Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 305, Decatur, Adams County, 21 December 1915 — Page 4

DAILY I) EMO (RAT 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 $2.50 Single Copies 2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the Postoffice in Decatur, ndiana, as second-class matter. STRIDES OF NATIONAL PROSPERITY: — There is neither check nor hesitation noticeable in the progress of business throughout the United States. All the factors which contribute to huge business, unparalleled business, are in operation evep with greater force now than at any other period of this marvelous development in agriculture, industrial, commercial and Inaneial lines in this country. If we take agiiculturc and exam in present conditions and future prospects we find the largest tonnage of aggregate crops ever produced were the country’s yield this year. We find the total average price of these crops at the highest for half a century. ,/( We find the markets of other countries swept bare of agriculture productions and urgent in demand for our supplies. We find three continents in war’s desolating and destructive grip, with former producers converted into consumers and destroyers, and many thousands of square miles of but lately cultivated and producing fields nowploughed with explosive shells and areas of carnage and starvation. The latest reports from abroad but foreshadow the extension of the desolated areas, the death of more millions of men. the still greater reduction of production in three continents next year and a consequent heavier and more urgent demand for the farm products of the United States. These same conditions will add to the industrial activities here, and also to those of commerce, for South America. Eastern Asia and South Africa, being unable to secure supliesi in Europe, will be compelled, weekly and monthly, to increase their orders to this country for products and outputs. With trade balances estimated by British experts as $1,750,000,000 for the year 1915 and at $2,500,000,000 in 1916 in our favor, and these to be paid in gold and our own gilt-edged securities, and with our own home production of over $100,000,000 gold from our mines and the elasticity of our federal reserve banking system, it would seem impossible to make a more impressing exhibit of solid

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’ finance than the United States can : display to the world today. t The world is our customer. The . world Is buying all we produce and r mt put, and the cash of the world is commanded by the outputs of our mills, shops and factories, the results : of American capital and labor cordtally co-operating, and while so coI operating placing our country far in • the lead of all the countries of the 1 world. ' The business conditions in this i • country are ideal, and at the same 1 time are most real. , One year ago. when the city of New York had a heavy snowfall and unemployed labor was given an opportunity to work by the street cleaning department, 42,000 men were busy on the street work, glad to have the / chance to earn a day's wages, and three times 42,000 were eager to be employed. This past week New York City had another snowstorm and there was work again for 40.000.000 idle men. The men were in the city, but they were not idle. There is work at the docks, work in Wall street, work at the railwayterminals, work in shops and factories, work in the machinery departments, work in the department stores, work in offices, work in the subways, work on buildings, work everywhere in New York City, and fewer than 8.000 men responded for work to clean the streets. We feel we need say no more in this editorial as to existing prosperity in the United States and of the fine prospects of its long continuance. —Cincinnati Enquirer. | DOINGS IN SOCIETY | S nnnnnnrTmtmnDnnrni'inniHmn* WEEK’S CLUB CALENDAR. Wednesday. L. T. L— M. E. Church. Thursday. Baptist Aid--Mrs. John Eveiett. The Baptist Ladies’ Aid society will meet Thursday with Mrs. John Everett. Thou’rt like unto a flower. So fair, so pure, so bright, 1 look on thee and sadness Steals o'er ray heart’s delight. I long on those golden tresses My folded hands to lay, Praying that heaven may preserve thee So fair, so pure, ulway. —From the German of Heinrich Heine Miss Marcella Kuebler will arrive home this evening from the Sacred Heart academy to spend the holidays with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Kuebler. She will be accompanied by two classmates, the Misses Ruth Alberta Weber and Clara Cotter of Union City, who will be her guests until tomorrow. Miss Alatilda Berling will be accompanied home by Miss Margaret Dillon, also of Union City, who will remain until tomorrow. A very pretty wedding took place in the Reformed parsonage at Vera Cruz, on Saturday evening when Miss Dula Moeschberger. youngest daugh-

