Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 268, Decatur, Adams County, 5 November 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 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. Evolution of the Raft. The canoe was one of the earliest <if boats, but it is not in line with sh« later growth. The ancest.j- 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 found that larger burdens could be carried. Therefore the beat 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 bis 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. Thunder In Various Region*, Java is said to be the region of the globe where it thunders oftenest, having thunderstorms ninety-seven days in the year. After it are Sumatra, with eighty-six days; Hindustan, with fifty-six; Borneo, with fifty-four; the Gold Coast, with fifty-two, and Rio de Janeiro, with fifty-one. In Europe, Italy occupies the first place, with thirty-eight days of thunder. while France and southern Russia have sixteen dajs. Great Britain and Switzerland have each seven days, and Norway has four. Thunder Is rare at Cairo, being heard only three days tn the year, and extremely rare in northern Turkestan and the polar regions. Q PUBLIC STENOGRAPHER—For stenographic work and typewriting, call on Amelia Tonnelier at A. P. Beatty's law office. Over the Boston Store. 267-6 t

' Look for name in strap j Cambridge gA Conservative gentlemen find it difficult to select suitable shoes amonp the extreme styles so j prevalent today. SB h as been especially <J es ‘g ne< i for ’his 1. class of men. - Illustration ■wL s^ows the MMwaiggk Cambridge WKSjL tn patent l eat her ~jgklace boot, medium round light WffiSKSllOlk toe, weight sole We carry this neat and 1 dressy shoe in a 1 complete assortment I of sizes, and made in all leathers. y Most styles are 15 J J.H.Voglewede & Son Decatur, Ind,

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THE SOCIAL EVENTS (Continued from page 1.) Bohon. Edna Coll, Margaret Gilhooly, Bertha Ehringer, Rose Kelly, Ray Cook, Agnes Kenny, Tot Kenny, Clementine Brooks, Marie Tonnelier, of Decatur. Ind.; Roger Allen, Henry Reeder, Addie Knapp, Frank Ballweber, Emmett Durgee, Frank Grote, Otto Keller, George Montgomery. Clarence Zollinger, Louis Keutberg, Harold Keigwin. Wilbur Foster, Halbert Perry, Charles Smith, of Louisville. —Jeffersonville Star. Miss Katherine Smith will entertain a company of friends at six o'clock dinner this evening in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Dyke Frisinger. A PICKLE FACTORY Deal Closed if Contracts for Two Hundred Acres Can be Secured. GLASSER. KOHN & CO. Big Chicago Concern May Locate a Branch Here Within Sixty Days.

A new industry was secured yesterday afternoon for Decatur by the Commercial Club when they closed a deal with Glasser, Kohn and company, of Chicago, for the erection of a pickle factory in this city within the next thirty or sixty days, provided they can secure contracts enough with farmers living within a radius of five miles of Decatur to grow pickles for the use of this plant. Os course to secure a plant of this kind it is an absolute necessity for them to at once determine whether or not they can secure acreage enough to raise pickles to keep their plant in running order and insure them that they can fill their orders promptly. This company requires that the Commercial Club secure for them contracts from farmers living within five miles of Decatur insuring them that they will raise from one half to five acres of pickles each season. No contract to be entered into for less than one haif acre or more than five acres from any one farmer and that the total must reach two hundred acres as this is sufficient to keep the plant running practically the year around. This company also agrees to furnish seed at fifty cents a pound that they will guainntee to raise at least one hundred and fifty bushels per acre, for which the plant will pay for all pickles under 3’4 inches fifty cents a bushel and all over that length fifteen cents a bushel. The company only asks for ground enough on which to erect their buildings and plant, which they stimate will cost them in the neighborhood of eight thousand dollars. The Commercial Club will secure them a site along the Erie tracks and should the solicitor, Frank Peterson, be able to secure contracts from farmers representing two hundied acres, the plant is assured for Decatur. This is another good thing and the farmers and citizens should take an interest in the plant and boost the same They expect to employ in the neighborhood of fifteen men to start with and increase the fo:ce as the work demands. 0 PNEUMONIA FOLLOWS A COLD but never follows the use of Foley’s Honey and Tar. It stops the cough, i heals and strengthens the lungs and prevents pneumonia. THE HOLTHOUSE DRUG C 0...

