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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-02-17
THE ISLAND OF FIRE.
Java's Wonderful Lake of Boiling
Mud and slime.

The greatest natural wonder in Java,
if not in the entire world. is the justly
celebrated Gheko Kamdka Gumko. or
Home OF the Hot Devils. known TO the
world as the Island OF Fire. This geo
logical singularity Is really n lake of
boiling mud situated at about the cen
ter of the plains of Grobogana and is
called an island because the great en-
erald sea of vegetation which surrounds
1t gives it that appearance. The island
Is about two miles In circumference
and Is situated at a distance of almost
exactly fifty miles from Solo. Near the
center of tsis geological freak immense
columns of soft hot mud may be seen
continually rising and falling like great
timbers thrust through the boiling sub
stratum by giant hands and then again
quickly withdrawn. Besides the phe.
nomenon Of boiling mud columns there
are scores of gigantic bubbles of hot
slime that fill up like huge balloons and
keep up q series of constant explosions,
the intensity OF the detonations vary
ing with the size of the bubble. In
times past, so the Javanese authorities
say, there was a tall, spirelike column
of baked mud on the west side of the
lake which constantly belched a pure
stream OF cold water. but this has long
been obliterated. and everything is now
a seething mass of bubbling mud and
slime, a marvel to the visitors who
come from great distarces TO see it,
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-02-17
MAYOR DEFENDS SELF
Logansport Chief Executive
Vetoes Ordinance Provid-
ing for Impeachment.
He GIVES HIS REASONS.

Logansport, Ind, Feb. 17-Mayor
Mckee has filed with City Clerk Ham
montree his veto OF three ordinances
passed by Cuncilmen McNary, Heth-
erington, Grover and Johnson at the
meeting held by the four, Feb. S, the
ordinances being those with regard to
the trial for his impeachment, which
is set for tonight.
The vetoes affect the ordinance to
employ Walters and Long as attor-
neys, the resolution to empower the
accusing councilmen to try the man
they accuse, and the ordinance fix
ing the date of the trial. In polite
but vigorous language the mayor sets
forth his reasons.
1T is certainly as fair for me to We.
to- he says, "as for a member of the
Council to prefer charges against me
and then act upon his own charges as
prosecutor, witness. judge and jury
going through the farce OF passing up
on what he has decided against me at
the time Of the filing the charges be-
fore a hearing was had"
Wants Fair Trial.
The mayor cites a number of
things which, he says. invalidate, but
adds: THE law provides ample rene.
dy for all fair-minded men who do not
want to constitute the entire court
machinery. l say here that | court
and will make no objection to the pro-
cedure where | can have a fair and
impartial trial.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-02-17
ARE On STILL HUNT
FOR STATE SUPPORT
Democratic Candidates for
Governor Are Now SCour-
ing the State.
FEAR SNAP JUDO M EMIT
THoS OPPOSED TO ORGANIzA-
TON FEAR THAT COUNTIES OP-
POSED TO MACHINE WILL NOT
ACT WISELY.

indianapolis, Ind, Feb. 1.-THE race
for the democratic nomination for gov
ernOr has developed into still hunt
for support. No delegates have been
elected, but arrangements are being
made in every county TO name them.
Under the call issued by Chairman
Jackson the local machines every
where will be in position to practically
control the selection of delegates.
The call does not provide that any
notice shall be given of the date for
the election of delegates The local
committees may call primary or
mass convention on one days notice,
if necessary, to carry out their pro-
gram. The Republican call provided
that two weeks notice shall be given
by publication in local newspapers
where delegates are to be named.
Among the democrats who are OPP
posed to the present organization there
is considerable uneasinesS lest snap
Judgment shall be taken on them in
counties where they say the sentiment
is decidedly against machine control.
While the machine men have been
careful in covering their tracks no one
doubts for minute but that they have
definite program that will develop
within a very short time.
With only six weeks to make the
race, none of the candidates can visit
many counties. Under the circum-
stances the men who control the local
organizations may manipulate the pri-
maries and mass conventions to suit
their own purposes. So far it seems
that there is no undercurrent in favor
of any of the candidates for governor
that will be strong enough to nominate
them without the support of the men
who control the machine.
The anti-Taggart forces are not
showing any signs OF life, althou@h it
has been the suppo9ition that they
would rally to the support of some
candidate for governor. Reports re.
ceived here indicate that all of the can.
didates are working hard, and that
they are trying to get into as many
counties as possible. Their relative
positions seem about the same as they
were 10 days ago, when the date for
the convention was fixed.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-02-17
Asserted That He Will Send
One That Will Influence >
National Convention.
is NOW BEING PREPARED.
WILL BE SEMITIC CONGRESS, Al
THOUGH THE DOCUMENT WILL
BE TO THE PEOPLE OF THE
COUNTRY, 1T is SAID.

