Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 59, 6 January 1909 — Page 4

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THE RICIOIOXD PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1909.

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WAHT WOULD LINCOLN SAY?

A dispatch from Washington states that a monument is to be erected to the Confederate prisoners of war buried at Grcenlawn cemetery, Indianapolis. The work is to be done by the war department. The shaft is to be of granite or marble, and is to bear "the name, rank, if other than a pri

vate, company, and regiment, of 1,620

soldiers who died as prisoners of war at Camp Morton between 1802 and 18G5." A monument to Confederate soldiers erected on Indiana soil! The announcement will cause conflicting feel

ing in the breasts of thousands of

this state's citizens. Some will answer at once and decisively, "It is a profanation an outrage;" others will hesitate and decline to give opinions; still a third body of citizens will say, "Let it be done. Bygones are bygones. The South has long since been forgiven." ." ,In this dilemma we can not do better than invoke the shade of the man who understood, better than any one else has ever understood, the great conflict in the coures of which these soldiers lost their lives. What would Lincoln say about this proposed monument. We believe that if he were alive he would be the first to answer in his quiet way, "Let the monument be erected. These soldiers died, far from home in a cause, which they believed to be just. They were misguidedthe dupes of designing politicians

and slave holders but they were sin

cere. Above all they were our broth

ers. It is fitting, 'altogether fitting and proper, that a marble shaft be

raised to mark their resting place."

Lincoln was the first to show us that

the Southern soldier was misguided.

He fought, as he believed, for his rights and his home. The Southern politicians and the men who profited

by slavery were the real conspirators,

If the proposed monument were to them we would say, "Never! Let them lie without a mark, for by their acts we endured war, and fought and bled for four long years;" ; But for the Southern soldier we have today nothing but feelings of kindness. All other emotions have passed. .It is well and just that his burial place on Indiana ground be marked by a fitting monument.

THE SCRAP BOOK

What He Calls Her. -Now, WMle," said the teacher ot the primary class, "let us see whether you ean tell us the name ot this graceful looking animal with the big pronged horns? Hunters go up Into the woods every fall to shoot this beautiful creature. It Is very cruel of them to do so. Is It not? Can't you tell us what the animal is called? Come, now, think. I am sure yon know what it is. What does yonr father call your mother when be comes home at night?" "He calls her Betsy 'cause It plagues her." Chicago Record-Herald.

Hitherto it has been customary to make he joints for gas and water pipe by first introducing strands of hemp yarn Into the socket, then filling the space left with molten lead and afterward calking the latter. A more modern way is now provided by means of what is Known as "lead wool." The lead wool consists of fine threads of virgin lead, sut by special machinery in such a manner that it will weld together when calked.

The average capitalization of the 220,1 S3 miles of railroad in foreign countries is ?10S,000 a mile. In the United States the average for '222,3 10 miles is a little more than $58,000 a mile.

MASONIC CALENDAR. Wednesday Evening, Jan. 6 Webb Lodge No. 24, P. & A. M. Entered Apprentice Degree. - K Thursday Evening, Jan. 7 Wayne Council, No. 10. R. & S. M. Stated Assembly. ' " Friday Evening, Jan. 8 King Solomon's Chapter No. 4, R. A. M. Stated Convocation.

We have three long Velour Coats worth $40.00 to $42.50 which are beauties. $20.00 will buy one of them. Knotlenberq's Store. , PALLADIUM WANT ADS. PAY.

