Decatur Democrat, Volume 47, Number 36, Decatur, Adams County, 12 November 1903 — Page 7

r bonW s Stotler was arrested - ly afternoon by Marshal Cor--1 on First street for trying to conL all the booze there was in then getting out on the efand telling everyone about ’ge was confined in the county r . ile where he was given a chance iio.-t his befuddled brain and tncolieci s Monday brought up before Wiuire Smith where he plead guilt and was fined the usual amount and costs amounting in l ', M 19.30. He will board it out ffith Sheriff Butler. lest a thousand people were cowled into the store of J. S. Mers and Company Saturday evening at eight o’clock when that firm gave away, a Cole’s hot blast ‘coalstove. Those who are skeptical concerning advertising could have merits demonstrated here for the large room couldn’t hold the who sought entrance and „ mD j- were lined up outside the big windows. For three days last week the firm advertised that they f would give away free one of these | fMveS) the idea being to secure a crowd to whom they could demon- ■ ttM te the advantages of the Cole, Lnd they certainly got it. C. D. Kunkle, John Evans, Dwight Brown and John Coffee were chosen as judges. Ruby Parrish, a little girl ffa s°l>lind folded and drew the tickets, it being announced that the tenth number drawn should be tin* winner. That ticket proved to be number thirteen, and was held by Peter Amspaugh who was accordingly declared the winner. AU is quiet about the circuit court room this week and vacation is apparently being taken advantage of by Judge Erwin and attorneys. The November term begins next Monday and there are indications of some busy days. The seven indictments returned by the recent special grand jury were placed on file this morning and warrants sent out for the guilty parties,all of whom save one, Mr. Marty, are saloon keepers and the charges against them are for violation of the Nicholson law. The arrests will very probably be made today or tomorrow after which time it will permisable to publish the names. The important event of the next term of court is the murder trial of Joseph Osburn, set for December 15. Besides this the $12,000 damage suit of the Geneva school vs the Logansport and Wabash Valley Gas Company, and the eight damage suits, aggregating $45000 against William Glendening and others. A number of important cases have been taken to other comities on change of venue and their progress will be watched with interest.

u <mmO if « t' &M F I II MMS U ' . . . $ *£&& v ! ** ■■’ * i In this list there are many geo* properties onerea r,p, ‘ ) ' a <>..«»» transactions are an "e nave other properties not listed here for rent. * eor .’ .fca-sh purchase re as soon as Advantage to buyer and seller, and I now have a iar»rf num ■< ' ' . . (> nr sale oi want is placed upon the market. If you are in property, write or > ,, ’ 1 l f°r one of cur recent laree descriptive lists. In inquiry icier op p ’Phone No. 230. f- SNOW, Decatur, Indiana.

No. 57—Buildingjlots on Linn street. Madison £roet and Decatur street at from $13.5 to each. Monroe mid Marshall st rec . at from 1450 to $1 too each. No. 9£—A one-acre tract in northwest Decatur. good dwelling, stable, cribs, poultry house, etc. SISOO. No. 19f - A seven acre tract, ioins the northwest corporation line |of Decatur. Good location, on pike road. Price S7OO. No. 209- a 3 1 j acre tract in south Decatur on stoned street. Plenty of good fruit and Bood price $2,150. No. 173—A 15*4 acre tract in west Root township. one half mile from school, three fourths black land, no buildings, $775, No. 194—A twenty-acre tract in good location, iu Union township, four and one-halt miles from Decatur, nearly all black land, ordinary house. S9OO. No. 169—Thirty-acre tract twc and a half miles northwest of Decatur, sand loam and clay. 5 acres good young timber, flve-room good house, SISOO. N 0.20— A 32 acre farm, three miles northpast of Decatur. Improvements all newFair grade of soil. Rural mail route. $-'*'‘o No. 225—A 40 acre tract of first class black farming land, 3 miles southwest of Pleasant Mills, one mile from stone road, small bi ildmgs, $2,400. N 0.24--A 40 acre tract near the stone road, about seven miles west of Decatur; numocr one land and good improvements, s3,iov No. 256-a 40 acre tract of well improved land, two miles east of Monroe town. Good Quality of land. Improvements nearly new. Price $3,500. 21S---A 46 acre tract four miles northeast of Berne on free mail route, a Quarter ot a utile from the stone road, lair buildings, t black land. $2,300. No. 237-A 6n fic re tract at the st me road, near church and school house, four n ir southwest of Decatur. Good location, < rdr nary improvements, fair average land. Price $2.8u0. VkrAn 80 acre tract southwest of PleasMtlls. black loam, poor buildings some timber. l n oil territory. 84000

