Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 147, Decatur, Adams County, 17 June 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 15.00 Per montA, by mail 25 cents Per y»ar, by mail 12.50 Single copies 2 cents Advertising rates made Known on application. Entered at the postofflce in Decatur Indiana, as second class mail matter. J, H. HELLER. Manager. The conviction of Mayor Schmitz on the charges preferred against him gives assurance that the whole Corrupt ring that has brought humiliation and disgrace upon the City of San Francisco will be cleaned out. The scoundrels, high and low, constituting that ring ought to be made to stay behind the bars until all of them shall have become incapable of doing further mischief. , If people would eat only what the body actually requires, what a saving could be made in this country! The amounts daily squandered in pandering to the palate and persistently ignoring the consequences following therefrom, would procure comfortable homes for thousands upon thousands of families, to say nothing of the physical benefits derived from plain living and simple habits. i ._i ■ i 1 watch with deep interest the trial of wt:ch with deep interest the tritl of the coal combine in Philadelphia. This combine rules with an iron hand. Its methods, a contemporary truly says, have all the relentless precision of the multiplication table. Its manipulators have set themselves serenely above the law. The public will be deeply interested in watching the outcome of their collision with the power of the United States, invoked for the relief of oppressed thousands of its citizens. When the late Senator John T. Morgan was re-elected for his sixth term, he received the entire vote of the Alabama legislature. Democrats, Republicans and Populis s united to bestow that mark of honor on the venerable statesman. In view of his advanced years and the probability of his de-

mise before the expiration of his term, it was subsequently provided that former Representative Bankhead, who was defea ed for re-electeion to the hou :j by Richmond P. Hobson of Merrimac fame, be named alternate senator from Alabama and the former will therefore succeed Senator Morgan at once. Bankhead is an able and excellent man.

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WE FLOGGED THEM (Continued from Page 1.) hits—Erickson, Winger. Stolen bases—Alberts, Behringer, Linderbeck (4), Way. Struck out—By Alberts, 2; by Way 1. Bases on balls —Off Alberts 3; off Way 3. Innings pitched —By Prough 1-3 Innings; by Alberts 8 2-3 innings. Hits—Off Prough 2; off Alberts 6; Runs—Oc Prough 3; oc Alberts 2. Wild pitch—By Prough 1. Passed- ball —Winger. Left on bases —Shamrocks 7; Decatur 4. Double play—Hoffer to Cherry to Hoffer. Hit by pitcher—Nash. Winger, Beach. Time of game—l:3o. Attendance —1,700. Umpire —Connell. NOTES. Well, we beat the Shamrocks anyway. Way pitched a good heady game of base ball and deserved to win. Pierce our second baseman, accepted nine chances without a semblance of an error. Guess Manager Behringer didn't hit some yesterday, four times up and four hits, three of these being secured off old Cy Alberts. Weber, the new first baseman, made a fine impression and also made a hit with the fans. Weber secured two nice hits and played his position in a faultless manner. , Daniels, our first sacker was released Saturday evening and left today for his home at Detroit. Daniels was not playing the game to the usual standard and knew this fact as well as any one. However, Daniels is a nice clean fellow, and made a host of friends here, who were hoping he would make good. Daniels' home is at Detroit, Mich.

Weber, the first baseman, who was supposed to have been hired by the local team, is not coming after ail. Some oil man at Hartford City has corralled him and will take him to Bartlettsville \o play tor the Red skins out that way the coming summer.—Bluffton Banner. Van Werts new base ball team will line up as follows for the remainder of the season: “Buck” Moore, McDonald and Frank Grubbs, pitcheds; Mellinger and Dasher catchers; McCaren first base; McElwaine second base; Uncapher. third base; Foley, short stop and Buckles, McCrory and Dasher will take the field. , James Pierce, Bid Burns and Oscar Way went to Ossian today, where they played with the Ossian team against Bluffton. Pitcher Weldon, who was released Friday, left this morning for his home at Cincinnati. Weldon was not fast enough for the class of ball being played in independent circles and the management was forced to let him go. He is a nice clean fellow and a man who some day may develop into a good pitcher. The bright sun certainly affected she sight of Umpire Connell yesterday for several of his decisions were rank, and the peculiar part of the entire proceedings being that every one was against the local team. Connell certainly ought to see an oculist and have his lamps trimmed up in better shape. The crowd that accompanied the lo-

