Decatur Democrat, Volume 37, Number 15, Decatur, Adams County, 30 June 1893 — Page 4

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©he democrat JT. BIAOKBVRU, Proprietor. FRIDJY, JUNE, 30, 1893. ttstMOf SKbscriplion. Ono Year, In advance *1 50 Six Months 111 Four Montns All subscriptions not paid during, the year will be charged at the rate of KOO. Office in Democrat Building, east side of Sec- ■ ond Street—grounil Hour Remember, Keep Glorious the Fourth of July! Slavery and Polygamy ar| twin relics of Barbarism. The highest masts of sailing vessels are from 100 to ISO feet high and spread from <’>o,ooo to 100,000 8 juare feet of canvas. The Hessian fly is doing great injury to the maturing wheat crop in this country, but even their inroads will leave the harvest a rich one. Travel is among the greatest educators, and to derive the greatest benefit from a limited amount of travel, the World's Fair is the place to travel to. Mrs. Mary SvliJvax of the Chicago Herald, who is conceded to be the ables woman journalist in the country, commands a salary of *IOO per week. McKinley is the Republican nominee for Governor of Ohio. The wool question, in which he will attempt to “pull the wool over the peoples eyes” is to be the campaign cry. The Taxpayers of Wabash County may learn something to their advantage now 7 that the Commissioners of that county have been exposed by the Plain Dealer, .of Wabash, lhe article appears in to-day’s Democrat. Qne Hundred and Seventeen years ago My Great Columbia, yillbethe next number of the anniversary of American Independence. May the prosperity, good will and other noble achievements of the past be perpetual.as the rising and setting of the Sun, is the prayer of the Democrat. A Missouri man is doing a good deal 7 of blowing about twin mules which he claims to have. Naturalists £re authority for the statement that twin mules are almost as much of a rarity as hen’s teeth. The common sense solution-is that they are too contrary to travel in pairs. The Evening Journal, of Bluffton, ceased'ift labors in the vineyard of journalism last Tuesday. Its mission on earth was intended to be Populistic, but as that faith was'of a mushroom existence, in Indiana, it took on an Independent course. Its financial standing was of the hot-air kind, and alike the balloon of that patern, never go* out of sight. — u > It used to be common for auctioneers to lure an empty liou'se. stock it with carpets, furniture, pic- . tures, books, pianos and ail other Sorts of odds atrd ends, advertise these chattels as “the property of a family about to remove to the coirtf* try” and get rid of them at public sale. It was an efficient way of disposing of second-haqd things that would not have gone off briskly in an auction room. Auctioneers say that they do not.do such things now much. _Tuat the < hurt House, needs - -pamtrng, no one will dispute. ' Tiie bids for the work that were received by the Commissioners, were, in their estimation, a little high; here they are: $4.?5, $5.50,.57.tK>. The work is hazardous and should be paid for at a good rate, yet the Commissioners thought that the lowest of these too high for the tax-payers of Ad•urns County. Their duty, however, is to see that the County’s property is preserved, and arrange at once to have the painting done at a fair living price. _

