Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 321, 25 September 1911 — Page 4

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1911.

Tb Richmond Palladium tzi Sao-Tcltfiran Published and owncil br th PALLADIUM riUNTINO CO. Issued 7 day each week. venlnK ana Sunday morning Office Corner North th and A trcta. Palladium and Bun-Teletrram rhonea Bualnoaa Office, 2600; JCdltorUl Itooona, 1181. RICHMOND. INDIANA Radeleh C. Leeda.... Editor SUBSCRIPTION TERM? In Richmond $5.00 per yoar (In advance or 10c per week IIUHAL ROUTES One year. In advance 1J "J Sis month, In advance... Ono month. In advanoe Address chana1 a often aa dealrea: both awr and old addrevaea must ke Klvm. Subscribers will pleane remit wltn order, which ahould be Riven for a specified term; name will not be ente.ed until payment I received. MAIL SUBSCRIPTIONS On year, in advance '5-22 Six month. In advance .o On month, in advance ' Kntered at Richmond. Indiana, poat office aa aecond claaa mail matter. New York Representative Payne & Younr. JO-34 Weat 33rd afreet, and 2935 Weat 32nd street. New York. N. . Chicago lleprexentatlvos I'ayne & Youna-. 747-748 Marquette Building. Chicago. III.

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1 his Is My 57th Birthday WILBUR P. THIRKIELD. Wilbur P. Thlrkled, president of Howard University, was born at Franklin, Ohio, September 25, 1S54. He received hi a academic education at Oblo Wesleyan University and then took up the study of theology at Boston University, graluatlng in 1881. In the same year be was ordained to the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church and became pastor of a church Id Cincinnati. In 18S3 he went to Atlanta, where he opened the Gammon Theological Seminary, later securing $800,000 for equipment and endorsement. He became the first president of the seminary and remained in that office until 1899, when he was appointed general secretary of the Epworth League. A year later he was elected secretary of the Freedmen's Aid and Southern Education Society, holding that position until 1906, when he was elected to the presidency of Howard University at Washington, D. C. ECCENTRIC BETTING. Curious Wagera Recorded at White Club In London. The. betting boob of White's club In London contains the record of some extraordinary wagers. The Idle gentlemen of 100 years ago could giro on eccentric betting, Flere are facsimiles of some of the records. One reads: "Mr, Methuen bets Colonel Stanhop. 10 guineas to 1 that a worthy bar onet understood between them does not from necessity part with his gold . ll . 1U. ,1 Km pans ueiurv iuib uit; inniouuiiui The ice palls being found at a pawn broker's will not entitle Colonel Stan hope to receive his 10 guineas." . This peculiar wager was made In 1S13, and another one, recorded tlu same year at White's, may have rcf erence to the same bard up persomipe It reads: y "Lord Alranlcy bets Sir Joseph Cop ley 6 guineas that a certain baronci understood between them la verv much embarrassed In circumstances In three years from the date hereof. If one of his bills is dishonored or hi la observed to borrow small change of the chairmen or waiters. Sir Joseph lr to be reckoned to lose." Here ta an odd oner "Mr. Butler bets Sir George Talbot 20 guineas to 1 that he Is not In the room at White with Napoleon In the course of the next two years April 24, 1815." History shows that Mr. Butler won that gnbaea. Christian Science MoniONE WEAK SPOT Most Richmond People Have a Weak Part and Too Often, It's The Back. Everyone has a weak spot. Too often it's a bad back. Twinges follow every sudden twist. Dull aching keeps up, day and night Tells you the kidneys need help For bachache Is really kidney-ache. A kidney cure is what you need. Doan's Kidney Pills are for sick kidneys, For bachache and urinary ills. Richmond people recommend the remedy. ".,., Benjamin F. Lunsford. Twentieth and South C streets, Richmond, Ind., says: "The statement I gave for publication in 1906, recommending Doan's Kidney Pills, told of my experience with them and at this time I am glad to confirm all I then said in their favor. I was bothered by kidney trouble off and on for at least fifteen years and whenever I caught cold, my back became so lame and painful that I could hardly get around. At times the kidney secretions were profuse, then again scanty and distressing. Doan's Kidney Pills, procured at A. G. I Aiken ft Co's Drug Store, relieved me promptly and once or twice since then I have taken this remedy with good result" For sale by all dealers. Price SO cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, Bole agents for the United States. ' Remember , tho name Dean'sand Uke bo other.

