Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 35, Number 99, 14 February 1910 — Page 4

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUX-TELEGRAM, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1910.

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

Rudolph G. Leeds.. Charles M. Horgia. Carl Bernhardt W. H. I'ouadatone . . Editor . .Maaaarlna; Editor ..Associate Editor News Editor. SUBSCRIPTION TERMS. In Richmond 3.00 per year (!n advance) or 10c per week. MAIL SUBSCRIPTIONS. One year. In advance $5 00 Six month. In advance 2.0 On month, in advance 45 RURAL ROUTES. One year. In advance IS. B0 8lx months, in advance 1.50 One month, in advance 25 Address changed as often as desired: both new and old addresses must be riven. Rubscrlbra will please 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 pccfnd class mall matter. The Association of American J Advertisers (New York City) has 4 examined and certilisd to the circulation , ot this publication. Only the figures ol ; circulation contained in its report axe ; I ffoarsntset hy the Association. LITERATURE AND THE PRESS. In a current magazine it is related that a young man was invited to join the staff of one of Air. Hearst's papers. His instructor in English raised his hands in horror at so prostituting his talents at the altar of "sensational" newspaper work. Holding the advice of his instructor In great esteem the protest against the "prostitution of his talents" grad ually preyed on the young man's senBibilities to such an extent that he explained to Mr. Hearst why it was that he could not accept the position offered him. "He saw a cynical smile on the face of Mr. Hearst, who summoned his stenographer, and in his presence dictated a letter to the professor, requesting a 500-word signed article for the next Sunday's issue and enclosing a check for $250. On Sunday the ingenuous youth beheld the article in a conspicuous place on the Journal's editorial page, with the professor's full name appended in large capitals. In answer to the often asked and answered question as to the differ ence between newspaper work and real literature mere nave Deen many attempts. This anecdote will appeal to the average newspaper man as be ing about the best illustration of the difference in a great many men who decry the press as sensational and vul gar. The newspaper man who does not call himself a journalist will go about his work without bothering about the distinction and with no illusions on the question despite the fact that Dana's letter on Santa Claus and William Allen White's "What's the Matter with Kansas?" are still quoted ST. VALENTINE'S DAY. We hope there will be no falling off in the popularity of St. Valentine, though he has fallen in grievous times. With the suffragettes on the one hand and the proposed revision of the mail rates It cannot be prophesied with any accuracy what will be his fate by this day next year. The days of Sir John Suckling and Jlerrick are gone and we buy our verses ready made, except in other parts of Indiana where pencil and paper and the columns of the local press are more convenient than the florist and the confectioner. It is almost time for some of the learned to come out with a monograph on the effect of the Sunday supplement on the valentine of comic tendencies. A history of this sort would be a little more convincing than some of the arguments which have lately been advanced to show that the tariff is in accordance with the promises in the Republican platform. While wc have been debating the great national issues and leading the strenuous lifo is it not possible that we have overlooked the finer things of life which our forefathers put so eloquently into billet doux? Has not the telephone usurped the scented epistle and the flowing meter which accompanied the pasteboard so gaily tricked out in red and tinsel? What need to drag in Juno Februata and Pan and trace the effect of the hallowed day on literature in all times, climes and places? The real lesson of the day is "What every woman knows" or ought to. LAND. We are Informed that the government has about a thousand farms which it Is willing to sellifor the modest price of from three to six dollars an acre. This is no lottery game. You must also have a little money on hand to use for development of the land else the government will not sell to you. 2 swwint naailad is about a thous-

