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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-09-01
Fred Yurgens, Father of Boy,
an Invalid, Who Took the
Drug to Relieve Pain, Put
1t Upon a Stand.
BABY CARL THOUGHT
1T WAS ONLY WATER
Drank Contents of Glass,
Then in a Short Time Be-
came Unconscious and
Could Not Be Revived.

Believing water was contained in a
glass which had been placed on a
small stand by his father, Carl Yur-
gems, the three-year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred Yurgens, 236 South Third
street at noon Thursday swallowed
the liquid, which proved to be NOR
phine, and died shortly after mid
night. He was conscious but an hour
and half after he drank the NOR
phine and died while sleeping.
The morphine had been used by
Mr.. Yurgens. who is an invalid. He
has been i'll for some time. His for
mer physician extended little hope Of
his recovery and Mr.. Yurgens secured
another physician, who also said he
could not live, but that morphine
would relieve him of his suffering.
The father who had been lying on a
couch, left the room. He did not re-
turn to the room for some time and
when Mrs. Yurgens stepped into the
room to look for her son she found
him lying on the couch with the emp
ty glass in his hand.
what have you done, Carl" his
mother asked, excitedly. did you
drink that morphine?"
Eyes. thought it was water, be-
cause it was clear" answered the
youth.
Physicians were called Immediately
but his life could not be saved. 1t
was said that he drank the morphine
upon an empty stomach. Efforts were
made to revive him after he fell into
Inconsistencies. but they were un-
available.
The funeral will be held at the home
at 2:3O o'clock Sunday afternoon. The
interment will be in the Lutheran
cemetery.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-09-01
SOUTH N STREET is
TO BE IMPROVED

South n street over which the
South Side Improvement association
and the Chicago division of the c. &
o. railroad, then. the C. & o. OF Indi-
ana railway company had a long
drawn out litigation last winter. the
railroad company losing. was staked
out on Thursday for the improvement
of the highway. The railroad COM
pany has constructed the crossing an
directed by the court and now the
township win complete the improve
ment to the highway proper. The road
win be graveled. 1t will open up ter
ritory west Of the railroad for both
residence znd factory purposes-
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-09-01
FLEET IS PRACT|c|AG
Gunners Try Their Aim at
from S to 9 Miles.
(Nationai News Association)

(National News Association)
WASHINGTON. Sept. 1.-The At
Dantic fleet under Rear Admiral Hugo
Dsterhaus began It's spectacular sum-
lner practice off the Chesapeake
capes ut dawn today. These exercis-
be which will last for two weeks will
20 more difficult than ever before at
tempted by the navy. Realizing that
future combats will be fought at great
distances not q shot will be fired at a
less range than 5000 yards-about
tive miles. The maximum ranges Of
the practice will be 10000 yards, or
lmore than nine miles.
Some Of the interesting features of
the exercises will be tests with box
kites, representing aeroplanes. and ex-
perimental work In repelling night at
tacks by torpedo boats and subma-
rines.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-09-01
"BIG CHIEF SHOWN
IN SWIMMING SUIT

Il can't swim as good as could In
my younger days." complained Police
Supt. Gormon this morning as he ex-
hibited picture of himself, taken at
one of the lakes in Michigan.~ while
he was spending his summer vacation.
supt- Gormon was attired in one Of
the new bathing Costumes He de-
clared that although he was able to
navigate in the lake, he is almost
too heavy. Why, can swim better
standing up than lying down in the
water" he declared.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-09-01
NO GIRL LOVED HIM,
JOINS REGULAR ARMY
Carl Horning, II. Richmond,
Without a Girl, Couldn't
Marry, Enlists.
tNational News Association,

MUNCIE, Ind, Sept. because he
had no girl and nobody to love him
Carl Horning, of Richmond, Indiana,
yesterday enlisted in the U. S. army
at the local recruiting station and was
assigned to the Columbus, o. bar.
racks.
When asked the, regulation ques.
tions as to why he desired to enlist in
the army service, Horning said, Il
haven't any girl and I'm too young
TO be married, so I had better join
the army"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-09-01
WHIPS PROSECUTOR
Enraged Joy Rider Who Was
Fined, Made Attack.
(Nat,onal News Association)

