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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-12-16
RipDlino RHYMES
BY Walt Mason
JUST AS GOOD

wished to buy Bill Shakepeare's
plays, and to the book bazaar Jared: .
I'd heard some people highly praise
the stuff this Shakespeare had pre-
pared. New authors, every day or
two, spring up in these exciting times,
and it is all that I can do to keep
up with their prose and rhymes. /
strive so hard to keep in touch with
all that's good and up-to-date, and oft
| find I've got in dutch, when it IS
time to pay the freight. l asked for
Shakespeare's latest book, and said
the clerk, who by me stood, We're
all sold out today. gadzook, but here
is something just as good Per
haps," | said, "the books you show
make Shakespeare's cheeks with envy
burn, but from your tinhorn store
go, and nevermore shall I return For
long and weary years I've stood the
gall of statesmen who assert that they
have something just as good when ]
would buy hat or shirt. l ask for
pills of cottonwood, / ask for spark
plugs for my Tyre, and they have
something just as good, but not the
things that | desire So have framed
solemn vow to boycott merchants
of that kind; then, with my wreath
upon my brow, / left the book bazaar
behind.
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SAFE FAT REDUCTION


Reduce, reduce, reduce, is the slogan
of all fat people. Get thin, be slim, is
the. cry of fashion and society. And the
oyerfat wiring their hands in mortified
.tion and helplessness; revolving at
.nauseating drugs. afraid of violent ex-
ercise. dreading the unwelcome and I'M
satisfying diet, until they hit upon the
harmless Marmola Prescription and
learn through it that they may safely
reduce steadily and easily without one
change in their mode of life, but harm
IIessly, secretly. and quickly reaching
their ideal of figure, with a smoother
t6ev have ever known. And now comes
Marmola Prescription Tablets from the
same famously harml ess formula as the
Marmola Prescription. 1t behooves
you to learn the satisfactory: beneficial
effects of this great, safe, fat reduceT
by giving to your druggist one dollar
for a case, or sending like amount te
the Marmola Company, 4612 woodward
Avenue, Detroit, Mich, with a request
that they mail to you a case of Mar
moIa Prescription Tablets.-Advertise
1eut
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come to America to acquaint us with their
troubles and problems, and then depart wonder
ing why most of us heard him with fine cour-
tesy but without becoming convinced that we
ought to enter into partnership with them.
The reason for it, perhaps, is this. Most of
us suspect that back of every overture for
friendly advice is motive that seeks cancella-
ton of war debts or extension of credits. Most
of US, fearing the baneful presence of secret
diplomacy and all that it envolves, cannot force
ourselves to believe everything that we hear.
Our suspicious are strengthened when we note
that the counsel and advice which the United
States has given European countries is received
coldly and with reserve. We somehow feel that
the only way in which the United States could
please Europe would be by cancelling all their
Indebtedness to u.s. something that we have no
inclination to do.
Americans who have thought about this
problem have noted one significant thing. While
the United States, proceeding on its own theory
of how to emerge best from the war tangle is
enjoying prosperity, the nations that have
Ispurned our advice or received it in silence are
beset with gigantic economic and industrial
problems.
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FRED BEESON HEADS
DALTON FARMERS
Especial to the Palladium

DALTON, Ind, Dec. 16.-An entire
new set of officers was chosen for the
Dalton township farmers association,
at the special meeting held in the
school building Friday night. Fred
Beeson was named as president to sue
coed ]. N. Davis, Albert Gordon sue
ceeds U. NJ. Stewart as secretary, Har-
ley Beeson was named vice-president
and A. ]. Dennis, treasurer.
The gathering voted to make the Sec
ond annual institute which will be
held this winter, a two-day affair, and
a committee composed of Mr.. and Mrs.
Warren Dennis, Elmer Lumpkins, and
Mrs. j. N. Davis, was named by the
institute chairman, U. M. Stewart, to
meet with officials of the institute and
plan a program.
Following the business meeting, the
members adjourned to share in an
oyster soup and baked bean supper
There were about half hundred peo-
pie present.
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Seeking Advice But Failing to Heed It.