MR. TAFT SPEAKS. Mr. Taft has spoken at length on the administration several times. Each time the people have read the views of the President with great Interest, though the speeches were long and voluminous. They will again read Mr. Taft's speech at New York on Lincoln's birthday. For the interest of the people In Mr. Taft's speeches and messages has been not so much an interest in the measures themselves as in Mr. Taft himself. Readers of the latest speech of the President will scarcely find new material for another estimate. It is true that he seems determined to follow In the footsteps of Mr. Roosevelt in regard to legislation concerning the trusts; he seems determined and honest about the fulfilment of the promises made in the Republican platform in 1908, and In his own speech of acceptance. The people will give him credit for his honesty in the matter. But though the issues may change and the proposed plans may vary from time to time, the latest speech will hardly appeal to its readers as throwing any new light upon Mr. Taft or upon his attitude. To all intents the opinion of the President on the tariff question is exactly what it was when be signed the tariff bill. There is the same misunderstanding of what the people really objected to in the tariff and all the other administration measures.

That attitude is precisely expressed in his estimate of the Insurgents. Everyone knows that the President was able to secure as good a tariff as he did because certain senators and representatives in congress fought for them against the reactionaries of both parties. Everyone knows, also, that the reactionaries of both parties, and not the Republican party are responsible for the main iniquities of the tariff as it stands today. The people as a whole would have overlooked the tariff and been in sympathetic accord with the President if he had said that the tariff did not come up to what he had hoped to secure for them. If he had told the people then and there that he had failed to get all he wanted because the reactionaries of both parties had defeated his desires, it would have been different. But the President chose to make the party responsible, to ignore, the work done by the Insurgents, and to give the credit to Aldrich and Cannon whom he still calls "party leaders."

Because Republican newspapers are not disposed to tell the people what Is not the case, it has been whispered into Mr. Taft's ear that they are opposing the administration and seeking its downfall because they do not like the tariff on white paper. The injustice of this accusation shows a very complete misunderstanding of the whole national situation. It has done as much as auything to show the newspapers that Mr. Taft is not invulnerable to the lobby by which he is surrounded. The newspapers believe that Mr. Taft is essentially fair and have said so they have sympathized with him and apologized for him. But they can only believe him misguided by those who stand close to him when he makes such an accusation. The newspapers did everything in their power to enable the president to secure the material reductions which he did get. But having aided in the fight, they could not commit the folly of trying to tell the people that everything was "all right," when their own files of that time were full of evidence to prove them falsifiers. The only thing they could do was to call attention to the things which had been accomplished and to say that there were many desirable things which were killed in conference by the committee appointed by Aldrich and Cannon. At Winona and in his latest speech in New York, Mr. Taft shows the same disposition to give Mr. Aldrich and Mr. Cannon the credit for the good things in the tariff; to discredit the newspapers as engaged in misrepresentation and to assail the Insurgents as demagogues.

Mr. Taft still worships at the feet of the idols of party regularity at the expense of the truth. In one breath he praises the work of Roosevelt in arousing the country to the danger that we are in "of having all our politics and all our places of governmental authority in the control of corporate interests and to serve the greed of selfish but powerful men." But in the next instant he is condemning such an attitude in the Insurgents as "blind hysteria and demagogy."

We still believe that Mr. Taft is honest In his endeavors for the people. He does not see with the same eyes that the rest of us do. He does not seem to appreciate the real situation as regards the people, the newspapers or the Insurgents. And so it is likely to go on to the end of the chapter. That he has been unfair to all of these in his judgment seems hard, but that it is due to anything but a misunderstanding (carefully encouraged by those around him) we do not believe. At any rate in the attitude of the President there Is no new note of character or of discernment which is noticeable in the latest speech.