WABASH, Ind, Sept. William
Wallace, a wealthy automobile dealer.
attacked Prosecutor w. s. Dent as he
walked from the city court room to-
day and before bystanders could inter
fere the official had been badly in
jured. Wallace was arraigned for
speeding and was found guilty. A
fine OF SO was assessed. to which
was added the costs.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-09-01
PRISONERS JOYFUL

Limestone rock removed from
streets in West Richmond and Fair
view where the Richmond City Water
Works company is excavating to lay
water mains is being taken to the
county Jail. where the prisoners will
crack it for use upon the city streets.
The rock is being sold to the county
for IS cents q yard
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-09-01
EPIDEMIC
Many Soldiers in Turkish
Army in Albania Die.
National News Association1

(NatlOnaI news ASSoclaIIonI
CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 1.-Chol-
era has invaded the Turkish army.
The plague is causing great mortality
among the garrisons in the towns in
Albania. The disease has become an
epidemic. At Monastir there is an av-
erage of fifty deaths daily. Seventy
cases of the disease and twenty-five
deaths are reported today in this city
Most of these cases were among the
soldiers recently returned from Alban-
ian territory.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-09-01
THE WEATHER

STATE AND locAL-Fair tonight
ard Saturday; not much change
\ - temperature.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-09-01

lContinued on RpGs SKI
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-28
BLONDE OR BRUNETTE.
From Munseys Magazine.

From Munsey's Magazine.
 From the beginning, mankind seems to have had a marked preference for blond things, sense of security in their pres ence, a feeling that their blondness stood for central beneficence and innocence in their nature whereas darkness of hue has been similarly suspected as standing for hidden and possibly evil qualities and powers. It is not, I think, too fantastic to see in this mans primitive fear of the dark, and to trace the universal prefer ence for blond wigs in artificial periods to his ancient worship of the sun.
 The deities to which. in the terrifying mystery of his childhood, he has turned for protection have usually been blond, as have most of those gracious -personifica- tions which embodied his notions of un- seen beneficent influences. Apollo In the south and Balder in the north were both golden-haired gods; so was Dionysos, "the spirit of fire and dew, alive and leaping In a thousand vines." Angels and saviors of the world have usually been imagined ass blond. Mans most appealing sym bol of divine love, the Madonna, from Raphael to Rossett, comes to us in a halo of her own golden hair. Athene is always "the gray-eyed;" Aurora, Flora, Pomona and the Graces are all blondes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-28
PICKPOCKET WAS GRATEFUL

But yesterday he had fulfilled the in- functions of the Scriptures and the initia- tive of his heart and was truly poor man. He had given away every penny of the Sl5O0 and was feeling quite happy.
 'T remembered my friends, that is all," said Jimmie de Rat. Through life I have had many enemies and many good friends. I have led a hard life, but have found it worth living. I found that while there are many hard and cruel men in the world, there are many kind hearts, many more good hearts than bad ones }as
 q didn't need the money. I have no kinfolks who need it. So why not help some people to whom it could do some good? I'll always be able to knock out a living for Jimmie, and if don't some kind friend will keep me.
 q tell you, the world is full of kind hearts and good hearts, and though from time to time in my youth I led hunted life have found the world a good place to live in. Now, crippled and not young, find it good place still.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-28
Hines, Tilden and Lorimer

