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THE RICHMOND PAL LADIU3I AjXD SUN-TELEGRAM, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1908.

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me mcnmona ranaaium anu oim-ii'ityiaiii Published and owned by th PALLA DIUM PRINTING CO. Issued 7 days each, week, evenings and Sunday morning. Office Corner North 9th and A streets. Home Phone 1121. RICHMOND, INDIANA. Rudolph G. Ied Managing- Editor. Charlea M. Mcrgio BodIkm Manaaer. O. Owe Kohl Siewa Editor. SUBSCRIPTION TERMS. In Richmond $5.00 per year ln advance) or 10c per week. MAIL SUBSCRIPTIONS. On year, in advance '522 Six months, In advance 2.80 One month, in advance RURAL ROUTES. One year, in advance - '5 22 81x months, in advance 1.25 One mouth, in advance 5 " Address change-1 as often as desired; both new and old addresses must be given. Subscribers will pleane remit with order, which should be griven for a specified term; name will not be entered until payment is received. Entered at Richmond. Indiana. postoffice as second clasp mall matter. FOOTBALL OVER. Football Ik over for a year. Now although, some patient man with the aid of a press clipping bur eau, a pencil and a sheet of paper, will no doubt Boon tell us to the frac tion how many persons have been maimed for life this year on the foot ball field it is not likely that the pub lic will pay much heed to him or any other fanatic. Those who have seen the game this year will mostly agree that it is better in every way than the football of erstwhile years, for every one concerned. It is a real game. Yet many people will wonder after they have gone home from the last game of this season and look over the sporting pages where the last sparks of football news are smoldering, why it Is that so many teams which have been victorious all season have gone down to such humiliating defeat when they were expected to do their very best and win an easy victory. Especially has this been so in the west and there is a blank look on long faces when the question is asked. ine answer in most cases is overtrained." A typical instance is the defeat of Kenyon college, of Ohio, which all Beason swept the teams before it in victory after victory scoring hundreds of points to their opponents teens. They were whipped hopelessly on Thanksgiving day by a team which had been defeated ti,me and again by ether teams which had fallen an easy prey to Kenyon. Now when you will consider that the season opened early in September and that almost every minute was consumed in football, no smoking and pastry allowed you can imagine the state of mind of the play ers. In the East the preparation is all for one game In the West It is all season and the one game beside. Football is becoming too much of a college business and less of a game. For all the disrepute into which Eng lish sportsmanship has fallen since the Olympic-games in London, it must be. admitted -that they play football for the fun of the thin we play it to win and to advertise our respective colleges. This has led to the overdoing of the training idea although the training is beneficial if not carried to the extreme which is customary here. The most hopeful sign in the colleges is the adoption of the three year rule which has put a damper on semi-professional athletics. The saner view of training and athletics in general will come in time. The fault is not with the game of football fanatics to the contrary, but wjui me puint vi view oi tnose who have the management of athletics in hand. .THE DANCE OF DEATH. The middle ages were prolific in their exploitation of the grotesque. Gargoyles, dragons and fantastic hapes filled with beautiful ugliness were the predominating features of its art. By far the most enduring of any , of the middle age art is the Danse Macaber, that terrible cycle of the skele tons, best known as the motif of Holbein's Dance of Death. As one turns the pages of this sinister book he is startled by the simplicity and the universality of its apwas and as old as the beginning of the world. Rich man. poor man, beggar man, thief, king, prince, courtesan. nun, girls, boys, matrons and fine la dies all pass before us, nor "heed the beating of the distant drum," as played Dy me maeous rjgure of death. The oia man ana me cnua, the gamester and the abbot all. What is the modern dance of death? Have we any counterpart of this uni versal morality play? Look over the news columns of this or any other paper. That is the modern Dance macaber. It is true that the Moyen Age did most of its thinking about death and therefore went to all sorts of foolish means to try to trick the hereafter, even to the point of buying indulgen ces. On the other had never before in the history of the world have men paid so much attention to actual liv ing as now. whether it be living well or ilL live! Whether it be those

whom care not for the future or those who think the future will take care of itself if the now-time is well provided

