Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 208, 5 June 1911 — Page 4

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM A9D SUN-TEIEGRAM, MONDAY, JUXE 5, 1911.

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tzi Ssn-Telecran JMlrt end wnM hr the . PALLADIUM PRINTINO CO. SMM4 I r Mel weak. ovonlnc lit Sunday meriting. Offleo Corner North Its and A stroot Palladium and Bun-ToUa-ram Phonos Businoso Office, 2tM; Editorial Kooma, . RICHMOND. INDIANA, Rodolok O. Loots Bdltor S. r. HlasaoM Bostavs Nimir Carl raaardt Aoooetato Editor W. WL Pooadatooo Noo Editor SUBSCRIPTION TERMS. la Richmond fS.oo jr yoar (la advance) or 1O0 por wook. MAIL SUBSCRIPTIONS. jOno raar, la ad vaneo ' ?! Six montha. In adraneo ......... Oae month. In advanoo ....... RURAL. ROUTES On roar, la advanco Mia snoot hs, la adranco l j On a month. In advanea Add.-ooa changod aa ofton aa dalred; both now and old addroaaoa aiuot oa lvn. Subaerlbora will ploaaa romlt with rdor. which ahould bo glvon for a epoclflod ttrm; noma will not bo ontsrod until paymobt la rocolvod. , Entered at Richmond. Indiana. ?ost lofflco aa aaeond claaa mall matter. Now Tork Rpr snt8t1s Payno ft Talrv. 10-14 Wt llrd street, and tlWest tnd street. New Tork. N. T. Chicago Raproaontatlroa payna ft Tnunir. TIT-741 Marquette ttulldlctf. Chicago, I1L ' That Aaaeclatioa of Amortcan (Now York City) baa and eerUHed to the eirmlatlea at tala miblicatlom. Only tha Haws at i if tJiealatfea owntstned la tta report art j b gmnmmm ay ui aaeooanoa. j RICHMOND, INDIANA "PANIC PROOF CITY" Haa a population of 22.324 and U crowing. It la the county seat of Wayne County, and the trad In a center of a rich agricultural community. It Is located due rant from Indianapolis (9 miles aitd 4 miles from tho late Una. Richmond la a city of homes and of Irriustry. Primarily a manufacturing city, It la also the Jobbing- center of Eactern Indiana and enjoys the retail trade of tho populous community for miles around. Richmond la proud of Its splendid streets, well kept yards. Ha cement sidewalks and beautiful shade trees. It has three national banks, one trust company and four bulldlns associations with a combined resource of over $.- 000,000. Number of faotorlee 125; capital Invested f7.000.noo. with an annual output of 127.000.000, and a pay roll of $3.- ' 700,000. Tho total pay roll for the city amounts to approxl- , matodly $3.600. 000 annual. . .There are five railroad com- . panles radiating In eight different directions from the city. Incoming freight handled dally, 1.760,000 lbs., outgoing freight handled dally. 760.000 lbs. Yard facilities, per ,day 1,700 cars. Number of passenger trains dally t. Numbei of freight trains dally 77. The annual post orfice ' receipts amount to $80,000. Total ' assenned valuation of tho city, $16,000,000. Richmond has two Interurban railways. Three newspapers with ' a combined circulation of 12,000. Richmond la tho greatest hardwareJobbing center In the state 1 and only second In general JobMng interesta. It haa a piano factory producing a high grade r ilano ovary 16 minutes. It Is tho eader In tho manufacture of Traction engines, and produces more threshing machines, lawn mowers, roller skatea. grain , drills and hurUk caskets than any other city In tho world. The city's area Is J. 640 acres; vh.es a court Iiouho costing $500,,000; 10 public achoola and has the i finest and most complete high school In tho middle west; three 'parochial schools; Karlham col- - lege and the Indiana Business College; five splendid fire com- . panics in ftno nose houses; Ulen miller park, the largest and moat beautiful park in Indiana, Mho homo of Ulrhmond'a annual rhautauo.ua; seven hotels; municipal electrlo light plant, under successful operation and a private electrlo light plant. Insuring competition; the oldest public library In the state, except one and tho second largest, 40,000 volumes; pure refreshing water, unsurpassed; IB miles of Improved streets; 40 miles of sewers; 25 miles of cement curb and gutter combined; 40 miles of cement walks, and many miles of brick walks. Thirty churches. Including tho Reld Memorial, built at a cost of $260,000; Held Memorial Hospital, one of the most modern In the state; Y. M. C. A. building, . erected at a cost of $100,000, one of the finest In the state. Tho amusement center of Knstern Indiana and Western Ohio. No city of the slse of Klchmond holds aa fine an annual art exhibit. The Richmond Kali Festival held each October Is unique, no other city holds a similar affair. It la given In the interest of the city and financed by the business men. Success awaiting anyone with enterprise In the I'anlc Troof City. Hits Is My 89th Birthday MARCUS J. WRIGHT, i Gen. Marcus J. Wright, one of the Hew general officers of tho Confederate army still alive, was born In Purdy, Tennessee, June 5. 1831. lie received is common school education and after- ! wards studied law and was admitted to the bar. At the beginning of the i Civil war he entered the Confederate State army aa lieutenant-colonel of 'the 134th Tennessee regiment and 'within a little more than a year he was promoted to the rank of brigadier, general. He took part in many of the severest engagements of the war and was seriously wounded at the battle of Salloh. f or many years Gen. Wright has been engaged in the col lection of military records for the War . Department at Washington. Gen. Wright It the author of a life of Gen. Wlnfleld Scott and has written sev eral other books and numerous magasine articles on historical subjects. COMMERCIAL CLUB DIRECTORS, MONDAY The regular meeting of the board of directors of the Commercial club will be held next Monday evening. Sever,a! Important matters will probably com up tor consideration.

