Decatur Democrat, Volume 49, Number 17, Decatur, Adams County, 29 June 1905 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT IV>KT THVBSDAY MOKSIWG »T LCW G. ELLINGHAM. publisher H OC PER YEAR IS ADVANCE ■xMred at theycsttficeat D«catur.ltd!*n» as seccud-clase wall wane IFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUNTY. CHURSDAY JUNE 29. 1905. George B. Cox maintains that he ie boss of Cincinnati, but that he is a good boss. Wjth scandals m every department of his administration, a United States senator on trial in Oregon for hie connection with land frauds, and a cabinet officer about to be prosecuted for violation of the railroad laws. Roosevelt had better do something but talk. Graft and grab characterize his administration. or else such stalwart republican journals as the Inter-Ocean and Indianapolis Star are publishing falsehoods. —Columbia City Post. There is no more abused word than “temperance.'’ .Temperance does not mean total abstinence in anything, but means just what it ears—a condition of being temperate. Tne temperate man does not drink to excess, he does not talk to excess, he does not verdo athletics. he does not ride a hobby to death, he is n t abusive. He may drink moderately, mar expressopinions modestly, may spend sometime on a hobby and when necessary may be critical.—Muncie Press. Hon. Andrew A Adams, of Columbia City, is announced as a prospective candidate f?r the [D-m---ocratic congressional n. m.nat:- n in the Twelfth district. Mr. Adamis a very clever young gentleman an emhusiasttc democrat, and ipretty fair speaker. Whether t> will oe a oontes*aiit for rhe nomina tion in case James M Ro biset should conclude again to -. oandiuate for the nomination is » matter taat may be determine! later on. Pres-nt belief is that Barkis will be frond willing. — South Berd Time**. On the heels •: Presiuent Rxisev*l»'s letter relieving Secretary Paul Morton of responsibility. th* Untec States att< rney general has p a ed the matter of carrying . t the president s directions to prosecute certain railroad corporations, including the Atchison, T peka A Binta Fe railioad company, fr giving rebates, under the directi.n of Assistant Attorney G ner 1 Purdy. Mr. Morton was presidei* vs the be.r.ta Fe system when thy rebate jnw was riolated ( bui nnier the president s halo lie i. immune from gai t —FortlNaytu. J urnal-G zet’e. There are s ice very remarks'" revt-l.uons heinx made in the it vestigation of ike * the brick trus in Illinois, ard light is thrown cthe methods :> y which it has a I tempted to destroy tie c»->’r.p*>ti*i«v of independent manufacturerThese metheds have 'een »xceec irgiy -in pie. ac rdine to the testimony that has been given. Abou’ el' that it was fvnrd necessary to do was to fa re the .eaders of th« t’itkmakers' union to find sorr. pre'ext f r rderir.g a s'tile cf rival concern's employee. «hc : wruld cause a suspension of itbusmess. to the great advantage Os rhe ’r-»- — We de not need new laws sc much as *he enforcement of the laws w* have There has been too muctampering with the laws in ai effort to er rec t wrongs that do not arise fr* n. the intrmity of the laws, but rather from the fee b e ness of their execution An imperfect law well administered is far prefer*) le to a perfect law badly carried out The law is merely the weapon in the hands cf the officials, for without officials laws would > as usekse as cannon in war wi'hon men G *»4 g vervme t dependmore upon the men behind the !»• lb*- OU th? V | has the right to violate the oa»F that he takes to enforce th*, laws eimplv because some people do no* w»nt the 1-w enforced He canne excuse non-enforcement on the gr iid that public sentiment iaga. the 1»w 1? doe« not sweat to eurp- rt public sentiment; b »ak-an > a*l to swr th* l.„ -G.vfciuv; Folk.

The Binfftcn News has count* d the number of Ditch and other mixed breeds that inhabit that little hamlet of Decatur, and according to calculation* and forensic figures, places the population at less than five thousand. The Bluffton News is malicious, and unless they rectify, in black face without ornaments, this grave and ugly slander, we will hire the keeper of the dog pound to cage them up until after the frothing season is over.

