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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-11-04

hand, and everything must be brought
to the brain by conscious effort
She told how she taught Miss Keller
the names of objects and recalled the
moment when her pupil first realized
that every object had a name and how,
after that, she clamored for new
names and as she expressed it, Helen
was transformed from a baffled little
animal to a radiant child"
She told how she was led in the
teaching by the child herself, there
never being any set lessons, but the
teacher always being at the child S
side to tell her by the hand and by
permitting her to feel the lips, all the
things she would know.
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WEATHER FORECAST

slightly colder to-
nisht. Wednesday fair and warm
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States tax the incomes Of their inhabi-
tants.
Pitt Starts the Trouirle.
Pitt caused such a tax TO be collect
ed in England to help meet the expenses
of the Napoleonic wars. Since 1872 the
tax has been permanent in Great Brit
ain. 1t is levied against incomes above
$50 and brings 500 0eo. 900 to the treasury
every year. Prussia has such a tax and
so have France, Austria, Italy. Holland,
Denmark, Spain, Norway. Sweden.
Greece, and Japan. My friend" Mr.. Hull
advises the sly-looking and substantial
appearing man, you had better con-
tinue to live in your own native land II
you know what is good for you"
Il should like to inquire says a man
whose face is burned by the sun.
whether a farmer is compelled to pay a
tax on his income II IL amounts to more
than 1900 in any one Year,"
The farmer must make a return, the
same as any one else" Mr.. Hull replies
He Is expected to put down the amount
of money he receives from his farm. both
for crops and live stock. II he sells s.. 90
worth Of hay. wheat. corn. oats, milk,
butter, eggs. calves, horses, and sheep.
or 5000 worth of anything raised or
grown on his land. over and above the
expense of production. he will have to
pay l per cent on 5000 to the national
government, which. as you can figure
out for yourself, Is so. In the meanwhile
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are noticed to swell up visibly) he
would pay a tax of per cent on s11.-
900, the sum of which would be ex-
actly $40"
Suppose the man were a physician
instead of a lawyer inquired a be-
whiskered person who smells of medi-
cine.
Professions, trades and occupations
are not recognized by the bill now
pending" Mr.. Hull replies. ANY man
whose income exceeds $4,000 is tax
able-he may be a cashier in q bank.
a clergyman (here a sour-looking per-
son laughs outright). a railroad ON
cial, or a bricklayer. The exempt in
come, as we term II, is $4,000. 1t APP
plies to all citizens. II an income goes
above the exemption. 1t must pay
tax to the national government"
What would happen" asks a sly-look-
ing but acknowledgements man in a
low voice, 'it the exempt income should
decide TO visit Europe for a year or so?"
The tax follows the soJourner,' Mr..
Hull says loudly. so long as an Amer
lean remains an American he must pay
tax on his income, provided his net
income is more than 1900 annually. If
he thinks he can escape an income tax
by renouncing his citizenship and leav-
ing his property behind he is mistaken,
unless he means to hide in an African
desert or on an unknown island of the
ocean. Fifty-two countries and separate
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BY JAMES b. MORROW.


