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PAC2 FOUR. THE RlCmiOim PALLADIUM AKD SUW-TEIXGIIAM, TTEDXESD AY, APRIL 14, 1C5D. Tt5 nictcrd rd2a PbMtsbed aad ftl by the ' ; palladium nmnom oo. Issaul T del erenlBga ui Sunday montla. C4ftee--Coraer North Sth and A. etrects. lie dm Phone 11S1. RICHMOND, INDIANA, gp enurnoM tbamb. In Richmond ff.0 per year (In ad vance) or 10c per week. MAIL SUBSCRIPTIONS. One ytnr, !a advance '5 ?5 El n r hr, in advance fK In advance .......... .4 I.UHAL BOUTE& One rar. In advance ............HO Six months. In advance l.J One month. In advance AdVh-ess' changed as often aa dealred; both new and eld addressee must be Slvea. ..: . ftubscrfbers will please remit with order, watch should be ivn Cor a specified term; bum will not be enter ed until payment ta received. Entered at Richmond, Indiana, post offlco aa second cHua mall matter. fvveei!eeewei ' The Association of AdrertUors (Now York City) bat staisoi aad ssrtfhoi to the slKulsaea 1 of taia pitUtatisa, Paly the Bnm ot 4 eeatslssa la Ito rtpsrt an by tko Aawdstlea. Wei 1tt mtniit ieaat AUSTRIA TO THE RESCUE. The announcement that Austria in tends to build immediately three bat tleships of the .Dreadnought type, and that she has also decided to almost double her naval expenditure, is cer tainly not calculated to quiet the nerves of the excited , Britons, to whom the recent revelation that Ger many's giant strides in shipbuilding threaten England's supremacy of the sess came as a shock and acted as a scare. The magnificent manner in which her colonial kinsmen rallied - M ' - - A . X tkla Vjh arouna me uia couuu j iu iu, uci hour of perplexity, if not of peril, caused the utmost enthusiasm in Eng land, aad press and people were loud in praise of the devotion and patrio tism thus displayed. But this later development of a serious situation, when the dual empire of Francis Joseph springs suddenly and unex pectedly to the forefront, comes as a decided and significant offset to the offer of the British colonies to con struct and equip three monster bat tleships for England's use, and must Impress the average Briton with' the difficult task his country has in main taining her naval supremacy and sug gest the gravest danger to the Integ rity of the empire. Of course. It Is manifestly apparent that Austria's action has been prompt ed by the kaiser. Austria and Ger many are not only allies, but friends, and when, recently, Austria proclaim ed the annexation of, the provinces of Bosnia - and Herzegovina, the friend ship and approval of the great mili tary empire over which Wilhelm reigns was promptly given expression In the warning to the other powers that Germany was, and is, determined to support, by force, if necessary, Aus tria's palpable violation of the treaty of Berlin. Gratitude and policy alike demand that Austria act with Ger many la everything, and this sudden termination to increase her navy rl'ows that 4he Foreign Office at Vienna thoroughly realizes its obligation.- ..).... . - The navy of Austria, which is com paratively .small, is strictly for coast defense. She has no colonies to de fend and her commerce on the high eas does not warrant the mainten ance of a large, much less a power fully constructed, navy. She has no docks large enough to berth ships of the Dreadnought type, so that the ves sels she proposes to build must be docked outside. For keeping , her new battleships seaworthy in time of peace and effec tive in time of war, Austria is entirely dependent on the good will of her neighbors. And in view of the recog nized laws of neutrality there can be no particle of doubt that before Aus tria determined to build , Dreadnoughts . she had absolute assurance that her big boats would be able to find docks, either in peace or war. For all prac tical purposes -the new Austrian, fleet will be a division of the German navy. There seems to be little doubt that such is the purpose for which it is to be built. . . Austria's action is a serious devel opment in a serious situation and looks' bad for the maintenance of he peace of Europe. "Every' battleship or other craft added to the Austrian navy is ,a ship virtually, given to the kaiser1 a unit added to the fighting strength; of the German fleet. And the annoying fact It Is that England can enter no protest. She must know and feel that her supremacy of the seas is being challenged, but a protest to the court of Vienna could and would be mot by the retort that Austria has a perfect right to construct as many warships