Decatur Democrat, Volume 45, Number 4, Decatur, Adams County, 4 April 1901 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT SVEHY THURSDAY MORNING BY LEW G. ELLINOHAM. Publisher. *I,OO PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. Entered nt the postoffice at Decatur. Indiana as second-class mail matter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUNTY. THURSDAY, APRIL 4. Mr. Frederick I. Allen of New York, Boss Platt's new commissioner of patents, has taken charge of that office. Among the recent Montana's laws is one providing that the judge's charge to a jury shall precede the argument of the counsel. Agvinaldo has already sworn allegience to Uncle Sam, and now many are disposed to think that the backbone of the war is broken. Congressman Cromer's jxistoffice appointments are not yet public property, which means that our wily congressman is having plenty of fun with himself. At first we were in favor of giving Aguinaldo a pension or something, but we have since learned that he is an inveterate cigarette smoker Indianapolis Sun. Bob Mansfield has again been placed by his friends of the administration, this time going as consul to Valparaiso. Chili. For some time past he has acted as private secretary to Senator Beverage. Decatcr has an auctioneer who advertises that he can cry sales in four different languages. Now that housecleaning is almost here, what a consolation it must be to him that he can swear four different ways when the stove pipe won’t go up to suit him. Winchester Journal. Thieving and looting in the Philippines still continues with a high hand. The latest frauds were perpetrated by a quartermaster and seven commissary sergeants, together with several civilian clerks and a government contractor. Thus it has again lieen demonstrated that this war is a good thing for some people. The recent census shows New York, Chicago and Indianapolis to lie the best governed cities in the United States. All of these cities are in the hands of the democrats. Philadelphia, which has been in the hands of republicans for years is the most corrupt and expensive governed city in the country. The moral is vote the democratic ticket. Huntington Dem crat. Prosperity, that mark of distinc- , tion about which the g. o. p. are always gloating, has struck Portland.! as the following from the Sun will show: The Merchant's Hotel on North Mwidian street which has lieen conducted 11. 0. Weldon fui the past ■; seventeen years, closed its doors tor business, immediatelv after breakfast had been served to the guests Mon-ii day morning. The reason given by I Mr. Weldon for discontinuing busi-1 ness, is that the profits have not just- j ified the efforts he has made in running a first class hotel.

Wa Mb in Him. o very fashionable new narrow Four-in-hands in all /\ z', 1 shades, figures, checks and stripes. Also the new King Edward the 7th, and the popular great weil and stylish Windsors, made of SI.OO silks, your choice for 50 cents. A great display of our celebrated SI.OO glovesingrays, tan, moder and red, kid reindeer and mocha. Come to us for Easter Hat-X Either the Longley or Royal, in all colors and shapes at $3.00 and $2.75. See our new spring Golf Hats in pearl, nutra, eenu, fawn and steel, at $1.50, $2.00, $2.50, S3OO. M w Q © y In hn vp Pphllllo ? Pn llu U.db, 111 Ift I

J ames F. Statesman the Perustatesuian, has announced himself a candidate for conUTi'ss, notwithstanding the fact that Major Steele has a life lease. The nerve of Mr. Statesman is certainly to lie admired. After much wrangling. Mr. McKinley has announced the appointments for the St. Louis exposition commission. They are as follows: Ex Senators Thurston, Carter, McBride and Lindsey three republicans and one McKinley democrat; Ex-Rep resentative Allen of Massachusetts, and Glynn of New York, and P. D. Scott of Arkansas, F. A. Betts of ’ Connecticut, and John F. Miller of Indiana. Some idea of the way this govern--1 ment was robbed in the purchase of > vessels at the outbreak of the war : with Spain may lie gathered from the fact that the transport Terry, for which $150,000 was paid, has just been advertised for sale at an upset price of $40,000, and not a single bid was received. When bought by the government, this steamer was an old excursion boat on Long Island, under i the name of Hartford. It is charged that the reason the investigation and prosecution of the Maryland census frauds were turned over to the United States district at torney at Baltimore, was because Director Merriam of the census bur- ‘ eau was too indifferent towards republican suggestions not to probe too deep into the scandal. Five men have so far been arrested in connection with these frauds, but if half that is being told is true, several hundred | ought to be arrested and convicted. —————— Those having fat army contracts as well as those who are after commis-1

