Decatur Democrat, Volume 41, Number 20, Decatur, Adams County, 29 July 1897 — Page 6

THE DEMOCRAT BVEKY THURSDAY MORNING BY LEW G. ELLINGHAM, PUBLISHER. 51.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. Entered at the Postofflceat Decatur. Indiana as Second-Class Mail Matter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUNTY. -vr—w--w -v—V—v-rw-v—v--v-u— FOOR PRINTING PT-YS —< POOR PROFITS. We get out a class of printing J that is superior to the "general 4 j run." Good printing pays. J DEMOCRAT J k B'>OK AND JOB 8 I | PRINTERY. THURSDAY, JULY 29. Turn on the lights. Turn on the lights. ?— ——- Turn on the lights. Turn on the lights. William Page, editor of the Fort Wayne News, has been appointed by the president, postmaster j of that city. He will succeed H. | C. Kockhill, both newspaper men. More baby plays—the council passed a “resolution” offering to pay Eii wards SSO for his lights, but . afterwards skinned ’er back, and resoluced not to resolute. Nothing like having a government by resolution. Turn on the lights. When a man, in a bully-ragging manner, very demonstratively informs us that be would pay a tine to knock us into the middle of nex’ week, and when that man happens to be a street commissioner, we feel constrained to say that he will spend more time shooting off his mouth than he does trying to till the office for which he has been ' selected. Now that the gentleman who is I making a vain endeavor to fill the • important office of street commissioner, is so mad that he could | easily bite a nail in two, we hope he will quietly remove the last remains of Decatur’s Fourth, which already stinks very loud on Monroe j street. The health ot the people [ in that immediate vicinity demands : this attention The streets of the city should be lighted, and that at the present time, without waiting for the consent of any other nation or for the building of another electric light plant. The numbers of the council j should throw aside their grievances and do their duty as it presents itself and not as they might like it. The people and their property j should receive some consideration Turn on the lights. Whither are we drifting. We have drifted into a darkness that is blacker than hades and dangerous j to the safety of human life. Under j the present condition even a mem ber of the select council might sus tain injuries that would cost the city a tew thousand by the damage . suit route. Whether they are some- j what pinched with “Hanna prosperity,” and will take advantage of the present period ot darkness, to chalk up, we are not able to state.

William D Bynum, the political change artist, woo performs on the , Grover Cleveland stage of democracy, was recognized on the floor of the ; house last Thursday. Bynum had a far-away look in his eyes; he was evidently thinking of by gone days; I his face suggested the thought ot Tom Moore’s lines, “’Twas ever I thus since in childhood’s hours I’ve seen my fondest hopes decay.” This is true, the gold standard democracy is fading fast; Cleveland, Bvnum & Co., will soon be asking each other, ‘where are our men of might and grand in soul.’ and the answer will reach back, ‘Gone glimmering through the mist of things that were” ’’ The Journal’s respect forthe protection of our voung ladies is somewhat remarkable. That newspaper in commenting upon the lantern brigade, said that it was constituted by the “marriageable young ladies who have good complexions which they are anxious shall not be obscured by darknes’.” Isn’t that a brilliant effort to defend the miser able actions of a council, who have reduced this city to darkness and removed the only protection given the daughters and wives who are compelled to absent themselves from home after sundown. This thing of turning the property of the people over to the midnight plunderer, and the virtue of onr homes to the insulting off-scourings of the masher, is deplorable and should not be longer considered by any council of men. Turn on the lights.

