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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-08-20

Saturday, David Feltman, one of the
oldest employees of the Rumely COM
pany, celebrated his seventy-second
birthday anniversary. In the evening
about one hundred employees of the
Rumely company met at the Feltman
home and gave their co-worker pleas
ant surprise. On the first day of
March, 1860, Mr.. Feltman began his
apprenticeship in the old Gaar-Scott
shop and during the ffty-two years
which he has worked in that factory,
he has been an inspiration to many
younger men who have come and
gone.
Mr.. Feltman has worked continuous
ly on the lathe, at which work he is
very skilled, even at his advanced age.
He is one of the few men who have
been in the employ of the company
for more than a half century. Mr..
Feltman is a well preserved man for
his yeaEs and is as we'll able to turn
out full days work as most of the
younger men in the big local Rumely
factory. He has reared a large family
and most of them were present at the
celebration Saturday evening and as
sisted the men in having a general
good time. The home was decorated
throughout with roses, Mr.. Feltman
being especially fond of the flowers
These blossoms were gifts of the fac,
tory employees. The elimination OF
the function came when William c.
Kuhlman, a co-worker, presented Mr.
Feltman with a handsome leather
chair, the gift of the Rumely company
and the factory employees. Mr.. Kuhl
man said in part:
ut is a pleasure for US to assemble
here tonight as we wish to pay ou1
respects and celebrate with you the
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-08-20
AGED WORKMAN HONOREO

Citations with you have always been
pleasant. Your smiling face and words
of good cheer have been an inspiration
to us for years. 1t is appropriate that
we leave in your home a remembrance
of this happy occasion, SO your fellow
workmen have selected this chair for
that purpose, and in behalf or your
many friends l present it TO you,
trusting you may live to spend many
happy hours within its arms.
And now may the blessings of God
await you. May the sun of glory
shine around your head. May the
gates of plenty, honor and happiness
ever be open to you. May no sorrow
distress your days, nor grief disturb
your nights. May the pillow of peace
kiss your cheeks and the pleasures OF
imagination attend your dreams, and
when the length of years make you
tired of earthly joys and the curtain
of death is gently lowering on your
last days of earthly existence, may the
angel of God attend your bed and take
care that the expiring lamp of life
shall not receive one rude blast tC
hurry on its extinction"
The remainder of the evening was
spent socially. Refreshments were
served The occasion will no doubt
be long remembered by Mr.. Feltmar
and family, as we'll as his many
friends who so successfully arranged
the surprise.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-08-20

men to the condition in which public
service corporations leave the streets
after improvements have ben made
Piles of gutter boulders on Northwest
First street and First and Richmond
avenue are cited as examples of neg
lect on the part of the companies to
clean away rubbish after they have
completed changes. 1t is said that
piles of boulders have been lying in
the street for more than six months.
A large hump in North Ninth street in
front of the high school and between
c and d streets on the same thorough
fare made by the Richmond, Light,
Heat and Power company provoked
the wrath of one councilman. He
said the company had been notified
six months ago to level the humps to
the grade of the street. The board of
works was instructed to investigate
the condition of a defective crossing
at West Third and Kinsey street A
stone curb is broken, one end pro-
truding far above the grade of the
street, and the other being below
grade 1t was said that the cross
ing may cause a serious accident.
Petitions Presented.
A petition, signed by w. H. Haber-
kern and Walter A Johnson for a ce-
ment roadway between South A and
South B street and South Eighth and
Ninth street, was presented.
The petition of j. H. Menke to con
tinue the present Miller Bros. switch
from the present terminus across the
private driveway of the P, c., G. & ST
l.. railroad, known as Neff street. was
referred to the board of public works
The petition for a cement curb and
gutter, and for cement walk on the
west side of South Second from tC
B street, was referred to the board
of works.
Counclmen were advised by Mayor
Zimmerman to inspect improvements
wanted in their respective wards and
to prepare themselves for the Septem
Der meeting of council at which the an
nual budget is prepared.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-08-20
TIME LIMIT
OF TRACTION
COMP ANY UP
Ninety Days Given Com
pany to Make Local I'M
provements Expired Aug.
7.-Work Not Finished.
CONTINUED from Page One.)