for, the whole spirit is gallop and golife. There is quite as terrible a lesson to be gathered from the Sunday news paper as from any sermon that has ever, or could ever, be preached. Look over the headlines, those of you who have stayed away from church, and see. The grist of the mills of the gods is spread before you. . The Dance of Death. RIchman, Poorman, Beggarman, Thief. It is all there. "Whether at Naishapur or Babylon, Whether the Cup with sweet or bitter run, The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one." What are you going to do about it? THE DIVORCE QUESTION. There is little doubt that the divorce rate is growing in this state, and rapidly, too. It was only the other day that the press dispatches disclosed the fact that there were considerably more divorces in Indiana than in South Dakota. It must be said at once that statistics do not prove much in a question of thi3 sort. The laws of divorce vary in every state in the union and conditions do also. Europe could no more be compared with the United States of America on mere statistics than apples can be added to peacnes. For the laws are utterly different, and more than that, the comparative dependence of women in that country makes almost any sort of a marriage prefer able to being forced out Into the world, There is not much doubt, that the in dependence of women and the state of comfort in which they live is almost accurately measured by the divorce mill. Not but what there are other forces at work. There are plenty of them. And besides that, the percent age of divorces granted in this state for little or no cause, must be great. A writer on "trial marriages" has advanced the theory that the divorce as now abused is only part of a process of evolution which Is leading to more advanced notions on the mar riage subject. However this may be, it can hardly be doubted that more than half the divorces granted are not for the charges set down in the evi dence, but for a blase attitude which is becoming wider spread all the time, and is the outcome of fast living. It is the feeling which Kipling describes in one of his Plain Tales from the Hills, when he says, "And you look across the breakfast table and see the woman whom men call your wife, and realize that there are years to come." Much of the trouble is undoubtedly caused by hasty and ill considered marriages and the omission of the word "worse" in the marriage ceremony. Whatever the final cause, most of it dates back to the breeding of selfwilled children, foolish girls and pam pered and dissolute sons. Legislation will not change it. Heart to Heart Talks. liy EDWIN A. NYE. Copy.ight. 1908, by Edwin A. Nye JOHN EARLY, AMERICAN LEPER. "Unclean! Unclean!" How that age-long cry of the leper has vexed the heavens and assailed the ear Id the far east! There the ancient law of Moses holds. The clothes must be rent, the head bare. "He shall put covering over his upper lip and cry: 'Unclean! Unclean!" And he shall dwell alone Without the camp shall his habitation be." And it is so today in the orient. But In America, across the Potomac river, beyoud the green marsh lands and under the great sycamore trees, in his "dog tent," dwells aloue John Early. American citizen, leper. And across his forehead spreads the signet of the world's oldest, most horrible disease. And his case Is only one of 27S KNOWN CASES OF LEPROSY in this country. . John Early was for nine years a sol dler of the United States army. When leprosy attacked him he wore the uni form of the Salvation Army a soldier of the common good. Now he is a legal outcast. Day following day he "dwells without the camp." He does not cry "Unclean!" because none will approach his solitary place. Ills eyes turn across the sedgy marshes and the slow mov ing river, where dwell, in the Capital City, his wife and child, whom he may see at a distance, but whom he may never touch. John Early is brave. He is strong in his faith that prayer and a new drug will cure the plague He says he wants to show that faith and his medicine will cure the lep rosy and give other lepers hope. But What are bis fellow men dlstin guished as humane, what is society, doing for uus man? nere is a good American citizen stricken in awfui malady, thrust bru tally out in the wilderness to die. Any humane society would do more for a wounded dog! And John Early's case is similar to that of the other 277 Amtrif boera.

Facts About Indiana for Ready Reference Railroads, Products, Schools and Churches of State Shown by Figures Which Have Been Prepared by State Statistician.