Mistaken Courtesy. A guileless rustic who wished to be employed on .. an English railway emerged from the examination room and Informed his expectant father that be had failed because ho was color blind. "But you can't bave!" said his father. "You're no more color blind ftian I am." "I know that, feyther," he replied, "but it's all through bein polite." "What do you mean? Explain yourself." "Well, feyther, I " went Into a room, and a chap held somethln up for roe to look at. 'This is green. Isn't it?' ses he. .'Come, now, you're positive It's green?' quite pleading-like, and. though I could see plain enough that it wor red, I couldn't find it in my heart to tell him so. So I agreed with him, and they bundled me out. No more perllteness for me. It don't Pay." SOWING THE SEED. Some are sowing the seed of word and deed. Which the cold know not nor the careless heed, f)f the gentle word and the kindly deed That hath blessed the earth In Us sorest need. Sweet will the harvest be. And some are sowing the seed of pain. Of dire remorse and a maddened brain. And tbe stars shall fall and the sun shall wane Ere they root the weeds from the soil again. Dark will the harvest be.

All Right Either Way. General Dabney H. Maury tells in his "Recollections of a Virginian" of an old lady In Fredericksburg who was reduced to taking in boarders in order to make both ends meet. On one occasion of peculiar stress the larder was so empty that the good lady took to her bed and summoned her servant "Nancy," she said, "there's nothing in the house for my boarders to eat except mush. But give them that. If they are Christians they will accept it in resignation and thankfulness, and If they are not Christians it is a deal too good for them." Latnartine's Modesty. Lamartinc in 1848 was at the acme of his glory and a cabinet minister. He had just contributed "La Marseillaise de la Paix" to the Revue des Deux Mondes, and Buloz, the editor, called on him at the ministry. "I believe I owe you 2,000 francs. Here is the money," said Lamartine, producing a bundle of bank notes. "Pray deduct the amount of the Rerue's indebtedness to you for your poem," said the editor. "I meant to make you a present of It," rejoined the poet. " "Not at all, I insist upon, paying you." "How rrwich?" "Your own- price, whatever it may be." "Ah, well, if you will have it so I must oblige you," said Lamartine, and, with a magnificent gesture, he swept up the whole bundle of notes representing the 2,000 francs and restored them, with solemn dignity, to his pocket ;, '

Grew Some. A keeper in a zoo was feeding the pythons. Several live rabbits were tossed into the cage and were immediately and greedily seized by the reptiles. The struggling rabbits, although seemingly almost as large as the snakes, were swallowed whole one aft

er another. Tbe grisly sight prompted

the scholarly looking man to exclaim "Grewsome, eh, keeper?"

The keeper turned a glance of scorn

upon the professor: "Yaas, and you'd a grew some, too, if you'd e't all that live stock, I guess."

A Parting Shot. Two young persons had been en

gaged,' had quarreled, but were too

proud to "make up." Furthermore, both were anxious to have it believed they had entirely forgotten each other. One day the young man called, ostensibly on business with her father.

on which occasion it chanced she

should answer the doorbell.

The young man was game. "Par

don me," he said, with the politest of

bows "Miss Eaton, I believe. Is your

father in?"

"I am sorry to say he Is not" the

young woman responded without the slightest sign of recognition. "Do you

wish to see him personally?"

"Yes," replied the young man as he

turned to go down the steps.

"I beg your pardon," called out the

young woman as he reached the low est step, "but who shall I say called?'

Effects of Reason.

Reason, like the magnetic influence

imparted to iron, gives to matter

properties and powers which it pos sessed not before, but without ex

tending its bulk, augmenting its

weight or altering its organization.

Like that to which I have compared it it is visible only by its efforts and perceptible only by Its operations.

Caleb C. Col ton. '

Fleeing From Fats.

An English village rector while

walking out one day noticed an old man in front of him hobbling along as fast as his legs could carry him and

apparently trying to escape him. See ing that it was one of his Mnimra

tion, who had not been to church of

late, the vicar hurried after him. "Hello, John!" said he. "How is

that I haven't seen you at church late

ly?" At first the rector could get nothing

out" of " Elm, but "after a Tittle persuasion he said: "Well, zlr, it be your youngest darter, Nelly; I be af eared of. "What! Afraid of Nelly, a girl of nineteen and only just returned from school?" "Yes. sir. You see," replied John, "when I went a-cortin an old forchin teller told me as 'ow I should be spliced . three times, first to a black an then to a yeller an then to a ginger. Now, when I buried my poor yeller Sally three months ago an your darter wl the ginger 'air corned 'ome from schuie I says to myself, I says: That's 'er. That's the einirer 'un. an

if I don't keep away from church.