Public Service Corporations We have watched with interest the struggle of Indiana cities with public service corporations. Indianapolis is dormant with traction company domination and is gradually realizing its position. Marlon held an election In which the people voted for a municipal light plant But six months ago at the very time when the legislature was considering the referendum for city franchises by which the people could vote on such public questions the city council met secretly and renewed the franchise of the electric corporation. VIncennes is In the throes of a traction franchise dispute. Gary and tbe trials of a Knotts and Dean is too fresh in the mind to need comment Ft. Wayne has been having trouble with Its railways.

But here Is another case which will make interesting reading for people who are interested In the question as to whether public service corporations shall rule Indiana or whether the corporations shall be regulated by the people. The Evansville Journal says: "Mt. Vernonn is in the curious position of having had a public utility withdraw its service, in a manner voluntarily, from the citizens of the munici pality. It is true that tho officers of the city invited the Cumberland Telephone Company to Btop Its service. Ordinarily such a procedure would bo met merely with an appeal to the courts. But it happened that the appeal had been taken priorly, and that the courts had ruled in favor of the city's contention that it could fix the rates at whic h the telephone company could sell its service. The company refused to abide by the rates set for it by the city. The citizens on the other hand complained of cavalier treatment at the hands of the company's officers when a committee went to Nashville to hold a parley. Now the council has said to the telephone company, "Either you furnish us service at our rates, or you get out." And the telephone company has "got." One seldom sees the shoe on the other foot in this manner. The future of Mt. Vernon's relations with the telephone company will be watched with interest. A skeptical individual might have assumed that the company was merely .playing the game of "wait-until-they-need-it-and-they'll-come- to -our-terms." The fact that an offer has been made by the company to assume the cost of the litigation for the city and submit to arbitration on thedisputed rates for the new franchise would indicate that the company is looking to the Posey Co. capital with a wistful eye, and does not intend to sacrifice the business there without a friendly fight that will not involve compromises. The question seems to be settling into one of waiting. The Cumberland is assuming that the city of Mt. Vernon can not get along without It, and the city of Mt. Vernon, by its constituted officials, is equally positive in saying that no contract except the one laid down by the council will be acceptable.

Evansville has an interest in the

ed of a good deal of its long distance communication with Mt. Vernon. The present case furnishes ample illustration of the deadlock that ensues when once the popular mind gets the idea that a utility corporation has been gouging- a locality too consistently. Mt. Vernon, like Evansville, needs all the lines of communication that it can get, wire rail and otherwise. But, from the expressed temper of the mayor and the council down there, we must take it for granted that they will not accept a compromise without honor." We believe that the situation like the situation in Richmond is one which is waste. We do not for an instant mean that it is a waste of time for the citizens to demand that the public service corporations shall live up to the terms of their contracts or that they shall get contracts with cities which are manifestly more to their interest than they are to those of the citizens. But The Palladium does believe that when citizens have to resort to popular indignation and when this popular indignation is caused by notorious examples of contempt for the people's rights that this is a situation so wasteful as to be criminal. That we say that It Is criminal is because it is harmful to many people and a crime against many is a crime greater than a crime against one or two individuals. It is criminal waste for the laws of a state to be such that corporations find it very easy to protect their rights while making it very hard for the people to get theirs: It Is criminal waste for the people to be forced to admit that all the odds are against them in the laws of the state that popular rights are ill-defined and Ill-considered in comparison with the rights of property owners. The laws of this state ought to be framed so that it would be very easy tb arrive at a settlement and adjustment of public service disputes ior more and more the towns and cities are facing these problems. It Is actually unfair to both sides of the controversy to have the question tied up for this long a time. But the law does not provide for a competent public service commission nor for a referendum vote on franchises. If the terms of this franchise could be voted on and the rates left open to annual revision on the basis of allowing the company greater dividends in proportion to the percent that they cut down their rates by efficient management we would be better off and so would the water company. It surely cannot be long before the people of Indiana will revise their laws dealing with public service corporations and in contemplation of this it seems to us that every man who is contemplating going to the legislature from this county ought to be prepared to tell the people of this county what his attitude is toward corporations, and what steps he would take and the minute and particular consideration of what those steps would contain.

