Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 177, Decatur, Adams County, 23 July 1907 — Page 2

The Daily Democrat, Published Every Evening, Except Sunday, by LEW G. ELLINGHAM. Subscription Rates: Per week, by carrier 10 cents Per year, by carrier $5.00 Per month, b ymail 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 PROSPECTS BRIGHTEN Wheat went off three cents yesterday, and is now quoted in Decatur at 83 cents. In Ft. Wayne the quotation is 86 cents. However. Decatur is more than holding her own for Bluffton now only offers 80 cents and this is the first time in several weeks that we have been near the top of the list. Huntington quotes it at 82 cents, and other towns accordingly. This is nearer what it should be and our hopes of the right kind of a market rise with each day. Every grain buyer in this city should know that the people want a quotation on markets that will keep the business at home. We can't understand why Ft. Wayne can pay three cents more than Decatur, but we are willing to learn and believe that the near future will erase the difference. Come on, boys, it's for the good of every one concerned, it will make you dollars where the past low market has made you cents. Better handle more goods for the same profit for it brings many more profitable customers to your place of business. Os all the markets in this locality published in last evening papers, Becatur was second. The news is cheering. If we continue to advance, at this rate we will soon head the bunch. Then —all together for a better Decatur, one that will last. We shall keep our readers posted on the markets this fall. They will be correct too. as near as we can secure them, and we expect to be so proud of them that we find it necessary to use display type so that every one for fifty miles around will hear of them. If we can do this we can guarantee Decatur merchants the biggest trade they ever enjoyed. Now, Mr. Stockman, Mr. Produce Man, do your share. Mr. Farmer— Decatur grain men offer you 83 cents for your wheat. Bluffton only pays 80 cents and Huntington 82 cents. How’s it sound?

Awfully Good Bargains ARE THOSE NEW PATTERNS IN GAS HOT PLATES People who are using them say they consume an unusually small quantity of gas and give excellent results 2 Burner, $2.50 3 Burner, $3.50 Schafer Hardware Co.

Decatur is a country town. We are proud of the fact. We prove it today by offering better market prices than many surrounding towns. We are holding the many incidents and proofs for future use. and sincerely hope we won't have to use them. The merchants of any towm are its prime bomers as well as the direct beneficiaries of such a boom. By paying high prices for country produce they attract buyers for their merchandise. If business men are more interested in the produce business than they are in selling their merchandise, then, of course, it profits them more to hammer down the buying price and push up the selling price. But if you are a merchant more than a dealer in produce, it is to your interest to bring buyers to your store and to increase your sales for merchandise. There is no better card for any merchant than to be known as a high price buyer of country produce. There is no better advertisement for any town than to be known as a good market town. Decatur should have good markets. As a matter of justice to every member of the present city council, and especially to Messrs. Van Camp and Burns, we desire to emphasize the statement given elsewhere, that the attempt to resurrect the ordinance against hitching to telephone poles was through no orders from them or even their knowledge of such order. We make this statement so

that these two gentlemen will not be made offensive to those who want this privilege. The Democrat does not mind adding, however, that in our judgment the ordinance is right, and that the telephone poles along the business street is not the proper place for the hitching of horses. In addition, there is not a town, including Portland, Bluffton, Ft. Wayne or Van Wert that does permit it. The French Lick editorial meeting demonstrated beyond peradventure, that the Democrats of Indiana are united. Regardless of any tangling alliances among the leaders, the rank and file propose to stand or fall together. This will prove encouraging to those who place party success above personal advancement, and will greatly aid in organizing the Democrats for a victory in Indiana. One day last week the papers announced that Hon. Samuel M. Ralston, of Lebanon, could not or would not accept a nomination for governor on accunt of bis steadily increasing law business, which he could not afford to neglect. That statement did not represent Mr. Ralston’s true position in the premises. What he intended to say and what he authorized to be said for him is that he could not afford to seek the nomination for that high office. There is a marked difference be-

