Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 43, 21 December 1908 — Page 4

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1908.

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BYPRODUCTS OF TEMPERANCE AGITATION. There is an amusing situation on hand as an outcome of the signing of the County Local Option petition. The tale of the gardener, the sauer kraut manufacturer and the milk vender can hardly fail to provoke a smile. In the matter of the saloon keepers boycott there may be some opinion pro or con as to whether or not there Is a criminal conspiracy in restraint of trade and there will be sympathizers both ways. But in regard to the Illustrious Once who signed the petition apparently because they really wanted to have the credit for the fight on the saloons in an honest conviction that h was right and then fled and tried to have his name taken off the petition that is Indeed a showing: of moral courage and a stiff vertebrae. Now, there is no doubt that these men are indeed between, what they fancied, was the devil and the deep aea of temperance people. These men will have little sympathy from the liquor element or the temperance element, nor even the other body of our citizens who have taken the neutral ground. It is almost unnecessary to point out that the backing down of the cow owner who has supplied the bars with milk is a ludicrous spectacle. Nay, nor all the votive gifts (Exhibit C trying to buy a jug of whiBkey) as a propitiation of the irrate god Bacchus, can avail him as a means of getting back the support of the free lunch counter or the water wagon. There is one consolation; the jelly business is almost as profitable as milk, and if that will not suffice, the gelatine factories are still running. Indeed, a process seems to have been invented locally for the manufacture of gelatine out of backbone. If there is to be successful temperance agitation the agitation must not be so successful as to chill the feet of those who get

agitated after they have signed he pe

tition.

REED TACTICS WILL BE USED

BY CONGRESS

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Alcoholism and Nicotinism Causes Most of Suicides -SMSaSaBBBBBSSSBBJSJSBSBBBBMaiiBBSBBMiiSaSaa Dr. J. Af. Thurston Comments on Rev. Wade's Recent Sermon on Self -Destruction and Recommends Other Divines to Follow Example Set By Him.

Dr. Joseph M. Thurston. "Tis a consummation devoutly to be

wished," that many more of the clergy emulate Rev. Brother Wade in his commendable efforts to spread abroad the gospel of true life, of the religion of the body as the stepping-stone to

spiritual religion, and work to the end that the kingdoms of the world may become the kingdom of our God and

His Christ.

Yet, I cannot quite agree with the reverend gentleman's understanding

of the tenth commandment; for when

he construe it to mean thou shalt not suicide, then the conclusion that it means that thou shalt not take the life-blood of any living thing:, is certainly a more'logical interpretation of the text. Prom the viewpoint of a higher humanism, one fails to discern any difference between the scholastic heathen, who kills and eats the brains of a bovine baby, and the aboriginal heathen who kills and eats the brains of a human body. Furthermore, viewed from a strict scientific standpoint, the ordinary suicidist will be found to be in some stage of insanity, from a melancholic to a complete dementia; and more than two-thirds of the cases are traceable to some form of mental degeneracy, caused by self-gratification, extreme cultivation of their inherent animalism, the provoking cause being chronic alcoholism, and nicotinism, one or both, chiefly both in combination. Following similar lines of argument to that which, construes the tenth commandment to refer to suicide, and the most high crime which Rev. Wade makes it to be, and the unpardonablenees of the sin, as held by the orthodox religion (note that Christ never mentioned suicide in all His teaching), and especially that as a rule the suicldist is a sane person, then in the last

analysis, the individual who voluntari

ly gives up life to save others, commits

a high crime.

Yet, notwithstanding, the brave

grand words of Reverend Wade, as to spiritual suicide, in my opinion, far outweighs any adverse criticisms that

his other utterances might elicit.

"There's the respect that makes (relig

ious) calamity of so long a life." To

day, still adown 'the corridors of time' sounding through the ages, comes the pleading command, "feed my sheep, feed my sheep!" Instead of the husks of a ritualistic orthodoxy, if the people could be fed on "the fruits of the spir

it," as then, when "the common people heard Him gladly," even so today, they would gladly give heed to any scientific sermon, telling them something as to "the way of the spirit;" and

teaching them practical knowledge of

how to preserve their whole, body, and

soul (life), and Spirit, or the whole triumverate man, blameless unto the coming of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. And only if the world could be made to see through the insidious veil of self-gratification of inherent animalism, monstrous egotism, and the terrible delusion of so-called "freeagency," that "ye are not your own, for ye are bought with a price. Therefore, forget it not, forget it not, that "the spirit helpeth our infirmities,