sno u nab me-

In a Bad Way. The English spoken by the "Pennsylvania Dutch," as the inhabitants of certain districts in the eastern part of the state are popularly known, affords some rare specimens of expression. A man who was passing a smalt bouse on the outskirts of "Sous Besselem" that is the nearest possible spelling of the local pronunciation heard the daughter of the family calling her brother in to supper. "George," she said, "you come right in now. Pa's on the table, and ma's half et!"

A Careful Man. When Dawson reached town he was suddenly seized with a terrific toothache, and be flew to a dentist Investigation showed that the tooth was in such a condition that the only way to extract it comfortably was to put the sufferer under the influence of gas. Consequently Dawson threw himself back In the .chair, and tbe tube was applied. lie did not succumb any too readily, but in the course of time he was sleeping peacefully, and the offending molar was removed. "How much, doctor?" asked the patient after the ordeal was over. "Ten dollars," said the dentist, busi. ness being dull. "Ten dollars!" roared Dawson. "Yes. sir," said the dentist. "It was an unusually hard job getting that tooth out, and you required twice the ordinary amount of gas." "Humph!" ejaculated Dawson as he paid up. "Here's your money, but I tell you right now the next time I take gas from you you've got to put a meter on me." Harper's Weekly.

"Ours." Today a woman's property is sacred at any rate as sacred as a man's. A certain host remarked before his guests lately that he would send his motor to the station to meet So-and-so. "Our motor," corrected the hostess, who wants tone. As the lady had actually bought the motor, the correction was severe and rankled. Next morning the host came down very late to breakfast He was chaffed about this and explained: "I'm Borry. The fact is I mislaid our trousers." Little Courtesies. William Wirt's letter to his daughter on the "small, sweet courtesies of life" contains a passage from which a deal of happiness might be learned: "I want to tell you a secret The way to make yourself pleasing to others is to show them attention. The whole world is like the miller at Mansfield, who cared for nobody no, not he because nobody cared for bim. And the whole world would serve you so if you gave them the same cause. Let every one, therefore, see that you do care for them by showing them what Sterne so happily calls tbe small courtesies, in which there is no parade, whose voice is too still to tease and which manifest themselves by tender and affectionate looks and little acts of attention, giving others the preference in every little enjoyment at the table, in the field, walking, sitting or standing." Chopin's Kick. Chopin hated playing at social festivities. To a lady who after the dinner asked him to play he meiancholically answered: "Is it really necessary? I ate only so little."

Schoolmates. A conductor sent a new brakemah to put some tramps off the train. They were riding in a box car. The brakeman dropped into the car and said. "Where are you fellows going?" "To Atchison." "Well, you can't go to Atchison on this train, so get off." You get!" came the reply. And as the new brakeman was looking Into the business end of a gun he took the advice given him and "got." He went back to the caboose, and the conductor asked him if he had put the fellows off. "No," he answered. "I did not have the heart to put them off. They want to go to Atchison, and, besides, they are old schoolmates of mine." The conductor used some strong language and then said he would put them off himself. He went over to the car and met with the same experience as the brakeman. When he got back to the caboose the brakeman said, "Well, did you put them off?" "Naw; they're schoolmates of mine too."

An Unfortunate Participle. A college professor who preferred the participle "gotten" to "got" telegraphed to his wife: "Have gotten tickets for the theater tonight Meet me there." , The telegraph operator rendered this into "Have got ten tickets," etc. Mrs. Professor was delighted with the opportunity of entertaining her friends and accordingly made up a party of eight besides herself, whose greetings to the professor at the rendezvous were probably- more cordial than his feeling until matters were explained. He now makes an exception to his customary use of "gotten.