In the meantime it is the obvious duty of every officer and every citizen of Richmond and Wayne county to determine what the laws at present amount to. There Is only one good thing to be said for the laws at present they are so unsatisfactory that they will have to be replaced with new ones we hope the best of any state in the Union. But the situation cannot be changed unless we try out all the laws that we have.

Thackeray and th Tip. Thackeray often revisited tils old school, always with a well filled pocket, which was quickly emptied. Lewis Melville writes that "an old Cartbu sian who once accompanied him has related how Thackeray tipped the first lad be met with a sovereign, proceeded to empty purse and pocket in tips for other boys and. his resources temporarily exhausted, borrowed every coin bis companion had about him and distributed these, too. with the result that, not having the cab fare left, the two 'old boys' had to walk home. London Urnphic. "THIS DATE

SEPTEMBER 25. 1513 Balboa discovered the Pacific Ocean. 1555 Celebrated treaty of Nassau signed at Augsburg, by which religious liberty was secured to Germany. 16S9 Count Frontenac arrived in Canada to reassume the government of the province. 1773 The Americans made an unsuccessful attack on Montreal. 1777 Tbe British army encamped at Germantown, Pa. 1S43- Fremont's expedition reached the Columbia River, in Oregon. 1S50 Opening of the first Russian railroad built by American engineers. 1S57 The British under Havelock marched to Luckjiow and relieved the besieged residency. 1866 A national convention of Citizen Soldiers and Sailors met at Pitts-' , burgh. " - 1870 Siege of Paris began. : ; : ' - . 1873 Dedication of the new Masonic Temple in Philadelphia. 1SS5 -A convention met at Sioux Falls to frame a constitution for South -'Dakota. 1900 Gen. John M. Palmer of Illinois diet :Bom Sept 13, 1817. 1909 The Hudson-Fulton celebration opened In New York.

fight. Just now Evansville is depriv- .

The Jewish Sabbath. The meGern Jewish calendar had Its origin not in the Hebrew age beginning with tbe exodus under Moses and ending with the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus in tbe year A. D. 70. but probably about the fourth century of our era, after the Jews bad recovered from the shock of the destruction of their capital city and their dispersion and attempted annihilation by Titus. It was not until this comparatively modern date that the present Jewish calendar established their Sab bath on Saturday as a fixed day of tbe week. Exchange. IN HISTORY"

Heart to Heart Talks.

By EDWIN A. NYE. Copyright, 1908, by Edwin ANye. TiiRir;. An ofSeial of the Netherlands government who has been investigating the condition of the Hollanders who have come to this country says:"I have not found a dependent Hollander here in my eight months investigation. Hans has a wooden shoe philosophy, which teaches him that pennies make dollars. He never is in a Lurry, lut always at work." Furthermore "The Dutchman who cornea here saves tn the average half his day's wages and Is therefore soon settled in a neat little cottage o his own.'" That's it. The essence of all advice of all the books that have been written on bow to get on in tho world is enilwdied in one short senteuce: "Spend less than you earn." He who sets out to follow that rule finds that great will power is necessary, and iu the exercise of that will power be grows strong in accomplishment. He finds he must stint himself and do without things, and that makes him able to endure. It "is far easier to make money than to save it. In an old book, "Thrift." by Samuel Smiles, is the story of John and Mary, man and wife, employed in a factory. In those days beer was a part of the daily drink. On the day they were married Mary asked John for money to buy two glasses of beer daily for herself. WellOn their first wedding anniversary John, having a holiday, wanted to take Mary on a visit to her mother, but re gretted he did not have the money. Mary went to her hiding place and brought out the price of 730 glasses of beer, which in English money was about $21. "But .where did you get it?" "My pint of beer," said Mary. Which set John to thinking how pennies piled up into dollars. The se quel was that John quit the beer, and in a few years, by making judicious Investments, he and Mary owned their own small fartory. "But," says the average American "Who wants to deprive himself Just to save a little money?" Who? Only tho wise, who can forego fleeting pleasures for future good. Ye, Indeed! A Canadian suspender company fiercely opposes the new reciprocity plnn. This looks like a holdup. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Alphabetical Resemblance. "Chinamen to me look as much alike as two peas." "Yes, and they have the same cues." Baltimore American. SIN-CONSEQUENCE. She gasped at tho . realization which 1 comes to most of us human creatures sooner .or later that sins may be forgiven bUw consequences are eternal. The extract is from a recent novel. The heroine of the story In a mo ment of resentment and pique breaks with the man she loves and marries one for whom she cares nothing. The awakening was a fearful one. She discovers that sin and its consequence grow on the same stem. However That which amazes her most of all Is that "a crazy moment should ruin a whole life." 'It was as if a pebble should deflect a river from its course and make it turn and overflow a landscape." And then "Suddenly it seems to her that her whole life had been just a sunny slope down to the edge of a gulf. It 3s not the pebble that turns the current. It la the easy slope that invites it. All her life Elizabeth had been inviting' this moment, just as some of us are inviting baleful tomorrows." now 'true an exposure of human action! Men and women do not go wrong in a moment. They do not fall suddenly os from a precipice. They tread primrose paths of dalliance down a sunny slope to the gulf! No action is isolated. Each is linked to each like the links of a. chain. Once the chain is forged you ire bound. Thought, feeling, action, .habit, destiny those are. the links; that is the chain. A man Js false in one particular tells a lie. Is mean or cruel or impure, and nothing comes of it. But The consequences follow. The man is started down grade. The descent to Averuns is easy. Later ht Is launched on the toboggan slide. When he least expects it he has reach ed the bottom. He is amazed to find that one little act has spelled ruin. It was not the "crary moment" it was "the easy slope," the life tenden cy, which Invited the rash moment. "Sin may be forgiven, but its conse quences are eternaL" Beware "the easy slope f Tbe Game of Golf. Farmer Foddershucks Haow dt them summer boarders of youra keel busy? Reuben Robbins They play golf. F. F. What In Sam Hill's that? R. R. As near as I can make out ft solitaire shinny. Toledo Blade. The Grandest Old Bore. Methuselah chuckled. "I remember a summer just like thk 700 years ago"" he cried. Abashed, the others slunk away. New Xork Sun. " Not en Agreeable Adviser. I shall never ask him for his advice again. -What's the matter?" He never thinks that what I hare made np my mind to do is right.' Detroit Free Press.

