Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 349, 24 October 1909 — Page 4

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Radolpk O. Leeaa Editor Ckarlea H. Mor...MMloE Editor Carl Beraaardt Aaaoelate Editor W. R. Poaadatoae Newa Editor. SUBSCRIPTION TERMS. In Richmond 5.00 per year (In advance) or 10c per week. MAIL. SUBSCRIPTIONS. One year. In advance $5.00 ftlx months. In advance 2.60 One month. In advance 45 'RURAL ROUTES. One year, In advance $2.50 Kx months, In advance 1.50 One month, in advance 25 Address changed as often as. desired; both new and old addresses must be Klven. Subscribers will please remit with order, which should be given for a specified term; name will not be entered until payment is received. Entered at Richmond. Indiana, post office as second class mall matter. The Association of (New York City) am ad esrtlfied to tte efnalatlm 1 vmij las njrsras ex fa lu mart am tgr tte Ajseefattea. REPUBLICAN CITY TICKET. -Mayor DR. W. W. ZIMMERMAN Clerk BALTZ A. BKSCHER Councilmen-at-Large OSCAR C. WILLIAMS GEORGE J. KNOLLENBERG HARRY C. WESSEL ED. THATCHER Councilman, First Ward ALPHONS WEISHAUPT Councilman, Second Ward JESSE J. EVANS Councilman, Third Ward H. H. ENGLEBERT Councilman, Fourth Ward WILLIAM H. BARTEL, JR. Councilman, Fifth Ward E. E. KING Councilman. Sixth Ward HENRY C. KAUFFMAN Councilman, Seventh Ward FRANK WA1DELE Councilman, Eighth. Ward JOHN T. BURDSALL Hems Gathered in From Far and Near The Maryland Tomato. Prom the Baltimore Sun. Tis an ill wind that blows nobody good a platitude, of course, but on. that finds constant corroboration and support in the stern facts of existence. Consider, ; for instance, the recent drought. It turned the countryside into dusty steppes and drove the farm-j ers to pessimism and agnosticism, bur 1 all the while it was making the Maryland tomato a perfect fruit. When the clouds leak: copiously the tomato is apt to grow watery and emaciated, but when rain is sparing it grows firm and nourishing. The tomatoes of the present season are the best known for years. They are poor in water, but extraordlnaryly rich in foodstuffs. The modern tomato, with its round, rosy cheeks and sweet, cool heart, is essentially a Maryland product. Its wild grandparent was known and esteemed by the native Indians of the state as far back, as the year 3300 B. a When the white settlers came they began to improve upon the aboriginal methods of cultivating it. and soon it was lifted from its original state as a lowly pot herb and placed among the heaven-sent delicatessen. Today the tomato asks no odds of any other fruit or vegetable. As it is grown upon the eastern shore it is as perfect as the grapes of Calabria or the apples of Hesperldes. The most accomplishel tomatologists in the world have their laboratories on the shore. A Good Roads inquiry. From the Philadelphia Press. Representatives from the states of Missouri. Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana, comprising the southwestern Good Roads association, are now in New England inspecting the improved roads of that section. They passed through Pennsylvania, apparently without seeing much In the way of road building to impress them, but they were pleased with the roads of New Jersey, and will no doubt carry back from there and from New England ideas and enthusiasm for improv. ed roads that will bear frit in promoting the good roads movement in the southwestern states, which they represent. Pennsylvania ought to have a road system that would serve as a model for other states. It was a pioneer In the good roads movement and the legislature has been liberal, if not always wise, in its good roads legislat?on. But the systematic improvement of the highways of the state has been hampered and hindered by privately owned turnpikes occupying the best highway routes in a large section of the state. The first legislative steps have been taken for the elimination of the turnpikes. ; ' Another Discrepancy. From the Springfield Republican. , Peary and Cook differ even in the spelling of the two Eskimos names. Cook writes them "Etukishuk" and