With the hauling of loads of logs of unprecedently large corporations and the sawing of progigious amounts of timber in a given length of time, upper Michigan has laid claim to a number of new records achieved in the lumbering industry in the last few months. Now still another championship is preempted. The man turning out 302 pos.ts in one day, Thomas Garney, of Sagola, Dickinson county, is believed to be the premier bark peeler of the Lake Superior country.

Princes Mary, of Wales, age ten, is a depositor in the Postoffice Savings Bank, and is said to be giving the promise of much acumen and ability in the management of her independent estate. . ...

Mart Eixrx: Gold Medal Flour Is the best for making everything. Sasaiya.

We Have Only One Price

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CLOAKS Now is lite Time Real Reductions TO Off

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TAFT OPPOSED 10 SUFFRAGE III THE DIST. COLUMBIA

Blasts Hopes of Those Who Have Been Clamoring for "Government by the People" System.

ONE MAN POWER RULE ; IDEA OF PRESIDENT

Large Class of Washington People Advocate the Present Government Because of District's Negro Population

From this time forward all our Fur Goods will be included in the discount sale. Knollenbera's Stor-

By Guy W. Finney.) Washington, Jan. 6. Presidentelect Taft's recent statement that he would oppose a return of suffrage to the District of Columbia seems . to blast the hopes of those opponents of the capital's present system of gov

ernment by commission who have, for the past six months, been clamoring loudly for "government by the people." Present Roosevelt's recent recommendation in a message to congress that the existing triumvirate government be abolished in favor of rule by one man, based on suggestions of James Bronson Reynolds, served to stimulate the activities of the friends of so-called popular government. While the president made it plain that he frowned on suffrage for the District of Columbia, when the subject matter of his message became known there was an immediate revival of the agitation for a return of the days when Washington elected its own governing powers. ' This led to some of the expectant ones sounding Mr. Taft for his present views and probable intentions, as Mr. Roosevelt's successor. Those who believed Mr. Taft would advocate suffrage for the capital might better profit now by directing their energies to another municipal subject. The president-elect's plain statement that he "does not now advocate government by the people in the District of Columbia, nor am I likely to in the future," would appear to put a permanent quictfus on the hopes of those who clung to the belief that he would. Diversity of Opinion. While there are many citizens of thy District of Columbia who would wOome most anything in the form of a change from their existing government, it is extremely doubtful if anything approaching a majority would agree to manhood suffrage, with all that it Implies in a community of 326.000 persons, one third of whom are negroes. The very weight of this opposition to the suffrage movement, therefore, augurs well for the permanency of the present commission system, despite the seemingly nrgent recommendation of President Roosevelt that the form be changed. It is doubtful, too, if the president's plan of substituting one man power, were it framed into a bill and introduced in ' congress, would enjoy smooth sailing. Besides the usual legislation shoals, the proposal to effect a change has become so repugnant to a large class of influential Washingtonians that their opposition promises to take the form of a mighty protest to congress. This opposs tion becomes clear to outsiders wher they understand tie character of some of the forces behind the agitation foi a change. Washington Storm Center. To begin, the American capital ha Ivaya been the storm center of vat i

ious form of agitation. There have been intermittent rumblings of discontent against the local commission since it supplanted back in 1872 a long rule by mayors and governors. This latest discontent began to manifest itself last summer soon after the president, when asked by a representative of the Washington Post, made it known that he would recommend James Bronson Reynold's suggestions for a change of the form of District government to congress. The Post, whose owner is John R. McLean, also owner of the Cincinnati Inquirer, president of the Washington Gaslight Company and a director in several large banks and corporations, imme

diately set about to demonstrate that

Washington needed a change of gov

ernment, and without delay. Daily

interviews with leading citizens setting forth reasons why the change should be made served by the Post to

its readers. This agitation was viewed by the people, according to their

personal opinions regarding the sincerity of the Post's crusade on the commissioners, with approval or dis

dain. Those who disapproved, as re

flected through many meetings of

citizens association, seemed in the

majority. McLean is an Issue.

