Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 71, Decatur, Adams County, 25 March 1907 — Page 2

The Daily pmxaAT. Pvh<shed Every Evsutofc ExctjK Sen oay. °/ LEW G. E HINGHAM. Subscript W RrieaPer week, by carrier 1® ceu:* Per year. by carrier ■ • I-'- - • Per by mail - 5 Per year, by matt * 2 > ; Single Adverttotog rate# u*de xsown on. application. E»-’*red at the p.-ciuSce te. I*ecarti»r 1 Indiana, as sectnid c:tss man matter, j - ; < u. H. HELLER. Mar.aper. THE LOT SALE TOMORROW. The Smoker tonight and the tot sale < tomorrow, beginning at th- sound cf‘ the goag a* 12: t ' PrcmptEess in be-• tog present at the opening, may as-1 sure vcm b-jy ng the tot you was£ The |

sale will begin at the minute of th? hour uar-ed T>ere bring two hood ed' and twenty-seven lots to sell, necesri- 1 tales an early and protc; i start. Every lot will be sold before a breathing' spell coses. To aceom.dish this means az early t prompt ! I<l- - Do not bold the xsttioueer. »-t tie «ip and :i .?•'< your s’illiiigiaO'fe ' f *i help and your faith to the the future of a Greater Pecater Tttto vd to a great day and the sale wtikbe a £rwt sale. Come and help make it ’’.is success planned. The business men and others of carur have worked faithfully and »»!'. They will also bay their share of the lots offered. It is new the duty of the few who tare not thus far identified themsrivee with the movement to come to the front od bay one or more lots. TTs the way”to sake Decatur grow.. It *tas»- the manufacturing business to Decatur, and every one will be benefited. Come out and do your share to this great enterprise. It is now time that you should have thought it over. THE PANIC ARRANGED. Speaking of the panic to Wall street ex-Secretary Shaw said that it was not “lozicai" but “psychological." The

' — -■'-- "- ".-• ~-'!l T- 2- 1 —” fWall Paper id i All Grades | We wish to inform our customers that we | are again ready aid in better shape to serve the traae iu wail paper than ever before. We bought direct from the largest factories in the business in aufficiea-. quantities to secure the lowest possible Wrice. We aso have the very latest patterns and colorings. We have well paper in all grades suitable for all Minds of rooms. Paper in endlees varieties from the cheapest to the the best. We want you to sea our samples and compare them with those of anyone in the wall pap'-r business- We jean please you and save you money. w ■ Make us Prove it The Holthouse Drug Co. We will buy a lot on March 26.

following paragraph from a New York dispatch explains bow • psychological’ the thing was -The men who engineered ft did not guess. They did not fire at random. They acted first as doctors and then as soldiers. They ©elected roluminou« data and knew the situation to a T. They knew just how events were shaping—in fact, it is bettered they helped to shape them, and that guveraraest officials and investigating attorneys were used without compunction j They knew just when the psychologlc- ' al tu-.-nsent arrived." I were used withost compunction." In I brought abou. the panic lor their own i profit were helped along to some . way by Bapablu&n eScUto. And War . mach did these off: rials receive as I their share of the transaction T And I bow soon will they help arrange an j other psychological upheaval that m&v i prove even more disastrous *

_ — It is said that New York s tri were I bard hit by the recurring quakes in i.Waft street. A group of them, it is > estimated, tost li Among the losers were many women. A dispatch to the Chicago Record-Herald, says: “That society was hard hit by the ■ crash did net become known until its members began to negotiate their oid j line securities. The women are reI ported to have been drawn into j speculation through their male relatives. The losses of the smart set are causing much talk to the financial district. It is freely admitted that ; the gayety of Newport will be curtailed through the lack of money. Reports -continued to. circulate regarding •normous losses that have been suffered tn the past week by heretofore rich men It was said that three young operators in the market, aoclaiIly prominent, lost many miHionu.” Thia, of course, to very sad. But it ’ might be worse. Hereafter New York j society should confine its gambling ‘ operations to less risky elfce* - The Dunn murder trial has been set 1 for next May. Added interest is given this function by reason of the fact ; that Allen county will pay the defendant s bill this trip, to previous trials Dunn footed his own expenses. It is sincerely to be hoped that Judge . Watkins will not be guilty of the errors of the previous trial judges. The Dtrnn case to becoming a public in- , • flection. —Ft. Wayne News.

