Decatur Democrat, Volume 48, Number 24, Decatur, Adams County, 18 August 1904 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT EVERY THURSDAY MORNING BY LEW G. ELLINGHAM, PUBLISHER ' 11.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. Entered at the postoffice at Decatur. Indiana as second-class mall matter. 'OFFICIAL PAPERIF ADTMrGOUNTY. THURSDAY AUGUST 18,1904. 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 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 WERLING For Commissioner Third District MARTIN LAUGHLIN

According to advices received from the metropolitan press, the campaign in Adams county opened last week. The dispatches have it that Judge Parker will make three public speeches, and they in Indianapolis, Chicago and Milwaukee. The Indianapolis News, an independent republcian paper, still insists'that Indiana is a very doubtful state in the present political contest. Hon. B. F. Shively, one of Indiana’s great orators and great democrats, has been invited and accepted an invitation to speak in the state of Maine. The Baltimore Herald, an independent newspaper that in the last eight years has faithfully supported the republican ticket, is out for Parker and Davis. Pressing business at national headquarters prevented the attendance of Chairman Taggart, whois fast putting into action the political machinery. <i ) ver nor Durbin seems to have the best of it. Demands to hear him on the stump is said to exceed the demands for either the senior or junior senator. The first contribution to the democratic national campaign was made by a clerygyman who said he hoped a million voters would contribute a similar amount—one dollar. Ex-Attorney General Miller follows in the footsteps of Governor Durbin and sounds a warning to the Indiana republicans, in which he decries as salacious the prediction that Indiana is safe for his party. Hanley says the state is safe, hut Hanley is a great jollier. We really expected him to admit that he had a slim chance for his political hide. He wiil likely ’ waken up during the wee sma’ hours of November 8. The democratic vice p residential candidate was today notified of his nomination, the same taking place at White Sulphur Springs. West Virginia. The occasion was attended by many thousnads of people, and was an event long to be remembered. The last of the window glass factories is about to suspend business for an indefinite period, in all laying abSht five thousand laborers out of employment. The gas belt is chuck full of idle workingmen, yet the republican slogan is ‘prosperity, let well enough alone and stand pat.” This self-praise will, hardly win anything this year. The voters have sobered off from their intoxications of prosperity thut fails to prosper. Actual conditions are what count and the actual conditions are not favorable to a continued chatter about things and conditions that do not exist.

The reply of Judge Parker to the notification committee has ’received a round of applause from the press of the country. It is given the! quality of firmness, of courage and ’ of sound judgment, prominent in which he says that government by law instead of by men should rule. Business has began at the democratic national headquarters and from this on Chairman Taggart will make things red hot. Western headquarters at Indianapolis now seems assured and from there the west will be looked after. The Indiana campaign will be short and sweet but it will be hot enough to make up for its shortness There is no such a thing as a Parker democrat, a Hearst democrat, a Bryan democrat, or any other kind of a democrat, only a plain unvarnished, dyed-in-the-wool Jackson democrat. That is good enough for everyone who believes that the constitution is law and that official snubs of great democratic war generals is a shame and disgrace to any great country. The announcement is made from Indianapolis that the reason Fairbanks does not resign is, he is not going to take any chances. Were he to resign and be defeated for vice-president the democrats would capture two senators in the state; but if he hangs on and is defeated for vice-president, he will hava four more years in the senate. This is an admission upon the part of Fairbanks and his friends that they regard the state as doubtful. —Columbia City Post The'g. 0. p county chairman of the eighth district held a meeting at Muncie and decided to open the campaign some time between September 3 and 10. Each county will use its own sweet will and be given the latitude of its own date. In this connection we might say that the Hon. John W. Kern, the democratic candidate for governor, will pull the cork for the Adams county democrats, and speak at the court room in this city on the evening of Thursday, September Ist.

