Decatur Democrat, Volume 44, Number 50, Decatur, Adams County, 21 February 1901 — Page 7

COMING INAUGURAL A Question of Precedent Is Giving the Committee No End of Concern. iT is A MATTER OF PROPRIETY lot Since Grant's Second Inaugural Has • Similar Point Arisen to Perplex Those In Charge of the Fine Features of the Inaugural Ceremonies. Washington. Feb. 1.8.—1 n all but one previous Inaugural since the civil war the incoming president lias had the company of the outgoing chief executive ou his way to take the oath of office. The question of propriety in the case of President McKinley’s second Inauguration has led to a searching inquiry Into precedents on the part of the joint congressional committee having charge of the ceremonies at the capitol, and has been finally determined in favor of an escort, to consist of n committee of the senate and house. Senators Hanna, Spooner and Jones, and ou the part of the house of representatives, Cannon. Dalzell and Mcßae. As chairman of the joint committee, it is regarded as certain that Senator Hanna, ami as probable that Representative Cannon will have the seats of honor next to the president in the latter’s carriage in the ride from the executive mansion to the capitol and back. In the case of General Grant's second inaugural, he rode with all three .if the committee appointed by the senate to have charge of the capitol ceremonies. The committee on public comfort for the inauguration announces that it has Issiked. up to date, accommodations for 35,000 visitors in prjvate houses, whose premises have been carefully inspected. Applications to the committee from private persons all over the United States requesting to be booked for accommodations indicates that the second inauguration of President McKinley will eclipse every previous presidential installation since the founding of the government. Terrible Mine Disaster. Victoria. B. Feb. 16.—An explosion that is feared will be one of the most horrible mine accidents in the history of the Dominion, occcurred yesterday at the Union mines, owned hy the Welling Colliery company, of which James Dusmire, the premier of the province, is the principal shareholder. The explosion took place in No. 6 shaft, one of the workings of the big coal mine there. This particular shaft is situated in the village of Cumlterland. There were 60 men in it when the explosion took place, and not one of them escaped. A Tennessee Incident. Dyersburg. Tenn.. Feb. 19.—Fred King, a negro charged with a murderous assault iqs.u Miss Elsie Arnold, the daughter of a prominent physician, was lynched by a mob of citizens yesterday afternoon. King, after being tracked by bloodhounds, was arrested and given a trial before twelve prominent citizens. After testifying in his own behalf the negro finally confessed his guilt ami implicated rtee Montgomery, another negro. King was taken by a mob to a tree near the courthouse and strung up. Montgomery is in jail. The King Opens Parliament. London. Feb. 15.—The first parliament of King Edward VII was opened yesterday afternoon by the king in person, ills majesty was accompanied by Queen Alexandra and others of the royal family. The Inst *tate ceremony of the kind occurred in 1861., when Queen Victoria opened parliament, accompanied by the prince consort, anti since the death of the latter nothing equal to yesterday's pomp has Iteen witnessed in Loudon In connection with the opening of the legislature. A Georgia Tragedy. Atlanta. Ga., Feb. 19.—The dead bodies of Mrs H. M. Wilson, a young widow, ami William Hamilton, a student in pharmacy, who disappeared from Atlanta one week ngo yesterday, wore found one mile from town. The kurrounidngs indicated that Hamilton hud killed Mrs. Wilson, set fire to the woods near the body and then ended bls own life. Both bodies were fearfully burned. Evidently. Albert Lea, Minn.. Feb. 15.-Mrs. •-hnrles H. Dills yesterday unsuccess-

