Decatur Democrat, Volume 1, Number 3, Decatur, Adams County, 6 April 1899 — Page 2

DAILY DEMOCRAT. .CONFERENCE EDITION. EVERY MORNING BY LfW G. eLLINGHAM, Publisher. For Week 15 cents, in Advance. Thursday Morning. April 6. The Immortal J. N. is coming. Tis well. Baltimore, is said to have more churches, according to its population than any city in the United states and one third of these are Methodist. There should be a law against preachers who snore. A few complaints have been registered and the same turned over to the committee on rights and privileges. Your daily is a gem. Such were the tidings received by mail from our old pal and expert in typography, Nelson K. Todd. We are now more fully convinced than ever. McKisson very frankly says that Hannah and looodle defeated his aspiration to be Mayor of Cleveland, I Ohio. One excuse is about as good i as another, so let'er go at that. Miss Farrington was the first I voung lady sent as a missionary by Methodists to Africa. It was in the year 1833 that she took up her labors on the "Dark Continent." A sketch of Freeborn Garrettson’s life, one of the early Methodist heroes tells of his work during the year 1781 in which he rode five thousand miles on horseback and preached five hundred sermons. Ovr circulation is too big to count. We started our perfecting, six revolution,double back-acting press Tuesday morning and it has been running continuously ever since, stopping only long enough to change editions and cool the type. The attorney-general, the state fish commissioner, nearly all of the newspapers in the state, most of the members of the legislature and many othi r citizens have placed constructions upon the new fish law, and the opinions don't agree worth a cent. About the only way to find out what the new law does mean is for some fellow to go ahead and fish as if no law existed and get arrested. - Columbia City Post.

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The conference is growing in size and interest. It is estimated that 2.000 strangers will be in the city over Sunday. Evansville this state, held an election and a democrat succeeded in being elected to the office of mayor, notwithstanding that Evansville con tains a bears nest of republicans. McKinley's fate in 1900 has received another jar. Talk about pretty residences, just keep your eye upon this special feature of this special conference edition. Decatur possesses some of the most commodius and modern homes to be found any place. And: too, fine residences is not the only thing we can boast of. Mr. McKinley has apparently at last become aroused to the danger to his own political fortunes of retaining Alger in his cabinet, and unless all the political "wise men" are at fault the ‘JEx” is hot on the trail of Alger and cannot fail to catch up with him very soon. Postmaster Henry Heller is winning fame. He is postmaster at the conference, and it is said knows by name every minister in attendance and their street address here. This acquired knowledge on so short notice is something remarkable and Henry is entitled to a good sized laurel with • the rest of those who have so faith- : fully devoted their time to the comj fort of those who are this week guests i i in the city. Carter H. Harrison is the newly elected Mayor of Chicago, claiming such honor by a plurality of 40,000 over Carter republican and Altgell, renegade democrat. Carter H.. like his father before him, knows how to be elected Mayor of Chicago. His election however is commendable upon the part of the majority voters. He has been worse than a buzz saw to the boodling spirit so long controlling the municipality at the windy city. Was Washington the author of his farewell address? That is thequestion which Bushrod C. Washington (a descendant of the general's brother, John Augustine) answers in the April Forum. Interesting extracts from Washington's letters to Madison and Hamilton relative to the address are quoted: and the "eminent services” rendered by these two statesmen are impartially and critically estimated. One thing stands out very clearly: viz, that in the preparation of the address its author thought only of the beneficial effect it might have on the nation and sank all thoughts of any personal ' renown it might bring to him. South Bend Times.

