Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 169, Decatur, Adams County, 14 July 1915 — Page 2

I) AILY DEM O('R A T Published Every Evening Except Sunday by The Decatur Democrat Company LEW G. ELLINGHAM JOHN H. HELLER Subscription Rates Per Week, by carrier 10 cents Per Year, by carrier $5.00 Per Month, by mail 25 cents Per Year, by mail .-..52.50 Single Copies 2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the Postoffice in Decatur, Indiana, as second-class matter. Dependable people want a dependable paper—therefore the Daily Democrat at tiie close of the day. Don’t you like to believe the advertising you read? Then those that appear daily in the Democrat. “It's not the town —it's you.” was the subject matter of Mr. Long's lecture last night, and it's exactly right. If you are not a success here, .the chances are about a thousand to one you wouldn’t be anywhere else. Quit growling and boost. It's easier. The big Chautauqua is on and it's good. The opening entertainment was high class and if you don't go ahead and enjoy the next week it's your fault. Good music, splendid lectures, morning, afternoon and night.. Enjoy every minute of it, and you will, if you attend. Every effort is being made for your eomfoty and the program includes delightful surprises. Yes. the Columbia club. Indiana’s most famous "blind tiger,” is securing new members from every county in the state. It's great, but why have it so tar away from home? It’s expensive and inconvenient to have to go all the way to Indianapolis lor a little "nip." It's funny that they can do things there that are not allowed anywhere else in the state. Mr. Rucker's attention should be cabled to the matter at once, and if it was a Jeffersonian club, it would have been long ago. ~ 1 President Wilson is credited with saying that he sees nothing alarming in the German reply. Even the wild and somewhat hysterical opinions of leading American newspapers seem not to have disturbed him. Talk about an immediate reply to Germany's latest note is mere guess work. The ouly man who is in a position to speak about the matter is Lansing, and he intimates that nothing at all has been done. He and the president.

WHEN THE “ THERMOMETOR Rises Don’t Let Your Temper Fly Up With It! We’d prescribe a suit of Palm Beach For that sizzling feeling-— They’re here from $6 to $9 Separate Trousers $3.50 THE MYERS-DAILEY COMPANY

however, have undoubtedly been doing some thinking about it, and will continue to study all phases of the situation. —Columbia City Post. Usually the big city paper likes to hand it to the country newspaper, showing thus their wonderful superiority, and the editor of the small town daily has become so immune to that treatment that he is scarcely able to stand flattery. However, such mention as the following which appeared in the Indianapolis Titles Monday afternoon is duly and truly appreciated, coming as it does from one of the best printed and edited papers of Indiana and the middle west: "The Decatur Democrat has added a linotype, the se-'ond, to !ls» equipment. Thisjmi owth and enlargement and is i?. ’.lr.--.ti'- ' success. The Democrat is a vigorous, clean, typographically handsome payer, which stands well in a splendid <■< mmunity. It deserves to succeed. : -id is to be congratulated on its grow COMMITTEE IS THANKFUL. To the Public: We wish to thank those who assisted in making the picnic at St. John's last Sunday the splendid success it was. socially and financially. The arrangement of the program was No. 1,” showed skill and ability and is certainly another success for Prof. ('. W. ifthnhaus. who was in charge o' that part of the program. The congregation appreciates his work. The children who took part also deserve

mention for their untiring efforts. Looking ahead for weeks to the day. they were ready and enjoyed the occasion immensely, as did all who attended. The Decatur City band certainly did its -part. too. in helping the picnic along. Loud were the praises from every one for them and we wish in this manner to express our thanks, and to assure them that their work was appreciated. We also wish to thank the large committee for their hard work. It was good. We wish to thank all who attended and to say to you. “Come again and we will try to do better the next time.” THE COMMITTEE. o PROGRAM IS GUARANTEED Superintendent Smith of the Hodpath Chautauqua lias received authority from Mr. Harrison the business management, to announce tiiat in case any person is dissatisfied at the close of the third day of the program or fear that they will not get their moneys worth to take their ticket back to the main office and their money will be refunded. The offer at least shoes tiiat the Redpath people are willing to back up their own siiow. o LEFT FINE BABY BOY At nine-fifteen o’clock tiiis morning the stork special visited the home t.f Mr. and Mrs. Burk on West Jefferson street and left a fine baby sen. The little fellow tipped the scales at ten pounds and has been nam' d George Thomas. o COURT HOUSE NEWS.

