Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 197, 24 May 1909 — Page 4

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THE mCHHOlTD yiti.itwmr AND SUN-TELlEGRA3I,"EIOTrDAT, 3IAT 24, 1909.

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tzi sTeI;rcn teased 7 days seen week, evenings end Sunday moraine Office. Corr-er N'ortU sta and A etreots. noma Phone 1U1. IUCUICOXIX INDIANA. Editor. M. Merc).. SUBSCRIPTION TERMS. In Jtlchmond fg.00 par vance) or lOe no year . On WMk. adUAtL IONS. ae year, la advance . mfm month, in advance . 2.60 at month. In advance . .48 RURAL. ROUTES. e-na year. In advance ........... .11 0 BIX months In advance 115 One month. In advance S6 Aadrese cbanired as often aa deal red; eta new and old addreaeea must be "Ivan. flabscrtbers win ni uaaae remit wttfe order wfaicn should be alven (or apeclflod term; name will not be enter ed nntu payment is received. Katered at Richmond. Indiana, jxtorrico as jtacoaa cum mat matter. (New Yark Ctt-1 hat aadeertMUtaaelrc&latloal at this paMairViB, Only the finrw at 4 is its npert an a Pe h n I if a The farmer is wondering whether this wet May will be the beginning of a dry campaign like last, year's. Those papers which handle -classified ads may refuse to use any more stuff about the zenafarias and the giasticutas of the Roosevelt wireless service. : . .. " ' Now will come the Sugar Trust and prove an alibi. Injured innocence at home and Abroad! O. Bernard Shaw will now announce that he does not want to be buried in Westminster Abbey slnee the Dean of Westminster has said that there is no room in that hall of fame. Says the New York Post: "Presi dent Taft fa trying to find out what the ultimate tariff consumer will get out of the new tariff law." Why. should there be any need for htm to conduct a serious inquiry? Ex-Governor Durbin shows by his raeant letter that he is not content to let Beveridge be his own senator. The people of the state may be willing to put up with the (slight delay that Beveridge is occasioning Mr. Aldrich in putting his views into operation. DURBIN AND BEVERIDGE It ia said on good authority that the letter recently published in the Indianapolis Star - from Ex-Governor Durbin was for the purpose of emharassing Beveridge. The letter purports to represent the business men of the state, advising the senator not to delay the tariff-bill because it hurts business. This may or may not have j t been the purpose of Durbin we hope not At the same time there ' are some newspapers which are on the Aldrich side which are continually urging that the tariff ; be rushed through in a minute or two, although this tariff will, or ought to last for some years- if it is properly constructed. These and other sources seem to be oblivious to the permanent damage which might be done to the trade and business of the .country if it is done along the hasty get-lt-over-with lines. We prefer the Beveridge plan. It is better for the country and consequently better for the pavty. And this is so, particularly In t!iie state. - Any attempt to intimidate Beveridge will fail. It should. He should be left free to accomplish what he can without being attacked In the rear and on the flank. SANITARY PRECA UTION So much attention has been paid to the typhoid question, as far as milk and water are concerned that there is reason to hope that the summer will show a slighter mortality in that disease.- The boiling of water is sim ple enough and more and more people are becoming careful about drinking unboiled - well ; water : no matter how pure and sparkling it may look. u seems strange tnen tnat with a growing regard for the water itself there has. not been an equal amount of care shown in the drinking tup proposition. Especially is this true in the schools where hundreds of children, now that the warm days' have come, rush dur ing recess time to get a drink of water. The deposit from the mouths of the children on the cup, when studied by too authorities has demonstrated that all sorts of germs are present in quantities large enough to be danger ous. And to go farther on with the. thing how many people have ever watch ed straws ta soda water establish meats? Many of the druggists and other dispensers of the summer drlnka . have not availed .themselves of the new methods of proTtdlsg taxi, person

