Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 132, Decatur, Adams County, 3 June 1915 — Page 2

DAILY DE M O C R A T PuMlahM Every Eveninn Except Surrey by The Decatur Democrat Company LEW O. ELLINGHAM JOHN H. HELLER Subscription Rates Per Week, by carrier...lo ceuUt . Per Year, by carrier*s 00, Per Month, by mail-... 25 cents Per Year, by mall>2 50 Single Copiea " cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at tiie Poetofflce in Decatur, Indiana, as second-class matter. . - N .... .. . II - -- - NATIONAL IDEALISM: — Those who do not realize that this is the most idealistic nation in the world would do well to renew their patriotism by reading the speech <>i the president on Memorial day. The r " is not one of our national institutions that does not rest on an idea as i sj foundation, and that is not meant to embody and safeguard an ideal. We have no king, and even no state, in the old world sense, to engage otr loyalty. For when we think of our government we think of something far greater than the president, or congress. or the supreme court, or of ail | combined. Our thought is of freedom and equality of opportunity,' I equality before the law. Our people , are not organized for efficiency, but. for liberty. It is much easier to be loyal to a j man or a state than to be an idea, but | it is to this latter loyalty that everv American citizen is called. It is sometimes said that the American people are lacking in reverence, and there is some- truth in the charge. But if they ever fail to reverence liberty the end of their influence will be at hand. The best way to reverence it is to show oneself worthy of it. Here the words of the president have a ' very direct application: "America, I have said, was reborn by the struggle of the civil war, but America is reborn every day of its life by the purposes we form, the conceptions we entertain, the ropes th.-Mw we cherish. We live in our visions. We live in the things that we see. We live, an ( [ hope abounds in us as we live in the things that we purpose. Let us go away from this place renewed in our devotion to daily duty and to those ideals which keep a nation young, keep it noble, keep it rich tn enterprise and achievement; make it to lead the nations of the world in those things that make, for hope and for the benefit cf mankind." The words were spoken cn a solemn occasion and at a very trying time. They ought to, and we feci sure that they will, find an echo in

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11— i I I n II ——.II ■—III ■ —WM—■ — many hearts. We speak of this land as a land of opportunity, and so it is. 1 I But the great opportunity that it of- | fers Is that for self-realization In uci cordance with the highest standards, j 1 It is for the American people to show to the world wiiat men can become ■ [ under the most ttivorable environI raent that the race has ever known !or dreamed of. This we are ti id . again is the land of aspiration. But I aspiration toward what, if not the ;< I ideals tor which the country stands? Let us not be deceived by th: e who, with an owlish wisdom, and t great show of learning—which, In .■ ■ ever, is only a show—dwell on the v'r tue and strength of other and al' n civilizations. In this land we are c .niitted to the principle that the st ' > is the creation of f ' izen. and not his master, but h • vnnt And it ought not to be cv :: ills 't x ' cent in a very limited sense, for American should serve himself. It :■■ with humanity, and not with ini’. ■ trialism that we are chi ■ concert. Never was this more clearly she than in the last few' years. For e r i when we may seem to have legislat d unwisely the motive has always bc.-n , to serve and protect the welfare us i humanity, and to bestow on it a fre ■>- 1 dom that has been withheld and • !•'■- | nied. So one may not think of Ameri- , ca without thinking of idealism., for , ' America is itself an ideal, and of the i ' noblest and most inspiring sort. With this people, therefore, patriot: ii I ought to be in a very real sense a re- > ligion, but a religion without famoi , j cism or superstition.—lndianapolis 1 News. Governor Ferris of Michigan his ' dessignated June 10 and 11 as dais , for holding a “Road Bee.” On those days every able-bodied man in the I state is urged to do some work on tile roads of the state, and even the , governor himself has announced that I he will don a pair of overalls and j ut I in a day at least with the pick and ■ . shovel. nßtntißtntttnttiisttiXtnfßtftttntttttttt:♦ I DOINGS IN SOCIETY | WEEK’S CLUB CALENDAR. Monday. Afternoon Club—Mrs. C. V. Connell. T uesdby. Presbyterian Missionary—Mrs. Jo in Schug. Thursday. Missionary Society—Mrs. B. J. Rice Walther League—School House. Presbyterian Aid—Mrs. Dale Moses. Friday. Zion Lutheran Aid —School Hou. >. ’g’mcisoScodattorneysl.’s THRU Do Your Best Class—Mrs. Roy Mumma. Longing. Os all the myriad moods of mind That through the soul come throng-