tween these two statements. —South Bend Times. NEW PLANS IN POSTAL SERVICE Effort to Compete Against Express Companies—New Stamp Designs. George Von Lengerke Meyer, the new Postmaster General, gave out a lot of information about his plans and opinions relating to the postal service in a recent interview. A parcel post, so that packages weighing more than four pounds can be carried on mail trains and break up the monopolies of the express companies. Experiments are being made for a scheme to vend stamps, as in Germany, where machines are used, so that they can be sold almost everywhere. A reduction of the first-class postal rate to England from five cents to two cents. Money orders are now paid, even though the "advice” has been delayed, if payees can identity themselves as they would be required to do in cashing a check at a bank. Arrangements are being made to simplify the special delivery system so that a letter may be received by any responsible person at the house or office of the addressee in his absence. The designs on the stamped envelope are to be simplified. Washington's head will be printed on the two and five cent stamps and Franklin on the rest. o OBITUARY. Jennie Mechling was born in Wells county, Indiana, November 2, 1861. Here she spent the days of her childhood and youth. While still young she became a teacher and taught six or seven terms in Wells and Elkhart counties. A number of years she devoted to the care of her invalid sister. She joined the Methodist church when she was still young, at Bluffton and lived a beautiful Christian life, being very devoted to her Lord and the work of the church. She was especially interested in the W. H. M. S. of her church, and gave it many years of her consecrated thought and service. On May 24. 1896. she was married to William Pillars. She had been in feeble health for some time, but her friends did not expect her death, and were shocked to hear that she passed away Friday morning, July 19, 1907, aged 45 years, 8 months. 17 days. She leaves to mourn their loss three sisters and one brother. Mrs. Harriet Bowers, of Adams county; Mrs. Cal Kump. of Bluffton; Mrs. Tillie Deal, of Adams county and Mr. Daniel Mechlin, of Wells county. Also her husband. Mr. Wm. Pillars, one stepdaughter. Ethel Pillars and two stepsons, Miles Pillars and Ben Pillars. One sister, Emma Mechline, preceded her in death. Her funeral services were conducted at her late home by her pastor, Dr. C. B. Wilcox, and her burial was at Maplewood cemetery on Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock.

A GOOD LAWN. The Best Way to Prepare the Ground and Sow the Seed. A good lawn may be made either by laying sod or growing seed. If turf is used, the lawn is sometimes ready for use in less time than when seed is used, but practically the difference is very slight Fewer lawns are made from turf every year. The turf or soil is nearly always obtained from a nearby field. It abounds in coarse grasses and pernicious weeds. The former may be got rid of after considerable trouble, but the latter rarely ever. Sod laid lawns are nearly always uneven, seamy and varied in color and texture. Their cost, too. is much in excess of seeding the lawn down. A lawn produced from a mixture of good, new, recleaned seeds of the finer grasses and clovers is superior In quality and texture to the best sod obtainable. To obtain the best results from sowing, the ground should be carefully dug over—not too deep, six to eight Inches will be enough—and nicely leveled oft; then sow on broadcast a good fertilizer, 600 pounds to the acre, or about ten pounds to every 15 by 15 square feet Rake this in and roll It or flatten it with the back of a spade; then sow seventy pounds of some good lawn seed to the acre, or one pound to every 15 by 15 feet. Sow half this quantity walking one way and half walking at right angles to it so as to get even distribution. Do not sow in windy weather, and be sure to rake the seed in. and after sowing roll it well or beat it flat with the spade. Those seeds that are deeply burled will not germinate, and those that are exposed will be scorched by the sun, blown or washed away or taken by the birds. Whenever necessary to sow In summer it is better to mix with rye or oats to protect the tender shoots from the hot sun.—Suburban Life. He who despises small things never feecomes rich.—Danish Proverb. The Way It Acted. Mrs. A.—You say brandy is a good remedy for colic, but I don’t agree with you. Mrs. B.—What do you know about it? Mrs. A.—A great deal. Before I had brandy in the bouse my husband never had colic more than once or twice a year, but as soon as I kept a supply he had colic almost every dwv.

