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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-07-20

$Io.5oo in campaigning" for his son
The Missouri law limits the expendi-
lures for a candidate for congress to
$3.50. Young Catlin himself spent less
than this amount. and il was claimed
that he was unaware of the manner in
which his father Embossed his purse.
strings.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-07-20
DAMAGE CASE GOES
TO JURY SATURDAY
Suit of Mrs. Rau Against Lo-
cal Corporations Being
Heard at Winchester.
palladium Specially

tfallad1um specially
WINCHESTER, Ind, July 20.-The
case of Iva Rau, Administrative of the
estate of Ora Rau, tried in the Ran
dolph circuit court on a change of ven
ne from the Wayne circuit court, was
expected to go to the jury at late
hour this afternoon. The complaint
is for $4,000 damages for the loss of
the life Of Ora Rau, who was an en-
ploye OF the Richmond City Light
noant. Judge Engles is on the bench.
Mrs. Iva Rau, the plaintiff. is suing
the city of Richmond, The Richmond
Light, Heat & Power company and The
Terre Haute, Indianapolis and Eastern
Traction company for damages, basing
the claim of negligence on the part of
the defendants in permitting their
wires to come in contact with each
other on Sheridan street.
The facts of the case show that Ora
Rau while an employe of the City
Light plant one day last August went
to the home of a Mrs. Martin who
/ lives on Williams street, to remedy
some wire trouble in the cellar. Be-
] fore his arrival, Mrs. Martin in turn
/ ing on an electric light. touched the
brass socket and the cross current
knocked her to the floor, where she
lay stunned for some time.
Rau went to the basement and told
Mrs. Martin never to touch the brass
socket as it was dangerous, and while
explaining this, his hand accidentally
came in contact with the brass socket
and he was killed by the current. On
investigation it was found that the
wires of the Light, Heat and Power
company and the City plant were at
tached to the same pole on Sheridan
street and that guy wire of the trac-
tion company was also fastened to the
pole This guy wire, it is alleged
pulled in the pole and in some manner
the insulation of the two wires was
rubbed off and short circuit was
formed, permitting the high tension
] wire Of the L., H. & P. Co. of 1900
volts pass through the city light plant 8
wires, which resulted in the death OF
Rau.
Much interest is being manifested
in the case and the court room was
crowded today with spectators.
Tie city is being represented by
Gardner and Jessup, the Light, Heat
and Power company by Robbins and
Robbins, and Study and Study of Rich
mond. and Caldwell of Winchester, ap
pear for the plaintiff.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-07-20

European philosophers for many a
long day.
See America First" is all right.
Also "see America first"
In the yernacular of the newspaper
office, one is in caps the other low
er case"
And. in the final analysis, they mean
the same thing.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-07-20
Plenty of Turtle Soup all
day Saturday, 1Oc per bowl.
Bring your buckets. Ed. F.
Cutter, 4O3 S. 4th. 1927
The One Perfect Boy.

st never heard OF but one perfect
boy" said Johnny pensively as he sat
in the corner doing penance.
And who was thatT' asked mamma.
"Papa-when he was little" was the
answer. Then silence reigned for the
SPACE of I've minutes.-Exchange
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-07-20

Buy it now. Chamberlain's Collie,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy is al.
most certain to be needed before the
summer is over Buy it now and be pre-
pared for such an emergency. For sale
by all dealers.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-07-20
Research.

Bul-Have you done any research
work? Jill-Have /? Well. say. I've
looked for this same collar button I'm
wearing now at least ffty times
Yonkers Statesman.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-07-20
Sound Reasons.

"You seem to be able to draw a
great deal of interest from that gem
tleman."
"Of course do. He's my principal"
Baltimore American.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-07-20

Order is mans greatest need and his
true well being.-AmieL
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-19
BASEBALL ON THE RACK.

