Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 33, Number 178, 11 August 1908 — Page 6

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THE RICHMOND FALLAU1UM AlfU SDTI'TK LCGK A 3i, TUESDAY, AUCiUST 11, 190S.

COUNTY RECEIPTS HAVE INCREASED

increase Is Greater Propor tionately to Increased Expenditures. BUSINESS IS COMPLEX. IT IS FOR THIS REASON EXPENSES ARE LARGER LESS MONEY EXPENDED ON BOARDING OF COUNTY PRISONERS. Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 11 An analysis of reports on county finances made to the state bureau of statistics of which Mrs. Mary Stubbs Moore is chief, shows that both the total receipts and the total expenditures in the counties of the state have increased considerably within the past four years. The increase in receipts has been greater proportionately, however, that that in expenditures. The growing complexity of county business has increased the expenditures from $8,933,733.01 in 1904 to 9,719,797.08 in 1907, increase amounting to $786,043.57. However to meet ; the increased expenditures county revenues were Increased during the four years irom fiuwii.ta u a.w - il775.02.3a in 1907. the Increase amounting to $1,423,024.93. In other words while the spending ability of the counties increased 8.8 per cent in the four years the paying capacity Increased 13.8 per cent, or 5 per cent, more, making the general financial ehowing of the counties much better than it was four years ago. That this is true again is attested by a comparison of the returns on the sale of county bonds. In 1904 $1,130,821.S5 or 11 per cent of the total receipts were derived from, the sale of county bonds. In 1907 only $57G,06.64, or less than 5 per cent, of the total receipts came from this source. The county receipts, are greater in spite ' of the fact that the loans are less. The ' counties in the administration of their business have more working capital and are compelled to borrow less year by year. There has been a noticeable decrease in the amount expended by the counties in boarding prisoners in the county Jails. The cost of boarding prisoners amounted to $301,5745.99 in 1904; in 1905. $206,797.89, and in 1908, $203,706.65. In 1907 the cost was reduced to $201,844.11. This reduction came about through small decreases in a majority of the counties. Servant Problem Solved? Not exactly. But one way to keep a girl in good humor is to make wash f day and scrubbing a pleasure. You can do it with the assistance of Easy Task soap. You may favor some other kind, but just have ber try two live cent cakes; that's enough. Your servant will be happy and you will be an Easy Task convert forever. ECONOMY, IND. Knonomr. Ind.. Aug. 11. The M. E quarterly meeting drew a large crowd Bnndnir. under T. M. and Mrs. uuua of Richmond were in attendance. nr. m-,A filtTa flonren Wnrrl nf WebJUIa U w..". - 'ster were visitors of Rufus Williams Rnndav. Mr. and Mrs. O. I Hiatt attended the Chamness reunion- at Dalton Sunday. . Raymond Daugherty and Miss Myr tle Haxton two popular young people 'were quietly married last week and will be at home to their many menas oon, when they start housekeeping in -Economy. I W. Stamm of Ohio was here over Sunday. Lon Edwards made Ms weekly trip to Richmond Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Fenimore and toon were visiting Mr. and Mrs. Sam "Fnnlmore near Carlos City Sunday. Miss Maude Christopher of Richmond is here the guest of friends this Miss Mary Mumbowers visited Mr. tend Mrs. Frank. Pierce Saturday Bight Mr. and Mrs. Lee Lamb and child ren were guests of the Northcutts (Sunday at dinner. Mr. and Mrs. John Replogle and icon spent Sunday near Hagerstown fwith relatives. Charlav Cole, a nalnter. Is able to !be out again after a severe attack of Miss Mary Way of Webster, Miss Mabel Hunnlcutt and Mrs. Mabel i V r i r. and Mrs. Joseph Haxton and hter Mary spent Sunday at Chesld. Mr and Mrs. Will Conley returned to Blountsvllle Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Rail Daugherty, Mr, and Mrs. Richard McLard are camp ing near Connersville this week. Mr. Omar Oler, Miss Lulu Harris, Prank Nicholson. Miss Ada Nicholson of Greensfork and Miss Edith Bradbury of Richmond were guests at the Edwards home Sunday. The township Sunday school con vention was held at the M. E. church Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. David Jordan attend ed Rev. Thomas Jordan's wife's funer al Sunday at Washington, Ind. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Atkinson are touring northern Michigan and spent Sunday In Canada. Rev. Lee- Chamness preached in the Friends church at Williamsburg Sunday. ... ' . . Horace Kimball returned to Cincin nati Sunday evening. Deck Haxton left for Cottage Grove Monday, morning. , Mrs. Luxetta Fenimore was shop ping In Richmond Monday.

