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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-09-03
IAN ODD REQUIREMENT
Idaho Teacher Must Have
Four Children.
National News Association)


SPOKANE. Wash. Sept. RE
quirements that have never been NAM
ed anywhere In the United States or
in tho Dominion of Canada by board
Of trustees looking after the welfare
Of tho little red school house, are ex-
acted In the Gordon district, Soshone
county. Idaho, 125 miles east of Spo-
kane. where the teacher qualifying for
the position must have four or more
children. There IL a legal reason for
this stipulation. which, stripped Of it's
verbiage, means there Is only one
child of school ago in the district.
The law requires the enrolment
shall be not less than Ave. The district
which 10 In the heart of the richest
lead and silver producing country in
the world boasts of a new and fully
equipped school house, a modern H.
brary and $4,000 in surplus funds. The
salary attached 10 the position is 800.
The district muet lapse II the require
ments are not carried out, and, az a
last resort, the trustees are searching
for teacher to supply the pupils.
The Gordon district has been sort
Of family community for years. The
children Of two couples, A Oswald and
A. Mason. composed the enrolment
until recently. when the Mason family
moved to another part of the North
west. leaving Oswald, his child, a
teacher and two mining prospectors
behind. The Mason family has four
children, four children of school age
are needed to take their places at
once. else the school district will be
abolished.
The trustees are in quandry. They
have sent out scouts to find a capable
woman with sufficient family to make
up the roll call. but 30 far none has
qualified. They now appear ready to
crowd youth and beauty and even a
certain amount Of efficiency into the
background in an effort to perpetuate
the district school.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-09-03
BOMB EXPLOSION
CAUSED A PANIC
National News Association

(National News Association
NEW YORK, Sept. with a ter,
rifle explosion, heard for blocks in
every direction, bomb set off early
today in the hallway of the double
decked brick five-story tenement at
1903 First avenue, shattered nearly
every window in the building, knock
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-09-03

ed two drivers Of wagons from their
seats. partly wrecked the butcher
shop OF Matteo Sariono and caused a
wild panic among the $50 German oc-
cupants Of the building.
At the time OF the explosion Police
man Short was standing at q fixed
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-09-03

post at Sand street and First avenue.
while Policeman Waterhouse was try
ing doors on First avenue about five
red. They both say they saw no per-
son on the street within q half hour
preceding the explosion.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-03-22
War with Japan
Sure, Says Hobson

Bangor, Me. March 2l.-Congressman
Richmond f. IIobson, who lectured here
Monday night under the auspices of the
w. c. T. L.. declared in an interview that
Japan is persstcntly seeking war with
the United States and that hostiites will
begin within two years-probably soon
after the completion of the Panama ca
nal. Japan's reasons for seeking war
with this country, he said, are desire
to revenge herself for the exclusion OF her
subjects, antagonism to the Monroe doc
trnc and the imperative necessity of ter
rtorial and commercial expansion, and
she will make war upon any preteXt that
offers, He declares that Japanese cngi-
neers have made a Typographical survey
Of Mexico in anticipation of an invasion
Of the United States through that coun-
try, and intimated that Japan had in
spired the present rebellion in Mexico
with the hope of embroiling the United
States and. in any event ascertaining
our ability to move troops quickly.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-03-22
WHAT'S IN A NAME?
Nothing Doing, Ina Hoss. Lemon
Peel and Ten Million Are Examples.

Naming the baby is in most families.
quite properly, serious affair, in
which every member is interested. No
name can be too beautiful. to poetic,
too melodious. for that small. pink
faced person tc bear through life: no
name can be associated with too Illus
trious parsonage of history. too tas-
chatting d character in romance. From
the great G. W. and King Arthur
downward, baby is good enough to be
anybody's namesake.
Such is the usual attitude of parents.
with which the world sympathizes
while Il smiles. Nevertheless. it is
surprising to what names, and con-
functions of names. reckless or cruelty
jocular parents will condemn their
children. English records of recent
years reveal that Robert New named
his two sons Nothing and Something.
Mr.. Mixer. Mr.. Peel and Mr.. Codd
named their respective babies Pepper.
Lemon and Salt; while Mr. Wares lit
tie girl became China and Mr. Gentle s
Always.
An appeal for legal change of name
allowed the general public to learn
that the brothers Pigg bore the Chris
tian names Black. Brown Gay and
Quincy. Their request. it is needless
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-03-22
AN ARMED TRUCE
Will Be Established as Soon as Condi
tons Permit, Says Madero.