NOTICE TO ABUTTINtt PROFhRTV OWNERS Notice to hereby given to the property owners on each side of Madison street from the west line of First street to the east line of Seventh street, and to the property owners on both rides of Third street from the south line of Monroe street to the north fine of Madison street, that the 1 Common Cotmdi of the City of Deca . tar. Indiana, formally adopted a resolution to improve said Madison street from the west line of First street to the out line of Seventh street and Third street from the south line of ' Monroe strnet to the north line ci Madj-'.-a street, that on the Mth day of March. 1»T. at 7 o'clock p m . toe ’ ->mmon Coub- | cil will, at the council rx®. he*r ail j persens wtowe property is affected by ! the proposed improvements, and wiL > decide whether the benefits that will aeerne to the property to be assessed j abutting and adjacent to the proposed ’ improvements and to said city, wi.. ’ be efjua; to or exceed tie estimate*. ■ 1 c-s: of the '-rv,-.**d improvements By flrder of the Comm to Connett, made and entered of record. March 7, IS>V7. SEAL.) C. O. FRANCE 5»-12l City Clerk. o NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS. We will receive bids for the con--TTuction of two» room school building at«f parr of dwelling house up to and including Wednesday, April f»7. Plans and speeiscati<ms can be had by calling at St. Mary s Catlsolie parsonage A Certified check of 15” <*S should accompany each bid. The building committee reserves the right to reject any or an bids. REV. H. THEO. WTLKEN, 71-fft. Pastor , NOTICE. Persons whose departed friends and relatives sleep in Union Chape! cemei tery. are requested to beautify the graves, to all ways possible, between thia acd Decoration Day. A little work and effort will make this city «f the dead more beautiful and we earnestly request that it be dona. By request of 71-3 t BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

CEMENT WORK GUARANTEED. We are ready to take contracts for ail kinds of cemant work, such as eoncrate foundations, sidewalks, cellar Soon. etc. Where we furnish the material. we guarantee the work. Send us your orders, or call us by phone. No. 555. BUTLER k BUTLER, ei ’tf Decanr. Ind. o LIMA MAN KILLS HIMSELF New Tork. March 25.—Wilbur E. Benson, a wealthy man from Lima O, committed suicide today at a local hotel. He was weil known in oil circles in the middle west. o SAY ITS THE LAST STRAW — Firemen Strikers Make a New Demand. — | Chicago. March 25. —The railroad sit- | nation was rendered more acute this < morning cj the introduction of nets j demands for increased wages art rei<l :t'•: Lours by 37.*zt firemen and enI glnee rs. who were formerly Cremes : and still retain membership in taa» or. ’ d.r. They demand an increase ot 61- ■ teen per cent. This added to the all ■ ready heavy burden of hcsri." public ! i sentiment, the railroad men declared. ’ I is the last straw. o ANNOUNCEMENT. The undersigned wishes to make known to the public that on March

i I 27. she will ®pen a needle-work store lia Stoneburaerk Music Store I wf! also give lessons every Wednesday I afternoon and do ail kinds of stamp- | ing. , 70-sf. LETTIE M KINTZ. v O Do not forget the Decatur Ha_’<l wwa Co. for coal oL, 10 oecta a ga> loa. teVt. * a 'J ■!i ■! aawa ■■ i r

P. J. HYLAND. SANITARY PLUMBING ’ O-aaaS* >TTTX»>IC* ■St® *• KslWitathMtiu US **» &MMTWI FIXTHn 'a J ncmrvM M *tu>A« 33# ■ FARMS Bought Sold and Exchanged CALL OB WRITE O. GANDY <D, CO. 2C*5 West Berry St. FT. WAYNE, IND,

BEHINB THE SCENES. > Humorous Lwrturor’a Viwww Abwwt th* Stags H«mv ’ ’ wmrier why it to that one feeto It to such a teattar tn bto cap if be e*a : make a sttge uind tough. I remember that one even.ng there wa* an unuw- ! ally intelligent anditacct made ap of college professor# sad cvUegiaas. and they laughed readily and often at Jerome's sallies. > Just scena sat a stolid and stnpid rt-ge han.l and be yaw tied at least four rimes wile the recsi—g waa going on. I knew perfectly well that if - Jerome were to leap to L> band# and - walk ground the stage with bis feet in the air, stogtog •‘G-ri Save the King" ■ the itajß* J wcxik • but 1 knew that Jerome never did that ' particular trick. And the stage hand sat there st :-'. IX ’ “Wil! be Eke my work’" I asked myst* if. I tmuit I wouJd. v>i’jc his verdict above a whole theater full , of others, rithocgii they were alert mentalities. I went tto. The professor# and colteglzns pr opened my jests, for which I was grateful, but I heard a none at the wings that made me do my level 'best The stage band was laughing -tot • k>udL Later I beard what it was be sail I when be laughed. -Ge* I have to isuzt: to see such a . solemn lookin' cuss befere the footMghto I bet he’s lost his way.” But at the time I thought I bad 1 made a hit with him, and I was happy. I always preferre-1 eturches to theaters. because there were no stage hand#. I don’t know how a stoge band acts toward an actor, but I always felt that they merely talented t», because we never used aiapeti vs nor yet made up. I know they made me feel unconifortable. but once half a ioxen of them tocgiwt at toe. and I date t half try to make them do It. The fins thmg a torturer doee after accustoming him•elf to th# iarsa«M of —behind the scenes- to to Mud a V*P b’ie" and “count the boaae" One night I tried . aeveral, tat they were all tee amail. Just at “tiptoes" was a one. and I mads ter that. and. retoteg uyoarf on my teossins uadi I (MKbtod a ballet daaror. I applied lay vye. Thea it wa# that they laughed, fer I wm ,«*tag tats a Uttis triek ■Trer thai redectsd - —l* —.