Is It Worth While?

This Is addressed to the commercial organizations of Richmond. The Fourth of July is a festival which belongs to the whole American people and as such should be fittingly celebrated. If this beginning creates a smile or if it causes some one to fidget with impatience consider the reason. The reason is simply that Americans have allowed the Fourth of July to dwindle into a two-part disgrace. On the one hand a child is allowed to blow his head off and to tamper with things which on no other day of the year he would be allowed to do. On the other hand the license handed over to children has been absorbed by the most vulgar and senseless element or the community a lazy, mentally inactive and coarse group of men who see delight in the suffering of defenseless animals, women and children.

The Palladium haa full sympathy with the "kids." They ought to have a "big time on the Fourth." But it is because the "kids" are not having square deals. The "Fourth" in Richmond for years has been a disgrace. What has there been in the last years to make anybody have either a reflect for the "Fourth," or a respect for the town. This town has shown remarkable progress in public spirit and enterprise. The recent G. A. R. encampment only needs to be recalled to be sufficient backing for any one who wants to defend that part of the town. But it is in the constant doing of things that has made this town conspicuous.

A proper celebration of the "Fourth" one to be remembered need not cost much money. It is the intellectual force put in the thing which will count.

If there were a movement started to take in all the children of Richmond and to have a big time in the Glen in which they could all take part. We should like to see all the men in town who have had experience either in college or elsewhere in getting up athletic and similar events take a hand in this and round up all the kids that were loose. A whole revolutionary battle could be stayed in the woods of the Glen in which youngsters could take part Indiana, Continentals and British. At the same time any set of young women who would "go to" this thing, could round up the girls. A whole town could let loose. There are other things that could be done things which would take this out of the "club town" class.

Is it worth while? PORTLAND'S MAYOR WANTS OFFICE AGAIN (National News Association) Portland. Ore, June 5. Interest In Portland's election for city officers today Is given added interest by the fact that Joseph Simon, the present mayor, is standing for re-election as an independent candidate on a platform favoring the adoption of the commission plan of government. The other leading mayoralty candidates are A. G. Rushlight, Republican, and George H. Thomas, Democrat. A RARE COIN; II Is Called a "Misstrike and Is Very 8eldom Seen. "See this penny I got today at the postofflce," said the cashier. "There aren't live other pennies like it in the United States." lie handed out a cent piece with the die Impression half off the face of the coin and with a big half moon of blank metal showing along one side. "They call It a mlsstrike," he continued. "Perhaps once In 10,000,000 times the two little notched fingers on the minting machines that grip the blank disk and draw it forward to the die fail to spring away. In this case the left hand finger stuck and pushed the coin halfway over the die. That is how the Impression Is only half on the disk. "You can see the raised edge on the blank portion of the metal." the cashier went on as he took up his pen. "It Isn't everybody knows that each coin goes under the dies twice. The first time it is struck with a blank, dome shaped set of dies to put an edge on the disk. Then it gets the regular die with the familiar head on it. "What's It worth? Oh. I'll say probably $25 or so. I see it's been In circulation for nine years. It's a wonder some coin collector hasn't nabbed it. I'm going to keep It as a rarity." New York Times. SENSE OF HEARING. Sound Waves and tho Way They Act Upon the Ears. The detection of the direction of a sound by tbe sense of hearing is. like the rapid focusing of the eye on objects at different distances, one of those instinctive operations which are coutlnually done without any conscious method. Sound waves traverse the air as ripples stir the water, and the ear by experience acquires some slight power of detecting the direction in one case, as the eye doea with far greater accuracy In the other. Usually we unconsciously receive assistance from other senses as well. Often we fall to locate at once some hidden source of sound, such as a singing bird, and then our instinctive Ingenuity displays itself. The Intensity of sound is. of course, by no uieaus so great behind a screen as In front of it. and every one carries with him the screen of bis own bead, which may prevent a particular sound from being heard so well by one ear as by the other. If. then, tbe head is turned until this inequality disappears and both ears hear equally well we know that we must be directly facing or turned from the source of sound, and our previous rough idea of its whereabouts generally prompts us to face it. "THIS DATE