The people of Europe every now and then
beg pitiously for some helpful advice from the
United States. They would like to know how
we put our house in order after the chaos of the
World war and why our people are prospecting.
But when Uncle Sam, through Secretary Hughes
or some high official, expresses piece of COM
mon sense by which Europe may be helped. the
advice is ignored or the giver is roundly con-
demned.
This contradictory attitude of Europe is too
deep for the average American who is accustom-
ed to direct action. He believes if Europe does
not want our advice, she should not ask for it in
the first place. Neither can he quite under
stand why some representative men of Europe
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+" Amt Love Grand?" Couple
At ConnersuiLIe Thinks So

NEWCASTLE, Ind, Dec. 16.-Mrs.
Opal Ridought, 10 years old, of Con.
nersville, who, under her maiden name
of Helen Ruley, recently eloped with
Clarence Sneed and was married tt
him in Hamilton, Ohio without the
formality of a divorce from her hus-
band, was apprehended here with
Sneed at the home of his sister AMI
returned to Connersville Friday The
couple, when confronted, exhibited the
latest marriage license and seemed to
believe its existence exonerated them
Taken to the police station, they ex.
hibited strong affection, left the court
room with arms entwined, getting
stuck in the door, which was not de
signed for company front" maneu
veTB, and protested bitterly when they
were put in separate cells for tn:
night
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/ THINK / KNOW YOU
BY George Matthew Adams

respondent
been ill for weeks that's think perhaps
way. know. why,
the tho, must
bear in the spirit it, the clouds will
they often have The will stream
in will walk and the world will good
So let live the with their blessings
When fall lie bruised helpless its
the world doesn't look hopeful that is because get in front
others walk
and work tho nothing
others
them joy and gadne that will ascend that
hill which have fallen.
loneliness will melted into
tendency
That's describe SO much
That alone will
usefulness
just an ordinary whoever
something hopeful to help lift TO nelp
changeful lfet
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The Oldest Apple Tree
Orchard More Than 100 years Old is Discovered in
Central New Mexico.

by the wild tribes of the Navajos and
Apaches which waged an incessant
warfare upon both the Pueblo Indians
and the Spaniards. In some instances
these brave Franciscan friars triumph
ed over all difficulties and dangers.
Some of the ancient mission churches
still stand and are still in use. Many
of the greatest ones are in ruins.
Now one of these ancient ruined
churches stands not far from the
ancient Manzano orchard. and good
deal is known Of its history. In the
seventeenth century a large Indian
pueblo, known as Quarai, stood at this
spot, and it is recorded that the Fran
ciscan fathers built this mission
church of Quarai in the year 1929. Il
is also known that in 1875 it was aban-
doned for the reason that the Navajos
had repeatedly raided it, killed priests
and friendly Indians and destroyed
crops. 1t was an outpost OF civillza.
ton which could not stand against the
savages.
Of Quarai, both pueblos and church,
| nothing now remains but heap OF
stone, and few massive walls that
show how patiently and well those
old Spaniards built. Nothing was left
alive in the vicinity except the apple
! trees. For it seems almost certain
that the original trees of the orchard
We're planted by the Franciscan friars
of the Quarai mission, and if that is
/ the case, the original trees must have
been planted before the year 1875,
| which would make them at least $50
| years old. OF course, the original trees
may have died and others may have
1 grown up from seeds or roots. That
| this has happened some cases is in.
| Dictated by the fact that many of the
/ trees are double, as though two shoots
/ had sprung up and grown together.
| Naturally much legend clings about
/ the old trees, but a scientific investi
1 cation of them had never been under
/ taken until last summer. 1t was
initiated by a discussion between sew
eral government mer as to how long
4 apple trees live. A plant pathologist
connected with the department of agri
! culture was especially eager to know
| this, as it would shed light upon 9
certain phase of his work. He saic
that the oldest apple tree of which
he had been able to find any RECORD
was in an Oregon orchard and that il
was somewhere between so and 81
years old. A Forest Service man told
him of this apple orchard that had
stood for centuries, according to leg
end. He pooh-pohed the legend. The
discussion ended by the two mems
climbing into car and driving 81
miles across the mountains to tbs
town of Manzano
Il Trees Still
Productive
They found that the old orchard
stood in an arroyo or dry water course
No one seemed to care for it. 1t gof
no water in that land of perpetua
drouth except what came down thu
arroyo when 1t rained. The tree'
were badly in need of pruning, all o
them containing dead limbs, but the,
still had vitality enough to produce
a crop of apples, which were yer,
small, but sweet and well-fiavored
Like many another historical monu
ment in the southwest the old orchard
was rapidly perishing of neglect. Wit
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After Dinner Stories

