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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-12-23
THE NATIONS GREAT REFoRMERs
President Schurman Praises Bryan,
Roosevelt and Hughes

Salt Lake City, Utah, Dec. 23.--In an
address before the Utah State Teachers
association in the tabernacle Monday
night, Dr. Jacob G. Schurman, president
of Cornell university, said, in part:
IF asked to name to whom the great
reform in elections is due, / would I'M
hesitatingly name William J. Bryan.
More than any other man to arouse the
spirit which demands the application of
principles of general honesty to public
affairs has been Theodore Roosevelt.
History win show that the great reforms
of the age began with the work Of Chas
E. Hughes in the now famous insurance
investigation in New York. and to him
is due the original awakening
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-12-23
PLAINFIELD.

The young friends Of Miss Inez Bond
gave her a pleasant surprise at ner
home Saturday evening, it being her
eighteenth birthday. Twenty-Five of
Of her school mates and friends were
present The evening was pleasantly
spent with games, music, and recita-
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-12-23

tons by Harley Heath. Original poems
were read by Misses Evelyn Perry,
Eileen Parks, and Ruth Perry. Re-
freshments Of sandwiches, cake, coffee
and fruit were served. Miss Bond was
the recipient Of many gifts. Miss Grace
Duke who was one OF the guests was
also celebrating her eighteenth birth
day that evening.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-12-23
CARRIE TO STAGE.
Mrs Nation Accepts Invitation of Lon
don Music Hal.

Aberdeen, Scotland, Dec. 23.-Carrie
Nation, who arrived here a few days
ago, has received an offer BY telegram
90 lecture at London music hall. The
telegram adds: Courteous and atten-
tive treatment guaranteed Carrie has
accepted the offer, Professionally, pend
ing the agreement as to terms.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-09-04
EVEN WILLIE SAYS so.

All these rantings of one Willie
Hearst might be compared to the at
tention which is paid to a street ora
tor who works himself into a frenzy
over selling patent medicines on the
corners. The people gather and lis
ten and the wiser ones move on after
their curiosity has been satisfied. AS
a matter of fact Mr.. Hearst is spend
ing lot of time battling with wind
mills-and we get some of the wind.
No one who has anything resembl.
ing common sense will take seriously
the pert assertion that "Taft is mes
senger boy keeping the seat warm
for Theodore Roosevelt It is fic-
ton so apparent that one excuses it
in Mr.. Hearst on the ground that he
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-09-04
Willy REWARD.


Few wild Creatures Can Compete
With the Fox In Crnftiness.
Those familiar with the Fables of
Esop" will remember the reputation
which reynard bears among the rest
of the animals. 1t is questionable
whether any wild creature can COM
pete with the fox in craftiness. To
look at him generally, even in his Or
binary habits, he exhibits an amount
of cleverness which astonishes one.
Should fox catch a hedgehog. whose
spines effectually protect him from
most of his enemies, he does not waste
time, as a fox terrier will do, in en-
deavoring to worry his prey. He mere
ly rolls him to the nearest water,
knowing that a drop or two will cause
the animal to relax his hold
1t is a rare thing to catch one in a
trap laid at the door of his earth"
even. If he is inside when the trap is
set he waits until some other animal
springs it and then energies to eat the
victim and the bait. Only when driven
by the terrible pangs of hunger will he
tempt fate in his own person. Most
animals gorge themselves when they
are fortunate enough to come across a
superabundance of food. Not so with
reynard. Should he find a poultry
yard we'll stocked and ill protected he
fills his harder first. Nor does he, as
the proverb says, put all his eggs in
one basket" He puts one fowl in a
hedge, hides another in bush, places
third in hole in a tree, rapidly digs
cavity for fourth and covers it up
again, remembering in each case where
his stores are concealed. And when
his supplies are sufficient in his own
estimation he takes fine fat chicken
or duck to his earth for present en-
ioyment-London Field.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-09-04
WAYNE TOWNSHIP.
Trustee
JAMES H. HOWARTH.
Assessor
CHARLES E. POTTER.
A MANS NAME CLEARED.