ing. Which one was e'er so dear, so kind, So beautiful as longing? The thing we long for that we are For one transcendent moment, Before the present! poor and bare, Can make its sneering comment. Still through cur paltry stir and strife Glows down the wished ideal, And longing molds in clay what life Carves in the marble real. To l«t the new life In, we know, Desire must ope portal— Perhaps the longing to be so Helps make the soul Immortal. —James Russell Lowell. The clam has a larger mouth in proportion to his size than a man. yet the clam never talks amout his neighbors.—Ex. One of the enjoyable prenuptial events for ..Miss Lucy McCrory, who will be married today to Ralph M'ller, was the six o'clock dinner party given last evening by Miss Vara Hun- ' sicker for the Cinderella Giris, a Utile club. The dinner at the Hunsicker home was a delicious one, and contests followed. Vie chib presented Miss McCrory with a handsome aluminum kettle. The party included the Misses Blanche and Lucy McCrory, Muriel Leonard, Gladys Selman, Velma Lenhart, Eola Gentis. Ada Stevens and Mae Babcock, the last named of Fort Wayne. Mr. and Mrs. George Burkett entertained Rev. and Mrs. F. H. Harman and son. Theodore, and Mrs. Sarah Vents at a chicken dinner yesterday. that was much enjoyed. Mrs. W. A. Hutchinson of Camp Point. 111., is here visiting with her sister. Mrs. Paul Baumgartner, and | other relatives. Th • wedding of Ralph Miller and Miss Lucy McCrory will take place! this afternoon at 4 o'clock at the home of the bride's father. J. S. McCrory, on Monroe street. The Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette contains a picture of Mr. and Mrs. Jos-1 eph Sapp, a fine looking aged couple; of Fort Wayne, who last Sunday celb- i brated their fiftieth wedding anniver-: sary. Mrs. Peter Laurent of this city I is a daughter. The paper says: “Fifty years of happy wedded life will be j celebrated at the golden wedding ai-| niversary of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Sapp at their home. 138 Baker street, todi-.v. I Mr. Sapp is seventy-eight years cf age and his wife is sixty-nine. They i were married May 27, ■44*55, •in Fort Wayne and have resided her,-.- cont'nnously since that date. Mr. Sapp is a veteran of the civil war and for a ■ number of years he has lived a retired ( life. Their children are Mrs. Emma Duebus, of Plymouth; Mrs. Peter Laurent, of Decatur, and Joseph, Beniamin, Louise and Georgia, all of Fort Wayne. The children with the grandchildren, will be present at the celebration. Miss Dorothy Dugan, daughter of! Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Dugan, who is :‘n her freshman year in Vassar, was] highly honored by being elected secre-j tary of her class. This is quite ar.! honor, the election being made by bal- j lot, and there are two hundred or more in the class. Miss Dugan will! return home for the summer next Saturday, arriving on the Lake Shore at Kendallville, where she will be met by the Dugan family, who will mot r there. She will be accompanied by " classmate. Miss 'Cecil Bradshaw, of St. Louis. Mo., who will stop here for a visit. John Lind of Cincinnati. Ohio, arrived to attend the wedding of his cousin. Ralph Miller and Lucy M Crcry this afternoon. Mr. Lind is a musician, being a composer as well as player, and he will play the wedding march. Miss Grace Horton of Fort Wayne arrived to be a guest of Miss Frances De in Inger. _o STRAYED—White and tan female Scotch Collie, from 215 So. 9th St. A reasonable reward for her return or information concerning her —W. H. Kemper, Adams Co. Creamery. 130t3 FOR SALE —Sixteen foot canoe and paddles; quartered oak porch swing, mission electric lamp, machinist tool chests, combination typewriter and writing desk. Prices right.— M. A. Kenworthy. 128t3 WANTED—High class man to sell trees, shrubs, roses, vines, berry hushes, bulbs, etc. Good wages. Permanent. Exclusive territory. Brown Brothers’ Nurseries, Rochester, N. Y. FOR RENT—Eight room house on Russell street; modern in all respects. See Walter Johnson, at Decatur Insurance Agency. ’Phone 385 or 350. ■ 121tf I MEN—Our illustrated catalogue explains how we teach barber trade in few weeks, mailed free. Write Moler Barber College, Indianapolis, Indiana. 122t6

