Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 105, Decatur, Adams County, 29 April 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 |5.00 Per month, by mail 25 cents Per y'ar, 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 “UNDESIRABLE” HARRIMAN In reiterating his assertion that Moyer and Haywood, the miners association officials now facing trial for their lives in Idaho, are "undesirable citizens,” President Roosevelt also takes pains to reassert his belief that Harriman is equally an "undesirable" citizen. And yet, not so long ago, when Mr. Rosevelt was wanting to be re-elected president of the United States and Harriman was helping him with his 1250,000 jackpot, the aforesaid Rosevelt wrote the following letter to the said Harriman: “Personal. 12:31 a. m. “October 14, 1904. —My Dear Mr. Harriman: A suggestion has come to me in aroundabout way that you do not think it wise 'jo come to see me in these closing weeks of the campaign, but that you are reluctant to refuse, inasmuch as I have asked you. Now, my dear sir, you and I are practical men, and you are on the ground, and know the conditions better than I do. “If you Stink there is any danger of your visit to me causing trouble, or if you think there is nothing special I should be informed about, or any matter in which I could give aid, why, of course, give up the visit for the time being and then, a few weeks hence, before I write my message, I shall get you to come down to discuss certain government matters not connected with the campaign. With great regards, sincerely yours, “THEODORE ROOSEVELT.” There is a back-alley, dark-lantern tone about this letter that makes a noise like a conspiracy—not a $5,000,000 conspiracy, perhaps, but a $250,000 conspiracy to debauch New York coupled with a hint shat friend Harriman, “undesirable” citizen though he was and is. should have a finger in the president's message. Only, if he came before the election, he should call around at the White House when there were no visitors.

“We are now paying sl9 for a ton of hay, 50 cents for a bushel of oats, 45 cents for a bushel of corn, and bigger wages than ever for hauling coal, and yet there are people who seem to think that »e are making more money than we ought to in our line of business.’’ Thus spoke one of South Bend’s coal dealers in commencing on the prevailing prosperity of which one hears so much. The little lamentation the coal dealer indulged in is not wholly’ without cause. Prosperity does not affect all alike. It doesn’t extend its favors in all directions. Yet nobody would do away with it if it were in their power so to do. —South Bend Times. In his speech at the opening of the Jamestown Exposition Roosevelt again talked about controlling and restricting trusts and combinations, but says it must be done in such away as not to injure anybody. He has been talking ahat way for the past six years and the trusts are doing fully as well today as they were six years ago. Every printer and publisher in the country knows this from actual experience. BIG SHOW AT FT WAYNE. Manager Rice, of the Majestic theater, guarantees the best performances ever given in Ft. Wayne at cheap prices when the Van Dyke and Eaton Co. present a new play each day with vaudeville between acfs !J>r Uhirtj nights and thirty matinees, starting Monday, May 6th.

A SERIOUS WRECK I (Continued from page 1.) ing to the fact that tfce seats were J all jammed down in one end with the 1 passengers it required heroic work to eliminate the danger of additional injury being inflicted on the pinioned men and women, who were wild with fear. The interior of the two coaches had Ih appearance of having passed through an explosion. That many were not killed outright is a miracle, ' which only attends and follows in the i wake of such catastrophies. The engine, two drive wheels and the rear trucks off the rails, plowed along for several hundred feet, tearing up the track. One length of the steel was found on top of the second r coach bent and curved out of re- . semblance to its former condition. While the cause of the derailment is attributed to the spreading of Ihe rails, yet there is a possibility that the tracks had been tampered with. 1 Engineer Kelker, it will be remembered, was on the engine of passenger train No. 12 when it left the rails ■ about two weeks ago a few miles r south of the scene of yesterday’s dis- , aster. The officials are making an exhaustive examination of the matter ’ and their finding may lay the cause ' at She door of unknown train wreckers. The tender is responsible for the , derailing of the coaches and their being dumped down the steep embank--1 ment. It is thought- that the rails 1 spread, although it may be discovered , • that an attempt had been made to . ditch the train by pulling spikes from ‘ the ties, allowing them to spread. While going to the scene of the wreck in an automobile. Frank Ken- ■ worthy and a party of four from Win- > Chester, ran into a fence and were , , thrown out. Kenworthy landed against a telegraph pole and had his neck broken, dying a few minutes later. George Edwards, another of 1 the automobile party, was seriously hurt. The others escaped with ; bruises. .

