Decatur Democrat, Volume 48, Number 8, Decatur, Adams County, 28 April 1904 — Page 3

Toddy Linn’s wonders again administered a defeat to the High School team by a score of 11 to 5. Tod is certainly proud of his team, an(l no w hurls a defl at any like organization in the city The feature of iho gaino was the fielding of Chu'lC’ Peterson and Dick Farrell. Henry Scheuman who lives on Rural Route No. 1 has certainly become musical struck, as on Saturday he purchased a fine Burdett piano of Gay & Zwiok and friends and neighbors will now lie royally entertained by Henry when they call upon him. Rev A. D. Waggoner, pastor of the Methodist churches of the Pleasant Mills circuit has been transfered from that charge to Philadelphia, Indiana. He has served in this county three years living at Bobo. While a polished minister and a sincere and earnest worker he has lie come unpopular in his churches and the members have been registering some strange objections, hence the present change. His perishioners expected the recent conference to change him and when they failed to do so, immediate action was decided upon by various church members. A petition signed by thiuty five people was recently presented the presiding Elder asking for the removal of pastor Waggoner and the change has just been announced. Rev. C. J. Graves, of Mathews, who had been ordered to Philadelphia has been assigned to the Bobo charge and Rev. Waggner will take his place. The change will meet the approval of the circuit congregation. Mrs. Ira Steele who lives about five miles south east of this city and just a half mile west of Pleasant Mills died suddenly Friday morning at eight o’clock from heart disease. She had been comparitively well up until last night and had spent the'day with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Ben Winans at Pleasant Mills, and it was not until she returned to her home that she became sick. It became necessary to call the doctor, who it seems in this case was utterly powerless and she succumed to the ragings of heart trouble w’thin a few hours. Mrs. Steele was well thought of in her community and had a host of friends and relatives who are prostrated over this terrible news. She was an earnest and devoted worker in the Methodist church of that village from which the funeral sevices will undoubtedly be held. She was but thirty-five years of age and was thus taken away in the bloom of life. She leaves besides a mother and father, a husband three sisters, two brothers and an infant babe two months old to morun their loss. As we go to press no denfiito arrangements had been made as to the funeral services. The Annual Banquet, was given by the Ladies Shakespeare, Club of this'eity Friday night at the parlors of the Presbyterian church. Al though a very dissagreeable evening forty one members and guests attended. The rooms were very beautifully decorated with the club colors, white and yellow, festooned from gallery to chandiliers while palms, ferns roses and carnations were very tastefully distributed about the rooms. A very elegant three course progessive supper was served. were distributed among those present, having the names of three distinguished persons written upon them. Before each course was served each party at each table in turn spoke of something about the person mentioned on their paper. The others guessed by what was said what the persons name was. The White tai ley cards were tied with yellow ribbon. Prizes were given to those guessing correctly the most number of times. For the ladies Mrs. Dr. Thomas received first prize, a very beautiful bouquet of bridesmaid roses while Rev. Allen for the gentlemen received a handsome bouquet if car nations. True Fristoe and Miss Gertrude Moses gave some very beautiful selections on the piano during the evening. The guests were served at supper by the Misses Agnes Schrock, ’Marie Patterson. Blanch Reynolds, Zoa Miller and Alice Jackson. After supper the time was passed in general conversation. Pineapple punch was served in the east parlor. The out of town guests were Mr. and Mrs. Harry Deam of Bluffton. Everybody seemed to enjoy himself thoroughly. In thanking the Shakespeare Ladies for the pleasure given us in attending we also wish them unbounded success in their work in the future.

