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THE RICHMOND TaLLADIUM AAD SUN-TELEGRA3I, MONDAY, DECE3IBER 23, 1912.

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Entered at Richmond, Indiana, post office as second class mail matter. New York Representatives Payne & Young, 30-3 West 33d Street, and 29-35 West 32nd Street, New York, N. Y. Chicago Representatives Payne & Young, 747-748 Marquette building, Chicago, 111. The Association of Amwr . . .. i , lean Advertisers, ims r a mined and certified to the eircu'atio of this peblicaUen. Thefisres of circoat contained in tl Association's report only ere guaranteed. Assodatton of American Advertisers No. 1C9. Whitehall Bldg. N. Y. City GENIUS AND VANITY. Schopenhauer Was Net a Bit Afraid to Praise Himself Out Loud. Schopenhauer, the great German philosopher, afforded one of the most remarkable examples of self complacency that has ever been known. Ills naive eulogisms on his own productions are almost beyond belief. In writing to his publishers of his work he says: "Its worth and importance are so great that I do not venture to express it even toward you because you could not believe me," and- he proceeds to quote a review "which speaks of me with the highest praise as the greatest philosopher of the age, which is really saying much less than the good man thinks." "Sir," he said to an unoffending stranger who watched him across a table d'hote where he acted the part of the local "lion" habitually "sir, you are evidently astonished at my appetite. True, I eat three times as much as you, but then I have three times as much mind." Auerbach, the German novelist, also had a great appreciation of his own powers and work, and many stories are told of the obtrusive way in which he displayed his vanity. A German writer says of him: "Every year Auerbach visits three or four fashionable watering places, at each of which the following episode occurs at least thirty times. The novelist indulges in small talk with the little children of the natives and invariably ends the conversation thus: 'Knowest thou who has been talking with thee? Behold Auerbach! Tell that at home!'" GRIT OF A SHARPSHOOTER. Sergeant Halliwoll's Feat at the Siege of Lucknow. During the siege of Lucknow in the Indian mutiny there was afforded what was probably the most notable instance 1 of the record in war of a crack shot. The rebels were endeavoring to mount two eighteen-pounders, which they had hauled up to the flat roof of one of the palaces surrounding the residency, and it was necessary to prevent this being done, or they would have been able to pour down a heavy fire on the defenders. Sergeant Halliwell was chosen for this duty. He was a crack shot of the Thirty-second foot. Being given the best rifle that could be found, his orders were to prevent the guns being mounted. He took up his position behind some battered down (- masonry where there was only cover for him to He at full length. He remained in that position, it is said, for several days, not being able to stand, inasmuch as that would have resulted in instant death. His only change was to roll over from his back to his stomach. His eyes were ever kept on the dismounted guns, and whenever the Sepoys attempted to mount them hjs unerring rifle played havoc among them and prevented their object being accomplished. Food was brought to him at night by men who crawled to his position. After some time a sortie was made, and the Sepoys were defeated. For this brave work Sergeant Halliwell received the Victoria cross. Harper's Weekly. fa Seven In the Bible. The number seven plays a prominent part in events in the Bible. The creation took six days, and on tue seventh there was rest. On the seventh day of the seventh month a holy observance was ordained, and the Israelites feasted seven days and rested seven days. Noah had seven days" warning of the flood, aud the seven years of plenty were foretoid in Tharaoh's dream by seven fat beasts, as were the seven lean years by seven lean beasts We speak ct the se-en heavens, and the seventh son was supposed to be endowed with pre-eminent wisdom, in short, there is no other number which enters into the Bib.'p so often as seven. No doubt the wi popularity of the number snd the UprstitioiJi wlii -h are connected with It came from its wide use in the Bible Ta.-kiri0 Explained. "Whut do people mean when they talk ab ut tacking?" asked Bobbv. who bad listened to a detiti'ed account of his sister's first experience in a sadbout, but in considerable confusion of Mind "O'i, you'll know when you're t li't'.y bit older." aij his sister, but the small lound face wore nn expression of injury, and she had to expiuin further. "Why. it's just turning halfwhy round." she said, with slight hesitation, "and then and then you sail on the bias." -

