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Free press., 1907-10-12
LIKE SHEETS OF ICE.
Were Bed Coverings of Visitcr in Eng,
Iish Country Home.

The old-fashioned glazed chintz,
which in the Victorian era was for so
long a period In favor as covering
for the English drawing room sofas
and chairs, is now very fashionable
in this country, especially for bed
rooms
This chintz is generally a large
floral pattern, on white ground, and
will last for years if properly cleaned
and "calendered." a word unfamiliar
to most American ears, although in
England calendering is a usual pro-
cess in every household. many house
keepers using it for their beautiful
linen sheets, which makes them dread
fully cold and slippery! 1t is done by
a mangle that Furnishes the material
with glaze, and for chintzes and
table napery may be appropriate, but
for sheets, except in torrid weather.
it is anything but comfortable.
Il shall never forget said al.
American girl. speaking of calender
ed sheets, visiting at country honse
IN England, where IN zero weather
they gave me polished sheets OF ice.
for that is what they felt ike! !
shivered for an hour or more. unable
to sleep, and l took them of and slept
in the blankets. was afraid that the
housemaid would consider that it was
an American aboriginal habit, SO ]
made up the bed again in the morn
ing, pressing it down as if it had been
slept in This I did every day for my
weeks stay, as shall always remem-
Der those calendered linen sheets with
amusement, fancying my hostess
feelings If she had seen me at work
night and morning"
Free press., 1907-10-12
Only One Company Accepted.

Washington. Oct. 3.-Only one
American company. the American
Hawaiian Steamship company, has ac-
cepted the navy departments offer to
transport coal for the Atlantic battle
ship feet at so per cent increase over
the rate offered hy firms shipping it
IN foreign bottoms. This company has
the steamer Virginian, Of 10000 tons
capacity and will receive So per ton
for transporting the coal to Magda-
lena bay, San Francisco or Mare
island.
Free press., 1907-10-12
SURELY HAD PRIZE FLY.
Money Invested in Incubator Was Not
All Lost.

Poultney Bigelow, the brilliant au-
thor and journalist, said the other
day of the chicken farm that he is
about to set up at Maiden:
Il hope to succeed with this farm.
hope our experiences won't too closely
resemble that of my old friend Hora-
ito Rogers. Rash Rogers lived in the
suburbs. On the suburban train one
morning he said to me with a sour
laugh:
I've got something nobody else has
got, Mr.. Bigelow.'
"'Have you, Rash?' said I. What
is it?'
We'll said Rogers, 4 bought a
$50 incubator last month, put $15
worth of eggs in it, and Matched out
a blubottle fly
HE frowned, then sighed.
YES he said, I've got the only
$65 bluebottle fly il the world"
Free press., 1907-10-12
COINED A BIG WORD.
Little One Wanted to Pick the "Un-
derchildrenabIe" Flowers.

When the first little granddaughter
was big enough to want to pick the
garden flowers, the grandparents tried
every guileful means to save their pet
posies from devastation. A truce was
reached when it was agreed that Har-
riet should let the garden plants alone
and pick only "children's flowers"
descriptive name bestowed at once
alike on dandelions, buttercups,
daisies and clovers. After this there
was peace in the family. One day
Katherine, the newest granddaughter,
was contentedly pulling grasses while
grandmother shipped off blossoms
from the forget-me-nots. Katherine
remembered that fresh flowers had
not been gathered for the dinner ta-
bic. She ran over to grandmother and
promptly coined one of the longest
words a four-year-old ever used.
"GrandmotheT," she begged, cant
pick the underchildrenable flowers
for dinner?"
Free press., 1907-10-12
The shah on Hia rravcIs.

How the shah of Persia left Te-
heFan on his journey to Europe in
1900 is described by the author Of
Through Persia in a Motor Car
The imperial baggage-items of which
were sacks of corn and barley, a
school globe and a colossal musical
box-was four hours rolling through
Teheran. In the midst, on a diminu-
tive donkey, came little man with
a gray beard and spectacles. who car
ried an enormous wallet, out of which
bulged Notwithstanding articles,
among others a huge open telescope.
This was his sacred majesty's as
trologer.
Free press., 1907-10-12
Honors for Root.

Mexico, Oct 5.-Secretary OF State
Elihu Root was THURSDAY the recipient
of the highest honors which can be
granted to foreign visitor at the
City of Mexico. He was invited to
be present at a special meeting of
the chamber of deputies convened es-
peciaIly to show the appreciation OF
the law makers Of this republic for
the distinguished guest of the nation
and In the evening a ball was given
AZ the Jockey club.
Free press., 1907-10-12
Reeeher Scored Point.

