Decatur Democrat, Volume 41, Number 21, Decatur, Adams County, 5 August 1897 — Page 3

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( O’l HUNTS m p B , a nd Near, Condensed and hide Readable for the Democrat : Family. i Kansas woman who traveled to Louis to marry a man who had ?ertiecd for a wife, has brought t against him because he backed , when he saw her. A traveling evangelist m the ( t has an assistant stationed oute the meeting places, and every ,e he brings down a fresh sinner signals to this man, who sends a skyrocket. At the national convention of rserymen in St. L »uis it was preItsd that “if the present rate of itruction continues for the next enty-five years the United States 11 be practically bereft of for--1.” Judge Fox of the Wayne county cuit court declared unconstitunal the Indiana statute of 1895 ividing that no convict made ods from other states can be sold thout a state license and bond of poo. The agricultural station at Pure sends out the report that there more swine disease in the state w than at any corresponding nod in recent years. This must taken as an indication of severe s to follow later in the season and should be a warning to breeders d dealers in swine to exercise ore than usual • care to prevent

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The city council of Decatur has decided that that city shall abide in darkness and has refused the further lighting of the city streets A 12,000 damage has just been charged against that city for neglect on the part of the street commissioner and now dark streets will very likely breed more suits,—Ex. The people have a right to look upon the condition of finances which rightfully belong to them. Our council is withholding a statement for which their constituents are clamoring and in doing so they invite the censure of every taxpayer in our city. Expose it to the light (not electric light) and let the people see what you have done. A poor miner in Pennsylvania is said to have fallen heir to $75,000 by the death of an uncle who came to him in the disguise of a tramp and was kindly received. This story reads as though it had been written by some William Whiskers with a fancy for tales of imagination and a desire to have his kind treated well by those whom they would iu the future solicit for ‘•handouts.” The Indiana bureau of statistics has been gathering data concerning marriages and divorces from the various county clerks for the past six months. Thus tar fortyfive counties have been heard from, and some of the figures are entertaining. In these forty-five counties there have been 680 divorces granted to wives and 274 husbands, or 71 per cent, of the total to wives. This shows that wives bring about three-fourths of the divorce suits.

The American people appear to be doing their duty by the school children, as well as the pensioners. We give the latter $145,000,000 a year, or thereabouts, and as for the coming generation it was stated at the meeting of the national educational association at Milwaukee that the states of the Union expended for the year 1895 for school purposes the sum of $178,215,000. Phis is doing pretty well. For the first time in the history of the state the teaching of music in the public schools is made compulsory, beginning this fall, and it is also made a compulsory part of the township institute instructions. Only vocal music is required to be taught, and the teachers may use whatever text books and authorities they please. Th.s will probably prove a hardship on the large number of teachers who haven’t an ioto of music in their makeup. The Kansas City Journal has gathered some sample stories showing that there are times when it is so dry in the western part of the state that you have to soak a hog over night before he will hold swill. There are places where water is wet only on one side, and there is one place where the owner of a ferry boat hauls watereleven months in the year to keep his ferry running, while one poor farmer used to run his well through the clothes wringer every morning for cooking. There is a farmer living not a thousand miles from Delphos who is a queer one. Some years ago when this part of the country was overrun with hunters and most farmers had eigne up, lettered with the words, “No trespassing,” he erected the following: “Take no-tice-—Hunters welcome. Shoot all you please, and when the bell rings come to dinner.” On his letter heads he had the following: “Captain Ira Williams, farmer by occupation, dealer in this world’s goods only, having no use for the Bible, gods, ghosts or the devil. Professor Andree had hardly started for the north pole before an expedition was sent to find him. This is a piece of impertinence. He has not asked to be “found” or “rescued,” the world may be sure, for he has barely sailed for the point from which he is to make his balloon ascension. There are always a lot of takers and busybodies who insist on “rescuing” in cases of I this kind. Stanley was one of them, and he “rescued” old Emin Pasha ! every year or two and brought him ■ back from the wilds of Africa just i when he might have discovered : something. Many a young lady would almost j give anything to know how to reI move freckles. A western editor has finally found out a remedy that I will succeed in ail cases. He says: To remove the unsightly freckles is ' a very easy matter. Freckles are i blotches under the skin. You should therefore remove the outer skin of your face with a butcher knife and then scour the freckled spots with white sand and lye, using a wire j brush. If any spots remain they ; should be filed off with a rattail j file. Then replace the outer skin, ' sticking firmly in place with liquid glue. Robert G. Ingersoll says that every miner in the country should strike and then stand firm—demanding living wages, and the people would be with them. He says they 1 should win because their condition is such that they can only make enough to keep body and soul together when they work. The Colonel is quite right; and some ways and means should be devised to equalize the conditions of the laboring classes; they should be paid reasonable wages for a fair day’s work, then stop importing alien labor. That done and the labor question in this country will be easily settled. Did you hear the story asks the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette of the man who lost his wife and put up a tombstone to her memory, and had carved thereon in large letters: “The Light of My Life Has Gone Out?” Well (as usual), about three months after she had defuncted, he took into his head to marry another girl, and went to see a minister about uniting them in the galling and terrifically expen- I sive bonds of matrimony. The parson expressed himself as being quite willing to perform the opera- 1 tion, but remarked that the inscription that he had placed on his first wife’s tombstone might prove somewhat embarrassing. “Ah, yes, 1 remember that,” remarked the ex-mourner. “Let me see, I said: ‘The light of my life has

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1 gone out,’ didn’t I? Well, I’ll soon fix that. There’s lots of room underneath, and I’ll just have the monument man put there: ‘But 1 have struck another match.’ ” The Logansport Chronicle is not ; in favor of paying Bob Ingersoll ; S3OO for his new lecture and gives i his reason as follows: “A great ■ deal of unnecessary energy and I space has been wasted in the case | of this orator that could have been I employed to a better purpose. He is a Voltaire without a Voltaire’s genius; he is a Paine without Paine’s I originality; he is a master of alliteration, an adept at framing epigrams and funeral orations and at worming large fees from citizens; but the influence of one ignorant mother in Israel teaching her child to lisp its first prayer to God counts for more than all the applauded utterances of this too often answered disciple of loose logic.” A police magistrate in New York has rebuked a reporter for appearing in court clad in knickerbockers and sweater. Even a common regard for the dignity of justice would preclude the possibility of a gentleman appearing in court in such a costume, and public opinion will uphold the magistrate in his action. For a long jaunt in the country or a holiday attire referred to would be proper, but no one has a right to wear it in a courtroom any more than to go there in a bath robe or pyjame. It is distinctly undress uniform, and the instincts; of a gentleman will keep him from appearing in it at places where the costume is inappropriate. It is inappropriate in a courtroom, at church, at theater, at dinner, and in the ordinary transactions of business or the functions of social life. It is distinctly fatigue dress, to be assumed only when the wearer is out for pleasure. The prominence and usefulness of the local newspaper in building up a town. Its helpfulness to churches in disseminating religious information and drawing people to the services. The pride and satisfaction it takes in the growth and progress of the town. Its value as a medium by which a town’s advantages may be advertised to the world. Its reliability as a means by which the i character and intelligence of a j town’s people may be judged by| outsiders. Its freedom from the j

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