Decatur Democrat, Volume 46, Number 19, Decatur, Adams County, 17 July 1902 — Page 6

The fisherman, the sailor, the yachtsman and everybody, is liable to sudden attacks of disease. "PainkiUet (PERRY DAVIS’) Acts like magic for cholera, cramps, sudden colds, or chills from exposure ; Take no substitute. Price 25 c. 4 soc.

The Tugboat Coptnigi. A tug lay hard by, and t»e captain added his bit to my sociological nocturne. as I sat in the pilot house and peered out on the water, where red lights and green lights, with many of yellow .Tn,l white, dripped zigzag fashion down from tLe wharfs and ships. “Where do you sleep?” questioned I. "Why. here,” he replied, “in this very pilot house on that nice fluffy bunk you’re a-settin’ on: an' sometimes I, sleep at that wheel, a-steerin' this boat, sir. Can t be helped, sir. The hours we work would stave in a trained nurse an' send a sentinel to be shot. Why, ! man. I’ve seed the time when I've stuck by that wheel twenty grim hours at a stretch. Once it was forty-two hours. And when you read in the papier about tewin' a big propeller clean through a dock or jammin' her into her next door neighbor fer keeps don't you say us tug I folks are Johnnie Raws. Just say we're worked and worked till we sleep at the wheel. For that’s God's truth, sir.”— Held by Etiquette. When Doni Pedro, then emperor of Brazil, was entertained at the White House, he bad been ’old by a confused senator that it would be expected that I#, the emperor, should be the last of the guests to depart. The president’s wife, however, informed her other guests that they would be expected to follow, not precede, the royal party in leaving the house. The result was that no one dared to go for fear of a breach of etiquette. But at 3 o'clock in the morning a tired woman pretended illness, and the deadlock was broken. Great is etiquette, but common sense is sometimes allowable. A Curious Barometer. A curious barometer is said to be used by the remnant of the Araucanlan race which Inhabits the southernmost province of Chile. It consists of the castoff shell of a crab. The dead shell Is white in fair, dry weather, but the approach of a moist atmosphere is indicated by the appearance of small red spots. As the moisture in the air increases the shell becomes entirely red and remains so throughout the rainy •eason. A Wise Prophet. “On the whole," said the aged wr-ath •r prophet. ”1 have found that the safest course is to predict l>ad weather.” “Why?" asked the neophyte. “Because people are much more ready to forgive you if the prediction does not come true.” LAW ANO MORALITY The world Is a great stage on which a continuous vaudeville performance Is taking place. The scenes are constantly shifting, the comic and the tragic alternate, and the people are actors and audience at the same time. There are good performances and bad performances. Sad to say, the latter far outnumber the others. Worst among the poor performances Is legislation to create good morals. One Is sometimes at a loss to decide whether tragic or comic is the proper designation for the constant endeavors of our legislators to dictate morality to the people. The vain attempt to do what is impossible to do has undoubtedly a comic aspect. Upon the other hand, the earnestness with which it is done, the serious belief that It can be done, the waste of the good will and the energy In the well-meant but mistaken efforts to benefit mankind have a touch of the tragic. It Is the function of the law to regulate the relations between man and man. There can never be any law where there is only one man. There was no law for Robinson Crusoe. The actions of man which do not affect the neighbor, which neither injure hts per son nor his property, cannot be the subject of law. If the law nevertheless attempts control over them, ft wifi suffer defee’. It is not difficult to find and to declare wrong and immoral every action which Injures the person or the property of another against his will. But outside of this there never was and there Is not and there can not be a true standard of morals. If the action of a man can only result in pleasure or pain to himself nobody else, the This signature is on every bos ot »ho genuine Laxative Bromo*Quimne Tablet* tbe remedy that cnees a coM In one day

