Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 6, Number 107, Decatur, Adams County, 4 May 1908 — Page 2

The Daily Democrat. Polished Every Evening, Except Sunday, by LEW G. ELLINGHAM. Subscription Rates: Per week, by carrier it cents Pec year, by carrier >5.00 Per Month, by mail 25 cents Per year, by mail >2.50 Siagie copies 2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. filtered at the postoffice at Detcaur, Indiana as second class mail master. J. H. HELLER, Manager, A PUBLIC SALE Our lease with Uncle Sam having practically expired and having decided to quit the business and retire to private life, we, the undersigned, will offer ar Public Sale, at our residence at the Capitol in Washington, D. C., commencing on the fourth day of November, 1908, the following described property, to-wit: One elephant about forty-five years old; one financial panic, old enough to wean, sired by the gold bugs and damned by everybody; one republican platform, as good as new, but somewhat moss worn; one big stick, slightly impaired by overwork; one republican machine, the same being somewhat out of repair; one financial system, well supplied with clearing house certificates and a little cash; 5,000,000 Teddy Bears; old dinner pails and other articles too numerous to mention. Everybody, regardless of past party affiliations or previous political servitude, is invited to attend this sale. It is expected that most of the articles herein mentioned will be bid on by the Stand Patters, but everything will be on the square and all articles will be sold. There will be no by-bidders. Possession of property will be given March 4, 1909. Roast Crow will be served on the grounds by the Young Men's Republican Club. The sale will positively take place on the date mentioned regardless of the weather COL. ROCKEFELLER, COL. MORGAN. COL. HARRIMAN, G. O. P. Managers. John R. Walsh, Clerk. OURS THE ONLY Probably ours is the only government in the w’orld, certainly the only civilized government, that would deliberately increase expenditures in the face of an obviously declining revenue. We have’ spent $66,000,000 more this year than last. And there is no suggestion from any responsible source that we ought to economize in any direction. On the contrary, there was an insistent demand from the president that we spend $40,000,000 at the very least, for four great battleships, an amount almost onethird as large as our present total J naval expenditures even on the present inflated basis. Os course it is true that, under our present system, no one knows, or can know, much of what is going on. In a recent utterance Mr. Cortelyou, secretary of the treasury, expressed regret that the law compelled him to make, estimates, which, he said, "are, for the most part problematical." How problematical they were in this case will be clear when we remember that Mr. Cortelyou figured that there would be a surplus for this year, the year ending with June, of $42,000,000. As we now see the deficit is likely to be considerably in excess of $60,000,000. As most of our revenue is derived from taxes on ICE, ice Do you use it? If sc leave your order with the City Ice Line And secure artificial ice so: your coolers this season, H. L. Confer PHONE 92

