Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 6, Number 13, Decatur, Adams County, 15 January 1908 — Page 2

The Daily Democrat. i •“Mtehed Every Evening, Except Sun d«y. by I£ W G. ELLINGHAM. Subscription Rates: Per week, by currier 10 coats Fe» year, by carrier £5.00 Pee mouth, by mail 25 cents Pee year, by mail £2 50 Single copies ••£ cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the postoffice it. Jecatur Indiana as second class mail matter. J. H. HELLER, Manager. CROMER IN COMMAND Even the doubting Thomas’ will have to admit that George W. Cromer is a mighty lively political corpse. The district meeting at Winchester was ruled entirely by his influence, and a district chairman was named | that is first a Cromer machine manip-' ulator and then a republican. The i

organization is strictly a Cromer machine, and the rules governing the nomination of a republican candidate for congress will have to be such as Mr. Cromer desires, and the candidate will have to measure up to the special liking of the ex-congress mail—and who can do that so well as Mr. Cromer himself? Th e Bluffton News, antl-Cromer, predicts a congressional primary with Cromer as a strong candidate. The Anderson Bulletin, anti- ■ Cromer, admits the strength of Mr. ' Cromer, and says that he had completely under his control the Winchester convention. The Portland Commercial-Review antl-Cromer,heads their account of the district meeting “Cromer in Control." Thus it will be seen that first blood came easily ; for the many times congressman.l Following the Winchester meeting comes the announcement of Editor i E. C. Toner's withdrawal from the! congressional race, the wise Ander- ■ son editor evidently seeing the handwriting on the wall. The Winchester convention is reported as being painfully unenthusiastic. The only spark of life came when Hon. Theodore Shockney lambasted everybody present, and scored those respois'ble 'or the omission of

endorsing Pre-id “it Roosevelt and Governor Hanly. He said that the dove of peace e”id-ntly wore horns and had sever'l bu'cher knives concealed up its sleeve. Judge Robert S. Taylor, of this city, is never wanting in courage to speak his mind upon a question of public interest. In his too infrequent political speeches he has had a fashion of discussing with the most impressive candor such issues as from time to time have been uppermost in the public mind and th e attitude of the republican party oward such issues. The same blunt candor marks Judge Taylor’s latest contribution to political opinion. A leader of Indiana republicans, he goes the full length to declare that Indiana's favorite son and somewhat declared choice of republican presidential candidates is not the man for the party. Fairbanks, Foraker and Cannon, he says, should not be thought of a ssucces* sors to Roosevelt. The election of any one of these, he asserts, would be to undo all that Roosevelt has contrived to have done, Roosevelt is out of the questin, declares Judge Taylor, but Um- man to lead the republican party must be like Roosevelt. Judge Taylor expresses himself with » gravity so profound that his views must make a decided impression. A query that naturally arises upon this great law-

yer and thinker’s declarations is, How

many thinking, patriotic men are theie in the republican party in Indi ana who at heart agree with him? Doubtless the number is large. Some of them may take courage from Judge Taylor’s example to let themselves be heard from.—Fort Wayne Sentinel. 5L...... ... _ . " It is claimed' that George Cromer will be in control of the Eighth congressional district convention and could nominate himself if he chooses to. And George would surely do so if he thought the people would not rise up again and him another mighty blow. And he will, in all j probability, stand for another knock-

out rather than surrender his organ- < ization. —Anderson Bulletin. In the big factory cities they are opening free soup housses or free lodg J Ing places and calling the m'Public Barracks.” But a lemon by any other nam o tastes just the same—Roches-' ter Sentinel. ANOTHER CONTEST I Bart France Exchanges Places With His Uncle Frank E. France IN BILLIARD GAME The Fight for Second Place Continues to be Interesting Scramble

