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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-02-04
Che Door
BeWildtrmsnt

There are dead men inside, I dare say! Here. my lad. it's not for me to turn loose the family skeletons" Larry stood aside while swung the ax and brought it down with crash on the paddock. It was of no fiimsy stuff and the remaining bricks cramped me, but half dozen blows broke 1t oil.
 The house of a thousand ghosts, !" chanted Larry, as I pushed the door open. crawled through and dropped down inside.
 Whatever the place was 1t had . floor and set my feet firmly upon 1t and turned to take the lantern.
 Hold bit!" he exclaimed. Some ones coming,"-and bending toward the opening heard the sound of steps down the corridor. In moment Bates ran up. calling my name with more spirit than l imagined possible in him.
 What is it?" I demanded through the opening.
 Its MT. Pickering. The sheriff has come with him. sir"
 As he spoke his glance fell upon the broken wall and open door. The light of Larry's lantern struck full upon him. Amusement, and. thought. a certain satisfaction. were marked upon his countenance.
 Run along. Jack.-I'l be up little later." said Larry. If the fellow has come in daylight with the sheriff. he isn't dangerous. It's his friends that shoot in the dark that give us the trouble"
 crawled out and stood upright. Bates. staring at the opening. seemed reluctant to leave the spot.
 You seem to have found 1t, sir" he said.-I thought little chokingly. His interest in the matter nettled me; 1t was none of his affair. for one thing: and my first business was to go above for an interview with the executor.-a matter of immediate importance, as should have been clear to any one.
 "Of course we have found it!" 1 cyoeAAotSos VI AusAiHS tHe uust iiOh ny clothes.
 "ls Mir. Stoddard in the library?"
 "Oh. yes, SIT: left him entertaining the gentlemen"
 Their visit Is certainly most in- opportune." said Larry. Give them my compliments and tell them I'll be up as soon as I've articulated the bones Of my friends ancestors"
 Bates strode on ahead of me with his lantern. and I left Larry crawling through the new-found door as I hur- ried toward the house. I knew him well enough to be sure be would not leave the spot until we had found what lay behind the Door of Bewi.derment
 You didn't tell the callers where you expected to find me. did you7" asked Bates. as be brushed me of In the kitchen
 No. sir. Mir. Stodtari received the gentlemen He rang the bell for me and when | went into the library he vas saying. Mir. Clenarm Is at his studies. Bates.'-he says-Findly tell Mir. Glenarm that I'm sorry to inter rupt hin. but Soat he please come dovny thought it rather neat sir. considerinx hfs clerical o0ca knex yVu vers below sonevhsrsL sif; 0e
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-02-04
A Hearty Girl,

A whaling captain invited an EsA kimo father and mother and daughter to dine with him aboard his ship. The daughter was only ten years old. and yet she weighed 140 pounds.
 When 1t came to eating and drink ing she drank eight bottles of beer and ate the same amount of food as was prepared for three men. She was so full when she got up frosn the table that her father had to carry her to his canoe. and she was hardly seated in the craft when she cried out that she was hungry and wanted more dim ner.
 Her father said that she was con. sidered a delicate child, and he was afraid she would not live to be wom. an, but the whaling captain didn't look at 1t that way. He was rejoiced that he didn't have her for steady boarder.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-02-04
Women Who Will Gamble.

The most difficult gambling to keep in check both in Singapore and Pc nang is gambling among Straits-born women of all classes from the high est downward. Frequent complaints are received from husbands whose wives have lost heavily. and 1t Is known that there are five lotteries opening more or less daily in Singa- pore which are almost exclusively SUD- ported by "nonias." Education may possibly do omething to stop this vice among the Straits-born ladies. but 1t must be confessed that its effect in that direction on their husbands and brothers is but small.-South China Post.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-02-04
WATERBURY EVENING DEMOCRAT. MONDAY. FEBRUARY 1907

in and about tho house until the pro- cess bored mo.
 Hurry up and get through with 1t. !" l jerked impatiently, holding the Ian. tern at the level of his head. It was
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-02-04