Richmond's Letter to Santa. Dear Santa Claus: We, the people of Richmond, are anxiously awaiting your arrival. You will find our stocking suspended from the mayor's throne in the council chamber in the city building. If you can tell us just when you will arrive, we will have the brass hand out to greet you. There are many things we would like to have, but we will not impose on your generosity and will be satisfied if you cram into our stocking the following: A promissory note that we will never have another "best administration Richmond ever had." A couple of buffaloes and a man-eating shark for Ed Hollarn's Glen Miller Zoo. A check for about $75,000 so we can pay what we owe to the city light plant and the street improvement fund (we owe the latter because we made a mistake and gave about $25,000 we owed it to the general fund, which didn't kick because it was lean and hungry.) Another mayor not a doctor, just a business man. A few more good factories like the ones we have now. Some money to send our monkeys to a good Keeley Cure. An agreement to submit the south end bridge question to The Hague arbitration tribunal. A reduction in the rate of artificial gas. A water works contract which will look enough like the original contract proposal drawn up by the city so that we will recognize it when finally approved and signed. And, for Heaven's sake, give us some form of commission government as soon as possible. Respectfully and hopefully, The Richmond Taxpayers.

The Patronage Evil.

For the benefit of and whatever consolation he can obtain from it, we refer to the patronage-tormented Mr. Gray, our representative In congress, the following sage observations of Mark Sullivan, legislative expert of Collier's Weekly: , jn tbe ong run( a Congressman never gets anything out of the patronage at his disposal except embarrassment and trouble. As a rule, for every follower who is given an office, two are disappointed and go home to nurse their resentment until the next election. If every member were completely relieved from the solicitation of favors for his district, both private favors in the shape of jobs and public favors in the shape of Federal buildings and river and harbor improvements, no other single thing would so enhance the dignity and efficiency of Congress. Men who should be giving their time to the study of public business are kept running errands. The less scrupulous trade their vote on such important measures as the tariff in return for patronage. Men of sensitive self-respect will remain out of public life rather than endure the humiliations and make the alliances they must make In order to get patronage for their district. To be sure, Taft's order (placin? about 36,000 fourth class postmasters under the civil service) is exceedingly disagreeable to the South. Republican postmasters, who are frequently carpetbaggers and almost always alien to the prevailing sentiments of their communities, are fastened for life on the Southern towns and villages by an order Issued during the closing hours of probably the last Republican Administration of the present generation. But it is better to endure this than invite" the consequences of change. There is a bill now pending in congress which would require the popular selection of first, second and third class postmasters at primaries and it is to be hoped that the recent experience Mr. Gra,y has had with job hunters will win his friendship for this measure.

