Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 42, 20 December 1908 — Page 9

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POISON WAS NOT CAUSE OF DEATH

Coroner Finds Little Lucile Elleman Died of Unknown Cause. THE SPAULDING VERDICT feRAMKAMP ALSO RENDERS VERDICT OF PREMATURE BIRTH IN CASE OF FOETUS FOUND IN 50UTH END. Dr. A. I Bramkamp, coroner, ceived word yesterday from Dr. T. reEmith of IndianapoliB, physician and Chemist, who made an analysis of the Btomach of little Lucile Elleman, the five year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Elleman, Randolph street, that her death was not caused by poipon. The Investigation by the noted Indianapolis chemist was delayed for several weeks owing to the necessity to secure a decree from Judge Fox allowing for the expenditure of $25 to Jay Dr. Smith for his professional services. It will be remembered that the child Bled several weeks ago from no apparent cause, immediately after a younger child had died. It was believed by the local authorities that the thlld had secured some of the meditlne left for treatment for the other Child and in this manner was poison-" ed. However as they did not have the apparatus with which to investigate such a case it had to be left to a chemist Dr. Bramkamp will probably make Ms finding, death due to some unknown cause. Spaulding Verdict. Dr. Bramkamp in making his finding as to the cause of the death of William Spaulding, the fruit and truck gardener, who was instantly killed last week, found death to be ttue.tojt broken neck caused by impact with a tree as the result of being thrown out of a wagon in a runaway. Mr. Spaulding was burled Friday. Avoids Details. In rendering his verdict in the case f the foetus found on South O. street between Twelfth and Thirteenth street during the early part of last veek. Dr. A. L. Bramkamp, coroner, states "premature birth." He does toot delve into the details of the case because he has been unable to And any evidence which would show who the child's mother was. It will be remembered that the foetus, which was probably three months old, was found on a well beaten path in a commons. WILLS 'DEVIL' WIFE MONEY SHE BORROWED Man Leaves $35,000 to Torment; the Pittsburg, Dec. 19. Judging from (he language used in the last will made by Fred Kreikemeyer, a retired farmer, formerly residing in Washington county, but whose last residence was Pittsburg, his domestic relations were not of the most pleasant character. The will, filed today, directed that the body be placed alongside of that of his first wife. The third . paragraph reads as follows: "To my present wife, Annie M. Kreikemeyer, I bequeath to her the $2,000" which she borrowed from me nd which she failed to pay back to zne, as her share in my estate. "And I want to impress upon my executors that under no circumstances ahall they permit her to receive -any further share in my estate, as she has toever been of any use or value to me, except as a torment and a continued source of annoyance, she having done all that a she-devil could to ruin me." Early publication in the newspapers of the will is one of the demands. The estate is valued at 35$uS--0 DROPS DEAD WHILE SINGINGATHIS WORK Words of "Home, Sweet Home" Last Uttered. Hamilton, O., Dec 19. "Mid pleasures and palaces through which we may roam, be it ever so humble, there la no place like " That was as far s Peter Stahl got with the familiar old song. He was working at the plant of the John Durrough Brick company this tnorning, loading cement on a wagon. His voice suddenly failed, a nd as his companion looked up he reeled and fell dead. , . Stahl was 41 years old and lived in lAwrenceburg, Ind. His brother Is

