Decatur Democrat, Volume 45, Number 2, Decatur, Adams County, 21 March 1901 — Page 4

LAST democrat General Hl th ” rsday “ OKK,Mi BY "tl. ELLINQHAM. Publisher. the J PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. it the postoffice at Decatur. Indiana *s second-class mall matter. ... _ OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUNTY. THURSDAY, MARCH 28. The Harrison estate is variously es- , timated from a quarter to a half million dollars. . 1 wocLDas soon think of doing busiwithout clerks as without ad ver rising. John Wanamaker. | . Governor Dvrbin is through vetoing bills for the present ami will now '’lJSiJjis attention to giving out the '■Baftrns” to the bovs. Wonder if the hitiunder committee" will dictate his appointments, as they are reported to bare controlled the legislature appointments. Winchester Journal (rep.) Carnegie unbelts to Fort Wayne to the princely tune of $75,000. With all this extravagance of generosity upon the part of Mr. Carnegie, the public should not forget that much of this money was wrung by cruelty and selfishness from those who enables him to act with such merited generosity. The voters of Kirkland township are to be congratulated for the pro gressive spirit displayed in liehalf of tetter roads. There is no other improvement that better foretells the enterprise of a community or that addp, more to the value of real estate,- than does g<H>d roajK* TWrififi, tJtfe comforts tc/be derived far outstrip their real c Jt. Let the good work go on. "TOctietary Hay was given an impossible task when he was told by Mr. McKinley to negotiate a new treaty with England to take the place of the rejected treaty that will represent the views of two-thirds of the senate. U hat the senators would agns* to would not be agreed to by the British ambassador. In fact, sen ators who ought to know have declared that if the treaty just rejected by England, were to be accepted just as it was, by Secretary Hay and the British ambassador, and again sent to the senate, it would fail of ratification, until it had been amended. It might not be out of order for the bar association of the Adams circuit court to pattern after their brethren in Elkhart county. After the constitutional amendments, describing certain qualifications for admission to the bar. failed in passage, the Elkhart bar association have provided that I every application for admission to the I bar shall first be examined as to his educational qualification in at least the common branches: that he shall pass satisfactory examination as to mental and moral standing and as to his qualifications in not only statutorv but common law; that he shall be examined by a committee appointed bv the court, unless application is made for admission on a diploma from a reputable law school; that no member j of the bar association shall recom mend any person for admission who| does not desire to be admitted under proof of qualification, and a disregard for this portion of the rules shall be sufficient grounds for expulsion.

One more week to buy Your Confirmation Suits, “ i J-J -W ING had such large sales on Confirmation Suits this season we were compelled to re-order on some sizes, and we are now in position to fit all sizes—little and big. The values in these suits are far superior to anything we have had before. Call and see them and we will convince you of their superiority. * See our new Spring Hats and Neckwear. Holthouse, Schulte & Company.