STANDING. Played. Won. Ixist. Pct. O. France 100 .... 7 6 1 -857 Allison 90 6 4 2 .666 Peterson 70 9 6 3 .666 B. France 70 ...... 9 6 3 .666 Studabaker 70 .... 8 5 3 ,625 F. E. Franc e 100.. 7 4 3 .571 Mangold 70 8 3 5 -375 Elzey 90 8 2 6 .250 Bobo 90 9 2 7 .222 DeVoss 90 9 2 7 .222 — I Only one game was ptayed in the DeWitt smoke house billiard tournament yesterday and as a result F. E. France, who has been considered a very dangerous contestant for first place, lost his third game and was thus crow’ded back into fourth place. Mr. [ France suffered defeat at the hands i of Bart France, who put up an excel- | lent contest and proved unbeatable. The score being 70 to 86. The contest j is getting down to the fine point where j every one seems anxious to win, and I puts forth his best effort and as a rei suit all of t>he games are close and exciting. From all present indications it looks as if O. France should win the coveted prize, but as a game of billiards is any one’s until the last shot is made, he may yet suffer defeat that will cause his downfall. A large crowd saw the game yesterday and applaudI ed the many brilliant shots. r o

WITH THE BOWLERS Klondykes Take Two More Games and Get Off With a Good Lead CRABILL’S BIG SCORE Rolled One Game of 252 and Made Average of Hundred and Ninety STANDING. Played. Won. Lost. Pct. Klondykes 6 5 1 .750 Post Office 3 1 2 .333 K. of C 3 0 3 .000 Elks 0 0 0 .000

The fight for the city championship in bowling is on in earnest at the ' Klondyke alleys and the four teams that are in the fight are all confident of winning the prize that is offered. The Klondykes and Post Office teams took up the fight last night the former winning two out of the three games played, thus leaving them at the head of the last. Crabill was the bright and shining light on the Klondyke team, he having a grand overage of 190 when the series closed, while J. Peterson rolled the most consistent game for the Post Office team. The league is bound to cause considerable amusement as all four teams are evenly matched and will play to the finish. The results of last night’s play wer e as follows: Post Office. Shafer ISO 166 142—163 Gay 130 143 161—145 Lachot 139 112 100—117 Brake 182 119 120—140 J. Peterson ....185 183 137—168 816 723 660 Klondykes. Crabill 204 252 115—190 Russell 134 120 146—133 Garard . 144 149 154—149 Johns 102 110 128—113 T. Peterson ....162 204 169—178 746 836 712 | The Elks and K. of C. teams will play on next Thursday .evening.

THE NIEXICM BOM How Both Sides of the Line Are Watched and Guarded. UNCLE SAM’S BRAVE RIDERS. The Work That Is Performed by These Well Mounted, Well Armed and Courageous Patrols—The Mexican Rurales and Their Methods. If business or recreation should take you down to that long line which forms the boundary betw’een the United States and Mexico, you may by chance meet a well mounted rider, armed with rifle and pistols pacing observantly along some bypath or canyon. He is one of the United States boundary riders appointed by the treasury department to patrol the bordsr on the lookout for smugglers, cattle runners and other persons whose presence on the American side is generally undesirable. For this position the man selected must possess courage, judgment and no little physical endurance, for his duties may call him forth at all hours and seasons, and he may be responsible for a stretch of border land many miles in lengthFor example, between San Diego, on the Pacific coast of California, and Yuma, in Arizona, there is but one boundary rider to patrol a line of over 150 miles, and this is in part over a sparsely settled mountainous region and partly through the waste of the Colorado desert.