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THE PROBLEM OF FINDING RIGHT JOB IN THE WORLD

Love and occupation have one grand grievance la common. Every man knows what he wants in both cases, but nob one in a million is able to secure it in either. The resignation of President Eliot of a beloved profession which he holds has no equal in the world, is the occasion of a curious weighing of the claims of love (mainly married love) and work as factors in human happiness. The debaters admit that both go wrong, but give the balance of power for weal or woe to the odds of the job, and this for the unromantic reason that man can reconcile himself to Jane when he wants Nancy, but has not yet acquired the psychological process of finding charm in making bricks or building canals, when he would fain be making books or founding colleges. "Novelists are vastly to blame," says the moralizer, "for stuffing the youth of the nation with Tom Lawson tips on the quest of happiness. They keep up the old myth that it is all a question of marrying" the one girl, when every sensible man knows that if he hadn't met Nancy he would have met Jane, and it would have been all the same. The real secret of happiness is to be in love with your job; to do work that' you like to do: that interests you; that you believe In. ' It, Is plain to see that no lover wrote that, yet in j the end there is an appeal to the lover ! to make good in the case an appeal ! too, that utterly fails. "It is not so ' much Nancy as what your fond desiring imagination made her seem to be that you love. Try this process on your job. Exactly and with the same result. No psychological process known can preserve the charm of Nancy when the "fond desiring imagination" has faced the counter reality in the captured prize. No more can a fond imagination make sweet the job that nature has made distasteful and unfit. "Do work that you like to do; that interests you; that you believe in; that's happiness." Undoubtedly, and it is about as easy as marrying the woman that interests you. that you believe in, that you can love to the end. All Not Obliged to Marry. "A sad confusion," as Benson has it, runs through the world of labor as the world of love, yet certainly Carlyle is right when he says everybody is or ought to be unhappy till he finds out what to do." The law of life, physical life, presses harder upon the individual in the one case than the other, too, since men are really not obliged to marry, at least not yet, while every man has his own living to make some way. Perhaps this is why the labor question is intruding itself everywhere above all others, so that love and religion are made more or less subservient to it, and "sensible men" are ad monished to turn from the lady to the job for their highest hope of happiness, unouesuonacty mere is meaning in the movement, for Stevenson is right when he says, "there is no subject more vital to man than that industry, whatever it may be, which is the occupation or delight of his life which is his tool to earn or serve with, and which, if it be unworthy, stamps himself as a mere incubus on the shoulders of laboring humanity. The high prize of life Is clearly also, as another sage tells us. "to be born to some pursuib which finds man in employment and happiness whether it be; to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statutes, or songs." But all this truth of worth and pleasure In congenial work is a different matter from the demand for interest and joy in any poor, irksome job that sorepressed multitudes must undertake to eke out a barren existence. It Is one thing for a high and noble scholar to find joy in reaching and molding the intellectual forces of the world, as president of a great college, and quite another matter for aa army of hardluck scholars to wring felicity out of

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the records of the educated and professional classes in America show them doomed to. The commentator fctruck home when he said of President Eliot's happy reference to forty years of service in a profession held greater than all others, "there spoke the fortunate man" But how many of such fortunate ones do the times aliow, and how helpful a moral can logically be deducted from such a rare case for the :iO.KXM(M toilers who daily wish they were doing t-cmething else. Eliot Loved His Work. It required no trick of the imagination to make President Eliot in love with his job, and how less exalted minds should be expected to rise h the "psychological process" of finding charm where there is no charm, it is not easy to f ee. In the teeth of all the psychologists it Is safe to say that it can't be done. Nature allows no such violence put upon her laws and loves. Duty or necessity may hold men to the distasteful task of relation, but the love that sweetens life and labor will never be a rart of it. The poets and sages' are right who tell us that every man's work is born with him. and, a3 Richard Realf says of the singer, "a burthen large lays mightily on him if he can not rightfully utter to the day what Got taught in the night." The troubles in the industrial world, which, in monopolizing all the resources, of the earth by the few, rob a man of his chance to do his true work in the world, go deeper than the political economists recognize. Old as the ancient Persians, to be sure, is the taying. "When we can not get what we like, let us like what we can get," and, as people so seldom get what they like in this crooked world, it has served for that poor excuse for happiness which ordinary mortals put up with. But when it comes to detlaring the "real secret of happiness," as the case in hand claims, it does not fill the bill in any particular. Moreover it blocks the way to the path of real happiness which the sight adjustments of life might bring. "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man," says Bernard Shaw. It was a greater man than Shaw, however, who declared that "no wickedness proceeds on any ground of reason." wherefore, in a wicked world, it might be legitimate to reverse Shaw's terms and declare it the reasonable man who tries to adapt the world to his true self, instead of taking it joyfully as it is. and thereby foregoing his little chance of helping it along the path of progress. In any case it is certain that the toiling multitudes who can content themselves with the industrial conditions of today, to say nothing of falling in love with them, will not do very much in swinging the' old world starward. And, as for the great army of the unemployed, among beings invited to find their one chance of happiness in their jobs, it is no wonder that the irony of the situation confounds statesmen and orators thougb really it would seem that the- devil, rather than the Al mighty, should be appealed to for an explanation of it.. The Unmastered Task. If human activity is to be accepted as the key to human happiness, something ought to be pardoned to the women of the day who are making such a cesperate and revolutionary effort to lay hold of It It may be from their own discovery of the deficiency of the love clew that much of the present philosophy of labor has come about, alihough it is clear that its advocates make little not of woman's side of the case. "Why so many men are not happy." is the avowed point of the present explanation, and to charge it to their attitude toward their jobs and not their wives is the limit of gallantry deemed necessary in the matter. Why o many women are not happy, desplti

however, as vital a question in the main problem as the other, aird the answer seems to be In much the same direction. The tumultuous struggle with the uncongenial and unmastered task which by no stretch of the imagination can be made attractive is even more potent a cause of unhappiness and disaster in woman's world than man's, and one-of the most far-seeing of all the world's great women discerned this danger and bespoke an escape from it

