Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 157, Decatur, Adams County, 28 June 1907 — Page 2

The Daily Democrat. Published Every Evening, Except Sur> 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 postofflce in Decatur Indiana, as second class mall matter. J. H. HELLER. Manager. A FEW KICKS

A glance along the business streets of Decatur reveals a noticeable lack of pride among a number of our business men. The fronts of the business houses show a need of fresh paint, many awnings need repairs and to be critical, a few other improvemenst could be made, especially in spots. A few dollars would remedy this serious defect. There is nothing that shows up public spirit better than a clean and neat business front or business room. Decatur business men are enterprising, all right, but they should emphasize that fact by painting up and repairing the broken places. Let’s brighten up. It has been the general understanding all summer that Decatur had some interest in a street sweeper, but up to the present time there has been no evidence of such ownership. The brick streets of our city, especially in the business section, are a disgrace to progressive civilization. They are dirty and filthy dirty at that Any person or any city can well afford to be clean, and to be otherwise not! only is an evidence of moral depravity, but it also gives the impression to strangers that our streets are but a sample of Decatur enterprise. Let’s clean up. Residents along north Third street are raising a righteous howl about the privilege accorded some of the residents in raising an overwroth of ragweed. It is both unsightly and unhealthy and some one should clean out the bad mixture. Among the most thoughtful addresses heard this year at graduating exercises was that delivered by William Alden White, editor of the Emporia (Kansas) Gazette, at Oberlin college. In the course of his admirable presentation and elucidation of philosophical truths the brilliant Kansas journalist said. ’ The education that does not teach self-reliance, that makes men flabby under the delusion that they are kind, the education that makes a man’s visions of righteousness mere flushes of morality, is only modified ignorance. For until a man passes his education on, until he gives back to the state in service what it gave him in schooling, his right to citizenship is based upon mere law* and is not a part of his being. Only the man is free who has fought himself free. The world is full of slaves —slaves to custom, to tradition, to the things that are, to party, to church, to outworn ideas—cowards who know that the truth shall make them free, but who fear to make the truth their truth by declaring for it simply and without bluster and without shame. "There should be peace on earth and there must be good will among men. But men must grow spiritually before that order may be established; law may not establish it The socialist has the cart before the horse. We must grow up in fairness to one another, must grow in kindness to one another, must grow to respect one an-

other’s rights—the rich to respect the rights of the poor and equally the poor the rights of the rich —before ..he spirit of the Golden Rule may be put upon the statute books.” Nervously sensitive people need not take this information so much to heart as to become frantic over it; Stephens, the agent who maims that he predicted the San Francisco earthquake, is out with another lot of predictions that are calculated to scare timid folks almost to death. He says all Southern California is shortly to be visited by a ter; Pile scourge, and volcanoes are to break out in the coast range of mountains. He also says that within ninety days the be iiefs in redgion and science by the human race are to be shattered by something that is going to happen.

If you really wish to do anything to help along the city you must join the procession of boosters, anti if they are so misguided as to be moving in the wrong direction, lead theta out of the error of their way onto the straight and narrow path to success. You have got to rainy .- with the who are trying to de things if y>u expect to help then Ly means of your advice and counsel. —Columbia City Post. There is no more despicable class of individuals than those who, knowing themselves utterly destitute of anything like manly qualities, are constantly seeking to discredit the action of men who honestly and earnestly strive to promote the welfare and advancement of the community. A highway robber has vastly more honor in his make-up than these despicable detainers and blacklisters. —South Bend Times. The glorius Fourth approaches. While no old fashioned celebration has been planned there is always something doing on this great holiday. While it is good to instill potriotism [ into the youth, it is also a very convenient thing for them to retain their arms and legs. Be careful of the giant crackers and fireworks. WASHINGTON ITEMS (Continued from Page 1.) inroads that have been made on the accumulated stocks of tin held in various countries. The demand for tin is rapidly increasing. One reason for this, if not the chief reason, is -the large growth of the canning industry and of the use of tin boxes and cases in shipping various articles. To no country is the question of tin supply more important than to the United States, which consumes more than 40 per cent of all the tin produced in the world. It is only within the last few years that there has been any attempt at producing tin in this country. It is now produced in Alaska, South Carolina and South Dakota. Compared with the total consumption of tin in in United States the production is very small, but those who have inves- . tigated the question say that the small i beginning made in these three sections j may before long become an important home industry. None of the ore is ' smelted in this country, the smelting is all done in England. Elmer Do<-r. secretary of the Republican national committee, is in Washington. He has received a letter from the chairman of the committe of Chicago citizens interested in booming Chicago for the national convention and is in correspondence with the committee, trying to arrange a meeting with vice-chairman New. Chicago is the only city thus far to manifest a desire to get the convention. The national committee will not meet until next December to fix the time and place for holding the convention. but Mr. Dover is impressed with the industry of the Chicago committee in urging the claims of that city. First Assistant Postmaster-General Hitchcock today gave Auburn and Crawfordsville each one more post-, office clerk at S6OO. 1 ■- ■■ k Col. Fred L. Gemmer. secretary to Governor Hanly, is here sightseeing with his wife and son. It is his first vacation since he has occupied his present position. They are enroute to Jamestown. Representative Crumpacker is in Washington to consult with secertary of war Taft concerning the Tippecanoe battlegrounds commission appointments.

