Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 248, Decatur, Adams County, 14 October 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 mall $2.50 Slagle 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. Deeds, not words, should be the president’s motto. Yet it cannot be denied by honest men that the president's criticisms of the machinations of capital have the true ring and the only regret is Shat they are not backed up by deeds. But it is possible

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the president has more to contend with than the observer from afar can realize. He is but one man while the corruptionists are many and can control courts and legislation. His inconsistencies are many and sometimes glaring, but it is to be hoped , he means well. At least he has afforded no ground for uneasiness on the part of capital that is honestly invested. The only capitalists who have cause for fear are those who art engaged in dishonest enterprises, as are the Standard Oil Company and other trusts, many of the railroad and other corporations. If in need of a second-hand buggy carriage, call on Atz and Steele. We have a large stock of them Some are in excellent condition and will sell at moderate prices. 243 — ————— Mrs. John Teeters of Berne, who has been the guest of her brother, Ross Mallonee, for some time, re turned to her home Sunday afternoon.

Evolution of the Rest. The canoe was one of the earliest of boats, but it is not in line with the later growth. The ancestry of the modern boat begins with the log and Is traced through the raft rather than through the canoe. By lashing together several logs It was feund that larger burdens could be carried. Therefore the boat of a single log grew into one of several logs—a raft. By the time man had learned to make a raft we see he bad learned something else—he had learned to row his boat along by pulling at an oar instead of pushing it along with a paddle. Rafts were used by nearly all the nations of antiquity. Herodotus, the father of history, tells us that they were In use in ancient Chaldea.—S. E. Forman in St. Nicholas. A Startling Operation. A startling real estate operation is noted in the following description in a deed on record in a certain county of North Carolina, copied unchanged from the book of deeds, with the exception only of the name of the unfortunate landowner: “Beginning at Beck’s south corner running thence north fifty feet; thence west fifty feet; thence south fifty feet; thence east fifty feet to beginning, this being a plot of land fifty feet square cut from the back end of the said Pemima Jones.” Another In the Field. She was pretty, and the drug clerk was glad to sell her a stamp. Also to weigh her letter. Also to lick the stamp and affix it to the envelope. “Put it on upside down, please,” she simpered. “That means something to Charlie.” Then the drug clerk lost interest— Louisville Courier-Journal. Woman's Wile.. “What a hold Maud seems to have on all her rejected suitors.” “Why shouldn’t she, the artful thing! She always tells a man when she refuses him that she is afraid to marry a handsome man because she would be so jealous.”—Cincinnati Enquirer. Bobby’s Energy. Mother—Why, Bobbie, what do you mean by making baby eat that yeast cake? Bobbie—Boo-boo, he swallowed my fifty cent piece, and I’m trying tc raise the dough.—Cornell Widow.

THE Electric Theatre TONIGHT Admission 5 Cents. MOTION PICTURES. President Fallier's Visit to the Colonial Exhibition. ILLUSTRATED SONG. “I Once Had a Sweetheart That Looked Just Like You.” Schmuck & Miller, Proprietors — PICTORIUM TONIGHT "Gay Washerwoman; ” “Hop-o-My Thumb.” All shows now bel’-g put on are new and have never been shown any place before. J. B. STONEBURNER, Prop InOSSESI 1 OoPERA HOUSEI MONDAY OCTOBER 14. ERNEST SHIPMAN /(“ prcsent./ W • / | Ww |e7<® \ X ’’W' X /. Temoft B -~/r/cer-w wM/mc Prices 25, 50,75,51 L \

Early Baseball Teams. Baseball teams existed as early as 1845, but the first league was formed in 1857, when the National Association of Baseball Players was organized. This, as the title implies, was an or-1 ganization of players —In fact, of ama-, teur players. They did not remain true amateurs for long, however, and in 1871 baseball was placed squarely on a professional basis, when there came into existence the National Association of Professional Baseball Players. It will be noted that the players still governed the sport, and they continued to do so until 1876. It was in this period that there grew up the great abuses which menaced the very life of baseball—namely, gambling and the buying and selling of games. In 1876 the players were deposed from the government of professional baseball, and they have never since controlled the game.—Henry Beach Needham in Success Magazine. Almost Prehistoric. Her voice in the midsummer gloaming had a plaintive sound. "I haven't anything new to sing to you tonight, Cyril,” she faltered. "Then sing me one of the old songs, love,” said the man tenderly. High, thin and a little cracked, her soprano' rose in quaint, sweet melody of “Over the Garden Wall.” When the song was ended her lover laughed and said: “That was Indeed an old one, Clara.” Two hard lines formed about the corners of her mouth. “Yes, Cyril,” she said quietly; "I sang that song to you the night we became engaged.”—New Orleans TimesDemocrat. They Let It Go at That. They were holding down the parlot sofa together. “Women,” he remarked to the dear girl by his side, “are not good listeners.” The dear girl said nothing And the dear girl’s mother, who was doing an eavesdropping stunt at the keyhole, was not in a position to contradict him.—Chicago News. It Takes Cash. “Why are there no lynchings in this city?” said a New York policeman. "Because the officers always get there ahead of a rope. There are several patrolmen on each block, and it takes some time to hunt up a hardware store and get a rope. The man who goes after it usually loses his enthusiasm when he finds that even a clothesline means cash on delivery.” Not His Fault. He—Do you think Styles and bls wifs live happily? She—l’m sure of it. “Well, she always seems to look uncomfortable when she’s with him.” “That’s not her husband makes het look that way. It’s her boots.” The Cure. “How’s your wife?” "She's having constant trouble with her head.” "Can’t the doctor help her?” “No—nobody but the milliner.” A Patriot. “Say, Freddie, what’s a patriot?” “Oh, it’s one of those fellows who tries to make something out of hit country.”—Judge. All men are equal — till they ars found out.—Jamesport Gazette.

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Coideck—l hadn’t the heart to write a note. Break it gently to my wife.; won’t you? His Second—Now, don t feel that way about it, my boy. You’re coming out of this affair safe and ■ound. Coldeck-But it is more serious than you think. I have reliable Infor-. mation that Wildshot will fire in the air.— Puck. Position With a Pull. Visitor—l understand that our friend Stuckup has got a position with a pull to it at last? Residenter—That’s right By means of a rope he helps to yank cattle to slaughter in an abattoir.— Morristown Times. Promising is not giving, but serrat •0 content fools.— Portuguese ProverbAstronomers long since came to the conclusion that the moon's surface is very hot during the height of the lunar day, which, as will be remembered, lasts two weeks, and very cold during the lunar night, which is equally long. These extremes of temperature reach thei* height at the lunar noon and midnight and are greater than any natural temperatures on the earth. The Golfer. Bertie (to caddie, searching for lost ball)—What are you looking there for? Why, I must have driven it fifty yards farther! Diplomatic Caddie-But sometimes they hit a stone, sir, and bounce back a terrible distance.

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