JhJsisAiy 60th Binhdax CHARLES SEDGWICK MINOT. Dr. Charles Sedgwick Minot, one of the best-known scientific men in America and who has just been appointed director of the laboratory of anatomy at the Harvard Medical school, was born in Boston, Dec. 23, 1852. His education was received at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard college. In 1880 Dr. Minot became a lecturer and instructor in the Harvard Medical" school and in 1892 he was appointed professor of histology and human embryology at the same institution. In 1905 he was appointed James Stillman professor of comparative anatomy at the Harvard Medical school and Harvard university. He still holds that chair. Dr. Minot holds honorary degrees from Yale, Toronto, Oxford and St. Andrew's universities. The past two years he has been exchange professor with Germany and is at present conducting a course of lectures there. Congratulations to: William H. Moody, former associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 59 years old today. John H. Stephens, representative in congress of the Thirteenth district of Texas, 65 years old today. Oscar S. Straus, former Secretary of Commerce and Labor and late Progressive party candidate for governor of New York, 62 years old today. Dr. John H. Worst, president of North Dakota Agricultural college, and former head of the National Dry Farming Congress, 62 years old today. A Glass Neddla Stiletto. As diabolical a specimen of murderous Ingenuity as ever was discovered by the police was found one day in the possession of a Chinaman who had been working in a laundry in New Orleans and who was believed to have intended using it upon his employer. It was a tiny stiletto, with a handle about as thick as a carpenter's pencil and a blade four inches long of glass pointed as keenly as a needle, A tiny groove had been filed around the blade close to the hilt. Suppose it was driven into a man's body. It would be certain to brek off at the groove and leave three Inches of glass deep in his flesh. What is more, the puncture would be so tiny that it would probably close at once and show no mark, not even a single drop of blood. Wouldn't Have Missed. As a battalion was returning from rifi practice at the ranges a shot was discharged from the leading company, apparently by accident, but the bullet passed uncomfortably close to the colonel "Look here." he roared to the cap tain of the company, "who tired that shot?'" "Sir." replied the officer proud ly, "it can't be a man of my company, for they are ail first class shots." London Globe. Refined Rooting. The English root very politely When a cricketer latuls a Ct the bleaeherites yell: "Oh, jolly well caujiht: Oh, very well cnusht Indeed!" Sometimes wl.en a player plays unusually well tLey write blm a note the next day Louisville Courier Journal. Well Satisfied. First Nesrro 1 hcan that Andrew Ja kon Jones am run over by nn automobile. Did he t.t't ftny sntistac tionV Second Negro He suttlnly did Be took de machine's number, played xlicy wlf it an w-oa f 101 Satire

This Date in Hisiory

DECEMBER 23. 1732 Sir Richard Arkwrlght, inventor of the spinning frame, born in Preston, England. Died August 3, 1792. 1783 Gen Washington delivered up his commission in the army to congress, in session at Annapolis. 1795 Sir Henry Clinton, who commanded the British forces in the American Revolution, died. Born in 1738. 1805 Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, born. Died June 27, 1844. 1814 Date of the charter incorporating the village of Cleveland, Ohio. 1823 Thomas W. Evans, the fami ous dentist who affected the escape of J Empress Eugenie from Paris, born in Philadelphia. Died in Paris, Nov. 13, 1897. 1861 British government sent troops to Canada as a precaution i against aggression by the United ; States. I 1889 Henry Grady, famous orator ! and statesman, died in Atlanta, Ga. Born in Athens, Ga., May 24, 1S50. 1899 Lord Roberts sailed from England to take command of the British forces- in South Africa. TINY ELECTRIC IONS. Science Says They Are the Smallest Units In the World. We used to think that about the smallest thing in the world was an atom of hydrogen. In fact, it was taken as the unit by which the atomic weight of all metals was expressed. For instance, the smallest possible division of the metal lead was found to be 206 times that of hydrogen, gold 19H times, etc. Hand In hand, however, with the modern conception of the nature of the electric current, has come a new conception of infinitude in small thing's. Now, they say, the smallest thing in the world divlsable by the hand of man is the electric ion. This is the individual unit of electricity, the moving part of a current when it passes through a wire. It is so small that it can run through a copper bar at a speed of 186,000 miles a second without turning corners. Electric ions trickle through a copper wire in much the same way as grains of sand through a sieve. Scientists, armed with instruments considerably finer than grocery store scales, have isolated and measured them and found that their relation to that lightest of all gases, hydrogen, is as one to the seventeenth power of ten. or, in other words, the fraction representing their relation to an atom of hydrogen is expressed by a million-million-millionth. Chicago RecordHerald. Generous Soul. "Now, Jim." said the old lady to her son. who was about to leave the countryside to try his luck in .London, "there's plenty of money in that big city, for the streets are said to be even paved with gold." Jim "had Ms doots," but these were quickly removed, for be had barely got out of Euston station when, to his surprise, he espied slyly reposing on the kerb a bright, flittering sovereign. Eagerly he picked it up and walked a little farther on. when he came across a biin i nau who ws beggi.it. At once his sympathetic heart went out to the unfortunate mam and as he pot the sovereign into his band he said: "Take this, my friend. I can see 'em, tha" can't!" London Globe.