The board of review is still checking up mortgage exemptions and this will keep them busy through the closing day of their session, which is tomorrow. Some donbt as to their finishing by tomorrow was expressed. According to the Fort Wayne News a divorce was granted Hazel Johnson from Curtis Johnson, of this city. O—!- ■ LIEUTENANT CLAPHAM DEAD. R. I). Myers, in behalf of the Span-ish-American War Veterans of this city, this afternoon received a postal card from Columbia City, announcing the death last flight of Lieutenant Clapham, of the 160th Indiana volunteers. who served in the SpanishAmerican war. Many of the local boys were members of that company. The Columbia City Mail of Tuesday, contains an item that Lloyd D. Clapham was seriously ill and late yesterday afternoon was at the point of death. He suffered from hemorrhages of the lung and trouble. He was a jeweler. The funeral will be held Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock. O ; FOR SALE “I have a car load of good used Fords. Sold right if sold soon.” G. R. HILEMAN. 165t3 Willshire. Ohio. o LOST—Between office of Indiana Board and Filler company and C. A. Battenberg residence on Fifth street, diamond stick-pin, diamond set in center solid mound engraved gold. Fin particularly valued as gift. Finder please return to office Indiana Board and Filler company. Reward.

WHAT MAKES STARS TWINKLE Scientlet* Explain That the Rays of Light From Them Are Bent by Our Atmosphere. The question of childhood. “What makes the stars twinkle?'' was an swered probably by a bit of verse or poetic fancy. Hut men asking the satoe question sought scientific explanation and found it. Although we live upon its surface, we are not on the outside of the earth, but at the bottom of the sea of air which forms the earth's outermost layer and extends above our heads to a height of many miles, says a University of Wisconsin press bulletin. We cannot see the stars save as we look through this atmosphere, and the light which comes through it is bent and oftentimes distorted so as to present serious'obstacles to any accurate telescopic study of the heavenly bodies. Frequently this disturbance is visible to the naked eye, and the stars are said to twinkle —namely, to quiver and change color many times a second, solely in consequence of a disturbed condition of the air and not from anything which goes on in the star. This effect is more marked low down in the sky than in the zenith. It is worth noting that the planets show very little of it because the light they send to each comes from a disk of sensible area, while a star, being much farther from the earth, has its disk reduced practically to a mere point whose light is more easily affected by local disturbances in the atmosphere than in the broader beam which comes from the planet's disk. At all times, whether the stars twinkle or not, their light is bent in its passage through the atmosphere, so that the stars appear to stand higher up in the sky than their true positions.

ADAM SURELY TO BE PITIED First Citizen of His Time, But Had None of the Joys of Election Day. Adam was the first citizen of his time, but there could not have been much satisfaction for him in that. Election day was just like any other day to Adam. The. joys and the sorrows of the first Wednesday after the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November he never knew. He never marched behind a band, or never carried a transparency, or shouted himself hoarse for a stout stranger in an automobile. Not for Adam the bulletins on the screen; not for him the glad shoving to and fro in a crowd of patriots blowing fish horns. Not for him the thrilling news that somebody had carried the Twelfth precinct of the Fortyfourth ward by nine votes. Poor old Adam! Vnsought by candidates, undisturbed by machines, uninitiated in the mysteries of marking a ballot, he must have led an empty and colorless life. —New York News. Sea Took Toll of Daring Sailors. Intercourse between Russia and England began in the middle of the sixteenth century by the White sea. It was a hazardous and costly voyage. The crews of two of the three ships with which Richard Chancellor made his first trip in 1553 were frozen to death. Sir Hugh Willoughby among them. On his second venture in 1556 Chancellor brought back with him a Russian ambassador, Osip Nejea Two of the ships were never heard of again, and the Edward Bonaventura, after four months at sea, was wrecked on the Scottish coast. Chancellor, many of the crew, and seven Russians perished, but Osip Nejea was among the survivors, and the English lords and merchants went out in state beyond Shoreditch to welcome this “duke of Muscovia.”—London Chronicle.