FL Paso Eek, March 21.-"An armed
truce will be established in northern
Mexico as soon as developments in
Mexico City warrant and Francisco /.
Madero, the revolutionary president,
Will establish himself at a point in the
field to be held neutral ground. there
TO receive any peace proposals that
may come as a result of the arrival IN
Mexico City of Jose Yves Limantour,
minister of finance, WHO recently had
been in conference with Insurrecto
leaders in New York"
This is the substance of messages
brought Monday by courier from Mad
Gro. who is $50 miles south of here II
camp with 1000 men. 1t is the frs
word direct from MadcrO since the be
cinring of the peace negotiations
which are supposed to have been un
dnrwqv in the United States for NOR
than week.
The text Of Madcro's message to til
revolutionary iunta was not mad
pubic but the term AS soon as dc
veloplncnts in Mexico city warrant
was explained as meaning that NADER
would insist on important stipulation
previously announced before peace ar
raneemcnts were begun.
Whether Scnor Limantour would b
acceptable to Madcro as provisions
President" pending negotiations is no
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wages. We can fancy this boy Potter
lus' oceoinlng familiar with the en-
So u'hoiuihS To the chief his idea
"e an the 4abof involved in turning
Tue levers could be saved: and the on
queer soothing comment that whom
tht boy mad lived with an engine &c
ioiS as he had. better sense could n,
expected. This has been an eyervda,.
experience with the proposers of i'm
proSS:nentS. Sometimes we soiI. ,it,,
lhSiF OF conservatism; bur notbjno i,
our modern organization of indus,r,,
Is as conservative as the person u.ho
mas perfomed single simple task dav
after gay, year after year. always in
ttie same way in which he began. Mr.
stone. VINO has shovelled into locomo-
lives more coal than could be piled on
Two clfy blocks. and who therefore
tihihs ne can safely be contemptuous
VI any suggestion. is but one examine
our % a very great number. They arc
III every occupation. We have seen
them among printers. some of whom
we haNe heard argue by the hour that
no Improvement on the old-fashjone1
type sticking process was possible
l.
sands Of ems they had set with the
stick and the rule as proof that they
We're qualified to judge. But the i'm
preteinent Was made-aud the better
part or the Improvement came out of
tile brain and the patience of Il man
VINO vas not q practical printer at all.
Such incidents have been duplicated
many times.
Dealing With this specific matter of
efficiency Of fuel construction. and with
Mr. stones fallacious arguing. The
Engineering News observes that there
have been many bettcrments in firing
during the past twenty five years and
that the best today probably saves
half the coal used in the good average
practice OF quarter century ago.
Then 1t goes on to say:
Tile waste of fuel was due to imper-
feet apparatus. appliances. methods,
acknowledgement to the wilfulncss of the
firemen. None of the bcttcrmentS were
made BY the men who Shovelled Goa!
through the fire doors None of them
has increased the labor OF the men
who shoveled the coal. Many of them
have lightened that labor None OF
them has lessened the number Of jobs
for firemen wanting work. On the
contrary, the reduced cost of power
has increased enormously it's use and
the number of tiremen employed.
While this experience is not confined
to firing for stationary engines. and
essentially the same history can be
found in many activities. we presume,
with each new generation there will
continue to come along men who are
sceptical Of the principle. The impa-
tent of suggestions for change is al
ways to be depended upon to make an
appearance-and he has one valuable
use. that he forces the promoters of
change to think more carefully than
they would ii he did not come in with
his objections.-New Bedford stand
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THE BLOCK TO EFFICIENCY
me Seeptic from His Rut the First to
Object to Progress.

