Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 84, 31 January 1909 — Page 4

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, SUNDAY, JANUARY 31, 1909. The Richmond Palladium and Sun-Telegram Published and owned by the PALLADIUM PRINTING CO. Issued 7 days each week, evenings and Sunday morninar. Office Corner North 9th and A streets. Home Phone 1121 RICHMOND, INDIANA. ADVERTISEMENT. Jack Binns and Third Mate of the Ill-Fated Republic ra 0 ll r Rudolph G. ticeds Nutstif Edltr. Charles M. Marfan Bualneaa Mar. O. Owes Kuha Xew Editor. uuuu

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THE PAMPERING OF PRISONERS. No Etate In the union is more beneflclent to its public charges than is the etate of Iowa. The insane asylums, the poor houses, the prisons all are under separate boards of control. These boards are composed of the finest men that the state can find. There has never been a breath of scandal in connection with these institutions elnce the boards have taken charge. As a matter of fact certain politicians have been only too eager to find such conditions bo that they might have an opportunity to filch the state funds. Now recently these politicians have seized what to them was sufficient excuse to embarrass the board of control of the prisons, for a certain warden of a state prison took it into his head to try a new scheme of treatment under his wardenship. He took off their chains; he allowed them to wear citizens' clothes; to have daily newspapers, to form clubs, to associate together and many more things of like character. Then came a howl. The protest came first from the politicians. Next it came from the day laborers who worked for a small wage. And so on. The board of control Immediately backed up the warden. The scheme of the warden is utterly untried and has obvious disadvantages. The greatest objection is of course that it makes jail too pleasant. The man who goes to prison, is at least sure of his day's food and a place to sleep at night. There are many men in the United States who are not sure of either and a vast majority of these men have families to support. It is easy to see that if you make prison life attractive that you will have men In the prisons. There may be many people will sneer at the idea. But their attention need only to be called to the fact that

unaesiraoies in me large cities are

simply told to "move on." And the

police are docked a certain amount if they arrest a man who wants to be ar

rested.

Half the crime or a large percentage

of it is charged to the attempt of jail birds to get into easy berths again.

It remains to be seen at any rate what the effect of the warden in Iowa

will b on the statistics of crime.- The treatment of criminals is still a much

vexed problem. It may be the idea of the board of control to try this scheme out there is no other way of finding out. But according to those things which are accepted up to this time the sew regimen seems almost criminal. There must be somethig in human nature which, demands that the people who have offended or rather those (who have been caught) shall suffer. By those who look forward to better things it might be advanced for the side of the kind hearted warden that a hundred years ago the treatment of the Insane was one ot hardship. It may have been and probably was advanced at that time as a valid proposition that the insane should be abused so that the population would not 'choose to be insane. It may be than in years to come we shall regard the criminal as an insane man. Without joking this seems to be the trend of events. No one can have 'failed to notice the increase ot men who commit murder who are found insane. Many of these ' no doubt are not insane. But some of them must be. The scientists are more and more inclined to the view that criminals are men suffering from some form of perversion of instincts. The time may easily be at hand when the action of the Iowa warden will not seem so criminally beneficent.

are plenty of names still extant which stand for wealth, good citizenship and progress, which were here in the earliest beginnings of things. In addition to this, the large number of wide awake people who have moved into the county is-ever on the increase and not many of them move away. These facts are further supplemented by another thing. If one should compare the lists of questions which were sent out by Roosevelt's Country Life Commission with the condition of farmers in this vicinity, it would fce at once apparent that the farmers of this county have many more of the necessities and luxuries of life than in most parts of the country. There is no need to point out that in addition to good roads there are traction lines and railroads in this county to facilitate trade to say nothing of telephones and the like. - It may be frivolous to repeat what a man in Richmond said when he heard of the Barcelona earthquake yesterday morning that, "Wayne county is a good place to live in." But there are other kinds of earthquakes beside the disturbances of the earth. There are financial-panics, the failures of boom towns, and all the horror of mob and lynch law that is to be found in some sections of the Country. Wayne county has none of these things. It may make it a trifle dull for those adventurous spirits who want excitement but the most of us are happy, or should be to live, in peace and quiet It is doubtless due to the fact that we have none of the periodical upheavals of the sort above mentioned that today the citizens of Wayne coun

ty are individually better off financial

ly than are the citizens of any of the other ninety one counties in this state. And it is a by-product of the evenly distributed wealth that WTayne countians are much more disposed to give time to what are undoubtedly the bet

ter things of life. Three articles of interest to Wayne county farmers appear in this issue.

