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The Huttig news., 1908-02-01
PRIZE AND PREMIUM FAKEs.
Bait Held Out to Catch the Trade Of
 the Unsophisticated.

Prize and premium offering are methods that are resorted to by some concerns that seek to do business through the mails with people resid- ing in agricultural districts. The wise people will never be caught on this game. All classes and kinds of goods have a real value, and are worth So much in the markets of the world. The farmer who has 1000 bushels of wheat to sell knows that his goods have fixed value dependent upon the market prices. It would be foolish for him to offer to the buyer as an in- ducement a few head of cattle, bar rel of cider or slab of bacon in order to induce him to buy. Yet these very farmers will bite at proposition which is identically the same in prin- ciple. The manufacturer of soap of- fers ten dollars worth of soap and to the buyers give piece of furniture of the value of ten dollars. Is this fair business deal? Can the manufacturer afford to do it if his goods are stand ard? He may say that by selling di
 rect ito the consumer, and cutting out middlemen's profits," he can afford to do so. But this is lie, flimsy excuse, and is not in accordance with sound business principles. There must be profit for the manufacturer or he will fail. He does make profit. He even makes a larger profit than the average dealer in goods of his kind. In the first place he sells the cheapest kind of article, even though it may look nice and be highly per fumed. In the second place he gives light weight and gets the highest given is always misrepresented, ex- aggerated, and that which is supposed to be worth ten dollars is not worth four dollars, and for the latter amount can be purchased from any respectable dealer. The premium is never free It must be paid for and it is the one who receives it that generally pays for it. Mrs. Jones would wonder if Grocer Brown would ask that she give half pound of feathers with every dozen eggs he buys of her. Mrs. Jones has too much common sense to think that she can afford to give away pound of butter with each dozen eggs. She knows she would be loser. But if she could induce the grocer to pay her 40 cents a dozen for her eggs when the market price is only 20 cents, she she might see how it would be profit able to her to throw in as a premium a pound of over-ripe butter. Still Mrs. Jones will join soap clubs, coffee clubs, and fakes in the premium line of every kind, just because she does
The Huttig news., 1908-02-01

MT. Herbert Knox Smith, whose zeal in the cause of economic reform has been in no wise abated by the panic which he and his kind did so much to bring on, is out with an answer to President Moffett, of the Standard Oil Con- pany of Indiana. The publication of this an- swer, it is officially given out, was delayed sev- eral weeks, "for business reasons" because it was not deemed advisable to further excite the public mind, which was profoundly dis turbed by the crisis. Now that the storm clouds have rolled by, however, the Commits sioner rushes again into the fray.
 Our readers remember that the chief points in the defence of the Standard Oil Company, as presented by President Moffett, were CD that the date of six cents on oil from Whiting to East St. Louis has been issued to the, Standard Oil Company as the lawful rate by employees of the Alton, (2) that the 18-cent rate on file with the Interstate Commerce Commission was aclass and not co smt tccaf tcafts pever being ihtende0 lU app1y IU Ulf. -t5J tndr Uif shipped in large quantities between Whiting and East St. Louis over the Chicago & East ern Illinois at 6A cents per hundred pounds, which has been filed with the Interstate Con- merce Commission as the lawful rate, and (4) that the 1S-cent rate on oil was entirely out of proportion to lawful rates on other commodi- ties between these points of similar char
  as linseed oil the lawful rate on which was eight cents. President Moffett also stated that thousands of tons of freight had been sent by other shippers between these points under substantially the same conditions as governed the shipments of the Standard Oil Company.
 This defence of the Standard Oil Company was widely quoted and has undoubtedly exert ed a powerful influence upon the public mind. Naturally the Administration, which has staked the success of its campaign against the trusts" upon the result of it's attack upon this company, endeavors to offset this infu- ence, and hence the new deliverance of Con- missioner Smith.
 We need hardly to point out that his rebut- tai argument is extremely weak although as strong, no doubt, as the circumstances would warrant He answers the points made by Presi- dent Moffett substantially as follows: CD The Standard Oil Company had traffic department, and should have known that the siX-cent rate had not been filed, (2) no answer, (3) the Chi cago & Eastern Illinois rate was a secret rate because it read, not from Whiting, but from Dolton, which is described as "a village of about 1,5O0 population just outside of Chicago. Its only claim to note is that it has been for many years the point of origin for this and similar secret rates." The Commissioner ad- mits in describing this rate that there was note attached stating that the rate could also be used from Whiting.
 The press has quite generally hailed this statement of the Commissioner of Corpora tions as conclusive refutation of what is evi- dently recognized as the strongest rebuttal argument advanced by the Standard.
 In fact, it Is as weak and inconclusive as the remainder of his argument. The lines of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois do not run into
The Huttig news., 1908-02-01

