Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 10, Number 45, Decatur, Adams County, 21 February 1912 — Page 2

| FRED SCHAUB g Successor To Schaub, Gottemoller & Co. ESQ i SPECIAL FOR SATUDAY | g Large Granite Wash Bowls 10 cents || f| “ “ Pudding pans 10 cents gg aj “ “ Tea Kettles 25 cents 03 H “ “ Preserving “25 cents gj ■-. — nm»Mg J® I FRED SCHAUB I Successor To Schaub, Gottemoller & Co. |||

RUGS A END LINOLEU S New And Select Stock Prices Lower Than BARGAIN DAY PRICES It will pay yoa to investigate GAY, ZWICK & MYERS. | The Leading Furniture Dealears North. 2nd. St. SPRING PAINTING Tiie Hoosier Paint 100 per cent Pure are of the highest quality, and have greatest covering capacity and durability. Lachot and Rice

WHY WEaR ] Soiied Npw Buck and Suede shoes when En- 3 ergine rhe perfect dry | deanerCleans perfect- | ]y whetiierof silk wool cotton kid, fur and feathers. | Price 15 and 25c per Bottle .1 WINNES SHOE STORE 1

PUBLIC SauE. The undersigned will offer for sale I it his residence, 4 miles west of Mon roe, on the W. S. Wolfe farm, on Thursday, February 22, 1912, beginning at 10 o'clock a. m., the tollowim propeity, to-wit: Stock: One brown horse, coming 3 years old, weight about 1400 tbs; 4 cows, 1 will be fresh about March 15; 1 fresh in June, ( 1 red Poled cow, fresh in April, and i 1 Holstein cow, fresh about April Ist; I 16 head of hogs, including 1 brood sow, will farrow about April 10; 1 Duroc sow, will farrow last of April; 7 * | white shoats, weighing about 100 lbs. ■ each, and 7 red shoats, weighing about i 1 40 Tbs. each. Farming Implements:) One 2-horse wagon, stiff tongue: hay i ' ladders and hog rack combined, new J 1 ’ ground plow, set double work liar-1 ness, Sulky riding plow and other ar I 1 i tides. Terms—For all sums of $5.00 and , I under, cash in hand. For. all amounts- i , over $5.00 a credit of 9 months will < be givon, the purchaser giving note [ I I with approved security; 4 per cent off 1 for cash. No property removed un > ' til settled for. WM. WOLFE. J. N. Burkhead. Auct. G. H. McManama, Clerk. .. . , PUBLIC SALE. 1 i | The undersigned will effer for sale at his residence, I’4, miles northwest 1 of Decatur, on the- George Keller farm ) :on Thursday, February 22nd. beginning . at 10 o'clock a. m. the following prop- : erty, to-wit: Four Head of Horsts: ■ One gray mare, 12 years old, weighing I about 1500 lbs; 1 dun horse, 12 years old, weighing about 1500 lbs.; 2 spring colts. Six Head of Cattle: One cow, ;liesh, calf by side; 1 cow, will be fresh in March; 1 cow, will be fresh ; in June; 1 heifer calf, 4 months old; 1 bull calf, 3 months old. Twentythree Head of Hogs: Three brood sows, wii] farrow in April; 1 male hog, weighing 250 lbs.; 19 head of shoats. ■ weighing from 50 to 75 lbs. each. Farming Implements: One Milwaukee binder, Deering mower, Hoe drill, ; Di ere check rowe r , 2 walking corn [ plows, sulky hay ra”e, 2 breaking' ■ plows, spring-tooth harrow, spike I tooth harrow, land roller, double shov- ; c) plow, single shovel plow, 2 wagons, 1 2-inch tire, one narrow tread; ; ; surrey, top buggy, set single harness, I set breeching harness, set farm har 1 n ss corn sheller, grindstone, Keller j indicator, ccal oil stove, cook stove, £ and uthei articles not mentioned, t terms —For all sums ot |5.00 and * wilder, cash in band. For all amounts E ever $5.00 a credit of 9 months will 1 s be given, the purchaser giving note I j with approved security; 4 per cent off 11 for cash. No property removed until 2 settled for. ROBERT MILLER. | John Spuhler, Auct, J i J. F. Fruchte, FOX SALE. E i Farm, consisting of 200 acres, with g new house and good out buildings; 160 ; acres under cultivation and 40 acres P in timber. For terms and other par- ‘ ticulare, see Serena A. Johnson, South » First street, Decatur, Ind. 39t6 ' DEMOCRAT WANT ADS' PAV BIG.