DOPE FOR THE FANS. Decatur handed Bluffton a lemon. The score was 6 to 0. Boyd was knocked out of the box and was succeeded by Whalen. —Hartford City News. Hardin asked to be let loose last evening and his release was readily granted him. Both he and Gillis have been receiving from the reorganized Hartford City club and it seems that Hardin has listened to the call of the siren. Gillis, however, wiil remain here where he is sure of his salary. Hartford City, in attempting to steal players, may be starting something that she may find hard to stop. —Bluffton Banner. The local base ball team is to be given a shaking up in an effort to land a winning combination. Among the new players just placed under contract are Carl Cominger, of Kokomo, Ind-, recognized as the fastest first baseman in the oil belt, and Frank Bockewitz, of Harvel, HL, an out fielder, late of the lowa State league. The former will make his first appearance in a Van Wert uniform this afternoon and the latter will arrive here in time for the game tomorrow. —Van Wert Bulletin. The base ball game between Van Wert and Rockford, in that town Wednesday afternoon, was forfeited by thei locals, who contended that a hit to the out field, upon which two runners scored, fell foul instead of on fair ground as ruled by the judge of play. The contention arose in the eighth inning, the score prior to that being six to five in favor of Van Wert. —Van Wert Bulletin. The crowd at Decatur yesterday was very orderly, and after their team had the game bagged securely they applauded some of the brilliant plays by members of the Bluffton team. Our boys played the game all right, except in hitting.—Bluffton Banner. The skids were placed under Johnson and Kinninger, outfielders, and Barney, pitcher, today by the local management, and Guhl, pitcher from Laporte, another pitcher and an outfielder from South Bend, players are sent here by Grant, manager of the South Bend team, and he represents them as being all right.—Bluffton Banner. There is one thing in Decatur that is all right, and that is the telephone service. The Bluffton newspapers are always well treated by the Decatur company in prompt service. Then . Lew Ellingham, the jolly and fat editor of the Democrat, simply turns over his phone at the ball ground to the Biufftop scribes. But their ball team has an unhappy faculty of playing better than they know how when Bluffton strikes the town. —Bluffton Banner.

The Canton interstate team yesterday defeated Bluffton by a score of three to two. Hull pitched for Bluffton. CONTRACTORS NOTICE. The diagram for water closets at the south ward and north ward school buildings will be at the F. V. Mills grocery store after July Ist for the purpose of receiving bids on same, whic hmust be received by Monday evening, July Bth. 157-3 t Q Plague of Ante Threatened. Any one who is acquainted with the Insect life of Florida will remember the übiquitous ant; and now comes the alarm sounded in the Entomological News, that several varieties of tropical ants have been discovered in Florida and Alabama, being recent introductions. One of these, which is an especially destructive pest, feeds on either vegetable or animal substances. FOUND —A set of ladies’ teeth, near the Lutheran church, seven miles north of town and along the interurban. Teeth are in good condition and may be secured at this office. 157-3 t For best washed nut coal for cooking stove and range, phone No. 8 or 240. J. D. Hale. 157-12 t Get our terms o« pianos Packard music House, opposite Murray HoteL 152-6 t forth : FRESHEST OF GROCERIES And everything in his line F. V. Mills the grocer can supply your wants. A. I. C. Coffee a specialty. Hot Popcorn and Peanuts all the time. t. V. MillS,Prop’r

Wide Range of Wolves. The range of a pair of wolves is an area of from six to ten miles square. When the hunter learns that wolves have been seen and heard in a certain locality, it may take several days of scouting before the dogs can be got on the trail. The hunter must look sharp for signs in soft or sandy places and along creeks and streams. The ol lady wolf will, as a rule, go to the nearest water to drink when leaving the den or to get a drink as she returns from the hunt before going to the den. and its locality is often found on account of that habit. A wolf track can be distinguished from that of a dog because the two front toe nails are set farther ahead, making tbs track more pointed. When wolves are running, and especially if frightened, these toes spread apart, making a track that at a hasty glance looks very much like the track of a deer—Fur News. Animal Cleanliness. A zoologist thus writes upon a point in which he claims that the lower animals set an example to many men, says Chums: ‘■lt has taken human beings many hundreds of years to acquire habits of neatness and cleanliness, whereas the animals have always possessed them. From the time when they first made their appearance on earth animals have washed and combed and brushed themselves with tongue, claws and tail. Many of them grow wretched and languish if deprived of any opportunity of taking a cold bath. As for the apes, they are such sticklers for cleanliness • that they expel any member of the tribe who shows a disposition to shirk his duties in this respect. Even the insects show a scrupulous regard for neatness, as anybody who has watched a fly brushing itself with its feet, for instance, will readily admit.” How to Become an Artist. Holman Hunt began his art labors when at the age of four he cut off a lock of his own hair to make a paint bnish. It is rather a serious matter for the young artist rightly to choose some picturesque and as far as possible inadequate means of beginning his career. We all know the story of Benjamin West and the cat’s tail. Aliston, being a colorist, is supposed to have squeezed the luscious hues from flowers to make his paints. As there are probably many young artists contemplating a career, why not suggest a ’ few new ways of beginning? Make a brush from popper’s shaving brush, from mummer's hairbrush, from uncle’s chin whiskers, from auntie s false front. No doubt the reason there are few great artists nowadays is that it is so ■ hard to avoid ready made paint brushes, i They are thrust upon children in the public schools. How can we hope for a Benjamin West with brushes a drug ! on the market? —Philip L. Hale in Boston Herald.

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