Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 8, Number 92, Decatur, Adams County, 19 April 1910 — Page 2

The Daily Democrat. Published Every Evening, Except Sunday, by LEW Q. ELLINGHAM Subscription Rates: Per week, by carrier........ 10 cents Per year, by carrier $5.00 Per month, by mail.. 25 cents Per year, by mail ...$2.50 Single Copies 2 cents Advertising rates made known on application.. Entered at the postofflce at Decatur, Indiana, as second-class mall matter. J. H. HELLER, Manager, e?-"— I —— President Taft Is said to suffer wound of feeling because his administhation has not given popular satisfaction. Few will doubt that he has been trying to do well and still fewer will dissent from the statement that so far he has failed to meet expectations. Mr. Taft, however, cannot popularize his administration by insisting that the Aldrich tariff is a blessing and demanding that the people approve it. There was not in the first place any obligation resting on him to go forth full panoplied over the country tilting his lance here and there and otherwhere in defense of the “best revenue measure" that ever mulctd a people. He then could have very well and very wisely waited for the tariff to speak for itself. It is not even now too late to do that. If it should fall out that Secretary -Ballinger feel impelled to fly to the embrace of his erstwhile clientele and Attorney General Wickersham hear and heed the call of predatory Wall considerable that makes the Taft administration unpopular would have disappeared. The main trouble with Mr. Taft appears to be a little too much determination to vindicate his mistakes. —Fort Wayne Sentinel. i w a J -■ The democratic convention St Indianapolis next week wilt prove an old time, gloriously deunocratic meeting, and every one who can do so < should attend. Adams county will present the name of Lewis G. Ellingham for the place of secretary of 1 state, and it's up to the boys from here to boost You can’t do it unless you are on the ground. There will perhaps be no special train, but the cost is slight and these opportunities to attend state conventions only come each two years. The enumerators are busy. They have but a short time to complete the work. Help them to secure, a complete count. Get your schedule ready. If they miss you remind them. Such a thing is possible, but we want every person in the county on this list for it counts for ten years. We have several good farms in the Saginaw Belt, Michigan. None better. Come and see us. We can tell you all about this country. We have seen the crops growing all during the summer seasons. We know just what we are talking about. Now is the time to buy a farm. Do not put it off too late. We are selling a great many of these farms and the people are well satisfied with their bargains. The Michigan Land Co., S. E. Shamp, Manager. Offlce over Postofflce, Decatur, Ind. 9215

PREMO 9 thats it, the most practical waist for the Boy for school wear. Made of Black sateen, blue chambray and fancy stripes and figures at 25c Also a beautiful line of boy’s dress waist at 50c ■ • I ' ‘ The Myers-Dailey Co

:SOME SOCIAL NEWS t _______ Mrs. John Peterson is Entertaining the Young Ma--1 j tron’ Club. i ) J 1 A BIRTHDAY PARTY I, - ■ Given This Afternoon by Harold Niblick —The Club Notes. Announced by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow, and driving o’er the fields. Seems nowhere to alight; the whited air, Hides hills and woods, the river and the heaven, And veils the farm-house at the garden’s end. The sled and traveler stopped, the courier’s feet Delayed, all friends shut out, .the housemates sit Around the radiant fireplace inclosed

In a tumultuous privacy of storm. —Emerson, “The Snow-Storm." CLUB CALENDAR FOR WEEK. Tuesday. U. B. Ladies’ Aid—at Parsonage. T. B. G.—Miss Ode Fullenkamp. Young People's Bible Class —Mrs. Albert Katterheinrich. Wednesday. Shakespeare—Mrs. W. H. Nachtrleb. Thursday. Entre Nous —Ruth Ernst. Friendly Few.—Mrs. Joe Stevens. Philathea—M. E. Church. Very merry was the party given in honor of little Frederick Schultes fourth birthday anniversary by his mother, Mrs. Henry Schulte, in which fifteen of the children of the neighborhood shared. The first thing was a visit to the picture show, where all the changing wonders of the universe were enjoyed, then the happy troupe found its way again to the “Schulte home, where the round of pleasure was continued. There were all sorts of games. In the contest! of pinning the tail to the Marcella Kuebler and Harold Niblick were awarded first prizes and ArtiTur Holthouse and Mildred Niblick second prizes, ' while Ralph Tyndall and Margaret Holthouse guessed the nearest number of pieces of candy in a box and were given! prizes. Then came supper in the dining room, which was pretty in its decorations of spring flowers and the supper itself was equally agreeable to the palate. »»»•»*»•* jn my breast Spring wakens, too; and my regret Becomes and April violet, And buds and blossoms like the rest. —Tennyson's “In Memoriam.' Miss Tillie Minehart of St. Louis ana Mrs. Allen Vesey of Fort Wayne were guests yesterday afternoon at the John Niblick home. Miss Frances Bryson of Portland, who has been visiting here with her aunt, Mrs. Perry Robinson, and family, is spending the aftqynoon with another aunt, Mrs W. R. Smith,, north of the city. Harold, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Niblick, is entertaining about twenty of his boy friends after school this afternoon at his home where a joy-

