Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 35, Number 89, 5 February 1910 — Page 4

PAGE FOUR.

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUX-TEL.EGRA3I, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3. 1910.

The Richmond Palladium and Sun-Telegram Published and owned by the PALLADIUM PRINTING CO. Iisued 7 days each week, evenings and Sunday morning. Office Corner North th and A streets. Home Phone 1121. RICHMOND. INDIANA. Rudolph C. Leeds Editor Ckarlea M. Msrsaa . . . Managing- Editor Carl Bernhardt Associate Editor W. R. Foaadstone News Editor.

SUBSCRIPTION TERMS. la Richmond $5.00 per year (In advance) or 10c per week. MAIL SUBSCRIPTIONS. One year, !n advance 5.00 81x months, In advance 2.60 One month. In advance 5 RURAL ROUTES. One year. In advance f2.R0 Ftx 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 plase 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 clans mall matter. Tbm Association of American I Advertiser (New York City) has L examined and eertilied to the circulation J t ot this publication, tmiy ine ngures oi I circulation contained in its report Me l smaranteaa b the Association. tNo. 169 CA Secretary. 1 A WIDE, STRONG TIDE OF PROSPERITY. The latest statements as to the banks of the far Northwestern states furnish some very interesting reading to the people of the whole country. These statements cover conditions to November 16, 1909, and show that in tho three slates of Washington, Oregon and Idaho, the state and national banks hold deposits aggregating $323,596,846. Their loans and discounts were $218,238,304 and their cash and exchange reserve amounted to $119,082,113, or about 36 percent. The banks in the state of Washington increased their deposits $35,000,000 from November, 1908, and $14,-' 000,000 from September 1, 1909. Oregon banks increased deposits $19,000,000 in the year. Here we have shown the same strengthening of the financial resources of the people and of the country that we have in New England, the Eastern, Central, Southern and Southwestern states. These figures give the utmost confidence in the present and the future of business in the republic. Thirty-six percent reserve in those spates that are in the most intense period of development is a shining and admirable mark of conservatism that speaks loudly and clearly in telling the business interests elsewhere that the far West is engaged in no flighty or unsafe financial booms. Such deposits and reserves as shown in the states named remove all thought of either depression in trade or lull in manufacturing in the United States. Every portion of the Union is stronger financially today than ever before In its history. The money is more uniformly, as well as more widely distributed, and with such reports from these states at the very extremity of the Union, as it were, one can well understand why the panic of 1907 lasted such a brief period and how it was scarcely felt in the west. Railways, telephones and telegraphs have so brought together states and communities that now tho republic is influenced and safeguarded by the solidly based general prosperity and can stand without serious injury, or even embarrassment, a flurry so great as the local panic in Wall street of 1907. A few unsound stones in our walls of finance or our system of business can be thrown out and replaced without endangering in the slightest degree the structures. The prosperity Is still growing and spreading, and as the millions of cash increase in the country they will continue to work still greater marvels than they have already displayed. Cincinnati Enquirer. JAPAN AND CHRISTIANITY. It has always been assumed by the Christian church that the influence of its missionaries played an important if not the leading part in the awakening of Japan and that its principles had great effect upon the lives and thought of the Japanese people. We have always been led to believe that Verbeck and those missionaries who came after him had a large part in bringing about the liberality and openmindedness of that race, but according to Baron Dairoku Kikuchi, president of the imperial university, now in this country, these ideas are entirely misleading. If we are to believe him, Christianity had nothing to do with the revolution of 1868, which resulted ia the establishment of the present empire. The personal character of our early mis

A MODERN FRANCHISE. We are informed that the Committee on Franchises, to which the Richmond Natural Gas franchise for artificial gas was referred, -will recommend to Council that the contract as signed by the former Board of Works be voted down and the matter turned back to the Board of Works to be taken, up from the beginning. As Council has but the alternative of either passing or voting down the franchise, and there are many glaring defects in the contract as it now stands from the viewpoint of the citizen, we believe that Council will doubtless follow the recommendations of the committee.