It luuki iivdjl iilttj ‘ (Continued from page 1.) i i urday evening to Samuel Commodore Wyatt and Miss May Summers, both ’ as this city. A marriage license has been issued ! to George J. Haehamer, of Brant. Jaycounty, and Miss Artie Bergman of 1 this county. Mr. Raliegh Parrish of this city has been admitted to the Allen county bar. , He is a promising young attorney. ° WALLACE SHOWS START OUT. i Opened Season as Usual at Peru, Sat- ” I urday. Peru. Ind., Apr;. 29—The Carl Ha ' genbeck and the Great Wallace Shows combined opened their season here , Saturday and delighted as many peo pie as could be packed into the large ‘ tents at two performances. The con ‘ solidated shows are first class in every respect. The circus features are the very best obtainable in Europe and America and the trained wild beasts are in themselves the greatest feature that has ever been offered by a tented enterprise. ( Many prominent showmen were here for the first performance from Cincinnati, Chicago and New York and general manager B. E. Wallace came in for many compliments. Everything ran smoothly even at the first performance. Not one hitch marred the enjoyment of the occasion. The Les Rowlandes, the imported European riding act, fully came up to expectations. Another wonderful feature was “Floppie,” a sea lion which rides a horse, an act on which Col. Wallace's trainers have been working for more than two years. This May Interest You No one is immune from Kidney trouble, so just remember that Foley's Kidney Cure will stop the irregularities and cure any case of kidney and bladder trouble that is not beyond the reach of medicine THE HOLTHOUSE DRUG CO. o NOTICE OF ELECTION. To members of Commercial Club: Notice is hereby given that on Monday, May 6th, at 8:00 o’clock p. m„ at the Commercial Club rooms in city of Decatur, Indiana, will be held the annual election of nine directors to act for the ensuing year. E. B. ADAMS. Secy. Mr. S. L Bower, of Wayne, W. Va., writes: “I was a sufferer from kidney disease, so that at times I could not get out of bed. and when I did I could not stand straight I took Foley’s Kidney Cure. One dollar bottle and part of the second cured me entirely.” Foley’s Kidney Cure works wonders where others are total failures. THE HOLTHOUSE DRUG CO. o PARK HOTEL —For sale or Rent. 104-6 t . 91.25 to Toledo and return via Clover Leaf Route every Sunday, ts

HIS INGRATITUDE Police are Looking for Fred Newfer A TWELVE YEAR OLD BOY Israel Bender. Gave Him a Home, But He Robbed His Benefactor and Ran Away Yesterday. Sheriff Meyer and the police of this city and adjoining counties are today searching for Fred Newfir, a twelve year old boy, who, if found, will likely get a free scholarship at the Plainfield Reformatory. Two years ago the youth was an inmate at the county infirmary, where his mother had taken him. Israel Bender, a well known farmer, found him there and gave him a good home on his farm in St. Marys township, where' he has since lived receiving all the advantages that could be desired. These kindnesses the boy repaid yesterday by stealing a watch, a revolver and several dollars in money and running away from home. He carried his clothes in a bundle and was last seen near Bobo, walking east. Mr. Bender notified the authorities and an effort will be made to teach the young man a lesson he will remember through life. Any one knowing of the boys whereabouts is requested to notify sheriff Eli Meyer.

NEWS ITEMS FROM SPOKANE. Semi-Military Funeral Given a French Indian Pioneer. Spokane. Wash., April 29. —Charles Baranby, a French Indian pioneer, for years government teamster at Fort Simcoe, Wash., west of Spokane, and trusted trader in the employ of the Hudson's Bay company in the early days, is dead. The employes of the agency on the reservation, headed by agent Jay Lynch, gave him a semi military burial, which was attended by hundreds of people in the Yakima valley. Barnaby was owner and captain of the first tug operating in Puget Sound, and as a trader he used his good offices to promote friendship between the early settlers and the native Indians. He leaves an estate, which will revert to the agency, with which he was connected a long time.