as opposite him, on the other aide of the line, the Mexican government maintains from fifteen to twenty rurales for the same work, it is a good Ulus tration of the trust reposed In a single American citizen by his government. It is probable there is no other man in the United States whom it would be harder to find at a given moment than the boundary rider of the San Diego-Yuma district He may be down on the Colorado desert, watching near some water holes for a venturesome band of cattle runners, or in some canyon of the mountains on the lookout for a wagon load of prohibited Immigrant Chinamen; but, wherever he Is, one may be fairly sure it is not where the transgressor of the customs laws expect him to be. That he must possess both judgment and courage the following incident, which took place during the career of the former boundary rider in this district, will aptly illustrate: For some time a band of cattle runners had been working successfully back and forth over the line in spite of the boundary rider’s vigilance. They seemed to !>e able to divine his movements, so that while he was watching a trail through the mountains they were rushing a bunch of cattle over the desert. But at last he managed to surprise the band and, rifle iu baud, drove two of them into Campo. Then; however, arose the question as to the method of taking them down to the coast. He hired a double seated vehicle, the only one In the place. But at once another question presented itself. How was he to seat his prisoners, for either they must be placed together on the front or the back seat or separated, both seemingly a hazardous choice? He finally decided to separate them, and so, with one on the front seat with him and the other behind, he started for the coast. The two cattle runners managed to communicate with each other by signs and at a rough part of the road made the boundary rider, in turn, their prisoner. Needless to say, they then made the best of their opportunity to escape over the border, but as they fell into the hands of the unsympathetic rurales they would have been better off if they had submitted to the law of their own country. This brings one of the somewhat different methods pursued by the Mexican government in guarding their side of the border. From a cursory inspection of the line one might suppose that the Mexican side is not guarded at all. You may cross the Hue ten times at different places and never set eyes on a rurale, but it is well known that you have done so nevertheless, and on the eleventh excursion you are likely to find yourself surrounded by a picturesque group, who will carry you off to jail If your explanation is not satisfactory. As a rule, the rurales patrol back and forth in detachments at a distance of from ten to fifteen miles from the ! actual border. Many a headlong dash for the Afflerlcrtti side has been made by perfectly law abiding citizens, with thg rurales at their heels, because they have been heedless in obtaining a permission to cross the border. True, an American citizen may cross the border at will, as far as he himself is concerned, but as he is almost certain to carry some article liable to duty ; It is upon that charge that he may be arrested.—Michael White In Youth’s Companion.

Rural Claims. Through the influence of the daily press cities and their needs have come to absorb such an amount of daily attention that the importance of the country and its inhabitants to the welfare of the nation is largely overlooked; hence the call to do everything that can be done to enlarge, to refine, to purify and to strengthen the life of our country people. And one means to this end which has not hitherto been used as much as it might have been is the cultivation in the school and in the home of the habit of reading good books—Bishop of Hereford in Nineteenth Century.

~ ~ His ConctMton. Mta 'Salite Miller, the acknowledged belle of the town, had fewer beaus than were her due. This was owing to her father’s peculiar aversion to all young men who called on his daughter. He had a disconcerting way of taking possession of the porch and snubbing her callers while they were waiting her to down. One evening Newton Brown, a bashful young swain, came a trifle too early for Miss Saliie. Mr. Miller -xad Newton's father were close friends, but the boy had grown so rapidly that the old gentleman did not recognize little Newt Brown in this tall, gawky youth. "It looks as if it might rain,” the young fellow ventured timidly. “’Tain’t a-goln’ to rain.” was the gruff response. For about a quarter of an hour they sat in silence. Finally the old man s curiosity got the better of him. “Who are you, anyway?” he growled. “Newton Brown, sir,” “What! Not old Jake Brown’s son?” “Yes, sir.” “Well, well," said Mr. Miller more kindly; “it may rain; it may rain.”— Everybody's Magazine. A Lesson In Honesty. There Is a restaurant in Broad street in which nearly a thousand persons eat during the noon hour. Each person eats what he pleases and when he goes to the cashier's desk announces the amount of his indebtedness. The proprietors figure that to trust to the honesty of their patrons is a saving of precious Wall street minutes and, besides, is good business. Once iu awhile keen eyed employees capture a cheat One of these, a youth, was "caught with the goods on" a few days ago and taken to the office of the proprietors. Given the choice of being arrested or going into the kitchen and washing dishes, the young man nearly collapsed of shame and fright. He begged not to be arrested and re luctantly agreed to wash dishes. For an hour or so the culprit struggled with a pile of dishes in a tub of steaming water. Then he was told he might depart. Now he brings his lunch from home—New York Press. What English Means. Mrs. Smith—What are you reading, John? Mr. Smith—l am reading Herbert Spencer’s "Principles of Biology.” Mrs. Smith—Why-what—what’s that, John? Mr. Smith—Herbert Spencer's “Biology.” Let me read you an extract—his definition of life. Listen: “It consists of the definite combinations of heterogeneous changes, but simultaneous and successive, in combination with external coexistences and sequences.” “Why, John, what in the world is the man talking about?” “I am astonished at you, Jane. Why, this is the work of the great English scientist.” “Yeß, I know, but what is he writing about?” “He is defining life, I told you. What did you suppose he was writing about?” “Good gracious! I thought he was trying to get a patent on a clotheshorse.”—Loudon Tit-Bits. When Religion Called.

