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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-05-30

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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-05-30

FOR RENT-Five room flat, modern.
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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-05-30
Social Notes of
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Greensboro Saturday night. June 1.
the Ladies Aid society of the Friends
church will give :. festival
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-05-30
1 WANT MONEY

For Gilt Edge, First Mortgage Loans.
from 5000 up. Also Have good loans
for horrowers.A IeadqLarters for real
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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-05-30

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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-05-30
MORNING GAMES.

NATIONAL LEAGUE.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-05-30
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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-05-30

AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Philadelphia, May So
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Boston. Il 3 L
Philadelphia. :. ..3 /
Batteries-Oberlin and Armbruster;
Dygert and Schreck.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-05-30
AT MINNEAPOLIS.
CENTRAL LEAGUE STANDING.
Yesterdays Results.

Yesterdays Results.
Evansville. ); Terre Haute 1.
South Bend. ,: Grand Rapids. 1.
Wheeling. ,: Canton. O.
Dayton, 3; Springfield, ?; I'll in
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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-05-30

Earned Runs-Richmond 2. Dayton
q
Left on bases 10, Dayton
d.
Two base hits-Huckins, Plummer
Cunningham
Stolen Bases-Ritter 5, Plummer
Sacrifice INSTRUMENTATION
Double plays-Fisher to Cameron.
Struckout-By Horn 4. by Young 5.
Bases on balls-Off Young g.
Time of game hour % minutes.
Umpire-Lally
Attendance-30o
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-05-30
WANTED-ROOMS

WANTED Young man and mother
want or 3 rooms furnished com
plete for light housek eeping within
walking distanceN of 9th and Main.
about June Is. References exchang-
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-22

same not to interfere with the taxation of inherltanees under the Wisconsin state law"
 This platform of a republican in good standing shows how rapidly even the republican party is drifting to more positive action against plutocratism in its various forms, and the republican party is emphatically the plutocratic party of the country. No one has ever accused Isaac Stephenson of double dealing or dishonesty, and the chances therefore are that he will be found voting up to or even beyond his fa- nous colleague, Mir LaFollette, on great economic questions. His platform includes nearly all the great reforms of the day except of course, publicity of slush funds. No republican is quite ready to accept what would be tanta- mount to a confession of guilt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-22
Initiative and Referendum

The referendum is often resorted to adopted it as a permanent policy. The referendum was applied to the new constitution of Alabama, and the Board of Revenue in this county is about to fit it to the proposed bond issue for new jail. States and municipalities are continually using it. It simply means that a law or a proposition shall he submitted to the people, and their reflection or acceptance of it is final.
 The initiative enables the people to cause a legislative or representative hodv to propose a proposition for the rurpose of submitting it to a vote of the people. The initiative is started l.v means of a petition. The initiative becomes necessary if the people are to mass mon all the measures that they desire to vote upon.
 The Initiative and referendum are in cperation in Switzerland, in New Zea- land and in some of our own states. If begins to be called for in other coun- tries. Switzerland is the true home of the initiative and referendum, unless indeed the New England town meet ings outrank it in date and practice. There is nothing dreadful about it. It simply enables the people at times to act directly in matters that deeply con- cern them To deny it's use would seem to deny the capacity of the peo- ple for self-government. Politicians do not like it. and machines are ready to assail it in every possible way, but still it stands as the rule of the people on unmistakably democratic lines.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-22
ADE ABROAD WITH WILD wEsr'
A Clever Bit of BaIIyhooine by the
 Author of Fables in Slang."

Willam F. Cody in the Washington Star.
 One forenoon in Rome I received the following telegram from an American friend:
 Col. W. F. Cody, Wild West Erena, Rome.
 Eight hungry Americans will be on your lot at noon. Have breakfast ready.
 GEORGE ADE.
 Two hours later a hot breakfast, con slstlng of ham and eggs, buckwheat cakes and coffee. was awaiting Ade and his party, who numbered thirteen Americans when they arrived at the plaza, where the Wild west&and Congress of Rough Riders were encamped.
 q didn't mean to bring so large a party" said Ade apologetically; but when these other chaps scented the ham ana eggs they insisted on coming"
 Don't apologize" I replied. 'I wish you had brought 300 instead of thirteen. I'd guarantee to fill all the Americans in Italy with ham and eggs and be glad of the opportunity"
 In addition to Ade, the party com prised Booth Tarkington, the novelist, and number of American tourists Ade and Tarkington matched yarns, untit someone looked at his watch and re- marked that the afternoon performance would begin in fifteen minutes.
 Isn't there anything we can do," asked Tarkington, ito show some appreciation of your hospitality"
 "Certaintiy," l answered, ''you may all ride in the stage coach when the Indians attack it, or if that is ttoo exciting you may do ballyhoo outside the entrance"
 to thA performance, we maintained sideshow. containing the usual number of freaks, and ii was to this tent that Ade and Tarlkington led the Americans. As none of the party could speak Italian with sufficient fiuency to interest the natives, they decided that a pantomime ballyhoo should be arragned to rouse the curiosity of the Romans and induce them to buy tickets.
 Ade's originality hit upon a scheme. Ostentatiously instructing his friends to await him near the sideshow entrance. the humorist walked up to the ticket wagon and purchased the little square piece of pastboard which gave him the right of entry. His friends remained out side. Three minutes later Ade dashed from the tent in perspiring excitement, and with hysterical gestures rushed to the group of Americans. Grabbing two by their arms he hustled them up to the ticket wagon, talking the while with mouth and hands. Hurriedly buying tickets, he pushed his friends into the sideshow, while the other Yankee tourists, catching the point of his strategy, dash ed up to the wagon, bought admissions, and followe dtheir leader.
 Accustomed to Americans of cool tenn perament, the Italians were stampeded. What marvellous things" they thought, must be inside to so excite these Yan- keesi We must seev' With impetuous Latin curiosity, the Romans almost mob bel the wagon In their haste to buy tickets, and the sideshow did the big gest days business of its career in Italy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-22
THE ARMED MAN.

