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period reported on fell off about So, 100000 day
for an entire year.
''The preceding was poor year for business,
as shown by the joint falling off in income taxes
and excess profits of $1,140,000,000 Certainly
this harassed and jaded twelvemonth viii not
recoup any of the losses, and besides some of the
so-called nuisance taxes have been repealed, so
that nothing whatever may be expected from
them. The new tariff, if enacted as now drafted,
will greatly reduce the customs revenue, so that,
on the whole, further reduction in income may
be expected.
ct seems incredible that congress- fronting
these unacceptable facts and being advised of an
inevitable deficit, the minimum of which is cal
culated as being 5OOOOO,O00 will vote for polit-
ical effect change of between $4,OOO,OO0,00O
and So ,000 100000 without providing for fresh
taxation to meet the drafts upon the treasury.
In extenuation it is pleaded that the president
will veto the measure. If this be true then they
are unworthy public officials because they lead
the chief executive into temptation, and then.
with unfathomable hardihood, pray that he will
deliver us from evil In addition, the gesture is
dishonest one because it is founded upon
deceit
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-09-01
TODAY'S TALK
BY George Matthew Adams Author
SHAMS

dead rotted tree fails at
wilted flower
in its he its budding companion
Every genuine deserving character despises shams
with them like spiders
enjoy being hoodwinked
from best ideals.
Whether literal
will to choose decide quite but it certain
that much weigh little,
granted.
smile the of these
them though they children
he is against
The S shams,
piece of looking furniture the
for old piecebut friend
the sham of it all.
YOU either practcng shamery you
loyal happy worker You can't be halfway and succeed
it.
speaks anything you to
Commences silent is
S of and
forgive times seventybut pass by
policy.
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The Meal Tub is Emptying

If one seeks an argument to use with his
congressman to be extremely careful in the
matters of creating public expense, the very best
possible is to be found in the report of United
States Internal Revenue Commissioner David
H. Blair, showing that collections in that de-
partment have decreased in the fiscal year Of
1922 by the stupendous sum of s., 1896, 0O0,O 00,"
says the Cincinnati Enquirer.
"As lash for this whip comes the statement
of the Commissioner that it cost 81. 80 TO collect
each 500 of this income, as against 81 cents
for the same sum in 1921 an increase of almost
exactly SO per cent. This is most astonishing
revelation indicating poor business administra-
lion. Reduced to term, the income in the
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Answers to Questions

(Any reader can get the answer. to
any question by writing The Palladium
In 9reetog wassinston d. g This Of
fer applies strictly to information. The
bureau does not give advice on legal,
not attempt to settle domestic troubles,
nor to undertake exhaustive research
on any s SGPle WE Ss f9 name a3d
address and enclose two cents in stamps
for return postage. All replies are sent
direct to the inquirer.
Q. Is an, oil well big enough for a
man~to go down inside it? H. R.
A An oil well that is being dug to
any considerable depth usually has
20-inch casing in the upper part and
small, slender man could get down in
one of that size. In fact, such feat
was recently performed near Los An
geles by Walter McCay, of Taft, Calf,
who is known as the human gopher"
A master rotary bushing had been lost
in the well and the only way in which
it could be got out without destroying
the well was to send man down after
it. The tool was lodged at the no.
foot level. McCay was lowered into
the we'll with a one-inch rope and
wore a gas mask attached to an oXy-
gen tank from which air was pumped
to him constantly. 1t was necessary
for him to make six descents before
he succeeded in graphing the lost
tool and he spent almost an hour in
one of the smallest holes in the
ground in which man ever found
himself
Q. Does the temperature make any
difference when fumigating with
formaldehyde gas? w. E. W.
A. The efficacy of this disinfectant
depends greatly upon temperature and
humidity. In ordinary summer wealth
er, it is an excellent surface disin-
fectant. When the thermometer orhy-
grometer is below 65 the power of
formaldehyde is reduced In the win
ter time, the room should be warmed
artificially and the humidity raised by
opening a steam radiator or by boiling
a kettle of water in it.
Q. What does Casilla de Correos
mean? V. NJ.
A. The postoffice department says
that these words mean postoffiee box.
Many people make the mistake of
thinking they are a persons name be-
cause they appear at the bottom of
many letters from Cuba.
@. Are more or fewer children en-
ployed now than there were before
there was a crusade against child la
Dor W. c. C.
A. The census bureau says that
both the percent and number of chill
dren engaged in gainful occupations
had decreased in 1920. In 1890, 1900
and 1910 the percent was about IS
while in 1920 it dropped to So. Out
of 12,5O25S2 children between the
ages of 10 and Is years, only 1,060,S58
were then at work. This number was
smaller than any reported in so years
Since the supreme court has held the
child labor law unconstitutional it is
probable that the percentage of chill
dren in industry is increasing.
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Too Much of a Good Thing

