Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 279, Decatur, Adams County, 18 November 1907 — Page 2

The Daily Democrat. FubtHhed Every Evening Except Sunday, »>y LEW & BLLINQHAM. SvtwoWptlen Rates: Per week, by carrier 10 cents Per year, by carrier J 5.00 Pet month, b ymail 25 cents Per year, by mail $3.50 Single copies 3 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the postoffice in Decatur Indiana, as second elass mafl matter. J. H. HELLER, Manager. SOCIETY IS BUSY (Continue don page 4.) dance Thursday evening and a delightful time is anticipated. Mr. and Mrs. John Fuhrman, of north of the city, entertained at Sunday dinner In Honor of B. H. Dutcher, of Cambridge, Ohio, the following with their families: Oscar Fritzinger, Sam Fuhrman and Mrs. Martha Dutcher. Mrs. George Winters entertained at dinner yesterday the following people: Rose Donathan, Clarance Winters, Al Butler and Mr. Donathan, of Fort Wayne. Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Center entertained at dinner yesterday for Messrs, and Mesdames H. B. and C. O. France and Mrs. Bell France. The Ladies’ Aid society of the German Reformed church will hold a meeting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Fritzinger at Monmouth Wednesday afternoon. A special car will leave the interurban at 1:30 and any one who desires to go are requested to inform Mrs. C. Vogt.

The Berne Mennonite quartette ant Jesse Rupp, of Berne, were entertained at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. Vogt yesterday for dinnnr and supper. Yesterday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock at the home of Rev. A. B. Haist, Howard Mauller, of east of the city, and Miss Eva Smith, of this place were joined in the holy bonds of matrimony. Both parties are well anj favorably known in this community, and their many friends extend heartf-dr congratulations. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Jones, of Seventh street entertained the following guests at Sunday for dinner: Mr. and Mrs. Levi Nelson, Mr. Walter Witham of Decatur; Mr. and Mrs. John Krahns, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Brundage, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Fisher and daughter Ethel, of Fort Wayne; Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Jones, of Columbia City. WILL ISSIJEBOND (Continued from page 1.) “The department also reserves the right to reject any or all bids if deemed to be to the interest of the United States government. The bonds will be ready for delivery on receipt of the payment therefor. “Prospective bidders desiring information not contained in this circular maty address the secretary of tfie treasury division of loans and currency, Washington, D. C., the assistant treasurers at Chicago, St. Louis. New Orleans or San Francisco. (Signed) GEO. B. CORTELYOU, Secretary.”

LOST —A monogram brooch pin with initials C. S. engraved on same. Finder return to this office. 2"9-6t

| ■ ---

“John Kelley’ of Rochester, anticipating the styles in gowns and millinery, has supplied us with foot- QQ wear for women that Dame Fashion ' says is absolutely correct. $3.50 The beautiful lines and attractive ' _ details of these shoes appeal to wo- UilU men of refined taste. QQ All the new leathers. • J. H. Voglewede * Son. The Shoe Sellers