THE TEMW DINNER “Rattlesnakes on Toast” Was the Cowboy's Order. BUT HE MET WITH HIS MATCH — The Promptne«» With Which the Tough Waiter Served the Dish Took ■ the Terror’s Nerve Away—The Repast and the Final Request. Away back in 1876 a man named Turpin established a restaurant in Yuma, and among Turpin's original , employees was a waiter named Job Straight, who could shoot with great precision, play draw poker with unvarying success and pack eighteen plates of miscellaneous one , bare arm at one time. He could execute all the prevailing melodies either on piano or guitar, and he possessed the most tremendous baritone voice. ever heard in Arizona. Why, men sometimes went to Turpin s just to hear Joe deliver gastronomic orders. No perfect description can be given of that voice, however, except to say that at times it really did make things clatter. I Once a fresh young cowboy from near Gila Bend entered Turpin's for a Christmas dinner who took a startling concoction as an appetizer and then dropped thud-like at a table and roughly shouted to Straight: ’ “Say, there, Baldy! Bring me some grub!” Job was at first appalled; but, recov-: erlng his reserve limit of equanimity, he brushed an imaginary breadcrumb from the frescoed tablecloth and whisked a bill of fare from the variegated castor and placed it before the ( new young terror of the Bend. "Take it away!” cried the latter in , tones that could give Straight's ordinary, everyday baritone a castle and : checkmate it in five moves. “I don’t want to read your darned old tract I don't care a darn who came into the world to save sinners. Bring me some grub—g-r-u-b! Grub! Grub! Grub! “What do you want?” “Rattlesnakes on toast! 2nd I want you to hump yourself!” “What’s that?” “I’ve given my order, you baldbeaded old cigar store sign, and I want you to get a move on yourself, p. d. q. Rattlesnakes on toast!” “Rattlesnakes on toast!” cried Job to the cook in accents that would have paralyzed Carl Formes had that old basso profundo been living and heard them. "Rattlesnakes on toast!” was the reverberating response from the cook i upon receiving the order. There were a dozen or more people in the restaurant, and their eyes were at once t-urned on the young person from the Bend and the infuriated waiter. In the meantime the cook had taken a big catfish and cut it into four strips and rolled these strips in batter, so that they much resembled the viand ordered. and after placing them in the frying pan he stuck his head out of the kitchen and shouted to Job: “You want them rattlers rare or well done?” The waiter repeated the Interrogatory In a cyclonic way, and the terror replied in as violent a tone and manner as he could command, "Well done, with plenty of gravy and Chili Colorado."

And then Job thundered to the cook: “Well done, with plenty of Chili Colorado, hot as , and moccasin gravy on the side and brochettes of sand crane livers and Gila monster lights!” There was an Instantaneously dead silence in that restaurant, and all eyes were again cast upon the terror and the waiter. The former turned ashen pale and began to weaken perceptibly, while Job gazed at his victim. “Maybe you don’t think we can serve all the market affords.” muttered Job. “Maybe you don’t like moccasin gravy or brochettes a la mode. Maybe you ain’t hungry!” “Say! You’ve got me—l ain't hungry, so help me. I couldn’t eat a single hard boiled egg. Count-'—nand that durned order, old man I’ll pay all expenses and set “s long as anybody can drink. . pardon, gentlemen, all. My first attempt to be a ter-ror-pardon me, gentlemen. It's my Cast!” And then he handed his revolver to Job and added: “Take that pistol, old man, as a present and promise me that the next time any durned fool comes In here and calls for rattlesnakes on toast you’ll shoot him dead!” But Straight was too raving mad all the way through to willingly emerge from a situation only tolerably triumphant So he took the weapon just as the order was being placed on the table and. pointing it at the terror, exclaimed: “Now, then, my boy, dump yourself Into that chair and eat them snakes—bones, skin and all”’ The young fellow did as he was commanded. but after finishing his repast staggered the uncompromising Job by Shouting: “I say, Baldy, bring me another plate of snakes’”—Denver News. Wanted New Ones. A traveler putting up at a fifth class hotel brought the “boots” up with his angry storming. “Want your room changed, sir? What’s the matter, sir?’ "The room's all right,” fumed the guest scorchingly; “it’s the fleas I object to, that’s all.” “Mrs. Bloobs,” bawled the "boots” In an uninterested sort of voice, “the gent in No. 6 is satisfied with bis room, but he wants the fleas changed.”—lllustrated Bits.