The Adams county democrats owe the naional democratic ticket their best efforts. There are many reasons for this, and the first of them is loyalty to party duty and regularity. Judge Parker twice supported by his ballot the twice defeated but still peerless leader, W. J. Bryan. This year Mr. Bryan will show his loyalty by his support of Judge Parker. What Col. Bryan can do everyone of his loyal supporters ought also to do. The predominating issues are the tariff, the trusts and imperialism and upon these there is no disagreement among democrats. The outlook is promising for party triumph, and it is certain ard sure if party unity prevails. This is the year of party triumph and this is the day and the hour to begin an individual effort to bring such 4 triumph about. Passed Parker’s Residence August 10th,1904, 1:00 p. m. Daily Democrat: We just passed the Parker home stead. It is a very fine looking place. Our boat just passed a little ways from it. The steamer Sagamore, with notification committee on board, is just goirg to the dock at the Parker home. Had a very delightful trip through the Thousand Islands to Montreal. Stayed in Montreal two days; liked the city very much. Got to New York at 6:00 p. m. Your Friend, W. A. Kuebler. Andrew Foust left Friday morning for New York city. From there he goes on a trip of thousands of miles and into countries that seldom [.fall to the lot of Wells county men to visit. Mr. Foust goes as a representative of the Standard Oil company and Roumania is his ultimate destination. Last week he was in New York and made arrangements for the trip. He will drill for oil in Roumania and already six strings of tools are on the way to the scene of operations. Later several drilling’erews will be taken from tkis part of the field to assist in the work. While in New York last week Mr. Foust furnished the company with a list of sixty expert drillers, men whom he thought to be the most available under the crcumstances for the work before them. —Bluffton Banner.

JACOB YAGER. Jacob Yager, son of Jacob ano j Margaret (Wysup) Yager, was bon in Huron county, Ohio, Septembei I 20, 1839, and died at his home in Decatur, Ind., Wednesday, August 10, 1904, aged 66 years, 10 months and 20 days. In July 1838, when Mr. Yager was a babe of ten months his parents moved to this county, beginning their home life in Preble township, which at that time was a forest. There were very few sellers here then and no county seat, papers and deeds being recorded at Fort Wayne. While yet a young man Mr. Yager was converted and united with the Bethel Baptist church near Williamsport, being baptized by Rev. D. B. Reckard. October 24, 1861, he was married to Mary Jane Archibald. They Tved in Preble township for eleven years and then moved to Decatur where they remained only two and a half year i after which they moved on to his farm near Pleasant Mills. In Nov. 1890, they moved to Decatur and in the [following spring he with his family united with the Baptist church Imre, of which he continued a faithful and honored member until God called him home. Five children were torn to brother and sister Yager. The youngest Ida May, died March 1, 1880, at the age of about three years and six monhs. The others, Charlei M illiam, Mrs. Edwin France, Mrs. S. E. Shamp and Mrs. Samuel Hite were all permitted with their mother, to be with and care for their father during his sickness, and were at his bedside when he passed away. Brother Yager was a soldier in the civil war, enlisting in Co. D. 51st Indiana Infantry, October 3, 1864. He was mustered into service at Indianapolis, from which place the regiment was ordered to Nashville, Tenn., and from there to Pulaski, where they were attacked by Gen. Hood. He with his regiment was on the firing line from about the middle of November to December, 1864. Being outnumbered by the enemy they were forced to retreat. Several hotly contested battles were fought on the retreat, Spring Hill, Columbia and finally Nashville. Here Brother Yager was wounded December 20. After spending sometime in the hospitals he received an honorable discharge, for faithful patriotic service, Angust 25, 1865. One brother and one sister of Brother Yager's are still living, one brother and one sister having gone on before. Sunday, June 19, Brother Yager was taken with a severe pain, but this did not keep him from church. On the next day, however, he was stricken down nd was confined to his bed until the death angel came to his relief. At first as was natural, he was anxious to get well, but as the weeks wore on he desired to go and talked freely and frequently about dying, making arrangements about the funeral as calmly as though he was but going on a journey His sufferings were intense, but h< bore it all so faithfully, patiently, his only anxiety being the troublv h? was making for his loved mes They however did not feel it a trouble, but a service of love and with tireless, unceasing’ solicitude they cared for him during the weary days and nights of his long sickness. All that love could suggest or skill devise was done to relieve the sufferer and restore him to health, but all in vain, only temporary reli-ff could be given. At seventeen minutes past one Wednesday afternoon he peacefully passed away. Brother Yager was a man whom every one respected. Thoroughly reliable and upright and honest in all his dealings, quiet and uassuming in his ways, faithful and true in all his relations, he will be greatly missed, not only in his home, but by all of us. A loving husband and father, an honored citizen, a brave soldier has left us. Tae race hrs been run, the warfare is over, the vict >ry is won, the last taps have sounded the lights are out, the soldier rests. The Father said, “Come up higher,” and the spirit of our brother has gone home to the mansion prepared by our Lird Jesus Christ in whom he trusted. “Asleep in Jesus, blessed sleep. From which none ever wake to weep. ” RESOLUTIONS. Decatur, Ind., Augr.it 12ih, 1934. To the officers and members of Sam Henry Post, No. 63, G. A. R.