i sometimes have doubts" said one
of the elders, as they sat about count
ing the collection for the day. ut
sometimes have doubts whether there
is really He'll
You needn't" said the preacher.
There's got to be one"
And he pointed significantly at the
|suspender buttons and cent pieces in
the offering. Times-Dis-
patch.
A legislator, speaking in favor of a
bill permitting osteopaths to practice,
said: Il favor licensing osteopaths,
same as homeopaths, allopaths and
other paths. for I believe, with the
poet, that 'All paths lead but to the
grave. Exchange.
There are some great moments in
this life"
There are, and sometimes think
the greatest thrill of all comes to the
former village wag who returns to his
home town as the star of a minstrel
show. Birmingham Age-Herald.
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Lessons in Correct English
DON'T SAY

DON'T SAY
Can you EXPLAIN this word?
Can you EXPLAIN my dream for
me?
A friend DEMANDS a favor.
In every murder there must be an
INTENT.
l won't HOLD you any longer.
SAY
Can you define this word?
Can you INTERPRET my dreams
for me?
A friend REQUESTS favor.
In every murder there must be a
MOTIVE
l won't DETAIN you any longer.
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Oogs 10 shop
AOGHaz5g1hl

proper care the old trees might live
for a long time yet. and they have
great value both as historical relics
and as scientific specimens.
The priest at the Manzano church
was glad to tell all that he knew about
the trees. He was exceedingly proud
of them as relics of the heroic past
of his order, but he had neither the
time nor the means to care for them.
One of the smaller trees had recently
died, and he gave s.the scientists per.
mission to cut it down in order that
they might count the rings of annual
growth by which the age of any tree
may be accurately determined. They
counted at least Sc rings, in the sound
part OF the tree, the rest of them haV.
ing been obliterated by heart rot, but
they felt sure the total was not less
than hundred. And this tree was
one of the smallest, some of the larger
ones being nearly 80 inches in diam
eter The scientists have marked ona
OF the largest trees, which seems tc
be rapidly dying, as the next subject
for their Investigations. No one, o.
course, would want to cut down ont
Of the living trees.
The investigation of this larger tree
may bring forth proof that here-anI
probably nowhere else in the world
apple trees have stood for two cen
turtles or more. What is the secre
of this longevity? Did the old Span
ish fathers perhaps have some kim
of tree that would live longer thar
any known to modem science? Tit
boosters with which New Mexict
swarms will tell you hat the explana
ton is easy-it is simply the wonder
full climate of the country, in whicl
the sick get well, the well get better
and apple trees live forever.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-12-16
Rash County Property
Valuation Is Decreased

RUSHVILLE, Ind, Dec. ia re-
duction of s12,617,6 500 from last years
valuation of s66,220, 240 is reported for
the taxable property of Rush county
this year The reduction is on the as
sessed valuation and is an average of
200 per cent. Most of the reduction is
on real estate and is more noticeable
in the townships than in the city,
where there is little loss in taxable
valuations. The 1920 valuations al
ready had taken $2,000,000 drop in
the 1921 valuations.
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pie daily doing business of S4S,000,-
600 to S50,000000 yearly.
Penney was born in Hamilton Mo-,
in September, 1875. He received a
high school education and was mar
ried at the age of "a. His first job in
a department store paid him a little
over So a NORTH Then he left his
home town and went to Denver where
he also worked in dry. goods store,
He made good there and was sent by
his firm to manage a branch store in
Evanston, Wyo. Here he saved $500
which was his capital for his first ven
ture IN Kemmorer, Wyo. That first of
the 81 stores now run by the COM
pany as the central purchasing
agency, was run on partnership basis,
as all the stores are now run. Penney
owned one-third interest.
Today the chain keeps frightening
for whenever an employe shows prom
ise he is promoted to managership of
n store and if he succeeds in making
money enough in the business to OBJ
tain a partnership he becomes a part
ner in that store. Money to be invest
ed in the business must have been
made in the business. No outsider can
buy in.
This is the method by which Penney
became wealthy. He is interested in
many things, his pet interest being his
475-acre farm in New York state and
his 40 acres at White Plains, N. Y.
where he makes his home. He has a
winter home at Miami, Fla. $500
His first wife died II years ago and
he married the present Mrs. Penney in
1919. -e-------
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After Dinner Trick $