For more complete DESCRIPTIONS and • ddl «8 the SNOW AGENCY,

The St. Vincent de 'Paul Society 11 Marys Catholic church an association whose object is to help the poor gave two entertainments this week, the proceeds to go to charity. The first affair occured * ond ay and which the young folks will attend and while the married people] gave their session Tuesday evening. Both events will occur at the C. Y. M. S. rooms and will include pedro contests, refreshments and dancing. After the expenses are paid the entire receipts will go into the fund for the poor people of Decatur. It is a good purpose and fifty cents spent in entertainment where the proceeds go for such a use will not make one much poorer and will no doubt come back several fold. This society has largely assisted many poor people of the city to keep hunger and cold away from their door and the St. Vincent de Paul is truly a meritoreous organization, deserving of patronage in their present enterprise. Cassius M. Wright, of the census department,Washington D. C., has completed his task of securing statistics of the county and city as mentioned in the Democrat last week. He has been here just a week and left Tuesday for Bluffton. He will be busy at this work for at least six months, his assign ment being forty counties in the northern part of Indiana. His report of Adams county covers twenty schedules and over a hundred pages and Mr. Wright says it is one of the best reports he has yet made out. Some counties are richer, some poorer, but in this county he found a ’splendid average in every respect. The same is true of the city of Decatur, the indebtedness being smaller while the improvements are as good as found anywhere. His reports show the valuation of real estate, personal property and improvements, acreage by township and corporation; also the indebtedness of city and countv, outstanding bonds, rates of taxation and other items of interest. Mr. Wright is a very clever gentleman and thoroughly understands his business which as may be imagined is quite complicated. The bonded indebtedness of Decatur as he figures it is $82,000. This however does not include a floating indebetdness which will amount to several thousand dollars. Any rate is as good showing as can be made by most cities as up to date as Decatur and as Mr. Wright says we may well feel proud of our town.

No 257—An 80-acre tract, two and one-half miles northwest of Decatur, clay and sand loan, fair buildings, fruit and timber 8-fciW No 219-An SO acre tract, one ■half mile west of Salem. Blue Creek township, old buildings. productive land, some black sol.. M.liO, No 163—Eighty acres, near stone road in Watownship, oil land, some timber, fair building" some black land, balance clay loam. $3200. Nn 253—An 80 acre tract of good land, two N ° n d a Quarter miles east of Monroe, near stone road. House, barn and other buildings nearly new. 5b,500. No ■>43—An 80 acre tract of black sand leant, Northwest °f Willshire, Ohio, a little Umber, no buildings, $4,350. v a An M) acre tract two miles south of on sfone road, good buildings and black land. $6,400. a 05 acre tract of well improved oil gls land two miles northeast of Pieas“St Mil's Some timber, a variety of soil. Price $5,350, , , , .»4_For sale, a 108 acre tractof beech and timber. Price 85,600. « >1 A too acre tract of average sugar No. 2.>1-A acr Iwo miles north . no. of Bobo on the public road. ’ within haH hlaek land. 89.000. improvements, one nan st Mgry . B No. 160 An 1 light clsv loam, some cribs and barn. Pr ' 0 a 240 acre tract, within two miles of land! A good stock lar.n. Price $14,000.

