Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 5, Decatur, Adams County, 5 April 1906 — Page 5

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'Feril'Tabler is in Marshall county. Indiana. on business. Miss Mae Sells, of Decatur, spent Sunday at the home of her mother. Mrs W isler ami Nicholas Warier. v;iw have been very ill. are both inproved. s A. N. Keller spent part of last week EKichomud. Lid.. looking after busing interests. Quite a large number of our young peep!- took the teachers' examination last Saturday . Jonathan Andrews has moved to the Able farm, east of town, which he purchased recently. Mies Etfia Chaney arrived today to Plymouth and is the guest of iter cousin, ;Miss Bertha Stone, burner. Rev. J. A. Sprague and wife have been the recipients of many very bea'.tifui presents from their friend.rer thescharge. J. L. (Itos-, of Portland, has bought tbeJohnioz lot on Jackson street, and Dil ‘ /in immediately the eonstruefon of a business bloek. The schools closed last Friday. The term has been a highly successful one uttier the direction of the corps of teachers having things in charge. Mr. Eph. Thompson spent a few days at Monroe, lately, the guest of J. A .Hendricks. Mr. Thompson has left for North Dakota, to take up a tlaim of land. Mr. E. Orvil Osterman and Miss Florence Wolfe, both of Monroe, were married last Saturday night at the M. E. parsonage, here, by Rev. J. A. Sprague. They are highly respected young people and we join their many friend- in extending congratulations. There are unclaimed letters at the postoflßoe for the following named Pwtiee: W. R King, Howard Louthan, and E. S.P eterson.

Fire broke out yesterday afternoon ■n the barn belonging to Joe Murphy it Monroe township completely dealing same. A large amount of iia> was consumed as well as several tandred bushels of grain. All the was gotten out without injury, ne loss is partially covered by influence. C- Mills a brakeman on freighr No. h on the Grand Rapids was instant- . killed Tuesday at Winchester. f was making a switch an [the Big °ur Y when [he stumbled and fell jn front of his train. His neck and were broken and his left arm “ d right leg were frightfully smashHe was a middle aged man. | T he funeral services for John Nix ** re held at 8:30 this morning at the '■Marys Catholic church and a 8® crowd of relatives and friends ’ ‘heir last respects. After con-| Uc 'ing mass, Rev. Wilken spoke of 6 many good traits of the deceased. he had known from boyhood, ferment was made at St. Joseph ■metery where the remains were teny lowered into the grave by the .’Bwith whom he had worked at ' trade for many years.

HUMAN blood marks. ofi, tae ot horror was told bv marks w “Man blood in the home of J. W. ®ae if 18 ’ 3 known merchant, of » :'■ He writes: “Twenty ’.ears ■Jud a sever< ' hemorrhages of the Win an was near death when F Dr - King's New DisI bar completely cured me and n ained Well ' ever sinee/ ' 11 ( m "'''' ha - es - ''hroim ' omj!-. the on i k° ds all Bronchitis, and is Ev «n-l kl! r" n eun * for Weak Wft e Buarantee ’’ *>y Black - SI.OO t lr ' sten ’ druggists. 50c and *nal bottle free.

| A big bouncing baby girl made i's appeaeranoe at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wililam Zwick this morning, and Will is , r eo delighted that he is actually selling furniture below cost. Both mother and babe doing well. ; J. F. Conway returned to Fort Wayne last evening. Mr. Conway is superintendent of the Metrepolitan insurance company, and was here making up the death certificate in the John Nix case. “Curley’’ Rademacher yesterday purchased a genuine catamount skin from Peter Frank, which the latter had trappsd during his i ecent hunting excursion’ in Arkansas. The skin is a beauty and Mr. Rademacher at once shipped it to Fort Wayne to be tanned and put into shape for a rug, which will adorn his residence. Misses Hazel and Mildred La Dalle delightfully enetertained a nrmber of their little girl friends after school at their home on Second street. The time was spent in playing games, and at 4 o’clock a unoh was served and each of the guests presented with a polk filled with candy and an Easter egg. Those present were: Misses Ireta Jackson, Hazel France, Winifred Ellingham, Gladys Mangold and Veda and Lea Hensley.

The funeral services of Freddie E., son of William and Louisa Williams, residing at Steele’s park, were conducted at the family home yesterday aternoon by Rev. W. fi. Daniel. This is the fourth child that has been called away by death from this family circle. The par ents and the remaining children have the sincere sympathy of the entire community.

While on a visit to Kendallville Friday, W. H. Blodgett, correspondent of the Indianapolis News, was entertained at dinner by Marvin Kuhns, the former desperado. Some years ago, while Kuhns was a fugitive from the Columbus prison, Blodget displav his journlistio enterprise by visiting Kuhns at his Noble county home where he was in hiding and secured an interview with him.

