Decatur Democrat, Volume 36, Number 48, Decatur, Adams County, 17 February 1893 — Page 4

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®he democrat >. BLjLOKItVRN, Proprietor Friday, run- 17, 1893, Rates of Subscription* One Tear, In advance ” “ Six Months Four AU subscriptions not paid during the year will be charged at the rate of *2.(0. Office tn cast sale of Second Street— ground floor Will We Come To The Rescue? Someone said: “He that forsees trouble, suffers it twice over.” This, is generally the truth, but we must not infer front this that we must not be prudent and cautious. A business man must foresee results or failure is the consequence. The citizens of Decatur must feel an interest in their welfare. If our city does not thrive, business will suffer. We are not shaking hands with trouble before we meet it. Near fifty people within the last ten days have already left Decatur to seek employment. This will have a tendency to hurt business. We have already heard some of our business men say that business is dull. This all argues that Decatur must have the Toledo, St. Louis & Kansas City Division. It argues that new factories must be added to our business interests. It argues that more vim and vigor should beinfused into the lives of some of our business men. It is easier to live in a city when people are hustlers, than it is to live among drones. Decatur has always been noted for its enterprising people, but past credit will never make business hum. Men have invested their “good dollars” in business, little dreaming that there is a limit to the supporting capacity of Decatur and vicinity. We must have more business enterprises that will give employment to the people who are not in business. February 12 was the anniversary of the birth pf Abraham Lincoln. Those American citizens who have long been wanting trust for whisky say that the present whisky trust affords them no relief. One writer, speaking of the Sandwich Islands, says: “The warm tropical climate makes loose flowing gowns a necessity.” This fact was unknown to the natives until the missionaries arrived. 11,1 A Texas editor wants a law passed compelling actors to wear clothes in the stage. It will be necessary first to provide against the numerous stage robberies for whifih the Lone Star State is notorious. The California blow snake is said to think nothing of consuming half a dozen eggs at a time. With eggs at their present price only a California millionair could afford to keep a blow snake about his premises. Senator Sherman’s opposition to his own silver bill is hailed by his admirers as an evidence of his financial astuteness. These blind followers simply think that their leaders can do no wrong. Yet in this instance he is diametrically opposed to himself. The Bill to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling Railroad Companies to equip their ears with automatic couplers and continuousbrake and their locomotives with driving wheel brakes was disposed of in the Senate last Saturday,. The New Bedford Standard, recommends the Queen of the Sandwich Islands, if she has to give up her thrdne, to throw herself on, the hospitality of Boston, which treated her so royally ten years ago. The Queen had better think twice about that. Ten years ago she was a Queen, and Boston treated her as •uoh. As a private person she might get a liberal allowance of ’•cold shoulder.”

The world wants to know as early as possible whether hoop skirts will he admitted to the grounds of the Columbian exposition. A great many have stopped making arrangements until this’matter is settled. The health authorities at New ’ York have become thoroughly ■> alarmed over the rapid spread of • the typhus during the last week, and they are adopting heroic measures to stop its terrible progress. Great Britain leads iu the number of arrivals of vessels from foreign countries at the port of New ; York for the month of January ; with a total of 180. America comes next with seventy-five and Germany third with thirty-four. A New York crank has made a wager that he can go to sea for forty days in a dry goods box with nothing but a dog and a’spirit lamp to sustain him. The navigator may be allowed his own way, but the society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals should give the dog a show. Not a bad thing to paste in your hat, for 1893: Lent began Feb. 15 and ends with Easter Sunday, April 2; Washington’s birthday, Feb. 22 is on Wednesdays Inauguration of the President, Saturday, March 4; St. Patrick’s Day, March 17, Friday; Fourth of July, Tuesday; Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 4; Christmas, Dec. 25. Monday. It is a little remarkable, when you come to think of it, that New York, which was almost frightened out of its wits last year at the bare thought of the cholera, is entertaining typhus fever to the extent of 200 cases or more, without any perceptible elevation of temperature. And, if the doctors are to be believed, typhus fever is more contagious than cholera and altogether harder to deal with. Please put a pin m the fact that the Republican Senators have defeated action on the Sherman bill with no higher or more patriotic motive than to embarass the incoming administration. Nothing could better illustrate the purely selfish motives which control the policy of the party which has finally driven the people from their former allegiance. Senator Magee, of Logansport has won the hearts of the average country newpaper editor when he spoke in favor of the bill for printing the sample ballots. In speaking of the opposition to the bill among other sayings, Mr. says: “You would deny the man who fights for your party every day in the year the right to print these ballots. You climb over one another to put an additional doorkeeper on the senate force, and then talk of economy. No newspaper man has been here in the interest of the bill.” The State of Ohio is responsible for a good many queer tads and fancies, as well as for an exceptionally large number of office-holders. One of the latest takes the shape of a proi .uuciamento from the Boar 1 of Health of the State against kissing. The venearble Secretary of the board Im must be venerable—declares that microbes are extremely apt to be found in kisses, and warns the people against them He is especially impressive in his warn ing to clergymen who are accustomed. he assumes, to do considerable kissing in way, the recipients being brides and babies. I'he venerable doctor is ~ probably right. Thete is certainly something about kisses which distinguishes them from most other articles; and it is just as likely to be microbes as anything .else. Yet we are by no means sure that the well-meant warning of the secretary will have the effect he intends. The strong probabilities are that instead of proving a cheek bn kissing it will popularize the microbe.. The Lenten season commenced on last Wednesday.

