Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 80, Decatur, Adams County, 30 March 1907 — Page 2

The Daily Democrat. Published Every Evening, Except Sun day, by LEW G. ELLINGHAM. Subscription Rates. Per week, by carrier 10 cents Per year, by carrier $->.OO Per month, by mail 25 cents Per year, by mail $2.50 Single copies 2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the postoffice in Decatur Indiana, as second class mail matter. j. H. HELLER, Manager. THE STEAL IN STEEL. The United States Steel (or Steal) company has issued its statement for 1906, and from this statement it appears : I FtYst—That the gross sales were $696,756,926.01. Second—That the company has 202,457 employes. Third—That the employes received last year $147,765,540. Fourth—That the net earnings for the year amounted to $156,624,273.18. From these figures it will be seen that the net earnings amount to about 23 per cent of the gross sales. Can the average business man do that well when he has no monopoly? It will also be seen that the net earnings exceed the wages paid to employes. That means that each employe earns what is paid to him and in addition to that earns a profit for his employer more than equal to his wages. The company make more than one hundred per cent profit on the wages paid; can the ordinary business man do that well when he has no monopoly? The employes receive in wages about 21 per cent of the gross sales

and yet the average tariff is about

50 per cent. What need has the steel company of the tariff which it now enjoys? And how long will the American people wait for the tariff to be reformed by its beneficiaries? Will the average business man who has no monpoly continue to vote with the managers of the Steel trust? —Commoner. Senaor Cullom of Illinois, after an interview with President Roosevelt, said that Harriman, the railroad “wizard” ought to be sent to the penitentiary becuse of alleged crooked bond deals. And if Harriman, why not other men who have exploited the railroads for their mere personal advantage? From the moment “the tall sycamore of the Wabash" arrived at the Park Row station, when he was taken in charge of the club's reception committee, until the hour set for the banquet, the presidential bee kept “a-buzzin' with ever increasing energy and hardly left the statesman from the Hoosier state time to think for himself. —Chicago News, (Ind. Rep.) The “tall sycamore of the W abash indeed I That term was applied to Daniel W. Vorhees for a genet ation and can hardly be appropriated by Fairbanks. It appears there is a string tied to each of the donations recently made by John D. Rockefeller—parts of his

$22,000,000 appropriation. Each col-1 lege that is to get a slice of this appropriation must secure three, four or five times as much from other sources. In some instances this will be an utter Impossibility. By imposing such conditions, the much-vaunted contributions to educational institutions will remain indefinitely— perhaps always—in Mr. Rockefeller's strong box. Besides, he doesn t make cash donations. What he gives, or rather what he bargains to give, consists of securities of the real value of which the public is kept in blissful ignorance.—South Bend Times. An article in Popular Mechanics gives the following figures as to the relative safety of railroad travel in 1895 and 1905: In 1905 one trainman was killed out of every 133 employed. In 1905 one trainman was injured out of every 9 employed.

In 1905 one passenger killed to each 1,375,856 carried. In 1895 one passenger was killed to each 2,984,832 carried. In 1905 one passenger injured to each 70,655 carried. In 1895 one passenger injured to each 213,651 carried. The ratio of fatalities to passengers carried more than doubled, and that of passengers injured more than trebled. During this entire ten-year period the railroads of the country have been jack-potted in Wall street by stock gamblers and manipulators The public has paid the price in both money and blood.

STAHL’S FUNERAL —— Will Be Held Sunday at Ft. Wayne ———, I MURPHY FOLLOWS STAHL I 1 Went to Fort W'ayne to Attend Funeral and Decides to Take the Same Route. I Fort Wayne, Ind., March 29. —It was decided today to hold “Chick" Stahl's I funeral Sunday aftenoon from the family residence, under the auspices of the local lodges of Elks and Eagles. Perry Stahl has wired that the body will reach Fort Wayne at 6 o’clock this morning. James Goodfellow, a lifelong friends of the dead ball player is accompanying Perry Sthal. Playing in both National and American leagues will cease during the time of the funeral services. Mrs. Charles Stahl and her sister and father arrived today | from Roxbury. “Jimmy" Collins and several other ball players arrived late this evening. I Fort Wayne, March 30. —D. F. Murphy, an oldtime ball player, came here to attend the funeral services of his ' old friend, "Chick" Stahl. He registered at the Aveline hotel, ate a hearty breakfast, then went to his room and drank a bottle of carbolic acid, just as “Chick” did. He was dead in fifteen minutes. He told friends whom he met that he had been despoerate < ever since he heard of “Chick's" i death.

