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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1909.

The Richmond Palladium and San-Telegram Published and ownl by the PALLADIUM PRINTING CO.

f days nch week, evenings and Sunday morning. OfficeCorner North fth and A street Horn Phone 1121. RICHMOND. INDIANA. Rudolph G. Le-da Editor Charlea H. Msrgaa . . . MibikIde Editor Carl Hera hard t Associate Editor W. It, Paaadatoae New Editor. SUBSCRIPTION TERMS. In Richmond $5.00 per year (In advance) or 10; per week. MAIL SUBSCRIPTIONS. One year, In advance .....$5.00 Six month?. In advance 2.60 One month, in advance 45 RURAL ROUTES. One year, in advance $2.50 B'x months, In advance 1.50 One month, in advancu 25 Address changed as often as desired; both new and old addresses must be riven. Subscribers will pleise remit with order, which should be given for a specified term; name will not bo entered until payment is received. Entered at Richmond. Indiana, post office as -second class mall matter. I i i 'In. Association of ft minima Advertisers (Now York City) has wtsjoa and eertlUed to ths strcsiattoa of On fMsUsatloa. Oaly tta ttsTsrea at "nwm eoauuaea u its rtpan an ft? ASJOSXSBSS tNnl 1 REPUBLICAN CITY TICKET. Mayor DR. W. W. ZIMMERMAN Clerk BALTZ A. RESCUER Councllmen-at Large OSCAR C. WILLIAMS SEORGE J. KNOLLENBERG HARRY C. WESSEL ED. THATCHER Councilman, First Ward ALPII'ONS WEISHl UPT 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 WAIDELE Councilman. Eighth Ward JOHN T. BURDSALL BEA TING THE DICTA TOR The American Magazine for this month contains a summary of the dictator of the Senate which every voter in Indiana should read. It explains the power that Aldrich has, how he got it, and how he uses it. It explains the "system" which the great financial interests use in defrauding the people of true legislation. And Aldrich is the chief agent the dictator of the Senate. It shows the trading of interests and the cut-throat methods employed to keep the men in line for the "men behind." "The operation of the Darwinian law made him senate dictator. He came to tho senate twenty-eight years ago, grounded in the game through oxperience in a city council, a state legislature, and the house of representatives. WTere he merely mediocre, the senate system and its traditions of seniority would make him an influential figure now. The system of log rolling buttressed by party regularity. The veteran senators, who are mostly New England senators, control the committee assignments. When it comes to legislation, a tariff bill, for instance, this control gives them the Initiative and direction of it. They decide on what New England must have and they count the number of votes they need, added to their own, to form a majority of the Republican majority. These votes are secured forgiving' enough senators what they want out of the bill. Republican senators left out in the cold must go along or be guilty of party disloyalty. Aldrich is the greatest expert at this system that congress has seen." And how is the system to be broken? What is the danger which is threatening Aldrich and Cannon? Listen to what the people all over the United States say about the situation in Indiana: His present danger, and the system's "danger, lies in the example of rebellion set last spring by Beveridge of Indiana, and the Mississippi Valley senators. They bolted the Aldrich tariff. If such rebellion is not only to go unpunished, but even to prosper, the Aldrich control and the old senate system will totter. Last spring the absence of effective Democratic opposition offset, to a large degree the Republican defection. Aidrich himself has never furnished a more interesting study than now, when at the height of his power, that power la so seriously threatened. Stand or fall, he will not compromise.