From the Indianapolis Sun.
 In Alabama it is proposed to put a badge on every armed man. and to force such a man to obtain license from the probate judge. The court would not per- init a rowdy to tote a gum Three months at hard labor is suggested as a penalty for violating the new law. It Is believed that once the bully and the rough have been dlsarmed by such whole some provisions the good citizen will have nc further need of his pistol, and that q general disarmament will be the result. The experiment in Alabama will be watched with interest not only in this state. but elsewhere. Tennessee has a stringent law against carrying concealed weapons, and the penalty carries with it the possibility of year in the state prison. More than that, the law is en- forced rigidly in most parts of the state, WlIh good effect.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-22
Rantist Growth.

Not only is the Baptist church inereas- ing steadily in numbers, but in wealth as we'll" said a minister of another com munion. "The statistics of the Southern Baptist association in session at Rich mond make a splendid showing. The de- nomination is pushing it's educational work and its foreign missions, and Is raising large sums of money for both enterprises.
 'The Baptists have trained themselves to give literally and there is perhaps no other church organization in this coun- try that can raise money so easily as theirs. It seems to be genuine pleasure for them to contribute to all their church causes. A vast amount was raised at the Richmond convention the other day for foreign missions, one brother giving as much as $50O0O. Other churches may have more wealthy members than the Baptist, but none average so we'll In gem erous subscriptions. Any organization with the generaus spirit of the Baptist church is sure to prosper
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-22
Golna to Launchlnu.

About thirty persons will be in the party leaving over the Seaboard Air Line next Saturday for Quincy, Mass, near Boston, to witness the launching of the great cruiser Birmingham, said Capt. Jack Johnson, district passenger agent
 ''The trip will be one of the most de- lightful of the year. Indeed the cour- tesies that will be extended to the party will be exceptional. At Norfolk our vice president. MT. Sevder, has arranged to have the Birmingham travellers as his guests on a boat trip through Hampton Roads reviewing the Jamestown exposl- tion, Old Point Comfort and other places of interest and our general passenger agent will look after the transfer of the Birmingham party's baggage at Ports mouth, Va. Nothing will be left undone by our officers to make the trip comfor- table and enjoyable in every way
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-22
Alabama Cotton Last Year

The agricultural department puts the crop grown last year in Alabama at 1,269,674 bales. Except the crop grown in 1904 the crop of 1906 was the largest ever grown in this state. Texas Georgia and Mississippi outrank us in growing the staple, and in 1905 we were the third state, outdoing Missis- sippi. The four states make over GA Der cent of the crop-the Big Four in the cotton world. Alabama has 365S g.aneries, which ginned 343 bales on the average. Steam is the power in 2996 of our ginneries; water, in 456; animals, in 116; gasoline, in 8S, and electricity in ?. We have CT oil mills that turned out products last year worth $7,014,570.
 Montgomery led all the counties last year, it's product having been 47079 bales. Dallas was close competitor, Wlln tusoOt iO llS Cltdlt. llO other chief cotton-growing counties of tle state were, in order: Marengo. Lowndes, Wilcox, Pike. Perry and Chambers, all above the 30,000-bale line. The changes in county produc. ton are not easily accounted for. Dal- las, for example, made about 10 per cent more cotton in 1906 than in 1905, while Montgomery made nearly 20 per cent less. The truth is, Montgomery nearly lost to Dallas the primacy ar.ong Alabama counties. Mobile and Washington are the tail-end counties our cotton. industry. No county at tenpts to oust them, not even Winston.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-22
LIFE.
From Harper's Weekly,


