Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 244, 17 August 1912 — Page 8

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THE xcICHJIOND PAJLLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1912.

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PRAYER OPEN GREAT FIGHT Roosevelt Is Welcomed at Providence with All the Enthusiasm of the West, Last Evening. (Continued from Page One) representatives of privilege in finance and politics control most of the newspapers, so that the ordinary man finds the channels of information choked. I do not so much mind the editorial columns being closed against us, but it is a matter of real regret that the news columns are closed to us. "There is good reason why many men should, bitterly oppose the Progress!' partV-yery Political jobber, eY.?y crooked bub'yyess man, every beneficiary of privilege 'Lnd every paid employe of such beneficiary"' all these are naturally against us. "I hold, however, that every self- re specting, ordinary citizen should be for us. The men for whom we are making the fight are not politicians and are hot men of great wealth. They are busily engaged in their daily toil; they do not appear as speakers at public meetings; they do not take prominent parts in political canvasses, and they cannot contribute large sums cf money for the furtherance of the campaign on their behalf. "I believe, though, that their feelings are all the more intense and their sympathy the more keen just because of the fact that hitherto they never have been stirred as now they are stirred. "Hitherto, as a standpatter, a reactionary congressman from Kansas, with involuntary truthfullness put it, these plain people have been regarded by politicians as only entitled to pay the price of admission and sit on the bleachers and watch the politicians play the game for their own benefit. "Under this congressman's views, the plain people have nothing to do except to pay the expenses of the contest which the rulers wage for their own benefit. To Be Own Master. "The Progressive doctrine, on the contrary, is that the plain people of America are not after this, to sit on the bleachers, and look on as the politicians play the game; that the plain people are to be their own masters and masters over all their public servants. "We stand for a protective tariff, but we wish to see the benefits of the protective tariff get into the pay envelope of the wage worker. Instead of decreasing we wish to increase the amount of the prize money that is rightfully due those who work hard in Industry, but we stand for a more equitable division of the prize money. "Moreover, our movement is not only for economic but for ethical betterment. We do not accept the view that greed and selfishness are the only factors to be considered in government." One of the most common ailments that hard working people are afflicted with is lame back. Apply Chamberlain's uiniment twice a day and masoagu vuq yai to uiuiuugutj a v. catu application, and you will get quick relief. For sale by all dealers. BUSINESS COLLEGE School opened this week with an encouraging attendance and prospects are good for the coming year. Blanche Williams of Fountain City, is doing stenographic work for Kramer & company during the absence of Miss Coleman, who is taking her vacation. Communication was received from Mr. Charles C. Cring, who is visiting various points of interest in Kentucky and other southern states. He reports a fine time. Delia Bowers has accepted a position as stenographer with Canada & Chenoweth of Wincherter. Mr. L. B. Campbell has made business trips to Connersville and Hagerstown this week. Mr. and Mrs. Price, who have been spending their vacation with relatives in Randolph county, have returned, and Mr. Price has resumed his work in the Richmond Business College. ' Essie Bowers has accepted a position with the Starr Piano factory. Miss Frances O'Brien has spent her vacation in Owensboro, Ky., taking a She is very enthusiastic over the work. Miss Ida Fancher who is employed by the Model Clothing company, is taking a vacation of a few weeks at her home in Connersville. Miss Mildred Hunt is substituting for her during her absence. Ralph Slautterback, who has been in the employ of Romey Furniture company, is now visiting relatives in Pennsylvania. - ' Conversational. Two of the churches In Wellington are located close together, and recently while some one was passing between the two churches on prayer meeting night be heard this spirited dialogue In song: The congregation of one church was singing. "Will there be any stars, any stars, in my crown when at evening the sun goeth down?" And the congregation of the other church, apparently answering the question, was singing "No, not one; no, not one." Kansas City Star,