Heart to Heart Talks. By EDWIN A. NYE.

HINGES OF HISTORY. Have you ever seen a true portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte? If so you may have noted a slight malformation of the neck. The unnatural growth, which remained during his natural life, was caused by an enlargement of the thyroid gland when he was a small boy. That thyroid gland changed the map of the world. One day early in the eighteenth century an obscure physician living In a small town in Corsica had brought t blm a little boy named Nabulione Buonaparte. He was stunted, backward and at times subject to ungovernable fits of temper. The physician, who was learned beyond his time, knew if he did not cure the boy the latter would soon develop into an imbecile. How he made the cure is not known, but he was successful, and the buy grew up and changed his name to Napoleon Bonaparte. What a career was his! At the age of thirty-three this man bad tamed all Europe with the crack of his whip lash. He deposed kings and queens and handed their thrones over to his brothers and sisters as one might give toys to his children. Striding the world like a colossus. Bonaparte at the zenith of his power had one foot on Europe and the other In America. By strategy he had acquired what we know as the Louisiana purchase, practically the territory west of the Mississippi. He said. "Whatever nation controls the valley of the Mississippi will be the most powerful nation In the world." Did he intend to conquer England and Russia and t-v the new conti nent? President Jefferson sent Livingston to France to buy the island of New Orleans. Talleyrand, in Napoleon's name, refused to sell an acre of the holdings. And then Suddenly the entire Louisiana purchase was offered at a small sum. Although he did not have the authority to buy so much. Livingston happily took the risk and closed the deal. Napoleon's prophecy came true. The United States controlled the valley of the Mississippi and. it is trite to say, is the greatest nation in the world. Small things? Small things are the hinges on which the gates of history turn. NOTICE! The Lutheran Aid Society will meet January 6 for the purpose of electing officers. Ed Stein, Secy. MAKING WATCHES. Wonderful Feats That Are Performed by Modern Machinery. The rapidity with which watches are nowadays manufactured has been made possible by the ingenious machinery designed within recent years for the making of all parts of a watch. The apeed with which these various parts are turned out Is little short of marvelous. Great sheets of brass and steel are cut and rolled into ribbons and punched out into wheels at the rate of 10,000 a day from each punching machine. Workers drill the thirtyone holes in the roof of the watch as fast as they can count. Brass wire glides into a machine that measures off the length of a part, turns it, puts a screw thread on each end and actually screws it in at the rate of 2,000 a day. The screws are of such tiny size that fifty gross of them may be put in a woman's thimble, while of others there are a thousand gross to the pound. Balances are cut from the solid steel, ground down, worked up and drilled with their ttventy-nve screw holes apiece at the rate of 100 wheels a daj from each machine. Wheels have their teeth cut. a couplt of dozen at a time, some with front sixty to eisrhty teeth, at the rate o: 1,200 wheels a day from each machine Harper's Weekly. The Physiotype. This is an English invention for making pictures by impression of leaves, ferns, lace, feathers and various other objects. It depends upon the chemical action of a fine powder. The object of which a representation is to be made Is placed upon white paper and pressed, either by the hand or by other means. When the object is removed no impression is visible on the paper, but upon sprinkling the powder over the paper the picture at once appears, sharply defined, and remains permanent. Sections of wood and designs of coins and medals can thus be represented, and the prints can be transferred to lithographic stone, zinc or aluminium, thus producing records from which any number of copies can be taken. Chicago Record-Hera Id. Economy and Consolation. Her discovery In its way was not less than epochsl. "It is so easy to save when you know bowT' she exclaimed. "Oh. so easy: Do I wish to save S'25 ? Very well. I go down town and find something I would like that costs $25. and then I don't buy It. Nothing could be simpler." She did not deny, however, that her method involved a sacrifice. "But if the sacrifice is too painful." she went on to explain. "I go and find something my husband would like that costs $25 and don't buy t hat T' Puck. Knev Her Hubby. Mother Is your letter to your husband ready to mail? Married Daughter It's a'l done ex ceptiuir the postscript teHir.g bin to send me some more money. I'm look Ing for another sheet of paper. "Write it across the line." "No. indeed. He'll pretend he couldn't read it" New York Weekly.

