Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 296, 1 September 1909 — Page 4

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THE RICHMOND IMLiiA-DlUM AND S'J.N TELEGKAM, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1900,

Tte Richmond Palladium and Sun-Telegram-Published and owned by the PALLADIUM PRINTING CO. Issued 7 day each week, evenings and Sunday morning;. Office Corner North 9th and A streets. Home Phone 1121. RICHMOND. INDIANA.

Radetph G. Leeds. .. .Managing Editor. Charles M. Morgan . Manager. XV. R. Ponadstoae J ewe Editor. SUBSCHIPTION TEUMS. In Richmond $5.00 per year (in advance) or 16c per week. MAIL SUBSCRIPTIONS. One year, in advance .J5.00 Six months, in advance 2-60 One month, in advance .45 RURAL ROUTES. One year, in advance $2. BO Fix months, in advance 1.60 One month, in advance 25 Address changed as often as desired; both new and old addresses must be given. Subscribers will please remit with order, which should be Riven for a specified term; name will not be entered until payment is received. Kntered at Richmond, Indiana, post office as second class mail matter. 'As Association of Advertisers (New York City) baa Hwlnd and certified to ths slrcnlatlaa J at this BttMlsatloa. Only tte Hearts et oomUtaed la Its rtytrt aw 1 THE CHAUTAUQUA ENDS .The Richmond Chautauqua is over. The tents are down, the crowds are scattered and the men and women who make a business of entertaining and instructing the multitudes who throng to the Chautauqua are off again on their circuit. ' Many favorable comments are heard from all sorts of people on the management of this year's Chautauqua. The attractions seem to have been well chosen, the comfort and convenience of the visitors has been well looked after in short, it has been what a Richmond Chautauqua should be. As an instance of what a field the Richmond Chautauqua : is , developing we cite the statement of a newspaper man who was in the Palladium office yesterday from Liberty. He said that he himself knew personally of ninety people who came up last Sunday from the neighborhood in which he lives. It must 'be remembered that there is really no direct communication between Richmond and Liberty. That ought to show something, not only of this event but of previous years. mere are some ultra-conservative Citizens in this town who deplore the use of the Glen for the Chautauqua. It is true that there may be, as is said, no legal right for the establishment of the Chautauqua in the park. It is even true that it stamps out the grass and tramps the ground around the roots of the trees. But these things are not entirely all the matter to be taken into account. Surely the return in benefits to the community is greater than the damage to technicalities, the grass and trees and ultra-conservatism. It may easily be that in some future tim there will be found a better place and that the Chautauqua will be moved. The grounds belonging to the Chautauqua will then be an additional ornament to the town. In the meantime as long as the Chautauqua remains the creditable thing it is at present, it 13 a matter for congratulation to those connected with it. THE WHITE WATER MEETING The announcement of the centennial celebration of the White Water Monthly Meeting of Friends is not to be overlooked. The most casual observer can today trace the influence of the early Friends on the town. The stability and the point of view of Richmond, the tolerance and the intellectual status in the town are, it Is true, not altogether due to the founders of the Whitewater meeting. But certain characteristics of independent thinking on all matters, a general thrift, a love of education these are subconscious traits of the town Which are conspicuously Quaker. A typical outcrop of this subconscious stratum was recently to be noticed when the slogan of the town was announced as the "Panic Proof City." There are other slogans which express more action. The boom town idea was conspicuously absent and there can; be no denyins the fact that the slogan has some characteristics which have been in the town since the very beginning of things. One might point out the influence of the Quftker on the plain and unyielding aspect of sameness which for a long time held sway in the building of houses, he might trace the influence of the Quaker in the period of the civil war in this locality and its effect on Indiana history, despite the fact of non-resistance, the abolitionists were not scarce In the Quaker ranks. It might also be pointed out that Earlham college and the Morrisson-Reeves library are of Quaker origin and the community would not be the same in ita point of view were these absent from ita history. Bat all these things are but second-

ary to the stability which the town gained from the early members of th3 Whitewater Meeting. McHARG An Individual who has been running amuck In the newspapers lately is McHarg. He had things, mostly unpleasant, to say about Theodore Roosevelt and his administration. To the western public his most serious crime will be that he prefaced his remarks by saying "As a Western man." Unless we have mightily misjudged the western attitude toward Theodore Roosevelt and especially his policy toward land grabbers and other grafters we must take issue with that "as a western man." We are therefore "as a Western" newspaper glad that by some not altogether mysterious force McHarg Is removed from the department of commerce and labor. There has been altogether too much friction between the interior department and the forestry service, and other departments, to convince most western people that there is not something the matter. The fault is not with Mr. Taft. but with some of the men in the departments who are not in sympathy with the fisrht of the Roosevelt regime which was backed up by the people every where. As such a subordinate the country has not lost much by the resignation of McHarg. Of course Mr. Taft had nothing to do with it.