sions in the army, are becoming alarmed. They fear that the capture of Aguinaldo and the reported stir render of manv of his officersand men will arouse public opinion in this country to such an extent that the administration will have to stop recruiting for the army before the 100.- • 000 men authorized by congress have I been enlisted, which would lessen the profits of the contractors and lessen the number of commissions to be issued. The municipal elections in Cleveland, Columbus, and Toledo. Ohio, resulted in democratic landslides. While not much political significance can lie attached to elections of this kind, yet it is a very acceptable forerunner to their state election this fall. Battles royal were indulged in, and Cleveland which gave McKinley 3600 last fall turned the tables to the tune of 6000 for the democratic candidate. Similar revolutions were indulged in at Toledo and Columbus, and if the signs of the time amount to anything, the democrats have the decided ad- j vantage. The talk in Indiana circles which has followed the death of ex-Presi-dent Harrison has developed the fact that his last semi-public act was to pen a vigorous protest against the in justice of the administration in the treatment of his son. Russell B. Harrison. Every effort has lieen made by administration followers to suppress' this information but it is known that Gen. Harrison felt very ktenlv the discrimination against his son in his unusual and remarkable discharge from the volunteer army, carrying with it as it did, and was thought to lie intended to do, an imputation ; against his army record and efficiency.

Hon. Henry C. Berghoff is now in fact the democratic nominee for mayor of Fort Wayne, no mean honor, and by the way, it has been conferred upon no mean man. Mr. Berghoff is a business man of large resource and when elected and installed at the head of that city’s, government he will demonstrate his knowledge of public affairs. Democratic triumphs are of common concern just now. Following closely on the heels of the landslides in Ohio cities came Chicago, which for the third time honored Mayor Harrison with re election by a plurality of nearly 30,000, reversing a McKimdey plurality of last fall of 7,600. On the some day St. Louis elected a democratic mayor by some 10,000 plurality. In late years St. Louis has been carried by republicans by from 10,000 to 23,000. Thus, much comfort to the democrats can be gathered from these municipal contests. Mr. McKinley has had an over snpply of white elephants on his | hands for some time. Consequently he is not disposed to feel extra thankful to Gen. Fred Funston for adding two more, by capturing Aguinaldo. The Funston white elephant I had to be provided foratonce in order I to avoid trouble in the political men-I agerie. There being nothing in sight lower than a brigadier general's commission in the regular army, the members of the Kansas congressional delegation who happened to lie in Washington made a break for the white house and demanded that for Funston. Mr. McKinley jollied them up I and sent them away without making .any promises other than that he i would do something for Funston. At > , a cabinet meeting. Mr. McKinley mentioned what had lieen demanded

for Funston, and Secretary Root j made sneering remarks about yellow | soldering and circus business in the army, and ended by saying he was opposed to making Funston a brigadier general of regulars. Adjutant General Corbin marshaled the "pull" ,of the officers of the regular army that will be jumped by Funston’s promotion to try to head off the appointment. and failing in that, to try to have it knocked out in the senate. Meanwhile Mr. McKinley had his ear to the ground. He heard the public demand that Funston be made a bridadier for capturing Aguinaldo, and he proceeded to do it, considering it wiser to brave the onslaught of the army "push" than to retuse to bend to public opinion, even though that public opinion might be of the hysterical sort, which would shortly become indifferent to its present idol. Watterson on Cleveland. In a lengthy review of the democratic situation Henry Watterson wrote , recently in the Louisville CourierJournal: That Mr. Cleveland was in no sense a party leader will, in history. go as a matter of course. That he lacked the tact and temper to manage, the knowledge of affairs and of men to guide, and the deeply learned lessons of sincerity, both with respect to economic theories and the public business, needful to dangerous sailing through the turbid waters of statecraft lacked in a word all the essentials of a ful)-e<|uipped statesman the future writer on these times will see as plainly as seen by those who got near enough this sell-willed and well intentional president to clearly discern the facts and to fairlv estimate the man. But these deficiencies did not represent the whole of