Home' A Town v Helps CITY BUILDING IN GERMANY There Town Planning Has Become a Science, With an Eye Always to the Future. No cities in the modern world com pare with those which have arisen in Germany during the past twenty ears. There are none in Great Britain, front which country official delegations are constantly crossing the North Sea to study the achievements of the Ger man city. There are none in France, in which country the building of cities has made but little progress since the achievements of Baron Haussntan made Paris the beautiful city that it is. In city building, as in other matters, all science is the handmaiden of pol itics The engineer and the architect, the artist and the expert in hygiene are alike called upon to contribute tn the city's making. The German cities are thinking of tomorrow as weil as of today, of the generations to follow as weil as the generation that is now upon the stage. Germany alone sees the city as the center of the civilization of the future, and Germany alone is building her cities so as to make them contribute to the happiness, health, and well-being of the people. In city building, as in other things. Germany calls in her experts. If they do not already exist she creates them. Town planning has become a science, just as much a science as the building of engines. And it is treated as such. A school has recently been opened in Berlin devoted to the subject. Exhibition of things municipal and congresses of various kinds are promoted. An exhibition of town planning and city building is being held in Berlin this year, from May to July. There has grown up a substantial literature bn city building. There are experts like Stubben, Fisher. Gurlett and Baumeister, who go from city to city and consult with the lo al authorities on their projects. Not’, ng is haphazard. Nothing is left to chance. The get-rich-speculator and the jerry builder are subordinated to the will of the community acting through its permanent and expert body of city officials.

PROTECT THE SHADE TREE Commission of City of Newark, N. J., Has Proved the Worth of Its Appointment. In the city of Newark, N. J., there exists one of the most effective shadetree commissions to be found in the whole country. It is forbidden, except under written permit of the Shade Tree commission, to cut. break, climb, injure, remove or plant any street tree; or to injure, misuse or remove any device placed to protect such tree; to attach or keep attached to a tree in any street, or to the guard or stake placed to protect such tree, a rope. wire, sign or any device; to place or maintain about the base of any tree in any street, stone, cement, or other substance which would impede free access of water and air to the roots of such tree. It is further forbidden, unqualifiedly, to prevent delay, or interfere with the Shade Tree commission or any of its employees in the planting, pruning, spraying or removing of a tree in any puttlic street, or in the removal of stone, cement or other substance from about the base of such tree. No horse or other animal may be fastened to a.’.y street tree or allowed to stand where a horse or other animal might injure a street tree. Europe in Advance of America. How long will it be before our so called "progressive" country may be brought to realize that in a great many respects —fundamentals, too — we are far behind Europe? Listen to this. There are 1,500 towns and villages in Germany which derive so much revenue front the lands which they own that they are free from all ' local taxes. Five hundred of these are not only free from taxes, but are - able to declare annual dividends of ’ from $25 to SIOO a year to each citizen as his share of the surplus earnings of the common lands. This mode of doing things is growing at such a rapid rate that Germany will soon be, it she is not already, the most economI ically-governed country in the world. Planning Cities. When cities are planned it needs the combined talents of the architect, i the engineer, and the artist It is not alone enough t» consider the ihjeds of 1 today or even those of the [ resent ' generation, but for centuries to come. ■ City planning has come to be con- ; sidered, but we were many years too late in having a city planning com mittee. As It is, we are a full century behind progressive European countries, of which Germany is the leader. Might Have Expected It. , “My wife belongs to all the antii cruelty societies ther are. She be- . lieves that kindness will accomplish j anything. It would pain her to even ■ harm a fly. In fact, she once tried to | write an essay on sticky fly paper.” “What happened?” “She got stuck on the first sentence.” — ——-—

NEW HEWS OF YESTERDAY Great Lawyer Who Was Faithful to Burke. Rufus Choate Owed His Manner of Thought and His Style to Close Study of That Master of English.

