Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 11, Number 9, Decatur, Adams County, 10 January 1913 — Page 2

DAILYDEMOCRAT Published Every Evening. Except Sunday by HE DECATUR DEMOCRAT COMPANY LEW G. 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 ttngle Copies 2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Kn’ered at the poatotftee tn Decatur, In<l> r ..M. aa *c**»J cla«a zuaali. Walter Cook, the new speaker of the I house of representatives, started off by warning the paid lobbyists at the legislature to remain off the floor. He j is determined that his record shall be ' a clean one and he, will do his best toward that end. Frank A. .Munsey, the magazine editor, l.us come out in favor of a brand new party, which will swallow up the republicans and progressives, and

thus rebuild the old republican party under a new name, but with more chances of success as against the dem ocrats. However, Mr. Roosevelt promptly punctured the idea by refusing to have anything to do owl th it. Mr. t.ratty of Adams county has already won a distinction in the legislature. He was named on six committees, the largest number given to my new member of the house, and the list includes four or five of the most important committees of the house. Mr. Beatty will be a very busy man in this session of the law-making body and that be will make good is acknowledged by all who know him and his ability. Speaker Cook is bold at least In his speech to the representatives Thursday he announced flat-footed that those who have opposed Tom Tag gart during the past will do well to watch him during this session, for the well known Indiana leader stands for progressive laws that will place his party tight with the people. News from Indianapolis is to the j •Sect that a new chair has b<_eu ordered for ttut i*co*i&g governor. An inspection of the occupied by Governor Marshall, led ernor Ralston to the conclusion that it would not meet the requirements in hta case. It is this way; Governor Marshall weighs 140 in fighting trim. Governor Ralston balances the beam at 275 when in good health, and that la the case with him now. So you see that there *•* really need of a new deal In the chair li*>* Th? chal{ Governor Marshall used for the past four years may go to him as a souvenir, and why not?—Columbia City Post PACKING PLANT AT PUBLIC I will offer at publk, sale, Friday. l January 17. at IB B. m. the packing plant and entire equipment, consist-■ Ing of toilers, engines. Ice macbln - '. lard, sausage and rendering machinery. scales, trucking and etc. If no Satisfactory bld Is received, wilt con elder an offer <>n the buildings and grounds »t< DBTATTR PACKING CO. THE MYERS-DAILEY COMPAN* TAKE ADVANTAGE OF OUR JANUARY CLEARANCE SALE and save $3.00 $5.00 S7.OC on a Suit or Overcoat 1 **■

DOINGS IN SOCIETY Mr. and Mrs. Adam Buetell Give Party for Daughter, Idel’la. A SOCK SOCIAL Being Planned by Ruth Circle—Eastern Stars to Install Tonight. — WCdK’S SOCIAL CALENDAR. I Friday. ■ Needlecraft—Agnes Gillig. Saturday. Westminster Guild Dorothy Dugan.! Eureka Club —Marie Hays. Christian Ladies' Pastry Sale—Gas ; Office. Mr g j. i m i er O s so Ut h Whitley. | wife of the former pastor of this city, was a guest at the United Breth- i |ren Aid meeting at the home of Mrs. : Thomas Elzey Thursday afternoon. 1 The society has planned to conduct an Easter bazaar. After the business i period the ladies were invited into the 1 dining room, where a buffet table was 1

