Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 10, Number 45, Decatur, Adams County, 21 February 1912 — Page 6

N SUFFRAGE I of Interesting Ar.cle Written by Mrs. A. D. Moffett OR THE PRIMARY Conducted by Indianapolis Star—Was Former Resident of This City. A very interesting article on woman and the ballot, written by Mrs. Alonzo D. Moffet of Elwood, president of the Indiana asociation of library trustees, and wife of the former superintendent of the Decatur public schools, was given a prominent place in the womans section of the Sunday edition of the Indianapolis Star. Mrs. Mofett says: “The presidential primary for women, instituted by the Star, affords an opportunity for the expression of an opinion on woman suffrage, affirmative or negative, which should be appreciated and participated in by all the women of the state. It is most timely and should be utilized to the fullest extent by the women interested in the woman movement, to acquaint the indifferent and hostile of their own sex with the motives and purpose of the movement. “In a recent conversation with a friends whose path in life has been bright with sunshine and broidered with flowers, a loved wife and tender mother, sheltered from the burdens and unvexed by the problems of the outer environment, satisfied with her home and social life, I was impressed as never before with the utter indifference to and misapprehension of the suffrage movement that prevails among happy, shelter women. “But this indifference and misapprehension must not be held to their discredit They have not been awakened to the larger life and environment toward which the woman movement tends, and of which suffr age is a symbol. When their thought is directed

to the aims and ideals of the movement: when they come to understand that it is in response to the call of their suffering sisters and the children —that the earnest woman of culture and refinement has put aside any selfish desire for ease and leisure and has taken upon herself the unwelcome of championing unpopular reforms and petitioning legislatures for the r'gl to assist in bringing about these reforms hy the ballot, their inuate other seliness will give a ready . response and they may be expected to Nassist in the work. f “To many women the woman movement is unknown except as a vision of iwhsculinely impossible female who . wishes to mingle with men in the mire |u>r partisan politics. They share this SjHtopinion with tlu-ir h sbaiuß. perhaps. “I was about to leave the last stateunqualified, when I rememberRd hearing a woman speak slightingly f the woman wlio wanted the fran■r'hise, and inquire in the same breath Hos her husband whether he would want to vote. His reply was, I cerjFtainly should.’ “It is probably quite true that it is J not the men who need to be convinced. It is rather the women who need to be awakened to the large life of freedom and social service that is opening before them. For after all is said against her there remains the agreed upon fact that woman holds within the depths of her being the touchstone of other selfness, which is the heart of love and the leaven of cultivation. “Woman suffers most through her love. Freely through the ages she has given herself. She gives herself no less today and will tomorrow, but it -i. will be in a different way. She is realizing in herself all the qualities and posibiltties common to the human race, and is beginning to see herself as the compliment of man rather than his shadow and lesser self This vision of equality shows her larger personal responsibilities and widens the sphere of her other selfness. She must become the comrade and friend of the man, his helper and mate; she must broaden the circle of home life, of love, purity and peace, for the city. sWe and "at’on—the world—is the environment—thehhomos the man she loves and children she bears. “Problems of government, education, economics, social life, are all problems of the home, and the mother-heart of every woman divines, vaguely and un•’orscioußly oftentimes the way of ultimate solution. Civilization began with the dawn of the unconsciousness of other selfness, or without some sense of altruism no association of individuals is possible. Woman seems endowed with a keener sense of other selftJ| ess than man. We read of one nlada ”t throug' and

bering woman’s long training through suffering we need not wonder that she brings to twentieth century civilization a high degree of other selfness and is throwing herself into the work of redeeming the nations from the evils that degrade and threaten society." H. PLOCK FUNERAL THURSDAY. The Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette says: "Henry Plock, aged GO, who until ten years ago was a resident of this city, and who was employed for forty two years as a fireman by the Pennsylvania company, died in Chicago Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock after having suffered a long time from paralysis. The remains were brought to this city yesterday and taken to the home of a sister-in-law, Mrs. B. Plock, 1323 Swinney avenue, from which place the funeral services will be held Thursday morning at 8:30 o’clock. The funeral party will be at St. Pauls church a half-hour later. The deceas ed was born and reared to manhood In this city and was educated in the Catholic schools here. Two brothers. Herman and Edward Plock, survive." PROGRAMS ARE 011 For the Thirtieth Annua! Meeting of the Teachers of Indiana. INCLUDES BIG ONES! — W. J. Bryan. Carter Harrison and Other Men of Note on the List. - I Indianapolis, Feb. 21—The program for the thirtieth annual meeting of the Northern Indiana Teachers' association, to be held April 4, 5 and 6 in Chicago, was announced yesterday. ; The opening and closing sessions of the association are to be held in or-I chestra hall, opposite the art institute. 1 Other meetings will be held at the University of Chicago. Because the school,

