Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 41, Number 262, 20 September 1916 — Page 4

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 20, 1916

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM

Published Every Eveninsr Except Sunday, Dy Palladium Printing Co. Palladium Building, North Ninth and Sailor Sts. R. G. Leeds, Editor. E. H. Harris. Mgr.

Entered at the Post Office at Richmond. Indiana, aa Second Class Mall Matter.

Fighting the Gas Ruling The issue between the City of Richmond and

the public utilities commission is clear. The gas company, by virtue of the recent ruling of the

commission, has raised the price of the commod

ltv to a prohibitive figure. The only recourse

open to the city is to take an appeal to the circuit court, asking the judge of that court to set aside the order of the commission and to enjoin it from enforcing the obnoxious rates. It is high time that a halt be called to the actions of the utilities commission. The city of Richmond has suffered under almost every ruling the commission has handed down. Water rates have increased, gas rates have gone up. The rights of the people seemingly have received little regard, The consumers have been forced in very instance to pay higher prices for the utilities than they did a few years ago. . The battle that has begun will be one that will go to the finish. - The city cannot afford to let the matter rest. The gas company, of course, will not want the increased rates reduced to the former schedule to the one proposed in the brief filed by the city with the state commission when the question was before that body. The state commission will back up its position with all the legal talent and the precedents it can find. The reasons assigned by City Attorney Bond for the appeal are cogent. That the value of the concern, as fixed by the commission, is excessive is a fact in which every student of municipal af

fairs has concurred. The same holds true of the amount set out for "going value." Everyone has been wondering why the commission should include the artificial gas generating apparatus in the valuation of the plant, when the company has been furnishing natural gas. Seemingly every user of natural gas is penalized because the artificial plant was purchased by. the natural gas concern. The city attorney is right in his contention that the charges are excessive and will yield a much larger gross revenue than the company is entitled to.

Murder Will Out Arthur Waltonen, a Finn, houseman in" the home of a rich New York widow, murdered her last September and escaped arrest until a few days ago. His case proves the old adage that murder will out. Seemingly, Waltonen had escaped detection for he had left New York and was working as barber in a small town of Wisconsin. No one suspected him there, and the excitement over the murder had died down. Waltonen is a barber. One day a customer was fascinated by the scar on the finger of the barber who was shaving him. This man was a Finn. In a Finnish newspaper he had read of the crime, and as the barber worked on him the scar brought back to his memory a description of the New York murderer. He puzzled over the

scar for a few days and then called the attention of the police to his suspicion. Waltonen was arrested and is now in the Tombs awaiting trial. The Waltonen case proves again that a man cannot commit murder or a theft, and hope to escape. Every moral wrong will be avenged some time and some how. The punishment may not be in the form of prison stripes and prison fare. It may be only the torture of an outraged conscience. But that punishment need not be sneered at. Fully many a man has broken down under the spiritual lashes of his conscience and gone to an untimely grave for a deed that the world never solved.

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By Win. J. Burns and Isabel Ostrander

A Real Detective Story by the World's Greatest Detective. A Fascinating Love Story Interwoven with the Tangled Threads of Mystery. Copyright, 1916. W. J. Watt Company. Newspaper rights by International News Service

"It Is you, Miss Lawton?" he asked, half unbelievingly. "What is the matter? What has happened?" "I must see you at once, at once, Mr. Blaine! 1 have made a discovery so unexpected, eo terrible .that I am afraid to be alone; I am afraid of my own thoughts. Please, please come immediately!" "I will be with you as soon as my car can reach your door," he replied. What could the young girl have discovered, shut up there in that great lonely house? What new developments could have arisen. In the case which until this moment had seemed plain to

hira to the end? He found her awaiting him in the

hall, with ashen face and trembling limbs. She clutched his hand with her

icy one, and whispered: "Come into the library, Mr. Blaine. I have something to tell you to show you!" He followed her into the huge, somber, silent room where only a few 6hort weeks ago her father had met with his death. Coming from the brilliant sunshine without, it was a moment or two before his eyes could penetrate the gloom. When they did so, he saw the great leather chair by the hearth, which had played so Important a part In the tragedy, had been overturned. "Mr. Blaine," the girt faced him, her voice steadied and deepened portentously, "my father died of heartdisease, did he not?" The detective felt a sudden thrill, almost of premonition, at her unexpected question, but he controlled himself, and replied quietly: "That was the diagnosis of the physician, and the coroner's findings cor

roborated him."

"Did it ever occur to you that there

might be another and more terrible ex Dlanatlon of his sudden death?"

"A detective must consider and an

alyze a case from every standpoint, you know, Miss Lawton," he answered. "It did occur to me that perhaps your father met with foul play, but I put the theory from me for lack of evidence." "Mr. Blaine, my father was murdered!" ' "Murdered! How do you know? What have you discovered?" "He was given poison! . I have found the bottle which contained it, hidden deep in the folds of his chair there. It was no morbid fancy of mine after all; my Instinct was right! No wonder that chair has exerted such a horrible fascination for me ever since my poor father died In it. See!" With indescribable loathing, she extended her left hand, which until now the had held clenched behind her. Upon the palm lay a tiny flat vial, with a pale, amber-colored substance dried in the bottom of it. Blaine took it and drew the cork. Before he had

time to place it at his nostrils, a faint

but unmistakable odor of bitter al

monds floated out upon the air and

pervaded the room.

