Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 12, Number 185, Decatur, Adams County, 7 August 1914 — Page 2

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EAST BUFFALO. East Buffalo. N. Y„ Aug. 7—(Special to Daily Democrat) —4000 1900 1900; ; official to N. Y. yesterday 1140 hogs closing steady heavy $9.50 @ $9.75; ' mixed J9.751b19.55; yorkcrs $9.85®S'J.9O pigs $9.85®‘59.90: roughs $8.00®) | $8.35; stags $8.50® $7.75; sheep 2400 slow lop lambs $9.00 slew cattle $2.25 steady. I*. T. DURK. Corn $1.06 Clover Seed SB.OO Aliske Seed $7.75 j Wheat s2c | Bye 58e Eafley 45c®.50c j Timothy Seed $2.00 to $2.25 Oats 32c NIBLICK & C*. Eggs 18c Butler 13 to 22 FULLENKAMPB Eggs 18c Butter 14®25 BERLiHGS. Indian Runner Ducks 8c Spring Chickens ....» 16c I Chicks 20cFowls 12c I Ducks 9c Geese Sc, Young turkeys 13c Torn turkeys )2c Old hen turkeys 13c Yld Roosters 6e I lutter 115 c, Eggs 17c| Above prices paid tor poultry tree from teed. WANTED —Work on farm by the month or year by man 36 years of ; age. Inquire at this office. lS3t3 FOUND—A ladies jacket coat. Owner may have same by calling at this office. 177t3

A Musical Feature of Chautauqua Week ■■ -? ip; ? . '*< 'T s * - I diflfe a■ .-. , g*#- ' - -w bSB£, |p»W z j 1 H w ■* MW g*S» ”'• as JwQSbe tETHE WELCH-CHRISTENSEN-BAKER COMPANY. MISS MARY WELCH, who hns a rare contralto voice, rich in its beauty and marked by impressive volume, was for some time soloist in one of Chicago’s leading churches, and she has had no trouble in proving her right to a place in the ranka of musical artists. She is tall and stately and has a pleasing personality. In reference to her work the Chicago Record-Herald says: “Miss Welch has a contralto voice of great richness, wide range and power and charms her audience by the earnestness and simplicity of her manner.” With a rich and pleasing voice which has been cultivated to a notable degree of perfection. Miss Clara L. Christensen is making an enviable record as a dramatic soprano. In commenting on Miss Christensen’s singing the Minneapolis Tribune critic says: "Miss Clara Christensen sang the soprano role. Much praise is due the young soloist for the way in which she sang the different passages of her pact. She has a clear, vibrant soprano of lyric quality and a distinct enunciation. These qualities, together with her pleasing manner, won Instant recognition.” Miss Alice Wright Baker has fell the qualifications of a successful pianist With natural musical talent she took up the study of music at an early age and graduated with high honors from the Toledo (O.) Conservatory of Music. Later she studied with Mme. Julie Reve-Klng in Chicago. Her training with leading artists has fitted her admirably for her chosen work.

KALVEH MARKETS. Wool 21c@25c Beef hides ..11c Calf 13c Tallow 5c Sheep pelts 25c®51.00 LOCAL PRODUCE MARKET. Spring Chickens 16c Indiana Runncd ducks 8c Chicks * 20c Fowls 12c Ducks ’ 9c Geese Sc ' Young turkeys 13c Fom turkeys ....12c Old hen turkeys 13c JOld Roosters 5c ; Butter 15c Eggs 17c Above prices para for poultry free rom feed. DECATUR CREAMERY CO. (Prices for week ending Aug. 10, 1914.) Cutter fat, No. 129 c Butter fat, No. 2 27c Butter, wholesale 29c Butter, retail 32c — COAL PRICES. 'Stove .....$7.85 Egg $7.60 Chestnut, hard $7.85 Pea, hard $6.85 Poca, Egg and Lump $4.75 W. Ash $4.50 IV. Splint $4.25 in. Valley $4.00 It. Lion $4.25 'Cannell $6.00 J. Hill $4.75 I Kentucky $4.50 if.urig $4.50 i.OST —Gold watch, hunters case, with Delaval Seperator Co. fob attached. Between Eleventh and Second streets, Thursday evening. Finder please reurn to this office and receive a reward. ts

