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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-08-16
NEWS OF THE
LABOR WORLD

There are now 41S organizations
affiliated with the California State
Federation of Labor.
The annual convention of the Build
ing Laborers' International Protective
Union of America will meet in Terre
Haute, Indiana, September II.
The International Photo-Engravers'
Union of North America will hold it's
next annual convention at Denver,
Colo, beginning with next Monday.
The American Federation of Musi-
clans has at present a cash balance of
$50, 200 in it's treasury and 5SS locals
on it's roster all in good standing.
The International Alliance Of Theat-
rical Stage Employees of the United
States and Canada at the present time
comprises $50 locals and forty-two
branches.
According to the industrial accident
record of the Canadian department of
labor. siXty-two persons were killed
and 249 injured in the course of their
employment in the month of June.
The domestic union, in Germany, is
the youngest, organized only two years
ago, and numbers $4,000 now. The
law does not permit strikes in this
union. Should servant leave her
mistress without due notice, she is ar
rested.
Union labor throughout Australia is
uniting to fight the bill pending in the
Queensland legislature for compelling
industrial peace. The measure prohi-
bits strikes under heavy penalties un-
til the time has been given for a gov
eminent arbitration board to attempt
settlement
The workmens insurance law be-
came effective in Great Britain recent
ly, with ten million wage earners on
the rolls under its provisions Ten
thousand Liverpool dock workers went
on strike to signify their objection
to the method of collecting the insur.
ance premiums from the workers
themselves.
Comparative statistics show that,
while the cost of living of railroad
employe in the United States is less
than fifty per cent higher than that of
a corresponding employee in the United
Kingdom or on the Continent, his com
pensation, on general average for all
lines of work. is twice as great
1t is reported that new wage
agreement. carrying substantial wage
increases for the eight thousand min.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-08-16
PROGRAM IS ISSUED,
For the Annual Old Settlers
Picnic at Centerville.

Final arrangements have been COM
pleted for the Pioneer Settlers Annual
picnic which is to be held at Maple
Wood park in Centerville, tomorrow.
1t will be an all-day affair. The
morning will be spent in renewing old
acquaintances and in the afternoon
program has been arranged for.
There will be a large delegation to
attend the picnic from Richmond.
The program is as follows:
Invocation-Mrs. Stella Teas.
Observation-Disclosures Chorus.
Secretary Report-Walter Ratliff.
Song-Quartet.
Agriculture of Pioneer Day-David
Doddridge.
Agriculture of Today-C. B. Jack
son.
Solo-Mrs. Clarence Hadley.
Reading-Miss Bessie Bull.
Commercial Interests of Wayne
County, Past and Present-Clayton B.
Hurst.
Solo-Miss Hulda Henley.
Piano Solo-Miss Ruth Peltz.
Reading-Mrs. Geo. Chrisman.
The Schools of Wayne County, Past
and Pre- sent-Chas. Jordan.
Reading-Orville Southland.
Soio--Florence kersey
Practice of Law in Early Days
Judge Henry c. Fox.
Law of Today-Wilfred Jessup.
Piano Solo-Miss Ruth PeltZ.
Benediction-Rev. Ryder.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-08-16

ers in the state of Wyoming, has just
been signed by representatives of the
operators and officials of the United
Mine Workers of America. The agree
ment just concluded will remain in
force until Sept. /, 1914.
The hotel chambermaids of New
York City, of whom there are several
thousands, are being urged by labor
representatives to form themselves in
to a union, so that their grievances,
which include, among other things,
long hours and unsanitary and uncom-
Portable sleeping accommodations may
be effectively and promptly dealt with.
Comprehensive plans to organize the
labor employed in the iron and steel
industry of this country are about to
be launched by the American Fedora
ton of Labor. The campaign to bring
the employees of the open shops" in
the country into the union is about to
begin with the holding of organiza-
ton meetings simultaneously in every
city and town having an iron or steel
plant.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-08-16
PRoeRessuvEs NOTICE.

