Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 167, Decatur, Adams County, 12 July 1915 — Page 4

DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by The Decatur Democrat Company LEW 0. ELLINGHAM JOHN H. HELLER Subecription Rates Per Week, by carrier 10 cents Per Year, by carrier $5.00 Per Month, by mail 25 cents Per Year, by mail $2.50 Single Copies 2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the Postoftice in Decatur, Indiana, as second-class matter. Judge W. H. Eichhorn of Bluffton has been agreed upon as the judge to hear the election fraud eases at Indianapolis and has given his consent to serve. He is a capable and learned jurist who will decide the questions coming before him as he be lieves the law directs. Again the controversy with Germany has assumed a serious phase and it’s the duty of every good American to sit steady. The president has proven his desire to serve the nation, to avoid the icebergs of trouble, but to maintain the dignity of this greatest nation of the world. He will do so again, and he has certainly earned the confidence of the people of this laud. The forty-ninth annual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic will occur at the fiftieth anniversary of the grand review, in Washington. D. C. the week beginning September 27th. It is probable that this will be the last encampment held as the veterans are rapidly nearing the time o* life when trips of this kind mean too great an effort. i The first copy of “The Citizen” a . magazine printed at Fort Wayne, in the interest of securing a new constitution for Indiana, has reached our ex- < change desk. It's an interesting paper, filled with information and opinions by such men as Frank Stockton of the state university, Dr. Keller of the Franchise League, Judge Eichhopj of Bluffton, Theodore Thieme of Fort Wayne and others. Chautauqua opens tomorrow. Hive you secured your tickets? After the ] big event opens you will have to pay more money for them and the local committee derives no profit therefrom. Hurry, if you haven’t gotten , your tickets. The big program is one ( that will excel any ever given by the l Redpath company, according to all an- I nouneements. 1 If you pledged to take tickets and don't do it. some one will have to make up that deficiency. The chau- , tauqua is guaranteed the sale of sev- 1 en hundred tickets by fifty business 1 men who relied upon the fact that that many tickets had been pledged. 1 If you don’t take them the men will have to "dig up” the difference. You i don’t want them to do that, do you? 1 ' ..._ 1 Mrs. Stewart and son-in-law. Mr. Dull, returned to Fort Wayne today noon after a visit at Rockford, Ohio. 1 Herbert Westermann returned to Ft. i Wayne today noon after a visit here ] with the Rodenbeck family. <

DON’T WILT ALL SUMMER We have Summer Underwear for you, the mere sight of which will freshen you up—and when you wear it! Pine ROCKINCHAIR UNION SUITS SI.OO and $1.50 The Myers-Dailey Company.

nittttnntnttßtt'rnxjtmntntttttntttnstt — I DOINGS IN SOCIETY WEEKS CLUB CALENDAR. Monday. Young Woman’s Bible Club—Central schoolhouse. Wednesday. German Reformed Aid—Postpone? till next week. Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred in the company. - Swift. Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Jackson and son. Harland, were entertained Sunday at the home of his parents. Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Jackson, east of the city. Mrs. J. S. Peterson and son. Robert, and Miss Margaret Todd went to Fort Wayne Saturday afternoon and spent the evening at Robison park. The German Reformed Ladies’ Aid society will not meet this week ss planned on account of Chautauqua. The meeting has been postponed until Wednesday of next week. Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Jackson and son. Harold, were entertained Sunday ’t the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Jackson east of the city.

Dan Niblick who returned from Chicago joined his wife and children in a visit over Sunday with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Michael Henneford at Vera Cruz. Miss Lilly Gates and Master Daniel Schafer spent Sunday at the home if Miss Gates' parents near Wren, Ohio. Mrs. Emma Everett and granddaughter, Alice Feigert of Wren. Ohio, and Miss Rowena Miller of near Preble were week-end guests of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Johnson and family south of the city. Miss Margaret Burkhard and a friend from Toledo, Ohio, arc expected to arrive next Sunday for a visit at the Johnson home. The John Rex home was the scene of an entertainment of relatives and friends Sunday, the great number of the Rex children and their families, being at home for the day Those, present were Mr. and Mrs. Ed Pastor and children. Horace. Mary and Helen. Mr. and Mrs. Adam Pastor of Huntington; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ulmer. Bluffton; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bonham. Avilla; Mr. and Mrs. Dale Spahr, and daughter. Ruth; Mr. and Mrs. Phil Meihls, Decatur; Master Darrel Hendrickson, Poneto. Miss Agnes Gillig had as her guest at dinner. Sunday Miss Ruby Sheets, who recently returned from the west. The girls were at Phoenix. Arizona, at the same time a year or so ago. In the afternoon the party at the Gillig home were joined by a number of other friends and a pleasant time was spent in a general way. Ice creatg was served, during the afternoon. Mrs. and Mrs. Levi Baker entertained at a dinner in compliment to Mrs. Baker’s cousin. Miss Belle Walters. Other guests were Mr. and Mrs. C. I . 'Walters and daughters, Helen and Dorothy and Mr. and Mrs. Ben Pillars Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Atz and daughters were the guests at a chicken sni - per given recently by Mr. and Mrs. Levi Baker. Mrs. N. G. Baughman and Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Baughman entertained at dinner Sunday for the following: Harry Cupp and son, Donald; Mrs. J. Cupp, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Baughman