system of Chicago is said to rank ; among the best in America, the asso- , ciation urges all its members to attend ■ the meeting. ' r William J. Bryan will address the 1 convention Thursday evening Other I*' h speakers will be Mayor Carter H. Har-; rison of Chicago, Dr. Ella Flagg ' t Young, Chicago school superintendent; ! . Dr. Henry Suzzalle, of the teachers' 1 college, Columbia university; Dr. t Charles Richmond Henderson, Chica- t go university; F. Ingersoll, Valparaiso ' c university, an 1 * Edward Howard s Griggs. j t Special trains running from r.ji’tTcrn . t Indiana points have been arranged. j c Many Adams county teachers will i attend. o i f MR STETSON WRITES TO US. I 1 I t | ' Chanucey S. Stetson writes to us ( from Sturgis, Mich., where he and his £ family row reside and says that they ; ( are enjoying good health, but miss ! t very much the association of their good friends here. Mr. Stetson was for several years the custodian of the South Ward school building, but was : forced to leave here on account of | poor health. They left here July 9th | 1 last and went to Toledo. After a short 1 time there they went to Alma, Mich. [ 1 They found that a healthy place, but ’ 1 work scarce, so they went to Battle : ’ ;Creek and a little later to Sturgis, I 1 where they have been since September ] i Ist. They are getting along nicely and I asure us that the Democrat is a daily I ’ and welcome visito r at their home i there. )—. . Q ALMOST LOST HIS LIFE. 1 S. A °t;d ‘ f Mason. Mich., will never i forget his Usnible exposure to a merci i less storm. "It gave me a dreadful i cold,” he writes, “that caused severe ' pains in my chest, so It was hard for I me to breatne. a neignbn- gave me several doses of Dr. King's New Discovery which brought great relief. The doctor said I was on the verge of pneumonia, but to continue ’••'th the the Discovery. I did co and two bottles completely cured me." Use only this quick, safe. medicine for coughs, coldr. or any throat or lung trouble. Price 50c and SI.OO. Trial bottle free. Guaranteed by the Holthouse Drug Co. 11 —t ■ - ,-.i- ... - - . - IF YOU ARE A TRIFLE SENSITIVE | 1 About the siZ3 -jf your shoes. It's satisfaction to k;ow that many reo pls can wear rhoes.a size smaller bj | shaking Alien's Foo* Ease into them. 1 Just the thing for patent leather shoes, and for breaking in new shoes. Sold everywhere, 25c. Sample free. Ad-1 ( , Allen S. Olmstead, Leßoy, N. Y. I '■ d

PRIDE OF BERNE i! ‘ Will be Magnificent New Mennonite Church to be Dedicated Easter. APRIL THE 17TH 3 | Is Probably the Second Largest in the State —Will Seat 2,000. i [ While Berne has a population of on.y , 1,316, it now has the uniform honor of . having what is probably the second I largest church in the state —that of the ! new Mennonite church, which will be dedicated Easter Sunday, April l<tu. | This magnificent church, w ith a seating capacity of 2,000, would cost in any city from $85,000 to SIOO,OOO. but at Berne it was built for much less. The style of the church is Gothic, and its dimensions 68x158. The church choir, which is considered the best talented in this part of the state, has 120 trained singers, and . the choir loft will accommodate 150. Rev. S. F. Sprunger, who had been its pastor for thirty-three years consecutively, is again in charge since the I resignation and departure of Rev. J. I W. Kllewer last summer. C. A. Neuenschwander, one of the ' original members of the society, has ! been treasurer of the Sunday school tor over twenty-five years, being the I first treasurer ever elected by the I church. J. F. Lehman, an active state i association Sunday school worker, is the superintendent of the school. I The church, with its various departI meats of religious work, has a constituency of about 1,200 members, of whom over SOO are members of the church in full connection. ■ In connection with the new church a barn, 132x180, has been built, which i encloses under one roof and accommodates about 100 learns. Hundreds of people from abroad are I expected to be present on dedication day, and many from this city will doubtless attend.