Justin Mccarthy tells a story of the
late Henry Ward Beecher. Mr..
Beecher entered Plymouth church one
Sunday and found several letters
awaiting him. He opened one and
found it contained the single word
Fool" Quietly and with becoming
seriousness he announced to the con-
gregation the fact in these words: ST
have known many an instance OF a
man writing letter and forgetting to
sign his name. but this is the only
instance I have ever known of a man
signing his name and forgetting to
write the letter."
Free press., 1907-10-12

started last spring and it is their task
to make the preliminary surveys for
complete geological survey of the
region.
The concession was granted on con
ditions that make certain the immedi-
ate opening OF the country. The
Americans must open 80 miles within
six years, and they are to have the ex
elusive right to the product Of 20 Of
these for SO years.
Copper and sold are the minerals
they expect to find in the greatest
quantities. Gold has been found in
rich deposits in the adjacent British
and French territory, and the same
veins run into the Congo. The ex-
istence of copper, all ready to be
mined. has long been known.
Plan to Benefit Natives.
It is the plan of these Americans
whom King Leopold has interested in
his African territory to treat the ma
tives on a plan that differs slightly
from that of the Belgian concession
aires. They will start plantations Of
bananas. peanuts and all the other
iEUilS, anu VGSSldOISSs lOI
which the climate is adapted; they
will develop the fisheries of the great
rivers and employ the natives to can
the products of both. They will at
first supply the natives with every
thing they need including food and
lodging, and pay them in beads and
trinkets. gradually teaching them the
use of money as a trading medium
They will have to start schools 6 ID
hospitals, and here Mr.. Ryan will fro
wide scope for his philanthropy, IL
though the field is not virgin soil. fol
| the priests and nuns Of several re
| ligious orders are already in there
and have done much splendid worl
among the natives.
Thus it is that New York million
aires are at work exploiting alto
gether. about 10000 square miles o
African jungle. surveying virgin for
est, boring into unknown mountains
building roads and railroads through
trackless wildernesses and exercisin:
absolute sovereignty over millions o
naked man-eating savages, with rea
sonable prospect. whether they strik'
| mineral wealth or miss it, Of raisin;
their millions to the billion mark.
Free press., 1907-10-12

accepted the suggestion of the king
of the Belgiars that he take a long
lease of this vast territory.
OF course it is something of gam
bic, for the American explorers are
going into what is virtually unknown
country, and the difficulties, sanitary,
engineering, economical, etc, may
prove so great that they will not i'm
mediately make any profits. But the
odds are so heavily in their favor that
the chance was we'll worth taking.
The crown domain, which is a large
part of the Congo. returns at con-
servative estimate profit of at least
S7O0, 900 year. and almost all of this
is from rubber, the minerals being
virtually untouched. So Mr.. Ryan and
his associates have every reason to
hope for large profits.
Exact investment Unknown.
The exact amount they are invest
ing in the Congo is difficult to ascer-
tain. but it is known that they paid
King Leopold $1,5OO.000 for the con-
cession, and that he and the Belgian
stockholders retain a substantial block
of stock in the Societe Internationale
Forestiere ct Minere du Congo. one OF
the companies they have formed. The
Free press., 1907-10-12

New York.-In the heart of Equa-
torial Africa a group Of New York
millionaries has acquired an empire
Out Of this empire, representing in
direct and indirect control a region of
10000 square miles, they expect to
increase their millions. perhaps to
turn them into billions
The men who are exploiting this
untroddcn wilderness of forest, noun
tain, jungle and morass are Thomas
f. Ryan. James D. Stillman, John d.
Rockefeller, Jr., II. p Whitney, E. B.
Aldrich and the Guggenheim brothers.
Other names have been mentioned, in
Guiding those Of J. P. Morgan, Thomas
+. Walsh and Anthony N. Brady, who
may own stock in the two great com
ranies which have been formed. but
they are not directors in either and
have taken no active part in their or
ganization.
These men have as partners Leo
pold, king of the Belgians. and few
Belgian inanciers.
Their empire is in the heart Of the
Congo Free State; in fact it stretches
almost across its greatest breadth,
from east to west, and consists of be-
tween 100000 and 100000 acres,
or. roughly speaking, an area about
the size of New Hampshire and Yer
mont. Over this they have powers
which are virtually absolute Nom
inally the Congo courts have jurisdic-
ton over the territory and it is gov
erned by the laws of the Congo. .ebut
lxy
teTs. They have the right to police
it and the terms of their concession
impose this upon them as a duty
They may employ native labor or may
import coolies or Americans. just as
they like. but there is no doubt they
Will employ natives.
Project Originally Hammond's.
King Leopold secretly sold these
Americans this concession some
months ago. Mr. Ryan is not man
who is in the habit Of going into gi
gantic transactions without knowledge
of what he is doing or without some
definite assurance that he will reap z
substantial profit from his investment
The man who advised him that there
was big money to be made in tbs
Congo was John Hayes Hammond
the famous engineer, who had looked
Central America over in a general way
and who knew the vast mineral wealth
that lay hidden in it's Immemoria
rocks. He had travelled through it!
forests OF rubber trees, ebony, ma
hCgany and other valuable woods, anC
he knew that even if the gold, tht
copper. the silver should not pan ou
as he expected. there was enough
mor.ey to be made out of the rubbe
and the wood to reward handsomel.
the men who should open up the coun
try. Upon his report, supported b.
the reports of other experts. Mr.. Ryal
Free press., 1907-10-12
TRANSFORMATIONS.
Curious Results When Coffee Drinking
is Abandoned.