and two children of south of Portland, who motored here; Mr. and Mrs. Lester Baughman. Mr, and Mrs. Emerson Bennett have a numtier of house guests. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Trimble and babe left Saturday for their home at Milwaukee, Wis. after a stay here; Mrs. Bennett’s aunt, Mrs. A. Votaw of Mt. Carmel, 111; and her cousin. Mrs. Marshal Snider, and son, John, of Bryant, are now the guests at the Bennett home. Hazel and Ereie Butler. Mary Corbett and Maltssa Langworthy attended the picnic at St. Johns yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. John Myers visit ’d with their son, Dr. C. L. Myers and family at Convoy, Sunday. Mrs. John Niblick who left today noon for a western trip, has appointed Mrs. Charles Hocker to fill her place as president of the W C. T. C. during her absence. The Misses Marguerite Gerard and Germaine Coffee spent the week-end in Fort Wayne with Mrs. C. Rademaker and family. CYCLONE MADE DIP (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) west of the Seilemeyer farm, are that the cyclone did slight damage there, also. A hay loader in the field was torn to pieces; a hay rake was blown fifteen rods, and fence was torn down.

TO GIVE CALM CONSIDERATION (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) vestigating the “R Pearce” letter teceived by a local newspaper, threatening to “finish” J. P. Morgan, and assassinate British Ambassador SprinRice, after nearly twenty-four hours search, hinted today that the matter “may not be as serious as first thought." Unofficially some of the detectives declared their investigations have disclosed unmistakable signs that the letter may have been written merely for the sake of the sensation it might create. Despite this, however, police vigilance was not relaxed and officials were more determined than ever to run the case down and punish the writter even though he may prove to be a practical joker. o BROADWAY STAR TONIGHT "The Enemies” is the title of the three real sensational photo-play hilled for the Crystal theater this evening. This is one of the Broadway Star features most highly recommended three reel plays. The play hinges around the demonical hatred for the mat, responsible for his bister’s death and which makes Captain Waveriie the fitcarnation of revenge. His revenge is all his own and he glories in it. This drama features Harry Morey and Edith Storey, two of the Vitagraph stars. For tomorrow evening Manager Parent has billed a two reel Vitagranh comedy entitled “Janet of The Chorus" . featuring Norma Talmage, also an Essanay comedy entitled “A Coat Trail". The price of admission is as usual, five cents. 0 1— BUY CHILDREN'S TICKETS, There seems to be a misunderstanding as to the age limit for children who buy Chautauqua ticketa. Any child up to fourteen may use the tickets, which are being sold by the committee for 51.25. If you want the children to have a ticket and enjoy the entire week, get your ticket at once. Any child under fifteen can use the ticket. Hurry.

SAYS THAW IS INSANE New York, July 12.—(Special to the Daily Democrat) —Harry Thaw is at present, insane, Dr. Austin Flint, alienist, swore this afternoon. He was the first of the state’s alienists to take the stand in Thaw's sanity trial. Dr. Flint testified he had made throe thorough examinations of the prisoner. Thaw, he said, is a paranoiac. o DRUG STORES TO CLOSE The following drug stores will close at 7:30 o’clock in the evenings during this week except on Saturday evening, on account of the Chautauqua. Smith, Yager & Falk. Holthouse Drug Co. Callow * Rice. o COURT HOUSE NEWS. A marriage license was issued today to Charles Christopher Andrew's, farmer, born July 6, 1894. son of Robert A. Andrews, to wed Margaret Mary Thatcher, horn June 30, 1832, daughter of John W. Thatcher. —o .• DEMOCRAT WANT ADS PAY BiG.