Local Dealer Sometimes to Blame.
 Thousands of dollars go out of lief ferson county each year in connection with the mail order business, to the loss of the local dealers ard manu- lecturers. It does not help very much to appeal on the ground of patriot ism to those people who buy of outside dealers, as purchasers go where they think they can find the best bargains. Every one must recognize the fact that the local dealer cannot prosper without local trade, but there are lot of people who fail to govern them selves accordingly. Orders for goods are sent to Syracuse or New York or Chicago which could have been as cheaply bought in Watertown, but this is frequently the local dealers fault. The great success of the big mail or der houses has been built up almost wholly by advertising. Fortunes are spent in letting the people of the coun- try know what they have to sell. Lib eral space in the newspapers and mag azines is used to exploit the mail or der business in addition to the cata- logues issued. These are the avenues through which the houses draw a large part of their business.
 Is there not lesson here for the local dealer? Cannot he hold some of the business which goes to the outside mail order houses by judicious use of the columns of the local newspapers? The Watertown newspapers have a large circulation through the towns and rural districts of northern New York. The Standard believes the local merchants and manufacturers could divert much of this trade to them selves if they took the proper meth ods. The Standards interests are wholly with the local dealer and these suggestions are made with the firm conviction that he has remedy for his loss of trade in local advertising.- Watertown (N. Y.) Standard.
The Huttig news., 1908-02-01
Point Too Frequently Overlooked.

If five thousand people reside with in certain town or district, and these people send away to some distant place $100 per day, it represents a loss that would not be offset by fac tory located in the neighborhood that would give employment to 40 hands. Here is point that is too often over looked by commercial and booster" clubs. Efforts are made to secure fac tories for place, and the fact is over looked that citizens who form the hab- it of trading away from home daily seud away perhaps four times the amount that would be paid in wages by the factory.
The Huttig news., 1908-02-01
Keep Money at Home.

By patronizing home industries pec- ble prevent mony going to other sec tions of the country. Dollars sent to a distant place for commodities that can be produced, and often are pro- duced at home, is money gone from local circulation, and which is not likely to ever return. It is the keep
 ing of the wealth produced in a To- cality that makes that locality rich.
The Huttig news., 1908-02-01
Morayran aarley and Sneltz.

two great cereals, makes growing and fat tening hogs and cattle possible in Dak, Mont, Ida, Colo, yes, everywhere. and add to above Salzer's Billion Dollar Grass, the l2 ton Hay wonder Teosinte, which produces 80 tons of green fodder per acre, other rare farm seeds that they offer.
 JUST CUT THIS OUT AND RETURN IT with loc in stamps for packing, etc., to the John A. Salzer Seed Co.,, La Crosse, Wis, and get their big catalog and lots of farm seed samples. K. < w.
The Huttig news., 1908-02-01
Would Benefit Mail Order Houses.

A parcels post threatens the contin. uance of the country stores business by enlarging the opportunity of the mail order houses. Who will spring and box of sawdust-together with the little red schoolhouse, joint palladia of our liberties ?-Providence (R. I.l Bulletin.
The Huttig news., 1908-02-01

This is the law of benefits between men: The one ought to forget at once what he has given; the other ought never to forget what he has received. -Sonnca
The Huttig news., 1908-02-01
Don't Delay

The season of coughs and colds is not yet past-they will be prevalent for some months to come. Do not neglect or experiment with them. Use the safe and sure remedy-Simmons Cough Syrup. It heals the soreness and stops the cough.
The Huttig news., 1908-02-01

Don't worry about your complexion take Garfield Tea, the Herb laxative ant 5lood-purifer! An improvement will b' seen in a week.
The Huttig news., 1908-02-01

What you cannot avoid, learn to bear. True happiness is cheap, did we but apply to the right merchant for it-Hytche.
The Huttig news., 1908-02-01

ONLY ONE "BROMO oUININE" That is LAXATIVE PROMO OUININE Look fo, the signature of E. w. GROVE. Used the World over to Cure Cold in One Day 25c
The Huttig news., 1908-02-01