 A southern lawyer tells of a judge in Arkansas who had several tiffs' with a lawyer retained by woman who had in- stituted breach-of-promise suit in the court presided over by the judge in ques- ton.
 "Clerk, just enter, another fine of s1O against MT. Mitchell for contempt of court"
 When this sort of thing had proceeded further than counsel wished, he address, ed his honor in this wise:
 If your honor please, I am a good citizen, and as such, intend to obey the orders of the honorable court in this as in all other instances. Now your honor. it so happens that have not about me the sum of sS0. for which I have been mulcted for contempt. Therefore, I shall be compelled to borrow such sum from some friend; and 1see no one present whose friendship have enjoyed so much as yonr honor's So make no hesitation in approaching your honor for loan to square the fines assessed against me-"
 With just the faintest smile about his lips his honor looked first at counsel and then al the clerk.
 Clerk" said he at last, remit Mir. Mitchelrs fines. The state is better able than I to lose $30.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-22
Income Taxes

The French people have incorpor- ated an income tax in their fiscal scheme, and they expect to collect S24,000000 a year from 100000 tax able families. The exemption of in comes does not extend beyond 5000, and in France wealth is more eyently distributed than it is in this country of Dingley duties, trusts and fran chises.
 Of civilized countries there are now only five that do not derive revenue from an income tax, the most easily borne and justest tax in the world. Those five countries are the United States, Russia, Belgium, Hungary and Portugal It is high time the United States drew out of the Russian-Portu- gal class, and when the people gain control of this country it will be taken out.
 The wonder is that the French peo- pie did not long ago adopt an income tax They are thrifty and they have a great deal of business sense. They sometimes invest in Panama canal bonds, which did not pan out, but as a rule their investments are sound and satisfactory. They will certainly re- tain their new income tax after they see how easily it is borne.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-22
Radical Republicanism

Senator-elect Stephenson of Wiscon- sin is 7S years old, and it seems to be C ,rmined that he will not attempt to serve beyond the remaining two years of the term that John c. Spooner put from him. The new Senator wants q seat, it is plain, as an ornament, to his life, very much as a young girl wants a ribbon. But he proposes, while in the Senate, to support this programme:
 .1. Prompt and thorough revision of all tariff schedules, reducing duties wher- ever possible without reducing wages of labor
 70. Strengthening the interstate con- merce law, giving the commission full power to regulate rates and services.
 ..3. Legislation authorizing and equipping the interstate commerce commission to ascertain the true value of railroad prop erty; the lowest cost of operating the rail- ways, and the amount paid therefor
 A. Legislation requiring the adoption of the best known safety appliances and pre- scribins strict regulation in the operation of trains in connection herewith.
 "5. Strengthening the sherman antitrust law and imposing such additional pen elties as will deter property interests from combining in violation thereof.
 '.6. A constitutional amendment for the election of United States senators by di- rect vote of the people.
 ''5 A federal tax upon incomes
 sS. A federal tax upon inheritances, the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-22
MIME. MELBNs BEGINNING.

From the Century.
 During the years immediately preced- ing my first and, for me, my most mem orable visit to Europe, the late Marquis of Normandy was governor of Victoria. At that time I was regarded in Melbourne as very good amateur pianist, much in request for private parties, at which I always played, and on very rare oc- casions also sang. At one of these func- tions, given at government house, I gave some songs between the pianoforte se- lections, and the Marchioness of Nor mandy, In thanking me, said, Child, some day you will give up the piano for singing, and then you will become fa- nous That was the simple comment that set me seriously thinking of ca reer as a singer. I had always felt that would become a professional in music pianist, organist, violinist, perhaps, but something in music, at any rate; but from that moment knew in an irresist- ible way that I was to be singer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-22
ALARAMA,s SENATOR'S.

From the Gadsden Journal.
 The editor of the Jones Valley Times, in asserting that our senators were too old for any useful service as repres in the United States Senate, made most egregious blunder. While every citizen has a right to his opinion on this sub- ject our aged senators met with a re- nfarl0able indorsement at the hands of the people in the recent primary elections and for even the distinguished editor of the Times to now seek to create the im- pression that this indorsement was mistake, that 1t was an expression of sentiment and did not represent the sober serious thought of the people, is a base as- sumption not warranted by the facts. Senator Morgan, especially, has shown himself to be fully the equal of any of the younger men in the Senate and keenly alive to all matters before that body, whether of special interest to his state or not He has always taken the broadest view of a senator's duties, believing that a senator, no matter from what state he came, was representative of the whole people of the United States. No man has ever served more faithfully than he and while Senator Pettus may not have been quite his equal in energetic action he has been all our people could wish. No breath of suspicion has ever been heard against the fair name of these two vet eran statesmen and their public service in every way is above reproach. Until some graver charge than old age is brought against these grand old men, revered not alone by Alabama but by the whole country, they will continue to enjoy the confidence and loyalty of all patriotic Alabamians. despite the oroakings of such organs as the Times or its distinguished pditp1,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-22
MANUFACTURING IN THE SOUTH.