and dollars. The Reclamation Service of the government is in a position to tell you all about it. Although Indiana has no reclamation service that we have ever heard of, the state still has some land in its possession which has never been entered. This land is said to be the most fertile in the state. Most of it is up in the lake district. It is the "meandered" land of the Kankakee region and could not be accurately surveyed in the old days when the state was first mapped out. It is said (we know not on how good authority) that it does not take so much money to drain this land as might be imagined. At any rate of the reader is interested in the first land which we mention in which he will have to pay for water rights, we see no reason why he might not be interested in the same proposition nearer home where he has to get rid of a little moisture. Be loyal to Indiana. Items Gathered in From Far and Near Schools for Tuberculosis Children. From the Philadelphia Inquirer. Following the lead of other big cities, plans are being formulated to establish open-air schools for tuberculosis children in Philadelphia. The Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Tuberculosis has the idea un der consideration and will probably ask the school board and the board of health of the city to co-operate with it. There should be no opposition to this move. Philadelphia is the only city of the first class that has no openair schools and provides no means for educating these unfortunates, who, through an ordinance, are prohibited from attending the regular sessions. Excellent results have been obtained by the plan in other cities. The schools have a two-fold benefit, that of enabling the child to receive an education, and of giving it pure, fresh air under conditions that must conduce to strengthen it something it does not obtain in the majority of cases when it is compelled to remain at home all day. No matter from what viewpoint one regards this idea there can be no fault found with it, and everything is in its favor. It is to be hoped that the municipal authorities will lend their

aid to the project and assist in every way possible in the establishment of the schools. The lives and education of the little ones are sufficient arguments in favor of the plan.

Peary and the South Pole. From the New York World. Whatever faults of taste or temper Robert E. Peary may have developed during a period of what Gov. Hughes fairly describes as "great mental anguish," he has never been a moneygrubber. For a quarter of a century he has spent upon arctic exploration every cent he could raise. He has forsworn ease; he has written, lectured, mortgaged even his earnings for the future, to outfit expedition after expedition until by sheer importunity he wearied fate into relenting and won through the ice-guarded gates. His generous act in giving for an American south pole expedition the $10,000 presented to him by friends was therefore quite in character. He has by it made such an expedition certain, and has insured for it every advantage that equipment and experience can give. His gift will be as many times multiplied as necessary. It enlists world-wide attention for the enterprise. Down With Billboards! From the Portland Oregonian. No city that makes any pretension to decent appearance can afford to permit bill boards anywhere within its limits. These most unsightly things offend all taste and sensibility; they give the city the appearance of a cheap and nasty place; even on vacant lots they should not be allowed. The push clubs and improvement clubs and city-beautiful clubs should all take up the war against them. Objection to disfigurement of buildings with great letters that advertise cigars and other things should be included in the raid. A public opinion against these and all similar abominations ought to be created in Portland that would taboo such monstrosities. Good Old Mammies. From the Louisville Courier-Journal. When Mrs. Belmont tries to interest the black mammies of the south in suffragettism she will find ' herself combating a deep-seated instinct to disregard, as beyond woman's sphere, everything that cannot be fried, baked, boiled, roasted, washed and ironed, or addressed as "mammy's angel chile." Peace Societies. From the Springfield Republican. .Perhaps we ought . to be glad he-

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United States Senator B. R. Tillman, who is making a strong fight in the South Carolina courts in the role of a grandfather. The daughter-in-law of the Senator wants the custody of her two children now in the Senator's possession. The Senator says his son deeded the children to him and he is afraid that his daughter-in-law intends to get a divorce and present the children with a step father. Although B. R. Tillman. Jr., attends the court sessions of the case, he keeps very still and lets his militant father do the fighting. The case is now on at Columbua. S. C.