regular assessment it was willing to
assume the assessments of two wi
dows, who own adjacent property.
Council held that'it did not know what
the assessments of Mrs Brinker and
Mrs. Newcomer, the two widows in
volved, would be, and that the COM
pany should answer in monetary
terms.
To Repeal Pole Agreement.
A petition for the repeal of the Or
dinance which provides for the main
tenance of safeguards for the proven
ton of contact between different cleo
tricai systems, was referred to the or
dinance committee. The argument
was advanced that under the ordin-
ance the city is liable for deaths and
accidents resulting from short circuit
ing Of wives. The city attorney ad-
vised the repeal of the ordinance on
the ground that if it were revoked
each company would be responsible
for accidents that might happen.
Objections were raised by council
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-08-20
COMEDY IN A BOOKSTORE.
Queer Experience In an Attempt to
Blu, Rare Work.

Buy a Rare Work.
A correspondent of the Glasgow Her
aid contributes the following amusing
account Of an attempt to buy rare
book:
In his "Autocrat of the Breakfast
Table" Oliver Wendell Holmes men
tons q curious book called Thinks
to Myself as having been written and
published in England by a person of
quality about the beginning Of the last
century. Some time ago, among q
number Of secondhand books exposed
for sale outside a shop in Glasgow, l
noticed one in elegant but faded bind
ing II was Thinks l to Myself" in
two thin volumes. The first sentence
took my fancy: 81 was born of very
worthy honest and respectable parents
at least think sor'
went into the shop with the vol
umes and asked the old man of the in
| terror, What is the value of these?
! He turned them over carelessly and
said: These are of no use TO me;
| they're Just so much waste paper"
| This struck me as an original way of
! selling books. and gravely responded,
Very well-how much for them. then :?
Three ha'pence." he said. Per vol
ume?" / asked. For the two" he re-
| piled, whereupon 1 put the books into
my pocket and handed him the money
He looked at me wonderingly and in
| quired, where did you get them :?
| Outside, at the door" Why" he
gasped, 'I thought you were selling
| themr'
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-08-20
On Guard.

On Guard.
"Mr. Wombat, l have always heard
Of you as a good loser"
81 try to deserve that reputation.
young man, but you can't sell me any
bum stock of any sort. "-Louisville
Courier-Journal.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-08-20
Mstsmorphcsis-

Blobbs-I lost Iny knife in the park.
and when 1 went back to the bench
where 1 had been sitting what do you
suppose I found: Sloohs-Hour knife
Blobbs-No: a couple Of spoons--Phh-
adelphis Record
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-08-20
Cha Hlt Back,

He-women have no real Judgment in
serious matters. She-YeS. and men
count on that when they ask women TO
marry them.-BaItimore American.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-08-20

Disgrace is immortal and living even
chen one thinks IL dead.-Plautus.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-24
THE TAX GIRLS PAY.

TINE home of Lysander John Apple
ton is conducted on the pay-as-
you enter plan.
Every evening when be reaches the
door some one meets him with out
stretched hand-not to take his hand,
but to take what is in it.
Sometimes 1t is the butcher Some
times it is the baker Occasionally it
is the gas man. the modern substitute
for the candlestick maker
But more often it is to meet some
tax that other girls have put on Daysey
Mayme.
One of Daysey Mayme's friends an
nounces her engagement. All her girl
friends must come across with engage
ment gifts, kitchen showers and we'd
ding gifts
When babies come, every baby must
be remembered, and as the babies grow
up they accumulate, with teeth and hair
and wisdom and foolishness, lot OF
anniversaries
Occasionally some friends brother
dies, and her girl friends must donate
to floral anchor, though a rake would
be more Appropriate
But it is always something. for girls
pay tax on friendship that is greater
than the tax Father pays on his land.
1T seems to me grumbled Lysander
John the last time an assessment was
made, that you ought to bet some
thing back for all this you pay"
Daysey Mayme looked at him
thoughtfully. His protest had put an
idea in her head; an idea warm enough
to make her hair curl
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-24
TODAY INSTALLMENT.
A Message.

