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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-11-29

Indians seemed content to let us go
on account of the supposed gunboat,
which afterward proved to be one of
the canal commissions seagoing tugs.
We spent a night at San Christie
val and toward morning were awak-
ened by loud shouts and sounds of fir.
ing The Indians had followed us to
the negro camp and killed the two
men who guided us up the river. Aft
er wading along waterways, we ar
rived at Playa de Damas, where our
gasoline launch was hidden, but We
returned to Colon in the government
launch that had been sent to meet u.s.
Baron Won Teuber said that Their
were immense anthracite coal fields ii
the San Bias country, which would b.
valuable when the canal is opened. H
is here to organize another expedition.
to start in February.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-11-29

Mrs Mary Stubs Moore. state sta
tistician, has prepared some facts
about Indiana for her biennial report
that are of interest and will be of con-
siderable value as reference. The
facts deal with the size, wealth, rail-
roads, history, schools and religion of
the state. Some of the statistics are
set out in the following table:
Indiana Territory was organized
July 4, 1900.
Indiana was admitted as state
December II, 1916.
Indiana's first constitution was ad-
opted June 20, 1916.
Indiana's present constitution was
adopted February 10. 1857.
Indiana's greatest length is PIG
miles.
Indiana's average breadth is 40
miles.
Indiana'S land area is 35,SS5 square
miles, or 22,966, 400 acres.
Indiana's lakes cover 469 square
miles or 300160 acres.
Indiana's population in 1908 is esti-
mated to be 2,775,70S.
Indiana has go counties, IS cities
and 1853 Incorporated towns.
Total taxable property in Indiana in
1907 was $1,767 ,S15,4S7.
Assessed valuation of real property
in 1907, $1,000, 600.950.
Assessed valuation of personal prop
erty in 1907, 2S,450.33S.
Assessed valuation of corporate
property in 1907, s248,764,190.
Indiana had 1882 miles of free
gravel roads in 1907.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-11-29

Ithaca, N. Y, Nov. 2S.-Pointing out
that there is a marked tendency to de-
cline in the number of births through
out the civilized world, particularly
among European stock, and stating
in substance that the decline in births
probably is due to deliberate purpose
or in the popular phrase, race suicide
Professor Walter P. Wilcox brought
out some rather startling figures and
conclusions before the class in SAM
tary science and public health at Cor
nell university.
Mr.. Wilcox finds a decrease in the
last fifty years in the proportion of
children to each 1 900 women of child
bearing age in this country. In the
last fifty years the decrease is 1920.
or an average of thirty year.
These figures indicate he says, that
il changes like these which have been
in progress in this country during the
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-11-29

he had developed black water fever.
which is fatal to white men. The chief
came to us once again and said We
must go back.
Indians Attack Camp.
THAT same night our camp was fir
ed on by the Indians and one arrow
stuck in the tent pole. Smith, my
brother Carl and myself rushed out
with our rifles and fired into the
brush. / know We hit one of them be-
cause of the bowling, and then all be.
came still.
Next day the chief, after a parley
about giving up our arms, agreed to
take us in canoes down the Mandinga
river twenty-five miles to the coast
but would not give us any provisions,
I'VE lifted Bradley, who was uncon-
scious, into canoe and started down
stream. Our arrival at the town scar
ed all the women and children so that
they ran away, as we were the FIRST
white men they had ever seen.
That night a council was held by
the men of the tribe, all squatting on
the sand around their wooden idol to
decide what to do with us. While the
tomtoms were beating the Mandinga
Indians, an other tribe, came down in
their canoes and laid claim to us be-
cause We had been captured in their
territory. They joined in the hullaba
loo, which could have been heard for
miles along the shore. At dawn the
Interpreter passed our hut and shout
ed out in. the native tongue that the
Americans were to die.
Smith hurried to the chiefs and
told them through the interpreter
that gunboat was on its way from
Colon to rescue US and destroy their
town. Luckily at that moment one of
the Indians shouted out and pointed
to the sea, where a cloud of smoke
could be seen rising to the sky. Brad.
ley died that day, and his body was
taken to Colon by Smith in a sailing
boat who also took Bartlett to the hos.
pital
MY brother Carl and then set out
in a canoe for San Christoval. The
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-11-29

