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. fsllaao ul ownad bf - PALLADIUM PRXNTINO CO. Isswet T ea each weh nine and Offtoo Cornor North tth and Aotreota. 5ftll4luai and Sun-Talefram PBon.o WtaiH Offlco. MM; Editorial Rooms, RICHMOND. INDIANA. lh O. caitu Owl laHl AaMclMto ESMo too now. -.-. nmacRirnoN terms. la aiJkona n . f vaaeo) or lOe por wiA RURAL ROUT fH-NM. la advance '! I ,4 8Mb tee, la alvanco M UMata, to advance M4.-W caaagid d!ir,i tetnaow aa4 14 addresses Ibers will ploaao rotnlt with ji iwN for a i oooolflod form: ami trill not bo oator- ! el mm vrni.i eolvoAk mi MiMn.inTTm'i to rwr, la advaaco ; snontna, m aovaoco Before at Richmond. Indiana. ?ot Oft loo as second clsaa mall matter. Wow Torn Mprini-.i--7"- -rsM. 10-14 Wwit lrd street. m4 ! West atnd eteel Now Tork. N. T. h.i.a a ....niiiivis Prn o iSooSa, Tifi. Mr"att id,B' The AMOcialiew elf Amor. I tsaa Advertioere ha ex amined and certified to tbe eirealatle of IbU pabUeatlea. Tba figaroo of circalatioa sintshriil la Ike Association's repeat ealy aro f aarantood. fcsdsiisi ef kzakki Wverbsers No, 169. Whitehall BMf. i. f. City TWINKLES I ' AN EARLY AWARD. Do you think there is anything csedltable In that man Sklnnum's ipaatr! "Well." replied the discreet man, "I understand that somewhere among hla effects he has a mug with the sentence 'For a Oood Boy' printed on in gilt letters. But, of course, I have no way of knowing how he came by It." De greatest mistake a man kin make," said Uncle Eben "is thinWn" he ! so sraaht dat he can't make any mistakes." DIFFERENT QUALITIE8. ,The statesman's utterance sinks or climbs With constant variation. Sometimes it is debate. Sometimes It's merely altercation. (ancestral pride of the future. "One of my forefathers was a signer tof the Declaration of Independence." "That Is something," replied Mrs. iVoteby Guram. "But think of the jproud satisfaction with which my great-granddaughters will point to the Ifact that one of their foremothers was I militant suffragette." AN AUTOCRAT'S RELAXATION. "You seem to get a great deal of pleasure out of business." "Yes," replied Mr. Dustin Stai, "after I have fretted over a golf match there's nothing rests me up like get ting back to my desk, where I can Lhave everything my own way." THE POTATO MARKET. Never mind the lobster, Never mind the steak, Never mind the quail on toast Or things the bakers bake The farmer and his family Are digging with a will la hope of finding two or three Potatoes in a hill. Never mind the gold mines, Never mind the stocks, Never mind the bonds that He Behind the massive locks. The farmer vows that he will see His coffers proudly fill If he can find as much as three Potatoes in a hill. WHAT OTHERS SAY rFROM BULL RUN OF ARBITRATION. tFrom Harper's Weekly. Some of the capers save more snare ke the amusing Incidents of the Presi dent's Journey to Manasses last month than to the speech he made there, or to the occasion itself. Perhaps that was a correct estimate of the public preferences In the way of news, but we doubt it . For what the president said was Interesting and the audience he addressed, taken with the place and the date, was more Interesting still. .Once again the President turned from honoring soldiers and from memories lot war to the praise and advocacy of (peace; and this time he gave point to ihls contention by announcing confidently that within a very short time jthe new arbitration treaties with England and France will be signed, and .that- there is every prospect of our eoott concluding similar agreements ;with three other of the world's great nations. VICTIM OF UNMUZZLED DOGS. rFrom the Baltimore Sun. No less than fifty seven cases in twhlch persons were bitten by dogs were reported by the police during (July. Is this not proof that the law .compelling dogs to be muzzled is not i enforced? So long as owners of dogs ; refuse Jo assume responsibility, so 'long as they evade the law, we will continue to record a long list of victims. Much as they may love their pets, owners cannot close their eyes to the danger, to themselves and others, of allowing dogs to run loose unanuisled. - THE INVESTIGATION. Front the New York Sun. If any plan or method of earning a living and setting aside a competency or old age la -not at present under

