Decatur Democrat, Volume 48, Number 12, Decatur, Adams County, 26 May 1904 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT KVEKY THURSDAY MORNING BY LEW G. ELLINGHANt PUBLISHER ’ 11.00 PER YEAR’iN ADVANCE. Entered at the postoffice at Decatur, Indiana as second-class mail matter. 'OFFICIArPAP'ETOF ADAMS COUNTY. THURSDAY MAY 26,1904 COUNTY TICKET A For Joint Senator JOHN W, TYNDALL For Representative JOHN W. VIZARD For Prosecutor JOHN C. MORAN For Auditor C. D. LEWTON For Treasurer JOHN F. LACHOT For Sheriff ALBERT A. BUTLER For Surveyor L. L. BAUMGARTNER For Coroner JOHN S. FALK For Commissioner First District DAVID WEEDING For Commissioner Third District MARTIN LAUGHLIN There will hardly be a day next month in which some state does not I select delegates to the democratic national convention. It will be a ' busy month and much interest will be manifested in the action of every state. The south are showing much partiality for Judge Parker, and some of the southern states may instruct for him. Some of Nebraska’s leaders nowhope to see Col. William J. Bryan a United States senator and to this it is said they have Mr. Bryan’s assent. This hope is not shared alone by Nebraska, but from all over the county will be seen a field of usefulness for the twice leader of the democratic party. The indications point to a large attendance at the St. Louis national convention, the rush for admission tickets already having began. This demand does not come so much from the fact that a close and heated contest is expected,as it does from the interest that is developing for the success of the democratic party. It is a good omen and means much for party harmony and party unity. Company B. of Decatur is ma k ing arrangements for the reunion 1 of the 160th regiment of Spanish • war veterans Thursday August 11. A committee was appointed Friday night to raise funds for the meet- • ing and the company expects to * entertain seven hundred visitors. * Decatur being close Bluffton will probably send a big crowd.—Bluffton News. I Wisconsin republicans are fur- * nishing amusement' 1 to the democrats and large chunks of consternation to the republicans, by a whole- 1 sale lot of party disruption. They now have two complete state tickets in the field and if given more time one or two more may break cut. Illinois republicans are also having turbulent times and in all the success of the national democracy seems almost assured. The National Editoral Association i whose sessions were held at the Hall of Congress was of unusual, interest to the editorial fraternity four thouasnd of whom were present, representing nearly every state in the union. The largest delegate representation came from Pennsylvania. New York, Ohio, Illinois and even Oklahoma brought seventeen,many of them bright and intelligent newspaper workers. The social features of such a gathering is after all. the principal and most enjoyable feature. The program contained the names of many of the country's best and brightest men and women, but of them all, perhaps Col. Henri Watterson was given the most marked ovation. is age however, is begining to make an impression upon the appearance of this bright writer known the world over. His address proper was read from manuscript. Homer Daven pert the noted cartoonist was also an espgcial favorite with his numerous stories and experience in life. In the election of officers Indiana scored a victory by securing the recording seoretray for John W. Cockrum of the Journal. Oakland City and at present secretray of the Indiana World’s Pair Commission.

The Hearst newspaper trust is just now receiving the accrued benefits of newspaper advertising. It seems that the Chicago American, Chicago Record Herald and Chicago Tribune have entered into an agreement and have raised the price of their Sunday publications to the newsdealers onehalf cent. This has raised several kinds of war between the newsdealers and these newspapers which will likely end in the prices being maintained. While the democrats in many states are showing a preference for a candidate for president many are also paying their respects to Hon. T. Taggart as a suitable chairman of the democratic national committee. His ability and fitness for such leadership is recognized not only at home but wherever he is known, and the success of the party depends upon just such an organization as Mr. Taggart is capable of giving when given full charge and a free rein. The prepared statement of our county attorney, Mr. Clark J. Lutz, showing the advancement of Adams county in the matter of macadam roads, was a surprise even to many i Adams county people. The fact that ■ the county can boast of one hundred I and twenty-two miles of macadam roads is the best kind of a recommendation as to the solidity and enterprise •of our citizenship. Mud roads will soon be an unknown quantity. In fact, Adams county is strictly up to date in every respect. COURT NOTES The quiet title suit of Willis Syph°rs vs. John Blakes was dis: missed and costs paid. —o— George W. Martz guardian for Clay Martz and four others filed a new bond which was approved. —o— Berne Lumber company vs Reuben Clark et al; mechanics lien, cause dismissed and costs paid. —o — Cordelia Townsend et al vs. Lucy J. Gregory etai’ appraisement filed; proof of posting notices of sale filed. —o — Attorney A. P. Beatty filed a partition suit entitled Richard and Strah Johnson as Minnie Nailer and others. —o — John B. Holthouse, guardian for Bartha and Theresa Nix filed his current report which was examined and allowed. * Cordelia and Dick Townsend vs Lucy and A. C. Gregory, report of sale of real estate filed, deed reported and approved. The sale of personal property by William Frazier, administrator of the Ida William estate was reported and approved. Samuel Hurless et al vs Riverside Oil company, et al, sepaiate demurer by Riverside Oil company to complaint filed. —o— George Aumiller. guardian vs Mary Dooney et al plaintiffs attorney was allowed $25.00 to be taxed as costs in the case. —o — In the cases of Henry Hamold and Roll Snyder vs. the Riverside : Oil company, the defendant filed a . demurer to each complaint. —o—|F. J. Snow, representing the plaintiff filed a suit to quiet title for Enos M. and Louisa Peoples vs. Samuel and Anna Allen et. al. In the matter of the assignment of Decatur Stone and Lime company, G. Christen assignee filed final report and was discharged. Wm. P. Battling vs. W. C. Cock- ; ran and John Smitley, mechanics : lien, appearance by Schafer Peterson and C. J. Lutz for defendants, ruled to answer. State vs Arden E. Herrick for selling liquor to minors, motion for new trial overruled. Judgement rendered and verdict fining defendant S2O and costs. • —o— Harriet M. Bowers guardian for Charles R. Bowers and three others filed final report as to Charles and current report as to others and same were allowed. Attorneys Taber & Clapp, representing the National Supply company filed a new suit this morning

it against Robert Hamilton, A. M. J Archer, whose full first name is unt known >- —o—e The suit for damages of Patton vs j South Western Traction Railing y Company and change of venue from >- Allen county is set for trial tomorJ row. s —o—--1 The arguments for a new trial in the case of Fayior vs Studabaker were heard in circuit court this afternoon. Judge Dailey, Levi c Mock and D. D Heller represented r the plaintiff and W. H. Eichhorn 0 and D. E. Smith for the defendant. —o—f The court room is a quiet place • these days as the officials and at--1 torneys show symptoms of spring t fever and only spend unnecessary > time in the hall of justice. John B. Holthouse, guardian for Louis A.Holthouse and five others I filed his final report as to Louis, current report as to others approved guardian discharged as to Louis, r 0 ’’ Judge Erwin has received a cal--3 endar from the Supreme and Ap--1 uellate courts, which show that ’ Adams county has but one case ' there at present, that being the Os- ' borne murder case. i o James A. -Furguson executor of ' the George W. Archbold estate filed 1 reappraisement, report of sale and 1 full payment of purchase money sale confirmed, deed ordered and reported and’approved In the divorce case of Emma Gage vs Laban Gage attorneys Merryman & Sutton and C. J- Lutz entered their appearance for the defendants, filed answer and cause set for trial Saturday May 28. In the David Studabaker estate, executors John Niblick and Wil liam J. Vesey filed their bond Bnd oath. They also filed a petition to sell Bankers National Bank, Chica go stock and same ordered to be sold at private' sale, for not less than market value. The cause of Sarah Ayers vs Alfred Ayers, in which the latter asked for a modification of the order of the court, so that he could have the custody of two of the girls, was heard this morning. The former order of the court was sustained except that the father shall have the privilege of seeing the chilrden on first and fourth Tuesday of each month at two o’clock p. m. The divorce case mentioned Saturday in a special from Bluffton was filed this morning by Mock & Sons and C. J- Lutz, being entitled Elizabeth A. Sovine vs. John Sot ine Drunkeness, cruel and inhuman treatmont are alleged. SIOOO alimony and five dollars per week demanded. The parties were married in 1877 and lived together until last Saturday. Mrs. Sovine says her husband has often cursed, beat and threatened to shoot her. They have eight chilrden, four of whom are of age. A PROCLAMATION Mayor Coffee Pays Official Respett to the Heroes. The commemoration of the event by which respect is shown to the Honored Dead who so nobly defended the stars and stripes to the . preservation of the Union. All buisness houses are requested to close Monday May the 30th between hours of one and four o’clock that all may lend the presence in the carrying out of £he program, appropriately arranged for the iccassion. D. D. Coffee Mayor. The program fori the dedication , of the Indiana building at the World’s Fair. St. Louis, which takes place at 2:00 p.m.. June 3, 1904, is f as follows: Music, invocation, rep port of the building committee to 1 the Indiana Commission, Frank C. ■ Bril, Chairman; tender of the building to the Governor, 'representing the people of Indiana, Henry W. r Vice Pres, of the Indiana • Commission. Acceptance, GovernI or Winfield T. Durbin. Music, adI dress, Newton W. Gilbert' Pres. Indiana Commission. Music, America. to the people from - eight to eleven o’clock by the Gov- - ernor and members of the Com- • mission.

