Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 6, Number 72, Decatur, Adams County, 24 March 1908 — Page 2

The Daily Democrat. Published Every Evening, Except Sunday, by LEW G. ELLINGHAM. Subscription Rates: Pes week, by carrier 10 cents Pe» year, by carrier |5.00 Per month, by mail 25 cents Per year, by mail 12.50 Single copies 2 cents Advertising rates mad e known on application. Filtered at the postoffice at Decatur, Indiana as second class mail matter. J. H. HELLER, Manager. Those members of the Indiana legislature who voted against any and all increase of liquor license are largely responsible for the pronounced anti-saloon sentiment that exists in this state today. The defeat of the liquor license proposition did more to arouse public sentiment against the liquor interests than anything that has occurred in Indiana for many years. The general belief is that higher license was defeated by corrupt methods. That being the case, it may easily b e inferred who furnished the money to defeat the popular will. —South Bend Times. Grover Cleveland stands for personal liberty in th e fullest sense, and asserts that there is such a thing as reform run mad. But Grover never got pinched by any of the big trusts, like the newspaper boys are getting i it now. When a fellow is drawing a ’ salary about half as big as the president of the United States for looking over the books of an insurance company occasionally to see that the funds are not being stolen, he can afford to be in favor of the most liberal kind of personal liberty.—Columbia City Post.

BIG AUCTION SALE. Os Horses, Buggies, Harness, at the j old bus barn on Jefferson St., Decatur,' Ind., Monday, March 30. beginning at ten o'clock a. m., the following property: 15 horses, including one extra good sorrel team, 6 years old; a good ' bay team team, 8 years old; another bay team of the same age, and the remainder driving horses suitable for livery purposes. Theres horses are a little thin but are in good condition to start right into work. Buggies, etc., I Four steel tire surreys, in good condi- | tion; 3 good rubber tir e road wagons,' also in good condition; 4 rubber tire I top buggies, in good condition; 1 steel . tire Moyer buggy, in good condition; 1 steel tire phaeton, in good condition; and five steel tire top buggies, in fair condition; 1 steel tire long bed spring wagon, 1 rubber tire cab, as good as new, and a three seated wagon. Harness —One heavy set brass mounted hearse harness; one heavy set brass mounted cab harness; 4 sets double carriage harness; 1 set brass mounted single trap harness; 15 sets single buggy harness. All in good condition. Also safe, robes, whips, horse blankets, and other articles too numerous to mention. Terms—All sums under $5.00, cash in hand; all sums over $5.00, a credit of 7 months will be given by purchaser giving note with approved security. No goods to be removed until satisfactory settlement Is made. Four per cent off for cash. EDWARD BULTEMEYER. Fred Reppert, Auctioneer. Automobile Bargains. One 20 H. P. Olds Touring Car, not run over 800 miles, cost $1,250. Quick sale for cash, $450 takes it. One Cadillac Touming car with full equipment, top, lamp, etc. First class condition, cost $1,250, will sell for S6OO if taken at once. One Queen Touring car, good condition at $450. Overland Runabout, just the thing for a doctor, at S3OO. • Old Tires Re-treaded and made ait good as new at v*ry low cost. Address RousseyVulcanizingWKs. Fort Wayne, Ind. or Inquire of Gav & Zwick DECATUR, IND.