'Tor 1,200 gallons daily, or less, per month, S5.40." MR. DILL: I would like to explain that We had a minimum in the original contract of $5.40 a month. That was never enforced. A COUNCILMAN: What is that for the use of water? MR. DILL: Yes. Up to 1,200 gallons a day for consumption up to 1,200 gallons a day. From that up to 2,300, the rate was to be fifteen cents. Those schedules were changed before I became connected with the company, and I found a rate of 25 cents a thousand gallons for domestic consumers, and the rental of twenty-five cents. You could not : furnish probably 30 to 40, maybe 50 per cent of the consumers on the system unless you had a meter rental or a minimum, and therefore the meter rent was tried. A COUNCILMAN: What does a meter cost you about a dollar and a half, or along about that, or a dollar and a half a dozen? MR. DILL: They cost a little more than a Waterbury watch. A COUNCILMAN: You heard Mr. Shiveley's argument a little white ago that the law does not allow any injustice; that the law would allow you to charge an exhorbitant price. Don't you consider $5.40 an exorbitant price? MR. DILL: You mean a minimum of $3.40 a month? A COUNCILMAN: Yes, sir. MR. DILL: Yes, sir. That is why it was never applied. A COUNCILMAN": You consider that an exhorbitant price? A.: Yes, Sir. A COUNCILMAN: Then I don't think that $5.40 ought to be considered. MR. DILL: It has never been applied, that $5.40, so far as I know; it has never been applied. A COUNCILMAN: What I am trying to bring out is, according to Mr. Shiveley's argument you cannot take advantage of that; the law would not allow you; it would be unreasonable. MR. DILL: We didn't give the law an opportunity to step in. We wanted to be fair, and when the meters began to be used we adopted that basis. s The other question about the cost of the meters. The cost of the meter, which is the meter that is mostly used here the cost in Richmond, in the house, with connections, I' think it is $8.80. You have your expense of setting. Your books will show the cost of that meter is returned in about three years. That is true if all that three dollars of the rental went for the meter, but no company, unless it has high rates, can maintain and continue unless it either have the meter rent or a minimum rate, and I would be glad to confirm that statement outside of my own statement.

Justified -Or Thrown Out And was it not as this paper pointed out that Mr. Howard Dill arose the other night and with perfect frankness displayed the provision permitting the company to charge over $64 dollars a year to any one using 1,200 gallons daily or less?

This is one of the things on which the company is basing its claims that there is really something to compromise on. This is one reason, doubtless, why the Richmond City Water Works thinks that the contract is granted on "equally as good terms when the company proposes that this . city shall enter into a jug-handled agreement to guarantee the earnings of the company, to participate in possible but at the most meager dividends and for this reason shall raise the rates. Far from the participation in the earnings representing the unearned increase in the value of the property or rather the privilege of doing business here, with the right of a tax collector to gather taxes for water under any sum short of $64, a year per householder the company insists that while this valuable right is imaginary that the "going concern. value" of the plant shall be taken into consideration.

And not content with the purely imaginary value not the physical valuation the company is proposing that the Maury estimate shall be taken Including as it does the items for "services." These services are already paid for by the citizens yet the fact that these services are in and that the city has paved the streets out of the public funds over the mains of the company makes the company's claim that these things shall be paid for again by the citizens if the city wishes to purchase. And not only that But that the city shall actually agree to this in writing as a contract to be carried out.