RELICS OF OLD RACE IMPORTANT FIND REPORTED BY NEVADA SCIENTISTS. Traces of Ancient Civilization That Antedates Anything Known In American History Said to Be a Discovery of Recent Date. The archeological department of the University of Nevada has nearly com pleted the exploration of a cave in Nevada, sealed fop by nature 3,000 years ago. It contains relics of what Is believed to be the ancient race from which the American Indians sprung, a race far older than the Aztecs. Among the things brought to light is a skull declared to be more than 5,000 years old certainly and possibly In existence several hundred thousand years age. If these surmises are correct, it is older than the Piltdown skull, found in Kent, England. Along with the skull were found many relics of a prehistoric race in a remarkable state of preservation, because, they have been hermetically sealed in nature’s own preservatives. The first mention of this ancient civilization that is remembered by white men dates back to 1844, when General Fremont led from California a little band of whites across a new trail through the Rockies. He followed the Humboldt river until he came to the shores of what is now called Humboldt lake, a half mile east of the main Humboldt rangd of mountains, and a mile south of Lovelock, Nev. In the region of the lake he entered the land of the Piute, the chief of whom was Winnemucca. The trail makers were met by the Indian chieftain with open arms.

General Fremont and his party were guests of the Piute band for many days. Familiarity with other tribes had taught Fremont a method of communication by means of signs. He asked the Indian chief if he, in his great wisdom, could tell the white man whence came the red men—their origin. The aged chief by signs indicated that the history of the Indians went back to the beginning of the world. It told him his ancestors had driven a whole nation into a huge cavern and sealed them there to perish. When years later Chief Winnemucca had learned the white man’s tongue the Piute legends spread among the pioneer miners and finally reached the ears of scientific men. With the coming of educators into Nevada in the last 25 years interest quickened with reported fossil discoveries in the beds of extinct rivers and on the falls of canyons. At Winnemucca's death his daughter, Sarah, became attached to the, family of an army officer, and through them the legends became public when they were recounted in a book printed in 1870. Her granddaughter, Sarah Winnemucca, was educated in a reservation school. Her Imagination fired by the legends of her people, she repeated them to her instructors, until finally Prof. J. C. Jones, chief of the archeological department of the state university, determined to make a search for the lost cave. The stories Indicated that it must be somewhere near the Humboldt lake. Sarah Winnemucca picked a spot as near as the legends could guide her, from which point the scientists conducted their search successfully.

Cost of Building Wire Fence. An idea of the cost of building barbed-wire fence is given in a circu lar relating to fence building in North Dakota, recently issued by the United States department of agriculture. The costs in North Dakota arc high, owing to the fact that all material, including posts, must be shipped in, and for this reason the figures are thought to represent practically a maximum for this country. The maximum cost per rod is 36.9 cents, for a three-wire fence with posts spaced one rod apart. A two-wire fence with posts spaced one rod apart costs 32.2 cents per rod; a four-wire fence with posts spaced twe rods apart costs 29.7 cents, and a five■wire fence with posts spaced three rods apart, 30 cents. The figures also show the low cost of wire as compared with posts both in construction and in upkeep.—Popular Mechanics. City Under Internationa! Rule. When the plans are in full opera tion for the government of Tangier Morocco, “the first really interna tional city of the world.” the commu nity will have as a legislative body arassembly chosen by popular vote and composed of 24 Moroccan member? and 11 foreigners, representatives of the powers. A mixed court is provided for, along the lines of the Interna tional court in Egypt. The arrangement is that it is to consist of two Frenchmen, one of whom will preside; two Spaniards, two Englishmen and one German. A Spaniard is to be public prosecutor. The war, of course, may upset the program permanently. Learning to Keep House. "In Democratic Denmark,” according to Edwin G. Cooley, “the education of country girls in housekeeping has followed as a natural appendix to'the training of country boys in agriculture.’’ Deplorable Fate of a Nice Lady. “He gave a good girl a bad name, and —” "The scoundrel! Er —what .was it?" “Googenspinner. That being his own name, of course he bestowed it on her when they wero married,” *

MONROE WILL HAVE LIGHTS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) And the Commission being advised in the premises. It Is, therefore, ordered, that the City of Decatur, now owning and operating tin electric light and power plant tor the purpose of furnishing electrical current for light and power to the City of Decatur, and the inhabitants theredf, is hereby granted the consent of the Public Service Commission of Indiana to furnish electrical current for light and power to the Town of Monroe, and the inhabitants thereof. It is also further ordered that the City of Decatur shall within ten days prior to the time of furnishing said elc trical current for said Town of Monroe, and its inhabitants thereof, publish with the Public Service Commission of Indiana, a schedule of rates to govern the compensation to be charged for such electrical current to be furnished, and It is further ordered, that said Town of Monroe shall publish its schedule of rates to be applied upon electrical current furnished to said town and to the inhabitants thereof.