She spoke utterly outside her rights
Edith was quite aware of that; but she
said nothing, and, carrying her bag, went
| out into the gray afternoon that made
more gloomy still the gloomy Pimlicc
street She had not proceeded far west
ward before man, whom she had no.
ticed lettering on the opposite pavement
crossed the road and offered to carry her
bag
Il thank you kindly, I'm sure The
landlady considerably huffed by her
Betty's or on her fathers charity.
She thanked him civiIly, but declined
and the man. as though satisfied by the
sound of her voice, by his quick scrutiny
of her yelled face, touched his cap and
spoke again.
Mrs. Darlington" he said, and at her
quick and quite unmstakable start OF
recognition he added: 81 have MESA ge
for you from your husband, Mrs. Barring
ton. VIII you be kind enough to take t?''
He held a sealed envelope toward her
as he spoke, and. with fingers that trem-
bled so that she could scarcely hold the
and read it there.
az you care to come home-It Is stlll
your hcme," Darlington wrote; and then
other words, In a shaken, scarcely recog-
nIzed hand: Edith, for Heavens sake
come homel Our child Is dyInel-Tony."
Standing there In the street with the
roar of London's traffic in her ears, with
| the great heart of London throbbine
about her, Edith harrington looked into
the eyes of Death and read in'theiT cold
| depths a choice.
Her child or the man in prison-tc
whom lay her chief duty? To Jack Rim
ington, the man she had trapped In her
cowardice TO his death, for whom every
minute meant the swift outrunning Of the
brief sands of his life--or to the child tc
whom she had given birth?
Which path must she choose-which?
Even while she stood hesitating Edith
harrington knew that In reality there
Ras no question OF hesitation She mus
go to her child She must go to hei
child. even If 1t were not true-as +
couldn't be truel-that Phil. her littl'
Phil, was dying. There was an impulse
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-24

and could have bitten her tongue out
after the words were uttered. she
watched the servants face.
"Oh, ma'am"
Edith did not wait to hear the conclu-
sion of the sentence At that moment
the housekeeper crossed the hail, and she
hurried to her
Mrs Marlowe's eyes were red as with
much weeping, and her hands trembIed
visiby as they rested on the banister for
a moment
Mrs. Marowe me-teH me every
thing Edith said, in a low, rapid voice,
Phil -I-I-had a letter from my hus-
band-and the girl who opened the
door
Her face was as white as chalk. and
her voice had grown husky and thin, like
the voice of an old woman.
Mrs Marlowe took her hand and led
her into the library, which was empty.
If she knew nothing definite Of the rupture
between husband and wife. she suspected
something There had been many whis
perings and specuations among the serv-
ants during this months absence
1.-The little master, ma'am? Yes, he's
III. They-theylre to know the worst to-
day, He caught cold on the Journey"
"rhe journey? What journey? A cold?
Oh, thank heaven thought 1t was-I
thought oh. don't know what
thought" Ed.th gasped, fumblng with
the fastenings Of her coat, like a woman
fainting for lack Of air
The housekeeper went to her assistance
with trembling hands
To Be Continued in Next Issue.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-24
Daysey Mayme and Her Folks
BY Frances L. Gar5fde

She would get something back! She
would become engaged herself!
But to whom? She ran over list of
the young men she knew and dismissed
all of them. Not one had a social or
financial rating that would cell for
chests of silver and cut glass.
They we're all the kind for whose
bride-e elect her friends would select
such gifts as buck towels
She would be duchess,
True no dukes were lying around
loose with whom she had speaking ac-
quaintance and all the dukes she read
about in the Sunday papers were mort
gagged to some girl, or foreclosed
She would invent duke of her own!
Which explains how it happened the
next morning that Lysander John had
the shock of his life.
He had begun on his egg. after his
usual morning gamble whether the in
terror was like soup or asphalt paving.
II won" he chuckled to himself when
he cracked the shell and found macad-
am inside.
Then he picked UP the morning pa
per. A glazing headline on the 'front.'
page over the picture of fine looking
man and Daysey Mayme caught his
eye,
american Girl Won a Title. The
Engagement Announced of Miss Day
sey Mavme Appleton, Daughter of Kin
Commissioner General Lysander Johnl
Appleton, to the Duke Della Cham.
pleauX."
Lysander John gasped. He shook the,
paper at his daughter in speechless be-
wilderment He suffered He gared.
He tried to speak He couldn't.
Then he slid off his chair to the floor
and knew no more.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-24
Blind as a Kitten
By Beatrice Fal,7ax

