Decatur Democrat, Volume 43, Number 25, Decatur, Adams County, 31 August 1899 — Page 7

HFRE is a medical lecture in a nutshell. The Kidneys drain water and im„rities from the blood. The makes bile and helps to off other waste. If these d qns work badly the body gomes a cesspool and disease be ts iD You must get them into lealthy actionor die. DtlH-rlcLeans Liver&Kidneyßdni kan old and unsurpassed remfor Backache, Debility, Sleetiessness, Lost Appetite, Foul Tongue, Palpitations and all other symptoms of disease in those organs. It cures as well as prevents every serious trouble in Kidney, Liver or Bladder. At druggists, SI.OO per bottle. THE DR JLH.MCLEAN MEDICINE CO. rut. on sT LOUIS. MO. For sale by Holthouse. Callow & Co. Erie Lines / \ Schedule In effect June C Irillw 7 2 ®> iß9B> Trains leave Decatur as — follows: WEST. Ln 5 vestibule limited, dally for I | Chicago ••••■• > l-:-Jp.m L 3, Pacific express, dally for I f Chicago • ' 2:-aa. m So 1. express, daily except Sun-I f day tor Chicago f 10:4.1a. m So. 31. local, daily except Sun-I ’ j.q. f 10:10 a. m |ol3. Weiis Fargo Limited Ex-1 d»iiv except Monday > 6:15 p. m. and day after legal holiday ) EAST In 8. vestibule limited, dally for I Sew York and Boston I »:5< . in ’.’express, dally except Sun- I day for New York ....J l:a8p. m io. 12. express, daily for New i, York I a - m 50.30. local, dally except Sun-' day I 10:10 a. m Through coaches and sleeping cars to New fork and Boston trains 1 and2stop at all stations on the C. & E. Division. Train No. 12 carries through sleeping cars oColumbus, Circleville. Chillicothe. Waverv Portsmouth, Ironton, and Kenova, via jolumbus, Hocking Valley & Toledo, and gorfolk t Western lines No. 13 will not carry any baggage. I W. DeLono. Agent The G. R. & I. (Effect June 18, 1899.) TRAINS NORTH. ‘STATIONS, i +No. 5. *No. 3. *No 7 llcnuiuuu 9:15 pm 1:0a p m 5:40 ain larry Ibester - • fountain City 1:23 p m 5:59 ain lohnson 6:07 a in 'van . 1:36 pm 6:11 am taowiiiii ... 6:l7am IVoods 6:l9am Winchester.... 9:53 pin 1:54 pm 6:28 am •tone 6:3. a m Ridgeville 10:07 pin 2:12 p m 0:44 a m Joliet 6:56 am ’ortland 10:25 p m 2:32 p m 7:05 a m J ria nt 2:46 p m 7:l9am Geneva 2:55 p m 7:26 a m kylon Jerne 3:05 pm 7:35 am tfoaroe 3:18 p m 7:45 a m DECATUR 11:08pm 3;32 p m 7:55 am Honmouth Williams 3:45 pm 8:07 am loagland 3:50 pm 8 12am Ldams fort Wayne.... 11:45 pm 4:15 pm 8:35 ain •Daily, except Sunday. Wally. TRAINS SOUTH i ST \TIONS. *No. 2. »N(J 4 *N<». 42. fort Wayne ... 12.3* p m 2:40 am 7:.opm Ldams loagland 1:00 pm 7:36 am Williams 1:05 pm 7:4lam lonmouth 7:4Bam DECATUR.... I:l9pm 3:18 am 7:55 am Konroe 1:32 pm 8:07 a m Jerne 2:;4 p m 8:17 am Jeylon | 8:25 a ui leneva I:s2pm 8:27 a m Jriant 2.0 U pin 8:35 a m lay i 8:42 a m fortland 2:15 p m 4:05 a m 8:53 a m Jollett 2:23 p m 1 9:03 a m Ridgeville... . 2:35 pm 1 4.24 a m 9:15 am Itone 1 9:23 am Winchester.... 2:50 pm | 4:40 a m 9:32am woods i 9:42 a m Inow Hill I 9 44 a m <vnn 3:o6pm | 9 50 a m ohnson j 9:55 a m fountain City. 3:20p m I 10:04 am tester 1 10:14 a in ’arry Richmond 3;4u p m ! 5:30 a m_ 10:25 a m l*Daily. ‘Dally ex. Sunday. ‘Daily except patuiday from Mackinac Citv. J eff Bryson. Agent ) L Lickwood. Gen. Pas Agent. first Class Night and Day Service between Toledo,Ohio, —A N O St. Louis, Mo. CHAIR CARS MV TRAINS—MODERN EQUIPMENT THROUGHOUT. SLEEPING CARS ON NIGHT TRAINS. SERVED EX ROUTE, »ny hour DAY “ SIGHT, at moderate cost. tickets via Toledo, St, Louis 4 Kansas City R. R Clover Leaf Route. l«° r T >Irt h® r particulars, call on nearest . nt of the Company, or address c. c. JENKINS, e.a.ral l>s..rt>srr . TOLEDO, OHIO. " St ' L. &KC.R. K. In effect Jan 3,1819 Assenger , E . AS T’ ..5:51a. tn XVEST : 4:14 a. m E A. Whinbsy. Agent

FROM LOVELY ODEN, A Weil Known Citizen of Adams County Describes That and Other Famous Michigan Resorts. Oden, Mich., Aug. 26,1899. Editor Democrat: Having been requested by numerous persons to write a description of mv trip to Northern Michigan, I will undertake the task. There have been several letters descriptive of this part of the world appeared in your paper from time to time, yet none of them were anything near an accurate description of this country, as seen by the scribe, although they were written by a person, or persons, whose veracity I have not the least right to dispute. But you know different people see through different eyes, and things are actually different at different times. The best known of the resort towns, and also among the voungest of them all. is Petoskey. The name Petoskey has come to be a synonym for beautiful scenery, rare attractions, health, happiness and rest. All over the south and west people speak of Petoskey as though it included the whole resort region, the expression up to Petoskey