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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-07-08
THE BARBAR|ANS ARE UPON US
Or Rather They're With Us All the Time for 1t Is the
Day of the Reign of the Mediocre and Unfit
Mistake About the Fittest Surviving

Being conscientious he has familiar
lied himself with the details of his
business and has possibly evolved its
systematic arrangement in such
manner as to be invaluable to his en-
ployers.
He's too good to advance.
He's too necessary to promote.
Therefore he sits year in, year out
while the mediocre, the nervy, the un-
fit, the buffer, the impudent is given
recognition and precedence.
Anywhere you will find the imperti-
nent and insolent holding high sway
over the able and the informed.
1t doesn't pay to be good Or the
best of your kind.
He who happens to be in this class
may as we'll go live In the cellar.
What he really should do is to
watch the clock, shirk his duties, lie,
steal, bullyrag. insinuate, side-step
and play the great game of bluff with
all his might and main and he'll have
his salary raised every other time, sit
in the leather-covered chair before the
mahogany desk, issue orders through
tube and generally wallow in the
limelight of the approval Of his chiefs.
This isn't SOL" you say.
Isn't it?
| All you have to do is to step into
| the next corner grocery and take a
| few deep sea observations.
| 1t is recorded of w. D. Howells, the
famous litterateur and the dean of
! American letters-a modest and unas-
! Stunning man-that he was once in
formed by some impudent little up
start w hen entering the editorial of
! fees of great magazine for which he
conducted department, that he was
late"
That all the employees of that pub
fishing house had to go on duty at a
certain hour.
! The great man smiled, turned on his
heel and never did come back.
Although delegations from the great
publishing company waited on him
and apologized and explained and ar
gued.
| The worm will at times turn.
| But it remains true that the world is
| In the hands of the barbarians.
Take a look at the facade, if it may
so be put, of the average American
municipality.
That is the front, the outside.
| And what do you see?
| Frightful monuments night-mar
ish architecture, unspeakable arches
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-07-08

and statues and other alleged "decora-
tive accessories" officials who muir
der the Presidents English and make
their constituency a jeer.and a laugh
lng-stock. civic undertakings in the
hands of the ignorant and the CRATER.
and general reign of artistic and Off
clal chaos simply because those
whose ambitions outrun their ability
or htness are pushed through the
crowd by others of their own ilk.
while he who really has the genius
, for directing or creating or inaugu.
rating sits on stool and adds up col
umns of figures three hundred and
sixty FIVE days in the year or is sell.
ing out at the remnant counter.
The average human. in the present
state of society, is vampirish. He fas
tens himself. rnacle-like-largely
because he must-to the bottom of the
ship and there sticks whatever the
storms that agltate the sea on which
! it sails
Never think for moment that he
loses sight of his own interest. Wher
|
has some object to gain, some point
to make.
He'll sell you out like our old FRIEND
Judas for thirty pieces of silver OF
any other price he can get
Never depend on anybody" is prob
ably unpleasant but an excellent basi.
from which to operate
For no-one is your friend when 4
conflicts with his self interest.
And 1t will be so as. long as societ,
is organized on its present w6lfish ba
sis. OF every fellow for himself ant
the satanic gentleman from the pi
to take the hindermost.
What's this got to do with the tree.
in front of the Country Club?
oh, nothing in particular.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-07-08
-A JAPANESE LEGEND. 4
II Tells . Pretty Story Of the Origin Of
the Chrysanthemum.

the Chrysanthsmum.
The japanese have an interesting
legend In connection with the origin
of the chrysanthemum. In a garden
bathed In the soft moonlight q young
girl plucked q flower and commenced
to strip the petals to see II her f1ance
loved her truly. OF a sudden a little
god appeared before her and assured
her that her fance loved her passion
ately. Your husband will hve." he
added. ''as many years as the dover
which I will let you choose has petals"
With these words he disappeared.
The young girl FASTENED to search the
garden for a flower which should have
an abundance OF petals, but each one
appeared to promise but a brief IA
ture for her beloved.
At length she picked a Persian car
nation, and, with the aid or a gold
pin taken from her hair. she separated
each one of the petals Of the flower
So as to increase the number of folioles
and of the number Of years accorded
by the god to her fance. Soon under
her deft fingers 100, 200. 800 petals,
thin, plant and beautifully curved
had been evolved, and the young girl
cried for Joy to think Of the happy
future which her ruse had assured her
fiance. So, runs the legend. was the
crysanthemum created one moonlight
night In a Japanese garden. where sill
very brooks murmured softly as they
ran beneath the little bamboo bridges
London Globe
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-07-08
-FOUR WERE KILLED
| AND MANY INJURED
When a Traction Car Collid.
ed with Marion Street
Car Yesterday.
National News Association

