Decatur Democrat, Volume 48, Number 14, Decatur, Adams County, 9 June 1904 — Page 3

Mrers & Sohiman have added ♦he Riverside livery barn to their possessions and will oonduot Lh'barns as heretofore. They , irh thoroughly understand the business and as a matter of fact ffi] l make a snocess of it. The funeral services for Henry H Myers were held Thursday t ten o'clock from the residence south of the city, Rev. W. E. Mo- ( arty of Hoagland officiating. The Masonic order of this city of which the deceased was a charter memlier attended in a body and had charge of the services, giving their ritual work at house and also at the g ra ve. Mr. Myers was a popular citizen and until two years ago when his health began to fail was known as one of the strongest men in the county. He was a great hunt-r and had for years made jr jp S to the south and northwest. He was a good natured kind hearted and honest citizen whom it was a pleasure to know. The Bachelor Maids met Friday evening in [regular social session with Miss Mayme Conter on First street, and from all renortsa fine time was had. Whist, was instulled as the predominating game and for several hours a hot contest was on hand for the prizes offered. At the close of the tenth game, however. Misses Ada Deininger and Anna Terveer were awarded the first prizes and Misses Nettie Smith and M y Heffner were given the consolation prizes. During the evening's pastime,Miss Mayme proceeded to spread before her guests a fine two-course luncheon and at a late hour all adjourned to meet with Miss Mayme Terveer. the exact date not being set.

Mr. and Mr?. Henry Colerick have announced the coming marriage of their daughter, Bessie to Mr. Joseph Berghoff, which will take plaoe Saturday, Jure 25, in St. Paul's church on Fairfield avenue. Miss Grace Lukens will give a bridesmaid luncheon today for Miss Colerick. The wedding of Miss Colerick and Mr. Berggoff is of interest to many people other than the personal friends of the bride anu groom elect who enjoy more than the average degree of popularity. The prominence of the Colerick family for many years and the political position of both Mr. Colerick and Mayor Berghoff entitles the marriage of a daughter and son of the two families to consideration not alone of a social nature.* Miss Colerick is petite of figure, sweet and attractive of face and as bright as she is attractive. Mr. Berghoff is a young gentleman of sterling qualities and most gentlemanly bearing and has a promising business career before him.— Fort Wayne Journal Gazette. The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette tells of Peter Schneider’s troubles as follows: Peter Schneider, mangager of the Lakeside butcher shop of the Bash Packing company is in jail here on the charge of embezzelment and grand larceny. The charges are preferred by his employers and the amount involved is 1150. Schneider was arrested yesterday at Decatur and he was brought here in the afternoon in charge of the sheriff of Adams county. He was unable to furnish bond in the sum of SSOO and he was committed to jail to await trial. The prisoner is a married man who has a family at, Decatur. It is alleged that he had taken money at intervals during the past few months. His acoounts were gone over a day or two ago and he admitted that he had taken money and lost it in gambling. Thursday evening he left the city and a circuit court warrant was procured yesterday morning and given to Deputy Sheriff Daseler to serve. Later it was learned Schneider had gone to his home in Decatur and the authorities there were notified.

ran I Ophthalmic Specialist. 1 B Practice limited to the oorrec- B ■ tioo of defects of the eye. Glasses B B fitted to relieve strain, with its wE ■ numerous functional symptoms: ■ B to improve vision and for loss of I* B accommodation due to age. • u ■ REFERENCES THE BEST. I M At Dr. Coverdale's office, at ■ 3 Decatur, Ind., JS First Tuesday each month

The entertainment at the St. Mary’s churph Wednesday was an enjoyable, interesting and entertaining one and every person who attended has been telling his friends how well pleased he was. The pic tures were beautiful the lecture instructive and the singing by Prof Norris was excellent. Quite a large crowd attended and the entertainment was a success from every point of view. Those who failed to lie present missed a great treat. Hon. J. M. Du]] returned last, Wednesday night from his two month’s trip to the Holy Land and continental Europe. It was an immense trip for him, full of enjoyment, recreation and profit, and not the least enjoyable feature of the whole trip tvas the homeward journey and his safe arrival at his splended home in Liberty township. Sunday there was a family reunion at the paternal home as a grand welcome home and as an infair reception for two of the most recently married sons. It was a joyous occasion and one thatwil] ever live in the memories of the parents, children and grand children.—Wiltshire Herald. Saturday at seven o'clock at her home in Root township four miles northwest of our city occurred the death of Mrs. Irene Isabelle McLane after an illness of several months duration with tuberculosis. Mrs. McLane was thirty two years, ten months and six days of age, and all during her seige of sickness was a patient sufferer and always pleasant to those assisting h er, she was a firm believer in God and placed all of her faith and care with Him. She was a member of the Mount Pleasant church and an ardent worker in its behalf and bv her death the church has lost a faithful member and a conscientious worker. The funeral services wiil be held Monday morning at ten o’olock from the Mount Pleasant church, Rev, McCarthy officiating. Interment will be made at, the Reynolds oemetery. She leaves a husband to mourn her loss.