Washington. June I-An ofthe questions
were really asked by the interviewer and
all the answers as written down
were actually made by the man to whom
they were addressed. II has seemed,
however, that interest in the article which
thu reader to pretend that the inquiries
came from him and other persons in a
suppositional audience.
Let a hall, filed with people, then, be
imagined. Those who prefer to do so
are at liberty TO picture themselves as
being under the trees of a grove, with
horses and buggies and automobiles
strung along the fences shutting in the
road. Thus no kind of weather, unless
a tornado should sweep in from the
southwest, can interfere with the meeting
which all have come to attend. II 1t
rains every body. it is understood. is in
the hall. If the day is warm and bright
every one, it is understood, who likes
to be out of doors is in the woods.
There is a platform containing a table,
pitcher of water. and two men sitting
in wooden chairs. One of the men, per-
haps the foremost oratorical character
in the neighborhood, pulls the cuffs of his
white shirt down to his knuckles. losses
back long lock of his hair f. ,m his
forehead, calls an eagle-like CLEAN into
his eyes from his Intervals and, taking
two steps forward, says: In the course
of mighty human events a government
was established on this continents gov
eminent of free men and tsmiling at the
prettiest girl in the hall or grove, as the
case happens to bel of free women"
The Speaker Is Introduced.
A description of the government fol-
lows. Naturally, government costs money
and money can only be obtained by
taxation. An explanation. somewhat
muddled. of the taxing processes Is be-
coming wearisome when the orator, get
ting down to brass lacks, as well as
out of deep water says: The latest pro-
posal. which l am officially assured is
bound to be carried through by the Con-
gress now convened in Washington, is
a tax on incomes. We have with US
today the author of that tax. Hon. Cor
dell Hull of Tennessee, member OF the
House of Representatives Mr.. Hull Is
not to make a speech. All that he has
agreed to do is TO answer such questions
as may be asked him by persons in the
audience. 1 take great pleasure IN max
ing Mr.. Hull known to some of his coun-
trymen.''
Mr.. Hull arises and bows his acknowl-
edgments. The foremost oratoricsl
character in the neighborhood neglected
to say that Mr.. Hull is forty-one years
old and a bachelor: that he has always
lived in Tennessee, and was born on
a farm just south of the boundary line
of Kentucky; that he was graduated IN
law from Cumberland University at the
age of twenty and ran for the Legisla- !
by anybody" so he |
confesses-and was nominated and elect |
ed: that he was a captain of volunteers ,
during the war with Spain; that he was
a circuit Judge in the Fifth District of
his State; that he came to Congress in
1903; that he is a member of the Com
mittee of Ways and Means, and that
he helped to write the Underwood rarin /
bill now being debated in the Senate.
The imaginary audience observes Inat
he is tall, wide-shouldered and lean;l
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Hull Native Of the State Which He Represents, Is
Lawyer, Student, Democrat, and Is Considered
Handsome Man. -

A. a.. s,z
o nsy 90 Sp''n ,' 'nT re-, sA i nm h,cS 80
collected in the North during the civil
war. but expired by Limitation In ls12,
amounted in all to s3l6.0oo,ooo The coun-
try Is immensely more wealthy now than
1t was at that time"
You haven't said anything about
bonds? So speaks man who Is known
to be a banker in a nearby town.
THE interest derived from State and
city bonds will not be taxed" Mr.. Hull
replies. 1.-The interest derived from the
bonds of railroads and industrial cor
porations will be taxed however, and
will be paid by the railroads and indus
trial corporations and withheld by them
from the persons to whom the interest is
due But IL the, total of a mans net
earnings and gains amount to no more
than 5000 a wear. he liz not required To
paw a tax on such interest as he NAV re-
ceiye on the kinds of bonds have
named. He makes an affidavit that his
net income is $1,000 or less and sends the
affidavit to the corporxtion that has is
sued the bonds. The tax which the COR
nora ZION has withhold &C. then naid IN
him.
"Wbv" inouires n suars-iavaJ ma,
"are the salaries NJ STATE ottic,a,s NO,
,no,,,daa a. -, -. ,.,,s,,io- ..h.-s,
n "A
so,Lsd aood ma har5n
no" STATE o"ciais Escape.
The Constitution of the United States.
SO the Supreme Court has decided" Mr..
Hull answers, prohibits the national
government from taxing the instrument
talities of a State. Men in the offices of
a State, We have assumed. are instrument
talities So are the bonds of a State its
counties, and its municipalities. We do
not want to stir IN a CONSTITUTIONAL CON-
troversy. Therefore, we have exempted
the salaries you refer TO and the interest
OF such bonds as have mentioned.
moreover, the salaries, as a rule, are
WIN life insurance n. -, i-,,,r.s
q very Young man A g;rI a. ~. s;da siSr1
giles and bIusbes ana ,bfn sbarn-.yed
woman saws under her breatb. s.Sha mt
him up 10 il"
NO tax viii be charged IN the pro-
ceeds of any policy paid at death to a
beneficiary" Mr.. Hull replies. widows.
no matter how large a sum they NAV re-
ceive. will escape taxation. But II they
are paid 100000. let US say. and put the
money out at per cent interest they
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Greatest Record Probably
Made by Ancients, AL
though. Many Modern
Spendthrifts Have Run
Them Close Second.

