Decatur Democrat, Volume 36, Number 46, Decatur, Adams County, 3 February 1893 — Page 4

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®he gemorrat Wt'l '.v:-;:— — ■■_—= JV, BLAOKBVBN, Proprietor. FRIDAY, IEB. 3, 1893. jtatM o/ Subscription. One Year, in advance f 1 j'' Biz Months Fpur Months All subscriptions not paid during the year ■Will be charged at the rate of K-’.OO. eaoeln Democrat Building east side of Second Street—ground floor. Thk Coroner’s Office is vacant. Who wants the position? It is time that Congress deal with the whisky trust vigorously lad effectually. It has set a law at defiance to an extent that overtops every other monopoly. It is now estimated that the packing of the West for the winter seagon will exhibit a decrease of about 3,000,000 hogs, compared with the returns for the season of 1891 92. Oysters have advanced, butter and eggs are getting beyond reach, and now coffee is taking an upward Stride, to say nothing of fuel. The only consolation left is a big plunge downward in whisky, while mercury keeps at a low level Wk are in receipt of an invitation from the Fort Wayne Club to their formal opening, Friday afternoon, at 2 o’clock. The compliment was •ent by Clark Fairbmk. This Club is intended to be the most swell organization of the city. Their apartments will be on Harrison street, between Wayne and Berry. Thk road question is being agitated by all the papers in the state •ven where they have good roads all piked. They are asking for the betterment of them by improving them, and the by roads leading into them. Our Legislature seem to have the fever and are trying to hive us a law that will assist m the improvement of the roads. Our Congressional District- has another opportunity to send a cadet to West Point. This is a good ehance for some young man of enterprise to get four years of military discipline and a good education. Our part of the District has never been represented at West Point yet and there is no reason why that we should not have a cadet from Decatur or our immediate vicinity. To all parties interested we ask you to forward to the Adjutant of Sam. Henry Post, Decatur?lndiana, the name of any soldier of the late war, buried in Adams County, and whose grave has no stone to mark his resting place. The Government will furnish, upon application, a very substantial tomb-stone to mark the last resting place of any deceased soldier of the late war. The Post wishes to make out a requisition at an early day, so please attend to this at once. Wk have on our table a copy of ‘Dennis’ Fish And Game Talk:’ ( the salutatory reads as follow: Well, here we are, without excuse •r apology. Our object, to do good; our aim, to aid in the protection and propogation of food fishes and native game; our intention, to work hard, and watch close for valuable information for the general public, as well as those who delight in the rod and reel and dog and gun. Published Monthly at Richmond, Indiana, W. T. Dennis, Editor and. Proprietor, $1 a year. Thk Bluffton papers say they will be on the lookout for the Division of the Clover Leaf Railroad Shops; i “that it was settled long ago. Our i •itizens are only waiting for the I time, and when it ednies we expect I to step in and secure the plum.” ' We bear you chuckling yet, when Frankfort snatched the persimmons from you a few years ago in the business. We first heard (but hoarse laugh when you saw the Marion & Chicago, now the Chicago & Erie, come your way; it’s a very fine road* for you. The T. St. L. A. K. C. will bring their j •bops near enough to Decatur fee ' ub to hear that laugh again.