QUAINT ARTICLE WAS READ AT SETTLERS PICNIC TODAY

f 1 One of the features on the program at the Old Settlers picnic this afternoon at Centerville was the reading by Wilfred Jessup of an article written by Jeremiah Cox of Middleboro, Wayne county, in June, 1850. The style and spelling is quaint, but of exceptional interest. The article is reproduced here verbatim: I attended the Old Settlers Meeting the other day, a desire being manifested by some present, to hear what I could tell in regard to the early settling of Wayne County, and in complyence with this wish, and for the entertainment of my children and numerous grand-children, I now commence writing, in the seventyeth year of my age and not having much to build upon, except memory, some misstatements may be expected. And first, I will state that my grandfather, Benjamin Cox, came from Pennsylvania, in the first settling of the Carolinas, at first I think in the south state, but afterwards setled purmenently, in Randolph County, North Caroline, where he remained to the end of his days, and from the many hunting exploits he used to relate to ut,7,his grand-children, I infer that he was i!ike Nymrod of old, a mighty hunter; theVje was he said, wild horses in that country in those days, which the inhabytentsVaught by shooting them across the topVof the head just where the neck andhead joined, when it the ball hit the right spot, would instantly bring theire to the ground, and whilst in that condition, they would place a strong ropp halter on their head, and tie it to a ysapling (a small tree) end when they vould come too a little, from the shockVproduced from the shooting, there woufld be a great rareing, pitching and nJjcking, for a length of time, but wheul the animal worryed itself nearly to , suffocation it would give up strugglin;?, and when thoroughly broke (as it vVas called), they made very docile and serviceable work horses. Some of the. horses in use when I was a boy were? said to be of the wild stock. Caroline vvas said by grandfather and others to be a very good country for poor flks to settle in, there beeing plenty ofvild game with excellent Dastureaee stock. My father, Jeremiah Cox, wa born raised and setled within a mile of his father's place, where he remained until the 5th month, 1806, when he sold most of his possession for 28 hundred dollars, and started for the Ohio country, by some said to be the land of promise, and in about six weeks travel, we reached Lebanon in the Miami country. My father procured a school house (or cabin), to shelter his family in, and started the next day but one to Whitewater, in company with John Smith, David Hoover and several others, who made selections of land to enter on their return; the land office then being in Cincinnati. My father selected and entered the quarter section of land, on which the Brightwell Mill stands. We ttayed in Ohio a month, and started for Whitewater, and came to Eaton, which had been laid out in the previous third month. Several cabins built, and the streets so full of logs and brush that it was with difficulty that we could pass along. From thence we followed a trace or trail that John Harden and Owen Darby (perhaps a few others) had mooved along a few weeks previous to our coming, to where they settled on Elkhorn Creek, near the western boundary of the State of Ohio, from thence we had our road to cut through brush, nettles and logs to where Richmond now is. And a few days after, father bought two quarter sections of land of j josepn wooakirK, wno nad built a small cabin, cleared, fenced and planted four acres of corn, which my father bought. This land lay where Richmond has since been built, all north of Main street. I will here remark that I helped to cut out the two first roads made through what is now the City of Richmond, one that we mooved along when we came, the other west from that, on our south line to the river. This road ran where Main Street now is. The last mentioned road was cut to hawl stones from the river to build our chimney. I will here remark that we were the first family of the Society of Friends, that setled in the limets of Wayne County, tho Robert Smith came soon after, John Smith, Elijah Wright and Frederick Hoover came in the fall following. Several of the Hoover family came out when we mooved, to build cabins and sow turnip seed. In the spring following, Andrew Hoover, Wm. Bulla and David Hoover came. Some later in the Spring, John Hary and John Small came, and perhaps some others not now recollected. Four or five miles down the river there was a settlement of perhaps eight or ten families, that had come from Kentucky in the third month of 1805. These were, George Holeman. Richard Rue, Ewel Kendal. Thomas McCoy, Wm. Blunk, Joseph Cox, John Boyls and a few others, names not remembered. There was a few families on the east fork that came I believe, in the Spring of 1808. I think they were all on the Ohio side of the line, except Richarl Maxwell. The next S or 4 years after our arrival the people setled here very fast; the road that we cut to moove along brought the land hunters to our house. Father took great pains to show them vacant land, especially such, as he thought would be good citizens, and for boarding and time spent in this business, I think he made no charges, nor do I think he ever received any remuneration, other than the satisfaction of helping to build up a virtues community. I may now state that we brought our bread stuff that we used the summer we came here from the Miami country; the corn we bought growing on the ground proved sufficient for our e up port through the first winter

which we ground on an iron handmill that we brought with us. It was constructed on th( nrincinlft of a coffee