To The Voters of Wayne County,
Indiana:
Pursuant TO the instructions of the
committee on organization. authorized
at the recent mass meeting,of the Pro-
gressives of Wayne County. held at
the Pythian Temple, YOU are hereby
asked and urged to participate in ward
and township meetings to be held dur
ing the week of August H.. 1912. as per
announcement OF your PROVISIONAL
committeeman. for the purpose of
electing a precinct committeeman for
each of the sixty-four precincts in
Wayne County; precinct committee
men so elected shall serves as members
OF the Progressive Central Committee
of Wayne County. Said Central Com-
mittee shall meet on the afternoon of
Tuesday. August 20. 1u2, at two
O'Clock. in the Masonic Temple, Sec
ond floor. for the purpose of electing
chairman. yice-chairmau. secretary
and treasurer, and further outlining
the plan of campaign to be pursued in
Wayne County.
| Signed. A. e. SMITH,
Provisional Chairman,
Further notice is herewith given oe
the following arrangements for meetA
ings:
City Of Richmond.
| First Ward-Court house. Friday ev-
ening. August 16. 1880.
Second Ward-City building. Fridays
evening, August l6. 1880.
| Third Ward-Masonic Temple. sec,
ond floor. Friday evening. August 1s,
i7:S0
Fourth Ward-No. 4 Hose house.;
Friday evening. August 16. 1880.
Fifth Ward-No. Hose house, Fris,
day evening, August 10. 1880.
Sixth Ward-Thirteenth and Main
streets. Friday evening. August L..
1880.
Seventh ward-No. Hose House y
Wednesday evening. Aug. IL. 1880.
Eighth Ward-West Side Republic
can Club. Wednesday, 1880.
Townships.
Wayne Township. outside Richmond
Masonic Temple. Saturday. August
IL, p. m.
Boston-Boston. Friday. August 1S.
l7:3o.
Abington-Abington, Friday, August
16, p. m.
Dalton-Dalton. Saturday. Aususta
III, p. m.
Observation-Disclosures town hall. SAT-
urday, August IL, 2 p. m.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. school houses
Friday, August Is. p. m.
Jefferson-Hagerstown town halls
Saturday August IL. $3.50 p. m.
New Garden-Lamb's hall. Fountains
City, Saturday, August IL, 2 p. m.
Probationary, Friday, August 16,
1880 p. m.
Webster-Webster town hall. Fri.
day, August 16, 1880 p. m.
1s-5t
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-08-16
VICTIMS OF HUM0R.
Proctor Knott and Sunset" Cox Be-
walled Their Funny Tags.

Proctor Knott and Sunset" Cox Be-
walled Their Funny Tags.
The late Proctor Knott seems 10 be
remembered chiefly rs the author OF
the facetious Duluth speecs. says the
New York World. Yet he was a great
lawyer, and as chairman OF the house
committee on the judiciary he had TO
do with serious and vastly important
affairs. Mr.. Knott's single appearance
as a humorist fixed his reputation for
all time. and no amount OF profoundly
serious work could change il.
Samuel s. Cox had similar expert
ence with greater reason. for in early
life he had cultivated the risibles
quite devotedly. Mr.. Knott lived long
enough to perceive that he was to be
identified not with learning or public
service. but with an oratorical exag
geration. and Mr.. Cox found in his ma
turity that the speakership. the goal OF
his career. was denied him because fl
was no place for "A funny man.
Although never a humorist. Proctor
Knott accomplished something with
satire and irony in which most mer
fail. He made himself understood
EVERYBODY knew that he was joking
Nobody ever demanded an explana
ton OF his remarks on Duluth or n re
traction or an apology. From thai
viewpoint. therefore. he was one OF
the successful men of his generation.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-08-16
A Riminq Game.

In this the first word of the answer
must rime with the last word of the
question. The players are seated in a
circle. and the game is started by
some one asking of his next neighbor
a question on any subject whatever or
by making any casual remark. The
first word of the answer to this must
rhine with the last word of the ques-
ton or remark. This then goes around
the circle. each player in turn adding
a remark to that made by the one be-
fore him. always observing the rim
ing rule. Thus the original question
may be. "Do you like peach piesT'
The next player may reply. wise PEG,
pie always do" The next may say,
"You, l suppose, agree with that?"
The next. Flat you may knock me If
l don't" The next, Wont you
change the subject, please?" And the
next. Easily: let's talk of books"
And so on as long as wits will work.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-08-16
The Yellowstone Wonders.

