Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 81, Decatur, Adams County, 1 April 1907 — Page 2

The D-uly Published Bv*ry Svsning, Except &uu by LEW G. ELLINGHAM. r "~ **-'ll, Will Iff' — SulMcriptian Rates. For week, by carrier 10 cents Per year, by carrier $5.00 Per month, by mail 2i cents Per year, by mail |2.5e Single copies 2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the postoffice in Decatur Indiana, as second class mall matter. J. H. HELLER. Manager. —II >i nn„ FARMERS AND TAXATION. (From a recent speech by Mr. Bryan.) "I believe the farmer has been more neglected in his interests than any other class of people. The farmer belongs to that class known as the common people, and the phrase of common pet pie is not a phrase of reproach. “Now the farmers belong to the common people and the common people of this country have not had their share of attention from the government When I tell you that our government appropriates something like forty-eight times as much a year for the army and navy as for the department of agriculture you will see the farmer has not . eceived the attention he deserves when you i consider either his numbers or the importance of his business. "When you tax people in proportion I to their needs it is something of a ' per capita tax; that is, people pay, ■ not in proportion to their wealth, but : to their number, and the tax being levied upon consumption is in effect

an income tax. When the tax is ' paid on consumption men pay not in ; proportion to what they have, but in proportion to what they eat and wear and use. Then it is really a gradu-! ated income tax, the heaviest per cent resting upon those with the smallest income and the smallest per ■ cent resting upon those with the largest income. Now, when you at-I tempt a graded income tax that makes the rich man pay a higher tax than ' the poor man, that is ‘socialism,’ j but when you grade your tax so that the poor man pays higher, and the ; rich man pays the smaller tax, it is 1 statesmanship. That is, it is states- 1 manship as it is now defined, and if ■ you will examine the definitions you • will find that back of many of them ’ there is a prejudice. ‘ And as in the collection of our i tax we make the farmer, the common 1 people, pay more than their share, so in the disposition of the money; raised by taxation the farmer gets l the east. lou will find he pays the I most in proportion to his income and you will also find he gets the least out of the money that is appropriated." - rl ” - . •’ -1 Impartial Criticism. A well known salesman entered a west end conservatory the other afternoon on business. A girl was playing a piano in an adjoining room. Suddenly she began Mendelssohn's ‘‘Spring Song," and the teacher conversing with the salesman paused to listen.

“Can’t you stop that noise until I explain this to you?” broke In the man of business, who seemed to be a privileged character. "That girl will be a great musician some day,” replied the unruffled teacher. "She is naturally talented. Just listen.” "I don’t agree with you,” snapped the salesman. "She plays too fast and too loud. Who is she?" “Your daughter,” returned the teacher.—St. Louis Republic. A Mind Reader. One night at a court ball in the Tuileries Napoleon 111. was so attentive to a beautiful young woman as to excite comment among the other women. At last, in response to a direct tribute to her beauty, she said: "Ah. but your majesty compliments me too much!” “How remarkable.” he replied with a twinkle in his eye, "that you should say just what every other woman here 13 thinking!" A Powerful Salve. A man in Nebraska invented a now powerful double acting salve which shows powers never before exhibited by salves of any kind. The inventor accidentally cut off the UU of a tame wolf. and. immediately applying some of the salve to the stump, a new tall grew out Then, picking up the old tall, he applied some of the salve to uas raw euv of tuat. and a wolf grew out but he was a wild wolf and had » ba shot.—CUicun Trlbnao

Q—-r r i ■—cati ~ 111 ■ I —|Q ©’tew® ! 9 By M. J. PHILLIPS. Copyright, 1907. by M. M. Cunningham. O=' ' ■ ■■■--■- .rnO Attired for the opera, Morgan Tre- • malne stepped Into the elevator at the I twelfth floor of the Alameda, where he { had his apartments. “Good evening. Daniel O’Connell Molonay,” he said gravely to the knicker-. boekered and freckled elevator boy. Daniel O’Connell grinned cheerfully and whistled through a gap in hia I front teeth byway of reply. They : were sworn friends, the two. At the tenth floor the car stopped, and the door slid back. Tremaine re-, ( moved his hat ceremoniously. Mrs. I ;