cal team certainly did their part in excellent style and their consistent rooting without question materially assisted the team in winning. Lebanon comes Tuesday and Wednesday and two battles royal will be fought at the park. The teams have split even up to this time and the boys are confident at this time that they can capture both games. Charles Knapke, a local lad, was in uniform but was not used in the box. Charles is reputed as being a nice pitcher and will be given an opportunity to show what he can do against Lebanon. Here's luck Charles. Bluffton defeated the South Side team at Muncie Sunday by a score of 9 to 0. Dunkirk defeated Kokomo Sunday by a score of 8 to 0. Van Wert's new team went down in defeat before Portland Sunday by a score of 9 to 1. o A CLEVER BURGLAR. How He Fooled a Man Who Thought He Couldn’t Be Robbed. “B. P. Hutchinson used to say no burglar ever could get into his house without waking him,” said a central station detective the other day, according to the Chicago Record-Herald, “but it remained for Chief Simon O’Donnell to put one over the famous trader. “You know, Mr. Hutchinson was famous in Chicago's commercial life years ago and was known popularly as ‘Old Hutch.’ He prided himself on the fact that burglars never bad got into his house and often toasted of the fact to his intimates. One day while he was at lunch witji Chief O'Donnell and a number of other friends the company fell to discussing a crime that had been committed the night before. “ ’l’d like to see anybody get into my house,’ Mr. Hutchinson said. ‘Why, I hear every tick of the clock all night.’ “ ‘l'll bet you a dinner for this crowd,’ said the chief, ‘that I can produce a man who will enter your house and you will not know of his visit till morning.’ “Mr. Hutchinson accepted the wager, and it was agreed that be was to let the chief have a latchkey, so that the burglar could get in without being disturbed by some patrolman. Mr. Hutchinson also agreed to leave some article of value in the parlor where it could be found readily. The chief said the robbery would be committed within the following week. “Three days later Mr. Hutchinson awoke in the morning and discovered that both sheets of his bed. which had been in place when he retired, were gone. So was a little antique clock he had left on the mantel. He hurriedly dressed and hastened after breakfast to the chief’s office. O’Donnell saw him coming and, as he entered the office, greeted him with: “ ‘Mr. Hutchinson. I have two sheets and a clock that belong to you. We will have the dinner today.’ "The burglary was done by a former criminal who at the time had reformed. He did the job at the request of the chief. How did he get the under sheet? He roiled Mr. Hutchinson over, rolled the sheet after him and then rolled him back.”

Ivory ss a Tonic. “Some physicians,” said a druggist, “give an infusion of ground ivory and milk in the spring to stimulate and strengthen listless patients. It is a good remedy, for all I know to the contrary. Certainly it is an ancient one." He opened a medical magazine and pointed to this quotation from Schroder's Zoology, a work published in 1637: “Elephas (elephant)—His teeth are only used in medicine and vulgarly called ivory. The virtues: It cools and dryes, moderately binds cuts, strengthens the inward parts. It is good for the jaundice, it takes away pains and weakness of the stomach, it heals the epileptic, resists poysons, drives off spring melancholle. The dose is half a dram.”—Philadelphia Bulletin. His Was Harder. It was in a country tavern, where a newlj- arrived commercial traveler was holding forth. “I’ll bet my case of samples,” he said, “that I’ve got the hardest name of anybody in this room.” An old farmer in the background shifted his feet. "Ye will, will ye?” he drawled. “Waal, I’ll have to take ye up. I’ll bet $lO against your samples that my name’ll beat yourn.” “Done,” cried the salesman. “I’ve got the hardest name. It is Stone.” The old man was game. “Mine,” be said, “is Harder.”—Philadelphia Ledger. more Speed Mania. Miss Polly—Just to think. Aunt Matilda. Jason Hardapple ain’t been calling on Sue Waggs but two years and last night he actually proposed. Aunt Matilda—Do tell! I declare this here speed mania has reached Bacon Ridge at last—Chicago News. Obeyed Instruction*. Man of the House—Verena, I told you to call me at 7 o’clock sharp this morning. Domestic—l called ye as sharp as I could, sorr, but I couldn’t wake ye.—Chicago Tribune. Nature is a mutable cloud which ts always and never the same.—Emerson.