CONGRESS OF MINES Opens Its Sessions at Chicago, Tuesday.

(National News Association) CHICAGO. Sept. 25. Miners engi neers and mine operators from all parts of the civilized world are con gregating here to attend the 14th an nual session of the American Mining Congress, which opens its three-day session in the auditorium of the La Sslle Hotel tomorrow. The present convention will be one of the largest as well as one ot the most important In the history of the organization. John Dorn, president of the Ameri can Mining Congress, together with Richard E. Sloan of Phoenix, Aria., and other members of the advisory committee have arranged for discussion on a list of matter pertinent to th welfare both of the miners and the mine owners. These subjects will include the conservation of the na tion's mineral resources; the conser vation of human life; the Alaskan coal situation; the revision of the mineral land laws; the prevention of mine accidents and workmen's compensation. Each of these subjects is in charge of a committee, whose investigation will be embodied in a report to the

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delegates, who will in turn take up the matter for discussion and vote upon a resolution for the 'future guidance of the policies of the congress. Those in charge of the different committees are; E. B. Kirby, chairman of the committee on General Revision of Mineral Land Laws; E. K. Colburn. Denver, Colo., chairman of Smelter Rates and Ore Treatment committee; John Hays Hammond, New York, chairman of the Federal Legislation committee; Tracy C. Becker, Los Angeles, Cat, chairman of the Freight Rates committee; W. R. Ingalls. New York, chairman of the Uniform Mining Laws committee; John H. Jones, Pittsburg, Pa., chairman of the Workmen's Compensation committee; Geo. H. Riter, Salt Lake City. Utah, chairman of the Mineral Statistics Committee, and General Irving Hale, Denver, Colo., and S. A. Taylor. Pittsburg, Pa., chairman of the Electrical Equipment committee.

Mrs. E. H. Harriman is said to insist that "left-overs" be made use of both In food and wearing apparel. She may, no doubt think that the example she sets of not allowing any waste Is worth as much in the general plan of things as the actual value of things saved. She is said to have always saved from her housekeeper allowance and to have administered her husband's property with the same frugal care.

Conductor Courtesy. "Conductor," called the women who sat near the rear door, "let me ent at the next corner." But the conductor forgot, Heyiw shouted the woman as the car sped along for two blocks. "Didn't I tell yon to let me off at the nest corner!" "Yes'in. answered the polite official, "but this here alnt the next corner. It's this one.' Cleveland Plain Dealer.

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