Indiana had 7,1424S miles of steam
at s197, 1881 ,2S2.
Indiana had 1,763.16 miles of cleo
trio railroads on January 1, 1908, as
sessed at s21, 666,76S.
Indiana has but two counties (Ohio
and Switzerland) without railroads.
Number of factories in Indiana in
1905 was 1912.
Indiana had s311 ,526, 026 invested in
factories in 1905.
The number of wage earners in fac
tories in 1905 was 154,174.
Indiana paid s72,17S,259 in wages in
factories in 1905.
The value of Indiana's factory pro-
ducts in 1905 was 1894, 165,S3s.
Indiana's coal output in 1907 was
13,250,715 tons.
The output of oolitic limestone in
965
Indiana produced 5,1O3,297 barrels
of oil in 1907, valued at s4,4Ss,213.
Indiana Farm Products.
lnQland farms are dSSeSSeu dt pooV,'
1927
Indiana ranks fifth in the produc-
ton of wheat and sixth in the produc-
ton of oats and corn.
In 1908 Indiana produced crops as
follows:
Wheat, 2,059,339 acres, yielding 3d.
746, 145 bushels.
Oats, 1,52S,5O2 acres, yielding 81,
36S,570 bushels.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-11-29
OH|O'S TOGA IS
AS YET IN DOUBT
George B. Cox of Cincinnati
May Decide Who Shall
Wear 1t.
PLEDGED TO FORAKER.
TAFT MAY BE WAITING TO SEE
IF HE WILL NO, CHANGE
BOSS HIMSELF MIGHT BE CAN,
DIDATE FOR PLACE.

Columbus, O., Nov. 2S.-The race
for United States senator from Ohio
still has the center of the political
stage. No one who knows anything
about politics in Ohio, knows state
ment from George b. Cox, of Cincin-
natl at this time would clarity the
senatorial situation to a large extent.
Nearly six months ago he declared
his loyalty to Taft, Harris and For
aker, for president, governor and SEN
ator, respectively. He has never as
yet changed his announcement.
That is what is holding back c. p.
Taft. If Cox supports his cause he
will enter the race. With the support
Of the Hamilton county delegation he
will be in a position to be elected
without much trouble.
Buff he fails to get his own dele
CATION, in spite of the fact that he
will have the state organization back
of him, in spite of the fact that he
is a brother of the next president oil
the United States-he would have his
troubles in landing the toga.
On the other hand, should Foraker
come to Columbus with the Hamilton
county delegation he will be a factor
that will have to be reckoned with
at all stages of the contest. And nc
one will deny that what George b. Cox
says in the premises will have much
to do with the way the members-elect
will vote in the matter.
Few of them, if any, but what owe
their nomination and election to Cox
They would hardly dare go against his
wishes in this matter if they so de
sired.
And here comes another rub. Cox
himself may be a candidate.
He has received much attention
from the country press of the state
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-11-29
End of Births in the u. S. After $50 Years
Children BneS
People for the ema

last half century were to continue UT
checked for a century and half NOR
there would be no children left.
Rejecting the Spencerian theory tho
the advance Of civilization necessaril.
means decrease in the birth rate an,
also the theory that the growing abuse
of alcohol or the spread of disease is
the cause, Professor Wilcox goes on tC
say:
The true reason for the fall in the
birth rate is that in modern times
mainly in the last half century, births
and the birth rate have come under
control of human will and choice in a
sense and to degree never before
true.
This power to control increase has
been used and is being used today far
too exclusively with reference to pri.
vate economic advantage and far toe
little with due consideration to social
Welfare and progress"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-11-29
Crazed by Murder Of Son,
Queen Mother Is Dying
Maria Pas Reason Wrecked by Assassination of Carlos,
Poytugak- Thinks She Is in Presence of the Dead.