By E. J. EDWARDS. When Rufus Choate, universally conceded to be one of the greatest of American lawyers and orators, and a most brilliant student of the class ics and English literature and history, entered Dartmouth college in 1815, Rev. Dr. Alvan Bond, who was for nearly forty years pastor of a Congregational church at Norwich, Conn., and in his day cne of the foremost clergymen of his denomination, was a tutor at Dartmouth. “Rufus Choate became a student , under me in Latin,” Doctor Bond told my father years afterward “T thought that when he entered the classroom for the first time he was the handsomest lad I had ever seen. His hair was brown and very curly, his eyes Were dark he had n beautiful complexion. But it was. after all. a singular intellectual revelation which was in his face, his manner, and his speech which especially attracted me. end I am sure, all of bis fellow students. “His translation 0 of the Latin classics were beyond any comparison the finest that I ever heard in the classroom. They were faithful in expressing the meaning of the Latin text, but, meaning of the Latin translations, Rufus Choate's were expressed in singularly beautiful English. I never tired of hearing him translate. “A little later T di covered that besides having a great sift for the Latin classes, young 'Choate was a precocious reader of the English classics. I remember that in a casual afterclass conversation with him one dav he remarked that, greatly as he admired Milton and Racon, and fascinated as he was by Shakespeare, nevertheless he thought that in some things, especially in his command of the English language. Burke was the superior of any of them “Choate was graduated from Dartmouth shortly after I finished my tutorship there and entered the ministry. and I heard little or nothing of him after that until he had gained a reputation both as a lawyer and as an orator, though 1 had looked for him to take up literature and become a teacher. probably in Dartmouth. Then, one day, in reading a speech that he had delivered, I was struck with'the thought that he had been influenced In his manner of thought and his style by a close study of Burke. Instantly there came hack to me most vividly the remark that Rufus Choate, when a college lad, had made to me about Burke. Since then I have read speech " f :er speech of Choate’s and they all make it plain to me that, as a man. be has been faithful to his boyhood admiration for Edmund Burke. And perhaps because he has been so faithful is one great rea ■■• n Why he is so great an orator, so wonderful a master of the English language.” Many years after my father had told me of this talk with Dr. Bond it became known to me that Rufus Choate, at rhe time his cousin. Joseph H. Choate, formerly embassador (o Great Britain, was beginning the study of law, wrote to the latter these words: "Remember that these four are the great minds of England: Shakespeare, Racon. Milton and Burke. And rememlier also, that of these Burke is not the least " (Copyright, tail by .! E Iward% Al! Rights Reserved.) Tasting the Drinks. An old custom has just been observed at Market Drayton, where the annual fair, called “the Dirty Fair.” has been opened by the Court Leet. A proclamation, it is reported, was read by the "Ale-Canner,” who warned "all rogues, vagabonds, cut-purses, and idle men immediately to nepart from this fair.” “Ale-Canner” has a jovial smack about ft, but we are afraid it is a misprint for “Ale-Conner.” an ancient and honorable officer, both of manors and corporations. His duty was to taste the new brew of every "brewer and brewster, cook, and pie-baker,” and if it were nnfit to drink the whole wns confiscated ajid given to the poor. It should be added that in the mid die ages “unfit to drink” usually meant weak and watery. The chemist was not abroad in those benighted days, so there was no risk of arsenical byproducts being present in the pottlepot. Kaiser’s Gift Taxed. While Keiser William rarely laughs and takes himself quite seriously, he is frequently directly on indirectly the provocation of laughter tn others. Recently he presented his portrait to the municipality of Berlin. The imperial present was received with enthusiastic demonstrations of gratitude. The city magistrates redded unanimously to make this gift the most elegant ornament of their assembly hall. Some days later the effigy of William 11. was placed in a frame of fine gold. Alas, the consequence of this manifestation of official loyalty was not foreseen. Der Startsverordnetenvorsteher (this little term means pres Ident of the municipal council) has [ just received notice to pay the tax recently assessed upon charitable gifts, i And the HprUnpge ifiiigh’