Each of them bears on the future of

Wayne county as a place which will be good to live in and to do business In. One is the view of real estate men in this city of the future of real estate values; another, the estimate of an experienced local man on the possibilities of the Corn school on the

corn crop; and the third, an author

itative article on cqrn, seeding by an expert.

They all are pertihent at the opening of the corn school at Centerville,

which promises so muqh to the well-

fare of the coming Wayne county.

WAYNE COUNTY: A GOOD PLACE TO LIVE. There is no doubt that one of the most valuable things which can be said of any community is that it is a

good place to live in. If there were no other proof of this fact, none, better

need be offered than the fact that a large number of, the most progressive people in the Middle West have seen fit to live in this part of the country for many generations. There

THE ALOOFNESS OF LINCOLN

As the chaff is slowly weeded out

of the Lincolniana one salient feature above all others is disclosed to those

who regard the evidence which is" be

ing constantly submitted. In some

men this aloofness is a trick, as wit

ness its employment by charlatans of all the ages. In some men it is by design like that of the great Napoleon

who never divulged his plans. This

was not the case in Lincoln. Lincoln

was not the man to impose on his fellows with subtrafuge and the like nor was it like that straight, forward man to make a mystery of himself. But the mystery was there. And it was not of Lincoln's making.

accepted the advice of his would-be

counsellors. But Lincoln's aloofness came to his rescue. He was willing to stake his

views against all the others because

he had fought thet battle out in his

own heart. Having once made up his

mind he was willing to let all minor matters slide to take care of themselves. Even the lives of many men

could not move him.

In the case of Lincoln there was a

likeness to that patron saint of France

Joan of Arc She. in her " simple peasant girlhood, fought out with her solitary dreams the salvation of France. And so Lincoln in his lonely life as a boy of the poor, spurned by his kinsfolk and oppressed by the dissolution of his worthless father, sought refuge in his own dreams and his conscience. It was the reflection of that inward life that made Lincoln all alone ia the world aloof. There are some men who are lonely from their birth as if they had been born under the influence of sad complacent stars. To such a man who communes w ith his own self and who lives the battles of the world within his heart there is little which the outside world can affect. That is the secret of Lincoln's aloofness and his terrible loneliness. No man of that stamp may by any possibility have friends. For to have friends means to share with some man your burden and likewise to shoulder his. Lincoln shared his burden only with his God and he took up in his heart the vast burden of all the world. Therein lies Lincoln's aloofness.

Gratuitous Advice. A man had sat for some time in a restaurant looking thoughtfully at his saucer of melting ice cream. At last he left his chair and made bis way to the proprietor. "I see you advertise that you make your own Ice cream," he said in a confidential tone. "I do, sir," said the proprietor. "Well, srid the man, "would you permit me to give you a little pointer? I won't charge you a ce.nt, and it'll be money in your pocket," "Glad to hear it, I'm sure," said the proprietor. "Get somebody else to make it," said the man in a hoarse whisper. Youth's Companion.

Cut Off In His Prime. That the negro residing in the north has the fondness for euphonious words regardless of their meaning that characterizes his brother in the south was illustrated by a remark overheard a few days ago. Two colored women stood chatting at the corner of Eighth and Lombard streets. One of 'them ostentatiously clad in mourning said, with a doleful shake of the head to reply to a query from the other: "Taas, he died in de height of his ssen-lth." Philadelphia Ledger.