Poor old baseball. Its Ides of March
seems to be in the not distant future.
The reason is as simple as it is con-
elusive. The politicians are after it.
Whatever they touch, it seems to with
er or die, or else its usefulness is
crippled to a serious extent. There
may be one possible exception. That is
the tax rate. Under the ministrations
of the politicians it flourishes like the
proverbial green bay tree. But almost
everything else to which the politi-
clans give their wise attention is
blighted and hampered. Look at
Alaska. Look at the railroads. Look
at business generally. 1t stagnates
and knows not which way to turn
while the politicians tinker away at
the tariff. at trust laws. ct cetera, ct
cetera, and merely for the purpose of
adding to their stock of political cap
ital: for the sake of making records
with which they hope to fool the
credulous people into keeping them
at the public crib where the picking is
fat and the living easy.
That baseball has kept out of their
clutches so long, is something of a
mystery. But they are after it now.
Representative Gallagher of Illinois
after much diIigent inquiry. presum-
a bly,, has discovered a baseball trust
He calls it the most audacious and
autocratic trust in the country" That
sounds great, doesn't it? Surely it
ought to make a hit with many of the
minimizing At least it has brought
one Gallagher into the limelight May
! be that is all. that he has desired. 1t
is so hard to shine these days in the
political arena. The self-constituted
stars are so many. Some unusual
stunt must be put on to make even a
| glimmer.
Nothing but a probe into the ma
chinations of the baseball trust will
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-19
says UNCLE CAV

Whenever 1 find man who has
spent his life peddlin' smiles I just
naturally think For God so loved the
world" Translate that meaning into
any terms you like, according to your
own religious convictions or the lack
of 'em, and it's all the same. Say that
the best blessing of kindly nature is
her tendency to produce men who
radfate good cheer and make the world
better and therefore happier. Or say
that He so loved the world that He
sent such men into. it and keeps them
here a long time because they'll be
badly missed when they go.
For my part can understand neith-
err religion nor success that can't be
expressed in terms of JOY. 1 believe
that anything that doesn't bring hap
piness sooner or later is an abomina-
ton. and I don't care whether you
call it religion. morals, ethics, duty or
what not. l also believe that any sue
cess that isn't happy is a failure, and
1 don't care how much or a success it
seems to be.
The best man in the world is the
man who makes those around him
happy. 1t doesn't make any difference
whether he is preacher or peddler,
teacher or tinker, evangelist or actor,
reformer or rough neck. The essence
of human service is to make the lots
of yourself and others beIter-the aim
and result of goodness are happiness,
and there you are.
To create happiness is the chief end
of man, and you can substitute neither
creed nor code for this service and
get satisfa Glory results.
1t is more than likely that men you
have called fools because they do not
agree with you in secular matters are
wiser than you because they know
that the secret of altruistic success is
to radiate joy; it is just as likely that
men you call bad because they differ
from you in religion are better than
you are because they spread sunshine
while you are constantly trying to
take the sunshine away from those
who can't see things a you see them
Pity the fellow who can't smile hard
enough to pass it on to the next. 1t
matters little what else he does or
what he believes; real goodness is not
in him and he's a sorry sort of failure.
Copyright, 1912, by w. E. Will
iams)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-19
EVENING CHAT
BY RUTH CAMERON.

IT wouldn't give much for person who
didn't have backbone enough to hate
some one" 1 heard a girl say that the
other day in justification of a statement
which she had just made about disliking
one of the girls at her school. Her moth
er had gently rebuked her for having
such a feeling, and the above statement.
accompanied by a toss of the head, was
her way of taking the rebuke-
1t seems to me that this idea that it
takes backbone to be an enemy, and that
it is sign of high-strung and desirable
temperament to hate, has a good deal of
prevalence. People quote, in support OF
this view, the saying that man who has
no enemies has not done very much.
| They have the wrong idea By mans
enemies, this saying means those who
hate him, not those whom he hates To
be hated may sometimes be a sign of
character; to hate never.
1 wish the folks who hold this peculiar
idea would IA axe a business some day of
Analysing the causes and motives behind
all the hatreds which they pride them
selves on cherishing, and then see If they
think hating is SO fine a thing.
If we hated people for being cruel for
causing suffering, or for being very wick
ed in any direction, our hatred would no.
be an altogether shameful thing, although
even then it would be better to hate the
sin and pity the sinner-he often needs it
more than those whom he sins against.
But can you honestly say that any of
these people whom you allow yourself tc
hate are really wicked? No, you know
they are not, nor anything like that. One
is rather Small-minded person who once
said something unkind about you, which
came to your ears. The other name for
that particular hate is simply desire fof
revenge Another has certain irritating
little personal characteristics which are
offensive to you, and you say you hate
him. But surely that doesn't give you
reason to call him wicked No, the 9th er
name for that hate is simply antagonism
And probably, at least two or three of
those whom you say you hate or dislike
are people who have offended you in no
more sinful way than by being more
clever or more popular, or more success
full in some direction than yourself. And
the other name of that hate is the ugly
little word-envy-
Would you say that a man or woman
who was too big, and too busy to bother
with any of these mean and childish feel
ingS WASN'T worth much?"
It is sometimes said in extenuation-
nay, more, in praise-of hating, that peo-
pie who have strong likes also have
strong dislilles. This may be true of peo-
pie at certain stage of development but
the biggest people are those who put so
much of their energy into loving and liv-
ing, that they haven't any time for hat
ing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-19
ADVERTISING TALKS
BIZ WILLIAM c. FREEMAN