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fully tried to cut her throat with a ' ax. She then hagjied her leg with the ax. inflicting such terrible wounds | tnat she will probably die. She is said [ to be of unsound mind. ————— Two Negroes Shot to Death. — I Macon, Miss., Feb. 19,-Ishau and Henry Fed, negroes. were shot to deatli by a mob six miles from Macon. They were charged with burning the barn ot L. I. Cole, who lives near Macon. ♦ Mill Visit His Sister. Berlin, Feb. 15.—The condition of Dowager Empress Frederick is more serious than at any previous time during her illness. King Edward is expected to visit her within a few days. Death of Judge Taylor. Lafayette, Ind., Feb. 19.—Colonel W. C. L. Taylor, a veteran of the Civil war and judge of the circuit court, died yesterday. The Story ot a Picture. Benjamin West’s picture of the “Death of Nelson" is closely connected with an anecdote of the great sailor. Just before be went to sea for the last time be was present at a dinner, during which be sat between the artist and Sir William Hamilton. Nelson was expressing to Hamilton bis regret that be bad not. in his youth, acquired some taste for art and some discrimination In judging it. “But," said he, turning to West, “there Is one picture whose power I do feel. 1 never pass a shop •where your ’Death of Wolfe’ is In the window without being stopped by 1L” West made some gracious answer to the compliment, and Nelson went on. “Why have you painted no more like it?” “Because, my lord.” West replied, “there are no more subjects.” "Ah,” said the sailor, “I didn't think of that” * “But, my lord.” continued West. “I atn afraid your intrepidity will yet furnish me with another such scene, and if it should I shall certainly avail myself of IL” “Will you?” said Nelson—“will you, Mr. West? Then I hope 1 shall die in the next battle!” A few days later be sailed, his strangely expressed aspiration was realized; and the scene lives upon canvas. WnitlnK For His Tarn. “Speaking of drinking as a cause for headaches,” said an old practitioner, "reminds me of a trip I took several years ago with a special train full of western physicians going to the annual meeting of the American Medical association in Philadelphia. “On such occasions as this, with perhaps 150 physicians congregated in a special train, a good many manufacturers of wines, liquors and carbonated waters are anxious for the opportunity of putting bottled goods on ice, with a representative in charge to see that samples are dispensed at just the right temperature. “On this particular occasion I remember that one firm dealing in mineral waters had an especially competent agent ou board the train. Dinner was just over in the dining car, tables had been put up in nearly every section of the sleepers and champagne corks were popping. Redder liquors were on all sides, and the rattle of cracked ice was nearly as loud as the clicking of the trucks. “It was Just at this juncture that this especial agent for the mineral waters made-his hit. He recognized that it was not his deal, and he started through the train, beginning ixt the rear end of the baggage ear. With a profound Iww to all present be said: “ ‘Good night, gentlemen, good night, but I'll see you in the morning!' "He went through the train with that, making the hit of the whole trip. My greatest wonder r.t It. too, has been that it has not been seized upon aa an illustrated advertisement for his house.”—Chicago Tribune. Don’t De Sparing ot Vonr Love. The i>ower of love is one of the greatest gifts to humanity. It generates the sunshine of the moral universe, without which life would be a desert waste. Use this divine power without stint Be prodigal of your love. Let It radiate freely. It will brighten the dark places. It will gladden the sorrowing. It will lift you above the petty, grinding cares that so soon corrode the mind and sap the energies. It is the golden key that will admit you to the palace ot the true life.—Success, Well Hnouirh, “Didn’t I tell you to let well enough alone?” said the doctor to the convalescent who had disobeyed and was suffering a relapse. "Yes. doctor." whined the patient, “but I wasn’t well enough."—Detroit Free Press.