From the New Orleans Picayune
 The greatest source of wealth to any country is manufacturing, and this is pre- eminently the case where a country pro- duces it's own raw material
 This is the case with the southern states, but they are nevertheless far be- hind in manufactures.
 There were in the United States 215, ,e62 manufacturing industries at the close of the year 1905, having a capital of $12, ,GS6,- 265,673. Of these there were only 32OO1 in the south, with a capital of s1, ,S54, ,637, ,64S. This is about one-seventh the number with about one-ninth the capital as shown to exist in the country at large Pos sessed of the larger share of raw ma terial, with cheaper living and better cli- matic conditions adapted to manufactur- ing in all lines, the south should hold the leading position in these industries instead of the one 1t now occupies.
 It Is just this condition to which the Chattanooga Tradesman refers in a re- cent issue. The south produces all the American cotton. It is rich in iron ore and coal; 1t has by far the largest share Of the standing timber in virgin forests. In sulphur and salt 1t Is virtually at the head Of the world and in other valuable minerals and in building stone its sup plies are inexhaustible.
 A pound of staple cotton Is worth few cents. When manufactured its value is multiplied by ten or twenty. A like state ment can be made of the increase in value of all raw material when manufactured. The south Is making important advances in various manufacturing industries, but they are not a 1.-the of what they should be and will be- In manufactures, the south will one day be at the head of the world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-22
IN AN ENGLISH IRON TOWN.

From Lady Bells "At the Works" Out of 200 houses visited there were found:
 II women who cannot read. men who cannot read.
 2S houses where on one cares to read. men who actually dislike reading. women who actually dislike reading. ' women who say they "have no time for it."
 50 houses where they only read novels. 5S houses where they read the news papers only.
 37 houses where they are fond of read ing or great readers"
 25 houses where they read books that are absolutely worth reading 0his in- cudes the men who read books about their worl)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-22

tleman is stranger in our midst com paratively, and henceforth is dropped in- gloriously from the argument. Two wrongs do not make right, nor yet will two Photographers make one "pa-rag- rapher' If no one else will preserve the English language in all of it's virgin pur- ity, the paragraphers will do it, and don't you forget it!
 The word comes from the Greek para" and 'graphen'-for this you may take the combined words of the query editor and Noah Webster-and is, consequently, to be pronounced as becometh a student duly mindful of the ancient and honorable languages whence come so many of our beautiful and expressive words. In fash ioning the English derivative. why should the 'g'' be chopped off the graph" and tackled onto the "para?" The Greek ''graphein' means ito write" If there is any such word as "raphine" anywhere at large in the Greek vocabulary, we have failed to scrape up an acquaintance with It. Ergo, paragrapher is para -grapher'' and not 'pa-rag-rapher." Photographers may be "te-leg raphers," photographers may be "pho-tog- g-raphers," and the other strange gentleman may be what he pleases, but paragrapher is para grapher' until the cows come home, and ever thereafter.
 Finally and conclusively, we have set forth, in reply to an impertnent inquiry from the Atlanta Georgian, that the para graphers will all ultimately go to their reward. We still maintain this to be true. But had the Georgian asked us concern ing the fate of the para g-raph-ers," we should have been filled with narrowing doubts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-22
CHILD LOGIC.
I the Boston Post.

From the Boston Post.
 Mrs. Lucia Ames Mead of Boston aroused good deal of comment with her recent declaration that tin soldiers had a bad effect on children, melting in them a love of war.
 Mrs. Mead, an engaging author and noted lecturer, was well qualified to speak on the matter, for she has for a number of years studied carefully and inteli- gently the chil1 mind.
 In the course of investigation she has come upon many quaint instances of the peculiar reasoning of children. The other day she said
 once told little girl that some folks claimed the moon was inhabited X "The child sneered.
 Rubbish. she said. It can't be. What would the people up there do when there was only little slit leftr"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-22

This is the heaviest gain that April has ever shown in railway gross earn ings, and it simply silences the man who undertakes to say that the gen. eral business of the country is not active and prosperous. The truth is, trade is flourishing. and prosperity is in evidence in every section of this broad land.
 In the south the Missouri, Kansas and Texas reports gain in April of S4S5 ,236; the Louisville and Nashville. of s465, ,462; the Illinois Central, of $40, ,9SO; the Southern, of $S11,S67, and the Mobile and Ohio, of $145,301.
 In the face of such gains in the April gross earnings it is idle to talk of dull ness or depression. The gross earn ings of the railroads are an infallible measure of the business of the coun- try, and they point to an activity that even a lessened winter wheat crop cannot check