meaning anywhere in Northern Michigan, The town is name after Ignatus Petoskey, commonly called Chief Petoskey, the original owner and occupant of the land. It was started in 1874, when the Grand Rapids & Indiana railroad was completed to Little Traverse Bay, and this, then little town, made the temporary terminus. Since that time its growth has been astonishingly rapid, and it now has a permanent population of about five thousand and is the busiest, most lively and attractive place in this section of the state. Thousands of people come here every summer for rest, recreation and health. But I cannot give you anything like a definite description of the number of people that come here better than to relate a little of my own experience. On last Thursdav, August 24, Gilbert Woodruff and myself went from Oden, where I am making my headquarters, down to Petoskey. When we lauded at the latter city we found it full of people; we made the attempt to go up into the town but the crowd was so great that travel in that direction was next to impossible and the further we advanced the more compact became the crowd and when we attempted to extract ourselves we found that we were hemmed in in such away that we had great difficulty in getting out. Big, burly policemen, with mace in hand, continually walked up and down the railroads to keep the people off the tracks. After we got ourselves out of the predicament, just referred to, we thought we would try to enter the city from another quarter. Acting on that impulse we started around the city, keeping as near to the same as the crowd would permit. After walking up and down the terraced hills about the city until we had walk ed what seemed to us to be at least fourteen miles, we gave up the attempt to penetrate the city and began to retrace our steps. When we tried to get back to the depot we found to our utter amazement and consternation that it was going to be impossible to regain our former position at the depot, we had been cut off by the throngs of people. Here we was, footsore, tired and worn out by our trip over the hills and through the sand, sometimes knee deep in a vain attempt to reach the city. W e could hardly bear the thought of walking home’ to Oden. We were not only tired, but we were becoming desperate from hunger as well. But there was nothing to eat in sight, and to reach the depot was now simply out of the question. After debating the question what to do for some time, we started east and by a circuitous route reached Bay view where the crowd was not s) great, we here succeeded after some little time in gaining admittance to the depot, where we boarded the first train that came along going in the direction of Oden. The train was so crowded that standing room on the platform commanded a premium, but we hung on until we reached Oden and were glad to get there alive. This is no fish story. If any one is inclined to disbelieve this story, write to Gil Woodruff, of Oden. Michigan, he will verify every word of it. Os course I might go on and tell a gieat deal more, but space will not permit me to tell the whole truth about the matter. On the next day, after our “iamb at Petoskey, a part of our party went to the historic island of Mackinac to spend the day sight seeing and found the crowd so great that we could not land, and it was noticed from the boat that the island was crowded to the utermost, so great was the crowd that men, women and children were compelled to hang on to trees, shrubs and sprouts to keep from falling off of the island into the lake. Even Sugar Loaf rock was covered, and the houses, with flat roofs, in the citv were covered with people. But this is not the worst. When the boat was about to leave the dock for the return voyage, so anxious were the people to leave the island, they made such a rush for the boat, which was already heavy burdened with human freight, that men armed with clubs, iron rods, life preservers and in fact every conceivable thing that they could get hold of were compelled, as a matter of necessity and self preservation to beat back the crowd to keep them from climbing on in such numbers as to sink the boat then and there. You have no doubt heard that this is the place where icicles are always on tap. It is some cooler here than in Indiana. On the day I came here we had a very ijleasant time unhl well towards mgut when it - n--to become jierceptively cooler and still grew cooler as we continued our Kiurnev. Some gentlemen had prepared ’for the change by bnngin o