cause a new society has been formed to promote international peace, yet it seemed as if there were enough already. It begins to look as if as many societies were necessary for the establishment ot perpetual peace as there have been religious sects to achieve salvation for the individual souls. Tastes differ amazingly concerning ways and means of abolishing war. TWINKLES (By Philander Johnson) Politics. "There's only one way I can think of to head off this suffragette movement, said the mere man. "What is that?" asked his wife. "Make the legal age for voting thirty-five years instead of twenty-one." Rural Prosperity. Conditions shift and shift again. No more we frame those hayseed jokes, The farmer now is laughing when He thinks about us city folks. Fine Work. "Note this exquisite carving!" said the man with a taste for oriental art. "Imagine the patience and digital dexterity it required." "Yes," answered Mr. Bliggins, "I'll bet the man who did that could hook up his wife's dress without a murmur." Mystery. "What kind of a story are you reading?" "It's a mystery story!" "What's the mystery?" "The fact that anybody consented to publish it." Sacrifices. "Are the ladies of your set going to make any sacrifices during Lent?" "Yes" answered Miss Cayenne. "They will probably get together chattily and sacrifice the reputations of a few friends." Comet A. Good day, good day, old Comet A. You've started on your distant way, You gave mankind a thrill or two And now you're due for pathways new And we upon this steady sphere Will soon forget that you were near. How many a name like "Comet A" Is oft repeated for a day! How many a luminous career In its erratic course draws near And rushes past and loaves no trace, Engulfed in dark and silent space! Folding Linen In Holland. Folding linen is an accomplishment in which each one of the women In Holland is expected to be proficient before she becomes mistress of a home. In Holland especially the folding of linen requires considerable skill and training. Much of their fabric is of the finest texture and quality, and they fashion the various pieces in ironins Into birds, animals, flowers and all manner of artistic shapes. Their linen closets are ofteu shown to visitors with the same pride that chiila closets are shown elsewhere. MASONIC CALENDAR. - Monday, 'Feb. 14 Richmond Commandery. No. S, K. T., called meeting, work in Red Cross Degree. Tuesday, Feb. 13. Richmond lodge No. 196. F. &. A. M., Called Meeting. Work in Fellowcraft Degree. Wednesday, Feb. 16 Webb lodge, No. 24. F. & A. M. Stated meeting. Friday, Feb. 18. King Solomon's Chapter No. 4, R. A. M. Called meeting. Work in Royal Arch Degree. Refreshments. Saturday, Feb. 19. Loyal Chapter No. 49, O. E. S. Stated meeting and work in the' Degrees. Basket supper for the members and their families. Dont miss it. Tomorrow, Tuesday, Fine High Class Embroideries at remarkable Sale Prices. Nusbaum's.

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A FINE EQUIPMENT Pennsylvania Lines Are Rapidly Placing Steel Cars in Service. WOODEN CARS ARE TO GO Pittsburg, Feb. 14 What is probably the best steel passenger car equipment owned by any railroad in the world is that of the Pennsylvania railroad which with the cars just completed and those in course of construction, has t'tfo all steel passenger cars. With this large number of steel cars, the Pennsylvania is now to start the operation of all steel passenger trains on some of its lines of densest traffic. On August Jl. the Pennsyl vania announced that all future passenger equipment would be built of steel, not only steel frame, but steel nou-col-lapsible in every particular. In planning the cars and establishing standards, which are now copied in all Pennsylvania passenger cars, no ex pense has been spared by the company to build a coach which should provide the greatest possible strength, a steel framing which could not be affected by fire, an inside lining which should be absolutely unburnable, and at the same time, one that would not conduct heat or sound. The Pennsylvania railroad in November, lixx!, orderd 10O all steel passenger cars. Since that time additional orders have been pt ed and there are now in service op the company's lines UK coaches, 1 dining cars, 21 combination passenger and bagggage cars. 'JO baggage cars, 1S postal cars, and one company car, a total of '.VI cars. In course of construction there are 14; coaches, .'4 dining cars. oS combination passenger and baggage cars, 4 baggage cars, 4- postal c ars. 'Z mail storage cars, and 11 baggage and mail cars. The Pullman company at the in stance of the Pennsylvania railroad, has for the past four years been at work designing all-steel parlor and sleeping cars. Some ."V0O such cars are shortly to be completed and p'.aced in service on the Pennsylvania railroad. With the all steel passenger equipment now in service or on order, and some 2o steel cars to be ordered on the 1J10 passenger equipment program the Pennsylvania railroad will, in a short time, have in service about ! of its own steel passenger cars, and o) Pullman cars. A Curious Fruit; A fruit that is in season all the year round in India Is the papaw. This grows on a short, pulpy looking tree with leaves like the castor oil plant In shape, but woolly on the surface, and the green pumpkin shaped fruit grows in a cluster at the top. When cut opeu it haj orange colored flesh and a number of black seeds in the center. Its flavor slightly resembles mustard and cress, and, though not generally liked, it is said to be excellent as a digesI tive aid and to lengthen the lives of those who partake of it regularly. The Deadly Nightshade. The reason why nightshade appears to be deadly in some cases and merely injurious iu others may be traced to the difference existing between woody and deadly nightshade. The commoner species, the flowers of which are to be found In nearly every hedge, suggestive of its cousins the potato and tomato, has berries that would probably cause discomfort if eaten, but would not kill anybody. Bat the real deadly nightshade, which is very rare, is the plant from which we get belladonna, Shakespeare's "insane root that takes the reason prisoner," and Its berries are so poisonous as to have given ; the plant its old English name of ; dwale. taken from the French deull. mourning. London Globe. His Choice. Lady (to Irish gardener, who "obliges" ty the day) Well. Dan. and what do I owe you for today? DanSure, ma'am, Td sooner be taking tbe 3 shillings you'd be offering me than the 2 shillings I'd be asking of you. London Scraps.