Be it resolved that Jud T.eple be res’rained from further voting “No.” I' is m>t right. We present you the tariff law complete this week, increasing the paper to twelve pages in order to place that monstrosity before you m all it’s glaring details, including that “infant industry” the sugar trust. The action ot Governor Mount in issuing a proclamation calling for aid for the suffering coal miners j in the state, was commendable on the part of the chief executive, and should meet with a hearty response bv the people of the whole state. Secretary Sherman’s departure before the adjournment of congress for a Long Island summer resort, was regarded as additional proof that he has very little to do with the official business of the department ot state. In fact, uis hinted bv some that Mr. Sherman intended to emphasize that very thing, by his going. Senator Filler's arraignmen* of the republican tariff bill, now the law of the land, was one of the bitterest pills the republicans have had to swallow in a long time. Mr. Teller, who is a protectionist, characte the bill as vicious, unfair, extravegant and unsatisfactory; and as having been framed entirely in the interest of trusts and syndicates ’— The street commissioner draws a salary of SSOO a year. Take this in connection -* ith the $2,000 awarded Stoops, and the expense the city sustained in going through the trial which perhaps will be SSOO more, and it will totalize $3,000, which the people of this city will have to pay for this luxury. You could employ good one tor one-sixth the money. The street commissioner wears his war paint with due regularity, this hot weather. About sixteen times | every day he whips—with his mouth—the entire force at this office. Our- readers will appreciate the nervous state that surrounds us. We have arranged with our executor for the prompt continuance of the paper, in case our mission upon earth, abrup'ly ends - 1 - 1 ."'I 1 Neither Boss Hanua nor Mr. McKinley are entirely satisfied with the work of the extra session of congress just closed. The tariff bill pleased them all right; it more than repaid their campaign obligations to the trusts, not to mention the ■ $32,000,000, made by the sugar trust and its friends while the bill was pending. Mr. McKinley, in his | special message sent to congress only a few hours before adjournment, asking for authority to ap- I point a currency commission, quoted the Indianapolis banker's convention as though it had been the assembled financial wisdom of the world, but that d'dn’t bring the legislation a-ked for. It is a very bad tariff bill. It is i the very worst tariff bill ever writ-' ten. It takes more from the peop'e in proportion to what it gives the j treasury than any other tariff bill ever framed. It gives more to the trusts and monopolists than any other, and gives it with less excuse than was ever before known. There has been no pretense in its passage of answering the cry of “infant industries.” There has not even been the plea ot revenue necessity, for the most strenuous advocates ot the bill have admitted that for at least a year to come it cannot produce an adequate revenue while its effects after that must depend upon trade conditions not now to be foreseen —New York World (dem.)

The Dingley tariff is now a law in effect and force after 4:15 last Saturday, at which time President McKinley attached ins signature to that long winded document. By its provisions the masses and common people of this country will be compelled to pay more of their daily earnings and capital for every-| thing they eat, drink, wear or in any way consume. This is done in order to protect and pay tribute to the trusts and moneyed corporations of this country in their mad ru-<h to accumulate wealth, with which they will still further trample under foot the civilized rights granted by the constitution to the freeman oi America. Equal rights to none and special privileges to the trusts, is written in every page of that law. This fact is so boldly acknowledged that many republican senators and representatives were obliged to close their eyes to its many infamous iniquities when they answered aye to the roll call. With our usual progressive spirit we present the measure in full, in this issue, with a few comparisons with the late tariff law. Our many farmer friends should study it carefully, and then preserve it for future reference. It will become valuable as such.

TURN ON THK LIGHTS. The Democrat has been overrunine with lurid and ii flammatory articles about the action ot the city council for the past month. —Journal. The “lurid and inflammatory articles” contained nothing but a righteous condemnation ot the council for not ordering a published ■ statement of the city’s financial condition; for shutting off the lights on ihe street and exposing our people I and their property to the evil designs of the prowler and plunderer; for granting a franchise to the Electric Light Company, a corpora non that will not invest a cent of their own capital, but which was organized in order to evade the law. We plead guilty to the charge of “inflaming” somewhat upon the questions as above stated, but the I Journal never has nor can’t now defend the council’s position on these questions, and do it with a conscience that is clear. The Journal believes tb it it is the duty ot a party paper to advocate right and’that eventually it will command more respect if it has the conviction of its opinions —Journal. The Journal has been mum as an oyster about the chirges made against the council, until last week. About this time the working majority of that body, personally waited upon Bro. Evarts and demanded defense at his bauds. In case defense was not forthcoming, the city printi ing would be forfeited. This was a sad blow for where there was one republican who favored the Kilkeney methods of the council, there was a dozen who condemned it, and I wasn’t mealy mouthed about n ! i either. This sorter placed the I Journal editor between thedevil and the deep sea, but the loss of the city printing could uot be considered, so ; last week theJourual began its weary I task by a long string of balderdash, that defended nothing. We hope it answered the purpose for which it was intended—that of tickling I the vanity of the city dads.