ous time Is in store, the occasion of all this festivity being his seventh birthday anniversary. Games and amusements of all kinds, including a fishing pond, will be in evidence, not forgetting, of course, a luncheon. Mrs. John Peterson is entertaining the members of the Young Matrons’ club this afternoon, with a few other guests. Among the amusements provided is a tree Contest. Questions in the form of rhyme are to be answered with the appropriate names of trees, and each guest will be given a spray of a tree to identify. A luncheon will complete the afternoon’ sentertainment. Fred K. Bollman, son of Mrs. Elsie Bollman, of Gas City, formerly of this city, will be one of the graduates this spring of the Gaa City high school, invitations for which have been issued. Fred is scheduled for an oration on “Shylock’ and a song. He is a nephew of Miss Lydia Bollman of this city. The first meeting of the year of the Holy Grail will be held this evening at the M. E. church. The planning of work for the season will be the chief matter of interest for this evening. Mrs. J. T. Merryman is entertaining the Sewing club this afternoon.

A GOOD SHOWING Is That Made by Display of • Coin Holders Patented by Geo Wemhoff. HE HAS SOLD MANY Orders Come From as Far South as Georgia—Very Useful Device. Among the large mercantile displays of all that is useful and necessary to mankind in daily life, it looks good to come across an article cre- | ated and manufactured by Decatur ! pople. And that is one reason why the large display of Gravity coin holders, adorning the window of the SchaubTGotemoller & Company hardware store, appeals so strongly to AdI ams county folk. For this coin holder j was invented and patented by George Wemhoff of this city. It is quite a useful and attractive little device,, made from galvanized iron, and arranged so that when attached to the mail box, and the pennies for stamps slipped in, but a single touch of the fingers, pours the coins forth into the carrier's hand. They are so simply constructed also that the selling cost is but ten cents. Though but comparatively little advertising or pushing has been done, large numbers have i already been disposed of. These > have been made at Delphos, Ohio, but t Mr. Webmoff holds the dies, and as soon as possible, arrangements will be made for their manufacture here. , Orders have come in from all parts of r Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, and - even as far south as Georgia, and it - seems to be rapidly growing in favor, i o BOWLERS IN TOURNAMENT. i The local bowlers have finally se-, y lected the team to enter the handicap s tournament at Fort Wayne, in which ’• all the teams of the surrounding dis- ’ trict will play. The local team will play a week from next Saturday evening, April 30th, and Includes the following men: J. Peterson, T. Peterson, Fred Vaughn, Dyke Frisinger and i QarJ The tournament ends r May Ist. Charles Ervin is improving his home in the south part of the city by adding a porch to the front pait, which, completed, will be very handsome. FOR SALE —A Shorthorn bull calf. Splendid stock. Inquire Sam Wyatt, R. R. No. 1, Decatur. 92t6 FOR SALE —A full blooded Poland China male hog. For further particulars address G. H. Bright, R. R. No. 2, Decatur. ■ him n i—n—— Serve Center’s ginger ale at lunch eon or dinner and delight everybody. It's the finest dOfiiestic ginger ale ever made. Sixty cents per case, delivered. Cali 'phone 92. 82-2w* o TO MOTHERS IN THIS TOWN. Children who are.delicate, feverish and cross will get immediate relief from Mother Gray’s Sweet Powders . for Children. They cleanse the stom- ‘ ach, act on the liver, make a sickly child strong and healthy. A certain; cure for worms. Sold by all druggists, 25c. Sample free. Address, Allen £ * Olmstead, Leßoy, N. Y.

