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THE RICHMOND PAIXAD1U3I AND SUN-TELEOKA3I, WEDNESDAY, NOVE3IBER 25, 1908.'

HEW HONORS FOR" TIMOTHY NICHOLSON

Made President of the AntiSaloon League Yesterday. . HUBER ALSO GETS PLACE. PASTOR OF ST. PAUL'S LUTHERAN CHURCH ACTIVE TEMPERANCE WORKER NICHOLSON'S WORK IN INDIANA. The cervices of Timothy Nicholson, of this city, as a reformer, were yesterday fittingly recognized by his election as president of, the Indiana Anti-Saloon league. Mr. Nicholson was also made one of the trustees-at-large of the organization, as was the Rev. Conrad Huber, of this city, pastor of SL Paul's Lutheran church. Mr. Huber has been one of the most active reform leaders In eastern Indiana. Despite the fact that Mr. Nicholson Is 'well advanced in years, he Is still as active In his fight for reform as he was twenty years ago. He has been affectionately called by his many admirers, as the "Anthony Comstock of Indiana." Mr. Nicholson rendered the state valuable services In his successful efforts at Improving conditions in the prisons and other state institutions. He la now an active and efficient member of the national prison reform league. All bis life he has been an earnest temperance advocate and now, as the head of the state anti-saloon league, he will throw all his wonderful energy and enthusiasm In the work of driving the saloons out of the state. No doubt he will personally lead the fight the league will wage at the next meeting of the legislature to prevent the repeal of the county local option law. Member of the league feel that if they are successful in keeping this law on the statute books, it will only be a short time until every saloon in the state, with the exception of those located In Indianapolis and two or three of the other large cities, will be driven out, and Indiana converted Into temperance desert. Fair Co-Eds of Eariham Col- , tege Eat - Mysterious , . Things. TWO CLASSES ENTERTAIN. . An air of mystery surrounded the entertainment given last evening by the sophomore and junior chemistry classes at Eariham in honor of the extensive Improvements recently completed in the laboratory. In the various rooms of the building strange oriental mysteries were performed to the astonishment of the guests of the guests of the classes, especially the fair co-eds. In "alchemy alcove" with giggles of delight they supped a brew called ''alchemy punch." When they asked for the receipt they were informed that It could not be divulged as it had been mported from the orient secretly and at great expense. In the new quantitative laboratory the coeds posed for an alleged x ray photograph. They received Instead a card, written In ink which Is only visable When heated over a gas flame. telling (heir fortunes and what radi cular member of the football team they would marry. ' In the main labratory a chemical banquet was served. The menu was a most unique one and between courses the guests were entertained by 1. K. Fauquher, toastmaster and mirth manipulator; Claude Ullom, assistant smile coaxer; John Hancock, lord high dimple developer; J. II. Jones and Leslie Nanney. . American Kangeroo pie was served for the first time in the history of Indiana. This receipt was also sternly refused the coaxing co-eds. The viands were all served in chemical beakers, test tubes, evaporating dishes , and other similar vessels. After the banquet chemical stunts, Just imported from Persia, were performed to the astonishment of the onlookers. E CIRCLE TO BE INSTALLED Dayton Degree Team Comes Monday. The Protected Home Circle lodge of Sharon, Pa., will institute a local lodge In this city next Monday evening. The exercises will be held in Odd Fellow3 hall. The order will start here with a membership of forty; The Pritected Home" Circle is about twenty-two years old, with a membership of 8,000 In Indiana and a total membership of about 73,000. The local order is be ing Installed by O. A. Ross, district manager and organizer. Mr. Ross has heretofore made his headquarters at Marlon, Ind., but hereafter will make his headquarters In this city. State Manager G. A. Bussey, cf South Bend, will be here to assist in the Installation of the order. The Dayton degree team will be here -December 15 to confirm the rank.

