Decatur Democrat, Volume 48, Number 25, Decatur, Adams County, 25 August 1904 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT t ■ VEHY THURSDAY MORNING BY I LEW G. ELLINGHANI, PUBLISHER j »1.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. 1 Watered at the postoffice at Decatur, Indiana I as second-class mail matter. , OFFICIAL PAPERS oTaDAMS MUNTY.~ THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 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 0. 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 |N WAGONS William Morton Grinnell, asistant secretary of state under Harrison and a nephew of Levi P. Morton, announced yesterday that he would vote for Parker. William G. Choate, life long republican, brother of Joseph H. Choate, ambassador to Great Britain, head of the noted law firm of which the ambassador is a member and a former president of the New York Bar association, has made known to his friends that he cannot support President Roosevelt for election. Dr. Howard, president of the In-

diana Silver club, says: “The more ( I analyze Judge Parker’s speech , of acceptance and the more I read > of the man rhe more I am convinced , that he is a great, big, brainy fellow , ■with a head of his own. I was afraid at first that he would be nothing more than a tool for Hill, i Belmont, Cleveland and others but ■ I am convinced that he will be president in fact and will play second fiddle to no one. I have had conferences with about a dozen members of our club on this subject and they agree with me.” Then look at Judge Marsh, of Greenfield. B. R. Johnson, a prominent newspaperman, of Richmond, who renounces the g. o. p. cause and will vote for Parker. There is also J. S. Fan. republican candidate for elector in West Virginia, Judge Parsons of the same state, who have issued a similar decree. Then here is the constitutional awyers’of New York City, irrespective of party, will join in makng Judge Parker president of the United States. We have an in sufficient supply of type to enum ■rate each and every one. The state elections in Maine an d Zermont next month are now being varmed up with a view of making k showing that will afford an •pportunity of showing the polit3al trend in the nationnal conflict. Taggart’s glad hand is still doing re business in New York. From ewspaper reports it seems to be Certainty that he is showing those isterners some entirely new and p to date wrinkles in the way of ling things in a political way. The republicans of Allen county ive formed a club with a view of ganizing to defeat the republican ndidate for congress in the •elfth district. This is another mple copy of the g. o. p. barmy that is on tap in Indiana d elsewhere. The Indiana Free Silver Club ve withdrawn their objection to ige Parker and now claim th at is showing a sense cf indepen®ice that is highly appreciated in candidate for the presidency, is sentiment seems to be unanius among all, ctasses and all ds of people.

Hon. Henry U. Johnson, a life long republican, a former congressman, and one of the brainiest republicans in Indiana, has announced his desertion of Roosevelt and will support Parker. There are a million more like him making it altogether too common to adorn such news with a stud horse heading and other display features. Republican newspapers make much over every supposed democrat who will vote for Roosevelt. It is an old game that is worked for advertising purposes only, and is so old that but few if any attach any significance thereto. It is easy to print these imaginary paragraphs, helps to fill up the editorial column, and which takes the place of a meritorious disscussion of the issues. It now seems certain that Sentor Fairbanks does not propose to take the chance of becoming a private citizen and therefor will not resign as a member of the United States senate. This clearly shows the way the wind blows in the estimation of the g. o. p. party managers. They have but little faith in the success of their party, an admission in Indiana that will be put to good account by the democrats. Congressman C. B. Landis says in his Delphi Journal that there is j no issue between the two parties. : That is a concession that amounts | practically to a surrender, for when it comes to a choice between the men repiesenting the two parties, there is such a decided convicti m in the public mind favorable to Judge Parker that it is reasonable to presume that his election will come with an overwhelming majority.—Plymouth Democrat. Califorria democrats believe that that state can be carried for Parker and Davis. The Los Angeles Herald, alluding to an eastern trip to be takenh by the mayor of that city, says: “Mayor Snyder should carry with him on his eastward journey the emphatic announcement that California is not only 'debatable'ground,but that if every California democrat does his duty this state will declare for Parker and Davis." It is to be honed that