A CLEAN ELECTION No one thing has been more noticeable in Richmond politics of lata years than clean elections. Think back. The election last fall; the wet and dry election; the republican nominating primary. What was tha reason that everything in the community slid promptly Into place with little friction it was the clean election. That the county local option question quieted down and that there were no recriminations, made cf lasting influence, was due to the absence of fraudulent voting, bribing, good election officials, who did their duty and all the rest of the accompaniments of an honest registration of opinion. The Republicans of Richmond are more solidly behind Zimmerman than ever before because of a feeling that he was honestly nominated at a clean primary, as far as he was concerned. And this would not be their feeling if he had been nominated by political trickery. So tomorrow the Republicans and Democrats can unite on making this city election a credit to Richmond. Neither candidate can afford to commence his administration with the least cloud or stigma as to his election. Such a handicap would be very unfortunate. The Palladium feels sure that there will be a clean election. There is every indication at the present time that there will be one. Richmond has a record to keep bright, which neither Democrats nor Republicans can afford to spoil.

He was never so arbitrary as last spring. And this is the truth. The danger to Aldrich is Beveridge. What are the people of Indiana going to do about it? Are they going to allow petty dissensions encouraged by the agents of Aldrich and Cannon and the U. S. Steel company to step into Indiana and fight Beveridge in the flank? The people of Indiana have a debt to Beveridge to pay. They have a duty to the rest of the United States to perform in closing up the ranks for the further discomfiture of the enemies of the republic. Items Gathered in From Far and Near Fight Against Tuberculosis. From the New York Sun. In co-operation with other administrative bureaus of the city government and with the intelligent assistance of a great number of unofficial organizations and associations, the health department of New York has made within the last few years notable progress in the effort to check tuberculosis. It has proved that the disease can be cured in many cases and that its spread may be stopped. It has shown convincingly the incalculable loss inflicted on the public treasury and on private purses by this preventable plague. Now the managers of this struggle for people's lives are asking the board of estimate for moderate increases in the appropriations for carrying on their work, to hold what has been gained and to make the advances necessary in a campaign of this nature. But the thousands of dollars spent now to eradicate tuberculosis will save millions of dollars in the future, besides making the city a safer and more comfortable place of residence in the present. The money spent now is insurance against expenditures for hospitals and sanitariums in the immediate future and against the probability of contracting the disease today. Our Young Barbarians. From the Philadelphia Ledger. - The upper classmen of an Ohio college who tarred and feathered one of the freshmen have given another proof of the fact that the higher education does not invariably eliminate the last traits of the tiger and the ape among the highest order of mammalia. The effort to stamp out hazing at American schools and colleges cannot be completely successful until undergraduate public opinion has determined that foolish and barbarous practices. euphemistically styled "horse play." shall be discontinued. The fact that students have been blinded, permanently crippled or fatally injured does not seem to deter a few sophomores every year from endangering the health, if not the lives of, those who have just stepped across the academic thrshold to incur the jeering hostility of the upper classmen, which, for the time being, is as real as though the older men actually hated their fellows and were eager to inflict upon them bodily injury. The Messenger to Garcia. From the Philadelphia Inquirer. Major Rowan is to retire from the army after a long and honorable career, to enjoy a well earned rest. The statement will mean nothing to most persons until it is explained that ho was the messenger to Garcia whom Fra Elburtus has immortalized in his little lecture, which has been translated into almost every language and is one of the world's classics. Reform of the Fourth. From the Chicago Tribune. With Mr. Taft at the head of a movement for abolishing the insane Fourth of July celebration, there will be something undoing. Joys of Life. From the Leavenworth Times. Now that the base ball season Is over we can turn our attention to walnuts, persimmons, pawpaws and th? other real necessities of life. TWINKLES (By Philander Johnson.) Eye and Ear Experts. Ere long the statesmen will draw near And energetically try One day to get the public ear. And next to catch the Speaker's eye. An Illogical Boast. "I owe nothing to luck," said the pompous individual. "I am a selfmade man." "Perhaps," answered Miss Cayenne,

"But I wouldn't say much about it. So many who have claimed to be selfmade have come to be regarded as nature fakes."