as she pleases, and that, af ter all. the matter is none of Great Britain's business. And thus the well-defined plan of the kaiser's advisers will work to the detriment of England. English states men and English . editors may de nounce It, but meanwhile the building of . mighty leviathans of war will be rushed forward, protest or no protest la these circumstances the outlook for England is neither pleasant nor reas suring. A strong Austrian fleet in the Adriatic and the fleet will grow stronger - as the years go : by would threaten her supremacy In the Medi terranean, tho gateway to India, . and reader a flank attack on her eastern pooosslons entirely feasible, while to ruird against ft German attack from MMa O. Iee4e... Managing UWr. tlf In M. Hwim Itnn-s w. b. rwnnm,..,.,..wi MUM the Celtic or North Sea would require all the war "vessels that now cruise wlt&ia her "territorial waters. Of course, her answer to the threat which Austria's act silently but sisal- ,';4(v(."-';; ' -V T.i-"; ;-.; :V . THE MEN WHO STA Y HERE Frequently the local newspapers carry accounts of the success that Richmond young men have achieved.' Many of them have risen to places of great trust, in financial and Industrial circles, In the field of public service In short, In all departments of the world's work. But the striking thing about this is, that these things do not happen here they happen away from here. Those young fellows went away from Richmond. Have you ever considered what it would mean to Richmond had those same men stayed here?; Suppose their energy had been given a chance o develop here wouldn't Richmond look more like Dayton, and less like oth er small towns? Richmond would be better and larger the very entei prises "in the town," from which the men went forth Into come other town, -would be far larger and more productive. , Boiled 'down to the last analysis, there seems to be a conservatism in the town which amounts to a prejudice. And that prejudice is admitted ly against encouraging young men. ' It is safe to say that every young fellow who has been raised in the town has bad a tremendous struggle to decide whether or not to "leave town." Every family in Richmond that has a young man in It, Is aware of the conditions we mention. In many cases the young fellow has. gone away and the most of them have made good. Apparently,, most other places do not have this ultra conservatism which amounts to a prejudice. They are .quick to see that his age is the one thing that above all others a man is not responsible for. Moreover, they are on the alert to utilize the enthusiasm or ripe younsr manhood. They are quick to see that it'eorresponds to the current In a mill race that it is ' current, and not the long stretches of complacent water, which turns the mill wheels. And those who recognize the, value of the young man are right His- . tory has been full of men who have made their mark early in life men who have made good. They have made good because people realized that age was no bar to good performance, of duty. Citations from history only prove that things are possible and perhap3 it is no need to drag in Napoleon, Alexander Hamilton, Pitt, John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, Clive and the hundreds of others. The Civil War was the story of what the young men did, and it has been so since the be ginning of things. The career of Theodore Roosevelt simply adds to the list which proves that age is no barrier, if capability is only given a chance. "But it is not so much by eminent examples of young statesmen, as It is by the ceneral influence of young men in resisting the corrupting tendencies of politics, that their influence in the social state is to be meas ured. They oppose the tendency of political life to deprave political character, to make it cold, false, eelfieh, distrustful, abandoned to the greed and power of gain. They interfere with the projects of those ven erable politicians, who are continually appealing to the public to surrend er, bit by bit, its humanity, its morality, for what are ludicrously named practical advantages and who slowly sap up tho moral vitality of a people through an insinuating appeal to their temporary Interests." Whipple. That is only another way of saying what everybody already knows that young men are as a general thing not crooked they arc clean. It is undoubtedly true that a man, by the time he is thirty, has de veloped sufficiently in character to ascertain what he will eventually be. Thirty is the age in America