Snowdrop Snuff. Those who have tried it declare that the petals of snowdrops, dried and crushed to powder, make a fragrant and exhilarating snuff However, some of our country folk, who fill their pipes with all kinds of weeds as substitutes for tobacco, might not care to hand round a box filled with snowdrop snuff. In many rural parts of England the snowdrop is a flower of ill repute. It is unlucky to carry the first spray of the season into the house and it is a barbarcus act to offer snowdrops to anyone of the opposite sex. Such a gift is supposed to imply a wish for the death of the recipient.—London Chronicle. Environment. To bring up a child right you will have to bring up its parent right. A stream doesn’t rise above its source. Many parents go waddling along through the world as if they did not amount to much, but they do—they determine the character of their child. Sometimes a child arises above its origin, but that comes because it has fallen into environment that helps it upward and onward. The greatest circumstance in education is environment. Some parents don't seem to care a snap for it. A Hopeful Motorist. "Dobbs is an optimistic soul. I believe he thinks he could find a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow.” “Perhaps he isn’t quite as sanguine as that, but he puts more faith in a tire than any other man I know,”

EARLIEST ECLIPSE ON RECORD

Chinese Astronomers Were Pqnlshed for Not Predicting One That Occurred 2127 B. C. Messrs. Hirayasna and Ogura have published fn the Proceedings of the Tokyo Mathematico-Physlqal Society the results of their attempts to fix the dates of some early eclipses recorded in Chhitpe literature. The earliest is mentioned in one ot the books of the Shu Ching, where it is recorded that in the reign of Chung E’ang. the fourth emperor of the Hsia dynasty, there occurred an eclipse ot the sun which had not been predicted by the astronomers wher were alleged tc have been drunk and to have neg lected their* duties. Hence the cur. tomary rites for delivering the san which should have been arranged in advance and superintended by the astronomers, were in the emergency performed by other officials without proper preparation. Tho emperor accordingly ordered the army to punish the astronomers. A later document makes it possible to fix the date of this event as October 13, 2127 B. C. (Julian calendar) — the earliest recorded eclipse tn the world. Calculation shows that there actually was a solar eclipse on that date, but probably not in China, though the elements of the motions of the sun and moon aie Sot accurate enough to indicate certainly the path of so remote an eclipse. The authors are inclined to think that the information fixing the date of the eclipse is due to Chinese astronomers of a later age, who calculated that an eclip.-e occurred on that date and erroneously upposed that it was visible in China.

FORGERS HARD TO REDEEM Os All Wrong-Doers They Are the Most Likely to Stip Back Into Crime. Alt who have had experience with criminals and their reformation say that the hardest to redeem arcforgers. The forger is more often than not a man of intellect and pleasant address. He is not intrinsically more depraved than other regular offenders, but the downward pull seems to be exceptionally strong on him. The most plausible reason advanced is twofold. Forgery is a crime In which the perpetrator seldom is caught ‘“with the goods." The pickpocket, safe blower or burglar runs a very real and immediate risk when he resorts to his “profession;" the forger's check is either accepted or rejected and at the time he is in littte personal danger. True, he is leaving behind iu most instances a plain trail and is sowing seeds of determined vindictiveness, since the victim of a fraudulent check is touched in his pride as well as in his purse. Another factor in the temptation of the forger who has “squared it” is the thought that he can piwk up easy tncney and then speedily arrange to have the check honored so that r.cone shall bo the loser. He is like the amateur till-tapper who calms himself by saying, 'Til put it back.”

Trees at Timber Line. A few timber-line trees live a thousand years, but half this time is a ripe old age for most timber-line veterans. The age of these trees cannot be judged by their size, nor by general appearances. There may be centuries of difference in the ages of two arm-in-arm trees of similar size I examined two trees that were growing within a few yards of each other in the shelter of a crag. One was fourteen feet high and sixteen inches in diameter, and had 337 annual rings. The other was* seven feet high and five inches in diameter, and had lived 492 years! One day By the sunny and sheltered side of a bowlder I found a tiny seedbearer at an altitude of 11.800 feet. How splendidly unconscious it was of its size and its utterly wild surroundings! This brave pine bore a dainty cone, yet a drinking-glass would have completely housed both the tree and its fruit. A Communal Oven. Tn the Argentina kampo (rural districts) there are still to be seen the communal ovens of the natives. These jboriginals are called gauchos; they ire more hospitable than Europeans. Ttie ruralit.es use those ovens in turn, each party doing his own heating or firing. Sometimes one senora-de-la-casa will attend to the oven heat and baking for a number of families—the stipulation being she reserve one of the biggish family loaves from each batch for her own usually bunny warren family. For fuel heat-4or the oven, the sun dried bovin chips ("cow coal”) is often used where wood is scarce. — Bakers' Weekly. Mystery Solved. “Who was the man who passed the plate (his morning?’ asked the new minister. “His name is Getsall,” replied the dfcacon. "He is a policeman.*’ “That explains it,” said the n. m. 'I was wondering why he neld the Plata behind him while making the collection. ’ Lots of Material, Bix—You never saw me make a tool of myself. Dix—Well, it’s never been tor lack of raw material.

