Decatur Democrat, Volume 44, Number 43, Decatur, Adams County, 3 January 1901 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT BVERY THURSDAY MORNING BY LEW a. ELLINGHAM. Publisher. |l,oo PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. Rntered at the postoffice at Decatur. Indiana as second-class mail matter. "OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUNTY. THURSDAY, JAN. 8. The Democrat wishes its readers a happy New Year. It is now Governor Odell of New York, his inauguration having taken place Tuesday. Quay will be the newly elected senator from Pennsylvania, he already having sufficient support to guarantee this prediction. Congressman Lentz will contest his opponents seat in congress, charging bribery and a systematic plan of corruption. Many sensational exposures are promised. Hon. Hoke Smith of Georgia, pre diets that both Bryan and Towne will be out of the democratic party within the next four years. This prediction like many others is the outgrowth of an imaginary brain. The retirement of Tom Taggart from the Grand Hotel will be a matter of considerable regret to the many Indiana democrats who are accustomed to seeing that agreeable smile around the coridors of the Grand. Alger, at one time secretary of war in Hanna's cabinet, .and Nelson A. Miles are engaged in a wordy encounter which will reach much magnitude before the last blow is struck. Alger fanned the first fly and drew first blood. Allen county will elect no successor to the Hon. Charles L. Drummond, deceased, and in this there is much to be commended. The cost for a special election would be something like 54,000, which by far overshadows any benefits to be gained. The Winchester Journal this week celebrates its fifty-seventh birthday anniversary by coining out dyked in a “new dress.” All of our readers may not thoroughly understand the importance of the new dress mentioned, but the heart of every enterprising editor swells with pride and admiration upon such occasions. Whh e it is a moral and legal right for one democrat to criticise another, yet it would show better politics and a tetter Christian spirit to use moderation when indulging in this sacred American privilege. The democrats should groom themselves for a national victory in 11MI4, and the only way to accomplish this is to engender modification. The republican nespapers are still i throwing boquets at Congressman Cromer, saying he has no intention ' of giving up his seat in congress and ; that it is a downright mean, contemptible trick in the democrats to thus falsely accuse the sainted congressman. While the newspapers are giving color to these sweeping denials, half the republicans in the district are hoping it will prove true.

| Our Annual Sale of Odds and Ends... I | Begins Saturday, December 29. | ® This is the Annual Bargain Event eagerly await- I | ed for by hundreds of people, and results directly | | from our large Fall trade. All broken lines, such as | | odd coats, odd pants and odd vests, are placed on | sale regardless of cost and with only the idea of | | prompt clearance in mind. Theses goods are all | g high grade merchandise and are to the greatest ex- t h tent new and up-to-date patterns. You should not 1 miss this opportunity. Come early and get a high | j i grade coat, pant or vest at less than wholesale price. 0 g Thanking you for past favors and wishing you aß.su • ?? | very happy and prosperous We remain, ® 1 ’ Yours Respectfully, | I Pete Holthouse & Co. |

I The Hon. G. Cleveland denies the statement that ho voted for McKinley, but denials at this stage of the game are of little consolation and not of much consequence. It would be useless however, for Mr. Cleveland to deny that his influence went Han naward. and that counted so much more than his vote, that but few people will be caught by such soft flamdoodle. _ The dedication of the new Columbia Club at Indianapolis, was among the closing scenes of last year. Toasts by Harrison. Fairbanks, Beverege and Hugh Hanna and a poem by James Whitcomb Riley were among the features attending the dedication of this republican club, who take a good sized hand in shaping the policies of the Indiana g. o. p. The business men of our city have done a very sensible thing in closing their stores at six o’clock, thus very materially reducing the already long hours necessary for successfully conducting the average business. By this change every business man and their employees will be the gainer. When the public becomes aware that purchase of merchandise is strictly a business proposition and must be attended to in bossiness hours, no trouble will be experienced in this change. Hon. Wayne M< Veach, a very able lawyer of large experience, thinks a territorial government similar to that of Hawaii should be given the Philippines. In his opinion the constitution precedes the flag, instead of the flag preceding the constitution. Constitutional lawyers now have a theme for exhaustive discussion. Mr. McVeagh contends that “in time of peace the flag has no right to be anywhere but where the constitution authorizes it to be; and it follows as the night follows the day that whatever is done under its folds must be done subject to the limitations the constitution prescribes, for it is not the flag, but the constitution which assures the blessings of litertv to ourselves and our posterity.” South Bend Times. The terms of thirty United States senators expire on March 3, and within the next ten days the legislatures of many states will begin their sessions and senatorial contests will be in full swing at state capitals looking to the settlement of the selection of senators to fill vacancies. In several states elections for senators have already teen held and the senators elected, while in other states there will be no contests, and the present senators will succeed themselves. This is true notably in the southern legislatures. But there are a number of states where the senatorial contests will be exciting, and in some cases bitter, and it is possible that in some states deadlocks will result and prevent elections. In five states vacancies already exist in the senate, and the legislatures in Pennsylvania. Delaware. Nebraska. Montana and Utah will be called upon to elect senators who will take their seats at once, and as all of these except Montana have republican legislatures it is desired by the administration that they take action at once, so that the republican majority in the upper branch of congress shall be increased. In Nebraska and in Minnesota, where the present occupants of chairs in the senate hold them by appointment of the governor to fill vacancies caused by the deaths of the regularly elected senators, vacancies will occur in the senate as soon as the legislature of the two states hold their