MARION, Ind, July 8.-Four per-
sons were killed and score injured,
seven seriously, Sunday afternoon,
when a Park car, loaded with pleasure
seekers, collided with an interurban
car on the Marion, Bluffton and East
ern Traction Line.
d The Park cars failure to take a
switch Is assigned as the cause of the
wreck.
One of the killed and six of the in
,jured were members of the Second
Regiment Band, which was going to
lGoldthwait Park, one mile east Of Ma
lrion, to give concert.
The Dead.
Il Peter Schaffer, Marion; body
icrushed.
William Lantz, Marion; body and
head crushed.
George Dellgoffer, member of the
Second Regiment Band of Marion, liv'
ed at Upland; both legs crushed off.
b. C. Silvers, SO years old, Marion
leg crushed off, neck cut and chest
icrushed
The Injured.
Henry Kinley, Marion; arm and leg
broken, scalp wounds; will survive.
Dan Reardon, Marion; injured about
the head and body. .
William Henry, Marion; cut and
bruised about body.
Virgil Lemon, Marion; ankle sprain
led and cut and bruised about body.
r. f. Bailey, Roseburg; chest and
back bruised and cut
Mrs Edward Campbell, Marion; leg
broken.
Miss Louise Calvert, Marion; head
face and arms bruised and cut.
J. L. Kirk, Swayze; trampled on by
frantic passengers and bruised about
body
Wesley E. Draper, Marion, motor
man Of Park car; scalp wound.
Charles Perry, Button, motormar
,of interurban; back hurt and cut ant
bruised about body.
Harry Elkins, Marion; foot mashed
sand back sprained
Harley Baker, Marion; both legs
rbroken.
&. John Salmon, Marion; Director Of
sSecond Regiment Band; cut about
head and body.
William Shriber Marion; head anC
fshoulders cut and bruised.
William Patterson, Marion; heaC
rand shoulders injured.
Cecil Justice, Marion; chest crush
red
William Henry. Marion; leg anG
fbody cut and bruised.
Don Thornburg, Marion; injured
Eabout body.
Police say that ghouls reaped a har
west from the wreck victims.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-07-08
By ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE.

Tree destruction is still on the ram
page.
The latest victims are the row of
elms in front of the Country Club.
To be sure these had been mutilat-
ed by the traction company in the
past but they were still fine old trees.
Every one has been cut down.
And o make way for the traction
company.
The assinine policy We pursue in
matters of this sort is only equalled
by the celebrated case of the man who
bit off his nose to spite his face.
But what's the use protesting! The
world is in the hands of the barbar-
ians.
You see it on every hand. Not only
in aesthetic aspects but in every i'm
portant institution. Not excepting the
educational How often do you see
mediocrity, superf1ciality and actual
ignorance advanced over erudition
and merit?
You'll find this in any school sys-
tenn.
Teachers of experience and learning
having to stand aside while the unfit
are elevated to positions to which
the former should have been advanced.
School politics are, or is, famous
or infamous, whichever way you care
to look at or express it.
Yet you will see the school politi-
clan holding sway year in, year out.
The while he pulls the strings.
It's the same everywhere.
In the churches, in instance.
You'll find any number of whited
sepulchres and old hypocrites piously
singing praises on the front seats and
In the deacon's corner the while they
tap wires for the championship of the
finance committee and the appoint
ment of the minister.
Certain people always shake hands
| with other people. And give others the
sanctified stare.
1t is too much to ask that everybody
should be recognized.
Especially if he happens to be able
or have any ability.
Ten to one these latter people
are mashed right up against the wal
and ground to a pulp.
You'll find it this way in business
| institutions.
The man of ability. oftener than not
never has his salary raised nor Is he
advanced in position.
is.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-07-08
OLIVER VISIBLE
TYPEWRITER

For Sale Cheap. Perfect condition
and does splendid writing. Could ship
on approval and trial. Write to
Charles w. Rickart Rosedale. Kans
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-07-08

The uoontide sun Is dark and music
aiscord when the heart Is low.-ioung.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-11-22
Dlstrlet court News.