1 The Adams County Times came duly to life Tuesday, making the second newspaper to ask favors of the public at Berne. While the people of that enterprising town have about as much use for two newspapers as a pig ■' has for two tails, yet such enterprise t certainly deserves words of cheer and good fellowship. The initial number showed moreor less mechanical genius, and here is hoping the paper will prosper and its editor grow rich. There is a growing suspicion that there is a close connection between the opposition of some of the big syndicates operating in several linos of Cuban industry against the withdrawal of American authority from the island, and the report that the Cubans are going to refuse to comply with the conditions imposed by congress for American withdrawal, and that if a close investigation were made it would be found that these syndicates are using money to influence the Cubans, just as agents for those ’ syndicates brought influence to bear upon Mr. McKinley for the purpost 1 1 of persuading him to take no steps ' toward carrying out the pledge of congress that our authority should be withdrawn as soon as the Cubans were in a position to govern themselves. It has again been demonstrated that the American system of protection is a good thing for the trusts, and that these same trusts can sell or do sell cheaper to the foreigner than to their own countrymen. A telegram from Youngstown, Ohio, says: That the steel trust has two prices—one for the American buyer, the other for the European purchaser, and that the American gets the worst of the deal wns demonstrated to Charles Thullen. h local capitalist. Thullen secured , the contract to supply the steel rails for the new Russian Trans-Siberian railway. He asked prices from the Federal Steel and Carnegie companies. They were all in the neighborhood of $35 per ton, with freight to be added. When the Carnegie company was asked for a better rate, its representatives said Russia would have to come to the Carnegies for their steel rails, anyhow. Thullen went to England and let the contract to an English firm. This firm got figures from the Federal Steel company. They were $24 a ton delivered. The English firm then offered to deliver them to Thullen in Russia for $25 a ton, and the offer was accepted. The death of General Benjamin Harrison leaves but one living expresident. Grover Cleveland. During Cleveland’s second administration. Harrison was the only living ex-presi-dent, as was Cleveland during the last two months of Harrison’s term. For the four years when Ruthford B. j Hayes was president, Gen. Grant was the only ex-president. Twice since the retirement of the first president there has been no ex-president living from the time of Washington’s death in 1 <99 to Jefferson's inauguration in j 1801 and from the death of Johnson i in 1875 to the inauguration of Hayes j in 1876. When John Quincy Adams! was inaugurated all of his predeees sors except Washington were, still I living. The largest number of ex presidents living at one time was five, which was immediately after the inauguration of Lincoln’. These were v 2fi Buren, Tyler, Flllujore. Pierce! and Buchanan. All of them died before the end of Andrew Johnson’s! I term except Fillmore, who lived until 1871. Four presidents retired to liecome the only ex-president Washington. the elder Adams, Grant and | Harrison. South Bend Times.

, CITY OFFICERS. ‘ Their Terms Shortened to Two Years by a n Act ol the Legislature ’ Below will be found the full text of ’ Senator Miller’s bill, which shortens the terms of city officers to two in--1 stead of four years. The councilmen elected last year, presumably for four ’ years, will be legislated out of office in May 1902. Senator Miller explains that the bill is not intended to be par tisan in any of its features, and taking tht' cities over the state as a whole the two parties will be equally effected by . the law. The bill will do away with the hold-over system, and, under its ! workings, the council will be changed entire every two years unless some of the old members are re-elected. It brings the candidates before the people every two years, and is intended . to operate to the best interests of their constituency. The law reads as follows: Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana. that section 1, of an act which became a law by lapse of time, without the Governor’s signature, February 21, 1893, entitled “An act to amend section 1 of an act to amend section 8 of an act entitled ‘An act to repeal all general laws now in force for the incorporation of cities, and prescribing their powers and rights and the manner in which they shall exercise the same, and to regulate such other matters as properly pertain thereto, appproved March 14, 1867 (approved March 6, 1877), the same being section 3043 of the Revised Statutes of 1881, repealing all laws in conflict therewith, and declaring an emergency," be so amended to read as followsSection 8. The officers of such city shall consist of a mayor, two councilmen from each ward, a city clerk, treasurer, civil engineer, chief of fire department, street commissioner, health officer, marshal, and (if the common council deem it expedient) a city attorney and a city judge. The city attorney, the street commissioner, the civil engineer, the chief of the fire department anil the health officer shall be appointed by the common council: Provided. That the common council may dispense with the street commissioner and require the marshal to perform his duties. All such officers shall hold their respective offices for two (2) years and until their successors are elected or appointed and qualified, those who are appointed by the common council being subject to removal by the council at its pleasure, after the first general election on the first Tuesday in May. Said officers shall respectively hold their offices as follows: The mayor, citv judge, clerk, marshal and treasurer, two years each: And provided, ' That the term of office of the afore I said officers shall commence on the first Monday in Septemlier following ' the general election in May. and tMat the term of office shall be two years j from such Monday in September: And I provided further. That the term of the mayor, clerk, treasurer, civil engineer. ' street commissioner, marshal, city at- | tornev, city judge, chief engineer of the fire deparement and health officer now in office shall expire on the first Monday in the month of September. 1902. The successors of such mayor, 'clerk, treasurer, marshal and citv > judge shall tie elected at the general | elction on the first Tuesday in May. 1902. And the eouncilmen shall be elected by the legal voters of the respective wards, and each councilman shall, during his term, reside in the ward from which he is elected; the councilmen shall serve for the term of