A waterworks system that would cost little or nothing would be worth exactly the same amount In the expenditure for its erection no officer connected with it, democrat or republican, has been accused of appropriating or misdirecting one cent. The Democrat dare not make the same assertion ot the county government during the past four years. —Journal. That’s where you are wrong neighbor. We have before and do now most emphatically deny the insinuation that any county officer has misappropriated one cent ot public money entrusted to their care or keeping. It the Journal knows to the contrary they will please so state, giving full information upon the subject. The Journal for a year or more has been dealing in generalities, in which it has reflected upon the integrity and honesty of every court house official, in all of which there was no merit and but little decency. The Democrat never contended that any councilman received a “divy” from the waterworks, so the above amounts to nothing, only to continue their vile slander upon the county officials, who, unfortunately for the Journal, happens to be democrats.

Ab we understand it every dollar of indebtedness, accepting a few hundred dollars outstanding orders, outside of the waterworks bon< s which 80 per cent, of our voters instructed our council to issue, is the legacy handed down by a democratic administration which left not even as much as a decently I paved street to show for the thousands of debts they left. Yet that is the j kind of a government the Democrat is advocating a do-nothing debt-making democracy.—Journal. When the democrats turned over the keys to the present management, | they also turned over a bonded in- | debtedness of $22,000. Last year $2,000 of this amount was paid, and : the other $20,000 refunded. Besides this the republican administration I now in power have improved Main j and Court street with brick, and macadamized Third, Fifth, Seventh, Eighthand Jefferson streets, built the waterworks, increased the tax levy nearly twenty-five per cent, I and at the same time enjoyed the money derived from increased valuation, which is no small item. During this administration only #2,000 i of the old indebtedness has been paid—a debt paying administration (?). The democrats have improved Second, Monroe twice, Madison twice, Winchester twice, Mercer twice and Adams twice, and left no unpaid orders for their successors. Had the old city government formed a stock company and issued trust mortgage bonds, &c., there would be no city bonds unpaid. The Journal admits it has doubts as to the advisability of the city undertaking the operation in the case in Decatur. A council will probably be elected next spring on the ground of no further improvements. That will be the democratic slogan aa it always has been in both local and national politics. And if we are to judge of the counclimen they will give us by the commissioners they have furnished the county the chances of a successful administration of the plant would be very hopeful.

Something Entirely New! We have just received a shipment of the new Ultra fashionable Howard Stiff and Flange Brim lints in all the new colors of Green, Brown, Black and a new shade of Blue. If you see them you will surely BUY ONE. We still have a ?ood assortment of Summer Clothing and Straw Hats which wc are selling at Reduced prices. We must have room for our fall goods. These are bargains for you, at P. Holtholisc # Go.

A council which, like our commissioners are either incompetent or unwilling to discover a thief in their own party when public funds are stolen in wholesale manner would encourage peculalion and theft in the management of our city institutions. And that is the reason the Journal hesitates to indorse the project of municipal ownership of Decatur’s electric light plaut.—Journal If the council stood as near the people as the commissioners do, they would furnish the taxpayers of the city with an exhibited statement, showing whether or not the funds and taxes ot the city were properly paid out and accounted fir. While we haven’t any bes>tency in saying that we firmly believe that the money ha* ail been paid out according to the order of the council, but the people are entitled to know how the money babeen expended, and whit the council, by order, has done with it. I: regard to the alleged shortage in the county, the commissioners did their whole duty—seen that the money wa< replaced. Tney could not be expected to do what a grand jury—and a republican grand jury at that—failed to do. They are no court of trial. They found the discrepency, saw that it was made good ami thereby complied with the fulfillment of their official dutv. They did this in an opeu handed way, and for which should receive commendation instead of cheap political censure. The Journal don’t need to be alarmed. The democrats have given the city a good administration of improvement where necessary, and they will do it again, and they won’t need to form a stock company to do it either.