Naturally Cincinnati is disturbed by the Line* .n Steffens article in McClure s. Even George B Cox. Cincinnati's boss, is somewhat exalted by it. But Cox is not the sort of man to lose his hold on himself. He denies that there is any graft in this city, but he does not deny that he is boss. On the latter question he ia positive and explicit. “I never dodged that statement in my life.” he declared to the Cincinnati Post, ‘and I have got the beet system of government in this country ” If de did not think it was the the best he would, so he asserts, consider that he was a failure in life. Rut Cox is no so 1. whatever else he may be. for we find him saying that “if there is anything the matter with Cincinnati it's up to the peopie. — Sentinel

COURT NOTES Judge Erwin i- half inclined t" be sick, but has not fully determined to give up the ghost. A marriage license was issued today to William Wittmer and Bathsheba Gerber. The groom hails from Paulding, county, Ohio, and the r.de lives in French t< wnsh’p Deputy Clerk Baumgartner is busy making a transcript in the *ase of Calvin Miller vs Grorge E McKean, which has been or will be appealed to the appellate court. A guardianship ca-e in which Edwin Mansfield is guardian f>* William Cummins, a lunatic. wa•ertiied here from Mansfield. Otic •Ir. Cummins owns land m tbiunty. The case of Moses Kr hn vs Dick Townsend has been appealed frotr S quire Smith's court to the circuit, and was filed there today. Th ase is one in wh.e 1 ’ Krohn teeis *o recover twelve dollars which If paid for papering the saloon foot in Mr Townsend'- hotel. Befor Squire Smi*h ” Krohn recovered idgment for the full am'unt. ar ’ " wrsend appealed. Shaffer P-.-son is at*, rney for the plaintiff i'-lh C J Lutz represents th defendant.

Ar rney A P B*at** this morr •ng filed a suit for div.-rce, th. tie •.>: the case being Sarah t Putts vs Hiram P.r-. According :o the complaint they w*-re mai -fed M-»y >-3. and ’fired t re’her until June 22. l’(s. O’ h - a-t named day the defendan ireve the plaintiff from h> m» threatening ner dire she return Many ther ■ tcricus charges art con*ained in ’he complairt. The' •lave five children, and she prayhe Adams circuit ' urt for a divorce. the care and custody cf th* children and one tn.u-anu d i'larilimouy. Cambridge. Mass . June 2-— Mary Taylor, a Degress, who din the president’s wa-sinz whre h< was in college, wa- waiting on thpo.thoi his iesider.ee th s morning. to make a ca.i t n nim before he was up. The sentries at first refused admission to the woman, but the president ordered them t< let her in. Terre Hnate, Ind.. June 2S— The Vigo County National bank which has been experiencing a rui. for two days, due to the shortage >f Cashier Conzman. closed today. A notice was posted which practically savs that the bank wants time to find out where it is at The government bank examiner took charge. It developed at noon that Conzman s shortage is a* least eighty thousand dollars. It is reported that a secret at'emnt was made to transfer the bank’s unds to the First National tank of this city. « Terre Huate. June 28—All kinds of rumors are afloat here one being that the directors seeing the final crash coming withdrew many thousands of dollars in oa«h and that the total shortage will reach over a million do .are.

IN FRANCE Miss Studabaker Writes From There Describes in Her Own Charmin? Way the Beacdfal Scenes Enroote There From Italy.