Not Universally Impossible. "You can't get something for nothing in this life," said the ready-made philosopher. "No," answered Mr. Lamkinson. "I can't. But the chaps I have done business with in Wall street seem to manage it." A Great Problem Almost Solved. "One discovery leads to another." "Yes," answered the jocose scientist, "the finding of the north pole has laid the foundation for the discovery of perpetual commotion." "Abusin' yoh bad luck," said Uncle Eben, "is li'ble to git it so tame dat it'll follow you aroun' like a yallei dog." An Autumn Gladness. He stood beside the wardrobe door. The scent of mothballs filled the air. He murmured as upon the floor Some garments he bestowed with care, "Though fame is silent or unkind It does not bother me a fit, It is sufficient bliss to find My last year's clothes are still a fit! "Ye melancholy days, what ho! You have no message grim for me. This cherished garb of long ago Shall wrap unmitigated glee. What though a moth hole here or there Catches my fingers as they flit O'er surfaces a trifle bare My last year's clothes are still a fit! "Now, let them mock, whose revelings Amid the good things of the earth, Have brought to them dyspeptic stings, Or a too comfortable girth. Shall I affect indifference, And thereby play the hypocrite? Far better own my joy immense! My last year's clothes are still a fit" Heart to Heart Talks. By EDWIN A. NYE. Copy.ight, 1908, by Edwin A. Nye THE SQUARE DEAL. Young manDo you know why there Is such large proportion of failures in business in this country? Do you think it is because of lack cf experience or of energy or of proper location or of management or of proper advertising? All these may have something to do with business failures; but, according ' to a business man who has made his millions, it is lack of something else. And what do you suppose is that lack? Lack of downright business honesty! You do not think so? You have come to believe perhaps, as many young men do believe, that knowledge of the business, "tricks of the trade." shrewdness In getting the better of a bargain, the ingenuity of deceit that these are the qualities by which men get on in the world today. That is where you are mistaken. The millionaire mentioned, whose name is known throughout the country, says: "I'm not a preacher or a moralistj Business isn't a thing to preach of grow sentimental over. But it Is so simple in principle that only a fool mistakes it and fails." Continuing, he says: "Twenty-five years ago I discovered for myself that honesty was the easiest graft known to business. It can't fail In the Lands of a man with common horse sense. Once let it get abroad that every customer coming into your place gets the square deal and you can't keep them out with a club." A very strong statement that. But the man has proved it. He started up in business determined upon a policy of "making good" to every customer. His definition of making good was the Golden Rule that is to say. he determined to treat every customer of his precisely as he would want to be treated if he were the customer. And from that policy he reaped a fortune. Simple? So simple, as he says, that "only a fool mistakes it and falls." There never was enunciated a truer statement than that of the old copybooks. "Honesty is the best policy." Do not get it into your head that rascality pays. Dishonesty spells FAILURE and spells it in capital letters. The square deal wins always, everywhere. Greece has practically no coal deposits. Whatever electric power n comes from waterfalls.

Did You Know Earlham Had a Ghost? John S. Hunt of Vancouver, Wash. In an Interesting Article Tells of the Spook that Haunted the College During the Days When the Quaker Institution was Known as the Friends' Boarding School.

