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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-12-27
Ao Watched Thorn.

The following IL one Of the stories
told about Eugene Field:
There we're visitors in prospect one
afternoon in the Field household and
q strike in the culinary department.
Mischief was at food tide, and Mrs.
Field was vainly endeavoring to be
every where at once when the man of
'''sharps and fats" appeared in the
Kitchen doorway with a folio in his
hand.
''Oh, won't you watch those pics for
me while I run upstairs for an in
Istant?" his wife exclaimed. BE sure
not to let the meringues scorch. 1t
would ruin them. You'd better give
me that book or they'll be burned to a
crisp" With mock meekness Mr.. Field
ALLOWED her to carry of his treasure.
ION returning she was Mortified to find
the oven door wide open and the rich.
I6u6y meringue nat. tough and leather
like
They're ruined" she exclaimed in
'dismay. why didn't you keep the
oven door shut?"
keep the door shut" Mr.. Field re-
lpeated In very genuine amazement.
"Why. you told me to watch them
every instant. aud I'd like to know
how could do that with the oven door
0hut!
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-12-27
All Work and No Play Makes the
Boy Poor Husband Woman Says

tioning of life, has 40 place in bust
ness. think society owes it to itself
to preserve the vitality of its young
people for the benefit of the race.
All boys and girls inherit certain
racial traits. certain hereditary traits.
which they should have a chance to
work out before they take up the bur
ders of life. Everybody for instance.
goes through a period when he wants
to live in a tent and shoot bows and
arrows.
"A state or city should, l think. fos-
ter the development of sentiment be-
tween boys and girls.
Every city should have social
center where poor boys and girls
could meet. under proper chaperonage.
to do their counting. 1t should be UNI
necessary for young persons. no mat
ter how poor, to meet eacn other and
do their counting in the streets.
If We paid more attention to pre-
serving the vitality to fostering the
l.octiC ideals Of cur boys and girls. We
would not have nearly SO many un-
happy marriages. SO many wife deser
tons.
You must have noticed how often
the man of forty or fifty who has led a
strong and good lie. goes astray NOR
ally. That's because he was broken to
harness too early He had no time to
work out his hereditary traits. Some
persons may think l mean to enCour
age immortality in young people, but
that is far from my idea.
Then you don't mean that We must
give boy time to sow his wild oats
in his hereditary traits?"
Not at all. His vitality may be d.
rected in good and proper channels.
| mean that boys and girls must have
some time to play. to write poetry, to
sentimentalize We must not thrust
the burden of life upon them too ear
ly, if we do not want them to sink
under or run away from it"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-12-27
Bill Took Precautions.

In Scottish village Il farm laborer
named Bill Brown lost his wife. While
on her deathbed she implored him
to never marry again after she was
gone. Furthermore. should he do SO
she would scratch through the ground
and come back to punish him. The
threat apparently had due effects for
some months. the widower rejecting
many tempting offers. After time.
however. the village got to whispering
about Bill being seen walking with a
certain lass. Met one day by a rela-
tive OF the wife. he was asked If there
was auy truth in the rumor that was
about the village, to which he replied
in the affirmative.
Are ye no afraid Of poor Mary's
threat" Queried the relative.
Nae fear O that. my lad. l took
good care to hae her berrit face doom
wards. SO the mair she scratches the
farther she'll gang doom"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-12-27
Not Riskina Speed Lava,

A well known amateur yachtsman OF
New York tells this joke on himself:
With a few friends he started on q
CRUISE by why Of Long Island sound
They kept close to the shore. and
owing to the lack Of wind and to the
slowness of their boat. they were still
drifting by familiar country week OF
% after they left Gotham.
At one point Of land they passed a
solemn Individual sat fishing. For
some hours the boat made virtually nc
progress. and after awhile the fisher.
man reused himself sufficiently to ask
"Where are ye folks from:"
"New York"
"How long out?'
''Since June l."
Then after pause the man asked:
'What year"-Lippincott's.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-12-27