A GHOST STORY. The Crowd of Phantoms That Dazed Three Young Women. An experience wherein phantoms presented themselves to view in prodigious numbers simultaneously- is related by a young lady whose name, at her request, is withheld, the narrative being indorsed by her sister, who was with her at the time. She writes: "One autumn night my sister and myself, with our maid, were returning from evening service in the village church. There was a thick tog. the moon was full, but it made a sort of steam in the fog instead of shining brightly. Suddenly I saw a man at my sister’s side, w-ho had come there without making a sound. I pulled her sleeve, whispering, ‘Let the man pass. As I spoke the man disappeared. “In another moment we were all bewildered at the sight around us. It was as if we were in a crowded street, Innumerable figures surrounding us. Men, women and children were moving briskly about, some singly, others in groups, but all without a sound. Some seemed to rise out of the grass on either side of us and to come out on the other side. The women were dressed in bygone fashion, with high bonnets and shawls and large flounces on their dresses. "There was one very tall man who took great strides, though perfectly motionless. We approached our own gate, where we should turn in, and then we had a long driveway to walk up before we could reach the house. I think that by the time we had reached the gate all the figures had disappeared except this one tall man. He had quite a different look from any of the others —more horrible altogether. As we entered our gate, to our intense relief, he passed by along the road and vanished. Os course we were all very frightened. The maid and my sister were crying aloud.” In a case like this, where the same •Spectral phenomena are witnessed by several persons, the value of the testimony obviously is multiplied a hundredfold. for, while one individual may be a victim of a hallucination, such an illusion can hardly be shared by many. What, then, is to be said in answer to such evidence, furnished by deponents of unimpeachable character and reputation for truthfulness? To suppose that they are combining in the manufacture of a lie Is scarcely reasonable. —Joseph M. Rogers in Lippincott's. The Invention of Armor.

i The idea of the invention of armor for the protection of the body from weapons came from the ancients, who, noticing the natural armor of various kinds of animals, particularly the armadillo, imitated it. In early times i before metal was used in armor making the warriors used rough hides of several thicknesses, and the first armor ever worn was made from slices taken from the hoofs of horses and fastened together with pegs. Fish scales and the scales of large snakes were also gathered and fastened together until I they formed a thick layer and were , used as armor. The armor of the middle ages was a continuation of the ! ancient kind, made in the form of ' scales of iron or steel. Certain kinds I of mall used in early times in England were copied from the shells of crabs and lobsters.—Minneapolis Journal. First Thought In Dangsr. “Talking of the foolish things one thinks about even when in the midst of danger,” remarked one of a group the , other night, "I had promised my wife never to travel at night, and it is some- ■ thing I have always avoided, but necesI slty compelled it a few weeks ago, and as luck would have it there was an accident and the cars were derailed. As the one in which I had my berth was rolling down an embankment and I was in the midst of blankets, pillows, grips, etc., the terrible thought flashed across my mind: ‘What shall I tell Molly? Here I am traveling at night!”*— Columbus Dispatch. Burial of Sir John Moore. I The city of Corunna, where Sir John I Moore was killed, is a seaport at the I entrance to the estuary of the Mero river, 315 miles northwest of Madrid. The famous poem by Charles Wolfe is a misrepresentation of the scene of i the burial, for Moore was not buried I at night with “our lanterns dimly burning,” but in the early morning of a rainy day, and the assemblage of English officers round the grave was dispersed by heavy artillery fire from the i French batteries, the gunners mistaking the purpose of the gathering. Diplomacy. “John,” she said, “I notice that almost everybody is wearing earrings now.” “But, my dear.” replied John, “if they had such small and shell-like ears as yours they wouldn’t clutter them up that way.” Thus did diplomacy, at least for the moment, stave off a contemplated touch.—Philadelphia Ledger. A Bad Habit. “No,” growled Jigsby. “I don’t like that coat at all. I don’t wa-t It.” “But,” protested the tailor, “the only trouble with it is that it’s too large for you. I can alter it—make it smaller for you.” “If you do that you’ll merely contract a bad habit that’s all.”—Philadelphia Press. Vigorous Talk. Diggs—Smith's wife is deaf and dumb. Riggs- Does she talk with her fingers? Diggs—l think so. Smith hasn’t a dozen hairs left in his bead.— Philadelphia Inquirer. What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?—Eliot

