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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-03-26
SHOWING A GOOD ONE.

The report of General Manager
Mummert, of the Indiana Car Service
association, shows that in the month
of March, up to date, 1887 loaded
cars have been handled by this bu-
reau, with an average detention of / SO
days. This is one of the best exhibits
made by this organization, since it
was organized and that in winter
month as well. The movement of cars
was the best of any of the thirty
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-03-26
THE MAGAZINES.
When France Honored Dreyus.
Vance Thompson in Success Maya

Wneh france 7oncred DrcyfuS.
ltFance Thompson in Success Maya
zine.'1
Then came the summer of rewards
Raised in rank. Dreyfus was given a
post of confidence; he was placed in
command of the service of mobilization
at Vineennes; little later he was
given full command of the artillery at
Saint Denis, where he is his own
chief. His cousin. Grumbach. was
promoted and-it was shrewd blow
at the anti-Semites-given charge of
the Bureau of Information so that he
has control of the entire system of
espionage. Marie-Georges Picquart
was advanced with extraordinary
rapidity; he was made Colonel: within
few months he was made Brigadier-
General; then General: and as | write
he is Minister of Wharf.-The real head OF
the army Zola was dead: but with
great state and national honors. his
body was laid away in the Pantheon
where Carnot and Hugo and the great
citizens of France sleep their last
sleep. Joseph Reinach was given a
seat in Parliament; Clemenceau was
made Prime Minister-oh. rewards
rained upon those who had fought the
good fight. Nor was vengeance less
ample. The Patty de CLANS were driv-
en- from the army; and the AK fell right
and left, upon the heads of the old
generals, the epauleted forgers. the
vicious and prejudiced men of state
and men of law.
After the crime, the punishment: and
that is well.
A strange and tragic history.
And now that it is told what
thought comes home to you? My
thought is this: Surely this mans
martyrdom was as somber and pitiless
as that of the medieval saints who
were tried by fire; but more marvel
Gus still was the patient heroism-he-
roism silent and great-with which he
bore the torture of the years.
Is he great soldier? | do not know:
he has never fought. What one may be
sure of is the innate heroism of the
man-steady. unbreakable, quiet as
stone. OF him, some day. the world
will make a legend. In the meantime,
you have read the truth.
The Muck-Rake i'm Fiction
Inc DOOln Is W
affect the value of fiction. OF course
this was to be expected, for though
fiction is like real estate in that it is
late to respond to bull markets, it al
ways does reflect them; not perhaps,
in its city property $50 to say but at
least in its suburban lots and specula-
tive subdivisions. 1t was pretty bad
a year or two ago, when all the minor
lady novelists were bent upon solv-
ing the labor question. But that was
nothing to what fiction threatens to be
if all our young men take to pointing
out, under the guise of love stories,
what unutterable Founders the rich
really are The world is full of rich
Founders. and before now they have
made good models for excellent fic-
ton: but the writer's were interested
in them as human beings and not as
texts-'A Row of Books" in April
Everybody's.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-03-26
SAFETY PAPER TICKETS.

Through the medium and efforts OF
the American association of general
passenger agents, it is probable that
the local ticket office Will soon re-
ceive a large number of new tickets
printed on so called safety paper"
All will be the same kind. The pres.
ent stock of tickets will not be dis
pensed with till they are sold.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-03-26

The next time some one tries to i'm
press you with the accuracy of the
grounding theory in relation TO the
continuance of winter ysu will be in
position TO call him a name that
implies lack of truthfulness. It was
dow this year and that there would
be six more weeks of winter, but the
whole business is knocked endways.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-03-26
The Fortune Tempted,

A we'll known British nobleman was
actually engaged to Miss Coutts, but
on her challenging him one day wheth-
er il was her personality or her great
fortune which appealed to him he
frankly acknowledged that although
he was much attached to her, her vast
property had been his special induce
ment In betrothing himself.
Her reply was characteristic: Let
US then remain the best of friends in
stead of being the poorest of lovers.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-03-26
AGREE ON ADVANCE.