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short visit with Williamsburg relatives. . Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Peterson, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Pierce, Miss Mary Mumbowers and "Edwin Sutten were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Allen Oler Sunday.

John Osborn and wife of Richmond visited relatives in Muncie Sunday. CENTERVILLE IND. Centerville, Ind., Aug. 11. Mrs. Ed ward Hearn who has been the guest for several days of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Clevenger, has returned to her home at Chicago. Mrs. C. A. Langley entertained the misses Ruth Hiser, Harriet Stanley and Florence Kersey Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Deardoff return ed Monday from Brookville, O., where they had gone to attend the funeral of her uncle W. R. Smith. Harold Watts of Knightstown is the guest of his aunt Miss Alice Horner. Miss Martha Peelle was the guest of the Stigglemans on the Williamsburg road Monday. The meeting in the interests of Sun day schools which was held at the Methodist church Sunday afternoon was very enthusiastic. The addresses were excellent and to the point. The church choir rendered some appropriate music. The Rev. E. M. Barney of Indiana polis gave a brilliant address under the auspices of the state Anti-Saloon league on Sunday evening at the Methodist church. There was a large attendance. The Rev. W. E. Whitlock, pastor of the M. E. church received twenty-two people into full membership with the church at the morning service on Sunday. Miss Jessie Lomax of Boston, Mass., and Miss Jennie Lomax, of Jndianapolis who are the house guests of their cousin, Miss Martha Peelle, were guests on Monday of the family of William L. Boyd on National avenue West Richmond. Miss Leora Bogue who was the guest of Rev. and Mrs. R. A. Napier for several days has returned to her home at Fairmount, Ind. Mrs. E. M. Cheesman and her daughter Sarah, of Fordnlck, Va., are the house guests of Mrs. Karl Bertsch. Mrs. Jesse Thomas of Chicaeo. farmerly a resident of Centerville, is visiting her sister, Mrs. James Hill, on Plum street. NEW PARIS, OHIO. New Paris, O., Aug. 11. C. L. Colby spent Sunday at home. Paul McNeil spent Snuday at home. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Haller of Richmond visited friends here Sun day. Miss El ma Harner spent Sunday with Miss Eva McKee. Mrs. George Fortney visited friends In Dayton Sunday. Alva Boyd and son Trafford spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Garreth In Lewisburg. Trafford will remain a week. Miss Laura Kemp of Indianapolis is spending a week's vacation at home. Mr. and Mrs. Chauncey Wilson en tertained Mr. and Mrs. Will Bamett and son Chester, and Will Ketro Snu day. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Mungavin and son Francis, visited friends at West Manchester Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Clark entertained C. P. Kirkpatrlck, Mrs. Francis Kirkpatrick, Dorothy Kirkpatrlck, Gertrude Harrigan of Camden, Mr. Ed Kirkpatrlck, and Sherman Frazier of Anderson, Ind., Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Seiwecke of near Eaton, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Ollie Newbern. Miss Nola Richards entertained Misses Marie and Grace Wrenn Sunday. Miss Dorothy Kirkpatrlck returned Sunday from a few days visit with friends in Camden. Mrs. Gertrude Harrigan came Sunday for an indefinite visit with friends here. Miss Dona Morrison spent Sunday with Miss Morna Newbern. Miss Grace and Ruth Murray entertained about forty of their young friends recently in honor of their cousin, Ward Wisenbaugh of Walkerton, Ind. The evening was spent in playing games. Refreshments were served. The crowd dispersed at a late hour all having enjoyed the evening. Msr. Allie Dowler entertained Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Charles McKee and daughter Mildred, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Miller and daughter Gladys. Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Mitchell visited relatives in New Hope Sunday. Misses Pauline and Eleanor Smith of Richmond, who have been visiting friends here the past week returned home Monday. CAMBRIDGE CITY. IND. Cambridge City, Ind., Aug. 11. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Penny and daughter, Jean, of Richmond, spent Sunday with friends In this city. Mr. and Mrs. Ora Dunbar of Centerville, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Link Eliason, Sunday. Olin Boyd and family of St. Louis, came Sunday night for a visit with Dr. H. B. Boyd and family. Mr. and Mrs. Will Ogborn spent Sunday with Dr. Druly of Centerville. Mrs. Boyce Rankin has as her guest her mother. Mrs. McPherson, of Wheeling, West Va. Mr. and Mrs. Glen Elliot, of Mobile, Ala., are in the city, called here by the illness of Mrs. Maria Elliot.