1t looks as though the presidential cam
paign this year will be a warm one.
We wonder il the national committees
this year will use newspaper advertising
to educate voters, will they continue
to arrange for paradeS, banners brass
bands, distribution of pictures cart-taiI
speakers, fireworks and big mass meet
ings?
Republican speakers address Republican
audiences; Democratic speakers address
Democratic audiences. Usually there is
great enthusiasm. especially if the speak
ers be good spellbinders. But they dom
make votes.
Suppose the Republican national com
mittee should advertise in the Democratic
newspapers all over the country and the
Democratic national committee should
advertise in all the Republican newspa pers
throughout the country-what would hap
pen?
IF the advertising done should deal with
facts, not personalities-if it should be so
plainly written that all could understand
the points brought outfit it dealt with
important questions and explained care
fully their meaning-wouldn't voters get
a better idea of what they were voting
for than by the employment of all the
other clap-trap methods usually resorted
to by political managers?
The newspapers will continue to print
news of the campaign and editors VIII
use their pens to express their own views
but if the advertising appears regularly
and If it be good. sensible, appealing ad-
vertising it will be read as thoroughly as
Will be the news ana editorials. ana II
will be a great influence in helping voters
to decide which way they will vote.
About the cost:
Half a million dollars will buy 30 full
columns in each of 500 Republican news
papers-one column every day from early
in August up to election time-one every
day for 80 days.
Half a million dollars will do the same
thing in 500 Democratic newspapers
wouldn't it be good thing for each ma
tIonal committee to set apart half mil
lion dollars for this purpose?
Why not try it out?
Each national committee should employ
a staff of the best advertisement writer's
In the country-real business men-who
know how to prepare facts in pleasing.
argumentative and convincing way 1t
would probably cost each committee $3.50
a week to maintain a staff of this charac-
fer hut it would be worth the money.
(To be continued.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-19
QUAKER MEDTTATIONS.
TFrom the Philadelphia Record.

TFron the Philadelphia Record.l
Even the ungallant actor sometimes
takes a womanS part
Persons who sit down on the spur of the
moment usually make some very sharp
remarks
The only man who is glad to see others
GET ahead of him is the grocer who sells
cabbageS.
visitor-''You army officers always say
yes sir. when YOU answer anybody, don t
your" Corporal Bill-"Yep
Fond Mamma-"It was very brave OF
YOU to chase that cat away, Bobby, ana
I'm proud of you. What did you throw
at hinn?'' Bobby-"Daddy's watch
Delle-''I don't speak to Jack any more
N-e1IeNsrThat's the troubIe?" Delle-"1
told him the ladies' aid approved the way
I dressed my hair, and he had the I'M
audience to ask if it was ratified.
The meek looking man walked up to
the book counter. Il want something to
keen me home at night. show me my
faults. tell me how to spend my Hold
ON old man" said the clerk. you're in
the wrong department. Marriage bureau
on the left; three aisles down.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-19