- very common criticism of men
WIZ propose plans for increasing the
eh'eiehcN OF any mechanical opera ton
10 ciloodled IN the remarks about an
au Nocate OF efficiency made by Warren
.. stone at a conference of the Nation
al civic Federation as follows: Has
he ever Shovelled coal into a locomo-
tlVe'E No; and yet he makes the as
sertion that the railroads waste half
their coal. l have shovelled more coal
into locomotives than could be piled on
two of your city blocks" This QUOTA
ton expresses the usual contempt of
the "rule-of- thumb" practical man for
the person whom he terms 1.-The mere
theorist," and also indicates why many
improvements are hard to effect 1t
| may be-we do not know about that
that the efficiency advocate is mis-
taken when he says that the railroads
waste half their coal; but the propen-
sity of men who have shovelled coal all
| their lives to say that no improvement
| is possible furnishes the chief obsta-
Gle to any Improvement.
The story is told that in the early
steam engines the opening and closing
| Of the valves which regulated the flow
! of steam was performed by hand; but
| that boy named Humphrey Potter
| who was set at the task. finding ii
lnonotonous and waste of time which
he thought he could use to better ad-
vantage. devised system of strings
and levers by which the engine was
| made to work it's own valves. Here
was the beginning of long succession
| of efficiency promoters in the steam
engine. The boys strings and levers
exist today in essentially. but they
have been refined and improved to an
extent not dreamed 81. in his day. and
for the most part by the theorists. who
! had not Fun teAxal An&ln< s. x0sssA1AN.a
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-03-22

ASSURANCES OF PEACE
Given Ambassador De la 5arra BY
President Taft.

Washington. March Whatever
dclicacy may have been felt in the re-
lations between the United States and
Mexico concerning the mobilization of
20.h00 American troops III state con
tiGuous to the Mexican frontier was
entirely removed. il is believed. by the
confidential talk between President
Taft and the Mexican ambassador.
senior De La Barra. at the White
House Monday.
The President confirmed assurances
which he gave the ambassador before
leaving for Augusta, Ga, that Mexico
need feel no alarm over the movement
Of troops to Texas. Ambassador De
La Barra went away we'll satisfied with
the conference and sent Il long tcle-
gram Monday night to Senior CrccL
minister of foreign relations at McXi-
co City. explaining the sincere ant!
frank expressions Of the American
government as made to him by Presi-
dent Taft
The ambassador, who from the out
set has been anxious to convey to
President Taft the sentiments and at
titude OF the people of Mexico in the
present situation. Monday explained, it
is said. to President Taft the comment
with which the mobilization of troops
had been received in Mexico during the
absence OF the President from Wash
ington. The President reiterated to
the ambassador that the latter could
allay any misconception in his country
over the troops by the knowledge that
the soldiers were sent to Texas fol
naneuNreS and for the enforcement OF
the neutrality laws.
Neither the Mexican embassy nor tn,
White House would make any official an
nouncement about the talk beyond the
| fact that the assurance with regard tc
| the troops had been repeated by the
| President, but the opinion prevails here
| Monday night that the President also ex.
planned fully to the ambassador the ma
| turc of the intended mancuvres. Further,
more. it is believed that the Mexican am
bassador was informed that as soon a.
| the mancuvres have been completed tn,
troops will be recalled in sections anf
| within the next four or five weeks.
! Both Gen. Wood. chief of staff of tn,
army, and Huntington Wilson. the actinl
secretary of state, called on the Presi
dent Monday. The former made de
tailed report on the progress of the entr,
military movement to date.
II was evident Monday that the Presi
, dent was gathering all the information
, possible regarding the Mexican situation
before going into the cabinet meetin,
tuesday, which will be the FIRST that will
, have been held for two weeks and tn
FIRST IN which the new secretary OF tn
interior, Walter l.. Fisher will attend
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-03-22

to say, was promptly granted. The
unfortunate twins sudden Death and
Jolly Death showed a Vet further
abuse of parental privilege in their
cOgnomens; but they did not change
them.
Practical joking at the expense OF
helpless infants is certainly unpardon-
able. 1t is said TO be less rare in this
country than across the water, al
though James ;. Hogg, Governor OF
Texas. named his daughter Ina.
Every one i'll society in Texas knows
Ina Hogg.
An extraordinary instance of the be-
stowaI of striking names upon whole
family of 10 children was reported re-
Gently. Mr.. and Mrs. Million. of Orc
gon, could never. it seems quite agree
upon names entirely satisfactory to
both. SO as a matter OF convenience
they had resorted to numbers.
The official of a financial concern
says that when the names of subscrib-
ers To the bond issue proposed by that
concern We're sent in one was that of
Ten Million. 1t WAS naturally sup
posed to be an assumed name, and
letter was sent to the address given
rather sharply stating that bonds could
be registered i'll real names only. and
that NO further attention would be
paid To- his subscription ualess he gave
his real name.
An explanatory note waS soon re-
eeived from Mr.. Million, written upon
paper bearing the printed lctterhead
Of a firm of Million Il Million, reiterat-
rug his own name, and adding those Of
his brother and sisters. one. Two
Three. Four. lsivec, Six. Seven this
partner, and the rest As the Million
ehildren-that il. as the 10 Million at
leust. as the 10 children by the names
OF Million grew up-mDSt Of them. he
admitted, had modified their numcral
prefXcS; the Misses one and Three
Million. for example. becoming Nina
and Trio while Ten Himself was com
monty known as TENTS. Legally, how
ever, his name still remained UNI
changed. and in the eyes of the law he
Was Ten Million.-New York Press.
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safe Hints for Good Health.