According to a letter received by the Journal Gazette from Detective Sergeant T. L. Ryan, of San Francisco, Walter Reed, of Monroeville who was taken lo the California city to answer the charge of forgery will serve one year in the county jail for the offense. Reed was charged with having forged the name of his roommate to a check for $45. He then skipped out and returned here admitting his guilt when arrested by Deputy Sheriff Gldieux. Sergeant Ray came here from San Francisco several weeks ago and took the prisoner back. The letter of the San Francisco detective was written under date of May 28, and is as follows: '*Reed pleaded guilty to two charges of petit larceny in the police court this morning and was sentenced to serve one year in the county jail, six months on each charge. The district withdrew the felony charge and allowed him to plead guily to two minor charges and he was sentenced as above stated. — Ft. Wayne Journal Gazette. Mrs. Millie Congleton was the victim of a birthday surpise party Thursdayat her home on Third street and one that proved to be genuine in all respects. The affair was gotten up by Mrs. Burns and Miss Bessie Congleton and all the details carried out just as was planned and Mrs. Congleton was taken unawares. The guests were invited to meet at Mrs. Burn's residence prior to time of the surprise and after all the guest fifty in number were assembled they proceeded to Mrs. Congletons house and took it by storm, and it was some time before she could recover from the effect to ask the meaning of the affair, it was then she was inform ed that it was her birthday and that recalled everything and she was soon busily engaged in making her guests at home. During the evening Mrs. Congleton was presented with a beautiful Haviland China Dish, and a large rocking chair, to show that her friendship was stUl cherished very highly among her friends and she responded in a very neat and appropriate manner. The evening was spent in havng a good old fashioned social time and by having a good visit with each other- At ten o'olock a sumptuous lunch was served and a?a late hour all departed for their respective homes, wishing Mrs. Congleton many more such pleasant occasions.

Invitations were issued today by 1 Mrs. Chris Ashbaucher for the wedding of her daughter, Amelia A. Ashbaucher and Mr. John C. Augsburger wbioh will occur at her home on Thursday evening, June 9th, at seven o’clock. Mr. Augsburger and Miss Ashbaucher will reside east of the city and are a young couple held in the highest esteem by a large circle of friends. —Bluffton News. Attorney John C. Moran filed a new divorce case in court, Saturday, entitled Michael Everett vs Myrtle Everett. The complant shows that the couple were married May 11, 1902 and lived together until last March, a little less than years. The charge is adultery and Hie names of Carl Steele and Benjamin Brandyberry are mentioned in the complaint. The parties live near Steele in Blue Creek township. Muoh surprise was created in railway circles Saturday when it was announced that four of the older employes of the Erie had been let out by the higher officials. The men effected by this action are Dispatcher W. K. Briggs, Engineer John Brumbaugh, Engineer Adam Handwork and Conductor C. E. Schonemaker. The discharge of these four men is alleged to he caused by a narrowly averted head end collision at Ohio City about two months ago.—Huntington Herald. County Clerk Gerber in obeyance to an order of Judge Erwin has issued a notice which appears elsewhere in this issue and which states that a special session of the Adams circuit court will convene at the court house on Monday, June 20th, and continue in session as long as business requires. The proceeding is an unusual one and is brought about by the fact that E. X. Ehinger as receiver in the case of Alexander C. Taggert vs the Northwest Virginia Oil company will conduct a sale of the property on June 17th, and will be ready to report in court by June 20th and thus close the legal affairs of this company which have been in court several months. The present term of court closes Saturday. June 11th until the first Monday in September, with the exception of the special session.