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ii ter of Mrs. Rachel Moeschberger, was given in marriage to Edwin Beer, son ( of Isaac Beer, the Rev. W. H. Sehroer officiating. The couple was attended ’ by Martin Moeschberger, brother of 1 the bride, and Miss Kathryn Von r Behren of Cincinnati, Ohio. The bride B wore a very pretty silk gown, while the groom was dressed in the conventional black. A sumptuous dinner ’ was served on Sunday at the home of 1 the bride’s mother to which the two j Immediate families were invited. These young people come from two s of the most prominent and well respected families of Adams county. 5 They go forth into the world in this new relation of life with the best r wishes of all who know them. They intend staying with the bride’s mother until after March 1, when they will locate on the farm of Mrs. Kauffman, ’ near Pleasant Mills. • i Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Stewart and sons were guests of Mr. and Mrs. LA. Kai- ' ver and family at a goose dinner Sun- ‘ day evening. The Loyal Temperance Legion will 1 meet tomorrow afternoon at the Methodist church. The Henry Krick family will have a delightful family reunion Christmas day at the home here. The Sunday school class of the M. E. church of which Miss Cecil Andrews is teacher, was entertained by Miss Beulah Kenna last evening. The class was orgdnized at this time and the Happy Gleaners was the name chosen. The following officers were elected: President, Ireta Butler vice president. Geraldine Brandyberry; treasurer, Hallie Leonard; secretary, Ramona Smith; social committee, Beulah Kenna and Bernice Beery; lookout commitee, Gladys Flanders, Ireta Beavers. Games and social amusements rounded out the evening, which was thoroughly enjoyable. The class met at the C. F. Kenna home, corner of Court and Third streets. ARE MANY BRIDES (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Jones. With the club meeting only every week, averaging twenty-six meetings a year, nearly half of the meetings were either announcement parties or showers on the brides. o CANDIDATES. You are authorized to announce my name as a candidate for commissionl er. on the democratic ticket, third district of Adams county, subject to the decision of the primary election to be held March 7. 1916. 303tG / ROBERT SCHWARTZ. Please announce my name as a candidate for auditor of Adams county, on the democratic ticket, subject to the decision of the primary election to be held March 7, 1916. 303t6 JOHN MOSURE. ’ o HERE is a rei-.euy chat win cure most alt .k.n ant scalp troubles. Eczema, Barbera Itch, Itch, Cute and Sores. Why waste time and money when B. B. Ointment is an ointment of real merit? Ask your druggist If not handled send 50 cents to the B B. Ointment Co., 217 Monroe street, Pecatur, Indiana. ® fARH S2UUG 10 iiuuOO YEAhLY * yj, turt ths Skk aiUxwi C-njs r Wig LEARS METAPHYSICAL HEALING Aiycnr Cao Lear” At Home ’ DIPLOMA GRANTED $ Write Today tor Free Booklet Ijiia”Lin Metauhvsteal Institute, Peoria. Illinoit