Attention has already been called to the principal faults of the present contract from the aspect of modern franchise requirements. There are lack of real safeguards as to competition; the right of the city to purchase stock (the only way that the city could ever hope to buy the plant) ; and the safeguard as to candle power and purity the omission of a real standard of quality. Moreover with the consideration of these points comes up the question of the financial condition of the company and the necessary readjustments which would have to take place were the city to buy at a future date. It should be remembered that as far as as Richmond is concerned the pipe lines and gas wells outside the city limits obviously ought not to be taken into account.

The matter of rates is not as important a thing in itself if modern methods of dealing with it are employed. There are several equitable arrangements which have been mad? in the newer types of franchises in this country which have reduced fr.etion between consumers and colorations. But as these are largely the outgrowth of the movement to give the city some share in the public utilities along the lines mentioned above. It will only be possible to do away with controversy on these points if the considerations referred to are used as a basis. The only way that bad feeling between citizen and corporation can be escaped is by allowing the citizen some form of direct or indirect participation in the financial returns. James P. Goodrich, who is well known as a public service corporation man, said recently that the only real matter of controversy between cities and corporations is in the matter of rates. If some equitable form of adjustment from time to time, or an automatic participation by per cent is agreed upon (with the small consumer taken into account as well as the large consumer) this need not be a point to tie up a contract on.

Therefore, if council determines to strive for a modern franchise along the lines of the newer models it will be for the benefit of all concerned. If an old form of franchise is granted there cannot but be the old ill feeling which has ever resulted from such franchises from the very fact of their intrinsic selfishness. The public service corporation can in reality obtain more in the long run from a satisfied consumer than from one in whom the company has continually aroused a feeling of injustice. One modern franchise in Richmond and the whole situation is in a fair way to a better condition with regard to all public service corporations.

sionaries was much admired, he admits, but the influence of their religious principles has had no perceptible effect upon the national thought. He goes further, and says that the attitude of some Japanese converts is strongly opposed because they decry ancestor worship and other rites of the ancient faith. He adds that his nation has not derived any of its moral teachings from western sources. We cannot but wonder if the Japanese, unacquainted with the Christian teachings of Verbeck and his followers, would have maintained toward the Russians in the recent war that spirit of magnanimity which challenged the world's admiration. Was it the teachings of Christianity or mere policy which made Japan adopt Red Cross methods and become almost the chief supporter of that splendid charity? Would Japan without Christian influence, have given so generously to San Francisco in its distress four years ago? Or raised the monument to the Russians who fell at Port Arthur, when Nogo stood bareheaded while the priests of the Greek church performed the dedicatory services? Chicago Tribune. FORUMOFTHE PEOPLE Articles Contributed for This Column Must Not Be in Excess of 400 Words. The Identity of Alt Contributors Must Be Known to the Editor. Articles Will Be Printed in the Order Received. Editor Palladium: Inasmuch as we are now taking liberal daily doses of press-tuberculosis, the writer thought perhaps your many intelligent readConsumption The time was when consumption was thought to be an incurable disease, but to-day this dreaded White Plague is known to be curable under the enlightened care of the doctors of all schools when accompanied in the treatment by that wonderful remedy, Duffy's Puro Malt Whiskey It corrects the defective digestion of the food, increases the appetite, strengthens the heart, gives force to the circulation, cures insomnia and brings restfulness to the brain and nervous forces. We have thousands of grateful patients who write us they have. been cured after they were given up by the doctors. If you wisn to keep young, strong and vigorous and have on your cheeks t':e glow of perfect health, take Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey regularly, according to directions. It tones and strengthens the heart action and gives vigor to the entire system. It is recognized as a family medicine everywhere. It is invaluable for overworked men, delicate women and sickly children. It is a promoter of health and longevity. All druggist, grocers and dealers, or direct, 11.00 alarfre bottle. Refuse sub&titues and imitations, they are Impure and dangerous. Send for free medical booklet and dvice. Daffy AUK VHskay Co., Rochester. N. Y.