Washington, Feb. 17.-That the
president will send to congress from
time to time special messages for the
purpose of confounding the opponents
of Secretary Taft is an interesting re-
port that comes from sources very
close to the white house. The presi-
dent inaugurated what is destined to
be known in political annals as the
special political message" when he
sent his recent stirring pronounce
ment to the law-making branch.
While the employers liability bill was
the handle on which this message was
hung, it was really a political docu-
ment, designed to sway sentiment 10
Secretary Taft. and that it did stir
up the animals" at tremendous rate
everybody is willing to concede.
The tip that is going around emen-
ating from friends of the president is
that the animals will get more stirr-
| ing before the Chicago convention
dominates a ticket. The president
constitutional privilege permitting
! him to send messages to congress will
| be the poker which he will use to
prod the political menagerie. 1t is
said that these messages, while direct
ed to congress, will be intended for
the country at large and that they
probably will have an important poll
teal bearing on the various stages OF
development of the presidential pre-
convention campaign.
The talk is that special message
| is being incubated now that will be a
ringing call for fairness and regular.
ity in the selection OF delegates to the
national convention.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-02-17
CLEAN CAMPAIGN
IN GRANT COUNTY
CigarIess, BoozIess Political
Fight Is Interesting.

Marion, Ind, Feb. 17.-With the
Grant county republican primary cleo
ton only one day in the future. candi-
dates and the public generally are
looking back upon what has been one
of the most remarkable campaigns ev'
er held in the county. II has been
cigarless, moneyless and election day,
Tuesday will be carriageless as far as
possible.
This reform generally is accredited
to a movement started about a year
ago by George 3. Lockwood, who used
his Marion, newspaper TO oppose the
old method of passing out presents to
the boys" by candidates.
He thought there was no reason
why the candidate for office should
be good fellow" in the sense of
throwing away money from the time
he made his announcement until he
won or lost at the polls.
Plan Has Opposition.
When the idea OF doing away with
the proverbial campaign cigar first
was suggested many there were who
doubted the practicability of the plan
1t had been a fixed institution in poll
tics for such a long time, and had
been generally regarded as so neces-
sary to a successful campaign, that
some politicians couldn't conceive of
prediction skirmishes without it,
But gradually, as the doctrine was
preached louder and louder, it grew
in favor, and by the time the present
campaign began to take definite form
all the candidates were of one mind
upon the question--they were deter
mined to do nothing the least bit inn
proper to corral votes.
1t is amusing now to see the predi-
cament of the men who in the past
have been accustomed to taking a
drink" at the expense of every candi-
date they could approach and of smok-
ing campaign cigars for several weeks
without cost to themselves. In this
campaign it has been altoge Their
changed, and the candidate and the
man with his hand OUT have not
been on speaking terms.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-02-17
Weighing Common Air.

The weight of air has often been test
ed by compressing it in receptacles by
the air pump, That it really has weight
when so compressed is shown by the
fact that the weight of the vessels Is
increased slightly by filing them with
compressed air and that such vessels
become specifically Tighter" as soon
as the air contained in them Is ex-
hausted. Many elaborate experiments
on the weight of air have proved that
one cubic foot weighs $50 grains, or
something less than one and a quarter
ounces. The above experiment on the
weight of air IS supposed TO be made
at the surface of the earth with the
temperature at 80 degrees F. Heated
air, or air at high elevations, Is much
lighter.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-02-17
A House Divided
Against Itself
Civil War in the Stomach Spells Ruin.
Victory Belongs to You, If You Will.
Costs Nothing to Try.