Out of the din of controversary over the proposed , change - came the charge of two of the Post's local newspaper contemporaries . that Mr.

McLean's organ, in its fight on the District commissioners, was exploiting a personal spite because these gentlemen had, at the last session of congress, strongly advocated cheaper gas for Washington. This charge was supplemented by the assertion that what Mr. McLean really aimed at was not so much a change of government as it was a desire to overshadow the gase question, which came nearer to hitting his pocketbook, with agitation seemingly in the people's interests. There are those citizens who accepted that version as gospel, and there are others who, not doubting an ulterior motive on the part of the gas magnate, nevertheless desired a cbapge of government. Meantime, something like quiet has come over the municipal situation here. The Post has ceased printing the statements of those urging a governmental change, ceased even to editoralize on the inefficiency of the pre

sent form of government and the beauties of some other form in prospect; the house of representatives has passed a bill providing for 85 cent gas for the capital, and unless there are

unforseen pitfalls ahead, it would seem that the commission system held the whip hand.

IS HETTY" GltCEN HAPPY? Item. A plain old woman, wearing a dowdy black dress, with a slatternly appearing old hat tipped over a shrewd eye and a cunning face. That is a pen picture of Hetty Green, owner of many millions, as she sits at her private desk in tbe big bank she owns in New York city. Since tbe days of Russell Sage this woman has more ready cash to lend than any other person In Gotham. When taxes come in slowly and tbe city authorities need money to meet the heavy expenses they go to Hetty Green for it and pay good interest for the short loan, you may be sure. For many years Iletty Green lived in a cheap flat in Hoboken. just across the river from Manhattan, and paid therefor a rental of $19 per month. New York gasped when she gare up her flat and moved into the high priced Plaza hotel. It did not last long, though Iletty could Lave bought the hotel and never missed the money.

She went back to Hoboken and tried to rent the old flat, but it had been leased. She is still looking for a flat in that neighborhood, . You see, rents are cheaper and living is cheaper In Hoboken. And tbe grasping old woman pinches the nickels closer than you or I. She lives only to pile np extra dollars. So far as known, Hetty Green never gave away a dollar. : It would be difficult to make her believe in tbe beatitude, "It is more blessed to give than to receive." Therefore it is almost superfluous to Inquire whether, with all ber dollars, she is happy. Not necessarily. Dollars won by commercial conquest may give to the conqueror a certain species of satisfaction, but dollars cannot bring happiness. Happiness and dollars belong to different worlds. Wealth itself Is like salt water. That is to say, the more yon drink of either the more yon want. And so this money mad little woman, aX a time when she ought to be dancing ber grandchildren on ber knee, cits long hours in the bank. Besides the bank which she controls, she baa many millions Invested in real estate and securities. She denies herself the comfort demanded by a twelve dollar a week clerk and goes on squeezing ont dollars. For what?

INDEBTEDNESS IS POTTER S LEGACY

Former Township Trustee Leaves Successor Two Unpaid for Schools.

TOTAL COST WAS $18,000

HOWEVER THIS DEFICIENCY WAS CUT DOWN TO $10,000 BEFORE POTTER'S TERM . OF OFFICE HAD EXPIRED.

When Charles Potter retired from the office of trustee of Wayne townbhip, he turned over to his successor an indebtedness of $lO,00. This debt was incurred by the erection of two new school buildings, the total cost of which was more than 1S.. The fact Potter was able to attend to the incessant demands upon the office and

at the same time cut down a deficiency to as low as $10,Tmo is very much In his favor. . : Tbe two buildings erected are No. ! and No. 11. No. 9 Is located east of the city on the Henley road. It Is the newest school house in the county. No. 11 Is located west of the city at

I thexjunction of Easthaven Avenue and

the National Road. This building holds the distinction of being the finest township school structure of its size

in the state. It was built at the cost of

approximately Slo.nriO. Besides building these school houses Potter had many calls for other expenses due to the schools.

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