consumption, and as consumption de pends on the condition of business, it is manifest that any estimates of the secretary of the treasury must be "largely problematical.” No private business that was conducted in accordance with such principles could hope to avoid bankruptcy.—lndianapolis News. The inability of the Indianapolis, Terre Haute and Muncie Stars to meet their obligations is not a surprise to newspaper men who understand the ins and outs of a daily newspaper plant. No business requires more careful and painstaking management than a daily newspaper, to make both ends meet. It is extremely doubtful whether a corporationowned nwspaper, conducted wholly by employed help, can be made to pay in any of the towns or cities of Indiana. The city of Indianapolis might possibly be an exception, but only after the paper had been built up by individual effort—South Bend Times, TRUANT OFFICER A. C. Augsburger, of Berne, Elected on the First Ballot A BOARD MEETING Held at Superintendent Opliger’s Office this Morning School Affairs Discussed The educational board held another session at the office of County’ Superintendent Lawrence E. Opliger, the principal purpose of same being the election of a truant officer for the ensuing year to succeed Harlo Mann of Root township, whose term expires at this time. The candidates were A. C. Augsburger, of Berne, and John R. Porter, of this township. The former was elected on the first ballot by a vote of nine to twd. Mr. Augsburger is a business man at Berne, where he conducts a jewelry store. Five members of the board were absent at today’s meeting, being those from Berne, Kirkland, Blue Creek, Wabash and Jefferson. Following the election an hour or two was spent in the discussion of educational affairs and matters of interest and importance to the various schools of the county. HAIR SLAUGHTER. Many Men and Women Kill Healthy Hair by Negligence. Hair must have nourishment or die. If it does not have proper nourishment it will lose its vitality, grow weak, and become an easy prey to the ravages of the vicious and destructive germs of dandruff. Parisian Sage is a hair nourisher; it is the result of sincere study and experiment by one of the world’s leading scientists. It should be used regularly as a hair dressing by every one with healthy hair, because it never fails to prevent dandruff, falling hair, or any disease es the scalp or hair. But Parisian Sage is not only a preventive It Is a certain cure for dandruff ; it stops itching of the scalp instantly; it makes hair grow thick and luxuriant. It is especially in demand by ladies, because it makes the hair beautiful, soft and fluffy. Holthouse Drug Co. sells it under a positive guarantee to do all that is claimed for it, or money back. 50 cents for a generous bottle at Holthouse Drug Co., or by express, charges prepaid, by the American makers, the Giroux Mfg. Co., Buffalo, N. Y. A great many people imagine they have heart trouble when the fact is that the whole trouble lies in the stomach. The pains in the side around the region of the heart are not necessarily heart trouble. We suggest that you start with the stomaclr and whenever you feel a depression after eating or whenever your food seems to nauseate take Kodol. It will not be very long until all these «heart • pains” will (disappear. Take Kodol now and until you know you are right again. There isn’t any doubt about what it will do and you will find the truth of this statement verified after you have used Kodol for afew weeks. It is sold here by B. Doolittle. I oA CALIFORNIAN’S LUCK. "The luckiest day of my life was when I bought, a box of Bucklen’s Ar nica Salve," writes Charles F. Dud ahn, of Tracy, California. "Two 25c boxes cured me of an annoying case of itching piles, which had troubled me for years and that yielded to no other treatment.” Sold under guarantee at all dealers.

WAS A GREAT GAME I k The Local Ball Team Was ( Defeated in a Well Played Game SUNDAY AFTERNOON _______ Robison Did Splendid Work in the Box and Support Was Good The small crowd that wended their way to the ball park yesterday afternoon saw one of the snappiest games of ball ever witnessed on the diamond, when the locals and the Fort Wayne Greys engaged in a nine inning battle for honors. Cal Robison, the old reliable was on the firing line for the locals, Clifford Bales held down the third sack and his brother gracefully occupied the initial cushion, which in connection with the fast work of the remaining players, kept interest at high tension throughout the game. Chamberlain, a veteran southpaw, decorated the center mound for the visitors and let the locals down with one hit, which accounts for their defeat, to the tune of three to nothing. Robison pitched a phenominal game, and was also stingy with his hits, the hard hitting Fort Wayne boys securing but five off his delivery. It was Cal’s first game of the season, and he handed up an assortment of shoots and benders that made his opponents 'turn tideways. Curley Ellis acquitted himself grandly on the second bag. He gathered several fast ones from the weeds without having a single error chalked against him. Peterson, France, Coffee and the Bales boys did good work and with the same lineup Captain Pennington can make most the independent clubs in this section of the state bite the dust. The locals will play at Muncie next Sunday. LIKES THE COUNTRY Amos Foreman Writes About His Prosperity in Washington WEATHER IS FINE He Will Get to See and Visit the Evans Big Pacific Fleet A letter received today from Amos Foreman formerly ot tnis city, who now owns a meat market at Puyallup, Washington, conveys the welcome news that he is enjoping prosperity and good health in that far off state. He states that business is on the boom and the weather has been warm and pleasant and that sprinkling wagons have heen in operation there for more than four weeks, the dust was so thick. It was not cold enough there to freeze potatoes any time during the winter months and fruit has been in bloom for some time. Mr. Foreman also states that he and family will get to see and visit the Bob Evans big Pacific fleet at Tacoma the last of this month as they live but eight miles from Tacoma. It is indeed good news to Decatur people to hear that Mr. Foreman is doing so well, and likes the climate so much. He asks us to remember him to his many friends and says that he hears from them through the Democrat. o MAY BE ADMITTED WITHIN WEEK Word has fy?en received from Dr. Smith, superintendent of East Haven asylum at Richmond, that owing to j the crowded condition there, it will be impossible to make room for L. A. Hokhouse at once, but that he will be caned for as soon as possible. It is believed he will be admitted in a w’eek or ten days at the most. He is resting easy and hopes for his recovery are stronger than for several weeks. IT REACHED THE SPOT. ; Mr. E. Humphrey, who owns a large general store at Omega. 0., and is • president of the Adams County Telephone Co., as well as of the Home Telephone Co., of Pike county, 0.. says of Dr. King’s New Discovery: “It sav ' ed my life once. At least I think i. • did. It seemed to reach the spot—the - very seat of my cough—when every ! thing else failed.” Dr. King’s New ! Discovery not only reaches the cough i spot; it heals the sore spots and the > weak spots in throat, lungs and chest. Sold under guarantee at all dealers 50c and SI.OO. Trial bottle free.