A PUBLIC PARK «r rs Is What Decatur Needs Says One Business Man Who Has SOME BROAD VIEWS The “Hoosier Observer" Chimes in With a Few Observations If We Had the Time—And the Place. If I had the time to find a place And sit me down to full face to face With my better self that cannot show In my daily life that rushes so,-- ; It might be then I should see my soul. Was stumbling still towards the shin' ing goal, I might be nerved by the thought sub lime, If I had the time! • t If I had the time to let my heart Speak out and take in my life a part? To look about and stretch a hand To a comrade quartered An no-luck land, Ah, God! if 1 might but just sit still > And hear the note of the whippoorwill i think that my wish with God’s would rhyme— If I had the time! if I had the time to learn from you How much comfort my word could do; And I told you then of my sudden wif To kiss your feet when I did you ill: If the tears aback of the feigned , Cculd flow, and the wrong be quite explained,— , Brothers, the souls of us all would chime, , If we had the time. —Selected. , “What Decatur needs,” said a Deca tur well known business man, wh< lias known life in a larger city, “is ? public city par. Decatur has not on' general amusement place where the voung folks can go to spend a quiet wholesome hour, in contemplation •>! he beauties of nature and the great and pleasant things of the universe

>f course there are the woods arount here. But how many ar? there, whc ike to go to them? In the first place he distance required to walk thereof automobile, horse and buggy or troi y are not at command is too great \nd then, too there are no accommo Jations in the way of seating or othe; comforts. However strange it ma; seem, young people, like “misery,'■ love company—although, of course the parallel is not similar in any other way. “Nearly every town the size of De :atur, that is worth anything, has a ’east one public park within easy walk ng distance of the main part of town There the young people may go in the evenings or on Sunday and spend a few quiet hours. And they are quiet tco, for no rowdyism is tolerated Young people that otherwise might be' lured away to questionable places, g< to the parks where with the whole =ome amusements provided, and the wholesome companionship of others, they enjoy themselves. “Not all people are blessed with a home. Some have only boarding houses, where they do not feel free to use other rooms than their own: others have homes not attractively fitted to entertain friends; and stir others, and especially those who hav< been confined all day. although the,' may have attractive and comfortabb homes, like to get away into the oper_ to enjoy themselves and companion ship, and these also would find the city park, very appealing. We 'sure need a park. Write an article on it.’ A Decatur woman, known to her friends as “The Hoosier Observer’ also comments on the question. She says: “Some may object to the publh park on the grounds that it draws the people away from the church on Sunday. I do not think so. Those who, want to go to church will go anyhow. Those who .do not want to, will gc to worse places than a park, if there is no pork to go to. After all, what is then nearer to God than a bit of nature? —And often a city park is the nearest approach that there is to na ture in the entire place. “A year or two ago I was in Detroit. Os course that is a real city and not to b- compared with Decatur. It was Sunday. The week had been stifling hot. The great hive of the city had hundreds of workmen who had toiled all week some never seeing the blue of the sky, nor feeling the breath of a breeze, nor hearing the song of a bird —or even the voices of their own sweet children. For some men and women left home early in the morning before the babes were