with groan ings that cannot be uttered." ' In this connection, I am constrained to say further, that in my opinion, the individual who has by all manner of sins mentally and physically debauched and degenerated his body to the most, abject animalism, and degraded his spirit "which ye have of God," un

til all volitional humanism has been

crowded out, and the kingdom of satan is supreme within him, when that individual commits suicide, he renders the civil community a great service. "Verily I say unto you, all sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men, and blasphemies wherewithsoever they shall blaspheme; but he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Spirit hath never forgiveness." Mark 3:2S,"Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the spirit of God dwelleth in jou? If any man defile the temple of God, him will God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are." 1 Cor. 3:16, 17.

SHIPPER MUST

PAY THE COST

Interstate Commerce Commission Makes Ruling of Importance.

DECISION IN SUGAR CASE

RULING PROVIDES THAT ALLOWANCES FOR TRANSFER FROM REFINERIES TO TRAIN ARE REBATES.

Common Sense And A Tablet

of the running. William Loeb, Jr., secretary to -President Roosevelt, was another whose name was on all the November lists, but Mr. Loeb's cabluet chances appear to be vanishing. No one thought of making up a slate without having George von L. Meyer, Ihe present postmaster general, on it, tnd usually the treasury portfolio was the one assigned him. His name has now 'been dropped. Aside from the selection of Knox to head the state department, the new cabinet predictions may be. more reliable than were those of a month ago, but it certainly is demonstrated that those of a nonth ago were unreliable. Ml of which gets us back to the proposition that merely because you read in a press dispatch that a certain man is going to be selected for a certain place in Mi Taffs cabinet, is no reason why you are bound to believe it. pretty safe rule for you to make would be to wait for the official announcements before accepting as final reports about the men the next president will have for his advisers.

" Ths Head Waiter's Long Walk." Have you any idea of how much

ground a head waiter covers In performing his day's work? At one of the best known family or apartment

hotels in New York, which boasts of a

long, narrow dining room, the matter was recently put to the test, and the

bead waiter was armed with a pedometer when he went on duty at 7 a. m. When he retired after the dinner hour he had covered ten miles and a fraction. He asserts that this long record of distance covered in a single room is largely the result of the telephone and the social life of the apartment hotel. He not only must seat all patrons, but he personally carries to them the names of callers and all summonses to the telephone. The latter, be says, Is one of the greatest annoyances the head waiter undergoes. New York World.

Do Away With Dyspepsia, Stomach Trouble and Make Meals A Pleasure. When your stomach goes on a

strike and mass meetings of indignation are held all over your body, then

it is that you should sit up and take notice. It is clearly and only a Question of common sense is this thing called Dyspepsia. Take away, by abuse, over eating, excesses and high living, the things which the stomach needs and you have dyspepsia and indigestion; then other maladies follow these this is common sense. The stomach is willing enough but you won't let it do its work. You take

away the materials which are so necessary for it to use. Give back these materials and dyspepsia and indigestion flee and the whole machinery of man begins slowly to move and do its work. What the stomach needs is nerve force, fluids for its digestive glands, nourishment and power. All these necessities it takes from the blood. If dyspepsia gives nothing to the blood, the blood gives nothing to the stomach. This is common sense also, pure simply and unalloyed. Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets are common sense pressed by high power into tablets. In these tablets are powerful essences which go into the stomach, digest food, stop gas making, prevent decaying of food, enrich the gastric juices, are absorbed by the blood and thus give it strength to furnish a better fluid for digesting the next meal. Every physician knows what comprises these tablets; every

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Washington, Dec 21. In a decision made public today the interstate commerce commission declares that allowances for the transfer of sugar from refineries to the trains are essentially rebates and in violation of the law. This important determination, so far as commission is concerned, brings to an end a controversy which has long existed between the refineries in New York and those in Philadelphia. The investigation of the subject was begun by the commission on its own initative. No complaint was filed, but what was regarded as the injustice and illegality of the allowances for transfer or cartage were called to the attention of the commission with a view to eliminating them. Four Conclusions Set Forth. In its decision the commission lays down four general conclusions as follows : "The commission has jurisdiction to make an order in any inquiry on its motion in the same manner and to the same effect as though complaint has been made. "It is not part of the carriers' duty

to bear the expense ' of transfer of

goods from the shipper to the carrier. For carriers to undertake to compensate shippers for performing services which the shippers are legally bound

to da for themselves are legally bound to do for themselves is for the carri

ers to violate the act.