We are getting in new'Furniture eveiy day.

THE SESSION OVER The Commissioners Closed a Busy Two Days’ Session. CONSIDER DRAINAGE Four Ditch Sales Ordered —Two Liquor Licenses Granted. The commissioners closed a busy two days' session, having in that time taken care of considerable business. Monday being an especially strenuous day. It being the last day for tax paying, brought many people to town, and they seemingly all had something to do or saiy to the board. In the Marsellus Davidson ditch petition. it was referred to Surveyor Baumgartner, J. M. Willey drainage commissioner, and Samuel Durbin. They will meet November 7. Liquor licenses wei| granted to Joseph Tonnelier and Joe Knapke, both of this city. Surveyor Balumgartner is advertising for sale the Charles Kurber, Frank C. Wechter, August Heussellman and Hatvey L. Smith ditch. The sale will occur on Saturday. November 23, at the surveyor's office. The commissioners closed the session by the allowance of bills. 0 WILL SOON EXHAUST SUPPLY. Government Says Timber Will All be Gone in Twenty Years.

Washington, Nov. 4.—“ln twenty yeais the timber supply la the United States government reserves and private holdings, at the present rate of cutting, will be exhausted.” This announcement was made today by Gifford Pinchot, the government forester who has just returned from a six months’ inspection tiap on which he traveled 10,000 miles. Mr. Pinchot called attention to the fact that as privately owned timber lands are better than the government reserves, as a general rule, the government does not control one-fifth of the timber supply. The forest service will ask congress for more money and more men in order to extend the service and will pursue the work of reforesting the denuded timber lands. President Roosevelt expects to call a conference in Washington shortly, of governors of states and experts in the study of natural resources. The conference will be for the purpose of developing sentiment in favor of the administration's policy of looking into the future in the matter of conserving the natural resources such an timber, coal, oil and gas and the various minerals. c PUBLIC SALE. The undersigned will offer for sale at his residence one and one-half miles southwest of Pleasant Mills and four miles west of Willshire, Ohio, commencing at ten o’clock a. m., on Thursday, November 14, 1907. the following property, to-wit: One Belgium mare 6 /ears old, weight 1,700 lbs., 1 Belgium mare 5 years old weight 1,700 lbs., 1 Norman mare 4 years old, weight 1,680 lbs., 1 Belgium spring colt, 1 gelding 2 years old weighing 1,200. One Durham cow 6 years old. giving milk, will be fresh on January 18, 1908; 1 Durham cow 4 years old giving milk, will be fresh on February 20, 1908; 1 Jersey cow 7 years old; 9 head of shoats weighing from 50 to 75 lbs. Implements —One 2 horse wagon good as new; 1 16 inch Morline riding plow good as new; 1 breaking plow 2 set of heavy work harness; 1 set of driving harness good as new; 1 set of single buggy harness; 1 Deering mower good as new; 1 block roller; 1 pair bob sleds; 1 mud boat; corn in the shock; 1 hoisting pulley; a lot of white ash pickets; 1 pair log bunks and stirups; 50 feet of log chain; 1 pair of hay ladders good as new; clover seed and timothy; double shovel piows; 1 Boss washing machine good as new; a lot of chickens; 1 No. 9 cook stove; household and kitchen furniture, and other articles too numerous to mention. Terms of Sale —Nine months’ time will be given on all sums over five dollars by purchaser giving bankable note with approved security, five dollars and under cash in hand. PHILIP GEPHART. Ed. Kirkland, Auctioneer. Geo. K. Jacobs, Clerk. o DEMOCRAT WANT ADS. PAY BIG TRY DEMOCRAT WANT ADS.