The following out of town persons attended the funeral of John Nix this morning; Mrs. M. D. Costello, Chicago, 111.. Mrs. Michael Nix and daughter Frances of Huntington, Ind., Kate Jacob and Will Nix of Huntington, Minnie and John Nix of Fort Wayne, Peter Williams, John Jacob, Harry Miller and Mr. and Mrs. Sebastian Miller of Fort Wayne, Bertha Nix of Anderson, and Ella Miller ot Detroit.

Lewis Swartman, a well known and respected young man, died at the home of his parents, west of Preble, at three o’clock Wednesday afternoon, a victim of the dread disease consumption. Some time ago he went Ito Los Angeles, California, and other western points, in the hope*cf regaining his health, but no improvement was possible and a week ago he returned home in as poor health as h° had left. Just one week from the day he returned his death occurred. The funeral will be held Saturday morning at 9:30 o’clock, slow time, from the German Reformed church at Preble. Interment in the church cemetery.

Arrow Shields. The other day I saw a little, modern book, in a green cover, on a table In a drawing room. I picked it up. It was about the early French in Canada, and my eye fell on a copy of a drawing by their leader, Champlin, or Champlain. The scene represented was an attack by the native allies of the French, the Algonquins, on a fort held by Iroquois. The Algonquins advanced through showers of arrows under shields nearly as tall as themselves, like doors with rounded tops. Now you may see exactly the same sort oi shields in a picture of a lion bunt, inlaid in gold and silver, on the bronze blade of a dagger found by Dr. Schliemann in ‘'the grave of Agamemnon.” These monstrous Mycenaean shields cause much discussion among the learned. Why were they so huge? The Algonquins used the very same shields, bung from their necks, and the reason was the same—their battles were battles of archers, and nobody can parry a shower of arrows with a smaller shield. Shields grew small in Greece as bow and arrow went out and sword and spear came in,—London Illustrated News. The Fiddle Drill. The “fiddle drill” is one of the oldest stonecutting tools in existence. It is said to antedate Greek sculpture and is in use today in about the same form as it was 2,000 years ago. As its name implies, its action resembles a fiddle. The drill is of two pieces. In one hand a carver holds the drill stock, which is like a carpenter’s brace, except that it Is straight instead of having a crank. In the other hand he holds the “bow,” which is strung with a brass wire and which is given a turn around the drill stock. To use the drill thq. carver places the drill stock against his breast, holding it with his left hand, and with his right he draws the bow back and forth, fiddle fashion. This imparts a rotary motion to the drill stock, and the drill is ground to cut in either way it turns. The fiddle drill is used in the finest work, in crevices where the sculptor could not reach with his ehlael and hammer without endangering the carving. The Worrying Habit. I asked a physician v.hat cure he would suggest for the worrying habit. “I would prescribe common sense,” he said. “And if a man or woman hasn’t got a stock on hand and can’t cultivate one no doctor can give it to him or her. This worrying nonsense grows. The best means to cure it lies in the hands of the woman herself. If she will just call a little common sense to her aid, resolve not to borrow trouble, to be cheerful and think upon the best side of things, she will live longer and retain her beauty longer. Every woman wants to keep beautiful to the last. Why does she take the course which is sure to make her yellow skinned, dull eyed and thoroughly unlovely?” Why, indeed?—New York Globe. Vanilla. It is curious to read that vanilla was employed by the Aztecs of Mexico as an ingredient in the manufacture of chocolate prior to the discovery of America by the Spaniards and that it was brought to Europe as a perfume with indigo, cochineal and cacao ten years before the arrival of tobacco on our shores. The name vanilla is derived from the Spanish vaitia, a pod or capsule. Dampier described it as a little pod full of small black seeds and like the stem of a tobacco leaf, so much so that bls men when they found the dried pods at first threw them away, “wondering why the Spaniards should lay up tobacco stems.” — Chambers’ Journal.