77E srotf r of the palladium

Its Progress and its Policy

THE VALUE OF RURAL CIRCULATION

We have already mentioned the ideal of a newspaper's mission that it should be a cohesive force. Instances of this are common enough In the town, but there is no place where a better example can be seen than In the value to a town of a newspaper with an extensive, rural circulation. . , Do you ever think why you buy things at a certain place? Most people do not stop to think they simply patronize without analysing the reasons. The commonest reason is that you know the proprietor of the business you feel at home in his place of business, you are interested in his progress. And so what was once a , mere personal preference becomes a habit. It is this phase of human thought which has given value to trade marks which are extensively advertised. The consumer has been made a friend of the product. This is just as true in the relation of a town as a trading center, as it is of a. merchant in'his business. The mere reading of the news of, a certain town and 'its vicinity day after day produces a subconscious acquaintanceship , with the town and its people. To know the daily round of .events and to become interested in the progress of a town means eventually that the interest will manifest itself in trade. This is what rural circulation on the part of the newspaper doeB for both town and country. It brings them together for their mutual advantage.

IN OUR CASE

At the time wa bought the Sun-Telegram our rural route circulation was larger than that of the Sun-Telegram, which in turn was larger than

that of the Item, The Palladium was then a morning paper. When we changed from the morning to the evening field this rural circulation was

particularly strong. With this start

have to this day sought for and maintained the largest rural circulation.

THE POINT OF VIEW

It was our opinion that a co-operative attitude on the part of the city

of Richmond and the country around it would be to the benefit of both. If it be true that it is to the advantage of a town to increase its

trade and communication with the country it is none the less true that

there is a decided advantage to the trading center. For trade is always

back and forth Is primarily one of the first relations of town and country. If one of these relations is impaired it reacts on the other.

- Consider that a good market is

is it jjone the less desirable that goods and supplies shall be bought as conveniently and -cheaply as possible? So the interests of town and

country are identical in the matter. We saw and have endeavored to working together of the merchants producers and other citizens of the HOW CO-OPERATION WORKS By bringing more trade with its it is not only the merchants who gain. town. When the business of the town

consequent lowering of operating expenses which :- enables the business

man to, furnish better goods at a lower So it works on and on in a circle. THE MAKING OF A COMMUNITY

It has always been bur policy to adopt this constructive attitude toward both the town and country In this way we make our paper valu

able not only to the country and the vidual is concerned, but we draw them That this working together of the

ficial so far as we have been the agent there is no doubt. More and

more people have become interested in Richmond and have demonstrated that it is only necessary for them to become acquainted. In the past few years the country trade back and forth has increased. It might have : gone elsewhere. But there is ever an increasing exchange and it will be our policy in the future as in the past to do all in our power to aid

both these factors In their growth.

This is one instance of the cohesive force of the paper In its Work In

the community. with a straw that has not been handled over and over again on the business end. If each person who sees straws and cups, etc., in an unsanitary condition would mention the fact it would bring about better conditions and encourage those men who are careful of the health of their customers. When the dispensers of the delect able soda under unsanitary conditions become aware of the fact that the public is interested In preserving its health, there will be a change for the better. Those in authority in public places, where the people quench their thirst owe a responsibility to the public. The retail trade in such things can not be affected for the better, unless each man speaks for himself. Carefulness only comes when each individual makes a pointof asserting himself for the general good. And this is the duty of eaca citizen. It is the child and not the adult who suf fers from criminal negligence of sani tary precautions. TWINKLES A Statesman and Hie Constituents. - "Do you think the tariff should be revised upward or downward?" 'Well,' ' answered Senator Sor ghum, "my position is something like that of a man who is running an elevator. The course I select is necessarily dependent on the demands of a great many different people. Necessarily, it varies from time to time." . Uncertain. "What did you have. for breakfast?" "I don't know. . I long since abandoned the practice of reading the labels required by the pure food law. Difficulties of the Chase. The creatures vhich -so gaily flit Through many an Afric dell Are doubtless very hard to hit And harder -yet to spell. - . An Idealist's Purpose. "And suppose the world's wealth were distributed among individuals as you desire; what would you do with your share?" ' "I'd start a business of my own." said the socialist "and amass 'a competency that woold .relieve a from