first joint session. Fortunately for the republicans, the present occupants of these chairs in the senate are populists, namely, Mr. Allen from Nebraska and Mr. Towne from Minnesota. The Quay republicans in Pennsylvania are in the majority and Quay will be elected although not without a hard fight. ROOM FOR AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE STUDENTS. i A prominent professor of one of our ' agricultural colleges recently made the i statement that there are continually i more applications for graduates of • those institutions to fill important pof sitions than can be supplied. But i those who are wanted are those who have thoroughly mastered the prin- • ciples of agricultural science, not those who have acquired a mere smattering of that important subject, which , some students are content to acquire. . In this, as in everything else, there is ! room only for the test and those indi- . viduals who manage to slip through the course and acquire only enough knowledge of it to barely pass their examinations find this out sooner or , later to their own regret. It is well to call frequent attention , of farmers’ sons to the possibilities . which are open to them. And here is a field that it is certainly worth while for them to cultivate. The positions for which young men are demanded are found in many difierent lines of ’ work. Some of them are wanted as as--1 sistants in our agricultural experiment • stations, where there are splendid opportunities for them to rise, if they are 1 thoroughly qualified for the work that is required of them and are also diligent and wholly reliable. There are occasionally positions to be filled in ' the various agricultural departments, 1 both state and national, but these, of course, require exceptional qualifica- ' tions. But by far the greater number 1 of places that are available and from which the most of the applications for ' young men of this kind come are upon 1 the large stock farm and other farms where expert knowledge is required. , There are scattered over the country quite a large number of farms whose owners have found the need of superintendents and who are willing to pay literal salaries to the right kind of men. They have learned that such farms can not be manager! by novices i or by men of mediocre ability. They have come to realize that a knowledge of agricultural science is a necessity on the part of those who have charge of farms of this kind. And there are few outside of our agricultural college graduates who possess the requisite qualifications. As these are limited in number and as there are other demands for them beside this, it can readily be seen that there will be room for all who may fit themselves for these positions for quite a number of years. Above all, too, it should be remembered that even though the time should come when there shall be a ; sufficient number of educated young men to fill all of these positions, the education which they may obtain at the agricultural colleges will help them to win success upon their own or their father’s farms or wherever else they may engage in this useful vocation. None of them need he deterred from entering upon a course of agricultural study by the fear that there ever will be too many educated farmers in this country. It is worth while for the bright, ambitious farmer boys to think of these things. There are doubtless a goodly number of such in St. Joseph and outneighboring counties who might profit by these suggestions.—South Bend Times.

JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY S LATEST I 01 1A Monument for the Soldier J. (Read at tbe opening of the ColuniblaA'h'”A monument for the soldiers. And what will ye build it oi. Can ye build it of marble, or brass, or bronze, ? Outlasting the soldiers’ love? Can ve glorify it with legends As’grand as their blood hath writ From the inmost shrine of this land oi thine To the outermost verge of it. And the answer came: We would ■ build it Out of our hopes made sure, And out of our purest prayers amt | tears, And out of our faith secure: We would build it out of the great | white truths Their death has sanctified. And the sculptured forms of the men in arms, And their faces ere they died. And what heroic figures Can the sculptor carve in stone.' Can the marble breast be made to bleed, And the marble lips to moan? Can the marble lips be fevered? And the marble eyes be graved To look their last, as the flags float ’ past, On the country that they have saved? And the answer came: The figures Shall all be fair and brave, And, as befitting, as pure and white As he stars above their grave: The marble lips, and breast and brow Whereon the laurel lies, Bequeath us right to guard the flight Os the old flag in the skies. A monument for the soldiers: Built of a people’s love, And blazoned, and decked and panoplied With the hearts yet built it of; And see that ye build it stately, In pillar and niche and gate, And high in pose as the souls of those It would commemorate! The Story of a Mean Man. This is the story of a mean man. He may not be the meanest on record, but he carries a very fair brand of close fistedness. He bad a contract to supply a certain amount of crushed stone. The machine he used could turn out all the work he could get by running eight hours a day. The mean man had an engineer who was a genius. The genius went to his employer one day and said he thought he could make some improvements in that machine so it would do more workin less time. The genius was paid by the month. He worked on the machine for several days, taking it apart and putting it together again. When reconstructed, It proved to have greater efficiency than before, so much so that it did the same amount of work in one minute and a half that it used to take four and a half to do. The mean man, however, could get r.o more contracts than before. He could fill all his orders by running about three hours a day. The mean man then went to the genius and said: “See here. Henry, I’ve been paying you by the month, but there isn’t as much work as there used to be- not enough to keep you busy. 1 shall have to pay you by the hour after this.” Henry demurred. He had been too faithful, but be didn’t think that ought to reduce his earnings over one-half. His employer was firm, however, and Henry resigned.—New York .Mail and Exnress.