attentions are not honorable. She has
been well brought up, and the warn
ings of her parents are ringing in her
ears when she meets him.
But he is older, and commands all
the arguments and Establishments need
ed to win the heart of child She is
fiattered by his attention She is
soothed by his praise. She is drugged
almost to the point of Inconsistencies
by the little triumph of conquest his
preference gives her.
Ones guardian angels seem to be Oft
en- lax in their attendance, and l am
sore afraid the guardian angels Of this
little girl are forgetting their charge at
time when their vigil should be most
unceasing.
If her mother knew the heart of the
little girl better she would not issue a
command, and then rest secure, believ-
ing her command could not be dis
obeyed She would KNOW that the
man who Will make love to a girl TWEEN
ty-six years his Junior after an ac-
quaintance of nine weeks will not let a
mothers aye or no have any weight
Not Honorable.
If he were honorable, it would be a
different story But the facts in the
case prove he is not.
She would not say You must not" to
her daughter, and then sit back and
fold her hands. She would SEE that
her orders are obeyed
She would know that the heart Of a
girl Is willful; that, beginning with the
age of fifteen, girls begin to dream,
and they mistake many men for the
| hero of their dreams before the real
hero appears.
She wouldn't expect a little blind
kitten to heed an order to stay away
from the fire. She would remove 1t
| fSom all proximity to the blaze. And
she would take as final and decisive
action in saving her daughter.
Mothers often moan after the TRACE
dy. Il did not dream she would disobey
me-"
If the mother of this misguided little
girl reads this, hope she will wake up.
Dreaming" of absolute obedience. and
realizing willful disregard of COM
mands, are often the tragic order of
things.
When a mother faces the realiza ton
of the latter, with all its sad results,
she is often more to blame than the
little blind-ktten girl left in her
charge.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-24

home of Lysander John Apple
ton is conducted on the pay-as-
YOU enter plan.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-24
Talk about energy!

A half cake of FelS-Naptha soap can
display more energy in getting rid of dirt
in half an hour than an able-bodied
woman can in half day.
But there's this difference: Much of
the woman's energy is wasted.
When she rubs clothes hard on
washboard she wears out the clothes in
trying to rub out the dirt.
Fels-Naptha concentrates its energy
on the -disSolves it into tiny particles
that are easily rinsed away without
harming the most delicate fabric.
And it does this in cool or lukewarm
water, without hot water or boiling, sum-
mer or winter.
Do you prefer to supply the dirt
removing energy yourself or to use that
stored up in cake of Fels-Naptha3
If you choose the easier and better
way, follow directions on the red and
green wrapper.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-24
Anty Drudge Discovers Why George
Has No Appetite.

Anty Drudge-"What? Gazing dinner in this steamy,
smelly ktchen9 l should think it would take your
appetite away"
Mrs S1owI have noticed that George doesn't eat much
washdays"
Anty Drudge-"How can hel Why don't you use
FelsNaptha7 Boiling water isn't necessary; and
you'll be through your wash plenty of time to have
dinner in the dining-room Or if you prefer the
kitchen, there will be no steam or bad smells
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-24