(John 8. Hunt, Vancouver. Wash.) It has been said that neither castle or college were worthy of name or fam. until they had. and had laid a ghost. Earlham has had a ghost and has laid one. But few are left of the one hunbundred and fifty or more, who were students in Friends' Boarding School. Richmond, Indiana, during the winter term of ISol-J. During this term there occurred one of those optical il lusions that gave rise to ghost stories that for the time baffled the wisest to explain. Before proceeding with our story, it will be necessary to give a brief explanation of the building as it was then. Being one of the youngest boys there, the events are as vivid as if they had occurred within a year. The west wing of what is now known as Earlham Hall, was all that was then completed, though the foundations of the hole building were in. On the north of the long hall, running through the building from east to west, were two rooms; the west was used as a public parlor or reception room; the other as office and library, the second story room over the library was the girls' parlor, the room above it as the boys' parlor, opposite the library on the first floor was the meeting room or chapel, the room above it was the girls nursery or hospital, having a fire place in the east end; a small hall or lobby was cut off the west end of this room that formed a passage way from the large hall to the porch on the south of the meeting room, this porch was the same height as the building and was enclosed with rolling blinds. A private stairway reached from the basement to the second floor and was used by the girls and domestics; the third floor was entirely given to the boys, who used the square structure just east of the lon hall, on the foundations intended for what is now the center building of Earlham, Hall in passing from the basement to the third floor. The shape of this frame structure and its proportion to the rest of the building, gave it the name of "The Old Mill," to the school room from its having the appearance of the elevators on the front of the flouring mills of that day. The name of "The Old Mill" clung to the place as long as I had any knowledge of the place. The "L" of the west wing was used as follows: The basement as the dining room, the first floor as school rooms, being divided by a board partition starting from the center of the middle of the double window on the porch, the girls using the south half, and the half of the porch window being arranged for a door that was used by the girls to reach the main hall, and to pass up to their dormitory. Across the main stairway between the second and third floors there was a temporary partition. This explanation will explain the appearance of the ghost and its discovery. During the winter of 1851-2 there was a great amount of sickness among the students, but happily, no deaths. The attendant physicians did not appear to understand the cases. No matter whether it was measles or a simple cold, in a few days the patient would be taken with severe pains in the back and head, followed by unconsciousness and great nervousness. One evening during study hours one of the girls, who had been complaining for several days, asked the privilege of going up to the girls' parlor on the second floor: candles were used exclusively for lighting the building, the lights of the school rooms and nursery gave sufficient light to pass through the porch and up the private stairway; in passing from the head of the stairway to the lobby the girl uttered one of those screams that once heard will never be forgotten, as it betokens the greatest mortal fear and danger. Following the scream we heard a body fall on the floor above us. The boys next the porch opened the window and rushed tip the private stairway while the boys in the other part of the room made for the main stairway. I was among those that reached the upper floor first. There we found a girl of sixteen lying in a heap on the floor and apparently dead. In the nearly sixty years that have passed since that night I have passed through many scenes of excitement that tried my nerves, but never one where there was more confusion and screaming, many of the girls fainting from fright. Not over a dozen wer! over twenty-one. Lewis A. Estes ami ! his wife were the princf als of the two departments, lived hal? a mile towards town. The Superintendent and wife were an old couple not accustomed to such scenes, were as badly frightened as us boys. Three or four of the oldest students among whom I remember two from Richmond, namely, Zaccheus Test and Matthew Charles, who tool: the lead and had the girl carried to the girls' parlor and sent two of the best runners to town for a doctor, and as they passed, to call for L. A. Estes. It was half an hour before he arrived, and an hour before the doctor came followed by a crowd from town, as the word got out that one of the girls had been murdered. The doctor founi the girl living, but apparently dying. They could not find any marke on her. A searching party was organized, but no traces of the supposed assailant could be found, and it vas thought that they had escaped down the stairway at the east end of the building. It was long after midnight when the girl began to show signs of reviving, and about day light she showed signs of the greatest fear and trembling as with a chill. This was followed lik those we first heard and she screamed "O. don't kill me," then another spasm and fainting fit. The doctor worked over her for several hours, but a delirious fever set in that lasted fo'months. Her parents were sent for from eastern Ohio. Finally she so far recovered

that he mother succeeded in getting her to tell what had so frightened her. She could remember going up the private stairway and on starting across to the lobby someone rose ur from

