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The Glenwood post., 1908-11-21
FUNERAL OF BISHOP
EDWARD JENNINGS KNIGHT
Fl ON Tuesday,s Daily Post.

F1om Tuesday's Daily Post.
The gloom, which has lowered over
the city since Sunday morning became
heavier as the hour for the funeral of
Bishop Edward J. Knight drew closer.
At the request of Mayor Drach, many
of the business houses were closed this
afternoon from four to five-thirty and
the many friends of the deceased met
at st. Barnabas Episcopal church to
pay their last respects to the memory
of one who had grown so dear to all.
Bishop spaulding of Salt Lake had
charge of the first part of the beaut,-
full Episcopal service. His old class
mate was stilled by death. Indeed,
what must have been his sorrow as he
said the words, 80 oft repeated over the
remains of others, perhaps less dear to
him.
Tho service was simple, yet beautiful.
This was the wish Of ~ 1a&e bishsp
and his wife. But this very simplicity
made the service moro impressive.
From the church, the remains viii
be taken to the Colorado Midland de-
pot where they will be placed on east
bound number six and conveyed to
Trenton, n. J., the old home of the
deceassd. Tbe pail bearers were Judge
shumate Of Aspen, Major 8. J. DeLah
and Tseoaose Rosenberg Of this cit,
Rev. J. Wsllh OIL Of Grsnd Junction,
DPersy /. Usbsa Il New Oastle sad Rev
ArnolAus 1eSllsr - Noatsuss-
The Glenwood post., 1908-11-21

Bishop Spaulding of Salt Lake will
accompany Mrs. Knight and her sister
as far as Chicago, where they will be
met by Mr.. Hewitt. of Trenton, broth
met by Mr.. Hewitt of Trenton.
Funeral services will probably be
held in Trenton on Monday.
The Glenwood post., 1908-11-21
WATCHED FIFTEEN YEARS.

"For ffteenyears have watched
the working of Bucklen s Arnica Salve
and it has never failed to cure any
sore. boil, ulcer or burn 10 which it was
applied. 1t has saved us many doc
tor bill," says A. F. Hardy, of East
Wilton, Maine. 25c at all druggists.
The Glenwood post., 1908-11-21

Clearly the joke is on H. H. Rogers.
At the Standard Oil investigation
which Attorney General Hadley con
Quoted in New York three years ago
Mr.. Rogers sought to vex the Miss
ouri prosecutor by calling him sneer-
inely Governor Hadley" Remember
tha
The Glenwood post., 1908-11-21

bullet through him, should one Of the
officers come upon him as he was get.
ting away.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-10-18
THE THIRD LEGION.

Just after the treaty of Portsmouth
the newspapermen who had been in
Manchuria watching the armies of
Japan and Russia tight their great bat
ties, held a dinner-the dinner of the
Third Legion" Then they scattered
to the four heavens and the seven seas
Somewhere under diverse skies the
Third Legion is mastering, awaiting
the final gathering of the war clouds
in the Balkans.
What tales they could tell which
have not appeared in print-tales of
romance, tales of narrow escapes, of
strange tribes and feverships. They are
the men who know who Numbered,
who watch the unseen and unrecorded
springs which control world politics.
Theirs is a life of hardship, famine
and fever-of service unrequitted save
by the love Of the game. Wanderers
on the face of the earth-who know not
the next place to which they will be
called.
Romance is not yet dead in this day
of humdrum routine. The brothers in
arms, the soldiers of fortune and the
Third Legion are the last of a great
race-in other days men proclaimed
these heroes and the children of the
gods-today these are merely outcasts
and wanderers-men without a country
At any rate in event Of a war in the
Balkans-"Here's to the Third Legion
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-10-18

evil has ever existed and was particu-
larly marked in English universities.
Even granted the fact that these young
men do adopt that attitude toward in
stitutions of learning which fixes the
gentleman's mark at c what harm
3 does it do?
The reply is that these fellows de-
moralize the college, that they instill
spirit of discomfort, low ideals, and
laziness.
Is this true?
In the college community as mat
ter of fact, like attracts like, and these
fellows only demoralize themselves.
They have nothing to do with the seek
ers after learning as any one can learn
| by staying in college community for
| twenty-four hours. Those who prize
knowledge more look down on them.
Those who are of the same type with
less money may be jealous of them.
| But as matter of fact the more money
| which a man has has nothing to do
with the way that mans estimate is
taken in that college. If there be a
real democracy it is the college.
Since these ''loafers'' corrupt none
but themselves and are already cor
rupted to start with, is it not better to
try to make these fellows see that there
is something besides money and a
good time" in the worlds Is that not
the mission of the college?
The Evening Post does not make al
lowance for the fact that the son of a
rich man is just as apt to be stupid as
the next one. The ratio Of stupidity
in all walks of life is a rather invar-
liable quantity. Why should the stupid
rich man be rallied at, any more than
the stupid poor man.
The chances are that unless the in
come is derived from good investments
made by papa. that cannot be altered
that the son will lose it any way.
If the Post is making a crusade
agains stupidity, very well. If it is
making it against low scholarship, very
we'll. The mark that a man receives in
college is not true index to his char
acter. Not all the scholarship men win
the prizes outside of college by three
quarters of a jugfull.
Raise the standards of the colleges
If it is necessary to make them effect
i've, but at the same time it is we'll to
remember that college is not the lend
of all desire' There Is a hereafter
in the outside world which reckons
with incompetents, rich or poor.
| The job which the Post has taken
might be safely entrusted to that here
after.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-10-18
(By Ralph Whitesides.)