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WEEK OF PRAYER. Services will be held at the Presbyterian Church. January t> to ij.as follows: Monday Prayer for a tetter realization of spiritual truth and a tetter estimate of spiritual realities; a clearer vision of the redeeming Christ, and of the actual need and the divinely intended glorv of the world which He redeemed. Tuesday- Prayer for a church which, through faith in Christ, and by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, shall tewhollv Christian, doing God’s will and winning the world to Christ. Wednesday Prayer forsuch Christian character and life as shall be pleasant in the home, honored in business relations, welcomed in the neighborhood, helpful in the church, personal religion teing thus manifested in its rightful attractiveness. Thursday Prayer for right relations in society and in the nation, with the Golden Rule obeyed as between man and man, and all social and political action guided by justice and good-will the Christian ideal. Friday Prayer for all international relationships and all international action. that they may be based on the Christian principles which apply to the individual the reign of the Prince of Peace. Saturday Prayer for all mission aries, and all missionarv organizations, that teing wholly inspired by Christian devotion and wholly guided by Christian wisdom, they may speedily and triumphantly fulfill the Saviour’s last command. Sunday Jan. 13th. Appr ipriate sermons and services. A Lons Separation. “Home again at last, darling.” “John, dearest, you don’t look a day older.” ”1 must. Centuries can’t roll over a man s bead without leaving traces.” “It was ages and ages, wasn’t It? And. oh, Jobn. bow lonesome I have been!” “You poor little wifey! If ever I have to go away again, you shall go with me. But you're more beautiful than eier. sweet one. What have you been doing with yourself all the time I was away?” “Thinking of you. darling, and longing and longing for you to come borne.” "if that is tbe secret of beauty, 1 ought to have grown a perfect Adonis. And you’re sure you recognized me straight off without thinking at least a minute?” “Os course, you old dear. Do you suppose I could ever forget you?” “Good gracious! It doesn’t seem possible that I’ve been away only since tbe day before yesterdav. docs It sweetheart?" “Not a bit more, husband mine, than Uiat we have actually been married a ?wkly moDth ,oniorrow -”-Pe«r>on’a Scotch Medicine. A stranger came to a provincial Scotch town one day. H e )ooke< j what of an Invalid, and be asked cue of tbe Inhabitants to direct him to tbe chemist’s shop. l " e “Tbe what, sir?" “The chemist’s shop " n ’’Aye. an wb at kin’ o’ shop’s that. mXV’ P ‘ aCe JOac ‘ D here.” sir, we’ve nae , lc ah op „ No? What do you d Ot . J?’•’"I---*"P - affaira. but sl, ( , you could ge t in a theOr,M ,h "‘ will make ber ? n *“ ” wa *

The Longnt Word. “Rob." said Tom. “which in tbe most E dangerous word to pronounce In tt e e English language?” “Don’t know, unless it’s a shearing word.” “Pooh!” said Tom. “It’s ‘stumbtei’ | because you are sure to get a tumble | between the first and last letter.” “Ha, ha!” said Rob. "Now. l'v«get ? one for you. 1 found it one day tj tbe paper. Which is the longest worf In the English language?” “Incomprehensibility,” said promptly. “No, sir; It's 'smiles.’ because tteti t. a whole mile between the first and I last letter." “Ho, bo!" cried Tom. “that’s wri9 ing. 1 know a word that has ore’■ three miles between its beginninguiH ending.” "What’s that?" asked Rob faintly. I “Beleaguered,” said Tom. son’s His Accent and Ills Conotrr. I On one occasion during a visit t 9 America Michael Gunn, wbo asststdH Gilbert and Sullivan in bringing al many of their operas, was trying voices of some candidaies for tbe at 9 rus. One of them sang in a sorsfß affected Italian broken English, stage manager Interrupted. *lmß here,” be said, “that accent for sailors or pirates. Give ussaß less Mediterranean and a littleMi I Whitechapel.” Here Gunn turned and said.H I wbat nationality are you? YonW ■ sound Italian.” Tbe other suddenly droi ped fan accent and In Irish said. "S®aFj Mr. Gunn. I'm from tbe same as yourself." <r ill s Easy HoTakt ♦ I ♦ Thin, pale, anaemic gify ■ J need a fatty food to enricH | J- their blood, give color lot I ♦ their cheeiu and restore fhtf, ♦ health and strength. It “I ♦ safe to say that they near!'; ♦ all reject fat with their foo<L| COD LIVER OIL */TH HYPOPHOSPHITES" LIHIVw ♦ is exactly what they require J it not only gives them the iff jg ♦ portant element (cod -liver oi« <; r in a palatable and easily <! r }i jj gested form, but also the hypo-, ♦ phosphites which are so valua- ♦ ible in nervous disorders that}® usually accompany anxm' a i 2 SCOTT’S EMULSION b«;| J fatty food that is more easily * digested than any other lorff |of fat. A certain amount e J flesh is necessary for health. J You can get it in this wayj We have known P er * sons to gain a pound ? day while taking it* MX. •nd»< <frugg”'*- £ SCOTT A BOWNF, Chcmut* |