LIST of TOWN AND-CITY PROFIT

MISSING WORDS. Annoying Gaps In English Lnnvunge That < au.se Inconveniences. ’I he English language may fairly claim to be the most prolific in the world. Not content with its native riches, it possesses in a special degree the faculty of assimilating everything useful from other tongues, ancient and modern. It ought indeed to be the most perfect vehicle of thought in the world, and hi some respects no doubt it is. But, curiously enough, there are deficiencies in English not to be found in far less copious languages. While in many cases we have half a dozen words expressing the same or practically the same thing, there are, on the other hand, certain ideas that have no appropriate words to express them. In the words denoting relationship some notable gaps are found. The most glaring instance is the want of a word to distinguish between a male and female cousin. Other languages, such as French and Italian, have a separate word for each, but in English some addition or explanation is required in order to make it clear which sex Is intended. Curious gaps occur here and there in our language if we look into it. The word "show” expresses the idea of making to see, but there is no word for making to hear—a phonograph, for example. "I took the phonograph to my friend and”— What? “Got him to listen to it” would probably be the inelegant finish to the sentence. On the other hand, “audience” means those who hear and applies very well to those present in a lecture hall or concert room. But what of those who see a cricket match, foi instance? “Spec tators” is the nearest word, but it does not correspond exactly to “audience.” There is one deficiency in the language so awkward and irritating that even at this late hour it ought to be made good. Need it be said that reference is made to indiscriminate use of the personal pronoun to denote cither the person speaking or the person spoken of? This may not be a defect peculiar to English, but it is one from which the ancient classical tongues are entirely free. “He said he had offered him money, which he had declined,” would be quite comprehensible either in Greek or Latin, but in English it necessitates a number of bracketed explanations which are positively annoying and destructive of grace and fluency.—London Answers. THE GENTLEMAN BURGLAR. He Can Exist Only In Fiction, Never In Kenl Life. Whenever a thief who is dressed otherwise than in rags falls into the po lice net there are chronicled the adventures of a "gentleman burglar.” Such a being is, of course, impossible. He is a literary creation, like the “Invisible Man,” the Frankenstein monster, Kipling’s Mowgli and the rest of the crew of prodigies that dwell within book covers. As a character in fiction the "gentleman burglar” could be made plausible and picturesque, for when we get into the realm of fancy there is an implied contract that the reader shall accept the author's premises and not bother about possibilities. A burglar is just a thief—about the meanest of thieves. To a man endowed with qualities of refinement and consideration of others ami honor which are the attributes of a gentleman--burglary or other theft is impossible. The pride of such a man, his regard for his own opinion Id » easing into another man s'fiouseiiqd inlying his plate or his wife’s jewelry. 'Then it must be remembered that the burglar is prepared to do murder to accomplish his robberies, and the idea of a gentleman committing murder for gain is too inconsistent even for fiction. A “gentleman burglar” is a contradiction of terms, like a brave coward or a tall pygmy. He may be better dressed or his booty may be larger than that of most burglars, but when it is aii summed up he is a thief—just a plain thief—with the moral code and impulses of a pickpocket or a card swindler or any other predatory creature whose natural home is a prison and whose deserved and fitting raiment is a suit of stripes.—New Tork American. She Got the Wool. “A voting American girl, on her first trip to Italy, entered a shop in search of black darning wool.” says a writer in Harper’s Bazar. “She spoke no Italian. the clerk spoke no English. She pantomimed darning a hole and pointed to her stocking. The clerk brought white darning cotton. She showed that her stocking was black, and blackdarning cotton «as produced. But she wanted wool. A long pause, then ‘Ba-al’ bleated the American girl. She got the wool.” A Natural Mistake. “I was just telling our friend here. Molly, that it was storming on the day of our marriage.” “Surely not. Hiram! The weather was perfectly lovely!” “Well, well! I don't know how I got so mixed up about it—probably because it’s been storming ever since!”—Atlanta Constitution. She Knew Her Dail. Smithers—Do you know any one who has a horse to sell? She—Yes; I suspect old Brown has. Smithers— Why ? ghe- Well, papa sold him one yesterday.—Loudon Punch. Sincerity is the basis of all friendship. Without sincerity, it Is like a ship without ballast.