Mr. Charles Martz and daughter, Miss Blanche, of Olney, 111., are the guests of George Boden. The Wagner Reunion will be held in Jackson Park. Wednesday. Mrs. W. S. Sexton, Mrs. Harry Ruber and daughter of Hancock county, are visiting friends in this vicinity. Horace Huber of the Herron Art Institute came today to attend the Wagner reunion. Emll Ebert came over from Greenfield to spend Sunday with his family. Miss Bertha Coulter spent Sunday with friends in Richmond. Mrs. Charles Marson who has been

at the Methodist Hospital In Indianapolis for several weeks, came home Monday evening. Mr. and Mrs. John Calloway of Knightstown, spent Sunday with friends in this city. Mr. and Mrs. Omar Huddleson of Muncie, spent Sunday with friends here. Mrs. Huddleson will remain for several days. Mrs. Effie Bass, of Richmond, was the guest of Mrs. Mary Speed, Sunday. An Interesting meeting of the Jackson Township Sunday School Association was held in the Presbyterian church Sunday afternoon. The meeting was for the purpose of making arrangements to attend the County Sunday School Rally at the Chautauqua, at Richmond, on Aug. 22. Mr. Goodwin, Secretary of the Y. M. C. A. of Richmond, was present, and gave an Interesting talk. Much enthusiasm was aroused and Jackson township feels sure of a large delegation. Mr. Goodwin also spoke at the Presbyterian church in the evening.

GREENSFORK. IND. Greensfork, Ind., Aug. 11. A number from here attended the base ball game at Cambridge City, Sunday. Mrs. Lydia Bond of Bellview, Ohio, a former resident of this place, is visiting Miss Maria TJnderhill for a few days. Rev. William Laufman, pastor of the M. E. church at Traverse City, Mich., but a former resident of this place, died at his home there Saturday after a second amputation of his limb. Eli Cates, Sr., is convalescent. Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Reynolds of Williamsburg were guests of John Chapman and family, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. John Boyd of College Corner spent Sunday here. Mr. and Mrs. Harley Benbow and children of Hagerstown, were guests of Mrs. Ellen Fox, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Buntin have re turned to their home in Richmond aft er spending a week's vacation here. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Fagan and Mr. and Mrs. Bent Hatfield spent Sunday with friends in Connersville. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Davis, north of town have returned from a week's visit with relatives in Indianapolis. Mr. and Mrs. John Clawson and daughter autoed to Richmond, Sun day. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Allen of Hagers town, were guests of Fred Cain and family, Sunday. Mrs. David Foutz of Dunkirk, is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Will Roller, William Stackhouse of Cairo, 111., arrived here Sunday to attend the fu neral of his mother, Mrs. Philatha Stackhouse. Miss Mable Squires entertained the Thimble Club recently. Elmer Nicholson, living west of town has been quite sick for the past ten days. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bradway have returned to their home in Indianapolis after a week's visit with relatives here. Miss May Lamb who has been attending State Normal at Terre Haute, is spending her vacation at home. Miss Lucile Jones has returned from a visit with relatives at New Castle. A crowd of our young people picnicked west of town, Sunday. Mrs. William Hunt has returned to her home in Cambridge City after a several days' visit with relatives here. Mr. and Mrs. Dan Moore have returned from a visit at Modoc. MILTON. IND. Milton, Ind., Aug. 11. Rev. Mr. Caut, of Cadiz, O., preached at the Friends' church Sunday evening. He was visiting Milton Friends in the interest of a church paper. Milton Reds were flefeated at base ball Sunday when they played at Williamsburg. Score 12 to 10. The Milton Masonic lodge had work in the fellow craft Monday night. The series of meeting at the Methodist church at which ex-pastors participated was full of interest. The meeting closed Sunday night. Dr. and Mrs. Sweeney have returned from Ohio. Rev. W. F. Shearer of Angola, and Arthur Haley of Butler, Ind.. visite'd C. H. Calloway over Monday night. David Doddridge of Doddridge Chapel, spent Sunday with his daughter, Mrs. Frank Morris. Plasterers are at work on James Baker's remodeled house. The Jones - Elwell-Wilson party broke camp Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Sizelove entertained Monday evening. The guests were Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wallace, Mr. and Mrs. William Wallace, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ferguson, Misses Edna Wallace, Hazel Ferguson, Mr. Linville Ferguson. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wallace of Wabash were guests of honor at a dinner party at Frank Wallace's Tuesday. Other guests were Messrs. and Mesdames O. L. Beeson and William Walker. Marvin Wallace left Saturday for Butler, Montana, where he will resume his position In the faculty at the high school. Miss Dora Wallace is visiting friends In Indianapolis. Satisfaction. "Too bad about Disgman going wrong, isn't it?" "Yes, but I haven't been grieving mnch about It. My wife always held him up to me as a model." Detroit Tribune. A Comh.i Trait. "T bare noticed. says the Hon. Alex Appleby, "that everybody who has a tooth pulled say It was one of the most stubborn tbe dentist ever extracted. Kansas OKy Times. Tw Views. The Lover There is nothing sweeter than making up a lovers quarrel. Marited Cynic Wen, It's different after you're married. Tben it gaaerallj beans millinery. There is no medicine xv ease and at the same time so pleasant to take as Dr. Caldwell's Syrup rvpsm, ibv poBiuw cm cor iu cuveases aristae 1 . I- - MM a from stomach titrable. Tba nrio. i. .r