Thk pension payments for the month of January throughout the United States shows a decrease as compared with December of $1,000,000 This statement no doubt is quite palatable to the taste of the many kickers in the country against pensioning soldiers of the late war. We would like the pleasure of rightdressing a company of the aforesaid kickers preparatory to going into battle in defense of the Union, and the chances are two to one that they would all be cross-eyed. The Indianapolis News has a personal column of our Solons, among the rest is our “Dick” which they write up as follows: “Another member of the majority who is heard on most of the important questions is Richard K. Erwin, of Adams county. Mr. Erwin was a candidate for Speaker, and has positions on many of the important committees. He is a straightforward talker, and the House listens respectfully to what he has to say. As he is an old member, he is well versed in the manner of doing business, and his watchful care occasionally saves the House from blunders.” Tue State Encampment of the G. A. K., which ineets at Evansville on the fifth of April next, will request President Langsdale and the other representatives of the G. A. R. on the Soldiers’ Monument commission to resign because they have not only misrepresented the sentiment of that organization, but have labored persistently to defeat their wishes. No man with a proper degree of self-respect can afford to occupy such a position after having been charged with betraying a sacred trust by the men whose interest he is supposed to represent. Good roads are coming, tout they are coming mighty slow! It might expedite their arrival somewhat if we could all know just what they are intended for, and the way they are to come. In this connection we make the following statements. First, the main purpose of a good road is to serve as an avenue of communication between producer and consumer. Second, when they get here they will exist because of those who break etone and shovel dirt. Agitations, conventions, and talks are all right in their place, but beneath the smooth, hard bed of the road that is to be, many a finespun theory will lie buried for ever. ;■ AcgQUDiNG to the'report of the Department of' Public Instruction the number of sihool chcldren enumerated in Indiana is 776,403; of this number 400,103 are males and 376,360 are females. The number of males enrolled is 260,003 and females 244,959. The average daily attendance is 300,047. The number of teachers employed in,the different schools is 13,549; of this number 6,557 are males and 6,972 are females. The total amount paid these teachers every year is $3,872,,566. The number of school houses in the State is 9,873. The value of school houses, including furniture, •etc., is $16,003,712 and value of the apparatus etc., is £768,791. The total value of School property is and the average length -of school days is 132. The Islitd ot Hawaii is causing tihe United States some trouble at 'present. A large number of her 1 people want, to be annexed to Uncle I iSam, and in oiue time become _one •of the states «i>f this country. While ■ we might be side to use the Island for some purpose, it will only be a i sshort time until we will have the ' whole group of islands lying along there on our hands, and then 1 -Great Britain may -ask to be anI nexed instead of showing her teeth rind growling as sne now does. We I have not got turn expense of our lot ■of negroes paid for yet, and this j-country, will be foolish to contract j for aii'ither 101. Let them stay ' where they are and fight their way I to indejtendeuce as our lorefathers" i -did, they van then enjoy their freel| -doni with a better grace than to ll.have our country spread its pro- » tecting winj »s over them.

Rrvreskntativk McMui-r.cN introduced a bill in the Indiana House of Representatives providing for the establishment of the Indiana State Home for destitute soldiers, sailors, and marines. The bill provides that the Home shall be established on lands now owned by the G. A. R. near Lafayette. The management of the Home is to be entrusted to a Board of three Trustees who shall be appointed by the Governor. One member of the Board must be a woman who is the widow of a Union soldier. The officers of the Home are to be a Commandant, who is to receive a salary of $1,200 a year, and an Adjutant, who is to receive a salary of 11,000 a year. The bill provides for the appropriation of $158,000 for the establishment of this Home. This bill is qne of the most meritor.ous yet piesented for the consideration of our Legislature. It appeals directly to the sympathies of every loyal citizen, and it is to be hoped it will pass at an early date Wk are a little surprised to know that a few people of note in our handsome city object to what we advocate in our editorial columns. They suggest that we give more of the news and not so much talk about the Fair, good roads, Ac. We will take the privilege of kindly informing these people that we are here for the good of our subscribers and the people in general, and if we tramp on their toes they will please keep out of the way. They should do this without being tramped on. We propose to run the Democrat for the good of the people, and we are satisfied that to advocate something that will benefit every body is better than to publish neighborhood talk. Yes, we must have a Fair, better roads, the division of the Toledo, St. Louis A Kansas City Railroad, and anything else that comes our way that will have a tendency to better the condition of the people. We earnestly solicit expressions of our farmers about the Fair, modes of farming; or they may treat on any subject of general interest. We are a progressive people and cannot listen to the foolishness of fogies. If any of our farmers have any good thoughts in reference to the Fair, good roads, or if they wish to say anything about farming that will help the people, send the item to us and we will give it our consideration, and you may have the credit for the good done. We do not intend to kill off any drones, but we do not intend to allow them to do our business. Farmers, a word now and then will not come amiss.