Continued treatment cures casso of long standing.
 Doan's Kidney Pills are for the kidneys only. and contain no poIsou. ous nor habit-forming drugs. They relieve congestion and inflammation of the kidneys or bladder. heal and cure the kidney tissues. drive of dangerous uric poisons. dissolve and remove gravel. and rid the body of all watery waste.
 Thousands of cures prove the merit of Doan's Kidney Pills. Here is a case at home.
 A WATERBURY CASE.
 R. R. Calender. of 90 Bishop s.. Waterbury. Conn. says: T have much confidence fin Doan's Kidney Pills as a remedy for backache. In my own case they brought freedom from every symptom of kidney trouble and rid me of pains in tho back and the trouble has not return- ed since stopped using this remedy. I procured the pills at the H. ". Lake Drug Co. and it gives u0 pleasure to endorse such a relIahan baekache and kidney medicine"
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-02-04

The Evening Democrat is the peoples paper. The price is 2c copy, 12c a week, 42c a month. 35 . wear. by mail or carrier.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-03-25
SEE WHAT YOU BUY
DO NOT TAKE THE CATALOGUE
STATEMENT FOR IT.
CASE OF A MAIL-ORDER BUGGY
The Purchaser Was Ashamed to Use
1t and Sold Ii to His Hired
Man-It Pays to Buy
at Home.

Copyright. by Alfred C. Clark.)
The East End of London is an ex-
ample of what the city does for hui
mainly in creating poverty, misery,
disease, drunkenness and crime. JEFF
ferson was right when he said: Great
cities are great sores upon the body
polite" Is it any wonder that lovers
of their kind are horror-5tricken at
the GRADING of these gigantic mills
whose grist is the bodies and souls of
men?
But there is another movement con-
nected with this current setting city
ward which. like it, is full of grave
menace to the welfare of humanity
This is the dry rot now invading thou
sands of villages and towns. 1t is not
lack of capital or business energy in
the towns, or discrimination in
freights or exhaustion Of the soil in
the surrounding country that is bring
ing about this change, but a new and
dangerous form of competition, and
the caprices of those who buy. Go
into these towns and you will find
them at a standstill or going back
ward. Inquire of their business men
or commercial travellers and you will
learn that business is not as good as
formerly and that the prospect il for
a continued shrinkage in trade. An
observant commercial traveller said
to the writer: Il believe the day Of
the village and town is over. The big
fish are everywhere eating up the lit
tie fish. A few small lines of business
that cannot be done by mail. such as
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-03-25
SPALDING'S GUIDE is OUT,
"A Publication of Interest to the Base
Ball World.

Spalding's official base ball guide
Cor 19O7-the thirty-first year of its
publication-has just been published
and for size and quality of its contents
far surpasses all previous issues OF
this well-known book. Its 600 pages
comprise the history of the year in
baseball and nothing illustrates the
growth and popularity of the national
game better than the amount of space
required to chronicle the doings of the
vast army of professional base ball
clubs whose records, classified under
their respective leagues, are to be
found in the Spalding Guide. 1t is a
monumental work and is certainly a
tribute to the energy of its veteran ed
itor, Henry Chadwick, the Father of
Base Ball." who, though in his eighty
fourth year, is still as interested in
the national game as when he was
helping to frame its first rules for an
organized government.
The great bulk of the Guide is de-
voted to the doings of the minor
leagues. all of them being accorded
space for their records, and a review
of the state of the game in each or
ganization, written by a competent
authority of the section which each
particular league covers. The pictures
of all the teams are shown, and also
groups of leading club officials of
each organization, it being undoubted-
" the greatest collection of pictures
of professional base ball teams ever
published in any book.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-03-25
MlLlVlLLE, IND.