overcoats with them, they now began , to put them on, the windows were all pulled down and doors closed, but the ’ weather still grew gradually cooler in the car. People began to tremble with cold and finally to shake. The! beautiful summer girl’s teeth began ' to rattle with cold and those beautiful | summer suits, that were just the thing in the morning, became just the wrong . thingjin the evening. It seemed like | being suddenly emerged from the j warm temperate into the frigid zone. I was until some time the next day getting thawed out. The fishing here is not very good although some of our Adams county fishermen have done well here in that line. The finest string of fish that I had the pleasure of seeing while here 1 was one possessed by French Quinn,; of Decatur. There are other of our I boys that had very good luck also, I among them Samuel Simison, of Berne. Os course Colonel R. B. Allison’s reputation for angling is such that it is useless to say that he is constantly landing them. There are people here from nearly every, if not from every, state in the union, and all nations are represented | here. There are more Jews in Petos-' key than in Jerusalm, and there are many Indians, some negroes and people of every language and tongue. I have not space in this letter to give each one of our people personal mention, but so far as I know, or have been able to find out, the people from Adams county that live here are all well. Respectfully, John T. Kelly. The flavor’s First Veto. The city dads passed an ordinance : at their last meeting, prohibiting the I playing of ball within the city limits. This morning Mayor Beatty filed with Clerk Hower the ordinance, without his signature and with his objections thereto, all of which we print below. There is much merit in his objections as well as some law. To the common council of the city of Decatur, Indiana. Gentlemen: —“Ordinance prohibiting the playing of ball within the corporation limits of the city of Decatur, Indiana. Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the common council of the city of Decatur, Indiana, that it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to engage in playing ball of any kind or character whatever, either for gain or amusement, at or upon any of the public streets, alleys, thoroughfares, depot or railroad grounds or other public place within the corporate limits of the city of Decatur, Indiana. Sec. 2. Any person violating any or either of the provisions of section one (1) of this ordinance, sha’l upon conviction before the Mayor of said city, be fined in any sum not to exceed ten dollars ($10.00). Sec. 3. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage and second consecutive publication in a weekly newspaper printed and published in said city of Decatur, Indiana. D. M. Hower, Clerk. An ordinance, of which the above is a true copy and which was passed by your Honorable body on the 25th. day of August, 1899, and submitted to me for my consideration and approval, I herewith return to you the following objections and notations. I do not believe that the above ordinance is legal for several reasons: 1. In order that an ordinance may be legal it must lx* a reasonable one, and to say that persons cannot play ball of any kind on their private property for pasttime or amusement, is both harsh and unreasonable. 2. It could not be held legal as coming under police power or regulation as laid down by our supreme court, for the reason that the police power belongs to the state and can only be exercised by a city like ours when the same has been delegated, to her by some expressed or implied authority delegated by the lawmaking power of Indiana, that I have been able to find. With such an ordinance in force a property owner could not rent his ground for a ball park, no matter how much he might improve it by fences and buildings, if the same lay within the city limits, and an ordinance that would deprive a man of the free use of his property for lawful purposes would be illegal. Section 1709 of the revision of the 1894. Statutes reads as follows: '■Whenever any act is made a public offense against the state by any statute and the punishment prescribed therefor, such act shall not be made punishable by any ordinance of any incorporated city or town; any ordinance to such effect shall be null and void, and all prosecutions for any such offence as may be within the jurisdiction of the authorities of such incorporated cities and towns, by and before such authorities, shall be had under the state law only. Let us see how much of the above ordinance is not covered by some statute of this state, or an already existing ordinance of this citv. Sec. 84, of an ordinance passed in 1889, reads as follows: “It shall be unlawful for any person to throw or east any stone, ball, or other missile, on, upon, from, or into any street, avenue, alley, or publie place in said city. Any' person violating this ordinance shall, upon conviction, be fined not more than ten dollars. The above section covers every place within the city limits, except private grounds, and every place over which the common council have complete control. Some of the ordinance just passed by you may say it is not the mere playing of ball that we object to, but the manner in which the same is conducted. To those I would say. if a number of men or boys met any where to play ball, for any other purpose, and conduct the game, or act in a violent or tumultuous manner they