" INDIAN MARRIAGES. Peculiar Rite of the Hopi and th Navajo Tribe. Marriage among the Topi, a tribe of the Pueblo Indians, is an institution regarding which those most concerned have least to say. When the parents of a girl find It expedient for her to get married, they look up an available man and negotiate with his parents. After the matter has been arranged the principals are notified. The girl gos to the home of the groom's parents and grlnd3 corn for them for three weeks, while the groom makes a kind of sash for the bride. Then one morning at sunrise they both bathe their heads la cold water, which completes the ceremony. There have been instances of the groom's refusing to go through the performance, which has then proceeded without him and been accounted valid, and several weeks later be has yielded and had his head bathed. The Navajo ceremony is much more elaborate and Impressive, but then the Navajo girls are much nicer. The regular tariff on a Navajo girl entering the port of matrimony for the first time is twelve horses. On the second occasion the tax is nine horses, while subsequent entries are free. This is not purchase money, but Is merely a tribute of respect to a mother-in-law and a token of appreciation of the care and expense involved in bearing and rearing the lady, a recognition not unworthy of consldera tion by civilized grooms. On the other hand, and deserving of great condemnation, is that law of many tribes, unwritten, but of, much sanctity, that a man and his mother-in-law shall never meet after the" ceremony. A. W. Dimock in Outing Magazine.

Coral Islands. A coral island is sometimes torn to pieces by a great storm, showing that islands disappear in more ways than one. This happened to an atoll in the Marshall group in 1905, when It hap pened to be in the path of a terrible hurricane. Waves about forty feet high swept over the hapless speck of land, carrying every particle of ver dure and every form of life Into the sea, and not a human being was saved. The upper part of the coral was broken off and swept away, and a few days later nothing but the placid wa ters of the ocean was seen, where the atoll had stood. Music as Advertised. "Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming." with illustrated cover. "Trust Her Not," for 50 cents. "I Would Not Live Always." with out accompaniment. "See. the Conquering Hero Comes," with full orchestra. "There Was a Little Fisher Maiden," in three parts. "The Tale of a Swordfish," with many scales. 'Home. Sweet Home." In A fiat CURED HAY FEVER AND SUMMER COLD A. S. Nusbaum, Batesville, Indiana, writes: "Last year I suffered for three months with a summer cold so distressing that it interfered with my business. I had many of the symptoms of hay fever, and a doctor's prescription did not reach my case, and I took several medicines which seemed only to aggravate it. Fortunately I insisted upon having Foley's Honey and Tar. It quickly cured me. My wife has since used Foley's Honey and Tar with the same success. A. G. Luken & Co. UKAuo Wi A LIuffAHT. Sarcey's Fearfully Bad Luck With Custodians of His Books. Francisque Sarcey had a splendid library, of which he was very proud, and there are many stories told Id Paris about the singular fates, comic and tragic, that overtook the librarians who successively looked after the late critic's books. The first was a released convict, who pleaded that to be much among good books would reform him. Sarcey, pugnacious in print, was the kindliest ol men In practice. He yielded to the plea. Unfortunately his protege carried the ethical cure too far, for on day he decamped, taking with him the best of M. Sarcey's good books. The second was a distinctly minoi dramatist, Debrit by name and debris by nature. He had worn himself int an incurable melancholy by persistent addiction to the humorist vaudeville habit. Sarcey saw that abstinence from further composition could only be secured if the man had some light occupation with a living wage. He es tablished him in the vacancy left by the convict A few days later as the critic, returning from the theater, drew his carriage up before his door he heard a smash of shivered glass above him, followed a minute later by what he no longer dared to call a dull thud on the pavement below. The woe begone librarian, wearied of life, had thrown himself out of the window, With his last breath he cursed Sarcey as his murderer. Third in order was one Bernard, a gladsome youth, whose blithe tempera ment promised relief from the gloom cast, by his predecessor. In the height of his glee he pulled out all the books so as to rearrange them in more log leal order on the shelves. He stacked them in craggy pyramids all over the floor. But it happened to be the special day of the week whereon Sarcey was wont to have a few of his the atrical friends, male and female, tc lunch with him. After lunch a dance followed as a matter of course. Noth ing could dismay the librarian. He whisked the pyramids to four walls and Joined In the dance. Next day h: asked permission to go home and see his mother. He never returned. The pyramids had to be' sorted out by Sar cey's manservant and put pellmell oo the shelves again. The last librarian was Mile. Blouska, an elderly Polish maiden, who proved an Invaluable assistant until she perished miserably In the fire at the char ity ball in Pari. Thin men always get credit for work tng hard, though some of the laziest men we know are thin. Tat and lazy have been tacked together toe long. Because a man fo fat it does not follow that he is the last one in the ho ass I v tamtuur-a u.uw nf V. a .i a