at which a man becomes settled in life. We are a young nation, filled from youth with a passion for doing things, what reason is there, when men start out at the age of fifteen to make their way, why fifteen years later they cannot be trusted? And what is more to the point they are trusted the world over. A striking instance of that phase ultra conservatism in this town is noticeable just at present. It Is being said of a candidate for mayor, a man in his thirtieth year that he Is too "young." If this show any thing it is only that nothing else can be validly brought against him. The question may be pertinently asked, whether it is not absurd to attack a man on the only thing which he cannot help. It is a question as to whether, or not, this conservatism is not too extreme. It is a question whether, or not, it is a good thing for the town to have the word go out to the young men of the town that they have no chance in the town be cause they are too "young." It is doubtless wiser to send the coming generations away from the town rather than to recognize them and cm ploy them in the progress of the community. What have the young men of the town to look forward to? Where is their inspiration to come from? Why announce that you want the men of thirty to be interested in the town but that they are too young to have any part in making the town of their birth? " And most of the men and women who are mothers and fathers In this town know that this is the reason that their sons have gone away. The fathers and mothers of this town should be more interested in this proposition than anyone else so that their young shall find a place in the community; a place which shall be apportioned by their worth, and not by their age. Or view it as a business proposition. Is it wise to send away and dis courage the best in the young blood of the town? Today towns and farms in New England' stand empty and dying. And why? The "young" men have all gone away to seize opportunities elsewhere, which were not provided at home. The towns have died be cause there are no "young" men. If it be true that America has prospered because it stands for oppor tunity and lack of prejudice is not the same thing true of Richmond? . Perhaps the town owes nothing to the men who have gone away and made good. But what about the men who stay here what about allow ing men to make good In the town of their own birth what about that? Does not the town owe something to the men who are willing to cast their fortune with that of the town? - tAge should bo no insurmountable barrier. ficantly conveys, will be to Increase her naval budget and ultimately adopt the policy of 'two keels to one." Meanwhile, mutual jealousies and mu tual suspicions will keep Germans and English further apart and jeopard at any moment the peace of Europe, Philadelphia North American. FORUMQFTHE PEOPLE Articles Contributed for This Column Must Not Be in Excess of 400 Words. The Identity of All Con tributors Must Be Known to the Editor. Articles WiU Be Printed in the Order Received. Editor Palladium: While deeply slumbering on his vir tuous couch, the writer was visiouated by a night-horse: that Grecian mytho logical stood Pegasus came , pegging along and there fell from his wings on ray pillow v the inclosed effusion which. If in our estimation has the vir tue of the price of the printer's ink you may give to the wide, wide worlC: THEY SAT. If everything we talk about and everything- we say. Waa the simple, naked truth, how mule we a oe today, : Very little could we sav. The despot of society, the tyrant kinj They Say," . .. If he were once dethroned there'd be si ; lence for aye. - - How little we could say I If the many little things we say in a social chat Of the living and the dead, good, bad, and all that, N Was truth to ever live, We'd be very untalkative. It with primal truth, we never dared to play, And fill up a storage house with guile, What would there be to say? In relating a frolic, a function or a fight. . . One, with the truth mus never rollick, Must tell it exactly right, A life without a fib! Just think of the hears unbearable, tha many says unsaid, And the lies that in the horning wont dead, dead, dead; The Ananiases dead! The very unctlous candidate with hi? jolly shaker, His vasty promises, all of which a lit tle later -. ' . ; , Aro found only on paper, Only good to run on; These are now disbanded, when office - Is safely landed, - For he only gave them out left-handed " Jokers they now are branded. When the roll Is called