; | IT IS STILL UNSETTLED. Harry Grove Raised the Edge and Now Wants $250. V. D. Bell, of Craigville, was in town > this morning and he reported that the French Township Insurance Company controversy, due to a disagreement with Ed Zimmerman, who has had charge of the books of the secretary since the departure of Harry Grove for Texas, is still unsettled. Zimmerman eiill has the books in his charge and refuses to turn them over and the company has not yet started any proceedings to replevin them, although this will likely be done if a settlement cannot be reached other wise. Part of the trouble in the matter was due the fact that the company had refused to allow a claim of $175 for transferring names of policy holders into a newbook. Instead of helping matters in this respect Mr. Bell said this morning that Grove had written a letter in which he now asks an additional $75 or a total of s2so—Bluffton News. o Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Hawk, of Fulton. Ind., who visited over Sunday with Joseph Hooser south of town, returned home this morning. o-

OFFICERS ELECTED M. E. Epworth League Officers Were Elected at Last Night’s Meeting A GOOD CORPS Methodist Episcopal Church Enjoying a Boom in Every Department The Methodist church was crowded yesterday at both the morning and evening services. Dr. Wilcox delivered two strong sermons and the choir rendered splendid mun’e. Every department in the church is enjoying a boom. Tne Sunday school is rapidly increasing in numbers so that extra teachers are needed. The Epworth League has increased in the last few weeks from sixty members to over one hundred and fifty. The Holy Grail has in its two divisions fifty young men. The following officers were elected to serve the Epworth League for one year: President. Jonas Tritch; first vice president, Don Burk; second vice president, Bessie Boyers; third vice president, SuMe Harrison; fourth vice president, Leota Beery; secretary, Florence Edwards; treasurer Frank Mills; organist, Grace McKean; chorister, Ethel Butler. On next Sunday evening these officers will be installed in the evening public service. A JUMBO NEWSPAPER. The New York Sunday World Will Issue the Largest Newspaper Ever Published. On Sunday. May 10th, The World will issue a Twenty-fifth Anniversary Number, which will be without exception, the greatest, most attractive and best selling number of that great newspaper ever issued. It will contain in the neighborhood of two hundred full size newspaper pages. It will cost nearly SIOO,OOO to print and distribute the issue. Each copy will cost about ten cents to produce. There will be saparet color sections dievoted to automobile, music, real estate, national affairs and to New York, the Wonder City. Besides all of this, there will be the usual first class newspaper aomic weekly and magazine. The price remains the same. No extra charge is made for the enlarged number. Edition limited. o — HERE’S ONE That you can put on the top of a stove and will not burn or rub off. You can get your stove red hot every day for one month and STOVINK will keep it black. It is the only preparation known that will stay on red hot iron. Give your stove one coat of STOVINK, no shining necessary, and it will stay black and in a fine condition for from 30 tn 60 days. There is absolutely nothing ejse like it, and w-e guarantee every bottle. At your dealers, 25c. THE DECATUR HARDWARE CO. o Martha Kettler, teacher in piano music. For information call phone 266. 1053 t — o—— VALUED SAME AS GOLD. B. G .Stewart, a merchant of Cedar View. Miss., says: "1 tell my customers when they buy a box of Dr. King’s New Life Pills they get the worth of that much gold in weight, if afflicted (with constipation, malaria or biliousness.” Sold under guarantee by all dealers. 25c.