i Mr. Cleveland’s shortcomings, nor do • they fully explain the detestation in , which he is held by nine-tenths of the I real democrats of the I lilted States, s All that was required of Mr. CleveI land in 1895-96 was to take himself > out of the wav. Had he done this, j Russell and Hill and Whitney in the f east. Carlisle in the west and south, would have done the rest. Mr. Cleveland might hate made his exit re- . splendently. He might have emulated , Washington and Jackson in a farewell ■ address commending himself to the r present, ingratiating himself with the future, amt greatly strengthening, f not merely his party, but his own . wing of the party. He refused ob- . stinately to open his lips except in evasion. Not a won! could Governor Russell of Massachusetts, could Mr. ' Carlisle of Kentucky, induce Mr. , Cleveland to utter. Upon one plea of , delay and another he declined to ( yield them the road, standing right across their pathway, while his friends were buzzing and a member of his . cabinet was publicly and unrebuked . urging for a fourth nomination tor . this man of destiny, who had broken all records and would still break an- ' other. In a word, whilst Mr. Cleveland held the gold men, the free silver contingent skinned them: the friends of Carlisle, Russell. Whitney, Hill I and the rest were paralyzed: and, 1 with the loss of Kentucky, began the free silver landslide. Three months later, when a sacrificial nomination was in question, Mr. Cleveland was prompt to say he would not take it and had his friends upon the ground to see it was not sought to be thrust upon him. The truth is that Mr. Cleveland is the incarnation of selfishness as well as of self-will. From his boyhood an officeseeker, he never I failed to go for what was in sight, preferring always the concrete thing and never letting go the substance for the shadow. It is a dismal story. To democrats it ought to be a heartbreaking story. Postmaster Stevens of Bluffton, was in the city yesterday to assist in securthe release of Ed Morgan. Madge Hite was most agreeably surprised at her home Friday evening by a dozen of her girl friends. Frank Schumaker, jr., and Roman Barthel will leave Saturday for Buffalo where they expect to secure employment on the exposition grounds. Hon. A. L. Sharpe of Bluffton was a visitor in the Adams circuit court yesterday, representing Ed Morgan who is in jail on a charge of burglary. Civil and criminal business has been attended to in the circuit court this week in the following manner: State vs Evelyn Eckert, perjury, bond reduced to S2OO, cause continued. State vs Frank Ruby and Joe Eicher, forgery. plea of not guilty entered, case now being tried bv jury. State vs Harry Straub and Jerry Burkhead, larceny, set for the ninth Monday, special answer of unsoundness of mind filed, Straub demands and is granted a seperate trial. State vs Frank Morgan et al. burglary, motion to quash, leave granted prosecutor to amend first count of information, same filed. State vs William Weimer and Jerry Burkhead, latency, J. R. Bobo appointed to defend, plea of guilty entered. State vs Ottis Wells and Frank Everett, larceny, bond fixed at SIOO, plea of not guilty. Phoebe Amstutz vs John Amstutz, judgment that the plaintiff be divorced, judgement against defendant for costs. Fred Schaffer et al vs Mattie Schlegel et al. submitted, request’ in writing