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! and a materially steady growth we country in having a live town as exchange. The exchanging of goods desirable on the part of the country emphasize the importance of the and citizens of the town with the county. consequent money into the town, Nor is it only the people of the is growing healthily there is a cost to the consumer. town as far as the particular indi both together. town and country has been bene dependence on the prevarious profits of lecturing.' "Why do you yell at your mule in that manner?" said the kindly person. Have you no sympathy for dumb an-1 imals?" . "Boss," answered Mr. Erastus Pinkley, "when dat animal takes a notion, 1 he's wuss dan dumb. He's deaf and dumb." An Approval, Although you may not hit the pace Required to gain the foremost place, There's always comfort to be found If you're not losin any ground. In this swift era, be it known, -v It's somethin' jes' to hold your own, An' so, us folks at ol' Pohick Don't join the comments risin' thick About the length of time that will Be needed fur a tariff bill. These statesmen take their time, that's true; But as the matter we review We find that while they don't proceed At any startlin' rate of speed, They'e not slid back as facts will show, From where they started long ago; And that, as legislation goes. Is purty good, the whole world knows! A Very Genial Club. Recently at a dinner party the conversation turned upon the subject or clubs. The special features of the Athenaeum were referred to "with great respect, and then a well known author, who was the only member Of that august club who happened to be present Intervened. "After having been elected by the Athenaeum crab," he said, "I went there for the first time and looked about for the smoking room. An old man with long white hair was wandering in a lonely way about the halL 1 asked him if he would be so kind as to tell me the way to the smoking room. He agreed with alacrity. When we returned to the hall 1 thanked him heartily, when he begged me to do him the honor of dining with him. 'But my dear sir I said, 'you hate been far too kind to me already. 1 cannot think of imposing myself open you In this fashion.' Imposing- yourself r exclaimed the old man in aa eager voice. On the contrary, you will be doing me the greatest favor in the, world. The fact is I have belonged to this club for thirty years, and you are the first member who has ever spoken to mer "Lon don Bellman. MASONIC CALENDAR; Friday. May. 28. King Solomons Chapter No. 1, R. A. M. Work in the Past &4 Itost xeetieat

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Items Gathered in From Far and Near The Army Mule. From the Chicago Post. By an order from headquarters the automobile i passes from some of the army posts and the mule comes back to its own. ! It was only a question of time, for the attachments of the ages are not easily