COMPROMISE CASE Harry Rowe Gets Damages for Loss of Finger.

By settlement out of court Harry Rowe, minor son of James Rowe. a negro, was given damages against Frank Muir. The complaint filed by the father, as the next friend of the plaintiff, asked for damages to the amount of $2,540. The sum that figured in the settlement is not known. Young Rowe was playing near a railroad track some months ago when he found a dynamite cap. He picked up a rock and hit the cap The explosion tore off one of his fingers. Muir, who was doing some excavating nearby had left the cap where the boyfound it. BETTER THAN CASTOR OIL. A real, pleasurable, tasteless physic, tonic and purifier is Blackburn's Casca Royal-Pills. Each 10c cr -5c pac kage is guaranteed to satisfy and please. All good dru; stores tell them. Try them tonight. ( Advert is-:t!ent ) r CATCHING A HYENA. Cunning Trap' That Made the Svage Brute Helpless. Traps for wild animals are not necessarily of steel. The author of "The Journal of a Sporting Nomad" describes a hyena trap that is simple and effective: "Close to the station at this place I found a novel form of hyena trap a round piece of dried ox hide as hard as a board, three feet or bo in diameter. In which a very small hole, no larger than an apple, had been cut. Radiating from this hole were cut a series of V-shaped pieces. The trap was set as follows: A hole was dug in the ground about one foot deep and six inches in diameter. Into this hole a piece of meat was placed. Then the ox hide plate was laid over the place containing the meat, the two holes being one over the other. The ox hide was then pegsed down with wooden pegs in three or four places. "The hyena, on finding the bait forced his head through the small hole in the ox hide to obtain it the cuts in the hide giving way sufficiently for that purpose. The beast seized the meat, but on trying to withdraw his head had to use considerable force, which naturally drew the pegs that held the ox hide to the ground, the result being that the poor brute bad a collar securely fastened around his neck which he was quite unable to get rid of. "He could not run or walk, and even had he been able to go any distance encumbered by such an obstacle would have been brought up short in the first patch of bush or grass he encountered. He was now at the mercy of the individual who had set the trap, and could be put out of the way quite easily." ENDED THE COMEDY. A Telegraphic Dialogue That Closed With the "Wires" Down. Two telegraph operators were seated in a downtown cafe recently when an athletic young man and an exceedingly pretty girl entered. They were placed at a table opposite the "key" men. who were sitting side by side In a position facing the girl. As is the custom of the craft when wishing to discuss some one in a public place, they telegraphed to each other, using their knives on the plate. "Peacherino, isn't she?" one ticked to the other. "A tree full," came back the tapping reply. "Wonder who the sack Is with her?" "Search me looks like a boob tied up with a wren like her." "Bet they aren't married. If they are. all she needs to do to get a divorce is to exhibit that map of his In court." While the two men were enjoying a laugh over their silent joking they were surprised and somewhat alarmed to hear some more "table knife telegraphy." The "peacherino" was doing it. and she did not look at all pleased, either. "You two had better look out while you are all together." carelessly ticked her knife blade while she listened to something ber companion was saying. "This sack and boob, as you called him. with the divorce map. is my husbandsafe mover by trade. He eats fresh little boys." Something happened to the "wires" about that time, and all communication ceased. Kansas City Journal. Wild Goose served at "Marty and George's" Place, on North 8th St., Xmas Eve. 23 -l ELKS Meet Every ThursdayNight A CIGAR GIFT IS IN GOOD TASTE You will surely agree with us that a box of cigars as a remembrance is always in good taste. If, therefore, you are thinking of sending something to your friends at Christmas what can be more acceptable than a box of good cigars? You see, if that box contains 100 cigars your friends will have occasion to think kindly of you one hundred times. iMay we not ask you to call and inspect our choice selection cf Christmas Cigars. ENGLEBERT'S 3th and Main The Smoke House