A number of Decatur people, friends of Stahl, will go to Fort Wayne tomorrow, to attend the funeral services. Have you seen the new spring suitings at Henry Meyer's, above the Model Cigar Store? 71-12 t See Julius Haugk for stone, cement blocks, Portland cement and coal. Fresh car of cement just received. Phone 74. 71*-24t Two Turk peddlers were arrested today by Marshal Green on a charge of violating the city ordinance by selling and peddling goods without a license. They were having their hearing before Mayor Coffee as we go to press. "

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I A LEGACY. ; (Original.] “My son," said the old man as h« lay dying, "I have nothing to leave you but a recipe for gaining the confidence of your fellow men. Confidence is the basis of all that leads on to fortune, and if you follow my advice explicitly you will be prosperous and perhaps prominent The advice Is this: “Don't expose your ignorance or stupidity. Never give an opinion. Look wise and say nothing.” , Irving Shadrac, the legatee to this 1 meager fortune, was impressed. Indeed, he began to act on the advice at once. Hie fattier had but one Intimate friend, a man doing a large business. 1 ( He called upon Irving and asked him to express his wishes concerning the, funeral. Irving looked at him as though he had been asked the question of his life. He made no reply. He seemed to be considering. “If you like,” said his questioner, “I will attend to everything for you." Irving pressed bls hand without * speaking. The funeral arrangements were welt attended to. and John Andrews of the ' firm of Andrews & Co. was proud of 1

his success In having arranged a very Impressive ceremony. When he met the son after It was all over and asked how he was pleased with his management, Irving looked Unutterable gratitude. It occurred to him to tell Mr. Andrews why he so approved of the arrangements; but, lest be should not hit on what Mr. Andrews considered the principal feature, he held his peace. “There’s good stuff in that boy,” said the merchant. “I must get him into my counting room. He’ll never go off half cocked. He'll never slop over." Irving became one of the lowest order of clerks la the house of Andrews & Co. Whenever it was necessary for him to go into the private office of the head of the firm he did what was necessary, but did not speak. He looked as if he were carrying in his head a solution of all the various problems that beset the welfare of the business. Noticing this, Mr. Andrews on one or two occasions. In order to test him. submitted to him some business question and asked him what he would do In the matter. Irving at once put on his visible thinking cap. Mr. Andrews asked him a leading question, which gave away his own opinion. Then Irving told him the way the thing should be done—Mr. Andrews’ own way. Shadrac was made chief clerk and then became • partner. Meanwhile he was fonowing his father's bequest in every department of life. If a gathering of citizens met to discuss the water supply, he appeared to be doing the thinking for the meeting, but never opened bis mouth. If the vestrymen of his church discussed a question of finances, he, a member, looked at the ceiling thoughtfully and if asked for his opinion said. “I’m thinking.” Before the meeting broke up be had learned what the majority wished and advocated it with every appearance of having reached the conclusion by profound deliberation. When it was proposed to send Irving Shadrac to congress he really thought for the first time In bls life, the subject of bls deliberation being whether he could best serve his own purposes by remaining In business or going into politics. He decided for the latter and went to congress. There be never opened his mouth. But he was a true American, going always with the majority. Other congressmen had views which they fought for. Shad- ' rac had no views except such as were Indicated by his dignified and thoughtin’ atnearance. Fortunately for him

he was getting bald and looked older than he was. A man who never made mistakes, who was always on the right side of every question—he could never be on the wrong side except In a vote, and then he had the majority with I him—could not but grow in importance, and Congressman Shadrac stepped In time from the house of representatives Into the senate chamber. One day the president sent for him. Shadrac responded and sat down with the nation's chief, an expression on bls face indicating that he was ready to solve even the question of the Pan ama canal. “Senator," said the president, "a portfolio in my cabinet Is about to be- . come vacant" Shadrac was sitting with his right leg over his left. He Immediately changed, putting his left over his j right. He appeared to be ready to consider the various names concerning i which the president would ask his preference. “I find that your state Is behind In the list of important government posts and that there Is such confidence in the soundness of yonr views on all Issues of pith and moment that I have determined to offer you the portfolio. Will you accept it?" Shadrac knit his brows, drew down the comers of Lis mouth, changed legs, put his band up to his forehead, but

