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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-06-20
WILL CANCEL CONTRACT.

The Terre Haute board of public
works has asked council to return the
contract the board signed with the
Terre Haute, Indianapolis and East
ern Traction company. and will re-
scind its action. 1t has been discov-
cred that an innocent-appearing clause
grants the company freight-carrylng
franchise within the city, and pro-
tests have been many and vigorous.
After the board has reconsidered it's
action, additional concessions, with the
freight traffic grant eliminated, will
be demanded.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-06-20
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP
COMMENCEMENT PLANS
Harry L. Risinger Will Be in
Charge at Eaton.

Eaton. O.. June 20.-The township
board of education has selected Harry
l.. Risinger as superintendent of the
arrangements for the commencement
exercises of the annual commence
ment of the Washington township
schools. which will be held at the Ea-
ton opera house on Friday evening.
June 2Sth. The following pupils will
give declarations, recitations and mu-
sic. Marie Goldsmith. Harley John
son. Elsie Clark. Raymond Sherer,
Mary Ludy, Gilbert Johnson, Helen
Barnes. Leroy Slower, Mary Dalrym-
pie, Elmer Rutan, Hazel Rautsaw,
Stanley OFT, Cathryn Armstrong, Geo.
Mcclellan.
Rev w b. Shirley will deliver the
address and the Eaton orchestra will
furnish the music
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-06-20
NO HIT AND MISS.

To the ordinary observer it would
never occur that all class freight
trains are run on schedule time, but
this is the case This is a business
which has been reduced to a science
by the Pennsylvania. Freight busi-
ness is handled just the same as pas
senger business. All freights have
their schedules to make just the same
as passenger trains. Missed connec-
tions are avoided as Zealously as
missed connections on the passenger
end of the business.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-06-20

Mother Stewart" the founder or tnd
w. c. r. T., has just celebrated her
ninety-first birthday anniversary. She
was postmistress under Gen. Jackson,
the first woman known to hold a fed
eral office. She was the first woman
to ask for police matrons. She began
the temperance crusade in Springfield
o.. in 1873, singing and playing in the
saloons. She has written four books,
the last one in her eighty-ninth year.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-06-20
AVERAGE 6 PER CENT.

It is understood that the general adj
vance in freight rates to be made in
Central Freight association territory
and to become effective August /, will
average per cent. 1t was originally
planned to have the new rates take eff
feet June Is, but at the recent con-
ference it was decided to hold them
over for month and a half, as 1t
would be impossible to file all the tar
ifs with the interstate commission
previous to this latter date.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-06-20
A FACT PROVEN.
should Convince Even the Most Skep-
teal of It's Truth.

If there is the slightest doubt IN the
minds of any that Dandrun germs do not
exist their belief IS compelled by the
fact that a rabbit innoculated with the
germs became bald in six weeks time
1t must be apparent to any persen
therefore that the only prevention OF
badness is the destruction of the germ
which act is successfully accomplished
In one hundred per cent of cases by
the application OF Newbro's Herpiclde
Dandruff is caused by the same germ
which causes badness and can be pre-
vented with the same remedy-Neworo
Herpicide-
Accept no substitute destroy tins
cause you remove the effect
Sold by leading druggists Send lec IN
stamps for sample to The Herpicide Co..
Detroit Mich
TWO sizes-5o cents and 800.
Leo II. F1he. Special Agent
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-06-20
From the latest published statistics

From the latest published statistics
Bulgaria does not seem TO be work
ingman's paradise. The number OF
town work people, men women and
children, is only about 6,149. The
average wages are exceedingly low,
about 80 cents for twelve hour day
for men and women, and 10 cents for
children. Scarcely 10 per cent Of them
earn 81 cents a. day, and these are
all skilled mechanics.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-06-20
THE DIVISION BEAUTIFUL.

The Richmond division of the
Pennsylvania is being made the divis-
ion beautiful" Gardeners are at
work planting pot flowers in the sta
ton lawns The section men are
cutting the long grass along the road
bed and in fact everything is being
done tc make it one of the prettiest
stretches of track along the entire
Pennsylvania lines west.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-06-20
CLASS HOLDS A REUNION
Pleasant Gathering Takes
Place at Webster.

Webster, Ind. June 20.-Mr and
Mrs. John Shrower of East German
town, and Mrs. Joseph Moore of Cam
bridge City, attended the annual reun-
ion of the class OF 90 of the Cam
bridge City high school at Webster
Yesterday. The class graduated us-
der Prof. Baldwin, whose present res
tderea is Webster
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-06-20

Baby won't suffer five minutes with
Group if YOU will apply DR.. Thomas
Electric oil at once. 1t acts like magic.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-06-20

Entered at Richmond, Ind, Postoffice
AS Second Glass Mail Matter.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1907-12-31
The Claw of the Devil.