"The publication of gross and net

rates would needlessly add to the

complexity of tariffs. Wherever it is possible for carriers to file a net rate

as such it is their duty to do so.

"The allowances here considered are rebates and violate the law. No

order is Issued, but the carriers are

expected to conform to the law with out delay."

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standing this, Mrs. Todd says. Rhodius stood complacently by and did not attempt to take a hand in the proceedings. "I thought more about the woman than I did about him," said Mrs. Todd last evening at the Claypool Hotel. "I pitied her if her husband was not more capable of taking care of her than the ability he displayed while she was wrestling with the sheriff. Mr. Rhodius stood by while this was going on and did not make an effort to interfere.' Trial to Begin Today. That the appearance of Rhodius was such that would indicate he was mentally unbalanced, was the statement made by Mrs. Todd last night. The trial of the suit to annul the marriage, which took place in Louisville, will come up before Judge Mason in the Hancock Circuit Court this afternoon. The taking of testimony will probably last for ten days.

MANY CHANGES

CITIES ACT

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Indianapolis, Dec. 21. Mrs. C. H. Todd of Cambridge Springs, Pa., owner or the Todd Sanitarium, where the arrest of Elma Dare Rhodius took place after her flight from Indianapolis with George Rhodius, arrived, in the city yesterday and today she will go to Greenfield to testify in- the marriage annulment proceedings which will come to trial at that place this afternoon. Mrs. Todd1 Is one of several witnesses for James M. Berryhill, Rhodius's guardian, several of whom arriVed here late last night. The witnesses will all go to Greenfield today. Compassion for the woman whose husband was apparently so incapable of taking care of a wife, Mrs. Todd says, was one of her first impressions when she saw Rhodius and the woman together. Mrs. Hodd says that when Mrs. Rhodius was arrested, charged

with kidnaping the Indianapolis millionaire, she fought the sheriff so fiercely that it was necessary to use force to subdue her. But notwith-

in cities which are not county seats to report and pay fines for violation of state statutes to the county treasurer in the same time and manner as justices of the peace are required to report and pay fines to the county treasurer. The act specifically repeals the Act of 1907, which is clearly unconstitutional, that requires the judges of city courts to pay into the city treasury fines for the violation of the criminal laws of the state, and requires all such fines heretofore paid into the treasury of any city to be" paid to the county treasurer in compliance with the constitutional requirement that such fines shall become a part df the school fund.

RHEUMATIC FOLKS.

sessments. Under the present law ev

ery assessment, no matter haw small.

may be paid in ten installments. The bill proposes to limit the right to pay

in installments to assessments of ten

dollars or over and to require all as

sessments of less than ten dollars to

be paid in cash. This bill proposes to

take away the right to bring suit to

enforce any assessment of less than

twenty-five dollars and to require all these little assessments to be collected by being placed on the tax duplicate. City Court. The section as to jurisdiction of city courts is so amended that the city court shall have the civil jurisdiction provided by the Act of 1873 and acts amendatory thereof, unless the city council shall specifically, by ordinance, withhold such jurisdiction from city courts. It has been a question ever since the Act of 1905 was adopted whether the city courts have the civil jurisdiction prescribed by the Act. of 1S75, and this bill solves the doubt in favor of such civil jurisdiction. The judge . of every city court, whether such court be held by the mayor or by a judge elected specially to such office, is required by this bill to report once each month and pay to the city treasurer all fines for violations of city ordinances and the costs collected for such city in all civil or criminal cases. There is now no, law in force requiring such reports or fixing the time when such fines and costs shall be paid. The bill also requires such city judges in all county seat cities to make his monthly report and J&Y to the county treasurer all finrollected for violation of the statutes of the state, and requires city judges or mayors acting as city judges

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WiTDRAWAL OF BURT NEW ENDS FIGHT (Continued From Page One.)