No. s66-To Vanish Spinning Coin
A coin is spun on the table (see fg.
-. While tits spinning, the performer
quickly scoops 1t up with his hand.
Upon opening his fist the coin has van.
ished.
To do this trick, hold the wrist in
horizontal position and set the tips of
the fingers just beyond the spinning
coin Zig. p. Snap the fingers quickly
into the palm of the hand. striking the
spinning coin very sharply with the
tips Of the fingers. The hand will close
into a fist, but the coin will be snapped
mp the sleeve SO rapidly that the eye
cannot follow it.
cepyr!sht, 1888. bp Pablo Ledger com7oNl
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-12-16
Memories Of OldDays
In This Paper Ten Years
Ago Today ~.

Councilman Kaufman declared that
he was not in favor of lowering the
lighting rates of the municipal light
plant until 1915. According to Mr..
Kaufman the people who were not
public spirited enough to patronize the
plant we're the only ones who are COM
planning of the high rates.
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Answers to Questions

ANY reader can get the answer to
any question by writing me Palladlum
Information Bureau, Fred efiek-J- Hask
in. director. Washington, d. G. This Of
fer applies strictly to Information. The
bureau does not give advice on legal,
medical and financial matters. 1t does
not attempt TO settle domestic troubles,
nor to undertake exhaustive research
plainly and briefly Give full name and
address and enclose two cents in stamps
for return postage. All replies are sent
direct to the inquirer.
q. Who invented Bridge WHIST
]. Lie.
A. Bridge was first known as
Biritch or Russian Whist. This gave
rise to the idea that it was a Russian
game. Dictionaries of the Russian
language do not contain the word. It
seems more probable that the game
is Levantine since Il was known in
constantinople and Greece about 1870,
long before-ft invaded western Europe.
@. How is the probable. stature OF
prehistoric races computed 2-R. r.
A. If few bones are found, it is
merely mathematical problem. The
length Of the humerus multiplied b3
sos or the length of the femur multi
piled by 1856 equals the height of q
man.
@. What is an airscape?-L. V. s.
A. This is coined word used to de
scribe picture taken from an air
plane 1t will probably displace the
old term, birds eye view,
O. How long die Patrick Henry
study law before he was admitted tc
the bar?
A. Patrick Henry failed in variou;
enterprises before he made an attemp
at, law. He read for only six week:
before he applied for his license. Thu
license was granted him on condition
.hatahe study further before practic
ing. He first became famous through
Ills brilliant speech in the Parson
case.
@. What proportion of the world
crops of cotton, corn and tobacco doe
this country produce?-W. T. NJ.
A. The United States produces an
nually about 10 per cent of the world
corn, 90 per cent of It's cotton, and 5
per cent of its tobacco.
@. Who was Carmen Sylya?-P. NJ
Carmen Sylvia IS. the. pen nam
OF Elizabeth, Queen of Roumania.
O. Should sentences be long o
short? &C. n.
A. A general rule follows; for vigo
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doubled his life In.
surance to $3,000,.
900. ]. c. Penney
however, has Ions
b e e n k n o w I
tn 70 u g h ut the
west as the opera.
tor of 371 stores
selling dry goods
in 26 states.
He started out In
his career as q
merchant by sell.
ing a litter of pigs
and today he oper
ates stores serv
ing millions of PEG.
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COUGHS md GUILDS IN WINTER
Indoor sedentarysl ifaein Winter has a
direct bearing on the prevalence of
coughs and colds. Keep the howe els ac-
tive and overcome constipation with
GROUP. throat chest and bronchial trou-
Bile quickly relieved with Foley's Hon
ey and Tar. Contains no opiates-in-
gradients printed on the wrapper. Larg-
est selling cough medicine in The world.
"Foley's Honey and Tar Is wonderful
! for attacks of coughs and colds" writes
lW, H Gray, Venice. California. A. G..
Luken Drug Co, 626-esS Main St.-Ad-
yertiScmert.
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ny FREDERrcK ). HAsKIN