spread with good things for the lunch- !• eon, each serving herself. i A merry tirthday party was given ilast evening by Mr. and Mrs. Adam I Buettel for their daughter, Idella's anniversary. A number of friends : ; were invited to spend the evening > playing pedro, and share the delicious > refreshments provided for the occasion. Out of town guests were Miss Waif Fisher of Lima, Ohio, and Mrs Charles Courtney of Muncie. Miss Bertha Voglewede had the Bachelor Maids as her guests last evening. Prises in "five hundred" were jwon by Mr*. Lawrence Kleinhenz and Miss Stella. Bremerkamp, after which luncheon was served. Miss Celeste Wemhoff has asked the club to be her guests next week. ( Further plans for the "sock social” i in the near future were made by the , Ruth Circle at the home of Miss Eu’.a ( McKinney last evening Added inter- j est was manifest by the good attend- ( ance, twelve coming out. Miss Cor- 1 dula Weiland was a guest ( 1 The Eastern Star will install offi- j cent this evening, the retiring Worthy ] Matron, Mrs J S Peterson being th* | installing officer. ( — < Mi** X'aomi Dugan, a student at. Ferry Hall. IgUte Forest. 111, writes friends here of her fplepdid opport unIty of attending grand opera tn £hi- , cago this week, which she finds heart ( lly enjoyable. The privilege of attend- ■ Ing ia given to the musical students at tba Hall and cornea as an excellent " supplement of their training. '< WILL GO TO FORT VAWNI. i The Decatur city basket ball team will go to Fort Wayne this evening to play the Active Turners of that place. * The game will be a good and. one worth seeing, ag ma Turners w«n ’ I try io ft revenge on ibg local boys. A numbar of **n»oUr*" for the 'City tram will gecompany them The Fott W<<Vhe JocrnalGatette says: ( •■One of the moot Important clashes on thia week s excellent basket ball bill for Fbrt Wayne Is tonight's game ( at the Turner's hall on West Superior street between the Active Turners and the Decatur ’--tependeuta. Although the Actives have not played for severs] weeks, they have been practicing reg. ularly and are In pretty good trim, confident of winning from the visiting five Decatur recently won two games from the Junior Turners and a targe crowd will be out espectlng to »*e the actße» get revenge Good seating arcomtnodations hr • been provided and the crowd will be handled In fine faah . lon Deeotgr will send a delegation of rooters." —— w • FOLICE COURT. Frank toward. a plain drunk, was accommodated Thursday night by Offi cer Melrhi, when he kindly annlsted him to ‘Squire Stone's court The u» ual fine of 15 and coat* were given I Ixmard. but It will be necessary f or the city to art aa hie host for fourteen days Ixmard Is a typical repreeen tative of Um* Irish race, not only in eUh «ud uuseor. but ai*o tn tbe vgfit Ina spMt. sad would certainly be a tough propMillon to run up against when angry H« *aa employed on the pipe line. DECATUR CIRCUIT. Regular MTVteag al Pleasant Valley. Sunday morning Revival meeUng will begin at Henlab Sunday wvnolM KARL THOMPSON, Pasler * B

Without Eyes Continued trom Pave 1) ' the nation whose citizens trust each ' other and who trust the integrity of 'their rulers. But when his trust becomes weakened with suspicion and fear through the corruption of the courts and the maudlin sentiment or demagogical devices of executive authority, then the terror of the people rises above the supremacy of law and mob, riot and anarchism take the place of courts of injustice and executive clemency. James Lynch, mayor of Galway, would not have executed sentence of death with his own hands against his criminal son, if Irish justice had not closed its eyes to the crime, and Judge Lynch would never have crossed the sea to set up his informal court in this land of ours, if : justice had not been dethroned, and executive mercy degenerated into a politician's trick. 1 deplore the reign . of mob law, but more deeply do I deplore the degeneracy of faith in the courts which has created the mob, and which will continue it until faith in the scales of justice becomes universal. The keystone of the arch of human government is the faith of men in men. Once more: The philosophies of life are built on faith. If this be true, faith is universal, and it not only a worthy foundation for the religion of Christ, but is the only foundation possible.

The three questions, the answers to which include ail knowledge are. What. How and Why. What is the question of history. How is the question of science. Why is the question of philosophy. But history and science toth depend on faith. Who knows the history of the past at first hand? Does the historian himself so know it? The historian recites the facts to you, but who recited them to him? Who recited them to his leader and his teacher's teacher back to the one who touched the original fact. For every fact of history that you accept, you exercise faith, not only in your historian, but in his faith in bis historian, back to the beginning. That is, you show your faith in faith. Go a step higher into science. History deals with facts, science deals with the revelation of facts. Knowing the relation between facts, science can prophesy. Given two molecules of hydrogen and one of oxygen, science can prophesy what will occur when these gases combine —a molecule of water will be the result How is science able to prophesy? Simply on faith in the uniformity of nature and the continuity of its processes. Science has' not tested all oxygen and hydrogen. • but it proceeds on faith that a bat oc- 1 curs here and how under the same conditions occur always and every * where. Now, if history and science both de I fo-nd on faith, much more moat philos-1 OPhF, ’bleb depends on history and science, rest on the same foundation. * The question of philosophy is Why. | Apply the guestion Why to hlstorv | Why any Isolated fact in the universe’ I What is the ultimate reason for Its ' being? Philosophy is dumb before , this, its own question. Apply the quea | ! tion Why to science. Why the relation of eontlunlty and Uniformity In na | ( tore Philosophy I* equally dumb be ■ fore this Its other, question. . Nothing la left but to accept both ( ’the fact and the relation without know-1 Ing why; and if so. then cn absolute faith. Consequently the ultimate foundation of all human knowledge la faith Sad will be the day when faith la dead Hope mav die, but the pros-I snt will remain Love may die. but. th* past will be secure. Rut when faith dies, the present, the future and | tb* past will all go down Into on« | common grave. If the Christian religion had been founded on any principle not unlver sal and eternal. Its history would ha~* been limited to the extent and dura tion of that principle Rut it Is built on the foundation of ail foundations, snd It will, therefore. remain while any foundation endures The man who rejects th* Christian religion b* cause Its foundation Is faith, reject* all systems. *ll philosophise ail governments and all knowledges: ysn. h« denies himself and annihilates ths util-, verse Now while faith see* without eyre, nevertheh-sa. What It tees isul' ar cord with reason If th* Christian re llglon demands ths contradictory. r»j Jed IL for you cannot Insult your InItellectual constitution. Rut ff what h demands, however Inexplicable It may be. la reasonable, and If Ila ends are far roaeblng aa deatinr. accept II i aven though It rests on fan th “ MUBT MAKI SETTLEMENT. I —— > Aceoeding to a report In the Indian spoil* News, mad* by the slate go counting board. William J. ArrhboM. former treasurer, and Thomas F. Ettinger, former Hera of iwatur. Ad . sms emtnty, ar* technically chanted » with having drawn money in ****** of 1 their legal salary No Liams I* at tached to either officer.

