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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-10-30
SPEED LAWS OF 1916.
Coaches Going Nine Miles an Hour
Frightened tho English.

Coaches Going Nine Miles an Hour
Frightened tho English.
The cutlery daily growing louder in
England against the excessive speed Of
motor cars lends interest to the fol-
lowing passage from the Annual Regis
ter for 1919:
A new coach was started in the
spring TO run to Brighton, distance
of fifty two miles. in six hours.
This. however. became alarming, par
ticularly in the populous neighborhood
of New ington. through which it passed.
and tho parish officers there caused in
formation to be laid against the driv-
ers for driving furiously on the public
road SO as to endanger the lives of his
majesty's subjects.
The result Of this is to be read in
Mansa rd's parliamentary Reports"
June 10, 1916.
The attorney general moved for
leave TO bring In bill the object of
which was the protection Of the lives
and limbs of his majesty's subjects by
correcting the enormous abuses of
stagecoach drivers. Within these few
days 1t would be hardly credible what
q number of applications he had re-
ceived on this subject.
Some accounts were enough to freeze
one with horror. A gentleman Of We
facity had Informed him that on Tues
day. May 81. at $50. the Trafalgar
and Regulator coaches set off from
Manchester and got to Liverpool at
$50. doing this journay in two hours
fifty minutes, at the rate Of twelve
miles an hour.-New York Sun.
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4 CHINESE STORY.
The Way a Mandarin's Wise Wife De-
eided a Baby Case.

The Way a Mandarin's Wise Wife De-
eided a Baby Case.
Two women came before mandarin
In China, each of them protesting that
she was the mother Of a little child
they had brought with them. They
were so eager and so positive that the
mandarin was sorely puzzled. He re-
tired to consult with his wife, who
was a wise and clever woman, whose
opinion was held in great repute in
the neighborhood. She requested five
minutes in which to deliberate. At the
end of that time she spoke, Let the
servants catch me a large fish in the
river, and let it be brought here alive"
This was done. Bring me now the
infant" she said, "but leave the two
women in the outer chamber" This
was done too. Then the mandarin's
wife caused the baby to be undressed
and it's clothes to be put on the fish.
Garry the creature outside now and
throw it into the river in the sight OF
the two womeEx" The servant obeyed
her orders, ffhging the fish into the
water, where it rolled about and strug-
gled, disguised no doubt by the wrap
pings In which it was swaddled.
Without a moments pause one of the
women threw herself into the river
with q shrek. She must save her
drowning child. without doubt she
is the true mother" she declared, and
the mandarin's wife commanded that
she should be rescued and the child
given to her. And the mandarin nod
ded his head and thought his wife the
wisest woman in the Flowery King
dom. Meanwhile the false woman
crept away. She was found out in her
imposture, and the mandarian's wife
forgot all about her in the occupation
Of DOMINIC the little baby in the best
silk she could find in her wardrobe
Bystander.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-10-30
MAGIC GLASS.
"A Curious Mirror That May Be Made
Transparent.

"A Curious Mirror That May Be Made
Transparent.
One OF the most curious inventions
of this age is what is called platinized
glass. A piece Of glass is coated with
an exceedingly thin layer of a liquid
charged with platinum and then raised
to a red heat. The platinum becomes
united to the glass In such a way as
to form an odd kind of mirror.
The glass has not really lost its
transparency, and yet If one places 1t
against wall and looks at it he sees
his image as in an ordinary looking
glass. But when light is allowed to
come through the glass, from the other
side, as when it is p' 4 in a window,
1t appears perfectly transparent. like
ordinary glass.
BY constructing window of plati-
nized glass one could stand close be-
hind the panes in an unilluminated
room and behold clearly everything
going on outside, while passersby look
ing at the window would behold only
a A-1e mirror or set of mirrors in which
their own figures would be reflected.
while the person inside remained in
visible.
In France various tricks have been
contrived with the aid of this glass.
In one a person, seeing what appears
to be an ordinary mirror, approaches
It to gaze upon himself A sudden
change in the mechanism sends light
through the glass from the back,
whereupon 1t instantly becomes trans
parent, and the startled spectator finds
himself confronted by some grotesque
figure that had been hidden behind the
magic glass.-New York Tribune.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-10-30
THE THEATER
Lee, the Wizard-Gennett.