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"I-toxk-rshoo" and "Ah-pe-lau." An international spelling commision should get busy at once In order that the : real truth about this may be known. Gloating. From , the Pittsburg Gazette-Times. Every one in the United States now knows where Detroit is especially since Saturday. Surrender! From the New York Tribune. Down in Yorktown, Va., public attention was focused; on the surrender of Lord Cornwallis to Gen. Washington. Here in New York however, there was more interest taken in the surrender of Judge Gaynor to Tammany. TWINKLES (BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.) The Making of Names. "I want to make a name for myself In politics," Raid the ambitious youth. "Well," answered Senator Sorghum, "It's liable to be a long and difficult enterprise. You'll probably have to put in a considerable share of your time allowing your enemies to call you any names they happen to think of." Another Question. Here is another question which May do for conversation: Is football quite as rough a game As polar exploration? Parental Cares. "One of your daughter's suitors has a distinguished ancestry." "Yes,' answered Mr. Cumrox. "And the other is a very promising young man." "Quite true. But I can't help wishing we could make arrangements that based on the present tense instead of the past or future oerfect." Variations. "Aren't you tired of this Cook controversy?" "Which do you mean? asked Mr. Sirius Barker. "The argument in the newspapers or the one in the kitchen?" October. Loafin' time is over, You'e got to step along; De wind is blowin' chilly. It don' sing day summer song, De squirrels is a toilin' Foh to put de nuts away Everywhah you sees re sign. "Dis is my busy day!" . De bee is in his office A-countin' up his wealth, De birds is gittin' ready To travel foh deir health. When ol' October starts to boss Dar ain' no time to play, Dat sign is hangin' everywheres, "Dis is my busy day!" Heart to Heart Talks. By EDWIN A. NYE. Copy.ight, 1908, by Edwin A. Nye HIS TWO TEMPTATIONS. Billy Robelon, brakeman on the Long Island railroad, has two qualities that go far toward making a human success namely : He is honest and red headed. Billy's quality of honesty keeps him on the straightway tracks, and bis red headed determination furnishes plenty of motor power for speed. The other day be was suddenly confronted by two great temptations. He found a bagful of diamonds, pearls and. cash. The contents of the bag were worth $30,000. That was temptation No. 1. And this is the way Billy Robelon met it: He went straight to beadquarters and made every effort to discover the owner, who proved to be Mrs. Schwab of New York, a very wealthy woman. Then the son of Mrs. Schwab did a fine thing. He gave Billy a bunch of money and offered him a lifetime job working for Mrs. Schwab at $100 a month. That was temptation No. 2. This was the situation: Robelon is twenty -two years old and has a wife and baby. That $100 a month lifetime job looked good to him. It was more money than be was getting. He might lose his job. That was one side of the problem. He and his wife talked it over. He wanted to get up in the world all right, but he wanted to get up on nierit. by his own efforts, which is the real heart of every honest, earnest man's desire. Robelon refused the Job. Was he wise? In justice to himself and bis family was it right to refuse? Tes! Back of him were four years of honest serTlce for his company. lie was In the line of promotion. He would try for the bigger stake. In that choice Billy Robelon again showed the stuff of which he is made. He holds the triple guaranty of success. He is honest, energetic, ambitious. Some day he will be division superintendent or maybe traffic manager and then superintendent or president of the road. Just as sure as be lives he will succeed. He has already succeeded! This is not a Sunday school book story, but a leaf out of the real life of a real man. Since Billy Robelon faced and conquered his two temptations he has been promoted to be conductor. The Bed-Rock Of Success fles in a keen, clear brain, backed by indomitable will and resistless energy. Such power comes from the splendid health that Dr. Kings. New Life Pills impart. They vitalize every organ and build up brain and body. J. A. Harmon. Lizemore, W. Va, writes: Tbey are the best pills I ever used." 25c at A. G. Luken & Co.