NEW YORK, Dec 27-The reason
why so many husbands forty or fifty
years of age tire of their wives and,
in many cases, desert them is, accord
ing to Mrs. Mary Austin, because boys
are made to assume the burden Of life
too early Just as young colt may
be ruined by premature breaking to
harness, so the moral fiber of youth
may be weakened permanently by as
Stunning too early the obligations of ma
turity. she thinks.
Mrs Austin. who wrote The Arrow
Maker" one of the few plays by an
American author produced at the New
theater, and who is also the author of
several novels. has been making a
stud: of conditions in the domestic re-
lations court recently.
Youth" she said. should be pc
Rod of difference. When young people,
girls as we'll as boys. are put to work
too early the business life tends to des-
troy in them certain secondary sex
characteristics which are OF utmost
importance to the race.
Fer instance take sentiment and
romance in girls. In hundreds OF
young girls, working under the super.
vision of men. the romantic feeling
can not be fostered. 1t must. On the
contrary be suppressed. perhaps ulti-
mately destroyed, for the girls own
protection. Men bring out in the girl
of sixteen or so the characteristics
which appeal to them, their flirtiness
rcrtness. smartness. There are other
qualities, more sentimental and pc.
etc, which only women can bring out
ir girls. So, if girl of sixteen has to
60 to work it should be under the di-
rection of women.
"Boyhood has certain qualities of
enthusiasm. Of resistance to authori-
ty-a good thing. since if one genera.
ton accepted blindly the ideals of an
other, there would be no progress.
hut this enthusiasm, this eager ques-
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-12-27
Cause Of Thunder.

Thunder is the noise produced by
lightning and Is harmless. 1t has
usually been thought that the noise is
created by the closing up of the
vacuum made by the passage OF the
lightning. the air rushing in from all
sides with d clap. but the intensity OF
the noise Is rather disproportionate.
and it is now supposed that thunder is
due to the intense heating of gases.
especially the gas Of water vapor along
the line OF electric discharge. and the
consequent conversion CT suspended
moisture into steam at enormous pres
sure. In this way the crackle with
which a peal Of thunder sometimes
begins might be regarded as the sound
of steam explosion on small scale
caused by discharges before the main
flash. The rumble would be the over
tapping steam explosions. and the final
clap. which sounds ioudest. would be
the steam explosion nearest to the
auditor. In the case of rumbling thun-
der the lightning is passing from cloud
to cloud. When the flash passes from
the earth to the clouds the clap is
loudest at the observation-disclosures
Tribune.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-12-27
Corporations Assist the Farmers
On Many Important Subjects

Matter in the Soil, he speaks of the
value of stable manure, of clovers, the
choice and varieties of clovers, Of
grass sods and of other sources of or
ganic matter.
Under the subject of Available
Plant Food" he writes of it's need,
what to supply, unproductive land,
mineral elements and complete fertili-
zers.
I'VE have an immense deal yet to
learn about methods, so as to meet the
lands need, and at the same time get
the most profit, but we know the gen.
eral direction of the road we must
travel. The amount of stuff We
should feed on the farm, the rotation
and kind of crops, the amount Of till
age, the place to use fertilizers and the
amount-an endless mass of things
puzzle every farmer, and will continue
to puzzle US because circumstances
vary; but we do find the fundamental
principles simple, and know what We
are trying to do. The farming of the
next fifty years will be far more in
telligent than that of the past, and
land will grow better and not worse" "
The other booklet, For Better
Crops" has host of good things in
the form of nine subjects which cover
wide range of thought. These arti-
clcs in this booklet are written by
leading authorities on the subjects
which they handle.
The first article is by Cyril G. Hop
kins, Professor of Agronaomy, College
of Agriculture, University of Illinois.
His subject is: Increasing Fertility"
He treats of elements of soil and their
value to crops-fertilizers and soil
building. more thorough analysis
of the fertility subject than given in
this article by Prof. Hopkins would
be hard to find.
Next in order comes an article by
Willet NJ. Hays, Assistant Secretary
of Agriculture, Washington, ID. c.
Small Grain Growing" is the subject
of this article, and it treats of the
magnitude of the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
ment of new varities-varietal differ
ences, etc.
Then comes an article by our well
known friend, p. G.. Holden, the corn
man of the Iowa Agricultural college,
Ames, Iowa, and his article is on his
hobby, The Corn Crop" When we
finish reading this article we feel as
though we had been to corn school.
The fourth article is by the alfalfa
king, Joseph E. Wing. Yes, his sub
ject is alfalfa, and it is undoubtedly
the best article on the subject ever
written. The title is Alfalfa Culture
in America"
Following these articles, in the Or
der which we give them, come such
subjects as:
The Wheat Crop" by Waldo F.
Brown.
Farm Power" by l.. w. Chase.
profitable Hay Making" by Prof.
Thos. Shaw.
THE Care and Protection of Farm
Equipment" by NJ. r. D. Owings.
Farm Machines and Progress" by
]. F. Buck.
And to think, these can be obtained
for the mere effort of writing a post
card and the price of postage.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-12-27
Nature.

