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The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1914-02-25

If | we're you, Bristow." he said
scathingly, Il reckon Id quit galivant-
ing around to bridge-fghts with per-
fumery en- my handkerchief every
evening. It's the devil of an example
to the young"
The rocking-chairs behind the
screening vines became motionless,
and the ladies exchanged surreptitious
smiles. If the two gentlemen were
aware of each others sterling quail
ties. their mutual appreciation was in
inverse ratio to its expression, and,
as the Elucinian mysteries, cloaked
before the world. In public the doctor
was wont to remark that the major
talked like Caesar, looked like a
piano-tuner and was the only man he
had ever seen who could strut sit
ting down. Never were his gibes so
barbed as when launched against the
majors white-waistcoated and patri-
clan calm. and conversely. never did
the majors bland suav.ty so nearly
approach an undignified irritation as
when receiving the enyenomed darts
of that accomplished cynic,
The major settled his black tie. "A
little wholesome exercise wouldn't be
bad thing for you. Doctor" he said
succinctly. You're looking shade
pasty today"
Exercised" snapped the other
iciously. as he pounded down the
steps "Ha. ha. suppose YOU exer-
cise-lazying out to the Dandridges
once a week for julep. ana the rest
Of the time wearing out good cane-bot-
toms and palm-leaf fans and cussing
at the heat You'll go OFF with apo
plexy one of these days"
Il shall If they're scared enough to
call you" the major shot after him.
nettled. But the doctor did not pause.
He went on down the street without
turning his head.
The major lifted his hat calamity
to the ladies'. whose presence he had
just observed
DO sit down. Major" said Mrs. Gif
ford. There's a question I'm just
dying to ask you. We've had such an
interesting conversation. You've
heard the news. Of course that young
Mr.. Valiant is coming to Damory
Court?''
The major sat down heavily. In the
bright light his face seemed suddenly
pale and old.
Mo-" the lady's tone was arch
Have all the rest of us really got
ahead OF you for once? Yes, it's true.
There's some one there getting 1t to
rights Now here's the question.
There was a woman. Of course. at the
bottom of the Valiant duel. I'd never
dream of asking you who she was.
But which was 1t she loved. Valiant
or Sassoon?"
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1914-02-25
CHAPTER XII.
The Echo.

When the major entered his room,
Jereboam. his ancient body-servant,
was dawdling about putting things to
rights, his scanned visage under his
white wool suggesting charred
stump beneath crisp powdering OF
snow. "Jedge Chalmahs done telly-
foam ter ak yo' ovah ter Glahden Hall
ter suppah ter-night, suh," he said.
Tell him not tonight, jerry" said
the other YEARLY Some other time"
The old darby ruminated as he
Nodded down to the Doctors tele-
phone. "whut de mattah now? He
got dat ar way-off-yondah look ergen."
He shook his head forebodingly.
The major had, indeed. far-away
look as he sat there. a heavy lonely
figure, that bright morning. 1t had
slipped to his face with the news of
the arrival at Damory Court. He told
himself that he felt queer.
Suddenly he seemed to hear elfn
voices close to his ear:
Which was it she loved? Valiant
or Sassoon?"
It was so distinct that he started.
yexed and disturbed. Really. 1t was
absurd He would be seeing things
next, "Southall may be right about
that exercise" he muttered; "fll walk
more" He began the projected re-
form without delay, striding up and
down the room. But the little voices
presently sounded again. shouting like
gnomes inside hill:
(which was it? Valiant or Sas-
soon?"
IT wish to God I knew!" said the
major roughly, standing still. 1t 81
fenced them. but the sound Of his own
voice as though it had been a pre-
concerted signal, drew together a hun
dred inchoate images of other days,
There was the well-ordered garden of
Damorv Court-it rose up, gloomy
with night shadows, across his great
cIothes.press against the wall-with
himself sitting on rustic-bench
smoking and behind him the candle
lighted library window with Beauty
Valiant pacing up and down, waiting
for daylight There was a sun
lighted stretch between two hemlocks,
with Southall and he measuring the
eround-the grass all dewy sparkles
and an early robin lettering on a
thorn-bush. Eight = nine = ten - he
caught himself counting the PAGES.
He wiped his forehead. Between
the hemlocks now were two figures
facing each other, one twitch1ng un.
certainly, the other palely rigid; and
at one side, held screen-wise, a raised
umbrella. In some ghostly way he
could see right through the latter
see the doctors hand gripping the
handle, his own, outstretched beyond
its edge, holding handkerchief ready
to nuttsr down. A silly subtsrfugs
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1914-02-25
STATE MILLERs WIN DECISION
Bleached Flour Made From Colo
RADIO Wheat Held Not Injur-
tOus by Court