up yonder, foot ed up with care. The truth that wo have squandered, how wo wish to not bo there! "They Say" will not be there, For he ts always no where. If what tbay say was true, what would air the liars do? ' And the devil, what would he ever do or say? " : And who could say, they said? F. OASU8. - Option Elections Are Very Productive of Shine Jokes Option elections held in counties adjoining- Wayne have been productive ot a number of "shine" jokes, which are now being laughingly spread broadcast throughout Richmond. Here is a smile that Eaton, Ohio, claims to have a patent on: Recently a man entered a tailor' shop in the Preble county capital and inquired if be could get a nobby sprint; Items Gathered in From Far and Near Pruning Trees. From the Scran ton Times. Beware of tree butchers. Have your trees, shrubs and vines pruned and trimmed by men who have stud ied and know their business, and who you know are reliable. Many fine and noble trees or young trees are ruined by bad pruning. Pruning of shrubs and trees is a thinning-out process which is invigorating unless carried to an extreme. It allows the remainder of the plant to receive the nourish ment which Is saved by cutting un sightly or unsymmetrical branches. A stronger growth Is made possible in the rest of the plant To get best re sults, pruning should be had annually, thus removing all superfluous wood and better preserving the health and shape of the plant Denver! From the Springfield Union. The determination ot the Denver park board to spend $2,750,000 to beau tify the city by developing what is known as the MacMonnies civic cen ter, marks an important step in the history of the Rocky mountain me tropolis. The plan provides for the parking of the city in the neighbor hood of the capitol grounds and for various other improvements. The board will .advertise proposals imme diately, and unless at the end of nine ty days' protest Is made by 25 per cent of the citizens, the improvements will be commenced. New York's Horse Cars. From the Utica Observer. Once more the passing of tho horse car in New York Is announced. The New York horse car has made almost as many farewell appearances as an opera singer. But there is always one more left. Shoo Thorn! From the Cleveland Plain Dealer. As for making pets of house flies, don't. Practice It! From the Jacksonville Times-Union. We learn hygiene, but rarely prac tice it. Every woman in Jacksonville is a guardian of public health. Pennant Winners. From the Syracuse Herald. This is the time of the year when every base ball Jteam looks good to somebody. TWINKLES Utilising an Accomplishment. "I'll be kind o' glad when Josh gits home from school." said Farmer Corn tossel. "I have an idea he can be right useful." "Are you going to put him to work?" "Maybe. I've exhausted all the lan guage I know on that team of mules. But I haven't given up hope. I want to see whether Josh can't startle 'em some with his college yell." Hypnotists. "Do you' believe in hypnotism?" said one statesman. "You mean the power of putting other people to sleep?" responded the other. . .: "Exactly." "Of course I believe in it It's proved by tho effects of our speeches." Sizes. Of symmetry she may be fond. But you may wager that Her shoes will never correspond In fashion with her hat. Discrimination. "In a matter of duty," said tho ear nest citizen, "we must not hesitate. "That depends," replied the tariff expert, "on the article to which the duty may apply." Excusable. "That girl is afraid of her shadow." said the young woman. - "Well, answered the young man. "if it's a shadow cast while she is wearing-one of these new-fashioned hats I don't blame her." France is considering an enormous hydro-electric undertaking. The plan is to dam the Rhone, below the rapids, some thirteen miles ' from the Swiss frontier, and utilize the water in a fall of .230 feet. The entire upper valley of the Rhone would thus be formed Into a long, narow lake. The plant would generate 240,000 kilowatts, halt of which would ba transmitted to Pari?, about 2S0 miles distant, at a tension of 120.000 volts. It Is estimated that this work would cost about $16,000,000 and could be completed in seven years time. " In the current number of Marx Al bert Langen has an article on "The Barnum of German Music" in which phat title is conferred on Richard Strauss. MASONIC CALENDAR. Wodnosday, April 14. Called meet ing, Webb lodge. No. 24. P.1A. M. Fellowcraft degree. Friday, April - - 1f Called mpotinr King Solomon's Chapter, No. 