The six year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Marion Reed, of Sheldon, ten miles northwest of Decatur is lying at the point of death from a bullet wound received Thursday afternoon. The bullet was fired from a rifle in the hands of Mrs. Cecelia Mills, a woman of Sheldon, who was shooting at sparrows when the distressing accident occurred. The ball struck the little one in the upperpart of theleft breast and passed entirely through her body. Dr. Metts, of Ossian, was called to at tend the girl, and while there may be no fatal termination, the little one’s condition today is very critical and little hope is held out. Mrs. Mills is quite prostrated by the shocking accident, though the thing is not in any way ascribed to more than unhappy mischance. “No, this weather will not hurt the crops,” said B. F. Johnson, at the state statistician’s office, Tuesday. “It is just the thing for wheat and grass, and although the cold and rain is very disagreeable to us, it is good for vegetation. “I am now sending out blanks to find out how large the wheat territory was that was plowed over on account of injury to the growing crop. The blanks are being sent to the township assessors, who usually have the data at hand. An assessor from Burlington township, Carroll county, writes that 90 percent of the wheat in his township was plowed under. “VV. O. Stone, who owns 20 acres of apple orchard in Monroe county, has sent some apple blossoms which were killed by the frost a few days age. He thinks that his entire crop has been practically ruined. His orchard was on the second bottom and the damage to him is not an indication that the destruction was widespread.

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DUELING IN GERMANY. It la a Custom Firmly Katubllahefl Air.«»nf4 the Student*. In every German university there is still dueling, and there will be as long as German universities exist. Each has its quota of lighting clubs, which correspond to our own secret societies, Every student is anxious to be invited to join one of these clubs, and. having been initiated, it is not long before he is assigned to a duel. The members of these various organizations are distinguished by their colored bands and caps, as our fraternity men are by their Greek letter badges. The most aristocratic of the lighting corps are the Borussia at Bonn, to which all the Hohenzollern princes Jllong, and the Saxo-Borussia at Heidelberg, of which most of the German princes outside of the Hohenzolierns are members. Other prominent fighting corps are the Itho. nania of the University of Wurtzburg, Normania of Berlin, Franconia of Munich and the famous corps of Hannovera, in which Bismarck was a famous fighter, of Gottingen. Every corps has its own officers, its own laws, rules, regulations, but all are bound by a universal “code of honor.” The customs and ceremonials incident to these student duels are queer and peculiarly fascinating, the costumes and fighting attire unique and interesting. The duels are of two kinds —the one an “honor duel,” where one student has insulted another, and honor has to be satisfied by a little blood letting, but these are often not infrequently the result of purpose rather than of actual insult just for the sake of a little fighting. The German student, like Pat, is often “spoiling for a fight.” The other kind of duel is generally a more serious matter and is known as "by agreement.” It is by a challenge from one corps to another and partakes of the tournament order. A list of dates is drawn up, and on a certain day of each week a member of the one corps meets a member of the other for “die mensur.”—Fritz Morris in Iliustrated Sporting News.

FRIENDSHIPS. Those of Look Standing and Those Made In Later Life. People make friends later than they used to, or at least so it seems to us. probably because they grow old in general later than they did. Friendship must change Its nature with advancing years, but whatever makes later life full of activities and new beginnings causes friendships also to begin at even the later stages of the journey. Os two old men early friends who had quarreled Coleridge said: They stood alcof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs which had been rent asunder. Such an image of course gives powerfully the sense of fixity, the opposite of the fluid potentiality of youth. Yet in the same poem we have the hint that not all is glorious in youth: And constancy lives in realms above. And life is thorny, and youth Is vain. Friendship becomes rid of some vanity, it becomes more noble and satisfying to the deeper thoughts and ideals, when the roots of it grow back into a long distant past, and if we can keep the power of making a few new friends in age as we need them to supplement those inherited from youth, which grow fewer with the years, but riper and more select, friendship should play a satisfying role far along toward the end of life, the best role indeed of its career, if. as Emerson thinks, a lifetime is needed for its completeness, while an hour or a day is enough for toil or play. The late friendships of the unmarried, the childless and the widowed have a special necessity and pathos of their own, for mates and children to a large extent at certain periods naturally take the place of other friends.—Collier's Weekly. An Interested Jnror. An instance of an interested juryman was reported not long ago. A jury had been impaneled, when a man stepped forward and explained that, having been summoned to serve, he wished to be allowed to do so at once, as he had to attend a funeral at a distant place In the latter portion of the week. A place was therefore made for him in the jury box. The case was tried, and owing to this man’s obstinacy a verdict of acquittal was secured. It was subsequently discovered that the man had never been summoned to serve at all and that the prisoner was his friend. —London Tit-Bits. Both Dieil ns They Wished To. Tennyson, who was a shy, reserved man. could never understand Robert Browning’s love of society. He had been heard to remark that Browning would die in a white choker at a dinner party. The two poets died as they would have wished to die—Robert Browning in the grand Palazzo Ressonicco, with his son by his bedside. and Lord Tennyson in his beloved Surrey home, surrounded by his loved ones. Less Tiresome. “Miss Chatterton? I think I’ll send her word that I'm out.” “Won't the still, small voice reproach you?" “Yes, but I’d rather listen to the still, small voice than to Miss Chatterton.”—Puck. Surprise For His College Boy. Mr. Meddergiass—Who yer sendin' the sheep to. Bill? Mr. RagweedWhy. my son Zeb's up to college tryin’ fur a sheepskin, he says, and I'm goin' ter surprise him with a hull critter.— Chicago Post. Ask no man’s advice, but study the people you meet and avoid the habits and manners which you find annoying to you in others and cultivate the qualities you find are helpful and pleasing. ■ --Detroit News-Tribune.