These items amount to $100,779.51. Perhaps there are others But these are enough. The point is clear. THE VALUATION Is the main consideration in a plan of this sort. Does any one imagine that if the plant wer valued at say $400,000 or $500,000 that there would be less money coming in to the city? (Lest the water works attorneys shall say we do the company an injustice on this point we have not suggested this as the real value of the plant.) BUT WE DO INSIST THAT BEFORE THE MAURY REPORT IS ACCEPTED THAT EVERY ITEM IN IT SHALL BE CAREFULLY JUSTIFIED. At the present time we think it quite as inequitable or shall we say Iniquitous? that the city should consider the Maury report with the palpable errors in It as that it should now have a contract which permits the company to charge small consumers any portion of $64 a year for their metered water. THE MAURY REPORT SHOULD BE JUSTIFIED OR THROWN OUT.

Investigation by a special or standing committee of tho House of Representatives, its practitioners must be of a moBt secretive habit or else pre-eminently unsuccessful. As there Is alleged to be a strong popular prejudice against all men who are not worried about ihe source of tomorrow's dinner, the enthusiasm of the House for stalking the offensive prosperous is easily to be understood. Thrift is an offense against public policy, enterprise Is under condemnation and superior ability In everything except speech-making is open confession of sin. WHEN IS A DAY A DAY? From the Chicago Record-Herald. The subtleties of the law are well brought into play over the question "What is a day?" that has arisen in the enforcement of the ten-hour law for women's labor. Most of us believe we know what a day is; the civil day is denned in text books as beginning and ending at midnight; the astronomical day as beginning and ending at noon. Apparently, certain employers of women have an astronomical bent, for they have perplexed Factory ' Inspector Davies by Insisting that as a day may begin at noon they have a right to require from women who have worked only in the afternoon of Friday service from 8 a. m. to 10 p. m. on Saturday each week. SUNNY JIM'S EXPLOIT. From the Boston Transcript. Those who "love to see the great unbend" were delighted when in the suburbs of Washington Sunday, VicePresident. Sherman helped to get a fallen horse out of a ditch. The magnitude and grace of the exploit which the Vice President performed just as If he were "a common man" , were somewhat affected by his allowing another of the rescue party to sit on the horse's head, We fear that 'this is but

another Illustration of the Vice President's Inability completely to attain true greatness.

BARRICADING THE NURSERY. From the Chicago Tribune. The perturbed royal household in England has been obliged to barricade the nursery to keep the socially ambitious from climbing over the cradles to a semblance of rayoal favor. Competition is keen and a smile from a child, with proper publicity, may be converted into an asset almost as valuable as an invitation to dinner. The Assyrians in London are nearly as disturbing as the Germans in Morocco. From now on a discreet lady will be in charge of the children to see that no charming persons accompanied by photographers make their acquaintance. Queen Mary soon will come to the conclusion that the royal residences are besieged. Who Governs England? Who governs England? Colonial opinion dominates In politics, American millionaires are all powerful in the country, American women lead "society," American journalists guide the public, French dressmakers set the fashions, foreign painters and musicians direct our taste, American prices rule the financial market, French chefs dictate what we shall eat and American collectors fix the value of our art treasures. It appears that between them they have very effectually taken John Bull by the horns. London Truth. MISTAKES. If you make a mistake do not ; dwell upon it Take note of the reason of it mnA mlmw tn " w ajawaoo oy us remaned

Narcomania Tobaccum Written for the Palladium and Suni . Telegram By . Af. T.