TREKS DFTHE TO Wicked Deeds Done by the Imp of the Perverse. AMUSING ERRORS IN PRINT. Examples of What Is Liable to Happen When the Compositor Blunders or When the Usually Alert and Caraful Proofreader Nod*. Sometimes the proofreader nods, and In this connection the late Lord Goschen told at a public dinner a story of a reader who worked for his (Lord Goschen’s) grandfather and who, in answer to a denunciation from his employer, cried: “Let some other man work at correctness of typography. I despair. My own thoughts often hinder me as they seize and hold the authors otherwise than they ought to do. It is quite possible that niggling about words and syllables may often go to the wall when my soul cannot tear itself loose from some thought or picture. Errors have been found in sheets which I thought I had worked backward and forward with the greatest particularity. I read always as It should be. It is when a reader Is in this soulful condition that the general public are permitted to read, as they did once In a morning paper not given to humor, that a celebrated politician, in a speech, described some one as "sitting at the feet of the game bird of, Birmingham," Instead of “Gamaliel. In the same journal, too, the following startling announcement appeared under the heading of “Births: ’ NICHOLSON.—On the 12th Inst., at Belton road. Sldcup, the »on of Alfred Nlcholson, of a daughter.

In another newspaper a most pathetic account appeared of a doctor who died owing to having accidentally infected himself while injecting some plague virus into a “gnat” The mystery was solved the next day, when an apology was printed explainting that the word should have been ‘Tat.* “Come over and try some new soup,” a lady novelist did not write; “songs" was the word. “It is a sickly kopje of the real article” was perhaps excusable. It appeared in a paper during the Boer war. These mistakes are curious enough, but they pale into insignificance before some of those that never reach the printed sheet. “Cold milk, father!” once demanded a compositor in cold type, and he was aggrieved to have to alter it to “Caed mille failthe!” “Brer Fox” was made “Boer Fox”—that was also during the Bouth African war. On a hot summer's day another tired typesetter turned “The Ides of March” into “The Idea of Work.” In a sermon a celebrated divine was made to say, “And they erected a marine store at the mouth of the sepulcher.” “Massive stone” were the correct words. Abbreviations are at times the bane of the compositor, but he had no excuse in setting up. in an account of a Mansion House function, that among those present were "Old Isaacs and Old Treloar.” He should have known that “Aid.” was an abbreviation of “Alderman.” In the same “take” of copy th* “Lord Mayor was received with a crash” (should be “eclat”) and was followed by the sheriffs in their “margarine (mazarine) gowns.” “Let the gulled Judy wink” appeared in another first proof, and the proofreader wearily made it the "galled jad* wince.” “Die, lusty platter!” has quite a transpontine flavor, but the “copy” said “Die Lustige Blatter” (a German weekly paper). “Pignut of the enunciation” does not seem convincing; “figment of the imagination” is better. “Petticoats long on Sunday morning is a disgrace” is all right when the first two words ar* read “Petticoat lane.” In a police court assault cas* th* prosecutor was made to say that the prisoner had given him “twins.” What the prisoner really aid was to give th* prosecutor a “turn” (a fright). “The government were suffering from men tai aberration,” must have been set up by a compositor of the opposition politics. The real charge was "mutual admiration.”

“De mortar ivil nice loreum” would trouble a Latin scholar. “De mortuis nil nisi bonum” Is more correct. “/Im the Pieman” is easily recognizable as the hero of a play, and “Putty Polly,” the racehorse, would throw up her pretty head in disdain to see herself so described. For “a pair of scandals completed the costume” read “sandals,” and for “Here is indeed a sundial” substitute “scandal.” He lived In the “hubbubs" should be “suburbs,” and “Call her, Herr, in” is understandable when printed “Caller herrin’.” A well known descriptive writer was startled to read in a rough first proof that he had described the fields surrounding the Derby course as “covered with boots and shoes.” He was placated when informed that it had been altered to “booths and shows.” Columns could be filled with the amazing and amusing blunders of the compositor, but here space forbids of more than a final “howler,” which is a classic in the printing world. “O temporal O mores!” wrote a leader writer at ten minutes to 1 in the morning. “O Moses, indeed!” exclaimed the proofreader a quarter of an hour later when be “caught and bowled” the compositor who had improved the phrase into “O Tennyson! O Moses!”—London Express.