Clarence s. Funk, general manager of the International Harvester com pany, is a man of courage. Ever since he told the people of the request made by Edward Hines that the liar vester company should chip in $10,- 1 GOO toward a S100,O0O Lorimer cleo tion fund he has been bounded by four
 detectives. These detectives are ex- pensive and they report to somebody, and the Senate Investigating commit tee should ascertain to whom they re- port. They should be subpoenaed and the truth brought out.
 Mr. Funk is man of high standing n Chicago-a man whose integrity is never questioned. He swears that Ed ward Hines told him that he needed ten subscriptions of $10,000 each to meet the cost of putting Lorimer into a seat in the Senate. This testimony has not been refuted and cannot be. What the country wants is list of the subscribers to that $1O0,000 fund. It also wants to know how it was used in putting Lorimer "over." Til- den and his books should be produced. The country demands a full exposure of the Lorimer scandal, no matter whom it hurts or what "big people" are seandalized. Out with the truth. Men as courageous as Mr. Funk are needed, and it surely takes courage to face for weeks four detectives. The Tilden-Hines scandal is the first op- portunity the country has had to show how senatorial seats have long been filled, and the people will not rest con- tent if any feature of the scandal is left uneXposed. The list of ten can no doubt be named in Chicago, but the Tilden banking account is needed in order to get the facts in black and white. The committee should be will ing to sit all summer if it can bring out the whole truth in the important scandal in which some of the trusts and the Senate are involved.
 No one cares much nor how many Lee O'Neal Brownes got the money. What the country wants to know is, who made up the Lorimer corruption fund? This is the essential and vital question in the case.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-28
OLD AGE IN UTAH

From the Chicago Journal.
 Utah has an annual celebration of which but little is known to the outside world. Every year in the fall all the men In Utah who are past 70 years of age are brought to Salt Lake City and enter tained handsomely for a week. Their ex- penses of very kind are paid by public committees which have the matter in charge and are authorized by the Mormon church to collect funds for the annual festival.
 festival is nonsectarian, all the old peo- pie being treated alike. regardless of creed or color The entertainment Is lavish, and when it is over the guests are sent back 10 their homes, feeling that age is honorable, at least in Utah.
 This year it is expected that the num- Der of guests will range from 12,0OO to 15O0O. They are divided into three classes and grouped accordingly at all the vari- ous fetes and banquets. The first class embraces those between 70 and 80 years of age, and they are marked by red badges. The next class comprises all be- tween the ages of so and 90 years, and their badges are blue.
 The most distinguished class is the third, whose privilege is to wear badge of pure white, indicating that they have passed the ninetieth milestone in life's pill grimage. These last are proud of their great age and appear to regard the other two classes as mere children.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-28
Political OutIonIk

'I have usually voted the democratic ticket in national elections. and a few months ago l was inclined to think that the democrats would sweep the country In 19l2,' said travelling man who rep resents an eastern concern, but President Taft is regaining most of his lost ground, and it would not surprise me to see him succeed himself l spent the greater part of May in the west and found the re- publicans in that section as loyal to their party as ever. I had heard that there was a good deal of defection in the ranks, but I did not find it so
 New York has been the great pivotal state ever since I can remember, and it will be again next year. New York. may go democratic, and if so Harmon or woodrow Wilson, or whomsover the dem- ocrats may nominate. will be almost sure to land in the White House. But the sit uation as 1t appears today would make me think that New York wlli go republic an. The farmer vote cuts an important figure in national elections, but I recall the fact that no one has ever been elect ed President since the war if Wall street. taking that phrase in it's broad and good sense to mean the solid financial interests of New York was against the candidate"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-28
THE KINDS OF TELESCOPES

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
 There are two kinds of telescopes in use today, known as the refractory and
 the refecting-each having it's advan- tages and special advocates. The re- fracting instrument was the earliest that of Calico. This was a simple tube with a convex Tense in the object end, which acted as a big eye, gathering hundred times more light than the nat ural eye and bringing the rays to focus near the other end of the tube. The focus made picture of the ob- feet. but much enlarged. Liffershey's spy glass enabled you to see a man dis tinctly at distance of two miles. An eye-piece was added to the near end of the tube to magnify the picture made by the focus. The object glass makes an enlarged picture by gathering more light, while the eye-piece magnifies 1t still fur ther. Soon difficulty arose If the ob- ject glass were enlarged to gather more light, 1t was found that the glass was ruined by rainbow eolors playing. round its edge The more you enlarged the lense the greater the display of colors.
 Sir Isaac Newton, therefore, invented the reiecting telescope, to get arofind this difficulty He let the rays of light enter, the tube in straight. parallel lines, and brought the rays to a focus by con- cave mirror of speculum metal at the. bottom of the tube. He set an eye-piece in tho side of the tube to enlarge the
 focus picture. This is She refecting fc1cscope.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-28
Veto Power of the House of Lords