OPTIMISTIC SIGNS OF THE TIMES Of course these' articles have tired the narcomaniac, his eardrum as well as all the sensitive nerve-buds are In a state of very high tension caused by nicotine saturation for so. long, so that any sensory experience at all antagonistic to his self-centered notions grate harshly cruel in his ears; but to the non-users of the vile weed who have so good naturedly, so long and patiently borne the villainous smoke nuisance, the writer is happy to say that when the outposts of human betterment are asked "Watchman what of the night," the optimistis reply comes: "the morning dawneth." In commercialism, in education, in ethical, social and medical sciences; in statesmanship, in all departments of sanitation, hygiene, health and civic righteousness, a quiet, but steady, forceful undercurrent of public sentiment has already well set in, which the habit,forming drug habitues and general workers of iniquity with sense enough left to put the ear to the ground cannot fail to hear the mutterings of their doom. Congressional insurgency is a fa miliar idea standing for reform statesmanship, religious insurgency also has long furnished its wars on straight jacket Hebrew orthodoxy; political economy has had its numerous and hard fought insurgent battlese; all ages of medicine has had its insurgents aand standpatters; civic, sanitary, good health and efficiency insurgents are fighting for humanities weal today more valiently than of yore; and now comes "the day dawneth' cheer from the recent convention of the National Education association; educators have captured that associa tion. An organization called "The Non Smokers of America," among its nu merous and eminent public men are Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, the famous government pure food expert whom the food adulterers, patent medicine doners, national whisky trust and saloonists, with all the hosts of hell baying at his heels; David Starr Jordon, of Leland Stanford university. Dr. Charles G. Peas and Burt G. Wilder of Cornell university etc., etc., valient workers in the great battle for the physiologic rights of mankind. "The Good Health and Efficiency League of America;' Horace Fletcher, president; vice presidents, George E. Vincent, A. M., Ph. D., Frances E. Clark, M. D. Ph. D., Hon Benj. Lindsey, Judge of the juvenile court, Denver; executive committtee, Irving Fisher, Ph. D., president American Health league, S. S. MCClure, McClure's Magazine, Hon Charles Dow, president Niagara commission; Horace Fletcher, A. M.; J. H. Kellog, M. D., chairman. Among its many eminent members, are Robert O'Riley, surgeon general U. S. army, (retired); ex-Governor S. Van Sant, commander in chief G. A. R.; J. N. Hurty, secretary Indiana state board of health; Hon O. N. Carter, judge supreme court, Springfield, 111.; H. D. Baker, M. D., late secretary Michigan state board of health, etc., etc. These societies with many others that stand especially for simpler life of rightliving 'and the highest plane of vital integrity, vigorous physical and mental health and efficiency-citizenship; together with numerous other societies stand "for the uplift of erring humanity, are a powerful advance guard to Dr. Boris Sidis idea of the future civilization, he believes that "by proper education, a great race can yet be developed in this country, surpassing in brilliancy the ancient Greeks; but our present methods are not adapted to this end. Not only is there failure to lay the necessary foundation in early childhood, but we do not even take care to clear the ground." After mentioning the many errors in child-mind-training, such as "fairy tales, folk stories, silly games, creeds and dogmas," and to which he could have summed up the whole iniquitous modern system of child-bringing-up in one sentence, the chief end of life is hedonism, please the palate and amuse the mind; he says our children become "a prey to all sorts of fatal germs of mental diseases and moral depravity." In the very nature of things under a God that still lives and doeth all things well, in the writer's opinion, it requires little prophetic endowment to predict that within no very far distant future, mankind, will orientiate or adjust itself to the religion of the body, to right and righteous living; and in these days there will be nations of physical and mental giants. Dr. Wiley, the distinguished chemist at the head of the government bureau of chemistry says, "I predict that within fifteen years, smoking and tobacco chewing in public will have become obsolete. A man has a perfect right to drink, chew or dip snuff in his private sanctum, but he has not the shadow of a right to inflict un wholesome smoke and his vile breath on the community at large." Sic Transit Gloria Tobaccum. In the" past decade much advance has been made in buildings and bridge construction looking to human safety; great advance has been made in conservation of national resources; we are now well on the threshold of vital conservation and health safety inthe human body. Eminent educators in schools, colleges, and universities, are quietly but industriously tabulating observations, experiments, and comparative studies of the student body as a physical force, mental vigor, and grades made by total abstainers, moderate users, and inveterate users of tobacco, with surprising percentage in favor of total abstainers from the Tile weedL Notwithstanding many physicians continue to defile themselves, probably as Dr. Wiley says, "because the weed is so dirty that the disease germs shun it," the concensus of modern medical authority condemn tobacco as not a proper medicine, unwholesome as a luxury,, causing functional heart trouble that eventually becomes organic and incurable; mouth and intestional stomach, indigestion and

ulcers, chronic constipation and is a prominent factor In causing Bright's disease and many other ailments of the kidneys.