TREE TRUE FRIEND OF MAN

Just a Few Reasons Why Their Plant ing and Care Should Be Imperative Why plant trees? They add value to the adjacent property. They protect the pavement from the hot sun. They add beauty and comfort to the street They cool the air in summer and radiate warmth in winter. Where to plant trees. Pte nt them 35 to 40 feet apart. Plant them in good sell. Dig a pit four feet square by throe and a half feet deep. R* place the sand and stones by good soil mixed with well-rotted manure See that the best soil is near the roots. Do you know—That the tree is like a mill that runs itself'’ The raw materials it uses are the mlneials from the soil and the gases from the air The leaves are the machinerY that take charge of the raw material and make it into the finished product, sap. that goes to feed every part of the tree. The sunlight is the power that runs the machinery The waste product of this mill that the leaves send off into the air are the very things that we human being> need most, oxygen to breathe, and moisture Do you know of anv other manufactory that runs itself, furnishes its own materials and gives away Its products to bless and brighten the world? That trees are the oldest litins inhabitants on the face of the globe? That there are trees living now in California that were already 1.000 years old when Columbus discovered America? That a full-grown tree sends out 187 gallens of water a day through its leaves into the air’ Think what a difference that makes in hot. dry weather. LOVE OF TREES AN INSTINCT Inherited From Remote Ancestors, It Can Never Be Eradicated From the Mind of Man. Rasing his remarks upon his experiences in India. Mr. E P Stebbins recently showed, at a lecture in Edinburgh. that, man has inherited from his remote ancestors a love of trees, which is not extinct, even in the “city man.” In the earlier days of the world the forest was the great storehouse from which man obtained the necessities of life. Wherever men are left alone in a bare, treeless, region, the instinct to plant tree- and bushes im mediately asserts itself. An interesting example is shown at Quetta, the capita! of Baluchistan. Not only there, but in all the cantonments throughout Baluchistan, the planting of trees forms one of the chief recreations of the British community The same thing has occurred at Himalayas, where the charm of tree vistas has been added to the unrivaled magnificence of the view which that place affords of the mightiest mountain range on the earth. — Youth's Companion.

Plant Shrubs In Public Places. 1 hat the use ot shrubs has been delayed until such a late period in the development of our landscape architecture is unfortunate in many cases. There are many places where their use will change the entire appearance of the environment. Nature has continually hinted to man the advisability of nslntr ( n connection with the beautifying of his surroundings. It has been said that nature abhors a vacancy. If man does not improve such spaces nature will rapidly do so. It may not always be filled with the kind of plants we especially desire, but nevertheless there is a natural beauty in all shrubs. Roman Cities. The Romans were builders of such high type that even today, in the age of concrete, we shall not build structures that will outlet the work of the Romans nor surpass them in architectural beauty. Their great buildings still withstand the ravages of time ' and are still the chief architectural wonders of the world. We have not yet learned how to build both permanently and beautifully. Even where we find individual beauty we do not attain the city beautiful. Berlin to Improve Itself. The municipality of Berlin has prepared plans for the expenditure of about >80,000.000 on municipal improvements, including gas. water and, drainage extension and improvement, canalization, an underground railway and street improvements with the creation of open spaces. Great Praise. “Jim doesn’t think much of me 1 guess." “Yes, he does, old man. Just the other day he told me you were a brick.** “I’m surprised.” “He went further than that He said you were a regular gold brick.” Natural, "What’s the matter with old Orublt that he is croaking all the time’” ’’He says he has a frog in bis turoat

