Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 12, Number 216, Decatur, Adams County, 14 September 1914 — Page 2

D A IL YD EM O C RAT Puhllehe* Bvery Evening Eacept Sunday By TOE DECATUR DEMOCRAT COMPANY LEW G. ELLINGHAM JOHN H. HELLER Subscription Rates. Per week, by carrierlo cents Per Year, by carrier..... 25.00 Per Month, by ma 1126 cents Per Year, by mai112.60 Single Copies 2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the postoffice in Decatur, Indiana, as second class matter. If you meet one of the members of the Decatur fire company who fought lor hours Sunday morning to save the property of Decatur citi ens, tell him you appreciate his efforts. Too infrequently do we boost the men who unselfishly and loyally favor us or the community. The boys did good work and we feel that every citizen of Decatur owes them a vote of thanks if nothing else. The Decatur Herald is mad at the Huntington Press because that paper referred to the article written by a “Berne Republican” and quoted that part which said that there is no republican paper in Adams county. It made Uncle Thaddeus so mad that he fairly frothed and he denies the allegation in terms almost as strong as his one-time hero, Theodore Roosevelt, would use., ‘ Jfe also says there is no such animal as a Berne DemocraticRepublican but he may more numerous than he supposes before the campaign is over. Conferring of the E. P. degree Tuesday evening. September 15. A good attendance is desired. BEAUTIFUL CLOSE —- ■ (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Sacrament and Benediction. Eleven

priests assisted making the ceremonies very impressive and solemn. Those assisting were The Rev. Fathers Thiele, Wrobel, Hortsman, Bennett, Kroll. Helman and Eisenring of Fort Wayne and Joseph Seimetz of Logansport, nephew of Father Seimetz of this city and Father Kroger and Father Simon Herdrich the missionary. o LEAVE YOUR ORDERS. John Edwards, veteran painter, is still on the job, ready to do your work, papering, house, sign or carriage painting, fine graining a specialty. Work guaranteed. ’Phone 567, or leave orders at residence on Ninth street 216t30 JOHN W. ERWARDS. FALL SHOWING BOYS HIGH-GRADE SUITS Tartan checks, chalkline stripes gary mixtures, Blue Serges-—-in the nifty norfolk styles and patch pocket fects7 to 17 yrs. $2.50 to $9.50 Russian and Sailor Suits to 8 yrss2.so to $5.50 -—• THE MYERS-DAILEY COMPANY i

ONE-LEGGEO WONDER. Ralph D. Tompkins, aged twenty, born in Newburg, N. Y„ who is engaged in walking around the world on one leg, has ben engaged by the management of the Crystal theater to apepar on the stage tomorrow night and tomorrow night. Mr. Thompkins had the misfortune to lost his right leg when but a lad of four years. The ease with which he covers distances has enabled him to make some remarkable records for long distance and fast walking. In 1911 he walked

.wj ’/I I > *- ' It *" -I Jtd A- v I ■fl <3 i rR from New York to Chicago and return, a distance of 2.070 miles, in ninety-nine days. He secures traveling expenses by appearign on vaudeville and singing songs of his own composition and giving short travelogues. He is an exceedingly interesting young man to converse with and has a beautiful, rich voice. He has accumulated much data of his country which few persons with more opportunities of obtaining do not possess. DISASTROUS FIRE (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) over him. and it is thought that he was in no way affected by the excitement. Had there been the slightest wind blowing there is no doubt but that the fire would have wiped out many buildings before being checked. Well Equipped Mill. The mill was owned by Harmon Gillig and John P.. Peoples and was one of the best-equipped mills for its size in the state. The machinery and facilities for the manufacturing of flour and other products -were of the most improved and expensive models. Over five thousand dollars’ worth of stock, including wheat and corn, were in the building at the time of the fire, as was also a car load of flour which was to have been shipped out this morning and upon which the employes worked until late Saturday nignt. In an interview this morning Mr. Gillig said that it was not decided whether or not they would erect a new mill, but that if they decided to do so it would be built of cement block and be a fire-proof building.