Millville. Ind. March % Miss Cora
Hamilton and Miss Ora Peed of New
Castle and Mrs. May Hamilton, spent
Thursday with Mr.. and Mrs. Mart
Hamilton.
Mr.. and Mrs Frank Worl. Mr.. and
Mrs Walter Miller. of New Lisbon.
took dinner Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Miller.
daughter Beatrice, VIM. Wood and Mr..
and Mrs Stokes Weaver and family.
took dinner Sunday with Marcus
Battlefield and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. Nichols held an In
fair dinner in honor of their father.
Mr. John G. Allen, who was married
Sunday to Mrs. o. Dilts, of New Cas-
tie.
A kitchen shower was held in honor
of Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Wood Satur
day evening.
| Elmer Turner and son Jesse, of Ash
land. called on Mr.. and Mrs. Richard
Wood Sunday.
Mrs. Nora Reese has the measles.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Runyan and Mrs.
James Nipp and family. of New Cas-
tie, took dinner with Mrs. Rebecca
Runyan Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Laboyteau Wis
tied relatives in New Lisbon Sunday.
| Frank Laboyteau will start his huck-
ster wagon Monday.
| Miss Belle Modlin has returned To
her home in New Castle.
| Mrs Anna Chamness and son Rob-
ert. of Hagerstown. visited Mr.. and
! Mrs. James Welker.
| Claude Balser of New Castle is WIS.,
/ iting Miss Angie Balser this week.
| Mrs Ida Worl is on the sick list.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-03-25

act upon the value Of farm property
by cutting off the home market. They
will add to the taxes on lands by re-
ducing taxable values in the towns.
Surely it is not to the interest Of any
body, except the bloated corporations
carrying on the mail order business,
to see the towns and villages fall into
decay. A live town is not only of
value to the lands surrounding 1t, but
it's well stocked business houses are
q convenience and benefit to the
buyer. Even il money could, In the
long run, be saved by ordering every
thing from the city. the Inconvenience
and uncertainty OF it would always
make such shopping unsatisfactory.
Ordering from a catalogue is leap
in the dark, except in the case of .
few articles whose color, shape and
quality are always the same.
To the man who can soberly look
on both sides of the question and who
can put himself in the place of "the
other fellow" the query will come:
Is it best from mere within, or even
for a certainty of saving from one to
half a dozen dollars in a year to turn
my back on the old, convenient ways
Of doing business, and to do my part
toward running the business of my
old acquaintance and friends, and OF
destroying the value of property In
the town where my friends live?
F. B. MILLER
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-03-25
LARGE CLASS WAS
CONFIRMED SUNDAY
Impressive Services at st.
Johns Church.
SERMON BY THE PASTOR.

A class of twenty-one was confirm
ed at Sunday mornings services at St
Johns Lutheran church. Most i'm
pressive services were held and special
music was rendered by the choir. The
text of the sermon, by the Rev. A. J
Feeger, pastor, was from Genesis 1919
Look not behind thee, neither stay
thou in the Palms. it being the mes.
sage of the angels to Lot when he left
Sodom.
Those who were confirmed are: Carl
Kehlenbrink. August H. Bromeyer
Carl w. Stowe, Roy T.. Long. Roy H
Schneider. Willard c. Dunning. Ray
mond H. Pilgrim, Carl E. Niewoehner
Carl l.. Resch, G. S. Stadelmann. How
ard Smith, Albert B. Keller, Earl Hor-
mavious Charlotte Schneider. Eliza
Horn Martha Z. Newcomer, Martha
Mott, Flora Kramer, Loretta Hoppe,
Lizzie Niewoehner and Edith Stegman.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-03-25
More About Nail Order Houses