A PROCLAMATION (Continued from Page 1.) be forgotten, the memory of wrongs be blotted out, and forgiveness be in every heart ana upon every lip. Let us become during the day one people without differences of sect or creed, or party, and amid it all let us remember the children of village, of countryside and of city with gentle word and kindly deed and by acknowledgment of our dependence upon the Great Father's love and guidance, teach them the comeliness of humility, the sublimity of Christian faith. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the great seal of the state of Indiana, at the capitol, In the city of Indianapolis, this eleventh day of November, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and seven, in the year of the independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-second, and in the year of the admission of the state of Indiana the ninety-first. J. FRANK HANLY, Governor of the State of Indiana. By the Governor: FRED W. SIMMS. Secretary of State. COURT HOUSE NEWS (Continued from page 1.) McClellan Tague and filed bond for $2,000. Susanna Buuck was appointed guardian for Luella, Rosina and Amelia Buuck and filed bond for SBOO. Squire A. B. Bailey, of Monroe, was admitted to the Adams county bar this morning, passing the examination in a highly satisfactory manner and is now a full fledged attorney. Marriage licenses were issued to Thomas J. Duhane, aged twenty-eight. ' and Opal Shoemaker, aged nineteen, i of Geneva; Howard W. Mauller, aged | twenty-five, and Eva B. Smith, aged ’ of Decatur. ' Some time between our last visit to the court house on Saturday evening and our first call there on Monday morning the clerk's office was given a new coat of wall paper, which ‘adds to the appearance of the room. o Dyonis Schmitt was a business caller at Fort W’ayne today. M. F. Rice went to Berne this afternoon on a business trip. Ed Vancil left this afternoon on his regular business trip to Geneva. J. C. Leiter went to Monroe this afternoon in the interest of the Roller Mills. Mr. Koeneman, of Hoagland, arrived in the city this afternoon to look after business affairs. Just arrived a choice lot of sootless Jackson Hill egg nut coal for your cook range. The kind that everybody wants. Tricker and Merica, yard Phone 534; residence 311. 279-6 t Jesse Smith, who some time ago received a contract from the city to tear down the old brick stack at the city plant, has completed his task and the matter will be taken up tomorrowevening, before the council to dispose of. The task was no small one and Mr. Smith experienced considerable trouble in completing his contract. The Decatur high school basket ball team went down in defeat Saturday before the Berne school by a score of seventeen to thirteen. The Berne boys were much heavier than the locals and in this respect had much the advantage. However, the lads from the south played the better game, and deserved to win. For the locals McKean and Baumgartner played the best game and are deserving of special mention.

Your Fall Costume is Incomplete Without Proper Shoes—

IS LANDED AGAIN Harry Scott is in Jail at Williston, North Dakota. ARREST IS CERTAIN Message from Sheriff Says They Actually Have the Young Man Now. Harry Scott, wanted in this city for bigamy, is again under arrest and this time Is in jail at Williston, N. D. The search for the young man has never been given up, since Sheriff Meyer returned from his futile trip a month ago. Recently word came that Scott was working as a telegraph operator at a small town between Williston and Buford. This morning Hugh Hite received a telegram from a deputy sheriff stating that he had arrested Scott. Not much faith was placed in this announcement as the deputies of that section have heretofore proven rather uncertain quantity to deal with. This afternoon Sheriff Meyer received a telegram from Sheriff Lambson, Williston, saying that he had Scott actually in jail and asking for instructions. As Henry Hite was out of the city today it was impossible to learn whether Sheriff Meyer will make another trip west or not, but it is quite probable that the young man who acted so unwisely will soon be brought here for trial, on the very serious charge of which he is accused.

Given Her Choice. Little Harry’a experience with death was limited to the decease of a pet canary which had been sent to a taxidermist and now adorned the parlor mantel. His grandmother, of whom he was very fond, was taken suddenly ill. For some time after he learned of her condition he sat in a brown study. Then, as if coming to a sudden resolution, he tiptoed into the sickroom and, cautiously approaching the bed, fixed his serious big brown eyes upon his dear relative and said, with a little quiver in his voice: “Say, grandma, if you die, which would you rather be—buried or stuffed? ’Cause if you’re buried we can’t see you no more, but if you’re stuffed we can set you in the parlor.” Grandma Immediately began to mend.—London Scraps. Matter of Fact. A visitor from London found in a case at Rotterdam a Dutchman who had been about a bit and who spoke English perfectly well. This Dutchman was smoking a china pipe of remarkable size and beauty, and the Londoner, an admirer and collector of such bric-a-brac, took the liberty to comment upon it "You could not stumble upon a pipe like that every day,” said the Englishman. The Dutchman took three or four whiffs at the pipe and then slowly removed it from his mouth. “Certainly not without breaking it,” he said, gravely.—London Chronicle. Soft and Light. A lady famed for her skill in cooking was entertaining a number of her friends at tea. Everything on the table was much admired, but the excellence of the sponge cake was especially the subject of remark. “Oh,” exclaimed one of the guests, “it is so beautifully soft and light! Do tell me where you got the recipe!” “I am very glad,” replied the hostess, “that you find it so soft and light. I made it out of my own head.”—lllustrated Bits. How It Affected Him. Mrs. Myles—When are you coming to call on us? Mrs. Styles—Oh, I really don’t know! “But you said you’d come soon and bring your busband?” “I know I did, and I asked him last hlght to come over, and he said he’d lik eto dream over it and. do you know, dear, he had an awful nightmare last night!”—Yonkers Statesman.