When that delusion passed shesettled
into the melancholy conviction that
she was constantly in the presence of
her murdered loved ones.
All efforts to rouse the poor woman
have proved vain. and her health has
gradually become undermined till it is
evident she cannot long support her
suffering.
Maria Pia- by her popularity, coun-
teracted the sentiment of dislike which
the unpopularity of her daughter-in-
law brought upon the royal family
The daughter of King Emanuel H., she
imbibed liberal ideas from her father
and though good Catholic, was anti
clerical, Her disability is a serious
loss to the young King Manuel in these
critical times, her tact and discretion
being the needed balance to the unrea-
son OF his Bourbon mother. who seems
to have learned nothing from the aw-
full tragedy that overturned the old
queens nina
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until nightfall and then got scared and
left u.s. After that we waded down
stream for five days until we struck
the Mandinga river.
Bradley was the first man to fall
sick through the hardships of the trip,
bad water and intense heat. He was
from Boston, twenty-seven years old,
and l did not think his sickness was
serious at first. Then Bartlett gave
out through a tick getting into his foot
and causing what is known in that
country as tick fever.
"On the same evening that the
Mandinga was reached we were sur
rounded by 200 hostile Indians of the
Gait tribe, who had followed us on
information given them by Chinese
trader To my surprise, none of them
spoke Spanish, but the interpreter
talked English fluently and the first
question he asked was:
Inquired About Coney Island.
Say, do you know Coney Island?'
That made Bartlett smile and
brought a faint CLEAN of intelligence
from Bradley, who was lying on the
ground in a weak state.
Tho interpreter told us that he had
wicked in New York two years and
then went back to the San Bias coun-
ty and barbaric life. He said that the
chief had decreed that we must either
go back the way we came or be killed.
Il replied that it was impossible for
us to wade back against the current
carrying a dying man with us, and
asked permission to go down the Man
dinga to the coast.
The Indians were armed with
guns, poisoned arrows, clubs and
spears The chief would not believe
our hunting story, and said that God
had given that land to the Indians,
and he did not intend to let white men
grab it away from his tribe while he
lived.
LAS the days went by We became
desperate. 1t was evident that Brad
ley had not many hours to live, as
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-11-29

Genoa, Italy, Nov. 2S.-Queen Maria
Pia, the mother of the late king of
Portugal, is nearing her end, a victim
Of the assassin of her son and grand
son as surely as though she herself
had been stricken down.
Hagalhaes Lima. editor-in-chief of
the Portuguese Republican Journal.
tells in an interview published in the
Corriere of Genoa, the pitiful condi-
ton of the aged woman, whose brain
was a directing power in the state
through her sons reign, as her per-
sonality was ever a softening influ-
ence with her people. Since the mo-
ment when Maria Pia flung herself
upon the bleeding forms Of her slain
son and his child. her mind, like that
of Lady Macbeth, has become dis
traught with the dreadful vision. At
first she cried that there was blood up
on her hands, blood upon her garments
and INCREASINGLY strove to wash It cut
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-11-29
THE DANCE OF DEATH,

The middle ages were prolific in
their exploitation of the grotesque.
Gargoyles, dragons and fantastic
hapes filled with beautiful ugliness
were the predominating features of its
art. BY far the most enduring of any
of the middle age art is the Danse Ma
caber, that terrible cycle of the skele-
tons, best known as the motif of Hol-
bein's Dance of Death.
AS one turns the pages of this sim
lister book he is startled by the SIM
plicity and the universally of it's ap-
peal. 1t is as new now as it ever
was and as old as the beginning of the
world. Rich man. poor man, beggar
man, thief, king, prince, courtesan,
nun, girls, boys. matrons and fine la
dies all pass before us. nor heed the
beating of the distant drum" as PLAYED
by the hideous figure of death. The
old man and the child, the gamester
and the abbot-all
What is the modern dance of death
Have We any counterpart of this uni
versal morality play?
Look over the news columns of this
or any other paper That is the
modern Dance macaber.
1t is true that the Moyen Age did
most OF its thinking about death and
therefore went to all sorts of foolish
means to try to trick the hereafter
even to the point Of buying indulgen
ces. On the other had never before
in the history of the world have men
paid so much attention to actual liv-
ing as now. whether it be living well
or i'll Live! Whether it be those
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-11-29
Heart to Heart
Talks.
Copy. light, 1908, by Edwin A. Nye
JOHN EARLY, AMERICAN LEPER.
By EDWIN A. NYE.