Commencing yesterday Mt 1880,
where We left on. district court was
called to order by Deputy Sheriff ]. N.
Woodall. The first case called was
"a civil case, No 1880, ]. C. Woodcock
VS.. c, w Day. This case was CON
tinued over from last term. A motion
for new trial was overruled.
The petition for naturalization OF
Abe Whill Bailey was dismissed for
want of evidence. This concluded the
work for yesterday and court adjourn
ed until 8 a. M. Tuesday morning.
Today's session was taken up by
pleas. The following eases were call.
ed and pleas entered:
State of Oklahoma VS.. Tom Hubbard
plea not guilty and trial set for No
vember q.
no. 1920. State of Oklahoma VS.. H.
G. Showers, plea Of guilty on two
charges. This is a case in which the
defendant is charged with false pre-
tense, Sentence to be pronounced
later.
No, I'LL. State OF Oklahoma VS.. w.
L. Smith, plea of not guilty to assault
and attempt to kill Case set for No
vember 20.
No. lilo. State of Oklahoma VS..
Jake Smith. Motion for dismissal
heard and allowed on peace bond.
No, 1l3. State of Oklahoma VS.. ]
II. Klinkle ct al, plea not guilty To-
charge Of adultery. Case set for No
vember 20. Court adjourned until
1870 this afternoon. We will get the
court news UP to noon each day and
will give each case as called so that
any OF our subscribers who want the
court news may know that they are
getting all that happens.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-11-22
Liauor Case Reversed.

That shipments of Intoxicating II.
quors into that part of the state for
Imerly Indian territory is prohibited by
an act of congress and that the Okla.
lhoma state courts will not entertain
ian action to- recover intoxieants ship
lped into the Indian territory counties,
| is held in the case of the state of Ok.
lahoma VS.. eighty-nire casks OF beer,
land the Pabst Brewing company.
lEighty-nine casks of Blue Ribbon beer
We're seized by the sheriff of Tulsa
Icounty at Tulsa. The Pabst Brewing
company of Milwaukee interyened,
Ifiled claim for the beer, and won its
Iclaim in the county court; the state
appealed and got a reversal, the SUI
Ipreme court commission entering a
Judgment forfeiting and confiscating
1.-THE beer to the state.
That coal company in whose mines
|certain miners lost their lives were
|liable for their burial expenses, under
|certain circumstances, was held in the
|case of the Kali Inla Coal company vs..
VIII d. Craig In March, 1910, four
Italian miners lost their lives by an
|explosion in the Kali Inla mine at
Cambria; the mine superintendent
telephoned to Craig, an undertaken,
and the latter buried the four dead
miners When he presented his bill
to the coal company. it refused pay
ment, hence the suit.
The Oklahoma Railway company
wins in the higher courts, as in the
lower, in the damage case brought
against it by Bernie Smith Pollard for
$4,000 for injuries suffered from an
explosion of powder, gathered from
some blasting powder cans the work
men on the Britton extension had
thrown away; the court holding, in
brief, that if the street car company
had been guilty of negligence, the neg
ligence was entirely too remote from
the explosion that caused the boys
hurts, since a boy had worked for
nearly a. month and against his moth
er's and fathers remonstrances, scrap
ing the powder from the cans, and
Bernie was hurt when he and his play
llate tried to set some of It off three
weeks later.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-11-22
Liberal Offer to Football Team.

Friday night Manager Dan Myers. Of
the Grand Theatre. and the Morgan
Stock company have decided to turn
over both boxes at the Grand theatre
to the football boys and the visiting
team and not only that but the Nor.
gan Stock company are going to do
nate the use of their excellent band
to the boys, ard will lead a parade
from The opera house at $3.50 to the
football ground, and viii root for the
boys here at home, and they say that
the Vinita boys will have to win or
they will pound all the end ont of their
old big drums. This is a liberal Offer
on the part Of the Morgan Stock com
pany and Manager Myers and II the
rest of the town will do as much to
assist the boys they are sure to carry
off the state championship.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-11-22
potts Some pinper.

