen interest in the welfare of his country, but also was possessed of political genius. The genuine part of it is what brought him to the front. 'I don't want to discuss the serious phase of the question," he continued. "We people of the South have our own ideas as to how certain local conditions should be governed. We have a peculiar environment and we've got. to take measures that sometimes seem unreasonable to the people of the North. "Did I ever tell you about how some local campaigns used to be run down

my way? It seems tunny in recoi-: lection, but it was a serious matter j at the time. I'll tell you a few. j "We used to vote every negro in : town on election day. Sometimes we, voted them more than once. I remember a fellow, first name Cal, who; had a gang of thirty negroes and poll- j ed them from one place to another. They were good negroes, those fellows and they knew how to work when Cal had them in tow. "One time the other side sent every negro they could get a distance of about fifteen miles into the swamp to! cut timber. When election day came, around they were out of our reach. It' was a clever trick. I The other side was elated over the trick they had served us, but their spirits were somewhat dampened when the votes were counted. Every negro who was registered, Including those who had been sent into the swamp, had been voted. An indignant leader was disctHiiug this fact with Cal when Josh White, the leader of Cal's gang, came up to report. ' 'Ah done voted 'em all, Mars Cal he said. The leader of the other side looked at Cal rather sharply. His expression was one of satisfaction, for he considered Cal trapped. Cal hesitated a minute, then made a bold play. "How'd you get those fellows out of the swamp, Josh?" he asked. Josh immediately looked serious. He understood and his face brightened wonderfully. "Oh, we sent down dar and got 'em out," he said. He of the other side could not deny it. An old necro man went un to Col. Appletree, who was standing at the polling place one election day. "Mars Appletree," he said, "I'se goner vote fer yo' an' I want a dollah." Col. Appletree looked at him aniusdly. "Why, you black rascal," he exclaimed, "you know well enough you vote for the other side. You'll get no dollar." "Fob. Gawd, I'se goner vote fer yo," Mars Appletree," said the old fellow, "Ise goner put in a plumper right now an' I wants er dollah." "You go away from here," said the Colonel. "I know how you'll vote well enough. The old fellow went to the polling place and voted. He did as the Colo nel anticipated voted against him. One of the Colonel's friends saw this and told him about it. In a few minutes the old negro returned. "Now I done voted fer you', Mars Appletree," he said, "an' I wants er dollah." "Look here, Uncle." said Colonel Appletree, "you're the biggest liar in the county. George Newton saw you vote against me." The old negro thought seriously for a minute, then his face shone with the happiness of a rescuing thought. "Well, dey all intend to count it fer yo' anyhow," he said. "Nowkin I have er dollah?" He got It. 1 had a gang of about 40 negroes that I wanted to vote one election day and I could not get them into the polling place. You see, the other side was determined to keep us out and had a watcher on the door who knew every negro in the town. About four o'clock in the afternoon l hunted up Major Harrison. He was a close friend of the watcher, but he was on our side. Friendship does not hold on election day. and I frauklv explained the situation to him. I asked him to go down to the polling place and get his friend away for an hour or two. Major Harrison drove up to the polls and. under pretense of looking at some of tho watcher's property which was i up for sale. Trove him three miles 1 across count r. 1 nry were gone a- , act ly an hour and ah alf ami whm he I i t uriied my whole gans had voted. Did he ever find out the trick? !i. ! he and Harrison are still good friends. I therefore the supposition is that ho j didn't. He bh.med himself for tu- ; ; tempting to ttausact business on eke- j ; tion daj . ; Colouel Water was the hottest man iu the county one election day and heprovided an embarrassing ten minutes at the polls for a few of us. whom he opposed. He heard that old Eben Smith, a negro who lived about three miles out, had not voted. Colonel Waters drove out in his buggy got the old man aboard and brought him to the polls. One of our watchers challenged. "That old rascal voted here early this morning," he said. Waters thought this was not true and said as much. As proof, he asked old Kben about it. "Cross man hcari, I hain't voted

since last election," said Eben. "You're lying." said the watcher. "Look where you're registered. You're marked off." Eben didn't look. He couldn't read. "What did you mean by telling me you hadn't voted?" demanded the Colonel. He was hopping mad. "I ain't voted." cried Eben, much of

fended. "Shore's gospel, I ain't vot-! ed. Kernel. I ain't been off n tie plate sence las' week." i "He just wanted a ride down town." j said the watcher. "He knew he had j voted and worked you for a pleasant I trip." ' Colonel Waters looked hard at, old Eben, turned on his heel and left the; polling place. Lben followed sorrowfully. Tho old fellow sioke the t i-ii t li he hadn't been off his patch of ground for a week and he hadn't voted since last election. Someone else did, though. Under the old poll tax law. every voter had to pay up all his back taxes before he could cast a ballot. The negroes did not like the Idea of paying poll taxes, nor did they rest easily under the loss of franchise. When poll taxes piled up for three or four years, it was a case of bank

..Bridge Whist in Washington.. Unless Women Are Playing They Are Not Agreeable Companions.

