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Gilpin observer., 1908-07-02
Mrs. Meyer Rouses Feminine Tempest

west or the south of the Beacon street
circle if they thought it obligatory for
them to call on one so far removed
geographically. 1t was broadly init
mated she would not be at all offended
if the lesser social lights-wives Of
congressman Observation-Disclosures
her from their visiting lists.
Then Mrs. Meyer aroused tempest
in the teapot by her treatment of her
associates in the cabinet circle. She
invariably ignored her colleagues
when she was getting up such smart
entertainments as the dinner and re-
ception to the duke of the Abruzzi or
the duchess of Sutherland. She invited
only members of the diplomatic corps.
and selected principally the wives OF
millionaires from the resident society,"
Mrs. Meyer was, before marriage.
Miss Alice Appleton. daughter of the
well-known head of the great publish
ing company. She inherited a large
fortune.
Mrs. Meyer recently departed for
London. She will spend the season
with her two daughters, Miss Alice
and Miss Julia Meyer. These young
women have already bowed to the,
three monarchs, the czar the emperor
of Austria and the king of Italy. They
will soon make their courtesy to the;
ruler of Great Britain.
Gilpin observer., 1908-07-02
Postage Stamp Gum as Article of Diet

from the rollers into long horizontal
fiue with hot air. When it emerges at
the other end the gum is dry.
The government makes two kinda of
postage stamp mucilage. If one could
see the packages of stamps as they
come to the post office ready to be
sold one would find them labeled, &C
cording to season, Summer Gum or
Winter Gum" The former is much
the harder of the two and was devised
some years ago to keep the stamps
from getting sticky in warm, moist
weather
While Uncle Sam tries to make the
lot of the stamp Ticker as innocuous
as possible. he does not advise making
a meal off his sweet potato gum. The
whole process of gum making and ap-
plying is made as clean as possible,
but there is yet another item to be
considered.
A sheet of postage stamps is han
died good many times before 1t even
leaves the bureau where 1t is made. II
you must lick any of your stamps pick
out those from the middle of the
sheet. The corner ones have gone
through the fingers of half dozen or
more counters, not to mention the per-
forators and the separators and the
Gilpin observer., 1908-07-02

w WASHINGTON.-E man on the
w streets here on June 13 wore a
tag by string from his buttonhole. 1t
was plain cardboard tag such as the
express companies use, and it did not
add to the appearance of ones dress,
but 1t saved money and a holdup to
wear it. June 13 was tag day in
Washington. Tag day was device
to squeeze dimes and quarters out of
every pedestrian for the benefit of a
castoff children's playground 1t was
pretty mean man who would not
hand out dime at least once for a
tag. 1t was an excessively heightened
or reckless one who would not wear it.
No dime. no tag. No tag, no peace.
The holdup of wearers of untagged
coats occurred every 25 feet Some
thing like $1,000 was realized as a re-
suit of the ''holdups" for the play
ground.
Children peddled the tags in all
parts of the city, and no man escaped.
There were store tags, house tags,
automobile tags, cab tags and personal
tags and a five-dollar tag that made
the owner immune from attack in all
quarters. The store tag cost a dollar,
likewise the house tag. Every woman
was held up in every store, and it cost
Gilpin observer., 1908-07-02

z VERY time person licks United
l. States postage stamp he gets taste
of sweet potato. The gum with which
the stamps are backed is made from
that succulent vegetable because Un-
Gle Sans lieutenants consider it the
most harmless preparation of the sort
All Of the gum used on American
postage stamps is mixed by the gov
ernment at the bureau of engraving
and printing. where the stamps are
made. 1t is spread on the sheets after
the stamps have been printed.
The gum, in liquid form, is forced
up through pipes from the basement,
where it is made. These pipes lead to
a series of machines consisting of roll
ers, between which the sheets of
stamps are fed. one at at time.
A continuous fine stream of the
liquid gum falls upon one of these
rollers. The sheet with its wet coat
ing of sweet potato mucilage passes
Gilpin observer., 1908-07-02