WASHINGTON, d. c., Dec. 16.-An
apple orchard that is more than
century old, that has fiourished under
three governments and fed men of
three races and still bears apples, is
one of the latest discoveries in the
southwest, made recently by officers
of the United States forest service.
That is, the orchard has been known
for a long time, but the age of the
trees was only scientifically determin-
ed last summer. Until experts had
cut down one of the trees and counted
the rings, no one who knew anything
about apple trees would believe that
the orchard had stood for century.
Now they know thet some of the
smallest trees have lived that long,
and it seems logically certain that
some of the larger ones must have
lived a great deal longer. Further
more, many of the trees now standing
in this venerable 0 chard look as
though they had grown from the
stumps or roots of former generation
OF apple trees which had fallen @:
been cut down. The natives living
Whereabouts say that tradition gives
the age of the orchard at from 250 to
400 years. 1t seems possible that III
a sense they are right. There IS rea'
son to believe that the ancestors, al
least, of the present trees were plant
ed in the seventeenth century,
This historic orchard is located neal
the little town of Manzano on the
eastern slope of the Manzano noun
tains in central New Mexico. Man
T. Isl, fnv annie
Both the mountain range and town
have taken their Names from the an
cient trees. The priest in the churcf
at ManZano, who is a sort of CUSTODIAN
of the orchard, tells inquirers that thf
trees have been growing there tol
$50 years, according to the tradition
which has been handed down from
padre to padre through the genera
tons The Oldest native inhabitant,
of the little town believe that tht
orchard has been there for 400 years
That date is improbable, for the Span
ish exploration of the southwest hat
scarcely begun SO long ago, and appl;
trees were certainly brought to Amer
lea by the Europeans.
Relics of
4 Heroic Age
| But the priest, when he claims tina
| the orchard is more1than two centuI
| les old, has strong historical evidence
on his side. For these trees almos
certainly are relics of that heroic ag
/ in the history of the southwest whe1
/ Spanish priests anG soldiers wer
there engaged in sub6uing a great wi!
derness of savages for the king Q
/ Spain and the church of Rome. A
every one of the puealo villages whiei
dot this region the Spaniards bull
great churches of stone and left a fey
I priests to teach those savages the fea
I of God and also the culture of crop
and herds The PueDlos were alread
i farmers, raising corn and cotton an
melons, but they had no domestic an
mails except the turkey and no frui
4 trees.
The padres, armed with nothing bu
/ the cross, took their stand in a hostil
wilderness as the prophets of religio
and civilization. In some instance
they were murdered by the Indians {
their own flocks. More often the
succeeded in winning the friendship {
the Pueblos, only to be overwhelme
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BINo DEER SHOT

CINCINNATI, Ohio, Dec. 16.-An AL
bino deer was shot by George Rooms of
Cincinnati in the Maine woods and will
be mounted. Such anilams are rare.
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COLUMBUS BARRACKS NO MoRE

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16-The name
Columbus barracks, familiar to army
ears for many years, disappears from
army circles under orders published
today at the war department, chang
ing the name of the Ohio post to Fort
Hayes. The new name is given in
honor of President Rutherford B.
Hayes, who died at Fremont, Ohio,
in 1898.
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In sterlizing milk bottles, one New
York dealer loses $1,000,000 a year IN
bottles broken during the process,
because of poor construction.
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and emphasis use short sentences;
for detail and rhythm use long
sentences
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Who's Who IN the
Day s News
JAMES CASH PENNEY

JHMGo NA07 TENNGI
New York thought it had discovered
an unknown man when one James
Cash Penney came into the public eye
through the announcement that he had
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-12-16

Forest Chester Black, p, Richmond
and Vena Pauline Clark, 20, Lynn
have been licensed to marry,
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The cubic content of the earth is
estimated at 259, 4,035,515 cubs
miles.