colorado farmers and millers
won a big victory yesterday when
the United States Supreme court
neld that flour made from colo
RADIO wheat and bleached white Wy
an electrical process was not III
furious to health.
In giving this decision the count
neld that the government had fail
cd TO prove the bleaching process
made the flour unit for domestic
use.
Had the court found that the
pleached wheat was injurious to
nealth, Colorado wheat would have
deprecated SO per cent, accord
ing TO Wilbur h. Cannon. former
United states pure food commits
sIoners oil Colorado.
The decision yesterday opens the
way Tor colorado and the other
states in which Is grown soft wheat
which produces the yellow hour
10 export to all states in the union
and 10 foreign trade as well. These
states were formerly prohibited
rom engaging III the shipment OF
Dleached flour in interstate com
merce by ex-Secretary Of the In
terror James Wilson.
When the order was ISSUED II al
so prevented the sale ana USE oI
DIeached flour in the states IN
which it was grown. but many OF
the pure food commissioners retus-
ed to obey the mandate of their
superiors in Washington. In Colo
RADIO Pure Food Commissioner Can
non allowed the flour to be sold.
The milling interests OF the
states in which the hard wheat Is
grown brought action against the
Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas and
Missouri millers to prevent the
sale OF the bleached flour. They
advanced the claim that the fiour
DIeached by the electrical process
q absorbed a certain percentage OF
nit rous acid gas, and for that rea-
son was injurious to health.
Those familiar with the case say
it is but one Of the many Jobs
perpetrated under the pure food
and drug act. The United States
supreme court. in making its decis-
ION, declared that the government
mad failed to prove that bleached
Hour contained nitrous acid gas.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1914-02-25
Disrespect u Courts

The courts themselves are TO
considerable extent responsible for
a large portion of the dissatisfiLe-
ton that exists among the people
towards them. This is strikingly il
Illustrated this week in the granting
of new trial to Becker, the
condemned police captain in New
York City, by tue state supreme
court. The numerous CONVICTIONS
there had struck terror into the
souls OF the corrupt gang which
has been in charge and they were
tumbling over each other to be the
first to confess, but the granting
of a new trial by the higher court
to Becker on technicalities has re-
vived their hopes and will give
them a feeling of safety that they
have not felt before. When 1t is
considered that these same judges
Just recently sat on the court that
convicted Gov. Sulzer at Murphy's
dictation there is little wonder If
people generally feel that 1t was
political pull saved Becker from
his Just punishment for his many
crimes.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1914-02-25

those umbrellas, but there must be no
actual witnesses to the final act Of Q
"gentlemen's meeting! A silly code
the whole of it, now happily out
grown, The scene blurred into q SIN
gle figure budding down-huddling
down
Which did she lover The major
shook his head helplessly. It was.
after all, only the echo, become all
at once audible on a shallow woman's
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1914-02-25
Copyright, 1912, by Bobbs-Merrin %.
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with Your Permission ri Take One
Of Them In and See."