XWhile driving the casing into the new well that is being drilled at the court house a large boulder was encountered, which made such a large dent in the casing that they were forced to remove it and then blow the boulder to pieces by a heavycharge of dynamite. In this they were successful and the work is now progressing smoothly. They struck rock at forty-five feet and expect to drill into the rock about forty feet, thus insur iug good water. Dr. Metts cf Ossian, tells a good story which shows how an intended compliment may some times be exactly’ the reverse. When he was a young man he taught school and had among his pupils two brothers whose father had a contract for carrying mail. The old man made the boys take turn about going to school and carrying mail so that neither did any good attending school only half the time. Dr. Metts remonstrated with the father and the result was that one boy was sent regularly to school and the other kept out to carry the mail. Years later the doctor met the one who had gone to school, in Bluffton beastly intoxicated. Hanging to the doctor’s shoulder he said, “Doo, y’r ray frien’. Y’got me to (hie) go t’ school an’ git an ed’cation. Doc I owe everything I am today to you.” Hereafter clerks in first and second class post-offices will not be promoted on the bare recommendation of postmasters. Postmasters will be required to send in the list of employees recommended or motions, as heretofore, but before the list from any office is approved the department will examine the record of each man on the list. This examination will be with reference to the clerk’s efficiency, and the date of his last promotion. The examination of the larger postoffices of the country by inspectors within the last year revealed rhe fact that in offices promotions have not gone by merit, but by favoritism. It is alleged that in the New York office promotions were sold and in many offices the inspectors assert, irregular practices were followed. The eivdence gathered shows that clerks whose record for efficiency 7 was first class had been passed over two or three times in succession, and other clerks who had political pulls or were special favorites of the postmaster were regularly promoted. The department says all this business must stop. The postoffice bill appropriates $500,000 for the promotion of clerks in grades below $l,lOO in the first- and second class offices. The means that 5000 clerks will each receive an additional SIOO July 1. Postmaster Albert Brittson received a communication from the postoffioe department, Washington, D. C. notifying him of the result of the recent examination held here April 6- under the civil service rules for the selection of city mail carriers to begin service May Ist when the new system of free delivery goes into force in Decatur. Twentythree men took the examination of which number but eight made the necesasry grade of seventy making them eligible to appointments. Mr. Brittson recievad these eight names this morning and decided that he would recommend the names of those having the highest averages among the eight. According to his plan the men who will serve Uncle Sam are Allie P. Mills, Will Dorwin and Fred Vaughn carriers and Charles Brown substitute Mr. Mills made the highest grade his average being 85:10 per cent. Mr. Brown and Laurie Myers were even for fourth place as substitute their grades being < 9 :60 per cent. It is probably that within a short- time a fourth carrier will be necessary and Mr. Brown will be in line for that place and Mr. Myers will then be made substitute if be desires it. The carriers receive S6OO salary the first year and SBSO after that with fifteen days off each year after the first. The substitute receive one dollar per year and reg - ular pay for the time he works when regular carriers are sick or enjoying the vacations. The appointees are all young men and are popular. Mr. Mills is a teacher in the eighth grade, central building, Mr. Dorwin has served for several years as freight agent at the Chicago and Erie depot. Mr. Vaughn is a printer and has recently been employed at the Geneva Herald. Mr. Brown is an ironer at the Decatur Steam laundry. The boys are all clever and active and should make popular careers.