lummnntntmnmnnttttttmmtnnnt: DOINGS IN SOCIETY I WEEK'S CLUB CALENDAR. Wednesday. German Reformed Aid— Postponed till next week. Friday. Zion’s Lutheran Aid—. Schoolhouse. U. B. Ladies’ Pastry Sale—Corner Monroe and First streets. It is not the quantity of the meat hut the cheerfulness of tho guests, which makes the feast. — Lord Clarendon. A number of neighbors and friends gathered at the home ot David Archer in honor of Mrs. Archer's fiftyfirst birth anniversary Jflonday evening. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bender. Mr. and Mrs. Harve Duvis, Mr. and Mrs. O. S. Fortney. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Durbin and family, Mr. and Mrs. Steve Longenberger, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Shirley and family, Mr. and Mrs. E. W. France, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Teeple, Mr. and Mrs. James Watkins, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Masters, Mr. and Mrs. Asa McMillen, Mr. and Mrs. Grant Syphers, Mrs. W. F. Beery. Mr. and Mrs Heber Bowen. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Durbin, Miss Tula Poling. Miss Bernice Beery. Miss Agnes Shafer. Bernice Masters, Howard Beery, Dan Bender, Glen McMillen. Harold Smith. Carl Archer. The Misses Ethel and Bernice Cottle of Wren, Ohio, who have been guests of Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Lawrence. left today for Van Wert. Ohio, to visit before returning hoiq,o. Mrs. W. E. Smith pleasantly entertained a few friends for dinner yesterday in honor of Prof. Lee dine of Silver Lake, Ind., and Miss Mae Lewis of Elmira, N. Y. Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Kist left for Marion to visit with Mr. and Mrs. Will Burdge until tomorrow, when they will be joined by Mr. Kist’s mother, Mrs. Belle Johnson. They will go to Martinsville for a stay of a week or ten days. o FOP. SALE Five head of youilg cattle- one sow with two calves byside.—S. C. Cramer, Decatur, Ind.. R. R. No. 8. 16St3

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Ma'am Tilly is a very good housekeeper. She is cleanly—she scours, oh. so brightly. Ma'am Tilly is thrifty, she is economical. She looks at the bright new red velvet carpet in the parlor. She figures to a nicety where the worn paths will he: where the sun will shine through the crack in the closed blinds. And then Ma'am Tilly rips up her old bedroom carpet into strips and lays them in paths on the new front room carpet. Yes. that will make it last—oh. years and years! And in the meantime all you can see in the parlor is the old bedroom carpet. But she need not be ashamed, everybody knows that underneath is the red velvet at $1.25 a yard. Then, after many years, when the "setting room" carpet becomes third-rate, it is delegated to the dining room, the parlor carpet is brought out to the "setting room and a new one takes its place in hte parlor. But. Io and behold, the parlor carpet, in the light of the sun. shows up its colors like a crazy quilt—yon can see a bright pathway ''mid the faded blooms. And Ma'am Tilly never gets the real enjoyment of her new carpet. First, it's covered up with rugs; and then it is uncovered and shows faded streaks. Why not use it “all over" at first to get the "good” of it and then when it gets faded all over, or worn out in places, put on the old carpet to hide the spots? Why indeed? Because she feels she would be a hypocrite if she did not

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know that underneath those old strips there was really the good carpet? Maybe. J * • * * • There are some good people, too, who hide their reolly, good, kindly natures, under rough, faded worn out strips of manners. They show their rough side to the world, having the consciousness that, however rough and ill bred acting, and brusque they may seem, they are, beneath the surface. "true-blue, all wool and a yard wide"—that they are not hypocrites, because they are better than they seem! True! But Why not show the best side of your nature to the world? What is to be-gained ? Preety soon, the brusqueness will become a fixed certainty. and even if the "rough strips" should be finally laid aside, the nature in all its unseemliness and uneven growth will be laid bare. Let the world have the full good of it. your good nature. If patience and kindliness and the other virtues become faded and thread-bare with use. Why, then there is time enought to cover up the worn places with the rugs of charity and forbearance and—others. If your clouds have silver linings, why, turn them wrong-side out and keep them that way!