WILL ENTERTAIN. Harvey Segur, teacher of the Loyal Women's class of the Christian Bible school class, will entertain his class at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. McKinney on First street on Thursday at 7:30 o’clock. All members of the class, together with their husbands, are cordially invited to attend. o For Wayne & Springfield Ry. Company. TIME TABLE. Northbound. Cars leave Decatur at 5:50, 8:30 11:30, 2:30, 5:45, 9:30; arrive at Fort Wayne at 6:53, 9:40, 12:40, 3:40, 6:55 and 10:40. Southbound. Leave Ft. Wayne at 7:00,10:00,1:00, 4:00, 7:30, 11:00; arrived in Decatur at 8:10; 11:10; 2:10; 5.10, 8:40, 12:10. Connections are made at Fort Wayne with the Ft. Wayne & Northern Indiana Traction Co., The Toledo & Chicago Interurban Railway Company, The Ohio Electric, and Indiana Union Traction Company; also with the Pennsylvania, Wabash Nickle Plate, L. S. & M. S„ C. H. & D„ and G. R. & I. railroads. Freiaht Service. Freight service consists of one train each way daily; Leaving Decatur at 7:00 a. m. and returning, leaving Fort Wayne at 12:00 a. m. This enables shippers to telephone orders and receive shipments promptly. W. H. FLEDDERJOHANN, General Manager, • • Decatur, Ind. o DEMOCRAT WANT ADS PAY BIG.

SAYS TEST IS INFALLIBLE Prominent Chemist Denies That Man’s Finger Tips Can Be Permanently Changed by Chemicals. “The finger print test Is practically Infallible.” This Is what Dr. Charles Glaser analytical chemist, said recently when asked to comment on a dispatch from Now York to the effect that a notori ous criminal had discovered away to eradicate the whirls and loops on his digits, making it difficult to bring out tho characteristics necessary in the finger print Identification. The man mentioned In the dispatch was found dead on the streets of New York. In an effort to Identify him the police took an Impression of his finger tips. They were found as smooth as paper and the infallibility of the fin ger print system was In doubt. Foi two weeks the New York police department chemists worked to bring out tho lines. They accompanied theli purpose, but the marks were onlyfaint. They were puzzled to know what means had been used to destroy the characteristics. Doctor Glaser explained that a criminal might eradicate the whorls and loops very easily by means of lye. ”1 Imagine an application of lye, without at all mutilating the finger tips, would take off the top layer oi cuticle. To the naked eye, then, the lines would be Indistinct Through a magnifier, however, they would be visible, more particularly on the Impression taken. "There are seven layers of cuticle on the finger tips. A man might remove one or two or even three oi these. The more removed, of course, the less possible of detection are the lines. By some process or other, though, the lines could be brought out. The finger print test is hard to beat.” QUIET CF LONDON CHURCHES Midday Gloom Impressed an American Temporarily In the British Capital. An American visitor to London writes, according to the New York Sun: "Whether It Is true or not that there is always dead calm in the hub of a whirlwind, it is certain there is no deeper peace in London than you find in one of the island churches in the Strand at midday. Yesterday a board outside the door of Johnsen’s church. St. Clement Danes, advertised an organ recital from 1 to 2 o'clock, and pushing through the old brewn door you found yourself in Intense quiet with not even a hum in your ear of the clatter and roar outside. It was as cloistral as a village church and the old body in white apren moving gently about was altogether like a rural custodian. Ycu could sit in Dr. Johnson’s pew in the gallery over the pulpit and have the dark, vaultlike place all to yourself. "The arrival of the organist made quite a startling noise, and by the time be began to play there were about half a dozen people lost in the loneliness of the pews, chiefly clerks from the offices In the Strand. After a time ycu forgot the scurry of London altogether in that dead atmosphere of gloom, and the church was, peopled by eighteenth century ghosts 1 silent at ghostly devotions. Soon thergan shattered one’s reverie and the church lit up wonderfully as the music it, and the clerks gazed with awed faces up tc the organ loft, whence the music poured out undisturbed by any tremor from the bustle a few yards away. Misinterpreted. Samuel Rea, the president of the Pennsylvania railroad said In Philadelphia, apropos of the charge that ths railroads were exaggerating the amount of their operating expenses so as to get permission to charge higher rates:

