Decatur Democrat, Volume 48, Number 22, Decatur, Adams County, 4 August 1904 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT ■VERY THURSDAY MORNING BY LEW G. ELLINGHAM, PUBLISHER 11.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. Entered at the postoffiee at Decatur, Indiana as second-class mail matter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUNTY. THURSDAY AUGUST 4,1904. NATIONAL TICKET For President ALTON B. PARKER of New York. For Vice-President HENRY G. DAVIS of West Virginia COUNTY TICKET For Joint Senator JOHN W. TYNDALL For Representative JOHN W. VIZARD For Prosecutor JOHN C. MORAN For Auditor O. 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 WERLING For Commissioner Third District MARTIN LAUGHLIN National Chairman Taggart is already talking of making Indianapolis the storm center for western activity, should this be done Indiana will be chuck full of polities this vear. The Indiana g. o. p. have received another shock. The Chicago Tribune, a staunch old republican newspaper, has placed Indiana in the doubtful list. The promostieation is made by Ravmond, one of the most conservative newspaper writers of the day. Indiana will be the storm center of political activity, and the tabulated figures for election returns for the last eight years will be no criterion as to the way the ballots will come out of the box this year. We have good leadership and the people are with the democratic party. All the leading independent press has nothing but encouragement for the democrats, and at this stage of the game the prospects are more than encouraging for success. Determina tion seems written all over the democrats to do their part in electing their ticket, and the tread of sentiment has already began in their favor. Hon. Charles A. Towne will join Senator Bailey at the Taggart reception next Tuesday evening thus additional talent is added to the list of national political characters who will be present. It will be an event worthy of attendance, and the Adams county democrats should help swell the crowd. Governor Durbin told the brethern a few unvarnished truths the other day, when he advised them not to get sc gay over a contemplated majority of thirty or forty thousand in the state. In short he says it means work to save the g. o. p. machine. One by one they realize that danger is lurking near. The return of Hon. John W. Kern fr.m the east has made him much sought after. He has explained the kind of a crimp the Indiana boys put into the antagonists of Taggart. He also bears the glad tidings that politics down east is of a decidedly rosy hue. He also relieves the situation by bringing the proper pronunciation o Bsopus, it being E-soap-us, with the accent on the soap. Much obliged. John. President Roosevelt has been noti fied that he has received the signal honor of being the nominee of his party for the presidency. He indi cated an acceptance m a speech measuring about three columns in length. Such occasions are usually dry and uninteresting, and the one yesterday was no exception to the general rule. In fact it was so dry that one is lead to believe the many forecasts that the g. o. p. will have to exert much strenuosity to inject even the imitation of life into their cam paign. 1

All of the New York papers, such , as the Herald, World and American, speak highly of the selection of Tom Taggart as chairmen of the democratic national committee. Each of these great newspapers offer him their services toward the election of Judge Parker. This is a good sign and points to success. Not in years has the Herald and World supported a democratic national ticket. Steve Fleming, formerly of this city, has had a grievance against Tom Taggart for many days. Steve is said to have filed with Judge Parker a protest against the selection of Taggart for the national democratic chairmanship. The protest was ignored and Steve must now be convinced that Taggart is another blueyed man of destiny. Steve has played Indian long enough. He should get in line. —Hartford City News. Telegraphic Flashes. Lancaster, Ohio, July 29.— W. L. Martin, secretary of the Perpetual Building and Loan association, today delivered a trust deed for all his negotiable property to A. B. Peters, receiver of the bank of which Martin has been cashier and was the depositary 7 of the building and loan association. No statement was obtainable as to the amount. Philadelphia, Pa., August 1— Robert E. Pattison, former governor of Pennsylvania, one of the leading democrats in the United States and mentioned for the presi dency in more than one campaign, as well as a leader in the Methodist Episcopal church, died at six o’ clock this morning at his home in the suburb of Overbrook Pneumonia which developed last Friday and was followed by heart complications, was the cause of death. Since 1902 when he was defeaed for a third term as governor of Pennsylvania by Mr. Penny packer the republican candidate, Mr. Pattison had not been in good health. He was a member of the Commitee on resolutions at the recent democratic convention at St. Louis, and his health tailed under the strain. He remained in St. Louis a few days after the convention to rest, and returning home, resumed his business, dividing his time between this city and New York. Portland, Ind., August 3.