IMMIGRANT AGENT MADE BAD MISTAKE He Took a Real for Sure Baron for Just an Ordinary Immigrant.

LOUD WAILING BY VICTIM NOT ONLY WAS HE A NOBLEMAN BUT A CAPTAIN IN FRENCH ARMY AS WELL WAS CAUGHT IN TEXAS. San Antonio. Tex.. Feb. 14. Whether Baron Ludwig do Leopold said sacre bleu or not could not be gathered from his Indignation, but at all events he was as mad as a hornet because the immigration authorities at Laredo had taken him for just a common immigrant and had levied a tax of S4 on his deficiency. The baron, who by the way. is a captain In the French army and has for some time been at tached to the French foreign office in the capacity as courier, a position fa miliar to most people for the reason j that its incumbent Is robbed of his communications while on his way to Russia if we are to believe the short story artists in the monthly. A few days ago Baron de Ieopold passed through this city en route to Mexico where, as ho confidential informed a reporter, he was to deliver certain state documents that could not be entrusted to the mails and which he would have to defend with his life if called upon. Evidently the baron has outwitted the agents of the other governments and the papers have been safely deposited with the Mexican government, for he returned to San Antonio in a joyous mood, albeit a somewhat indignant one. He Got Very Excited. While in command of a fair amount of English, Baron de leopold got somewhat excited when interviewed in the lobby of the St. Anthony hotel government couriers always stop at swell hostelrles. "Ah. ze mission Is accomplished. Ze documents have been rescued by ze government Mexicaine. Ma foi, but your inspectors Immigraire are stupide. En retournant to ze fron tier American I was asked to pay four dollares just like any other common immigrant. Remonstration had no ef fect upon ze officials, so I handed them ze money and asked for a re ceipt which I will bring to the attention of ze proper department at Washington. No, 1 do r.ot mind paying ze money, but supposing some European monarch should take it into his head to travel incognito across ze borders j of zis country and get treated like that. What blaniace." That the proper authorities at Wash ington will see the receipt and that perhaps some one will write a letter of explanation seems assured. Ze Baron is mad clear through. This much, however, must be said in his favor. Whatever steps he will take for the recovery of his four semoleons will be taken purely in the interest of other high foreign dignitaries. Caron de Leopold thinks that situa tions, such as he went through, are ! most embarrassing absolutement so to government emmissaries, and j that something will have to be done ! to give them free and unhindered pas sage across the Rio Grande. ED MORE MEMBERS An effort is being made on the part of the young men of the Christian church to secure an enrollment of 100 members in the Young Men's Bible class, which is known as the C. 13. A.'s "character builders association." A very enthusiastic meeting was held at the church yesterday and a canvas will be made with this end iu view. P. T. McLellan is the teacher of the class which is the largest men's Bible class in the city. There were fiftyeight present yesterday. SEEKING A DIVORCE Abandonment is the. allegation for fiivorce of Juanita II Clark against Robert J. Clark, according to the complaint filed in the circuit court this morning. The plaintiff also withes her maMeu name of Carpenter restored, and the custody of their daughter. The parties were married in thin city July 21. 1105 and the defendant Is alleged to have abandoned the plaintiff January 12, C. W. Jordan. Cbaa. G. Blanchard. Daniel F. McManus. Charles G. Blanchard, Licensed Embalmer, of IS years experience, is with Jordan, McManus & Blanchard, Funeral Directors. Parlors at 1014 Main Street. Telephone 2175. Private Chapel for services. Public Ambulance.