4, R. A. M"., Royal "Arch Degree." - " " Saturday. April 17. Loyal Chapter, Nov 49. O. B. S. Regular meeting suit at a moderate price. "Sure you can." stated the polite little tailor. "How do you want the pockets in your coat cut, quart or pint size?" Up at Winchester, traveling men 8 tale when the barber gets through am putating your whiskers, he grabs & comb and brush and then says, "How do you want your hair combed. Wayne or Randolph?" (Wet or dry.) Heart to Heart Talks. By EDWIN A. NYE. Copy.ieht, 1908, by Edwin A. Nye "NEVER CURT A WCMAK." Once In awhile the stage gets hold of a vital truth of life. In one of the new plays a motherly maiden aunt takes occasion to give advice to her nephew, a reckless but good hearted boy. In the course of her heart to heart talk the doting aunt says: "My boy- "I understand and sympathize with your high spirits, and I do want you to have a good time. Yon are full of health and now found strength. Maybe you are growing up harder than most boys. Your bills for broken glass hsve been numerous and large. But I only love you the more for your high spirit. There Is only one thing yes might do that I could not forgive, and that Is "To hurt a woman!" Could the wise spinster have In spired a nobler sentiment in the heart of her favorite boy? Theologians have disputed as to whst Is "the sin against the Holy Ghost" the unforgivable sin. It Is just that to hurt a woman. That Is the one Irretrievable, never to be condoned ala of an sin. Erery woman who has borne a son owes It to her sex to burn that lesson deep on the tablets of her boy's young heart that to harm a trusting woman Is to commit the capital crime. Read the newspapers. Analyse the Crimea of our day and you will discover that most of them. In one way or another, are crimes against womanhood. What la the reason? Is It too much to say that tt Is part ly, the fault of the mothers, who be cause of false modesty fail to teach their sons the truth respecting their conduct toward all women? .Of. coarse the father. Is under obli gations to deal frankly with his son concerning the questions of sex, the great life questions. - But how few of them do It! However . If . the boy from Infancy hears the admonition from a mother's loving lips, "Never hurt a woman," he will not forget the teaching. Never hurt a woman! Would there were more Aunt Marys like this one of the stage to teach the nigh chivalry of noble action to ward womankind! Sneh a sentiment bred la the soul of the young men would make a new SEE CHILDREN WORK This Opportunity to Be Given Parents of Garfield School Pupils. TO HOLD NIGHT SESSION In order to give the parents of the Garfield school pupils an opportunity to see Just what is being done in the school, the faculty has arranged to hold a night session, Friday evening. April 30. This will make the fourth ses sion of this, nature. It being the cus tom of the faculty to hold one such meeting- each term. Heretofore, the meetings baTe been largely attends! by the parents and much interest has been displayed. It gives the fathers and the motheis an opportunity to vlsif the school., which opportunity they do not have during the day. because of the inter ferences of other duties. The classes will go through the reg ular routine of class work; study Ir. the East study room and the recita tions In different subjects." including a class in the manual training labratory. . The Academy of Sciences at Vienna has decided upon the creation of pho nographic archives, which will be divided into three parts, and which will probably be the most remarkable library on record. The first section will be devoted to examples of Euro pean languages and dialects of the dif ferent peoples spoken at the beglning of the twentieth century. The second will contain examples of music an J song of the same period, while the third section will be reserved for th records of contemporary orators. The Czar of Russia is richer by many millions today than he ever was before. Professor Gianin. the famous Russia? chemist has demonstrated to the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences that the waters of Druskenzie lake and the hundreds of square miles of marshy land surrounding It are brimful of radium. This discovery is expected to reduce the price of radium matrially. The lake and surrounding territory are the private property of the Czar. , As a substitute for the baby carriage a French inventor has brought out a portable hammock by wnlch the infant can be carried between two persons by traps