County Fair. It 18 as we expected, Decatur wants the County Fair. The question of location Is a debatable one and in all essential details points to Monroe. The Southslders are an humble class of fanners and pay.liotnage to whom It is due but so far, we know no reason why we should go six miles beyond the center to a County Fair, through the dust and the burning rays of a September sun, while the North side sit in the shade and fan themselves at our expense. We hope our Northern friends will not ask of us a thing they would not do. We say for all innumerable reasons pointing to justice, we want a County Fair at Monroe. The Democrat of the 27th, said he did not want to argue the question of location, we take it that this is an acknowledgement of our right, and that to argue might cause local strifes that would be damaging, if not detrimental to success at any location, we must have union and fairness. The citizens of Monroe have promised to provide for all the home rations and transient’wlth meat; drink (water) and lodging. Howard Thompson said to put him down for one hundred guests. There Is ample room and supplies in great quantity. Now Bro. North Sider, we wait your further pleasure, but byway of a reminder, you have heard of the boy who said “he saw five .thousand cats In the woods.”— South Sidkr. Our people everywhere are in favor of a County Fair. ■ Even the South-Sider, who talks through the columns of the Geneva Herald, is in hearty sympathy with our efforts in every respect exceptjjas to the location. We did say that we did not want to do too much talking, but we wanted a Fair, and we know that talk without action never does anything. The place of holding the Fair should not be discussed for one minute. Monroe is not a good place to select, because the people can not be accommodated and we know that a County Fair can not be conducted on the “camp meeting” style. Before the County or a Stock Company will undertake a Fair enterprise, a financial success must be assured and large crowds must be attracted before a Fair can boa success financially. Monroe is willing to do her best, and it has a few energetic people, but that few including Howard Thompson, can not entertain the large number of people that is necessary to make a Fair a success. We are slightly acquainted with Mr. Thompson ourselves, and we think that he is only s‘gaffing” the South-Sider. He has better ideas than his triend credits him with. Mr. Thompson knows, if he has ever been at Salem or Monroe at a Sunday-School picnic, that it wos always difficult to get water enough for the horses. Half of our farm wells are dry in September. We think that Monroe has made a contract that she cannot fill unless the Fair should be a failure and everybody should stay at home. In a case ofjthis kind she might be able to provide the rations. Railroad facilities are not favorable, in fact nothing is favorable to a Fair at Monroe except that it is m the centre of the County, and that bears with it no weight. We will therefore not argue the point of location. It is not to be discussed. Too much talk tends towards st-ife. What we want is the collective influence and push of the people of Adams County and success is insured. The Democrat is not here for Decatur alone, but it is with the people, and any enterprise that will better them. If our citizens invest money in a Fair we want them to lie successful, and if the move is made and the right course pursued, success is ready to crown the efforts of our people.

A Question That involves Much.