There was once man named
Jerome who was entangled in a mass
OF yellow sensationalism, a hideous
mesh of malice and mercenary lies
1t was made to appear that the man
was monster. And yet the mans
character was so honest and honora-
BILE that we should never have known
how really fine, how true nor how ca.
pable the man was. had he not been
accused uniustly and all his life laid
before the public to. judge. New
York elected Jerome to clean house
and rid her of monsters reeking with
the slime of dishonesty, graft and the
trampling down of human life. Jer
ONE essayed the job. He did it as
well as he could. Naturally there
were insuperable difficulties in his
single handed fight, and when his enc
mics could down him in no other way
they tried to drown him in mud. Blu,
Jerome came out with unsullied hon
or. The verdict in favor of the New
York District attorney was rendered
by Commissioner r. L. Hand, appoint
ed by Governor Hughes. Gov. Hughes
name in the investigation is guaran
tee to the people of New York and
the country that there was fairness
and no eye winking in the investiga
ton. Hand. in his report significall,
says: MY conviction upon the whole
case is that the respondent has beer
shown to have discharged the onerou:
duties OF his office with zeal ant
ability. having the public good as his
motive and that no incapacity, in diff
ference or neglect has been shown il
any case"
The commissioner goes on to re
fleet upon the accusers of Jerome;
What information this committee
may claim to have as to the conduc
Of the District Attorney. upon whom
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-09-04

has no more stable arguments to mus
ter. If Theodore Roosevelt had want
ed a third term he could have had II
without all this bother about Taft.
Any one who has watched the eff
forts of the president to get Taft nom
mated is aware that he did ii for two
reasons: First, to insure his not be
ing nominated by the Overwhelming
demand of the people; second, to give
to the American people a man wht
would carry out his policies with tn;
utmost fairness.
But while some of Mr.. Hearstt
charges against the democratic part.
are equally preposterous, Mr.. Hears
makes Just use of the true condition
of affairs that Mr.. Bryan has a vacil
lating way of taking up wild issues u
the detriment of what was once tn,
democratic party-we believe thi,
more readily from the sight of on
own eyes, and the last words of Grov
er Cleveland than We do from Willie
Hearst.
But if Hearst and Cleveland recog
nize what the republican party hal
always maintained there is probabl,
some truth in it.
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they have assumed to make these
charges of improper motive, abject
generation of mere money and the
possessors of money, neglect Of duty,
official misconduct, conspiring with
criminals, thrott1ing prosecutions and
defeating justice, we can only infer
from the fact that its chairman and
secretary concede their utter ignor-
ance and seem to have signed such
charges as counsel saw fit to prepare
without real knowledge even of the
content Of such charges and in abso-
lutte ignorance as to their truth or
falsehood and the counsel himself is
forced to admit that he had no great
er knowledge or information than
they"
The whole trouble is that Jerome
was for the moment a popular hero
even to the degree attained by solar
myth, the people got tired. No man
Is more than a one days wonder in
New York, even though he may keep
the other six in the rest of these Unit
ed States.
But the one thing occupying their
minds has been that all they have de-
sired has not been accomplished and
Mr.. Jerome meets the common fate
OF an idol of the people" So speaks
the Commissioner
Celia. That's about the size of it.
Still Jerome stands up larger than be-
fore in the conservative estimation
of his fellows.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-09-04
The ChinchfSil.

The tiny chinchilla, not more than
twelve inches long, with a plump little
body on short. stout legs, thrives only
in the tropics. The little beasts have to
be killed with the utmost precaution
not to injure their fur, that grows on a
skin nearly as tender and soft as q
web of silk. A perfect skin not larger
than small pocket handkerchief is a
revelation in fur growth. The texture
of every hair is finer than floss silk, the
length of it nearly an inch and the col
oring about that of the soft, undyed
marabout feathers.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-09-04
MEN AND WOMEN.
Nearly Every Human Quality Is I'm
like In the Sexes.