—George W. Bergman, a prominent attorney and republican candidate for judge of the Jay circuit court, committed suicide by shooting himself through the heart a short time after noon Tuesday. He was in his office in the Stevens block, talking with SamJßarr and Verne Poling. Rising to take their leave, they supposed he was going with them to the court house, but instead, he opened a drawer, took out a revolver, placed it against his left breast md fired, expiring almost instantly. Ban- turned and said, “Why George, what did you do that for?” but he received no answer as the deadly weapon had lone its work. Physicians were ■Tailed at once, but the unfortunate man only gasped a few times before expiring. The visitors had not the least suspicion that he intended to take his own life. He had not said anything that would arrouse suspicion and his actions did not betray his thoughts. The deceased was a law partner of E. E. McGriff. He leaves a wife and one child, Ethel, a girl about eight or nine vears old. Nothing could be found that would prompt him to take his own life, except that he had bad health for a dong time and could get no relief. The deceased was a man about thirty-six years o]d. His father is Harvey Bergman, of Middlepoint Ohio. Abe, Sam, and Wes Bergman, of this city are uncles to the deceased. The Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette said last Monday in their police news: “A sorrel mare and buggy belonging to a Mr. Roey, of near Decatur, were stolen Saturday night. The police have been asked to look for the outfit. The horse was stolen at Fort Wayne it is believed as the police here were not informed of the loss. Another item in the same column told of the robbery of a former Decatur citizen as follows: “F. J.- Albright reported to the police that he was robbed last night while sitting in front of a shanty on Pearl street. He said he fell asleep and was awakened by the cab driver. Upon getting up he found that his watch, |3 in money and some keys were missing.”

IN THE NORTHWEST. Two Decatur People See Sights in the Busy Up Country. To the Editor of the Democrat: Decatur, Ind. When we left home we promised to write you about our trip to the great Northwest. We left Chicago July Bth at 8:30 p. m. and arrived in St. Paul Saturday morning at 8:30 a. m. and at 10:36 we left over the Great Northern railroad through Minnesota, North Dakota and Montana. At St. Paul we crossed the Mississippi river and saw the falls of the river at Minneapolis which furnish the power for the greatest flour mills in the world, which are situated along its banks and as we passed through Minnesota we saw acres and acres of wheat and potatoes all of which looked fine, but the corn was small and not so much acreage as wheat and potatoes. When we came to North Dakota.' here you could see thousands and thousands of acres of wheat just coming to a head and timothy meadows the same way. In some j meadows we saw as many as ten mowing machines cutting hay. On Sunday at 10:30 we arrived at Giasglow, Montana. This is very, mountainous ar d broken. We went to a livery barn to get a team to | drive to Nashua, twenty-five miles west of Glasglow. They had to go out on the mountains and lasso a team for us. as .they do not keep feed in their barns. They turn all of their horses loose but one which is used when needed to catch the others. From here at 11:00 a. m. we started on our first drive over land in the state of Montana, over mountains and through valleys anil' across plains until at Nashua. Here we found fifty cow boys just eating dinner, all sitting on the ground and eating and drinking from tin plates and cups. We were asked to eat dinner with them and of course, we being hungry and tired, were glau to accept the invitation, but I forgot to say this was an Indians camp. We were offered soda biscuits that were turning green and cabbage and potatoes which had been boiled the day before , The meat was a quarter of a beef which had also been killed the day before and literally covered with flies, but John Fa]k and Mr. Chamberlain being brave enough to attack the flies, managed to get a piece of meat that was nearly raw but both seemed to enjoy the feast and ate heartily, while Dan Beery for some unknown reason lost his , appetite and your writer of course was not hungry. Then we return- , ed to Glasglow, for supper. All except John Falk, who stay ed all night with the boys on the plains. The next day we drove 10C miles up . to the Missouri river and saw drove after drove of sheep with 5000 in a drove, and cattle in like numbers. We came across a number of ranchers who had as many as 5000 horses. At this place Mr. Chamberlain and Mr. Beery bought four carload. From here we were taken across the Missouri river on a ferry boat, team, wagon and all, and at this darkness overtook us and we put up at the hotel, which was built of cotton wood poles, and was seventy-five miles from any railroad. Chamberlain and Falk managed to get a bed and yonr writer and D. W. Beery had ; to be satisfied a corner on the floor. Mr. Armiott, editor of the Valley County Democrat, ofM ontana, and , A. M. Flemming, of Portland, I Oregon, spent the night with us