st is six years since had my first
stomach trouble. 1t rapidly grew
worse My food would not digest and
I was reduced to skin and bone. My
doctor put me on a starvation diet,
and when my pains grew worse l con-
Guided it was too much of a good
thing On the advice of my druggist
tried Mayr's Wonderful Remedy, and
am now entirely WELL" 1t is simple,
harmless preparation that removes
the catarrhal mucus from the intes-
final tract and allays the inflamma-
ton which causes practically all stom-
ach, liver and intestinal ailments, in
Guiding appendicitis. One dose will
convince or money refunded. Glen
Thistlethwaite's drug stores, A. G.
Luken Drug company and druggists
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
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by FREDERICK j. HAsKIN

KENILWORTH, D. c., Sept 1. -
This quiet little town boasts the big
gest water lily farm in the United
States. Of course it is run by a wom-
an, and of course the woman is known
as "The Lady of the Lilies"
Although she is a practical and sue
cessful business woman, it seems ap-
propriate to call Mrs. Helen Fowler
by this poetic name. Romance clings
naturally to water lilies and to the
people associated with them. Even
the business of growing lilies by the
acre and shipping them by the thous-
and is tinged with the picturesque.
Imagine the sturdy little woman
guiding her boat about the water
fields and directing her assistants as
they pick several thousand lily buds
on a summer morning. Imagine her
again, standing rifle in hand tensely
waiting for the swapping turtle, that
deadly enemy of the water lily. When
he hears no one about, up comes his
head and crack goes the shot of the
expert. That turtle eats no more
lilies.
Imagine her surrounded by 5000 to
1000 rainbow colored water lilies -
one days picking in, the height of the
season-busily packing them TO be
shipped to points as far as Chicago;
Portland, Me-; and Macon, Ga. With
this sort of thing described as routine
there is no need to hunt for the
picturesque side of lily farming.
There is little use asking anyone
to visualize the farm itself. 1t is Il
sort of water lily heaven. There are
broad pools filled with nothing but
delicate pink water lilies, surrounded
by their odd round leaves and mirror
ed in the still water Other pools
are given over to different varieties.
In a collection of this sort, almost
every corner of the world is repre-
scented by some distinctive water lily.
France has sent some of our most
beautiful specimens. Sweden supplied
crimson varieties. Zanzibar, in far-off
Africa, sent deep blue and purple
ones; Mexico and Florida, some of the
best yellow kinds; South America, tho
royal Victoria water lily; while lot
uses of various kinds came from
Egypt and different parts of the ORR
ent.
All these types are raised in this
country now, and occasionally new va
rieties are evolved. There are rs diff
ferent kinds of water lilies on Mrs
Fowler's farm. Her father originated
about a dozen lilies, and she has pro
duced six or more.
The Lotus
Of Egypt's Queen.
Some of the lily ponds are lined al
the swampy banks with the famous
lotuses of history and song. The
same Egyptian lotus that Cleopatra
wove in her auburn hair to captivate
her lovers is growing in one of these
lily ponds So huge is the blossom
that the visitor can only wonder how
the queen managed to tuck it behind
her ear, and whether after all the eff
feet could have been really coquettish
There is no question, however, of the
Egyptian lotus being enchanting in its
water home The stalk rises 6 or
feet above the water and ends in an
upturned blossom shading from
creamy white to carmine red.
The pink Japanese and Indian 10
fuses, which bloom on shorter stalks
are planted in front of these tall
Egyptian lilies. To see the lotuses
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fare on enemies Of his crop. The tur-
tie is the most ferocious of the GREAT
ures that prey on the water lily, as
has been stated, and the one that gives
the most trouble. Mrs. Fowler says
that she has tried poison and traps in
vain. The turtles eat Paris green
and enjoy it. They avoid the traps
in derision. Shooting is slow, but eff
fective.
The muskrat, another enemy of the
water lily, is trapped, and the skins
are sold by a trapper who works on
the farm. Mrs. Fowler believes in
turning pests into profit. She regu-
larly sells hundreds of punches of wa
ter weeds that threaten to choke her
lilies. Aquariums buy these weeds
and other water plants in large guam
titles. Fish need more oxygen than
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WOman's Ills Make Unhappy
Home