mill, only much larger, and furnished I with two cranks to propell it by, and j it was believed that it never ground the meal too fine. One man, on seeing it grind, remarked that it was a singular mill indeed, for he observed the faster it run, the more water come. About this period, some neighbors joined to blaze out a bridle way to still water (as was then called) for the purpose of packing bread stuff from there on horse back, and I with other of our neighbors made one or more trips iu that way. But father thinking it too slow a plan for furnishing his large family with bread, conceived the idea of sending wagons through on this, the Quaker trace as it was called. I remonstrated against the scheme as being almost impracticable nothing, however, would do him short of making the attempt. Accordingly we riged up the two four wheels of our large wagon for Uncle James Morrison to drive, whilst I was to take our small wagon with four wheels, thus equipped with an axe and three or four days' provision, we set out on our wilderness tour. We stopt about the middle of the day to feed our poneys, and whilst in the act of taking our dinner, we were vissited by three wolves, but as we had no distructive weapons with us, they were suffered to pass on unmolested. We drove along over bushes, netles, chunks, logs and almost saplings, til we reached our place of destination, procured our loading of good hard sound corn, but to my great sorrow, were unable to git it ground without staying longer than Uncle Morrisson would consent to stay, so we started homewards. But I had heard there was a good water mill stored on twin creek at New Lexington; also that there was a road cut out from Dayton to Eaton, by way of Lexington. I was meditating on the feasability of taking Lexington in our way home, when we came across a road used some by wagons, bearing a southern direction. I insisted on taking that road, believing it would take us to the Dayton road on which was the mill before mentioned, Uncle Morrisson opposed to it with all his might; said we might get in to difficulties even worse than the way we had come (and so it- prooveea in me sequii), out l being determiied to have our corn ground if possible7)&efore reaching home, as I dreaded ttnding so much hard corn with the hafhd mill. Uncle at length yealded, tho relVictantly. Well, we had not traveled maby miles on my unknown read, till it jkjmost disappeared. We, however, made wliit headway we could in a south directiajn, occasionally coming on to the premXses of newly settled duchmen, someof whom could neither understand or saeakour language, consequently could guve no directions as to the way we shouM go. We went on however, from placed to place in a southward direction wnth windings, backings, and turnings, tox almost every point of compass, and at length we reached the long looked for and greatly desired to see Dayton road. We turned west on it with cheering antisepations, believing our difficulties were all overcome, and before us there could be little else but triumphant success. Well, in traveling on in this cheerful mood, we met a gentleman on horseback going east, who accosted us with "gentlemen where are you going?" 'To Lexington to git our corn ground, thence to Whitewater where we live," was our prompt reply. "My God," said he, "I am sorry for you, you will presently come to an old hurrican, through it the road is not cut out, only a brldleway, and I know of no possible way to go round." This information drew a damper on our pleasant prospects, but as there seemed no other way for us but to pass through the many difficulties that intercepted our pathway, we went on, and presently came to the old hericane, the saplings standing thickly on the ground and from the size of a hand spike to that of a man's leg. We went to work with all the viger we could command, cut through a distance of perhaps threefourths of a mile. By this time the great sourse of light was sinking in the western horrizen. We persued our travel and soon came to a house where we obtained some refreshments, which we stood in great need of as our stock of provision was well night spent. Early next morning we were on our way, reached Neesbits mill, got our corn ground and started for home with renewed spirits, but sad to relate, before we reached Eaton, we sank in a slough (which would answer well to the description Bunyean gives of the Slough of Dispond), we were entirely unable to extricate ourselves trim this difficulty, by any other means but unloading our wagons, carrying our sacks of meal on our shoulders through the swamp to firm ground, to do which I took off my shoes and laid them on a log. After a good deal of splashing in the mud, we got our wagons out, but like the poor pilgrim, were very much bedaubed with the filth of the slough. We reloaded our wagons and started on our way, but in the hurry and flurry of the moment, I forgot my shoes, and have not heard of them since. Well from this time forward, we were successful in our journey, and reached home safe with a good supply of good, well ground meal, vhich was a luxury in deed to the family, after feeding for several months on corn that was none too sound and ground with the hand-mill. I think we overstaid our time two or three days, which gave our folks some uneasiness, but our triumphant return soon made all things right, except with Uncle Morrisson. And I do not certainly know that he ever forgave me for my headling rashness while he lived which was several years. I being a miller, hope to be indulged in giving a some what minute account of the mills built in those days. The

first whs built by Charles Hunt (father of George Hunt, our first county clerk, a-man of excellent business tallent, and with all a strong miletory man) this was on Elkhorn Creek, not far from the mouth I think; it was built in the fall of 1807, and was able to grind for the neighborhood that