Authorities are not agreed as to the derivation of the sign $ to rep resent dollars. Some say that It has come from the letters U. S., which after the adoption of the constitution were used on the federal currency and afterwards in the hurry of writing were run into one dollar, the U being made first and S over it. Others say it was derived from the contraction of the Span ish word pesos, dollars; others from the Spanish fuertes, hard—to distinguish silver from paper money. From more plausible explanation is that it is a modification of the figure 8 and denoted a piece of eight reals, or as the dollar was formerly called, a ‘ piece of 8.” was then designated by the figures 8-8. The Shakespeare Club had a pleasant meeting at Mrs.Nachtrieb’s Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. J. C. Patterson had charge of the lesson for the day. After the usual cur rent events and quotations were given by club members Mrs. Patterson read a carefully prepared and extremely interesting paper on “Indiana Artists” which was received with much pleasure. Indiana artists have made a name and place in the art world of which we are proud,but as yet no book has been published on Indiana art or artists. That Mrs. Patterson was able to gather from magazines and news papers the material for such a paper is a testimony of the industry and perseverance of the club woman. Much work in this club in the latter part of each year is of like character, and the columns of the daily press furnish more material for the papers and sub-topics, than the pages of the historian or the encyclopia. Members of the club responded to sub-topics giving information about G. W. Chase the portrait artist and his pictures of still life and the “Court Jester,” Henry Moser and his work, J. Wheeler, Mr. Forsy of Indianapolis and his panel of “The Joyous Children,” The Hermitage Group of Artists, the sculptors Frances Godman and Rudolph Scharz, “what is a monotype” Amelia Knesner a Terre Haute girl, the miniature painter who has painted portraits of King Edward and Queen Alexandra, the Czar and Czarina of Russian and many other people in Europe and other timely topics. This was the last regular meeting of the club and closed the work of the 22nd year. This is the second oldest literary club in Indiana. It was with regret that the members seperated, for the weekly meetings have been enjoyed by all. Heny Zehr, an Adams county boy who has been serving as a mission, ary inJChina died April 10th and his relatives and friends here have but recently been notified of the sad event. Todays Berne Witness tells the story thus: The entire community, as well as the relativesand friends, was shocked W’ednesday when the sad news of the death of Missionary Henry Zehr, youngest son of John B. Zehr west of Geneva was circulated. Mr. Zehr and family first learned of his death on Tues day evening when they received a letter from Albert E. Funk, of New York General Sec. and Foreign Supt. of the Christian and Missionary Alliance, stating the death and repeating to them the dispatch as he received it at New York. Henry Zehr was born April 11, 1877, on his father’s farm about two miles west of Geneva and died when yet a young man. Had he lived another day he would have been 27 years old. He leaves his aged parents, one brother, one sister and a large number of relatives and friends who mourn his early departure. He was connected with religions work for a long time and proved himself a faithful servant and a had worked for Christ and His kingdom until his death. The missionay spirit awakened in him at an early age. He traveled considerably in this country doing evangelistic work and spent two terms at the Bluffton. Ohio, Bible Schooi and some time at Nyack New York, preparatoy to his missionary work. The deceased missionary was stationed at A uchow, China, and was sent out by the Mission churches. He held his farewell service in the Mission church in Berne on Christmas evening, December 25, 1901, left here Jan. 3, embarked at San Franciso, Calif.. Saturday Jan. 11, of the same year and arrived at .Wuohow, China, Feb. 15 of that year. The bereaved faimly and relatives are daily expecting more definite news of his sickness and death. No arrangements have yet been made for funeral services.