There is no question but what the ills
of women conspire against domestic
harmony. The husband cannot under
stand these troubles and the physician
finds il hard to ours them; therefore
the overworked wife and mother con-
tinues to drag around day in and day
out with headaches and backache, fret
full and nervous.
Such women should be guided by the
experience of women whose letters we
are continually publishing in this pa
per. Many of them declare that thew
have been restored to health, strength
and consequent happiness by LYDIA e,
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound after
doctors and all other medicines had
failed to help them. 1t will surely nav
women who suffer from such ailments
to try it
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GIRLS! LEMONS
BLEACH SKIN WHITE

Squeeze the juice of two lemons into
a bottle containing three ounces sof
Orchard White, which any drug store
Will supply for a few cents, shake well,
and you have quarter pint of harm
less and delightful lemon bleach. Mas
sage this sweetly fragrant lotion into
the face, neck, arms and hands each
day, then shortly note the beauty and
wilderness of your skin.
Famous stage beauties use this
lemon lotion to bleach and bring that
soft, clear, rosy-white complexion, also
as freckle, sunburn and tan bleach
because 1t doesn't irritate.-Adver-
tiSement.
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Memories of Old DAYS
In This Paper Ten Years
Ago Today

Cooperation of local business CON
Germs in overcoming the car shortage
through quick unloading of consigu-
ments to this city, was asked in a let
ter received from the Interstate Com
merce commission. Cars for hauling
grain and foodstuffs were most needed
it was stated
DR.. ]. n. Hurry, secretary of the
state board of health, addressed mem
bers of the Wayne county Medical as
ISOLATION at the regular monthly meet
ing.
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Musings for the Evening
IT SORT OF lNTRIGUEs US