(By Mrs. John A. Logan.) Washington. Feb. 'J'J.-I have talked with the wives of senators and congressmen who came here from differ ent parts of the country, and asked their impressions of Washington. In the majority of instances, the first subject mentioned by them was their surprise at the strength of the game of bridge whist has on the capital. Some of the women who are in Washington for their first season expressed the greatest amazement that whist should take up so much time in society circles and that women should be addicted to the game to such a great extent. The game is played in every city, of course, but to a modified ex tent. That Rambling should be freely indulced in. left some of the women with out words. They were not accustomed to such entertainment in their home cities and they cannot understand that women of Washington could so debase tnemselves. Many of the women of every city in the union seem to be suffering from a species of insanity on the subject of bridge, but in the Capital City the epidemic has spread to such an extent that it has become a very serious matter. Women who formerly took part in charities and were very active in so cial matters, adding many attractions to the social life of Washington, have abandoned themselves completely to bridge. Recently on a lady's receiving day. a number of friends called upon her to be told at the door that she was not. iu, when the voices of those engaged in the nearby drawing room, playing bridge, could be heard by the guests as they were turned away from the door. The minds of the women addicted to bridge are so completely occupied with the game that when they are not actually playing they are impossible as agreeable companions. They can think and talk of nothing else but the game when the next is to begin and how much they have lost or won. They set aside everything else and their families are of little consequence to them, hired servants discharging their duties to the inmates of their households. A Washington lady recently was making calls for her mother because "Mamma did not have time to make calls, as she was so occupied with bridge." Imagine the influence of such mothers over their daughters and who regard so lightly their obligations as to send their daughters to make their calls for them so as to give them the chance to remain at the gambling The best and most complete line of Couches Devenports, etc in the city. Prices range from $6.75 upward. ROMEY'S Fornilurc Bedding Pictures

rupt to negroes to pay up before They voted. By swearing they were twenty-one years of age, they could get around all these back taxes and secure their ballot. The result was that few negroes in the county were more than, twenty-one. They'd deciare themselves twentyone, regardless of whether they were known to the registrars or not. One dusky voter said he was twen-ty-one and when questioned, swore to his assertion as fervently as he would in his poverty. It was afterward learned that he had been married tourteen years and had twelve children Yet he was only twenty-one years Old. Ho w;is nick-named "Twenty-one."

The Congressman was just becoming interested in these stories iim! would have told several chapters more had lie not. suddenly remembered that he- had a committee meeting to attend and lie hurried away. "1 wonder it' he thinks we don't know who carried off all those tricks." said one of his auditors, a capita! clerk. "Well, he's a Congressman, anyhow, and that covers a multitude of early transgressions," said another. table. If the daughters of this class of women escape being themselves demoralized, they are very lucky. Those who pretend to have church connections pay no attention whatever to their duties. If a census were taken in the larger cities of the Union it would be found that there has been a great falling off in the charity work of women who have degenerated into mere bridge fiends. A good husband, indulgent father, and a man prominent in affairs in Washington, recently said that he "had no alternative but to spend his leisure moments at the club because his wife had always parties of uninteresting women playing bridge in their home, or was in the home of some other member of the club playing bridge eternally." They read nothing; they are not posted as to what is going on in the world; they become so selfish that they give themselves over absolutely to bridge, varying it occasionally with poker and in trying to devise ways and means to account for their losses or to add to their winnings. How any woman, with keen moral instincts, can deliberately give all of her time and thought to the gambling game of bridge and take the consequences of its .demoralizing influenc $6.00 SILK WAIST WHITE $4.50 $20.00 SUIT TAILORED $16.50 $7.50 PANAMA SKIRT $5.98

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Afternoons, All Week. Different Every Day. rdware watchful eve over gamblers. W f i cquently hear of phicis beinj; raided and men and women ariested and brought before tho Police Court lor playing cards for money, l! i much worse in the higher classes than it is in the lower classes, as they have superior opportunities for r tinement and culture and fer hading proper lives. They have it in their power to spend their leisure in the higher amusements. They have no claim that thenis necessity tor them to gamble for the sake of the money- that they win, as it is a well-known fact that ' no gambler was ever in the end successful, his losses usually far exceeding his winnings. History proves that gambling is not the high road to fortune, to say nothing of tho demoralizing influence it has upon the character of the people who indulge in this pernicious habit. To hear men say that Mrs. So-and-So plays a' "stiff" game is a very doubtful compliment, and one that I hate to hear paid to any woman. There was formerly at the Capital a coterie of women who played poker continuously, and who were wellknown and avoided by many on that account. They have unfortunately been succeeded by women who do just as much harm and set just as bad an example by their addiction to bridge. As if it were not shocking enough to spend so much valuable time in such

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