would be guilty of violating Sec. 2064 of the Revised Statutes of 1894, of this state. Or if they were to curse and swear they would be guilty of violating section 2065, of the same statutes; or if they do any damage to property while playing they would be liable under section 2034, of the above statutes, and could not be prosecuted | for any of the above offenses under the ordiance, but would have to be prosecuted under the laws of the state of Indiana. So you see this ordinance world only apply to persons playing ball in a quiet, peaeable manner, and on private grounds within the city limits. It is as essential to good health and happiness that persons take exercise, as it is that they have food and clothing, and to say that children, boys or men shall not exercise or enjoy themselves by playing ball within the city limits and on private property when the same is conducted in a quiet, orderly manner is in my opinion, exceeding the authority of a city council; and I do not believe that persons conductingthemselves is such a manner would be guilty of committing any offense. ; Neither do I beleive that a city coun- ! oil can make such sport or athletic : exercise, a crime by ordinance. I do not think that the peoples’ money should be paid out for the publication of such an ordinance. For the above reasons I hereby return said ordinance to the city clerk without my approval and signature. Respectfully submitted, A. P. Beatty, Mayor city of Decatur, Ind. August 31, 1899. Erie Excursions. Baltimore, Md., and return, account Union Veteran Legion, September 9 to 13. $14.50 round trip. (Ju September Ist to 4th inclusive, the Erie R. R. will sell excursion tickets to New York and return at very low rates, tickets good returning until September 12, and on payment of 50 ets return ticket will be extended until September 30. Stop-overs will be allowed at Niagara Falls and Chautauqua Lake on the return trip. Excursion tickets sold on above dates to Philadelphia, Pa., account of G. A. R. National Enampment at low rates. Choice of four routes with stop-overs at Washington. D. C., Niagara Falls and Chautauqua Lake. For full information and sleeping reservations call on vour nearest Erie agent or write F.' W. Buskirk, A. G. P. A. Chicago. 111. Summer tourist rates to Northern Michigan, commencing June Ist until September 30; good for return October 31. '99, at following rates: Traverse City $12.30, Petoskey $14.15, Mack- [ inaw City $15.60, Mackinack Island or St. Ignace $16.60. Jeff Bryson, You are a Democrat, You are a Democrat and, of course, want a democratic newspaper. The Chicago Dispatch is the great democratic weekly newspaper of the country. It advocates the readoption of the platform and the renomination of William Jennings Bryan. There has never been a political campaign that will equal importance that of the one to be fought next year. The republican party, backed by the money power of this country and Europe, is alert and aggressive. Flushed with the victory of three years ago it will seek by every means in its power to maintain its supremacy. Democrats must be up and doing. They must wage an unceasing war upon their enemies. In no better and effective way can be done than by the circulation of this good sound democratic newspapers. The publisher of the Chicago Dispatch, will send to every new subscriber for three months a copy of the Chicago Dispatch for ten cents. If you are not already taking this great political weekly, send in ten cents at once. You should not only do this yourself, but you should induce all your friends to join with you. By a | little effort you can easily raise a club lof ten or twenty subscribers. The i Chicago Dispatch is endorsed by William Jennings Bryan and other democratic leaders. Address the Chicago Dispatch. 120 and 122 Fifth Avenue, .Chicago, 111. 24-4 m An old farmer who had been to New York, was describing to his friends the splendor of the hotel he J stayed at. "Everything was perfect,” said he, with the exception of one thing - they kept the light burning all night in my bedroom a thing I ain’t used to.” “Well,” said one of them, “why didn’t you blow it out?” “Blow it out,” said the farmer: “how could I? The blame thing was inside of a bottle.”

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