JOHN EAKL1, AMEKlCAN LkrkK.
"Unclean! Uncleanv
How that age-long cry of the leper
has vexed the heavens and assailed
the ear in the far east!
There the ancient law of Moses
holds. The clothes must be rent, the
head bare. He shall put covering
over his upper lip and cry: 'Unclean!
Unclean! And he shall dwell alone.
Without the camp shall his habitation
be-"
And it is so today in the orient.
But
In America, across the Potomac riv-
er, beyond the green marsh lands and
under the great sycamore trees. in his
dog tent" dwells alone John Early,
American citizen, leper. And across
his forehead spreads the signet of the
worlds oldest, most horrible disease.
And his case is only one OF 27S
KNOWN CASES OF LEPROSY In
this country.
John Early was for nine years a sol.
der Of the United States army. When
leprosy attacked him he wore the uni.
form of the Salvation Army-a soldier
of the common good.
Now he is a legal outcast.
Day following day he ''dwells with
out the camp" He does not cry I'm
clean" because none will approach his
solitary place. His eyes turn across
the sedgy marshes and the slow NOV.
ing river. where dwell. in the Capital
City, his wife and child, whom he
may see at a distance, but whom he
may never touch.
John Early Is brave.
He Is strong In his faith that prayer
and a new drug will cure the plague
BE says he wants to show that faith
and his medicine win cure the lep
rosy and give other lepers hope
But
What are his fellow men distin
guished as humane, what is society
doing for this man?
Here Is good American citizen
stricken in awful malady. thrust bru
tally out In the wilderness to die. Any
humane society would do more for /,
wounded dog.
And John Early's case Is similar tc
that Of the other 277 American lepers
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Facts About Indiana for Ready Reference
Railroads. Products Schools and Churches State Shown by Figures Which
Have Been Prepared by St1haauau.

Corn, 3,SS4,9S0 acres, yielding 120,-
447, $50 bushels.
Potatoes, 66,SS4 acres. yielding A.
,0S4 bushels.
Tomatoes, 22.673 acres, yielding =
676,747 bushels.
Timothy. 1,317,455 acres, yielding l.
S35, PA tons Of hay.
Clover, 1,157,675 acres, yielding l.
972, 169 tons of hay.
Tobacco, 1876 acres, yielding g.
102,9S5 pounds.
Peas. 27,546 acres.
Onions, 3,640 acres.
Glover seed, 104 ,707 bushels
Butter, 37,331,5 pounds
Cheese, $40, 764 pounds
Poultry, 1,355,669 pounds.
Eggs, 62.64S,50S dozen.
Apples, 997 500 bushels.
Churches and Schools.
The total membership of the var
ious religious denominations in Indi-
ana in 1907 was 1908, 145.
The total value of church property
in 1907 was s24 1928, DOL.
Indiana has a school fund of SILL
S1S,43349, composed of the following:
Common school fund, sS,5S3, 1911;
congressional school fund, FAB, 143.-
"a; university fund. $761. 53274.
The total value of school property
in Indiana, including desks, apparatus,
etc, is S33, 1872, 1885.
The number of teachers in 1908 waf
1851 and the number of pupils en-
rolled 531,731
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-11-29
FOOTBALL OVER.
Football Is over for a year.

Football Is over for year.
Now although some patient man
with the aid of a press clipping bur-
eau, a pencil and a sheet of paper,
will no doubt soon tell us to the frac-
tion how many persons have been
manned for life this year on the foot
ball field it is not likely that the pub
lie will pay much heed to him or any
other fanatic. Those who have seen
the game this year will mostly agree
that 1t is better in every way than the
football of erstwhile years, for every
one concerned. 1t is a real game.
Yet many people will wonder after
they have gone home from the last
game Of this season and look over the
sporting pages where the last sparks
OF football news are smoldering, why
it is that so many teams which have
been victorious all season have gone
down to such humiliating defeat when
they were expected to do their very
best and win an easy victory.
Especially has this been so in the
west and there is blank look on long
faces when the question is asked.
The answer in most cases is over
trained" A typical instance is the
defeat of Kenyon college, of Ohio,
which all season swept the teams be-
fore it In victory after victory scoring
hundreds of points to their opponents
teens. They were whipped hopelessly
on Thanksgiving day by a team which
had been defeated time and again by
other teams which had fallen an easy
prey to Kenyon. Now when you will
consider that the season opened early
in September and that almost every
smoking and pastry allowed you can
imagine the state of mind of the play
ers. In the East the preparation is all
for one game-in the West it is all
season and the one game beside.
Football is becoming too much of a
college business and less of game.
For all the disrepute into which Eng
lish craftsmanship has fallen since
the Olympic games in London, it must
be admitted that they play football
for the fun of the thin-we play it to
win and to advertise our respective
colleges. This has led to the over
doing of the training idea although
the training is beneficial if not CART
ed to the extreme which is customary
here. The most hopeful sign in the
colleges is the adoption of the three
year rule which has put damper or
semi-professional athletics. The san
er view of training and athletics in
general will come in time
The fault is not with the game Of
football-fanatics to the contrary, bu,
with the point of view of those wht
have the management of athletics ir
hand.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-11-29