The greatest foe to the progress of
nations has been internal strife, civil
war. Equally so is the greatest enc
my of health in the human system
civil war between the different parts
Of the body.
This is just what occurs in dyspep-
STA. War is declared between the
stomach and the rest of the members
Of the body-illness results, inability to
digest or assimilate food, heaviness
Discrimination to work, and in a word
all the attendant evils of imperfect di-
gestion. What you need is an ally.
An ally who will not only help. but
will absolutely insure you the victory,
In other words, let Stuart's Dyspepsia
Tablets fight your battles for you, and
by doing the work of your stomach.
give it a complete rest, and allow it to
re-enter the lists reinforced. refreshed,
and rejuvenated.
A single one of these marvellous tab
let's will digest 5000 grains of food
Leading physicians all over the
world have endorsed Stuart's Dyspep-
STA Tablets, and have certified them
free from harmful drugs
Simple to take.
Harmless, efficacious.
No doctors bills.
Only SOC.
At all druggists or write to us di-
rect. Free sample sent on applica-
ton. F. A. Stuart Co. $50 Stuart
Building, Marshall Mich.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-02-17

How strange it would seem to us to-
day if there existed. say in Newfound-
land, a colony Of Anglo-Saxons. sent
there by King Alfred and speaking
still the pure old Saxon tongue Of
King Alfred's Wesscx. Yet this would
exactly parallel the case of Iceland.
While Danes and Swedes have mod
ernized the ancient Scandinavian OF
the sagas into the Danish and Swedish
of the present day the Icelanders still
60 on speaking the tongue of their
forefathers pretty much as it was
spoken by Rolf the CANCER and Harold
Hardrada. They read the sagas in the
tongue Of the old singers as easily as
our children can read Shakespeare and
the English Bible.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-02-17
Lunar Athletics.

The man in the moon" must surely
regard with amused contempt our
much vaunted athletic records. A good
terrestrial athlete could cover about
40 feet on the moon in a running
broad junn, while leaptng over the
barn would be very commonplace
feat. He would ind no difficulty in
carrying six times as much and run
ming six times as fast as be could on
earth. all because the moon attracts
bodies with but one-sixth Of the force
OF the earth
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-02-17
4 MILITIA. inference.

For no other reason than that hts
poultry book told him to feed lime he
slavishiy fed lime and asked himself
no questions.
The hens We're variously affected.
The Leghorns found difficulty in
keeping their hot Italian blood from
open revolt. The Cochins, with true
oriental apathy said it was fate any
way. But the old Plymouth Rock had
the American sense of humor.
He thinks we're going to lay bricks"
she cackled.-Puck.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-02-17
CHOICE SMOKED MEATS.

I have Just taken out of my smoke
house the finest and largest lot of
Cured Meats !. have handled in years
Hams and shoulders. any kind or size.
Bacon. any kind from the very thin
nest and leanest TO the heaviest that
can be cured. Can and will sell this
choice lot of smoked meats from 8 10
cents per pound cheaper than il can
be bought elsewhere. All has been Z
S. Inspected and my guarantee goes
with every pound I sell, TO be sound
and sweet. Strictly No. / goods.
SCHWEGMAN'S MEAT MARKETS.
Both Phones 2204 & $50.
1919
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-02-17
No Back Action.

Mr.. Gladstone knew how to admit
that be was in the wrong. On one &C.
casion he did so candidly and hand
somcly. as becomes a gentleman. But
be preferred to keep clear of the neces-
sity for apologies and had scant belie'
In their efficacy. You can't unpuil q
mans nose he once said to his prl-
yate secretary, Sir Algernon West.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-02-17
Several Wayne County Men
Are in indianapolis Today
To Attend Banquet.
1T WILL BE A BIG EVENT.
DEMOCRATS FROM ALL PARTS OF
THE STATE WILL HEAR WILL
LIAM J. BRYAN-CANDlDA
WILL BE THERE.