winter; which was a great accommo dation in deed. It was covered by ( planting poles in the ground t v-a ; forks at the upper end to receive , poles, on which other poles were with j placed, called ribs, on which were laid ! ciapooaras ior me rooi; on mem were lald what ia termed weight poles to "u,u uu -lo lue,r which I believe sheltered the hopper and meal trough pretty well when the wind did not blow. The next mill built was by my fath-' er near where the Brightwell Mill now stands. It was like Hunt's, a tubmill, and covered in like manner. The stones were two and a half feet diameter, and the runner nine inches thick and would grind two bushels per hour. The next was built by Wm. Bulla adjoining his farm on which he still lives; it was covered with a board shed like the others. The next was built by Robert Comer, on a spring branch south side of the east fork, some three miles east of Richmond; it was a brest mill and double geared; it was believed to be able to grind at least one bushel per hour, end being fed by a large spring near, it was a constant running mill. This mill was sheltered by a log house which I think was hewed a little, it being the first mill in our community thus furnished. The next was built by myself a fewmonths afterwards. This mill was sheltered by a house made of round poles cut twenty feet long, and covered with a cabbin ruff in usual style, and in a favorable stage of water, could grind two bushels of (frost bitten corn such as was common in those days) per hour. I don't know the ex act amount of capital required to build such mills, but I sopose that five hundred dollars would have built the three last named mills. In the spring of 1807, there was a herricane which blew down nearly all the timber on a large portion of the land whereon Richmond now stands, which made a secure hideing place for

the 3mall tribe of wild animals, such ! mons, who still lives there, and Robas wild cats, foxes, coons, etc., with a j ert Morrison, the banker, of Richmond, great amount of snakes of different who was then a wolf trapper. And at kinds, especially rattle snakes.I think j one time Uncle John Turner and I met I have killed as many as a half dozen ! at Uncle Morrison's, when there was a

in a day when they would be gathering in for winter quarters in the river cliffs. It was discovered that there was a den in a bank where a large spring issues out near where Strawbridges mill now stands, on the middle fork of Whitewater. The neighbors made a pen around the spring to prevent their escape, where they killed them iu great abundance of different kinds. Two or three years after the great storm that uprooted the timber so much, father hired Wm. Cox and Isaac and Jacob Julian to clear up a large piece of the fallen timber (as we called it). Isaac was the father of the Lawyer Jullians of the present day. Isaac Julian taught a three months school in the winter about this time in a cabin a little eastward of this place. The young men of the neighborhood formed a kind of debating school. There meetings were held at night in Julians school house. Our X

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best debaters were Eli Overman, Isaac Julian. Henry Hoover. Joseph Holeman, William Holman and Asa Prevo, a man possessed of an excellent tallent for argumentation. The principal business carried on in those days was clearing of ground, making rails, building fence, etc.;

such, as hired their land cleared would

pay Dy tne acre a foot and un(iert orH made of corn be it understood. Of

eiehteen inches and under, as theim"" we naa ainerent Kinds.

CK micht h r(,adV to roll, and he tnat couia ciear an acre of ground the GujeKeat or cut and sDlit the most raila in a day was accounted the most honerable fellow. There was another test by which a man's standing in $he esteematlon of his fellow men was made known, that was the choice made at logrollings. It was common to choose two for captains who would divide the ground, containing the logs to be rolled, one take choice of hands, the other the ground, thus divided, and to be rolled; hands would then stand in a ring fair to be seen, when the captains would proceed to choose turn about, first choice most monerable, last choice the reverse. In pretty early times there was a county road petitioned for and granted, running In a north and south direction. My father was appointed supervisor. He started out to warm in his hands I to cut out the road. He was told it would be just as the hands pleased about working, as it was not known that there was a legally appointed supervisor. In this immergency he hired Andrew Kenneday to ride to Lawrenceburgh, our county seat, for a certified copy of his appointment, with a legal crder to open the road, after which I believe nearly all agreed to do their portion of work. Immediately north nf father's land whr th Nwport Pike now runs, was a swamp of An ho wnoh noH f ha hrtffoH 30 or 40 rods which had to be bridged (as we called it), and in order to ae commodate the hands, father divided

the ground to be bridged, into equal ! ough a meal sieve ; (not wove of portions-I believe one rod to eachwIre " 'h? " th,S day, b.Ut f

