Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 33, Number 188, 21 August 1908 — Page 3

THE RICIIMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRA3I, FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 1908.

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INDIANA

SLATED THERE Betting Boards in Capital City Indicate This State Is Not Certain Property for Either Party. ' BRYAN IS NOW REGARDED AS AMONG THOSE BEATEN. Situation in Marion County of Great Consolation to Democrats, Who Expect Same Conditions Elsewhere. (Special Correspondence) Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 21. If the betting boards In the capital city indicate anything, Indiana Is very much In the doubtful list for the fall election. A tour of the places where betting boards are maintained showed that there are no odds offered on anything but combination bets. Even bets are posted that Taft will carry Indiana but that Watson will not carry Marlon county. Another combination bet is that Marshall will carry Marion coun ty, but lose the state. Another is that Kern will run behind Marshall, but will not carry the state. All these s bets-are at even money. Few of them have been taken and there seems to be little interest in the offers. Straight bets with odds are always more at tractive than those of a combination sort but they are not yet in sight Marlon county seems to be the ker nel that is hard to crack The recent scandals in county affairs have un doubtedly hurt the republicans, but when It Is taken into consideration that the county Is normally republican, and that by from 2,000 to 4,000, it is hard to see where the democratic managers find all their comfort In a situation that the republicans, are not as a party to blame. The republicans have been even more Insistent on the prosecution of the rascals than the democrats, who have held back quietly hoping to reap political capital. Not a bet has been posted bearing on the outcome in the district, and there seems little doubt of Overstreet's reelection. Nor has a single offer appeared with Bryan on the long end. In fact, the offers do not show any interest favorable to Bryan, at even money or In combination bets.v Only one impression is given by the betting boards that Indiana is looked upon as doubtful, and all because of Marion county. The republican managers are working hard to poll the party's full strength in the county, and with two full months ahead, there seems ample time to straighten things out. At any xate, the democrats will know that they have been in a fight if they should succeed In carrying Marion county. HAMS! HAMS! Have just taken out of Smoke House a large and choice lot of Hams ranging in size from 12 to 25 lbs. JWU1 sell the small ones at 15c lb., large ones at 14c lb. Cut the large Dnes In half for same price for you. Schwegman's Meat Markets, I8&21 Phone 2204 & 1084. Vivisection. Experiments ou living animals were made by Galen (A. D. 175) and by the Greek Alexandrian school and were regarded as a valuable source of knowledge until the breakup of the Roman empire. In modern times vivisection may be said to have begun with the experiments of Dr. William Harvey (165S) and Dr. John Hunter (1730). Vivisection has been more or less generally practiced since the beginning of the nineteenth century, though very often under protest of the various societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals.

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Gets Message From Lord and Destroys His Tobacco Crop