Washington, D. c., Oct. 1.-THE
legacy of ideas which Theodore Roose-
welt will leave to the public to con-
slider and to congress to wrestle with
will be second only to that which
George Washington and Alexander
Hamilton aggregated together into the
farewell address. President Roosevelt
may decide to bequeath some such ut
terance, setting forth in general his
ideas of the demands which present
economic and social conditions force
upon the consideration of the legisla-
tive branch of government. 1t is reas-
onably plain that II he does this, he
will provide all the program that the
government will need for some time
to come; vastly more than it will con.
slider If under the new order of things
1t decides to be less pushing about
its progressiveness.
With the assurance that his success
sor will look after the tariff, Pres
dent Roosevelt will be at liberty to
present his views about a vast array
of other questions. There are, for
example, the questions of inheritance
and income tax. The president has
declared himself as favoring both
these methods of siphoning off some
of the substance of swollen fortunes
If, in his message. he should serious
ly discuss these issues. and present
some ideas as to the progress Other
nations have made along these lines
he would leave legacy of working
opportunity, which statesmen would
not soon forget.
There is especially good excuse fol-
such a announcement at this time
because the government is going &c
need the money.
1t will be recalled that when the
President first suggested these means
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-10-18

stead of buying his side meat in Chi
cago and his hams in Cincinnati, the
southern farmer now lives at nome
and boards at the same place" The
farmer who raises fine cattle. sheep.
milk, butter, chickens, eggs. fruit,
vegetables, hogs. wheat, and corn on
his own plantation has solved the prob
lem of profitable farming and is be-
yond the reach of panics and above
financial depression.
The increase in the valre of farm
property in the last eight years is esti-
mated at Ss,OG0Oo0.oOO, or nearly nine
times the capital of the country's ma
tional banks. writer in The Manu-
facturers' Record states that the farms
of the south alone will this year yield
q production valued at nearly $1,000
OCg,00D. This is more than the total
production of the country In 1880 and
about the same amount that all the
states produced in 1s9O-only eighteen
years ago. In 1890 the SJ63.OGO per-
sons engaged in agriculture produced a
total Of - .466. 900. 0e0-S2ST per capita
The total production In 1907 was ST.
4i2.ooo.G0o-S61S per capita
Every one who has kept a close
watch upon events has noticed the
steady increase in the valuation Of
farming lands in the south. and II is
plain that this is justified b. the con
stantly increasing production and con-
sequent increase in profits.
With Improvement in methods Of
culture, the growth Of population and
ever-increaeing demand for food the f,i-
ture prosperity of the farmer seems to
be assured. Whatever political, social.
or Industrial changes may como. our
very existence is based on the farm, for
the farmer feeds US ALL
The telephone. the telegraph, rural
free delivery. good roads. and the ex-
tension of electric car lines are bring
ing the farmer into close touch with
his neighbors and his markets. Farm
life is becoming more and more sttrae-
tive year by year. and the farmer %
coming to realize that he Is not only an
| important factor In the country's life,
but the most Independent man In the
world.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-10-18
The Allegheny Mountains.

Not more than FIVE of our presidents
down to Lincoln's time ever crossed
the Allegheny mountains. and four of
these We're western men who had to
cross the mountains to reach Washing
ton-Presidents Jackson, Polk. Gen
eral w. Fl. Harrison and Taylor. Pres
ident Monroe crossed the mountains on
his return trip from west to east in
1917. Van Buren, came west in 1912,
two years after the expiration of bis
presidential term, and saw the noun.
tains then for the first time. 1t was
on this trip that he got upset and
dumped in the mud near Plainfield,
Hendricks county.-Exchange.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-10-18
THE STRIKE AND THE CAR.