Chamonix et le Mont Blanc. Hotel Savoie. France, June 1. ls<s. Dear Dick: Here we are at Chamonix. We came this morning, and. cf course are in love with the place. In my letter to Mattie last night I told of our trip through the beautiful I Italian lakes. Now I will begin where I left off. so that by reading each you will have the continuous journey I write part to one member of the family and part to another. I know, you all read the i letters and I can't write often to each one. but by reading all the ! letters each one gets all I say. I think I stepped last with our last I town in Italy—Dommodosola. We [arrived there last Sunday evening and spent the right there. It is a j quaint little ■ m a p-cket m [the sduw L.p;.~d Alp-. M- nday : morning we ar -e at 4:4-5. had a poor breakfast f sour roils and coffee and started at 6 o’clock bv I diligence f r our giand trip over the iSimplon Paes, t'ar di.igeoo bad I five horses Thr* nfr. nt and t~c [next the coach. Thv middle one cf i the front herses hid on a telL V.'e hanged burses, four times while g ing over the Pas-, xuere were ; - four ccacnes that dav The regulamail diligence and three more t- > accomm date the extra tassengers The day was lovely and ex cep" ‘ xhen up am ;ng the sno w. warmer than Italv. Tne scenerv a. tue; - way was beautiful Ar Iso’e w* lasted the entrance to the turn.;. The railroad to and from the tunnel .-alreadv built and is uti.izedt* convey supplies and materials f r rue work. The company nas bail’ large shops at I-ole and houses and i Protestant church for their pe.-p.e. A firm is building the tunnel. Bu" ou have read all about whs* - .-real work the tunnel is. so 11. lot spend any time on that. It s Sail n. tit w; 1 n r be p-n until N • vernier Ta= *rr;iger : ve went over bu.lt fr n Is C r: So<s by N ipo.e. n. then first c>.n-i <ui. It is still a gr«*at engineering feat and is kep* in perfect cv’iei •Ve were soon su.muxrle-i »r*' sno . , 'app d pe,.ks an•». slowly xep, , limbing higher L vky water .ills and thin lit'le rivulets aeemeu *o drop almost to a the ckucxnl Slip down tne mountain si . — sometimes scat eri-ig in a spray .ike a beid-»l vet, and again coming vith a tnundering roar. Occasici.;ly were small nouses -urr md-.i v small patches of cultivate*! ground, in such barren s i. we wunlereu how p«vpie ever made a 11 vag in »u-h unfavorable circum--taßcea. »Ve were told that they [ own the ground they cultivate am ne c*jmmune owns the rest. Tneir > wants are few and they are Ountented. We had lunch at Simplon near the top of the Pass. A little farther on we passed a large hospice and chureh m a deep small valley, oeljw the road. We were told it nad been deserted, but was then occupied by monks driven from France, Soon we came to the highest part of the Pass, §565 feet above the sea, with mountains over 10,00? feet high, towering over 3000 feet above our heads. All was ice ana snow about us. The snow stood in places six and eight feet high on each side <rf the road where away. had been cat through, just wide enough for a diligence to go through. You know it is early in the season and we are told there was a late snow. A few miles beyond the summit there is a large hospice kept by monks, where tourists stay. Automobiles are ali lowea on the Pass only three days in the year, and that wn« th last day. We met a great many. «s our mutual annoyance Over a dezen had stopped at the h spi.?e and while we wait’d for our hor-es to rest, some of the took kodak pictures of the autos and <iii igences, others snow balled and

r lied each other in the snow. Continuing from there the was s.arp and the road was careful ; x-narded. Watchmen about 6W f-*et apart for may be a mile, with deep snow on ths sides. Tuen we began to to go fast and for miles our horses went on a gailop a good part of the way. We turned the sharp corners so fast it m *de me nervous sometimes It was the most exciting rile 1 ever had. After we left the snow line it was dustv and we swung on in the dust until even cur eye Orows were white when we got to toe bottom. At Dommodosola we saw post cards, showing horses tearing along a road and people holding on the the seats, ca led "Crossing the Simplon We said, “how exaggerated, we won tdo anything like that. 1 wish I oouid find one of those | cards now to send you. It was five p m when we got to Brique our first town in Switzerland. I was so excited and had enjoyed, the day sc much I wanted to write right home about it. but it had been a long fatiguing day and I was too tired We liked Brigue. which lies 2350 feet above the sea and is the entrance to the tunnel, and were sorry to leave the next morning at 3:30. We took a train |to Villeneuve, where we had lunch and then to a steamer on Lake Geneva. Just after leaving V. we passed the castle of Chilion, whicn Byron s pern has immortalized. We spent the afternoon on Lake Geneva. Ths water unlike the It Lakes is a deep green. It is as smooth aS giaSs. It Is a beautiful lake surrounded by SQjwy mountains and its eautifui g’een shores almost one oontinuous line : prett. towns and beautifu c. an ry seats. I think it wash it 6 or 7 o'clock when we I reached Geneva. We liked the j city very much Stayed until thimormng when we came hen-. ' i t nanged -ars twice. Took an ' electric line last which brought u.into * Few people 00-ce by carriage now. Tne scenery was per ’fec ly grand. We have fallen i .ove with this valley. Taree oi J [four have langhisglly said whet* . they would like to have summe* ‘ outrages. This afternoon w. dre~e to the three glaciers. Le Bos sou Met de Glace and D Argentieires They wonderful rivers oi ice None :i us feel strong en.sgt. to try to _*r .ss one. We had "»a ar x little lute, at ue town of DAr g.nttiera. Coming back we gv. -ju; and gatuercu greaa bouquets of wi.. dowers. I have a big auuque .f fcr-get-me-nurs and ■*en.d you [ s* me. I hive no mere p .per *nd mis* c. .se Write when you can L. tu »'... Y.urs Affect. na*ely, fiatoe ct uda taker Indanap .is. June 1-—-rh. * * if *er u • n several mem tiers f tn*airt . u.ture *-.ara a»-ui a srssicn PrrstOeat Ni'iack. cf Vmc*mnes. • ,r-*i the Lt.ard'ShaS unexpected ■■usinei-.' detained him and teat he ■ u .>1 nut come to Indianapolis at d The board then adjourned and w-.l mid no mure meetings unti A..rust. No action whatever wa.-iai-n. Sheriff Siurtivir 'hi- morning in a statement said "my onl. -egrets are that I did what I fija M. in making the arrests. Tne governor is half hearted in his ref rm. He. himself attended the German turner-' convention last week and saw the liquor law violated. I asked him why he did not stop it. and he replied that it is too iato in the week now. This was I untrue because the convent: n wanot half through at tnat time. I wii, not interfere again with the present pxd selling.” With the state board of agrieultuie. the sheriff cf M*ricn county and the mayor of Indianapolis, all keeping hands off. it is again up to the governor. He can xio one of three things. First try again to coerce the officers to stop po<d selling, secund, call it a clean backdown . third call cut tne troops. The governor is out of the city, but will return tonight