ers might relish a "leetle" more of tuberculin test, therefore begs sufficient, of your valuable space in an effort to place before the public some Roosevelt publicity facts along said lines. To rightly comprehend what shall follow, one must get some idea of the vastness and minuteness of the microscopic world; the terni, living organism, includes any and every living thing, the phrase "from monad to man" means from the lowest forms of life that the most powerful microscopes at our command can reveal, up to the very highest and most complex life. Unseen Material World. A little familiarity with microscopic work will convince any one that with

i our unaided eyes we see less than 10 j per cent of the world in which we live, move and have our being; with ' the very highest power of the modern j microscope, and with the best modern equipment aforded for scientific experiment and study of the physical world, the scientist realizes that although the unknown today may under ! the searchlight of science become the ! familiarly known tomorrow, yet not-: withstanding, there must ever remain j to all human wisdom a boundless gulf of the absolutely, unknowable in this j old material world, to say nothing of the imamterial universe.The Size of Microbes. Measurements are taken of these minute organisms (a living thing is an organism whether a microbe or an elephant), as accurately as the lumberman measures the lumber, this accessory to the microscope is called a micrometer. There are two principal kinds. They consist of thin, clear glass slides accurately ruled under a microscope into minute squares of de-1 finite known size, and the object ex- j amined is measured by them. The j standard of microscopic measure- j ment is given three diferent names ! by different authors, all meaning the same, viz: micromomillimeter, micron, nui; it is 1-1000 of a millimeter or 1-25,000 of an inch. Now the microbe family of bacteria, consisting of three principal classe bacilli or rod shaped organisms, cocci or spherical organisms, spirilla or spiral shaped i organisms, has innumerable varieties. 1 just as the aple, pear, wheat, corn, etc., have almost endless varieties, j indeed bacteria are clasified among i the lowest forms of vegetable life. Replenish the Earth. This Scriptural comand which we are apt to think was given to man kind only, science, and especially the j science of bacteriology teaches that it Included most eminently the tiny mi-; cro-organism also: for instance the j bacteria have by all odds the advantage over even the "heathen Chinee" in populating the earth; although un-1 erringly obeying that primal and eter- j nal law of nature, "each after his own kind." yet these minimal beings en- j poy the shortest road to reproduction ' as well as by far the more prolifis one that most of the larger beings j whose environments are much more favorable; they multiply by fissation. that is to say that one sinsle bacteria which is itself unicellrjar or a onecelled being, will diivde in two equal cells, each of these will asain divide and there are four living bacteria exactly alike, each of these four divide and eight bacteria result, each of the eight divide and sixteen result and so on; the rapidity with which they thus multiply is marvelous. For instance, one single bacteria will produce thus in 24 hours 16,777,216 bacteria, each having exactly the same life history that is living, eating, excreting (their excretions which are the same as excretions of any other livins being, are scientifically termed ptomaines), and each producing adinfinitum. Bacteriologic Work. And it is work, too; the bacteriologist works longer hours, more industriously and conscientiously, with more dextrous skill than the most ex