awake and returned late at night when they were In tied. On Sundays the cool river invited them with its myriads of pleasure boats leading to cool island parks. And the city emptied its myriads of peoples out on these trips. I followed one Sunday. I took a Helle Jsl > boat; got off on the island, took a seat beside one of the canals near the band pavilion. There I sat and looked around and listened to the sacred concert and in meantime observed for I cannot help but study people more than other nature. "Away over the beach were family picnic parties enjoying themselves In privacy. Husband and wife talked together as they could not through the week; and the little tots, in rompers or bathing suits, sported on tiie grass or waded out on the beach where the little waves from the big vessels in the river sang as they curled up on he clean pebbles about the children's teet. “Here and there young people, in bver-like, yet strictly ‘proper’ form, :onventional enough for the strictest etiquette’ column of a magazine, unler the great public eye—the universal chaperon—sat and talked together >n the seats .VI benches. Those who iked the music, found places nearer he band stand, where only sacred nusic was played on Sundays. “I must admit that not all was edTying. For 1 sat beside two negro women. One was dressed in the leight of negro fashion, much adorn'd, much near-bejeweled. And her vhole mind seemed to be on material hings. She talked to her much more ilainly dressed companion about the ■ome she had visited, how much the eople earned, what pretty rugs and hings they had in the house; what hey must be worth, and so on —her ■ntire mind was filled with worldly hings. 1 doubt if she enjoyed the •eauties of the park or the music beond a wonder or estimate of what it aust cost in dollars and cents. But here are ever such ’Judas-like pe> -le in the midst of the most sublime. Jut she may have been worse had she >een elsewhere. “Well, when we got ready to return i the heat of the city, it was, with a igh that all left the cool refreshing pot. And do you think; when w o to the dock, there was a wagonke carriage, containing a bevy of vangelistic men and women, with eng books, singing for all they were vorth, from those inen-written hymnIs, to those returning hordes, the >ad, wayward, mortals, who had just ome from a clean, fresh spot, filled ith nature s song birds and every<ing else close to nature. “One poor, tired, weary looking, ale mortal of a man, who looked as ’lough he never got out of a house uring the week, and those clothes ore the imprint of a close scraping f elbows with poverty, said in a •etulant, weary, but exasperated tone, o his women companions; “Let them ng; that is all they have to do. I’ll yager they aren’t cooped up in a hot. 'tilling room all week like I am.” One Man’s Prayer.

“We don’t all pray alike. Some pray nd never utter a word. After all it s the deep feeling, which makes us do" and work out our own prayers, hat counts as much as anything. That eep feeling may come to us through silent contemplation of nature. This vas never said better than by W. R. dghton in the April number of "The ’ountry Gentleman ’ in his article enitled “Father to Son,” an argument or farming as a life work. The father ays to his’ son, David, in behalf of irming; expressing the way he said is prayer of thanks: “To put it in plain words, David, I ake my greatest comfort in farming tecause I feel that my harvests, vrought with my own hands, have livine approval. I’ve never been able o feel so about my land speculations r my horse trades. I’ve managed hose on my own hook; but the hand f God is in the increase of the fields, hat’s frank speech. I shouldn’t vond' r if it reveals me to you in an infamiliar light. You’ve never had paricular reason for thinking of me as i devout man. 1 don’t believe you’ve ward me pray aloud in all your life. \nd I know I’ve never be n able to alk about religion as some men can, 'xplaining and defining their faith in i glib, cocksure way. Mine has no definitions, no forms, no rules; but it's in me just the same. , “Often and often, when we’ve been dttiny around the lire at home on a winter's night, you’ve seen me put down my book toward bedtime, ex■■hange my slippers for boots, button my coat round me and go out for a last look at things. I've done it for years, till Mother has come to make a jest of it as a fussy old man’s habit. But It isn’t that. I’ve never told her of any one else what that simple little nightly ceremony means to n>-. I think it’s fit to be called a religious observance. It's just my way of saying my prayers.

“I go into the big barn and stand listening to the sleek horses nosing the hay in their mangers, to the deep