The Balkan situation is as yet far
from being settled. The headlines pro-
claiming trouble in the Balkans has
been SO frequent that crisis 4O,S19 has
failed to create the stir which an i'm
minent war does as a rule.
The war bounced down with such
suddenness that no chance was given
to the quiet citizen to know exactly
what 1t is about. 1t is not often that
organized labor creates war aud still
less frequent that strike makes a
czar-but in the Balkans, all things are
possible.
There is running across Europe from
Paris to the near orient (Which is the
scene of such romances as Anthony
Hope and George Barr McCutchen are
pleased to write a railroad known as
the Oriental railway. This piece of
track runs east and west through the
once Turkish provinces. The railway is
undoubtedly Turkish property, in as
much as it is operated under a conces-
sion granted by the sultan which does
not expire until 1858. The company
| which holds the concession is under
Austrian protection and to further COM
plicate matters is largely financed by
German capital.
Like all railroads, this one is in par
ticular. had strike. During the strike
the operatives were replaced by Bull
garian soldiers. At the conclusion OF
the strike the Bulgarians refused to
retire from their point of vantage.
Thereupon the Turkish diplomatic
corps got to work and stated that mas
much as it had come to their knowl-
edge that no orders had been issued
to the Bulgarian troops to retire, "As
this step constitutes an infringement
of the proprietary rights of the imper.
| ial government with regard to the rail.
| Way-IlSntS guaranteed by the Berlin
treaty"
| Thereupon the Bulgarian diplomats
also got busy and replied that mas.
much as the company which owned the
railroad had asked for their taking
charge of the railroad. that the small
matter of giving it up was no concern
of the Turkish government, but mat.
ter to be decided between the officers OF
the Oriental railway and the minister:
of the Bulgarian principality.
The railroad line was not restored tt
the Turkish government and a slight
accident in Constantinople, such as the
omission Of Tia BULGARIAN Diplomatic
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picking job" And they smoked their
pipes and agreed some more.
THE RURAL POPULATION.


A short time ago the state of Iowa
was much concerned when it found
through the medium of its bureau of
statistics that although the material
wealth of the state had increased in
the country districts, that the popula-
ton was decreasing at a rapid rate.
Those who took stock in the race sui
eide" theory commenced writing mono
graphs on the subject until the state
authorities began to look into the sit
uation.
1t was found that unlike the states
of New England, where there are many
hundreds of abandoned farms, that the
fault lay in prosperity. The owners
of smaller farms had left the state to
seek for new homesteads and larger
farms because they had been bought
out by owners of larger farms who
were on that account more prosperous.
BY investing the proceeds from the sale
of these farms in the newly opened
lands of the farther west and removing
to the newer regions, the state of Iowa
had been noticeably depopulated.
Addison Harris in a speech of some
time ago before the Commercial club,
pointed out that in Wayne county the
rural population was no larger than it
was fifty years or SO ago.
This is a condition not only prevail
ing but advancing all over the country
except, perhaps, in the south in the
cotton regions, where field labor is
much used. In a great degree this has
been brought about by the manufacture
and invention of more efficient agricul-
tural implements.
The days when thirty men or more
were needed at a "thrashing'' have
gone, and now very few are employed
on account Of the perfection Of thresh-
ing machinery.
However there is one section of the
country in which this condition does
not hold good. That is in Maryland
and Delaware.
Farming such as has been conducted
up to this time almost exclusively in
the United States is on the extensive
plan. The intensive or truck garden"
| methods which have been in force in
the old countries are just beginning
to be used now in the low coastal plain
of the Atlantic coast.
There is a problem which will have
to be answered, can machinery and i'm
plements be invented which will take
the place of the man in intensive farm
ing. 1t will not be long until the man
ufacturers will wake up to the solution
of this problem. For it is certain that
ultimately at the rate OF growth of
population intensive farming will be
on the increase in this country. Will
men have to be employed to make this
machinery for intensive farming or
will man still have to be the machine
That will determine whether the
country population will grow or de-
crease.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-10-18
COLLEGE UNDEsiRAeLEs,

The New York Evening Post has
taken occasion to make the Inaugural
ton of President Garfield, of Williams
College, the outbreak against what 1t
is pleased to call 1.-The elegant young
gentlemen without intellectual ambi-
ton or moral purpose"
For two decades at least" 1t says,
1.-The Philistines have been invading
our eastern colleges. The general in
crease in wealth and spread of luxur-
ious habits, during that time have been
species Of hangers-on-they cannot
properly be called members-of our
educational institutions, who are a dis
grace to themselves and the colleges
that harbor them. We do not mean the
openly vicious. With them it is usually
easy to deal sternly."
Much of what the Post has said Is
true and perhaps even the indictment
ments are not high enough. The
charges against the idle rich are as
pertinent in college as out-for the col
| lege fails if it be not a miniature world
| in itself.
And yet there is another side to that
shield. One would suppose from the
Indictment that the colleges were full
of that sort of thing-a thing which q
public which looks cynically on the
output of the college is only too willins
to believe. It is not true that the re.
quirements for admission to colleges
are growing easier-nor is it true thai
the standard of scholarship is being
lower. AS matter of fact they hav.
been raised and tightened in the las
twenty years to great degree.
i II the evil were indeed, new one
1t would indeed be serious. But tn,
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-10-18
SOUTH AWAKEhS
TO OPPORTUNITIES
Conditions Among Farmers of
The Dixie Land Change
For the Better.
MILLIONS IN THE CROPS
DAY OF OLD FASHIONED FARMER
IN SOUTH HAS PASSED AND
THEY ARE NOW WIDE AWAKE
AND ENERGETIC.