THE American consul at Dunferm.
line has furnished guide to
suckers in report warning the
American tourist what not to buy in
the way of antique and art objects.
Prefacing his remarks with the
statement that even man with much
money cannot take 80 day corre-
sponderce course in art and antiquity
and then tell what he Is buying, he
points out these familiar deceptions
that are now being hung up abroad for
rich Americans who are thirsting for
artistic environment:
Robert Burns Chairs-Bobbie did
not keep IN installment furniture
Gilpin observer., 1908-07-02
American "Suckers" Warned by Consul

house, and what the constable did not
take, buyers long ago have.
Mary Queen of Scots Tables-The
queen was rather migratory, owing to
circumstances, and did not carry many
tables around with her.
sheffield Plate-It is mostly mod
ern, aged with processes that are new.
"Engravings and Prints-Ancient
copies are turned off the press every
day for the fish from America.
Crystal and China-The servants
broke most of the old stuff centuries
ago, and the old shapes are entirely
new.
Rare Old Furniture-This is made
with pumice stone and oil, which will
age any old chair or table in week"
Summing up. he says that for more
than 80 years collectors have ran
sacked every available nook for an
tiques and works Of art, and that wher-
ever one is to be found It costs money
and ought to be accompanied with q
responsible dealers guarantee.
Gilpin observer., 1908-07-02
Expect Business Revival.

Chicago.-From Wednesday, July
lst, is to date a genuine business re-
vival which, by November, will have
attained such proportions that the
country will not only be on normal
commercial basis, but will be on a
boom footing. Such is the belief of men
of affairs who are thoroughly in touch
with conditions and who have excel
lent chances for gauging the outlook.
The reason for naming July 1st as
the birthday of the revival is that then
there will be distributed through the
United States, in the form of dividends
on stocks and interest on bonds, a sum
approximating s195.000, 900. This mon.
ey will be used in large part for imme.
diate investment.
Gilpin observer., 1908-07-02
|/MC I'M EZOkE NOLZ7yG

of having attached to its staff a young
woman who has the requisite knowl-
edge and skill to cover baseball and
football games, horse races and ath-
letic sports of various kinds.
The young woman-she is only "a
years old-who holds down the sport
ing editors desk on the Chronicle
News so well that the applications of
male candidates for the job are never
considered. is Miss Ina Eloise Young
When she was asked to tell how it
happened she said:
Il have been doing newspaper work
for three years-general reporting, and
covering everything from a fire to a
suicide.
1T was by accident that l became
sporting editor of my paper two years
ago. At the opening of the baseball
season, which, in the west, is the only
real sporting season of the year, there
was not man on the paper who could
even keep box score or knew prac-
tically anything of the game. 1 do
know baseball, for l learned 1t about
the time when boys of my age learn
to play ball. My brother taught me
the game because he always needed
somebody to fill base or some posi-
ton, and l could do it.
When l grew up he taught me how
to keep score and l evolved a method
of my own of following the players
from home plate around to that sta
tion again-if they could do it.
II began covering games to fill in
until a man could be secured for the
position, and have been doing it ever
since, the managing editor consider
ing my work sufficiently good to
guarantee keeping me.
Since then I've done football games,
as l learned to understand that game
while l was high school student and
subsequently during my college work
at the University of Colorado. be-
lieve I've covered all sorts of sporting
events with the exception of prize
fights, which l have never been re-
quired to do.
Understanding baseball and liking
II best, l naturally do my best work
with those games. I love to do horse
races, however, but as there have been
no races here for more than a year,
l have grown a trife rusty in that
kind of work.
Il ride horseback, but all western
girls do that. In covering events that
happen in the mining camps around
here horse is the quickest method of
transportation"
Gilpin observer., 1908-07-02
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.

There has been approved to the ter
ritory of New Mexico in part, satisfac.
tion OF its grant of 100000 acres for
the improvement of the Rio Grande.
1862 30 acres within the Roswell land
district.
In a further effort to restore tranquil
lity of the city of Teheran, the scene
of the recent riots in Persia, the shah
has proclaimed a general amnesty, ac'
cording TO cablegram received by
General Morteza, the Persian minister.
The work of preparing sketches of
the career of army officers covering
the last decennial period for the Me-
mortal hall at West Point is now in
preparation in anticipation of the
bringing of the archives of that col
lection up to the year 1910.
In view of the Democratic conven.
tion the Postoffice Department au'
thorized the employment OF twelve adj
ditional clerks in the Denver postof'
flee. beginning July 1st.
1t is expected that resolution grant
ing Mrs. Grover Cleveland an annual
$4,000 pension will be passed by Con.
gress at it's next session. Mrs. Cleve-
land will be one of two Presidents
widows enjoying the special bounty OF
the American people. Mrs. Garfield
has received a pension Of $1,000 each
year since 1882. Mrs. Harrison. the
only other Presidents widow now liv.
Ing, has never been pensioned.
Gilpin observer., 1908-07-02
Mexican Garrison Attacked.