Something Lacking. “These big hotels are not so complete.” “What’s lacking?’ “The express elevator gets you to the fifty-second floor all right but there a half mile corridor confronts you and no cabs.”—Montreal Star. Had Heard It Before. “She looks very young to have a grown daughter.” “Yes: she was just telling me”— “I know. That she was married when she was just barely fifteen years old.”—Pittsburg Post Didn’t Affect Him. Stella—Mrs. Jones wants a new coat because Mrs. Smith looks so well in one. Jack—Yes. but Jones won’t sign a check merely because Smith looks so pretty when be is writing one.—Harper’s Bazar. It is sometimes advisable to employ a night watchman to look after men who are as honest as the day is lexg.— BL Louis Globs-Democrat

WEDDING BELLS A-PLENTY. | Marry Young and Often Seems to Be the Rule In Egypt. According to information given from authentic sources to a correspondent of Leslie's Weekly while in Egypt “there are few men in Cairo past the age of twenty years who have not been married at least twicer and the majority of women over sixteen have made a half dozen or so matrimonial experiments.’’ There is no disgrace attached to divorce in Egypt If mutual admi-1 ration wanes with the honeymoon,; there Is nothing more natural to the Egyptian mind than that the dissatisfied party takes steps toward another trial. Marriage is universal in Egypt There are no old maids. Widows remain widows but a short time, and, as a rule, no young man is considered fitted for business or entitled to the confidence of the community until he is married. These numerous marriages and their attendant celebrations make it extremely interesting for the stranger from the west who journeys through Egypt. Toward the end of the tourist season, when money is considerably more plentiful than it is just before the travelers invade the country and begin to scatter piasters along the Nile, there are hundreds of marriages. In Cairo they average during the month of April from ten to twenty a day of the elaborate ones—with brass bands, processions and feasting—and any number of less showy ones. A LONG DRIVE. The Expert Lumbermen of the Canadian Rivers. One of the most Interesting sights the new arrival in Canada can strike Is to witness a log drive on one of the rivers there, especially should there be several rapids to navigate. The expert river man is a clever athlete—clever and nervy as any circus rider, his steeds probably cutting more antics than any horse could think of. He will jump from one log to another quickly as they swirl around until he reaches the one he wants; then he will make for the center and stand perfectly upright and still, balancing himself with a long pike or peavy, sometimes running down stream miles without landing.

He also guides other logs into the channel in passing, at times jumping from one to another in marvelous fashion, although the logs are twisting and turning in every direction. Probably the cleverest piece of work one could observe out here Is when the logs get jammed In passing the rapids. Then you see the expert at his beet. He is here, there and everywhere until he gets things as he wants them, when he will calmly stand and ride down among the heaving, grinding mass as though there were no danger at hand. This scene, so full of excitement, once witnessed could never be forgotten.—London Tit-Bits. A Royal Martyr to Etiquette. In Spain the etiquette to be observed In the royal palaces was carried to such length as to make martyrs of their kings. There is a historic instance. Philip 111. was gravely seated by the fire. The firemaker of the court had kindled so great a quantity of wood that the monarch was nearly suffocated with heat and his grandeur would not suffer him to rise from the chair. The domestics could not presume to enter the apartment because it was against the etiquette. At length the Marquis do Totat appeared, and the king ordered him to damp the fires, but be excused himself, alleging that he was forbidden by the etiquette to perform such a function, for which ths Due d’Usseda ought to be called upon, as it was his business. The duke was gone out. The fire burned fiercer, and the king endured it rather than derogate from his dignity. But his blood was heated to such a degree that he was seriously ill the next day. A violent fever succeeded, which carried him off in the twenty-fourth year of his age.—London Standard.