In his book “Work In Great Cities” the bishop of Loudon writes: “You have often not only to learn, but to practice, what may be described as the foot and door trick. It is ruination to the boot and sometimes hurts the toe, but it consists in rapidly, but quickly, i passing the foot in the moment the ! door is opened in order to secure, at any rate, a few minutes’ parley.” As to whac may happen he writes: “After long hesitation it will be opened by a little girl about half a foot, aud then you will hear a distant voice from the wash tub in the rear, ‘Well, Sally, who Is it?’ Then Sally will answer at the top of her voice, ‘Please, mother, it’s religion.’ You will require all your presence of mind to cope with that” The time came, however, when every door was thrown wide open to welcome “our bisnop.”—London Christian Globe. Why the Sun Sets. Little Jack asked his mother one night why the sun set so often. She told him that it might rise in the morning. This seemed a useless reason, and Jack hunted for another. At last he said: “Oh, I know, mother. The sun sets bo that she can hatch all the days.”— Washington Star. Came With a Shock. Harold (after the fateful question had been put and answered)—Did I Eurprise you,, dear? Maud—Surprise me? You paralyzed me! I gave up the idea two years ago of your ever having spunk enough to propose.—Chicago Tribune. No Deceit. Mother—Jack, wheu I gave you and Ella each an orange, you both promised not to eat them until after dinner. Is it possible you have deceived me? Little Jack—No, ma'am. I ate Ella's and she ate mine.—Chicago News. Women In Japan. A Japanese saying runs: “Woman Is an unmanageable creature; flatter her, she is elated; thrash her, she weepeth; kill her, her spirit haunts you.” We would suggest that the best remedy is to love her.—Japan Times. Carlyle’s Creed. Man is born to expend every particle of strength that God Almighty has given him in doing the work he finds he is fit for, to stand it out to the best breath of life and do his best —Thomas Carlyle.

"' THE MONEY CUEStIOIL An Inquisitive Yaungater and a* genieua Father. “Papa,” began Guns ten junior, “when the Korernment of the United State* begun to coin gold and niver mosey It was necessary to buy the gold and ail ver, wasn’t it?” “Yes. my son,” replied Gunston senior rather cautiously. “Os course, papa,” resumed the youngster, "you’ll I* able to tell m* where the government got the money to buy the gold and silver. “Why-er—of course." stammered Gunston senior as he put down the paper and gazed thoughtfully at the boy. "Now, let me understand you. The government wanted to coin money, and in order to do so it was necessary to purchase gold and silver. You want to know where the government got the money to buy the gold and silver. “That’s right,” chuckled Gunston junior gleefully, and a great joy filled his being ns he thought of his all important sire struggling with the simple question. “Why, sonny, the government simply issued dollar lulls and bought gold and silver with them. Anything else?” “Yes.” said Gunston junior. “W here did the government get money to buy paper for the dollar bills? —Harper s Weekly. THE HORSE WON.