broken. The mule's enlistment never j I was intended tb expire, and as for the

summary dismissal, it was ill-consider ed, but now all's well once more with I the mule and the army. The army mule is a tactician and a strategist. Study of its habit has won many a battle. By the mere curl of a lip it develops a defensive front, and under I no circumstance of seeming peace or of active war are its flanks left un guarded. The mule heard the army swear in Flanders and it hears It ! swear in the Philippines. It always has been the target for profanity, and it has done loyal service as the sol diers safety valve. Flies. From the Galveston News. God bless the man who . first invented screens, and God pity the man who is too indolent or indifferent to place them between his family and the spreaders of deadly disease. There is absolutely no excuse for the man or woman whose place of habitation swarms with flies and , whines with the voice of mosquitoes. .They can be kept out and 25 cent spent in keeping them out is eauivalent to keeping out a doctor who would cost $25, or possibly to keeping out a much less welcome visitor. Jollying Royalty. From the Chicago Post. air. Carne gie congratulated the king of Italy upon the progress of. his country and the nice appearance of Rome. Wasnt it John L. Sullivan who said of his interview with Edward VII, "I spoke affable to the king and put him at his ease"? Aldrich's Power. From the Duluth News Tribune. No one can dispute that Mr. Aldrich owns a majority of the senate voting stock. The Salt Sea Legend. There ia a legend in the Norse scalds which explains why the sea is salt. The "bouatlrul FrndV- whose mythical reign was a golden age Indeed, pos sessed a quern, or hand mill, which ground out gold and peace, but which would grind out stores of anything desired by its owner. Two giant maidens, ruled over by Frodi, were the grinders. In an evil day sea rover came upon the scene, slew Frodi and carried off the quern and the two giant irmidone who worked It When the sea rover's vessel was Tight out at sea he ordered the maidens to grind salt. At midnight they asked if they had not ground -enough. The sea rover, angry at being awakened from his sleep, commanded them to grind until morning. Now, the giant maidens naturally enough worked vary quickly, so as they went on grinding the load of salt grew bo heavy that it sank the ship, and now the sea will continue salt forever. Looked Tee Far. There was an English farmer, a Somersetshire man, who once owned a telescope. The old man remarked to a friend at a local race meeting that tne sentry nowadays had glasses for both eyes and added that he "had bad one once for one eye, a right good one it was, but now it was no use at all no, not to nobody." Why not?" asked the friend. "WeH," he wtid, "it were a good one. I could see miles wi en. I could see plain the steeple of the church five mfies off. But missus' son John, he borrowed en, and he tried to see the steeple of t'other church, ten miles off and tried and tried and couldn't And that strained It, and it were nevtr of no nee any more no, not to nobody." A TreubiesosM Mirror. "Mamma, said Flossie, "this old looking glass isn't any goad. "Why, what's the matter with It dear?" asked her mother. "Every time I try to look in it explained Flossie, "my face gets in the way . As a Corollary. Are marriages made in heaven?" "As to that I can't say. Tout I do know this much. -What's that Pelegr "There lots of wnrtlng done to church." Ijonisrille Courier-Journal. Didn't Get a Chance. She What did papa say when 70a asked him for my hand? He Why, he couldn't say a word, "He couldn't?" "No: your mother was therer loo kers Btatesman., . How She Traveled. . "Bow did tfc queen of Sheba travel when she went to see Solomon?" asked a Sufday school teacher. No one ventured to answer. "Could she have gone by the railway r , "ls'm." said a little girt. "Irdeed! Well, we would like to know bow, yon found this out." . -lit the second verse." respoaded the child- "it aaya she came with a great I train Habit. "That wa an awful break you made at Mm Getros's tittle beffet Ittseaeon yesterday." said his wife. . "What break r Afer you had received your plate of sand and finger roll from the ma Id yon started to walk aboat the room lookisg for toe cashier." Detroit Free Pre. Satanic. "Satan is represented as rnnatn' after folks wlf a pitchfork." said Cnc! Eben. "when de truth is dat so many folks Is pnlUa' at his coattalls dat be ain't got . time to chase nobody."

Heart to Heart 1 alks. By EDWIN A. NYE.