"Prussic acid!" he exclaimed. "It

has the same outward effect as an at

tack of heart disease would produce, to a superficial examination. Miss Lawton, how did you discover this?" "By the merest accident. I have a

habit of creeping in here, when I am more deeply despondent than usual, and sitting for a while In my father's chair. It calms and comforts me, almost as if he were with me once more. I was sitting there just before I telephoned you, thinking over all that had occurred in these last weeks, when I broke down and cried. I felt for my handkerchief, but could not find it, and thinking that I might perhaps have dropped it in the chair, I ran my hand down deep in the leather fold between the seat and the side and back. My fingers encountered something flat and hard which had been jammed away down inside, and I dug It out. It was this bottle! Mr. Blaine, does it mean that my father was murdered by that man whose voice I heard that man who came to him in the night and threatened him?"

"I'm afraid it does, Miss Lawton." Henry Blaine said slowly. "When

you hear that voice again and recog

nize it, we shall be able to lay our hands upon the murderer of your father." - - (To be Continued)

REACHES AGREEMENT

W. O. Jones, county highway superintendent, has entered an agreement with Spring Grove in behalf of the county to resurface one-half mile of macadamized roads within the corporation limits.

Tools, kept in damp places can be kept from rusting if some unslacked lime, which absorbs moisture from the air, is kept near them.

Once upon a time a king sat upon his golden throne, clad In velvet robes of crimson, all embroidered with jewels. His palace was of white marble, his halls filled with beautiful statues and pictures and his stables full of fine horses and coaches of glittering metal. But the young king was sad. He wanted to do what was best for his people, yet it seemed that on every side he was beset by courtiers who wished only to use his friendship for their own ends. As he sighed and looked out of his window, he noticed a poor man walking down a patch in a distant field. "Ah!" said the King to himself, "here I am the head of this nation, yet helpless as to those I can trust. I wish above all that I could find an honest man among my courtiers." "It would be hard to find one among your courtiers," 6aid a voice at his elbow, "but you can find one among your people, if you try rightly." The King turned to find that the court Fool was speaking. In a few words the Fool told the King of the plan, and they agreed to carry it out. In the center of a loaf of bread were placed ten golden coins, and this the Fool put In a basket. Dressing him

self as a baker's boy, the Fool went toward the home of the poor man the King had seen crossing the fields. Here the Fool opened his basket and displayed the loaf. "This is the last loaf I have." he said, "and I will sell cheaply. Three pence will buy this nice fresh bread." So the poor man bought the loaf and the Fool returned to the castle, having told the man that he lived in one of the King's cottages back of the kitchen. The poor man - had a sick wife. There was no fire in the hearth, nor any food in the cupboard, and hej broke the loaf eagerly, to give his sick wife some, soaked in milk. What was his surprise when out

tumbled on the table ten shining golden coins! The wife sat up in bed with sparkling eyes. . "That is fine!" she exclaimed. "We are rich now. That gold will buy a fine ham, chickens and plenty of fruit. Hasten to the market." But the man did not move. "This is not our money," he said,

sadly; "it belongs to the baker whose i

boy sent the bread out for sale. I will go at once and return it." So placing the coin in a bag, he set out toward the castle. The Fool saw him coming and hastened to the King; then, returning, he put on the dress of a baker's boy again and met the man at the back gate of the castle. "I have come to bring your master his money which, by mistake, was put in my loaf of bread," said the poor man, as he placed the ten coins in the Fool's hands. The Fool said mothing,

but beckoning the man to follow, he led him through the marble halls of

the castle into the great throne room, where the King, sat on his gorgeous

throne. All about him were pages

and guards and the glitter of jewels,

the glow of silks and velvet.

"That is my master," said the Fool, as he led the man to the throne. "You must arrange with him about the loaf." Then he placed in the King's hands the money, telling him that the

man had found it in the loaf, and

had brought it back, thinking it was

a mistake of the baker s. The King stepped down from his

throne, the music ceased, the pages bent their knees and the guards presented arms, for the King took the poor man by the hand and led him up the 6teps till he stood high above all. "There is no mistake. I had the coin put in the loaf to see if I could find an honest man," said the King loudly. "I have found one; it Is you. I knew how badly you needed the money and I put you to the test. It Is just such a man that I want for my High Minister

of State, to deal with the funds of my

Kingdom. ou and your wife must

in future make your home here in my castle. You will serve me In the com

ing years as my High Minister of State." So the honest man was brought to the castle, where he and his wife lived in every comfort, while the young

King felt happy to know that such a true heart ministered to his people.

Tomorrow's Fox."

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vertisingit is the expression of a man who knows who has tried newspaper advertising and found it to pay him in bigger results. The Advertising Department of the Palladium is willing to offer its experience to farmers in preparing their advertising copy and will gladly furnish what cuts are necessary.

BREEDERS EXCHANGE STOCK FARM O. H. Scantland. Williamsburg, Ind., Feb. 2, 1916. The Palladium Printing Co., Richmond, Ind. Gentlemen: In replying to your request of recent date, I have this to say about newspaper advertising: During the past month I have had two public salesone was on my herd of Percherons sold at the Taube Barn, the other on my stock, grain, farm implements, etc., at my farm. Both were a grand success and drew larger crowds than it has ever been my experience to see. Naturally, the success of any sale is the number of people you can attract to your sale to buy. My method of advertising in the past has always been to use hand bills and posters, and using just a small space in the newspapers ; but on both my recent sales when I really had more at stake and a larger stock to sell, I put all of my appropriation for advertising in the newspapers. The results obtained were far greater than the old way and I want to take this means of expressing my appreciation for the way my advertising was handled. I also want to thank those farmers who contributed to the success of my sale and extend to all my friends and patrons a welcome to visit me at my new home at Lewisville, Arkansas. Sincerely yours, O. H. SCANTLAND.-

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