In the middle ages people recog-
nized witches and possessed per-
sons by seeking on their bodies for
what was called the claws of the
devil. VT was more or less ex-
tensive part of the skin in which
the subject was insensible' to any
touch or prick. The expert intrust-
ed with this work would close the
eyes of the subject and, armed with
sharp needle, prick here and there
the different parts of the body. The
sufferer was to answer with cry
to each prick, and the claw of the
devil on certain spot was recog-
nized from the fact that he did not
cry when this spot was examined
1'The Major Symptoms of Hysteria, "
by Pierre Janet.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1907-12-31
Comet Superstitions.

Has this years comet affected the
weather. A century ago the an
swer would have been yes. Thus to
the charge Of the comet of 1911
were laid the facts not only of the
excellent vintage and abundant
crops Of that year, but also that
wasps were then few and flies blind
and that a shoemaker's wife in Lon
don had four children at a birth.
Besides such calamities as invasions,
pestilences and the like, the comets
of various years were considered re-
sponsible for many minor tragedies,
including the destruction of
church clock by a meteoric stone, a
fit of sneezing that became preva-
lent in Germany and in 1868 an cpl
demic among cats in Westminster.
News.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1907-12-31
An Eye to the Main Chance.

Lucinda had large box of choco-
lates. Every few minutes she would
pass the box around to her mother
and her mothers visitors. 'sWhat
a dear little thing!" exclaimed one
of them. "She is the very soul of
generosity. Most children would
satisfy the dictates of conscience by
passing the box around once, but
she seems to wish to share the
whole box with us"
Lucinda's mother smiled know
ingly, and when the little girl went
out of the room she said: Don't
count too much on Lucinda's gener-
osity. I know it looks that way,
but as matter of fact she is mere
ly working for herself. 1 don't per-
init her to eat much candy, but she
knows that every time she passes
the box around she'll get one her
self. She knows I won't scold much
80 long as she is passing her sweet
meats around to Others" - Ex-
change.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1907-12-31
shaw's Splendid Dinner.

George Bernard Shaw, critic,
dramatist and novelist, asserts that
he has no more home instinct than
a milk can at a railway station. He
admits, however, that he has an ad-
dress at 10 Adelphi terrace, London.
"These chambers" he explains,
constitute the real center of my
domesticity, because my wife lives
there. My official residence, quail
Tying me as vestryman, is in Fitz-
roy square. My mother lives there.
I live nowhere" He says that any
place that will hold a, bed and a
writing table is as characteristic of
him as any other. At one of the
Socialist conferences when the dele
gates assembled after lunch the
well known writer came in, rubbing
his hands and giving thanks for the
splendid dinner he had just had.
Some one asked him what he had
for dinner. 'Ah," replied Mr.. Shaw,
with all the serenity of a well fed
man, 'EI'ye had seven bananas!"
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1907-12-31
Tenures of Scotch Landowners,

Sir George Clerk Of Penicuik
House, Edinburgh, married the
daughter Of another baronet, the
late Sir Robert Napier, and he holds
his lands on a curious tenure. This
obliges him to stand at the bend of
a road near his house and blow
three blasts on a horn if the SOW
ereign visits Edinburgh. And there
are other landowners with similar
rights or obligations. Major Houi-
son-Craufurd holds the lands of
Braehead on sthe understanding
that if the king should happen to
cross Cramond Brig, at the gates of
his residence, he presents him with
a silver basin filed with water in
which to wash his hands. Then,
should the sovereign chance to visit
Hopetoun House, Lord Linlithgow
orders that the chains which stretch
across the principal avenue should
be lowered so that his majesty may
drive up the central approach
Glasgow Times.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1907-12-31
Her Sacrifice.

A teacher in a certain Sunday
school had been impressing on her
girls the need Of making some per-
sonal sacrifice during Lent. Ae-
cordingly on the first Sunday Of
that penitential season, which hap
pened to be q warm day, she took
occasion to ask each of the class in
turn what she had given up for the
sake of her religion. Everything
went well, and the answers were
proving highly satisfactory, until
she came to the youngest member.
"Well, Mary" inquired the teacher,
"what have you left off for Lent ?"
.sPlease, ma'am,"' stammered the
child, somewhat confused, 1--we
left off my leggings."
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1907-12-31
The OriqinaI Lemon,

If they haven't the original lem
on up in the Metropolitan Muse
um of Art, they come pretty near
achieving that distinction. In one
of the cases containing the Edward
G. Moore collection of oriental art
objects there is a group of pieces of
Venetian glassware consisting Of
cups and vases of various kinds and
shapes.
On the lower shelf of this case
there is a large sized and perfectly
shaped representation of a lemon
in bright lemon colored glass that
must represent some artisans idea
of joke, for it has nothing to do
with the ordinary sort of pieces
those glass blowing shops turned
out at that time. As it dates from
the sixteenth century, it certainly
antedates any lemon known to the
present day. It never will be hand
ed out to any one, however.-New
York Press.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1907-12-31
A Famous Brioand,