IA WONDERFUL SIRI From Him Two-Thirds o the Hamess Speeders Trace Their Descent ON TRACK BUT ONCI Monarch of the Stud Pro duced 1.869 Foals and Earned Large Fortune

Detroit, Mich., May 4. —In the his tory of all nations there are certaii epochs resplendent with the deeds oi some statesman, general, or monarch so that they seem as milestones bj which we count the progress of events So, in the history of the turf, there have been periods when prominence of certain horses has been so marked that to mention the years in which they flourished is but to recall their names. The name of Rysdyk’s Hambletonian "10" has for many years been a household word. No horse ever foaled except, perhaps, his grandsire. Messenger, has ever held the prestige asxa sire that Hambletonian “10" has held. Hambletonian light will never fade away. The light harness horse in this country certainly owes its greatness and perfection to a great extent, to that bay stallion. He stands at the highest pinnacle of fsme. His influence in the stud has marked an era in trotting horse history, and in the future he will be looked back to as one of the greatest representative horses of the age. Hi* Only Record Was 2:48. Whether or not development is necessary In order to enable animals which have a speed inheritance to transmit sped to theif’ offspring ’ i an interesting question to breeders of trotting stock. That inheritance has always been a more potent factor than development, in imparting speed ability, is susceptible of easy and emphatic demonstration by the stud book The fastest trotters have never yet been produced by the mating of the fastest of trotting mares with the trotting stallions which have made the fastest records. No horse that has ever held the world’s champion record for trotting stallions has yet sired a world’s champion. The case of Hambletonian demonstrates the fact that inheritance is a more potent factor than development in producing speed ability. Hambletonian was never trained for speed. He was never hitched to a sulky, and he was never on a track but once in his life. He was never speeded a mile but once; when he Was 3 years old he was driven a mile in 2:48, hitched to a wagon. Sold for $125. Hambletonian was foaled May 5, 1849, the property of Jonas Seely, of Goshen, Orange county, N. Y. When but a few weeks old he was purchased with his dam by William Rysdyk of the neighboring town of Chester, the price being $125 for mare and foal. At that time Mr. Rysdk was a poor man and gave his note for the dam and foal. Hambletonian was sired by Abdallah, be by Mambrino, he by Imported Messenger. Habletonian’s dam was the Charles Kent maie, bred by Imported Bellfounder. Her dam was One Eye, by Bishop’s Hambletonian, he by Imported Messenger. Hambletonian was a deep rich mahogany colored bay horse, fifteen and one-half hands high, with black legs, mane and tail. Hi shead was rather large and bony, with a deep jowl and a large, prominent eye. His nostril was very large and expansive, neck rather short, but his mane and foretop were rather sparse, but he had a large flowing tail. His legs had broad feet and clean, with one white ankle. He was a heavy boned horse, with well formed knees and hocks. No sculptor ever carved from marble or fashioned in bronze a finer modeled limb or foot. Descendant of Messenger. Habbletonian affords an instance of triple inbreeding to the great Messenger that crossed the Atlantic in 1788, w’hose name was a talisman for trotting value, yet never so great as when derived through Rysdyk’s Hambletonian. Hambletonian was broke -when two years old. He was always exercised on the road. At two years of age he was bred to five mares at a service fee of $lO. The first mare he ever served was Katy Darling, who produced the great sire, Alexander’s Abdallah, that lives ini history as the sire of Goldsmith Maid, 2:14, the greatest trotter ever on the turf. She was on the turf sixteen years and trotted 332 heats in 2:30 to 2:14, and she won $335,000 in matches and.purses. At three years of age Hambletonian served thirty mares at a service fee of sls. From three years to five years his service fee was $25, from five