Mrs. Mary Stubbs Moore, state sta tistician, has prepared some facts about Indiana for her biennial report that are of interest and will be of con siderable value as reference. The facts deal with the size, wealth, railroads, history, schools and religion of the state. Some of the statistics are set out in the following table: Indiana Territory was organized July 4, 1800. Indiana was admitted as a state December 11, 1816. Indiana's first constitution was ad opted June 29, 1816. Indiana's present constitution was adopted February 10, 1857. Indiana's greatest length is 276 miles. Indiana's average breadth is 140 miles. Indiana's land area is 35,885 square miles, or 22,966,400 acres. Indiana's lakes cover 469 square miles or 300,160 acres. Indiana's population in 1908 is esti mated to be 2.775,708. Indiana has 92 counties, 88 cities and 363 incorporated towns. Total taxable property in Indiana in 1907 was $1,767,815,487. Assessed valuation of real property in 1907, $1,000,600,950. Assessed valuation of personal prop erty in 1907, $428,450,338. Assessed valuation of corporate property in 1907, $248,764,190. Indiana had 18,252 miles of free gravel roads in 1907. PERILS MET WITH IN PANAMA WILDS Baron Von Teuber Tells of Shooting of Negroes By Indians. CAPTURED BY WILD MEN. AMERICAN PARTY SENTENCED TO DIE DEADLY FEVER KILLS ONE OF PARTY IN MANDINGA RIVER REGIONS. New York, Nov. 28. Baron F. von Teuber, the young Austrian explorer who went to the Isthmus of Panama ten months ago to search for anthra cite coal and collect specimens and ethnological data for the Smithsonian Institution in the practically unknown country of the San Bias Indians, has returned alone. When the baron sailed from this port he was accompanied by three American mining engineers, Frederick Smith, Peter Bartlett and John Brad ley, who went to seek the source of the gold washed down from the range of mountains called the Cordillera de Chipo to the coast of the Gulf of San Bias. On arrival at Colon, Carl von Teuber, brother of the baron and a student from Heidelberg, joined the party. Bradley died of black water fever In a sailing boat while on his w,ay to the hospital at Colon from Carti, a small town at the mouth of a river of the same name. Smith went down to Pe-. ru, and Bartlett and Carl von Teuber remained on the isthmus. "We left Colon at the end of Janunrv with nrnvlsinna and tent outfit in a gasoline launch," said the baron, "and proceeded northeast along the nnact tfs Plnvn de llamas. There we left the launch and waded knee deep up a narrow, tortuous waterway to San Chrlstovai, a negro settlement situated on a small river of the same name. The blacks were taken there from West Africa in the early days of the French canal company, and remained in preference to going back to Africa. Natives Afraid of Indians. "We stopped at the village three days to get guides to go up country. We offered them $5 a day each, but the men were all too much afraid of the Indians and refused. On the fourth day we got two negroes to go a short way and put us on the right trail to cross the country to the Mandinga river, down which, we, could go to the coast. "They took us in a native dugout

Crazed by Murder of Son, Queen Mother Is Dying Maria Pia's Reason Wrecked by Assassination of Carlos, of Portugal Thinks She Is in Presence of the Dead.

Genoa, Italy, Nov. 28. Queen Maria Pia, the mother of the late king of. Portugal, is nearing her end, a victim of the assassin of her son and grandson as surely as though she herself had been stricken down. Hagalhaes Lima, editor-in-chief of tho Portuguese Republican Journal, tells in an interview published In the Corriere of Genoa, the pitiful condition of the aged woman, whose brali was a directing power in the state through her son's reign, as her personality was ever a softening influence with her people. Since the moment when Maria Pia flung herself upon the bleeding forms of her slain son and his child, her mind, like that of Lady- Macbeth, has become distraught with, the dreadful vision. At first she cried that there was blood upon her hands, blood upon her garments and unceasingly strova to wash It ML

Indiana had 7,142.48 miles of steam railroads on January 1, 190S, assessed at $197,881,282. Indiana had 1,763.16 miles of electric railroads on January 1, 1908, assessed at $21,666,768. Indiana has but two counties (Ohio and Switzerland) without railroads. Number of factories in Indiana in 1905 was 7.912. Indiana had $311,526,026 Invested in factories in 1905. The number of wage earners In factories in 1905 was 154,174. Indiana paid $72,178,259 in wages in factories in 1905. The value of Indiana's factory products in 1905 was $394,165,838. Indiana's coal output In 1907 was 13,250,715 tons. The output of oolitic limestone' In Indiana in 1907 was valued at $3,673,-965.