"A man is man down to hi
thumbs, and a woman is womal
down to her little toes writes Dr
Havelock Ellis in his book Men an
Women" There is hardly a measur
able quality of any sort which is no.
unlike in the two sexes. Women even
button their garments on the Other
side from that chosen by men an.
choose Sunday instead of Monday n
their favorte day for making wa
with themselves. So far as laborator.
tests go DR.. Ellis says that women are
unquestipnably superior in genera
tactile sensibility and probably su
perior in the discrimination of tastes.
with no advantage either way in the
case of the other senses. Women have
better memories. read more rapidly.
bear pain better, recover better from
wounds and serious illness, are less
changed by old age and live longer.
Furthermore, according 10 the same
authority women have relatively
larger brains, especially in the frontal
region. 1t has long been said that
women are the more like children. but
DR.. Ellis says that men are the more
like apes. Women, in short, are more
civilized than men, and civilization it.
self is but the process of making the
world ladylike. In fact, the only thing
left in which man is superior is mus
Gle. Men are two, three and even four
times stronger than women, and the
occasional exceptional woman hardly
reaches the level of the average man.
Even between the ages Of eleven and
fifteen, when girls are taller and
heavier, boys still retain their single
advantage in strength. Men, too, il
slower Of mind and quicker Of body
have greater lung capacity and more
blood corpuscles and exhale nearly
twice as much carbon dioxide. But
men are less able to endure confine
ment and bad air. This physical SUI
periority man shares with the males
Of all the higher animals.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-09-04
FORAKER ACTED
ON INITIATIVE
Action at Toledo in Declaring
For Taft Not Result of
Agreement.
FALLS BACK INTO LINE.
WILL GO ALONG WITH THE PAR
TY LIKE VETERAN MARCHING
FORTH AS VOLUNTEER TO NEW
AND STRANGE WAR.

Middle Bass Island, O., Sept 4.-As
near as it can be learned from the var
ious statements made, Senator Joseph
Benson Foraker's action at Toledo in
unqualifiedly declaring his support of
the Republican national ticket, was
not the result of any specific agree
ment with Judge VIM. H. Taft.
Apparently Senator Foraker has been
elected simply to preserve his regu
larity and to take his chances for re
election to the Senate. In SO doing he
accepts the national platform, the
Roosevelt policies and other append
ages thereto, until election day at
least.
Attention is called to the fact that
just prior to the Senator's address,
Judge Taft asserted, with some vehe
mence, in his remarks to the Lincoln
Club, that the attitude of President
Roosevelt toward public questions was
one of the principal issues of the
campaign.
Suspending his opposition for the
time being, Senator Foraker has fallen
into line and will go along with his
party like a veteran who has volun
teered for a new war If all reports be
true, Judge Taft was not asked to
make any concessions in order te
bring the Senator into line. Contrary
to the impression created by the
events of yesterday, the meeting does
not mean that the way is to he cleared
for Foraker's return to the Senate.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-09-04
John WeaIex'a Wife.

John Wesley married widow, Mrs,
vizelle, who grew tired Of his restless.
~ laborious life and complained. He
paid no attention, and from complaint
she went on to jealousy, thence to flu.
~. He rebuked her sternly: do not
any longer contend for mastery, fol-
power, money or praise. Be content te
be a private. insignificant person. Oh
what importance is your character tc
mankindf IL you We're buried just
now or had never lived. what loss
would it be to the cause of Godp She
left him, taking with her large mum
Der of his private papers. and he dis
missed the subject by writing in his
journal: Il did not forsake her. | die
not dismiss her. I shall not call hel
back"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-09-04
KEEP YOUR HEAD.


anu heE AEt ITeabuEeBs
Apropos of the woman with the abil-
ity to plan a big coup and who then
loses it and her head at the last
moment an auctioEeer in New York
tells an interesting story. The woman
was an American who had been living
abroad with her husband for many
years. Upon his death she returned,
bringing with her a large collection of
valuable paintings which had been his
property and which she hoped to sell.
She made arrangements with the auc-
tioneer to handle them for her, and he
was delighted with the cleverness With
which she had obtained vouchers for
each one. 1t showed enterprise and
thoroughness seldom found in men or
women and made 1t certain that the
pictures, which were really good ones,
would bring good prices.
To every one living who had been in
any way connected with the pictures.
owned them or handled them the WON
an had gone for a written guarantee,
and, in addition to the names obtained
in this way, she had been to the Amer
lean consul, and he in his turn had
guaranteed their signatures. They
were all sworn to and duly witnessed,
and the auctioneer congratulated the
woman.
That was all right until Uncle Sam
stepped in. The custom house authori-
ties, though unab bic to obtain possession
of the guarantees, appreciated the pic
lures, estimated them to be worth their
full value as understood by the owner
and put duties upon them entirely be-
yond the woman's power to pay. She
was greatly distressed at first, then an
noyed and finally furiously angry at
what she considered an imposition.
The auctioneer endeavored to console
her
''They will be sold for little or moth
ing at the custom house sale," he said,
land the best thing to do is to buy
them in. They will go for SO or S15
apiece, and we will have the sale after
all. l will buy them in for you. and
we will both make a pot of money out
of them"
But by that time the woman was toe
angry to listen to advice. She consid
cred that she had been badly treated
II the custom house wished to keep hel
pictures from her, very well, they
might have them. She tore up the
guarantees, the pictures We're sold fol
next to nothing and scattered no one
knows where now and the woman los,
a small fortune.-New York Times.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-09-04
Horaepower.