Do good constantly, patiently and wisely, and you will never have cause to say that life was not worth living,
The Huttig news., 1908-02-01

PILES CURED IN TO IA DAYS. PAZO OINTMENT is e2 aranteed to euro any cas of Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles il to IA days or money refunded. 60c.
The Huttig news., 1908-02-01

Talk is cheap-unless a lawyer is handing it out.
The Huttig news., 1908-02-01

It's sweeping assertion to say that a new broom sweeps clean.
The Huttig news., 1908-02-01
Many Old People Suffer from

e''y 0FU eUP!e 0UIIeT rom Bronchial Affections particularly at this time of year. Browns Bronchial Troches give immediate relief
The Huttig news., 1908-02-01
The Reason for Marrvino.

"They say that he married her for her money"
 And what did he do when she lost her wealth."
 "He lost his reason.'-Harvard Lampoon.
The Huttig news., 1908-02-01

It's easy for the average man to make a bad break.
The Huttig news., 1908-02-01

Taylor's Cherokee Remedy of Sweet Gum and Mullen is Natures great rem edy-Cures Coughs, Colds, Group and Con- sumption, and all throat and lung troubles. At druggists, 25c, soc and $lOO per bottle.
The Huttig news., 1908-02-01

It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sub- finest power is often simple patience. Goethe,
The Huttig news., 1908-02-01

You can't make good ginger ale i anything ails the ginger.
The Huttig news., 1908-02-01

Mrs. Windows Soothing Syrup. For children teethng, eoftens the gurns reduces i hammation aays pain, cures wind colic. 25c bottle
The Huttig news., 1908-02-01

By doing duty we learn to do it, B. B. Pusey.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-03-30
GOVERNOR WILL
FIGHT, He SAYS
Raiders Threats Stir w. Va.
Executive.

Charleston, W. Va, Marh 30.--Warn-
ings sent to independent tobacco grow
ers in Mason, Lincoln, Putnam and
kanawha Counties, in West Virginia,
by the Kentucky night riders" COM
handing them to desist from growing
tobacco under penalty of having their
property destroyed, have aroused the
officials of the state TO action, and Ad-
jutant General Burlow this afternoon,
after a conference with Governor Daw-
son, issued the following statement
for him:
The constitution guarantees to every
citizen OF West Virginia the right to do
as he pleases with his own as long as
the exercise of that right does not in
terfere with the rights of others. 1t is
the duty of the state government to
protect the people in the enjoyment OF
that right. The governor will see that
this is done. and il will be done to the
exhaustion OF the power of this depart
ment Of government
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-03-30
CENTERVILLE, IND.

Centerville. Ind. March 30.-The .. S.
E. club entertained by Miss Flor
ence Beck assisted by Miss Ethel Har-
ris and Miss Rosetta Mathews at the
home of Miss Beck on Friday evening
The feature of the occasion was a bean
hunt. in which the first prize was won
by Howard McMinn and the second by
Howard Mathews. A two course sup
per was served.
Mrs 3, F. Terry and daughter Ada,
have gone to Milford Center O., to
spend a few weeks with Mrs Terry
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. I. S. Adler
Miss Alice Medearis is the guest of
DR.. and rs. ]. n. Study at Cambridse
City.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Garner and Mrs
Lizzie Pyle of Richmond were recent
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. William Har-
vey.
Miss Cleatus Brown of Richmond
was entertained a few days this week
by her grandparents Mr.. and Mrs. John
McCown.
Mrs. G. ]. Wolfe has returned from
visit to her mother, Mrs Cyrus Gwin
at Economy.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-03-30
UBIQUITOUS PRIEST
MURDERS WOMEN
BurieS Bodies in Cellar of His
House.

Verkhoturye. Perm, Russia, Mar. 80.
-Feodotoff. a Russian monk, who, I'M
der the cloak of sanctity, attacked and
murdered many women pilgrims and
led life of thievery and debauchery
in his forest home, where he lived like
a hermit, has been taken to prison to
serve the fifteen-year sentence return
ed against him.
Feodotoff came to Verkhoturye about
two years ago and set up a shrine in a
neighboring forest, where he lived as
a hermit. He soon attained a great
reputation for marvellous cures and his
little chapel in the solitude of the
woods became the objective for pill
grimages from all parts of the Prov
ince of Perm.
The repeated disappearance of WON
en- pilgrims who visited the monk s
chapel, finally attracted the attention
of the authorities.
Investigation disclosed the bodies of
no less than twenty victims, whom Fec
dotoff had attacked and murdered and
then buried in the cellar of his house
The charge of sacrilege that he had
stolen the sacramento vessels from
churches and monasteries also was es-
tablished against the hermit.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-03-30
MILTON, IND.