It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of a aun ia tooted.—LeweiL

THE LIMIT OF VISION. How F*r C*n th* Norm*l Ey* B** *• Land or on 6u? There la absolutely no limit to th* normal vision If the sight be unobstructed. Yet w* can see the stars, which are trillions of miles away, while we cannot see a tree twenty Wiles distant Why? It Is true that al) objects diminish in apparent size in a direct proportion to distance, but that Is not the only reason. The chief reason is that our vision is obstructed by the curvature of the earth. A wri.er in Popular Science News gives some figures to show how great this curvature is. It is often a matter of Interest ana Importance to know how far we can see from any given height or, conversely, how far one must be above the earth to see an object at a given distance. The exact calculation of these figures would require the use oi very complex formulae, but for practical use two very simple rules will suffice. The distance in miles at which an object upon the surface of the earth is visible is equal to the square root of one and one-half times the height of *he observer in feet above the surface and conversely. The height in feet to which an ob server must be placed to see a distlm t object Is equal to two-thirds the square Os the distance in miles. For instance, If the observer Is in the rigging of a ship 100 feet above the water, bow far distant is the horizon—that is. how fat could an object floating in the water be visible before being hidden by the convexity of the earth? One and onehalf times 100 is 150, and the square root of 150 is approximately twelve and one-half; therefore the horizon is twelve and one-half miles distant As the deck of smaller vessels, lik* pleasure yachts, is rarely more than ten feet above the water, it follows that the limit of vision from that point is less than four miles in every direction. An Illustration of the second rule may be given as follows: A building is thirty-three miles away. How high a hill must one climb in order to be able to see It? As the square of the distance equals 1.039 and two-thirds of that number equals 726. it follows that we must climb a hill 726 feet high before we are able to see the building, even with the most powerful telescope. Usually, however, the height of the object as well as that of the observer must be taken into consideration, but this simply requires the duplication of the problem. For instance, the Washington monument is 552 feet high. At what height must an observer fifty miles away be in order to see the top of it? Supposing the observer to stand upon the ground, we find by the first rule that he could just see the top twenty-nine miles away, and to overcome the remaining twenty-one miles, due to the convexity of the earth, he would by rule second have to climb to the height of 294 feet If we apply similar calculations to the Eiffel tower, the highest artificial structure in the world, we obtain some interesting results. Assuming the height to be just 1,000 feet, we find that, standing at the top, we enjoy a circle of vision bounded by a horizon thirty-nine miles distant and that if another similar tower should ever be erected it could be placed over seven-ty-eight miles away liefore the rays of the electric lights on their summits would be eclipsed by the intervening earth. From the summit of Mount Everest in the Himalayas (17,000 feet>, one could see nearly 200 miles, provided the air was clear enough, which would rarely be the case. Business Before Pleasure. They were performers in the amateur theatricals. During the progress of the play at one time, while their presence was not needed on the stage, they sat together behind the scenes. She looked beautiful indeed in an old fashioned gown and powdered hair, and he, in court costume of more than a century ago, was the beau ideal of a cavalier. For some time he had been very attentive to her, and, although people had frequently remarked upon his devotion, he had not come to the point of proposing, but as they sat behind the scenes he felt that an opportune moment had arrived.