from their shoulders. MARSHALL SCORES some ncems Declares That Those Who Want Duty on Hides Not Jeff ersonian. MADE SPEECH IN NEW YORK AT THE NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CLUB BANQUET LAST EVENING, THE FLOWER OF THE PARTY WAS PRESENT. New York. April 14. Tariff revision as conducted in the sixty-first con gress, was scored by Governor Thom as R. Marshall of Indiana in a speech at the annual dinner of the National Democratic club last night at the Ho tel Savoy in re'ebration of the one hundred and sixth anniversary of the birth of Thomas Jefferson. Governor Marshall paid his respects to certaiu democratic congressmen in the following words: "A pretended follower of Jefferson who mouths about a tariff on bides, so that no hides may be Imported to shoe the barefooted boys of the Bowery, while it gives some prosperous farmer a dollar more upon a Texas steer. Is a travesty upon democracy. That man may think he is a democrat, but he isn't" Notables From Other States. There were present a number of democratic notables from many states, including Judson Harmon, governor of Ohio; Thomas R. Marshall, governor of Indiana and George E. Chamberlain United States senator from Oregon, as well as all the local party leaders. A portrait of Jefferson, hung over with American flags, dominated the guest table, at which sst Governors Harmon and Marshall, Senator Cham berlain, State Senator Grady, John Fox, the club's president; Richard Croker, Alton B. Parker, Charles F. Murphy, leader of Tammany Hall; former state Supreme Court" Judges Morgan J. O'Brien and D. Cady Her- rick. Elsewhere at six longitudinal tables sat 400 of the elect of the democratic party, among them Supreme Court Justices O 'Gorman, Guy. Dudro. Plat zek. Truax, Herman Ridder. Senator Patrick H. McCarren. John Mitchell and Francis Burton Harrison. - -. Mayor McCIellan, Governor Johnson of Minnesota, W. J. Bryan, Governor Swanson of Virginia. Governor Burke of South Dakota, President Wood row Wilson of Princeton. Champ Clark. Senator Culberson of Texas." Repre sentative Rainey of Illinois aad August Belmont sent regrets., , :.. AN HONEST MAN SAVED BY A PHILANTHROPIST. Mr. T. A. Morgan, of Hammond, lad. had suffered for years with his stom ach and kidneys, and while the great Root Juice scientist was proving the merits of the Root Juice remedy to the people of northern Indiana, Mr. Mor gan purchased six bottles of the Juice and while it waa being wrapped up. he said: "If Root Juice cures me I witl make the scientist a present of mic hundred dollars,". ' A short while ago Mr. Morgan called on '.he scientist and said that he could eat anything with out the slightest Inconvenience and that his kidney trouble was .entirely cured. Ho wanted the scientist to take the one hundred dollars, bat It was re fused. However, it was agreed to give the money to an orphan asylum. So Root Juice is not only curing the sick, but in this instance will be the Indi rect means of caring for some dead mother's child. - Root Juice has proved Its wonderful merits to many people of this point. From the very start It seems to soothe and heal the linings of the stomach and bowels and strength en the liver and kidneys, thereby giv ing nature a chance to. In her own way, throw off the impurities of the b.ood. It is a wonderful medicine, sold for 1.00 a bottle , or three for at A. G. Luken &. Co.'s drug store. Movement is being made toward con servation of the forests of the province of Bengal. British India. Elephants de stroy them. ' Political Announcements Advertisements in This Column Cost Ten Dollars for all Offices Except Councilmen Which Are Five Dollars FOR MAYOR. KZNR? W. DEDKER Is a candidate for mayor, subject to tho Republi can nomination. SAMUEL K. MORGAN, candidate for Mayor, subject to the Republican nomination. r , EDWARD H. HARRIS Is a candidate for Mayor, subject to the Republi can nomination. . FOR CITY CLERK. BALTZ A. BESCHER Is a candidate for the office of city clerk of Rich mond, subject to the Republican , nomination.. 1 FOR JUDGE OF CITY COURT. LUTHER C. ABBOTT is a candidate for Judge of the City Court of Rich mond, Ind.. subject to the Republi can nomination. COUNCILMAN-AT-LARGE. MATT VON PEIN la a candidate for the office of Councilman-at-Iarge, . subject to the Republican nomina tion. , - : ,; .' .' ., : , FOR COUNCILMAN. JESSE J. EVANS,' candidate for Councilman for Second Ward, sub ject to the Republican nomination. Utu Prices Fcr ApTi! 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