~ SOnIe HOF I'm 6tG Us
The following notice is taken from
Chicago paper:
To All Young and Not So Young
Bachelors: / am not blonde, slim or
eighteen, but l have blue eyes, chest
nut ha + with a God-given wave in it,,
bobhed, am twenty, and just plump
enough to be delicious. l wear fat
heels for hiking, camping, horseback
riding, tennis and golf. High heels
for dancing, bridge and canoeing. No
heels for swimming. 1 dance divinely
make my own clothes and hats, and
then Poiret- copies them. On SO a
week l can cook meals for a king
twenty-one of them. Can play piano,
sing, play cards, and converse fuently
on baseball, football, business, and
any subject under the sun. Have
$4,000 in the bank and expect tc
double it. My recipe for home brew
in dhexcelled. love. men, and es-
pecially my husband. Would some
one like to be my uncle?"
We have fondly browsed through
the latest edition of who's Who in
America" but have failed to fad our
biography recorded. We look upon
this as distinct calamity. CHANGING
through the book we found the man
who invented the circular wooden hair
comb for barber shops and the gent
who wrote Little Gertie and the
Woodchuck' back in 1889 and has
written nothing since. Likewise we
found the man who, after twelve years
as exchange editor of the Wimpton
(Okla.) Bee" came to New York
nineteen years ago and accepted g
lucrative position on a New York pa
per as reporter, which he still holds.
Nor did the biographers miss the bird
who invented the screen wire fly
swatter We often wonder how a
man goes TO work to get into hWho's
Who" without sending in his own
biography voluntarily, and there are
times when we don't believe it can
be done.
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and at 81 began the practice of law
Seven years ago he became judge of
three districts in Louisiana
His ability as a lawyer is recognized
in the state. The supreme court of
the state recently sustained the decis-
ion Judge Reynolds rendered regard
ing certain oil litigation involving S.
100000. 1t is said of the judge that
the higher court has never reversed a
decision of his. ..
While the judge is attending school
he plans to study the Detroit system
of caring for probationers and juvenile
delinquents.
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blooming in profusion is to understand
why almost every oriental country has
succumbed to the spell of the water
lily.
For centuries the Buddhist has re-
peated in his prayers, 20, the jewel
in the lotus flower" The Egyptian
sculptor used the lotus as a favorite
design in his temple carvings. The
Greek poets knew it as a symbol of
the alluring Incidence of tropic
islands. We have an American lotus.
a beautiful pale yellow variety, thar
grows wild in the country, and that
only waits for some poet or philoso-
pher to immortalize its charm.
Further along the way are the Vic
toria lilies, the royalty of the water
lily family. The leaves of the Victor
las are sometimes seven feet across.
They are like round boats, with turned
up edges to keep out the water. A
child can sit safely on one of the
largest of these floating trays. The
flower is a giant, too, a great blush
tinted blossom that scents the air
with a heavy fragrance suggestive of
pineapple.
Mrs. Fowler leads the way past all
these water wonders. Twenty-Five
years ago her father, W. B. Shaw,
started by making one lily pond in his
swamp land. Seven acres are now
under water There are "a ponds in
all, constructed from marsh land.
They are fed by springs, and the water
can be raised or drained off at will
All except the tenderest plants stay
in the water during the winter, and
when ice forms the ponds afford fine
skating
Mrs Fowler and her assistants are
kept busiest between May and Octo-
Der. June is the height of the season
At that time three or four thousand
blooms day are picked and sold, but
all through the warm months a thous-
and or more blossoms are harvested
each morning.
Flowers Harvested
Early in Morning.
The lily farmer must be an early
riser. Four o'clock is none too soon
to start work Later in the morning
the lilies are full blown and then
they can not be shipped successfully
The closed buds are gathered and
packed in boxes with damp moss. AS
soon as the boxes are unpacked, in
Boston or st. Louis, the blooms open
quickly. Mrs. Fowler ships more Ill
les to Boston than to any other city.
For some reason the florists there
seem best to understand handling
them profitably.
There are only a few simple pre-
cautions to be taken in keeping water
lilies so that they will last a week.
They should not be displayed in a
vase with the heads hanging over the
edge, because the stem Of the lily
does not bring enough water to the
petals and they soon wilt The
blooms are properly arranged in a low
bowl, so that they float on the water
as they would on a pond. It is also
important to avoid placing the lilies
where a strong wind or the breeze
from an electric fan can blow directly
on the fragile petals. Aside from
these restrictions, handling cut lilies
is not difficult.
The grower, however, has numer-
Gus problems. Like other farmers, the
lily raiser has to wage constant war
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the water in a small tank provides,

the water in small tank provides,
and the plants aerate the water.
Frogs, water moccasins, and fish in
the lily ponds are let strictly alone.
They are unofficial workers for tho
crop. They catch mosquito larvae
and insects that harm the lilies.
Raising water lilies has been re-
duced to a science by Mrs. Fowler.
1t is fascinating work if you love
water plants as much as she does.
And the interest TO the public Is
shown in the throngs of people who
flock to Kenilworth to see the marshes
ablaZe with acres of vari-colorad
flowers thriving under the skiIlfuI
guidance and protection of The Lady
of the Lilies.
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JOHN MARCUM GOT
RID OF HAY FEVER
II YRS. STANDING