Traffic officials both east and west
have agreed upon an advance in gen
eral freight rates averaging from two
to ten per cent. This increase will ap
ply to nearly all the important com
modities. The committee in charge OF
the arrangement of rates has an,
nounced that the new schedule will
go into effect May i.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-03-26

1t has become so much the custom
to send keepsakes and remembrances
to ones friends on holidays that ones
purse is agape almost all the year
round. This Easter season the shop
keepers have been most consfderate
and prices for all purses is the rule
in more than one store that makes a
speciality of appropriate gifts.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-03-26
News of the Railroads
Local and General
az
o. OWEN KUHN

enght organizations of this character
in the country, and speaks well for
the management of the company and
the attention its Representatives are
paying to see that cars are moved
promptly.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-03-26

Each year the poultry business is
becoming more lucrative and is as
Stunning proportions that will soon riy-
al any branch of farm industry. Farm
ers are forced to acknowledge that the
old hen can lift her own weight when
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-03-26

Most fortunate are the children and
young men and women who are privi-
legged to attend school in this city, for
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-03-26

A proposed new beatitude: Blessed
are they that elothe and clense the
body for they give the soul chance.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-03-26

ages equal. if they do not surpass
those of any city of like size and
many of greater size.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-03-26

it comes to helping raise mortgage
from the farm.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-06
DEAD LETTERS

A New York business man, while In
Chicago recently, was expecting a
money order letter in day or two. In
order to avoid any difficulty in identi-
fication, he went TO a clerk in the post
office and said:
'T am expecting a money order to
the amount Of $100, and my name is
Thomas Blank Here are lot Of let
ters addressed to me from various
places You will observe the post
marks. So, you see, If am not the
man claim to4be, / must have mur-
dered that man and possessed myseiI
of his letters, and am now personating
him. AS that is not likely, you must
admit that / am the man."
The New Yorker, having delivered
himself of the foregoing. left the post
office. In a few days the money order
came, and the man from New York
repaired to the office to get his order
cashed. He expected to find the clerk
ready for him, but at first the clerk did
not recollect him. Presently the New
Yorker succeeded in recalling himself
to the mans memory.
"Oh, yes" said the clerk, quite seri-
ously, you're the chap that murdered
the other man!"-Harper's Weekly
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-06
THE USUAL THING

Here, now! what in gigadab is all this
about?,' demanded the Average
Citizen, thrusting his head out of Sec
ond story window of his domicile and
glaring Indignantly down at the disturoer
below. who are you, and why In the
name OF the bird with the broad and
sweeping wing are you trying to break
into my house?"
II am Opportunity knocking at your
door" was the reply. KINDLY descend
at once and admit me before 1t is everlast-
ingly too late. / am in great haste as,
despite my best efforts, am running far
behind my schedule time"
"WeIl, then, glide along, rolling your
hoop and disposing of your War Cries.,
somewhat sarcastically answered the Az
erage Citizen. "You will have to get
yourself identified before you can do any
business with me. I have been led to be-
lieve that you must bear marked re-
semblance to a page advertisement In a
Sunday newspaper and make noise IKE
an investment which is guaranteed to pay
dividend of 40 per cent in the near
future. Possibly YOU are all that you
claim to be, but you look more like HARD
Work to me."-Puek.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-06
WORTHY EXPERIMENT