Your committee on resolutions of condolence in memory of comrade Jacob Yager, rep )rt as follows: It is with great sadness that we record the death of our beloved aomrade, J icob Yager, who has gone over the boundery line of time, where he has joined the ranks of the majority who have gone before. ; Comrade Yager enlisted in Co. D. 51st Volunteers, and although he ' did his duty well as a soldier, ■ th( ugh \e endured the wounds and hardships and perils of war that this nation might lie preserved and 1 was permitted to return to cheer ' and comfort his loved ones, yet ho finally answered to the last roll call and thus added one more star to the list of patriots assembled on the eternal camping grounds above. Therefore Resolved, That in the death of Comrade Yager this Post mourns the loss of a valuable member, lhe country’s brave defender and the community an honorable citizen. Further, his wife [and children are bereft of a kind and indulgent husband and father and that this Post do tender their sincere sympathy in their deep affliction. Resolved, That our Post colors be draped in mourning for thirty days in memory of our comrade and that a copy of these resolutions be sent to the family and the same to be made a part of our Post records. Respectfully subbmitted in F. C. & L. J. W. McKean J. D. Hale S. B. Fordyce, Committee. ACCIDENT AT BLUFFTON Bluffton, Ind., August 17.-Charles Houser, nine-year-old-son, of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Houser, was almost instanty killed last evening about six o’clock. The Houser family moved here from Decatur a short time ago, and Jesse is employed by the Mercer Lumber com piny. he was driving one of their big wagons loaded with lumber, on top of which was a box in which were two pigs. On top of this box sat the boy, Charles. In some unaccountable manner the wagon ran up against the horses I ind they started to run away. The wagon swerved from one side of the street to the other and Jesse was thrown off. The boy clung to his seat until the team reached the corner of Oak and Wiley avenue, where they turned. The boy fell iff and the heavy wagon ran across his breast, crushing his body, just over the heart. The little fellow jumped up, but almost imediiately fell over again , unconscious. He was carried into a nearby residence. Physioans were summoned, but little Charley died within twenty n inutes, and before aid could be administered. The father was inhurt by his fall. The lad's parents are distracted over the fate of ‘heir little son. The lad's grandfather. George W. Houser, arrived from Decatur at noon today. COUNCIL MEETING. The regular session of the city council was held Tuesday evening, Mayor Coffee presiding, and every member present. This was the last regular meeting of the p resent city administration. At the next session the first Tuesday in September. Mayor Coffee, Treasurer Archibold will have begun on their new term, while Jack McFeeley as clerk and Ed Green as marshal will have assumed their duties. At last evening's session Clerk Hower opened the services by reading the minutes of July 13, August 2 and 6, which were approved. The city engineer was ordered to establish s ideviaik grades on First street. The request for a water hydrant at the J W. Place factory was referred to the water works committee The city engineer was ordered to prepare plans for a sidewalk on Second street from Monroe street to Pat terson's mill. The sewer commit’ tee reported favorably on the neti.! tion of D. 11. Weikle and other for 1

a sewer, and the city engineer was ordered to prepare plans and speoi- ! fications so- same. The petition of ■ J. C- Hower aid othn’S was reI jeoted becaus > it was not in aocordi lance with the sidewalk ordinance. ! The electric light committoe reported that they had settled with the iC. & E. railroad company for $l5O for all previous light services, the >' company agreeing to pay full assess- , 1 ment for lights from July 1. 1904. [ The following bills were allowed: Mike Gaffer $900; A. M. Baxter $1; W. H. Nachtrieb, goods. $3.75; 'C. &E., freight, $61.57; Clover • Leaf, freight. $59.50; John Thomas, labor. $96.86; City Trucking Co. , labor, $9.51 S. J. Lehman, goods, $1.75; John Coffee, pay roll. $48.45; W. Barkhead, labor. $3.15; Frank Bell, labor, $14,52; T. R. Moore, ' gasoline, $2.40; Holthouse, Cillow i & Co..'goods, $9.80; C. & E. rail- . road, freight, $118.18; W. E. Fulk, ■ salary, $75; Janies Coverdale, | salary, s2l; A. P. Beatty, salary, , $31.70. GIVEN FRANCHISE. Marion, Ind., August 17.