two years, and the term of the eouncilmen now in office shall expire on the first Tuesday in May, (,n which day their successors shall elected. and afterwards they shall >’ e elected biennially on the first Tuesday in May. And all of said officers shall hold their respective offices during their respective terms as fixed herein and until their successors are elected and qualified. The said clerk, treasurer and marshal, with consent of the common council, may appoint one or more deputies when necessar V ■ Provided further. That the common council of the city governed by this act may order the election of an auditor, who shall be elected as other city officers are elected, and shall hold his office for the term of two years, ami until his successor is elected and qualified, and the common council shall have power to prescribe the man tier of qualifying for such office and to prescribe the powers and duties thereof, which shall in nowise conflict with the provisions of this act: And provided, further, That no person shall hold the office of councilman unless at the time of his election he is a resident of the ward from which he is elected, and in case of the removal of any councilman from the ward from which he was elected, the common council shall declare his office vacant and elect his successor to fill such vacancy as provided by law. Sec. 2. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

It is given out that Andrew Carnegie will give the stupendous sum of $5,200,000 for the establishment of i branch public libraries in New York. Surely Andrew is going it with a view of being substantial in his donations. It is stated that Senator Fairbanks : s forming the most perfect organization ever known to politics in this country tocapture the next persidential nomination. The success of it will depend to a large extent on Mark Hanna not being the mainspring of some other man's organization. His own.forinstauce.- Ft. Wayne Sentinel. One of the new laws passed by the , late lamented, was one providing for the election of all city officers every two years, the same to take effect in September 1902. It is certainly vicious and has nothing that we can see. to commend it. According to its provisions the terms of those councilmen elected in 1900 will expire in May 1902. If some of the good things that are said of a man after he is dead were said of him and to him when he was alive, this world would be a much more satisfactory place to live. Much of the praise lies towed upon the late Hon. Benj. Harrison, by prominent members of his party was by those whc had for years lost no opportunity to sneer at him. It does seem that the death of a man of prominence serves to bring out striking bits of hypocrisy in other men of prominence. Why, is one of those mysterious things which no one is ever able to account for in any satisfactory way. It is known to all the world that while he was president, and since, Mr. Harrison was hated heartilv hveron- nrnminent member of his party, for one or another reason, but since his death, these men have been trying to outdo each other in saying extravagant : words of praise of him. The public is very forgetful, but it isn’t quite so forgetful as the talk of these men indicates them to believe.

mokdans raiders. THE FAMOUS ROUGH RIDING CAMPAIGN OF THE CIVIL WAR. It Carried I’nntc nnd Cqnrnxlon Into Ohio nrd Indiana. •»■< '«’"•"*<* In No Benefit Whatever to the Confederate Cause. -Cavalry riding." sell the major, “is exciting, but very exhausting business. Long distance raids in an enemy s country can be made only where there are a good many horses. John Morgan could never have ™>de his rrnd through Indiana and t'hio in - 1 the counties raided had not been well supplied with the best horses in the west. When he started from the Cumberland river, in east Tennessee, Morgan believed that lie would sweep everything before him and that, if properly supported, be would capture Cincinnati.’ -Morgan, with a well organized brigade of cavalry 4,000 strong, swept northward from the Cumberland river through Kentucky to the Ohio river at Braudeuberg, 40 miles below Louisville. There he captured two steamboats, crossed the river, swept through southern Indiana, galloped nruund Cincinnati. not more than ten miles from the city, and then moved eastward, expecting to cross the Ohio river at Buffington, but was driven back, made another attempt at Wellsville, but was Anally captured at New Lisbon. “This was the most remarkable raid of the war. It carried panic and confusion into Ohio and Indiana, but In results it was of no benefit whatever to the Confederate cause. Morgan believed that there would »>e an uprising in the Confederate interest in Kentucky. There w:is not. lie believed that the peace Democrats in Ohio would give him at least secret support, but when ids mon stole the horses of the peace Democrats the latter joined the ranks of Morgan’s pursuers, and before the raid was half over the whole state was aroused, and men who had taken no Interest in the war previous to that time shouldered their squirrel rifles to fight the raiders who were stealing their horses and carrying the horrors of war to their very doors.