ALDRICH AGAIN After the record that our friend Nelson Aldrich made as a tariff revisionist it is not entirely reassuring to the people who have no connection with 2G Broadway to find him serenely established at the head of the Monetary Commission. There can be little doubt that the affairs of the government which have the most to do with business conditions are revenue and currency. And the senate Finance Committee has most to do with these two important matters At the head of the Finance Committee stands Mr. Nelson Aldrich, senator from Rhode Island, connected by business and family alliances with the most potent force in American business John D. Rockefeller. He has attained his power in the senate from his continuous return to the senate, where he has attained seniority and therefore committee power. Therefore the record of the Monetary Commission will be watched by concern. If it gives an opportunity for corporate aggrandisement the past record of Aldrich has not much in it to make the public feel secure. So it's Aldrich again. WIRELESS It was only a few months ago that Jack Binns distinguished himself as a hero and showed the world the possibilities of wireless in the saving of lives. Now another name has been added to the wireless operators who have stood at their post in danger. His name is George Eccles. He too. while the ship Ohio sank off Seattle saved 135 passengers and brought two other boats to the rescue. He himself was lost. This is his last message:"Passengers all off and adrift in small boats. Captain and crew going off in the last boat waiting for me now goodbye." That was all. Items Gathered in From Far and Near THE DEATH RACES. From the Detroit Free Press. Next to the man who rocks the boat, and the didn't-know-it-was-load-ed fool is the man who sits on the fence to watch an automobile race. From the Providence Evening Tribune. It is announced that the automobile slaughter at Indianapolis was due to the un preparedness of the track. It is barely possible that the racing also had a little something to do with it. From the Council Bluffs Nonpareil. It may come to pass that the man who stands to watch an automobile race will have first claim on a Carnegie medal. From" the Milwaukee Sentinel. The speeding auto is fast distancing the poor toy pistol and rocked boat. From the Cincinnati Times-Star. Literally those automobllists at Indianapolis were prepared to "do o die." From the Baltimore Sun. Many a motorist has started out to break the speed record and ended up by breaking a couple of arms, legs anl collarbones. From the Cleveland Plain Dealer. The Indianapolis automobile races are about as bloody as the average South American revolution. SKY SPORTING. From the Utica Press. Aviation weeks will soon be as common as fair weeks. From the Atlanta Journal. Some of the amateur aviators have been brought to the tragic realization of the childish game that all that goes up must come down. From the Newark Evening News. The question "After the airship, what?" is being propounded. We don't know for certain, but we 6uspect quite frequently it'll be the undertaker.1 From the Detroit Free Press. Still, aeroplane races haven't reach

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ed the stage where they kill two or three men to each event. From the Springfield Union. "Airship in Seine," says a newspaper headline. Apparently, airships go crazy, too. From the St. Louis Globe-Defocrat. The number of flying machines la the air at one time at Rheims has been increased from three to six. Danger of collision in midair appears only to invite new adventures. But, then, life on the. ground has grown ' so uncertain since the multiplication of automobiles that the air may be safer after all. TWINKLES (By Philander Johnson) Not Made With Care. "Do you think there are too many lawyers in Congress?" "No," answered Mr. Dustin Stax; "when I see the way some of the statutes are handled by expert attorneys I am inclined to suspect that one of the things Congress needs is more legal advice." A Qualified Assurance. "So your husband promised you he would never play cards except for fun?" "Yes," answered young Mrs. Torkins, doubtfully; '"but he afterward explained that he didn't consider it any fun unless there was something in the way of money involved." Decoration. Of the reformer past and gone Full oft you'll hear this mournful tale: "Sometimes he had his war paint on; Sometimes he used the whitewash pail." Speed Measurement. "What is the charge against this man?" asked the judge. "Violating the speed laws with his motor car," answered the policeman. "How do you know he was violating the speed law?" "There was a trolley car on one side cf his auto, and; a big delivery wagon on the other. They were going in the same direction he was and he nearly kept up with them." A Sad Similarity. "Do you take exercise enough?" inquired the friend. "I'm afraid not," answered Miss Cayenne. "Taking exercise is like taking good advice. It is always what some one else ought to do." September Reflections. Or September comes along No mo roses, no mo song; No mo' bees a buzrin' soft; No mo' singin birds aloft! I will miss each ol time friend. But iese tears is jes" make 'tend; Sumpin whispers, "Hallyloo! How about dat oyster stew?" I suppose I ought to be Singin' in de lonesome key, "Good-bye, blossom! Good-bye, all! But dar's other come to call An when I stahts in to frown 'Long dar comes dat whisperin soun Till I se laughin through an through, "How about dat oyster stew?" NOTICE. If our friends who have received copies of Vol. 6 No. 5 of the Earlham College Bulletin, wheh they do not care to preserve, will be kind enough to call us up by phone we will be pleased to furnish postage for their return and will appreciate the courtesy very much as our supply is exhausted. ROBERT L. KELLY. Phone 3167 l-2t