HEAR GEORGE CLARKE LECTURE ’ One of Indiana's Greatest Orators to be Here. George E. Clarke. AM., L.L.M., is a southerner by birth. An issue of i the Financial Review, of New York ! City, has th© following to say about ' his address before the state bar as so I elation at Indinapolis: “One of the most interesting features of the annual meeting of the Indiana State Bar Association held in Indianapolis was that furnished by Hon. George EClarke. He was well qualified to speak and his selection for the honor was justified by the effects produced. He has been a member of the profession for a number of years, and has ' during that time been so connected ; with legal controversies that he has 'demonstrated his acumen and perseverance. That this has been fully recognized by those who through personal contact with him are in the best position to judge of his ability is eviI dent from the fact that he was requested to address th© meeting. It is a wise policy on the part of the organization. to identify with itself lawyers of such acknowledged prominence in the calling.’’ Mr. Clarke will lecture at the Bosse Wednesday of next week. His subject being "An Untitled Adventurer.” It is well worth your time and money to hear him. THE BIG HIT WEDNESDAY,MAR. 25 I Spencer’s Troubadours will hold the boards at the Bosse opera bonce next Wednesday. March 25. The big hit of the season when they will present their new play "New York by Flashi light.” 300 nights in New York, 200 [nights in Chicago, one night in Decatur March 25. You can’t afford to miss this one, as it will be th e best that eFer happened. The company will be I reinforced by a couple of Chicago artists, and the cast will be exceptionally strong. You will laugh from start to finish, no long waits something doing ail the time. Better than the Cherry Sisers and as good as Ben Hur. All the scenery will be used for this magnificent production and if you don’t lik© the play get your money ■ back after the last act. This is the ■ best show ever put on by the Troubadours and you can't afford to miss it. Cabbage heads and horse chestnuts will be barred. If you want to ‘ present the star with a silver dollar pass quietly up the aisle and deposit the same in the cracker barrel on the stage that will be put there for that purpose. No love making will b e allowed in the audience while the play is going on. All this will be allowed only on the stage and behind the flies. Secure your seats early at the Holthouse Drug Co. and avoid the rush at the box office. Hard times prices will prevail. Lower floor 15c; reserved gallery 10c. Follow the crowd Wednesday night, March 25 to the : opera house. We guarantee you will get your money’s worth. 3t

COW SALE. The undersigned will offer at public sale at Shoemaker’s Feed Yard, Berne, Indiana, at 1 o’clock p. m. on Thursday, March 26, 1908, 20 head fresh cows and springers. This is an extra good bunch of cows. Don’t fail to come and look them over. Terms. .Three, six or nin e months time will be given by purchaser giving approved note bearing 6 per cent interest, 2 per cent off for cash. DAVID GERBER. Machaud & Son, Auctioneers. o HORSE AND SHEEP SALE. The undersigned will offer at public sale at his residence, one mile north of Curryville, Indiana, on Friday, March 27, 1908, the following property, to-wit: Horses—Two good mares 3 years old. weight aboui, 1,400 each, one mare 2 years old, weight about 900. Sheep—Eighty to ninety well bred ewes. Hogs—Two brood sows, will farrow some time in April. Cows —One cow will be fresh in April, and heifer three years old. Corn—2so bushels of corn in crib, also fodder put In barn last fall. Sale to commence at 11 o’clock a. m. Terms of sale—Sums of $5.00 and under, cash. Sums over $5.00 a credit of 9 months will be given, purchaser giving bankable note. No property to be moved until settled for. Five per cent off for cash. CHARLEY WORTHMAN. Frauhiger & Michaud. Auct. 669-4 t FOR SALE—Davis Plantation. Brunswick. Mississippi; 2,100 acres tn tract. 1,700 acres in cultivation, balance fine timber, cottonwood alone worth $15,000; nine room residence, large barn, fine store, two story (new) gin, cost $7,000; eighty-five double, seventeen single tenant houses; land rents for eighty pounds lint cotton per aere; the best Improved plantation in Mississippi delta. For price and terms apply to C. B. Paxton,Vicksburg, Miss IT-ltd—lOtw

CITY FOLKS TOO Daily Democrat Will Give Away Valuable Map to City Subscribers WHO PAY IN ADVANCE The Greatest Offer Ever Made by an Indiana Newspaper During the past thirty days more than 1.500 library wail charts have been given to the readers of the Daily Democrat who receive their paper by mail and all were well with the valuable present. As previously stated a law has been enacted in regard to the payment of subscriptions of papers that reach their destiny by mail, compelling the publisher to secure payment in advance. We have given charts to those who paid their subscription in advanc e to show our appreciation of their patronage. The map or chart that we are giving away has attracted much attention wherever it has been shown. Its practicability and accurateness appeal to every person that has an opportunity of seeing it and as a consequence many people of the city have inquired as to how they could secure one. We still have a number of the valuable charts on hand and have decided to offer them to our subscribers who reside in the city if they pay #2.50 the regular price in advance for the paper for six months. This is an offer that will appeal to all. as th e raa P alone is worth two dollars. It is a beautifully colored six page chart containing maps and statistics of world wide interest, show, ing our island possessions, map of the world. Panama canal and representing many other interesting features. We invite our city subscribers to call and see the best map of its kind ever compiled.