An attraction extraordinary will be
offered at the Gennett theater for the
week commencing Nov. 2, when the
worlds greatest hypnotists, Lee, Wiz
ard of the Mind, will present a series
of the astounding feats that have be-
wildered the sages and scientists OF
two hemispheres. Lee is the psyche
logical sensation of the age. His
amazing power over the human is be
yond the comprehension of the most
astute doctors of metaphysics. He
will give at each performance a mum
Der of weird and startling tests of his
mysterious control over the mind and
will of people in the audience. Pro
gram changed nightly. Prices, 10, 20
soc.
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Settled the Sign.

When William NJ. Evarts was sec
rotary of state a new elevator man
had been employed in the department
who did not know Mr.. Evacts by sight.
In his car was a conspicuous sign to
the effect that by order Of the secre-
tary of state smoking was prohibited.
One day Mr. Evarts boarded the car
in company with a famous senator,
the latter smoking a cigar. The new
man promptly touched the smoker on
the elbow and said, pointing at the no.
tice, Cant you read that sign" Mr..
Evarts promptly tore down the Of.
Tending notice and, turning to the ele.
vator man, said: What sign? 1 don't
see any" The attendant. suspecting
something, wisely held his peace, but
he followed the pair out and asked the
guard at the door who the chap with
the large head was. The guard told
him
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-10-30
THE WHEATFIElD.
Whore the BIIowing Golden Waves
Stretch From Sky to Sky.

StEStCH FTOm SNy 70 ohIs
Take look at the wheatfield that
has been brought up to perfection as
1t stands, yellow as gold, with the
sheen of the sea, billowing from sky
Zine to sky line like an ocean Of gold
where the wind touches the ripping
wave crests with the tread of invisi-
BILE feet. In California, In Oregon, in
dian northwest, you may ride all day
on horseback through the wheatfields
without break in the flow of yellow
heavy headed grain-no fence lines,
no meadow lands, no shade trees.
no knobs and knobs and hills and hol-
lows Of grass or black earth through.
From dawn till dark, from sunrise, in
a burst of fiery splendor over the
prairie horizon, to shutdown, when the
crimson thing hangs like a huge shield
of blood in the haze of a heat twi-
light, you may ride with naught to
break the view between you and the
horizon but wheat-wheat. 1t is like
the gold fields. 1t goes to your head.
You grow dizzy looking at 1t. You rub
your eyes. Is it mirage? The bill
lowing yellow waves seem to be
breasting the very sky. You look up.
The sky is there all right with the
black mote of a meadow lark sailing
the azure sea. He drops liquid notes
of sheer mellow music down on your
head, does that meadow lark. and that
gives you back your perspective, your
sense Of amazing reality. You are
literally, absolutely, really, in the
midst of sea of living gold. 1t is you
and not the lark that is the mote.
You begin to feel as if your special
mote might be a beam that would get
lost in infinity If you stayed there long
and so you ride on and on, and some
more on, and by and by come out of
the league long, fenceless fields with
an odor in your nostrils that isn't ex-
actly like incense-it's too fugitive, toe
fine, too sublimal of earth. 1t is arc
matte, a sort of altar Of roses, the i'm
prisoned fragrance of the billions upon
billions Of wheat flowers shut up In
the glumes of the heavy headed grain
there And that's the oder Of the
wheat.-Agnes c. Laut in Outing Mag
azine.
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Fiji islanders Sugar Cane Dance

A very curious and exceedingly clev-
er dance may be witnessed in Fiji call
ed by the natives 1.-The sugar cane
meke." or sugar cane dance. 1t rep
resents the growth OF the sugar cane.
In the first figure the dancers squat
low on the ground, shake their heads,
shut their eyes and murmur slowly
and softly an unintelligible sentence.
Gradually they all stand up together,
growing taller and taller, and as they
grow they wave their arms and
tremble all over from ankle to head,
like the tall, tasseled cane waving in
the wind, and still they keep on chant
ing louder and louder. The last fig-
ure represents a series of combats
meant to symbolic the exactions of
the chiefs, who compel the "kaisi."
willing and unwilling, to come and cut
their crops.-London Standard.
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White and Red Mines.