Milton, Ind. March 30-Mrs. Emma
Frazer is in Evansville visiting her
son Charles Frazer.
Mrs. Louisa Shissler Of Richmond is
with Milton friends.
The new hymn books purchased by
the ladies aid society were used first
Sunday morning. The books are en-.
titled The New Praise Hymnal.
Mrs. Carrie Commons Harbeck. who
has been the guest of her sister. Mrs
Horace L. Hurst at 'Hillhurst." has
gone to Evansville. Tenn, to visit her
mother. Mrs. Martha Commons.
A new floor is being put in the
bridge over Greens Fork
On account of the high water in
Greensboro, and the repairs on bridge,
it renders passage impossible on that
part of rural route 16. east of the west
fork of the Whitewater.
Mr.. and Mr.. Urias Whistler and Bert
kellam attended the funeral of Mrs.
Alice Watson at Muncie Saturday The
deceased was a daughter of VIM. Kidd
formerly of this community.
Linville Wallace brought forty dozen
eggs to town Saturday.
Gladys and Crystal Kerr of Corners
vile. are visiting Milton friends.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-03-30
SOLD OUT TO
TOBACCO TRUST
Woman Makes Serious CHARGE
Against Governor Wilson
of Kentucky.
GOVERNOR MAKES REPLY
IN SPEECH OF HIS LIFE HE DE-
FENDS HIMSELF, AND HIS RE-
MARKS ARE GREETED WITH APP
SE-DENOUNCED RIDING.

Louisville. Ky, March 3O.-Bravipg
former Governor and the present Gov
ernor of Kentucky and 700 persons
gathered at Macauley's Theatre at a
mass meeting of the State Law and Or
der League Sunday, Miss Alice Lloyd,
formerly of Maysville, now of Winches-
ter, made the startling declaration that
after the tobacco conference held at
Frankfort, she was told by prominent
man We no sooner elect a man to of
fee than he sells us out" and she
turned full upon Governor Wilson,
who sat on the platform.
The implication, as understood by
the audience, was that Governor Will
son and the present state adminiStra-
ton had turned their backs on the to-
bacco growers in favor of the American
Tobacco Company.
No sooner had the electrified audi
ence heard Miss Llyod's speech than
the Governor rose to refute the charge,
and with all the passion he could show
and more eloquence than he ever dis
played, denounced the instigator of
such a charge as "half-witted SANDER
err who dared not show his face" He
said that the umor had spread through
little lying tongues" and that he had
done all that a Kentuckyian and
Governor could do to care for the peo-
pie Of the state. He denounced might
riding" and swiftly analysed the pro-
visions of the law crying that to the
33 CONFERENCE.-The Attorneys in Ken
lucky fell the power of curbng the
trusts. His speech trilled the audience
and the applause which greeted him as,
with flashing eyes, he took his seat,
showed that he had won the biggest
case OF his life.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-03-30
TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY
Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine
Tablets. Druggists refund money IL
it fails to cure. E. w. GROVES sig.
nature is on each box. Csc.
MOVING IN PORTUGAL.
1t Takes About Fifteen Women and
Five Men For One Job.