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Heart to Heart Talks. By EDWIN A. NYE. Copy.ight, 1908, by Edwin A. Nye A strikiuj; spectacle was witnesses near Lander. Wyo.. u few clays ago. An aged Indian chief preached a prohibition sermon over the grave of hi son. During the service scores oi blanketed braves stood by in silence. Wolf Bear, subchief of the Arapahoe tribe, delivered the discourse a', the grave of Leo Wolf Bear. The young brave got drunk, laj down on the railroad track to sleej' and was killed. In the course of his pathetic address the venerable chief declared: "The white mau's whisky killed rny only son." Continuing, he said: "You see. young men of the Arapahoes, what the white man's whisky will do. 1 don't blame the white mau for drinking his owu whisky, but 1 hope the young mcu and women of my tribe will have more judgment than their paleface brethren and ah stain from firewater." Certainly, if sincerity is the essence of oratorj'. Wolf Bear is eloquent. And if restrained feeling is a necessary element of a successful public speech then this father's stern repression of his natural emotion at the grave of his son is the height of eloquent self control. The warning sounded by the old Indian is pathetic and forceful in many ways. The white man's whisky has been the great bane of the red man's history. The educated appetite for "firewater" has lost the American Indian many a bargain; it has caused him to commit many crimes and has been at the bottom of much of his race degeneracy. As Wolf Bear well says, the Indian is the last person who should tamper with the white man's liquor. Moreover Did you note in the old, man's warning his appeal to the women as well as the men of bis tribe? That was no accident of speech. As if to push the race down the moral toboggan slide more rapidly the Indian women, both young and old, are becoming slaves to an appetite for strong drink. But here is our moral: If the American Indian, with less worth of inherited character, less gained ascendency of civilization, cannot afford to Indulge in whisky as a beverage without bringing upon himself a certitude of woe. where shall the white man appear? Writing to the London Daily Mail, a correspondent who has spent several years in India says of the cure there for snake bites: "It may interest you to know that common malt vinegar the trade article has been used in India for some years as a certain cure for snake bite. The bite of the cobra is cured by it, and in every village all over the country the head man is now supplied with a bottle of it by the government. The method of application Is to make a cut between the wound and the heart, about one inch long and one-fourth of an inch deep, close to the bite, and to rub the vinegar into it with a sponge or piece of cotton rag." It has been reported by the French commission formed for the purpose of making comparative studies of the Terticle and Inclined styles of handwriting, with regard to the health of school children, that the inclined style is far simpler and less fatiguing than the vertical style, and less likely to cause spinal curvature and other evil result. ......

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A Pioneer Washington Woman Is Descendant of Pocahontas

(American News Service) Spokane, Wash., Sept. 1. Mrs. F. J. Turfey, a pioneer of the Inland Empire, living at 8(7 Monroe street. Spokane, Wash., who has every evidence to indicate that she is a direct descendant of Pocahontas, an Indian princess, to whom Capt. John Smltn owed his life, is legally tracing her inheritance, including a topaz-set ring presented by the Austrian government to Capt. Smith, to prove her claim to the treasure. The ring is about to pass from her possession on to one of the foremost museums in America. To prove her heritage and connection with the Indian princess and Andrew Jackson, Mrs. Turfey has sworn to her lineage from Chief Powhatan down to the last generation and holds the ring, which it is said Capt. Smith gave the Indian girl who saved his life. Mts. Turfey desires to forget the relationship to the famous Indian girl. Through her steps in this direction she permitted her story to become known. She told in part as follows: "When Pocahontas married John Rolfe there was born to them a son named Thomas. Thomas married and his only child was a daughter, who married a man named Boiling. The family had born to them a daughter named Elizabeth, and from this daughter ABE THEYJLY COPS Did Roberts and Winters Shear Upper Lips as a Disguise? A DEEP POLICE MYSTERY Have you seen Scott Wlnters's new disguise? Well, he's got one, and a good one, too. You would scarcely know him now. The big genial policeman at the corner of Eighth and Main streets has sheared the beautiful bunch of grass that recently adorned his upper lip, and now his disguise is complete. Everyone is asking who the new "cop" is at Eighth and Main street. And then, some of Scott's most particular friends call you aside and whisper confidentially that it is Scott Winters, but not to tell anyone. Just why Scott clipped off the a la Emperor William effect eeems to be a mystery among even his best friends, but it is hinted that there is a but that would be telling and Scott wants it kept a secret. Not to be outdone, Sam Roberts, patrol and ambulance driver, had his alfalfa crop sheared too and it is now alleged that he is passing out souvenir book marks tied with little blue ribbons among his many friends to remind them of the fact that he could grow a mustache if he wanted to. It is rumored that several of the othe" patrolmen, incited by Jealousy, perhaps, will follow the example of Winters and Roberts within the course of the next few days. Ra:har Ambiguous. The T?r. II r. Dwseiu bad iiot gained th goUleti opinions of bis congregation, who were cnaaiaious in asserting that he wax fooiian and conceited. He considered bimaHf greatly slandered and. meeting an old German friend of his In the street one day. began to retail bis woes, ending up by saving: "And the cborcuwardea actually called me a perfect a as. My cloth pre vent me rrom resenting Insults, but I think I shall refer to it in the pulpit next Sunday. What would you ad vise?" "Mine friend t." replied the German soothingly. I know not, but I tlnk dat all yon can do Till be youst to bray for them, as nanal ! Pearson's.