JUNE 5TH. 1593 Henry IV., defeated the Spaniards in battle of Fontaine Francaise. 1"23 Adam Smith, one of the greatest of political economists, born in Kirkcaldy. Scotland. Died in Edinburgh, July IS, 1790. 17S3 Joseph and Stephen Montgolfier made first public ascent by means of a fire-balloon at Annonay, for which they received many honors. 1829 Branch of the United States Mint established at St. Louis. 1S54 Canada and the United States concluded an International reciprocity treaty. 1863 Great peace meeting held at Norfolk, Va. 1S65 Galveston, the last seaport held by the Confederates, surrendered by General Kirby Smith. 1900 Pretoria surrendered to the BriU&h. forces under Lord Roberta.., .

RED LETTER WEEK AT M'GILL UNIVERSITY

Montreal, June 5. Today ushered in a red letter week at McGIll University. In addition to the annual convocation in Royal Victoria College this afternoon the notable events are to include the formal opening of the new medical building by His Excellency, Earl Grey. Scores of graduates of the university, among them the officers and many prominent members of the Canadian Medical Association, are here to take part in the celebration. An Effective Alarm. Flannlgan had been discharged from tbe artillery and went to live in a cottage in Ills native village. One day be left on a week's visit to some distant relatives, and a day later the village constable was standing at his door when be heard the sudden boom of the rusty cannon Flannlgan bad mounted on bis front hedge. "An Jnstant later a brick whizzed past tbe constable's ear and smashed his door to smithereens. The indignant officer, followed by the populace, rushed to Flannigan's cottage and found it still tenantless, but showing signs of recent burgling. When Flannlgan returned the next week he heard the news and was delighted. "Ol prepared for burglars afore 01 wint away," be said, "by thrainin' the gun on yer front door, constable, and connlcting it by sacret wires to the doors and windles and loading it wid a brick. An' it hit the door slap In the middle? Bedad, Ol wasn't a gunlayer In the artillery for nothln!" Pearson's Weekly. Why Halo Would Not Do. When N. O. Nelson, the profit sharer, decided to transfer his co-operative business from St. Louis to the country he looked about carefully for a favorable location. Ills personal friend Dr. Edward Everett Hale accompanied him on one of his tours in search of this. A site was chosen, and a name for it was then in order. Among others, Hale was considered, but rejected because, as Mr. Nelson said, "the name differs from its distinguished owner in being only four letters long, while be was six feet four or thereabouts." So Lwlaire was chosen in honor of the pioneer French profit sharer. World's Work. A Case of Overcrowding. "I don't 6ee why I keep on getting so much fatter. I only eat two meals a day." "I know, my love, but you shouldn't Insist upon crowding your breakfast and luncheon Into one meal and your dinner and a late supper Into the other." Cleveland Plain Dealer. An Angel. "My wife always forgives my faults." "I've got you skinned to death." "nowr "My wife forgets mine." Cleveland Leader. No Glutton. The Unsuccessful Counsel Tm very sorry I could not do more for you, my man. The Prisoner Ho! Don't apologize, old sport. Five years Is enough, London Sketch. IN HISTORY"