As n fond mother. when the day is DER.
Leads by the hand her little child to
bed.
Half willing. half reluctant to be led.
And leave his broken playthings on the
floor
Still gazing at them through the open
door.
Nor wholly treasured and comforted
BY promises OF others in their stead,
Which. though more splendid, may not
please him more,
So nature deals with and takes away
Our playthings one by one and by the
hand
Leads us to rest so gently that we go
Scarce knowing II We wish to so or stay,
BEING too fun Of sleep to understand
How far the unknown transcends the
what We know
H w Longfellow.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-12-27
REFORM BODY MEETS
IN INDIANAPOLIS
National News Association)

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Dec. GA
new movement to aid in the uplift OF
the masses and to correct the abuses
from which they are supposed to be
suffering was formally launched here
today at the initial convention of the
Indiana State Civic Union. The pur.
pose of the new organization, as set
forth by its promoters, is to obtain
social, civic and moral reform by
means of education, legislation and
law enforcement Some OF the is.
sues which it purposes to take up will
be Sabbath observance, social purity,
temperance. sanitation, industrial
equity and international peace.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-12-27
TOLEDO GRAIN
TOLEDO, Dec. 81
CONSERVATION DIS
CUSSED BY TEACHERS
National News Association)

STOCKTON, Cal, Dec. 27.- More
than one thousand visitors, among
whom are many educators OF wide rep
utation, are in Stockton to take part
in the annual convention of the Cali
fornia Teachers Association and the
meetings OF several affiliated bodies.
The proceedings began today and will
continue until the end of the week.
One OF the most interesting and Inn
portant features of the gathering win
be a conference on rural schools and
conservation. the first meeting Of its
kind to be held in California, and
which will have former Governor Par
dee and other persons of prominence
as speakers.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-12-27
CHICAGO LIVESTOCK

CHICAGO. Dec e.
Cattle-Receipts 1880: beeves $3.50
@S.75: stockers $3.5O@5.SO.
Sheep-Receipts $500: natives $3.50
@4.2O.
Hogs-Receipts $1,000; heavies $3.50.
@6.40; pigs $4.00Q5.40; light @5.25
$3.50.
Calves-$5.5O@725.
Lambs-$4OO@6.4O.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-12-27
CINCINNATI LIVESTOCK

CINCINNATI, Dec. 81
Cattle-Receipts 700; shippers $3.50
CTS.
Hogs-Receipts $500: good to choice
6.35@64O.
Sheep-Receipts 200: extras 1856.
Lambs-$55O.
Calves-$4.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-12-27
MOUNTAIN WHITES
TO BE BENEFITED
National News Association,

NEW YORK, Dec. 27.-The initial
performance of the Thackery centen-
airy, consisting principally of tableaux
representing characters and scenes
from Thackery's novels, was given in
the Sixty-ninth Regiment armory this
afternoon. The affair is under the
auspices of the Southern Industrial
Educational society. for the benefit of
the mountain whites.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-12-27
Harry's Airship.
AIRY built an airship

Harry built an airship
To sail up in the sky.
He told his little sister
He meant to sail ION high
He worked all morning on it;
He worked all afternoon
He said he wished to finish
His wondrous airship soon
When 1t was done he climbed in
And cried to sister dear:
Look out. I think I'm rising!
You mustn't come too near.''
But not an inch budged ai-shfp.
In vain young Harry tried
He coaxed. he pushed. he lifted:
Then sprang he out and cried:
well. just stay there. old airship!
I'd not sail anyway.
I'd ratker play with sister
And not go up today"
Chicago NewA
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-12-27
Peter the Great 1t Table.