auu > is. it is du nupuu mai every California democrat throughout the country will do his duty. The time has come when a change down at Washington is imperatively demanded.—Sentinel. The New York Herald furnishes a long article upm the political drift already beginning this campaign, and claims has unmistakable signs point Parkerward. The formation of a constitutional lawyer’s club in New Yors City, the members of which are of all political parties but who .are unanimous for Parker. This brings forcible to the front the dangerous military poilcy of the president and will make imperialism a strong card in the national contest. The sober sense of the American people believe in the constitution. They believe it is right in letter and spirit, and its protection is not only a divine right but a duty as well. A president who thinks more of war and bis own official rights, than he does of peace is dangerous and unfit to preside in safety over a free people. M. E..lngalls,of Cincinnati, president of the Big Four railroad, arrived in Chicago last night on a tour'of inspection and is at the Annex. Mr. Ingalls will support the Parker and Davis ticket in this campaign, and says he believes there is the best kind of a chance for democratic success in November. In 1896 Mr. Ingalls was a gold democrat and one of the leaders among that faction. Four years ago he supported McKinley. “Roosevelt has lost West Virginia and Maryland on the race issue, said Air. Ingalls, “and I have information which convinces me that Parker is certain of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. On the whole the outlook now is the most hopeful for democrats."— Chicago Record-Herald. The editor of a paper down at South Whitley recently received a fine chicken, which he, supposing to be a token of appreciaion from a discriminating reader, took home and enjoyed for dinner. The following day he received the fciiowing letter: ‘ * Dear Editor:—Yesterday I sent you a chcken in order to settle a dispute which has arisen here. Can you tell me what the chicken died of?”

A JOLLY CROWD Commencing Monday night with the well known comedy-drama. “On the Verge of Ruin' the Rentfrow Stock Co. will hold the boards at the opera house for one week, presenting an excellent line ; of plays. This is one cf the best. known repertoire companies on the road, and their reputation for excellent productions is beyond question, carrying a splendid company of actors, a complete band and or111 JrF ' ■BB- ' '"Wk i pyEL.-. XS * W. P. Nunn. ' With the Rentfrow Stock Company. Ichestraand a number of feature i ■ specielties. Few, if any companies. [ j are in a position to give as fine an : evening's entertainment as the Rentfrow Jolly Pathfinders. There will be" a change of play every night and a children's toy matinee Saturday afternoon, when every child present will receive something nice. On Saturday night some one who has been attending the performances will receive ten dollars in gold. A BIG FIRE Van Buren Ind., August 24.—Fire was discovered at one o'clock this morning in the rear of the Manhattan saloon on Main street, and for some time the entire city was

threatened. Four frame business rooms were totally destroyed, entailing a loss of 115,000. The heaviest loser was the Daniel P. Bolds Hardware Co., whose stock was practically ruined. Their loss i about $5,000, with $2,500 insurance. The Manhattan saloon loss was $1,5C0 with S3OO insurance, J. A. Ray clothing store loss $5,0000 with no insurance; the Johns restaurant, loss $1,500 with no insurance, all their stocks being totally burned. The second floors of the building were used as dwellings. The people all escaped unhurt but the loss to household goods will be $2,000 to $3,000, with no insurance. Several other buildings were more or less damaged. The buildings destroyed were all frame. Origin of fire is unknown. Kilis Germs of Catarrh Hyomei Goes to the Root of the Disease and Makes .Astonishing CureS. Catarrh cannot be cured by the use of pills, liquid medicines and so-called system tonics. Under such treatment the germs of the disease will still live in the air passages and increase and multiplyHyomei is the only scientific and thorough way to cure catarrh: killing the germs in the air passages and enters the blood with the oxygen, destroys the microbes in the blood and effectually drives from the system all traces of catarrhal poison. Thousands of testimonials have been given as to tne astoniseing cures made by this remedy. J. S. Nugent, treasurer of the American Union Life Insurance Co., of New York City, writes: “Hyomei has completely cured my daughter of catarrh from which she has been suffering for years.’’ Probably the strongest evidence that can be offered as to the powers of Hyomei to cure catarrh is the fact that the Holthouse Drug Company will agree to refund the money if you say Hyomei has not cured you. The complete Hyomei outfit costs but SI and consists of an inhaler that can be carried in the vest pocket, a medicine droper and a bottle of Hyomei. The inhaler lasts a lifetime, and if one bottle does not cure, and extra bottle of Hyomei can be obtained for 50 cents. Now is a good time to cure your catarrh.

~~ SAVAGE ATHLETICS. kouKb Training of the N«tiv“« of the Canary Inland*. In this age of athletics one might think that no people ever showed so I much Interest in feats of muscular might and skill as those who have perfected football, but modern games and I even the games of the Greeks at Olynr nia may have been more than matched | bv 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 w ere trained athletes, developed under a system which 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 pelted 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 bands 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 i Without moving his left foot he avoidI ed 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 the oranges. NOT TRUE TO THE POLE. The Variations In the Pointins of the CompaNs. We commonly say that the pole of the needle points toward the north. The poets tell us bow 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 re—l xl >.!_ A. _ . xl T

gion 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 published by the United States coast surrey, 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 jortheast 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. Beecher and Emerson. One day Mr. Beecher was dining beside Emerson and said, “Mr. Emerson, when you are eating this fine beet 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. Ips and Downs. “Oh. well, everybody has his ups and downs!” “That’s right. Just at present I’m frown pretty low because I’m hard un.” , —Exchange. Under the evolution theory a monkey needs millions of years in which to become man, whereas a man can make . a monkey of himself in a minute.Blnxlngham Age-Herald.