Don't hurry your meals.
Don't eat when overtired, rest few
moments before eating. 1t will pay
you.
Don't borrow time for work that
belongs to rest or sleep.
Don't neglect the first symptoms Of
illness or disordered digestion.
Don't allow the bowels to become
constipated, but if you are so unfor-
tunate, don't delay taking one or two
teaspoonfuls of IL. F." Atwood S
Medicine or Bitters on retiring at night.
They have record of sixty years and
never fail to relieve constipation and
biliouSneSs.
All dealers have them in large bottles
for thirty five cents. Be sure to get the
I'll. F." kind. A generous sample
mailed free on request by the IL. F.
Medicine Co., Portland Me.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-03-22
DOCTOR STRICKEN.
Government Physician Seized With
Malady He Was Fighting.

New York Marchs 2l.-In assisting 10
avert importation of spinal meningitis,
which was discovered last week to be
prevalent among Greek immigrants arriv-
ing here, DR. Edward T. Ashley, one of
the psychologists at the quarantine hos
pital in New York harbor has himself
suddenly contracted the disease.
1t was learned from DIR. Alvah II. Do
y. the health officer of the port Monday
night that Or. Ashley was seized with the
malady sunday night, grew gradually
worse Monday and was in serious con-
dtion Monday night. Or. Dotv has been
iii constant attendance upon his assistant.
Or, Ashley has been working in the
laboratory Of the Swinburne Island hospi-
tai for the last week studying the germs
III the cases Of 16 Greeks who arrived
here recently on the steamers Patcras
and Martha Washington. He also assist
Cd in the autopsies on six OF the patients.
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ARKANSAS DIAMOND MINE.
Connecticut Yankee Makes It Pay by
Selling Admission Tickets,

Down in Arkansas is man who
| owns diamond mine and makes mon
eT out of ii. He does ii by selling tic
kets of admission, and his property is
the one steadiest revenue producer
among all the diamond mines in the
world. The tickets cost so cents
apiece. and the audience. or whatever
they rishtfully may be called. are at
liberty To keep all the diamonds they
find. This man is NJ. VI. Mauney. and
his business methods clearly Indicate
his Connecticut origin.
But Mr.. Mauney does not own the
only diamond mine in the Arkansas
diamond field. Six separate proper
ties in it are held by Incorporated
companies and two by individuals.
Mr. Mauney being one of these two.
In 1909 about 1000 diamonds wer,
taken from this field
HE Arkansas Diamond ConDany.
the most ambitious operator in the
held, began explorations in the latter
part of 1909 by sinking a number of
prospecting pits and by the erection
of a small diamond washing plant.
BY March. 1910, the little plant had
construction of larger plant was
undertaken
ne - stones belonging to the Ar
kansas Diamond Company which have
been cut are regarded with high fa-
N"r by those interested. They are all
described as very brilliant. among
them being several fine blues and some
pure whites. Among the uncut stones
IS mentioned one which is pure
"h1tc crescent, for which tho com
panE has been offered 1925 per carat.
Diamonds have been found in sew
eral other States, principally in Cali
lorna. TWO of these gems We're picked
out of rocker with which man
named George Stone was washing
Goid III an old placer and hydraulic
mlle at Cherokee Flats. Butte county.
last Year. But Mr.. Stone was not a
diamond expert and the stones were
saved merely because they We're at
tractlve. One Of them was sold for
$'o. 1t is stated that not less than
20c diamonds have been taken from tha
placer grounds at Cherokee Flats and
thcrca bout.
AS interesting as any, however, are
the diamond discoveries in Indiana.
state where it is recognized that
anything may happen. In 1903 q
stone weighing about one carat was
found by r. l.. Royse some distance
north of Martinsville, Morgan county.
and other diamonds found in the
same region are still in the hands OF
the finders.
a diamond said to be worth $500
was found at Masscna. \. Y. about
twenty wears ago by l.. j. Barbour.
who discovered i. while blasting some
rock at that place. While the rock
was being removed Mr.. Barbour no.
tlced the crystal and picked it up.
jewelers. who examined it pronounced
IL diamond and beauty. 1t is said
now to be in the possession of Mrs.
Barbour. who is living at Farming
ton n. H.-Washington Dispatch to
the Boston Herald
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Booker Washington Sent
To New York Hospital,
White Woman Conn planned and
Husband Attacked Educator.
Doctor Claims He Was Reading the
Name Plates in Search ofFrlend.