"This railroad, at least, has not distorted one iota its accounts. He who would claim that it has must have misread its reports as the young man misread his Emerson. "A rich young man in New York read Emerson's advice, ‘Hitch your wagon to a star.' “Then he rushed off and gave his new 60-hon>e power gray stream-line roadster to the leading lady of a musical comedy in Broadway." Photographing On Clay. Prof. J. Hamincnd Smith of the University of Pittsburgh has perfected an invention which he calls a sterometricon, by which human features may be reproduced in clay with photographic accuracy. One with some knowledge of photography and fairly agile fingers may make a bust or statue of any member of the family. Two high-power cameras are used. Behind the lens of the right-hand camera is a coarse screen. The picture taken with the left-hand camera is called a record photograph. A lump of clay is then placed on a pedestal where the subject previously had been and lines thrown on it by the camera indicate how to manipulate the clay. Key to Business. Miss Mary B. Snow, research secretary of the Intercollegiate Bureau of Occupation, told graduates of Wellesley. Smith, Vassar, W r ells and Barnard in New York the other day that stenography “is the key that opens every business door today.’’ The women secretaries of Wall street, who are e arn t n g $5,000 a year, she said, worked up to their positions byway of ( sumOfcraphj’,

G. M. BODDY’S LIFE JACKET It le Said to Be Impossible to Drown if Provided With Thia New Invention. Death In ocean disasters promises to ba robbed of much of Its likelihood If a life Jacket Invented by G M. Boddy, a British experimenter in life-saving devices, proves its reputed merits. With the Boddy vest the wearer can't drown if he wishes, It is automatic in every feature and, unlike tho conventional life belt, It doesn’t hinder the free movement of the body. The Boddy jacket, Bas’s the New York Press, is In the nature of a huge breast pad, resembling somewhat the chest protector worn by the baseball umpire. It is freely Inflated with, a Über impervious to water, and despite its thickness, Is quick!}’ attached. It occupies half the space of the life belt now In use. The disposition of the air pads In the jacket gives the body a face-up-ward position In the water. A cushion on the back, just below’ the shoul ders, keeps the wearer’s head above sea, no matter how high the ocean is running. While gigantic waves may submerge the wearer for an instant, the head bobs high out of the water an Instant later. The buoyancy of the jacket permits the wearer to remain afloat for three or four days. The question of sustained life becomes one merely of physical endurance against cold or hunger. The appalling loss of Ufa in recent marine disasters and the subsequent investigations by the British board of trade have called attention to the Boddy jacket and, moreover, have inspired Inventors of life-saving appliances to strive their utmost. The allurements of huge rewards for near perfect apparatus have produced many Inventions, several of which have been adopted by steamship companies under indorsement of marine boards. The Boddy jacket is adapted to be worn by a child as well as by an adult. Strapped to a child the Infant may be thrown overboard with almost certain impunity. The little one, when cast over, Is bound to turn up on Its back. TO MAKE CRIMINALS OF USE Suggestion Not Likely'to Be Adopted But Really Seems to Be Worth Consideration. That condemned murderers should have the opportunity of submitting themselves to vivisection and thus secure a “chance to work out their salvation,” instead-of being hanged, w as the startling suggestion made by the mayor of Bath, England, Dr. Preston King, at a meeting of the local antivivisectionists. He suggested that, while the nation kept capital punishment in its code of laws, and thought it right for socfetj’ at large that a criminal who had committed murder should be hanged, they should give the condemned man the option of subjecting himself to some simple kind, not the grosser kind, of vivisection—such, for Instance, as feeding on tuberculosis milk or injection of germs of various kinds, such as those of sleeping sickness. Diseases like sleeping sickness could be studied better in the human being than in the animal. Those were the things he would subject the condemned criminal to if he were willing to be so subjected, his life being already forfeited to the state for the crime he had done. By so doing, a man who had taken ane human life might have a chance of saving many lives, and of thus working out his own salvation in this world. He Was Content. Two men who went to a hunting -amp together soon found that neither possessed any skill In cooklug. After two days of continuous complaining about ihe food, they made the agreement that the first man who grumbled should pay $lO to his companion. At breakfast the following morning one of the campers began upon some flapjacks made by the other member of the party. “These are about the toughest imitations of the real thing I ever ran against,” he observed, sourly, but as he saw his companion’s (ace light up at the prospect of obtaining the forfeit, he quickly added: "But that’s the way I like ’em.”