1t is almost as hard for an old coffee
topper to quit the use Of coffee as it is
for a whisky or tobacco fend to break
of, except that the coffee user can
quit coffee and take up Postum with
out any feeling of loss Of the morn
ing beverage, for when Postum is well
boiled and served with cream. it is
really better in point of favor than
most of the coffee served nowadays,
and to the taste of the connoisseur it
is like the favor Of fine. mild Java.
A great Transformation takes place
in the body within ten days or two
weeks after coffee is left OF and
Postum used, for the reason that the
poison to the neTves-ca1eine
been discontinued, and in its place is
taken a liquid food that contains the
most powerful elements Of nourissl-
ment.
1t is easy to make this test and
prove these statements by changing
from coffee to Postum. Read The
Road to Wellvi1le. in Dxgs There's
q Reason"
Free press., 1907-10-12

run down from $50 to 125 pounds.
was having terrible pain in the kid
neys, and the secretions passed almost
involuntarily Ny left leg swelled I'M
til it was 81 inches around. and the
doctor tapped it night and morning
until l could no longer stand it, and
then he advised amputation. I re-
fused, and began using Doan's Kidney
Pills. The swelling subsided gradu-
ally, the urine became natural. and all
my pains and aches disappeared. /
have been well now for nine years
since using Doan's Kidney Pills.
For sale by all dealers. SO cents a
box. Foster -Milburn Co., Buffalo, n. Y.
Free press., 1907-10-12

wilds Of the interior, where are situ-
ated the concessions of the American
millioniares.
To induce these natives to work.
the Belgians devised a plan by which
each man is taxed an amount of rub
Der each other day that a careful cal
culation estimates should be collected
in 40 hours. For this he is paid at
the market rate. Some such system
as this which the missionaries in the
employ of Congo Reform association
persistently call slavery" will have
to be adopted by the Americans.
Rockefeller, Jr., interested.
The American Congo company was
formed especially for dealing in rub
ber John d. Rockefeller. Jr., is in
terested in this company and plans to
apply newly discovered process to
the manufacture of rubber The So
ciete Internationale is to exploit the
mineral resources and it is this IN
which the Guggenheims are interest
ed This latter company's engineers
are now in the Congo making a sur
vey. The party is in charge OF A.
Chester Beatty, an associate OF John
Hays Hammond: with s. p. Werner.
Dorsey Mohun and L. N. Boil. They
Free press., 1907-10-12
: ia the wronq Thing.

= Ia.l u .er forget the breakfast ]
q . fo>;e rs.tty girl when l FIRST aReR
her the short man began ut would
make your mouth water to hear what
it was Grape fruit to bee.a with, the
most delicate of breakfast food, with
cream, a choice broiled chicken, a
small champagne cup with tit wes
a late akfast-the finest of fruit.
coffee. / can't remember the things
1 ordered for her at that breakfast.
and what do you think she said when
she finished? She said: You needn't
have gone TO so much trouble. / don't
care for anything but a couple of eisgs
for my breakfast and a piece Of
toast
1T was the wroag thing to say. /
viii admit" sighed his wife. I WIS
that girl and have been living ev T
since on couple of eggs for b
breakfast and piece OF toast.
Free press., 1907-10-12
SLEEP BROKEN BY ITCHING.
Eczema Covered Whole Body for a
Year-No Relief Until Cuticura
Remedies Prove Success.