WHA T OTHERS SA Y

MEDIATION ON SEASON. From the Dayton News. Every year seems to break records in the weather bureau. From the Pittsburg Post. It is now coming to that point where the slim man has the heartiest sort of a laugh on the fat one. From the Albany Journal. One of the mysteries of amateur gardening is how everything comes up except that which is planted. From the St. Louis Times. A foot of enow in Canada? Isn't our lady a bit strenuous in living up to her title? From the Anaconda Standard. A high type of optimist is the Montana man who still cherishes the hope that spring will come. From the St. Joseph Xews-Press. Wearing last year's straw hat is perfectly proper, of course, though it's a good deal like a smoking a relighted cigar. From the Houston Chronicle. The pride of the girl who's to be a June bride is only equaled by the shyness of the fellow who is to be a June bridegroom. DEPARTURE OF DIAZ. From the St. Louis Times. It may also be said for President Diaz that he never advocated any spelling reforms. From the Philadelphia Telegraph. All of Diaz's grandchildren are with him. What does he care? From the Pittsburg Gazette-Times. Brother Diaz may console himself by remembering there couldn't be a finer time of year to leave Mexico. From the Springfield Union. If it is true about that $20,000,000, Diaz will be able to build or buy a few castles in Spain. From the Anaconda Standard. Francisco de la Barra may be a bigger man than old Diaz, but he will kindly submit his proofs. From Memphic Commercial-Appeal. The betting is off. Diaz has beat Lorimer to it. From the San Francisco Chronicle. It is asserted that Diaz ruled with an iron hand, and none of his sup porters venture to deny the charge, but they do say that no other kind of rule is adapted to the present condition of the people of Mexico. Profane History. "fop!" "Well, what is it now? If It's foolish question No. 9,097 I'll spank you and put you to bed." "No, pop; I just want to know what is profane history." "Profane history, eb? Well it's it's just .term to distinguish it from sacred history." "But why is it called profane, pop?" "How the that is. how do I know! I suppose it say. you know when little George Washington cut down his father's pet cherry tree" "Yes. pop." "Well, what little Georgie's father said to little Georgie is profane history. I should think you could get your lessons without bothering me with your fool questions.' New York Times. Enoouraging. A Philadelphia clergyman tells of an incident in connection with his first visit to a town in Pennsylvania, where he expected to be called as pastor. Wliile tramping along a dusty road he was so fortunate as to encounter a man in a wagon who gave him a lift. During the conversation that ensued between the two the divine chanced to ask: "Do the folks hereabout enjoy religion ?" "I don't know exactly," replied his companion, "but 1 s'pose that them that has It enjoys it." Hia Angel. Miss Rogers How did you Imagine anything so beautiful as the angel In your picture? Artist Got an engaged man to describe his fiancee to me. Brooklyn Life. Avarice Is to the Intellect and heart what sensuality Is to the morals. Jameson. WHAT CLEAN BLOOD MEANS They used to accuse Dr. A. B. Simpson, one of the famous physicians of Indiana, of having a cure-all because his great reputation was established largely on one prescription, the most effective alterative or blood-purifier knawn. "No," he would remark, "it will not cure consumption, nor typhoid, nor any one of a hundred common diseases. It simply purifies the blood, but it does that very thoroughly." What are the symptoms of poisoned, impure blood? They range all the way from the dreadful syphilis to a muddy complexion. .They include inflammatory rheumatism, catarrh, scrofula, eczema, erysipelas, pimples, boils, running sores, erysipelas, pimples. boils, and a number of simi lar afflictions. All these yielded readily to Dr. Simpson's treatment. And during the forty years this prep aration has been on the market as Dr. A. B. Simpson's Vegetable Compound it has never failed in a single case. Tho very worst cases of syphillis have been cured as well as all the other blood diseases yarned above andhe same compound has always given clear, clean complexions to those, otherwise In good health. ' It is sold at 1.00 a bottle at all drug stores. STILL THEY COME The up-to-date Bathing Pool for Ladies and Gents. Follow the path north from the Glen. Phone 4044. -