Bishop Bowman. An unexpected pleasure and one ' that would be hard to duplicate in point of real heartfelt appreciation. Bishop Bowman of Evanston, Ills., that grand old war horse, who has done so much in the Master s vinyard, stood the storms and rejoiced at the ' growth of Christ's Kingdom for sixty years, arrived on the noon train on the Chicago & Erie Tuesday. Bishop Thomas Bowman was born July l->, 1817 and entered the ministry in 1839. He was ordained Bishop in 1872. Since the general conference in Cleveland, he and Bishop Taylor have sustained a superanuated connection. For six decades he has been sowing the seeds of righteousness and the harvest will continue long after the Bishop has joined the hear enly throng. The fifty-sixth annual conference welcomes the grand old saint and Decatur will be honored to have him as her guest. Two of Decatur’s Pastors in Former Years. Rev. R. D. Spellman now residing in Fort Wayne with superannuated relation to the conference. He is probably the oldest member of the North Indiana Conference, having past the fourscore mile post. He is effectionately called Father Spellman. _ He was stationed at Decatur in 1873-4. and Portland was his first charge in 1853. Rev. N. D. Shackelford served the Decatur charge from 1867 to '69. dur ing which' time the church enjoyed two revivals. He was licensed to preach Apiil 7, 1853, and admitted to the North Indiana Conference in September of the same year. His first appointment was Tipton circuit. He held traveling connections with the conference for forty years. Now in superannuated relation, with his home in Warsaw. Hethodist Bishops. Thequestion has been asked bv ' quite a number of persons as to the number of bishops in the M. E. church, following is a list of those now living and their relation to the work: Thomas Bownan, Evanston, 111., who sustains a superanuated relation to the church. William Taylor. New York, also sustains superanuated relation. His services as Bishop were in the capacity of missionary Bishop ' with Africa his field of labor. Randolph Foster. Roxbury,Mass.; Stephen Merrill, Chicago; E. G. Andrews, New York; Henry Warren, Colorado; Cyrus Foss, Philadelphia. Pa.; John F. Hurst, Washington, D. C.; Wm. Ninde, Detroit, Mich.; John M. Walden, Cincinnati. Ohio; Willard Mallalien, Boston, Mass.; Charles Fowler, Buffalo, N. Y.: John H. Vincent, Buffalo, N. Y.; James Fitzgerald, St. 1 Louis, Mo.: Isaac Joice, Minneapolis, Minn.: John P. Newman. San Fran cisco, Cal.; Daniel A. Goodsell, Chattanooga. Tenn.; Charles McCabe, Fort Worth. Texas; Earl Cranston, Portland, Oregon; James Thoburn, < Bombay, India, is missionary Bishop for that country; Joseph C. Hartzell, | Vivi, Congo, Africa, is Africa's mis- < sionary Bishop, with jurisdiction | limited to that country. The Bishops ! who are not missionary Bishops do j not have their jurisdiction limited to I any territory. In all there are nineteen ■ Bishops, with two of them missionary | Bishops. • Executive Committee. - The complete arrangements and ex- ! cellent working out of all plans for I caring for the immense crowd and : systematic methods in all the minor | details engenders an interest in the : men who engineered this work so sue- , cessfully, to their faithful carrying out of every duty and splendid judgement depended so much for the fiftysixth annual conference. The executive committee, with Rev. W. H. Daniel chief executive, Messrs. John Niblick, chairman; John H. Lenhart, secretary; John D. Hale, asssistant; Geo. W. Woodward, treasurer: A. J. Smith and Jeff Bryson, was a well chosen committee. Each member is a thorough business man and identified with the different branches of church work. Mr. Niblick has for many years been recording steward and secretary of the official board, and when the new church was built Mr. Niblick was secretary of the building committee. He is one of the firm of Niblick & Co. whose stores on Monroe and Second streets are the best in the county. Mr. Lenhart is not a member of such long standing, but what he lacks in length of years he makes up in activity. He is prominent in Sunday school and Epworth League work, and serves in the capacity of district steward. He is serving Adams county in the capacity of clerk. John D. Hale has long been a member of the official board and has been identified with the spiritual welfare of the church in different capacities. In business circles he has for many years occupied a prominent place as a grain merchant. Geo. W. Woodward is another who has been a faithful official member of the church and an enthusiastic teacher in the Sunday school, and always when in health, found in the service of the church. He is another of the reliable merchants of the city. Mr. Bryson and Mr. Smith have also been diligent church workers in an official capacity and in different departments of work. This committee, guided by Rev. Daniel have appointed other committees suitable for carrying out the lines of work necessary. These have also performed their work well, and each and every memtier of the church have heartily co-operated with those in charge of the work and made it possible to entertain this large number of people comfortably. The first itinerant raised up in China was Hu Pu Mi who became pastor at a place fifteen miles from FooChow in 1859.

His Mother’® Son. ' “My niece Mary was always a well 1 meaning girl, but she would say the ■ wrong thing almost every time, said • one old gentleman to another, “and I she's got a boy that's going to be her • very counterpart. . The old gentleman’s eyes twinkled. ' and his ugly, good natured face was ; puckered with enjoyment as he drew I I from his pocketbook a small sheet of . note paper “I sent Hal a toy monkey that plays all kinds of pranks when it’s wound up. "said he. chuckling- "Now you listen to this letter of thanks I got from him- He’s just 8 years old: "Deer L’scli: Ned—l am delited with the muiikev, thank you. He makes me think of you very often. And whenever mamma winds him up,’ and he'begins to jump, mamma and J feel as if we were back at your house where all those toys are, and mamma will lookat the mnnkey and say, "That’s your t ncle Ned all over. ’ Goodbye from your greatfull “Hal.’ —Youth's Companion. Way l» l» It- ~ The fair young girl looked at the gilded clock on the mantel “I don't want to hurry you, Mr. Slowgo." she sweetly explained as she met his questioning look, “but the fact is it is almost time for ma to come home from the club. And I just want to say this If ma says. ‘I move we adjourn.' don't you attempt to lay it on the table, or to raise a point of order. or anything else that’s foolish, because you might as well understand right here and now that ma’s simply a howling Jim dandy when it comes to the rules of parliamentary procedure, I and don't you hesitate to recollect it 1’ I _ - A Matter of Home Discipline. A child should never be discussed within his own hearing. Unfortunate is that family where the little ones learn that they may appeal successfully from one parent to another or where upon one falls the onus of every necessary denial or reproof, while the other stands sponsor for every pleasure and indulgence. Let us spare no secret effort as parents to appear a unit to the child. — Elaino Goodale Eastman

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