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MAKES ill EFFORT SECURE II COflNEEi But American Trust's Efforts Were Frustrated by the Unexpected Back-down of the Italian Government BIG DEAL WAS ALMOST MADE BY A MINISTER But He Suddenly Ended Negotiations, Fearing That His Action Would Cause Loss of His Portfolio. (American News Service! Rome, Oct. 23. What is believed to be a determined effort upon the part of the American Sulphur Trust to corner the world's supply of that mineral, so important in the manufacture of paper and paper pulp, has been temporarily thwarted by the sudden and unexpected backdown of the Italian government from the position it had recently taken in attempting to force the sale of the Sicilian mines' production to the Union Sulphur company of .New York, a strong Standard Oil interest. The ministry of industry, commerce and labor had prepared a royal decree amending the law which governs the output and its commercial manipulation, so as to conclude the sale. But, as a result it is understood of addives from the United States, the decree has been withheld from presentation to King Victor Emmanuel for signature, the minister fearing the loss of his portfolio upon the reconvening of the Italian Parliament in November. A powerful political clique has been hard at work for a considerable length of time seeking to compel the disposition to the Union Sulphur company of which Herman Frasch, of New York city, is president, of the entire output of the mines of Sicily for the next ten years, as well as a vast stock of the mineral already mined and now in the custody of the Bank of Sicily and the Cassa Vittorio Emmanuele III., of Catania. By a vote of 180 to 2 the sulphur miners and producers, forming the Sicilian Sulphur Consortium a syndicate founded and conducted under the immediate supervision of the govern ment and regulated by act1 of the chamber of deputies lately rejected the proposal of the American trust to take over the stock at a price approximately ninety million dollars. The members of the Consortium, becoming suspicious when they learned the identity of the would-be buyer, have sought by every possible means to prevent the surrender of their product to the American corporation. But the last word in the matter is with the government, and it was expected that, strong political, diplomatic and other pressure, brought to bear upon the ministry named, would result in the royal decree. In this event, parliamentary action at the forthcoming session would undoubtedly have taken the form of a vote of censure, by which a ministerial crisis would have ensued and the cabinet official would 4iave forfeited his portfolio. By that time, however, the damage would have been done and the Sicilian supply would be for some time to come, at least, in the hands of the Standard Oil subsidiary. The output of the Sicilian mines for the ensuing ten years is estimated at the rate of 470.00 tons annually, which is just about sufficient for the average yearly requirements of the world, and the quantity now in store aggregates half a million tons. Sixteen dollars per ton was offered by the Union Sulphur company for this stock, originally, but upon the rejection of the proposition by constituents of the Consortium the figure was advanced by the French concern by 60 cents per ton, or a total of $1,600,000. But the miners have remained obdurate in their refusal to sell, believing that by independent operation in the American and foreign markets they may ultimately derive far greater profits. At an early stage in the negotiations the minister of foreign affairs of Italy, Hon. Francesco-Ortu, adopted the unusual expedient of cabling direct to Mr. Frasch, at the latter's office, No. 82 Beaver street, New York city, demanding to know the exact state of the mines and properties owned and controlled by the Union Surphur company, in Louisiana and he is understood to have received the astounding response that a capacity of 40,000.000 tons is still to be depended upon from Louisiana. This amount would be sufficient for the world's needs for sixty-five years, and for American wants in sulphur for more than 250 years. A present mined stock of 400,000 tons is claimed by the Union Sulphur company, but secret agents of the Consortium, who have been investigating in and about the properties at Sulphur, La., declare that a supply of but 100,000 tons is available above ground, while they contend that the mining of sulphur in Louisiana is becoming more and more dificult and expensive, owing to the increasing depths to which It is necessary to bore for the product. Figures advanced by these emissaries of the Sicilian Consortium to show the correctness of this assertion, indicate that In 1905, when the Union Sulphur company, which is capitalized at $400,000, first took over the properties from the American Sulphur Mining company, a $200,000 concern, the product was obtained at an aver-