LOVE OF FIGHTING. It Speins to Be Inborn In the AvePo Re Human BeiiiK. VTe are all fond of fighting—that is, tve all love to look at a fight, and some of us like to be in a fight. But we all love to see one. There are some superaesthetic and hyper refined humans of both sexes who think they do not like to see a fight. Some of them actually believe they are sincere. But deep down in the average man and woman the love of fight exists. It Is ingrained; it is congenital; it is in the human baby. When he screams, squalls and kicks if his will is thwarted, he is fighting. So with the same baby when, grown up into a boy, he pulls his little sister's hair. It is partly, perhaps, the love of fighting and partly, perhaps, the love of giving pain, for cruelty also seems to be part of the makeup of the human animal. After little brother has tin ished pulling little sister’s hair and she, has dried her eyes she soothes her wounded feelings by pulling off flies' wings or legs or pinching the cat’s tail under a rocking chair. Os the higher flights of juvenile cruelty to which her brother rises when he ties two cats together by their tails over a clothesline, where they fight till nothing is left but their tail tips—of these familiar facts we will not speak. When brother goes to school and then to coliege, whether it be to the English “public” schopl or to the American “public” school, resembling each other only in name; to the academy, to the preparatory school, to the university, he speedily becomes past master in cruelty. In most' of these institutions he must fight. Hazing exists in every co 1 - lege in the country. Even the United States government cannot stamp it out at West Point and Annapolis. In both these institutions fist fights under prize ring rules are of almost daily occurrence. They are masterful battles, and they have not a little to do with making stout hearted, stalwart fighters of our army and navy officers. To those who object to these battles the unanswerable reply is that the boys are there to learn to fight and that the way to learn to fight is to fight.—San Francisco Argonaut.

WAYSIDE WISDOM. Opportunity is the cream of time. Self conquest is the greatest of victories. The more you say the less people remember. A mother’s tears are the same in all languages. Good breeding is a letter of credit aV over the world. It is more profitable to read one man than ten books. A man cannot go where temptation cannot find him. People ruled by the mood of gloom attract to them gloomy things. A fault which humbles a man is of more use to him than a good action which puffs him up with pride. In the conduct of life habit counts for more than maxim because habit is a living maxim and becomes flesh and instinct—Detroit News-Tribune. The “C*ftr" Went to lied. A foreign nobleman who, if report speaks true, is somewhat henpecked invited some men a night or two ago to play cards in his house. The meeting was a convivial one, and all went “merry as a marriage bell.” It grew late, and fears were expressed by the party that they were trespassing upon the kindness of the mistress of the house, who, by the way, was not present. “Not at all, gentlemen: not at all. Play as long as you please. I am czar here,” said the master of the mansion. “Yes, gentlemen, play as long as you please,” said a silvery voice, and all rose immediately as the baroness stood before them. "But as it is after 1 o'clock the czar is going to bed.” He went. Wanted a Sore Thlnpr. An English professor of mineralogy tells a good story about a certain big English commercial magnate. He says that the great merchant in question came to him to consult about the instruction of the hopeful son and heir who was some day to run the vast business interests from which “the pater” had made his wealth. “But mind you,” said he, “I don’t want him to learn about strata or dips or faults or upheavals or denudations, and I don’t want him to fill his mind with fossils or stuff about crystals. What I want him to learn is how to find gold and silver and copper in paying quantities, sir—in paying quantities.” A Bishop's Rf-liuke. Bishop Dudley of Kentucky could administer a rebuke delicately, but on occasions he took care to see that the point was plain. One of the wealthiest members of his church as well as one of the closest told him he was going sbroad. “I have never been on the ocean,” he said to the bishop, “and I would like to know something that will keep me from getting seasick.” “You might swallow a nickel,” responded the bishop. “You’ll never give that up.” His Unenviable Plight. “So Smuthers finds himself between the devil and the deep sea, does he?” “Well, it amounts to the same thing. He’s between an empty furnace and an anpaid coal bill.”—Cincinnati TimesStar. A Case of Repeat. Tess—l permitted him to kiss me on condition that he wouldn’t mention it to any one. Jess—And did he? Tess— Well—er—he repeated it the very next minute.—Philadelphia Tress.