Thrift is a state wherein one is pros
possessions. and generally successful.
spendthrift, however, is one who sue
ceeds in spending and parting with what
has come to him, either by his own en-
deavors or through the interest thai
others have had in him. The art OF
economizing is unknown to the spend.
thrift, and the word frugality is not in
his lexicon. To another word he is a
stranger, also that is forethought. says
DR.. w. E. Evans. IN the Birmingham
Age-Herald. 1t never occurs to him that
a day of disaster and trouble may come
he had been provident.
l suppose the spendthrift will abide
among us as long as mems wants are
so excessively beyond their actual needs.
and as long as men. permit other peo-
pie to decide how they should live, and
as long as people suffer society to die
tate the style in which they should enter
tain and dress.
The provident man will think for him.
self in all these matters. He knows ex-
actly what he may spend and keep up a
speaking acquaintance with his bank &C
count If he cannot afford it, he will
not buy an automobile simply because
some of his neighbors have chosen that
manner of transit. He will not permit
other people to decide where he should
live. He will remain in the old neighbor-
hood where living is less expensive,
rather than move into a more stylish
part of the city, il he cannot afford it.
Many of his old friends have gone, and
he feels that the old neighborhood is
not what it once was but his friends
are not to set the standard Of his method
of living He, and not they, knows the
entries in his bank book. He had better
Range with humble Iiyers in content
Than TO be perked up in a clustering grief
And 4 golden sorrow-
section, all covered with mortgages, and
himself trying to meet an infinitude of
burdensome debts!
Some Kings Spendthrifts.
Yet there are men who spend all that
they possess and give no thought to the
horrible seouel-debt! They have no idea
of the value of money, but let 1t slip
away from them as little children let dry
sand flow through their separated fingers.
Kings and rulers have sometimes set
the bad example of most extravag antly
spending money, which noblemen and
others inLhigh social rank have not been
slow to follow, forgetting the old prin- !
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GOETHE AND THE CHESTNUTS.

From the Journal des DehatA
Nothing Is more annoying in autumn
than to have near ones windows .
chestnut tree. the natural target for the
missiles OF youth. Goethe. whose respect
for the rights of property was only
equaled by his love OF law and order.
suffered considerably from this annoy
ance. The Munich News has Just light
ed upon a complaint made by the poet
to the corporation of weimar during his
stay in that city. He writes:
AT the edge of the fields is a row Of
Spanish chestnut trees and as soon as
the chestnuts begin to ripen the children
lombard the trees with stones without
any concern for the passers-by. Nor do
they confine their attentions to the trees
in the road. They throw -cabbages and
sticks at our fruit trees. so that the
owners move about their own gardens In
terror OF their lives and begin to despair
of ever garnering their crop of fruit.
Worse still, this outrageous conduct goes
on in the depths of winter. when there
is not single fruit on the branches nor
even birds nest TO excite the young
rascals' cupidity. Policeman Lenger, to
whom I have shown some Of the stones
that fell on my lawn. will bear me out"
Goethe never acted precipitately In
this case be refrained from sending In
his complaint Immediately, and to add
weight to his representations kept the
letter back till new outrages had been
committed. when he sent it, with this
postscript added:
Il may add that this is a matter OF
general interest. and I can prove It. As
was leaving my garden yesterday by
the field gate to demonstrate with some
young rufiians several peas
ants who were on their way home from
working in their cabbage fields Joined
their voices to mine and told me that
Il was impossible to pass along this road.
which Is the only way to the fields, with
put mourning real danger"
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Plant Immigrant. Help Feed Us.

From Leslie's
After experiments covering nineteen
years the Smyrna hg was introduced
in California. where II now Is being
successfully grown. More tnan one
half of the rice now grown in Louisi-
ana and Texas is the Kiushu rice of
Japan. imported here in 1899. The
Corsican citron, a superb variety, has
also been naturalized In California;:
udo, japanese salad plant of great
value. Is now being grown here; expert
ments are making by the bureau of plant
industry with the date palm in arid reg
ions of the West: the carob tree. or ST.
Johns bread, from the Mediterranean
region, Is nourishing near Los Angeles:
Egyptian cotton. introduced in the Colo
RADIO River Valley, may make that ter
ritory the American Egypt; the develop
nent of alfalfa in the West is well known.
the malta horseradish from Bohemia n
being grown in New Jersey: the mango
steen, a delicious tropical fruit, Is now
Iii Porto Rico. as well as In the Panama
canal zone through the efforts of the
bureau.
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- New Classification.