J. w. Dotts. state live stock inspec-
tor. is some. cattle dipper for an old
man. Five cars of cattle arrived in
the city from the south this morning
about daylight. for George Nidiffer
and Billie Friend Mr.. Dotts was called
into service at seven o'clock this morn.
ing, and walked a mile north to the
dipping vat, dipped the entire five car
loads of cattle and back to the Green
hotel by $50 and was ready to take
the Frisco home to Tulsa at S:44
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-11-22
MOTHER DIED
OF BROKEN HEART
Grief Over Sons Conviction Was .
Direct Cause Of the End-son
Was at Her Bedside.

Tulsa, Okla, Nov. 19.-With her
son, Guy ID. Mackenzie, sentenced to
life Imprisonment for the murder of
Charles T Reuter-, sitting by he'd bed
side, watched by armed guards, Mrs.
Lavina ]. Mackenzie, aged 81, passed
into the great beyond at 6 o'clock last
might. 1t was the second tragedy of
the conspiracy to kill Charles Reuter-,
her death being directly attributed
to the conviction of her son for the
crime of murder.
Ever confident in her sons inno-
cence, the aged white haired mother
proved tragical figure at the trial of
her son last month when she attend-
ed every session of the trial unth the
strain began telling on her health, and
she was persuaded TO stay at home.
Following the verdict of the jury
sentencing her son to spend the rest
of his natural life in the state peni-
tentiary her strength failed rapidly
and Saturday night she was taken
much worse. All day Sunday she
called for her son. Guy, who was oc-
cupying cell in the county Jail, await.
ing the signing of papers that would
mean that he and his copartner, Joe
Baker, would be taken Monday to the
state penitentiary. Word was sent to
Sheriff Mccullough Sunday night of
Mrs. Mckenzies condition and he
agreed to allow her son to go to her
bedside.
With two armed guards, the pris-
oner was taken to his home, after
promising the officers he would make
no effort to escape.
He arrived in time to be recognized
by his mother who was at that time
dying. All night he kept his sorrow
full virgil by the deathbed while the
guards occupied an adjoining room.
EARLY in the morning he was taken
back to his cell to await the summons
that would mean his mother had pass
ed away.
During the day the life slowly ebbed
from the wrecked frame of the little
white haired woman and late in the
afternoon the prisoner, who had walk
ed the floor of his cell all day, was
again taken to her bedside by armed
guards, where he remained until the
end came at six O'Clock.
The trip to take the two prisoners,
Baker and Mackenzie, to the peniten-
tiary which was to have started yes
terday, has been postponed until after
the funeral. Mackenzie will be allow
ed to accompany his mothers remains
to their last resting place
No funeral arrangements were made
last night, but it is believed the body
will be buried here tomorrow
The deceased was the wife of John
Il Mackenzie, who formed one of the
most interesting figures at the trial
of his son. Two sons and one daugh- |
.er survive her.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-11-22
First Buck of Season.

Button Walker. of Spavinaw, holds
the record of killing the first deer Of
the season, which he killed in the
Spavinaw Hills. near Spavinaw town,
last Saturday. Several parties haze
gone out in hopes of being the first
to bring III one of the much coveted
animals, but this old time hunter Of
the hills had not forgotten how Il was
done in the few short years since
statehood and 50 far as We have heard
he holds the record of having killed
the first buck of the season in this
part of the country. We expect now
ever when the party of hunters who
left here last week return from The
southern part OF the state where they
went for deer and turkey hunt tn
the mountains to hear of several be-
ing killed, as they had with them men
who are old deer hunters and hardly
ever fail to bring in a deer when they
go after them. Freeman Nidiffar and
Homer Trott are two of them NidiiIer
is an old timer of years of experience
and has killed deer all Of his life, but
Trott claims to have killed more deer
than any other man in this section Of
the country. There may be more fam
Gus deer hunters ii sLis party but We
have not got their record
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-11-22
"An American Girl


A full house greeted the Morgan
Stock company On their second appear
ance at the Grand theatre LAST night
in a good play entitled San American
Girl" The company consists OF a
large and vel balanced cast, splen.
did eight-piece orchestra and special
scenery for their plays. The plag last
night pleased the large audience, II
was easy to see as they gave vent to
their appropriation IN long rounds OF
applause, and gives promise of large
business for every bill presented by
the Morgan company in this city
Every seat on the lower floor was
taken.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-11-22
DICK CORLEY
SHOOTS HIMSELF