 The struggle over the veto power of the house of lords under which no government other than one made up of tories can be efficient in Great Britain has been resumed. The strug- gle goes on unchanged or unchecked in the least by the coronation cere- monies.
 The peers will offer amendments and these amendments will be rejected by the government. Either the lords must accept the bill as it came from the house of commons, or else enough additional liberal peers must be ap- pointed to override the existing num- Der of lords.
 The kingdom is determined to place . limitations on the power of the lords. They are to have no voice at all in money bills, and no power over other bills except to delay them two years. Public opinion is convinced that King George stands pledged to see that the will of the people expressed in two elections is carried into effect, and a list of about 800 new peers is said to have been prepared. England will then have about HOO peers and they will be about as thick in the tight lit- tie isle as colonels are in Kentucky.
 The lords have lot of sense, how ever. They would still have some po- litical power, and all their social pow CT would remain. They may, there fore, prevent deadlock and the ap- pointment of new peers by accept lg at the last hour the government bill. This is deemed the more probable re- suit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-28
Tuscaloosa s New Government

Before a vote of 412 to 26 Tusca- loosa has voted to get rid of aldermen. with their petty selfish logrolling schemes, and to substitute for them government by three men to be ap- pointed at first by the governor. As the recall goes along it does not much matter whether the first com missioners are elected or appointed. It means direct rule by the people in the long run at any rate.
 Five cities in this state have adopt ed the commission plan of govern ment, and the chances are that 20 more will do likewise under the gen eral law of the state This is en- couraging. It means that petty bosses are to be abolished and government of the people by the people for the people is to be substituted.
 muDlclpdI Tule III -S ilSIiCet iiSiu AtliS been a reproach when Oregon rose up with bundle of reforms in her arms that promises to dissipate graft and bossism and to restore to the people the right of self-government. Tusca- leosa is ambitious and it has taken a step that will certainly go long ways towards making it one of the leasdhg cities of the state. Its af- fairs are to be administered on bus mess principles, and the young men that gather there will have an op- portunity to see a city government conducted in accordance with the lat. est ideas and the most rigid honesty. Let us hope it's first commissioners will measure up to the business-like standard.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-28
Heat Records Here and Elsewhere

l Heat Records Here and Elsewhere
 The highest temperature in Jones valley last Sunday was S6 degrees, while temperatures were recorded in Kansas on that day of III degrees, and in Oklahoma of 113 degrees. If one of our chronic weather grumblers had spent last Sunday in Kansas, Missouri, or Oklahoma he would have come home in a frame of mind to en- joy the fresh breezes of the hill coun- try in northern Alabama.
 The fact is if we did not have to get out so much coal and iron ore and to turn them into merchanable pig iron and it's products the hills all about Jones valley would be widely advertised as summer resorts. There are few if any better hills to spend the hot season on. There are no sea serpents here, but the supply of ozone is abundant and every bit of it is of high quality, or rather it would be if it were robbed of the smoke it bears.
 We cannot make pig iron and it's products without creating smoke, and so it happens that Jones valley is not listed among the summer resorts. We are cool enough but we produce smoke. We prefer the latter because it is good the year round. Summer re- sorts are soon done for. They are flat, tame and unprofitable as soon as the brief season is ended. Smoke stays with us, and we will have plenty of it when all the works at Corey are in operation and North Bir- mingham is doing it's best to add to the haze of the valley.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-28
THE "sEoRT-cHANGE. ARTIST