The difference between nominal, In
dicated and effective horsepower often
puzzles people. Nominal horsepower Is
an assumed quantity, used for the con-
venienee of makers and buyers In de-
scribing the dimensions of the engines.
Indicated horsepower is the amount
shown by computations of the indica-
tor diagram. Effective or actual horse
power is the work an engine can do or
the difference between the indicated
horsepower and the horsepower requir-
Ell to drive the eagIne when unloaded.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-09-04
Woke the Judge.

The Westminster Gazette relates that
an action was being tried before Lord
Coleridge for damages for the death of
sheep dog, winner of many prizes
at bench shows, and counsel for the
defense was endeavoring to show that
the dog had had his day" and that
damages should be nominal. Lord Cole
ridge, however, was sweetly slumber-
ing, and counsel felt the necessity for
rousing him, If possible. So, gradual
II raising his voice, he asked one of
the plaintiffs witnesses. rs it not your
experience as an exhibitor that when
an old dog has taken his place regular
iy on the bench for many years he gets
sleepy and past his work." The laugh
ter that followed had the desired eff
feet.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-09-04
THE SECRET ORCHARD.

1t is an old. old story-the dual life.
The papers in their news columns
rarely pass a week without reporting
just such a case as happened in Oma-
ha, leading citizen comfortably mar
ried leaves his home to have dealings
with another woman. The case of
DR.. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde so dramatic
ally told by Stevenson is often accused
of being overdrawn and bizarre-but if
one thinks a moment, even in the
small range of almost every ones ken
there recurs a story which is a paral-
lei.
DIR. Rustin was killed on his own
doorstep at three in the morning by
woman known to the police" Hor-
rible, say you? How about the ones
who do not get caught? How about
the ones who do not get killed? How
about the case which is known only to
the wife? That is more tragic
thing. A canker slowly eating the
life blood of some good woman. Think
of those sleepless nights and the days
full of sullen care.
The grist of our divorce courts is
not pleasing spectacle and yet-is it
not better than the throttling of some
| innocent wife or husband? II statis-
tics were las is impossible) at hand,
the majority of murders, the majority
of entertainments and even petty
crime, could be traced to The Secret
Orchard.
How many a man has been decently
buried-nay buried in masses of flow
ers, buried amidst the respect of the
community, with a fine eulogistic SER
mon preached over his coffin and en-
| crossed letters sent to the widow tes-
| tifying to the mans high standing as
respectable citizen!, Only some days
afterward when the safe was unlocked
the family was beggared, the names of
the innocent were smirched and-the
money spent on some other woman.
| 1t is not for nothing that the
French say "Cherchez lie femme"' Find
the woman in the case!
And yet, somewhere, there is a wo-
man-that mans wife who has been
giving her time to church affairs, to
missionary meetings, to associated
charities, to more or less innocent Cos
sip-so busy with other peoples af,
more attention to her own household
Whether the woman's other interests
were for the common good or purely
selfish interests-the fact remains her
frs duty was to the household and the
family.
Turn it which way you will or make
allowance or explanation to suit your
self. The evil is there and it is to be
feared, not decreasing. The Whitened
Sepulchre and the forbidden fruit of
the Secret Orchard are wrecking home
after home, man after man and the di-
vorce courts pour out their leprous
growth each year. This evil cannot
be cured by legislation; it means that
the morals of the country need regen-
Grafton.
The downfall of the great countries
in the past-whatever may have been
their outward splendor. lay in the in
ternal rot of which the Secret Or.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-09-04

are III trouble, w lGr can / 10 Ivr
you?" be equally considerate and say,
Nothing"
People are hard to please. If a man
gets mad easily he is called "touchy,'
and IL it takes a good deal to make him
mad he is called wooden"
1t is a shame when the baby wakes
up once in the night and the father is
awake for ten minutes that he should
lose his whole nights rest" Isn't it.
now?-Atchisou Globe.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-09-04
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