The Indianapolis Sentinel voices the sentiment of the Democrat in the following article; The reputation of Indiana as a State and of Indianapolis as a city is involved in the success or failure of the Grand Army National Encampment more than in any other public undertaking of the past quarter of a century. If the members of the Legislature do not fully appreciate this now they certainly will have cause to later. The Sentinel hopes that they will not come to a realization of it when it will be too late'for them to d<s what should have been done without delay. If the Legislature becomes chargeable with dishonoring the State at this time it to be expected that it will exite the resentment not alone of the thousands of vetearns who have so earnestly petitioned it to join in a suitable welcome to the visiting r-oldiers next fail, but it will suffer from the criticism of all citizens who would feel the humiliation that would be brought upon the State An indication of the sentiment that would be likely to assert itself loud &nd long is given in the remark of Gen. Lew Wallace that “in no other way eould the Legislature more emphatically dishonor the»-State and in no other

connection could it more widely publish the dishonor,” Cost is of small consideration in a matter of this kind; the point Is that the city and State must not be disgraced. That is something that money would not wipe out, even if raised by the subscriptions of generous and public-spirited citizens who might hope to make less glaring a mistake of the Legislature. It is the hope of the Sentinel that the Legislature will wisely heed the petitions that are coming to it from all parts of the State; that it will heed the earnest appeals of citizens who desire that this great affair shall be made creditable to Indiana, that it shall be a fitting representation of the sincerity of sentiment typified in the great soldiers’ monument then to be dedicated, that it shall be in every way worthy of Indiana as a proud, a patriotic and prosperous State; for in all these respects the encampment affords us our greatest opportunity. The Mule Remembered. Mr. Julian Hundhausen, of Hermann, Mo., recently received cial communication from the Third Auditor of the Treasury, informing him that be had been allowed |6O for a lost mule. Not being aware of any loss of that kind, Mr. Hundhausen was at first unable to account for the communication, but he finally remembered that during his service in the Mex.can war he did lose a mule and put in a claim against the Government for the value of the animal. In order to satisfy himself if this was the ghost of that mule he wrote to his Congressman, inclosing the Auditor’s letter, and saying: In 1850 or 1851 I filed a claim for a horse and a mule lost in the service during the Mexican war, which, as I was informed at the time, was disallowed on account of insufficiency of proof, and not being able to furnish any other proof but that I lost them by starvation, —the Government having failed to provide us with forage—l let the matter drop. Since that time nothing was done as far as I know to revive the claim, and having no other claim except a small one for back pay—also originating from the Mexican war, — which could be substantiated by themuster roll, I would request you to find out on what account the allowance was made and to inform me thereof at your earliest convenience. The Congressman hied him to the Auditor’s office and was blandly informed that the was for the mule lost in the Mexican war. Thus, after more than forty years, Mr. Hundhausen recovers the value of his lost mule and receives an interesting proof of the infallible methods of red tape. The above is all right tn a mule case, —no matter how long the mule has been deceased. But if Mr. Hundhausen had been an applicant for a pension or an allowance of any kind for himself for injuries received during the Mexican war pr the war of the Rebellion, and died while bis claim was pending or in chancery in any way, the nearest relative to Mr. Hundhausen would not be entitled to any consideration from the Government, since the law compels the applicant to sign the voucher before the money is forwarded.

Our contemporary, the Journal, in its last week’s issue, struck the “G” Note of Journalism when it effused thusly: “Some people have queer ideas concerning the province of a newspaper; they seem to tiii nk that the pittance paid as a subscription is a great thing, not realizing that few papers are able more than to meet the actual expenses of getting out the paper with tlie money paid for subscriptions. If there is any money made in publishing a paper, it must be made outside of subscription; hence the editors space Is his capital, amt any demand for free space is a direct demand on his purse. If a paper is in sympathy with the place where it Is publislred, and is public-spirited; there Is no other institution in the community that does so much for the advancement of that community. And jet. as a rule, no effort is Jess appreciated. It is the custom with most papers to notice all meetings and proceedings of churches and societies, which are not productive to revenue, free; but it is only right and just that notices which are intended to bring in money should be paid for at the rates that other advertisers pay. Also funeral notices of ordinary length are made gratis; but when a long obituary or resolutions is wished, it should be paid for. Tills places ail on the same basis. Ail get a free notice of reasonable length and others may have as much space as they are willing to pay for.” The Time Near at Hand. Soon we will see our farmers plodding along through the mud, and hear them complain about the bad roads, the impossibility of getting to market. But when they are asked to contribute to help build roads that they can use at any time of the year, they are afraid it will