Aiderton Ten Eyke, also theaterward bound, large and determined In appearance, marched in. At sight of the young attorney she sniffed, a alight., ladylike, well bred sniff, but nevertheless a sniff. Miss Marjorie Ten Eyke, young and slender, dark eyed and lov-« able, followed her mother. She did not look at Tremaine, but the faintest hint of added color appeared for a moment in her smooth cheeks. Arthur Ben-. scoter, careasing a fiercely upturned i mustache, which emphasised his sparse five feet five, brought up the rear, i Sixty-five Inches are not impressive,j but a hundred thousand dollars for every Inch of it is rather a good aver-! age, which the militant Mrs. Ten Eyke fully appreciated. So did Tremaine, with a hungry glance at his lovely former fiancee. When one Is a struggling lawyer, just beginning to see light ahead after a two , years’ battle with callous Now York. . one gives due consideration to a half, dozen millions, especially when the . other fellow has them. , “Two months of IL” mused Tremaine mournfully, despite his jaunty bearing. , when he had reached the street "Two j ,

months without a look or a nod or a smile—because I danced too much with that little Rivers girl! 1 was a fool to do it and a fool to quarrel over it with Mrs. Ten, on the lookout for Mammon every minute. In her eyes I am a ‘briefless barrister,’ as the English novels say. And little Benscoter isn’t a man; he’s just a bank—and a mustache. Marjorie can’t like the fellow. Still constant pressure will have its effect sooner or later. If only something would come up to break the lee,” and Tremaine got so Interested in imagining perilous situations for the fair Marjorie, with himself as the rescuing hero, that he walked three squares beyond his theater. The next morning he overslept and rushed to the elevator with an important engagement almost due. "In a hurry, D. O’C. Moloney," he admonished the youth at the controller.

"I'm so late now I haven't time to speak your full name.” Daniel O’Connell grinned and imitated a steam calliope by whistling shrilly through the gap in his teeth. With apparent carelessness he consulted the indicator board. There was no one waiting to descend. Stealthily he fumbled with the levers—swish! The car dropped fifty feet like a dead weight before Tremaine could move a muscle. Gasping for breath, of which the swift descent deprived him. he pictured an awful death when the car should strike the bottom of the shaft. But the mad rush was checked as suddenly as it bad begun, and the elevator finished its journey to the ground floor at a pace approved by all sensible and well regulated lifts. A glimpse of Daniel O’Connell s grinning face in the mirror made all clear. "You young rascal!” ejaculated the lawyer as he caught his breath. "Yon

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did that on purpose!” i •'Watt.” retorted the boy, skipping ! nimbly out of reaeh, as be threw the J door open, “yon said yeuee was in a hurry!” Ten minutes later the pedestrians on Sixty-fourth street were much edifled , to see a good looking young maa stop suddenly, slap his thigh resoundingly I and laugh aloud. Thereat a tat policei man hastily conned over I* a some- , what fat mind the list es those “want- ! od” at headquarters that day. A newsboy on the wing paused long enough to shout "Bugs!” before he swooped on again, to ail of which Tremaine, joyously abeortied In a great a stupendous i Idea, paid not the slightest attention. His high spirits were mysteriously communicative. That eveukig Daniel ] O’Connell, in an endeavor to outdo i previous calliope performances, almost blew a tooth out His small chest was puffed like a pouter pigeon as he laid a crisp five dollar aote in the lap of his mother.