Spokane, Wash., April 29. —Racing automobiles were employed by Donald Babcock and his bride, formerly Hazel Brickell, and Jheir attendants, in escaping the usual shower of rice and old shoes at the hands of the wedding guests assembled in the San Marco flats last night. The contest of speed, in which they wer pursued by ten young men and women ia livery autos, ended near Hayden Lake, Ida., 42 miles northest of Spokane, the bride and groom being two miles in the lead. The race was exciting for 40 miles, when the bridal couple put out the lights and their pursuers glided past them only to run into a telegraph pole, the result! being the machines were disabled and the occupants being dumped out on the roadway. None were injured. A rancher with a four fiorse team brought the merrymakers to the city afterward. R. R. No. 10. Boys, get your bells ready, a wedding will occur soon. Mrs. John Gephard has been visiting with Mr. and Mrs. George Jacobs for the last few days. Mrs. Will Arnold is reported very ill from blood poison. Mr. and Mrs. Azie Tucker were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Davis and family last Sunday. Dell Stevely was a business caller

at DecaTur last Friday. There will be preaching services at North Pleasant Valley Sunday May sth. Unauthorized. “But, colonel,” urged the reporter for the Morning Whooper, “when a man has made a great success in life, as you have, he becomes In one sense of the term public property. You owe it to posterity, at least, to tell the story of your remarkable career.” "If I owe anything to posterity,” said the financial magnate, "posterity will have to present its bill in person, and not through a collection agency. Good morning.” Endless Trail. Gomer Davies, of Concordia, tells a story about a wooden-legged man, although he denies being the one to which it refers. "This man," says Davies, "was going home after being at a late supper, along about 13 o’clock in the morning, when his peg leg went through an auger hole in the plank sidewalk and he kept circling about that hole all night, thinking he was going home.”—Kansas City Star. WOOD FOR SALE—Split hickory 1 wood at the Whipstock factory. A. t N. York. Phone 502 83—

~ DEACON BRODIE. H« Was the Original of Stevenson'* Dr, Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Deacon Brodie, whose singular story is said to have inspired Stevenson with the immortal tale of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, was a substantial wright and cabinet maker in the Lawnmarket of Edinburgh. He was a burgess and guild brother of liis native town, and so high did he stand in the estimation of his fellow craftsmen that for four years they elected him a member of the town council as deacon of the in corporation of wrights. Success in public life helped the deacon in his business as a wright and tew men appeared to have less ground to quarrel with the conventional conception of meum and tuum. Nevertheless the deacon was always in want of money. He was an Inveterate gamester, a gay and much Involved bachelor, and he had a passion for the fashionable sport of cockfighting. All this brought the respected burgess into bad company, particularly at a certain disreputable tavern in the Fleshmarket close, frequented by sharpers. In 1788 Brodie was even accused of himself using loaded dice. The charge was very likely true, but it never came up for trial, for the deacon meanwhile had been convicted of a hanging matter.

Brodie, in fact, had for years been living a double life. In the daytime he was an honest craftsman, but at night he exchanged his chisel for a jimmy and a dark lantern. The deacon was a humorist, and the situation doubtless appealed to him. The friend he had robbed overnight he would condole with in the morning, and after some particularly ingenious burglary he would be the first in the council chamber to suggest offering a reward for discovering the perpetrator. For twenty years this prince of cracksmen remained unsuspected, and he was only brought to look at last by the treachery of a confederate. The deacon was sentenced to be hanged—on the new drop gallows he had suggested himself to the city fathers—and hanged he was, though not without a characteristic attempt to cheat the gallows. A French quack, Dr. Peter Delgravers, so the story goes, came to him in prison and undertook to restore him to life after he had hanged the usual time. To the last his fellow citizens loved to cherish a belief that he had been resuscitated and had escaped.— London News. Dreams Wrought In Masonry. “I remember reading a poem once in which certain types of architecture were referred to as ‘dreams wrought in masonry,’ ” says Waldo Pondray Warren in “TEoughts on Business.” "This seemed mere poetry at first, but as 1 think of it now it seems to be the truth. Take that tall office building yonder, with lights gleaming from every window, tier on tier. All that was once the dream of one man. Before the first stone was laid, before the architect’s plans were drawn, there was a time when one man said to another, ‘Let us put up a great building there.’ And before that first audible expression the building existed only as an idea, a thought or. I might say, a dream in the mind of that man. He walked its corridors when it was still a dream. But now it is a ‘dream wrought in masonry.’ Every building, bridge, railroad, steamship, machine, book, organization or government in the world —every one—was once an unexpressed thought like that Great ■credit is due those who first conceive the ideas that underlie the world’s work. The man who thinks of new things for the development of your business should be liberally compensated.’’