made no reply. “Silence gives consent," said the president. “I shall send your appointment to the senate at once.” Thus it was that Irving Shadrac by acting upon the legacy bequeathed to him by his father became a member of the president’s cabinet. And. now that they are hunting for a man to put in the presidents place, political managers are saying: "What we want is a man to Inspire the confidence of the nation. Look at Secretary Sbadrac's record. He has been identified with every important question that has been before the nation In twenty years and has never made a mistake. What better man can we put up tn 190 S? -E- A.AHXGLIEL. The Weathering of Coal. It Is probably not generally known that coal exposed to the atmosphere undergoes chemical changes greatly affecting Its quality. Moisture is the most powerful agent in producing such change. It is a matter of common knowledge among men engaged in the making of illuminating gas that coal which has been stored for a long time experiences a loss of hydrocarbons, and the effects of the change are shown In a diminution of tbe volume of the coal and In a loss of illuminating power in the gas produced from it Such chemical changes occurring In great masses of coal may even produce sufficient accumulation of beat to cause spontaneous combustion. Msrcury and Air. The reason that mercury rises and falls in tbe barometer is that dry air is 1 heavy, moist air Is light and tbe column of mercury is affected by atmospheric pressure. Tbe tube of a barometer being open at the bulb end, tbe air when moist cannot support the weight of the mercury. When the air Is dry, the mercury cannot resist its weight; hence the rise and fall In dry and wet weather Ths Emerald Isle. Ireland is called the Emerald Isle because of the richness of its verdure, the term being first used by Dr. Wil- ; liam Drennan, tbe author of “Glendal- , loch” and other poems, published In the latter part of the eighteenth century. “Treatyse of Fysshynge With an Angle” was the first book on angling printed in English. It appeared In 1440.

ILL FATED MODELS. The Odd Story of Soy no's Painting “Mystery of Life.” ' Invested with tragedy is tbe story of ! George I. Seyne's "Mystery of Life," in the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. “Three models,” tbe artist told a friend, “were lost during the making of IL It became next to impossible for me to finish it “I had sketched out the plan and bad practically completed the figure of the old man in the grotto. Thea I began work on tbe figure of the girl. Tbe i model I selected was a particularly beautiful young woman and one who understood to a nicety the methode of my work, tor she posed for me for 1 nearly five years. TThe picture was begun In the spring and I had been at work on the woI man's figure barely a week when my j model stayed away one day to go on a ■ yachting trip. From this she never returned. The boat capsized, and all on board were drowned. So true to the subject of the painting was this incident that I turned the canvas to the wall, unable to continue the work, “More than a year passed, and one day the old gentleman who posed for tbe other figure asked me about the picture. I explained to him that I had been unable to continue with tbe work. After some reasoning he persuaded me to get tbe canvas out. 1 added a bit to his figure and decided to continue the work, after persuading myself that this morbid state of mind caused by the Incident of a year previous was more or less due now to a bad case of Indigestion. “The next day I began work with a new model. Scarcely two weeks bad passed when this girl caught cold in my studio, was stricken with pneumonia, and before the mouth was out she died. i “Horror stricken, I turned the canvas again to the wail and declared that never again would I touch it “Many times would I look at it and long to complete it but the work was at such a stage that a model was necessary, and my superstition conquered. So I refrained from taking up tbe brush. “One day many months afterward I left a model alone in the studio. Her curiosity prompted her to look at some canvases stacked against tbe wall. This one took her fancy. She saw it was unfinished, and, to my amazement when I returned the picture was standing on the easel. “ ‘I want to pose for that’ she said, as I entered. I “ ‘But it is Impossible. Neither you nor any one else shall ever pose for that picture.’ “ ‘But it Is a great subject You must finish it—you must!' “So Insistent was that I finally yielded, and she posed for me. I never saw a model so interested In the progress of a painting. She could scarcely ' wait to see it finished. At last it was completed, and I rejoiced to think that It was done without further fatality.l But In that I was mistaken. Almost In- j credible as it may seem, six monthsi later, when that painting was hung on exhibition, my last model died from burns she received in a hotel fire.”— Scrap Book.

Trouble Ahead ‘ls your husband up yet?” asked the early caller of tbe sour faced woman at the door. “I expect be is," was the reply. “I’d like to see him for a few minutes.” “So would I. He hasn’t come home yet.”—Milwaukee Sentinel. The truth of It Is those who best deserve praise have generally th« most exquisite relish of it.—Steele.