May Fitzgerald, of Fort. Wayne, came to the city this afternoon on a business trip. CALL at the Misses Bowers millinerystore for th e latest street hats. 71-3 t Call on John Edwards, the up to date painter, paper hanger and grainer tor anything m his line. 63-24 t Q FOR GOOD FRESH FISH, call on Leo Myers, located between Niblick and company’s store and the Crystal theater. 55 30t FOR JOINT SENATOR. Please announce tnat I will be a can didate for senator from Allen and Adams counties subject to the will of the democrats as expressed at their joint eonvention. S. B. FLEMING. LINEN FOR EVERYBODY SOON. Naw Process Will Make It Almost as Cheap as Cotton. Good news for the American woman is contained in the announcement that the coming of linens at prices little higher than the cost of fine cottons is at hand. Because the process of transforming flax straw into linen is so laborious and takes so much time by old world methods the work cannot be done in the United States at the higher cost of labor prevailing here. Before the flax stalk becomes a handkerchief or a tablecloth it has been weighted down in water to disintegrate the fiber from its woody envelope. Then it is stacked in piles to dry and rot Then follow the combing of the fiber by hand and the bleaching, which involves some twenty odd separate operations. Altogether, the peasant labor of Belgium. Russia and other European countries take from sixteen to thirty weeks to do this work. No wonder linen is expensive. To a Massachusetts inventor is due the credit for perfecting ,a combined mechanical and chemical process that produces linen fiber ready for spinning in twelve hours. Think what this means in lowering the cost of shirt waists, napery. bed linen and everything that everybody would rather have made of linen if the cost were not prohibitive. Flax straw costs less than a third as much as cottcn, so there never has been any reason why linen should not be cheap if away could be found to get the fiber from the straw by the use of machinery that would save time and labor and chemicals that would remove the flax gums and make the fiber ready for spinning. Confidence that this has been done is shown in the erection of mills in Massachusetts and Vermont that will operate under the new Oxford linen making process. Textile experts can see no further obstacle to the establishment of the industry here on a foundation that promises linens at prices within everybody’s reach. Os course the profits of the mill owners will be enormous, but the American woman will not complain if linen prices are reduced, say, 33 per cent, which is well within the realm of possibility.

11,000 WORDS A MINUTE NOW SENT BY WIRE. This Is the Speed Attained by Automatic System Controlled by New Telegraph Company Soon to Enter Field. In the last few weeks scores of experts have Investigated the Delany rapid automatic system of telegraphy controlled by the Telepoet company, which Is soon to have in operation a telegraph system in competition with the Western Union and the Postal. Over artificial circuits equal to commercial wires from New York to Buffalo the Delany system can be seen any time in the New York and Washington offices of the Telepost company sending and receiving telegrams at the rate of a thousand words a minute. The apparatus on which a new national telegraph system is to be founded that will carry wire messages between all points for a flat rate of a cent a word is so simple that anybody can understand it There is a perforating machine with punches magnetically operating on a tape. These punches make the records, which are then ready to be fed through the transmitter to the wire. The double row of holes in the tape passing through the transmitter’s contact fingers result in positive and negative impulses, which on the receiving tape are recorded in the form of dots and dashes. The current passing through the chemically prepared tape from an iron electrode to a platinum electrode forms clear blue marks that any one who knows the Morse alphabet can read and transcribe. In the fewest possible words, this is the system that it has taken Patrick B. Delany twenty years to evolve. When Thomas A. Edison dropped telegraphy Mr. Delany, who was an associate of Edison, took it up. Some 150 odd patents have since then been issued to him. His fire invention to attract worldwide attention was the synchronousmultiplex system of telegraphy, bought by the British government in 1885 and largely used on the English postal lines ever since. All six of the, first class circuits of this system can be worked opposite or the same direction. The next time Mr. Delany came into popular fame, though the telegraph world has always followed his work closely, was when he succeeded in the supposedly Impossible feat of sending a cable message from Newfoundland to England with an ordinary Morse key.