White and red wines owe their diff
ference to the fact that, while the for
mer is permitted to ferment without
the grape skirts. these are allowed to
remain in the case of the latter. The
color of the grapes makes no difference
whatever to the color Of the wine
which they produce, for the juice Of
all grapes is as nearly as possible COL
orless. For instance, the grape which
yields champagne is almost black in
outward appearance.
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Ambulance Field Examination.

scene-Hamilton South Haugh; SOL
dier supposed to have been wounded
IS brought to surgeons tent by bear
ers. Bearer (reporting)-Sever scalp
wound. sir, accompanied with insensi-
bIity. Surgeon-Well. what have you
done7 Bearer-Dressed the wound, sir,
and gave him q little whisky and wa
ter. Surgeon-Whisky and water! How
did you expect an insensible man to
swallow that? Bearer-He axed fort,
Har-London Illustrated Bits.
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Terre Haute, Indianapolis {
Eastern Traction Co.
Eastern Division
(Time Table Effective Oct. 81.

(Time Table Effective Oct. 81. 1907
Trains leave Richmond fo- Indian.
apolis and intermediate stations at
900 a. M, H7:25, 500. 1926, 10: 90
100, 1900, 100. *2:z5. 800. 400.
1925. 600. 1880, "S:40, 300. 10: 90.
11:10
*Limited trains.
Last car to Indianapolis, $40 p. M.
Last car to New Castle. 1000 p. N.
Trains connect at Indianapolis 70.
Lafayette, Frankfort, Charlottesville.
Terre Haute, CLIFTON. Sullivan, Paris
Ulls.) Tickets sold through.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-10-30

Municipal pawnshops have been
opened in Pekin for the relief of. the
residents who have been heretofore
the victims of extortionate private
establishments. The city charges are
Is per cent, while they have been pay
ing so.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-10-30

After very careful survey we ven.
ture to write down the names Of the
six English villages that we consider
the prettiest in the land SO far as our
own opinion and wide experience are
concerned. The choice is made impair.
TALLY and with full knowledge and due
recognition Of the claims Of each to its
high place. Here are the six: Bon
church, Isle Of Wight; Clovelly, Devon.
shire; Witchampton, Dorset; Sonning
Oxfordshire; Shere, Surrey, and Clap.
ham. Observation-Disclosures Strand Maya.
zine
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we have indisputable evidence.
Marion Brewing Co.. $40
indianapolis Brewing Co,
per James Claybaugh. SO.
"Terre Haute Brewing Co,
per John c. Bell. SO.
Holster Bhewing Co, $40.
20. c.. Reel, SO.
James Bulger, s..
Norm Renner. So.
"Elwood, Ind. Oct. IT, 1908. =
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-10-30

Little Mrs. Hunter had heard so
many jokes about the brides who
couldn't market successfully that she
made up her mind that the first re-
quest she made to the market man
would show her to be a sophisticated
housewife Send me, please" she
said, 'two French chops and one hun
bred green pease."
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GIRL naraad Gnrdnn NJ

A girl named Gordon, working In
a laundry at Ballymena, Belfast, Ire
land. was caught in machine by the
hair and completely scalped. A doc
tor ordered her removal to a hospital
The scalp was also taken there. and
DR.. Davidson succeeded in sewing it
on. The girl is alive and making good
progress.
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His Mentor.

From the time a boy sits under a
street corner electric light playing
with toads until he is blind and tooth
less he has to account to some woman
why he didn't come home earlier
Atchison Globe.
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Very Careful.