Will Reiter Saturday evening re-! signed his position as a clerk in the Holthouse & Co. drug store to accept a like position in a large pharmacy department at Indianapolis for which place he left this morning. Will has had a great deal of experience in the drug business and is well qualified for any work in that line having graduated three years ago from the pharmacy department at Lafayette in Purdue College and accepted a position in a large drug store at Ft. Wayne where he worked for a year resigning and coming here to accept a position with the Holthouse drug company, whom he has worked for the past year, and with whom he gave perfect satisfaction. We certainly wish ( Will much succes in his new venture. The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette said, Senator Lew V. Ulrey, who spent Sunday at home, will be a wealthy man if the new oil field near Redkey turns out equal to expectations. Mr. Ulrey says the big well struck Saturday proves the existence of a great lake of oil in that vicinity. The drill went through a cave fifteen feet in depth, and struck the greatest vein of oil found in recent years. The company is drilling a second well close by, and if it proves as good as the first Mr. Ulrey will pocket a cool $50,000 as his share of the protfis. The Indianapolis News has this about the new well: A phenomenal pay of oil lias been struck in well No. 2 of the Indiana Oil and Mining company, of Anderson, on the Shwiers lease just one mile from the other producing wells in the second pay and will open up hundreds of acres of new territory. The oil was found at about 400 feet in the Trenton rock. The shooting of the well was witnessed by about 250 people from Redkey and oil operators from various parts of the country. The shot was a pretty one. A solid tream of oil was thrown to about fifty feet above the derrick. Oil ran in the gutters and streams. The well is the second one on that lease. This will make desirable as oil territory hundreds of acres which have not yet been prospected for oil. The well demonstrates that there are three chances for a pay of oil in this field. After May 1 next Monday, French Quinn will no longer be a fixture at the Old Adams County Bank, he having been offered and accepted j the general management of the Paragould & Memphis railroad, This railroad now embraces twenty miles, the terminal point i being Cardwell and Manilla. Missouri, and at present is principally owned by the members of the Decatur Egg Case Company. One of the first and most important duties of the new manager, will be to finance an extension covering sixty miles and if this is successfully accomplished, the road will be extended east from Cardwell to Paragould, and south from Manilla to Osceola. The present investment covers something like $125,000 in captial, and according to this it will require a clever bunch of the long green to carry out the plans of the company. Until the road is safely financed it is probable the offices of Hie company will remain in this city, but j after that Paragould will most like be the place of operation and that means that it is only a question of i time until Mr. Quinn will change his citizenship from this city and , become a fullfledged ’’show me. I m j from Missouri.” This is the only . feature of regret we have to offer. I Decatur needs more Quinns. Needs! more of that frank honesty, tireless . enterprise and business push. He si i full of it, and will make his new un- ■ dertaking bloom and flourish into one of the best railroads that dots 1 the map. French Quinn has occu-1 pied some position of trust in the Old Adams County Bank for eigh-I teen years. He is entirely self | made and knows t the business of I the bank as well or better than any I one in it. Thus it is with everything ! he undertakes and his guiding hand can be noticed at several different points. Among the latest in these were his efforts to organize the Decatur Commercial Club of which he is now president and after one year the citizens of our city are all willing to testify to his good judgemnt and earnest efforts. Knowing that. there is no such word as failure, | and also knowing that there is ! nothing toe. good for French Quinn, we voice the sentiments of every mother's son in Decatur, by wishing him success in his new field of venture.

The citizens alo4g Fourth street are now busily engaged tearing up their sidewalks, and moving them out next to the curbing, and this street now puts forth a torn up con dition, but will certainly be one of the finest residence streets in the city when completed. The brick addition to the Naclitrieb drug store is completed and the only thing that now remains to do is to place in the sky-lights and plaster the same and it will be ready for occupancy, which should not take more than ten days to complete it. The upstairs will be used by the Ernsberger Brothers for a picture gallery and art studio.

If you can not reason for yourself do not read about OPHTHALMOLOGY

TO MEN. -You pay the bills j and have many other duties to ' yourselves and families. You should know the difference between functional derangements and diseases. Don’t let wife and children take deadly headache powders, don’t let them suffer; don’t spend your money haphazzard.

Dr. Canada, Ophthalmic Specialist, will be at Dr. Coverdale’s office, Decatur, Monday and Tuesday, May 2 and 3. Call and see me.