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filed by Bippus for court to find the facts specially and to state conclusions of law thereon. John R. Hankey vs Martha Bailey et al. account S3OO. permission granted plaintiff to take depositions of E. S. Miller at Fort Wayne. Nichols A Shepherd A C 0..: vs Peter Heath et al, finding for de- j fendant, motion for new trial. State ' vs E. Fritzinger, change of venue granted to Allen county. Maude Gilliom vs Ard Gilliom. proof of publication filed, default, rule against prosecuting attorney to answer. Berg-' hoff Brewing Co., vs John C Manley, default of defendant, Judgement for $613.29. John S. Bowers vs Calvin Miller and John T. Williams, demur er filed to complaint. Mann A Beatty vs Adams County, return to alter native writ tiled. Poison Proof Animals. Neither differences of organization in animals nor in the constitution of the poisonous substance generally afford any clew for interpreting an exceptional want of effect. Unaccountable is the immunity of rabbits against Itelladonna leaves (Atropa belladonna, dead- | ly niglitsliadei. You may feed them with belladonna for weeks without observing tlie least toxic symptoms. The meat of such animals, however, proves j poisonous to any one who oats IL producing the came symptoms as the plant. Pigeons and various other berbivora are also to some degree safe from the effects of this poison, while in warm blooded carnivora it causes paralysis and asphyxia. In frogs the effect is a different one. consisfipg of «pn«in»a Tlie meat of goats which had foil on hemlock has sometimes occasioned ' poisonous effects. Chickens are nearly hardy against nux vomica and the ■ '.tremely dangerous alkaloid, strychnine, contained in it, while in the smallest amount it is a fatal poison to rodents. More remarkable yet in tills respect is the immunity of Chokepus hoffmanni. a kind of sloth living on tlie Island of Ceylon, which, when given ten grains of strychnine, was not much affected. Pigeons are possessed of high Immunity from morphine, the chief alkaloid of opium, as well as from belladonna. Eight grains were required to kill a pigeon, not much less than the mortal dose for a man. Cats arc extremely sensitive to foxglove (Digitalis ■ purpurea), which on the contrary inqy - be given to rabbits and various birds in pretty large doses. Waiting For RU Torn. “Speaking of drinking as a cause for i 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 i meeting of the American Medical association in Philadelphia. “On such occasions as this, with perhaps 1150 physicians congregated in a special train, a good many manufacturers of wines, liquors and carbonated waters are anxious for the opjioi-tuulty of putting bottled goods on ice. with a representative in charge to see that asmples are dispensed at just the right temperature. On this particular occasion I remember that one firm dealing in mineral waters had an etqiecially competent agent on board the train. Dinner was Just over In tile dining car, tables had been put up In nearly every section of the sleepers and champagne corks were ! popping, lledder liquors were on nil •ides, and the rattle of (>r|u . k , M| |cp was nearly as loud a- the ell< king of the trucks. “It was just at this juncture that this esiMicial agent for the mineral waera made bls hit. He recognized that t was not his deal, and lie started through the train, beginning m n ie rear end of the bnggage car. With a Profound bow to ull present he said: rn° d n,gll '' kicsl night, but 111 see you In the morning" He went through the train with that, making the bit of the whole trip Sen that h i W °“' ! " r h “” . ‘ 11 not I seized imun bou^"S U "‘ d for W. uouse. -Chicago Tribune. —7 I

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ShrlaklasOnce upon a time there w” » ,lil ' Ing Sult which was much repreben in that it was not modest. There was likewise at this same tl also a Violet whose modesty *** matter of universal comment. "What is your system,” asked J Bathing Sult, accosting the Violet. 1 would fain Im? thought modest too' “Why, I shrink," quoth the *‘ OT • meaning no harm. k U But when the Bathing Sult * bruB * pursuance of this bint it was ht cs»* rebended the inure aud was tin* • away as being quite in>po»»‘ we -' It ia said that posts planted j n earth upper end down will la»i | than those which are set in tbe na position in which the tree grew. It Is sometimes easier t" i another man's shoes than It ** In them.—Chicago News. Is I Windom without bonent) 1 craft and <*t*senag». and gu t. j reputation of honesty ®“’* weli. I which cannot be but by b'' , A good life Is a main argume*