THE COMMISSIONERS’ MISTAKE. ■ Tliey Award the Contract for Printing, Furnishing Supplies and Building Bridges With oul Asking Bids -Injustice to Taa-Pnyers. Monday afternoon the Commissioners of Wabash county, meeting not m regular session, because the June term had closed only four days before, awarded the contract for all the county printing, record work and office supplies, to W, B. Burford, of Indianapolis. None of the county officers was consulted previous to the letting of the contract, there was no attempt made to secure bids from competing establishments, not a word of complaint of the quality of the work heretofore done, or as the prices charged lor the same was uttered, but with a brazen disregard of the taxpayers, the county officers and the people who had furnished the supplies, entered into the contract ’with Burford. It was not until yesterday that the County officers themselves learned of the audacious act, and without exception these gentlemen expressed their indignation because of the outrageous presumption of the three men, who, elected by the republicans of Wabash county, have by their shameless disregard of law and wanton squandering of the people’s money, inflicted greater injury upon the republican party than it has suffered in thirty years by the attacks of the Democracy. So far as the Plain Dealer is concerned, its revenue is affected but slightly by the execution of this dark-lantern contract, but it does protest against the methods of these self-constitu-ted dictators, and it purposes making this protest effective. When, a few months ago, the Plain Dealer mildly requested the Commissioners to desist from letting bridge contracts in obedience to the oft-repeated demands of tax-payers, one of the worthy trio said that if this paper continued to criticise the Board, it would be in order to take the public printing away from it, and Mr. Sailors, of Liberty township, alone entered an emphatic protest. This threat, made in the presence of. a county officer, was .intended to suppress further newspaper comment upon the official acts of the Commissioners, but the result was not attained. To rebuke the Plain Dealer for its impertinence, the gentlemen called in the agent of Burford, and quietly closed a contract, which giyes the latter a monopoly of county supplies, formerly furnished by Wabash stationers, and the I’lain Dealer, at prices as low as Burford’s. The money which has been expended in giving employment to ; Wabash people, and to increasing the sales of Wabash merchants, is to go to swell the bank account of a man at Indianapolis, who has become wealthy in the pursuit of a shady business The Plain Dealer has had little to say respecting the Board of Commissioners, and it has been censured by the most prominent Republicans in the County because it has not denounced them and their methods. Mistakenly, bcheying that it would best serve the interests of the Republican party by maintaining silence, and, hoping that the era of reform promised would not long be delayed, this paper has refrained from criticising the Commissioners, until now silence would be admission of cowardice. From this time forward the Plain Dealer will speak its mind, and speak it freely, regardless of the effect upon the highly sensitive natures of the Wabash. County Commissioners.—AVabash Plain Dealer, June 23. A Mr. I’eaLl, who is a society leader* of no small calibre, has evolved an idee which mav be pro- ■ ductive in the. Tutureof ureat good. Mr. Teall’s ide • i is to abolish the custom of “■treating.” Just ho'w he proposes to bring about the abolition has not yr' 'r tn spired; but presumably he to make it the fashion here ift.er not. to treat, as it is now the I ash inn i , treat, Treating has cofne upon us as a fashion, and the easiest way to <tij»pose of it is* by an ilppiiiTtTT.t he eanie goddess. If Mr. 7'eall can Only make it tiniashidnsble or “not at all the tiling to treat, the victory is won.' Seriously, .ft ) S a grand jdea, and l-a'iight with inirirt use possibilities. It is a eomnion saying among the devotee s of tin- flowing bowl that it M* not regular dr;nkinjx..but “drinking between d,rinks” timt makes ineorrates; and for this peculiar form of indulgence the treating custom, is mainly, if not alone, responsible, lhe man who rlrink/i because he

wants it is in a bad way; but ho is by no means in as bad away as the man who drinks when he does not want it who drinks, that is, because he is asked, or because he feels as a matter of courtesy that he must ask somebody else. That is what treatsng is. A genial good fellow, who does not care a copper for a drink and is not even thirsty, meets another genial good fellow, of precisely the same calibre, and as an evidence of good fellowship asks him to drink. It would bo discourteous to refuse under the edicts of fashion 1 and so both take what they do not want, and in many instances would rather go without. But it does not end even there. The treated feels it incumbent on him to return the courtesy extended and the two again take something they do not want. By that time they have become exhilarated and begin to want or to think they want something to drink; and the result very possibly is an orgie. Yet either of the participants would admit, if his candid opinion were asked, that the custom is a senseless one, which has nothing but the fact of custom to excuse it. The worst obstacle to success probably is the ill-repute into which solitary drinking has fallen. Yet this, too, is a matter of custom. Intrinsically it is no more discreditable for the man who really wants a drink to go and get it alone, than it is for him to go alone to a restaurant and get a lunch. Mrs. Stanford is a remarkable woman. She keeps seven kendergarten going and has eight instutions for the education of young girls in various parts of the country. Sometimes she wears dresses three years old. This of course, is unnecessary. A brief list of her jewels as ordinarily described will interest the American woman and pay the best possible tribute to Senator Stanford’s qualities as a devoted husband. Mrs. Stanford is alleged to possess $2,000,000 worth of precious stones of one kind and another. These repose in a black burglar-proof, steel safe with a time lock. One feature of the collection is a necklace worth SOOO,OOO. Her sets of diamonds include one of pink diamonds, one of blue diamonds, with most attractive violet rays, a third withdiamond as yellow and very nearly as big as canary birds, and a fourth of diamonds of pure white. Mrs. Stanford’s sixty or seventy diamond Tings she keeps modestly strung on a piece ot black string, just as Senator Stanford probably used to string bis horse chestnuts to present them to his best girl when he was a boy. Mrs. Stanford entered with interest into all her husband’s benevolent schemes. She has jewels which used to belong to the Empress Eugene and others which belonged to Queen Isabella, of Spain. The horse whipping that the Democrat received from Asterics, through the Journal last week, was desejvingly applied. We can not retalliate by replying to the aforesaid b. w., on account of the withdrawal from the Democrat force of our religious expert.