Child Life In Africa. I Child life in Africa has few pleasure* and many sorrows and is in a state of constant reversal and change. From the time of a boy’s birth until he has gone through the "devil bush” he Li little thought of, but as soon as he Ims ' paused through its terrible ordeals ami I practices he Is regarded ns a man and an asset In the native community. With a girl it is different. It is very hard to procure girls for the mission stations because they are considered specially valuable ns workers and possible money brlngers until the period arrives for them to enter and pass through the “gree-gree” bush ordeal. Then they are regarded as women and eligible for marriage, and their industrial value decreases. Still, if they roar large families, their market value keeps up In g measure, for in certain sections of Africa tribal custom permits a man to sell, loan or rent out his wives or keep them in household slavery or give them- their freedom. Freedom is conferred by presenting the wife with the long tooth of a leopard, which indicates that she is no longer a slave, but a free woman, not a divorced wife.—Christian Herald. A Bernard Shaw Criticism. Before fame came to him Bernard Shaw wrote dramatic criticisms for the London Saturday Review. The following sample is characteristic of the man: “I am In a somewhat foolish position concerning a play at the Opera Comlque, whither I was bidden this day week. For some reason I was not supplied with a program, so that I never learned the name of the play. At the end of the second act the play had advanced about as far as an ordinary dramatist would have brought it five minutes after the first rising of the curtain or, say, as far as Ibsen would have brought it ten years before that event. Taking advantage of the second interval to stroll out into the Strand for a little exercise, I unfortunately forgot all about my business and actually reached home before it occurred to me that I had not seen the end of the play. Under these circumstances It would ill become me to dogmatize on the merits of the work or its performance. I can only offer the management my apologies.” Eastern Vermont’s Marbles. Though the western part of Vermont Includes the most extensive marble In- ! dustry in this country, the eastern part !is a virgin field, where, in the lack of ia general study of the stratigraphy, 'the structure, the paleontology and the | areal geology, it is at present not only impassible to determine the area and position of many of the beds, but also ] even the thickness of some of the marble formations, which are but partly I exposed. The marbles of eastern Ver--1 mont, many of which are dolomitic, vary widely in kind and character, and the outcrops, though few in lore scattered from the Massachusetts line to the Canadian boundary. Many if the marbles are suited only for Indoor ornamental use. The greater part ! of the ledges are to be classed as min•nil reserves, which will be drawn on n the future. Burial With Military Honors. Alter a battle the dead are buried "with military honors.” These in times of peach are both impressive and elaborate. but in time of war they are much curtailed. The principal features are the playing by muffled drums ! of the dead march, the resting on the arms reversed by the troops engaged I and the final firing into the air over 'the grave of three blank volleys. The j number of volleys is always the same, j but the number of men comprising the I tiring party Increases with the rank of I the deceased. A muffled drum is a i drum the cords of which have been I loosened so ns to slacken the parchment head and cause it to give forth on being struck a dull, muffled sound.—London Scraps. Intellectual Life. People without intellectual life are virtually under condemnation to hard abor. Unless their thoughts can give hem wholesome occupation they must Jnd It for their hands. Otherwise they ■annot live well and must expect deterioration. But, unluckily for lazy people, the achievement of a good jrade of intellectual life involves about is much work as anything else. Life without effort seems not to have been intended. The original plan was to have it end by starvation and, though people nowadays get around that, they cannot altogether defeat the original Intention.—Life. A Slight Absentmindedness. "How' are you getting on as the presiding officer of your new club?” "Pretty well,” replied the emphatic woman. "No trouble with parliamentary points?” "Not much. The only difficulty I j have is to remember that you must hold on to the gavei and hammer with It instead of throwing it”—Washington Star. Mean Suggestion. “I made Miss Oldgirl mad the other day.” “How so?” ‘‘She said she would give me a few ♦vrinkles, and I said I didn’t care to take them, although I knew she had plenty to spare.”—Baltimore American. — In Awful Shape. “Why don’t you go to work?” “Pm so dead tired of doing nothing that I'm too tired to do anything.”— Cleveland Leader. — No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.—George Eliot.

Rainv Weather Sale J . we have had, we have Owing to the extreme wet j n stock o f suits and been unable to dispose ot tw w h will soon in an j coats. Oursummerandta g omove ()Ur g pring we have no room for it. m one .half price sale and stock we are putting on a sjk t ■ gu j tg an j which will last for only ? tnna coats are ail of the mosi -* -- * *materials. This latest colors and the most up-tc date is the chance of your life time to ge. * half-price. SUITS COATS ?25 suits E o at -512.4 S |lt> S» g" sl6 suits go at - - ? 8.00 $ g coats g 0 at . . $3.50 One Lot of Ladies and Childrens Raincoats at Reduced Prices. FULLENKAMP’S

TO MU PLAYi Queen Esther Circle Will Present “America’s Reception to the Nations." ON NEXT TUESDAY At the Methodist Church Lecture Room—Public is Invited. The Queen Esther Circle of the Methodist church will give a pday next Tuesday evening in the lecture room of the church. The circle is a missionary society auxiliary and the play is given to raise its apportionment of funds for the support of missions. The play to be given therefore will be along mission lines, and the subject is “America’s Reception to the Nations.” The different nations will be represented by the girls in costume ana quite a pretty and interesting story will be'told. Tlie public is cordially invited to come to the play, for which fifteen cents will be charged. o__ NOTICE. The annual meeting of the German Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Preble township will be Saturday afternoon at 1 o’clock, June 5, at the Friedheim school house. All members should be present. WILLIAM GALLMEYER, President. HERMAN REESE, . Secretary. f-m-thr o— WANTED —To hire farm hand by the month. Best of reference demanded. Inquire this office. HOtf QAQpO The Test of Time! Made by three genera* tions of soap makers for three generations of soap users. Always the same pure soap. COLD OR WARM WATER without boiling KUK

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