! HYDES STATEMENT , t Was Made This Afternoon —The State Has Lost an Important Witness. i THE WOLTER JURY Has Been Sworn—Forty Dead in Canadian LandSlide—Swept in River. Kansas City, Mo., April 19 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Frank T. Walsh, attorney for Dr. B. Clark Hyde, on trial for the murder of Colonel Swope, today made the opening statement for the defense. The death of Dr. Twymer, physician and confident of the Swope family, late yesterday afternoon, removes hn important state’s witness. It it adrntted now that the state has no ••rtnesses to prove that Hyde poisoned Swope or that other parties did not inject the poison after the body was in • the vault. (United Press Service.) New York, N. Y., April 19 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —A complete-jury was empaneled today and was sworn in this afternoon in the case against Albert Wolter, charged with the murder of Ruth Wheeler, fifteen year-old stenographer. The proscutlon at once began its arraignment. (United Press Service.) Quebec, April 19 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Belated reports from the scene of the landslide, occurring late yesterday afternoon otr the Grand Trunk railroad shows that forty men were killed when a solid train was swept over a precipice and into the river, seventy-five feet below. ■ (United Press Service) Boston, Mass., April 19 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Fred Cameron of Amherst won the Boston Athletic Marathon race here this afternoon. The time —2 hours, 28 minutes, 51 4-5 seconds.

pg Discount Suit Sale I ?n £ Hi- 'i ■-Ilk* g Here will be shown all the || y t'fi' - latest spring models, and we ~ ■■ have our old suits to show •!, |l| - you. Every suit will be mark- = , I ed in plain figures and at less | than materials and linings El actually cost.<JEvery suit will V’| |1 be sold from 25 per ct to 50 lok | 1“ per ct discount. ( .®F = Suits at $10.50,512.50513- fi 1 w' fill I 50, $15.00 to $22.50 and $25 I W ft ! that were sl7 to $35. | | J| 11 All jackets will be closed . ' jfi ! l | | = out at discount prices. Make y fflg II I . | your selections early while y | ffll g1 \ r s; assortment is complete. ■< f |Bi 1 I'M ~ No trouble to show you. Hi W ||| \ ' g See oUr new ready-made |» |ft I|h 1 I El dresses, they are beauties. J |W\ || ■ I No charge for alteration. } I (Niblick & Co.

THE MICROBES. But For Tham All Graan Plants Would Vanish From the Earth. Few persons can realize at first what an immense number and variety of microbes there nre not only around us in the air and dust and water, but also tn us and on us and in and on every living thing. The work, the huge system of chemical change and the circulation of the elements—carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen and sulphur—which they carry on is incessant. varied and complex. Those five elements are the main and essential constituents of all living things. Supposing there were no microbes, there would be no putrefaction, no breaking down of the dead bodies of animals and plants which were once alive into gas and substances soluble In water. They by a series of steps in which different kinds of bacteria or microbes aro successively concerned convert the protelds and the fats and sugars of dead plants and animals into less elaborate bodies, organic acids, aromafic bodies and other compounds (some highly poisonous to roan), and at last when what were highly complex combinations of hundreds of atoms in each molecule have been reduced by the action of first one and then of another kind of microbe into comparatively simple substances of twenty or thirty atoms to the molecule. the coup de grace is given by certain special microbes, which convert these later compounds into still simpler combinations—namely, ammonia and nitrates, which are fairly stable. so that the whole elaborate chemical fabric of living matter in a few hours or days after death is broken down until it reaches the stable “mineral” condition, practically carbonate and nitrate of ammonia—smelling salts. If there were no microbes this would never occur. The earth would be cumbered with the dead bodies of past generations of animals and plants—undecomposed. And very soon all the organic elements, all the carbon and nitrogen, if not all the hydrogen and oxygen, on the face of the earth would be fixed in these corpses, and the green plants would perish from the whole wortd for want of sustenance, for It is the green plants which feed on and absolutely must have as their food the carbonic acid, ammonia and nitrates into which the microbes resolve all living things when dead. It Is the green plants which from those simple confpounds build up again the more complex molecules, the sugars, fats, albumens and protelds and provide for the nourishment and increase of the most complex of all—the living matter hidden in protoplasm.—Sir Ray Lan tester in London Telegraph.

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