! hand- signaling each man's piece by number so that he could easily find his lot. But a few hands living at some distance, neglected to make their portion of bridge in time so I had to make more than my share. When I settled on the hill where I now live, there was but two families on the creek above me, Isaac Comtracking snow on the ground. It was proposed to go to the woods in search of raccoon tracks, but after wadeing through the snow until we were tired, and finding no tracks, we turned homeward by way of Uncle Morrison's wolf traps, which were on the Ohio side of the state line, in one of which there was a large black wolf. Uncle Morj rison began to propose ways and means by which we might confine it, tie its mouth, ham string it, and take it home for to fight with the dogs for sport. "Blood," says Uncle Turner, "lit us kill the ratched vermin." At this instant striking the wolf in the back with the edge of his axe, through a crask in the lid of the trap, which bled the wolf to death in a minute or two, thus putting an end to Uncle Morrison's anticipated sport in short order. Though he caught one after that which he served in that way. and bad his sport, but I was not there to see ' it, but understood that it was an over

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match for all the dogs that attacked it. I will now endeavor to give a sketch of our fare In those days In regard to eatables. We had what we then considered quite a variety. We had our large hominy, large pone, our small homing. Johnnie cake, hoe cake and

dodger, boyld dumplins and fried cake There was the hog meat, the venison, or deer meat, the raccoon and squirrel. Of ! fowls, there was the turkey, the pheasj nt and the wild duck, all of which j 'were cooked in different ways to suit ! the taste, or in accordance with the j fashion of the times. There was sev eral kinds of coffee in use; the bread crust coffee, the meal coffee, and after wheat was raised, there was the wheat coffee, and the flour coffee. And in the spring of the year, we had a great variety of wild weeds which we boiled for greens to eat with our meat. And for dainties to use on perticular occasions, we had our custard and our ferminty; this was wheat boiled until it would thicken a little, when there was milk stirred in and sweetened to the taste with maple sugar. This was reconned a great dellecacy. In the summer and fall we had Irish pot a ties; fall and winter we had pumpkins and turnips in abundance. The pumpkins we dried for summer use by cutting them in rings and placing them on small poles hanging them to the cabin joists in front of the Are. I recollect my father contracted with Ewel Kindall for several bushels of wheat, the i first that I knew of being raised in the county. He sent me for it. I do not now remember the quantity purchased or the price per bushel, but the sura l"""- , . George "im,an Present- reraarkM to Kindall that he was a moneymaking man. This wheat we ground with our hand mill and sifted It horse hair, I think it was; out of this kind of meal we had many excellent breakfasts. We had a smith shop, which caused men to come several miles to git smith work done. I remember an elderly

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man who lived six or seven miles down the river was at the shop when dinner was announced. My father, as his custom was. Invited the old gentleman to dine with him, which was accepted. We had pan cakes made of the above described meaL Of these cakes the old gentleman pertook lib

erally and whilst at the table, broke '.out in a kind of ecstacy. "God bless! the pudding, bow I love it." It is pre-! sumable the old gentleman had not' tasted wheat bread for months, maybe years. I think I have written enough to convey a general idea of the hardships and difficulties attendant on the firstsettling of this country. In doolng! which I have related some incidents,: in themselves unimportant, almost In-' significant, but viewed in connection' with the first settling of this well im-' proved and prosperous country, it' gives them at least a coloring of Importance which otherwise could cot be claimed for them. The howling of the wolves and hoot' ing of the owls has now given place to the shrill whistle of the steam engine, and meny, very menny of my former associates have paid the debt of nature, have gone hence to be seen of us no more. And having nearly fill-' ed my three score and ten. cannot reasonably expect to be here, much longer. So farewell. JEREMIAH COX. Middleborough. Wayne County, lndlana. 6th month. 16th day. 1860. Not Thoy Who Sear. Hot they who soar, but thy who plod Their ruesd way unh!pl to Ood, Are hero. They who higher fare And. flytne. fan th upper air Mlsa all tho toll that hus tho aod. Tta ther whoa hack hav felt tho roc. -Whoso feet have pressed tho path unshod !ay amllo upon defeated care. Not they who soar. Hlrh up there are no thorns to prod Nor bowlder lurking 'neath tho clod To turn tho keenneoa of tho ahara. For flight Is ever free and rata. But beroeo they tho coil who'vo trod. Not they who soar. Paul Laurence Dunbar. is prepared in two sizes. Egg lor ranges and cook stoves. Lump I orlteating stoves & grates

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