IN A NEW CLASS. Maggie’s Raise In Wages Brought Unexpected Results. Mrs. Baker, a well to do lady in one of the suburbs of a large eastern city, was fortunate in having an excellent servant. Maggie was capable, quick and good natured. Most of the lady s friends were less fortunate—in fact, few of them were without their distinct trials. At all the fashionable gatherings the conversation turned, like a needle to the pole, straight to the subject of servants. Mrs. Baker said very little, for she had often noticed that an announcement of perfect satisfaction in the domestic line was frequently followed later on by a second announcement to the effect that the perfect maid bad been offered higher wages by Mrs. So-and-so and had gone to get them. Therefore Mrs. Baker followed Br’er Rabbit's tactics of “lavin’ low.” More than this, she decided to be very diplomatic. She would offer Maggie more wages herself and thus secure her before any one else had a chance. She was pleased with her plan. "Now, Maggie,” she said the next morning, “you’ve been very faithful and cheerful during this hot summer and through Dorothy’s illness, and I like your work so well that I'm going to raise your wages from $5 to $6.” Maggie thanked her, and Mrs. Baker smiled at the thought of her own astuteness. On Monday morning, a few days later, she had occasion to visit her kltch en after breakfast. Instead of encountering the usual smell of suds and steam, she found Maggie seated at the table. “Why, where’s the washing?" she asked. "What’s the matter? Are you ill?” “Oh, no, mum,” replied Maggie airily, “I ain’t sick. But none of the girls as gets $6 does any washing. The six dollar girls has it done fer ’um, you know.” Mrs. Baker has not tried any more diplomatic plans.—Youth’s Companion. HUMOR OF LONDON CABBIES.

Some of Their Remarks When the Tip Is Not Forthcoming. Some of the hansom fraternity of London have no sense of humor, but the majority are decidedly facetious. ! says London Tit-Bits. Here are some examples of witty and sarcastic “cabbyisms.” To appreciate them properly it must ■ be understood that the fare has offered a single shilling in payment for a ride just within the two mile limit. “Are you quite Hire you can spare this?” remarks the cabby with a bump ■of humor. "D’ye think you'll be able • to rub along on the other nineteen till next Friday? It’s goin’ the pace, , y’know.” “If you’ll take my tip. guv’nor,” runs another form of gentle reproach, “you’ll go and see an oculist You 'ailed this bus by mistake. You wants a red or green or yellow bus. Black ain't in your line at all.” “Thank yer. gov'nor,” says another cabby, with apparent emotion; “thank yer, kindly. Yer offer is well meant, but I couldn’t go for to do it.” Saying i which he makes a pretense of handing the shilling back to the astonished fare. “But I can’t sell him, guv’nor, and that's a fact. Yer 'andsome hoffer'd make me rich for life, but I tell yer I can’t sell ’im.” One cabby, who was an excellent ac- ' tor, on receiving his shilling burst into tears and between his loud sobs jerked out: "I’m sorry you force it on me, guv’nor. I am really. The hincome tax people’ll be down on me now.” I An excellent “cabbyism” was perpetrated in the suburbs one night. As the fare let himself into the house he was regaled somewhat as follows: "Go in quietly, sir, in case the old woman wakes up and ’ears me drivln' away. She might stop the rest cf yer pocket money for this extravagance.”

A Bit of Superstition. Superstition is by no means dead, even in ultra civilized England, says London Answers. One Sunday, a few months ago, an interesting proof of this fact was seen in the parish church of Sutcombe, in north Devon. A woman who suffered from epilepsy sat in the porch as the congregation came out from morning service, and thirty married men, who at her request had attended church, passed her one by one. As they passed each dropped a penny in her lap. The thirtieth took the pennies and gave tlse woman a half crown, which was to be made into a ring for her to wear. Vain superstition, you exclaim. Yet another woman, also a martyr to epileptic fits, who went through the same ceremony at the same place nineteen years ago has never since suffered. His Head and the Psalm. The Rev. C. N. Wright, Wardle vicarage. Rochdale, for a personal reminiscence, writes: “In my third living there was a very crowded congregation the first morning I officiated. The parishioners were evidently curious as to the build, color of hair, etc., of their new vicar. As a matter of fact I was, though a young man, very bald. A little thought would have caused me to make my first appearance on any morning but the Bth. but it was the Bth, and. in the Psalms, which were read and not sung, I had to say; ‘My sins are more in number than the hairs of my bead.’ ’’—London Graphic. A Weigh Off. “I want to get a pair of scales,” remarked the customer. “Have you the ambuscade make?” "What’s the ambuscade?” inquired the clerk. “Well,” returned the customer, "I am given to understand that they're the kind which lie in weight.”—Bohemian.