Peter the Great loved and most fire
Quently ordered for his own special en-.
5oyment . soup with four cabbages in
II. cruel. pig. with sour cream for
enuce: cold roast meat. with picked
cucumbers for salad: lemons and lam.
peeys. salt meat. ham and limburRel
cheese. He began dinner With cab.
eaRe water and closed the banQuetine
with aoblets OF burgundy.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-12-27
Sporting Gossip

The New York Giants won the Gu
ban series played at Havana. coping
out of the II games played
Jimmy Barrett. the old Cincinnati
! and Detroit star, has signed to man
age the Des Moines team next season
The new owners of the Toledo team
have made arrangements for the
Hens to train in Lexington, KY,
next spring.
Harry Pattee the former Brooklyn
Rochester player, has been engaged to
coach the Brown University baseball
squad
Marty Hogan, for several years
manager of the Tri-State league teams
has quit the game and will go into
business in Youngstown, O.
James f. Gaffney, the new owner of
the Boston Nationals, says the South
End park is too small and that he
intends building new plant.
Manager Fred Tennel, of the Boston
Nationals, is writing book on base
ball special intended for boys be.
tween the ages of ten and sixteen.
Pitcher Hogan, who has been signed
by the Boston Americans, is quite a
performer on the ice and a member
of a hockey team in Northern Michi-
gan.
1t is said that Hugh Duffy has a
two-year contract as manager of the
Milwaukee team, which calls for $751;
600. That's Glass A salary all right
Followers of the Cubs are pleased
to learn that Manager Frank Chance
will be in the game next season, hold
ing down his old position at first base.
An effort is being made to combine
the Ohio and Pennsylvania and Cen
trail leagues. Both leagues met with
considerable financial difficulty last
season.
After many delays, work on the Am
erican league park in New York has
been started. The contract calls for
the completion of the plant by April,
1912.
Newark has signed First Baseman
Harry Swacina. Two years ago Swa-
Gina was tried out by Pittsblurg, and
last season he managed the Mobile
Southern league team.
Monte Cross, the old Philadelphia
player and last season manager of the
Scranton team, will perhaps be ap-
pointed manager of the Lynn New
England league team.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-12-27
PITTSBURG LIVESTOCK

PITTSBURG, Dec. 81
Cattle-Receipts none; steers $3.50
@790; butchers $6.10@6.6O.
Sheep-Receipts so; prime $500
Hogs-Receipts $500 head; workers.
$685.; pigs $3.50; heavies $3.50.
Calves-Receipts 200 head; choice -.
Lambs-$6.5O.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-12-27
INDIANAPOLIS LIVE
STOCK

INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 27.-
Cattle-Receipts 1900; steers $6.0S.
Hogs-Receipts 5000; tops $3.50.
Sheep-Receipts 300: prime $3.50.
Lambs-$5.75.
Calves-$825.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-12-27
EAST BUFFALO LIVE
STOCK

EAST BUFFALO. Dec. 27-
Cattle-Receipts 800: steers $3.50
500; butchers $S.OO@69O.
Sheep-Receipts 2.4OO; prime $500.
Calves-Receipts 100: choice $1,000
1915.
Hogs-Receipts 1000: heavies $685.;
pigs $6.40@6.50: workers $6.3506.00.
Lambs-$625@6.4O.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-12-27
CHICAGO GRAIN

LIVERPOOL, Dec CT
Wheat futures 4 Y sd higher than
previous closing: Corn u @Ad lower.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-12-27
WITH THE BOXERS.