All large business establishments the railroad companies and general Industries, are raising a protest employes using tobacco and whisky, twin brothers in iniquity, while em ployed. While writing this the writer was interrupted by a man under treatment for nicotineism and alcoholism, asking advice as to an offer ofi good wages to go into a saloon and soup house, saying, the proprietor says, I want a sober man to attend to the soup department, and I understand you have quit drinking. We advised him to summon all the will power within him and say "Get thee behind me Satan," he did so and meant it and says his will power went up 50 points. The movement now on against all forms of narcomania, and especially tobacco narcomania, is not a crusade, not a spasmodic campaign, not a temperance or a prohibition fight, nor is it an orthodox, or a fanatical religious crusade; fact is, the ministry are the only class who stand for human betterment, that are today aloof from this mighty tide of sentiment for a physical righteousness; how silent the pulpit today as to the evils of narcomania; who ever heard a minister preach a sermon against the iniquity of tobacco narcomania? They are so intent on preaching a dying religion, a material dual religion, but cannot preach a living religion of the body, a physiologic righteousness. This mighty sane and forceful under-current of public sentiment is one of education; it stands for individual, ethical, sociological and national education; opposed to the evils of habitforming drugs, that destroy the physical and mental efficiency of the individual and the nation. Beginning with eugenics or home education and environments, showing the child that it simply cannot afford to put anything into its system that will lower and degrade physical vitality, and nothing in its mind that will in the least tend to lower and degrade its moral will power. After this solid foundation, against which the gates of Hades shall not prevail, comes euthenlcs or school, college and university training; with such eugenic education, and euthenic training, a citizenship would result producing the long hoped for world's millennium. MASONIC CALENDAR Monday, Aug. 7th, 1911, Richmond Commandery, No. 8, K. T. Stated conclave. Friday, Aug. 11th, 1911. King Solomon's Chapter, No. 4, R. A. M. Stated convocation. Appearances. A capitalist at a dinner said wittily of n suspected gold mine: "Gold mines are like human beings they can't be judged by their appearance. You know what Frank R. Stockton used to say about judging by appearances: " 'Don't trjist a man because he carries a silk umbrella he may have left a cotton one in its place." " Compliment. ruj iv.ooern Girl. The girl of today is extremely im patient of compliments which outrun her own estimate of herself. On the other hand, she loves to be told she is a good golfer or a fine shot or a good companion. The focus seems to have shifted from her appearance to her capacities, which is a healthy thing.

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Heart to Heart Talks. By EDWIN A. NYE. Copyright, 1 90S, by Edwin A. Nye

