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STATEMENT IN DEFENSE
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ranks?
 Then the attempt to have Emerson represent us, the common people, at Washington! It would have been as consistent for the Disciples to have chosen the devil to represent them be- tore the Throne; as the only requisite either possessed was their recognized power.
 Gan you not perceive the same guid- ing force behind both the attack and the betrayals?
 Our only strength lay, and ever must lay, in your, the peoples support and the fact that we always have right and justice with us, while their strength laid and still lays in concealing their true position and by the cry of disloyal, even as the pickpocket cries stop, thief, dlvertlng attention from the real issue, calling us vile names in lieu of argu- ment, hoping to thus pull the wool over your eyes to secure your condemnation of us.
 Who has heard Mir. Heber prating about compelling the No. directors to repay every penny furnished the Water Users Association for the purpose of furthering the interests of government ownership of this system since the Emersonian $3.OOO,OOO contract prop was placed under him, to help him prove his inflated valuation.
 Or since the Water Users Associa- tion engaged the Washington attorneys at such an enormous fee, to look after the peoples CD interests there in Wash lngtOn.
 Because of the very close connection between our objective and the United States government officials, we have been compelled to keep our lips sealed, when we would have given much to have talked. but the good of the cause re- quired that we keep ill the closest touch with our only possible succor, so we have preferred to refrain from any utterance at any time that we believed WOuiu llltOIISIc WlCu our dlllCdDlo f6ld- tions with any government officials, each and every one of whom it has been our good fortune to meet, have shown great concern for and interest in the welfare of the common people, so that we felt that we could endure even the condem- nation of our friends for time, while they were in the dark, knowing that our every act was justifable and believing we would receive such justification at your hands, when you were made ac- quainted with all the facts.
 This being done we do not fear the verdict of a people, whose cause we have been trying in our weakness to serve.
 Although in what would seem hope less minority we were never wholly de- feated i'll all important deal until the now famous Emersonian $3 ,0O0, ,OOO con- tract was put through. They had had their schemes defeated so often by little minority, after they were all cut and dried and brought before the meet ings with what they supposed to be clear majority, such as the rotten arbi- tratiOn proposition of Mir. Hebers,
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 the loyal CD members were called to Los Angeles, where, in the magnetic presence of one Mg. Emerson, they could deliber- ate without the perplexity of having consciences awakened by mischief making minority.
 The plan proved successful (for which Emerson should have due credit) and they brought their contract proudly back to Imperial, but to quell the rising storm of righteous indignation that was brewing in the minority breasts, they all save one, signed statement to the reclamation department, which no doubt most of you have read, setting forth the fact that we only entered into the agreement with the California De- velopment Company in the hope of pass ing the matter up to the government in better shape.
 Later they instructed our attorney to withhold the letter, and after they be- lieved it had served it's purpose, viz: Kept us from making a minority report, they, without authority withdrew the letter and supposed they had suppressed it, but To! The department had copy, ay, and more. they had seen the letter itself and had photographed it, and the minority were responsible.
 Fellow citizens, we don't believe you should blame us for developments that no ordinary human power could forsee or prevent; we are not Solnmon's, then how could we know that one man whom we, and the community at large, re- spected and freely trusted, would throw us down and betray our confidence on the day of our organization, aye, even before, but it came upon us at that time as thunderbolt from clear sky.
 Another would write in burning rhet- oric, "God give us strength to crush the breed" "I had rather crawl like a gopher to tunnel the sand hills than pay the California Development Go. such an exhorbitant price," and i've don't expect the government to pay anything like $3. .O00,0 ,00O; we expect them to slash h. out of this price" "This is only move to get it into the governments hands," "I don't consider Emerson a strong man, 1 consider him a very ordin- ary man." Yet after associating with him (Emerson) week or two i'll Wash ington, join in hiring attorneys, stipu- lating in the terms of the contract that the major portion of their fee should depend upon their ability to get the government to purchase the California Development Company's property at Heber's price, and upon his return eulo- gize Mir. Emerson to the skies, declaring that he was the one man eminently fitted and qualified to succeed Roosevelt to the presidency of this United States in 1908.
 Why, oh why these changes! Are we responsible? How often in our medita- tions have our thoughts reverted to the prayer ''God give us men, time like this demands, strong men with brave hearts and willing hands, men whom the lust for office can not kill, men
The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-03-04
FAMOUS FOR FAT.
Daniel Lambert, Who Died In 1909.
Got Too obese to WabbIe.