“There was hard riding all the time for Morgan's men. They left behind them a wreckage of broken down horses. They kept ahead of their Union pursuers simply because they stole horses right and left and remounted tlie men, but they were finally captured, and that fall Ohio gave the war party the largest majority in the history of the state up to that time. In fact, the Morgan raid, by carrying the war into the peaceful districts of Indiana. and Ohio, provoked a furious feeling of resentment, which influenced people for 20 years. “The comedy of the raid was furnished by the people of the districts w holly unused to war, wholly unprepared for It and with exaggerated ideas of the ferocity of Morgan’s men. For two weeks it was only necessary for some mischievous boy to shout 'Morgan is coming!’ In any village in central or southern Ohio to create a panic. I know that many of the raiders after Morgan got no rest ntglit or day, slept in the saddle, and not a few of them fell off their horses in sleep. At the end e* the raid they were as exhausted as Morgan’s men, but with a more difficult task to perform they never received half the praise given to the raiders. “I remember,” continued the major, “one case in which a woman stabled her carriage horses in the parlor for two days to keep them out of Morgan's hands. I saw Morgan’s men ride by that bouse and saw some of them stop to listen at the unusual sound of horses’ feet on a carpeted floor, but the parlor horses were not disturbed. Some of our neighbors drove their horses, cattle and sheep 30 miles Into the interior and were away from home a week. Morgan’s men looted right and left, and some of them had bolts of calico strapped to their saddles when they were captured, “Morgan, It must be remembered, made bls whole raid with artillery and a wagon train, but be was not in Ohio to fight, and he demonstrated at once the ease with which a peaceful district may lie invaded by a mobile column and at the same time the perl) involved in such a venture. In a few days 50,000 militiamen were in the field against him. At first be played with these green soldiers, but at last they hung on bis flanks, eager for fight as bulldogs. In the last days Hobson’s men, Who ’had followed Morgan for hundreds of miles through three states, closed in on their old enemies with a glee-fulness that exceeded anything of the kind 1 ever saw In the army, and Judah’s men, closing in on the other side, settled the fate of the raiders. Morgan s men knew by the maneuvering and the firing when they were faced by trained soldiers, and the first charge of the Union cavalry had In It the impetus of delated vengeance. The Unionists who rode in that charge bad old scores to settle, and Morgan’s tired veterans were overwhelmed. After Morgan had escaped from the penitentiary at Columbus and had reorganized Ids command and was again raiding Kentucky hundreds of Union soldiers on their way home for discharge left their trains and joined in the pursuit simply to get a crack at the old raider, and Morgan knew when their rifles spoke that be was up against the real thing.” •Inst Like ■ Man. “Oh. no; she’s not at all what you would call a really feminine woman, nbe affects masculine ways" “How?” Well, for instance, yesterday I saw er give a street car conductor a nickel when she had five pennies in her purse. '—Chicago Post. I •• <«■*»