Today the Rev. T. H. Kuhn, guberna-
torial aspirant, Ed w. Dye and a num-
Der of Wayne county democrats went
to Indianapolis to attend reception
to be rendered to William Jennings
Bryan by the democracy Of this state.
The reception will be held at the
Grand hotel. Democrats Of this cOun-
ty are enthusiastic followers of the
Peerless Leader" An Indianapolis
dispatch says of the Bryan meeting:
William Jennings Bryan will re-
ceive the democracy of Indianapolis
and the state at the Grand hotel this
afternoon from $50 to 6 o'clock. The
affair will be wholly informal, and is
arranged to permit all democrats who
desire to meet Mr.. Bryan to do SO.
De-0crats are coming from all over
the state to shake hands with the
commOner
Mr.. Bryan will go from the Grand
hotel to Masonic hall, where the pub
lie will be admitted without tickets.
The Masonic hall meeting will take
place at I o'clock. At the close of the
address Mr. Bryan will enjoy a brief
rest in the parlors of the ClaypOOl no.
tel before attending the banquet in
his honor in the main dining room of
the CIaypool.
The doors of the banquet hall will
be opened promptly at 9 O'Clock, and
ad0 will ho in+I 20
those who present tickets. John Hol-
lett, president of the Indiana club, will
introduce John W. Kern as toastmas-
ter. and Mr.. Kern will present Mr.
Bryan.
Plans for Banquet.
In the banquet room the table at
which Mr.. Bryan and other promin-
ent democrats will be seated will be
laid across the north end OF the room.
At the table with Mr.. Bryan will be
the reception committee from the In
diana club, Near Mr.. Bryan will be
Thomas Taggdrt. chairman Of the
democratic national committee; L. S.
Jackson, chairman of The democratic
state committee: Henry Friedman,
chairman Of the Marion County demo-
cfauc committee; Mayor Bookwalter.
Gilbert Hendren. leading southern In
diana democrat and Adam Heimber.
ger, prominent democrat Of New Al
bany. Four short tables arranged
iengthwise and close TO the speakers
table will accommodate the democra-
tic candidates for governor and other
STATE candidates. Prominent business
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-02-17
SRfsla Dnsrf4ra@a.

/ could better eat with one who did
not respect the laws than with sloven
and unpresentahle person. Moral quail
tiles rule the world, but at short dis
tances the senses are despotic.-Emer-
con-
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-02-17

II presume you spend all you maker"
"No; don't spend tenth Of IT."
Then you must have a nice little
balance in the hank -
Nope. not q cent
shake, old chap. I'm married my.
Houston Post.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-02-17
The Sunrise or Fife.

Infants and children are constantly needing
axative. 1t Is important to know what to give
hem. Their stomach and bowels are not strong
snough for salts, purg alive waters or catnarric
,ills. powders or tablets. Give them q mild
'easant, gentle. laxative tonic like DIR. Cald
ellis Syrup Pepsin, which sells at tks small
IN of 50 cents or 81 at drug stores. It 10 tn
great remedy for you to have IN the housep
I've children wi1~r th"'r oead IL.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-02-17

men of the state will be at these tab
les. The Rev Frank S C. Wicks of
All Souls Unitarian church, who will
deliver the Invocation, will be near
Mr.. Bryan.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-02-17
Had Heard Papa Say 1t.

The Schoolteacher-Willie, can you
tell me the meaning of leisure? The
Bright Pupil-It's the place where mar
yied people repent.-BrookIyn Eagle.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-02-17

New York woman went to Il hos
pital to seek relief from the morphine
habit. AS soon as she was cured she
ended her life by taking strychnine.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-02-17

There Is no medicine so safe and az the same
time SO pleasant to take as DR. CaIdwell's Syrup
Pepsin. the positive cure for all diseases arising
from st omach trouble. The price Is very reas-
onable-S0c and 81.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-01-11
Visitors In Washington.