FACTS IN A FEW LINES. London’s population increases by 70,COO each year. There are said to be over 8,000,000 deities in the Hindoo mythology. Scotchmen have almost entire control of the stonecuttiug industries of New York. Since 1870 Victoria, Australia, has voted more than $500,000 for the destruction of rabbits. In moving about from one place to another the people of England spend about $750,000 a day. The common measure of road distance in France is the kilometer, or 1,000 meters, a little over three-quarters of a mile. The elephant is a wise beast, but there are some who will argue that he has a depraved taste. He is fond of gin, it is said, but will not touch champagne. The Chinese are a cheerful people. In China while the dentist pulls the tooth an assistant stands by and drowns the lamentation of the victim in the noise of a large gong. An order of precedence is the order in which individuals are entitled to prei cede or follow each other in state cere- ■ menials or public occasions when processions of the nobility are formed. Thirty-five sovereigns have ascended the English throne since the time of William the Conqueror, every month except May witnessing the coronation of one or more; that month not one. By an Italian law any circus which does not perform every act promised in the printed programme or which misleads the public by means of pictures is liable to a fine of SSOO for each offense. Ellen Lee and Hannah Silmon, two gypsies, were sentenced to a mouth’s hard labor each at Exeter, England, recently for obtaining $320 and goods by promising to “rule the planets” for a married couple. An observer at Dumfries, Scotland, says that there is a stretch of heather in that district which in the season of bloom is simply swarming with bees, and the nearest hives are from six to

seven miles distant. The Japanese do not take to fiction. Os 27,000 books published in the mikado’s empire last year only 462 belonged to that class Works on philosophy, the arts and sciences and religion stood the farthest up in the list. An auditor in a Japanese theater is allowed, for a small fee, to stand up, and the unfortunate individual behind him has no right to remonstrate or to rise and get a peep at the stage. He may hear, but he cannot see. Fresh charcoal is readily eaten by all kinds of poultry, including ducks, geese, turkeys, guineas and chickens. It serves as a corrective when they have been confined too closely on one kind of food, and it also promotes digestion. The sultan of Turkey not only has a rigid censorship of the press, but he bus ordered that no newspapers be published until the afternoon, so that the censors will uot have to forego their morning nap in order to supervise them. In one consignment recently a feather dealer in Loudon received 6,000 birds of paradise, 360,000 birds of various kinds from the East Indies and 400,000 humming birds. In three months another dealer imported 356,398 birds from the East Indies. In Whitneyville, Me., is a hen that catches and kills mice as readily as a cat does. She stands near the grain barrels in the barns and with one downward peck strikes the rodents to such good purpose V iat she is soon able to finish them. Though the Russian language is almost universally spoken throughout the empire by the educated classes the number of tongues in use by the people is even greater than among the medley of races which compose the Austria-Hun-garian emp.re.

Water hycacintbs have at last been found good for something, according to a property owner up the river from Jacksonville, who says that after putting some of them on a theretofore sterile field and plowing them under he was able to grow good crops on the land. At the recent meeting of patent agents in London Mr. J. Sinclair Fairfax said that the cycle industry now gives employment to nearly 33,000 work people in Birmingham and Coventry alone and that the total output in England is about 750,000 wheels per annum. The herd of European bisons protected by the czars of Russia in the forest of Bjelowski, Lithuania, numbered 1,900 in 1856, but is now reduced to 500 and shows no sign of increase. The dwindling of the herd is ascribed to inbreeding, due to the confined area of the reservation. It is announced that Mr. Forsyth, a British naturalist in Madagascar, has discovered the skull of a large monkey as tall as a man. The jawbone was recently exhibited at the Academie des Sciences, Paris, by M. Gaudry, and the teeth prove that the animal was allied to the monkeys of the old world. The oldest industry in Britain is still carried on at the village of Brandon, on the borders of Norfolk and Suffolk, and is in a flourishing condition. It is a manufactory of gun and tinder box flints. It appears that there is no regular flint factory, but the work is done in little sheds, often at the back of the townsfolks’ cottages. When one reads that a device has been patented in England for supplying watches with incandescent light without increasing the size of the watch case, wonder grows from more to more —first, wonder how so big a device can be packed in such small quarters and then wonder how long the watch will remain uumagnetized and true to the time with a potent little battery in its vitals constantly trying to mesmeris* its movements. In a City Theater. “What’s the difference between a ■ sacred concert and other concerts?” “Why, a sacred concert is always i given on Sunday.”—Chicago Record.