I. J L. Reiley, secretary of the Public Service Commission of Indiana, do hereby certify that the above and foregoing is a true and complete copy of an order made by the Commission this 9th day of July. 1915. Given under my hand and seal this Sth day of July, 1915. J. L. REILEY. Secretary. Indianapolis, Ind., July 9, 1915. o READY FOR THE OPENING (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) of Fools,” Thomas Brooks Fletcher. Admission, 50c; children. 25c. Tuesday Evening. Song Recital, Alice Nielsen, one of the world's most noted prima donnas. Admission, $1.00; children, 50c. Admission to childrens hour free to all. To Conduct Nursery. The Misses Ruth Patterson and Marie Connell, who are conducting the kindergarten school at the Centra! school btiilding. are opening a nursery during the afternoon of chautauqua week, when mothers who wish to attend the chautauqua may leave their babies, assured that they will have good care. Arrangements may be made by calling the girls. Committee Still Has Tickets. The ladies of the Civic League made a check on the sale of the $2.55 season tickets and there are 150 yet to be sold. Every effort is being made on their part to complete the sale by tomorrow afternoon.

This evening at 7 o'clock a meeting will be called for the guarantors of ihe chautauqua. It is urged that every indorser of the chautauqua be present at the People’s Loan & Trust company’s bank. The Tuesday Program. The program will open Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock with a full concert program by the Music Makers. The program is as follows: The Bugle Horn- Saybrech. Kentucky Babe —Saybrech. A College Medley Jones. Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes -Johnson. Baritone Solo—Mr. Huff. Requiem—Homer. Mother o’ Mine —Tours. Mariambaphone Quartet. Valse Lente from “Sylvia"—Delobo. Stars and Stripes Forever —Sousa Daughters of the American Revolution. March. Tenor Solo —Mr. Barrett. Somewhere a Voice is Calling (Tate) —Kilarney. Quartet. Lase of Yoith—Goebel. “We'll Say We'll do a Thing." Ashes of Roses—Robinson. The evening program will open at 7:45 with a musical prelude by The Music Makers. Following this Sylvester A. Long will lecture on "Hungry People." Mr. Long believes that community building must begin with the inspiration of a community ide?., that reform without sentiment is dead, and that civic improvement without popular dasire is a train without a track.

Tuesday Evening. Tuesday evening, 7:30, prompt. Third degree work. —o — FOR SALE—3SOO- pressed brick, all or any part. A good chance to secure them at a right price. Inquire of John Schug, at residence souih Third street. 16716 HOUSE FOR RENT- On ?.T>rsnail St. gcod condition. Injuire of Heller, Sutton & Heller. 167 U.

From My Narrow Little Window By THE HOOSIER OBSERVER “five The Girls The Reins’’

Give the little Si-* the relr.r son every mother s daughter of them will be cooking before you can say Rack Jobinson. This talk about modern girls being too busy, too frivolous, too pleasure-loving, too lazy, too an> thing else you want to call them—to learn to cook is all tommy-rot. Now what on earth do yon think made me change my tune so quickly? For 1 must tell you I had been sitting in my good old porch swing Sunday morning, looking up at the skies, blue and smiling after the rain, with hire and there a fleecy cloud, the trees swaying gently in the breezes to the tune of the little birds, and 1 had nearly gotten myself into that ecstatic mood wherein one breaks out into spring poems—notwithstanding that it is July—wheit merciful providence intervened to rescue an already spring-poem surfeited world and I came down to a very pleasant, real, practical, every-day subject. Providence was nothing more nor less than tw'o dear little neighbor sisters—who came to sit awhile with me in my porch swing before church time. One is six and large for her age: the other is eight-and small for her age so that they are nearly the same size, and neither more than knee high to the proverbial duck. They had their hair “iwbbed" cunningly, wore dainty lingerie frocks whose