Pay for Trees. The New York courts have just decided a case brought by a resident ot Long Island City, who demanded SSOO for the destruction of some trees on his land by a construction company. The jury returned a verdict for the lull SSOO, but the justice presiding trebled the damages, as the New York laws allowed him to do. The case was taken up to the appellate court, which has just decided, upholding the action of the trial judge. The verdict, then stands for $1,500 instead of SSOO. The value of the wood in the trees is not the value of the growing trees. A tree takes the best part of a century to come into niaturity in many cases. The mere value of the wood cannot replace the tree. A stack of lumber containing the same amount of cubic feet is as nothing compared with the beautiful foliage, the grateful shade the graceful contour in the landscape The next generation will probably consider that for a handsome tree on a residential. street, a venerable oak or elm. the value should be ten times the price of the wood it contains. Hired Crowns. To economical minds there must be a certain waste implied in the making of a new crown for every queen. Yet this has been the rule. Queen Alexandra and Queen Victoria both had crowns made for them, and it was Queen Adelaide who was the first to rebel against a hired crown. “I will not wear a hired crown," she said to the minister who was discussing the I matter with her. "Do you think it i right I should?” “Madam, the late , king (George IV.) wore one.” i “Well, I will not. Ido not like it. I have jewels enough to make one for myself.” “In that case,” interposed the king, “they will have to pay for the setting." No, no," replied Adelaide, “I will pay for it all my self. And this was the course adopted. Country Highways | It is generally conceded that noth ing will give better evidence of refine ment, of welfare, in any community, than having its roads neatly kept, oiled, and lined with trees affordin'* protection during the hottest day.,, and pleasant rest to the eye with their greenery all the year round. A Tardy Thought. “Now I think of if, that beggar imposed on me.” “How so?” “He told me a pathetic tale about trying hard to get back to his wife, who was a poor widow with four ■malt children ” Ovena for Large Bakeries. Ovens heated by gas blasts are growing in favor for the use of large bread bakeries. Pinless Hat for Women. A pinless hat for wuiuen hooks around the head with hooka and eyes.

NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY I Story of How Large Profits Killed a Crusade. Connecticut Valley Farmers, After Being Shown They Could Make Money Raising Tobacco, Ignored Trask's War on Weed. I By E. J. EDWARDS. Recently I told of the predictionnow gloriously fulfilled—made by Dr. George B. Loring, the country’s last commissioner of agriculture, in 1883, to the effect that the then unopened Dakota prairies and the still more remote Canadian northewst would one day become two of the great wheat granaries of the world. At the time Dr. Loring made his prediction I asked him if, in his visits to the northwest, he had discovered any land suitable to the culture of tobacco. I had heard that some farmers of the then remote west were contemplating cultivating tobacco suitable for snuff upon lands adjacent to one of the great river valleys. "I don't think much tobacco will be raised in the noi uwest,” Dr. Loring replied. "Still, there may be discovered some kind of soil especially adapted to certain kinds of tobacco. Wheat will be far more profitable than tobacco will. “It is curious,” Dr. Loring continued. "how agricultural or commercial conditions will sometimes change men’s views. Did you ever hear of George Trask?” I replied that I had a faint recollection of having heard once of a temperance advocate of that name Dr Loring laughed. “It's the same man. Trask was not only as prominent as a temperance advocate as Neal Dow or John Gough was, but, I think, he was the first man to begin a national agitation against the use of tobacco. If you had heard Trask speak you would have been convinced that the use of tobacco w-as almost as great a sin as the use of liquor or opium. He had all kinds of medical testimony to show that tobacco users were on the road to perdition. "There was no part of the country where Trask’s anti-tobacco crusade took firmer hold than in the valley of the Connecticut river, say from Hartford as tar north as Brattleboro, Vt. Young people pledged themselves not to use tobacco just as they pledged themselves to taste not, touch not, or handle not strong drink. The tobacco user in that valley was looked upon