my eye. b-K gave »»e gi.ajsse « th* bouae.-Charles BatteS Leomla to S«eoaaa Magaatne. VeMaire to toe Bastdte. The W’rwt rx s' iJ erne. Vettalre. waa Kara Maa aaoa tmprtaaned hi the Bast.ie far kavtag dbwokafi bto satire against the pa were that ware. Hit firet for such an offense was la 1717. wfeea he leveled a bl ting set es verses and later a as- ( ttrical compowe«a la Latin against the regent, the Emke of Orleans. The tocensed resent ordered V.jitaire to the BastLiw: but forgetting about him. XX the writer in prison for eleven ssoctfca.. < When at last the poet was remembered . and release-! the regent, a man of « some generoery. unmindful of any-! ( - thing save the tedioos .mpnsonment . his lampooner had suffered. scat for him and granted him a pens.oti of XOX) 1 francs a year to *-»>tbe his wounded < feelings. It is related that Voltaire sccepted the gift with as much witty grace as gratitude. "Mcnseignecr.” I said be. “I m -t humbly thank your! royal high.nere for continuing to charge yourself with the exi-erwe of my board, but I beg you never again to trouble yourself about my lodging." 11 AbaerrtT nded P-ze. *Tve met the absentminded man arrei-t” said the man who is always looking for freaks. “I thought Td found him in the college p yfessor ! who when be went upstairs to dress • for dinner would aiwentmiodedly g to bed instead But that fellow was displaced by a young writer who would put his foot up in a chair to tie his shoe and then, forgetting waat he did it for, would put the other foot up in . the chair and stand up in it. Thea I j met a woman who confessed to took- I ing absentmindedly in the tack of her

hairbrush instead of her hand mirror when she wanted to see the hack of her bead, and I thought she bad gone the writer one better. But r»e met the king of the ahaentmtnded world now. He la a young ndnleter. and every once in awhile be wait* patiently half an hour for a car tn a street on which ao cars run. He baa eonfeaeed It bat every once la to often be does the trick right over again.” Irish Wn. Pat (THooitgaa gar* a dfcnor to some of Us friends. Hia wife had prepared one rt'.ekea, wMeh Pat proceeded to carve to nerve hla guest*. laming to the lady sealed nearest him, he asked very politely: "What part will yes bev. Missis Marphyr “Om take toe leg. If yes plaxe, noir," she said. Pat next tamed to a little Morphy. “And what part iv the bird will yes her, young man?” "Ofll take a leg. if it plane ye, noir,* replied the little Murphy. Then Pat addressed Mr. Murphy. “What's yer choice iv the bird? Will ye her the white meat?” “Oi’ll take another leg. soir. an’ much obleged fer the question.” said Mr. Murphy, who always followed his wife's example. “Begcrra.” exclaimed Pat. “phwat do yez think I"m carvin’—a spider?”— Washington post. , Moving Scenes. I Jangs— T -s, sir, I have had some strange experiences and witnessed some moving scenes—very moving, indeed. Smith—Oh. are you a detective? Jangs—No; I’m a scene shifter at the theater.

Get in Line and Join the Crowd BUY YOUR Spring Suits, Hat, Shoes, Furnishings at * JL «&Jmf £ ’W’ Mi? DECATUR. IND. And then you will be in a happy frame of mind to BUY A LOT ONE PRICE TO ALL B. ISalver Clothing Co.

Eye Ear No«e Tkr< at Glaaaos Fitted alao spuria; treau&eu for Dtreaaev Luigs. Kidaars Stom •ch an! Rneutnatiso:. Cancer treated. J, N. Younkin D O. M. D. TOCSIN. IND. Farmers, Attention! J. N. BURKHEAC FARM wo LIVE STOCK AUCTIONEER Cal. aecanu st M<.erv • re* Two i3UA» weeTuf Moaro* UONBOE INDIANA B R NO I, REPPERT AND SPUHLER| ADAMS COUNTY AUCT ONEERS — iI Will get you the higbeet price for your PROPERTY Seed ia year Datee early for tew caiaader to fast filling I ’ - -- ,y. ■ I - wwe. OFFICE: aver Raneee Stere, mum. ■» • » ' Titon and Goliah ! These famous stallions will stand • the season of 1807 as follows: First 3 days of the week at Preble; last three days of week at the Conrad farm ucaf F'TEtilxlcikjSkTerms —115.00 to insure colt to stand and suck. 4td-2tw August Conrad

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