DR.. Arnold Hague shows that there
is a strong contrast between the geo
logical conditions connected with the
geysers of Iceland and those of the
Yellowstone park. Volcanic eruptions
may be said geologically to be still
going on in Iceland. while in the Vel
lowstone such action ceased many
thousands Of years ago. The Yellow
stone phenomena as seen today repre-
sent n phase in the evolution of Their
NAL springs The tendency Of a gey-
ser is to develop a hot surface pool.
after which explosive action may cease
and the geyser. as such, become ex-
tinct. but this Is very slow process.
DR.. Hague rejects the idea that the
cessation of activity in a geyser indi-
Gates the dissipation of the original
source of heat and ascribes it simply
to shifting Of the channel of the as
cending waters.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-08-16
MARK ANTONY'S TRICK.
II Worked Like . Charm Till Cleo
patra Learned the Secret.

II Worked Like q Charm Ill Cleo
patra Learned the Secret.
According to Plutarch. Cleopatra
was a votary of the piscatorial art. and
so keen did the rivalry become be-
tween her and Antony that he resort
ed to the meanest articles to insure
victory. Mortified and irritated by
the queens superiority. he engaged
divers to take live fish and place them
on his hook. This was done so ex-
pertly that he pulled up fish after fish
in rapid succession. Learning in some
way the secret of his sudden success.
Cleopatra pretended to congratulate
him and to admire his dexterity, and
at the same time she devised a cum
ming means of revenge.
Another match was arranged. and
the fishing began in the presence OF a
large company Of friends. Antony
soon had a bite and pulled up a large
sailed fish TO his great disgust and
amid the loud laughter of all present
The secret was out; Antony's trick
was exposed. and once more woman's
wit had proved too much for mans
ingenuity. A diver. specially instruct
ed by the queen, had got the start OF
Antony's and attached the salt fish to
his hook.-Mathews in Angling"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-08-16
A Hard Road to Travel,

To add to Bunkerton's discontinue
in losing his way. he had now been
brought to a standstill by the absolute
impassa bility of the highway. and his
temper. already sorely tried. finally
gave way.
What kind of people are you up
here in this rotten old state?" he cried.
addressing an old countryman who
stood close by inspecting his stranded
car with curious eyes.
81 dunno" said the old man. "Raout
the same ez most folks, 1 caTlate"
DO you call this scar on the face Of
nature a road?" reared Bunkerton.
Not ez I knows on" returned the
old man. This here bain't the pike:
it's Nose Whibley's traout stream run
dry. 1 wondered what We was drivin'
up 1t fer."-Harper's Weekly.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-08-16
CITY WANTS
A SHARE OF
THE PROFITS
Clause Providing for This
Written into the Water
Works Contract Proposal
Last Night.
Continued from Page One)

said city in the following proportions:
Fifty per cent. to be retained by said
company and paid to it's stockholders
as additional dividends and fifty per
cent. to be paid forthwith to said city,
Communication of Rates.
1t is understood and agreed that the
company's agreement and obligation
to pay to said city the fifty (50)
per cent. of the met receipts" as here
inbefore provided, is based upon it's
right to charge and receive the rates
for water prescribed in this contract,
and to retain fifty 500 per cent. of
the met receipts" as is hereinbefore
mentioned in this section, provided,
the city, however, reserves the right
to, and it may at any time commute
a sum not exceeding the city's share
Of the net receipts for the previous
year into a reduction of said rates to
be charged for water. And thereafter,
in the event of such reduction of rates
the company may deduct and retain as
it's share of the net receipts each year
an amount equal to what would have
UCcH tHC SoIupdAy . ShuI z vi IIC hCI
receipts of such year, had the rates
been paid as prescribed in this con-
tract.
City Purchase Fund.
1t is further provided that, subject
to the action of the city council of
said city, the said city shall deposit
the amount so paid to said city to the
credit of separate fund to be kept
and used for the purchase of said Wa
ter Works. but any failure to COM
ply with this provision shall in no way
affect the rights or obligations of the
company under this contract.
Regulation of Salaries.
Said company, it's successors or as
signs, may pay to the directors, Off
pany as a part of the operating eX-
penses, compensation for their serv-
ices commensurate with the services
actually rendered by them respective
ly, taking into consideration the COM
pensation paid to directors, officers,
agents and attorneys of other corpora
lions or enterprise of similar magni-
tude and general character for like
services, but said city by written not
ice thereof may object to the pay
ment thereafter of compensation in
excess of an amount or rate specified
in such objection to any director, of
ficer, agent or attorney, and in the
event of a disagreement between the
company and the city as to the proper
amount to be paid as such compeisa-
ton, the matter shall be submitted to
the judgment of the Judge of the
Wayne Circuit Court to determine the
amount of the compensation or sal
airy to be paid.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-08-16
ConundrumS,