/SHOESV Iw OF Kn #qualitHJ A Little Money A little will be plenty, and it will be all you’ll need to secure a pair of Shoes at our Shoe sale. Here’s the Idea! After a big season’s business we find that we have many broken lines of Shoes. We mean lines where we have not all sizes. These Shoes are our Best Shoes. That’s the reason the lines are broken. It’s the best Shoes that always sell first. We’re going to make short work of closing out these broken lines, and here’s our offer. If you find your size, and you undoubtedly can, you get a prize. If you come at all, eome quickly. Winnes Shoe Store

A Useful Man. Dr. Ray, the oldest living druggist of New York is dead. In the course of his life he sold 283.486,174 postage stamps and allowed 268,749,346,918 persons to use hia directory and telephone. Judge Worthy of the Bench. In the court of Judge Klamroth, of Pasadena, Cal., the other day, when a witness had testified that she was married and a cross-examining attorney asked her: “Will you swear that you are married?" the judge stopped him and made him apologize, remarking: “Never, in the eight years I have held court have I allowed a woman to insulted.” NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNERS. Notice is hereby given that on the 4th day of June. 1907-, the Common Council of the City of Decatur. Indiana. adopted a resolution declaring it was necessary to construct a sidewalk on and along the following route, to-wit: Commencing on the east side of Eleventh street in the aforesaid city, thence east along the north side of Elm stret to the Grand Rapids and Indiana railroad to the east side of said railroad track, there to intersect with a sidewalk already constructed; said sidewalk to be four feet in width and to b built of either good, first class brick or cement, according to the plans and specifications now on file at the office of the city clerk, and fixing the council chambers of said city where all presons whose property may be affected by the construction of sidewalk may be heard at seven o’clock p. m., on the 6th day of August. 1907. CARL O. FRANCE. 176-12 t City Clerk. o NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNERS. Notice is hereby given that on the 17th day of July, 1907, the Common Council of the City of Decatur, Indiana, adopted a resolution declaring that it was unnecessary to construct a sewer on and along the following route to-wit: Commencing at a point on Decatur street where the alley between Marshal and Indiana streets intersects said Decaturstreet,where the sewer is now located, thence running east to Fifth street and there to terminate. Said sewer to be known as the Myrtle Chronister sewer and to be constructed according to the profile, plans and specifications now on file in the office of the city clerk and fixing the council chambers of said city, where all persons whose property is affected may be heard at seven o’clock p. m. on the 6th day of August, 1907. CARL 0. FRANCE, 1~6-12t pity clerk.

$6.50 Round Trip $6.50 DECAUTUR TO NIAGARA FALLS via CLOVER LEAF ROUTE Wednesday. August 21. Through coaches and sleeping cars direct to the Falls without change. 1 Secure reservations early. For particulars consult nearest Clover Leaf Agent. For Spouting, Roofing Conn'. V r *L on and T,n Work. RodS Se a e Gal * lni « d Lightning T. A. Leonard Opposite Hale’s Warehouse. A a HOLLIS! ERF Bongs Sotden Health nd Renewd vigor let form. 35 wmti teb •uLuES x -n tFTB fob shlow

P. J. HYLAND SANITARY PLUMBING FITTING Steam * M Hot Water Hsirtiii GAS ANO COMBINATION fIXW 23 Manroc St Phone HI A Special Offer For 20 Days Only ON PICTURES Crayon on canvas, regular price $1.98, during this offer. $1.20. Pastel on canvis. regular priec 1355. during this offer, $1.70. All work guaranteed to give eiaa likeness of original photograph. A discount of 40 per cent given « all frames. Place orders at once. SAMUEL WYATT Phone 445. Decatur, GOftL Feed and Seeds Peninsular Pt rtland Cement Gypsum Boci Wall Plaster We make a epeclalty of furnishing HIGH GRADE CLEAN COAL that will burn. t J. D. HALE jF»kxoxx» a Cor. Jefferson and 2nd Sts. I Weak Women Te week and alltog women, there ** * -g way to help. But with that way ,tw must be combined. One it local, ttonal. but both are important I Dr. Shoop's Night Cure is ths J Lo»a. Dr. Shoop's Restorative, the | Thefermet-Dr. Shoop'. mucous membrane suppository rets • & Bhoop's Restorative Is wholly M went. The Restorative reaches t ■ _ etjtir* »yssem, seekinr the rep* all tissue, and all blood ailment The "Night Cure", as its name ..jjiP work while you sleep n ed mucosa surfaees. heals dischargee. while the Restorat-.v '■ excitement, gives renewed Mgo builds up wasted tissues. hrtog®* p , fW fi strength, vigor, and , Restorative-Tables, or Liquid-* ‘ „s< to th. system. For ptoitiv. Dr. Shoop* Night Cort W. H. NACHTRIBBr