Indianapolis, Jane 28—This morning is pissing with’'no move in the pool selling question. Tae state board of agnoult ire at a meeting today took up Governor Hmlj’s. letter. The discussed i* -nor aghly, hut had not r ached an • jHnion *it dood. Os if the noard decides to actuieoe in the governor s wi.-nes they can e»' . end and the poo! selling by tpp'ying for an injunction to M-ry tbe ter-n« of »h> b-a*'. —f as tsicre has ven po<> wlligg t r’ne state f>:r races the hoard i s u-. t likely to cat it cut for others.

SWELL EVENT Reception Given the Bali Club Last Night Each Member of the Club Was Presented With Twenty-Five Dollars Worth of Stock in the Park Ciub. (Special Correspondence.) Geneva. Ind.. June 28—" I want to be a baseball man!” That s what everybody said when they saw the Geneva ball club enter the Masonic banquet hall, Tuesday even ing. where thev were feasted and lauded by the ladies of the Park club. Tue hes'esses sptred not filing to make the banquet a success, and no one appreciated the fact i more than the members of the bail ream. The hall was divided into a reoep'ion rxrn and banquet room by pretty screens. Pillo vs. rugs and flowers were used to decorate | the reception room and a more cozy ' den would be hard tj imagine. Tae quests were taken into this room, j where th?y were entertained until they were ordered to “play ball" in ■the banquet room. Before and during the banquet. Miss L-lia Pelham presided at the piano. But the banquet hall wus the place of liters. Here a table prettily decorated wi’h smilax. sweet peas and ther flowers.and wi«h plates laid : fjr twelve greeted th? eves of the • hungry fellows. In the center of , the table was a miniature lake "for‘B nes" France." and at ?ach ■plate was a little ball tied with the I club colors, blue and gray. The ■ nails, and a cigar for a bat. were ’he souvenirs of the evening. Neat menu c*rds were at each place, and ‘ the menu was the best the land affords. A very fitting clcse to ’he evening's pleasures came as t great surprise, when each mem*er jf the ball team wa s presented with a share of sto-k in the Ge•xeav Park club This was done by the men of the Park club in return fir what the boys have done for them. Tne face value of each snare is 125, and the boys realize n w that every man in the Pirk eLu has his heart in the right place. Genera. Ind.. Ju e 23.—Men are -■:v it w -k in this place putting I i th the two or three last pieces of I 'ement walk and when these are ' finished there will be a complete ■ -.ne of this kind of walk on bjthi - de-* of L ne and Hizh streets—‘he two paved streets. Bit it is not only : - * -rty owners along the brn k I -tree:-who have good walks. Ini fa<-t. it is hard to find any other j kind except the c.-ment or stone. There a few brick walks—a very few—xnd these in all probability j will soon be replaced by a better kind. Sidewalks, it will be ac-1 knowledged. go far to help the ap- I pearance of a place and the good ! walks here, together with the . beautiful lawns which the proper- ■ ty owners are beginning to take! so much pride in. have changed Geneva a tyindred percent, and she is now taking on quite a metropolitan appearance. I' was easy picking for Geneva Sunday to win the ball game from Fort Recovery by a score of 14 to 1. ‘ It seem? as though the visitors neglected to bring a pitcher along, because they put three “ would be Ditchers” in the box and all were knocked out. Tae Geneva boys ,

HOW GERM DISEASES START

People with Weak Stomach in a Continual| State of Danger.