with Your Permission I'll rake one
Of Them In and See."
see any one else there. For after all.
the valiants were gentlemen"
Mrs. Clifford smiled. Would you
have called Devil-John Valiant q gen.
tleman? Why. he earned the name
by the dreadful things he did. My
grandfather used to say that when his
wife lay sick-he hated her, you know
he would gallop his horse with all
his hounds full-cry after him under
her windows. Then that CHASTITY story
of the slave he pressed to death In the
hogshead Of tobacco"
Il know" acquiesced Mrs. Mason.
He was q cruel man and wicked. too
Yet Of course he was a gentleman. In
the South the test of q gentleman has
never been what he does. but who he
II. But his grandson. Beauty Valiant,
who lived At Damory Court thirty
years ago. wasn't his type at all. He
was only twenty-five when the duel
occurred"
He must have been brilliant" said
the visitor, ito have founded that
great corporation. It's a pity the son
didn't take after him. Have you seen
the papers lately? 1t seems that
though he was to blame for the wreck
ing Of the concern they can't do any
thing to him. Some technicality In
the law. I suppose. But II a man is
only rich enough they can't convict
him Of anything. Why he should sud.
denly make up his mind to come down
here can't see. With that old az
fair Of his fathers behind him,
should think he'd prefer Patagonia"
Il take it, then. madam" Doctor
Southall's forbidding voice rose from
the doorway, that you are familiar
with the circumstances Of that old af-
fair, as you term it?"
The lady brldled. Her passages at
arms with the doctor did not invaria-
bly, tend to sweeten her disposition.
I'm sure l only know what people
say" she said.
People?'" snorted the doctor iras-
chilly Just another name for a COM
munity that's a perfect sink of mean
ness and malice. If one believed all
he heard here he'd quit speaking to
his own grandmother"
You will admit. l suppose" said
Mrs. Clifford with some spirit, that
the name Valiant isn't what 1t USED
to be in this neishborhood?"
II will, madam" responded the doo-
tor. when Valiant left this place "a
mark of good taste, I've always consid-
cred it, he left 1t the worse. II posi-
BILE. for his departure. Your remark
however, would seem to imply de-
merit on his part. Was he the only
man who ever happened to be at the
lucky end of dueling-ground?"
Then 1t isn't true that Valiant was
q dead shot and Sassoon intoxicated?
Madam" said the doctor. Il have
NO wish to discuss the details OF that
unhappy incident with you or anybody
else. l was one of those present. but
the circumstances you mention have
never been descanted upon by me-"
II see ty the papers," said Mrs. Gif-
ford, with an air Of resignedly chang
ing the subject, they've been investi
rating the failure Of the Valiant Cor
poration. The son seems to be get
ting the sharp end Of the stick. Per-
haps he's coming down here because
they've made 1t SO hot for him IN
~ York. Well I'm afraid he'll ma
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1914-02-25

List your property for sale or
exchange with =. J. N'Carty.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1914-02-25

For sale or trade-House and lot
In West Side Addition in Lamar. C.
F. Hoag. Wiley, Colo.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1914-02-25

City property for sale or ex'
change. =. J. A'Carty.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-09-01
.BAv|S WILL OPPOSE
INSPECTOR MEASURE
Believes Member of Board
Could Fill Position With
out More Expense.

Discrepancies in the ordinance pre-
sented last night at council by the
committee on sewers, streets and al
legs for the restoration of streets aft
er excavation and for the creation of
the office of street inspector at sal
airy of SIS a month may lead to oppo-
sition on the part of President Bavis
of the Board of works.
Mr. Bavis says that the salary OF
the street inspector would add unnec-
essary expense to the city when any
of the three members of the board of
works can do the inspecting. Even
though an inspector were chosen, the
board members would be required to
watch his work and instruct him, Mr..
Bavis believes.
The ordinance provides that sewer,
water and gas taps shall be made to
curb lines and the cost charged to the
property owners by the city. This is
in direct conflict with the ruling OF
| the public utilities commission which
ordered that the corporations making
the connections pay the cost as far as
the curb lines, Mr.. Bavis said.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-09-01
CITIZENS TO MASS
At SITE OF DUMP
West Side Residents Plan
Bon Fires and Concert to
Boost Park.

To investigate the campaign for a
park to replace the west side dump,
West Richmond citizens, headed by
T. C. Hubbard, are making plans for
big public gathering at the dump site
Friday night.
A band has been secured to head q
parade which precedes the park dem
onstration. The band will leave Main
and Eighth streets at O'Clock, fol-
lowed by as many automobiles as the
citizens can obtain.
At the dump there will be bonfires
and other demonstrations. Speakers
will ask that new life be instilled into
the campaign for Riverside park. Dr..
David W. Dennis will be the leading
speaker of the evening. A number Of
West Sid citizens have been asked
to make short addresses.
The Commercial club has been in
vited to attend the mass meeting. City
officials who showed themselves in
favor Of the park will be asked to
cooperate in the effort to put new
life in the park campaign.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-09-01
BOARD To PREVENT
FIRE INVITED HERE