********************* * * » : A High Class Farm : * ————— ~ _ ♦ : FOR SALE • * ' ' '" — ♦ E * * ♦ 100 ACRES OF GOOD WALNUT LAND 160 ’ )- * • ♦ Black sandy soil, with new faim buildings * ♦ * modern in every way, well fenced, in goed ♦ * locality of Adams county. Thi s a model * stock farm and a bargain for any one who * n * wants a farm of this kind. Enquire at this ♦ * » office. * ************** ♦♦*♦♦♦**♦*****. e " " - - — ; REAL ESTATE “ Do you want to buy a farm? We have a large list of farms for sale r located in this county at prices that will interest you. We also have some attractive propositions in Michigan timber and 1 farm land. Quite a number of Adams county fanners have located then and all are doing well. We have many more good propositions there for buyers of cheap lands. If you have only a small amount of money and want to own a farm of your own, come In and see us. Among the farms located in Adams county we have the following: ▲ 40 acre tract, 6 room house, small barn, other outbuildings, fairly well fenced and drained, soil all black sandy loam, a good bargain. Also an 80 acre farm, 7 room house, large barn, other outbuildings, weH fenced and fairly well drained, partly black and partly sandy loam; this is ’ a bargain if sold soon. A 100 acre tract In good community, excellent 8 rom house, barn and other outbuildings fair, well fenced and fairly well drained, soli partly black ' and partly sandy loam; some timber, can be sold at a bargain if sold soon. MONEY TO LOAN—We have plenty of money to loan on Improved farau at lowest rate of interest. No delay. Complete or partial payments al- ; lowed. No commission. Write us for full Information. Phone 430. Office over Burns Hamess Store ; Northern Indiana Real Estate Co. > J -"" l 11 " —

1 to seven his service fee was raised to SSO. His progeny began to show such speed that when he was nine years old his fee was raised to SIOO. His fee was gradually raised from SIOO till 1862, when his fee was S2OO. In 1864 his service fee had reached ' S3OO. When his son, Dexter, made his fastest record of 2:17%, August, 1867, Hambletonian’s service fee jumped to SSOO, where it remained until his death, March 1876. Progeny 1,869. Mr. Ryrdyk was very careful in keeping *is books. At Hambletonian’s death the books showed that during his life of twenty-five years as a sire his service fees amounted to $385,600. That he had served 2,065 mares and produced 1,869 foals. No parallel is found in turf history. Mr. Rysdyk’s instructions before his death in May, 1875, were that Ham- . bletonian, who had always been his pe/ted horse, and had made a fortune for him, should be burled on the premises under a large tree in the orchard, that his remains should not > be mutilated in any way. These instructions were carefully, tenderly, ; almost reverently carried out the day 1 after the great sire’s death.

250 Head HORSE SAI F^° Head Decatur, Indiana, Thur. May, 7 and Fri. May, 8 On the above dates we will hold a two days’ sale. On May 7th at our special sale we will have 100 head of harness horses, consisting of trotters pacers, knee-acting cobs, coach and carriage horses, hearse teams, am y driving horses, and road horses with and without records. Among 7 nd D - 2:17,41 a cream C ° lored saddle horse 6 year, per...J a actor ’ and a beauty; a pair Arabian mares, snow white, 16 hands a pair of beauties; a car load of saddle and harness Cnmrni J- 0 ™ K> ’ °“ M “ y Blh We wIU Beil 150 head of draft horses, on on horses will be $2.00 per head if not sold, and $3 if sold. Fred Reppert Auctioneer De<? atur Horse Sale Co rasssiS M Fit aR d Service ■ are com bined to the I & highest degree in the I S < *Florsheim"shoe. ■ g After once wearing a ® ■ pair you will always I I i° r the ‘ 'Name on B ■ the shoe. ” | I J. H. VOCLEWEDE & SON- I I Opposite Court House. Decatur, Ind. | ,

Buried With Honors. For two years before his death ths horse had been failing, until he became but a shadow of himself. His nippers and molars had loosened and he could not msaticate his grain. He was fed on soft food and hay tea. His faithful colored groom, Herman Showers, who had cared for the horse for twenty-five years, left him at nine o'clock the night of March 26, 1876. The horse was then standing up. In the morning at 5 o’clock he found the horse lifeless in his stall, his body yet warm. .When he found that the vital spark had gone, he at once folded the lifeless limbs to the grand old body and secured them with straps. An appropriate casket made of cedar was immediately prepared. A grave at the designated place in the orchard was dug and lined with cedar. The body of the great sire was placed in the casket with all his belongings. He was dressed in his holiday attire of blankets. ' The news of the death of Hambletonian soon spread throughout the neighborhood. On the morning of the 28th the body was placed on a stone boat to which was hitched six of his (Continued on page 4.)