Five Men For One Job.
Moving day in Portugal IS a greater
time of trouble than it Is even in this
country. A traveller tells about it:
Vans are unknown, the only means of
wheeled transport being rough carts
drawn by bullocks, these in turn prov
ing so ruinous to furniture that only
kitchen utensils, iron stoves, bedsteads
and other unspoilable articles are sent
by them. For the rest. the goods are
carried often for many miles by wo-
men. only the heaviest things being
taken by men, Of whom four are en-
ployed to take pianos, wardrobes and
other heavy furniture. They carry
these on poles laid across their shout
ders, TO which they are tied by scarfs
passing under the opposite arm. All
lighter goods are taken by the women
on their heads. Six dining room chairs
form an ordinary load for one woman.
"She carries these by placing one on
her head, to which chair the remaining
five are tied, forming a sort Of cage
around her. Previous to starting the
woman gives herself a shake. the chairs
vibrate around her and, with her hands
on her hips, she starts off at a content
ed jog trot, covering six miles perhaps
In an hour and a half and considering
herself fairly and sufficiently we'll paid
with II cents or 1e cents for the return
journey there and back again for a
fresh load. For long distances only
two Journeys are made in the day.
The women are nearly always bare
footed, except on the coolest days in
winter, when they may perhaps wear
sabots. but they often wear as many as
fourteen or fifteen much gathered petit
coats Of all colors and materials tied
with a sash round the waist, the bunch
thus formed upon the hips making a
rest for the hands. All the china and
glass are carried in big round baskets
on the head and very rarely support
ed by the hand. About fifteen or six
teen women are generally employed in
an ordinary move and four or five
men."-Chicago News.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-03-30
CAMBRIDGE CITY. IND.

i Cambridge City, Ind, March 30
Miss Jane Thomas, who has spent the
winter with Miss Jennie Stalker, has
returned to her home.
4 Mr. and Mrs. Will Hunt will occupy
THE Dinwiddle property.
Lee Reynolds, Clarence Foutz, Je-
rome Day and Alonzo Daugherty Of
sHagerstown, were in the city Satur-
day.
Edward Mccartney returned to Chi
cago Saturday morning
Miss Anna Freeman, who has been
visiting in Liberty, has returned. Miss
Carrie Freeman of that city, accom-
panied her home.
Mrs. Wild Forkner, of Louisville was
the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
Weigle Saturday.
Mrs. c. b. kellar is the guest of
Muncie friends.
Mrs. willard Rummel, of Corners
Vile, was called here by the very SER
lous illness of her mother, Mrs l. N
Falls
Mr.. and Mrs. Turner Oliver and
laughter, spent Sunday in New Castle.
Miss Hazel Sheldon, of Shelby, Ohio,
accompanied by her aunt, Mrs. H B.
Bry an has returned to her home
Benton Wilson has returned from a
business trip, in the interest of the
Standard Manufacturing company.
appear here, at the Masonic hall on the
svening of April s, under the auspices
Of the Epworth league.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-03-30
THIRTEEN FIGURES
IN REDS LIFE
Warden of Penitentiary Puts
That Number of Men to
Death and Resigns.
HIS REASONS FOR THE ACT
WORRIED OVER HAVING TO END
LIVES OF MEN AND ILL HEALTH
THEN FoLLOWS-oF HUMANE
DISPOSITION.

Indianapolis March 3O.--James =.
Reid, warden Of the Indiana state pri-
son at Michigan City, has resigned.
A decline In health, due to nervous
breakdown which Mr.. Reid suffered
about eight months ago, is given as the
cause of his resignation. Mr.. Reid has
worried a great deal over the fact that
during the six years of his administra-
ton he has been compelled to put to
death thirteen murderers.
Warden Reid, who is OF a must hu-
name disposition, it is said. has often
made the statement that he would re-
sign before he would put another man
to death. His declining health has has
tened this decision. At the present
time there men in the prison
awaiting the death penalty.
Warden Reid expressed a wish to re-
sign about one year ago. but the
board would not hear it. He was given
leave of absence and spent several
months at an Eastern sanitarium,
where his condition improved to such
extent that he was able to resume
his duties. Els improvement failed to
be Of permanent nature.
Warden Reids administration has
been a most practical one. He has
been active in the state conference Of
charities each year and has promoted
considerable legislation in behalf of
his institution. among the most import
ant Of which was the application OF the
parole law to prisoners in the state
penitenttary.
when man is looking forward to
something with hope" Warden Reid
has often said, there is some chance
to work on him and reform him"
Mr.. Reid was appointed to his posi-
tion six years ago by Governor Durbin,
ssucceeding George A II. Shideler. of
Marion, who resigned because of
disagreement with Governor Durbin
over the conduct of the prison. Prior
to the appointment of Mr. Shideler and
Mr. Reid, the prison had been the
yootball of politicians at Michigan
City and throughout the northern part
lpf the state. Mr.. Shideler was the
first man to get the institution out of
politics and Mr.. Reid maintained the
policy. His practical and economical
has given the institu-
ition place in the front rank of well
conducted prisons of the country, not
Excepting those in New York and Mas