What Women 8uffer! Tooh! sneered the brutal husband. Ton talk of the worries and weariness of shopping for new hats, and you fret about the ugliness of the things when you buy them, as if that were something terrible. If you had to dig up the money to pay for them, as I do, you might have room to talk." "But, my dear, expostulated the patient wife, "what is paying for the hats compared with the mental suffering one undergoes in having to wear them, however unbecoming they may be?" Silenced, the brutal husband again buried himself In his paper.

a resolution authorizing such a convention can pass the coming legislature, but a new plan has been proposed that will meet with favor, judging from that manner in which it is being received. The plan is the same as the one that slid through the legislature at the last session just at the last minute and then died in the arms of Governor Hanly. It was introduced by Representative J. Monroe Fitch, of Muncie, who was not a favorite of the governor. The bill provided that instead of holding a convention to revise the constitution amendments should be made political party measures and be included in the party platforms. For instance, if a party cared to assume the responsibility of a prohibition amendment to the constitution it would so declare in its platform. If the other party approved it it could also include it in its platform or vice

versa. Then at the election a blank line would be placed on !the ballot or

a key on the voting machine representing the amendment. Every straight ticket voted would be count

ed in favor of the adoption of the

amendment. Every person who wished to vote against the amendment would be required to write "no" on the blank line or pull the key on the voting machine. Thus, every voter who did not vote "no" would vote "yes." There would be no blanks. Under this system there would ' be an assurance of a full vote on the proposition one way or the other. This has been the trouble in the past. Whenever a constitutional amendment was placed on the ballot few voters paid any attention to it, and the result was that only a small proportion of the entire vote- was cast either way on the question. It is recalled that at the election In 1906, out of a total vote of about 550,000, only 34.000 votes were cast for the amendment and 12.000 against it. Thus, the election fail.-?, for it requires a majority of the total vote cast at the election to adopt an amendment to the constitution. Strange as it may seem, some of the democrats in the state are favoring the idea of making constitutional amendments party issues. Just what the

republicans will do along that line re

mains to be seen.

Heart to Heart Talks.

By EDWIN A. NYE.

Copy.ight. 1908, by Edwin A. Nye

MASONIC CALENDAR.

Tuesday Evening, Dec 22. 1908 Richmond Lodge No. 196. F. & A-

work in Fellowcraft degree.

Wednesday Evening, Dec. 23 Webb Lodge No. 24, F. & A. M. Work

in Fellowcraft degree.

NAPOLEON. If you want to read something worth while, take up General WolseIeys "The , Young Napoleon. Wolseley says of Napoleon that be was "the greatest human who ever lived." That hi a great soldier's tribute to a , great soldier from a soldier's point of . view. Wolseley, "the greatest living gen

eral nmnra nnr a in mA wmidhih

and the lack of that great human who , strode the world of bis day like a , colossus. In this connection the following In-, cldcnt of Napoleon, from T a Russian

source, is told by 'Will L. Comfort , Any one who has read Tolstoy's "War" and Peace" will' appreciate' the somber1 picture: "On the battlefleldof Borodino lay 30,000 half devoured corpses, the result . of that terrible battle of the Moscow

campaign. "'Death has feasted here, said Marshal Ney to the emperor, who was staring gloomily at the field of the slain. . "'Nay replied Napoleon; 'death has only nibbled here. After death has once feasted he will -sleep. " 'Will we not pause to bury the

iew mnutes ;ater. " THE WOLVES WILL BUBY THEM,' replied the Mars Incarnate, falling asleep on bis great white horse." Such was the tender mercy of tbli cruelly great man who In 1812 led the glittering files of France across the Niemen river and invaded Rnssia. Let the wolves bury the dead! Of what use are dead men to a general? He who played the game of war with roaster hand regarded men ss mere pawns to be placed at his im perial nod. If taey are dead, let the wolves perform tie offices for the dead! The Incident, whlrh fits in so perfectly with all we know of Dim, gtve a look Into the soul of Napoleon. Perhaps he hart Nwels of mercy. If so be did not reveal the fact. If he ever showed emr;.oti It wa for effect. No man knew better than he the Tray to the hearts of his aoMiers. His bulletins are masterpiece simulated feel ing and high heroics. Napoleon lacked the nobility of great ness. nis brain wa a marvelous mental machine, but his heart was atrophied, ne was almost devoid of pity or sympathy. Remember the little girl that went over his battlefield giving water to tns wounded? She was Infinitely nobler than

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