doing or not doing of it cannot concern anyone else. It is and forever . must remain, a matter of conscience ; only. It is right and proper that the law interfere in actions which injure the person or property of another. It is one of the functions of the law to protect the person and the property of j everybody. But it cannot be the function of the law to protect any man against his own actions (unless he is insane) or to protect anyone against ! the pangs of his conscience, or to protect the conscience of anyone against injury. Whenever the law enters into ’he domain of conscience the result will be fatal to the law and injurious to good government. It creates lawbreaking. hypocrisy and corruption. It is said that in the city of New York 75 per cent of the police are corrupt and the other 25 per cent are honest because they have no opportunity to be corrupt. It is not often that a body of men who, in an official or semi-official capacity. inquire into public affairs, come to conclusions like the foregoing or become affected by such conclusions. The Committee of Fifteen recently appointed to Investigate the social evil with reference to conditions existing in the city of New York, has published a report covering over 300 printed pages. It says in this report: "As it stands at present, the law regards prostitution as a crime. If we are ever to escape from the present impossible conditions, it seems imperative to draw the distinction sharply between sin and crime. A sin is not less odious because it is not treated a crime. Sins may even be incomparably more heinous than offenses which the law visits with punishment. Nevertheless, some of the most grievous sins are not subjected to legal penalties, simply because it is recognized that such penalties cannot be enforced, and a law on the statute 1 books which cannot be enforced is a whip in the hands of the blackmailer. : Corruption in the police force can never be extirpated until the prolific source of It is stopped." The committee therefore proposes to relinquish the impossible attempt to prevent sin by law. an attempt which it says has resulted In the incredible evils connected with police blackmail in the city of New York, and to require only that the police shall maintain public decency. It may be said that police blackmail exists more or less In all large cities, although it Is not everywhere as notorious as in the city of New York, and it may also be said that for political reasons authorities everywhere wink more or less at violations of law, if such laws treat sins or such actions which by some are considered sins, as crimes. The entrance of the law into the domain of conscience, however, does not only create official corruption and hoodwinking, it also is dangerous to

the principles of a free government | and to the honesty, frankness and self-esteem of the citizen. It will he admitted that in matters of conscience we do not all think alike. It must also be admitted that a man has the right to act according to his own conscience, if such action does not injure the person or property of another. Upon this principle rests religious freedom, which is nothing but freedom of eonscience. Violate this principle, attempt to compel a man to act according to the conscience of another, and may it end? Is it possible to estimate how arbitrary a government may become if it is allowed to compel men to act according to the dictates of the conscience of others? And to what length of concealment, evasion and hypocrisy men will go if they are forbidden to do wha»_ according to their conscience, is not wrong" They will not only hold the particular Jaw being in their way. tn contempt, but are driven to a contempt of law in general. Why should a man who wishes to drink a glass of beer in the company of some friends or wishes to play a game of billiards with them ever be compelled to sneak into a place through an alley and a back-door into a dark recess to conceal what his conscience declares to be harmless and innocent and which hurts nobody, or else forego the satisfaction of his desire? The speak-easy ruins his selfrespect and his respect of the law. Another danger which legislation in matters of conscience threatens is the corruption of public justice. In an article written for "Municipal Affairs,” a magazine published by the Reform Club of New York. Mr. William Traverse Jerome, recently elected district attorney In an election in which the reform movement came out victorious, tells the following story: “I remember a case In General Sessions where the man committed for a violation of the excise law, stood before twelve jurors, stepped to the bar and pleaded guilty, and was remanded till next month. He said he did not like it. and he was allowed *o change his plea if he would go to trial at once. He changed his plea to not guilty, went to trial, took the stand himself, and practically admitted the charge. The judge charged the jury to find him guilty. They went out and on the first ballot acquitted him.” Is it possible to show contempt of law more flagrantly than by acquitting a man who practically pleads guilty? Can there be a worse mockery of justice? Os what value is the oath of a juror who declares not guilty the man I who declares himself guilty? Whxt , does morality gain, if a juror thus violates his oath? Yet this was not the first case of the kind, and if we will continue to regulate morals, to control matters of con-