El Paso. Texas.-The first revoln.
tionary outbreak in the republic of
Mexico beyond the borders of Coahuila
occurred Tuesday morning at O'Clock
when the garrison at Palomas, Chihua.
hua, seventy miles west of this city,
was attacked by band OF fifty men,
who were repulsed with n loss OF one
killed ana one captured. There were
fourteen guards stationed at the Mex
lean post when the attacking party sur.
prised the town. The most Of the in
surrectionists were armed with rude
weapons and homemade implements OF
warfare.
Gilpin observer., 1908-07-02
SUFFRACISTS
STIR LONDON
A DELEGATION OF WOMEN AT.
TEMPTs TO INTERVIEW PRE-
MIER ASQUITH.
MEET WITH REFUSAL
TWENTY-NINE WOMEN ARRESTED
BY THE POLICE FOR
RIOTING.

trasted with the re-
cent orderly and impressive suffra'
gette demonstrations, Tuesdays DEM
onstration was a comparative failure
and calculated rather to injure than
advance the cause it was intended to
serve. Nothing like the number of
suffragettes anticipated appeared on
the scene, and the affair seemed to
lack a definite plan and organization.
Women suffragists, assembled in
Caxton hall Tuesday afternoon, sent
deputation to the House of Commons
to interview Premier Asquith in the
matter of the immediate granting of
the franchise to women.
The deputation was met by a solid
body of police and refused admission.
The premier, in a curt message, de-
clined to see the delegation when its
members returned to Caxton hall and
a noisy denunciation ensued and de-
cision to collect the full force of the
suffragists for subsequent demonstra-
tions at the House of Commons.
The real leaders in the attack on
the House of Commons in fact re-
mained behind at Caxton hall, reserv-
ing themselves, as they now explain,
dHOlHtE pTOJeCltu VI L al
lament Thursday.
The police, mounted and on foot.
We're in strong force in the vicinity of
Parliament, and for two to three hours
that neighborhood was the scene of
riots and skirmshes through the eff
forts of the suffragettes to break
through the Gordon and reach the lob
by of the House of Commons.
Numerous ruses and DISCUSSES were
employed for this purpose, but none
succeeded and in the end twenty-nine
of the women were arrested, including
two bold spirits who drove in a cab to
! Downing street and threw stones and
smashed the windows of the Premier's
residence, and others who chartered
boats on the Thames and tried to ha-
rangue the members of the house on
the terrace through megaphones.
Mrs. Asquith and her daughter
watched the scenes from the balcony
of a hotel overlooking Parliament
square.
The Premier himself left Parliament
on foot and passed unrecognized, al
though there were enormous crowds
around Parliament Scenes of the
| greatest disorder were enacted, but it
is estimated that not more than five
per cent. of those gathered in Parlia-
ment square were women.
Gilpin observer., 1908-07-02
Taft a Good Risk.

Denver-Reports that William H.
Taft has been denied policies by life
insurance companies are denied at
Washington. A press dispatch from
the national capital says: He has pol.
icies to the amount of $4,000, and
several of these were written when he
last went to the Philippines and for
his tour around the world. The life
insurance companies do not rank Mr..
Taft as a fat man. They claim that
his 300 pounds are well distributed,
and that he has more than the usual
expectancy of life Despite his weight
he is active physically, and has a
strong heart and excellent lungs.
Gilpin observer., 1908-07-02
A WOMAN SPORTING EDITOR.
Colorado Girl Has Original Method O.
Keeping Scores-How She Started.

Denver, Col-The Trinidad (Co1.)
Evening Chronicle-News, is, in one re-
spect, distinguished above all other
newspapers in the United States in
that 1t has young woman sporting
editor.
There are now few daily newspa-
pers upon which women are not en-
ployed in one capacity or another-as
compositors, linotype operators, re-
porters, fashion writer's and editors of
departments. but only one can boast
Gilpin observer., 1908-07-02
American Troops Reach Border.

Washington. - American military
forces are now in service for the en-
forcemenu of the neutrality laws along
the Mexican border. General Meyer,
commanding the department of Texas,
has reported to the War Department
that directions already have been
given for the dispatch of four troops
of cavalry from posts in his depart.
ment to Del Rio.
Gilpin observer., 1908-07-02
Japan to Welcome Fleet.

San Francisco, CALM. Arakawa,
Japanese minister to Mexico. has ar
rived here on his way back to his Off.
cial post after years absence. Japan,
he says, Is planning a great reception
for the officers and men of the Amer.
lean fleet. Minister Arakawa is dis.
posed to telittle the Importance of the
Chinese BOYCOTT.
Gilpin observer., 1908-07-02
Pride.