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WE SELL H00SIER KITCHEN CABINET age cost of $17 per ton, while in 190S this figure had risen to $18 per ton, and has since increased in proportion. The fixed cost of mining sulphur in eastern and southeastern Sicily is at the rate of $12 per ton, wuile an additional expenditure of $3 per ton delivers the product in New York, where no duty is assessed and where a prevailing price of $22.50 per ton is realAnother pertinent query advanced by the Consortium agents is just why the American company, if it feared competition from the SicHian output, did not make the necessary representations before the committee of ways and means of congress during the recent tariff agitation, and demand the benefit of a highly protective duty upon the importation cf sulphur, to which it might be considered to be legitimately entitled. No move of this sort was made by the Union interests, however, and during the tariff war their efforts were concentrated upon the campaign to obtain control of the Sicilian product. Mr. Frasch and other of the company's heads having been in Italy for a good part of the time of late. The question now asked is whether the Union Sulphur company seeks to 'corner the world's supply, in order to which is much in demand among the paper and pulp manufacturing interests of the United States and Canada and Europe, or whether a prospective early exhaustion of th1 Txniisiana supply is forcing the trust to obtain a new source. Thus far challenges made to the company by Italian interests that it permit an examination to be made of its Ixniisiana holdings, it is understood, have not been taken -up; and, in fact, have been tactfully avoided. The Consortium agents in America have developed the fact that the Union Sulphur company, early in its conduct of the Louisiana mines, succeeded in having a tax imposed by that state uon the profits of operation diverted to apply only upon the actual output; and to further withhold from the public eye the condition of its fiscal affairs, the company has held its stock in treasury, thereby keeping its shares from exchange trading and avoiding the publication of balance sheets. Herman Frasch, the American sulphur trust's executive, was formerly engaged in sulphur mining operations in Sicily. He is the inventor and patentee of the hydraulic process of mining in vojrue at the Louisiana deposits, which consists of a steam treatment that liquefies the product, permitting it to be drawn out by suction. It is commonly believed among the sulphur operators of Sicily that the bold and daring plan upon which Mr. Frasch has embarked, in his attempt to. merge the sulphur producing interests of the world, was first conceived by Lim when he was employed in the Sicilian mines. Frightful Fate Averted. j "I would have been a cripple for I life, from a terrible cut on my knee cap;" writes Frank Disberry, Kelliher. Minn. "without Backlen's Arnica Salve, which soon cured me." Infallible for wounds, cuts and bruises, it soon cures Burns, Scalds, Old Sores, Boils, Skin Eruptions. World's best for Piles. 25c. at A G. Luken & Co. M this concern yon. read carefully; Dr. CaktweH s Syrup Pepsin is positively gnaraatea to cure indigestion . constipation, sick headache, offensive breath, malaria all diseases arising from stomach tronbia. Sealshipt Oysters handled exclusively, Muth's Fish Market. Phone 1535. "

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Colonel Johs Sneed's Conversations on Domestic Problems Copyright. 1909. by C 5. Yost. IV. Making &. Man of the Boy COLONEL SNEED watched with sparkling eyes and swelling chest the efforts of his infant frrantlsuu to swallow a very small but very chubby foot. "There is no use a-tnlkiu. honey." he observed to his daughter, Mrs. William Rollins "there's uo use n-talkin', but that's a remarkable child, a most remarkable child. lie knows what he wants uud he's gain to get it or break bis neck a-tryin". Just notice how he bangs on to that foot. He's got a grip like a country politician, aud he's as dead set us Jim ltoumson s oiu mule. Did 1 ever tell you about that mule, honey?" "No, papa, but all babies suck their toes if they're given a chance." "Huh: Maybe they do, maybe they do. but they don't all do it the same way. Every human walks on two legs, yet it's easy to tell a man from a mollycoddle by the way he steps. When it comes to readin" character there ain't many can get ahead of your old daddy, and I don't need a telescope to see that this youug uu is an extraordinary child. He's got the makin' of a man in him. aud he'll make one, too, if you don't let tomfool ishness head him off." "Why. papa, what on earth do you mean?" "Just what I say. honey. There's a whole lot of people in trousers loafin around this town who'd 'a been real men perhaps if their mothers had let "em alone. The main point in raisin boys is in knowin where to stop. "THE 11AKIS' OP A HAN." There's too many mothers and they're good mother", too; 1 ain't sayin anything against their intentions, but there's too many of them that's got the idea that they ain't doin their whole duty unless they make little angels out cf their boys. Some of j them succeed, too. but tbe product j don't stay on earth very long. Little; angels are ail right in heaven, noj doubt, but thev don't seem to fit intoj the plan of things down here. As old Bill Swift's always sayin'. they're kind of de trop. What we need in this vale of tears is men. just plain men. and the sooner you get that fixed In your noggin, honey, the better it'll be for William Matrimitoe there. Just look at the little rascal kick. I never saw such an extraordinary child. Honest. I never did. -But as I was sayin, honey, the main thing in raisin boys Is knowin'