Spesdy Coasting. The finest coasting hill in the world Is at St Moritz, in Switzerland. The hill is a mile long, and to coast down it takes, on an average, sixty-seven seconds. The Cresta course, as it is called, is iced and ruus between snow banks. Its turns are dangerous, and only skilled coasters venture on it They use the American flat toboggan, lying on the stomach, and steering not with the feet, but with lifts and jerks of the body. A few seconds from the start on this course the coaster is going at a speed of twenty miles an hour. This speed soon increases to forty miles. Faster and faster he flies, swooping down the precipitous Church leap at the speed of an express train, and then on to the long, straight Shuttlecock run. To fifty, to sixty, to seventy. to eighty miles an hour the pace grows till it is like the flight of the swiftest bird through a blinding blur of snow. Yet the speed still increases, and at the end of the Shuttlecock eighty-seven miles an hour is registered. These Cresta course speeds are not problematical: they are the accurate timings of an electric clock. Don’t Know Right From Left. “The thing that surprised me most when I began to teach.” said the instructor of a class of adults in manual training, “was the number of people who can tell instinctively the right hand from the left Fully a third of my pupils hesitated a moment before obeying instructions to do this thing or that thing with the right hand or the left The thing that fixes the proper hand in their minds finally is some incident in which that hand has figured. By recalling that story they know which hand to use. One of the brightest women I know in this town declares that the only way she can tell one hand from the other Is to remember the time when, as a child, she tried to milk a cow and was sent flying heels over head. She approached the animal from the wrong side, and the picture of the position of her right hand then is so vivid that it enable* her to distinguish that member to this day.”—New York Frees.

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 the Conrad farm near Freidheim. Terms —$15.00 to insure colt to stand and suck. 76— August Conrad Farmers Attention Just received a load of high-grade fertilizers and in order to sell it quick I will sell it cheap. Inquire John Sehinnan, at City Coal & Feed Yard. Phone 240. Money to loan at low’est rates of interest on real estate securities. Abstracts furnished. Schurger & Smith, attorneys-at-law. 76-1 mo For the best and freshest cigars, tobacco, candy and groceries see Charles N. Dutcher on west Monroe street. Hot lunch at all times. 101-6 t EGGS FOR SALE —Settings from 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. LOST —Boys’ overcoat, brown cravenette, out of the back of cart while driving around town. Please return to D. M. Heusley and receive reward. See H. O. Roop, the south end barber, for good hair cuts and shaves. Located near Erie railroad. 103-6 t Henry Sherry, the west-end saloon keeper, handles Sherwood whiskey, the best on the market. Call and see him. West Monroe street. 101-6 t For fresh home-made candies of all kinds and fruits see J. Joseph, the Monroe street candy and fruit seller. Located in the Cooper building. 101-6 t GOING TO PAPER THIS SPRING? i 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 o NOTICE TO BREEDERS. Smart and Rock. Smart is the Chas. Ahr Belgian stallion that Jacob Huser and William Scherer have purchased and Rock is the well known Huser horse which he kept at Monroe three first days in the week, and at Berne the last three days of the week. Ransom Smith has been employed to care for these horses. 98-lmo

A CARD This is to certify that all druggists are authorized to refund your money if Foley s Honey and Tar fails to cure your cough or cold. It stops the cough, heals the lungs and prevents serious results from a cold. Cures la grippe, coughs, and prevents pneu-, monia and consumption. Contains no opiates. The genunine Is in a yellow package. Refuse substitutes. THE HOLTHOUSE DRUG CO. —o NOTICE FOR BIDS. Notice is hereby given that the Common Council of the city of Decatur, Indiana, will receive sealed bids or proposals for the improvement of Madison street, commencing at the west line of First street, thence west to the east line of Seventh street and commencing at the south side of Monroe street, thence south to the north side of Madison street In the city of Decatur, Indiana, said improvement to be with modern paving blocks or bricks. The improvement of Madison street from the west line of First street to the west line of Third street to be 40 feet wide and from the west line of Third street to the east line of Seventh street 30 feet wide, and Third street to the north line of Madison street to be 30 feet wide according to the drawings and specifications now on file in the office of the city clerk of said city on the 7th day of May, 1907, bids to be received between the hours of eight o’clock a. m. and six o’clock p. m. Each bidder must file with the clerk of said city, when he files his bid, the usual statutory affidavit and deposit with him the sum of One Thousand Dollars, in money or certified check as a guaranty that he will accept said bid and carry out the construction of said work. The successful bidder will be required to give bond with surety to be approved by the Common Council insuring the faithful completion of said work according to the contract. The Common Council reserves the right to reject any and all bids and readvertise for bids for said Common Council this 19th day of April, 1907. CARL O. FRANCE, 2t-a wk-2wks City Clerk.