crispness and freshness stuck out in quite modern skirty-ways; and their white stockings and pretty littlo strapslippers made them all that was attractive to the eye. And they are just as charming otherwise, too —for there is nothing more charming than the nautrainess. simplicity and innocence of childhood. One tinned, brown little arm of each was circled lovingly by a new gold bracelet. "Heigh-o,” I said. ‘ You are home again and weiring new bracelets. Birthday presents?" “O, no! Papa got them for us. We have been cooking for him and he said of course he’d have to get his cooks something. So he got these " "Cooking?" I said. "You little tots cooking?" and there immediately came up before me the little girts, probably setting the table, lifting off a sauce pan or two and emptying out the contents in the dishes, alreadyprepared. But indeed not, they informed me. They had really been cooking. The little girls' papa. wAp is a big contractor, and successfully carries out big things in his line, is obliged to be away at his work and one of his houses near his work is fitted up for temporary lodging and cooking for himself. The little girls had been with him two weeks, and enjoyed it the same as camp life. "But what did you cook, and who told you how?”

And then they told. They had just watched mamma at home, but had never tried to cook at home, because nobody thought they could. When they went to papa’s camp they just naturally “took hold" and cooked. They told me how he had bought a "beef chunk" to boil. They had washed it, put it on in water in the kettle over the oil stove, salted it, and w hen the meat was done they put in a cupful of rice and cooked that until the soup was done. “Did you remember to wash the rice?' I asked. “Why. of course,” they answered. with eyes wide with hurt rusprise that anyone should think that they should neglect so important a thing. “Don't you? Mamma always does." Well, they said they made potato salad, too. And they told me how they did it. They boiled the potatoes with the jackets on, peeled them, cut them up, with onions, and pepper and salt and— everything else necessary. They also prepared lettuce and cream dressing. "And didn't any one tell you how at all. or didn't you read how?" ] asked.

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But no one told them how. nor did they read because they had no cook book there to read. They h a( i j U![ learned “by watching mamma al home,” and remembered “And we made cakes, too. one of us made a cake, like we h 4(l watched mamma make. We didn’t forget the baking powder, either" The youngest had gone further and frosted hers with white and then out and got some cherries to lay 0D for ornaments. The older had p ut candy on hers and had also made a chocolate take. “Paua got u s i, ls , what we wanted ko cook with and went to work and we were at home alone and had his meals ready when he came home and he liked it. too. He thinks we can cook good. We made the beds and washed the dishes and scrubbed and took care of the house and had a good time." All of which proves that if you let the girls have the reins, they will get there—and take the right road. Right here, a preachy word. Remember that the little tots are watching everything you do and are going to remember. Not on«y do "little pitchers have big ears,” but no matter how small the potatoes seem to be their eyes are large and they do not wear smoked glasses. Now these little girls are bright, and their ability in wanting to "do things," i,s probably inherited, but there are others just as bright, and it is not a thing for girls to boast that they “cannot cook —even boil water without burning it.” I once heard a mother say in a bragging way that her daughter—she was a maiden girl, forty years or more

old had never made bread didn't know how. and had never tried. She was a girl who had always lived at home, ami while they were fairly well off, financially, they did their own housework, so that plenty of opportunity presented itself for breadmaking, it she had wanted. Too often the mothers are to blame for the daughters' cooking deficiency. They may be too busy to let them "putter" around and “litter" up the clean kitchen, or to teach them: they may think the trials and often failure; too expensive for the family larder; they may wish to give the little ones an early life of unalloyed freedom and pleasure. But is it pleasure to not be allowed to cook? Not always. While I learned early to cook—can scarcely remember a time 1 did not try. I • c .."ell remember when I oft-’n begged mamma to let me help do something she would say: “Run along little. girl and play; have a good time when you can. When you are older you will not always be able to do so.” And so I would go and w • I make mud pies and cakes and <o< i- - - and what not, and gather camomile Hovers for eggs and rag-weed s< -ds for pie-berries and sand for sugar-frort-ing and sweep our "play houses." and have a good time. If we had been given the real things in the kitches we would have had just as good time "playing" in the real wav, ~s with ihe false materials, and the results would have been edible end useful. We'd have had just as g<-> t a tints as with the mud. . The contention that girl; who to school and graduate dire, tly into fate work-world have not th-- opportunity to learn to cook. - proven false by the obsm .ions o! these two litle ?irls. Tl’c t ire not nearly ready to quit ached in ft>‘ one is in her first year—neither had practical experience' in cooking- ’ fl both were able to cook. became the’ had “watched” and had rem-inhered-You can do something if you want t»girls, and mothers, don’t tail to g |,e them the reins.