A Cincinnati advocate of high priced necessaries of life recently asked the manufacturers of the west to report the effect of the recent election on their business. Indiana will prove of special interest to Democrats. It is as follows: Richmond, Ind., Jan. 21, 1893. • We have to say in answer to your inquiries of 10th instant that We do not see that bur business has ’yet Been affected by the election and have so far no indication of diminised orders for 1893 on account of tariff and silver agitation and have not reduced wages, but ouj business is not of a nature to be affected so soon by the result of the election and the change of policy likely to follow. Other lines will feel the effect first and we expect ours to follow in the near future in common with others from the unfavorable legislation, or the liability of it, and the mismanagement that will follow as a natural result, when the tintwrtfaj, incompetent and unscrupulous p>arttj, soon to assume the reins of government, actually get control. Hoosier Drill Company. The italics are ours, to call the attention of the Indiana farmers to the esteem in which they are held by one of the concerns which supplies them with a large share of their farm implements. Os course the Democratic farmer of Indiana will be pleased to learn of this estimate of his intelligence and integrity. Os course he will be glad that he can follow a “Hoosier Drill”,all over the plowed field from morning till night. Os course he will be pleased to continue to patronize a concern which pays him sueb a glowing tribute. Why, certainly! It wouldn’t be human for him to feel otherwise, would it? Every Democratic farmer in the State ought to have a copy of this letter pasted in his hat. It would serve as a useful reminder to him whenever he made purchases of farm implements.—lndiana'point Sent met, Jan. 28.

Wk have heard very mile talk about who the prospective candidates for Mayor were. It is nearing the time for the grand parade, so fall in line and avoid.the riislii

Wasting Money On Roads. The convention held recently in Sedalia, Mo., for the purpose of considering plans for the purpose of improvements for our roads and highways received from State Andtor Seibert a communication showing the annual road and bridge expenditures of all Missouri counties for the last two fiscal years to be as follows: For 1890, r0ad581.945,616 10 Bridges 1.M1.W7 07 For 1801. roadsx.tMl.MH 71 Bridges ’ ... 330,272 87 Total for two rears 65.hh9.1K4 7ft Total for roads a10ne4,(117,214 HI It is thus demonstrated that the people of this state have, during the past two years, spent more than two million dollars a year for the erection and improvement of public roads. And what has been accomplished? How many farmers are willing to say that the public roads within their knowledge are in any better condition to-day than* they were two years, or even one year ago? And it no appreciable good has resulted, why go on maintaining a system of alleged road improvement which takes the money and labor of the people and gives them nothing in return? Two million dollars a year for road purposes ought to be sufficient to secure many miles of good road. The extreme length of the State north and south, is 282 miles, and it has been estimated that a substantial macadamized highway can be constructed at an average cost of $7,000 per mile; so that with the money raised in 1891 for road purposes alone the people could have built a macadamized highway from lowa to Arkansas and had $107,698 left. Taking the expenditures of 1890 and 1891 together on county roads, and the average width of the State at .235 miles, a macadaamized road could have been constructed the entire length and also entire breadth of this State, leaving a surplusage of more than $400,000 of the money actually collected, either m labor or cash, for road purposes. This is not theory. It is a fact; it is a history. And it is also additional evidence that our existing system of making and maintaining roads is a total failure. With the people paying into their county and road district funds a sufficient amount of money every year to macadamize this State from end to end, and securing,in return only a few patches here and there, and a few days of scraping work which the first freshet of spring despoils, is it not time that the question of building roads should enter more seriously into public consideration and eventually into legislative enactment? It would seem that without paying another dollar more than is now paid, a plan could be devised whereby the money received from the people could be more directly employed in the construction and maintenance of good roads. Our $2,000,000 a year certainly does not go into anybody’s pocket; for there have been lew if any misrepresentations orjlosses of public money in this state. It is simply expended in frizzle-frazzle, In an attempt to put patches here and there upon old garments, instead of being made the means of contract work for so many miles of brand new macadamized roadbeds so much cost per mile.—St. Louis Republican. This is the same condition of our State, the large amount, of money spent each year is enough to make good roads on every fourth section hne in the yet we go on from year to year tearing down what was done before, leaving our roads in no better condition. While our law-makers have been discussing the question they have failed to give us the necessary relief that is necessary to improve the roads, the estimate made i n the above article is double what a mile of macadamized roads will cost in this State. There is no question!'/>ut that with the proper law we could get along with one-half of the road fax we now pay and have good roads. Condition of the Treasury. The fact can not be ignored that Uncle Sam’s money box is running behind. Every resource has been adopted to swell the revenue, including delay in prosecuting important pubik works, yet in spite of all this there is a steady diminution ot the cash balance. The facts submitted in Secretary Foster’s special report to committee on Ways and Means, are not materially different from his annual report, except they are of a less favorable character, owing to the of

a few more items of expenditure.