suit Gallagher. He wants a special
sert this probe. Let 'er go Gallagher
But be careful that you do not come
a cropper. Baseball is the peoples
sport. It's the great national game.
And the people have always appeared
willing to support it with their two
bits, their half-dollars and their dol
lars under the methods and plans by
which it has been developed and is
now maintained. The people might
not tolerate congressional interfer-
ence. Baseball is a clean game now.
That's why it has such a hold on the
rank and file of the people of these
United States. Will it be as clean
when the politicians get through with
it? Not likely. They have such hab-
it of soiling things
And incidentally if Mr.. Gallagher is
able to fool the house of representa-
tives into paying attention to his whim
there will likely be a tremendous
scramble for places on this special
investigating committee. It's mem
bers and their extensive retinue of
stenographers, sergeants-at-arms and
all the other hangers-on that are
common to congressional investigating
committees, will have free access to
all the baseball games next season.
That will be written in the bond.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-19

the biggest f1irt in the school She was
a model chaperon while within sight of
the school buildings, but once the viii
lage was reached it was:s
''Now, girls, scatter and have good
time, but don't too many of you jam
into the postoffice at once.
And as the days went past the
Misses Chiffon grew secure and COM
placent, and now and then the elder
said:
credit for perspicacity in this case
Il do. sister Fanny" was the reply.
But for you our school would have
been broken up by this time. Have
there been any further reports of
fiiEations?"
How grand to be able to under
stand human character"
Two weeks later and then the whole
world seemed to be spinning around
like top. One afternoon the de
mure" chaperon was missed. Search
was made, even under the beds and in
the bureau drawers. 1t was extended
into the country, but in vain. No one
had seen a demure young lady of
steady appearance padding along
through the dust. There were two
persons in the school that got no sleep
that night. When morning came they
went to the postoffice in the hope of
striking a cleW. They were not dis
appointed. The old veteran was on
DUTY, ana at SlBnC Oh them ne rub
his hands together and said:
Come right in, ladies; have solved
the problemi"
I'VE are looking for Miss Blank"
was the reply.
And you've come to the right place.
1 lent Clarence my horse and buggy
yesterday to drive off and marry her,
and now all your troubles are DER. He
can't f1irt with any of the rest of the
Copyrighted 1912, by AS
ISOLATED Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-19
HUMOR or THE D\Y

where do they catch these mock ttrr-
ties. waiter?" Don't know. SURF; maybe
it's near the sham-rock."-New York
Commercial Advertiser.
The bride. to show her undying conf
dence in her new husband. gave him "A
night key. Then she telephoned for the
locksmith and changed the lock.-Baiti-
more sun.
Before I was married life was one
continual round of pleasure" And isn't
il now?" no: it's one continual round
of economy now."-W ashington Herald.
These said hte authro OF a volume cf
poems. ARE the children OF my brain.
Yes replied Miss Cayenne. but such
a large number Of them are adopted chill
dren. Washington Star.
do you mean to tell me that you be-
Iieve women are able to bear UP more
heroically than men under torture?'' Il
do. Where is theve man who could
wear a tight corset even for a day2''-
Chicago Record Herald
Jane. I've told you over and over again
I will have cleanliness yet why is IL Tn
always finding cobwebs on the drawing
room ceiIing2'' IT think IL must be the
spiders. miss. Punch.
Kate-I'm in an awful plighti George Is
mad at me because 7 suddenly broke nv
engagement TO go to the opera with him
Why not2 Kate-At the last moment I
couldn't find my switch-and he thinks I
have such beautiful hair.-Detroit Free
Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-19
.AYHAWKER JOTS