Beyond Him. Sir Frederick Bridge, famous British organist, once told a story of a musical party he attended where they had an automatic piano. “I could not make out the music at ail," he said. “It sounded very abstruse, and I felt that I was not educated up to it Sometimes I seemed to recognize it. I whispered to one of the ladies: ‘What is it?’ “The answer was: ‘Bach’s Fugue in D minor.’ “I discovered afterward that the perforated paper had been put in upside down, and the Fugue was being played backward.” A Guinea Garden. Those who have heard words spoken so carelessly that their real meaning must remain a matter of conjecture will sympathize with the Italian mother in one of the Brooklyn settlements where a kindergarten is flourishing. She reached the building early one morning, and with a distinct grievance in face and voice confronted the kindergartner: “Why!” she demanded, “why you no call this a school? Why you call him a

EXECUTOR'S SALE. I In the matter of the estate of Henry Worthman. I Notice is hereby given that the un'dersigned executor or the estate of Henry Worthman, deceased, will offer for sale at public auction at the late residence of said decedent, in Kirkland township, Adams County, Indiana, located one mile west and % nille ,south of Preble, Indiana, on Thursday, September 17, 1914, beginning at 10 o’clock a. m. the personal prnpert)’ of said decedent, consisting of Horse’. I Four head —One colt, one 8-year-old bay horse, one 7-year-old bay horse, one 5-year-old bay mare, one 8-year-old bay horse, one yearling colt. Cattle. I One 4-year-old cow, one 5-year-old cow, one 6-year-old cow, one 5-year-old cow and calf, one 2-year-old heifer, one 2-year-old bull. Hogs. Four brood sows, shoats and male hog. Two Duroc brood sows, 1 sow and pigs, 1 white sow. 1 male hog, 21 shcats, weighing about 50 Tbs. each. SheeP. Nine good ewes, 8 good lambs. Implements. One hay tedder, 1 gras mower, 2 hay ladders, 1 spring wagon. 2 low wagons, 1 Studabaker wagon and bed, 3 top buggies, 1 carriage, I old buggy, 1 feed grinder, 1 fanning mill. 1 J seed sower, 1 bay rake, 2 breaking plows, 3 one-horse cultivators, 1 land I roller, 1 bob-sled, 1 hay loader, 1 binder. 2 com plows. 2 spring tooth and 1 spike tooth harrow. 1 beet plow and (lifter, 1 corn planter, 1 grain drill, 1 'extension ladders, 5 horse collars, 2 set fly nets, 2 sets work harness. 2 sets buggy harness, 3 horse blankets, pile trash, 1 platform scales, 1 bushel basket, 2 scoop shovels, 1 beet scoop. 7 forks and hook, 1 wheelbarrow, 2 tile 'levels, 3 chains, 1 grind stone, 3 hoes, ;3 tree clippers. 1 scythe, 5 corn cutters, 2 spraj- pumps, 2 buck saws, 2 i trowels, butchering tools, 2 post augurs, 3 cross-cut saws, hand saw, drawing knife, tools, 3 spades, shovel, axes, wedges, sledge, 1 cream separator. Grain. Four hundred bushels oats in bin, 10 bushel wheat, 15 bushel rye, 45 bushel barley, 125 bushel corn in crib 40 tons hay in mow, 18 good corn in field, 8 acres clover seed. Chickens. 165 head, old and young. Terms of Sale. All sums of $5.00 and under, cash in hand; over $5.00 a credit of nine months will be given, the purchaser executing his note therefor, bearing interest after maturity and secured by resident surety to the satisfaction of he undersigned. WILLIAM WORTHMAN, Executor. Fruchte & Litterer, Attys. John Spuhler, Auct. 27-3-10 - —lr PUBLIC SALE. The undersigned will offer at public sale at bls residence, 3 miles south and one-half mile east of Peterson, and 4j£ miles east of Craigville, or 7 miles soutnwest of Decatur and 5 miles northwest of Monroe, on the Jacob Heller farm, on Wednesday. Sept. 16, beginning at 10 o'clock a. m., the following property, to-wit: 150 head of hogs: 75 full blooded Duroc hogs, all eligible to registry; 25 sows, 10 with pigs by side; 6 of these are fullblooded pedigree sows. No. 1 has 9 pigs; No. 2 has 7 pigs; No. 3 has 8 pigs; No. 4 has 7 pigs; No. 5 has 8 pigs; No. 8 has 4 pigs; 2 Duroc sows will farow Nov. 11; 4 spring gilts, pedigrees will be furnished with these gilts; 2 open Duroc sows. 10 head of boars: One boar 1 year old; this boar is registered in the American Duroc Jersey Swine Breeders’ Association, under number of 56617; one hoar No. 20, one boar No. 21, pedigree furnished with these boars; 35 head of O. I. C. hogs; No. 6 sow,‘lo pigs; No. 12 sow, 11 pigs; No. 10 will farrow November 8; 3 O. I. C. spring gilts; 1 O. I. C. sow will farrow Sept. 30; 1 Poland China sow, with 4 pigs, [pedigree will be furnished; 1 Poland China boar, weighing 150 lbs.; 50 head of feeding shoats, .-sighing 95 lbs. each; 3 O. I. C. boars, weighing 125 tbs. each. 4 head of cattle. Oue red cow, fresh Feb. 22; 1 Jersey heifer, fresh April 3; 1 big red cow, giving 3 gal. of milk a day; 1 Jersey cow, giving 3 gal. of milk a day. Six Head of horses: One team of black 2 yr. old colts, sound, well broke, weighing 1200 lbs. each; bay 2-year-old colt, weighing 1200 lbs.; one 1 yr. old mare colt, one 1 year-oid horse colt, 1 spring mare colt, a good one. These colts are all sound and must sell for