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AN INSIDIOUS DANGER One of the worst features of kidney trouble is that it is an insidious disease and before the victim realizes his danger he may have a fatal malady. Take Foley s Kidney Cure at the first sign of trouble as it corrects irregularities and prevents Bright’s disease and diabetes. THE HOLTHOUSE DRUG CO. —o See Lettie Kintz for all kinds of Art needlework, material, teaching, etc. Lessons Wednesday and Saturday afternoons, from 1 to 4. Madison street. 84-ts. —-o- ————— The Price of Hearth. “The price of health in a malarious district is just 25 cents; the cost of a box of Dr. King's New Life Pills,” writes Ella Slayton of Noland. Ark. New Life Pills cleanse gently and impart new life and vigor to the system. 25c. Satisfaction guaranteed at Blackburn Pharmacy.

I GET "MORE'CORN” ON THE SAME ACREAGE I Just drop us 1 postal card saying: “Send me your 32-page booklet. More Cor n -1 I on the Same Acreage. ” and we will mail a copy at once. In this day of . ■ intensive farming, every corn grower wants to Increase the yield or. every acre fl as much as possible. He wants “more corn,” and the booklet to which we have ■ given this title contains the latest and most reliable information on corn ; I improvement that can be had. We have drawn from our own twenty-seven ■ years experience as planter builders and have also Quoted extensively from tne | ■ Agricultural Colleges, which are recognized as the highest authority on the subfl ject. All the points are illustrated by half tone cuts and the matter is carefuny ■ arranged. In addition we will send a brief description of our excellent edge ; ■ drop line of planters, and especially call your attention to the I NEW DEERE &N 0.9 PLANTER 'fe? Al/ EDGE DROP e • With or \\ / Without I Sir Fertilizer \ Vn- i n f c Attach-’ ' ft ( xjr jflElZdr me nt [No other farm machine has been known tn achieve the popularity accorded this planter since It was puton the market In isui. 1 hl ’ to-the-tlmes agriculturist Is quick to appreciate genuine merit in a m hence the success of the New Deere No. 9 Planter Is due to Its superior.ty. ACCURACY OF DROP-Means bigger crop. We prove the highest accuracy Attainable. No guess work with the New Deere Planter. . SIMPLICITY-Few parts, made strong and carefully assembled, we've been It twenty-seven years and know how. w 'CONVENIENCE— In a class by Itself—almost Impossible to get out of fl *’ In these and many other points the New Deere Is unexcelled. Plants a , peas, broomcorn, and other seed, la the best manner possible. _____ Schafer Hardware Company Sole Agents How Much Paint g= Jo the Can?— * liquid ' Mixed b*® 1 * I UNCLE Sam sen the Standard Measure for a falkm >1 at 231 inches. The “ HIGH STANDARD ” PAINT can has 243 inches inside. 'J Every time you buy a “HIGH STANDARD” v * — km can, you gret a gallon of faint. Evoy time you buy a a/5-inches-inside can, you get iAort iwmjwre—even though it is filled to the brim. , Every size can of “HIGH STANDARD ” is full U.S. Government Standard Measure orpami not capacity only. So when you are offered paint a trifle “cheaper” than lx>we Brothers, fwstifr is there. • * But paint quality is the real consideration, after aIL That is where the real com satisfaction and service. # . . Lowe Brothers “High Standard” Liquid Paint Gives Best Results _ in spreading and covering, working and wearing—a difference of yo to jo per cent, over Which quickly proves its cestluuss. “HIGH STANDARD’’ PAINT is made of the materials which a thlrl-of-a- UTlu Luth cxtturj of practical and scientific paint-making has proven to be best; mixed and Blue FI&C mulled, ground and reground, by powmknl machinery to an indescribable fineaess and a pcrfecr-.mior. of -HIGH STANDARD”PAINT b sealed ia air-tight cans—wfßßPWkaivrays fresh and good—and marked with” n» LitlU Blue Flaf”—Yeur Pretectum. There is a Lowe Brothers Paint for every use and a Lowe Brothers dealer tn nearly every town. Write us for nearest dealer's name and our practical book- r let, "Paint and Painting.'’ Mailed Arm. ~ The Uwe Brother, Company. 450-459 Third St. Dayton, O. I -fir Palataaakera Varniohmakers ___ < Protection. \ I Holthouse Drug ComponV Decatur, Indiana

HINDRANG German coach stallion of the finest type, seal black good bone and muscle, weight 1400 pounds. Will make the season of 1907, at the Hoosier barn North Second street, Decatur, Ind. See him. Your patronage solicited. JESSE BUTLER Owner