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RILEY HAD TO WRITE JINGLES Former School Teacher Recall* Day* When the Loved Poet Waa Her Pupil. “Jingles” and not regular studies occupied tho school hours of James Whitcomb Riley, the noted Hoosier poet, according to Mrs. "Tlbby" Vlrey, seventy-three years old. of Athens, Tenn., who is visiting with Mrs. 8. A. Rice of Covington, Ky„ the Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune states. “In the year 1860-61, when I taught In the subscription school at Greenfield, Ind., Riley was one of my pupils, and, although he was a good student, he never carried off the honors of his plass. “His chief delight was to hide behind some other pupil and compose ’jingles,' as he called them, and when caught in the act always explained that he had to write, as the verses were always going through his mind. “Composition came natural to him and he would stop in the midst of a task to jot down some little verse. When he was about eighteen years old he ran away with a traveling medicine show and later painted signs on fences, but would stop work suddenly to sprawl out on the grass by the roadside and jingle.” Mrs. Ulrey attended the celebration in honor of the poet which was recently held in Indianapolis and she and her former pupil spent several hours together recalling the old schooldays. —■■ — o — COURT HOUSE NEWS Application will be made to recoinmit Miss Sarah Stepler of French township,, aged 37, to Easthaven asylum, where she was a patient from February 1914 to December 1914. The papers for the same were filed yesterday afternoon with County Clerk Vleeke by Justice A. C. Butcher and Drs. Rayl and Parrish, who formed an inquest board. Real estate transfers:Elsie S. Thomas to Lucretia A. Pifer. lots 1 and 280 Decatur. sl. Patterson M. Hearn vs. Walter C. Crampton et al. Second paragraph of answer filed by Walter C. Crampton. Charlie Marbaugh, guardian filed final report to Aaron Wailand which was approved and he was discharged from further liability as to him; his current report as to Cordula Wailand was approved and the trust continued. o DR. BURNHAM’S SAN-YAK Acts as a Living Antiseptic In the Stomach and Intestines. San-Yak prevents salt poisoning, that serious Illness from which so many persons of sedentary habits and advanced age suffer. San-Yak prevents clogging of the colon and caecum; hence its great value in destroying germs from undigested animal food which are a factor in the true cause of poisonous decom positions of the bowels, causing ap pendicitls, rheumatism, typhoid, dysentery and arterio sclerosis or hardened arteries. Heart trouble is developed through self poisoning from the kidneys and bowels. To maintain health all such poisoning must be checked, and you can do so with the use of SanYak. Take San-Yak; it is the greatest medicine yet known for man, woman or child. SI.OO per bottle. Sold by Smith, Yager & Falk drug store, Decatur, Ind. ■ o —— DEMOCRAT WANT ADS PAY BIG