For year have had what they
call eczema l had an itching all over
my body, and when 1 would retire for
the night it would keep me awake half
the night, and the more. l would scratch,
the more it would itch. I tried all
kinds o: remedies, but could get no re-
lief
''I used one cake of Cuticura Soap,
one box of Cuticura, and two walls of
Cuticura Resolvent Pills, which cost
me dollar and twenty-five cents in
all. and am very glad tried them, for
I was completely cured. Walter w.
Paglusch, 207 N. Robey ST.. Chicago,
ILL.,, Oct. s and 16, 1906"
Free press., 1907-10-12
Thomas r. Ryan.

other company is the American Congo
company; just how the shares in this
are allotted is not yet known. Be
sides these companies there are the
two great Belgian corporations which
have had enormous concessions for
many years; these are the Anglo-Bel-
gian India Rubber company and the
Katanga company. In both Of these
the Americans have bought large
blocks of stock-enough to secure a
dominating influence. The former has
a concession for $4,000 square miles,
the latter for an area averaging 420
miles long by 900 miles wide.
These latter companies are i'm
mensely profitable They collect the
taxes and police their own territory,
and the methods used by some of
their employees in collecting the taxes
which are paid in rubber have sup
piled the enemies of King Leopold
with ammunition for their campaign
Whatever truth there may be in the
stories of atrocities" must be laid at
the door of these concesSionaries.
Their experience with the natives as
workers will be valuable to the Amer
leans, as the latter will have precisely
the same conditions to meet and have
almost as plenary powers as their
forerunners. These powers have
been curtailed within a year, as re-
suit of the abuses which a Belgian
commission discovered. The conces
sionaires have been forbidden, for in
stance, to use armed native sentries
/ ad rUarcnorS
Difficulties in the Way.
The great difficulty ahead of Mr
Ryan's men is the improvidence and
savagery of the natives upon whom
they will have to rely to do the work
Money means nothing to them. They
must be paid, at any rate at first. in
something they can use-such as cot
ton, beads or knives. and it is the in
tention of the Americans to furnish
the natives with food and lodging as a
return for their labor. But it is ex-
ceedingly difficult to persuade these
men to labor at ALL They care moth
ing for the development of the coun-
try, preferring to live by hunting, fish
ing and gathering the fruits and nuts
with which nature has supplied them
so bounteously. Many of them are
canibals still and would practice their
gruesome rites if it were not for their
dread of the stern punishment that is
meted out to any who may be caught
eating human flesh. This is made q
crime by the laws of the Congo and is
punishable by death. Cannibalism
has been stamped out of the parts Of
the Congo along the coast and the
banks OF the great rivers, but there is
no doubt that 1t still f1ourishes in the
Free press., 1907-10-12
Conceit.

t'There goes the big-feelin'est man
in town." pessimistically said a citi-
zen of Pettyville, indicating with a con-
temptuous jerk of his thumb POM
pous-appearing parsonage who was
passing "He thinks 50 darned much
of himself that he won't loaf in a gro
Gerry store like ordinary foIks-if he
can't loaf in the ba2k he won't loaf
at ALL And, as far as I can see, he
amt so alfred better than some of
the rest Of US, neither!"-Puck.
Free press., 1907-10-12

says: Il had been
showing symptoms of
kidney trouble from
the time 1 was mus
tered out of the army.
but in all my life /
never suffered as in
1897. Headaches. diz-
ziness aud sleepless-
ness, first. and then
dropsy. Twas weak
and helpless, having
Free press., 1907-10-12
RICH MEN PLAN
AFRICAN EMPIRE
AMBITIOUS SCHEME IN WHICH
NEW YORK MlLLloNAIREs
WILL INJECT MONEY.
PARTNERS CT A MONARCH

Thomas 7. Ryan, James D. StiIlr1an,
john .. Rockefeller, Jr., and 9th
ers Fave Joined King Leopold in
Gf.ort to Open Up Dark Continent
and Incidentally to Turn Their
Millions Into Billions.
Free press., 1907-10-12
A TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE.
How Veteran Was Saved the Ampu-
tation of a Limb.

B. Frank Doremus. veteran, of
Roosevelt avenue. indianapolis. Ind.
Free press., 1907-10-12
Grammar and Grlnne.

A professor at the University Of
Virginia was endeavoring to impress
upon the youths Of his class the mon
strous crime of using the adverb
badly" where the adjective bad"
should be used.
Now" he said, after an exhaustive
explanation, eff a man should say to
you feel badly what would you
Think
It'd think he had the grippe, SIR"
responded the wag of the class.
Free press., 1907-10-12
How's This?

We Offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any
case OF Catarrh that cannot be cured by HaIl's
F.J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo. o.
We. the undersigned. have known F. j. Cheney
for the last Is years and believe him perfectly nom
orabte IN ali business transactions and financially
able carry out any obligations made by his firm.
WALDIgG. KINNAH d MARvIN,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo. o.
Hairs Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting
directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces OF Tie
system. Testimonials sent free. Price 15 cents per
bottle Sold by all Druggists.
Take Hairs Family Plsls 1Gr constipation
Even when a man pays cash for an
electric battery he wants it charged.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-07-04
ROCKEFELLER ACCEPTS
THE FEDERAL SERVICE
He Will Be at Chicago on Sat
urday to Answer.
A NEW ENGLAND SHERIFF.

Pittsfield. Mass, July 4.-John d.
Rockefeller emerged from his seclu-
sion on Taconic Farm Wednesday aft
ernoon and accepted service of the sub
poena to appear before Judge Kenesaw
Nj. Lands in the federal court in Chi
cago oAkaturday morning. 1t remain
ed for a lanky ex-sheriff of New Eng
land. simple in manner and appearance
to accomplish what the trained govern
ment men of the big cities had failed
in. Charles F. F'rink, deputy United
States marshal for the western district
of Massachusetts,. was the man. He
made the service at 1 o'clock this after
noon on the side porch of E. Parmel-
lee Prentice's country place, three
miles out.
Faced by the tall official form of the
deputy. Rockefeller rose to meet him
and accepted the subpoena with an air
of resignation.
Il had hoped TO arrange so that it
would not be necessary for me to take
this journey" he said but since it IS
I am perfectly willing to go.
| win be there. l am sorry to have
put you to all this trouble. Mr.. F'rink =
Mr. Rockefeller. it is said. will leave
for Chicago tonight.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-07-04
LONDON'S LORD MAYOR
LOANS PRIVATE CAR
Bed Placed in 1t For the Use
Of Mark Twain.
MEETS GEO. BERNARD SHAW

London, July 4-The Lord Mayor of
London has placed his private car at
Mark Twain's Samuel l.. Clemens)
disposition for his journey to Liver
pool. Twain laughed when he learned
that the Mayor had placed bed in the
car so that he could "snooze" on the
journey.
Twain and George Bernard Shaw
did not scintillate according to predic-
ton at Wednesdays luncheon in the
latter's flat Three others were invit-
ed to meet Twain, and it is probable
the depressing weather dampened the
conversation, which was confined to
such unprosaic topics as the rain.
Twain said that he had enjoyed
meeting Shaw, but did not see
enough of him to form an opinion.
Shaw gave me no opportunity"
said Twain. II guess | started handi-
capped because I knew so little of his
books. I've only read a part of one
play of his I found Shaw a hospita-
BILE host, and I liked his face, but |
had not chance to investigate his
mental machinery"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-07-04
SENSATION is CAUSED
Charges Made by a Contract
or at Chattanooga.

Chattanooga, Tenn, July i.-Charg-
ing that the board of governors at the
National Soldiers home at Johnson
City. Tenn. had expended from $4,000
to 100000 for buildings which he al
legged should have been constructed for
10000. j. E Parrish. contractor.
created a sensation here which will
probtbly bring on an investigation by
the federal authorities. Mr. Parrish
was answering a suit in the federal
court in which he was charged with
having sued for money to which he
was not entitled.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-07-04
JAP ANESE OWNER SUES
Wants Damages for Wreck.
ing of His Place.

San Francisco. July 4-Suit against
the city and county of San Francisco
was filed for the recovery of So 75 for
damages said to have been sustained
by the proprietor of the Horseshoe
restaurant and a Japanese bath house,
on May %. when row caused by an
attack by labor union men on two nom
union men who were eating in the res
taurant. resulted in the fronts of the
two places being smashed by stones
and clubs.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-07-04
INVASION OF JAPANESE
Three Thousand To Arrive in
British Columbia.

Victoria. b. c.. July At is expect
ed 3.OGO Japanese will arrive in Brit
ish Columbia during this month from
Japan and Honolulu. and as many. il
not more are expected in August. The
steamer kumerich viii bring the first
largest contingent of 1000 Japanese
from Honolulu To be followed BY other
steamers bringing similar number
The numbers being brought across the
Pacific are constantly increasing Five
from japan will have a total of over
900 on board