The Secretary claims, however, that there will be a surplus at the close of the fiscal year, aside from the $1,000,000 gold reserve, of nearly $21,000,000. To hold this estimate good, however, there must be an unprecedented revenue derived from customs. In this regard he estimates an increased revenue, but there is nothing to warrant such an increase as he U,»ll« out. On the contrary, there is every i.idieation to show that there will be a marked decrease hi receipts from customs revenue for the next six months or more, while within that period some heavy expenditures will be necessary.

Some large sums will be required to fill existing contracts in river and harbor improvements, for the new fihyy and for public buildings. Thestfarc contract liabilities and will reach a sum exceeding $25,000 000 to be expended before the close of the piesent fiscal year. Then payments are to be made aggregating £6,000,000 for the redemption of National bank notes and subsidy contracts. Aside from these there are the running of the government that will contribute to the depletion of the present small surplus. All in all, the outlook is not a cheering one. , This condition of the treasury has been brought on by the unexampled extravagance of Republican methods, which, happily for the people, are now’ drawing to a close. The redundant surplus of four years ago has been transformed into so narrow a margin that the country is now confronted with a threatened deficit. Things have been carried with a high hand in the matter of expenditures. Extravagance has held high carnival with our national finances, and it is time to call a halt. In the language of a contemporary, “the broad fact is simply that high water mark has been reached in the tide of extravagance that has been rising rapidly for years, and that there must be a return to a more moderate scale of public expenditure, avoiding further entrenchment on the resources ot the treasury and permitting a reduction of the revenue.” THE SHIFTED SCENES. The death of Blaine, Hayes and Butler all within a few days of each other is a forcible reminder of how few of the prominent politicians of the Civil War period now survive. Practically they are all dead. The men whose political action as party leaders forced the war are all dead, and their immediate successors, the men whom civil war and civil war politics brought to the front after 1860, are very nearly all dead also. It is true that a large number of men are still in politics on the strength of civil war issues; but they are men who bad hardly been heard of, if heard of at all, twenty years ago.

lit is..hardly possible that the Country can be* the " loser" by the great change that is taking place. The politics of the Civil War and of the ten years immediately succeeding it were so unspeakably corrupt that in looking back it is hard to understand how popular government could have survived. It was a time when a man who entered politics without intending to get rich through the breach of his trust was hardly credited with common sense by the men who had control of the; Country. They had the skill to identify themselves with the majority of the people by violent protestations of loyaltfy to the Union and by even more violent denunciations of rebels and traitors, so that it became almost treasonable to object to any larceny such patriots might see fit to commit in rewarding themselves for thei? devotion to the Union and their hatred of rebellion. In ten years more there will not be left in our politics a single man who bad anything more than a local reputation at the close of the war. It is already hard to find such. AU the actual le.adeis of that time are already dead or out.of politics, and their places have been taken by men who, if they are n6t better, are at least under the control of a public spirit that is rapidly recovering from the demoralization inevitably incident to any war and always ■’worse in civil war. Bad as they still are, our politics are changing for the better and are already a great improvement on the politics of the Civil War generation, Ground-Hog day was somewhat mixed, and it will require the decision of the oldest inhabitant to pass judgment to the contrary.

“MY Grocer put me onto J \\ and it does lud TVA\ u wljat he claims for ft? L.j soap. v your Grocerforit, apd insist on having it* THE BEST SOAP MADE fOR ALL HOUSEHOLD PURPOSES. MADE ONLY BY KK.FAIRBANK&CO/ Chicago. FOR Dry Goods, Notions, Groceries, Glass — -A.TW3D Queensware 5, 10 and 25 cent Counter Goods, go to Sprang* & True’s. You can see one at Yager’s Furniture store. They are , sole agents for this county. V. ZB. BIMOOELE, THE MONROE ST. DRUGGIST, Keeps a full line of Drugs, Patent Medicines, Fancy Articles, Tobacoes. Cigars, Ac. Prescriptions carefully compounded. Bole agent for Silverware and .Tdwelrv of all kind*. Call and see Van on monfloe st., decatur. ind. THEDEMOCRAT F’on. FINE .-. JOB • PRINTING,