when to let "em alone. And boys. Ii little preachin. but a whole lot of pracwant to tell you, can stand a whole lot ticin. to raise a boy right, of lettin alone and be all the better j -You'll have to remember, honey, for It. If you let tbat youngster getj that the boy don't know tbe road, tbe notion that he's boss of tbe shop, j once in awhile you'll nave to give the

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jump' and run 'every fihie he boilers and fetch and carry whenever he commands; if. when be gets old enough to understand, you talk about bow sweet be is aud how smart be is right before bis face; if you pet him and coddle him all the time and feed him things he's got do business to eat just because he wants tbem. he's pretty certain to turn put a prig that'll have as many friends as a sheep steal in cur and be about as much use to society. Maybe you've wondered why the woods are full of just u c h people. Well, that's the rrasun. If I had a c-haucc to le lxrn apain and was given m y -tni-e letweeti that kind of a mother and no mother at all I'd say. give me an orphan asylum. Yet some of the sweetest aud DOS TS SHOT AT nm." best women God ever made make that very mistake, and the fuuuy part about it U tbat they don't kuow it aud their boys t jon"t kn0w it But everybody else J does. "There's another way of not lettln" em alone, and that's boppin around nil the time, like a ben ou a hot griddle, holierin' 'don't.' That's tbe mother with the overheated conscience who's got a stern duty to perform and raises ber boys with a plumb line and a hammer. She believes, like tbe poet, in hewin' to the line no matter where tbe chips fall, but the trouble is tbat most of the chins hit the bov. She's cot her eag(f eve flsed on ul(n every IUinute of the dav and vxery tlme ne turn9 around there's a 'don't shot at him un- j til he's afraid to do anything at all. I And the chances are that he never will do anything worth mentionln'. for If the habit once gets fixed It's pretty apt ; o stay through life. I know lots of j men who don't amount to a row of pins because they're afraid of makin a mistake, and I'll bet a whole lot that most'of them owe their dispositions to the way their mothers trained them. "No. little girl, if you wauttomukea man of tbat boy give him a figbtin'j chance to develop accordlu' to nature's' plans and specifications. You've beard ho M ... -I.' .k.. .1 T I iuc viu oj ii. tuai i Ltvr jjuiu iflkn traic of drunken men and little children. I have my doubts about the drunken men; I think it's another party that looks after tbem. But there's no mistake about tbe children, and if I was goin to write a prescription for tbe makin' of a man I'd put down twenty parts good example, ten parts good advice, twenty parts love and fifty parts trut in Providence. If you're rid in" a thoroughbred horse you don't want to use spurs or whip, and youj don't need to touch the rein except tcj guide him. It's the same way with, that youngster there. He's got good blood in bim. and all you've got to dc is to keep him in the middle of the' Ma3. -nd nature 11 do the rest. Yoc and William have' got first to set tbe right kind of an example. You can't be much of a guide unless you know tbe route; you can't expect bim to be truthful if you tell fibs; you can't expect him to be honest if you look out tbe car window when tbe conductor comes by; you can't expect bim to be honorable unless you are honorable, not only in' jour dealin's with bim, but witb others. It. takes a mighty 8 little puj j2 th . right r the

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WE SELL JEWEL STOVES And Ranges. left to "Veep lm from wraynr on- in the forks, and now and then you"! need to check him up from coin int mudholes or stumblin on rocks, but that's about all. You're his guide, yot must understand, not bis driver. About every so often he'll come to a fork where the left band road 11 look t him lots more attractive than the right hand one. and then you'll bare to ex plain tbe difference. You'll bare t Bbow him that tbe main thing to know bout a road is where It's goto' t wind up. rut it up to bis Intelligence and be'll go the right way nine timet xxruuvvsa tbk diffcbekcc out of ten, but if you try to club biro into goln' that way It's ten chance to one that be jumps tbe track aud cuts across tbe fields. "That's about the long and short of It. little girl. It's sn easy matter to make a man of a boy If you just keen him headed the right way and. let bim develop as tbe good Lord wills. Look ai him now. will jou? Makin' ffoog eyes at bis granddaddy. Most remarkable child I ever saw." ROUND TRIP TO CINCINNATI Via C. C & L IL R. SUNDAY OCT. 24 Train leaves Richmond. 5:20 , a. m.; returning leave Cincinnati 10 p. m. For particulars call a A. BLAIR. P. & T. A, Home Tel. 202. Richmond. X Tfcere are crackers t and crackers, bnt the Uckeryoal to . boy Is Dafternut Wafers. They are cer-1 tafcly Use. Try tfcea. t. i i in 1 1 it lit in.?