~ TUDENTS of sociology all over the
world will watch with deep in
NJ terest the progress of a scheme
inaugurated by Boston philanthropists
to establish group of cotton mills to
be capitalized for $2,50O000 and sur
rounded by model tenements.
The proposition is that the company
shall build houses and sell them to the
workmen, instead of compelling its
operatives to live in them at so good al
rental that fair income would accrue
from this item of rent alone. In COM
menting on this undertaking the Brook
lyn Eagle says that in Ealing and
Garden City. near London, this plan
has been tried and it appears to work
to a charm, while beneficent paternal-
ism in Pullman has not been an over
whelming success.
The English plan comprises the erec-
ton of comfortable cottage at low
cost, which the tenant pays for, lump
sum down, and monthly installments
after. He makes all interior repairs
while he is paying for it, while the
company makes those outside. The
money paid by the operatives is banked
by the company, apart from its own
capital, and if circumstances justify it
there is an annual distribution of in
terest on the sum in hand, each tenant
therefore becoming stockholder, not
in the company. but in the town.
In order to prevent the invasion of
non-employes, the company does not
deed the property to the tenant, even
after he has paid for it; but IL he
leaves its employ, or If his neighbors
find him SO undesirable citizen as TO
ask for his removal, he RECEIVERS a part
OF his investment by the sale of his
stock back to the company or to any
neighbor who may be willing to take it.
AS for health, the figures bearing
upon that in the model factory viii
lagos of England are. eloquent, and
would be equally so in this country il
we had the model villages. While the
death rate in Liverpool last year was
22.e per 1000. a few miles away al
Port Sunlight and Garden Suburb
where this cooperative system is ir
vogue and where every house and every
person has room, the death rate wa.
but 9. In three big cities, like Bir.
mingham, where the residents ~ arr
crowded, where they live in dust anC
darkness and are overhung by pal
OF soft coal smoke year in and out, thu
death rate Of infants under a yea
varies from 1877 to 274 per thousand
whereas in the cooperative settlemen
of Bonneville it is but 6s per thou
sand.
In the famous factory in DAYTON. 70
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-06
COAST DEFENSES OF PEACE
From the Now York Sun

TN less than 200 years this country
has marched from the position of
having no aids to navigation, to
being. in proportion to her coast line, the
most perfectly protected country in the
world.
Historic and possibly first in order in
difficulty in construction is Minots
ledge, near Boston. On this lonely rock
awash with the tide at low water, and
covered at high water, lighthouse was
erected in 1S4S of iron piles.
In 1851 the house was swept away, and
all in it at the time--a keeper and two
assistants-lost their lives. In 1860 the
last stone of the present structure was
laid, completing one of the greatest stone
lighthouses In the world.
Work could be done only at low water.
Blasting and cutting rock hardly Dig
enough for the lighthouse itself, con-
slant Interference with wind and sea.
made the laying of every fresh block OF
stone a new and unsolved problem. MI
nots ledge light today. one of the lone
liest lighthouses In existence, is still
triumph although some other structures
since erected have equaled 1t In diff
Guilty.
An Engineering Problem
Spectacle reef, for instance, in Lake
Huron, was an engineering problem,
the solution of which was watched by
the engineers of the world. Even when
in 1873 the structure was completed, ev-
cry one predicted that the terrible ice
push of the winter would sweep 1T away.
but the man who built 1t, Gen. o. M.
Poe, had wrought with Ginning hand.
The masonry courses were so fitted to-
gether and so strongly and securely bolted
that a minimum ejaculation showed 1t to
be even stronger than a shaft of solid
stone. The ice is first crushed by the inn
pact on an outer stone structure. Thus
broken it grounds in the seven feet of
water on the reef and protects the house
from the force of other Ice.
Ten miles from the nearest land, and
with ice and waves having fetch of ITO
miles TO LIE southeast, 1t is In q pitifully
unprotected position. In 1874 when the
keepers returned for new season they
found ice piled forty feet high around 1T.
Fowey rocks lighthouse, in Florida,
was hardly less difficult In construction
than Spectacle reef. 1t Is steel struc-
ture built on iron piles driven ten feet into
living coral rocks. 1t is at the extreme
iorth point of the Florida reefs
The work was so interrupted by stress
of weather that at last platform was
built over the foundation piles twelve
feet above the water, and force of
workmen left there for days at time,
working when they could get material, at
other times waiting with what patience
they could for the weather to allow the
supply tugs to tow out new girders and
plates for the work to continue.
An Oregon Light
Perhaps one of sthe most spectacular
lighthouse achievements of the service
is the light on Tillamook rock, Oregon.
This apparently impossible feat was ac-
under tremendous difficulties.
Tillamook rock is small. abHupt rock
formation one mile from the mainland.
The sides are so precipitous and so in
hospitab,e that even in calm weather the
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-06