DR.. Cruz, a distinguished scientist
Of Brazil, has been the much enter
tanned guest of Ambassador and Nine
Nabuco, at the Brazilian embassy at
Washington. Miss Violet Langham Of
Kentucky has arrived as the house
guest of her sister, Baroness Stern
berg, at the German embassy, and DIR.
David Jayne Hill, former assistant
secretary of state, now United States
minister to the Netherlands, and soon
to be American ambassador to Ger
many, is a welcome guest in more
than a dozen official homes Mrs. Hill.
remembered in Washington as one Of
the most clever as well as delightful
hostesses in the official set, covered
herself with new laurels during the
last summer, when as chatelaine OF
the American legation at The Hague.
she was called upon frequently to en-.
terrain this and other country's dele
gates to the peace conference.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-01-11

faults and its notable exceptions TO
the rule that noblemen are gentle
men, is based to an extent upon
blood and breeding, and it is greatly
TO the credit OF British and French
first families" that they will have
none OF the American woman who
makes sordid bargain for a title
worn by man who, to quote Sena-
tor Beck again, is the tail end of
his aristocracy.
Now and again the attention Of
readers OF newspapers is called to the
fact that there have been many hap
by marriages between American girls
and European noblemen. Granting
that the international marriages
that do not have a divorce court de-
nouement are ideally happy and that
there are such marriages. does not
affect the argument that the Amer
lean girl who considers the title
rather than the man when she goes
into the matrimonial market with
the dollars OF her daddy In her peck
ct will collect something very much
like the wages of sin.
The Duke OF Marlboro. Count
Boniface de Castellane and the Earl
of Yarmouth were plainly bad pur-
chasos at the time they were taken
over by Americans, and it was not
necessary to study the signs of the
Zodias to foretell marital unhappi-
ness for the "scionesses. " That the
Countess of Yarmouth has had the
sympathy OF her "in-laws" is evil
dence of a very generous Willingness
upon their part to pity the folly of a
deluded American"
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-01-11


There is mole Catarrh In this sec
ton OF the country than all other
diseases put together. and until the
last few years was supposed TO be
incurable. For a great many years
doctors pronounced 1t local disease
and prescribed local remedies, and
by constantly failing to cure with To-
cal treatment, pronounced 1t incura-
Bile. Science has proven catarrh to
be constitutional disease and there
fore requires constitutional treat
ment. Halls Catarrh Cure, manu-
featured by F. ]. Cheney G. Co.. To-
ledo, Ohio, Is the only constitutional
cure on the market. 1t Is taken In
ternally In doses from 10 drops to a
teaspoonful. 1t acts directly on the
blood and mucous surfaces OF the
system. They offer one hundred dol
lars for any case It fails to cure.
Send for circulars and testimonials.
Address: F. j. CHENEY & CO., To-
ledo, Ohio.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for con-
stlpation.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-01-11
OUR REGISTRATION SYSTEM.

Since Governor Dawson has sug-
gested in his proclamation change
in our registration laws, we trust
the legislature will give us some
thing little more decent. The pres
eRt system Is a disgrace to the state.
II opens wide the door to fraud aud
eGables the illegal voters to sell his
Iote for so much in dollars and
cents or whiskey.
We should have some permanent
system of registration as other
states, and do away with the regis
tration at each election Of all save
new voters. To re-register every
voter before each election is a farce
pure and simple. If only the new
voters were required to register the
challengers could soon ascertain
those who were illegal, but where
the entire mass are required to go
before the registrar before each cleo
ton and have each name placed
again upon the registration books, it
tends to confusion and enables the
illegal voter to impose upon the peo-
pie.
Under our present system all that
is required is for the voter 20 make
affidavit of his citizenship on the
day before election and if the chai-
lenger fails to locate him MS ballot
is cast, and even If his vote is ques-
toned the burden $ u3oL those
making the challenge. If the voter
does not register all that is require |
is an affidavit of himself ard TWO
others and his vote is allowed
Another way TO weed out the il
legal and purchasable vote is to
require The elector to pay his poll
tax at least six months preceding
election. II he were only required
to pay this tax on day of election, it
would likely be paid by the candi-
date or party who wanted his vote
and thus destroy its purpose. But
II a voter should be required to show
that he had paid up all taxes against
him at least six months before the
election this trouble would be fore
stalled.
We believe the ballot should be
taken out of the hands Of the Hit
crate and criminal class, but a de-
cenu registration law would do
much to prevent the wholesale cor
ruBtion Of the ballot in West Vir-
ginia. so let us have it.