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By Tort. Who Young Beel's "unknown Is. still remains a dark, grewsome mystery. Wonder if it's John L. Sullivan? Please tell us, Mr. Young Beel, the suspense is killing us. Perry Werden, the old base ball player and. coach for the Indianapolis team this year, says he has a Minneapolis policeman named. Gordon who, he thinks, can just naturally whip the wadding out of Charley Olson. Pull off the match here, Mr. Werden, If Indianapolis don't want it. Discussion will now follow as to who has a right to the championship. It is difficult to see how the Crimson claim can be discounted. The record is free of defeats. It includes nine victories and one tied game. Only eight points have been scored against the men from Cambridge. Annapolis tied them. Yale and Princeton are both out ot the reckoning, so are the Indians and the western teams. The only team that has any chance to dispute the Harvard claim is Penn, and a game between the two would LAST OF Old Richmond High School Football Team Meets Dayton, Thursday. BIG CROWD IS EXPECTED. By Tort. The last game of football to be seen in this city this season will be played Thursday afternoon at Athletic park. The game will be between the 1906 Steele high school team of Dayton and the 1906 Richmond high school team. These elevens were among the best that have ever represented their respective institutions and the game should be Intensely interesting. Both elevens have been practicing hard for the game and are now in as good condition as though they had been playing throughout the season. Many tickW hav been sold for this contest and It is quite probable there will be a large crowd present to watch the old rivals clash. The two teams will lineup as follows: Dayton Richmond Prick Silberman Left End Kimmel Schaefer Left Tackle Busch Murray Left Guard Coppock Karns Center Bush ....................... Hobson Right Guard Detmer Graves Right Tackle Shroyer Tallant Right End Deeter Dingley Quarter Fisher Allison Left Half Wise Cain Right Half Powers Metzger Full Back Powers will captain the Dayton Bunch. Graves will probably captain the locals as he was the captain of the i 1906 team. Karns. the local center, was the captain of the 1907 team, Murray, the local left guard, was manager of the 1906 team. TIE IN BUSINESS MEN'S BOWLING LEAGUE A's Step Up a Notch by Defeating C's. 8TANDING OF CLUBS. Won Lost D's.. 6 3 A's 8 4 B's 4 5 C's 3 9 Pet. .666 .666 .444 .255 Game Tonight. B's vs. D's. Winning three games last evening from the C's of the Business Men's league, the A's stepped up a notch, tielng with the D's for first place. The C's failed to show up at all like they were expected to, although several times during the contest they rallied. High scores were made by Hadley, 234, Nolte, 188 and Markley, 164 for the A's and Halsley, 185, King, 185 and Allen 182 for the C's. The score by games: A's..., 78 S 7S5 8002.373 C's 720 655 6582.033 MANSFIELD 10 PLAY WITH BROCKTON i Polo Player Leaves Today For the East. Mr. and Mrs. Ado Mansfield left this morning for Brockton, Mass., where they will spend the .winter. Ado will again play polo in the east, joining the squad managed by Fitzgerald on which the faithful old Barney Dougherty is half back. "Spot" is in the best condition and expects to start work as soon as he arrives at Brockton. mi"p1" Relieve sttruttwoach, palpitatioaof thefceart. Digests wnsxyeseaL