AOO OOGBG 10 NaODIe.
The fame of Daniel Lambert as a
champion among fat men in England,
If not in the werld, still remains I'M
rivaled. Daniel was born at Leicester
in 1910 and died in 1903 at Stamford
The grandson of celebrated cock
fighter and addicted to sport through
out his life, his dimensions were not
extraordinary, and his habits were not
different from those of other lads un-
til he was fourteen years old. When
twenty-three years of age. however. he
turned the scale at thirty-two stone.
and, although he is recorded TO have
been then able to walk from W0oIwich
to London, at the time of his death in
his fortieth year, he had attained the
prodigious weight of ffty-two stone. or
72S pounds. and was more or less helm
less He was modest man, and when
he had achieved physical greatness
fame was thrust upon him. lie was
for long time unwilling to be made
a show of. but he gained more than
local reputation, and people travelled
from far to see him, resorting to vari-
Gus devices in order to be allowed to
20 so. At length the prospect of profit
overcame his resolution, and for four
years before his death he exhibited
himself in London and in the prov
inceS.
He was apparently man of some
wit, for once, before he permitted the
public to gaze upon him, an inquisitive
person had gained access to his pres
ence by pretending to be a fellow
sportsman interested in the pedigree of
mare, whereupon Lambert promptly
replied, "She was bred by Impertinence
out of Curiosity" Before the days of
Daniel Lambert, Edward Bright of
though his name no longer fingers as
a household word. He died in 1850 at
the age of thirty years, weighing forty
two stone and seven pounds, and is
stated to have been an active man till
a year or two before his death. when
his corpulency SO overpowered his
strength that his life was a burden and
and Lambert seem to have been genial,
good humored fellows and very popular
among those who visited them. In
deed popularity seems to be the lot of
the corpulent in fact as we'll as in fic-
ton. The heroes of fiction, however,
have the advantage in the matter of
lasting glory, and the names of Daniel
sink into insignificance beside those of
Falstaff and the fat boy in "Pickwick'
London Standard
The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-03-04
JeneIrx md Magic.

Finger rings. earrings. bracelets.
brooches and other.articles of personal
adornment originated not from the aeS-
thetic sense of our remote ancestors,
but from their belief i'll magic. Even
civilized men today sometimes enter
tain a superstitious regard for small
stones ana pebbles of peculiar shape or
color and carry them about as charms.
The Greeks and Asiatics used stones.
beads and crystals primarily as anu
lets and cut devices on them to en-
nance their magical power. The use of
such stones as seals was secondary
and may at first have been for sacred
purposes only. When a primitive peo-
pie first find gold they value it only
for its supposed magic and wear mug
gets of it strung with beads.
The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-03-04
AnnIfed science

When James Russell Lowell was
minister to England, he was guest at
a banquet at which one of the speak
ers was Sir Frederick Bramwell Sir
Frederick was to respond to the toast,
applied Science" 1t was long after
midnight when the toast was pro-
posed and several speakers We're still
to be called. Rising in his place, the
scientist said:
'At this hour of the night, or, rather,
of the morning, my only interest in ap-
piled science is to apply the tip of the
match to the side of the box upon
which alone it ignites and to apply the
fame SO obtained to the wick of a bed
room candle"
A moment later Lowell tossed a pa
per across the table to him bearing
these two lines:
Oh, brief Sir Frederick, would that all
could catch
Your happy talent and supply your matchi
Youths Companion.
The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-03-04
A Pair of Mfsers.