Why is life like very hard riddle?
Because it always has to be given up.
What evidence have we that Adam
used sugar? Because he raised Cain.
When an ape is sick, how may he
announce it and at the same time tell
what kind of medicine he wants
Ape i'll "a pilD.
When eggs are 20 cents a dozen. how
many can you get for a cent and a
quarter? A dozen. because a cent and
a quarter equal % cents.
What are the most patient objects in
the shape of humanity? Statues
When is coffee like soil? When it is
ground.
Why Is a retired carpenter like
lecturer? Because he Is an ex-plainer.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-08-16
BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE.
New wine in old bottles"

Thus the impression upon wander
ing into a session of the Yearly Meet
ing of the Hicksite Friends which
was held this week in the old Quaker
meeting house on North A street.
People generally know that the
"Quakars" founded this town.
That the oldest and long it's first
families were made up of this ele
ment and it's deviations.
That those principles which govern
ed this religious body-whose proper
name is the Religious Society Of
Friends-have an influence in deter
mining the complexion of this com
munity which will possibly last as
long as the latter exists.
That the reason for the famed-anG
sometimes anathematiZed-cons
tism Of this town, is its Quaker an
cestry.
That it's educational affiliations were
made by this organization.
That it's college was founded by anc
is still under the direction of Quakers
That it's library was created-ant
later enlarged-by a Quaker.
That the presence of this library
one of the Oldest in the state-has Civ
en- the city it's high level of intelli
gence.
That their social customs, now little
practiced, gave the distinction anC
tone to local society it once possessed
Few of the present generation, how
ever have little idea of the Quaker.
as they once were, and it is an inter
esting experience, therefore, to droI
Street Friends church, as it is known
but always meeting house" among
Friends-for there you will see an ex
act reproduction of the Quakers of {
former day.
That is, in setting although not en-
tirely IN personnel.
For very few of even the oldel
Friends now affect the plain dress
once almost obligatory.
But they still have a certain air o
detachment from ultra -modernity an(
an aloofness from the present which
is as impressive as it is curiously ano
malous in their proceedings.
Not in the latter's form but in thei
spirit.
For through the quaint phraseolog!
of these elderly men and women you
heard uttered the most advanced re
ligious views and radical social senti
ment.
Social problems which are agitatins
the whole civilized world were here
discussed.
Political conditions commented up
on with shrewd acuteness.
But an insistence upon the form o
procedure.
Not many laymen understand tina
there are two branches of the Societ.
of Friends in America.
The Orthodox-the largest and mos
active-and the Hicksite, which cling
more to the letter than the substance
Tha. this division was occasionet
by difference on certain Fundamental
doctrines which included the plan o
salvation" through Christ.
But that really so little difference
now exists that tentative efforts hav'
been made recently toward the fusin'
of the two bodies.
And, upon an attendance on the ses
sions of the highest administrative
bodies of both, this union seems to tn
unbiased observer to be advisable.
For the deliberations of the Hick
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-08-16
Protected Against 5ores.

To save himself from loss Of time
caused by callers who are long
while in coming to the point, Paris
functionary has had put on his Office
table a card bearing the words: BE
so good as to abstain from speaking
of my health or the weather or of the
bourse quotations. three subjects
with which l am perfectly we'll ac-
Quainted. Start at once on the matter
that brings you here"-London Tele-
praDh
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-08-16
TWENTIETH CENTURY RELIGION
Although Cnging WORKOUT Forms the Basic Princi
pies of the Society of Friends Are Identical
With Modern Thought.