pert skilled mechanic; his work must be done with untiring patience, industry and precision; and above all he is in constant danger of poisonous infection from any number of virulent germs. He proceeds very similarly to the expert gardener or florist; grows cultivates and studies the innumerable forms and varieties, habits and requireemnts of micro-organisms, much as the florist proceeds with his seeds and growing flowers. The first thing is to carefully prepare the soil; this is called "culture media," and proper receptacles for this media or soil to grow the organisms in; one or two hundred culture tubes, glass tubes much like the test tubes the chemist uses, other somewhat larger having constriction and hollow balllike end called potato tubes for cultivating microbes on prepared potato media: all these tubes are first cleaned and thoroughly sterilized with antiseptic soap and boiling, dried and pluged with cotton and put in a sterilizer and with either dry or moist heat subjected to a temperature of 220 to 400 degrees F. for several hours; the culture media is now prepared and while quite warm poured into the tubes; great care is necessary to prevent any germs floating in the air from dropping in the steril media. Agar-agar, a glue like substance prepared from certain varieties of Asiatic seaweed, a peptone powder, boullion prepared from fresh meat, are the most common culture media materials. They are prepared according to the organism desired to cultivate and study; small glass shallow dishes with close fitting covers are also used as well as glass plates to make plate cultures. When all is ready the culture is infected with a small platinum loop, or needle fixed in a glass handle; the smallest visible speck of microbe material is taken up on the wire and the media in the culture tube, or on a plate is put in the culture media, the cotton stopper replaced, or the cover put lightly on he 'petri dish,' and carefully put away for a day or two, when numerous colonies of the microbe will have grown; a microscopic slide i.s now prepared from the diferent colonies, stained with different delicate staining fluid, the slide sealed with Canada balsam, and the specimen is leisurely studied with the highest magnifying powers of the microscope. The microbes are obtained from floating germs and spores in the air, and from man and different animals affected with diferent diseases. Good and Bad Microbes. Bacteriologists divide them into two general classes as to their relation to disease, namely, pathogenic or disease producing microbes, and the non-pathogenic or not disease causing or non-virulent; in fact the nonvirulent or harmless micro-organisms are far more numerous than the virulent or poisonous microbes, for instance, in the stomach, bowels, in all the excretions of the healthiest man, woman or child anywhere, are millions of micro-organisms that act as scavengers to relieve overburdened nature from the laborious task of eliminating the huge garbage pile which would accumulate from riotous living, overfeedingN and the iniquitous pormsndism of oday; for instance, the Bacillus Colli is natural inhabitant of the large intestine, indeed we could not live and have health without thiii large population of friendly microbes and if we feed and otherwise properly care for them, they are "good citizens." On the other hand, if they have bad feeding and unsanitary treatment they become "bad citizens' and we send for tho doctor to ouel! the riot, never thinking that instead of taking disease, we ourselves make it. As this article has become much longer than we had expected, in another soon we will discuss f.t some length the bacillus tuberculosis, tho s-o-ofUed tuberculin test, etc. J. M. T.

PILES CURED IN 6 TO 14 DAYS PAZO OINTMENT is guaranteed to cure any case of Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles in 6 to 14 days or money refunded. COc. lUms Gathered m From Far and Near Reforming West Point. From the New York World. To preserve discipline at West Point a few years ago Congress passed a severe law against hazing and provided that cadets found guilty cf the practice should be expelled. Now congress with the approval of a tenderhearted secretary of war proposes to authorize "harmless hazing," so that three cadets underf sentence of dismissal can be reinstated. "Ultimately, of course, the Military Academy will bp reformed. It has been going through the process for six or seven years, and congress is still at it. At the start congress was outraged by the brutality of the young gentlemen in course of training to be officers of the United States Army. It investigated And fulminated and legislated against the culprits. But the first time the superintendent of the military academy undertook to execute the law and dismiss a party of hazers. who had been convicted of violating the regulations, a stream of representatives and senators started for the White House to secure Mr. Roosevelt's clemency in behalf of various cadets from their districts. Ever since then pretty much everybody concerned. except Col. Scott, has made a farce of the law. Knowing How the Submerged Live. From the Chicago Record-Herald. A citizen of Oak Park had not believed that starvation of men. women and children was possible in Chicago at this time of reasonable prosperity, and only an actual case called to his attention by a probation officer has convinced him of the contrary. There are many excellent citizens In the same position, and a little personal contact with the grim, sad realities of life among the submerged, or the ignorant and very poor, would be as good for them as it has been to the Oak Park citizen. Long ago an English statesman deplored the fact that too many of the well-to-do know less of the lives,

TO THE REPUBLICANS OF WA YNE CO. I am asking the Republicans of Wayne County for the nomination or Clerk of the Wayne Circuit Court, at the primary to be held Monday, February 7. I feel that I am justified in asking this honor at the hands of the Republicans of Wayne County, having been for thirty years an active party worker. I have made a thorough canvass of the County, and while it ha. of course, been impossible to see personally every voter, the cordial reception accorded my candi dacy is a matter of great satisfaction to me. I ask your careful consideration at the primary, Monday. Very respectfully, THOMAS R. JESSUP