New to Stirrups. An eight-year-old, who has spent all his short life in the city and numbered roller skates, tricycles and toy autos among his accustomed playthings, passed a Sunday on a farm a short distance away. During the afternoon a small saddle was bunted up and one of the horses pressed into service. The boy was enjoying his first horseback ride, and after he had been walked up and down the barnyard a few times he asked bis father, who was leading the horse, to make him run a bit The father complied. Suddenly the boy called out: “Oh, stop, papa, stop! I’ve lost one of my pedals!”—New York Sun. Protecting His Magazines. “While waiting at the doctor’s the other day I picked up a magazine from his table to pass the time,” said the man who observes things. “All through the book on nearly every other page was stamped his name, and it so irritated me that I spoke to him about it “ ‘lf I didn't fill that magazine up with my name,’ he said, ‘it wouldn’t last ten minutes in this place. Somebody would be sure to carry it away. Even as it is, I lose one every little while.’ ’’—New York Press. The Boss. “All right.” said Elsie, “we’ll play theater. I'll be the boss.” “No.” replied Tommy, “I will. It takes a man to be manager.” “Os course, that's ail right I mean I’ll be the leading lady.”—Kansas City Independent A healthy manner of play is neceeaXry to a healthy manner of work.— Buskin.

Hanging as a SportWe would not deny the gravity of death. It is a quite serious matter even to those of .us who, while conscious of, or at least admitting, no really sinful performances in the past, would nevertheless. If pressed, confess to certain minor Indiscretions which we would be only too willing to join with the Lord in forgetting Nevertheless, If form or ceremony or general Interest be considered the criterion, dying is one of the most popular things one can do. Nobody goes to see a man born, but the entire community turns out to see him burled. Indeed it Is well known that many people, perhaps a majority, derive actual enjoyment from beholding with their own eyes life flicker out of a person's body. The almost universal satisfaction "found from time immemorial in witnessing a banging we can understand. The event Is more spectacular and less expensive than a circus, possesses grisly human interest to a distinctive degree, is presumably grimly just and, in any case, is nnpreventable. If the hanging Is to take place anyway, why shouldn't we see it? That is the reasoning, and it seems good enough if one cares for that variety of sport — George Harvey in North American Review. The White Line. The late David Christie Murray on one occasion told the story of the champion printer’s error of his experience to this effect: “I wrote at the close of the story of ‘Grace Forbeach’: ‘Are there no troubles now?’ the lover asks. ’Not one, dear Frank, not one.’ And then, in brackets, thus [ ] I set the words [White line). This was a technical instruction to the printer and meant that one line of space should be left clear. The genius who had the copy in hand put the lover’s speech In type correctly and then, setting it out as if it were a line of verse, he gave me: “Not one, dear Frank, not one white line I”