Jack (Twin) Sullivan has signed to
meet Tony Ross in Pittsburg Dec. 80.
Indianapolis fans should witness a
classy bout when Jack Dillon and Leo
Houck meet on New Years day.
Pedlar Palmer. once champion ban.
tam of England couldn't come back.
He was knocked out in 10 rounds by
Darkey Haley in Hoxton. Eng, re-
Gently.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-12-27
A Geoorao hical Ouastion.

A Geographical Question.
Mother" asked Jennie. where Is
Atoms:"
Athens. you mean. guess"
mo. mother. mean Atoms. because
when a person is in boiler explosion
or an earthquake they always say he
IS blown to Atoms"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-12-27

These curious boats. resembling
types OF the coracle. an ancient craft
used by the Britons 1000 years ago
They have survived the centuries and
are still used in Wales by salmon fish
ermen. The modern coracie comprises
a framework OF sticks cut from the ash
and beech trees. covered with Il strong
sheet Of canvas. saturated with tar and
pitch. They weigh about twenty five
pounds. The fishermen using these
boats work in pairs. the salmon net be-
ing strung between the two.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-12-27
LATE MARKET news

Furnished by A. W. Thomson O..
Hittle Block. Phone :7os. Cone
spondents. Logan and Bryan.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-12-27
INDIANAPOLIS GRAIN

INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 81
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-05-26
4 AK. MEIHORL4L nv CEREhnOHy

nessee, while the other panel depicts Genera
Logan in the act of taking the oath or once
as United States senator, the oath being al
minstered by Vice-Presdent Arthur. Included
in this group are the figures of Cullcm. Ev-
arts, Conkling, Morton, Miller, voorhees, ana
Thurman On narrow panels on the north ana
south faces of the pedestal are alegorlcai ny
ures representative of and peace.
The Grand Army of the Republic, through
the fundamentally OF which General Logan
secured his most enduring memorial-Melno-
rial Day itself-had it's origin in the year 1000
when there was conceived the Idea or ma
tional society composed OF honorary us
charged Union soldiers and sailors whose MOI
IN should be Fraternity, Charity and Loyai'y'
Post No. /. located in the city OF Decatur, III
General Logans own state of Illinois, was lot
mally mustered in In April OF that year anu
the first national encampment was heiu III
Indianapolis in the November following Zen
aro1 Logan was one of the early commanders
in.cbief of the new countrywide organization
and it was in less than two years aiter 'no
now movement had been started that ne lhaue
uee of the infant organization to Introduce Tue
idea Of a fixed and permanent Memorial DAY:
General Logan Is indeed the best known VI
oil tho commandersn-chief OF the great Or
oonization of veterans that numbered at one
time nearly 100000 men and MS popuiailv
With his comrades in arms was eloquenty at
tested by the fact that he served three terms
in the highest office in the gift OF tne ine"
bers of the G. A. r.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-05-26
CARTER is A FIGHTING MAN
AS soy In Civil War, Army Com.
mander Won Recognition for Car.
ryins Message Under Fire.

Inc official army record of Mai.
Gen. William H. Carter. who was
picked Dy President Taft to command
the army division assembled at Fort
sam Houston, Tex, gives him the
unique distinction among the major
generals Of the army of never having
served as a volunteer. That record
ooes General Carter an injustice, how.
ever, for before he was thirteen
years old he Joined the Army of the
cumberland as a volunteer and won
recognition for gal1antry in action by
carrying a message across the front
OF the line Of fire. The recognition
for that hazardous undertaking came
10 MIN in 1858, when he was old
enough to take it, in the form of an
appointment to West Point. But be-
cause he was only a schoolboy and
not enlisted in the army, General
Carter is denied official record of his
service in the Civil war.
General Carter was born in Tennes-
see and lived there until he joined the
army. When the opportunity came
to see little of war, young Carter
slipped out of school one day and
marched off with the Army of the
Cumberland. He was too young for
soldier, but he did the best he
could by carrying messages for the
officers and grabbing a musket when
ever he could and peppering away at
the Confederates.
The taste of fighting that he had
there gave him a desire to follow a
military life and when his gallantry
In action was brought to the notice
of the war department he immediate
ly was offered an appointment to West
Point. He was graduated in 1878,
served for a time in the Eighth in
fantry and then transferred to the