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East Buffalo, N. Y„ Sept. 14-(Spec-ial to Daily Democrat)— Receipts, 9,600; Shipments. 3,800 today; receipts, 2 200; shipments, 190 yesterday; official to New York Saturday, 1,330; hogs closing steady. , A^.oae . Medium and heavy, $9.60@»9.«0, Yorkers, $9-65@»9.70; pigs. $9.65; roughs, [email protected]; stags, $6.50R $7 50; cattle, 4.125; steady to strong; choice steers. [email protected]; butchers steers, s<.so j ■ $8.50; heifers, [email protected]: cows, $3.75@'57.50; feeders. $6.00@»8.00; sheep, 8,400; choice lambs, $8.75@ $9.00: yearlings, $6.50®56.75; wethers, [email protected]; ewes, [email protected]. G. T. BURK. Clover seed 8909 Aliske Seed ♦’ ' 5 Wheat * lOl Rye 80c Barley Timothy Seeds2.oo to $2.25 Oats 42t NIBLICK a Ck Eggs Butter 13 t 0 22 FULLENKAMPS. ,Eggs 24c Butter BERL.NGS. Indian Runner Ducks 8e Spring chickens 12c Fowls Ducks 9c Geese 8c i Young turkeys 12c Tom turkeys 12c Old hen turkeysl2c )ld Roosterssc Butter 16c Eggs 2lc Above prices paid for poultry t rpe from feed. the high dollar. Ten ton of hay in mow. Oats and wheat in bin. Terms:—All sums of $5.00, cash In J hand; over $5.00 a credit of 10 months will be given, first 6 months without interest, last 4 months bearing 8 per cent interest. Ladies’ Aid society will furnish dinner. Sale will be given rain or shine, in Shelter if it rains. R. E. HELLER. Noah Frauhiger, Auct. Frank Teeple, Clerk. o PUBLIC SAI.E. The undersigned will offer at public sale at his residence, 5 miles east and 1 mile north of Monroe, 1 mile south of Pleasant Mills and about 3% miles west of Willshire, on the Elzey Carter farm, on Tuesday, Sept. 15, 1914, beginning at 10 o’clock a. m. the following property, to-wit: Four head horses: Qne grej- horse, 6 years old, weighing 1650 lbs.; 1 bay horse, 6 years old, weight 1650 lbs.; 1 bay horse, 6 years old, weighing 1250 lbs.; 1 black mare, 6 years old, weighing 1200 lbs. I cow, 2 year-old Jersey and Rowan-Durham bred, giving four gallon of milk a day. This cow is a good one. Thirty head of hogs, consisting of 27 shoats, weighing from 75 to 100 tbs. each; good feeders; 3 sows, due to farrow in October. Chickens: two dozen laying hens. Hay, straw, grain: 25 acres of good efirn in field, about 10 tons each of hay and straw in mow; half-acre patch of late potatoes. Farming Implements: One Studabaker wagon, good as new; beet rack, set of dump boards, buggy, set good heavy brass mounted work harness, set light work harness, set buggy harness, Oliver breaking plow, good as new; John Deere walking breaking plow, good as new; John Deere riding cultivator, just new; spring tooth walking cultivator, spike