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undoubtedly be the greatest gridiron struggle of the year. Here is what the football expect on the Philadelphia North American ha3 to say of the Michigan eleven: "Michigan has not the class that Penn requires for an opponent in a big game. No critic, for instance, will rate the Red and Blue victory over the Wolverines as being on a plane with Yale's victory over Princeton or Harvard's victory over Yale. Just so long as Penn depends for athletic prestige on victories over an eleven that Syracuse was able to overwhelm, just so long will the coaches and players of the Red and Blue be deprived of the Just rewards of their skill and loyal service to their college. Michigan well deserves a place in the schedule. The relations between) the two colleges are a model of what! they should be. But Michigan is not of stature for big game yet. Only Yale, Harvard, or Princeton can fill the bill, and every effort commensurate with maintaining Penn's dignity should be made to get one of the trio for next year." Unusually Large Number of Star Basket Ball Players at Eariham. REGULAR PRACTICE HELD. The prospects for a winning basket ball team at Eariham are at present exceedingly bright. Every candidate is working regularly and willingly with the one ambition in mind, to make the varsity. The only two men of last year's squad who are unable to be on the floor are "Mike" Harrell and Hancock, who are just at present laid up with bad knees as a result of football, but who will be "as good as new" by the time the first game is pulled off. "Artie" Hotchkiss, the varsity's regular forward and mainstay, is in fine condition and finds it almost impossible to miss the goal. White, Lindley, Overman and Swain, all of last year's squad, are working faithfully to land the pivotal position. Neither is at all certain which one will get the job as they are all playing a very fast and aggressive game. Conrad, of last year's squad, is in good condition. Among the new men who are showing up to great advantage are Tibbets, Furnas, Cornell and Rees. Tebbets was a regular man on the '7-"08 Whittier college team of California, and is playing in good form. H. Furnas is a Shortridge High School product. He is a fierce and determined guard, and will 1 ntlme make a regular place for himself on the team. Cornell was a regular eager on the Darlington High School team of last year and is a player of no mean ability. Rees was one of the star men on the Rochester High school team, which won the Northern Indiana High School championship. Manager J. Jones has not as yet succeeded in completing the schedule, but up to date the following games have been booked: Jan. 15, opening game at Richmond. January 22, Wilmington at Wilmington. Jan. 2, St. Mary's at Richmond. Jan. 30, Miami at Oxford. Feb. 5, Open. Feb. 12, Watash at Richmond. Feb. 1, Open. Feb. 26, Open. - ' March 5, DePauw at Richmond. The management has also been corresponding with Notre Dame and in all probability a game will be arranged with the Catholics, to be played here some time in February. Turkey, Oysters, Celery and plenty of good things to eat at the Westcott Cafe, Thanksgiving Eve. 24-2t PRAISES FOOTBALL President Kelly of Eariham College. Comments on Quakers' Season. "E's" AWARDED TODAY. At chapel services held this morning at Eariham college, President R. L. Kelly praised football a rare thing for college presidents to do now dayscongratulated the members of the team for the determined spirit they showed in the last game of the season. He said this spirit was all the more praiseworthy because at the beginning of the season the squad was the most promising in the history of the college then the hopes of winning the secondary football championship of the state had been rudely dashed to earth by a series of accidents, which put nearly all the star players out of the game. After President Kelly's address the varsity "E" was awarded to eleven members of the team and these gridiron heroes were enthusiastically cheered by the students. ' DAUGHTER IS BORN. News has been received by Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Dingley, east of the city, that the stork paid a visit to the home of their son, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Dingley at Camden, N. J. and left a bouncing baby girL Mr. Dingley is well known in Richmond, having graduated from the high school and the Business College. He Is at present with the Victor Talking Machine company at

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PAPKE-KETCHELBOUT Battle Between Two Great Middleweight Pugilists Attracts Interest

IT SHOULD BE A HUMMER. By THOMAS F. CLARK. Right now the one big topic among the enthusiasts of the prize ring is the third Papke-Ketchel battle in San Francisco Nov. ZZ. and, while it is the opinion of many that Papke will prove the victor, the friends of Ketchel declare that the latter will carry off the honors. ,Q Papke.s favor howeVer, as his op-1 ponent is a big man and can hardly I train below 160 pounds and be strong enough to battle with such a tough proposition as the champion has proved himself to be. The match will be a twenty round affair. Ketchel has whipped Papke once, and Papke has soundly thrashed Ketchel in return. This third meeting between the two mlddlewelghts is in the nature of a "rubber," and another desperate encounter is looked for when these two determined youngsters come together. Seldom if ever was a man more hopelessy beaten up in the ring than was Stanley Ketchel w.hen he gave up his middleweight . crown to Fapke in Los Angeles recently. The Illinois man administered such a terrible whipping to the defeated champion that the latter had to be led from the arena in an almost totally blind condition. Since that defeat Ketchel has taken a long rest. He has been in the mountains building himself up into such physical condition that he may regain his lost title from Fapke. Ketchel's climb up the pugilistic ladder has been over the thorny path. His debut was made In Butte, Mont., about three years ago, and Stanley was well trimmed. .However, he was game and came back for more, his next match being with young Pecore. Ketchel and Pecore battled It out as a preliminary to the Young Corbett-Mau-rlce Thompson fight, Ketchel getting the decision by a shade. At that stage of the game Ketchel was hailed as a dub and was generally scoffed at, but without giving any attention to the remarks he secured another match, this time with Jerry McCarthy, who fought Honey Mellody for the welterweight title. Ketchel knocked out McCarthy and afterward applied the sleep tap to a number of other ring celebrities. For more than a year Ketchel met all comers at the Casino, Butte, traveling four rounds each night for small purses. Finally he journeyed to CallM. m.-. . so:: !& "i tarf- ft TIP BTAXLXX KETCHEL, WHO IS TO MEET BILLX PA.PKK. fornia and mixed with some of the sturdier onee, eventually going against Joe Thomas, at that time the welterweight champion, and getting a draw. The fight, of course, gave Ketchel a big reputation, and Thomas was forced to give him a second match. This time Thomas was counted out in the thirty-second round. Subsequently the pair met for the third time, when the Montana man repeated his success. In Ketchel's next big fight he knocked out Mike ("Twin") Sullivan in less than a round. He was challenged by Jack ("Twin") Sullivan, a brother of "Twin" Mike. Jack went the way of his brother, although it took Stanley f.venty rounds to knock him out He then defeated Hugo Kelly in three rounds. Ketchel and Papke first met in Milwaukee, and the former was awarded the decision. In his last bout Ketchel was decisively beaten by Papke after a terrific battle. Bill Papke, the Illinois cyclone and middleweight champion of the world, first began fighting Nov. 26, 1906. For his first bout he received $40 for engaging in a limited round fight with the Mexican Wonder. He made short work of the Mexican Wonder, putting him out in four rounds. This victory gave him confidence, and be started out to make his living as a pugilist. His next battle was with Red Morriasey, whom he put away In three rounds. Since then Papke has been going right along th line meeting all the fighters that were willing to take him on. 6ince Papke began fighting he baa engaged In thirty battles, twenty ef which he has won by knockouts, fought four draws and was awarded the decision in six others. HAS TYPHOID. John Robbins, the well known attorney, is unable to attend to his duties on account of an attack of typhoid fever. For some time Mr. Robbins has been 111 but not until yesterday was 11 pronounced typhoid by his physician. The only flour I ever had any luck with U GolcPMed&J Flour. Lccwda.