Y. M.C.A. International Sec. Sees A wakening in the Orient

New York. June 5. The following printed by the Evening Post, is from a letter written in Shanghai by Eugene E. Barnett. of the international Y. M. C. A. staff in China. There are many things which I have seen and felt and heard the last two months about which I would like to write. Things, especially in the interior cities, have seemed not simply strange: one foels at first as if he had landed on the Pliedes or the shores of some equally familiar planet, and j this feeling begins to wear off only j as he begins to have some Intercourse I with the people. There is one dom- J inant impression constantly recurring, j however, as one moves among the! strange romantic scenes of this an-1 cient land, and that is that "awaken- j ing China" is no mere fiction of the day's missionary oratory and litera-1 ture. I might give many striking examples apparent even to the casual eye, which evidence this great transition, this "bloodless revolution" which is affecting every phase of China's life today, but will tell only of one most interesting and significant event which I witnessed a few days ago. I refer to a public queue cutting j led off by Wu Ting Fang, former minister to Washington, and conducted at the public garden of another prominent citizen of Shahghai, Chang Su Ho. An edict haa for some time been under advisement at Pekin permitting the cutting of tho queue. The edict has been proposed to the throne in response to a strong growing sentiment throughout the enpire against this inconvenient and humiliating badge of submission to an alien dynasty. Since the appearance of the agitation, there has been a marked disappearance of the queue. My language teacher, who hails from conservative and unmitigatedly Chinese Hangchow told me the last week of his intention to discard his and went further to predict that in ten years China would no longer be a land of long haired men, and that in twenty years it would cease to be a land of short footed women. There are many who concur in this opinion which appealed to me as significant, coming from one trained in the old school, reared in an ancient and conservative city, and one who has Had little touch with foreigners. Spectators Jammed House The public queue cutting to which I refer took place in a large teahouse situated in the park mentioned above. Stewart, of the Shanghai association, and I accompanied each other to the scene of carnage. Mr. Soon, a graduatae of Vanderbilt university, a member of the board of directors of tho Young Men's Christian Association here, and a prominent Christian business man of Shanghai. He was on his way to a meeting of the Chinese Student Federation, an organization of Chinese who have studied abroad but very kindly postponed that engagement to take us in tow. When we alighted from the car and turned into the wide street leading to the park a block away, we found ourselves in tho midst of a solid stream of Chinese men and women bent on the same errand as we. As we passed through the gate to the park, we confronted a teeming spectacle hundreds of people unable to get into the crowded hall and moving in and out among the numerous carriages, autos and rick shas in which the more well-to-do had been conveyed. With true American spirit we pushed our way through the crowd until half way in the hall, which had been cleared of tea tables for the occasion. I found two chairs near to each other, each with an un occupied corner, planting my feet upon which I stood there like a Co-

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' Between fifteei hundred and two thousand spectators were packed and jammed on the floor and in the galleries. Every pair of eyes was focused on a platform which occupied one end of the building. About this platform were gathered the "elect," those who had already been separated from their queues. One glance sufficed to show that most of them were young men from the better classes. The chief seat of the short-hair revival had been the colleges, both missionary and government, of the land. It reminded me of the popular revival at home to see these men exhorting with all earnestness those in the audience to "come forward." One by one the men would screw up their courage and make their way to the platform, where one specially appointed man was ready to hold the queue while a second man with a huge pair of shears stood ready to perform the amputation. As one would go forward, a wave of applauss would sweep over the tense crowd, and then be followed by an interval of silence, as every head bent forward so that nothing might be missed. A Dramatic Ceremony In each case a dramatic scene en-' sued. The queue would be strung out at full length with a vicious jerk by its possessor, or lifted gingerly up by him with a comical grimace of contempt, and then handed over to the wating committee mentioned above. A few snips and off would come the long, heavy braid, the possession of which in a somewhat modified form would have filled many an American woman's heart with unholy pride. The applause would break forth again and a hubbub of voices fill the room as that which is "the glory of woman," but the shame of a man, was handed to its late wearer. Usually a speech followed, sometimes cool and measured, more often impassioned, and almost savage as the new convert waved the despised object before the face of his audience, but always dramatic in the extreme, as the Chinese down to the humblest coolie is a born actor. While this was going on in the main hall of the teahouse, thirty barbers were busy in other parts of the building giving their services free of charge. Altogether several hundred men, according to the native newspa

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pers, went to their homes that night with their queues in their hands instead of down their backs, where they har hung and rubbed and flapped from their earliest days. Nearly three hundred years ago the queue was imposed on tbe Chinese by the powerful Manchus, who came down from the north and ousted the reigning Ming dynasty from the

throne. As with the passing genera tions the wearing of the queue became a cusom. It became, as all cus toms in China, a thing to be cherished. But with the modern awakening the dirtiness, the uncomfortableness, the inconvenience, the shame of the queue has become recognized once more, and its abolition has been clamored for. And this movement, of which the Chaug Su Ho garden incident was a striking expression, is significant, 'not merely because it most probably marks the passing of the picturesque appendage, but because it is only one of the many evidences of the new spirit which is thrilling this long time corpse of a nation with the assurance of an early resurrection. It is a great privilege to be in China at this time, and my realization of this fact increases with the days. It is a greater privilege to have a small part in, as well as become a spectator of the mighty changes through which China is now passing. Insult Upon injury. "Aud to make matters worse," conW plained the employee who had Just been blown up by a premature explosion in a quarry. whjp I .claimed damages the foreman called me a blasted fool." Llppincott's. Bind together your spare hours fis the cords of some definite purpose. William M. Tnvir-. WE LOAN $10.00 AND UP Your household goods, pianos, horses and vehicles are ample security. Call at our office or write or phone us and our representative will call at your home. Payments arranged in small weekly or monthly installments. Private' Reliable Phone 2560 S. E. Corner 7th & Main We have a large slock of Sewer and fittings In our yards and can fill orders promptly MATHER BROS. CO. Phones 1178 & 1179

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