Platinum is the heaviest of metals.
weighing 21.5OO ounces to the cubic
foot. whereas gold weighs but 1920
ounces.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-09-24
TURPIN AND DUVAL OUTCOME.
Twentieth Century HighWayman
Makes Old-Timers Seem Amateurs.

One highwayman out in Yellowstone
park was able to hold up on less than
seven stage coaches, one after another
in quick succession, without encoun-
tering in any of them a passenger
reckless enough to make the slightest
attempt to save his own pocketbook.
The lone bandit worked his will on
them all, and must have broken the
previous record in this particular line
of endeavor.
Most of these passengers, doubtless,
were fasteners, or at least urbanized
folk with as little familiarity as liking
for guns and pistols. That they ad-
mitted the cogency of the highway
mans argument is not so surprising,
but on all these stages there must
have been at least few men who
were more or less to the manner
trained and who had both seen and
used firearms. These ruder- persons
however, were as submissive as the
rest, and an exploit as remarkable as
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-09-24
WHEN you GET RICH.
Only Then Are You Appreciated for
Your True Worth.

Upton Sinclair, the novelist, was
talking about wealth at Lake Pla-
cid.
'It is pleasant to be rich," he said.
Nobody can deny that. Many of the
pleasures of wealth, though, are false
and mistaken ones.
when I was making my living by
the composition of blood and thun-
der tales for boys-and l could turn
out my 5000 words a day l knew a
pale, bent, ink-stained old chap who
wrote love stories.
His stories did not pay; he was
very poor; but an aunt died, and sud
denly the old fellow found himself a
millionaire.
"He saw me one afternoon on Broad
way. He stopped his red car and we
chatted about old times.
"'And is it pleasant to be rich?' l
asked.
eyes, it is he answered, as he
lighted a Vuelto Abajos and handed
me another. And do you know what
is the pleasantest thing about it? You
have an opportunity to make real
friends, friends who can understand
you. You get at last to know people
capable of esteeming you for your own
qualities alone. You find, sir, that
you are at last appreciated
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-09-24


any in the widest romance of adven-
ture and crime was carried through
with what, from a safe distance, seems
like ridiculous ease.
Yet there is not much reason for as
Stunning that the highwayman was the
boldest man in that hereafter-to-be-his-
toric canon. The chances are that he
will cut a poor figure after his inevi-
table capture and turn out to be only
an ordinary ruffian after all. The fact
is, apparently, that nowadays most
people have a decided objection to get
ting killed. It's new trait. Former
ly nobody seemed to mind it much,
and a violent end, more or less by
voluntary and deliberate choice, was
the common lot.
Yet, great as is the change and care
full as has come to be the calculation
of odds, there still fingers an instinc-
tive admiration for the man who can
ignore obvious perils. Most of us,
barbarians that we are, will find 1t
easier to view this lone robber as a
picturesque and heroic parsonage
than as a criminal, and it is bit hard
to help hoping that he may escape his
pursuers. Somehow he seems to have
earned his $4,000
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-09-24

region was a favorite haunt of the
men of the stone age, because the cli-
mate, environment and food supply
We're very favorable
This stone aX," said he, is an i'm
portant find from the fact that it car
ries back the date at which primitive
man made his advent here to an
earlier period than our people general
ly suppose. Many people are inclined
to believe that mans appearance in
the sound region is :. comparatively
recent event in the history of the
race Why, just across at Minter we
have shell heaps 61a feet deep, and on
top of them growing trees from three
to four feet through. Horn tools, such
as ADDE'S, knives for digging roots,
and other instruments have been
found near the bottom of these
heaps.
Other heaps, from six to seven feet
through, have been found at the
mouth of Chambers Check, at DUN.
geness, and at the mouth of the Puy-
alum river, all showing that man
made his advent here at a date very
remote in the past. No one, I think,
would be hardy enough to put the date
at less than a thousand years ago."