RAILROAD SPOTTERS. THE SECRET SERVICE THAT ONE BIG SYSTEM MAINTAINS. Members of It In Every Department From Yardmen I p—Cn Fiona Complications When Spotters Unknown to One Another Cfomm Linen. “Probably the most perfect spotter system achieved by any private corporation." says S. H. Adams in AinsIce's, “Is that of one of the big eastern railroads, which is to some extent modeled on the secret service system of some of the eastern governments, though by no means so complex. “So fnrreachlng and so direct, however, are Its lines of communication that the president of the organization is himself kept constantly informed of the trend of affairs and the changes of sentiment among the employees of every division and subdivision of the whole railway system, and that without the knowledge of any other persons but his own special corps of clerks and secretaries. “Nobody but himself knows the entire personnel of the wonderful service that he lias perfected. His agents' are drawn from every branch of the road’s operating staff. They are engineers, freight brakemen, passenger trainmen, conductors, signalmen, yardmen, station agents, track walkers and even division officials. Should that road have a strike —and strikes are far less likely to occur than they were before the present system was put into operation— the president will have detailed warnings of it from all the storm centers long before the first mutterings find cautious utterance in the newspapers. "Wlule it also acts as a defense against thefts by employees, this system is intended primarily to prepare, so to speak, a diary of the disposition, character, working efficiency and sentiments toward tlie road of the men who constitute the vast human machinery of the corporation. The feeling which culminates in a general strike is not the result of one act alone, but a slow growth made up of many grievances, real or fancied. “To keep track of the shifting mental attitude of bis employees Is the aim of this railroad president. If a certain division superintendent has made himself unpopular with his subordinates. Information to that effect comes ‘by underground wire’ to the central office, and the matter is taken under advisement. If the newest fireman*on the road attempts to stir up discontent by Inflammatory talk, bis views soon reach the official ear. Every leading spirit in the employees’ organization is known to the president, who also knows whether, in case of trouble, the man is to lie reckoned upon as a conservative or a radical. “Sometimes this works out the man's career in a manner quite incomprehensible to him. For instance, Night Watchman Brown is shifted without cause that he can fathom from one division to another. How should be know that rumors of trouble in that division have reached the presidential ear and that he himself, being down in the president’s little book us a speaker of weight and a counselor of conservative methods, has been shifted over to act as unconscious agent in checking a dangerous tendency? "Some of the admiring coworkers of the head of this system declare that in two minutes' reference to his collected funds of information he can unroll the family history of the woman who washes the windows of car No. 4U44X and tell whether, in her estimation, he himself Is an oppressor of the downtrodden or a perfect gentleman. “Where so many invisible lines radiate from the same office It is Inevitable that some of them should cross. Curious complications result from contact between spotters as unknown to each other as they are to those whom they watch. “Several years ago at a time of general labor troubles a certain railroad got no less than five reports from Its confidential men Informing them that an employee who was several degrees higher in the secret service of the road than any of them, had they but known it, had been making incendiary speeches. “This was true. Matters bad so shaped themselves that the man accused had to appear as a radical In order to gnln admittance to Inner councils where the important questions would lie finally decided. To the chagrin of the authorities they were obliged to transfer him. Had they not done so the suspicious of the men who make the reports would have been aroused. That spotters should know each other as such is held to be highly undesirable. There Is always the chance that they might work In conjunction instead of acting as checks on each other.” The Fllsht of Time. A masked man confronted tne with a pistol In a lonely spot on the dark rond. “Cough up your chronometer,” be demanded gruffly. I fumbled for my 18 carat timepiece, thinking that my last hour was at Land. When I dared to look up, he had vanished with ids plunder. Even then, such Is the Incongruity of the human mind, though rejoiced that my time had not yet come, I regretted In my heart that it bad gone. — New York Profit* of iKnornncr. “Wkj don't you bookstore clerks know more about books?” “Madam, we don’t dnre lw» Intellectual, for customers would ask us so many questions that we couldn't make any sales’’—Chicago Record. To n youth of 20 middle age Is from 40 to 45. To a young man of 40 middle age Is from 55 to GO.—Somerville Journal.