II had hay fever for II years. l
was almost down in bed with it in
September, 1920 when l started TAX
ing Kerker's Asthma and Hay Fever
Remedy. l took two bottles and i
put me right on my feet. When l
heard of the Kerker Remedy l laughed
at it-had no faith in it--but it GER
tainly did the work. 1t is really won
derful.
(Signed) JOHN MARCUM,
"Rt. 3, Box 15S. Frankfort, KY"
Kerker's Asthma and Hay Fever
Remedy is sold in Richmond by Quig.
ley & Son, Druggists, 400-402 Main st.
Advertisement,
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tered [ b e | a W
school of the Uni
versity of Michigan
as a freshman. The
course the judge
has chosen ordin-
arily C on 5 u m e S
nine years.
Judge Reynolds
started on his legal
career by studying
law in the offices
of one of the lead
ing l a wy rs of
Louisiana. He pass
ed the bar eXamin-
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Facts About Indiana
(By Associated Press)

A department of geology and nat
ural science in connection with the
state board of agriculture was provid-
ed for by the legislature in 1869.
William Hendricks was the third
governor of Indiana, serving from 1922
to 1926
James A. Wright served as governor
of Indiana for seven years. He was
the tenth governor Of the state.
When the state bank of Indiana got
under way in 1884 its outstanding cir
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-09-01
OHIO RIVER IMPROVEMENTS

CINCINNATI, o., Sept. Under
the recent appropriation rivers and
harbors bill passed by congress, the
Cincinnati district will receive an
proximately 100000 of the SIS, 600, O00
appropriated, according to Col z. NJ
Johnston, in charge of engineering in
this district.
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After Dinner Trick S

Lay four matches as shown in Fig.
/. Ask some one to add match, and
vet take one away. Your request will
cause much bewilderment, and no one
will understand how it can be done until
you explain the trick.
The four matches form the Roman
numeral XX, which stands for twenty.
By adding another match in the middle,
as shown in Fig. ,, the Roman numeral
Xix is formed, which stands for nine
teen. Thus by adding one you have
taken one away.
Copyright. 1929. By Public Ledger Company
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Lessons in Correct English
DON'T SAY;

DON'T SAY:
like her better than HE.
Bill is larger and fully as strong
AS John
He was treated ELEGANTLY.
SAY:
like her better than HIM.
Bill is larger THAN John and fully
as strong.
He was treated WE'LL.
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culation was $4,20S,725, with a debt
to the institution of $6,095,36S.
Mrs. Zerelda G. Wallace was the
first president of the Women's Chris
tan Temperance union in Indiana.
She was the mother of Lew Wallace.
The eleventh governor of Indiana
was Ashbel Parsons Willard. He was
elected in 1856.
The section of the Wabash and Erie
canal from st. Joseph dam to the
forks of the Wabash, about 80 miles,
was completed in 1885 at a cost OF
approximately 1892, 1000
Abraham Adams Hammond was the
first lieutenant governor of Indiana to
take the chief executives chair as a
result of the death of the governor
He succeeded A. P Willard, who died
while in office, and served from 1866
to 1861.
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Who S Who In the
Day S News

JUDGE JOHN EDWIN REYNOLDS
What good is a college degree?''
is a question often asked. 1t means
enough to Judge John Edwin Reynolds
of Arcadia, La, that at 81, he has en-
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Three Richmond Persons
On Conference Committees

Officers and members of commit
tees appointed by the state conference
of Charities and Correction, to serve
during the thirty-first annual session
at South Bend, Oct. to TO- were
announced today. According TO per
sons in charge of the event, there is
every indication that the coming meet
ing will be the largest ever hell On
the executive committee are DR.. S. E
Smith and Timothy Nicholson of Rich,
mond Miss Ethel Clark of Richmond
is on the family welfare committee.
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After Dinner Stories

An insurance man had just bought
his first car and was having all the
delightful experiences Of a new driver.
Practicing his precepts of his bust
ness, he had taken out all manner of
insurance on it, but nevertheless he
was more than usually impressed with
the necessity for slow and careful
driving-especially slow - which was
not at all to the liking of the younger
members of the family.
On one of these carefully driven
trips one of the youngsters piped up:
Papa, if you don't drive faster We will
be arrested for vagrancy"
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The Lady of the Lilies

Woman at Kenilworh, ID. c. Specazes Raising Water
Lilies of Many Varieties for Big Cities of United States
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An international commercial expo
sItion in Mexico City, Aug Is to Sept.
Is, is being held under the auspices
of the National Confederation of
Chambers of Commerce of Mexico.