TO A JUNE BRlDE, Tour honeymoon is over? And why? Precisely what you are asking, is it not? And many another girl bride of June. Honeymoon, honeymoon. Tell mo why you fad so soon. Paling, fading, the waxed moon that nascent shone in the spoony days of matsimonial beginnings has long since grown dim, and then across Irs face stole the shadow of routine commonplace. Your honeymoon was in eclipse. Why? you ask. In you it is the leftover superstition, just a little, of the ages, and you wonder: Was it the wrong day? Or that the sun did not shine? Or the planetary signs? No, my dear, it was none of these. The honeymoon came to an end because all things come to an end, especially things sentimental, sprouted and grown under the warm impulse of a novel condition. It's fine up there In the rarefied air of the mountain top, but you do not stay. You come down into the prosaic valley to live. That new husband of yours adapted himself sooner than you. He was obliged to plunge into his work. Stern duty pushed aside the idyls of the lover. Poor child. It jarred you to come down to the ordinary, and I agree with yon that honeymoons should last forever. Only they do not. Humans are so constituted that they cannot continue to bill and coo without sometimes yawning and wishing for a change. There's a bit of philosophy in the adage that "familiarity breeds contempt" not contempt, perhaps, but satiety. Do not grieve over the setting of your honeymoon. Cherish the memory of it. You see, my dear, you and he must have a tryout. You scarcely know each other. In the friction that comes In double existence you are to learn to respect each other. Love Is built on mutual respect. Besides, love is devotion, and devotion requires time for exercise and expression. It may require misunderstandings and quarrels, maybe, and tears to work it out all right according to the story books. Never mind, little girl. Other moons will wax and wane. None of them may so drip with honeyed sweets, but they will be silvery, happy moons. AT HIS HOME HOTEL. "Henry L. Smith, Heaven." That was the peculiar manner in which a deaf and dumb man registered at one of. the uoliwe statjpns.in Chicago. Crazy? Or did the man really believe', as the book says, "Your citizenship is in heaven?" Smith was neatly dressed, evidently well educated and showed a cheerful spirit. The desk sergeant says he was very courteous in demeanor. He stayed at the station several nights, bunting for work which he foiled... o .find,. He waa lad .to j?sr-

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form 'any' service, however mesial; lor the sergeant. One day he brought some flowers from the country, where he had gone to find employment, end wrote en his tablet a fine tribute to the lowers and fields. - The man was not deaf to the real harmonies of life nor dumb in proclaiming his allegiance to the better country. He was deaf to earth's discords, dumb to speak ill of any. The sergeant says he was wa kind of smiling angel in clothes." And then one day he started to walk across the railroad tracks and was struck by a train and Instantly killed. .. Well. The human torches In Nero's gardens, Paul's headless body on the road to Ostla. Savonarola by way of tho stake, Henry L. Smith on a railway track! You see, there Is more than one way by which homesick mortals go home. For surely Henry L. Smith will be "at home" in heaven. Here he grew tired of hunting for work; there be "shall work for an age at a sitting and never grow tired at alL" Crank? He may have been. But so far as we know he had never crushed with clumsy feet the beautiful flowers ef human kindness nor thrust unholy hands into the heartstrings of a friend. He was "a kind of smiling angel In clothes." And one may register his citizenship st a police station as well ss st a big hostelry, wbers the bedlamonded clerk holds out the pen. "Henry L. Smith" plebeian name here. But who knows? it may be 11lustrous there. He registered finally at hla home hotel

1NNS OF CHINA.1 A Knock That Wrecked a Doer and Raited a Rumpus. Some of the inns of modern Chins are badly built. The correspondent of the London Times In traveling across the country recently bad this experience:" "At only one Tillage bad i any difficulty. We were marching late Id the dark, and 1 had sent my groom on ahead to find me an inn, as he had often done before. He entered the village, and, finding the large Inn door closed, he called out to the people to open it But bis Peking speech Is not easily understood in Kansu, and no one answered him. Then he knocked, and to bis dismay the crasy door fell down. Immediately there was a row. The innkeeper and bis vociferous spouse shouted out their wrongs. "Every one came Into the street to hear; the whole Tillage was roused. When 1 arrived It seemed like a demonstration in my honor. As is the custom, a dozeu people together told me what bad happened. I soon satisfied every one by first examining the damage and then paying compensation in full. 1 paid 100 cash (rather more than twopence), and my generosity was approved. "The structure thus damaged reminded one of tbe jerry built bouses familiar to students in Edinburgh, where It is on record that a lodger once complained to his landlord that the celling in his room bad fallen down. 'But how do you account for that? asked the landlord. "Somebody in tbe next flat sneered, replied tbe lodger." Snake Root. 8nake charmers take snake root and put it Into an earthenware pot with a snake, and he soon becomes stupefied and seems torpid and too weak to fight or bite. They put the snake under tbe Influence of the root before Dullinz his fangs.

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