Hard TO do, points out the Eskrloge
Tribl1ne-Star: Define the universe anu
give examples
Down in Howard the wedding bells
rang so loud that the Howard Cour-
ant heard them.
If is only necessary to convince one
member of the family if it is the rlght
one argues the Carbonate Post.
fashion note in the Blue Mound
SIN. All the stout ladies will be gao
to know that hips are coming PACK.
The Gridley Light heard fellow once
saw. Love is the insane desire OF a
crazy man to pay a woman's ooaru Dill
for life"
Here's a chance for an argument.
Mrs Tom THOMPSON says: Six women
out of ten can buy more prolie0'olS
than can men.
This is going to be another won
derfui YEAR for the rabbits, says the
Osborne Farmer The campaign Is on
and lots of them are after off1ce.
..NTsrg,,erite." the clever CORE
snondent of the Douglass Tribune at
Bodarc began her notes last Week
with this comparison: Mud nuo-
tlier. muddyest.'
good deal of this old worlds grief,
saws VIII Palmer in his Jewel County
Republican, could be traced back TO
the woman who doesn't make her CHI
dren mind when they are little
Miss Anna Carlson of the Lindsborg
1Iew-Record is deserving of any pun
ishnoent that can be devised which IS
suitable for this crime she has perpe-
trated. Cheer up she bFthely sings
almost time for spring house-clean-
ing"
The Penitentiary Bulletin, published
at the states prison, is very credlt-
able paper, says Bert Walker in his
osborne Farmer. considering the fact
that it is published by amateurs. NO
editors are ever sent to the peniten-
tiary.
An exceedingly comprehensive OBJ
servation by the Douglass tribune:
Most men are honest. Some are
strictly honest: some moderately hon
est. some slightly honest, and few
give no visible evidence of honest
whatever.
81 Know" the webster township
CORRESPONDENT of the Wilson County
citizen. assuredly seems to know what
he is talking about in one particular
at least, as the following would tend
to show: Freezing and thawlng
makes muddy roads"
There is one good thing about my
neighbor, Blowloud, confesses the VII
Iage Deacon of the Osborne Farmer.
when he borrows anything he always
brings it back. Last week when ne
came over to borrow my snow shovel
he brought back my scythe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-19
GLOBE SIGHTS
By THE ATCHISON GLOBE.

Small boys have more heroes than any
one else, knowing less about them
When two boys are playing together,
the biggest one has the best time.
There are so many loafers it doesn' t
take much of an excuse to call a conven-
ton.
Some people go to court for their rights,
and pay altogether too much for them.
Sometimes taking an oath has little in
fluence on a man who is a liar from
choice
California will never be able to make
the prune as popular as its well known
climate.
Fortunately, our agricultural wealth
doesn't hinge congressional garden
seeds.
A boy is apt to hear too much of how
hard his father had to work when he was
a boy.
A girl who leaves a comfortable home
to go on the stage is apt to be foolish
in other particulars.
Doesn't it make you tired when you can
almost think of something you are par
ticularly anxious to remember?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-19
THE UNFAILING CHARM.

Oh. Aramintai you've a winning way
Which adverse criticism quite disarms,
To me, at least, it seems that you display
The very chiefest of a woman's charms.
1t lies not in your wondrous head of hair,
Which quite surpasses prize Angora
cats;
1t lies not in the marvellous clothes you
wear,
hats.
1t is not in your eyes of deepest blue,
Outrivaling the empyrean above:
To tell the truth, don't admire their hue;
1t needed something more to stir my
love.
1t is not that you are so passing rich:
| have a soul above the sordid pelf-
It's solely in the interest with which
You listen, when I talk about myself.
Geo. B. Moorewood, in New York
Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-19
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Any number of people look on an
alarm clock as necessary nuisance
x X Il
IF many folk could live their lives
over again they'd probably do worse
than they have done
X X
mule is also superior to a man in
this respect: 1t doesn't kick very Oh
ten without excellent cause
X X
IT is generally the case that the man
who is well able to pay for his mis-
takes doesn't make many.
X =
Is there any one who wouldn't be
glad to emulate the busy pee pro.
Vided. of course, he was assured OF as 3
long a rest between working seasons!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-19
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
From the Chicago News.I


A lost boy is a waif from home.
No married man ever has more money
than he knows what to do with.
The advice that your friends hand you
seldom leads to their pockets.
It's well to pay as you go and also to
save enough to pay your way back.
A mortgage on your property is sign
of prosperity-to the mortgage holder.
We feel sorry for the man who cant
blow his own horn without going on a
foot.
It is mean for a young man to tell a
leap year girl that he will be a brother
to her.
both ends in an attempt to throw light
on the subject
Any man knows what a woman who
doesn't think talks about, but it's impoS-
sibIe for him to discover what a woman
who doesn't talk thinks about