From Tainted Tents" in the July
 Metropolitan Magazine.
 In many circuses the ticket seller is not sion. He pays to the management a bonus, and turns in 50 cents ticket except where he discovers an opportuni- ty to 'hold out"
 The man who buys the general ticket selling concession puts his employees in the ticket wagons. These employees work on a commission basis. They must derive CT from such margin as may be gained between their actual receipts and the half-dollar per head which is the price of admission. If these ticket sellers cannot steal enough to turn in a satisfactory sum to the chief concessionaire at the end of each day, after deducting each his 50 per cent, he is discharged as an ineffi- ment profitable one quality is essential. The ticket seller must be short change" artist Of ability
 To accomplish this with neatness and dispatch it becomes necessary to use "ac- celerators." These functionaries are gen tlemen who keep crowding, and endeavor to sweep the purchaser on, as soon as his tickets are handed out. No line is formed. The crowds are encouraged to jostle, so that innocent purchasers push ing from behind may be made to act as additional accelerators. The change is laid down in scattered form just inside the wicket If the customer is swift enough to retrieve it, all Is well. If he yields to the pressure and is swept a step aside he loses.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-28
THE rNDEPENDENT PRESS

From the Journal of the American Med
 ical Association.
 We have before us news item. from which we learn that Mrs. Murray of Rox- bury, Mass, is asking 5000 damages for the loss of her hair. About a year ago, so the newspaper says, the lady had au- burn hair that reached to her waist; she used Birts Head Wash and now has to wear wig. We have before us also, a large advertisement of Birt's Head Wash. These two facts considered individually would hardly be worth comment; the ele- ment of interest lies in their relation The news item and the advertisement both appeared in the same issue of the newspaper-the Boston Herald. In these days when it is commonly reported thai news is modified, softened or repressed to meet the real or supposed wishes of tho big advertisers 1t seems worth while tc call attention to what might otherwise be but uninteresting facts. Such cpl sodes help to restore public confidence il the press they also make for optimism and hopefulness. Verify ''the world dc | mOyen
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-28
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Georeia,s Ncnr-Beer License


 ''I was surprised to see in a newspaper the other day that the prohibitionists of Georgia were making an organized effort | to induce the legislature to repeal the law which licenses near-beer," said Will liam T. Hazen of Pennsylvania.
 q have visited Atlanta twice within the past two years, and each time have remarked the worldly wisdom of the Georgians in allowing the public to buy beer under the name of near-beer. This thought was shrewd compromise. At- lanta has been getting along well, un- derstand, without whisky saloons, but if the near-beer law is repealed the Geor- gia metropolis will be blind tiger town with lots of bad whisky sold to minors and men who abuse liquor.
 T made no particular inquiry when was in Georgia recently, but think it a safe bet that the legislature will let the beer traffic alone A great many men like myself drink beer but nothing stronger. The more the beer trade is encouraged the less drunkenness there will be. When a prohibtionist tells You that before he joined the anti-saloon ranks lie was made very drunk on beer an inves- tigalion would show, no doubt, that he was either tenderfoot at the time or the beer that he drank was of the old lager sort, very little of which is seen nowadays. Modern beer has only a small percentage of alcohol in 1t; not more than per cent, l believe, and man would have to have an enormous capacity to drink enough to make him boozy."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-28
Another Cabinet in France

The cabinet of Premier Monis had lasted but three months and a half when it was defeated on vote of con- fidence in the chamber of deputies. The vote was PAS to 224. The premier himself was not present, being con- fined to hts bed in an effort to re- cover from the recent airship acci- dent.
 The vote ostensibly arose over the neglect to provide for commander in-chief in case of war, but the real trouble is said to relate to the pro- posed new way of electing deputies. by provinces instead of districts Many deputies foresee defeat under the proposed law.
 Whatever the cause no change in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-28

the general policy of the cabinet will take place, M. Caillaux, minister of finance in the Monis cabinet, has been asked to organize a new minis try. In the new cabinet there will be at least four men who held places under Premier Monis, two who were in the Briand cabinet, and one who had served in a previous cabinet. No one anticipates any real changes in the general policy of the government. Cailleaux will push the electoral bill involving proportional representation, and he is endeavoring no doubt to se- leet a ministry that will push the electoral reform into law. A strong combination is needed to do this.