Indiana produced 5,103,297 barrels of oil in 1907, valued at $4,489,213. Indiana Farm Products. Indiana farms are assessed at $660,172,175. Indiana ranks fifth in the produc tion of wheat and sixth in the produc tion of oats and corn. In 1908 Indiana produced crops as follows: Wheat, 2,059,339 acres, yielding 32,' 746,145 bushels. Oats, 1,528,502 acres, yielding 31,36S.570 bushels.

End of Births in the U. S. After 150 Yean Educator Declares Race Suicide Threatens Extinction of Children Blames th People for the Remaikable Decrease.

Ithaca, N. Y., Nov. 2S.-Pointing out that there is a marked tendency to decline in the number of births throughout the civilized world, particularly among European stock, and stating in substance that the decline in births probably is due to deliberate purpose or inthe popular phrase, 'race suicide.' Professor Walter P. Wilcox brought out some rather startling figures and conclusions before the class in sanitary science and public health at Cornell university. Mr. Wilcox finds a decrease in the last fifty years In the proportion of children to each 1,000 women of childbearing age in this country. In the last fifty years the decrease is 1,520, or an average of thirty a year. These figures indicate he says, that If changes like these which have been in progress in this country during the until nightfall and then got scared and left us. After that we waded down stream for five days until we struck the Mandinga river. "Bradley was the first man to fall sick through the hardships of the trip, bad water and intense heat. He was from. Boston, twenty-seven years old, and I did not think his sickness was serious at first. Then Bartlett gave out through a tick getting into his foot and causing what is known in that country as tick fever. "On the same evening that the Mandinga was reached we were surrounded by 200 hostile Indians of the Catl tribe, who had followed us on Information given them by a Chinese trader. To my surprise, none of them spoke Spanish, but the interpreter j talked English fluently and the first question he asked was: Inquired About Coney Island. "Say, do you know Coney Island?' .., , A. ., j i "That made Bartlett smile and; brought a faint gleam of intelligence : ""om uraeney. wno was iyiim on iu , srouuu in a wean biate 'Thf interpreter told us that he had wo.-kec in New York two years and then went back to the San Bias county and barbaric life. He said that the chief had decreed that we must either go back the way we came or be killed. "I, replied that it was impossible for us to wade back against the current carrying a dying man with us, and asked permission to go down the Mandinga to the coast. "The Indians were armed with guns, poisoned arrows, clubs and spears. The chief would not believe our hunting story, and said that God ; had given that land to the Indians, ' and he did not intend to let white men grab it away from his tribe while he lived "As the days went by we became desperate. It was evident that Brad ley had not many hours to live, as When that delusion passed shesettled Into the melancholy conviction that she was constantly In the presence of her murdered loved ones. All efforts to rouse the poor woman have proved vain, and her health has gradually become undermined till it is evident she cannot long support her suffering. Maria Pia, by her popularity, counteracted the sentiment of dislike which the unpopularity of her daughter-in-law brought upon the royal family. The daughter of King Emanuel II., she imbibed liberal ideas from her father and though a good Catholic, was anticlerical. - Her disability is a serious loss to the young King Manuel in these critical times, her tact and discretion being the needed balance to the unreason of his Bourbon mother, who seems to have learned nothing from the awful tragedy that overturned the old tyiMift mla4.

Corn, 3.S84.9S0 acres, yielding 120,447,582 bushels. Potatoes, 66.SS4 acres, yielding 4,143,084 bushels. Tomatoes, 22,673 acres, yielding 2,676,747 bushels. Timothy, 1,317,455 acres, yielding 1,835,244 tons of hay.