under the window and struck at her 1 with a big knife. The next thing there ! was some one she thought was her i mother leaning over her and rubbing her forehead. This was three months after her night of terror. When the roads becamesettled in the spring they started home with her in the family carriage, there being no railroads to Richmond until that summer. They arrived home after a long and tedious journey, broken in health and shatter-! ed in mind: she never of herself, was able to give any other version than the I one I have given. I heard from her several years afterwards, but she had never fully recovered from the shock of that nighL Solution of the Mystery. Near the end of the term one even- j ing. the teacher having charge of th-? ' girls department on the memorable i night, had occasion to go up the private stairway. While passing from the head of the stairway to the lobby, she thought of the night of terror to the school, and glancing toward the window of the nursery, she saw the shadow of the nurse on the white window curtain reach up her arm with something like a knife in her hand. She thought she saw a possible solution of the mystery and, on going around to the nursery she asked the nurse if she could remember what she was doing that evening when Emily thought she saw some one strike at her. After a few minutes of thought she said that she had just taken a fresh candle from the box on the table between the windows and put it in the candle stick and as she was placing it on the mantle she heard Emily scream. The teacher requested the nurse to go through the same motions she did at that time while she went out Into the porch. On the nurse making the motions she saw the whole solution of the mystery. Returning to the school room she requested the girls to follow her to the floor above ad she could explain the mystery that had for six months been a mystery to all of them. The ghost was forever laid to rest. The solution was both plain and simple, but then the principles of it were understood by but few. At this day most persons have often been instructed and amused by pantomimes. To repeat the experiment we want a room divided by a sheet, on one side a bright light near the wall farthest from the sheet, while persons or animals are made to pass between the light and curtain, while the audience on the opposite side of the sheet in the dark1, see the shadows on the sheet which appear all to be on a flat surface, and many amusing combinations are easily made. In this case the nursery formed the room where the acts were performed, the fire in the fire place, the light, the nurse going through the acts of placing a candle in the candle stick and raising it up Ii order to place it on the mantle over the fire place, furnished the sceptre that struck the girl, while the audience in the dark was a nervous, homesick girl, was crossing the porch, going to the girls' parlor, was the audience, the white muslin curtain over the window the screen. A study of the plan of the building will explain how such a thing could be possible in those early days, when candles were the only lights and the open fire place was used for warmth, and the principles of such simple experiments were unknown. The Friends Boarding School of 1S51 is a long ways from the Earlham of today. Though then It would compare as favorably with the schools of that day as it does with the colleges of today, when it is the peer of the best in the land, and I am greatly pleased to hear of the efforts of her old friends to lift her to still higher grounds of usefulness. It is the wish of one of her boys in the day of small things. May she live long and prosper. SERIES OF SERVICES In harmony with the simultaneous movement of the churches of Richmond, the First English Lutheran church has arranged for a series of social services, beginning in the homes of its members and to be continued in the church. Arrangements for these services have been completed and they will be held as follows: Monday evening, at 7:45, at the home of Mrs. Emma Eggemeyer, 231 South Fourth street. Tuesday evening, at 7:4o. at the home of Mr. Ebon Louck, l"XO Main evening at the home of Mr. Wm. Bartel. 32" South Twelfth street. These services will be led by laymen of the church and will be informal in large measure. Adam H. Bartel. Dr. A. L. Bramkamp and E. M. Haas will lead the first three services respectively. On Thursday and Friday evenings at 7:4.. the services will be held in the Sunday school room of the church, which is splendidly adapted to services of this kind. It is expected that the members of the church will rally to these centers and that these meetings will be a great stimulus to the work of tha church in reaching out after the unchurched in the community. A cordial invitation to all who are Interested, whether members or not, is extended by the congregation. II you are troubled with sick headache, constipation, indigestion, offensive breath or ear di as. arista-from stomach trouble, get a Ste or SI bottle of Dr. CMweB's Syrup rape la i It to positively cwasteed to care vosu