Expenses For Year (Continmxl from Page 1) . 1145,612.79. Taxes from township macadam road bonds, 1106,755.98. From sale of bonds during year, 1 |101,680. 1 Dog taxes collected, $1,916. Paid from this to school revenue, . $473.64. } To state hydrophobia fund. $24,93. I o . ! fur.e al Sunday i I CONTINI72D n.»rer < A OE ONE jby several men who visited him at • ( tne jail. He said he did not remem- • I jber anything relating to the shooting and said he did not know that Samuel Purdy had been shot or was dead. Mrs. Lee Is the owner of a farm near Elkhart. She was a daughter of | Aaron Stroup and has two boys, Wayne and Francis. By a former marriage, Mr. Ijoe. who is fifty-four • years old, had two children, Archie 1 and Pearl. The family lived in NotI tingham township for several years. Another cause of the murder was reported. It was said that Lee had I his eyes poisoned while working at the Red Cross factory and asked Purdy to assist him in collecting damages from the comnany. When the latter refused Lee is said to have become angry and said he would kill Purdy.

Well Known Citizen. Samuel T. Purdy was one of the best known laboring men in Bluffton, and according to a voluntary tribute paid him by hi* pastor this morning, a true Christian man Had he lived until next March, bo would have been forty-one years of age. He was born in Allen county, but came to this city with his parents when quite young, i Here he was married to Miss Mary Conrad of this city, formerly of Mag. l ley. The wife survives, also two daughters: Vera, wife o f Willard Markley, of near Bluffton, who were happiyl married ou Christmas day, and Esther, at home The parents, Mr. | and Mrs. Lewis Purdy, and three *t»-' ters—Montana, Pearl and Grace, of this city, complete the parental fam-' Uy. ’ i FUTOJISHED ROOM—With bath and heat, suitable for two. 'Phone 18. I —AdvL »tj ' LOST —Watch fob in this city Satur-' i day, with "Clara" engraved upon it Return to. this office tujd receive reward.—Advt. 1 FOUND—A ladies red seek tie. with' i breast-pin Owner inqolra at this office. 308t3 I WhiteAshWow! Will be sold as follows Beginning 1 January M. 1913 Heavy Blocks $1.50 Fine “ 1.50 Barky “ 1.00 Stove wood 1.50 i Lafountain Handle Company Phone 564 or see G. S. Burk I head Res. Phone Start itie New Year Rifjht Get all your Mil* into on*. We Will loan you the nre-eeeary monev on your houeebold goode, piano, fixture*, team*, etc, etc, without removal We give you a written state m«*nt of your contract Also al low exlrw time without charge In ease of sickness or lore of ewU. sir I* the weekly payment on a 135 on loan for fifty week* L»r««r or smaller amount* *t aeme prtn»nton If you need money Sil out and mail u* thia blank and our ' Agent will call »n yuu. NMffiß Add-pge Ameunt wanted Our agent la In Decatur ev •ry Turedsy R*n*bi* Private *• Ui|R cw*n K*lj|Mt*hed !«•$. Room 3. RecI otid Floor. 7o< (’aihoun Street Home Ptenae, M 3. ' I nH Wayne. Ind

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