SAVAGE ATHLETICS. lonitli Tralnln* of Hie \ativ~* of ilie Canary In this age of athletics one might think that no people ever showed so much interest in feats of muscular might and skill us those who have perfected football, but modern games and even the games of the Greeks at Olympia may have been more than matched by the sports of peoples who are now held in little esteem. A writer on the Canary islands gives an account of their athletic training which makes even the college giants of today seem weak and effeminate. The Canary islands were subjected by Spain about the time Columbus discovered America. The conquest was due solely to the superiority of European weapons and not to better skill and prowess. The native soldiers were trained athletes, developed under a system whiefi held athletic sports an important business, like military drill. Spanish chronicles have left us accounts of the sports of the islanders. From babyhood they were trained to be brisk in self defense. As soon as they could toddle the children were pdted with mud balls that they might learn how to protect themselves. When they were boys stones and wooden darts were substituted for the bits of clay. In this rough school they acquired the rudiments of warfare which enabled them during their wars with the Spaniards to catch in their hands the arrows shot from their enemies’ crossbows. After the conquest of the Canaries a native of the islands was seen at Seville who for a shilling let a man throw at him as many stones as he pleased from a distance of eight paces. Without moving his left foot he avoided every stone. Another native used to defy any one to hurl an orange at him with so great rapidity that he could not catch it. Three men tried this, each with a dozen oranges, and the islander caught every orange. As a further test he hit his antagonists with each of tlio oranges.

NOT TRUE TO THE POLE. The Variations In the Pointing of the Compass. We commonly say that the pole of the needle points toward the north. The poets tell us how the needle is true to the pole. Every reader, however, is now familiar with the general fact of a variation of the compass. On our eastern seaboard and all the way across the Atlantic the north pointing of the compass varies so far to the west that a ship going to Europe and making no allowance for this deviation would find herself making more nearly for the North cape than for her destination. The “declination,” as it is termed in scientific language, varies from one region of the earth to another. In some places it is toward the west, in others toward the east. The pointing of the needle in various regions of the world is shown by means of magnetic maps. Such maps are pub-, lished by the Fnited States coast survey, whose experts make a careful study of the magnetic force all over the country. It is found that there is a line running nearly north and south through the middle states along which there is no variation of the compass. To the east of it the variation is west, to the west of it east. The most rapid changes in the pointing of the needle are toward the northeast and northwest regions. When we travel to the northeastern boundary of Maine, the westerly variation has risen to 20 degrees. Toward the northwest the easterly variation continually increases until in the northern part of the state of Washington it amounts to 23 degrees.— Simon Newcomb in Harper’s. A Strange Case. In the latter part of 1878 a young lady died near Cleveland of a disease that had greatly puzzled the attending physicians, the symptoms being similar to rheumatism of the heart. The postmortem revealed one of the most remarkable facts to the medical profession. A large burdock bur was found securely imbedded in the heart directly against the posterior surface of the aorta. It was completely enveloped with cystic tissue, which had also covered all the large blood vessels leading to and from the heart There is only one way of accounting for the presence of the bur. It had been breathed into the air passages when the woman was a child. needier anil F.inerson. One day Mr. Beecher was dining beside Emerson and said, “Mr, Emerson, when you are eating this fine beef, can you tell by the flavor what kind of grass the ox ate?” “Why, no, of course not!” “I am right glad to hear It,” replied Beecher, “for I have been feeding my congregation on Emerson for many a year, and I have been afraid they would find it out.”—Boston Christian Register. Tactful. “At what age do you consider women the most charming?” asked the inquisitive female of more or less uncertain age. “At the age of the woman who asks the question,” answered the man, who was a diplomat.—New Yorker. Up* nnd Downs. “Oh, well, everybody has his ups and downs!” “That's right. .Tust at present I’m (town pretty low because I’m hard up.” —Exchange. Under the evolution theory a monkey need* millions of years in which to become man, whereas a man can make a monkey of himself In a minute.— Birmingham Age-Herald.