A prosperous looking young man
stopped at the mems furnishing counter
in one of the local department stores re-
Gentry and asked To look at some shirts.
relates the Youngstown Telegram.
Have you any choice?" asked the
salesman.
Don't think have" reoied the pros
pective customer
Would you like to look at something
a trifie fancy or"
Raising his right hand in slight mo-
ton of dissent and giving the salesman
q knowing wink. the young man replied:
stuff."
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FAMOUS 'SPENDERS' OF HISTORY

matters. His brother once found the
window frames suited with paper to ST.
lence their rafting. Upon looking at the
paper his brother found II to be a mass
of bank notes, which Sheridan had used
on a stormy night. and had never missed.
He appeared on one occasion having on
pair Of new boots Said he: Now.
guess how 1 came by them" A number
of guesses were given. NO" said he,
you will never guess. I bought them
and paid for them" On being asked what
kind of wine he liked best, he said:
''Other neople's"
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Iuquisitlve.

From the Argonaut
The curate of large and fashionab,e
church was endeavoriLg to teach the sig
hficance of white to Sunday school
class.
why" said he. does a bride invari-
ably desire to be clothed in white at her
marriageT" As ~ one answered. he ex-
planned. White said he. stands for
JOY, and the wedding day Is the most
joyous occasion OF 4 vomSn's life
A small boy querie1: Why do the man
al wear blackT,
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Wireless. Lighthouse stations.

from the Pathdndef.
We have the horseless carriage. wire
less telegraph, ismokeless powder. &C.,
and now We are having the lightless
lighthouse. Should the wireless light
house stations installed at Brest. France.
which automatically send out warning
messages to ships every few seconds
without the help of man. prove success,
as they are reported to be. II will mean
that the old system of lights. bells, horns,
and other danger warnings at sea will be
rendered unnecessary. The lighthouse in
each case would act as an AERIAL mast
By a simple clockwork arrangement,
which only needs attention once week
or so, distinctive messages are sent out
by each station every few seconds. One
set of signals are sent out by each sta
ton, every few seconds. One set of sig
nails are sent out every ten seconds and
another set every thirty seconds. So that
ships may positively identify the light
house that Is talking"
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Nettle Porridge.


