Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 8, Number 244, Decatur, Adams County, 15 October 1910 — Page 2

The Daily Democrat. ■gSCMtIMW H»WPubltabed Evary Evening, Except Sunday, by DECATUR DEMOCRAT COMPANY LEW & ELLINGHAM JOHN H. HELLER Subscription Rates: per week, by carrier 10 cents Per year. by carrier 15.00 Per month, by mail 25 cents Per year, by mail 12.50 Single Copies 2 cents ~ Advertising rates made known on application. Hntered at tne poetofflee at Decatur, Indiana, aa second-class mall matter. ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ « POLITICAL CALENDAR. ♦ ♦ Wednesday, Oct. 19—At Court ♦ ♦ House, Decatur; Major George ♦ ♦ V. Menzies of Mt. Vernon. ♦ ♦ Thursday, Oct. 27—At Knapp ♦ ♦ School house. Union township; ♦ ♦ Hon. Jacob Butcher and Hon. ♦ ♦ R. C. Parrish. ♦ ♦ Friday, Oct. 21—At Friedheim, ♦ ♦ Preble township; Hon. Jacob ♦ ♦ Butcher and Hon. John C. Mo- ♦ ♦ ran. ♦ ♦ Friday, Oct. 21—At Salem school ♦ ♦ house. Blue Creek township; ♦ ♦ Hon. Dore B. Erwin and Hon. ♦ ♦ Chauncey Lautzenheiser. ♦ ♦ Thursday, Oct. 27 —At Election ♦ ♦ school house, French township: ♦ ♦ Hon. Jacob Butcher and Hon. ♦ ♦ R. C. Parrish. ♦ ♦ Tuesday, Oct. 25—At Washington ♦ ♦ school. Washington township; ♦ ♦ Hon. C. J. Lutz and Hon. H. B. ♦ < Heller. ♦ ♦ Tuesday, Oct. 25 —At Preble town ♦ ♦ hall; Hon. D. E. Smith and ♦ ♦ Hon. R. C. Parrish. ♦ ♦ Saturday afternoon, Oct. 29 —At ♦ ♦ Geneva; Hon. L. Ert Slack of ♦ ♦ Franklin, Ind. ♦ ♦ Saturday evening, Oct. 29 —At ♦ ♦ Berne; Hon. L. Ert Slack of ♦ < Franklin, Ind. ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦

Every democrat in Adams county should be active from this time until election day. Every democrat should feel a personal interest in the issues of this campaign. A victory in Indiana means much for the future of out* party. Do not move from your precinct, but instead devote yourself to increasing the democratic majority. William Jennings Bryan, that peerless leader of democracy, and thrice its national standard-bearer, closed his first day in the Indiana campaign with the strongest kind of an endorsement of Governor Thomas R. Marshall, of Indiana, for president in 1912. “Governor Marshall,” he declared, in emphatic tones, “is the most logical man in the country today for president,” and the full five thousand people from over northern Indiana who heard him in the court bouse yard there cheered lustily and shouted until hoarse. . •r According to "the terrible Teddy” every one who votes the democratic ticket is a deep-dyed villain, in league with the Wall street grafters. There must be a lot of bad fellows in Maine, Massachusetts and even parts of New York, if the elections of this year are a criterion. When Theodore sent Cortelyou to Wall street in 1904 to raise that campaign contribution, "the big interests” were a very necessary part of this country and those who abused