know that he could have bought ..
cheaply and selected much more sat
isfactorily at home. On a rural route
with which l am familiar and over
which most of the incoming letters
are from mail order houses and the
outgoing ones carry back money or
ders. lives a friend of mine who
bought a watch from the catalogue at
what he considered a rare bargain.
The watch came, to be sure. but 1t did
not go, that is at the right speed,
and, although money enough was
spent on it to bring the price up TO
good figure, it was no better as a
timekeeper than that famous watch
of Capt. Cuttles. Another friend
bought buggy at $34 and was elated
over his purchase until it came and
he saw that the top was very ordin-
airy article of oil cloth, instead of
leather, and he was so ashamed of it
that he sold it at a loss to his hired
man and bought a better one in a
neighboring town. A lady and her
two daughters bought shoes from the
catalogue and when asked why they
had trouble with their feet said it was
instances of the bad effects of buy
ing sight unseen" are daily occurring
all over the country. 1t is only natur-
al and inevitable that such things
should happen.
Let US see what will be the effect
of this formidable diversion of trade,
if carried to its logical conclusion.
Nearly all the business houses of the
smaller towns will become bankrupt,
the value of town property will de-
cline, churches and schools will re-
ceive feeble support and the towns.
instead of being centers of business
and social activity, will almost cease
to exist. The country in general will
become like many portions of the
south where the large plantations. by
getting their supplies in the cities.
have kept the neighboring towns
down to the crossroads type-dreary.
implanted little places of half dozen
ramshackfe houses. The evil effects
of this loss of trade and destruction
of the value of town property Will re-
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-03-25
IS THE LAST STRAW
RaiIroaderS Make Some Addi-
tiOnaI Demands.
THE SITUATION is ACUTE.

Chicago, March 2j.-The railroad
situation was rendered more acute this
morning by the introduction of new
demands for increased wages and re
duced hours by thirty-seven thousand
men and still retain membership in
that order The firemen demand an
increase of fifteen per cent. This add
ed to the already heavy burden of hos
tile public sentiment, railroad men de-
clare is the last straw.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-03-25
STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS.
Wabash College Athletes Are EIated
Over the Showing They Have
Made the Past Season.

Charlottesville, Ind, March 25-The
winter term closed at Wabash College
last week and from an athletic stand
point is regarded as the most success
full in the history of the local institu-
ton. During the twelve weeks of the
term, two State championships, basket
ball and indoor track and field, were
won by the Little Giants"
Not only did the State titles in these
two~branches of sports come to the
Athenians, but the honor of going
through the entire season without a
single defeat accompanied the coveted
distinctions.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-03-25
TRACT SOCIETY LABORS.
The Rev. Mr.. Foster Represents the
American Society.

The Rev. Frank Foster, who oecupi
church Sunday morning and evening,
is a representative of the American
Tract society with offices in Cincin,
natl and is largely interested in aiding
immigrants, who come to this country
each year The American Tract so
ciety by distributing pamphlets and
tracts hopes to bring about a better
condition of things among this class
of people.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-03-25
OBSERVE PASSION WEEK.
Special Services at the First Metho
dist Church.

In observance of Passion week
special services will be held at the
First NJ. E church each evening this
week at 730 o'clock Tonight the
men will have charge of the meeting
the members of the Brotherhood OF
st. Paul being in charge. The Y. NJ
c. A. will be discussed.
Tuesday night Miss Agnes Johnston
deaconess, will have charge of the ser
vices. Wednesday night S. Fl. Jones
will be the leader while on Thursday
night Henry Luring will have charge
The Rev. Raymond J. Wade will speak
Friday night.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-03-25
is NOT AFTER HIS IDEA
Bryan Sounds a Warning to
The Public.
WATCH THE RAILROADS,

Chicago, March 25.-The only polit-
ical lesson of the present railroad agi
tation towards federal control is that
the public ought not to give up its 10
cal authority over railroads at the re-
quest of managers who do not want &c
be regulated at all, is the position TAX
EN- by William Jennings Bryan Bry-
an said today that he didn't think fed
eral control as advocated by Rockefel-
Ter, Hartman, Fish, etc, Is at all along
the lines proposed by him in his Madi-
son Square Garden address of last fall.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-03-25