as a grievous sinner. If public opinion all over the United States had been as strong against tobacco as it was in the Connecticut valley the tobacco trade would have become extinct. “Well, one day there came into the valley an agricultural chemist —1 think he was in the employ of the government—to visit friends who lived, if I remember correctly, in the town of Suffield, Conn., just south ot the Massachusetts line. He took great interest in the agricultural products ot the vicinity and fell into the habit ot studying and analyzing the soil. He made some experiments with the soil of various farms of Suffield, and then he told the farmers that the soil was very rich in qualities which would luxuriantly produce certain kinds ot tobacco. One or two farmers, who had not been affected by the anti-tobacco campaign, ventured to try the expert ment. They raised wonderful crops ot tobacco, and it was discovered that it was especially bu:' table for tiu wrap pers of cigars. "The next year still other farmers took up the raising of the pernicious weed, and in the course of a few years the whole Connecticut valley was becoming, comparatively speaking, one of the great tobacco producing cen ters of the world. And with the discovery of the profit there was in grow ing and harvesting tobacco in the Connecticut vaiiey there came a change of sentiment respecting its use. No longer did Trasks antl-to bacco crusades avail. The organiza tions died out; children no longer pledged themselves not to use tobacco; and users of the weed were no longer pointed out as men of sin. And I have observed more school houses and high schools, more libraries, in the Connecticut valley since its farm ers took to tobacco raising than were to be found there before this weed yielded them a good living and en abled them to have a surplus in the bank.” (Copyright, 1911. by E. J. Edwards. All Rights Reserved ) Kipling as Host. Rudyard Kipling has a reputation for rudeness which some people think very ill deserved. Au American visitor in London recently asked a wellknown English publisher for a letter of introduction to Kipling. “Never," said the publisher. “He’s the one man in England I refuse to give anybody letters of introduction to. He pays no attention to 'em. I don't care to have credentials from me treated that way.” The American was abashed, but he wanted particularly to see the personage who, some say, has exchanged the place of the first story teller in the language for the press agency of the All Red Empire. He mustered his courage, sat down and wrote to the great man himself, and said so. The letter went to Kipling's country place in Sussex with the queer name—Bateman’s Burwash—which, by the way, you must call Bur’rsh, with a lor; roll to the r. The reply came back next day by wire; “Come, and I'll show you my garden.*

PUBLIC SALE. The undersigned will sell at public auction, 3 miles west and V 4 mile north of Hoagland, 1 mile east and Vz mile south of the Nine Mile place, and mile east Vi mile north from Stop 12 on the Fort Wayne & Springfield interurban line, known as the old Smit ley farm, on Thursday, March 14, 1912, beginning at 10 o'clock a. m., the following property, to-wit: Four Head of Horses: One gelding, 5 years old, weight 1600 tbs; 1 gelding, 7 years old, weight 1500 Tbs; 1 mare, 3 years old, will foal March 17; 1 mare, 2 years old. Ten Head of Cattle: Five milch cows, 1 giving milk, four will be fresh in March; 1 steer, 2 years old; 1 steer, IS months old; 1 two-year-old heifer, and 1 five-months’ old calf. Fifteen Head of Hoge: One Chester White brood sow, will farrow by day of sale; 14 shoats, weight about 75 lbs each. Farming Implements: One wide-tired wagon, 1 narrow-tired wagon, 2 top buggies, single buggy, binder, hay rake 2 breaking plows, roller, sprin tooth harrow, grain drill, corn planter, 2 cultivators, 1 Olivet; brand new; pair bob sleds, hay rack, set dump boards, 2 sets work harness, set single harness, log chains, iron kettle, grindstone, bicycle, about 32 cord of stove wood, and about 10 shocks corn fodder. All the household furniture. Six turkey hens and 1 Tom. Terms —For all sums of $5.00 and under, cash in hand. For all amounts over $5.00 a credit of 9 months will be given, the purchaser.giving note whh approved security. 3 per sent off for ! cash. No property removed until set tied for.

MRS. HENRY EfGENBERG John Spuhler, Auct. Paul Smitley, Clerk. REMEMBER THE M t ERS Real Estate Ager.cv ‘can point you to some fine city homes and vacant lots at reasonable prices. Also Adams county farms, as good as any in the state, at right prices. A few special farms to close estates at prices ranging from SBO to SIOO per acre. Money a* 5 and 6 per cen*. Come and list your property to me and I will get you a buyer. Office Decatur Abstract & Loan Co. Residence 'phone 301. 3t-a-wk-4wks W. H. MYERS. GIRL WANTED —To do general house work. Inquire at once. —Mrs. Barnaru, Fifth street, Decatur. FOR RENT—Five .oom cottage, electric lights, city and soft water. Corner High street. Inquire Mrs. Al Burdg, 624 Mercer avenue 34t

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