From the London Chronicle.
Mr.. Pepys was raeaIed with nettie por-
ridge at the house of a friend and found
II very good" The same delicacy is re-
ferred to by Evelyn. The nettle, in fact
which the ignorant dismiss as an un-
pleasant wead. is capable of doing all
sorts Of things for man. A Scot was
able to boast :iat he had eaten netties,
slept in nettle sheets, and dined of a
nottle tablecloth. And u is at this time
of the year that We should take orr drse
of nettles. Sp-rny nettle tops boiled in
pottage, according to old authority. CON
sumo the phiegnatic srpernuities in the
body of many that the coldness nd mois-
ture Of the winter leave behind"
The nettle- is not the only vegetable
delicacy enjoy Cd by country folk which
never finds its way to the townsman's
'able.- In Kent. at this season. the early
shoots of the wild hop are cooked and
eaten as something superior To aspara-
gus. The plant needs searching for amid
the hedges, pu. that. no doubt, adds to
its piquancy. Hop hunters. however,
have always to remember that the TAX
ing of the cultivated plant is felony.
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| lines of--purple silk and hooks Of gold.
In his journeys through his dominions
| 500 asses were taken along to supply
milk for the bath of himself and his
/ wife.
In those ancient times and long before
| Nero there had a passion for display in
all circles. Plutarch, l remember, tells
Of some pirates whose ostentation was
remarkable. Their ships had masts COW
cred with gold, the sails were woven OF
! purple, and the oars were incased in sill
yer. All OF which reminds US OF the
ship in which Cleopatra sailed
The barge she sat in like 4 FURNISHED throne.
Burned the water; the poop beaten gold;
Purple the sails. and prrfumed. that
The winds were lovesick with them: the oars were
silver:
Which to the tune of flutes, kept stroke.
But long since the period of time OF
which, 1 have thus far written have
there been famous spendthrifts.
Poet Dies in Debt.
Oliver Goldsmith might with all pro-
priety be called the hero of impecuni-
osity. He was rich in intellect and made
the world richer by his Animated Ma
the poor fellow was ever in debt. 1t
has been said Of him that he was
dunned for his milk. arrested for rent,
and threatened by lawyers. but he never
learned the virtue of economy"
He travelled through Europe on foot
and begged his way from city to city
The great success that came when he
was older made no difference in his
habits of spending his money reckIessIy.
He would borrow money to bestow upon
objects of charity and would always find
1t inconvenient to repay the little
years he earned $4,000, and within a few
years he had spent 1t all and was y,Voo
in debt
In addition to this he had received
money from publishers in advance upon
books which he had promised to write,
but which were never written. When ne
died he was in debt beyond all hope, and
left behind him only a few worthless
trifles. at which his creditors turned I'D
their estimable noses.
Impecupioas Playwright.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, "oId Sher-
ry," was very prince of spendthrifts.
Large sums of money came to him, but
he was always in debt and always very
poor. In six months he spent about
$4,000 for practically nothing. Then fol-
lowed period of deep Indebtedness.
Poverty drove him to literature; then
came an offer of a fne-paying position |
under the government-but II was all the 1
same to this prince of spendthrifts.
Money passed away like water through
sieve. Yet he was the lightest-hearted |
man in the realm of England. He never
worried-he let other people do that. Only
a light heart such as Sheridans could |
have given the world The School for
Scandal" the best comedy since the davs
Of Shakespeare. Notwithstanding his
natural goodness, one day his wife was
found in great distress. and she said
she had just found out that her husband
was a villain. Upon being asked what
she meant. she said that all the love let
ters he had sent to her ware copies Of
etters he had sent to other women"
There are many anecdotes told as illus
rating Sheridsn's carelessness In money
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! ciple Of noblesse oblige. Knight, in his
| history of England. says that Henry
VIII set an example of the most ex-
| travagant splendor, which ruined many
| OF the mobiles in trying 70 initiate. In
Hoods Life of Cromwell We read that,
| while the people were starving under
| the weight of oppression and forced
| loans, the King was spending fortunes
right and left either for himself or for
| his immediate friends.
We read Of over $4,000 being paid to
William Rogers. a goldsmith; OF $50
paid to Philip Jacobson. a jeweler, for
ring; of $4,000 paid to Henry Garway
for one diamond: of $4,000 paid to Sir
Manrill Abbott for a diamond set in
collar of gold. And the people were al
ready bending low under the yoke of
financial oppression. Is 1t any wonder
that they finally chopped the Kings head
!. from his shoulders? Even a worm may
turn at last
ssO,0OO.o0o for Gown.
Gibbon, in his immortal work, says
spendthrifts of Rome TO send away an
nually about 100000 for foreign orna-
ments And this sum went to hostile
nations, who used it in Strengthening
their arms against the Romans. Pliny
says that he himself saw Lolita Paulins
that was covered with pearls and en-
eralds which had cost 100000 sesterces.
1 have just consulted the Century die
tionary to ascertain the value of these
sesterces.
/ find that a single sestertius was about
equal to twenty-five golden ducati: a gold
ducat was equal to about SOS. Now,
multiply for yourself. my dear madam,
and you will learn the cost of this spend
thrift's dress-O, 1 beg pardon, 1t was
not a dress, bless your soul. it cost
enough to be called gown"
Spending money, after the empire sue
ceeded the old republic in Rome, was q
mania of almost universal infection. CT
cero looked upon 1t all and said: The
world has not learned the wealth of fru-
gality." And, though you would not ex-
pect such an observation from him. even
Ovid said: "Crede mihi bene qui latuit,
bene vixit, ct intra Fortunam debet quis-
que manere suam."
Boats Made of Gold.
Apicius spent 100000 and finding that
he had only about $4,000 left. he hanged |
himself in order to escape the poverty |
that stared him in the face The ~preci- |
GUS spendthrift Elagabalus spent a FOR
tune at a dinner. Those who attended
sat down to feast of partridge eggs,
pheasant brains, and thrush's tongues.
1t was his custom to have his peas
sprinkled with grains of gold. pearls
scattered in his rice, and costliest amber
was used to make his beans more palat-
able. At the funeral feast of his daugh-
ter Caesar provided 1000 tables for his
guests, and each table accommodated
three Of his friends. At this feast a
fortune was spent
Tiberius would guIp down crushed
precious stones in his wine and pile upl
the plates of his guests with gold and
jewels, which were borne away. He
built boats of cedar and covered them
with gold.
Nero's crown was said to be worth
I2,soo.ooo When he went fishing he used /,