EIT AM GUILTLESS!" is the an
made by Louis Glass to the
sentence of five years in the
penitentiary imposed by Judge Law
Tor. In the ordinary walks of life
men take chances with wrong, and
being caught cry "I am guiItless!" and
pass on to other wrongs, simply be-
cause no punitive effect follows the
wrong. The shame and disgrace of
Glass lis the shame and disgrace Of
California, and the only trouble in it all
is to get men to see that opportunity
given them to do good, If turned to
crime, involves the body polite. If
Glass crime could be bruited and con-
doned in private life 1t would pass as
capital joke, but being blazoned to
the world through courts 1t is a cer-
tain mark of disgrace.
1t is possible Louis Glass and his
personal friends look upon the whole
affair as accidental and do not grasp
the national movement that made
conviction possible. Herein, if true,
they err.
The time has arrived when men may
no longer firt with public wrong and
expect to escape punishment. There
are many who will sympathize with
Class and take his sentence as mis-
carriage of justice; but the keen busi-
ness man will recognize popular con-
demnation and see through the ap-
parent sacrifice the triumph of law.
IN the social circles frequented by
Glass men and women will inveigh
against the sentence. but the fact
stands out that Glass bribed public
officials and he must suffer.
OF all good things that have come
to San Francisco-and the state at large
1.-The conviction and punishment of a
so-called capitalist is the greatest. The
people are vindicated--so is the law.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-06

Railway travel in twenty states will
be made much safer after October 1.
The working hours of railway teleg-
raphers employed in those states will
be reduced from twelve, and in some
instances fourteen, to eight. The rec
ord of wrecks with its appalling list Of
dead and injured because some over
worked and heavy-eyed operator had
given the wrong signal or failed to
deliver train order has long been u
disgrace to American railways. An
effort will be made to secure the pass
age of an eight-hour law in California
during the next session Of the legisla-
ture 1t is needed measure and one
which should no longer be postponed.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-06
ROMANCE AND REALITY

Hawthorne tells the story of an Ital-
Ian scientist who accustoms his daugh-
ter to poisons until she thrives on what
would kill others. But, alas, her blood
becomes so impregnated with poison
that she becomes an agent of destruc-
ton to all with whom she comes In con-
tact. She breathes on a rose and 1t
shrivels and falls. Noxious flowers alone
may bloom in her garden, tropical
blossoms whose perfume intoxicates the
rash invader and drugs him into the
sleep of death. But while the Dllgnt
of death rests upon the garden and Its
beauty there. This is the romancists
dream.
The basal conception of the romance
is found exemplified in a story from
real life which has just become known.
A woman has been discovered In New
York who Is believed to have carried
typhoid fever wherever she went for the
last five years. If theories of physicians
are as reported and are correct sne mas
been distributing death by her mere
presence, and all the while unconscious
of the fact If 1T is true that germs OF
typhoid fever may remain In the system
for ten or, twenty years, as doctors as
sert. 1t does not follow that such a
person, is dangerous. Typhoid bacilli
usually enter the system through the
alimentary canal, and only degree OF
uncleanliness repulsive to contemplate
in a cook could account for the pres
ence OF the bacilli in the food. 1t is the
theory of some physicians that typholo
fever may be conveyed, like yellow
fever, by insect bites, but tnat is nos
proved. In whatever way the typhoid
poison is brought to the victim the
reality is hopelessly inferior in delicacy
and beauty to the imagination OF the
writer of romances.-Chicago Tribune
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-06