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Women Charge Humbuggery Complaint Made to Police of Methods Used by Picture Frame Agent Who Is Now Working in This City.

The operations of a picture frame fakir in this city were reported to the police today. In every case the victims of the man are women. He calls at the homes and when confronted by the woman of the house he produces a bunch of envelopes and tells her to draw one, no expense, he tells her if she draws an envelope with a coupon in it the company he represents will enlarge any photograph she has absolutely free of charge. So far as known there is no envelopes with blanks in them. After the drawing occurs the agent receives a photograph. In nearly every case, one highly valued by the housewife, and tells his victim that he will send her a proof of the enlarged photograph, which, when completed, will be handsomely tinted and mounted on metal. At the appointed time the fakir returns to the home of his victim and shows her the proof. In every case TRAPPED IT SEA; MANY LOSE LIVES Majority of Two Hundred Passengers on Liner Sardinia Are Drowned. STEAMER CAUGHT FIRE. MANY JUMPED OVERBOARD AND THIRTY BODIES HAVE ALREADY BEEN WASHED ASHORE VESSEL FINALLY BEACHED. London, Nov. 25. Reports from Malta, in the Mediterranean, state that many of the two hundred passengers on the Liverpool liner, Sardinia, lost their lives when the steamer caught fire a mile from short and finally was beached. Many passengers leaped overboard, but It is uncertain how many were drowned. The number of deaths lis said to be very large. Thirty bodies have already been washed ashore. All the passengers were Egyptians. The steamer had a crew of forty. GOLD COINS HIDDEN IN RAGHND COOS Eccentric Bachelor's Fortune Was $2,000. Lebanon, O., Two thousand dollars in gold coins were found today wrapped in a rag and hid in corn cobs at the home of David Slayback, an eccentric bachelor who was found dead Saturday. MOVEMENT GROWS Socialist Organizer Comes Friday. An address will be delivered Friday evening by Walter Millard, state organizer of the socialist party, at the hall over 511 Main street. The socialist movement seems to be growing in this locality and a good sized audience is expected. THE GUILLOTINE. It Was Net Invented by. the Man Whose Name It Bears. In a book published by Hector Flelschman in Germany the story of the origin of the Instrument of execution which was named for Dr. Guillotin in the days of the reign of terror is flatly denied. "There is no truth In the story, so long believed," he says, "that the genial old physician Invented the machine which was named for him and by means of which he is said to have lost his life shortly after its adoption. GuilloUn, In keeping with the spirit of his time, proposed on Oct. 10, 1789, that all offenders, regardless of their birth or station, should be dealt with alike by the law, and six months later he proposed to the government that convicted murderers should be beheaded by means of a simple apparatus. The mechanism of which he and no one else had any Idea at that time was spoken of as the 'simple apparatus' by the humorists of the day, and the phrase was used to make its proposer ridiculous, so that when a machine finally was adopted the wits of the time named it guillotine. The government, evidently recegnlxing the value of the suggestion, asked one Antolne Louis, a surgeon at the Salpetrlere, to devise a machine and later gave a similar order to a carpenter by the name of Guidon, who offered to construct an Instrument for decapitation for 5,660 Uvres. This was considered too high a price, and the contract was given to a German cabinetmaker by the name of Tobias Schmidt, who received 824 livres for the accepted model In 1792. Schmidt made guillotines for all the provinces, and the Industry brought him a moderate fortune, which he proceeded to squander in Paris, while Dr. Gufllotin, who never had anything to do with the making of a machine which bore his name, continued to practice his profession quietly and nncetentaOoosly In Paris until he died there en March' 2S.iai4."