kilograms have been sent to Off
GERS of the Indiana State Fire Pre-
vention association which meets today
and tomorrow at Fort Wayne, asking
that the association hold it's October
meeting in Richmond. The Commercial
club desires an inspection of the city
by the authorities.
The club plans to have the associa-
ton meeting here October 10. If the
invitation is accepted, the club will
make arrangements for an automobile
tour of the city to show the fire pro-
lection, fire fighting facilities and the
improbability of big fires in the city.
On the same night the club would
hold big conference in which the
association members would be asked
to go over the data which they Sc
cured in their day inspection of the
city. This, it is believed, would be of
value in the campaign for lawer in
Surance rates.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-09-01
new WATER RATES
IN OPERATION UNTIL
ACTION ON APPEAL
Dill and Works Board Agree
to Use Schedule Until
Courts Pass on Rehearing
Bill.

Although the suit filed in circuit
court by the water works company
against the public utilities commission
of Indiana could be regarded as multi
flying, the new schedule of rates which
the commission fixed recently, H. A.
Dill superintendent OF the water
works company agreed with the board
of works yesterday, that the revised
schedule of lower rates will be effect
i've commencing today.
The board of works members and
the superintendent of the water works
company held conference on the sit
uaticn 1t was agreed that the appeal
of the water works company in circuit
court is sufficient to nullify the rate
schedule fixed by the commission and
ordered effective. September l.
Case May Drag.
Whether there will be decision in
this case soon or whether it will drag
through higher courts or even com.
plete rehearing Of the case by the
commission, is a matter of specula
ton. If the water works company
loses the case to have the rates placed
back on their old basis where they
have been for twenty years, the new
rates which are effective today will
continue.
Should the decision be in favor oil
the water works company and a new
hearing be granted, the old rates viii
again be made effective. Until tina,
time. the actions of the water works
company in charging for water will be
entirely subject to the court, Mr.. Dill
said
The water works company als(
agreed at the conference to secure {
meter to measure the water which i.
used in the street flusher. The capac
ity of the flusher tank is $50 gallons
This is multiplied by the number O
tanks used each month and the tota
number of gallons is used as basis
to find the number of cubic feet 0
water used. In seven months of oper
alton. the flusher used 2,740,00O gal
Ions of water.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-09-01
CRUMP'S SHIP SAFE
At ARGENTINE PORT
State Department Locates
! Vessel But Hears Nothing
of Greensboro Man.

The Sierra Nevada, the steamship
on which Clifford Crump of Green's.
fork was reported as having sailed
from Buenos Aires on July oath, is
now in the port at Pernambuco, Ar
gentine, according to a telegram re-
ceived today from the state depart,
ment to which DR.. G. F. Crump, father
of the young man, appealed for infor'
nation. 1t is presumed by the family
that Crump is safe in Argentine, al
though no word has been heard from
him directly since he was reported to
have sailed.
The steamship is owned by the
North German Lloyd steamship com
pany and when it left Buenos Aires it
was bound for port in France. 1t is
believed that when war was declared
it turned back and entered the port In
Argentine.
Mr. Crump is connected with the
national university of LaPlata, in Ar
gentine. He is in the astronomical
department. He holds the govern
ment position as astronomer. He is a
graduate of Earlham college.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-09-01
TO SET new MARK
IN STREET REPAIRS

Next year will be the biggest street
repair the city of Richmond has had.
President Bavis of the board Of
works announced today that this is
the intention of the administration. In
the budget $4,000 was appropriated to
buy crushed stone as against $4,000
last year. Money was also provided
for the purchase of new street roller.
1--WE were so delayed this year in
securing stone that we will protect
ourselves against a repetition" Mr..
Bavis said. "Since our work has been
delayed, we expect to save over for
next spring several carloads of
crushed stone. Work was not started
this year until June because of the de-
lay in shipments. Next year work
will start at the first opportunity and
continue all year. There will be
about 10 per cent more crushed stone
available next year than we will have
used by the close of this year"
To add to the rapidity of the work
and the capacity of the department,
the new scarifier will be used. This
scarifies 1000 square yards a day and
equals the work of twenty-five men
with picks and shovels for one week.
The cost of operating is small.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-09-01
RELIGIOUS CREEDS
| PLAY PART IN SUIT
TO EMO MARRIAGE