War News. - LONDON May 25-The corres--1 pondent of the morning Post at s Mukden, under date of May 21 says ' that it is reported there, that '( general Reunen Kampff’s “C osacks have captured two Japanese transport columns, thus leaving the r Japanese army without supplies in a different country. i 1 SEOUL May s—Kincho ,v to the ' north of Port Arthur, is besieged by the Japnese. Its surrender is ’ expected at any moment. ; Shimomseki May 25—Active prepartions are in progress for the reduction of Port Aurthur. It is un- ’ derstood the place will be attacked by a portion of the fifth division , forming part of the third army consisting mainly of veterans of the Chinese war. The Japanese are determined to take the fortress by storm no matter what the cost in life. GREELEY IN THE ROCKIES. The Way He Sobered Up a Boisterous Hotel Crowd. In the “Memoirs of Henry Villard’' there is a chapter in which the author describes a meeting with Greeley in the Rockies. The “Tribune philosopher.'’ having met with an accident which crippled him for several weeks, was an unwilling guest at the Denver House, the only “hotel’’ in the city, a rude shack of a building, with canvas partitions, the greater part given up to the bar and gaming tn bles, and therefore not a place con diicive to the quiet and repose of invalids. Mr. Villard noticed a change gradually taking place in the usually benign features of the philosopher, his Christian virtues gradually losing control over him, until finally one day he lost his temper completely and swore at his disturbers “so violently that I dared not believe my ears.” His wrath, however, did not culminate until the third night of his tortures. About 10 o'clock he got up and limped into the barroom, where he thus addressed the astonished tipplers: “Friends. I have been in pain and without sleep for almost a week, and I am well nigh worn out. Now I am a guest at this hotel, I pay a high price for my board and lodging and am entitled to rest during the night. But how can I get it with all this noise going on in this place?” “Then,” adds Mr. Villard, “be addressed one of the most pathetic appeals I ever heard to those around him to abandon their vicious ways and become sober and industrious. He spoke for nearly an hour aud was listened to with rapt interest and the most perfect respect. He succeeded, too. in his object. The gambling stopped, and the bar was closed every night at 11 o'clock as long as he remained.” THE CASPIAN SEA. One of the Remarkable Physical Features of the Globe. One of the most remarkable physical features of the globe is the deep and wide depression in the nollow of which stands the Caspian sea and near to it the sea of Aral. The Caspian is nearly as large as France, and its surface is eighty-four feet below the level of the Black sea. The sea of Aral is nearly as large as Ireland and is very little over the sea level. Within recent geological times the vast expanse in which these lakes are found was sea. Its fioor has been gradually raised, and the waters tilling the depressions are al) that is left of an ancient Mediterranean. A strange feature of both bodies of water is that although they receive large rivers, especially the Caspian, into which the Volga, the Ural river and scores of streams from the Caucasus flow, both have for many years been getting shallower. Evaporation, for they have no outlet, exceeds the inflow. But, for some climatic reason probably, the sea of Aral aud its neighbor. Lake Balkhash, have since 1891 been increasing in depth. Whereas the Caspian, like the sea. js very salt, owing to the rate of evaporation. Aral and Balkhash are brackish only. These remnants of what w.as once a great sea opening into the ocean, as the Mediterranean does now. still contain marine fish and seals. Some of the latter survive in the Aral and Bai sal lakes, having gradually become fitted for their habitat, though it is no longer salt, but merely brackish, and, in the case of Baikal, actually fresh water.—London Telegraph. A Back Action Joke. The traveling men of Maine are noted for the jokes that they are always springing on the public, but recently • one of them got into trouble in an uii- . expected way. His parents celebrated their golden wedding, and the drummer had long planned to spend the 1 day with them. But when the day ar- - rived he found that he was too far . from his old home to get back to it, so he sent a telegram to his father. He thought that it was a good time to get off a joke on the eld man, so he mere--1 ly sent the message, “Is marriage a . failure?” He was somewhat taken aback when he got the reply, “Marriage iß,ifct, but the results sometimes are.” “