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them were anarchists. It seems to make a difference whose ox is gored, but then consistency has never been a part of Roosevelt’s creed. There is not a follower in Adams county, a believer for the last fourteen years In W. J. Bryan, that can now even hesitate as to whether they will vote for John W. Kern. The peerless leader is now in the state making a plea for his running mate in the last national campaign, and his friend always. John W. Kern has always stood for the public policies advocated by the still mighty Bryan. He has stood for them, too, when Senator Beveridge was orating about the beauties of the protective system and telling them that combinations of capital were but progressive methods of transacting the business of this great country. John Kern represents the common people all the time and will well represent the state of Indiana in the United States senate. "And there is not a place that I gp in this campaign that I go with more pleasure, not a state that I expect to work harder in. not a state that I will spend so long in, except my own than my coming to this state that I may bring some assistance to this man who was my colleague on the national democratic ticket two years ago. This is the reason I have come here; this is the reason I will spend more time in Indiana than any other state save my own, because I am interested in the election of John Kern to the United States senate. I do not mean I am not interested in the other candidates, too. I am interested in sending Congressman Cline to congress. 1 am interested in having a congress that is democratic and a senate that is democratic. I am interesed in securing a democratic congress that will elect a democratic speaker and will throw Cannon out and put Clark in.” —W. J. Bryan at Auburn. * HELP WANTED—MALE. at » r Wanted —Young men to prepare for positions as automobile repair men, chauffeurs, salesmen. We make you expert in ten weeks by mailt assist you to good position. Pay big; demand for men great. Free model of automobile with course. Sample lesson and particulars free. Write today; terms reasonable. Empire Automobile Institute, Rochester, N. Y. 243t4 * t .< o , . LEGAL NOTICE. _. „ Notice is hereby given that on Tuesday, November 20, 1910, at 9:00 o’clock a. m„ in the city of Decatur, state of Indiana, at the Toledo, St. Louis & Western Freight depot, on compliance with the statute bf said state we will sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, one car load of lumber, descriped as No. One Common Shiplap. T. S. T. L. & W. Car 6314. Originad Car. St. L. S. F. 121512. Said lumber having remained refused and the legal charges thereon, unpaid during the space of three months after arrival. Notice hereby given to the Kirsch, Sellemeyer & Sons, Decatur, Ind., also Leßue Lumber Co., Indianapolis, Ind., for further information inquire of Agent T. St. L. & W. R. R., Decatur, Indiana, or O. Ashworth, freight tracing agent, T. St. L. & W. R. R., Bloomington, 111. TOLEDO, ST. LOUIS & WESTERN RAILROAD COMPANY. It

SOCIETY DOINGS The Queen Esthers Meet With the Misses Nichols and Hunsicker. THE PHI DELTAS Are Arranging for Ball on Hallowe'en —Other Social News. A Happy Thought. Patience, Hope and Love! O part them never! If Hope prostrate lie, Love, too. will sink and die. But Love is subtle; and will proof derive, From her own life, that Hope is yet alive. Yet haply there will come a weary day When, overtasked, at length Both Love and Hope beneath the load give way; Then, with a statue’s smile, a statue's strength, Stands the mute sister, Patience — nothing loth; And. both supporting, does the work of both. —Samuel Taylor Coleridge. CLUB CALENDAR FOR WEEK. Saturday. Thimble—Mrs. C. C. Shafer. The Misses Nellie Nichols and Vera Hunsicker were delightful hostesses to twenty-five of the Queen Esther band and their friends at the home of Miss Nichols Friday evening. Interesting readings on the schools at Tuscan, Arizona, and Los Angeles. California, that are being assisted in support by this little band of home missionary workers, were read and the regular program of the devotional was carried out. A social hour followed. with music. Special mention should be made of the vocal solo by little Miss Dolores Ballenger, with piano accompaniment by Miss Florine Edwards. Refreshments, consisting of ice cream and cake were served. Among business matters considered Friday evening was the decision to hold a sale Os pastry, candies, etc., at the Hower & Baker meat market on Second street next Saturday afternoon. Every Queen Esther is asked to contribute to this alid to have her supplies at the market by 2 o’clock in the afternoon. The society also will hold a handkerchief sale in the near future. p- HL’A union meeting to study Epworth League methods and to plan for aggressive work will be held at the Methodist cnurch, beginning at 2 p. m. on Sunday. A large number of visitors are expected and the young people are expecting a profitable meeting. The program is as follows: Song, Scripture and Prayer. Song by Chorus. Piano Solo—Miss Frances Merryman. Address—“ Department of Spiritual Work” —Miss Nellie Mason, Bluffton. Address —"Department of World Evangelism”—Rev. J. C. Valentine. Male Quartet. Address —“Department of Mercy and Help”—Miss Neva Brandyberry. Piano Solo —Mrs. J. D. Dailey. Address —"Department of Literary and Social Work” —Rev. J. H. McNary, Monroe. Piano Duet —Misses Nellie Nichols and Ruth Gay. 5:00 p.m.—Lunch at Church. 6:00 p.m.—Model Devotional Meeting—Miss lona Easly, Ft. Wayne. 7:00p. m. —Service in Auditorium. Address —"Called to Serve" —Miss Nellie Mason. Quartet. Address and Consecration —“Gathering the Fragments”—Miss Etta Mallonee. The members of the Sewing club will be entertained next Thursday afternoon instead of Tuesday, the regular day, by Mrs. F. W. Dibble, at her home east of the city. Mrs. Dibble has invited the husbands to join their wives at supper time and a very jolly time is expected. Ruby Artman, Flora, Clarence and Dan Fledderjohann went to Hoagland this morning to the John Ruhl home to join Nellie and Callie, Ed and Homer Ruhl in a walnut hunt, with a picnic dinner at noon. They expect to have a jolly good time and come back with a lot of fine walnuts. The Phi Deltas are getting out invitations for a Hallowe’en ball to be given at their hall on the evening of October 31st. Out-of-town guests are (Continue Qub page 4.)