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KITCHENER AS A PET ROLE WOULD COME AS SURPRISE TO HIS SUBORDINATES. Nevertheless, Graphic Picture Ha* Been Drawn of Hl* Friendship With Two Elderly Ladles— Unique Use of Gift. Many of the best friends of Lord Kitchener, the great English soldier, administrator and secretary of war, are women, despite the popular belief that he is a grimly uncompromising woman hater. In a recent brief biography of “K. of K,” Harold Begbie draws a most winning picture of his friendship with two of his elderly relatives—“two dear, diminutive old Scotch ladies who lived in Phillimore gardens, Kensington, by name of the Misses Hutchinson; and Kitchener was no dearer to these charming spinsters than they to him. “He wrote to them brightly and boyishly by almost every mail. . . . Before he went to Egypt for his advance on Khartum, these dear old ladies presented him with a gold-headed ’swagger’ cane; and when the advance was accomplished and the photographer arrived to make a picture of the general and his staff. Kitchener seated himself in the center of the group with this stick held so ostentatiously that the old ladies in Kensington could not fail to recognize it when the photograph appeared in the Illustrated papers. He sent them roses from Gordon's grave at Khartum, and coats of tho caliph from the Sudan.” Their house was always his goal on his return from distant service, and in it he W’as like a schoolboy, running up the stairs two at a time, whistling in his bedroom, going and coming as he pleased, and telling them such stories of his campaigns as no one else in London ever heard. They called him Herbert, pronouncing it "Hairburrt" in the broadest Scotch, and would sit on either side of him “studying his bronzed face with their small, smiling, shrewd eyes, teasing him, ’ chaffing him, adoring him, and giving him sound advice.” Later on in his triumphal career their “Halrburrt” once wished to make the little old ladies a gift so valuable and unusual that they felt called upon to pause and consider before accepting it. It was a gold casket—one of the many gold caskets presented to “K. of K.” by the grateful corporations of provincial cities. “Do we need it?" propounded the first old lady, pointedly. “No, we certainly don’t need it?” reflectively acquiesced her sister. “What could we do with it?" pursued the first old lady. But the second had had time to think. “Hum,” she suggested contemplatively, "perhaps we could use it as a tea caddy.”—Youth's Companion. - \ How Far Soldiers Can See. ' Some interesting experiments havebeen made in the German army with the object of discovering at what distance the recognition of one soldier by another is reliable. For soldiers with good eyes it was found that a person seen once before could be recognized at a distance of 80 feet, while an acquaintance could be recognized at a distance of 300 feet, and an intimate friend or relative at a distance of 500 feet. • The various parts of a man's body can be distinguished and any decided movement can be detected by an expert rifleman at a distance of 300 feet. At 1,800 feet, a man appears as a spot on the landscape and cannot usually be he keeps still or if his dress does not contrast with the background. Sailors, hunters and fawners can usually see twice these distances, probably on account of their constant training in making out the nature of distant objects. Submarine Treasure. A boat is now being built to locate submarine treasure. The new submarine consists of a steel sphere, eight feet in diameter and capable of carrying two workmen. It is designed to be lowered into'the water from a tender. but is provided with electricallydriven propellers by which it can be moved about in the water as it hangs at the end of the cable. One of its. essential features is a set of four elec-tro-magnets, which, when energized by current from the motors within the sphere, serve to hold it securely to the steel hull of a sunken ship. Current for the operation is supplied through a cable running down from the tender. In addition to this equipment it will be provided with electric drills for piercing the side of the ship, and with a powerful searchlight for working purposes and for exploring the bed of the ocean when the exact location of a sunken ship is not known. Curious Italian Ambulance. There is a vast difference between real warfare and dress parade. Under the exigencies of a difficult campaign one must put up with makeshifts mprovised from the readiest means it hand. An illustration in point is io be found in a recently taken pho;ograph of a curious ambulance used by the Italians In the fighting in the Alps. This Is really a large sled, fitted with two small wheels. The sled runners permit of hauling this ambulance over bare stretches of ground. The sure-footed little donkey Is the best means of locomotion for this type of vehicle. An ambulance of ordinary j proportions could not be used on many of the narrow roads and pathways of the Italian Alps.—Scientific Amgrtcau.

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“Wear-Ever” Aluminum Ware, Food Cutters, in fad everything needed to make the work of the housewife in the kitchen lighter and more enjoyable. You will find our stock of these goods complete. While other stocks of more meager selection are roken at this season, we have been able, by buying in advance of our present needs, to fill all the requirements of our customers in these lines and to oiler special inducements in the way of price and quality, such as you will not find eslewhere. THE BROCK STORE. SPECIAL EXCURSION i'ARK TO Winter Tourist Destinations VIA CLOVER LEAF ROUTE See Clover Leaf Agents, or write Chas. E. Rose, G. P. A., Toledo, for particulars. Z W A "' <SAVINGS J CHRISTMAS 1916 1 The question of money is quite apt to mar the joys of Christmas giving. Tins problem can be easily solved for next year, however, by every one who will I i take out a membership card for this purpose in the Thrift Christmas Club I This club is one feature of the service offered the people of this city by t r e Thrift Department of this bank. The purpose of this department is to give organized assistance in the solving of all financial problems. The C n irstmas money problem is common to all —old and young, rich and poor. It does not matter how much you wish to save for Christmas. There are so many plans available that you will find one to suit your needs. A XMAS GIFT—A membership card in.the Thrift Club will make a splendid Christmas gift to some member of your family. Sixteen different plans. COME AND LET US EXPLAIN. NO DEPOSITS REQUIRED UNTIL AFTER CHRISTMAS. WE PAID FOUR PER CENT IN 1915. i i WE PAY FOUR PER CENT IN 1916. I CLUB OPENS DECEMBER 27. I THE PEOPLES LOAN AND > p TRUST COc

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