“Marie,” he said, “you may not have perceived my liking, but I cannot delay. I—l want to ask you to—to be”Just then the prompter called the girl’s name, but she never stirred. “That’s your cue,” faltered the interrupted lover. “Yes,” she answered calmly enough, laying her head on his arm, “but never mind the cue. You seemed very earnest just now, and I want you to g» on. What were you going to say?’— Pearson’s Weekly. A Wonderful Crab. The Japanese spider crab is the most remarkable mimic of the crustacean group and is also the largest known crab. It has extraordinarily fiexible pinchers, while its numerous arms are studded with hooked hairs and spines. By means of its pinchers it tears off small fragments of sponges and seaweeds. After first putting these to its mouth, which contains a glutinous saliva, the crab places them on the surface of its limbs and body by sticking them fast with a rubbing movement By this method the crab succeeds In completely changing Its appearance and rendering itself indistinguishable from the materials common to the bottom of the sea. While crawling along ft seems as though a portion of the ocean bed was In motion, so close It the resemblance.

REALESTATE Real is the Beat and safest investment City Property and Farms f Sale. . I have a bargain list of city propertv ranging m and io: -- rx ,he ££ cations m property to exchange for DeC Vhave P S P a e cres',’2 miles from city. ’ B XrTk miles from city. “acres 3% miles from city. *7O per a< Bo acres 7 miles from city, 190 per &CF& Suburban property from one acre up to 12 acres. List your property with me at lowest commission of any one in city. W. H. MYERS Office Over Interurban Station with Hooper and Lenhart. Residence—3l3 Adams St. Decatur, Indiana. A RARE OPPORTUNITY

for agents to make big money with no capital invested, with the “Handy” cement fence post—the handiest and best post on the market. For particulars, address J. H. GRAHAM Kempton, Ind. FIRST NATIONAL BANK DECATUR INDIANA CAPITAL SIOO,OOO SURPLUS $20,000 INTEREST PAID ON DEPOSITS BOX SOCIAL. A box social will be held at the Radebush school Saturday, November 9th. Everybody invited. PEARL MILLER. EDW. L. KINTZ, 267-6 t Teachers. o DON'T PAY ALIMONY. to be divorced from your appendix. There will be no occasion for it if you keep your bowels regular with Dr. King's New Life Pills. Their action is so gentle that the appendix never has cause to make the least complaint. Guaranteed by Blackbum druggist. 25c. Try them. -—■ o A Certain Cure for Aching Feet, Allen’s Foot-East, a powder; cures Tired. Aching, Sweating, Swollen feet. Sample of Foot-Ease Sanitary ComPad. a new invention. Address, Allen 3. Olmstead, Leßoy, N. Y. o Political Anno j ncements FOR STATE SENATOR.

We are authorized to announce the name of W. S. Wells, of Fort Wavne, as a candidate for Senator of AllenAdams counties. FOR REPRESENTATIVE. U e are authorized to announce the name of Thurman Gottschalk.of Berne, as a candidate for Representative, subject to the decision of the Democratic Primary Election, to be held Fridav December 6, 1907. FOR REPRESENTATIVE. we are autnortzed to announce the name of Valentine Linker. Kirkland “v? candidat e for Representative. subject to the decision of be hPi7£ r a tiC Primar> ' Election, to be held Friday, December 6, 1907. for PROSECUTOR. name are autho,dzed to announce the name of Henry B. Heller, of Decatur “ a candidat * Prosecutor for the decWon of he i n r ’ Ct ’ SUb]ect 10 the FWt ™ . v Democratic Primary Election, to be held Friday, December for treasurer. cember 6,1907. 11 Friday, DeWe are F a°uthlriz^ S to RERname of Paul t the as a candidate for f Decat,l r. to the decision nr tt. Tr^ Surer ' Bub i ec t S £'£,"S,T" . cember 6,1907, “ e d Friday, Dew- treasurer We are authorized tn “eu to announce the