THE LIBRARY. M should Be. So to Speak, ihe Aw thor’a Tool Chest. In the gradual growth of every Stu--5 dent’s library he may or may not continue to admit literary friends and ad- " risers, but he will be sure sooner or , later to send for a man wlth » ’ chest. Sooner or later every nook and - corner will be filled with books, every window will be more or less daikemd. and added shelves must be < <\*• <<• , He may find it hard to achieve just the arrangement be wants, but be w 11 find it hardest of all to meet square.y that inevitable inquiry of the P^ carpenter »s he looks about him, a\e 5 you actually read all these books.’ The expected reply is: "Tobe sure. lio w can vou doubt it?” Yet if you asked 5 him in turn. “Have you actually used every tool in your tool chest.’ you would very likely be told: "Not onehalf as yet, at least this season. I litive • the others by me to use as I need them.” Now, if this reply can be fairly ’ made in a simple, well defined, distinctly limited occupation like that or a joiner, how much more inevitable it is in a pursuit which covers the whole range of thought and all the facts in I the universe: The library is the au-1 thor’s tool chest. He must learn as be grows older to take what he wants and to leave the rest—Thomas Wentworth Higginson in Atlantic. THE COUNTERFEITERS. Fine Work of the Secret Service In Kunniuff Them Down. A secret service man tells of an experience of his when on a difficult case , of counterfeiting. The district had been flooded with bad coins ami spurious notes, and it was bis duty to locate the plant. At last they dropped across a newcomer who was living iu tine style. He was educated and very reserved, and when he got any mail he seemed quite indifferent whether any | one saw it or not. He would read bis notes on the way home and throw the envelopes carelessly on the sidewalk. Not one of them gave the ghost of a clew. Every morning about 7 o’clock a young milkman went to the man's , house and left a quart of milk. He, too, was a newcomer, and this set the secret service man thinking. So be watched. A stout cook at the kitchen always took the can of milk and hand ed the milkman the can he had left the day before. The milkman, it turned out, was the go-between. The milk cans had false bottoms, and here Mr. Fine Gentleman’s letters were hidden. An intercepted letter led inquiries to a house not more than a few blocks from police headquarters. Sure enough, there was the engraving and bad money plant of which the refined newcomer was the head.—Kansas City Independent. THE WORD “CHAPEL.” It Comes From Latin and Originally Meant Cope or Canopy. The word "chapel” comes from the hw Latin capella, a cope or canopy, and was applied to a recess or chapel attached to the altar. Used originally of the place where the cappa <« cope of St. Martin was preserved, the word came in the eighth century to signify any sanctuary where holy relics were kept and thence a consecrated building connected with a church or cathedral. At t'_fls period also domestic oratories and places of worship for such corporate bodies as colleges began to be called chapels. Apart from its present day meaning, as applied to any place of worship which is not a parish church, such as a chapel of ease or a nonconformist chapel, the word denotes the ecclesiastical staff of a sovereign, the sacred office recited by the pope with his household and the working staff of a printing office, because the first one in England was set up by Caxton in Westminster abbey. Water Colors. Pigments have been used from the earliest times and are now used by all , savages for decorative purposes. But the paint used in Babylon and Nineveh and in Pompeii was composed of pigments mixed, not with oil. but with water to which bad been added a little . glue, egg albumen or perhaps some times casein, which is albuminous matter from milk or the gluten from cereal grains. Glue, however, which was well known to the ancient Egyptians, was the most universal binding material. Such paints are now known as fresco paints, or water colors. A. Pepya Tells It. , Pepys tells iu his diary that in the reign of King Charles 11. a customer bargaining with a London merchant for claret hired a Confederate to “thun- ’ der (which he had the art of doing . upon a deal board) and to rain and . hail—that is. make the noise of—so as j to give them a pretense of undervaluing their merchant’s wines, by saying X this thunder would spoil and turn j them, which was so reasonable to the merchant that he did abate 2 pistolls ’ per tun for the wine in belief of that.” An Easy Test. “I often wonder just what she thinks of me,” said the young married man. s “It is easy to find out,” said the r elderly married man. “Just sit down on her hat. and she will tell you what j she thinks of you in less than a min . ute.”—Chicago Journal. s ■ Her Little Surprise. r “Don’t stop me now. dear. Archie’s B going to propose in a few minutes.” e “Has be shown any symptoms?” t Certainly not! He doesn’t know It >. yet. I’ve arranged it as a surprise for , him.”—Brooklyn Life. II TV There are men who don't mind being s kicked blue if they can only be talked about.—Eliot