Baltimore, Md, Oct. 1.-THE rapid
industrial growth of the south in the
last two decades has diverted attention
from the remarkable increase in its
agricultural production The erection
of cotton mills, furniture factories.
and steel plants has not been at the
expense of the farms. On the contrary.
the farmer has improved his methods
of cultivation and extended the titled
area until he has added another agri-
cultural empire.
Not only has the cotton crop con-
tinually increased in value until the
past year ii brought over 100000, eco
but the cotton-seed products now bring
S66, 134, $50 a year, while the produc-
ton of corn. wheat, rice, sugar cane
hay, alfalfa, ETC., has largely increased
A few years ago cotton was almost
the sole crop of many farmers in the
south. Now they are diversifying
and fruit growing. cattle raising. dairy
ing, and the raising of vegetables and
poultry fer the city markets have
brought large profits to the farms. The
raising of Strawberries, grapes pota
toes, lettuce, tomatoes, and truck
growing generally have brought pros
perity to entire sections that once lived
from hand to mouth The growing Of
melons, peaches. and apples in Georgis
and the Carolinas has made these
states great fruit producers, while tht
apples grown in certain belts of Vir
ginia and West Virginia are sought fo
everywhere at profitable prices.
Nv raising more of his SUPPLIES. in
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-10-18
Roosevelt May Leave Legacy :.e
of Ideas to the United States

of raising revenue and also OF check
ing the aggregation Of wealth the
treasury was showing an annual sur
plus which a couple of generations
ago would have been ample to meet
the annual budget of the public.
There was mighty little apparent ex-
cuse for levying new taxes. But to-
day IL is different. Not only Is there
a troublesome deficit. but there is
prospect that 1t will continue for some
time.
Somebody got the weird idea that
the Washington monument would
make a splendid place for wireless
telegraph station. Lieutenant Com
mander Cleland Davis, u. s. N. sent
the suggestion to the war department
officials, who referred II to the presi-
dent, who quickly put his foot down
| on it. When 1t was first suggested
that the great monolith he transform
ed into telegraph office considerable
opposition was expressed on the
ground that such an act would be a
slur on American patriotism. 1t was
/
would disfigure the shaft
Adherents of the plan declared that
the only external evidence of the
wireless apparatus would be a band of
some sort of material with antennae
near the apex of the shaft. This. 1t
was said, would not be visible from
the ground. as the band would be
| painted white.
Members of the signal corps, U. s.
| A., with whom Commander Davis dis
cussed his project. declined to consid-
| er the proposition until IL had been
! laid before the president. Many en-
inent officials approved the plan. and
/ Elliott Woods. superintendent of the
! capitol, VINO has made extensive per-
sonal experiments, declared the monu.
ment would make an ideal station
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-10-18
DEMOCRACY IN pIscREDIT.

The American people will never
trust the democratic party under the
present leadership. This is the over
shadowing fact In contemporary poll
tics. 1t renders all of Mr.. Bryan's
contortions and all Of Chairman
Mack's boasts vain. 1t may be said
that the 100000 or 100000 demo
cratic voters are part OF the American
people. but it Is entirely safe to pre-
dict that il, under its present aus
pieces the democratic party ever gets
formidable enough to have a chance
to carry the presidency enough sane
intelligent, conservative democrats
will come over to the republicans to
avert the calamity of a democratic
victory. We have seen in the past
four years democrats In congress
often drift to the republican side
when important measures seemed TO
be in danger from indifference or
from hostility. 1t would be the same,
scale If the national democracy
should at any time develop enough Re.
publican supremacy in the presidency
and in congress. Inertia, apathy or the
claims of regularity keep men in the
democratic party who have no conf
dence in the present democratic lead
ers, and who are opposed, to the dem
ocratic policy, but let crisis come
when victory would seem to be within
reach of those leaders, and then there
would be such swing of patriotic
democrats to the democratic side AZ
would prevent the disaster of demo
cratic supremacy.
A. third of century ago and later
on the situation was different. Mil
lions of intelligent. level headed, pa
triotic men voted for Tilden and foi
Cleveland. In each of mis- three can