“It was a custom in the printing office to suspend a leather medal by a leather boot lace round the neck of the man who had achieved the prize betise of the year. It was somewhere about midsummer at this time, but it was instantly unanimously resolved that nothing better than this would or could be done by anybody, and the medal was presented at once.”—Westminster Gazette. The Quicker Way. “There goes a man," observed a steamship agent as he directed attention to a surly looking Individual who had just engaged passage for Europe, “whose efforts are devoted to constructing short cuts in business methods and in eliminating all time consuming men and their propositions from his busy existence. He is a man of very few words. “Some years ago this gentleman crossed the ocean and had a very unpleasant trip. One morning a sympathetic passenger offered him a lemon, expressing a sincere wish that It would give relief. “The pale traveler seized the lemon, hurled it viciously into the ocean and growled: “ This is a quicker way than the other.’ " A Curious Tree. In the village of Clynnog, Wales, there is an old cottage, formerly a country tavern, upon the roof of which there is a full grown sycamore tree. About fifty years ago a seedling from a neighboring churchyard, where other sycamores are growing, found a resting place In the corner of the wall above a slab of stone over the entrance to the building. The young tree thrived for a time on the small quantity of soil collected in the corner of the walls and finally forced its roots downward through the walls into the earth below. From the outside no trace of the roots can be seen. Cutting Big Diamonds. Big diamonds lose a great deal in the cutting. The Kohlnoor was reduced by an unskillful stonecutter from 793% carats to 280 carats, a second cutting brought it down to 186 1-16 carats and a third to 106 1-16 carats, or less than a seventh of its original size. The original weight of the Pitt or Regent diamond was 410 carats, but in the hands of the cutter two-thirds disappeared, while the Star of the South, which was picked up in a river by a negress, lost a little over half its weight by cutting.

German Sportsmen. Half a million sportsmen in Germany kill annually 40.000 bead of red and fallow deer. 200,000 roebuck, 4,000.000 hares, 4,000,000 partridges and 400.000 wild duck, in all some 25.000.000 kilograms of wild game of a value of 25,000.000 marks, or $5,000,000, forming nearly 1 per cent of the total meat supply of Germany.—C. G. Schillings’ “In Darkest Africa.” Breaking Her In. Geraldine—l want you to understand before 1 marry you that I believe in the equality of the sexes. Gerald—All right. I was intending to give the minister two guineas. so you'd better hand over one.—lllustrated Bits. No Room. Scribbler—My new novel Is entitled “What I Told My Wife.” RuyterWhy don’t you call It. “What I Didn’t Tell My Wife?” Scribbler- Publishers limited me to one volume.—Exchange. Inflated. Artist (Indicating an exquisite marine vlew>—This picture is valued at >50.000. Stockbroker — Well, Well! There’s a lot of water In IL isn’t there? —Spokane Sportsman-Review.

WE HAVE Three Houses for Reni ’Phone or Call on SNOW AGENCY Phone 330 Decatur, Ind.

NO KNIFE .WOMMW-****’***"**'! » * * r » Cra / * : -XdL I ’ .adfc? Milk * I I JW ! DR. BLACKSTONE. It is scarcely ever necessary with the advanced methods employed by Dr. Blackstone to resort to any but pleasant and agreeable forms of treatment. Appreciative patients have often expressed their gratification to know that I do not approve of the knife except in the most urgent and absolutely necessary Instances. It is UNDOUBTEDLY a fact that three out of every four operations might be avoided. Inexperienced physicians are too eager to “go into” a patient and too apt to operate with the HOPE of re'lieving, rather than for he positive knowledge that they WILL relieve. See Dr. Blackstone for the safest, surest, quickest cure for Heart, Liver, Kidney or Bladder trouble, Nerve or Brain Exhaustion, Prostatic or Pelvic disorders, Varicocele, Piles or Fistula. Chronic Constitpation, Special Diseases peculiar to either sex, Specific Blood Poison, etc. I treat a hundred of these difficult cases successfully where the local doctor treats one. My experience is your protection. My prices reasonable. Call for free examination or write me in confidence. Dr. Blackstone Northeast Corner Wayne and Harrison, Fort Wayne, Ind.