People firt with trouble too much.
Every big fire develops lot OF natu-
raj born fire chiefs.
1t is all right to select the lesser of
two evils IL you know which one 1t il.
The way some people have of being
good is worse than their way Of being
bad
When peonle say to you when you
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-09-04
Not Idle Curiosity,

Mrs. Wanterknowe-I should like to
know. Mr.. w, why you are SO cross
when I ask questions. Surely you
don't think l have idle curiosity?
"Great Scott, no! Yours is the most
perniciously active, wide awake. sleep
less. energetic curiosity it was ever my
fate to encounter"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-09-04
BECOME n CONTESTANT
i'm the Great Want AID. Contest of the
Palladium and Sun-Telegram.

Now Splendid oppoT to enter the pdMm and great
interest this unique contest and the boy girl entering this contest now has fine
test carried Every boy girl should have the ambition to win out this contest
The boy girl who has the ambition matter what the undertaking.
succeed ANYTHING undertake. Let today be the turning point of each contest
test they proudly have the ambition to and the determination
will
in
small chld contest girl school,
older the contestant the
anything undertake and
the
undertaking.
with the determination
first advertisement
which
will be helpful work.
Work
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-09-04
VETERANS FORMING
JIM WATSON CLUE
Old Soldiers of RushviIle
Adopt New Plan.

Rushville. Ind. Sept. 1.-The old sol
diers of Rush county are organizing q
Watson club. The movement has just
been started and is meeting with good
success. Jabez Smith has charge OF
the organization and says that all oil
the old soldiers that he has talked te
are anxious to become members of the
new club.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-09-04
LADY COOK.

This woman, better known as Ten
lessess c. Claflin, is taking much in
terest in the campaign Of this countrt
md may come over from England Il
lake speeches in support of Bryan.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-09-04
COUNTY,.

Joint Representative
ALONZO M. GARDNER. ~
Repre- sentative
WALTER s. RATLIFF.
Circuit Judge
HENRY G. FOX.
Prosecuting Attorney
CHAS. L. LAID.
-Treasurer-
ALBERT ALBERTSON.
Sheriff
LINUS p. MEREDITH.
Coroner
DR.. A. l.. BRAMKAMP.
Surveyor
ROBERT A. HOWARD.
Recorder
WILL J. ROBBINS.
commissioners Eastern Dist
HOMER FARLOW.
Commissioners Middle Dist
BARNEY H. LINDERMAN.
Commissioners Western Dist
ROBERT N. BEESON.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-09-04
Her Strong Will.

Tess-She's a very strongminded girl
isn't she? Bess-Oh, yes. She tells me
she can quit chewing her gum the very
minute her jaws get tired.-Detroit
Tribune.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-09-04

He who loses hope may then part
with acknowledgements.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-09-04

Distinction Is the consequence, ueve,
the object. of Il great nlind.-AllSton.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-09-04

DISTRICT NO. 7.
Doris ShesIer, "a North 9th -----710
Rose Mercurio, 10 North 9th ------320
Leslie Sinex, 200 North 5th- 200
Charles Morgan, 81 North 5th- - 200
DISTRICT NO. 8.
Ernest Mckay. 1923 Main -------43C
DISTRICT NO. 9.
Eugene Hay, 402 N. 18th -------210
Clarence Love, 229 North 18TH ---210
Russell Guyer, 1914 Main POO
Carl SieWeke, 1913 North B-----200
Geo. Pettibone, 400 North 18th = 200
Paul Brown, 4O2 N. 18th --
DISTRICT NO. 10.
Ida Hopping, 1922 North $50
Ruth Davis, 818 North H ---220
Frank Cummins, 800 North 18th : 200
Willie Moss, $50 North H st.
Daniel Van Etten, 1903 N. street $1,000
Bryan Cooper, GIG N. 18th
William Stephen, 900 N. 18TH