leience, it will not be the last, either. To repeat- It is the function of law to regulate the conduct of man toward his feliow-bcing and not to create a standard of morals. An Uncrowned Kln» ot England. Writing of ITince Albert in an article : in the Century on “The Royal Family ot England." Professor Oscar Browning says: • From the first the prince identified himself with the queen in all her la- . bors. They had one mind and one sou). Rising every morning with the , dawn, the prince went into his workroom, where their two tables stood I side by side, and read all their correI siKindence. arranging everything fi r the queen’s convenience when she should arrive. He knew all her thoughts and assisted all her actions, yet so adroit and seif sacrificing was his conduct that all the merit and popularity came to her. The people bad no idea that he interfered with public affairs, yet had they reflected they must have known that it was inevitable, Once during the Crimean war. when the notion got abroad that the prince had intervened, there were tales of treason and of sending him to the tower. Yet on the day of the prince's death, on that cold, icebound Saturday, Charles Kingsley said to the present writer, “He was king of England for twenty years, and no one knew it.” Druggists' Colored Bottle*. Those huge glass bulbs of red and yellow and blue water which are called show bottles are gradually ceasing to be a feature of the decoration of druggists' windows. In the past they were as necessary to every drugstore as a red and white pole is to a barber shop, but they have not. as the pole has. a well defined history. All that druggists know of them is that they haee been always used as window ornaments. I The brilliant liquids that they contain are made cheaply and plainly of chemI icals and water. Thus a solution of ! copper and ammonia makes blue. Bichromate of potash makes orange. Aniline dyes have of late been used in the chemicals’ place, but the liquids fade in a strong sunlight and have frequently to be renewed. The liquids colored chemically, on the other hand, last well nigh forever.—Philadelphia Record. He Has. Sol Smith Russell bad three young nieces living In the west, of whom be was very fond. On one occasion, so the story goes, he took the youngest of them for a walk and bought her some candy on the agreement that it was not to be eaten until they reached her home. They started, but before they had gone far the little girl proposed, “Let's wnn!” Her uncle declined, and there was long pleading, all to no purpose. Finally the little girl stopped, knelt down on the pavement and offered up the petition, “Dod, please make Vncle Sol wun.” "It was simply a question of my losing my dignity or her losing her faith in God.” said Mr. Russell In relating the incident, “so we ran as fast as we could for home.” •

Sounds of Words. A negro boy was in the habit of giving his name as “Nedicudinezza Belttikedishazza Sham Ham Jafac Maxwell Brown,” mispronouncing nearly every word. The sound of words has a great attraction for the negro, and be uses them regardless of their meaning. A negro woman was with difficulty prevented from naming her child “Crucifix,” the sound of the werd attracting her. A negro preacher in a sermon declared emphatically: “I comes not to contaminate any other sect”—repeated still more emphatically—“l comes not to contaminate any other sect; I comes to exonerate your minds.”—lndependent. Clover Leaf Excursions. International Christian Endeavor Union, August 8 to 10, 1902, Minneapolis, Minn. Bienial Meeting. Knights of Pvthias. August 11 to 22,1902, Salt Lake City, Utah. Grand Lodge of Elks. August 12 to 14,1902, Put in-Bav, Ohio. Travelers' Protective Association. July 31.1902, Providence, R. I. Tourists, Fares, Julv 1 to Sept. 15, 1902, Tacoma, Wash. Y’oung Peoples’ Christian Union Society of Presbyterian church, July 25 to 27,1902, Niagara Falls, N. Y. Annual Excursion, July 26, 1902. Get information of agents Clover Leaf Route. Hot Springs, S. D.. the great sanitarium and health resort, in the picturesque Black Hills. Ocly 824.30 i round trip from Chicago on certain specified dates throughout the summer, via the North-Western line. Through train service from Chicago daily. Ask ticket agents for full par ticulars or write for information to A. H. Waggener, '22 Fifth avenue, Chicago, 111. 19-3