Clover, 1,157,675 acres, yielding 1,-i 972,169 tons of hay. Tobacco. 12,736 acres, yielding 9,102.9S5 pounds. Peas, 27,546 acres. Onions, 3.640 acres. Clover seed, 104,707 bushels Butter, 37,331,538 pounds. Cheese, 349,764 pounds. Poultry, 1,355,669 pounds. Eggs. 62.648,508 dozen. Apples, 997,800 bushels. Churches and Schools. The total membership of the various religious denominations in Indiana in 1907 was 1,003,145. The total value of church property In 1907 was $24,628,001. Indiana has a school fund of $11,818,433.49, composed of the following: Common school fund, $8,583,757.11; congressional school fund, $2,473,143.64; university fund, $761,532.74. The total value of school property in Indiana, including desks, apparatus, etc.. is $33,792,339.85. The number of teachers in 1908 war 1 16,571 and the number of pupils en rolled 531,731. last half century were to continue ur 1 checked for a century and a half mor there would be no children left. Rejecting the Spencerian theory the the advance of civilization necessaril: means a decrease in the birth rate ant also the theory that the growing abust of alcohol or the spread of disease is the cause, Professor Wilcox goes on to say: "The true reason for the fall in the birth rate is that in modern times mainly in the last half century, births and the birth rate have come under control of human will and choice in a sense and to a degree never before true. "This power to control increase has been used and is being used today far too exclusively with reference to private economic advantage and far too little with due consideration to social welafre and progress." he had developed black water fever, which Is fatal to white men. The chief came to us once again and said we must go back. Indians Attack Camp. "That same night our' camp was fired on by the Indians and one arrow stuck in the tent pole. Smith, my brother Carl and myself rushed out with our rifles and fired into the brush. I know we hit one of them because of the howling, and then all became still. "Next day the chief, after a parley about giving up our arms, agreed to take us in canoes down the Mandinga river twenty-five miles to the coast, but would not give us any provisions, although ours were almost exhausted. "We lifted Bradley, who was unconscious, into a canoe and started down stream. Our arrival at the town scared a11 the women and children so that they ran away, as we were the first . v i.. nunc uiru i u c: j iiau crri orciu "That night a council was held by the men of the tribe, all squatting on the sand around their wooden idol to decide what to do with us. While the tomtoms were beating the Mandinga Indians, an other tribe, came down in their canoes and laid claim to us because we had been captured in their territory. They joined in the hullabaloo, which could have been heard for miles along the shore. At dawn the interpreter passed our hut and shouted out in the native tongue that the Americans were to die. "Smith hurried to the chiefs and told them through the interpreter that a gunboat was on its way from Colon to rescue us and destroy their town. Luckily at that moment one of the Indians shouted out and pointed to the sea. where a cloud of smoke could be seen rising to the sky. Bradley died that day, and his body was taken to Colon by Smith in a sailing boat who also took Bartlett to the hospital. "My brother Carl and I then set out in a canoe for San Chrlstovai. The

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'S TOGA IS AS YET IN I 3eorge B. Cox of Cincinnati May Decide Who Shall Wear It. PLEDGED TO F0RAKER. TAFT MAY BE WAIT'NG TO SEE IF HE WILL NOt CHANGEBOSS HIMSELF MIGHT BE CAN DIDATE FOR PLACE. Columbus, O., Nov. 28. The race for United States senator from Ohio still has the center of the political stage. No one who knows anything about politics in Ohio, knows a state ment from George B. Cox, of Cincln nati, at this time would clarify the senatorial situation to a large extent Nearly six months ago he declared his loyalty to Taft, Harris and For aker, for president, governor and sen ator. respectively. He has never as yet changed his pronouncement. That is what is holding back C. P. Taft. If Cox supports his cause he will enter the race. With the support of the Hamilton county delegation he will be in a position to be elected without much trouble. But if he fails to get his own delegation, in spite of the fact that he will have the state organization back of him, In spite of the fact that he is a brother of the next president of the United States he would have his troubles in landing the toga. On the other hand, should Foraker come to Columbus with the Hamilton county delegation he will be a factor that will have to be reckoned with at all stages of the contest. And no one will deny that what George B. Cox says in the premises will have much to do with the way the members-elect will vote in the matter. Few of them, if any, but what owe their nomination and election to Cox. They would hardly dare go against his wishes in this matter if they so desired. And here comes another rub. Cox himself may be a candidate. He has received much attention from the country press of the Btate. Indians seemed content to let us go on account of the supposed gunboat, which afterward proved to be one of the canal commission's seagoing tugs. "We spent a night at San Chrlstovai and toward morning were awakened by loud shouts and sounds of firing. The Indians had followed us to the negro camp and killed the twe men who guided us up the river. Aft er wading along waterways, we ar rived at Playa de Damas, where oui gasoline launch was hidden, but wi returned to Colon in the governmen launch that had been sent to meet us.' Baron von Teuber said that ther were immense anthracite coal fields ii the San Bias country, winch would b' valuable when the canal is opened. H is here to organize another expedition to start in February.

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