- U ‘f injure their near neighbor, or probably cause some farmer to sell his farm to pay his share of the building. It is uot so much the neighbor they feel for, but their own pocket that causes them to be so sympathetic with their neighbors Iu one settlement whore some of the public spirited farmers made an attempt to macadamize a road, were opposed by parties able to buy large tracts of laud, but who w ere opposed to improving roads until such lime as they had bought up all the land they wanted at their own price from those they sympathized with; then they were ready to see the improvements go on. Their neighbors, however, were compelled to acquiesce,— wade through the mud and be content. While the most of the public enterprises place a temporary burden on some, the value of good roads to the fanner always increases the value of the farm, by the owner being able to take advantage of the market in the selling of their products. Nativity of Convicts. The birthplace of each of the 763 convicts in the penitentiary proves an interesting study. Os course the home product predominates, but a total of 29 states and 11 foreign countries are represented. ,Tue figures are as follows: Indiana, 356; Arkansas, 1; California, 2; Colorado, 1; Connecticut, Georgia, 3; Illinois, 3£; lowa, 54;; Kentucky, 42; Kansas, 1; Louisians; 1; Maryland, 3; Massachusetts, 6 Minnesota, 1; Missouri, 12; Mich igan, 10; Maine, 3; Mississippi, 3; New Mexico, 1; New York, 39; New Jersey, 0; North Carolina, 4; Ohio, 91; Pennsylvania, 61; Tennessee, 0; Texas, £; Virginia, 5; WestVirgmia 3; Wisconsin, 6. Total 690. The forign-born numbering 73, are as follows: Canada, 11; England, 10; France, 1; Germany, 26; Ireland, 18; Italy, 1; Prussia, 2; Russia, 1; Scotland, 1; Sweeden, 1; Switzerland, 1; Grand total 763. Os this number 121 are colored.— M ichigan City Dispatch. These many applications for annexation are becoming as embarrassing as the wholesale matrimonial proposals showered upon Artemus Ward when the muchness of it overcame him. $40.00 Oratorical Prize. Wheaton, 111., Feb. 13, 1893. Secretary of the Adams County Agricultural Society. Dear Sin:-1 am instructed by the Faculty of Wheaton College to authorize your association to offer a Two Year Scholarship for the best oration to be delived at your fair. This offer is intended to encourage young people in cultivating the art of speech, and stimulate their interest in a Higher Education. At the same time we believe it would add desirable feature to the attraction of your coining fair. Will you kindly consider the matter. Yours Respectfully, D. A. Straw, Secretary of Wheaton College. The Fair is as yet unborn. But from the interest taken by the Democrat to have it materialized, we still have hopes of our people to conceive the idea of the benefits derived therefrom, and push matters to an early organization.—[Ed. There is no longer any doubt about Cleveland’s Cabinet being composed of *the following distinguished gqn tiemen: Walter Q. Gresham, Secretary of State. John G. Carlisle, Secretary of the Treas. ury. Daniel S. Lamont, Secretary of War. Wilson S. Bissell, PostMaster General. Hon. Bruce Carr, ex-Aud itoi of State and a <1 istinguished and popular citizen of Indiana died 'after a brief illness, at Indianapolis on last Tuesday morning. Mr. Carr was 44 years of age. He was distinguished as the youngest Indiana soldier in the late war, enlisting as a private when a boy of 15. It Is gratifying to know that the day is not remote when <>tir State debt will be nominal if not entirely wiped out. The increased revenues of/hcStateduring the past year amounts to $697,581.65 over the year previous, and this sum will undoubtedly be larger for the coming year. The lax law passed by the last General Assembly, while not perfect in all respects, will be . the means of improving our financial standing at home and abroad, and while it increases taxes, yet every patriotic citizen must feel that the time lias come for the State to cease borrowing money at the earliest moment possible, and in this era of prosperity no better tlmecould be found for increasing our J.- Chase t in liis message to the General Assembly. Whenwo find a Republican free from the political fetters that binds him to the parly, you can find him , favoring the new tax law, which they so vigorously attacked during the last campaign from the stump and through the press. Before another year passes by, the good re- i suits will bear evidence of the benefit of such a law.

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