Servia's most famous brigand,
Karajitch, has been shot near his
hut on the summit of Mount Kaoni.
He had fourteen murders, two ab-
ductions and countless robberies to
his account. Deeply devoted to his
mother, he supplied all her wants
from the day she was stricken with
paralysis. He told her recently that
he would not let himself be caught
until his head was rated at So, 500
instead of $500. Further, he prom
ised her that he would endeavor to
be taken in some poor mans cabin
rather than let the "man hunters"
(poice) get the reward. He was,
however, unable to carry out his
good intentions.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1907-12-31
Miles and Miles.

If you set out to walk a mile in
Sweden, you will have to walk more
than five times as far as you would
have to walk in America to COM
plete your mile, for Swedish mile
is "a, $50 feet long, while an Amer
ican mile is only $3.50 feet. The
English and the American miles are
the same in length, while the Span
ish mile lacks 714 feet Of being as
long as the American mile, the Nor
wegian mile is nearly seven times
its length, and the Dutch mile is
only $3.50 feet. With the exception
Of America and England, there are
no countries in which the mile is the
same length.-Minneapolis Journal.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1907-12-31
MAKING A DEW POND.
An Old Method Of Securing Water,
Even In q Drought.

An Oto Metnoo OF securing WatoFp
! Even In Drought.
There is still in England at least
one wandering gang of men who
will construct for the modern farm
er pool which in any situation in
a sufficiently dry soil viii always
contain water-more in the heat of
summer than during winter rains.
According to an account given by
G. Hubbard in the Boston Post,
this water is not derived from
springs or rainfall and is speedily
lost if even the smallest rivulet is
allowed to flow into the pond.
The gang of dew pond makers
commences operations by following
out the earth for a space far in ex-
cess of the apparent requirements
of the proposed pond. They then
thickly cover the whole of the hol-
low with a coating of dry straw.
The straw in its turn is covered by
layer of well chosen, finely pud-
died clay, 9nt the upper surface of
the clay is then closely strewn with
stones.
Care has been taken that the
margin of the straw is effectively
protected by clay. The pond will
gradually become filed with water,
the more rapidly the larger it is,
even though no rain may fall. If
such a structure is situated on the
summit of q down during the
warmth Of a summer day the earth
will have stored considerable
amount of heat, while the pond,
protected from this heat by the nom
conductivity of the straw, is at the
same time chilled by the process of
evaporation from the puddled clay.
The consequence is that during
the night the moisture of the COM
paratively warm air is condensed on
the surface of the cold clay. AS
the condensation during the night
is in excess of the evaporation dur
ing the day, the pond becomes, night
by night, gradually filed. .sTheo-
retically we may observe that dur
ing the day, the air being compare
lively charged with moisture, evap-
grafton is necessarily less than the
precipitation during the night. In
practice it is found that the pond
will constantly yield supply of the
purest water. ;,
The dew pond will cease to at
tract the dew if the layer of straw
should get wet, as it then becomes
of the same temperature as the sur
rounding earth and ceases to act as
a nonconductor Of heat. This prac-
tically always occurs if a spring is
allowed to flow into the pond OF if
the layer of clay technically called
the crust) is pierced.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1907-12-31
Where the Shoe Pinehed.

I'll they don't quit making that
child cry" sighed the flat dweller
as his sobs echoed pitifully through
the court, II am going to apply to
the board of health and have it stop
ed. There's a limit to everything"
"Why the board of health?" ask
ed her friend. 81 should think you
would apply to the Society For the
Prevention of Cruelty to Children"
II am not thinking so much Of
him." acknowledged the fat dweller
contritely, cas- I am of my own
health. His constant sobbing is
getting on my nerves so that I can't
Sleep New York Press.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1907-12-31
ALL THOUGHT THE SAME.

p. A. B. Widener tells this story
On himself. It is the custom of one
Of the railway board of directors of
which he is member to pay each
director who attends board meet
Ing $50, and the money due the ab7
ssntees is divided among those pres
ent.
On one blizzardy day when the
board was scheduled to meet Mr..
'Widener figured that the snow and
cold would keep the other members
away from the meeting, and he de-
termined to attend and thus secure
the fees of all the absentees as well
as his own fee. Not that Mr.. Wild
ener needed the money, but he
chuckled as he thought of the joke
he would have on his fellow direct
ers. So he put up with the in
conveniences and dangers of the
storm and made his way to the
boards meeting place. His amaze
snent was complete when he entered
the room and found that every 9TH
ef member had preceded him. The
intended joke was too good, and he
frankly told of his purpose in turn
ing out on such a wretched and
death inviting day.
The other board members laugh
I'd heartily, and before many min
ates had elapsed all had confessed
that they were present as a result
Of the same mental figuring. Each
had thought as Mr.. Widener had
that he would capture his own and
all his fellow members fees. But
each had to be satisfied with the
usual $2O.-Philadelphia Record.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1907-12-31
sUBlNTELLIeENcE.
Some Persons Initiate uneenseieusiy
the Actions of Others.