’ TRAVELING IN EUROPE. Whet It Meant to Ride Second Clast on the Railroads. A delusion of the guidebooks is the advice to ride second class on the railroads of Europe. It is often pointed out that first class and second class are frequently but divisions of the same car, and this makes a great impression on the inexperienced traveler, particu larly if his purse is limited. Landing at Plymouth. Southampton. Havre, Cherbourg. Liverpool, you are at once conveyed to London or Paris on “steamer trains,” under the same excellent conditions that have prevailed on your trip, but thereafter you are at your own resources, and if you are wise you will not only travel first class, but you will see to it that your seat is always engaged well ahead. If you travel second class between cities that correspond to New York and Philadelphia, say where intercourse is frequent and numerous, you will most likely have to stand up in all second class compartments. To get a second class seat between Vienna and Budapest, for example, is about like boarding a train for Coney Island at Brookij ridge on a summer Sunday afternoon, and if you do get a seat somebody else sandwiches and sausages on your lap. Another point to to remembered is that in Europe you cannot engage a whale sleeping compartment for yourself, as you can here. You have to show a ticket for each berth. Therefore it behooves the person traveling alone at night to seek out before arranging the trip some suitable companion or for parties of three or five or any odd number to make similar provisions—Travel Magazine. A BATTLE FOR A HAT. And How the Victor In the Struggle Lost the Trophy. Verdi had stepped from an incoming train in Genoa once at a time when Marquis di Rudini. the Italian premier, was in the station. The marquis recognized the musician and requested the station master to introduce him. He greeted Verdi warmly, congratulated him on his fine health and wished him many more years of life. After taking leave of the premier Verdi went to the station buffet and on returning to his train forgot his hat This was an ojiportunity not to to lost by two admirers of the musician. They had been watching him long, and now they simultaneously sprang for the bat. Both reached it at once, one seizing one side of the brim and the other the opposite. A lively combat ensued, and the two swayed backward and forward in their desire to retain the treasure. The lady came off victorious. “Ab!” she exclaimed triumphantly. “Now I’ve got it. and I intend ■to keep it!” Her surprise was only equaled by his dismay when a gentleman who had been watching the conflict for some time stepped forward with the remark, “But this is my hat!" A loud laugh rang out from the onlookers, a laugh in which even the combatants were fain to join. The hat changed bands, and the lady changed color when a moment or two later she saw the trap Into which she had fallen. It was the hat of the great composer, and the stranger had secured it by an unjustifiable ruse.

What la the English Throne? The English throne— whilt Is it? Is it the stone chair of Westminster abbey? That is Ally occupied once by each king or queen, and that only at the coronation ceremony. Is it the chair of state in the house of lords or the reception chair at Buckingham palace or the sumptuous gilt thing which the king uses at Windsor when be receives the foreign envoys? It is an interesting question, which some people would like to have answered. Most everybody, however, has come to the conclusion that in the majority of countries the throne is merely a symbol, and the expressions “he has succeeded to the throne” and “speeches from the throne” are only metaphors. now the Pendulum Was Found. Like many of the commonest mechanical instruments In daily use, the invention of the pendulum is due entirely to chance. Galilei, when under twenty years of age. was standing one day in the metropolitan church of Pisa while some painters were at work on the ceiling of the church. A suspended lamp which was hanging before the altar was disturbed in some manner, and the scientist was struck with the almost perfect regularity with which it swung back and forth. The idea of measuring time by such an instrument found instant generation in bls brain, and he completed the system in use to this day.—St. Louis Republic. wwt Strawberries Really Are. The pulpy portion of the strawberry is not really a fruit nor even a berry, but is a cluster of dry seeds slightly Imbedded in a mass of pulp. The little seeds are the true fruit It is surprising that the pulp enlarges; that it does not remain small and dry. By some wise provision of nature the pollen not only directly gives life to each seed on which It falls, but also stimulates the surrounding portion of the receptacle (originally small and hard) to grow into the soft, juicy and lustrous form.—st Louis Post-Dispatch.

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