Weak Men Made Vigorous rttwr w-Ft-Y What PEFFER'S HER VIGOR Oitf Ji* if?.R°’U rfull F qnl. kly curw »bn, >1 otb-.ra raft Young m<-n regain l<xrt manhood;ok tn .a recover voiiitifiu vigor. Abaolntrlv Guar ■ntoMltoCuroNervoaßnaau, Ixmil Vltalltr. I niHitencr. Nlirbi), KiniMlona. Ixwt Power either eea. FaGlng Memory. U anting DU. tMtace, and all t/rcUoF Miy-atnur or attttui aac irMfbcprfton. a rd* off lUMmttyand conMumptioD. DOOJIH drureint impose a wurthltw <>r you because Ityields agreater brunt. Ituiist on hav fcg PKPFF.H’S hEft VltioK <.r e-4.1 ror It CM be carried in vent |e« Net. Prepaid, plain wrapper »1 jer te.i i.r O for ».v with a Written Guar -'•"ney. Pamphlet rrej YEFI t-U MEDICAL ASS’M, Chicago. IU Small »lr<- 50 erntg. Sold by Blackburn 4 Christen, Decatur.

Annual excursion to Niagara Falls via Clover Leaf Route Saturday, Julv 25, 1902. Special attractions and very low round trip rates. Get tickets'and information of local ticket agent, or address C. D. Whitney, General Traffic Manager. Toledo, O. The Chicago & Erie Railroad will run cheap excursion to Chicago and return, Sunday July 20th. Special train leaves Decatur 5:00 a. m., returning leave Chicago at 7:00 p. tn., fare 81.25 for the round trip; 84.00 for two davs. tickets good returning on regular trains Monday July 21. Niagara Falls excursion August 'th. via Chicago A Erie railroad. Fare. $6 50 for the round trip. Tickets sold to Toronto and Alexandria Bay and Thousand Islands, twelve days limit, with stoo-overs at Chautauqua Lake and Cambridge Spring'. See Erie agents or write W . S. Morrison. T. P. A.. Marion. Ohio. Very low round trip rates via the North-Western line Chicago to Salt Lake City and Ogden. Utah, until September 15th. Return limit, Oct ober 31, 1902. Luxurious fast trains leave Chicago 10:00 a. m., 8:00 and 11:30 p.m., daily. For tickets and information apply to A. H. Waggener. 22 Fifth avenue, Chicago, 111. 15-6 Chatauqua excursions. On July 4th and 25th the Erie R. R. will sell cheap round trip tickets to Chautauqua Lake at very low rates. Tickets will be good returning for thirty days. Through coaches and sleeping cars to Jamestown and Lakewood ou Chautauqua Lake. For information sec 1 Erie ticket agents or write, W. S. Morrison. T. P. A., Marion. O. 14-6 Health, rest, recreation are assured under the most favorable conditions at Cambridge Springs. Pa., midway between Chicago and New York on the Erie Railroad. You ought to know all about it. Erie booklet "The Bethesda of the Middle West." on application to the ticket agent or D. W. Cooke, General Passenger Agent. New York. aug 1 From prairie schooner to overland limited. Send two cent stamp lor copy of special edition of illustrated article from the July Review of Re views, dealing with th? history and development of the northwest and of the Chicago & North-Western R'y and the only double track line between Chicago and the Missouri River. Address A. H. Waggener, 22 Fifth avenue, Chicago. 111. 19-2 The fish are biting up in Wisconsin and Michigan. First class train service Chicago A North-Western R'y during the fishing season. Summer tourist rates now in effect. Direct connection is made at Chicago with all lines from the south and east. , Ask any ticket agent for particulars. or address for free booklets and full information. A. H. Waggener, 22 Fifth avenue, Chicago. 111. 13-7