' NEW YORK STREETS. HOW SOME OF THE OLD ONES gained their names. Trinity Church Had More to Do With Bestowing Them Than All Other Authorities Combined—The Hea.on Broadway Killed Hudson Street. The cnurch wardens of old Irinlty church had more to do with naming the streets iu the lower part of old New York than all other authorities combined. To be sure, the quaint burgomasters, before the first Trinity church was built, after hearing the pros and cons of landowners, found names for many streets significant of certain established facts, for streets and byways below Maiden lane on the easterly side of the Heere straat afterward changed to Great George street, in honor of King George, by the authorities of Trinity. Then our patriots ignored the name'and called it Bloomingdale road and then the Broad way, simplified into Broadway. The present Trinity church, at the head of Wall street, is the third edifice of that name, the two preceding structures erected upon the same giound having been burned, but the first w as one of the first churches erected in this city, and Trinity has always been the wealthiest corporation, patronized by the richest and most influential families for ages. The churchwardens of this church had their own way about nam--1 ing the streets from the church to what is now Twenty-third street, west of Broadway, along the Hudson river front, because they owned that immense property. In the olden time Queen Anne of England owned what was known as the Queen’s farm, which covered the land commencing at St. Paul's church and extending to what is now Twentythird street, bounded by Broadway on the east and the Hudson river on the ‘ west ' Vestry street was so styled by Trinity because the church had a vestry in that street between Hudson and Greei> wich streets. Church street was so called because it bounded the west side of St. Paul's churchyard. Hector street was honored by the residence of the rector of Trinity. Barclay and Vesey streets were named after two clergymen of the church. Trinity’s officers determined that the main artery of the city should run through its land, and, grounded in their 1 belief in their ability to carry out their Intention. Hudson street was laid out St. John’s park and many other im- ' provements were offered as induceJ ments to purchasers of land, and St. ’ John's chapel was erected and finished in 1803, one of the handsomest pieces 1 of church architecture in the city. Trinity counted without an expression

of the majority of the people and failed in its endeavor. The arrogance of the church fretted the good people, and more to spite the churchwardens than because Broadway was nearer the center of the city Broadway acquired the preference, and the glory of Hudson street departed, never to return. It has been remarked that the streets laid out by Trinity on the farm are all perfectly straight, while many In the lower part cf the city are wonderfully crooked. The explanation of this lies in the fact that scarcely a small hill existed on the farm, while below there crooked lanes and byways, to say noth Ing of cow paths, were turned into streets, which ran in devious ways around hills, valleys and swamps. Many streets were named after the owners of property adjacent to or through which the ways were laid. Moore street was originally the line of the first wharf erected in the city. Colonel Moore was formerly a large owner of the lots when first built upon. John street was named after John Harpending, who resided in Broadway, and John street when first laid out passed through his garden. Cortlandt, Dey and Beek nan streets were carried through the property of the men after whom they were named. Ann street was named after Ann Beekman. Vandewater, Roosevelt, Rutgers. Gouverneur. Harrison, Lispenard. Bayard, De Lancey. Rivington and Willett streets were so designated because they passed through the property of people bearing these names. Hester street was named after on» of the Bay ard family and Catharine after Catharine Rutgers. Henry street was named after a son of the Rutgers family. ami Jacob street bounded the Jacob I.eisler estate. Frankfort street i was also a boundary of the same estate. Leisler was a native of Frankfurt. James street was named after a member of the De Lancey family, as was also Oliver street. Batavia ’ lane | was so called because the Roosevelt estate, through which this street was run. was called New Batavia. Division street was originally the division line between the De Lancey and Rutgers farms. Leonard street was named after one of the Llspenards. and Orchard street was cut through the orchard of the De Lancey farm, wrnmt S n Cet WaS caUed after Sheri « carnal' M° U 5. h Wh ° Se estate U waa carried. Mangin and Goerck streets were named after the two city surveyors who laid out the river line The first mayor of New York after James D° lUtiOn ’ * trUe patriot - James Duane, who was honored bv the Flm g n DUaPe Street after hira - ' . ran ge and Mulberry streets laiJ oat through public propertv ?we b V-£T ° f thß and toevs?X^ t 0 the Beculiarittes na iv rnno. street was i SSv X : r0 " gh “ the road by tbe Rogues differ little. Each began as > flisobedieutsou.-rtrhmeseftovfrU