Trtith and Quality appeal to the Well-informed in every walk of life and are essential to permanent success and creditable standing. Accoringly, it is not claimed that Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna is the only remedy of known value, but one of many reasons why it is the best of personal and family laxatives is the fact that it cleanses,

Take for instance the spectacle of j sweetens and relieves the internal organs

Lincoln without a friend rising from

his country practice at the bar in Illi-1

nois, to the presidential candidateship of a party, and having been elected; opposing his will in exactly the opposits direction from that of every man who was of prominence in the party and the country. Compare this with the 'ear to the ground' policy that has been employed by almost every president of the United States. How easy it would have been to have

on which it acts without any debilitating after effects and without having tq increase the quantity from time to time. It acts pleasantly and naturally and truly as a laxative, and its component parts are known to and approved by physicians, as it is free from all objectionable substances. To get its beneficial effects always purchase the genuine-: manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co., only, and for sale by all leading drug-

CULTUREOFCORH MEANS MONEY FOR AGRICULTURISTS

New System of Corn Raising, Says Joseph Helms, Is Far Superior to the Old Growing Methods. CORN SCHOOL WILL BE BENEFIT TO FARMERS Nearly All 'Will Gain Experience, Expert States, Except Those Too Lazy to Make Any Progress.

Carl Bernhardt. "The use of pedigreed com along scientific methods in this county will mean an increase of from three to five or more bushels to the acre in the next four or five years." That is the statement made by Mr. Joseph Helms the corn expert of this vicinity who lives in the southern part of the county. Mr. Helms has long been known as an authority on the subject of corn. He was recently selected to represent Wayne county at the Omaha corn exposition by Gov. Hanly. it is largely due to the enthusiasm and interest which he has displayed that the Sixth District corn

school, which is about to be held at Centerville on Feb. 1-6 has become more than a castle in the air. Raise Pedigreed Corn. "As far as I know," said Mr. Helms, "I am the only man in this part of. the country who has really tried the pedigreed corn. Most of the men to whom I have sold' pedigreed corp have not been careful to observe the laws

which govern its successful operation

and so have failed to get the full returns and in some case any return from the money they have put into it." Mr. Helms said that the average farmer would plant his seed corn in close proximity with ordinary corn and that the mongrel product was not successful. Patience is Required. "To get the full benefit from the pedigreed corn requires not only patience and close application but descrimination and good intelligence as well." "The average man who listens to the processes of raising, acclimating and selecting seed corn gets discouraged. He thinks it is a complicated affair. But in reality it is not at all hard." "There is a great difference between raising seed corn and buying

pedigreed animals. True, the princi

ple holds good in both instances. "But in the raising of pedigreed

stock the man who goes into the en

terprise must expend a large amount of money on the individual animals. Moreover he is in constant danger of their death by disease and accident There is not the same percentage of

demand for pedigreed live stock that

there is for good corn. Good corn is always saleable especially good uniform corn. And good uniform corn can be raised in great abundance by the farmer if he will only heed the teaching of the corn experts. Principles Are Easy.

"The principles are easy enough to

master and the Sixth district corn school will see an awakening among the farmers throughout this section." "How many farmers will come to the corn school and listen and go away without being helped?" was the question put to Mr. Helms by the reporter." "Not one of them will go away unaffected," said Mr. Helms, "but there are many men, perhaps one-third that will never take up Use new system because they will cling to the old fashioned methods. These men are -too laT iwd progressive toyer be suc-

exeept ay accident. The pedf-

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greed corn has a better chance in a poor season and a far better one in a good season. That is being successful by system. "Have you kept any accurate account of what your corn has done, Mr. Helms?" Helms Keeps Record. "I have not been able to keep as complete a record as I hope to this next year. I have secured blank forms from the agricultural school at Purdue and it will be easier to know exactly what my seed plot is doing then. If I were to describe the blank forms I have no doubt that many of my friends out in the country would turn up their noses at it as being a waste of time but it corresponds exactly in farming to the production tables and bookkeeping of a manufacturer. "I figure out that if by that way I can increase Jy corn even one bushel an acre for a few years that it will mote than repay me for the work I do in my seed plot. "If farmers would only realize that this means money in their pockets we should soon have every one in the county over at the coming corn school."

Wayne County

409 square miles. 250.407 acres of farm land valued at $10,018,250. Farm land selling at an average value of $95 per acre. 12,275 people living in Wayne County, outside of towns. 828 public roads. 702 miles of improved graveled roads.

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