PUBLIC SALE. Having sold the farm, the sj signed will offer for sale at 1 dence. % mile south of Pleasant' or 6*4 miles southeast of Decat' ' *’ W the old Nuttman farm, on t ? 06 February 27, 1912, beginning I 1 o'clock a. tn., the following prou ** Ta 'to-wit: Seven head of Horses- R black brood mare, in foal, weight n* i 1 black brood mare, 3 years old- 18 bay mate, safe in foal, weighs ijq ' ’ 1 bay draft horse, 5 years old, Wej u f 1500; 1 general purpose horse, .j | old, weighs 1100; 1 fall colt andl ; yearling colt. Six Head of c One Jersey cow, fresh first of A prj | ( j Durham cow, fresh Ist of April; t p,- I stein heifer, fresh about May ’ yearling calf, 1 Short Horn cow, 1 by side; 1 roan cow, calf by side- j Poled-Durham, fresh March 1 • i ,' , ■ * roan cow, fresh soon. Sheep and Hogs Thirty-five head breeding ewes \ ' brood sows, five Durocs, 2 O. [. p-j , I Poland China, all will farrow March 11 registered Duroc boar. 15 l oad 0 > I shoats. weighing from 30 to 70 r>s each. Farming Implements: T wo ~ 1 horse wagons, Milwaukee binder. Mil waukee mower, new grain drill. cn, r planter, International bay tedder. Ohio I ■1 "• Icatlc”. riding breaking plow, « I riding cultivators, double and single shovel ploys, disc harrow, spike-tooth and spring-tooth harrows, hay rake, 2 top buggies, open carriage, 2 sets dou- ' ble work harness, 2 sets single buggy harness, hay ladders, bob-sleds, hay In mow, corn fodder In field, 150 chickens and 8 turkeys. Malleable , range., gasoline range and numerous other articles. Terms —All sums of $5.00 and under, cash in hand :over $5.00 a credit of ■ months will be given, the purchaser giving note with approved security; 4 per cent off for cash. No property removed until settled for. M. BEERY & SON. I N Rurkhead, Auct. Frank Masters. Clerk. PUBLIC SALE. I will se’’ at my residence, 6 miles southeast of Decatur, 4 miles northwest of Willshire, on the Piqua road, 3 miles northeast of Pleasant Mills, and 3 1 * miles southwest of Wren, on what is known as the old Lee farm on Friday, February 23, 1912, beginning at 10 o'clock a. m., the following property, to-wit: Eight Head of Horses One bay mare, 8 years old; 1 bay horse, 9 years ola; » black driving mare, 5 years old; 1 sorrel driving horse, 3 years old; 1 bay colt, 2 years old, coming 3; two bay colts, coming 2 years old, and 1 bay colt, coming 1 year old. Six Head of Cattle: One red cow, will be fresh by day of sale: 1 red cow, will -oe fresh on Ist of Augist; 1 black Polled bull. 2 years old: 1 black Polled heifer, coming 2 years old: 1 red heifer, coming 1 year old. and 1 gray heifer, coming 1 year o il. PUBLIC SALE. I will sell at my residence in Petson, Ind., 5 miles west of Decatur, Tuesday, February 27, 1912, beuinni: at 12 o'clock, noon, the following pre erty, to-wit: Five Head of HorseOne bay mare, in foal, 12 years old: bay work horse, one roan pacing ma 12 years old, 1 gray mare, general pi I>ose, 12 years old: 1 bay, 3 years 0... perfectly sound. Hogs and Chicken.Four shoats, weight 60 pounds; 2 dozen chickens. Farming Implements One farm wagon, with bed and bo'“ 101 l rack, spring-tooth harrow, piketooth harrow, 2-hoise riding cultivate . 2-horse walking cultivator, riding breaking plow, walking breaking plow, set farm work harness, fodder in the field, some seed corn, fanning mill, other miscellaneous tools Terms —For all sums of $5.00 and under, cash in hand; over $5.00 a cred it of 9 months will be given, the pu'chaser giving note with approved security; 4 per cent off for cash. No property removed until settled for. JOSEPH PETERSEIM Noah Frauhiger, Auct. Hogs and Sheep. 12 head of hogs, ■weight about 175 pounds each; 56 head of ewes and lambs. Rarming Tmpbmanta: One steel lire top buggy, good as new; 1 surrey, good as new; 1 -e’ driving harness, set single driving hat ness, McCormick binder, 1 riding corn plow, 1 double snovel plow, 1 disc harrow, 1 spiing tooth harrow, 1 grain j drill, 1 fanning mill, 1 grindstone Terms—For all amounts of-$5.00 and l/under, cash in hand; over $5.00 a cred - ‘ it of 0 months will be given, the pui- ' chaser giving note with approved se curity; 4 per cent off for cash. No property removed until settled for. RICHARD HARRIS . S. R. Rose, Auct. 1 Kit Cowan, Clerk. e a HE WON’T LIMP NOW. No more limping for Tom Moore < I Cochran, Ga. "I had a bad sore on m ’ ® instep that nothing seemsd to help ti 1 I used Buckien's Arnica Salve,” h ; writes, "but this wonderful healer soc t , cured me.” Heals old, running sore ulcers, boils, burns, cuts, bruises, ecz s ma or piles. Try it. Only 25 cents (■ the Holthouse Drug Company.