A HOODOO CLOCK IS HOW BANISHED

It Foretold Deaths, So Became Unpopular With a Swayzee Family. MECHANISM IS SILENCED OWNER OF THE ANCIENT HEIRLOOM VALUES IT GREATLY BUT HE WOULD NOT FOR ANYTHING PERMIT IT TO STRIKE. Marion. Ind., Nov. 1. Dr J. T. Anderson of Swayzee, has an old-fash ioned clock, standing four feet high and constructed almost entirely ofj wood, possessed by himself and ancestors for at least 125 years, an heirloom which money would not buy, and yet Dr. Anderson would not hear this old clock strike for any price that could be offered. The relations of the striking of the clock in the past have been so woven with deaths In the family that Dr. Anderson has for som years kept the clock in the woodshed far removed from the house and so weighted it down that there is no possibility of its running or striking. The clock was originally the property of John Reasoner. of Ohio, grandfather of Mrs. Anderson. This man lived to a ripe old age and shortly before his death had a presentiment that on a certain day when the clock struck 12. he would die. True to the presentiment, his death occurred shortly after the clock tolled the hour of twelve. A daughter of John Reasoner, Mrs. John Jennings, inherited the clock, and brought it with her to Blackford county. Her husband joined In the rush of gold seekers to California in 1S40 and she never heard of him afterward. The clock next passed to another member of the family, William M. Reasoner, a physician, and it occupied a place in his office at Sulphur Springs. Henry county. Clock Sounds III Omen. It was silent for many years and much to the surprise of Dr. Reasoner it struck after a silence of almost twenty years. Within a few hours after the clock struck, he received word of the death of his mother, then eighty-one years old. The striking of the clock after such a long silence was regarded as a peculiar coincidence in connection with this death, but it was not until afterward that the strikings of the clock in relation to death caused all the relatives to regard the clock with superstition. It was six years after the death of Dr. Reasoner's mother before the clock struck again, and that night Dr. Rea soner'a wife, who was the mother of, Mrs. J. T. Anderson, of Swaysee, was taken suddenly ill and died. Five years later, in 15, as Dr. Reasoner and his daughter, Mary Reasoner. were sitting in the physicians' office, the old clock, which had been silent since the death of Dr. Reasoner's wife struck, to the horror of both persons. Dr. Reasoner was taken ill within a few days and died after a sickness of short duration. The clock, after the death of Dr. Reasoner, became the property of Dr. and Mrs. J. T. Anderron, who then lived at Honey Creek, Henry county. It had been in their family four years without running, when Dr. Anderson, as he entered his home one evening, heard the clock strike. Dr. Anderson had no belief in signs or superstitions but remarked to his wife. I wonder who will be the next to die?" having no thought that the striking of the clock would mean another death in the family. He received a message the next day announcing the death of his sister. Mrs. Jane Enright, in Hancock county. The clock has now been silent nineteen years and the mechanism has been so changed that there is said to be no possibility of the clock running, i and yet the clock is regarded with some dread by members of Dr. Anderson's family, and it is kept a safe dis tance from the house that the death j knell might not be heard even if it should strike. It Was Funny. "Something very funny happened the other day." said O'Beetle to his friend j McFoo. "I was downtown ana iouna myself without car fare. Before I bad a chance to worry over the thought of walking a few miles in the hot sun along comes Binker. who writes jokes. I know him very weM. and yet I had the nerve to ask him to loan me a quarter, lie tM ne te was glad to accommodate me uud handed over the coin." -Is that allT asked McFoo. -It is." "Well, what's the Joke?" "Why. the funuy part is that a man who writes jokes should have a whoie quarter with him at one time." New York Times. His Fatal Oversight. He proposed to ber by mail, and by letter sae replied. He read ber brief i refusal, then committed suicide. Alas, j he'd be alive today and sbe a happy I bride bad be but read the postscript ! vuut-u vu lue oioer siae. cnicago News. MASONIC CALENDAR. Monday. Nov. 1 Richmond Commandery No. 8, K. T. Stated Conclave. Tuesday. Nov. 2. Richmond Lodge No. 196. F. & A. M., Stated Meeting. Wednesday. Nov. 3. Webb Lodge, No. 24, F. & A. M. Special meeting afternoon and evening, work in Master Mason's degree. Refreshments and banquet. Thursday, Nov. 4. Wayne Council No. 10. R. & S. M. Stated Assembly. Saturday, Nov. 6 Loyal Chapter No. 49. O. E. S. Stated Meeting.

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