i THE OSiSETINIANg. K' A Race of the With u Georgian ® | In the highest parts of the (■ ' E I mountains, around t! .. K asbl , , au ' a ’Hl ■ ! there is a tribe, v.-ry tall ' * some, which speaks in"J'" 1 M- H dialect of the Georgian ■ has its own peculiar <-ust., Ul g ■ in many ways fro ln those E Tscherkesses, Armenians m,. > S and other tribes that dwell i n f?*” ■ ctmnuy. It is the tribe of the I I Like the rest of th- l anea I they have recogniz,,! Ibis sia - ■ ty. But they adhere to the daim t h t I they are not descended f ru ,„ , !llat ■ races, like the other tribes butT* II their ancestors were C-rman t. • , * ■ after the disastrous , !1( i ljf tb „ , ’ E crusade, had been driv. n into the wIS I valleys of the Caucasus, whence it w I impossible for them to win llleir a ’ I out and homeward ov.; u to the v' I Hance of the Moslem f 0 (. So , lg ' I they settled down and took wiv- 1 among the Caucasus mountain women ’ I who have always been noted for thd» I beauty. I I It is a strange fact .hat the Osw. tlnians understand the s-i-nce of brewing malt liquors, and tin ;re the only I 1 ones who drink beer, t other tribes I 1 preferring Asiatic liquors. I , THE WORD LIVERY, It Originally Meant Something De. Ilvered or Freelt Given I .' Our word livery is derived, through I i the French, from the Latin liberate, to i I deliver. Hence a liv. ,- originally j meant something delivered or freely : , given, and came to be applied to an | allowance of food or cloth- -. ; From Norman times an English nobleman allotted a fixed ' livery” of _ bread, wine and candles to his servants for their private use. A remnant of ( this system still survives : t Oxford and Cambridge, where the fellowsofa college are entitled to a y allowance of food called "comm-ms.” An allowance of provender for a horse was also called a livery, and a* I horse fed and groomed for its owner at a fixed charge was said to be "at livery.” In the middle ages “livery" was worn by any one who was in any sense in the service of another of superior rank or station. The trading companies of the city of London used to provide a special attire for their freemen, who became known as liverymen, a title which they still retain, CIRCULATING LIBRARIES, , They Were Started by the Stationer* of the Middle Ages. , The earliest form of circulating 11-

brary was the lending out of books for hire by stationers of the middle ages, but this was of very limited extent In the reign of Henry IV, 1, bard of Bury, bishop of Durham, left his valuable library for the use of Oxford students. Two provisions are very practical, one being that no book was to go Into circulation unless there was a duplicate; the other, that the borrower had to deposit security exceeding the value of the book. Dunfermline, Scotland, established the first proper library of this description in 1711, Edinburgh following in 1725 with one founded by Allen Ramsay. The first public one in England was established in Salisbury by a clergyman, Fancourt, in 1740. This failed to survive, but others in Bath, and at London in the Strand, succeeded in becoming popular. Many London scientific societies established circulating libraries iu the eighteenth century, and in the nineteenth they became far more widely spread.—London Globe. Old Maids. The true “old maid,” like the true poet, is born, not made, old maidishness being a question of innate character rather than of incidental condition. There are old maids of e' cry state and age and sex. says Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler, creatures who revel in fuss, and batten upon detail, and abide in the narrowest of narrow ruts. Do we not all know married women with large families who are, nevertheless, old maids to the backbone, just as we know adorable elder y spinsters who have the minds of girl 3 and the hearts of mothers? And do we not also know numbers of the (so called) stronger sex whose absorption in trifles and avidity for gossip proclaim them old maids of the purest water? A Man to Dodge. “Look at Baker, out on a day like this without an umbrella. Is he crazy?” “I’m afraid he is. Let’s hurry on. I don’t want to meet him.” “Why not?” “He may recognize this umbrella. It’s his.” Among Them. Clara—Do you know, Maud MrSmithers paid me a great complim €U last night? “No. What did he say?” "He said I was among the prett.es gifls at the party.” "Yes, I noticed you were among them.” A Last Report. Little Boy—l want you to write tn an excuse for being late to school ye terday. Jeweler—Eh? You are not ; son. Little Boy—N-o, but mamma sa i I had plenty of time to get tr ' ’’ ’’ so I guess the clock you sobdoesn't go right. The masses procure their opia i'? a ? ready made in the open market ton. i