A STRANGE LAKE. " The Peculiarities of a Hod, of Water In Australia. Lake George is situated about four milis from the railway station at Bungendore. Australia, and has for many years engaged the attention of scientific men by reason of the singular and inexplicable phenomena connected with it. The estimates of its size vary con siderably according .to circumstance, but when moderately full about 20 by 7 miles will be found tolerably correct. At either end the land is fully 100 feeabove the highest recorded surface us the lake, which possesses no known outlet, although it is fed by numerous mountain creeks. The lake was discovered by a bush man in 1820 and was known to the blacks as the “big water.” It was then supposed to form the source of a river having its mouth on the south coast, but subsequent visitors were much perplexed at the manner In which the blacks avoided the lake, of which they appeared to entertain a superstitious dread, one aged aboriginal stating she had seen it all covered with trees, another explaining that the whole of the water sunk through the bottom and disappeared, while others remembered the lake only ns a series of small ponds. During the following 20 years considerable variations were noted in the depth and extent of the lake. In 1841 the lake became partially dried up. the moist portions being simply grassy swamps. A few months later large numbers of sheep were pastured in the bed of the lake, but fresh water had to be carteil for the use of the shepherds, that of the lake being too salt for human consumption. The place remained more or less dry until 1852, the year of the great floods in that part of the colony, when it again became filled, with an average depth of nine feet. Since then the surface level of the lake has varied considerably, but the bed has never been so dry as in former years. There are Indications that many hundreds of years ago the lake covered a far larger *ea titan any yet recorded, remains of trees over 100 years old being found In spots formerly under water. The saline character of the lake I, the more remarkable by reason of Its being fed by pure and sparkling fresh water streams.

ENGLISH MONARCHS. Death Often Unkind In the Manner of Their Taking Off. Os the monarchs who have reigned over England since the days of the Norman conquest nearly one-quarter of the number have met violent death. William I was killed by a fall from his horse. William II was shot while hunting, whether by accident or design Is still one of the unsolved problems of history; Richard 1 was killed by a shaft from a crossbow while besieging the city of Chaluz. in France; Richard II was murdered in Pontefract castle. Edward II was murdered in Berkley castle, and Edward V In the Tower of London. Richard HI was kiled on the battlefield of Bosworth and Charles 1 bad bis head cut off la London. Elizabeth’s death was hastened by remorse that she had ordered the execution of Essex, and her sister Mary sickened and died soon after the loss v* Calais. declaring that tne name ot the city would be found after death written on her heart. The death of Edward Ill's son. the Black Prince, caused the aged monarch to die of grief. So, after the loss of bls son in the White Ship. Henry I was never s.-en to smile again and lived only a short time. Henry VI and George 111 were Insane during the latter years of their reigus and finally died from what In these days would lie called paresis. Charles 11. Henry VIII, Edward IV and George IV hastened their deaths by the dissipated and sensual lives they lived. Only two monarchs died of that great national scourge, consumption; they were Edward VI and Henry VII. Queen Anne’s death was due as much as anything else to overfeeding. Only two monarchs, Henry t VI and George 111, died after long illnesses. The Happy Medlam. A clergyman relates that a worthy Irishman with an Impediment In his speech brought him a child to be baptized. While making a record of It he was in some doubt as to the correct spelling of tbs family name given to him and asked the man how be wrote it. “Indeed and I don’t write at all. was the reply. “I just want to know," said Father Boyle, “whether the name is 'McGrath or ’Magrath'— whether the second part of It is spelled with a big ‘G’ or a little ’g.’ ” After scratching bls bead hopelessly the puzzled parent saw his way out the difficulty. “Well, father, just spell it wid a mlddlln sized ’g.’ "—Exchange. >« Woi'l Roll OR. The egg of the guillemot Is one ot the moat peculiar and furnishes an admirable example of the way 111 which nature provides for the conditions of life. , This bird Is found on the coast, an' the eggs are usually laid on the bsff edges of high rocks, from which po’ 1 ’ tlon any ordinary specimen of the <’£*•' would probably roll off. t But the guillemot's egg won t this, it has Iteen fashioned by nature to stop on. The egg Is nearly conic* In shape, broad at the base and sliar K at the (>olnt. so that It will only rv In a circle. Belter Than Making * K«<*“Just before Badtnun was sent prison he bought n set of bool ’ to v* paid for In Installments.” "What dW he do that for?" “He saliV It would make the tl® seem shorter."—Chicago Tribune.