the Actions of Others.
"Have you ever noticed" asked
an obseryant physician the other
day, show persons who have some
thing on their minds initiate uncon-
sciously the actions of others??'
A reply in the negative brought
forth q reiteration of the statement.
ga subintelligence seems to be at
work" continued the physician, Gin
oil of us at all times that controls
our actions and causes us to do a
great many things unconsciously. A
nervous man or woman will. twist
and tear scrap of paper or toy
with some article for an hour at a
time. When spoken to such persons
start and look at the article in their
hands as though wondering where
they had obtained it. In nine cases
out of ten this person saw some 9TH
er person doing the same thing, and
unconsciously his or her hands, un-
der the direction Of subintelligence,
sought out the paper or article to
play with -
The conversation took place in
the waiting room of ferry house,
where a score of business men, all
preoccupied mentally with the COM
ing business of the day and all anx-
ious to get to their offices, were con-
gregated, waiting for a boat. To
prove the truth of his remarks the
physician suggested an experiment.
He began a march up and down the
waiting room. In two seconds a
worried looking man who appeared
to be prosperous merchant or bro
ker began to march also. Two
clerks and stout person followed
his example. In five minutes two
men who were reading newspapers
were the only persons out Of the
twenty odd in the room who were
not walking about. The physician
ceased suddenly. Peculiar as it may
seem, his action appeared to give
the whole assemblage shock. They
woke up, as it were, but not suffi-
GENTLY to know that they had been
experimental upon. Before the
boat arrived they had assumed the
positions in which the physician
found them.
"Another thing I have noticed" !"
added the physician, 'is that the
higher the. Intelligence of a man is
the more liable he is to be con-
trolled by subconsciousness. An un-
intelligent man seems to have none
of it. New York Globe.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1907-12-31

Marie CorelG, the famous writer,
is greatly annoyed by a little story
now going the rounds of the press.
The form it generally takes is this:
"She was asked the other day why
she does not marry. She replied:
Z have three pets at home which to-
gether answer the same purpose. l
have dog which growls all the
morning, a parrot which swears all
the afternoon and a cat which stays
out at night" Miss Corelli pos
sesses neither dog nor parrot nor
a cat, and she has never yet met
any one bold enough to ask her
why she is unmarried. - Chicago
News.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1907-12-31
MYSTERY OF THE TIDES.
Queer Reasons That Were Assisnsd
For Their Ebb and Flow.

Queer Reasons That Were Assigned
For Their Ebb and Flow.
The tides, those mysterious pulsa-
tions of the sea- have been the
theme of curious speculation ever
since man began to ask the reason
of what he saw around him. Many
sages and clever brains in the ages
Of the past tried to explain away
the periodical ebb and flow of the
ocean, and many plausible if er-
roneous ideas were seized upon and
used to solve the problem, and some
of the curious notions of these old
world philosophers are worthy of in
terest.
Aristotle, who tried to find log
ical reason for everything in ma
ture, thought that tides were caused
by the sun, which moves and whis-
ties the winds about so that they
fall with great violence on the At
lantic, the only great ocean known
to the Greeks, which thus swells
and causes the tide. Plato account
ed for them as being caused by an
animal living in cavern, which, by
means of huge orifce, created the
ebb and flow. The ancient Arabs
believed that tides were caused by
the moon heating the waters and
causing them to swell, while others
averred that they were caused by
the alternate decomposition of the
sea by the air and of the air by the
sea, thus causing an ebb and flow.
A writer as late as the thirteenth
century coolly remarks that tides
are caused by the efforts of the
earth to breathe.
Sanity St. Jerome explained the
mystery by means of caves, and
Bede stated that the ebb and flow
were caused by an enormous ser
pent, who swallows and vomits the
water. Another old sage thought
that they were caused by the melt
ing Of the ice at the poles. In Rus
sia, dwellers by the seashore popu-
larly believe that the tides are gov
erned by the water kings daughter.
The Shetlanders used to believe
that periodical tides were caused by
monster living in the sea, OF, to
quote from an old Shetland worthy,
ga monstrous sea serpent that took
six hours to draw in his breath and
about six to let it out again" The
Chinese believe that supernatural
beings, weird and wonderful, cause
the tides, while the Malays aver that
they are caused by the movements
of huge crab. Some of these old
thinkers have been very near the
solution of the problem, while some
of their crude notions are only fan
tastic.-Scottish Nights.