“MUSIC OF THE WILD” (Continued from page 1.) Mrs. Porter her reputation as a story writer, it has been one of the biggest selling books on u»e market during recent years, and has passed the 200,000 mark. It is printed In four different bindings and will soon be out in a combination binding with the "Girl of the Limberlost.” In one magazine this month, this book is advertised in four different places, showing its standing with the publishers, as it still sells alongside of the newer books. Its sale has been continuous and one great publisher says that it is one of the few books of the decade that will live. For this book, ft may be of interest to some to know, Mrs. Porter has actually received cash returns, which average over SI,OOO a week for the time required in writing it. The third effort of the now widely famed authoress, was, "What I Have Done With Birds.” It was a handsome nature volume and the sale for the five years it has been on the market have been very good for that class of books. The next was "At the Foot of the Rainbow,” one of her best ones but which had an unfortunate marketing, the company who published it failing, just at the time it was due. This prevented its being put out for the holiday trade and it has never been up to the sale standard it deserves. Mrs. Porter thinks it her strongest plot. “The Girl of the Limberlost,’’ her fifth book, a companion to "Freckles” was a well written story, that proved as popular as did her first novel. It had a big pre liminary sale on the strength of Its sister, and the sales since have been almost remarkable. In July, which is always considered the dullest month of the year by publishers, the sales were over 12,000 copies. It is selling now better than ever, and when a year old last August the sales had aggregated over 100,000 and the publishers expect it to reach double that by its second birthday. The cash from this book has already brought the writer more than $2,500 per week for the time required to write It. This book and "Freckles" are permanent and will be known among book dealers for years to come. The sixth book was "Birds of the Bible,” the most difficult of all. since it required weeks and months of work. It is well written, one of the finest literary efforts ever given the public. Every sentence in this book w-as gone over and over again by the authoress. It sold exceptionally well and is keeping it up. Her seventh book is the one just out, “Music of the Wild,” which we predict will outsell all the nature books on the market today. Until recently Mrs. Porter has devoted a part of her time to magazine writing but with her publishers demanding a book each year, other duties are impossible an 1 she has given them up. An idea of how Mrs. Porter has created a niw field that the public demanded is shown in a little incident which occurred when she sent in her copy for "Freckles.” The publisher wi-ote and asked her to replace some of the "nature talk,' and she did make some slight changes to please. Now the cry of the publishers is "a little more nature please." or "can’t you arrange to give us one of your charming nature stories this year.” While the writing of these books has been done by Mrs. Porter because she loved it, and by the way that’s the real reason why she has been so successful, she has also managed to make the business a most complete success financially, which is the standard, by which too many of us figure real success. While we have not been able to secure a detailed statement of the returns of her work, we have learned through a reliable source, that recently when it became necessary for Mrs. Porter to raise some money for use in a business transaction, she drew on her publishers for the money earned from the sale of her books this year, seven months, up to and including August, aad that the drafts, totaled 131,000. At this rate her earnings are at this time about $60,000 per year or an income equal to that from property worth more than a million dollars, estimated at five per cent. Mrs. Porter’s next book will be a novel and the lovers of her writings know that it will be worth reading. We hope she may continue her work for years to come and we cannot help adding in conclusion that we believe every library in Adams county should have on its shelves, the works of this lady who has become known nation wide as a writer, and this is something worth while, when you consider that th&re are more than 25,000 book writers in the United States. -n — ■ — Mrs. Harry Deam of Chicago is visiting with her mother, Mrs. R. B. Allison. Cracked eggs for sale at H. Berling’s packing house.