"Did your son get near the top OF
his class?"
mo" answered Farmer Corntossel
cherrily. But you ought to see the
way he could get to second base"
Gilpin observer., 1908-07-02
M'KINLEY HUT FROM IRELAND.
Cottage Birthplace of Ancestor on Ex-
hibition at London.

London.-The little Irish cottage in
which the late President McKinley's
Gilpin observer., 1908-07-02
Dramatic.

Bings-Why dye suppose that new
play writer ordered all those big jack
screws?
Bangs-Why, haven't you heard?
He's going to elevate the stage.
Gilpin observer., 1908-07-02

grandfather was born is on exhibition
at the Franco-British exposition in
London, whittier it was brought from
Dervock, County Antrim.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-02-13
Union OF THE PARTY
Thought Bryan Banquet viii
Bring About This Re-
suit.
SEVEN HUNDRED TOATTEND

The Bryan banquet at the Claypool
hotel the night of Monday. Feb. Il,
will be the most notable political do
ings of the winter in indianapolis if
not in the state.
The Indiana Democratic club. under
whose auspices the spread is to be Civ
en-. has announced that 700 tickets had
been sold; that 100 plates would be
laid and that no more could be accom-
mOdated.
When the banquet was first pro-
jected it was the opinion OF Democratic
leaders that the banquet board would
be filled. The promoters counted on
at least 900 being present. The de-
mand for tickets from the first was
steady, but in the last few days the call
has been beyond all expectations, and
the issue of tickets was snapped up
with gratifying speed. The guests at
the dinner will be representative dem
Ocrats from all sections of Indiana.
The banquet, it is believed, will mark
the union of Indiana democracy.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-02-13
TRAIN CROSSES BRIDGE
WITH CARS OFF TRACK
Travelling at High Speed. Train
Has a Narrow Escape.

DanVille. H.. Feb. 13-Scores of
passengers on the Wabash Continent
al limited train, east-bound, had a mar
row escape from death at Tilton, Ill,
five miles from this place. yesterday
afternoon. Apparently sheer luck pre-
vented the train from plunging from
bridge across the Big Four tracks,
twenty feet below, to certain destruc.
ton. The train. was passing through
Tilton at the rate of forty-five miles
an hour.
Just before the bridge was reached
the baggage car and the mail car di-
rectly in front Of it jumped the rails.
The other cars and the locomotive re-
NAMED on the track. The derailed
cars ran on the cross-ties for a con
siderable distance and finally went
across the bridge without plunging be
low with the rest of the train to the
amazement of the trainmen, who, aft
er learning that something was wrong
were making Intellectual attempts to
stop the train. However, this was not
accomplished until the two derailed
cars had torn away from the train and
fallen into a ditch at the side of the
track. The locomotive and the re
naming cars kept the track.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-02-13
ATTEMPTED TO KILL
Mexicans Believed Americans
Were Guilty of Prosecuting
Fellow Countrymen.
DYNAMITE USED FREELY.

Tucson, Ariz., Feb. 13-An attempt
to kill every American at the Santa
Rosa mine, in Sonora, twenty miles
south of Douglas, was made on Sat
placed sticks of dynamite under a
clearinghouse, the company store
and the foreman's and superintend-
ent's residences. The fuses attached
to the dynamite were timed for the
explosions to follow each other in
quick succession. The hour selected
was during the evening meal, when
all the American miners were in the
clearinghouse and the foreman and
the superintendent in their respective
residences News of the attempted
killing has just arrived.
clearinghouse Wrecked.
The first explosion was at the board
ing house. It was demolished. Fiji
teen men were blown through the roof,
sustaining broken legs and arms, but
there were no fatalities The store
was completely demolished. Thomas
Fagin, the foreman, and his wife
were in their home but the dynamite
failed to ignite. The superintend-
ents office was demolished, but he
was out of the building and escaped.
Governor Torres has been notified,
and rurales are already on the scene.
Eighteen Mexicans are under arrest
at the mines. The attemIs TO destroy
the Americans is believed to be the
work of sympathizers with the revo-
1utionists at present under arrest at
Los Angeles, who believe the prison
ers are being prosecuted by Ameri-
cans There had been no trouble at
the mines previously, and no other
cause is conceivable.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-02-13
MINISTERS WILL AID
IN SALOON FIGHT
Come to Conclusion City Coun-
Gil Will Do Nothing.