Mr.. and Miss Dancer were reputed
the most notorious misers in the eight
zenith century. The manner in which
this couple were found after death to
have disposed of their wealth was even
more strange than could have been
their method of acquiring it. The total
value was 100000, which was thus dis
posed of: Two thousand five hundred
pounds was found under a dunghill,
$500 in an old coat nailed to the man
ger in the stable, f600 in notes was
hidden away in an old teapot, the
chimney yielded $4,000 slowed in nine
teen different crevices, and several
jugs filled with coin were secreted in
the stable loft.
The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-03-04
If you ARE WELL BRED

You will try to make others happy.
You will not be shy or self conscious.
You will never indulge in i'll natured
gossip.
You will never forget the respect due
to age.
You will think of others before you
think of yourself.
You will not swagger or boast of
your achievements.
You will not measure your civility
by peoples bank accounts.
You will be scrupulous in your re-
gard for the rights of Others
In conversation you will not be ar,
gumentative or contradictory.
You will not forget engagements,
promises or obligations of any kind.
You will never make fun of the pc
cuIiarities or idiosyncrasies of others.
You will not bore people by constant
ly talking of yourself and your affairs.
The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-03-04
A DoUeLE RESURRECTION.
Each OF the Generals Thought That
the Other Was Dead.

General Barlow of the Union army
fell wounded and, it was thought, dy-
ing during the first day of the battle of
Gettysburg and within the Confederate
lines. General Gordon, cantering by,
saw him and recognized him. Dis
mounting, he approached the PROSTATE
man and inquired what he could do for
him.
Il am dying" said Barlow. Just
reach into my coat pocket, draw our
the letter you find there and read it to
me. 1t is from my Wife,
Gordon read the letter.
Now, general" said Barlow, please
destroy that letter. l want you to mott
fy her-she is in the town over yonder
what has happened to me-
81 WILL replied Gordon.
He sent for Mrs. Barlow, giving her
safe conduct through the southern
lines, and then rode away. certain that
Barlow's death was question of only
a few hours at most.
But Barlow did not die. His wife
came promptly and had him removed
to the town of Gettysburg, where she
nursed him so faithfully that he recov-
cred.
Many years passed until one night
both generals were guests at a dinner
in Washington. Some one brought
them together and formally introduced
them. Time had altered the personal
appearance of both.
Are you any relation to the General
Barlow who was killed at Gettys-
burg?" asked Gordon.
Yes; very near relation" an
swered Barlow, with laugh. 81 am
the very man who was killed. But l
have been Informed that man named
Gordon lost his life in battle later on.
He saved my life at Gettysburg Are
you any kin to that man?''
Il am he,'' was the reply.
Both heroes laughed as they gave
each other a heartier handshake.-
Pittsburg Dispatch.
The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-03-04
Hurrying I'D the Baby.

A correspondent sends us an extract
from a poem which recently appeared
in a South African paper. thinking we
shall approve of its sentiments. We
do, we do. The inspired verse is emit
tied Making a Man and begins:
Hurry the baby as fast 8 you can,
Hurry him, worry him. make him man;
Off with his baby clothes, get him in
pants,
Feed him on brain foods and make him
advance;
Hustle him, soon as he's able to walk,
Into a grammar school, cram him with
talk;
Fill his poor head full of figures and
facts,
Keep on a-jamming them in till it cracks.
London Review.
The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-03-04
FOUNTAIN CITY

Donald Cutter is at Lynn visiting
his grandparents for few days.
Burley Arnett has position in the
hardware store.
James Unthank and wife have
moved to Mr.. Unthank's old home
stead, on a farm near Webster. Foun-
tain City. regrets very much to part
with them as Mr.. Unthank was a
teacher In the normal and will be
greatly missed both as teacher and
citizen.
Miss Eva Charles of Earlham spent
last Sunday with her parents west of
town.
The sick here in town are all re-
ported better.
Charley Dormer who purchased the
blacksmith shop and tools of the late
Jerry Stegall has opened the shop
now and will greet his many friends.
Mrs.>L. 0. Anderson and Miss Mary
Woody are at indianapolis attending
the millinery opening.
Frank Keever and wife entertained
Tuesday evening for supper Pete Gull
ter and wife and Harry Retz
The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-03-04