Wool ...21cOZ5c Beef hidei lie Calf 13c Tallow 5c Sheep pelts [email protected] LOCAL PRODUCE MARKIT. Spring chickens lie Indiana Runned ducks 8c Fowls 10c Ducks Geese 8c Young turkeys 12c Tom turkeys 12c Old hen turkeys...l2c Old Roosters 5c Butter 17c Eggs 24c Above prices para for poultry tree from teed. DECATUR CREAMERY CO. (Prices for week ending, Sept. 14) Butter fat, No. 131 c Butter fat, No. 2 29c Butter, wholesale 31c [Butter, retail 35c

COAL PRICES. Stove 17.85 Egg 17.60 Chestnut, hard $7-85 Pea, hard *6.85 Poca, Egg and Lump *4.75 W. Ash *4.50 V. Splint *4.25 H. Valley *4.00 R. Lion *4.25 Cannell *6.00 J. Hill *4.75 Kentucky *4.50 Lurlg $4.50 tooth harrow. Black Hawk corn planter, just new; hay loader. Terms—All sums of *5.00 cash in hand; over *5.00 a credit of 12months will be given, the purchaser giving note with approved security; 5 per cent off for cash. ORLA BUTCHER. John Spuhler, Auct. J. F. Fruchte, clerk. o FOR SALE —Five acres with buildings on, one mile east of Preble, in good condition. Inquire of P. V. Lewton, R. R. 11, Decatur, Ind. 213t20 LOST —Small purse containing about *5.00 in bills and in change. Was lost somewhere along Monroe street. Finder please return to this office and receive reward. 214t3 WANTED —Young men to learn nursing. High class registered training school. Earn *25 per week after graduation. Write for catalog. Washington Park Hospital, 533 E 6th Street, Chicago. 26t4 CHEAP FARM LANDS—lndian land sale by U. S. government, last chance to buy cheap laud in Oklahoma. Appraisement *1 to *25 per acre; government title; easy terms; !unusual opportunity; residence not necessary. Complete, reliable information, 25 cents. Times-Democrat, Muskogee, Okla. 216t2 MEN—Our illustrated catalogue explains how we teach the barber trade in few weeks, mailed free. Write Moler College, Indianapolis, Ind. 21616 FOR SALE—Base burner, used one winter. Good as new. Also stovepipe and base board. Will sell cheap if taken at once. See F. W. Jaebker, at First National bank, or ’prone No. 507 ’ 215t3 lOR SALE—A fine Emerson piano, cheap for cash only. Also several other articles of furniture, cheap. Call or 'phone Mrs. I. A. Kalver, North Second street. 213t3 ‘