long ago. "What I should like to be f sure of as a result of higher education for women." said George Eliot, "a result that will come to pass over my grave, is their recognition of the great amount of labor which needs to b done by women, and which is now either not done at all or done wretchedly. No good can come to women more than to any class of male workers by aiming to do a kind of work which only a few can do well. I believe and I want it to be well shown that a more thorough education will tend to do away with the odious vulgarity of our notions about functions and emploment. and to propagate the true gospel that the deepest disgrace (as it is the surest unhappiness) is to undertake to do work for which we are unfit." The Gospel of Labor. If there be a veritable gospel of labor out of which shall come human happiness, it must be alone that line for both man and woman. It may be, too, j that if educators and social reformers ! would work upon this principle, from the school room to the state the "novelists' tips on the quest of haDDiness" in.the "one girl myth" might not much j mislead the youth of the nation after ' all. Minds balanced in themselves 1 and centered in some general service ! could leave the great mystery of love to work itself out in its own time and ' way. The dream of the ideal state in the minds of earth's greatest sons has been one where every man should find the work best suited to him and joyfully contribute of his native powers, whether small or great, to the upbuilding of the whole. It is only thus that any perfect solution of the labor problem can be evolved, and why it should still remain but a Utopian dream of the ages the writers who are recommending men to be in love with their jobs would do well to inquire. If the best that can be done with the problem is to weigh it in the sorry scale of haphazzard marriages and bespeak a psychological trick to misrepresent them both, then the whole business is in a bad way, and the tangle and comparison not unnaturally suggest the story of the young woman who said she always thought Sodom and Gomorrah were man and wife, and if they were not they ought to be. One of the noblest efforts of the great scholar who has just resigned his high position as president of Harvard was to give to rich and poor alike a chance to find the true place and work in life. It was President Eliot who pleaded that "the way be kept open from the primary school to the professional for the poor as well as the rich." It was he who sought to bring school and society into better unity and action upon these very problems of life, and industry and proclaimed the responsibility of the school for "the sorry state of American civilization." In his own life and achievements he testified also, to the glorious work that man can do in his true place and calling. "His wisdom and idealism, his strength and judgment, were the deciding forces for real progress in the intellectual life of the country," say the leaders of thought both in Europe and America, Not all raen are called by nature to a work like that, but every man has some work to which he is born that more than any other can serve him and his generation. To find it may be indeed like finding a true wife, "a good thing," but, being t jyitt-Ui4in,

LONG SESSION IS HOW ANTICIPATED

Special Session of Congress Will Convene ft!onday, March 15. PROMISES TO BE REDEEMED CAMPAIGN PLEDGES WILL BE CARRIED OUT UNDER THE DIRECTION OF TAFT SESSION'S LENGTH PROBLEMATICAL. Washington. D. C, Dec. 19. Leaders in both houses of congress are anticipating a long session when President Taft convenes congress to meet In special session. Monday, March 15, which he will do, according to unofficial information secured here today. The sixtieth congress ends on March 4, on which day the new administration will be inaugurated and in selecting March 15 to convene the special session," Mr. Taft shows that he intends to lose no time in filling the pledges of the campaign. The length of the special session is, of course, problematical but leaders in congress think it may extend even un to the middle of June. The work already accomplished by the committee on ways and means sures an early consideration of tariffxbill in the house. asthe fit, must be still like finding the wrong wife a bad thing whatever help psychology may' bring to the case, for Shakespeare went to the core of it when he said that "nature," however lofty, "becomes subdu'd to what it works in, like the dyer's hands." VERNON MURRAY. SERVIA'S KING MAY OUIIIIS THRONE III Health May Force Peter to Abdicate. Belgrade. Dec 11. The health of King Peter is so precarious that his early abdication in favor of the crown prince would not be a surprise. It is learned from an authentic source that King Peter's late indisposition was due to the effects of an apoplectic stroke. The events of the last month have pressed heavily on him. ad, his physicians have been several times summoned to the palace in the night. It Is deemed expedient to conceal his weak state, which is ascribed to a slight attack of influenza. The king has still an impediment in his speech, and does not at present grant audiences. The first act of his i majesty, when a measure of convalescecce sets in was to older tne release of a11 Paralytic and apoplectic convicts, rt waa Pointed out to him that such an amnesty would excite astonishment, so ?race was extended likewise to the blind and maimed. The consequences are a crowd of disabled beggars on Bel grade streets.Vhd the dismissal of several jailers.