West Elkton, O., Aug. 21. "It is wrong to grow tobacco." This was the message John Avery of near West Elkton received from the Lord, so he claims, and he immediately proceeded to destroy a fine crop covering almost four acres. He first run over the ground with a spring toothed harrow, then put on a drag and lastly used a corn plow, thus SHOEMAKER TO DELIVER SERMON Will Speak at Hagerstown on Temperance. Hagerstown, Aug. 21. E. S. Shoemaker, superintendent of the Indiana Anti-saloon League, will speak at the M. E. church next Sunday evening. Since the temperance Issue is In the limelight in state politics this year, it is predicted that the church will b filled on the occasion. HIS NINE CHEESES. An Old Time New England Story of a Stingy Parson. Anecdotes in whka the mean and grasping man is outwitted or held up to ridicule are popular everywhere and always. Few ancient towns are without their historic or traditional Instances of stinginess punished or sharp practice defeated. In one village of New England, says the Youth's Companion, there is still current such a tale concerning an unpopular parson of more than a century ago. Although a learned man of Impressive manners, this clergyman was noted for undue reluctance to expend and readiness to acquire. He had a habit of pleading poverty and hinting for gifts. The parish, although with some murmuring, had responded with fuel for his kitchen, hay for his horse. Thanksgiving turkeys for his table and a "subscription cloak" of black satin for his wife when her wedding manteau became shabby. The murmurs increased when it was found that the parson turned an honest but overshrewd penny by selling Instead of using many of these donations. But they were not loud enough to disturb his stately calm, and he went bis way without condescending to notice them. At last, however, fortune played him trick for trick. One pleasant winter day he made a round of calls, and at each house, when just about to leave, he casually asked his hostess if she could let Dim have a little piece of cheese, as his wife happened to huve none in the house and, unexpected company had arrived. In each case the good housewife. Instead of a little piece, generously presented him with a whole cheese, which he graciously accepted. As he turned from the door stone at the close of the last visit, while the mother of the family and her brood of nine children stood politely gathered to watch him drive away, he carelessly pulled the wrong rein, the sleigh tipped sharply on a drift, and out from under the ministerial lap robe rolled nine larje cheeses, which spun friskly away In all directions on the icy crust His hostess understood the situation at a glance. "Don't disturb yourself, pray, sir," she said politely as he made a motion to descend. "It is quite unnecessary. The children will gather them up, and none will be overburdened or will there be any quarreling for the privilege. See; it is just a cheese to a child." So it was, and the embarrassed parson, unable to escape, was obliged to receive back his cheeses, with due thanks to each giggling volunteer as they came up in gleeful procession one by one. Too well he knew that by the next day the whole parish would be laughing at his misadventure, although he could scarcely" have guessed that the joke would be recalled a hundred years later. Nature's Cunning. Protective mimicry, that cunning device of nature to preserve animals from their enemies, is well known in the eggs of certain fishes, notably the California shark, known as Gyropleurodus francisci. The shark Is of a sluggish habit, lurking among rocks, and its dark egg resembles a leaf of kelp or seaweed folded up spirally. It is deposited among the beds of kelp and clings to the leaves by the edges of the spirals. The young shark bursts I open the end of the egg apd swims away. Another shark's egg of the Pacific coast has tentacles which clasp the 6eaveed and also imitate its appearance. Mozart and Bretzner. When Mozart was at the height of his fame he composed the music of Bretzner's ."Belmont und Konstanze" ("The Abduction FroSi the Seraglio") at the request of Emperor Joseph II. The author of the drama was so angry at this that he inserted the following notice in the Leipssiger Zeitung: "A certain fellow of the name of Mozart has dared to misuse my drama. 'Belmont und Konstanze. for an opera text. I hereby solemnly protest against this invasion of my rights, -and 1 reserve to myself further procedures. (Signed) Christoph Friedricn Bretzner, Author of 'IiaiiRch-chen.' " Long Necked Bellow, Eastern standards of beauty differ, like the customs, from those of the west. In Malacca, we are told, the small waist and velvet eyes do not count, but instead the length of the neck is the criterion of beanty. The girl of Malacca at a very early age is fitted with a metal collar, which compels her to keep her head erect, and as she grows the collar is Increased in size, and by this means the neck is gradually elongate-

destroying every vestige of the crop. The tobacco was more than an average crop for this year. It would have commanded a good price. Mrs. Avery is helpless almost, there are several children and the family needs the money. Avery said he once wrestled with the Jjord about tobacco growing and he defeated the Lord. This time however, God gained the victory.