SPENCER’S EAR PLUGS. ’ rhe Why the Great Philoaopher rm Himself of Small Talk. “Years ago.” says William H. Hud. son in the North American Review • Herbert Spencer found that the feet of following ordinary conversation became frequently too much for him But he liked to have people about him to watch the play of expression on their faces, to feel that, though be could not himself share much in the merriment he was. as it were, a part of the Uor ’ mal and healthy social world. For this reason be objected to withdrawal’ into solitude and evolved a plan by which be might secure the partial i»o. latton which he required. He bad a circular spring made to go round the back of ids head, and this carried pads which fitted firmly upon the ears, es. fectively deadening the noise .-.bout him and reducing the surrounding chatter to a mere hum. I have often seen him, stretched at length upon his couch, follow with apparent interest the gossip over the afternoon tea cups up to a certain point and then, reaching under his pillow, draw forth an,] adjust his instrument, thus suddenly detaching himself from his environment. The effect of this movement with comparative strangers was always to cause an instant cessation of the conversation. But this was precisely what Spencer did not wish. 'Co on talking,’ he would exclaim, with a quizzical look. ‘I can't bear what you ure saying, you know:’” COSTLY LANTERNS. The Fancy Lamps That Passenger Conductors Ued to Carry. Modern railroading has driven the passenger conductor's lantern almost out of use. Years ago the pride of a passenger conductor was his lantern. Then the cars were not so brilliantly i illuminated as they are now. ami the ticket taker was obliged to carry his light ou his left arm in order to see the pasteboards as be passed through the dimly lighted car. At one time the conductors indulged in considerable extravagance in the i matter of lanterns. Some of them were gold and silver plated. The upper part of the glass globe was colored blue, and the name 0»’ the owner was cut in old English letters. At the meetings of the Conductors’ association manufacturers would arrange a great display of costly lights at one of the hotels iu the city in which the meeting would be held. Some of the conceits in the lights were unique, and the prices ranged from $25 to ten times that figure. The glass and plating were kept in a highly polished state, and none dared to meddle with this part of the ticket puncher's equipment. Conductors still carry their own lanterns—that is, they are on the train ready for use —but there is nothing like the need of them that formerly existed. —Chicago Tribune. — SHELLFISH LANGUAGE. Curious Clicking Sounds Hoard ou the Water at M«ht. Most seamen will tell of curious clicking sounds heard on calm nights at sea, and the origin of the noise seems so altogether unaccountable that it has often created some alarm among super- ; stitious fishermen. A distinguished naturalist made a careful study of the sounds on many occasions and found that it wns not a sustained note, but made up of a multitude of tiny oues, each clear and distinct in itself and ranging from a high treble down to a bass. When the ear was appl'td to the gunwale of the boat the sound grew more intense, and in some places as the boat moved on it could not be heard at all. 1 On other occasions the sounds resembled the tolling of bells, the booming of guns and the notes of an aeolian harp. For a long time he was unable to trace the cause, but at length discovered that the sounds were made by shellfish, hundreds of them opening their shells and closing them with sharp snaps. The noise, partly muffle-1 by the water, sounded indescribably 1 weird. He was finally led to the conclusion that as the shellfish made tne ‘ sounds they probably bad some mean- ’ ing and that the clicks might possibly be a warning of danger when the shal- ! low water was disturbed by the boat. Girls Kept In Canes. ! It Is said that the people of New • Britain have a peculiar custom of con- ’ fining their girls' In cages until they reach marriageable age. These cages are built of wood cut from the pa in tree and are inside the rude houses. Outside each house is. a fence of wick- | ervork made of reeds. The girls are r caged at the age of two or three and ' are never allowed to go out of the ; house, yet they seem strong and 1 healthy. s Where Three Is a Crowd. ! Tom—l suppose you spent a pleasant > evening with your best girl. ‘ Dick—Pleasant? Huh! A fellow can t ’ make love to his girl in a crowd. Tom—Oh. was there a crowd there? Dick—Yes. and the chump didn’t have sense enough to realize that he wasn t ’ wanted.—Chicago Tribune. PerveMe. 1 He—Won't you let me give you just one kiss before I go? She—Will Just one satisfy you? He—Yes, darling. She—Then I won’t give it to you.— Standard. I — One Sweetly Pleasant ThoaKht. Georgiana—We are not old. I Juliana—Oh, yes. we ate, my dear. ’ Georgiana — Well, we are just young as any girls of our age in town. —lndianapolis Journal. [ * — I Some people pick their company—pieces.—Schoolmaster. . . ■ ■