name of Chari-a W. Yag er , 0{ Marys township, as a candidate ♦ Treasurer, subject to the decku r ° r the Democratic Primary Electlm? Os be held Friday. December 6, i 9O -' t<L FOR AUDITOR. We are authorized to announce name of T. H. Baltzell, of Washing township, as a candidate for Ando subject to the decision of the cratlc Primary Election, to be Friday, December 6, 1907. FOR AUDITOR. We are authorized to announce tk name of P. A. Macklin, of Wabash township, as a candidate for Audit subject to the decision of the cratlc Primary Election, to be Friday, December 6, 1907. FOR AUDITOR. We are authorized to announce name of H. S. Michand. of Bern* as a candidate for Auditor, subject t’ the decision of the Democratic Ph mary Election, to be held Fridav ru cember 6. 1907. ‘ FOR AUDITOR. We are authorized to announce the name of Fred Hoffman, of Decatur as a candidate for Auditor, subjec’ to the decision of the Democratic Pn. mary Election, to be held Fridav ru cember 6, 1907. FOR SHERIFF. We are authorized to announce the name of Eli Meyer, or Decatur, as a candidate for Sheriff, subject to the decision of the Democratic Primarv Election, to be held Fridav, December 6. 1907. FOR COMMISSIONER. We are authorized to announce the name of David Werling, of Kirkland township, as a candidate for Commissioner, first district, subject to the decision of the Democratic Primary Election, to be held Friday, December 6, 1907. FOR COMMISSIONER. We are authorized to announce the name of Henry Zwlck. of Root township, as a candidate for Commissioner, first district, subject to the decision of the Democratic Primary Election, to be held Friday, December 6, 1907. FOR SURVEYOR. We are authorized to announce the name of Chas. C. Ernst, of Decatur as a candidate for Surveyor, subject to the decision of the Democratic Primary Election, to be held Friday, December 6, 1907.

FOR SURVEYOR. We are authorized to announce the name of Orval Harruff. of Decatur, to I be a candidate for Surveyor, subject to j the decision of the Democratic Primary Election, to be held Friday, December 6, 1907. FOR SURVEYOR. We are authorized to announce the j name of Abe Boegli, of Berne, to be j a candidate for Surveyor, subject to the decision of the Democratic Primary Election, to be held Friday, December 6. 1907. FOR CORONER. We are authorized to announce the name of Dr. J. C. Grandstaff, of Preble, i as a candidate for Coroner, subject to \ the decision of the Democratic Primary Election, to be held Friday, De- \ cember 6, 1907. FOR TRUSTEE. We are auhorized to announce the J name of Harlo W. Mann, as a candi- j date for Trustee of Root township, | subject to the decision of the Demo- j cratic Primary Election, to be heid I I Friday. December 6, 1907. FOR TRUSTEE. We are authorized to announce the name of H< W. Sellemeyer as a can- | didate for Trustee of Washington township, subject to the decision of I the Democratic Primary Election to * be held Friday, December 6. 1907. | FOR TRUSTEE. We are authorized to aun unce the | name of David Dilling as a candidate 1 for Trustee of Preble township, sub- I ject to the decision of the Democratic i Primary Election, to be held Friday. I December 6, 1997. FOR TRUSTEE. We are authorized to announce the g name of Ellas Crist, as a candidate | for Trustee of Washington township, a subject to the decision of the DetMcratic Primary Election, to be h ei “ Friday, December *, 1907. FOR TRUSTEE. We are authorized to announce to name of Frank Heller as a candidate for Trustee of Hartford township. »» g ject to the decision of the I Primary Election, to be held Fnda.. | December 6, 1907. FOR TRUSTEE. | We are authorized to announce | name of John B. Stonebumer as | candidate for Trustee of Washing! township, subject to the decision the Democratic Primary Election. ■ 1 be held Friday, December 6, 1-vi. < FOR TRUSTEE. ‘ We are authorized to announce ' name of John D. Stults as a candia’ 1 I for Trustee of Washington a subject to the decision of the e cratic Primary Election, to be ■ | Friday, December 6. 1907. FOR ASSESSOR We are authorized to annouri! name of John Christen as a cana for Assessor of Root township - i ject to the decision of the Democft' j Primary Election, to be held r • • j December 6, 1907. FOR ASSESSOR. j We are authorized to announ name of Joshua Parrish, as a date for Assessor of Washingt'm ship, subject to the decision Democratic Primary Electl held Friday, December 6, 1907.