August Clean-Up Sale We have left from our big July Sale a lot of good bargains which must be closed out befoie our winter stock arrives. - iwß I ' I i Ml d 1 - - GOOD S Special- sto & lawns, tocloseat3l-2c 1 Lot of Corsets worth $1.50 at . . 75c 20c Batiste, to close this sale ... 9c 1 bot of Coats wor.h $lO. ju to ’ $12.50 this sale $4.75 Silk Foulard 36 inch width, at a , bargain, 75c value at 35c 1 Lot of Dresses worth $6 to si.oo this sale $2 95 Fancy Crepes and Rice Cloths in . plain and stripes worth 25c to 1 Lot of Wash Skirts worth so.oo 35c this sale • 15c to $6.00 this sale 52.45 1 Lot of Suits worth $16.50 to S2O. 1 Lot of Wash Skirts $1.50 value this sale $4.75 this sale 84c WE ADVISE EARLY SELECTIONS NIBLICK & COMPANY

breathing of the contended cattle on ' i their clean straw beds, to the low; j bleatl?" of the sheen in their snug|; sheds, every beast es them well fed.: comfortable, friendly. If the night happens to be cold with a driving j storm blowing, so much the better for | my state of mind. Overhead are the full mows; round me are the full cribs and bins—plenty plenty! “Going baik to the house I've been i used to stealing a look through the ■ living-room window at you and mother sitting in the glow of the fire- ‘ light; and then comes a guick thought I

? TYPICAL NEWSPAPER COMMENT ON q THE REDPATH CHAUTAUQUA OF 1913 ♦ Ihe Tri-City Daily, Florence, Ala., says:* ± Florence has been captured entirely by the Redpath Chautauqua and it •• a safe bet that the chautauqua will not be allowed to pass this city by in the future, v 1 In an editorial in the Albany, Ga., ® this statement is made: “Thru this big organization with a string of I 10 $ chautauquas scheduled we were enabled to have attractions that we could not have se- @ cured for a single assembly." $ ♦ j- -P 1 ® Dyersburg, Tenn., State Gazette said® ® *, tc ! r ' a^v ' ke sorry when it becomes necessary for them to $ ♦ fola their tents, but unlike the Arabs it will not be necessary for them to steal away." $ ♦ The 'Jarksville, Tenn., Leaf-Chronicle} 5 A ° W vP- 0U £ r P e °pl e kn ow from actual experience just what are • the possibilities of the Chautauqua movement they are unanimously agreed as to its J J great helpfulness to a community.” | ± “Tk The Binningharn, Ala., Age-Herald says:f 5 formal STI 2 9 00 P ersons was we ll filled when the per- @ ♦ formance began last night and altho the weather was hot every part of the program was 4 ♦ XmzeX chA enthuß 7 m - ,ndi -tions are that from nowon large* crowds will fl A arlm7s weH Unw qUa ncca - The Redpath agency which is giving the pro- 0 ♦ g.aai well known as one of the foremost booking agencies of the world.” $ ? i The Alpena, Mich., Echo: “When Mr. Rhein- 1 ♦ Aplena nea ye^ tond‘tt aUd ‘ enC , e wEo WOuld Kke a chautauqua in* ♦ posing 8 vote. ’ d ' h ' “ arose. It w„ necessary to call an im- * 2 Eve cP" battle Creek, Mich., Enquirer: “The Best | J Ever Chautauqua grows more popular with each succeeding entertainment.” « | tauquaP » isdoubtful if W diaU-* ™

of the full cellars and storeroom and pantry—plenty! A stickler might find a savor of selfishness in the “Thank God!" I’ve been used to saying under my breath at such times; but it’s been the fervent expression ci a feeling as devout as any man may ever know in this life. And I’m not beholden to any man nor to any lucky circumstance for this rich abundance. Nothing intervenes between me and the fact. I’ve brought it about myself, with no obligation to any but God. "That’s a great feeling. David to reIwarl a man for his year’s work. I’m

glal that you may have your own in the feeling." And that may lie th way many of us pray whii? romnmSt with God and nature in the narks o— — —— FOR SALE —132 feet of extra hein Iron fence. Will sell reasonable, h qire of Dr. H. F. Costello. tt FOR SALE —Sorrel drivin. mare, be; gy and harness at a bargain it’ taka soon. Inquire T. D. KERN. 10th street and Madison at Decatur. ISOtl.

LOST—Ladies Jacket coat, brewt. cut away front, wide belt. I’li '- te turn to this office. ISOt3