IS GRANTED A PATENT F. E. Buston Has Improved Style of Journal Box. The following list of patents recently issued to Indiana inventors, is fur nished by Patent Attorney F. L. Walk er, Reibold Bldg., Dayton, Ohio. F. E. Buston, Richmond, adjustable journal box; W. G. Clark, Terre Haute, drier drain system; E. Diester, Fort Wayne, ore concentrating table; J. J. Dickson, Indianapolis, fencing fastener for fence posts; D. C. Edmon son, Evansville, freight car door and hanger; J. P. Gilmour, Terre Haute, coal mining machine; G. Hollandsworth, New Castle, grinding machine; I. O. Russell, Indianapolis, door hanger; G. H. Thayer, Jr., Plymouth, hy drocarbon burner; L. Tinsley, Crawfordsville, wall bracket for electric conductors. A BROKEN PANE OF GLASS. One That Once Cost Citizen George Francis Train $60,000. A broken window pane once cost George Francis Train more than $G0,000. It was this way: Citizen Train, "with the brains of twenty men in bis head, all pulling different ways," went to Omaha in the spring of 1864. At that time he was the most talked of man in America. He had not a thing but money. He bought 5,000 city lots and altogether spent several hundred thousand dollars. He boarded at the Herndon House, the best hotel in sight. The quixotic Train was regular in only one thing his habits. He always oc cupied the same seat at the table. One morning a pane of glass was broken out of a window directly behind his chair. He protested and was advised to change his seat. He would not. In stead he paid a servant 10 cents a minute to stand between him and the draft After breakfast he expostulated with the landlord, but received no sat isfaction. "Never mind," said Train. "In sixty days I will build a hotel that will ruin your business." And he did. The contract was let that day. Scores of men were put to work. The site selected was Ninth and Harney streets, near the Missouri river. Citizen Train went to New "York and engaged Colonel Cozzens, a noted caterer of that city, as manager for his hotel. The building alone cost $40,000. The furnishings cost $20,000 more. In the basement watt a gas plant, the only one west of St. Louis. The work was done on time, and, true to his word, sixty days after he threatened the manager of the Herndon House George Francis Train, citizen of the earth, opened his hotel, which he called the Cozzens House. The grand openin ball was attended by the governor of Nebraska and his staff, the mayor of Omaha and many notables from other states. The house was a blaze of glory and a scene of almost oriental magnificence. Just when the big reception was well on there was a sudden flash. a strange noise, and then total darkness! The gas plant bad collapsed. The Cozzens House did a flourishing business for a year or two, and the Herndon House was badly crippled. Finally Train fell out with his manager, and the place was closed. After the business part of Omaha moved back from the river the Herndon House declined and finally relapsed into a state of innocuous desuetude. A few years later it became the property of the Union Pacific railroad. V00D00 DOCTORS. Belief ef Negroes In Their Ability to Work "Spells." A well educated and clever negro In Philadelphia related, with obvious sincerity, an experience of his own with a famous voodoo "doctor" of that city who had grown jrich from his wizardry. "Once a person had a writ out against me," this negro said. "The constable had it. The magistrate was set against me. I went and got a charm from the 'doctor.' I met my enemy, but I was not seen. I met the constable, and he walked by and never noticed ae. The magistrate did what he had never done before forgot all about it The voodoo stopped it all." This s-ime negro related another In cident of his experience "Once I was nearly killed by a voodoo black cat, which used to come into the house. I threw a stick and hit it. It was a witch. It tormented me. I was ridden in dreams like a horse. I suffered terribly. I was dying. I went to the voodoo 'doctor.' I paid him $of for a spelL That night I awoke. The window was open; the moon was shining. I saw the little black witch hovering up and down there. She was smaller than In her own body. She wore n very big. old fashioned bonnet Her face was like that of the cat But she did not come any closer to me. Then she faded away. That ended it." The belief is prevalent among the negroes that witches have power to assume the forms of various animals. In South Carolina a means employed to guard against such visitations is to scatter rice or similar small grains thickly over the floor in the form of a cross. Before the witch can approach her victim she must devour every grain. This task is too tedious for her patience, and she takes herself off. Marvin Dana in Metropolitan Maga-