During fit Of dependency, brought
on by an ill-fated love affair, Dick
|CoreIy shot and fatally wounded him
self early this morning. The attempt
lat suicide occurred Ut the home OF
|Chas Hockett with whom the boy had
been staying for some time, shortly
after eight o'clock. Young Corely is
subject to what are called cateIeptic
dts and while suffering one of these
has no control OF himself and is be-
lieved to have been in one of these
when he attempted to take his life to-
day. lie had been in Ill health for
several days and the morbidness of
his thought ended In his probable sui
eide.
The bullet entered the body about
two inches below The heart and pene-
trating entirely through his body came
out several inches lower near the kid.
ney Drs. Craig, Jackson and Heron
were called and performed an opera
tion later IN the morning and say there
is but faint chance OF recovery.
Young Corely is we'll known in town
and has large number OF friends to
whom his desire for death came like
a bolt out of clear sky. He has been
working for some time as mail man
at the Katy and was well liked BY ali
who knew him for the good reputation
he bore.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-11-22
jim CROW LAW
GAN Be ENFORCED
Negro Loses Appeal to the Supreme
Court in Jim Grow case-s4
Opinions Given.

Oklahoma Sity, Nov. l9.--That a
railroad cannot be held for damages
for the actions of its conductor in en-
forcing the "jim crow" law upon a
negro passenger is held by the SUI
preeme court commission, division No.
/, in an opinion handed down by Su-
preme Court Commissioner ]. B. A.
Robertson Monday.
Thirty-fou ropinions were handed
ldown in all; twelve by Commissioner
Ames, eleven by Commissioner Sharp
and eleve nby Commissioner Robert
son, Four o fthem touch upon mat.
ters Of some unusual interest.
The Jim crow" case is an action
brought against the Midland Valley
railroad by John d. Stratford, negro,
for $4,000 damages for wrongful ex.
Ipulsion and arrest The negro bought
Ia ticket at Arkansas City, Kans., to
Tulsa; rode to the Oklahoma line in
the coach for whites, and was there
ordered to go back to the Jim crow"
car. An alteration occurred between
him and the conductor and he was ar
rested at Pawhuska on charges pre-
ferred by the conductor OF violating
the separate coach law.
He sued the railroad company for
damages, lost on demurrer in the
lower courts, and again loses on ap-
peal, The high court holds in brief
that while he may not be without
remedy, he cannot hold the railroad
for an act performed by the conductor
under the Oklahoma statutes requiring
conductor to enforce the "jim crow
law.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-11-22
DEMOCRATIC PIE
TO Be SERVED

Washington, ID. c., Nov. 20.-After
the issue of the high cost OF living
the one of patronage will no doubt be
uppermost in the minds of the sena-
tors and representatives at Washing
ton after the incoming OF the new ad-
mdnistration. How much patronage
there is to be distributed by the new
president is difficult to say. The re-
cent order of President Taft, placing
$4,000 third and fourth class post
offices under the civil service takes
about one-half of those Offices from
the class which heretofore fell as spoils
TO the victor,
\ summary of the positions at the
disposal Of President Wilson on his
inauguration granting that all are va
Gated at that time includes the fol-
lowing.
Nine cabinet offices at $4,000 each.
s1OS,OOO.
State department 1G persons ss44,.
900.
Treasury department 122 persons,
s552,oOo.
Collectors OF customs and assistants
at 100000.
War department 4 per sons $l5,40O-
Navy department, four persons s14,-
200.
Interior department, 81 persons
1882 100
Agricultural department, 2S persons
ss6, 200
Library Of congress, one person.
Sc, 500.
Library employees not under civil
service $S4s, 100.
Civil service commission three per-
sons $ls,5OO
White house staff, four persons SIS
500.
postonlce department IL persons,
s4S, $50.
Department d justice ~ persons.
s19S, 400
Commerce and labor 81 persons
$4,000.
Ambassadors and ministers. 43 per-
sons, $5f0,sOO.
Secretaries to embassies and lega-
lions 81 persons slSs.175s
consuls and consular oficiala st..
141 900.
Interstate commerce commission, I
persons $4,000.
Government printing Office / person.
$4,000.
Commissioners of district of Colum.
ola, 2 persons $4,000.
Federal officials, numbering 5000.
'ut side Of Washington, including post
masters Of all grades marshals and
attorneys, etc, $27,ois.oOo
Total $3O,S37, ,sS5.
This is pretty good list and when
aiken In connection with the large
lumber OF states which have fallen
nto democratic line this year there
ihould be enough Offices to go around
md make everybody happy and con-
ent.