—At the council m eting last nght the Geneva Traction company was given a forty-nine year franchise to enter [ Marion from the east, and a motion Ito put the company under $2,500 bond to carry out the provisions of the contract was voted down. The company was not put under bond. No time for operations and no time for running ears are to lee found stated in the franchise given to the General Traction company. This company proposes to enter Marion from the east as soon as it: is possible to complete the necessary construction. At a forme r meeting of the council the franchise of the Geneva company was voted , down, and it was given out that Marion would not be ask.-d to consider further the proposed line from Ohio. But a change came over the spirit of things . and the council was unanimous last night in allowing the new company the privileges asked. The Company's franchise embodies the ideas of the co uncil. The new line proposes to build from the east through Hartford City, Upland and Gas City into Marion. The promoters • speak confidently of the future of ' the proposed road. The Geneva line will give Marion an eastern outlet, and is much to be desired on this account, according to the general belief. KANGAROO HUNTING. A Dnnsrernns Sport In Which Thick Breastplate* Are Worn. Tiger skins, elephant tusks, antlers and a dozen other trophies decorated : the smoking room of the huntsman. “You cau't guess what this is,” be ■ said, and he took down from the wall a piece of curiously woven matting. It was about two feet square, green in color and five Inches thick. “This.” he explained, “is the breastplate that is worn in kangaroo hunting. Without it die kangaroo with a fore j leg biow would smash in your chest as ' though it were a pasteboard box. This breastplate is a souvenir of an exciting kangaroo hunt in Australia. “All b>g game enthusiasts are familiar witli tiger shooting, elephant shooting, the chase of the grizzly, of the boar and of the hippo, but I knowfew men who have ever bunted kaa-' garoos. "Yet this is an exciting and danger-' ous sport. The kangaroo when he is brought to bay will fight. He jumps 1 straight at you, like a great cat, and with his small fore legs he aims at your chest two tremendous blows—first the right and then the left—and these 1 blows, with a speed and an accuracy I that no prizefighter could equal, would kill you if they landed on an unprotected surface. So you wear, for a protection, this thick green guard, wov- j en of native grasses by native women. ■ “You hunt the kangaroo in ‘sets.’ I Eight huntsmen compose a set, and each set employs half a dozen native runners to stalk the kangaroo. “The kangaroo, on being stalked. I comes tearing over the plain straight at you. He travels with the speed of an express train, and he makes great bounding leaps. One minute be is crouched on the grass, the next he Is ten feet up in the air, and all the while. ■ remember, he is going forty miles an hour. “Hence he is a mighty difficult object to shoot. If you fail to shoot him, and there is no tree handy, then you must put your trust in your matting breastplate. This breastplate of mine, you notice, has a dent in It"— Ntw York Telegram. Proof of Woman’.. Amiability. ne thing stands as a sure proof that woman is an amiable creature, easily ' tia a t 8 T a “A SatiSfied witb ber ’<* And ■ resL wben she bu - vs a dress much w? She rejoiees because it is much better and cheaper than fussing it nm7 I made ' And when Bhe h *s nip p de berself ®he wonders whv peo- ' i oi e ca n r . gfet tl , linßS read - V ! wants th Cl ° theS “ ade “J UBt as nhia BuHettn