TRIALS FOR ANIMALS

Curious Custom That Prevailed In the Middle Ages. PROSECUTED FOR HOMICIDE. A Bull That Killed a Man Found Guilty, Sentenced to Death and Executed Fate of a Cock That Was Charged With Having Laid an Egg. Among the many curious customs of the past is recorded a singular feature of the jurisprudence of the middle ages, when animals were indicted for injuries inflicted upon human beings. The custom was not abolished in France until the middle of the eighteenth century, and the French eourt records show that at least niuety-two trials took place between 1120 and 1741. There is some Biblical precedent for these proceedings, for in the twentyfirst chapter of Exodus one finds, "If an ox gore a man or a woman that they die, then the ox shall be stoned and his flesh shall not be eaten." An early instance of the custom was in 1314, when a bull escaped from a farmyard in a village in France in the duchv of Valols and gored a man to death. The Count of Valois, being informed of the case, directed that the bull be captured and formally prose- . cuted for homicide. This was doue. and evidence was given by persons who had seen the man attacked and killed. The bull was thereupon sentenced to suffer death, which was inflicted by strangulation, after which the carcass was suspended from a tree by the hind legs. In 138G a sow was executed in the square of Falaise for having caused the death of a child, and three years later a horse was condemued to death at Dijon for having killed a man. In 1457 a sow and ber six young ones were tried at Lavegny on the charge of having killed aud partially eaten a child. The sow was convicted and condemned to death, but the little ones were acquitted on the ground of their extreme youth and inexperience, the bad example of their mother and the absence of direct evidence of their having partaken of the atrocious feast One of the most grotesque of the3e trials took place in Basel when a farmyard cock was tried on the ab surd charee of having laid an egg. It was contended in support of the prosecution that eggs laid by cocks were of inestimable worth for use in certalD magical preparations, that a sorcerer would rather possess a cock's egg than the elixir of life and that Satan employed witches to hatch such eggs, from which proceeded winged serpent! most dangerous to mankind. The prisoner's advocate admitted the facts of the case, but contended that no evil intention had been proved and that no evil result had taken place. Besides, the laying of an egg was an involuntary act and as such was not punishable by law; also there was no record of the devil having made a compact with an animal. The public prosecutor stated in reply that the evil one sometimes entered into animals, as In the case of the swine which drowned themselves in the sea of Galilee. So the poor creature was convicted not as a cock, but as a sorcerer or perhaps the devil in the form of a cock, whereupon the bird and the egg thai was attributed to it were solemnly burned at the stake. Even stranger than this were the proceedings instituted in 1445 and 1487 against certain beetles which had made havoc in the vineyards of St. Julian. Advocates were named on behalf of the vine growers and the beetles respectively, but by a singular coincidence the insects disappeared when cited to answer for the mischief they had done, and the proceedings were in consequence abandoned. That was In 1445. In 1487, however, they reappeared, and a complaint was thereupon addressed to the vicar general of the bishop of Maurienne, who named a judge and also an advocate to represent the beetles. A compromise was finally agreed upon, wherein the vine growers consented to cede the beetles certain fields to their exclusive use. Some time after the beetles, through their attorney, protested that there was a right of way through these fields which would be to their detriment Consequently the case had to begin again, but how it ended Is not known, owing to the mutilation of the records. F. C. Evans in New York Post Lotteries. ' The first scheme for the distributor of prizes by chance in modern times Is generally attributed to one Bene detto Gentile of Genoa, who establish ed his lottery In 1620. The proper lot tery, In which each person takes par' by means of tickets costing each t fixed sum of money, had its origin it more ancient times, being known ever In the middle ages. Such a lotterj was established at Florence as earlj as 1530. New York American. Ladylike. "You say you acted like a perfect lady throughout?" 'Sure, yer honor. When he tips his hat to me an me nol knowin' him. I ups with a rock an caves in his face." Houston Post Habit. Action repeated becomes habit Habit long continued becomes second nature. We are today what we wen accustomed to do yesterday and thf day before. Lyman Abbott. Evil comes by talking of it Irisr Proverb. D 0 Thin People Get Fleshy Fleshy People Get Normal Blackburn's n They Aid Assimilation They Cleanse and Purify. 0

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BADLY DISAPPOINTED He and His Sweetheart Refused a Marriage License. Eaton. O., Aug. 21. A young couple was refused a marriage license at the probate judge's office on the ground that the young lady was not a resident of this county. Whiie the man said he hailed from Richmond the lady claimed to be from Westville, this county. On close questioning, however, the young lady was unable to give a satisfactory, story of her residence thefe, so the license was refused, much to the bitter disappointment to both herself and her lover. Mrs. Dowager ideulern-So you made it no trumps. Where are your diamonds? Mrs. Gaylife (dummy) I hate to tell you. Brooklyn Life.

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districts so that each district No. 8. North of Main, East of North 7th street. South of Penna. R. R., and west of N. 12th street No. 9. North of Main. East of North 12lh street. South of Fenna R. R. to Corporation line. No. 10. North of Railroad. Eat of River to Corporation lines. District 200 Votes late will be inserted following day. Pennsylvania LINES CMcago Excursion Next Sunday $3.00 round trip from Richmond. Train leaves 2 a. m. Pennsylvania Cincinnati Excursion Next Sunday 11.25 round trip from Richmond. Leave at 7 a. m.