at this commodious hotel. At four a. m. we proceeded on our journey until we met a drove of 250 cattle, which refused to give the trail so John Falk was detailed to clear the road, but one, a Mr. Bull, refused to move and proceed- J ed to give chase, and John took to the tall timber, and up a tree he went. Your writer and Editor Amiott went to his rescue with a Winchester. Then we drove to the east fifty miles and came to Ex- ; Senator Hinds’ ranch, At this place two car load of horses were [ purchased D. W. Beery and Dr . Clark wanted to show the cowboys how to lasso a wild horse, so they singled out a large bay i which was noted for his temper, Beery and Clark were to catch him and Chamberlain was to put on the halter. When all’ gas ready the rope was thrown and caught the horse by the front feet, he went into the air and came down on his head and fell over, Mr. Chamber--lin was on his neck like an

athlete and had the halter on. but the horse refused to rise, as his I neck had been broken “by the fall. The next morning we left for Great Falls and arrived there Thursday morning, July 14th. Here we met Warren Moses, Miss Rice, Miss Mangold and Miss Emma Ehrshman, now Mrs. Smith, all looking well and pleased with their homes.the people there being very friendly and sociable. Great Falls is a city of 20,000 people and has a smelting works that employ 5,000 men, a beautiful court house , built of stone. M. French the fire i chief, who has a fine team of Shetland ponies, took your writer out for a drive an showed him the i sights of the city. We visited the hospital, the Coumbra, a very large institution, run by eighteen sisters , of charity and they have a training i school in connection, where any ■ girl who can pass the examination can graduate and go out as a nurse the same as Hope hospital at Fort Wayne. The Dea cones hospital is small, but is well equipped and a beautiful place, which shows that ,it is well cared for. The matron, j like the sister, was very kind to us • and showed us over the buildings. On Saturday we drove to Sun river and bought twelve carload of horses,, and took dinner with J. C. i Adams who owns 10,000 acres of , land with over 400 acres under culI tivation.and is certainly a man worth meeiing. We spen' Sunday in Great Falls and in the evening John Falk and Mr. Chamberlain left for Helena, and your writer and Mr. Beery did not go until Monday morning. Here we met the same kind and genetous people who took us out to see the mines, known as “The Big Indiana Gold Mine’’* which produces $"■00 worth of gold per day and the Si’verside mine which produces $-0 in gold every eight hours We also visited the copper mine in which several Decatur people are interested, which is a wonderful sight. We then returned to Helena and then dr >ve to Schote, this place being about the size of Decatur, and fifty-six miles from any railroad, and at this place the round-up of about 800 to 1,000 horses took place, which was a .sight we will never forget. Tais drive of 18 miles and the round-up took two days. On Saturday, July 23id, at 5:30 we commenced to load our horses, which took us untill six o'clock in the evening, and was the toughest job we ever witnessed, and at seven o’clock that evening the twenty-five car loads of horses were started eastward. On Suflday morning Beery, Falk and Chamberlain started for home, Clark having been called home on account of his wife's sickness. Nothing of unusual importance hppened on our return trip except what we Could see from the train as it speed with us homeward. Very respectfully D. D. Clark J. S. Falk Two Scotch Stories. A Scotch schoolmaster in Banffshire years ago had strong views on the subject of dress. In the day when crinoline was the rage a girl came to school with a very extensive one, which much exceeded the space between the desk and the form on which she had to sit. The teacher, seeing this, said to her, “Gang awa’ home and tak’ off thae girds (hoopsi and come back to the school as God made ye.” Another rough and ready dominie was examining his boys in a catechism and asked if God had a beginning. “No,” said the boy. -Will be have an end?” “Yes.” he replied. This was followed instantly by a buffet on the side of the head. "Will he have ar. end two?” "No.” said the boy. and the master was satisfied. Tennyson's “Married Brows.” “I have a question to ask,” announced the literary man. “You know Tennyson's line: “The charm of married brows. “Well, did he mean by that the crowning charm of married women, or did he refer to the charm of eyebrows that meet in the middle? In the ‘Arabian Nights’ there are many passages in which such eyebrows are spoken of as a great charm, indeed, but in the west our beauty doctors give explicit directions to prevent such growths. What did Tennyson mean, anyhow ?”—Philadelphia Press. He Got It. Teacher—Willie, give me a sentence in which the term hook and eye is used. Willie—Me an’ pa went fishin’. Pa told me t’ bait me hook an’ I did.— Baltimore American. A Re relation. Wife—l haven’t a gown fit to wear. Husband—Jove: That's the reason none of the servants will stay here.—New York Times. It costs more to live than formerly, but then people live longer, so it is about even.—Montgomery Advertiser.