uAvE received the following letter,
and its perusal causes much re-
i gret that men walk the earth who
commit graver crimes than highway
,obbery. but who are beyond the
clutches Of the law:
u am fifteen years of age and
7 am in love with gentleman of
fortv-one. with whom I became ac-
ouainted about nine weeks ago. My
narants absolutely refuse to let him
cell on me- so lately he has been
Meeting me after school. Last week
be asked me to elope with him, as
NV parents would never consent to
ne being married He is a very
nice man and has no bad habits.
Ne saws he loves me dearly, but l
don't know what to do, as I am al
most afraid to tell him No And
vet hate to deceive my parents"
This little girl is passing through the
same stage as the kitten. Born with
rs ewes shut, nine days elapse before 1t
opens them.
Her nine days of life have not elapsed
and I am much afraid that unless some
kind providence intervenes she will
omen them on a world of pain and sor-
row and disgrace.
No man of forty lone loves girl OF
afteen in the right way If he encour-
ages her to oppose her parents. For
hidden her home, he shows every mark
Of villain in meeting her on the
streets.
He doesn't love her; he doesn't know
what love is. l do not believe he has
any intention of marrying her. If ne
has. 1t is through some hope of mate
rial gain.
She Doesn t Know.
With the girl as his wife, it would put
his talonlike hands on her fathers
purse. He has mo bad habits" she
says. Poor little traveller on a strange
path! She doesn't know the worst Of
habits may be hidden under the mos
beguiling Of manners.
With an innocence and ignorance thai
are appalling, she is standing on the
brink Of a precipice, and how her little
world will condemn her if she makes q
misstep in her blindness, and goes
over
am almost afraid to tell him No,
she says, and therein lies a tragedy
She knows down in her heart that his
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-24

such as she had never known before in
all her hayward life, urging her back to
the house she had been such a fool to
leave
The gray vista of the street came to
her THROUGH mist; her eyes were fixed
eagerly on the face of me man who had
given her the note who without asking
her permission, had already relieved her
of her bag, but she saw nothing of it.
Her voice trembled when she spoke
In this note Mr.. harrington speaks of
dizziness in the house, she began, fall
teringly, and the man answered quickly
saving her the agony of further question
ing:
yes; Master Philip is not Well" Then,
seeing the terror in her eyes, he added.
soothlngiy: But there is no cause for
immediate anxiety, | believe The seizure
took place this morning
Edith heart gave a great bound of re-
lief She caught at the hopeful phrase
ignoring the word seizure, with its ugly
significance where a child is concerned.
OF course there was not-Phil was as
strong as a lion and absolutely healthy.
Tony was exaggerating. as he always did
when the child was in question Exag
geratingl She repeated the word to her
self. and found comfort in it, What mat
tered, most was that his first thought had
been for her-for his wife and Pills
mother That was good sign blessed
sign. After all, perhaps, her fight had
borne good fruit-Tony had missed her
Shall l call cab?''
The mans voice recalled her thoughts;
her mind was still little clouded by
those drug mists She nodded and, as
though by prearrangement, taxi loiter-
ing along the center Of the street drew
up at the curb. moment later she was
in the cab, her bag at her feet, leaning
back against the cushions with a sense
Of ease to which she had been a stranger
for many days She was going home
home. Tony needed her-Tony and their
child
She ran up the steps of the house in
Princes Gate with the buoyancy Of ex-
pectancy. A maid, not the butler, opened
the door and looked at her with glad eyes.
"oh, ma'am," she said, quickly, you've
come In time. We dreaded that you
mil ht be too late"
Mrs. harrington started at her like a
woman turned to stone 1t was true,
then.
! You expected me?" she said, stupidity,
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-24

dress is of very fine white embroidered
muslin shirred at the belt, and gath
cred in at the throat under a white lace
bow. The belt is of black satin with a
huge buckle of pale yellow amber
These enormous buckles in silver,
gilt semi precious or artificial stones
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-24

are very much the vogue. In many of
the new models the short WASTED eff
feet is retained by the bolero jacket.
while the waist line is lower than it
has been in several years, and marked
with one of these buckles either in
front or at the back.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-24
Creates an Impression.

a,,ep ~ tbere is only window glass In
ia ovas
1,bo ear,,. fa1l viii 500 tho introdnc-
49, 80 lo+ &c marnisb fashtops /,
dress vbic, win On exceedingly we'll
,,.itl, +ba sinola o,.ao,oss There is For
irstonCa 5,,ich Ell lftt1e Jacket taken
trnr, 49,, of e,,,a,isb nm egbtar a
-, h,,o,. '. ,,,ot oefoir cnt off inst
a,.,.a 40 ,.,,,oh bas for ito only
t,..,,..,.,. --,, ~. If silver bnt4ons
r.,s r... :. -, go. Mated
III, 49,, aou.n col