barbering, blacksmithing or the serv-
ing of soft drinks and ice cream may
survive, but such lines of trade can
not sustain a decent town" The
cause of this widespread loss of bust
ness is the aggressive and destructive
competition of the catalogue houses
in the big cities. It has been possible
for 40 years or more to buy of some
houses in the cities, If one felt that
the merchants of his town were ex-
acting too much profit, but this effort
of the mail order houses to cut the
retailer altogether is new thing, the
growth of the past few years. Start
ing with a few lines. of trade, this
form of competition has come to cover
almost everything that can be sold in
a country town and it is even asserted
that a savings bank department is to
be added by one OF the catalogue
houses.
The claim that the mail order
houses of Chicago are doing an an
nual business OF over $500. 900, 900 may
seem large, but one house alone has
sold goods to the amount of $29 ,000,
900 in the past six months and is now
incubating a new plan to increase its
enormous business by selling shares
of stock to thousands of people in the
hope of making them regular Gus
toners.
The skillfully worded advertisement
and the big catalogue, with its pic
lures of articles in a hundred lines Of
trade, are very alluring to buyers.
most of whom are not familiar with
prices and qualities. Some OF the
articles below the usual prices are of
an inferior quality. while the average
price is usually fully up to what would
be paid to the home dealer. AS was
shown last winter in a speech in con-
gress, articles for the mail order trade
are often misbranded at the request
of the mail order people with delib-
crate intent to deceive. One Of the
instances given by this congressman
was of some thousands of finger rings
stamped fourteen carats" when they
were in reality only ten.
The buyer who orders from his
catalogue, or from an advertisement,
does not see the articles till they
come and is often disappointed in the
quality of the most of them. but there
is no redress as there would be il he
bought at home. He does not like to
own the. he is disappointed. so he
makes the best of it and tries to per-
suade himself that he has saved
money. In many instances he is not
well enough informed in values to
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-03-25
A Little Reach Into Space.


There are very few stars whose dis
lance is even approximately known to
astronomers. Moreover. the different
estimates of the distances of these few
vary by large amounts. The nearest
known star is Alpha, in the constella-
ton Centaur. not visible from the
northern lands of the earth. and one
of the next nearest is the little star in
the northern constellation Cygnus. call
ed 'Sixty-one Cygnf." The latest de-
termination of this star makes its dis
lance $4,000. 600. OOO. 900 miles. This IS
about $4,000, coo. ooO. 900 miles less than
the distance derived from Professor
Halls measurement Of some fifteen
years ago.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-03-25
Give No More Rebates.

indianapolis, March 25.-Believing
that change in conditions of transpor-
tation makes such course advisable,
the Merchants association of Indian
apolis has decided to abandon the plan
of giving rebates of car fares to out-of-
town shoppers. No rebates will be
given after April 10.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-03-25
Didn't Suit Him.

People who patronize the cars rum
ming out to Forest Hills are familiar
with Conductor Crowley, the man who
wears six service stripes on his
sleeve, says a writer in the Boston
Herald.
On the afternoon of election day in
November one OF his passengers was
an old man who had been fmbibing
enough to make him go to sleep in the
corner of the car.
Just before it reached Dudley street
the conductor announced with his
usual rich roll of the r, "Cir-r-cuit and
Guild
Yer a liar, It's John B. Moran,"
shouted the sleepy one, waking up
suddenly.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-03-25
INSPECTION is COMPLETED.
Repairs Will Be Made on the Panhan-
die at Early Date.

]. j. Turner. second vice president,
and c. w. Peck. general manager, and
several other officers have completed
their inspection of the Pennsylvania
lines west. The principal reason for
inspecting the Panhandle was to de
termine the damage done by the re-
cent high waters and to arrange for
necessary repairs. Two divisions
were partially out of service for a few
DAYS on account of the floods.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-03-25
Observes Passion Week.

Bethel A. M. E. church is observing
passion week, beginning Sunday night
President r. l.. Kelly preached a very
impressive sermon. Tonight Dr. S. r
Lyons, pastor of Reid Memorial
church, will preach on THE Authority
of Christ The meetings will con
tinue all week
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-03-25
SOME CITY TEACHERS
GOING TO DAYTON.

In preference to attending the ses-
sions of the Southern Indiana Teach
ers' association in indianapolis next
Friday, several local teachers will Wis
it the schools at Dayton. o., and sur
rounding towns. There will be about
fifty who will attend the sessions at
the capital city.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-03-25
May Go to Oklahoma.

Mr.. and Mrs. John Maxwell of
South Sixte enth, among the most
highly respected of the older resi-
dents of Richmond, probably will re-
move to Oklahoma this spring. They
have a daughter living there