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With GREAT CITIES. A Theory That Thr Are m Slaa e)f National Decadence. The distribution of manufactures in any country would be a most curious and Interesting subject of study. The first thing to stand out conspicuously in the investigation would be the gradual tendency toward concentration in the larger cities and the gradual recession of manufactures outside them. Certain sections of the country are full of decaying communities, once active, but from which the chief industries have been withdrawn. If investigation disclosed the fact that certain centers of manufacture had become such through the possession of pre-eminent natural advantages, such a condition would be easily explained; but, in fact, natural advantages have comparatively little to do-with the matter. A country consisting mainly of large cities with merely incidental rural population has taken a long step toward final disintegration. Moreover, even if actual disintegration is not imminent, there exists the curious and anomalous condition of a community in which the transportation and distribution of commodities are the predominant elements, in which producer and consumer stand at the ends of a long chain of intermediaries. It is bad enough in this respect even at present, but every step toward further concentration of industry and population makes it worse. No country In which the productive forces are steadily being subordinated to an intricate (and, upon the whole, wasteful) mechanism of distribution can long remain prosperous. Dr. Louis Bell in Engineering Magazine. IMPROVISED NITROGEN. What Happens When Lrddlte and Similar Compounds Explode. When left alone to its natural functions nitrogen pursues a perfectly peaceful course, but when man succeeds In capturing it and combining it with other elements It becomes a dire potentiality for evil. The love of freedom, so to speak, characteristic of nitrogen is terribly exemplified In the explosion of the bomb in which it is imprisoned and bound to other elements. On the slightest provocation a spark, a shock, a fuse the nitrogen suddenly expands from seemingly nothing as regards the space which It occupies Into infinity. This is in reality what happens when dynamite, lyddite or other unstable nitro compounds explode when hurled In shells in warfare and in bombs in desperate attacks on human lives. Nitrogen, against its natural disposition. Is locked up In an uncongenial space in these compounds, from which It is set free by very simple means In an enormously expanded gaseous state with deadly effect, returning, in fact, to Its normal peaceful mission once more. It is the analogue of the sword and the plowshare; in the nltro explosive nitrogen Is the modern engine of warfare and crime; In the free state in the atmosphere It ministers directly to the quiet and peacefnl needs of plant and human life. London Lancet. . .. . ;;Ce. "Evidently a Turkish bath is s scheme to keep one perpetually dirty' "I judge from what you say that you've never taken one." "No. but I've seen a Turk." Exchange. One of -the of the happy homes of to-day is a vast fund of information as to the best methods of promoting health and happiness and right living and knowledge of the world's best products. Products of actual excellence and reasonable claims truthfully presented and which have attained to world-wide acceptance through the' approval of the Well-informed of the World; not of individuals only, but of the many who have the happy faculty of selecting and obtaining the best the world affords. One of the products of that class, of known component parts, an Ethical remedy, approved by physicians and commended by the Well-informed of the World as a valuable and wholesome family laxative is the well-known Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna. To get its beneficial effects always buy the genuine, manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co., only, and for sale by all leading druggists.

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