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the work is said to be good and attracts the housewife. The agent then tells her that the finished enlargement and the original photograph will be returned to her provided she places an order with him to have the enlarged photograph mounted in a frame, the cheapest of which costs $3.95. It's then up to the housewife to order a frame that is if she wants to get her original and highly prized photograph returned. Two years ago practically the same scheme was worked successfully in this city. An effort was made to prevent the picture frames from being imported into the city from Chicago, where they were made, claiming they had been sold in violation of the city peddling ordinance. This effort was unsuccessful, however, as it was discovered that if the frames were prohibited from being delivered in this city, the city would have been liable for damages for violation of the interstate commerce law.

COURT HELD THEN MOB HANGS HEMES Blacks Found Guilty and Were Sentenced to Death by Tennessee Court. VICTIMS KILLED DEPUTY. HAD DISTURBED A RELIGIOUS MEETING AND WERE FLEEING WHEN PURSUER WAS SLAIN QUICK JUSTICE DEMANDED. Union City, Tenn., Nov. 25. While a mob of several hundred persona waited outside. Justice of the Peace Lee Davis of Tiptonville, Tuesday has tily organized his court, selected a Jury, and began the trial of three ne groes accused of murder. Less than an hour afterwards the Jury decided the blacks were guilty, they were sentenced to death, and turned over to the mob, which quickly hanged them to a near by tree. The hurry-up trial was the result of the plea by some of the cooler headed citizens. While the mob sur rounded the Jail In the afternoon they mounted the steps and pleaded that the negroes be given a trial. A moth er of one of the victims asked delay in the lynching until night. There was no hope of preventing a lynching had the crowd been forced to wait ov er night, and Justice of the Peace Davis was asked to take this unpre cedented course of action. Militia Had Just Gone. Tiptonville had Just been em n tied of the militia, which has been on duty there for the greater Dart of the month following the lynching of Capt yuentin Rankin by night riders. Three Victims Are Brothers. The victims of today's raDid iustice were Marshall, Edward, and James Stineback, brothers. The three creat ed a disturbance at a religious meet ing near Tiptonville on Saturdav. Deputy SherlfTs Richard Burrows and John Hall attempted to arrest them and a fight followed. Burrows was killed In the melee and his companion was fatally inlured The negroes took to the woods and a posse of whites started m pursuit At 8 o clock yesterday morning the blacks were surrounded in a swamp near the village of Ridgely. HEW CHURCH LIKELY Quarterly Meeting May Es tablish Friends' Church In West Richmond. COMMITTEE MAKES REPORT The proposed establishment of a Friends meeting place In West Richmond depends on the action to be taken by the quarterly meeting. There are many West Richmond citizens, who are not members of the Friends denomination but In the absence of churches of their own creed, have de clared they will attend services at the Friends church if it be established. The committee that has been investigating the matter reported favorab ly at the adjourned meeting of the Whitewater Monthly meeting in ses sion at the East Main Street Friends church yesterday afternoon. As the outcome of the visit of Bpecial committee to Dayton, Ohio, it has been regarded as advisable to in stall a church of the Friends denom inatlon in that city. At present there is a congregation of fifty members that meets independently. It has pe titioned the local meetings for recog nitlon and probably will attain its desired end. At present services are held every Sunday. The services are conducted by Prof. Murray Ken worthy of Eariham college.. THANKSGIVING SERVICE. Ftrst church of Christ Scientist will hre a Tfeankagivlng service in the Masonic temple tomorrow morning at 10:45 o'clock. Subject: Thanksgiv ing." The public Is Invited to attend.