Indulgent ULcle-Jack. are you care
full about your personal expenses these
days? Jack-Yes, sir. manage. with
some effort, to make. them balance my
income to the exact cent. Chicago
Tribune.
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Mot liks His Parent

do you think Mr. Skinnum's baby
will take after its father"
Not at all. The other day they per-
suaded it to cough up nickel it had
swallowed. "-Exchange
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Doinu Good SArxine

Bills that watch your father gave
you ten years ago still doing good serv-
Ice? Jill-Yes. I pawned it again today
for the twentieth time.-London Opin-
ION
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Accomplished.

"She's got future"
"Can she act?"
mo, but she can work her eyes bet
ter than any lady in the business, and
as for wearing swell clothes-gee, she
couldn't do better If she was twins"'
Life,
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Watson. Wednesday evening, animated
from their places of business. These
men say no one with Marshall pictures
was in their saloons that evening. The
information concerning the affair as
printed in this column was secured
from persons who claimed to have
seen it.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-10-30

It never occurs to fools that merit
and good fortune are closely united
Goethe.
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'Over the Telephone.
lis DR.. Smith 2"

els this DR.. Smith,
"Yes"
"Well, this is Mrs. Jones. I wish you
would come over as soon as conven-
lent. My cuckoo clock has a little
throat rouble.''-Harper's Weekly.
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These pictures illustrate the recent
daring gem robbery in New York in
which the robber fed in an auto. Up
per picture to the left shows Mrs. Han
ma Tannenholz, who was stabbed in
the arm by the robber To the right
is shown Maurice TannenholZ who
was shot in struggle with the ruffian.
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6UFHIA.
Mother used Gold Medal Flour
THEREsA.
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from persons who claimed to nave
seen it.
Brookville may be small but she is
alone alto the times. There is no town
hall of sufficient size to accommodate
the populace, while awaiting election
returns. Dance hall promoters, how
ever, have hit upon the scheme of an
election ball. The returns will be re-
ceived and read to the dancers, while
they trip the light fantastic.
The voters of Wayne county next
Tuesday will be called upon to select
the man to fill the most important pos
ition it lies within their power to
elect, so far as local government is
concerned-the judge of the Wayne
circuit court. There are two candi-
dates, Henry c. Fox. republican, and
present judge, and John Dodson, dem
ocrat, an attorney at Cambridge City.
Fox is eminently qualified at a jurist,
and Dodson has had absolutely no ex-
perience He is a capable consulting
attorney, but does not conduct nor
argue any of the cases of any moment
in which he is retained. He comedies
the election of Judge Fox and has
made no canvass of the county. Only
yesterday he made the remark what s
the use?" when asked if he were cam
paigning. Mr.. Dodson's name was
placed on the ticket against his own
wishes. and after he had notified his
party he did not care for the nomina-
ton. In order to secure the election
of Judge Fox, it will be necessary to
I vote for him. SO as not to prevent the
Office of Judge to go by default to a
| man who does not solicit it nor care
! for it.
In the effort to secure funds to pub
| lish a special edition of an Elwood
newspaper as a 'roorback," a paper
| was circulated atElwood. 1t happened
the paper was given to man who was
| for and not against the republican
!, He lost" the paper and the next heard
| of it was when an Elwood republican
newspaper exposed the whole fouI
scheme. The paper and the subscrib.
ers who had attached their signatures
do not help the Marshall cause any
This is the extent of the list when il
was '''lost" and found" again:
I'VE. the undersigned, have sub
scribed the amount opposite our name:
for the purpose of defraying the ex
penses of special edition. to be ISSUED
on Friday. Oct. 80, 1909. which viii
| charge James F. Watsnc of charge:
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EVEN MUSICIANS
ARE WARNED OF
EVILS OF OPTION

Continued From Page One.)
The San Francisco call., 1908-03-22
CycIers in Training
for Races
Truck at the Pdrk Stadium
/ JVW Be Rendezvous of
Riders Today