CHURCH 01.1 Fna’M, , | j Fr m almost tl.e earlip?. I j Eng; nd “cliureh .j,.,- S B , en in a buildinI where were a i>.. :l . , jf ’ I and a stout 0ak..,, t.,;,!,? i the “ale" ami vh.n.ls " p ° n The founder of 11., p. s , . M fwtiß brew and was ey in exch-tnge. * a*B these quasi rejig: u . s .. m 8 akin to th it win,-: ■ a ; :iS a ?? l ’"W era Charity bazaar tlr t is , wh ' nttc-’ed wer ; erally or even <1 . a rly for theitZ*® . I Thus the man who h atl , *'*• B | ey and was “down ~: 1 his . h “>*»B give a “bld (hoggin,, ale” . was popular, might suffix t 0 on his feet again. The more ? . “bride ale” assisted pen U ri ons 3i couples into housekeeping while?’® • •* 7" i ” ■ oSh*! . churchwardens, who t!swl ! ’he poor, for church or other pressing cause, the r . lalt *| I vlously presented to them anrt luß in the tithe barns. ‘ d s Dancing was Indulged in »t t J “church ales.” ami if the S e aso propitious an adjournment mHtkl made to an adjacent meadow wk® archery, quintain and other divwZl would ensue. But excesses bem»| more and more frequent, so that sI ; 1603 “church ales” were summori!l suppressed. 3 1 The Juvenile Japanese. I There are no children in j apun are dignified burh sqm s on the gntwZups. The little girls of the family . ake 1 care of the babies by having' tb™ strapped to their backs Nearly rmaid of five or six Ims a baby tiedZ her back, and perhaps that account! for tiie bent back and tottering gait< the Japanese woman Though « never hears a Jap baby cry, if one begins to make a mouth and wrinkle m ; its funny little face, its child niotbtt • quiets it by raising her laxly on b a I toes and heels as fast as she can, and i placidity reigns in short order, a nun | would feel like a fool quoting “Mother Goose” to a Japanese child or trying to amuse It as one does our children. As for chucking one under the chin, that’s unthinkable. Blind Boya’ Football, Football and many other outdoor games are played by the blind, certain changes being made so that in each game the sense of hearing takes the place of sight. In football, for instance. a tiny bell is fastened to the ball, and by the bell's tinkle the bail'* location is determined. The blind de light in races of all sorts. They do not run toward a tape, as the seeing do, . but toward a bell that jangles briskly. It is odd to see the blind at their games. They play gravely and they maintain a profound silence, for if they made a noise the voices of their guiding bells could not be heard. An inhuman Wretch. “I never saw such beautiful teeth and magnificent eyes as that girl has," said the young man who raves. “Indeed?” answered the cold blooded person. “Didn’t you notice them?” “Certainly not. I am neither a dentist nor an oculist.”--Washington Stnr. ICauKht. Maud—l think it is very rude to turn around and look at people. When Tom passed me today be kept turning and staring buck for a long time. NellyIndeed! How do you know? What a Question! Mistress-Did the fisherman who stopped here this inorn’it-' have frogs legs? Nora—Sure, mum. I dlnnaw. wore pants.—Cornell Widow. About the only compliment a hu ! - band pays his wife is to eat her cooking, and ask her for help when he gets into trouble.—Atchison Globe. | Her Hishest Compliment. “What did you think of my speech?" asked the orator. I “It was beautiful,” said the young woman. “It made me think of ml commencement essay.” — " ashingwo COSTS NOTHING UNLESS CURED A FAIR OFFER MADE BY THE HOLTHOLSE W COMPANY TO ALL SUFFERS FROM CAT.UBB The Holthouee Drug Company are selling Hyomei on a plan ffl at 111 ' caused considerable talk their customers. The plan is mire ; ent from that followed otßer re i dies, but the remedy itself is differ also. This treatment for the cureot catarrh has such an unusua; n* of cures to its credit that the house Drug Co., offers to refun money if it does not give the cleareu i benefit. This is certainly one of w ' fairest offers that that can be and any one who has catarrh an not take advantage of it is doing self or herself an injustice. , The Hyomei treatment eonsietsM small hard rubber inhaler that c carried in the vest pocket or P „ I medicine dropper and a bottle - otnei. The complete treatmen but SI and as the inhaler ‘ a .‘ lifetime the medicine is verv in Py sive. Many people who have u- ; write that for the good Hl nn , .. done them they would willing'. P - thousands of dellars. _ Extra bottles of H yomei caD .50 cured for use with gihe 'n ba ? j t [) cents. Do not suffer any longe . tickling, smarting, burning, eye ing troubles that afflict those w catarrh. Hyomei will cure /' if you should not find it aoap your case the Holthouse Dr g will return vour money.