instance, where the owner has provided
libraries, schools, bathrooms. gardens.
restaurants, playrooms. picnics, lee
lures, music and goodness knows what
all, these benefactions were rewarded
by one of the ugliest strikes on record,
because the shop towels were washed
by some old women who did not be-
long to the anion In the settlement
of Leclaire. where the employees of q
big manufacturing concern have been
admitted to an interest in the enter
prise, and where much is done for the
health and comfort, not merely of the
operatives, but Of their wives and chill
dren, the same thing happened when
the walking delegate ordered work to
cease.
These are temporary setbacks, how
ever, because in the long run it has
been and always will be found that
cleanliness. order, security and intelli-
gence pay; and these are not well
served by short tenancies, or the hap
hazard selection of employees. The man
who has home has a concern for the
common welfare that the mere drifter
can never acquire. And the employing
corporation is safer when the men In
it's pay are home makers and home
lovers, than when it's shops are filled
with the cheap labor of Europe, every
man anxious only to make enough to
return to the old world and live for the
rest of his days in idleness. If the Bos-
ton dream becomes experiment 1t will
mean much to Boston, but 1t will mean
more to the country.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-06

(, landing is exceedingly dangerous, so tha'
on the first attempt TO put WORKING
party on the rock the foreman LOST ms
| life.
The party did not land and 1t was dini-
cult thereafter to get the skilled LABOR
necessary. but at last in 1879 nine men
succeeded in landing with provisions ano
tools. Building themselves a strong
| shelter. boited to the rock, they set u
work. Blasting had TO be done to get tne
foundation, supplies and stone ana tools
| and apparatus had to be landeo irol'
ships involving much difficult engineer.
| ing and many hairbreadth escapes pu'
after eighteen months of labor the struc
| ture was completed.
Less spectacular, but hardly Tess
in Importance to the mariner are .ue
lesser lights-the post lignts, WIZ
have made river navigation ana espe-
cially Mississippi river Navigation pus-
sible at night, the buoys when ma, "
the channels OF rivers and harbors, tne
bell and whistling buoys which mar y
prominently the places to aVoio IN
foes and mists, the fog horns, SIRENS,
Daboll trumpets, which are an intes 70, =
part of many lighthouse statlohs, a
the day beacons or ranges py WhteAi
navigation is assisted
The service includes forty-two steuit
tenders, the business OF wnlcn ~
nIace and to replace buoys, take sl. thSli
to buoy depots for painting ana rep tfon :
ing. supply lights stations with ratlons
and coal oil and apparatus, ana gem
erally maintain the service.
Forty-Nine Lightships
Tho lighthouses are supplemented py
the lightship, of which there are NV
forty-rrine in position and eieVeh ~
relief. These vessels are IN eHecl ~
floating lighthouses, placed rde va
Inc, reefs and shoals in much traveieei
water. The most famous ana oreaueo
of these are the Diamond shoals those
Terrible sand banks off Cape Hatteras.
Here. where it storms almost the year
ro,,nd a ship is constantly maintained; a
cantain a mate. two engineers ana "a
crew of fourteen men living FOR three
months at time a life cut on apsoiu.eiy
from communication of every Kino' II one
excerpts infrequent mail and the wlreiess
station. What a blessing the naval es-
tahIishment of a wireless station on these
Iiybtships is to the crew, only one VINO.
like the writer, has lived with them, can
know.
what a safeguard the wireless is can
be easily appreciated when 1t is stated
that a. wireless message brought rehel
shin to the Nantucket shoals ship just IN
time to rescue the crew last year be1ore
the ship, storm wTecked, went down pc
meath her men. Half an hour later, IN
deed five minutes later, some say, ana
another tragedy would have been added
to the list of marine disaster.
1t is of particular interest at this time
to know that the Diamond shoals light
ship may soon be a thing of the past.
Early this spring the department of COM
merce and labor is to decide finally on
the exact location for a Diamond shoals
lighthouse, which congress has author-
ized Captain Eels of Maine to build at
his own expense.