ANNUAL BANK STATEMENT. Statement of the financial condition of thoOld Adams ('ounty Bank, at Decatur in the State of Indiana, at the close of its business on Tuesday, the 2nd day of August, 1904, being the tenth anniversary of the co mmen^ Een ® of the business of said bank. President W. H. NIBLICK. Cashier R. K. ALLISON Vice-President, R. B. ALLISON. Asst. Cashrer C. S. NIBLICK. directorsW.H. NIBLICK. JOHN NIBLICK. R R AT T [SON. M • J' ' E.'tEY. “ :i£:AI ‘ LISON BEI[R Y H IT E ,OaNSBOWEBS ' Amount of bond of President. 812,000. Amount of bond of Cashier. 512.000 Above bonds are on file in the office of the Secretary of State, and are dated and are to run as follows: President’s bond, dated 2nd day of August, 1904. one year. Cashier’s bond, dated 2nd day of August, 1904, one year. RESORCES. Loans and discounts, 56 s'i?> 10 LIABILITIES. * uori ™ e8 ’ 13 « S « paidta . nthAT reaf”«tate . ... «.**<> 80 Undivided profits 3,4** V th I, „nd tirtures 4 759 32 Discount exchange and interest 173-■> Current expen es 419 39 Ind i deposits on demand. 475.454 5.’ ‘Currency.<>• t *42.606 47 ,n<rl oepositaon time. . 335.7 W Sll.l-< 7, Cash “ten’s-. ! S - Cie .' 7.; * W Total Total *» 8 ’ 913 51 State of Indiana, County of Adams, ss: , . t « , • W. H. Niblick. President, and C. S. Niblick, Asst. Gashier. of the Old Adams County Bank, at Decatur, Indiana, each being duly sworn upon his oath, severally say that the above and foregoing statement is true in substance and in fact> W. H. NIBLICK. President C. S. NIBLICK, Asst. Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 3rd day of August, 1904. JESSE C. SUTTON. Notary Public. Commission expires January a, 190fi. dAw22-2t

BIRTH OF THE BUS. This Class of Vehicle I ir* t ' peared i In Paris In )<?•-!. The omnibus appeared in Faris in ( 1662 as a “carrosse a cinq sous” (coach | fur twopence halfpenny), by authority i of Louis XIV., under the management | of Pascal, the mystic and philosopher. ■ Whether this eminent thinker original- | ed the idea is not clear, but there is no i doubt that his influence assisted in the establishment of the service under the ; auspices of a royal decree. Later on these earliest omnibuses ceased to run owing to lack of support, and did net reappear in Paris until 182", when Lafitte, the banker, who was among the largest proprietors, was credited with originating the revived service. The new coaches started to ply in London on July 4, 1829, when the first one left Paddington for the Bank of England, and another ran from the bank to the Yorkshire Stingo, New road. These first British busses were known from the man who organized them as “Shillibeers,” and the conductors of the first two are said to have been the sons of British naval officers. Three horses drew them, and they carried twenty-two passengers, all inside. —London Standard. HATS OF STRAW. China Gets the Credit For Ilnvina First Made Them. The earliest makers of straw hats were unquestionably the Chinese. Their work was by no means rough in character, but plaited and sewn together with considerable skill, as may be seen today in the neighborhood of Canton. In Europe hats were first made in Paris by a Swiss so early as 1404, and we find mentioned among the entries of an inventory of the effects of Sir John Fastolfe. 1459, “four strawen hattes,” showing them to have been great rarities. Coryatt mentions them as worn in Provence, with a hundred seams, lined with silver and curiously wo bed. Tuscany, with Leghorn as a center, took up the work early in the fifteenth century and l::s maintained it with' considerable skill ever since. Bedfordshire, with Dunstable and Luton as centers, has been the headquarters of the industry in England ever since the early part of the seventeenth century. —London Mail. A Story of Matt Carpenter. Matt Carpenter, the famous Wisconsin senator, was pleading a case before the supreme court. Before he had got half through with his argument the judges had made up their minds that his case was without merit, and, moreover, that he was unprepared. When he finished his argument and counsel for the other side got up to reply, the judges whispered to each other, nodded and then the chief justice said, “I don’t think it will be necessary to hear from you, sir.” Carpenter's opponent was deaf, and he could only tell that the chief justice was addressing him. He turned to Carpenter for aid. “What did the chief justice say, Matt?" he whispered. “He said he’d rather give you the case than listen to you,” Carpenter bawled in his ear. Monster Bovrl of Punch. In 1694 Admiral Edward Russell, commander of the English Mediterranean fleet, entertained 6,000 people in a large garden in Alicante, where he served the largest bowl of punch ever brewed. It contained twenty gallons of lime juice, four hogsheads of brandy, one pipe of Malaga wine, twenty-five hundred lemons, thirteen hundredweight of fine white sugar, three packages of toasted biscuits, fifty-one pounds of grated nutmegs and eight hogsheads of water. The whole was prevented from dilution in case of rain by a large canopy, which spread over a marble fountain bow] which held the punch. The punch n as served by a boy, who rowed about the basin of the fountain in a boat built for the purpose and refilled the emntv cues.