Nearlv all disease germs that find lodgment in the system gain enttam**w.th the air we breath or through our food and drink. If the stomach aud digestive organs be weak. so that fax! dues not radily J ge«t <hey will contain a s ir. slimy ferrae- *ing ma s, an ideal spot tor the disease germs to grow and spread through the whole system. People with a weak stomach are in a continual state of danger, and they -hould use the best means. Mi o na. to strengthen that organ and tone up the whole digestive s' •• This rem edy is a „., r4S lv< ail diseaßeß of the -tomac-h excepting cancer. Used before each meal, it so strengthens the whale digestive system th it you cau eat what you want and all

had their baiting eye open an(l every man A the team made a hit and some made three and fo nr The batting and two double p] ays —Pelham to B denbaugh and Rioetta to Bolenbaaugh were the features of the game. Biersdorfer pitched the game in his usual f orm striking out fifteen men The game was umpired by Atwood, played m one hour and twenty minntee time and attended by 500 people Next Sunday a crack team f rom Richmond will play here. There are very few people in this county, in fact there are someim Geneva who are ignorant of the fact that the largest unbroken line ! of brick 1 usiness rooms in the state is to to be found here. This line of buildings is over two blocks Jong and is composed of twenty.four business rooms. It was built immediately after the big fire which brought Geneva out of her long sleep. Before the tire there was an alley way dividing the line, but the new buildings were erected just at the time of the big oil boom when business was so rushed that the owners needed more room and so done away with the alley. Some people think that, should ever a ■ big fire break out in any of the buildings it woulld lie hard work to keep it from taking the whole string. There is no danger at all from this because, if anything like that should happen, there are several places where dynamite may be used as the walls are not joined, i but simply stand one against the [ other. The next longest stretch of rick wall is foil I m Terre Haute Geneva, Ind., June 27.—At a meeting us the members of the Geneva Park Club last evening, the arrangements for the big Fourth of July celebration were completed, and today a vigorous advertising Campaign will be started, the country and towns for miles around will be flooded with bills telling of the good things which will be on tap for that day. Among the many other amusements will be two ballgames, one in the the morning and one in the afternoon, between Geneva and the Fort Wayne Blues, a trotting race, a running race, greased pole, greased pig. potato and sack races, at 7:30 in the evening a . band concert to be followed by a grand display cf fireworks. It is thought that there will be a very large crowd here on that day, for there is sure to be something doing for everybody. Since the track has been completed several cf the local hoisemen have been working their racers and. though the races Bor the Fourth are not for large purses, there will be some spirited contests and something that will be sure to create interest. The town will be turned over to the visitors. Oil men are on the qui vive now waiting for a cnange in rhe p ioe of grease. It was just one month go today that oil went down to bl cents, and another change is looked for soo**. Whether or not woik opens up again depends entirely on which way the price goes. If a drop comes again it means quietvery quiet times for awhile, but if a raise of even two cents is made things will brighten up and the Geneva people especially will enjoy the Fourth much better. SPECIAL EXCURSION To ri .’ -irado Utah and Portland. Special train leaves afternoon of July 3rd. Standard and tourist sleeping cars through witnout change to C lorado Spaings. Denver. Glenwcod Springs. Salt Lake Ditv and Portland. Special arrangements for Fnw° r th League ami I'Mittaud t -ssengers. Sleeping car berths now being reserved. For itinerary and full information, call on or address G A A. Deane. Jr.. T. P. A.. Mo. Pac. Ry..200 Sentinel Building. Indianapel:=. Ind.

vou want without fear of indigestion. I here will be uo fermentation of food, and the stomach and infestires will be so clean and pure that disease germs- cannot possibly lire when Mi-O-na is used. If you suffer with headache, backache. variable appetite, nausea, gnawing at the pit if the stomach, saliow skin, botrt bum, furred tongue, sleeplessness and general deb lity, i* shows that the stomach has been overworked and weakened. A fifty t> x of Mioua tablets will give quick andsp : edy relief. Ask The Holthouse Drug Co., one of the most reliable firms in Decatur, tn show vou the strong guarantee | under which they sell Mi-o-na.