Fcnr of the Dead. Fear of the dead is instinctive In man. There is no doubt about that. I do not profess to be able to enter Into the exact reasons for that fear; whether it be that man instinctively recoils from contemplation of the fallen temple alone or wliat not, it is sufficient that tlie fear exists. Neither is tills instinctive fear of the dead confined to man. I owned a horse once Hint could never be driven past a dead horse. Tlie animal exhibited all the signs of true fear. Fear coupled witli shock can produce insanity. I do not think that the reason of a normal man would be unseated if lie were locked up alone -with a corpse for many hours, though a person witli weak nerves certainly might be so affected. If n man discovered that ids sweetheart had died suddenly while alone with him, the shock might render him insane. Even to those most familiar with death and b d bodies these Is something awe inspiring about a corpse, and no man’s nerves are proof against a fright. I remember once, when I was alone in tlie dissecting room at night, the hand of the subject upon which I was engaged became loosened. I did not notice what had happened. Suddenly the arm of the subject swung around, and the band struck the side of my face. Years of training in immunity from superatition vanished in the Jump that I gave.—Dr. John D. Quackenbos in New York World. Wntches That They Lend. “They are all alike.” remarked a man coming out of a Woodward avenue watchmaker’s, accompanied by a lady. “Who?" inquired his wife. “Watchmakers.” “How?" “I thought other cities maybe weren’t quite like our small town in the wild and wicked west, but they are and more so. I take my watch, which, as you know, is a fine gold one, full jeweled, costing 8300, in to have a few repairs. much or little, as may be. and the boss timekeeper gives me an old battered tin watch to carry in its place that makes me ashamed to look into the face of a reputable watch for weeks. In addition it excites suspicion in the minds of my nearest friends when they see me take it out, and if I should die witli that watch on my person in a strange country the newspapers would say, ‘Judging from the watch found on the deceased, he must have come from New Jersey.’ Now, what I want to know is why don’t jewelers have ‘substitute watches’ to match their customers'? That is to say, let the customer’s watch left for repairs determine the kind of watch he is to carry until he gets his own again.” But his wife couldn’t tell him to save her life.—Detroit Free Press. Didn’t See the Joke. “It isn’t safe to be funny these days unless one labels one’s jokes,” said a woman who went abroad recently. “You know, I’ve always rather fancied myself as a wit, and on the steamer coming home I really let myself out Everybody was a bit seasick, and I— Well, even I had limes when I thought I'd rather own an automobile than any kind of a yacht. One day we all foregathered on deck and talked about what we’d gone through—you know how people do ou shipboard. I was talking in my cleverest vein with an English family. “‘Um like a famous lady,’ I chortled gayly. ‘l'll be extremely glad to set foot on terracotta again.’ “That evening the mother of the English family took me aside. “ ‘My dear,’ she said. ‘l'm so much older than you that I am sure I may make so bold as to tell you something, and I want you to take it in the spirit in which it is meant. Yon said this morning you’d be glad to set foot on terra eotta again. I thought I'd Just call your attention to the thing so you won’t make the same mistake again. It isn’t terracotta, it’s terra liras.' Washington Post. Surface Indications. From “A Book on Dartmoor.” written hy the Rev. S. Baring-Gould, comes a story which might have come from a less trustworthy source: The wild and romantic country of Dartmoor consists of a tableland with rugged peaks or tors and all but impassable marshes. After a dry summer it is easy to pick one’s way across parts of it which at other times are full of pitfnlls. At one of the latter periods a man was cautiously treading his way across one of the treacherous marshes when he saw a hat lying brim downward on the sedge. He gave it a gentle, good humored kick in passing and almost Jumped out of his skin when a choked voice called out from beneath: “What be you a-doln to my ’at?” “Bo there now a chap under'n?” exclaimed the traveler. "Ees, I reckon, and a boss under me likewise." A BlffiooK Wife. An Rflglfshman thus describes the wife of Ids bosom In bls will: “Heaven seems to have sent her Into the world solely to drive me out of it. The strength of Stimson, tlie genius of Homer, tlie prudence of Augustine, tlie skill of Pyrrhus, tlie patft'iicc of Job. the philosophy of Socrates, the subtlety of Hannibal, the vigllatfle of Hennogenes, would not suffice to subdue the pervWslty of her character.”—Exchange. A Popular Host. Traveler—Eli ? Has this hotel changed hands? Clerk—Yes: the old landlord busted up; owed thousands of dollars to nil the provision dealers In the neighborhood. For every sl9 he took In he spent S2O. Traveler—Too bud. too bad! He’s the only landlord I ever met who knew bow to keep a hotel.—New York Weekly.

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