They Love Animals, There is something very attractive io the American who is fond of animals 1 in the way the Japanese treat dumb J creatures. The Youth’s Companion 1 gives Professor Morse as the authority i for this pretty description of Japanese i feeling for animals: “Birds build their nests in the city houses. Wild fowl, geese and ducks alight in the public i parks. Wild deer trot about the streets, i He had actually been followed by a j wild deer in the streets nibbling melon : rind out of his hand, as tame ns calves I and lambs on our farms. A dog goes to sleep in the busiest streets. Men turn aside so as not to disturb him. One day a beautiful heron alighted on the limb of a tree, and the busy, jostling throng stopped. No one attempted to injure the bird, but several began sketching him.” A Tudor Gallant. A gallant's toilet was no easy business. and a slow or clumsy servant no doubt got many an oath and blow if he failed to tie up the points of the hose, lace the doublet or arrange the stomacher and frilled shirt to his master's satisfaction. A gentleman's dress had so many fastenings, with so much tying and lacing of his garments together, that it was impossible that he should ever get costumed (sic) without assistance. The long hose had to be securely tied by a number of latchets to the doublet; the doublet Itself was laced up the front, and the sleeves, being slashed to show the shirt sleeves, had also to be laced sometimes.—“History of English Dress,” Georgiana uiß . ■ How Could He Help Iff He—Do you think marriages are made in heaven? She—l don't know. ; Perhaps they are, but I'd be satisfied with one made in—or, that is, of course, I wasn't thinking what—oh. Charlie, do you really mean it? —Chicago Rec-ord-Herald. Nothing Definite. Her Mother—Mr. Sloman has been coming to see you for quite a long while, Maude. What are his intentions? Do you know? She—Well. I think he intends to keep on coming.— Philadelphia Press. STOMACH DOSING WILL NOT CURE Only Way to Cure Catarrh is by Breathing Hyomei Ask any physician if catarrh is a blood disease and he will tell you that ! it is a diseased a condition of the muI cous membrane and that it cannot be , eured by blood purifiers, pills, tablets , or other forms of stomach dosing. The only sensible and scientific way of cur ing catarrh is by the use of Hyomei. Breathed for a few minutes, four or . five times a day, through a hard rub- . ber inhaler that is so small that it can be carried in the vest pocket. Hyomei , will absolutely destroy all catarrhal , germs and cure the disease. Catarrh cau never exist where jjyomei is used. It has a two-fold action, destroying the desease germs in the air passages and lungs, and soothing and healing the inflamed mucus membrane. ; The Holthonse Drug Co., one of the most reliable firms in Decatur are gi v ' ! ing their personal guarantee with every package of Hyomei they sell, that it will effect a cure or they will return the money. They have had scores of reports of remarkable cures of both acute and chronic cases of catarrh by Hyomei. No other treatment has the endorsement of so many reputable people in all walks of life, as this scientific ye* common sense cure for catarrh. The complete Hyomei outfit costs •SI and comprises an inhaler, a bottle of Hyomei and a dropper. The inhaler will last a lifetime: and additional bottles of Hyomei can be ob i tained for 50 cents.

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