DISTRICT SCHOOLS HAVE LONG VACATION

A longer Christmas vacation than is usually given the Wayne county district schools was granted this season. The schools closed Friday and will not reopen until January 6. giving a vacation of two weeks. As a rule ten days is the longest vacation period, but as Christinas comes in the middle of the week this year, teachers requested the county superintendent to extend the vacation, as they did not wish to reamand close schools on New Year's day. Venison Lunch, Christmas Eve at Riser's. 3-t Like the Mythical Dragon. In the Malay ar- hipelao is a reptile much like the mythical dragon. It ha faise ribs that exteud the looe skin and form its wings. There is also a frog with spreading feet that makes a parachute which enables it to fiit frocn tree to tree, and a flying lemur that can spread out its whole lody like an umbrella and leap and fly a hundred feet at a time, from the top of one tree to another. Preaching and Practice. "Isn't it horrid." remarked Xiis Swyftly to ber friend "Isn't it horrid that men will put these nasty old pie into their mouths?" "Yes." said her friend emphaticalh as she stooped and tenderly kissed th Mack face of her pet pug "yes, indeed it is." Pear-sou's. A Suggestion, "John." said Mrs Slithers, "wher can 1 get a set of resolution! passed by our Civic Sorority yesterday en j grossed ':" "I really don't know, my dear." snldj Slithers "Why don't you have them i riiilirniflered ?" .Indtre 1

Is filie Time to Bey TSmi Xmmais (GnffQ

if you have not already done so. We most likely have sold the one for you as they wanted the best and we had it. Our line of watches is somewhat reduced, but we have some fine patterns left at low prices. Ask to see our $9.00 Gents Watch. Those Coin Purses that are so popular are here at 15c each. We received by express a new line of those 48c Tumblers. They are rare bargains. Just ask to see them. See Our Sterling 3 and 4 Pin Sets at $1.50 sm& $2.00 Our customers tell us we have the finest line of Long Chains for bridge pencils and fans in. the city. We still have some heavy weight Tea Spoons left from 75c up. If you need any of the following give us a call:

F Diamond Rings Signet Rings Children's Rings Brooches Bar Pins Mesh Bags Stick Pins Thimbles Watch Fobs r

And Some Specials in Brass. H none of the above suit, remember we make a specialty of fitting glasses. They make fine Xmas gifts.

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M. KRAHMS DEAD Aged German Pioneer Died at Cambridge City, Sundav.

1 i Palladium Special ! CAMBR1DGK CITY. Ind , IVe. Following an illness of several months Michael Krahl, Sr.. one of the oldest residents of the community, died San,d afternoon The funeral will Inheld at the home at ten o'clock Tuesday morning. The Rev. J K. Co fi:n will have charge of the services Burial will be in Riverside cemetery. ' Mr. Krahl was born in Germany. December 5. 1SS3 He came to America in 152 and seukd at Connerviiie. Shortly afterwards he moved to Brookville and then to Cambridge City. The widow and five children. Mrs Clara K Williams. M B Krahl. of this place. Mrs William Gueram and Mrs. Jtcob Krtel. of Connedsville, ;uui Mrs William Vare. of Indianapolis, survive. The Masonic Calendar Monday, lee. 2S, ltfi;. Richmond Commandery, No. S. K. T. Special ton clave. Work In the K. T. degree. Thursday. Dec. 2t, 1912, Richmond Lodge No. 196. F. & A. M. Called meeting. Work in M. M. Degree. Refreshments.

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