Easter! Easter! Tague's Shoe Store

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F. B. Tague’s Shoe Store

FOR SALE —Some extra fine strong breediiig Barred Plymouth Rock cockerels, $1.50. Inquire of D. F. Ault, 21 Pixley Blk., Ft. Wayne. 72-6 t FOR SALE —Two Tennessee Jacks, one 14 and other 15 hands high. For sale at the right price. Robert Hanlln, R. F. D. 2, Ft. Recovery, O. 75 — EGGS FOR SALE—From large exhij bition Bared Plymouth Rocks. 75c per setting. Fred D. Bell, Bell-View Farm. 74-6 t FOR SALE —One bay brood mare, 7 I years old, in foal; one brood sow, with pigs by her side. Inquire of John Scheiman at the City Coal and Feed Yard. 71-»Gt EGGS* FOR SALE—R. C. Buff and White Orpingtons. Winners of Ist, 2d, 3d and 4th prizes at Decatur Poultry Show. Chicken with best record of all breeds. SI.OO per 13. J. B. Drummond, Decatur. 74-18 t. EGGS FOR SagE—Settings from i White Brahmas, high scoring hens. ! My birds took first prizes at the De catur Poultry show. Price 75 cents per setting. Michael Miller, Monroe, ' R. R. No. 1. 54-*2mo. Titon and Goliah These famous stallions will stand the season of 1907 as follows; First 3 days of the week at Preble; last three days of week at tbe Conrad farm near Freidheim. Terms —$15.00 to insure colt to stand and suck. ~ 76 — August Conrad J <

The went er f, )re . casts says it will be a a fine day.. This i s i n jour favor so jou may dress awell. We are prepartd for you with a full Ji ne of Spring Sty’esin shoes and Oxf >rds This is in your favor, get a new pair of shoes and shine with the day.

5 FOR SALE—Cigar wagon, with elect trie light and storm front on, set . double buggy harness, set single bugt gy harness, and a cutting box. D. H Hunsicker. Decatur. Ind. ;o-6t . FOR SALE—One 3-year-old gelding, one yearling mare; one fresh cow . with calf by side; two Durocs with pigs by side; B. P. Rock. W. Wyandottee, R. C. Brown Leghorn and R, C. • R. I. Red Eggs for hatching. Inquire of E. S. Christen, Decatur, Ind. Phone • Fl2 ’ 76-6 t — -o ■ — GOING TO PAPER THIS SPRING? John W. Edwards wants to do your spring paper hanging, house and sign painting. Call him if you need anything In his line. 73-»lmo NOTICE. All K. of C. members are requested to be present at the lodge room at five fifteen, standard time, Sunday morning, to attend the Communion in a body. By order of 75-2 L C. N. CHRISTEN. —o LOW PACIFIC COAST RATES. From March Ist to April 30th, the Erie R. R. will have tickets on sale daily at very low rates to the Pacific Coast and intermediate points. For further information apply to Erie agents, or write O. L. ENOS, Traveling Passenger Agent, Marlon, Ohio. o NOTICE. Decatur. Ind. March 28, ’O7. By mutual agreement our partnership tn the practice of the law has been dissolved. Mr. Merryman will remain in the office until his term of office begins. Mr. Sutton will retain the offices and continue in the practice. We heartily thank all who have at any time entrusted us with their legal business. Respectfully, JAMES T. MERRYMAN. JESSE C. SUTTON. 74-d4t&wlt. o PUBLIC SALE. The undersigned will offer for sale at his residence, U 4 miles northwest of Pleasant Mills, on the old Andy

Teeple farm, beginning at 10 o'clock a. m., on Saturday, April 6, 1907, the following property: HORSES—Mare 6 years old. with foal; sorr-’. mare, 6 years old this spring; good match team sorrel colts, Norman bred, two years old this spring; Belgian sorrel mare colt, 7 months old. CATTLE—Three milk cows; 1 cow 7 years old, was fresh in February: two cows, 3 years old, giving milk; heifer, 2 years old; Jersey heifer. 1 year old; two calves, six months old. HOGS—Black Poland China brood sow with eight pigs by her side, three weeks old; two Chester White sows with pigs by her side, 4 weeks old; one male O. I. C. hog, weighs 125 pounds, 4 months old. SHEEP —Thirteen head of Shropshire sheep; twelve head of ewes, some with lambs by their side and some to have lambs; one buck POULTRY —Ten dosen chickens; four yellow bronze turkey hens and one gobbler; twelve head of dry land geese; five head of ducks. POTATOES—Twenty-five bushels of good eating potatoes. GRAIN, ETC. —100 bushels of corn, ten bushels of good wheat and three tons of good bright wheat straw in the barn. FARM IMPLEMENTS, Etc.—Two wagons, top buggy, two sets single harness, set of work harness, threehorse Cassidy riding plow, double shovel plow, single plow, Ackman harrow, spring tooth harrow, log chains, double trees, two-horse National riding plow good as new with spring brake foot gear, twelve-row safety corn shredder. HOUSEHOLD GOODS — Beds, stoves, piano, sewing macnine. chairs, fruit cans and other articles too numerous to mention Also incubator. TERMS —All sums of $5 and under, cash in hand; on sums over that amount a credit of 9 months will be given, purchaser giving note with approved security. GEORGE THOMAS. Fred Reppert, Auctioneer.