Batties Fought on Sunday. “' Many oT t h most Tamofl®T“tiattles of history have been fought on Sunday. To go no further back than the beginning of ilie present century, the Globe-Democrat cites the battle of Eylan, won February 8, 1807, by Napokon over the Russians aud Prussians, and the battle of Friedland, June 15. 1807, won by Napoleon over the same allies, as being fought on Bunday. On Sunday, May 21, 1809, Napoleon was defeated by Essling; on Sunday, May 2, 1813, was won the victory of Lutzen, And on Sunday, June 18, 1816 was overthrown at Waterloo, Wellington, besides Waterloo# won several of Ins greatest victories on Sunday; being victorious at •Vimeira, in Portugal, August 21, 1808; kt Fuentes de Onoro, May 5, 181-1”, at Orthi-zs Feb. 27, 1814; and at Toulouse, April 10, 1814, all these battles being fougfyt on Sunday. During (he civil war tn this country the first battle at Bull Run, July 21, 1861, was fought on Sunday, and the battle of Cliieamaijga, Sept. 19 and 20, ended on Sunday. The battle of Shiloh was fought on Sunday and Monday April 6 and 7, 1862. Vicksburg was surrendered on Saturday, July 4, 1863, and formerly occupied on Sunday, the following day, and on* the same day Loe began to retreat from Gettysburg. Petersburg fell on Sunday, April 2, 1865, and on the following Sunday Lee surrendered. Nonce of Final Battlement of So Notice 1b hereby given to the heirs and legatees of John Tonnelller, deceased, to appear in the Adarue Circuit Court, held at Decatur, Indiana, on tbeSih 'lay ot February, IHWI, and showoause If any, why tne final settlement accounts with the estate ot said decedent should not be approved; und said heirs are notified to then and there make proof of ,l>olrahiii and receive tbclr distributive shares. Anthony Hor.Titoflsie, Adrn’r. Deoutur, Ind., January 18, 1883. 44 3 ■ ■

ar ‘ MRS. ELMIRA HATCH. HEART DISEASE 20 YEARS. Dr. XUm JTMKmI Co., ICUUbaH, Zn<f. Diab Bibs : For 20 years I wa» troubled with heart disease. Would frequently have falling spells and smothering at night. Had to ut up tn get out of bed to breathe. Hod pain in my left side and back most of the time; at last I became dropsical. I was very nervous and nearly,worn out. The least excitement wotgd cause mo to THOUSANDS S 3 with fluttering. For the Isst fifteen years I oou hl not sleep onmy leftside or bacVuntllbegan taking your JVew Hrart Cure. I had not taken it very long untU I felt much better, sad l ean now gleqp on either side or back without the least discomfort. I have no pain, smothering, dropsy, no wind on stomach or other disagreeable symptoms. lam able to do all my own housework without any trouble and consider myself cured. Elkhart, Ind., 1888. Mbs. Elmira Hatch. It is now four years since > I have taken sny< medicine. Am in better health than I have been CURED Heart Cure saved my life **** • and made me a well woman. lam now 62 yean • of age, and am able to do a good day’s work. May »tb, 1892. Mbs. Elmiba HATCH. SOLD ON A POSITIVE GUAMNTKK. TRY DR. MILES* PILLS. 50 DOSES 25 CTS* 4 Fits, Hysteria cured by Dr. Mlles* Nervine. Application to[ Liquor LicenseTo the citizens of the town of Berne, Adams county, Indiana. Notice is hereby given that I, Eugene Apholillmann, will make application to the Board of Commissioners of Adams county. Indiana, st their regular session in March, 181X1. fora „ o license to sell spirituous, vinous and maHLx liquors In less quantities than a quart at a time, at mv place of business In and al. fhp building situated on the following iJescrlbM promises. In the town of Berne, Adams county, Indiana, to-wlt: Commencing twenty t 2O) feet west, of tho northwest corner of lot number two (k>. Ip tho town of Borne, Adams county. Indiana; thence running south one hundred and thirtytwo (182) feet; thence west tw< ntv-four (24) loot; theiico north one hundred nnd thirty* l two (132) feet; thenoo east twenty-four <U4> feet to the place of beginning. 45-4 Kuubkb Aehcht,imann. Applicant,