**••••• The wintry afternoon was closing as Miss Ten Eyke, in a house gown which i to the masculine eye made her beauty simply bewildering, called the elevator to the fourteenth floor of the Alameda. 1 She had s[»ent the afternoon with a girl friend, and as the car stopped her heart beat a little more rapidly over a certain possibility—that she might encounter Tremaine—for Miss Marjorie was very much in love with the young lawyer, despite their quarrol. She invariably explained to herself - at this annoying quickening of the 1 pulses that it was fear, not hope, ’ which made her feel so. Daniel O'Con- < nell approved of Miss Marjorie. She ' had nice eyes and a friendly way of 1 looking at “a feller." Sometimes they < talked—about elevators and books and ‘ a guy not having any chance to go to school and how it was a good thing to study nights. He was a stanch little partisan, too. and talked of his friends of the other < sex, chief of whom was Mr. Tremaine, s And. although when the conversation 1 turned on the lawyer It usually be- 1 came a monologue. Miss Marjorie was 1

I a good listener. Iler eyes would grow 1 1 soft, and she would sigh a little. One ! day when Daniel O’Connell gleefully i told of a case which Tremaine had just i won she gave him a quarter. "Down!" said a masculine voice, and Miss Ten Eyke’s fear—or hope—was I realized. The ear stopped at the twelfth floor for Mr. Tremaine. He removed his hat with that air of Impersonal courtesy which is so annoying when a person is willing to aeeept an overture of peace. Os course she had returned his ring and sent back , his notes unopened and refused to speak to him. but that was two whole months ago. Why couldn’t he have been more persistent’ Didn’t be know a girl could change her mlndl Oh, dear! The tenth floor, and be wasn’t going to erec look— Swish! The car seemed to drop from beneath their feet. They were falling!

An agonized vision flashed into Marjorie's mind, a vision of herself lying crushed and broken at the bottom of the shaft With a cry which struck remorse to the hearts of the plotters, she turned to Tremaine, hands outstretched. "Morgan, dear, save me!" And when Tremaine had gathered her protectingly into his arms Daniel O’Connell neatly caught the cable again. • •••••« Mrs. Ten Eyke was spending the evening in Brooklyn, and by the glowing grate Marjorie and Tremaine planned the wedding down to the last bridesmaid. "I'd like lo have Daniel Moloney there, too. dear." said the young man. "He's a—a sort of accomplice of mine —that Is,” hastily, .“a pal. lie’s going to lie my office boy after the Ist of the **

' “Daatel shall be there." replied MarI jerie waraly a* sMa aestled moreeioae- ’ ly to his shoulder. “I just leve that boy! You don’t know hew nanrh ho j thinks of you. Morgan. Tna so glad he's te be”—she haMhited a IKtle and blushed charmingly ffvor the pronoun ; —“our office boy. It would hardly seem natural If he wasn’t there.” I Morgan winked at a particularly knowing eoal in the grate. “Darting." he said impressively, “it wouldn’t be a wedding without him.” Two and Three Latter Names of God. There are thirteen known languages ! and dialects in which the name of the ' Deity Is expressed In two letters—via: I Hebrew. Al; Simonian. El; Chinese. I Fo; Hindoo-Syr, le; Babylonian. Il; > Sanskrit Ja; Egyptian. Ju; Tamil, Ko; Yocatauese. Ku; Hindoo. Om; Far East Hebrew, On; Egyptian. Ha; Chaldean, Ur. The three lettered name is found ia twenty-one languages and provincial dialects—via: East Indian, Aom; Hindoo, Asm; Chaldean, Bil; Slavonic, Bog (a contraction of “BlaH-Bog." meaning white); Roman, Dea; Grecian. Deo; Essequibo, Dia; Hindoo, Div; Chaldean. Enu; English, God; Swedish and Danish. God; Persian. Hom; Hindoo, Hua; Phoeni-cian-Babylonian, lau; Sanskrit Jah; Phoenician, Jao; Druidisb-Irieh, Jab; Egyptian, Kne; Irfsh-Celtic, Osuh; Egyptian, Pau, aid Latin, SoL Taken all together, there are IT3 languages and dialects In which as a figure of speech God is expressed in words, but In none of them is the word of overgrown proportions, the longest being "Jaobulion,” a word which •expressed the Deity idea according to a certain sect of Irish Druids, known aa “mistletoe eaters.” — Bored to Death. The Wife—l had a call from Marcelle today. Her Husband—l suppose she bored you u> death, as usual, with her stupid talk? Wife—Yes, dear, she talked about you the whole time.— Eire. For one man who can stand prosperity there are a brndred that will stand adversity.—Carlyle.