habits and conditions of their own un-1 fortunate countrymen than they do of! the affairs of distant foreign countries, j For many years the gospel of "per- ; sonal service" has been preached by ' the more enlightened philanthropists,! but no amount of abstract teaching is nearly so effective as one bit of direct experience. The American Woodchuck. From the New York Sun. It is unfair to make the American woodchuck responsible for the weather of the last six weeks of winter in the United States. He is not the same 1 animal as the English groundhog, with ; which the Candlemas legend is properly associated. The woodchuck is an honest, sturdy and valiane rodent, who minds his own business; a soldier of the pasture who fights the canine enemy to the last gasp and dies with fortitude. It is a shameful aspersion upon his character to say that he can lie about the weather or anything else. i A Likely Idea. ' From the Columbus, Ohio, State Jour- ! nal. Our idea of a great financier is a man who worries more about the price of call money than he does about the price of pork chops. Waste. From the Pittsburg Dispatch. Representative Sims of Tennessee says the franking privilege costs only $."H0.000 annually. Judging by most of the matter sent out under it, about $410.000 is wasted. SLIFER AT LIBERTY Pleas of His Faithful Wife Touched the Heart of Eaton Judge. IS NAMED IN WHITE CASE. (Palladium Special! Eaton. O.. Jan. 5. Forgetting and forgiving his extreme cruelty in the desertion of her and her family of three small children, Neome Slifer appeared before Judge Elam Fisher here yesterday and delivered a touching plea for her husband. Benjamin F. Slifer, who has been conned in the county bastile for two or three weeks on the charge of desertion. Notwithstanding the fact that he has steadfastly declared he would not live with her. the little wife asked the judge to give him his liberty. She paid he had always been a good husband and father during the several years that they have been married. Judge Fisher favorably considered the woman's pleadings and Slifer has been released from custody. Slifer was arrested in Richmond several weeks ago, after he had left his family two or three weeks. It was reported that in Richmond Slifer had been paying attention to another woman, but his mention in ihe case of Eddie White is spurned by local friends of the man. A Rattlesnake Story. In "Life and Sport on the Pacific Coast" Horace A. Vachell relates one of his narrow escapes from a friend's bullet. "My cousin and I h;d been camping and huntiug for several days In a sort of paradise valley. One day during a long ride on horseback we had siH'u a great many rattlesnakes and killed a few. an exceptional experience. That night my cousin woke up and saw by the light of the moon a big rattler crawling across my chest. lie lay for a moment fascinated, horror struck, watching the sinuous curves tf the reptile. Then he quietly reached for his six shooter, but he could not see the reptile's head, and he moved nearer, noiselessly, yet quickly, dreading pome movement on my part that should precipitate the very thing ho dreaded, and then he saw that it was not a suake at all only the black and yellow stripe of my blanket, which gently rose and fell as I breathed. Had be fired well. It might have been bad for me. for he confessed that his hand shock." Carving Knives. Steel carving and bread knives can 1 quickly cleaned if there is an old razor strop in the house. This sprinkled with emery makes an excellent article to brighten sharp steel. Should a strop not be obtainable a piece of cloth tacked over a long stick and covered with powdered emery will answer the same purpose. The stick should be fiat on top. Good Reason. Professor Why does the earth move? Hardup (absently) Can't pay the rent, I suniiose.

POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS

JOINT SENATOR. WALTER S. COMMONS Candidate for Joint Senator from Wayne and Union counties, subject to Republican nomination. CHARLES W. STIVERS, of Union county, is a candidate for joint senator from Wayne and Union counties, subject to the Republican primary election. REPRESENTATIVE ELMER S. LA?MON Candidate for Representative of Wayne County, subject to the Republican nomination. LEE J. REYNOLDS, of Hagerstown. candidate for Representative of Wayne County, subject to the Republican nomination. WALTER S. RATLIFF Candidate for Representative of Wayne county, subject to the Republican nomination. JOINT REPRESENTATIVE. JOHN C. HARVEY Candidate for Joint Representative, from Wayne and Fayette counties, subject to the Republican Nomination. TREASURER. ALBERT R. ALBERTSON Candidate for Treasurer of Wayne County, subject to Republican nomination. COUNTY SHERIFF JESSE A. U A I LEY Candidate for sheriff of Wayne county, subject to the Republican nomination. EZRA N. THOMPSON Candidate for feheriff of Wayne county, subject to the Republican nomination. LAFAYETTE LARSH Candidate for sheriff of Wayne county subject to the Republican nomination. One term of two years only. OSCAR E. MASH MEYER Candidate for sheriff of Wayne county, subject to the Republican nomination. COUNTY CLERK. FRANK M. WHITESELL Candidate for County Clerk, subject to the Republican nomination. GEO. MATTHEWS Candidate for County Clerk, subject to the Republican nomination. WM. K. CHEESMAN Candidate for County Clerk, subject to the Republican nomination. F. F. RIGOS Candidate for County Clerk, subject to the Republican nomination. W. E. EIKENBERRY Candidate for County Clerk, subject to the Republican nomination. THOMAS R. JESSUP Candidate for Clerk of Wayne County, subject to the Republican nomination. COUNTY CORONER. DR. R. J. PIERCE Candidate for