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COMMENCE TRAINING. Here is an opportunity for some fleet-footed veteran of Sam Henry Post to secure a rich prize. Cleveland, Ohio, June 19, 1893. We have this day returned to every post the ainout contributed to this fund, enough having been received from other sources for the purpose intended, namely, to build and furnish a house to be given as a prize to the winner of the five mile “forced march.” The Indianapolis Driving Club have subscribed the sum of two thousand dollars and deposited the same in the State Bank of Indiana, at Indianapolis. This sum, with various articles of furniture, including the eleven hundred dollar piano given us by the Hallet & Davis Co., of Boston; a safety given by the Hackney Bicycle Co., of Cleveland, Ohio; a Wheeler & Wilson No. 9 light running sewing machine, and many other things too numerous to mention, will go to the winner of the “march” at Indianapolis, September Oth. There has been so much objection to building the house’ in Indianapolis, that it has been determined to let the winner have the house built where he pleases. The trustees only reserving the right to see that the fund.is invested in a home. All Comrades in good standing in any post are welcome to compete for this valuable prize free under the following conditions: All those w r ho enlisted in the year 1801 will receive a start of 300 yards; all who enlisted in 1862 will receive a start of 200 yards; all who enlisted in 1863 will receive a start of 100 yards, while all those who enlisted in 1804 and 1805 will start on the mark. This was done to equalize the ages of the comrades, and give all an equal chance to win. All entries must be made to J. L. Smith, Secretary, 229, Bank street, Cleveland, 0., by the adjutant, giving the name, address and year of enlistment of the comrade wishing to compete, and if any comrade should be falsely entered, he will be disqualified. Entries clore Aug. 15th. The first division, consisting of those who enlisted in 1861, will march promptly at 10 o’clock a. m.; the second division, those who enlisted in 1862 and 1863, will march at 11 a. m.; the third division, those who enlisted in 1864 and 1865, will march promptly at 12 m. After the command “march” is given, the comrades will go as they please, without assistance or interference from any one. Any kind of uniform may be worn. Accurate time will be kept ot the winner of eacu division, and the comrade covering the distance the quickest will receive the prize. The march will take place on the Indiana State Fair Grounds, the most beautiful in America. They are north of the city. To reach the grounds take the Illinois street Electric Ry., the College Ave. Electric Ry., the L. E. A W. Ry., or the Monon Route. Yours in F. C. & L., J. L. Smith, Sec’y. Nobody cab improve upon money that pays one’s debts and that is plentiful enough in the right denominations to stimulate industry and trade and develop the great natuial wealth of this country. Legal tender greenbacks receivable for all debts, public and private, is the best system of currency ever devised by man. All other kinds of paper currency ought to be replaced by greenbacksnot “payable” in any particular commodity, but receivable for all debts public and private, snd for all fruits of industry.

Now that Mr. Lyucb’s offer of $2,000 for the old Fair Grounds has been refused by the County Commissioners, will that honorable body please inform an anxious people what amount of money they are holding them at? The Massachusetts laws against the use of tobacco were at one t’me wry siringci.t. In October, 1632, a law was passed to th# effect that “itis ordered that noe person shall take any tobacco publiquely, under pame of punishment; also that every one shall .pay Id. for every time ne is convicted of taking inbacco in any place. This order to b. gio '1 c 10th of Noveufber, next. Judge Roger A. added laurels to his brow by refusing to instruct a jury in a criminal case not to read the newspapers. “They should read the newspapers,” he said; “they are men of intelligence.” That is the sensible course to take, and there would be little objection to it from anyone, if newspapers generally would refrain from the absurd habit ot arguing the merits of a case while it is in progress. A College dance is generally considered 'by young ladies to be -very good fun. There is an adventurous zest in journeying to a college and exploring it and meeting crowds of people you never saw before, and there is something wild and reckless in being quartered in an odd little boarding house, or more delicious still in some room in university hall borrowed by your entertainer for the occasion, with the owner’s photographs and souvenirs hanging about just where he left them. We have nothing new “onathe Fair Question” to give to our readers this week, regards to the action of our County Commissioners disposing of the old grounds, and applying the proceeds thereof to new grounds. While the Democrat would be pleased to make an announcement of this kind to its readers, the chances for doing so at an early date, are about 40 to 1 against us. Why such dilatorirress should be exhibited by our Commissioners at a time when an expectant people are waiting for immediate action and decision, we are unable to explain. Progression, thou art a blank! There are admonitions in the present situation which men of the entire country will do well to heed. That there is money stringency and a want ot confidence that is even more depressing in its influence, is universally realized. The labor market is glutted while the money market is depressed. More men are seeking employment because capital is retrenching by reducing the number of employes, and refraining from enterprises which would otherwise reduce the existing surplus of labor. Capital locked up loses its profit and labor unemployed loses* its means of livelihood. The former may sustain itself through a period of idleness, but the latter qannot fall back upon itself. Stringent times mean a distributed burden, and the man who works fora living cannot escape it any more than can the man who risks his money in the enterprises which give employment.

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