Ignorance Excuses No One. An axiom of law that has its origan in the fact that violations of nature’s law are invariably punished by the effects which follow. Few know the capacity of defective eyes to disturb the equilibrium of the nervous system and it is my purpose to give information in a simple, practical manner, in the hope that general good may come of it. First let it be understood that only in the rarest cases are drugs needed in eye troubles and if administered when not needed they do harm. Next it should be known that of forty-three pairs of nerves supplying the entire body, four and one-third pairs go to the eye, thus giving them one-tenth of all the capacity to make trouble or conduce to comfort and lastly, good vision is absolutely no proof that eyes are good. Many readers of this article can see perfectly, but they suffer from nervous ills of one kind or another and never think their eyes are the primary cause, yet they are. Emmethropic or Normal Eye, With such eyes the individual will never need glasses except for reading and not for that pur pose until between forty and fifty years of age, when the nerve supply to the muscles operating the crystalling lens become too weak to accomplish their purpose. The glasses prescribed at first do a part of the work and the nerves do the rest and as the weakness increases the glasses are increased in power until finally they do all the work, after which time no changes of lens is required. Every one should have their eyes examined once by a competent ophthalmologist to ascertain the condition of their eyes. If it is ascertain ed that the eyes are normal, it will be very easy after that to properly fit the eyes, then properly exercised judgment in the fitting of frames and you are all right. If the eyes are found to be defective they should be properly fitted with glasses for constant wear. Astigmatism. Irregular curvature constitutes a large per cent of the eye defects of the human race. A great many people have eyes, the corneas of which are thus formed, but they see well enough and often do fine work and struggle along with the deformity, suffering many nervous ills in consequence, when a pair of glasses ground to fit the eyes and worn according to directions would relieve them entirely. Astigmatism often causes, after a time, a difference in the re fraction power of the eyes, that is one eye is much better than the other. In almost all such cases where the correction gives a good vision it necessitates a re-adjustment of distribution of the nerve supply, and while it is taking place, the sensations are anything but pleasant. It takes nerve to stick to glasses, but if the proper authority has been consulted so that you can feel assured you have the proper cor-

While taking Clark J. Lutz home Friday morning from the Grand Rapids train, the Murray House bus and horse became stuck in the mud south of the Clover Leaf raiload, the horse got down and it took something like an hour to get it loose and out of the mud hole. Captain E. F. Clemens, former auditor of Wabash county and one of the most popular officers in the 160th infantry, lost his life Thursday evening at 5 o’clock. He was hauling a load of stone at his farm near Laketon and the load capsized crushing the life cut of the victim. Mrs. Clemens was standing near and witnessed her husband’s death

TO WOMEN.—Are you well; if not ask yourself these questions: What is my trouble’ Could it come from my eyes? How much have I suffered? What have I done to relieve myself? Why am I not well? “Simply remove the cause is the secret.”

rection, and are brave, the trouble will be over in a few days and the result is certainly worth the trial. Hypermetropia Eye. The focusing power is not great enough to cause the point to be at the retina and as the light can pass no farther there is formed at the retina (which is a sensitized lining back of the eye connected with the brain) a circle of diffused light. As this would not permit more than very imperfect vision and as the muscles of accommodation, which operate the crystalline lens can be brought into play, thus increasing the power of the combination and improving vision by making the point form at the retina, it is done, but at such a sacrifice of nervous energy that the supply becomes exhausted and there "being nothing left for the other parts of the body, disturbances begin which will never subside until the cause is discovered and removed. Medicine may give temporary relief by deadening the powers of sensation which naturally exist as long as life and reasonable health is present ; but the drugs that most people use for headaches and acute ills with pain are so poisonous that few physicians care to administer them and I dare say no one would, except in rare cases, if the laws made them responsible for the results. Glasses which will make unnecessary the strain upon the nerves are the only hope of persons with this defect and in this case they must be worn constantly, because they correct a deformity. Myopia. This defect is commonly known as “near-sightedness.” Persons so affected are usually free from headaches and the other ills induced by hyperopia because of the absence of the demand for nerve force. But it is sometimes a matter of grave concern where it develops in early life and if not cared for properly may increase in amount by reason of a swelling of the viterous humor, which fills the main cavity and destroy vision. This is a simple truth that all should know in time to prevent the possibility of irreparable damage and almost if not total blindness. Glasses should be worn all the time because they increase vision. Heterophoria. Heterophoria is a big word and means that the muscles which rotate the eyes in their sockets are out of balance and is a great graft with some; but the fact is it is usually caused by an error of refraction and glasses that will correct the refraction will also remedy the muscle trouble, and all that is necessary is to have the work done by some one who knows what he ought to do, how to do it, how to tell when it is done, and how to explain it to his patients, together with proper instructions. Then if they fail to follow instructions he is certainly not to blame.