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I trace my direct descent, which reaches into the seventh generation. In 103O the Gay Bros, came from England. Their names were William, Thomas and Henry. William settled in Jamestown and Henry and Thomas in New England. William Guy's grandson. Dr. William Guy. married three times. The third union was with the "Belle of Richmond." Elisabeth Boiling, a fourth generation descendant from Pocahontas. This was in 1730. "Dr. William Guy had three children by his third wife. Thomas. Charles and William. Thomas married Eliza Archy and they had born to them eight children. William, Ellen. Powattan. Thomas B., Delia, Eliza, Virginia and Henry. Only the two older married. Ellen married a man named Jacob Skeen and they had two children living somewhere in Kentucky. "William Guy married a second cousin, Cassandra Desdemona Jackson, a second cousin to Andrew Jackson, and they had born to them four daughters, Lydia, Page. Fannie and Lucy. The daughter Fanny married a Cali Aged Colored Man Bee Sting An aged negro stepped into a Main street grocery. He waa suffering with rheumatism in the left shoulder, but that did not prevent him from wearing a broad smile, constantly. After purchasing some . supplies he informed the proprietor that he no longer believed In the John Y. Coddington method of curing the "rheumatiz." which simply provides the application of honey bees to the effected parts: thats all. "Ma ol' woman heerd about dat Coddlngton cure and when she tol' me I was sufferin' so pow'ful bad I jes up an decided I'd take a cnance at It, remarked the colored man. "De ol' woman went out to get de bees, but she caught three of dem NOTICE TO

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fornia man. L H. Turfey, on December 8, 1S73. They moved to Spokane county In 1879. The Fanny Guy married to Mr. Turfey is none other than myself and the topaz ring presented to Pocahontas by John Smith, after being banded down from generation to generation has fallen Into my hands through my father. William Guy. From personal memories and letters I have in my possession from my uncle I have every reason to believe that the claim Is genuine and while there may be but little blood In my veina now, I am a direct descendant of Pocahontas, or even of Powhatan, if you please. According to history Pocahontas died shortly after marrying John Rolfe and the only child born to them was a son. Thomas Rolfe, who later married and his only child waa a daughter from whom some of the leading families of Virginia trace origin. Among thow are the Boilings, Murrays, Guys. Eldrldges and Randolphs. The marital connections with the family of Andrew Jackson add Interest to the ato-' ry told by Mrs. Turfey. who declares the records will show her lineage as she tells of It. Historical facts, some of which are told In the Biographical History of John Smith, bear out the topaz ring Incidents and Mrs. Turfey is now tracing the passing of the ring to prove her claim to the treasure. Denounces "Rheumatix" Cure bumble bees, which can whip a hornet any day in de week," he continued. "Well. sah. when she put dem bees on ma shouldah. dem bees jes natually set down to spen de rest of the aftanoon. I spec I mus have run 'round de house foteen or fifteen times ' befo I bad sense enough to pull dein bees off. "Did the stinging do your rheumatism any good T' asked the amused auditor. "Dat's a question I kalnt ansaw. solemnly replied the old negro. I got an almighty pain In ma sboulda still, but whether its de rheumatis or dose bee stings I kalnt quite elucidate. "Dere's one thing I do know, howsomever. dat when dose three bees run dere gimlets into ma shoulder I nevah had nothln hurt me quite so bad since Jim Watson was beat fo governor.

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