~ ; . PUBLIC SALE. I, the undersigned, will offer for sale at my residence, three miles southeast of Decatur, on the Willshire road, at ten o'clock a. m„ on Wednesday, Nov. 27, 1907, the following property, to-wit: Seven head of horses, consisting of two brood mares with foal, one 4-year-old Gilden Coach, one 2-year-old Coach Mare, two yearling Colts, one spring Colt; seven head of Cattle, consisting of three Milch Cows two yearling Heifers, two spring Calves, ten head of Shoats, weighing each about seventy pounds. Farming implements—One McCormick Binder, one McCormick Mower, one Wagon and Box, one Sure Drop Check Row Corn Planter, new; one [Gale Riding Corn Plow, good as newone Wheat Drill, one Steel Hay Rake, two Breaking Plows, one spike-tooth Harrow, one spring-tooth Harrow, one Surrey, good as new; one pair of Bob Sleds, one set of Log Bunks, two sets o Double Work Harness, one set of Single Harness, one set of fly nets, one Grind Stone. Fodder in field, 100 bushen S B l 8 F ° Ur Seed ° ats ' Beven dozen Chickens, six Pekin Ducks, Cook Stove, Gendwood Churn, Milk Can I and many other articles too numTn ous to mention. wiH 6l^ 8 Sale ~ Nine mon ‘hß’ time do ar J M all Sums °'er five dollars by purchaser giving note with approved security; five dollars and under, cash in hand. Four per cent dis “7 Z. r, , „ EDW - PARENT C°l- Fred Reppert. Auctioneer. Fred Fruchte. Clerk.

STOVeTmendeo I mend and fa” a ’| fUrnish all parts broken or missing If P. E. SMITH.

THE ELITE PLAYERS. - WkJ BE-; : The Stetson-St. Clair Co., one of the best stock companies on the road, will ope na week’s engagement at the Bosse Opera House this evening. This company comes to us highly recommended by the press and publie everywhere. and the opera house should be filled to over flowing this evening as they give a ladles' free ticket with every 30-cent ticket purchased at the reserved seat sale making the price only 15c on the opening night. They present one of their best comedies ' Dad's Girl” tonight and if you want a good laugh secure your tickets at once, as the board is filling up fast The leading lady, Miss Maude Seldon, and Mr. Stetson are not strangers to Decatur, as they have been here before and the patrons of the Bosse will not be disappointed if they visit the opera house this week. This company carry their own band and orchestra. The band gave a fine concert on our streets this afternoon to a large crowd of people and they say the orchestra is one of the best ever in the city. The citizens should give the company a rousing reception this evening and show their appreciation "by their presence. Seats on sale at the Holthouse Drug store until 7:30, when the board will be taken to the opera house. o— CHOLERA PROOF HOGS. By feeding the sow Ridgway’s vaccine, 10c a litter, the pigs are vaccinated before birth, hence are born Chllera proof. One million successful tests, 10,000 strong testimonials. In further proof I will ship my own suckling pigs and expose them for weeks In any sick, cholera herd at my own expense and risk. No other Man, Dictor or Veterinarian ever did or as yet dares to take any such risk. Why? Simply because he would lose both his hogs and business. During the past eight years I have shipped and exposed in sick sholera herds, scattered from Virginia to Dakota and from Michigan to Florida, over 1,200 of my own suckling pigs without loss from Cholera. I give a written guarantee and back it with a $10,000.00 security. I can deliver the goods. Book free. Robert Ridgway, Box 30, Amboy Ind 2tw2td o— —— ■ — PUBLIC SALE. The undersigned will offer for sale at his farm four miles east of Decatur and one and one-half miles north of Rivarre on the Decatur and Van Wert road, at ten o’clock a. m. on Friday, November 29, 1907, the following property, to-wit: 9 head of Belgium horses, two mares in foal, four colts 2 years old. will weigh from 1,200 to 1.450 pounds each. 3 of these are mares and one a gelding. 1 mare fifteen-sixteenths Belgium, this mare is with foal; 1 8-year-old mare with foal. 3 colts 1 year old, one mare. 2 gildings; 1 spring colt. These horses have all been bred from imported horses and show distinct marks of high Cathie —Three short horn heifers, recorded. 2 years old. very fine; show excellent quality: write for description, 2 Jersey cows. Seven head of Shropshire ewe lambs. One “Garland" hard coal burner, good as new; 1 Round Oak heating stove, corn in the shock. Terms of Sale —Nine months’ time will be given on afl sums over five dollars by purchaser giving note with approved security; five dollars and under, cash in hand. ED S. MOSES. Phone No- <76. Col. Fred Reppert, AucL