ASKING QUESTIONS. The Art of Interresrallon Should Be Devoid of Impertinence. “Do not ask questions” is the worst piece of social advice which age can give to youth. A man who never asks questions is the dullest fellow in the world. He had better ask too many than too few. We can defend ourselves against curiosity, but no armor avails against indifference. We must resign ourselves to be bored to death. What is the secret of the art of interrogation? Putting aside quick sympathies, which lie at the root of every social art, we believe the most essential quality for those who would excel in it is directness. The art of asking questions so as to learn, instruct, please and influence is not the art of beating about the bush. The questions which offend and silence are the questions which suggest some ulterior motive. It is a found out scheme which makes men angry. Anything of the nature of a trap keeps us on our guard. If we once fall into one we resolve it shall be the last time. Suspicion kills confidence. Interrogative hints are utterly useless. The average man does not dislike to be questioned. He hates to be startled, crossed, interfered with, reproached, wearied or betrayed. He hates the questions which are not asked witli a simple intention. There are questions which are .asked not because the asker wants to know, but because he intends to tell. Others, while ostensibly directed to find out a man’s opinion, are really intended to reflect upon his character. Some men inquire as to their neighbors' projects in order to put difficulties in their way. Strings of meaningless questions are poured out by those who desire to pretend an interest in some subject which they neither know nor care anything about. We believe the conclusion of the matter to be this: The art of interrogation is a serious branch of the social art. ■Well asked questions are of the essence of agreeable intercourse, but the interrogative mood will not justify an impertinence, an interference, a verbal assault—nor, for the matter of that, a bore,—London Spectator. ODD NOTIONS OF WOMEN. Rosa Bonlieur treasured a small lead image of St. Anthony of Padua as a lucky charm. Caroline Herschel firmly believed that if she met a cross eyed beggar in the morning it presaged the discovery of a new star that night. George Eliot was a slave to the influence of the hunchback and clubfooted man and did no literary work upon the day when she saw one. Lady Millais, the wife of the great painter, was convinced that the crack of doom would sound for any one who stepped on a crack in the sidewalk. Harriet Beecher Stowe belived that it was bad luck to throw away a toothbrush which had outlived its usefulness and, to the anguish of her household, preserved every one that she had ever used. Queen Victoria cherished a number of superstitions, and, among them, she believed that the removal of her wedding ring would surely bring calamity and that a pet Manx cat would bring good luck to the royal household.—Everywhere. Didn't Care to Be Presented. The wife of a well known naval officer tells an amusing story of some of her experiences in Washington society. On one occasion when she was asked to receive at an army and navy german a congressman entered with a lady leaning nnoji each arm. One of the floor committee at once approached him, with the polite request that he give his name in order that lie might be presented to Mrs. Blank, who received the guests of the evening. “No, thank you.” was the nonchalant reply. "I don't care to be introduced. I have two ladies now to take care of. and that is about as much as I can manage.” Grace In Old Forests. Some trees are more graceful than others. The elm and oak are noted for their perfect and graceful form. Al! their Brunelles appear to be perpetually moving, stirred by every wind that blows, and the same may be said of the pine. The graceful movements of its limbs, the sighing sounds of its stems and evergreen needles, send forth a solemn symphony. Everything contributes serene grace and simplicity to old forests. Bellini! Her Baek. “She’s very studious,” said one woman. “Yes,” answered the other. “And doesn’t seem to care for gossiping in the least.” “Oh, I don't know about that,” answered the other with a smile; “she merely prefers to talk about Helen of Troy and Romeo and Juliet to paying attention to what is going on in her own neighborhood.”—Washington Star. A Sure Sig?n. When a young num talks about the business of “our flrm” in a pitch of voice that can be heard from one end of a street car to the other it is a sure sign that his wages have been raised to s<s a week. The Prize Winner. Naggsby- How did the contest in optimism result last night? Waggsby—Gaggster won the prize by laughing most heartily at one of his own jokes.- -Baltimore American. Versatile. Hobson—How is your brother doing at college? » Dobson Fine. He’s singing first tenor and playing second base.—lndianapolis Journal.

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CIVIL IMPROVEMENT. fa this decade of “Civic Improvement’’ a man who does not have the exterior of bib iome as beautiful as it is possible to make it. 3 looked upon as a failure in other lines. More attention has been paid to the improvement of homes and cities during the past four years than at any other time The civic improven ent societies, managed for the most part by ladies, have done wonders improving streets, deserted cemeteries, dumping grounds, back yards and alleys. The cost of shrubbery and s excuse rbr slovenly home surroundings. Up-to date nursetvmen are beginning to realize there is a demand for choice shrubbery and have begun to cater to the demand, the Ireening Bros Ni rwry Co.. Monroe. ■*■ Ivenisi me it appeamr In am tner n. have one of the larwt stocks ot shrubberv, climbers, etc., >oT>e , f " ur America. Thev publish a beautiful catatog and a monthly magazine—The North Amet i«Hi Horticulturist, one department ot which is < cvoted to civic iiuprovemeui. The. luscari • price is 50c per year; sample copy free.

Mrs. Harry Bowserman entertained all the clerks - or the Boston store Friday evening in honor of Miss Alice Hurdle and if all reports aro true a good time was certainly had by all present. The old fashioned game of pedro was installed for the evening's pastime and everyone seemed to enjoy it. During the evenjpgis entertainment at two course luncheon was served which all present did justice to and all departed at a late hour voting and awarding Mrs. Bowseman as a fine " entertainer.