The difference in the religious be
liefs of husband and wife have played
an important part in the trouble that
has arise between Lucy B. OConnell
of Dublin, and her husband Albert NJ
O'Connel of this city, according &c
the testimony presented in the divorce
case tried before Judge Fox today. AL
the evidence in the case was presented
this morning The case will be argued
by the attorneys Monday morning.
The case is one of the most com.
plicated with which Judge Fox has
hau to deal The charge preferred by
Mrs O'Connell against her husband is
failure to provide. He has filed a
cross complaint alleging cruel and in
human treatment. Action is also
pending in the Marion circuit court,
at Indianapolis in which Albert O'Con-
nell, asks for six months separation
from his wife. which is termed under
a section of the divorce statute as a
Limited divorce" This case is one
OF the most peculiar in the state. since
action under this statute is very rare
ly brought A limited divorce" does
not affect the property rights Of man
and wife as does a permanent divorce.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-09-01
BRING MISS ROBBIE
HERE FOR BURIAL

The body of Bertha Grace Robe
daughter of Colonel and Mrs w. J.
robie, who died Monday at the ROBBIE
summer home in Petoskey, arrived
here today and was taken to the home
lit North Thirteenth street, where
friends may call any time. The news
Of her death comes as a shock to her
host of friends. She has been one OF
tue most prominent club women in
this city and was also interested in all
civic affairs. For some time she was
regent of the Richmond chapter of
tAe Daughters of the American Revo-
luton and was instrumental in &C
complishing many things along civic
line attempted by the D. A. RS.
A beautiful book of poems written
by Miss ROBBIE has been published and
is considered by many to be of unusual
merit.
The funeral will be held Thursday
afternoon at o'clock fom the home.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-09-01
DUMP FIRE COSTLY
Firemen Use Reservoir of
Water in Fight.

Fire Chief Miller has estimated that
since the fight against the west side
dump fire started in June, reservoir
of water has been thrown on the dump.
This is three million gallons, or more
than one million gallons of water a
month. In fighting the fire, six or
seven firemen have been more or less
seriously injured. The cost Of the
fight against the underground flames
has not been estimated. No extra ex-
pense was attached to the water used.
1t is believed by the fire chief that
enough water has been retained in
the dump to seep through, it and cool
the heated undersurface. Steam can
be seen arising from several places
in the ground, ~t
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-09-01
FILES SECOND SUIT
AGAINST CAR LINES

The second damage suit against the
Terre Haute, Indianapolis and East
ern Traction company within the last
two days was filed this morning by
Alkaline Mergler, asking $4,000 for per-
sonal injuries received January ., 1914.
According to the complaint, the
plaintiff was thrown to the ground at
West Eighth street and the National
road when a street car started before
she had safely alighted from the car
AS result she suffered a dislocated
neck, wrenched spine, bruised
right hip, sprained ankle, fractur'
ed right ankle, bruised shoulder and
a weakened nervous condition, as al
legged in the complaint.
complaint asking for $4,000 for
personal injuries received in SINH
lar accident on the same car line, was
hled yesterday by Elizabeth Ashcraft
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-09-01
GROCERS CONSIDER
OPERATING BAKERY

The formation of cooperative
bakery association in which grocers
and other wholesale purchasers of
bakery products have been asked to
participate. is being undertaken in
Richmond.
A number of prominent grocers met
yesterday in the Commercial club
rooms. An indianapolis promoter of
cooperative bakeries explained the
plan to the grocers. They decided it
worthy Of further investigation and
an expression from all grocers Of the
city.
A meeting OF retail grocers will be
called in the next ten days, one Of the
promoters Of the scheme stated today.
Those who have heard and understand
the plan will be able then to explain
1t intelligently to other grocers of the
city.
The formation Of a stock company
of grocers to buy or build and operate
bakery from which all members buy,
Is the plan. There is little profit in
bakery goods under present con-
ditions, grocers say. BY forming CO.
operative bakery and purchasing their
AVA product they share IN two profits.