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...... r A curious story Ntestratlve *f the preservative prvpsrtiae of carbonic acid gas, sc “cheka damp.” comes from China. In ths province <xf Nganhwel a party of miners opened an ancient I shaft where, according to the official ' records, a terrible catastrophe had ocI curred Auv year* ago. When the miners entered they came upon the bodies of 170 miners who had Initialled in the mine, lying where they had been overtaken by tbs deadly gas four centuries ; back. The corpses to th* eye were as though of yesterday, quite fresh looking and not decayed In any way. The faces were like those of men who had just died. On an attempt being made to move them ocsld* for burial they one and all crumbled away, leaving nothing but a pile of dust and the rem-1 nants of the stronger parts of their clothing. Lalande and Neptune. ' The astronomer Lalande narrowly , escaped being made famous by a discovery. He accidentally struck Neptune with his glass on May 8, 1785, but supposed It was a star. He put it down in his notebook as a star and recorded its exact situation. Two days later h* struck it once mor* and made a record of it But when he looked over his notes he found he had it down as being in two different places, and a* a star cannot move in forty-eight hours he supposed he had made a mistake in one of his notes. If he had used hi* mind a little less mechanically, he easily might have been a Columbus. P*«tag* Stamp*. \ It is often desired to separate postage stamps that are stuck together without destroying the gum. This can be done by dipping the stamps In water for a few seconds only, shaking off the excess of water and heating with a match a* much as possible without burning. The heat expands the water between the stamps and separates them, so that they can be easily pulled apart and are ready for use. Death is a friffnd of ours, and be that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.—Bacon. The idle always have half a mind to do somethin tr

That’s the way it is with our Walk-Over nd E. P .Reed shoes. They are not only the leading line of fine footwear for men and women in the locality, but they are ahead of everything all over the country. We don’t know just why other makers can’t make shoes as good as these, for there’s no monopoly of all good leather and correct styles, but the Walk-Over and E. P. Reed’s get something into their shoes that others shoes are the only way to get miss, something we can’t describe. but you want it. It’s here for you and these it.

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Call and see them before you buy. We will make the price right.

At Store of Quality, |~V fy, 7 C 5, Furniture Store.

Titon end Go iah These famous stallions will stand the season of 1907 as follow’s: First 3 days of the week at Preble; last three days of week at the Conrad farm near Freidheim. Terms —$15.00 to insure colt to ■ stand and suck. 76— August Conrad 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 ag ents. or write O. L. ENOS. Traveling Passenger Agent, Marion, Ohio.

Our full line f or this season. The New Block IS A BEAUTY.

• NOTICE. Decatur, Ind, March 28, 'O7. By mutual agreement our partnership in tho 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

PUBLIC SALE. The undersigned will offer for sale at his residence, I*4 miles northwest of Pleasant Mills, on the old Andv | Teeple farm, beginning at 10 o’clock ! a. m., on Saturday, April 6, 1907, the following property: HORSES —Mare 6 years old, with foal; sorrel 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, I year old; two calves, six months old. HOGS —Black Poland China brood sow with eight pigs by her side, thoweeks 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 dozen chickens four yellow bronze turkey hens and one gobbler: twelve head of dry land geese; five head of ducks.

POTATOES—Twenty-five bushels of g:>od eating potatoes. GRAIN, ETC.—IOO 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, tweive-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. — o FOR SALE —Household furniture, lawn swing, lawn mower, and other articles. A. J. Fanning, 324 South Third street. 81-6 t FOR SALE—Some extra fine strong breeding 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 Hanlin, R. F. D. 2, Ft. Recovery, O. 75 — trie light and storm front on, set double buggy harness, set single buggy harness, and a cutting box. D. H. Hunslcker, Decatur. Ind. 70-6 t