Philander C. Knox, Chosen by Taft As the Premier of His Cabinet

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HO DIVORCES UNTIL MARRIED ONE YEAR

Judge Rules to Prevent Haste In Separations. Seathlc. Dec. 11. Judge A. W. Fratcr, in the superior court of Kings county, made a ruling not to grant any further divorces until at least one year had elapsed siuce- the parties concerned were married. "There is no need to be iu a hurry about obtaining a divorce," said the court, "and a year rolls arouud soon enough." PROSPERITY IS HERE Concerns Too Busy to Enter Bids for the County Supplies. THE FEW BIDS WERE LOW. But one firm entered a bid for three classes of the county office supplies. and when the county commissioners went to award the contract yesterday they found little difficulty. Two bids were entered for the stationery supplies, but the books and blanks wfre sought by only the one firm, the Nicholson Printing and Manufacturing company of this city. Iast year four or five companies entered bids and te competition was very marked. This year specifications were sent local printing offices and those at Indianapolis, but none but the one saw fit to enter for the contract. Despite the lack of competition the contracts this year were let at a lower price than a year ago. Judging from indications, local in dustries must be exceptionally busy with the holiday trade. Two local stationery supply houses were fur rished the specifications and each notified the county officer, time was too short to enter a bid. One grocery firm that has received a number of county contracts did not bid yesterday. A member cf the firm said all time was required to handle the trade and none could be devoted to reviewing the specifications. POSSE NOW SEARCHES FOR ASSASSIN Two Denied Freedom for Ac tual Murder. Higbee, Mo., Dec. !!. Fifty armed citizens threatening a lynching are still looking for a man who escaped from the city hall prison last night af ter killing Deputy Marshal MacGrud er and Marshal Frank Cain. Earl MacGruder. Irother of the slain off! cer, is leading the posse. Special dep uties are also guarding the jail to pre vent the lynching of two friends of the fugitive. Cain and MacGruder were shot down in the jail. The man who escaped is believed to be wounded and his capture seems assured. career as a public officer and his se-

DOCTORS SLOW COMING ACROSS

Said That Some of Them Neg lect Paying Society Dues. ACTION IS PROBABLE. NEXT YEAR MEDICAL SOCIETY WILL PROBABLY HOLD ONE PUBLIC MEETING AND LIVE SUBJECTS DISCUSSED. Among the members of the Wayne County Medical society, there is a be lief that the members who are In arrears in their dues should not receive lurther benefits as members of the society. Therefore at the next regular meeting which will be the se rond week in January, the members will have this important question to settle. There are said to be several such delinquent members of the society which recently took action to the effect that all persons should pay their doctor bills Immediately after receiving professional attention. Dr. Bramkamp. secretary of the society, is arranging with the members, to secure their subjects ot papers to be read during the ensuing year at monthly meetings. Several of the physicians believe that there should be one meeting a year which the public would attend. At such meetings live subjects for the benefit of the public could be discussed. MINE WORTH MILLIONS; NOW BLINDJENNILESS "Dick" Langford, Aged 80, Discovered Iron Range. Ontonagon, Mich., Dec. It). Blind and penniless, "Dick" Langford, aa aged prospector,, who says he discovered the big Colby mine, a Gogeblo Iron range property, valued in the mil' lions, has become a charge at the Ontonagon county poor farm. He Is more than NO years old. Langford was one of the first explorers in what is now the Gogebic district. In 172 or 17.1. according to his story, ho found the Colby. He was to have a pne-fourth Interest in It, but says he was euchered out of it. Born In the. south of Ireland in June, l&M, Langford came to this country in 1S47 and to upper Michigan five years later. He was never married and practically his whole life has been spent living' in a little cabin at Lake Gogebic, supported by the county and cared for by people in the neighborhood. HIGH SEAS CAUSE ' DEATH OF ONE Other Damage Done to Incoming Liners. New York, Dec. 1!). High seas and stormy weather which caused on death and considerable damage to cargo were reported by incoming lines to day. The death occurred on the North German Lloyd steamship Scharhorst. from Bremen. Kavrid Jones, 70 years old, was standing on the deck, when a gigantic wave swept over the liner, washing him against the rail. His skull was fractured and be died almost instantly. On the previous day Maris Bach. 70 years old. a steerage passenger, died from a stroke of apoplexy. Both were buried at sea. The stormy weather was responsible for a two days delay in the arrival of the White Star liner Teutonic, which arrived from Southampton. On December 13th the liner ran Into a terrific gale which lasted more than twelve hours. Gigantic" waves washed over the liner, completely enveloping it during that time and no one ventured on decks for fear of being swept overboard. A record was established by the steamer, which brought in the largest Christmas mail ever received in this country. It filled 5.0S8 bags. CORII HUSKIER 111 S. D. Finishes Own Work and Wins Prize Offered. Worthington, S. D., Dec. 19. Mra. Niedmeier, wife of a farmer residing near this place, has proved herself the champion corn husker of this part of the state. Harlng their own farm work completed, Mr. and Mrs. Xeidmeier consented to aid F. E. Hart, a neighbor. Hart as an Incentive to rapid work, offered a cash prize to the I" '.h tw. filiation It was found that Mrs. Nled-

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