Beat the First Locomotive en ths B. and 0. Road. The first locomotive on the Baltimore and Ohio bad sails attached. So did the cars. These sails were hoisted when the wind was in the right direction so as to help the locomotive. The rivalry between the railroads using locomotives and those using horses was very bitter. In August. 1830, an actual trial of speed was held between a horse and one of the pioneer locomotives, which did not result in favor of the locomotive. The race was on the Baltimore and Ohio, the locomotive being one built by Peter Cooper, who also acted as engineer. The horse, a gallant gray, was in the habit of pulling a car on a track parallel to that used by the locomotive. At first the gray had the better of the race, but wheu he was a quarter of a mile ahead Mr. Cooper succeeded in getting up enough steam to pass the horse amid terrific applause. At that moment a band slipped from a pulley, and. “though Mr. Cooper lacerated his hands trying to replace it, the engine stopped and the horse passed it and came in the winner.”—t an Norden Magazine. They Don’t Like Funerals. “If you want to know Just bow sensitive some Washington folks are. listen to the reasons some of our ten- , ants give for canceling their leases,” , said a renting agent. “Here are the : complaints from five families who want to move because they live on ‘fu- : neral streets.’ A lot of people, It ■ seems, are sensitive about that. There : are certain streets in town —those near , churches where many funerals are held and those leading to the various cemeteries—which are usually traveled by funeral parties. Houses in those streets are becoming a poor investment There is more moving from those houses than from any others we have , anything to do with, and generally the movers give as the reason for their dis- . satisfaction the fact that the Bight of ' bo many hearses gets on their nerves.” —Washington Star. The Saragossans. It is said that the queer, composite race of people that dwell upon the waterlogged hulks of the Saragossa sea. in the mid-Atiantic, have a pretty theory about death. They believe that those to whom the messenger comes when the sun is shining brightly are transported straight away to a heaven of warm fresh water only four feet in depth, in which they may wade and disport themselves to all eternity. On the other hand, those who receive the call of death in hours of darkness must needs endure a probationary period before they can enter into the future life. The Saragossans are in addition firm believers in premonitions, omens and foreordinauons. Instincts of a Woman. A little girl who had for some time wanted a dog was taken very ill. One daj when much better she told her mother of her desire and begged her to ask her grandpa to buy her one. The mother answered that grandpa | did not like dogs and probably would not be willing to buy one. Then, seeing the little invalid look sadly disappointed, she said, “Well, wait till you get well, my dear, then we will see.” I “Oh, no,” answered the child, whose few years had taught her some wisdom. “Tiie more sick I am the more likely he will be to buy it for me.”— , Exchange. Hoarding. Hoarding is not only an economic mistake, but an economic crime as well. It is, in fact, a survival of the evil days of maladministration. It comes down to us from the time when nearly all governments were conquerors which considered themselves entitled to plunder their subjects. Thus hoarding is founded upon distrust of the government.—Statesman, /Calcutta. Reverse Action I The Elder Matron—You shouldn’t mind the baby crying a little. It Bireiigthens ids langs. The Younger Matron—Oh, no doubt, but it weakens his father’s religion so!-Indianapolis Journal. If you would not have affliction visit you twice, listen at once to what It teaches.—Bogers.

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American Woman in German Eyee. American girls, whether born or merely brought up in America, evidence the same independence of judgment and the same complete self reliance. It is bard to say whether this Is the result of the education in the public schools and colleges or in their freedom from that condition of legal and social subserviency to which the gentler sex is doomed in older countries.—Max von Brandt in Berlin Deutsche Revue. Quit* a “Character." Here is a "character” given to a servant on leaving her last situation: "The bearer has been in my house a year, less eleven months. During this time she has shown herself diligent at the house door, frugal in work, mindful of herself, prompt in excuses and honest when everything was out of the way.”—London Tit-Bits. Awed Into Humility. Man for man, if not woman for woman, the humility and terror of Americans in the presence of English people of their own class or above it is, with whatever care disguised, a pathetic thing—London Outlook. But Hard to Tell. “What is the real, essential difference between mushrooms and toadstools?” “Exactly the difference between a feast and a funeral.’’—Baltimore American. A blithe heart makes a blooming rta> age,—lrish Proverb.

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C. THE RYS T A L OPEN TONIGHT MOTION PICTURES. First film—“ The Red Spectre.” Second film “On the Grass." "Daily Life of a French Sailor.” illustrated song. “The Fatal Rose of Red.” SCHMUCK & MILLER THE PICTORIUM TOBIGBT Bird Nesting. Chinese Mistake. Crime In tbs Mountain. Indiana Rubber Mas. SONG. “Montana,” J. B STONEBURNER. Prop LOST—A - big“black _ whitei herd dog. Reward fttr his return or information as to whereabouts. Fred '. D. Bell. 12-3 t