Special low rates to Colorado and Utah points. Deadwood, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth and the superiors and return via the Erie R. R. Tickets on sale daily in June, July, August and up to September 10th. 1902. Tickets sjld at half rates June 22nd to 25th: July Ist to 13th: Aug ust Ist to 14th: August 30th to September 10th, 1902. to Denver, Colorado Springs and Pueblo. All tickets good for return passage until October 31st. 1902. For full information call on Erie ticket agents or write. W. S. Morrison. T. P. A., Marion, Ohio. 14-12 Your vacation. Are you going to take a vacation this summer? A cheap and delightful way to spend your vacation is to gather a few congenial friends and camp out in the Rocky mountains. Very low round trip rates to Colorado and Utah points via the Missouri Pacific railway will be on sale after J une Ist. You can learn where to go, what to wear, what to take as camp comforts, supplies and utensils, what they will cost and where to get them, by addressing G. A. A. Deane, Jr.. T. P. A. Mo. Pac. Ry.. 200 Sentinel bldg.. Indianapolis, Indiana. 7tf. “Michigan in summer.' The Grand Rapids & Indiana Railway, the “fishing line,” has published’ a 48-page book about the resorts on its line, and will send it to any address on receipt of a two-cent stamp for postage. Contains 280 pictures, rates of all hotels and boarding houses, and infirmation about Petoskey, Bay View, Harlxir Point, Weouetonsing, Oden. Walloon Lake. Mackinac Island, Traverse City, Omena, Neahtawanta, Northport. etc. “Where to go fish ing.” two cents, will interest fisherman. Summer schedule with through sleeping car service goes into effect June 22. New time folders sent on application. C. L. Lockwood, G. P. & T. A.. 16 Island street, Grand Rapids, Mich. 850.00 round trip to California. Chicago Ac North-Western R’v from Chicago, August 2 to 10. T&e new Overland Limited, the luxurious everyday train, leaves Chicago 8.00 p. m. Only three days en route. Vn rivaled scenery. Variable routes. New drawing room sleeping cars and compartment cars, observation cars (with telephone.) AU meals in din ing cars. Buffet library cars (with barber. I Electric lighted throughout. Two other fast trains 10.00 a. m. and 11:30 p. tn. daily. The best of every thing. Daily and personally conducted tourist car excursions to California, Oregon and Washington. Apply to your Dearest ticket agent or address A H. Waggener, 22 Fifth avenVe" Chicago, 111. i 5 .6 Erie Railroad Niagara Falls excur sion. August 6th. For information see Chicago <Sc Erie agents or write W. S. Morrison, Traveling PasFenger Agent, Marion, Ohio. 17.5

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WAIT FOR THE EXCURSION TO NIAGARA FALLS via the: ERIE RAILROAD WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1902. EXCEPTIONALLY LOW RATES. Ask nearest Erie ticket agent for particulars. W. S. MORRISON. T. P. A., Marion, Ohio. Chicago Excursion SUNDAY, JULY 20 VIA ERIE RAILROAD. Sp cial train leaves 5:00 a. m. FARE. ROUND Cl K TRIP KZJ TI days S,TWO S4.OO