New York. March 21.-ManN promi-
nent men offered aid and sympathy
Monday 10 Booker T Washington. the
Negro educator, whose bandaged head
is mendng from cuts and bruises in
flicted, ne charges by Albert Glrich, a
carpenter and dog fancier. during an
encounter Sunday night. pr Washing
ton was unable To press the charge of
assault against his alleged aSsailant in
court Monday, and his secretary said
Monday night that it was doubtful il
he could appear Tuesday afternoon
when the case is to come up again. II
was necessary tu take 16 stitches in the
wounds, and until the decorations have
healed more cffectually, DIR. Washing
ton probably will keep to his room.
Many sympathetic kilograms from
every section Of the United States and
telephone calls were received by DR.,
Washington all day. Scores of persons
called at the hotel. Several hundred
expressions Of sympathy. the secretary
said had been sent to his chief
Andrew Carnegie. he said. telcphoncd
from his Fifth avenue mansion offer
ing any assistance that DR. Washing
ton might wish to command. George
Foster Peabody. the banker. called up
on Il similar mission. William j.
Schinelin called personally at the hotel
and talked with DR.. Washington Il few
minutes. Seth Low. president of the
board of trustees of the TuSkegec Nor
NAL ana Industrial Institute, conferred
at length with the educator Together
they prepared a statement which Mr..
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STRAIN ON THE PRESIDENT.
Mexican Relations Have Often De
pended on Man in White House.

ON Abraham LiucolnS table the
night he was shot was a document by
Benjamin T. Butler. authorizing the
employment of men, as laborcrs, on
our side of the Rio Grande. The pro-
fcSScd project was the building of
national Highway or railroad across
Texas. Preference Was to be given to
former soldiers of the Northern and
Southern armies The avowed purpose
was peaceful industry. reunion of
sentiment. and the extinction of sec
tiondlism. The real intent was the in
vasiun of Mexico. to eXpel the French.
and to annex that country to this.
Fiiibusterirg ACKNOWLEDGEMENT and
speculation ON a gigantic scale were
designed
Andrew johnson became President
the next daN. Other events required
attention. The Eutler scheme lapsed
Reconstruction bred quarrels which led
to the placing of Texas under the con-
troll of Sheridan and the assemblage
OF large army there. ostensibly for
tie reconstruction of Texas, actually
fer a rush on Mexico, as if to eXpel
'he French. but really to annex Mexico
to this republic. Johnson and Seward
stopped that. and Juarel and his
troops forced the withdrawal of the
French. That Lincoln would have
blocked Buffers scheme is probable.
Tint Johnson and Seward did block
the later scheme is history.
Much then depended on who was
President. as much as depended on
who was President when Polk was
ami when. under his allowance at
least, war of our own precipitation
was declared to exist by act of Mex
leo" Then Taylor was ordered across
the Rio Grandc and to it's conse-
auences. The annexation of Texas
to the United states resulted 1t will
be seen that then "a great deal de-
pended on who was President" just
as a great deal now does.
william II. Taft is President. Mex
leo Is in a condition of turmoil. The
hli5usternG spirit exists in parts of
the United States near to Mexico. A
large part of the American army and
navy has been diverted by President
faft to the neighborhood of Texas, to
suppress filibustering from this side.
The pacific purpose is avowed to and
believed by the people of the United
States. The disposition is not doubt
ed, but the complications and the liza
bi'!ties are not to be overlooked
Brooklyn Eagle.