site Friends here this week were con-
Quoted almost entirely by the elders.
The younger element was evidently
| inconsiderable.
And there was a certain pathos
about this handful of survivors of an
old regime in the memorable grip of
form as rigid as the most exacting
ritual.
| For the Quakers based their or
! ganization upon an ideal of pure demo
cracy. In which the members ruled
themselves and were on an absolute
equality without regard to sex.
! That is one reason the women of
| this sect are such ready and fluent
| speakers, so conversant with all the
details of the workings of their relig-
| ious organization, so confident in ad-
| dress and with such a clear compre-
hension of the basic principles of their
peculiar doctrines.
The particular interest attaching to
! the sessions of the meetings at the
North A Street Friends this week,
was i'll the insistence upon the adapt
! ability of the principles of Quakerism
! to the life of the day.
Over and over again you heard it
! said that the foundations of the So
ciety's faith were those which were
advocated as a cure for the social ills
of humanity.
This is the day of simplification OF
all things.
The day of the initiative and the
referendum in religion as in politics
Of TIE theological recall.
! A day when the barriers that inter
vene between men and what the un
cou psychic call his control" are
i swept away.
The foundation of Quakerism is the
direct revelation of God to man and
, the 'atter's individual responsibility
to society.
God in man, in other words.
That he needs no creeds, no forms
no ceremonies, no intermediary or in
tercessionary medium through which
the will of God can and may be com
municated to him.
That if he recognizes in himself that
divinity which is a part and parcel OF
his spiritual makeup and does it nc
! violence he is one with God.
That if all the individual elements
| of society were on this basis of com
munication with their Creator the mil
lenium would be at hand.
! That the only tenet of Christianity
| is "Christ-likeness.'
That, as one of their speakers said
simplicity is the only characteristic
of the teachings of Christ
That the universal brotherhood OF
man and his spiritual equality with
God is the foundation upon which hui
manity should organize its activities
And what are these principles but
those organizations given to what is
termed the more radical thought OF
the period?
Quakerism, in short, is more the
twentieth century religion than any
| other.
And es put by one of it's opponents
this week, it's insistence upon the righ
OF the individual to be we'll born anC
we'll trained, but the expression of the
latest scientific and social propaganda
The address of Isaac Wilson, O.
Pennsylvania, made on Wednesda!
morning should have been heard b.
thousands instead of the comparative
few.
For it embodied in it's essence the
apogee of the attitude of the ultra
moderns toward humanity
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-08-16
Phillips Reminder,

Philip. father of Alexander, had a
servant whose sole business 1t was to
remind him that he was human. 1t
is said accordingly that he never went
from the house and. having returned.
never gave audience to any one with
out first this servant would say to him
three times in loud voice. Phillip.
thou art but a man."
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-08-16
NOTICE TO CONTRACT.
ORS AND BUILDERS

The Foster Construction Co.. have
opened a factory for the manufacture
of Cement Blocks. Copings. Porch Col
umns, Caps Stills. ETC.. ut TIE Old Mil
Works.
They have q complete outfit Of mod.
ern machinery and are using nothing
but washed and graded materials In
all their work II you are . contrac-
tor it will pay you to use the best ma
terials obtainable. II you are going
to build it will pay you to insist that
your contractor use the Foster Con-
struction Co.'S products. Would be
pleased to have call at Factory and
inspect their Products or call phones:
Res. 2629 or Factory 340e.
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Passenger Names.

Passenger Names.
To ride On peoples Christian names
Is one of Paufs pretending games.
He has announced to me that John
Is confortablest riding on.
For one can sit astrfde the o.
Between the ] and n. you know. =.
It's like an army saddle so.
And then, he says, it's very plain
That Samuefs a railway train.
For when your head outside you poke
You see the engines curling smoke.
Mary's a donkey. IT appears.
With ramrod tail and long, TAN ears.
A bicycle Otto Is. of course,
And Annals Ike a rocking horse.
For back and forth you spell all day
And still Just where you were you stay.
ALI is a pony Paul won't try.
He says il bucks SO very high.
But Paul has many other steeds
OF as extraordinary breeds.
And II you like pretending games
I'm sure you, too. can tell their names.
Youths Companion.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-08-16
THE BEST THINGS.

The best things are nearest
breath in your nos.rils. light in your
eyes. flowers at your feet. duties at
your hand. the path Of God just
before you. Then do not strive to
grasp at the stars. but do Ife's plain.
common work as it comes. certain
that daily duties and daily bread
are the sweetest things Of life.