The American woman is still du-
bious about the full skirt. She re-
fuses to take it seriously and insists
upon compromises and correctly sc
making the most of every nation s
best and rejecting the ugly features
And this why she is called "the best
dressed woman in the world
While the American women accept
the full bottomed skirt, she demands
clinging lines, and many devices are
contrived to lessen the fulness around
the hips, and preserve a somewhat
clinging effect at that point
A straight front panel or breadth
whose straight lines run quite to the
waistband is frequently combined
with shallow shirred or corded yoke
across hips and back.
Lengthwise side plates. stitched
half way to the knee adapt themselves
readily to the new skirt line, and hor-
izontal skirt trimming retains its vo-
que although, particularly in rich and
heavy materials perfectly plain
skirt with no ornament save its long
graceful folds is much in evidence.
Ny illustration shows an excellent
model in a lengthwise plated skirt,
made Of deep blue silk krash, this
model with its prettily plated blouse
while easily copied is distinctly up
to date.
The artistic negligee is rapidly
The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-03-04
STRONG MEDICINES

are much more hurtful to health than
they are beneficial. Aloes and red
pepper put up in tablets and swaI-
owed whips up the bowels, but does
not heal them, and frequently make
matters worse by causing piles. To
attain natural bowel action, to
strengthen the liver. to cure weak
kidneys, etc, use Vitona. No ag-
gravating drug enters into its compo-
sition. One sample bottle proves its
merits. Afford Drug Co., agents.
The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-03-04
"THE SLEEPLESS ARCH"
Old Hfndoo Principle the Basis of
All Modern Bridges.

All Modern Bridges.
Although the building of great arches
of masonry dates beyond the ancient
Roman civilization, the principle that
gives strength to the massive stone
bridges of today is the same that built
the bridges of the Roman empire.
The history of bridge building is, to
a large degree, the history of the arch,
whose efficiency lies in the truth of the
old Hindoo saying that 1.-The arch never
sleeps" because each separate section
of which it consists, beginning at the
keystone, or central section, is con-
stantly pushing against its immediate
neighbors until the pressure finally
reaches the firm foundation upon which
the structure is erected.
TO secure a perfectly trustworthy
foundation therefore. the bridge build
er has often to penetrate far below the
surface of the earth. and not infre-
quently the part of his structure thus
covered up and concealed is greater
than that visible above ground.
1t was their inability to solve the
problem of a trustworthy foundation
that led the ancient Hindoos to dis.
trust the arch, arguing that the sleep
less activity that held it together was
equally active in tearing it to pieces.
Not only is the modern bridge builder
skilled in setting his structure on a
firm base, but thoroughly acquainted
with the time honored materials for
his work, TO say nothing of new ma
terials, and an important part of his
student training in such modern schools
as the Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology is devoted to methods of test
ing materials during construction that
would have surprised and delighted
even the most accomplished of the an
Gent Roman engineers.
The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-03-04

gaining ground among American
women, and the room gowns made
with the flowing sleeve effects are ir-
resistable. Made of China or India
Silk they are extremely pretty, and
among the successful innovations for
this use nothing equals the soft and
lustrous Peau de Crepe, of which, IN
a soft Du Barry rose, the charming
room gown I have illustrated is com
posed.
This dainty conceit is made with
the wide pagoda sleeve and deep
fichu collar, giving the long shoulder
effect. 1t falls in graceful folds from
the bust line-not too scant-nor yet
full enough to be clumsy. The entire
gown is edged with wide rather coarse
thread ecru lace.
And careful dressing from the
skin outward' is of the utmost i'm
portance with these garments. The
day is passed for ill-ftting under
garments, and the corset must fit like
a glove, and at the same time should
be entirely comfortable. A propely
cut corset, such as any one of the C-B
a la Spirite models, insted of extend
ing up to the breast bone and cramp-
ing the chest and its muscles, does not
extend more than five inches above
the waist line, leaving free the shout
ders and chest, as well as the muscles
of the diaphragm.
The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-03-04
Eng1and,s Magma charta.

That shriveled parchment, the char
ter of English freedom, was saved, it is
said, by the veriest chance from the
scissors of a merciless tailor. Struck
by the great seals attached to a piece
of paper the tailor was cutting up, Sir
Robert Cotton stopped the man and
gave him fourpence for the document
he would have destroyed. 1t is now in
the British museum, lined and mount
ed and in a glass case. the seal a
shapeless mass of wax and the charac-
tiers quite DISQUALIFICATION Mail.
The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-03-04
A Bargain Hunter.