But all the while he was keeping the patent office busy on his minor inventions Delany was hard at work on the automatic system of telegraphy adapted to commercial purposes, which has now been perfected to such a point that it forms the essential basis of an entirely new telegraph system for tbe whole United States. Why the Delany system was not' bought by the old line companies is no more (and no less) of a mystery than their failure to adopt other improvements in telegraphy which have reduced rates in foreign countries to a fraction of those prevailing here and resulted in so increasing business that Americans send considerably less than half as many telegrams as the Englishmen send. Asked why one of the old companies had not bought his apparatus, Mr. Delany said recently that it might be because the patents were never offered to them. Inventors have known for years, Mr. Delany said, that there was no use in trying to deal with a company that had made a policy of refusing to consider all inventions and improvements except when they could be obtained for little or nothing. This was the experience of the men who devised the Page patent, the duplex and the quadruplex systems. What the Delany system will do toward reducing telegraph rates is shown In the announcement of the Telepost company that it will carry twenty-five words for 25 cents, without regard to distance. On “teleposts” sent by wire, but delivered at destination by mail' the rate is 25 cents for fifty words. It is expected that “teleposts” or telegraphed letters will be largely used for the purpose of catching foreign mails. Received at New York by wire, the message will be forwarded by mail via any desired ship. On messages over long distances a big saving will also be possible when delivery within eight or ten hours is all that the emergency requires. On a ninety word telepost from Boston to san Francisco the cost will fee 45 cents as against the charge by the present telegraph companies of $6.00. Secrecy in Wire Service. Absolute secrecy and a great saving in expense of wire service are assured ; by the plans just announced by the ' Telepost company, which is to enter the telegraph field along with the Western Union and the Postal. The new company will use the Delany systern of rapid automatic telegraphy, both the sending and receiving being done by perforated tapes. In addition to the published telepost rates of twenty-five words for 25 cents, without regard to distance, for messages sent by wire and delivered by messenger in the usual way and of 25 cents for fifty words sent by wire, but delivered at destination by mail the Telepost company now- announces that it will transmit “teletape” messages prepared by the sender for 25 cents for 100 words, 5 cents for each additional twenty words. In this case the tape bearing the message will be prepared by the sender on instruments leased for private use. The tape turned in to the Telepost company will be transmitted over its wires and, if desired by the sender, delivered to the addressee In Morse characters on another tape.

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ICE, ICE Do you use it? If so leave your order with the City Ice Line And secure artificial ic», for your coolers this season. H. L. Confer PHONE 92 NOW FOR THE TURBINE 'FAN. Latest Application of the Newer Principle of Applying Power. Originally declared to be nothing more than “a series of individual butter dishes arranged around the circumference of a cheese box,” the turbine has made steady progress until now it is conceded to l>e the most efficient power mechanism so far invented. The latest application of the turbine idea is to centrifugal fans of the kind used for large volumes of air at high pressure. These turbine fans have us many as sixty-four long, narrow blades in place of the familiar paddles or the ordinary blower. They show the same advantages that the turbine shows over the steam engine. As compared to the paddle wheel fan, the turbine fan saves about 20 per cent in power, 30 per cent in weight, and the output of air is so large in proportion to the size of the fan that the saving in space is above 50 per cent. Although it was some years ago that the idea of applying the turbine principle to fans originated with S. C. Davidson of the famous Sirocco Engineering works at Belfast, Ireland, the first turbine fans built in the United States were turned out this month at the new plant of an American Sirocco company located at Troy, N. Y. Until this plant was established turbine fans were all imported from Great Britain. Measuring Moonlight. A novel means of measuring moonlight is furnished by the selenium cell through its well known variations of electric resistance in light ot differ-1 ent intensity. By this method the light of the full moon has been lately determined to be a little more than one-fifth (.21) of the standard candle power and about nine times the light of the half moon. The gibbous disk proves to be brighter before than after full moon. The selenium cell is not perfectly reliable as a test for light of varying color, but it has been found sufficiently accurate and sensitive to indicate the central phase of a lunar eclips® within one minute of the computed time.