/ There will be large aggregation OF
cyclists at the Golden Gate park stadi-
um bicycle track today. as the various
wheeling clubs have numerous events
on their schedules. In preparation for
the novice race, which will officially
open the 1908 season of outdoor cycling
on March 26, the cyclists have all been
working industriously. The race, which
viii be under the auspices of the CAL
fornia associated cyclists, is to be a
30 mile. six man. interteam relay event
The first tryout for the selection of
it's team will be held by the Golden
City wheelmen today. This Will be a
1--WE mile race. In addition to its being
q tryout this event viii be a contest for
the Bay City medal. a prize recently
donated to- the club by the Bay City
wheelmen. This medal must be won
three times before IL becomes the prop
erty OF rider. John Coughlin has won
IL once.
The Garden City wheelmen of San
Jose held their first tryout last Sunday
on the East San Jose course. r. Bryant
making the best time. They will hold
their second tryout today on the same
course, when the novice team will be
selected
The New Century wheelmen had their
first tryout on Hayward's triangle two
weeks ago, W. Spooncer proving to be
the fastest of the riders The MEM
bers will be out on q club run today.
The Bay City swheelmen are sched-
uled TO appear in several races at the
stadium track today.
The San Francisco call., 1908-03-22
Scottish BOWieTs in
Close Matches

The Scottish Dowlers took advantage
of the ideal weather and turned out in
force yesterday. Six tournament
matches were played in singles and
doubles. Rev. w. J. Fisher beat James
Gray in the closest match ever played
on the park green. They met on even
terms and Fisher won by a single point,
the score. in his favor. being 81 to 20.
They we're tied at 6. IA and 20.
Jamea Webster and J. Deasy sur
prised the spectators by beating NJ. L.
Grove ana Joseph Gray, respectively.
In each match the winner won by con-
siderable more than his handicap. The
scores follow:
Tournament--H. L. Tickner and John McLaren
(6) beat Joseph Stott and Thomas Millar (3),
p to IL; Rev. A. G. Bane and Andrew Foreman
l4) beat David 0'Brien and J. Deasy f6), 81 to
49, James Webster "a beat NJ. L. Grove
lscratchl, 21 to IA; II. L. Tickner (6) beat
G. McInnis IA. 81 to 13; J. Deasy (6) beat
Joseph Gray t2l, 21 to IL; Rev. w. ]. Fisher
tscratch) beat James Gray (scratch), q to 20.
Practice-James Gray and Joseph Gray beat
Webster and D. o'Brien beat G. G. Patterson
and II. A. Brown. 81 TO IS; ]. Deasy and d..
o. Brien beat A. Patterson and 5. Irving. II to
u; r. Park and W. Fl. Higgenbotham beat
George Patterson and Joseph Stott. 81 to Is;
r. Park and A. a. Mcyicar beat C. McInnIs
aud A. Med Hardy. 81 to 13; Rev. A. c..
Bane and A. Foreman beat II. A. Brown and
Patterson 81 TO s; NJ. L. Grove and ]. Duncan
beat Patterson and Stott. 21 to IL.
The San Francisco call., 1908-03-22
Athletic Treat Is i'm
Store for Fleet

When the men of the American fleet
arrive in this city they will have an
athletic treat in store for them in the
form of the Irish field day scheduled to
take place at the Ingleside racetrack, (,
May 10. The committee of the Irish
American league that has charge of the
affair has been working overtime to
perfect the details for the event, which
promises to be the greatest of its kind
ever attempted on the Pacific coast.
A feature of the days spoEt will be
hurting match between two teams
selected from among the crack players
of this city. Many of these have re-
Gently arrived from Ireland, where they
took part in some of the most impor-
tant matches of the year in the old
country.
In order to have the boys in the best
of trim, the committee sent all the way
to the Emerald Isle for a collection of
similar to hockey
sticks. These cannot be procured in
the United States and in order to In
sure fast. scientific game the league
must import them from Ireland.
S The committee of arrangements for
the field day consists Of the following
well known athletes and athletic au-
thoritfes: Robert NJ. Tobin. j. Downey
Harvey. T. P. ODowd. William Minehan.
c. Hawrihan, NJ. J. Ryan, J. ]. Barry.
]. c. NeaIon, r. c. O'Connor.