1t was a pleasant looking Irishwom-
an, says the Philadelphia Ledger. who
walked into a store and asked the price
of the collars she had seen displayed
in the window.
1.-TWO for quarter" said the clerk.
How much would that be for one?"
Thirteen cents"
She pondered; then, with her forefn-
ger, she seemed to be making invisible
calculations on the sleeve of her coat.
THAT" she said, would make the
other collar twilve cints, wouldn't it2
Just give me that wan"
The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-03-04
HEROIC REMEDIES.
Whipping Was Prescribed MT One
Time For Insanity and Fits.

Time For Insanity and Fits.
Ill health is a bad thing at any time,
but 100 years ago it was made more
terrible by the remedies in use. Blood
letting, OF course, was simple affair.
A writer in Macmillan's Magazine says
that everybody was bled twice a year
In the spring and autumn The bar
bers were the surgeons and, like wise
men, adapted their prices to their pa
tients.
gentleman who so INDUCED him
self as to 90 to bed to be bled was
charged half a crown and his fine lady
half a sovereign Certain days We're
unlucky for bloodlettiug. and nothing
would induce the BARRIERS to operate
on these occasions Serious diseases
seem to have been beyond the medical
skill of the day. yillages and towns
simply drove out the infected from
their midst.
Among remedies herbs Of course
played a great part. For salves.'' runs
an old notebook which had a great
vogue, "the country parsons wife
seeks not the city and prefers her gar
den and fields before all outlandish
gums" Sage was held a very great
"
why should any one die who has sage
in his garden?' If any one had dis
ease of the mouth, the Eighth Psalm
should be read for three days, seven
times on each day. AS a remedy it
was sovereign
For insanity or fits whipping was
prescribed. Little wonder that NOR
tally was great. In old days in Yves
sex, England, persons with infectious
diseases were confined In the lookup.
and whipping was deemed too good for
them. Should the sick be loud in la
ment, the Waterman kept them quiet by
this popular discipline and one town
has upon its records, paid T. Haw-
kins for whipping two people that had
the smallpox eightpence.''
Fortunately the spirit of this age is
different from that
The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-03-04
Derivations Of some Common words

One remembers how on the 10Th Of
June. 1915, King John signed the great
charter of the constitutional freedom
of Britain and how after he had signed
it he flung himself in burst Of fury
on the floor and gnawed the straw and
PUSHES with which the floors of those
days were strewn. Now. what was
"chartaY Originally nothing more or
less than sheet of papyrus strips
glued together as writing paper So it
is to the Egyptian reed that we owe
our charters" Charts cards"
"cartes" blanche and de visite), our
cartoons and our cartridges Lon
don Chronicle.
The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-03-04
WILLINGNESS

But would you die for me?. per-
sisted the romantic maiden.
II would" replied the frank and eld-
erly sutton. Even now l am using a
high priced preparation warranted to
restore hair to its original color."-De-
troit Free Press.
The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-03-04
Particular.

what sort of money will you have,
Mrs. Mumm?" asked the cashier when
that lady presented a large check for
payment.
".Sterilized," replied Mrs. 8funm. -
The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-03-04
Her constructinn OF II.

Teacher of Glass In Grammar-Con-
strue the sentence, "The study of man
kind is man" One of the Big Girls-I
don't believe it's true. 1t was man
that wrote that Chicago Tribune.
The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-03-04
That Musical Ear.

Praxiteles = You perhaps wouldn't
think it. but lie Founder, the musician
over there. plays entirely by ear. FL
acre-Is it possible? Is that what
makes 'em so large Tit Bits.
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Accurate.

'Sir." says the Boston reporter. "our
office is Informed that your purse was
stolen from you last night. Is there
anything in it?'
Not by this time. doubtless" an
swers Mr.. Emerson Waldo Reeneeter.
relapsing into an attitude of perturbed
meditation.-Judge
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said Maid to Mistre...

where have you been, Jane?"
1--we been to a meeting of the Girls
Friendly society, ma'am," was the
maids reply.
well. what did the lady say to you y
Please, ma'am, she said / wasn't
to give you warning, as l meant to.
She said l was to look upon you as my
thorn-and bear it."-New Yorker.