The Clover Leaf. T., St. L. &KC.R, R. In effect Jan 3.189 EAST. Passenger 6:36 a. m Express 6:51 pB Mall. 12:05pit. Local 2:Ospm. WEST. Passenger 4:32a.n> Express S:33a.ni Mail * 12:05 p Local 10:15 a m E A. Whinrey. Aeent. Erie Lines Schedule in effect June \ M F 27. 1897. Trains leave Decatur as follows: WEST. No. 5. vestibule limited, daily for » Chicago ( 12:23 p.m No. 3, Pacific express, daily for i Chicago | I:4s a. m No. 1. express, daily except Sun-1 day for Chicago I 10:43 a. m No. 31. local, daily except Sun-1 day I 10:10a. m No 13. Wells Fargo Limited Ex-| press, daily except Monday • 6:15p.m. and day after legal holiday I EAST No. 8, vestibule limited, daily for I New York and Boston ' T:57 No. 2, express, daily except Sunday for New York »’ 2:01 p.m No. 12. express, dally for New t York C 1:30 a. m No. 30. local, daily except Sun-'. day f 10:10 a. m Through coaches and sleeping cars to New York and Boston Tra! ns 1 andSstop at all stations on the C E. Division. Train No. 12 carries through sleepins cars to Columbus. Circleville. Chillicothe. Waverly, Portsmouth, Ironton, and Kenova, via Columbus. Hocking Valley & Toledo, and Norfolk t Western lines J V. DeLong. Agent The G. R. & L (Effect June 20.1897.) TRAINS NORTH. -No. 3. +No. 5. ‘No.l. Richmond 11:05am 9.05 pm s:oopm Parry 11:12 “ Chester Fountain City. 11:27 “ 5:20 Johnson 11:37 “ “ .. Lynn 11:42 “ .. Snow Hill 11:40 “ ’.41 .. Woods 11:50 " , Winchester.... 12:00 “ 9:43pm 5M Slone 12:10 p m . Ridgeville 12;19 " 9:58 pm Collet 12:32 “ „ •;* .. Portland 12:42 “ 10:16 pm #.* j ay “ Briant 12:59 “ .. Geneva 1:07 “ 1;4 Berne 1:18 “ ‘;jl .. Monroe- 1:32 “ : DECATUR 1:45 “ 11:01pm .. Monmouth 1:52 " ;■*. .. Williams 2:01 “ 1:2 .. Hoagland 2:06 “ j.j? . Adams „ ...K Fort Wayne. .. 2:35 “ 11:40pm »•» •Dally, except Sunday. +DailyTRAINS SOUTH •No. 2,4 No. 4. JNo.ft Fort Wayne....l2:3spm 2:soam 5:«»® Adams _ „ £l3 Hoagland 1:00 Monmouth 1:13 „ s-io “ DECATUR .... 1:19 3:27 “ Monroe 1:32 /J Berne 1:44 -: 01 ■■ Ceylon .. 7)03 ■; Briant 2:00 ‘ 7:18 ■■ Portland 2:14 4:09 -j. „ Collett 2:23 “ „ -la, > Ridgeville... . 2:35 4:27 .. Winchester.... 2:50 4.44 8 « Snow Hill ■ Lynn 3:06 “ g.gjj ■■ Johnson 3:11 “ s-49 “ Fountain City. 3:20 “ qlji “ Chester plow •• Richmond 3:40 “ 5:35 “ ■' -Daily. JDaily ex. Saturday from Mackmae CH> ysoli Agent C L Lockwood. Gen. Pas Agent. Terrible Accident.—lt 18 a ter ”. ble accident to be burned or SC!i ' but the pain and agony and the ’ rl^ r _ ful disfigurements can be quickly come without leaving a scar by DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Saive. ”■ N achtrieb. . Ext rayed. From the home ot R ev Johnson at Tocsin, a BD ’ a . ll f ‘ e> pony, 8 years old, withi for A liberal reward will be P the return of pony or inform* to its return. Mo-To-Bm for F,,ty Ce "*es Guaranteed tobacco habit cure. “ druK is» men strong, blood pure. • •