Californiavia New Orleans At this season of the year, a most delightful route, no snow, ice or freezing weather, and the very best service through Houston, San Antonio, Ef Paso, New Mexico and Arizona to Los Angeles and San Francisco. Electric block signal insures safety. The Southern Pacific Co., Sunset Express, daily, has oil-burning locomotives no dust or smoke and is equipped with solid vestibule Pullman drawing-room sleepers, combination library, buffet and observation cars, chair cars and dining cars. Also ask for literature on Louisiana lands.

For all information, address

W.

Coroner of Wayne county, subject to the Republican nomination

DR. MORA S. U.U L.LA Candidate for Coroner of Way no county, subject to the Republican nomination. COUNTY AUDITOR. L. S. BOWMAN Of Hagerstown. candidate for Auditor of Wayne county, subject to tho Republican nomination. ALBERT E. MOREL Candidate for Auditor of Wayne County, subject to the Republican nomination. COUNTY ASSESSOR. ALBERT OLER Candidate for Assessor of Wayne county, subject to the Republican nomination. THOS. F. SWAIN Candidate for Assessor of Wayne county, subject to the Republican nomination. WILLIAM MATHEWS Candidate for Assessor of Wayne County, subject to the Republican Nomination. COUNTY COMMISSIONER. ROBERT X. BEESON Candidate for Commissioner of Wayne county, subject to the Republican nomination for the second term from the Western District. B. II. LINDERMAN Candidate for Commissioner of Wayne county, subject to the Republican nomination from the Middle District. THEODORE P. CRIST is a candidate for County Commissioner (Western District). Subject to the Republican Nomination. A Conundrum. What Is that which we ran all make, but which la never Men after It la made? A bow. CHICHESTER S PILLS IIImI . Ilia la Kr4 ti a4 Md ia!4 MlUAV M ftM ft 1,4mA T bo. wlcit with tUum KlIliM. TS tmkm W. Inrfmr iranw. Atkn in- tn -ra t2S RB.4S NIX. a nnkiiMMBcil,SaM,llm RciiaM SOLD BY DRUGGISTS EVEKWXECE CHICAGO. CINCINNATI & LOUISVILLE RAILROAD. rhra 3HMZ. Ia Effect Xaveaaferr 14. lea, Hmmt Boaaa'-Blf-ac-eia-taaatl ST A I IO. I.V. 1 II a D D Chicago. . Peru Ar... Peru.. .. Marlon .. Muncie .. Richmond Ct. irove Cincinnati 9:11a I0:O5p 902a 1:3ZV 2:lp 4:40b1 C:a 7:00 7:Sa :!-' 3:01a 3:53a S:OSa 5:43 SSnp" !:!! West Baa4 4 lartaaall-'alraa

STATIONS 3 j 4 J t.v. o I i ( n

Cincinnati Ct. Grove .. .. . Illchmond . Muncle .. .. .. . Marlon .. . . .. . Peru Ar... .. .. . Peru Chicago (12th St. Ftatlon) 9:S3a'll:6p 110:31a I3:;S 7:00p !M:41a !:, :30p 12:41pi 2:3Sa! ;30p l:32pi 3:2a,10:30p l:42p 3:34.1 S:40p ?:35ai Through it!bu1l Trains btwn Chicago and ClnctncatL Loubl dally crvlc. Through plpr on trm'ns Nos. 3 and 4 between Chicago and Cincinnati 1'ine buffet service on trains 1 and 2. All trains run dally. For train connections and other laformation rail C. A. m-AIR. P. tc T. A. Home Pbone 202. Richmond. In 4. H. CONNOR, Agt. Cincinnati, 0.