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WILLING WITNESS Official of Standard Oil Com pany Handled With Gloves Today. ROCKEFELLER "LIED." ROCKEFELLER MIXED UP IN HIS STATEMENTS. BECOMES CONFUSED AND COMES NEAR TO SQUIRMING. New York, Nov. 25. John D. Archbold" was a willing witness In the Standard Oil investigation today, heins handled with silken gloves by the Standard's lawyers under whose ques tioning he related how the Standard had worked hard for the development of the system for the benefit of the producers. The "shorter and uglier" word is avoided in court, but Frank B. Kellogg made some appalling references to it In the Standard Oil hearing, and in the face of John D. Rockefeller on the wit ness stand yesterday afternoon. Mr. Rockefeller had sworn here on his direct examination to the purchase of certain' concerns in the "70s and their union in a working trust under the first trust agreement of 187ft. He had gone specifically into the purchases on the direct examination, and had repeated his testimony on earlier cross examination, and was tied hand and foot by It Mr. Kellogg sprung upon-him an af fidavit wheh he, Mr. Rockefeller, had made in 1SSO in an Ohio suit in which Mr. Rockefeller swore to the court that the Standard Oil company did not own the peel no concerns, naming them, which a day or two ago he swore the company through lbs shareholders did own and control and which were listed In the 1870 agreement Mr. Rockefeller came as near to squirming as It appears to be possible for him to do. He even essayed explanations which didn't explain, for there before him were two of his own 1 statements under oath bearing upon the same state of facta and la direct contradiction of each other. CUPID AT WORK; FIVEMARRIAGES Thanksgiving Season Seems To Be Popular. Cupid has been busily at work In the county during the past few days and today five marriage licenses were issued by the county clerk. The Thanksgiving period seems to be popular among the matrimonially inclined. The following licenses were issued: Clarence Oler, Williamsburg and Pearl Edwards, Economy. . Earl Stewart and Naomi Wilkinson, both of Hagerstown. Evan Jos. Smith and Veronica Laughlin, both of Richmond. George W. Shook and Bertha Benton, Fountain City. Edwaln Ammerman and Margaret Pennekamp, both of Richmond. PAYING FOR A MEAL It Was Worth About m hilling t Pick ThoM Bona. Colonel Ebenerer Sproat ef Revolutionary fame was born and bred In Mlddlebero, Mass. He was always fond of a Joke and was quick to seize an opportunity to Indulge his propensity, as the foDowIag Incident lUnstrstes. His father, also a Colonel Sproat, kept a tavern. One day while Ebenecer was at home on a furlough three private soldiers, on their return from the seat of war, called for a cold luncheon. Mrs. Sproat set en the table some bread and cheese with the remnants of the family dinner, which her son thought rather scanty fare for hungry men. He felt a little vexed that the defenders of the country were not more bountifully supplied. The soldiers, sfter satisfying their appetites, asked him hew much they should psy. Ebenezer said be would ask his mother. He found her In the kitchen. "Mother." he said, "how much Is tl worth to pick those bones?" "About a shilling. I guess," she answered. The young officer returned to the soldiers and, taking from the barroom till 3 shillings snd smiling genially upon them, gave each man one and with good wishes sent them on their way. Mrs. Sproat soon after came in and asked Ebenezer what he had done with the money for the soldiers' dinner. In apparent amazement he exclaimed: "Money! Did I not ssk you what it was worth to pick those bones, snd yon said a shilling? I thought It little enough, for the bones were pretty bare, and I banded the men the money from the tin. and they are gone." Mrs. Sproat could not find heart to reprove her favorite son for this misinterpretation of her words, and then she, too, loved a Joke, and so. after an instants glum look, she langbed and said it was an right. Had 8een Them All Befere. Once while James Whitcomb Riley was visiting a town where he wrs booked to give a reading a committee called to take him In a carriage over the city. In acknowledgijag the com- -pliment he said: "111 go with you, gentlemen, provided yon promise that yon will not show me the new courthouse, the new town r nalL the new bridge, the new school ' building and the new JaiL for I've seen them all a hundred times In as many ' towns, and they Invariably wear me' out before the time arrives for the' curtain to rise on the evening en tax-' talnmenL" '