To the M anner Born. , Whether the word be “manner” or “manor." in the often used quotation, is a question frequently ask.-d. That “to the manner bom” is correct Is evi- . dent from the context of the phrase i which occurs in “Hamlet." act t scene ,4. While Hamlet and his friends, i Horatio and Marcellus, are waiting on ; the platform outside of the palace sot the possible appearance of the ghost of the dead king the noise of a flourish of trumpets and the roar of a cannon are heard. In explanation of this Hamlet says: The wake tOnlßht a " d KeeP S prinVreeu” <l A ”' l down drains hiß <,rau Sht of Rhelnlah The * u e t tt,edrum and trumpet thus bray The triumph of his pledge This allusion is to an actual praetlcs at banquets among the ancient Saxons and Danes of proclaiming with a salute each time that the king drained his goblet. Therefore, to the question Is it a custom?” Hamlet replies: Aye, marry, lg-f And to my mind, though I am native h A.® d ta he “ anner born, it Is a custom More honored In the breach than the oh. •ervance. e —Housekeeper.

Bosse’s Opera House WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25 £ PENCER'S Troubadours Present their New Hit NEW YORK by FLASHLIGHT The Greatest Comedy Drama The Big Hit of the Season Specialties Galore Fine Stage Settings Hard time prices 15c Gallery 10 Seats on sale at usual jolace

REAL ESTATE

Do you want to buy a farm? We located in this county at prices that We also have some attractive pro farm land. Quite a number of Adams and all are doing well. We have man buyers of cheap lands. If you have want to own a farm of your own, co Among the farms located in Ad atn A 4# acre tract, g room house, well fenced and drained, soil all black Also an 80 acre farm, 7 room hou fenced and fairly well drained, partly a bargain if sold soon. Al## acre tract in good commun other outbuildings fair, well fenced an and partly sandy loam; some timber, MONEY TO LOAN-We have plent at lowest rate of interest. No delay, lowed. No commission. Write us for Office ever Burns Harness Store

Northern Indiana Real Estate Co. * ************************* : A High Class Farm • * ’ # : FOR SALE ’ * — ■ * ' 1111 # I 100 OF GOOD WALNUT LAND 100 ’ * * * ack sandy soil, with new fam buildings # * in every way, well fenced, in good * * locality of Adams county. Thi s a model * : St ° Ck fam and a bargain for any one who J » WaDtS a farffi of kind. Enquire at this * office. * * * •• * ♦

— r ■“ NOT.CE TrVXx P AY E Sr“= Taxes must be paid bv a j - the depository law, it bo . • Bible ’ay away r^Ll 1 ? 6 PoSsrs « It is not eX^7L\« e f hed rte\X!S7 are 2**» * £ Uect govern yourself accordingly “ e 58-ts J ' F - LACHOT, County Treasurer.

! have a large list of farms for sals will interest you. ' positions in Michigan timber and i county farmers have located there, . y more good propositions there for only a small amount of money and ’ me in and see us. a county we have the following: small barn, other outbuildings, fairiy sandy loam, a good bargain, se, large barn, other outbuildings, well black and partly sandy loam; this is ity, excellent 8 rom house, bam and d fairly well drained, soil partly black can be sold at a bargain if sold soon, y of money to loan on improved farms Complete or partial payments alfull information. Phone 430.

**♦♦*♦♦*****♦* PUBLIC SALE. On the same day and at the same Place, after the sale of personal prop- , “rty of the estate thf W. D. Rinehart, i deceased. there will be sold to the highest bidder, the following: Horses Two work horses, weighing 3,200. one S and one 8 years old. HarnessNew set of heavy double harness, 1 wagons with dump beds, log bolsters, new Chunk plow. Terms— Terms will be same as that of the Rinehart sale. E. WOODS.