Everybody m? occasionally ran hart of rtuy cask. It uat good policy to ak ycnit friend to wut ui thus rlacs yourself under oblunMKas Wftm. when fr a Tere mall charge T"a cm obuua the dasirwd amount from oj h prarurallv your n time and term of parmrct and be aaacr r-bltfaUoa to anyone. Kour nwou why we ate leaders in our line : Our butioMt Is private. Our terms re t mett literal. Our tan liwitl ataa tke kt. Our at aoiaf fcauaet ! safe. toe kwraaer aaa lawdar. There itruog whT we are leader la eor line. If he a. lon with tnt other ennrer?! tw 1 nimt!t(V tnry co ne tn av we will t-O it p fr joa aui 4aac you iuor nosey. INDIANA LOAN CO. 3rd Floor Colonial Bldg, PHONE 1341. ROOM X RICHMOND. Heart to Heart Talks. By EDWIN A. NYE. Copy, is ht. 1 90S. by Edwn A. Nye A SLANDER. ON WOMAN. Listen to this: "The American woman will leave a three-mouths-old child to the tender mercies of an lguorant maid. and. dressed according to the dictates of this higher civilization, so she suffers every time she draws a long breath, she will ride around fondling a Pom crania u pup." Who wrote that? Some English newspaper man? Or is it a passage from the new book of some foreign tourist who spent twweeks iu New York city and Boston "studying" the Americans? Strange to say. the excerpt is front a New York newspaper. Mind you. the writer does not say "some American womeu" nor "the women of the Four Hundred. leaving the inference that his characterization applies to the average American woman. Which is a patent slander. The average woman of this country does not ueglect nor desert her child In order to parade with a pup. Od the contrary The average American wife and mother not only yearns to have children of ber own. but ber devotion to her flesh and blood Is limited only by her physical strength and heart power. The American woman lavishes love on ber offspring and stints and sacrifices herself for the sake of ber little ones as much as any womau or any nation on the earth. Of course we have freak women. And In many communities there are American women who. through mistaken devotion to public service or de- ! sire for society, somewhat neglect their ' children for attendance upon women's clubs or lodges or what not. BatThink of it! Does the description printed above fit your wife or mother or sister or daughter. 3Ir. Man? Or does the description fit the wife or mother or daughter or sister of any man in your Immediate neighborhood? The average American woman of the average community is the salt of the earth. No woman on this earthly footstool makes a better mother. Your mother and mine God bless them! need no vindication from the slander of a provincial and unpatriotic New York writer who doe not know what he Is talking about. But it stirs one s righteous Mood to read this reflection on the beautiful name of the American woman. j Cut Rates. Barber Our charges are tbe lowest i In town. I Customer Cut rates, eh? Brooklya F-ag!e. Tomorrow, Tuesday, Richmond's Big Opening Sale, Fine Embroideries. Nusbaum's. insure: Wltk E. B. Kaolleaberg Room Katollcnbcro Anracx CHICAGO, CINCINNATI LOUISVILLE RAILROAD. pimm zoftx. la Efreet traWr 14. ISO. Eut Bess Ckleaasv-Claeteaatl

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