A REAL SCAB SHOP Some Interesting Facts About the Detroit Child Labor Cigar Plant. THE BEVERIDE CIGAR Is Manufactured There Under Conditions That Are Almost Appalling. Indianapolis, Ind., Oct. 15 (Special to Daily Democrat)—The public announcement of the Cigar Makers Blue Label League of Indiana that the "Senator Beveridge” cigar is a nonunion cigar, made ny cnlld labor, and the League's demand that Senator Beveridge withdraw permission given the manufacturers to use his name by October 15th, have greatly disturbed the Beveridge camp. No more embarassing thing could have happened at this time with Senator Beveridge in the heat of his speaking campaign, proclaiming loudly from every willing stump, his abhorrence for the very conditions under which this cigar, his namesake, is manufactured. Labor leaders believe that he can do nothing but meet the demands of the cigar makers of Indiana, but the eight years in which the senator’s name has been used over their protests, makes the situation bad for Senator Beveridge. The "Senator Beveridge" non-union, child labor cigar, is manufactured in Detroit by Marcero Bros. & Spitz Co., which is one of the fourteen cigar companies in Detroit of the same character. A circular distributed by the union cigar men of Detroit tells the whole story as follows: “There is a bunch of fourteen cigar manufacturers in Detroit who have developed labor skinning into a fine art. Their usual prey is women and children, and they have located their factories or traps in what is known as “Polish Town,” where children are plentiful and the people are poor and willing to accept almost any conditions thrust upon them. “Among other devices with which the labor power of women and children is coined into profits is a certificate plan of employment. An imposing document, printed in script type, with the picture of a factory in one corner and other things to make the thing look official and inspire a child with awe, is signed up by any one of the fourteen and conveys the extraordinary privilege upon the applicant for a job, to pay $5 to learn the cigar making trade. “If the child has no $5, which is usually the case, $1 is paid in advance and a dollar a week during the following five weeks. "Thus the victim is compelled to pay an additional profit of 20 per cent to the manufacturer for the privilege of handing him $5. “But this is not all. Having given the manufacturer $5 and usually 20 per cent on top of that, the victims make the bosses a present of their labor power for thirty-six weeks, and moreover furnish their own tools with which to work. Then at the end of the thirty-six weeks’ period, the victims become graduates and are actually beginning to get a glimpse of real money. Not so fast, however. They get it and they don’t get it. Along comes another gaudy certificate, which must be signed and then the graduate receives a promissory note entitling the holder to $1 per week “on condition that our pay roil books show that she has worked steadily in our factory for a period of six months from the date of this certificate.” In other w’ords the manufacturer keeps the dollar-a-week wage for six months and draws interest on that. If the girls quits her job within the six months’ period, which she may do, she receives nothing. "Can you beat it? Surely the Detroit system deserves the hlue ribbon from the Post and Kirby open shoppers. Not only do the fourteen allied cigar manufacturers of Detroit receive “free” labor for a year at a time, but those loyal and faithful slaves supply their own necessaries of life and give their kind masters money besides.” EXPRESS THANKS. Jacob Buhler and children wish to extend their thanks in this way to all the neighbors and friends who in countless ways aided them so kindly during the illness and at the time of the death of their wife and mother. — o WANTED —Good girl for small family. Good place for one that can give reference. 243t6

»/ A < i I’VWn -i!' IssO? m 1 _ rJSJ \1 Kl JFrl- _ ■ A I \'V • Wflfl r If you take a special size, are hard to fit this sale will interest you. Bischof has taken the fall styles which were designed apparently only for extremely slender women and adapted them to larger, more mature figures. He has cut these special styles so cleverly, has trimmed them so skillfully that he has kept the straight line effect yet made them very becoming. The special thought given these sizes is significant of the Bischof methods there is just as much individuality put into all of his styles. We have never seen more attractive models than his designs this season, with their big pockets, wide cuffs, broad collars and effective panel treatments. He seems to have handled the modes this 'Fall better than any other designer. NIBLICK & COMPANY DO NOT READ THIS Plenty’of mon- ■ ey. Very Low Rates. No Extras. Life, sick, accident and fire insurance. Celebrated “Richmond Suction Cleaner” to let and to sell. Information where to buy the best stoves, ranges and furnaces at a great bargain, on a month’s trial. W. J. MYERS, 233 N. sth st Thone 265 SPECIAL FARES WEST Via Clover Leaf Route 1910 from Decatur, Indiana

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