EAST. No. 6. TheCotutn l Traveler daily. S Sa. tn No. 2. Mall, dally, except Sunday a. tn No. 4. Day express, daily 7:12 p. tn No. 22. Local freight 1.10 a. m WEST. No. 3 Day express, daily 5:25 a. m No. 1. Mail, daily except Sunday ll:‘Zip.tn No. 5. The Comm 1 Traveler, daily. S>:27 p. m No. 23. Local freight ll:10p. m RAILROAD In effect June 18, luoe. WEST. No. 1. express, dally except sun- I day for Chicago f 2:18 a. tn No 3 New York and Boston Limited f 12:2b p it. No 18 Wells Fargo Express.... f 5:12 p m No 21 Manon Huntington Accommodation f 7:89 p m EAST No. 8. vestibule limited, dally for I New York f 2.3 s a m No 22 Cleveland and Colotnbus } 6:58 a tn No. 4 New York and Boston * „ . Limited f s : 2l ptn No. 14 Chautauqua and Buffalo 1 Express f # : (B p m Through coaches and sleeping cars to Nea York and Boston Trains 13 and 14 will not carry baggage No. 13 dally except Monday. No, 14 daily except Sunday. Nos. 3 and 3 carries through coach, Columbus to Chicago. Grand Rapids & Indiana. In effect June 22, 1902. TRAINS NORTH. STATIONS. 4N0.8. |*No.3. ‘No7 Richmond 9:10 p n> : 12:&o p m - &:4oam J F o O^ OCUr ‘;g; S snowiiiii »iA“~*ni* r .n : £ pm >*»■ 6:Ka£ Ridgeville . 10:02pn> i ;S: p m « :4 ,lam P °’2‘ aDd Mb* Pui 2:17 p m 7:S ! £ I J:3l pm 7:18. m E’R D:oHp m .. 12:4s u Kalamsxoo 2:40 a £ !wp£ ujoom” . 4:04, “ SSSSJX •:«.». l:«.“m J:g p “ PetiLlev 2 : S a “ 2:lUa “ retosKey 9:36 am 6-35 a m 7m!,™ Mackinaw City. ll;*>am 6:?.5 2£ , ttpa •Dally. except Bunday. 4Dally. TRAINS SOUTH i •No.». 7KKT JNo u “ liiptn Tro p m Cadillac 2:o6am a.'nE? I Reed City 3:l«am 72" p , * Howard vity.. 4:2* nm £ in’SJ 11111 psias* :a:s Ke U ndjjiviite.':: • i £ p « P m ttr. .• :i;.}i p £ :« p .s Williams ... 1.-OBpS i:® a >» DECATUR 1:19 pm 2-42 ain 7<r ! D1 Monro. 1:82 pm Ttßam Berne I:44pm T' a Oeneva 1:52 pm 4m' l ' n Briant 2:00 p m Portland. 2:17 nm -i-Y „ _ RJMville 2:34 ?£ ’ :<upm ’^ p - Fountain City 3:17 ptn oiJJ 11 ™ taTJX □X L xrawoon. (ten P "a« b ?°* Agen ‘

FOR QUICK CASH SAIB A Picture Book EXTITLED "Michigan in Summer" ABOUT THE SUMMER RESORTS OX THE Grand Rapids & Indiana Railway—" The Fishing Line" will tie sent to anyone on receipt . f p., two cents. It Is a handsonx I ty-,light pages. containing 281 : '.atetoflW famous Mich gan Summer Resorts PETOSKEY MACKINAC ISLAND BXV VIEW OMEN A TRAVERSE CITY < HABUVOII HARBER POINT WALLOON I SHF l EN NOKTHI-OHT WEqtETOSSISC ROARING BROOK NE tH-TA-WAItl LES CHEXEACX ISLANDS. Gives list ot hotel* and boarding hi rate by day apd week. railr.<nl fares. i. SI6 , and G. K. & I. train service Fisherman will want "Where to go Fishing—Postage two cents. C. L. LOCKWOOD, U. P. A 16 Island Street. Grand Rapids. Midi. - Home Seeker’s Excursions VIA Southern Railway 1 ■ —- To All Points in Alabama, Georgia, Florida. North and South Carolina. Kenntucky, Missouri. Teunessee and Virginia. ONTUESDAYS. May 20. June 3 and 17. July 1 and 15. August 5 and 19. Sept. 2 and 16. October 7 and 21. AT THE VERY LOW RATE of one fare for the round trip plus 82.00. : Tickets are good going fifteen days and for stop-over south the Ohio River with final limit for return of twenty one days from date of sale. For information about rates etc., call on your nearest ticket a gent C B. ALLEN J S McCULLOLOH G. P. A Derborn rt St. Louis. Mo. ChicagolU. For information about farm lands, business locations etc-, write. J. F. OLSEN, Lland and Industrial Dept CHICAGO ILL ■l——l / V|o \l EXAi I NEW FIST TBIJ! Between St. Louie end Kanse* City OKLAHOMA CITY, WICHITA, DENISON, SHERMAN, DALLAS, _ FORT WLKIH knd principal points in Texas »ad 9 B rest. This train Is new tbrougni nsdl ep of the finest rith electric lights and ail otm “ raveling conveniences. It runs >U ow tompleted Red River Division. Every appliance known to ralbling and railroading has be* ° n the mako-up ot this service. Inl- - Observation Cars. 1 trip via this new route win be urnfshod. upon application, by *ctatlve of the . A If. Murray. Gencrsl j t'nion Trust Bldg. 40T Walnut st-