Muncie, Ind, Feb. 1.-THE Muncie
Ministerial association has come to the
conclusion that the city council is
fooling with the temperance issue and
has no real desire to restrict the liquor
traffic in Muncie. For this reason
therefore, the association has resolved
to back the movement that already is
being mapped out, whose object it will
be to drive the saloons out of the city
or out of as many wards as possible in
the city, through the medium of the
blanket remOnstrance. This has new
er been attempted here and would not
be attempted now but for the refusal
of the city council to enact an ordi-
nance confirming the saloons to the bus
mess district. But the temperance
workers say they have discovered that
only two of the nine members of the
council are IN favor of restricting the
saloons to the business section and
that there is, therefore, no hope from
that source.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-02-13
WILL WONDERS NEVER
CEASE.
He Was Almost Dead.

When the Root Juice people were III
Richmond hundreds of people flocked
to A. G.. Iukcns drug store to see
them and get some of the great rem
edy. and after they left the great sale
of the remedy continued because Of
the many remarkable cures it made.
Many names of people living in this 10
cality who were cured by taking few
bottles Of Root Juice were published
in this paper. The remedy is such a
health promoting agent thar it creates
great excitement in every city in
which 1t is introduced. Mr.. Albert
Timlick, OF Cantrell, ILL.,. wrote and
said: For a number of wears | suffer
ed with a severe stomach trouble and
tried many kinds OF medicine, but
none did me any good. | was almost
dead when | started on my first bottle
Of Root Juice. but as soon as | took
three or four doses | began to fell
better. Four bottles of the Juice made
complete cure of my troubles. ! now
have a good appetite and can eat any
thing | want. Before | took Root
Juice | could not digest the highest
food. II would sour on my stomach
and would blOat fearfully. | digest
everything I eat now. 1t has certainly
worked wonders for me" Root Juice
is great healing tonic to the stom-
ach. bowels. liver and kidneys. 1t is
sold for 81 a bottle. Three bottles for
$3.50 at A. G. Luken's drug store.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-02-13
CENTERVILLE, IND.

Centervillc, Ind, Feb. 13.-MisS Eliz-
err visit to friends in Tippecanoe and
at other points in Indiana.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank King are NOV
ing on the farm of Joseph J. King,
north of Centcrville.
Mrs. Arts Robbins was a recent
guest of Mrs. John Hanley at Rich
mOnd.
Miss Martha Peelle, who has been
the guest of Mrs. Martha Fl. King at
Cincinnati, O., for some time. visited
friends in Centerville the early part of
the week. Miss Pcelle will remain in
Richmond until April, when she will
return to her home in Centerville.
Mr. and Mrs. A. b. Dunbar spent
Monday as the guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
p. NJ. Russell, at New Madison. O.
Mrs. Benjamin Nabor and Miss Lu-
lu Dilavan of New Paris. O., arc visit
ing Mrs. II. ]. Henderson and other
relatives here.
II. H. Peelle and family entertained
Frederick G. Strickland. who spoke on
socialism at the town hall on Tues
day evening.
Mrs. Charles Darnell and daughter
Odessa. of Richmond. were Wednesday
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Oar
nell.
Mrs. Dora Mendenhall has returned
from an extended visit to relatives in
Indianapolis.
The funeral services of William
hdair. who died at his home in Center
Vile. on Sunday, We're held at the
Friends church this afternoon The
burial was at Crown Hill cemetery.
The Ladies' Aid society OF the N. E
church, which contemplated giving
the annual fair the last of February,
has decided not to engage in the enter
prise this year.
Mrs. Lafayette Jackson is quite i'll
with grip. Mr.. jackson is still suffer-
ing from his injuries received recently.
Mrs. Jennie Napier was called to
Hopewell, Ind. Wednesday on account
of the illness of her husband. the Rev.
Aaron Napier, who has been conduct
ing protracted meeting at the
Friends church at that point.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-02-13
TERRE HAUTE STILL
AFTER TRACTION LINE
Residents Want to Force T. H.
|. & E. to Terms.

Terre Haute. Ind, Feb. 13.-The city
council has instructed the city attor-
ney to prepare an ordinance under
which the traction company will be
the city franchise for the use of the
streets by the interurban cars. Last
spring the city attorney gave the opin-
ion that the Terre Haute, indianapolis
& Eastern franchise did not give the
company the right to the streets for
interurban cars or freight SERVICE and
that when such cars entered the city
they We're subject to the conditions of
the city franchise as to transfers, stop
ping on signals, etc.