Copy.isht, 1908, by Edwin A. Nye XSE IDEAL WOMAN. Dr. -Lyman Abbott editor of the Out look, outlines his -conception of the ideal woman; woman who Is not the slave of fashion nor the dressmaker. . Who is not afraid that work will spoil her hands. Who wears shoes in which ahe can walk, thereby getting her color from exercise instead of the rouge box. "Who develops her love of beauty In her home. Who is 'Industrious, sympathetic. energetic, enthusiastic, motherly and a true friend." Well, that is considerable to demand of one woman, is it not? And yetThere is nothing in the requirements that call for the super-womanly. The qualities specified are the old homely, practical qualities that are to be found in the average woman. Of course you will not find these qualities in the woman of the Four Hundred or seldom. These society dames, for the most part, are the slaves of fashion; coddle their hands by frequent recourse to the manicure; cripple to and from their carriages in high heeled shoes and get their complexions from art Paraphrasing Editor Abbott's enu mention, we may say of these women They are industrious in their dissi pations; sympathetic where sympathy is not needed; energetic in their at tendance on functions; motherly to their lap .dogs; true frkMufcwwhile the sun of prosperity shines. They concern themselves in nothing more than the problem of how to dou ble on bridge, the symphony of table decorations, the newest fad on rhythmic emotions or the whyness of artis tic thusness. But there are others. . There are hosts of women who fill to the full the measure of ideal womanhoodWomen who are not afraid of soiling their hands, who use -sensible shoes, who wear their native colors on lip and cheek, who are 'industrious, sym pathetic, energetic, enthusiastic, moth erly and true friends. More than that! If you would picture many of these women you would need employ his tory and rhetoric, because Thousands of our everyday women are Esthers in attractiveness, Miriams In courage, Sarahs in gracious dignity, Rachels in affection for their children, Marthas in devotion to their house holds and Marys in their devotion to spiritual things. TEC STEPMOIW ER.. It Is time some one should say good word for the stepmother, who Is often greatly misunderstood and criticised. Perhaps too much is , expected of her. Mothers themselves are not perfect How. then, can you expect a perfect stepmother? Poor woman! Often she undertakes duties . little understood when she assumes them. Only a surpassing love will supply wisdom and patience and strength for the successful issue of her labors. When she assumes direction of children that are not her own she must learn to know their instincts and emotions and ways, a thing difficult enough at the best. - Moreover The stepmother must be careful to give her stepchildren all the rights snd privileges to which they are en-: titled and know just where to draw the line. Besides, she must be strong enough to take her own place and hold ithold It graciously and kindly, but hold it She must carefully preserve the father's influence and never step be tween him end his children. And ahe mast enforce the father's authority. And But why try to catalogue the onerous duties and trials of the step mother? This Is true: . However well she may succeed and however much the real mother may have failed, the stepmother may ex pect criticism from the neighbors and. it may be, hostility from the relatives of the family. Many a conscientious, self sacrific ing woman has teamed 'that bitterBess. Nevertheless The good foster mother who pets her soul intn the mothering of a dead woman's children, who robs neither the father of his standing with his children nor the children of - their rightful Inheritance, who guides the little feet into careful paths and di rects the older feet from straying, who despite criticism and objection worthily-fills the place of mother In' the household that woman has been greatly successfuL Her life has been well worth while.: Had Him Both Ways. "How dare yon come on parade. exclaimed an Irish sergeant to a recruit, "before a respictible man loike mesQf smothered from head to foot ia graise an poipeclay?. TeU me now answer me when I spake to yez!" The recruit wss about to excuse himself . for bis condition when the sergeant stopped him. ' . "Dare yea td answer me when 1 pats a question to yez? he cried. "Houtd yer lyln tongue and open your face at yer peril! Tell me now, what hare yes been doia wid yer uniform an arms an Lilts? , Not a word or 111 clap yes in the guardroom. When I axes yex anything an' yes Snakes III have yez tried for insolence to yer superior officer, but lf yez don't answer when I iuetion yex 111 have yez punished for disobedience of orders: So. yea see. I have yes both wavr Ten i-dbS Family BeTald. V T '

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Temperance People Formed a Clan With Novel Mode Action

Greenwich, Conn.; May 24. Worshippers of Bach lis In the village of C03cob and vicinity have recently become terrorized by what is said to be a mysterious clan which is working in the interests of temperance in a most novel fashion. 1 Special Officer Jones took into custody a very black man who was later found to be Charles Carol ig. A coat of stove blacking had been applied to UANMING THE STATIONS. Dieeipline Aboard Ship at Sea In Times of Emergency. At no time is the perfect organization aboard ship so well Illustrated as In the time of aa emergency. The slightest scent of danger In The wind must find every man ready. . And every man is reaay. Every man nas a number. Every man has a station. A bell tap may send your dining room steward off at a run Just when he Is serving your soup. At the bell tap be is no longer yonr steward. He Is "Xo. 78" in the ship's emergency organization, and waea he gets to his station he finds Nos. 54. 45. 230, 117. 248 and some others there to act with him like a machine. Aboard a big ship there are sometisaes as many as sixty stations about the vessel, and at the sound of aa alarm bell thirty sec onds have not elapsed before every man baa respoaded to his number at his station and is ready to act. to fight fire, to man the lifeboats, or what not. Up in the wheel house Is further exemplification of what system will do. Within reach of the officers are a dozen contrivaacea of machinery that connect with every part of the Ship. A- touch of one lever closes a balkhead in this or that compartment of the hold, a touch of another mans all emergency stations, a lever here mans lifeboat so-and-so. and a lever there mans any one or all. ' Here Is a telephone, its wires extending to every part of the ship, and an officer's voice carried to k distance station la the bowels of the sbip Ts so magnified by mechanical means that It can be heard twenty feet from the receiver and fairly betlows its orders. A sailor or steward never knows at what minute, day or night be may be called to his station. At the sound of the signal bell he must be at bis -post. There is a drill of some kind every day aboard ship." but the men never know whether they are running to a real fire of only & drill. Boats are un covered, falls overheated, davits swung out. Every ooat most have Its com pass, night signal, fresh water and provisions ready for Immediate actios. From the chart room the captain can start a squad fa the most remote part of the ship simply, by pressing a batton, and the Hashing of tlay electric lights faithfully record bow every detail of the driii to being carried oat. A chart gives the location of all bulkheads, and a tiny light sparkles when this or that water tight compartment is closed. In case of a collision evefy bulkhead below the water line Is closed by a turn of a lever In the wheelhouse. making the modern ship pracflckil'f -onsinkable. Vaa Tiet Adllng IB Bookkeeper. - . While shooting at Wool. Dorset Sagland, a farmer. fired at a hs re. and missed it. , The here made for a -bedc? and got caught in a wire. . The farmer fired again, and the shots cut the wire. The hare, thus freed got 'away, to the -Chagrin of the sportsman. I.niaion Telegraph, '

FIRE INSURANCE CO. him while he lay In an alcoholic stu-. por. It was but a short time ago that Jos-' tice Brush brought the Greenwich po lice to Coscob on a similar case, when they found a saow white negro making a a great rumpus in the village street" He had been whitewashed. It U ; averred by the habitues of the village saloon that the unfortunates were the victims of an organized band of "temperance cranks. - - He Daxed lew Wanaee. Shortly after the' first success of "Ben-Hnr" Lew Wallace bad occasion to go over to London and one day picked np a pirated copy of the novel at a railroad newsstand. To his amazement be found the subtitle left off. a preface interpolated and one of the chapters rewritten. Of course he boiled with rage, and as soon aa possible be called on the publisher. That gentleman coolly admin ed h!s crime and told Wallace he thought the amended form better adapted to the British taste, doocberkaow. His gall waa ao stapendone that the novelist was awed and went away without apllirng his gore. It Was Oeed Advice. A wildly turbaleM psaasnt was once .1 tt 1 i.i . i. I ar.as ff-hl RanM - 0Grady. The coonsel. after peMerhuf him for some time, pat a qnestlon to him which reflected on the witness character. . "If ye ax me that again 111 gire ye a kick In the gobr was the am wer. The coonsel appealed to the court, stating that as answer was accessary to his client's case, ending P with, the query, "What would your lordship advise me to do? "If you are resolved to repeat the question." replied the Court. "I'd adtlee yon to move a little from toe wltThe poultice is a barbarous relic of the days of witch burning. The typical home poultice Is made of flaxseed. It Is a soggy, unsavory, germ Infested instrument of torture. Clapped upon the sntrerlng baby's chest. It Interfere with the poor child's breathing. Infects bis skin with the germs that cans pimples and bo its and makes htm unbearably uncomfortable and Unhappy. The beat ia the poultice fa Its . only valuable fee rare. The dampna does dsn-age. and the flaxseed t ss Inert as so amen sawdust at breakfast food. Why not ese hot water bass or. better aim. not ctotb t- DeUnee tor. - He Oet tHa TeaeW. A mha caned at a grammar acJaMI ha and. uncertain lost which s the room be wanted, noted the bell buttons In the main corridor, tie prtated one of them. His surprlee was great when soon after the snwhd of the gone children and teachers fled forth from the varloaa rooms. aH ta orderly ltae and with ho excitement or crowding- The visit r bad prissed the button which Caiieo lor me ore mala "vu : - Usefvl ts Flirts. A yoang man railed 00 a patent expert and showed him an idea he wanted prerertjd. It was In 'the form of an engagement ring. : . "Bat." id the expert, -examining the very nllnary looking- circlet. -What to there patentable aboat this? tt la adjustable, sir." said the in ventor proudly. London