The Canadian Line. The boundary line between Canada and the United States is marked with iron posts at mile intervals for a great part of its length. Cairns, earth mounds and timber posts are also used, and through the forests and swamps a line a rod wide, clear of trees and underwood, has been cut. Across the lakes artificial islands have been made to support the cairns, which rise about eight feet above the high water mark. —Exchange. A Miser’s Wish. Greedylot. who is rather miserly, was recovering from a long illness. “How was it. doctor.” be asked one day. “that I was able to live so many weeks without eating?” "Why, you were fed by the fever.” “Are you sure?” Then after a moment’s reflection. “I wish I could give tt ta mj- servants.” Speaking: Their Mlnda. The queer thing about the people who 'boast of always speaking their minds is that they nearly always have such disagreeable minds to speak. Did you ever hear any one preface a eanpliment. a commendation er anything gracioue cc nleasant by s*tymg, "I always must speak my mind?”—Womans Life. On the Common Highway. We are learning that a standard of social ethics is not attained by traveling a sequestered pathway, but by walking on the thronged and common road where all must turn out for one •mother. and at least see the size of one another’s burdens.—Jane Addams. Foolish. By six causes a fool may be knowir Anger without cause, speech without profit; change without motive; inquiry without an object: putting trust in a stranger, and wanting capacity to distinguish between friend and foe. Parried. Johnnie—What does that notice say over there, mother? Mother—lt says. "No dogs admitted.” Johnnie—But the dogs can't r> . - d they to know ?

MAINE CAMP KEEPERS. Men Who Draw Salaries For Simply Fating and Sleeping. No s?t of men in the world has an easier or a happier life than do the “camp keepers” of northern Maine. They toil not, neither do they do much thinking, yet on incomes not exceeding SIOO cash a year they really have a comfortable and enjoyable existence. These happy men are the keepers or caretakers of lumber camps during the five months of the year that logging operations are suspended and the camps are deserted. When the work of cutting the winter’s crop of logs has been completed and the last of the crew has gone down the river to Bangor somebody must keep guard over the camps, the provisions that have been left over and all the valuable outfit, and must see that the property is not burned up or stolen by woods tramps or careless sportsmen. For this purpose the owner of the camp hires one of the queer, happy go lucky characters always to be found in the borderland between the deep woods and civilization. These men have no fixed place of residence and generally no family connections that they care much about, and they have a constitutional aversion for real labor. They are good fishermen, good shots and good woods cooks. They drink Mquor when they can get it without too much exertion, go without it when none is handy; do not need or care for many clothes and haven’t the least ambition to become wealthy. All they want is comfort, plenty to eat, plenty of tobacco, a good chance to bunt and fish and nothing whatever to do in the line of work on a regular schedule. This is the life of the camp keeper, and it is always easy to get a man to take the job. When the last logger is gone the keeper comes in and takes charge. He falls heir to all the dime novels, illustrated papers, old clothes and tobacco that may be left behind. There is always enough flour, pork, molasses and tea in the camp to supply a dozen men for a year, and the keeper has his choice of fifty bunks to sleep in. He has a rifle, a fishing rod, a big jackknife, lots of clay pipes, a complete knowledge of the woods and a dreamy indifference to all that goes on in the outside world. For a week or two after the departure of the logging crew the camp keeper is busy—overworked, in fact—for he has to “pick up the camp”—that is, set everything in order aid take a mental inventory of the stuff left over for his disposal. Having completed this laborious task, he settles down for a rest of a few months, which rest is interrupted only by fishing trips or excursions into the woods to look up places frequented by moose and deer and to locate good gum bearing trees. This knowledge is valuable to him in the following fall and winter, when he hires out as guide to sportsmen. At the close of his camp keeping season he gets his SSO or SIOO all in a lump, and that will buy for him some clothes, a lot of tobacco and enough ammunition to last him until spring. In winter, except during the game season, when he may have a job of guiding. he rests from his exertions of the summer, and in spring he gets his camp keeping job again.—lndianapolis Sentinel.

The Pikeman and Hin Weapon. The pikeman was covered with defensive armor, an iron headpiece, iron "back and breast” and “tasses," a kind of iron apron protecting him from waist to knee. He carried a pike sixteen feet long, with an ashen sfiaft, an iron head and a blunt iron spike at the butt end, whereby to fix it in the ground, and, besides the pike, a rapier. The pike, from its great length, was a weapon which required deft handling in order to be of effective use and, as may be imagined, was excessively showy on parade. The modern lance exercise is a pretty sight enough, but the old pi*e exercise, perfectly executed by a Ituge body of men, must have been superb. We are not surprised, therefore, to find that the postures or instructions for this exercise are extravagantly minute. To give one example, at the close of the instruction, on the word “Order your pikes,” we find after a mass of complicated details the following conclusion: “You place the butt end of your pike by the outside of your right foot, your right hand holding it even with your eye and your thumb right up; then, your left arm being set akimbo by your side, you shall stand with a full body in a comely posture.” —Macmillan's Magazine.

The Ideal In Everyday Life. The inward enthusiasm which gladdens us, sustains us, lifts us again when we fall, is more necessary than 1 our daily bread. Man lives on the I ideal. All of us have need of its sublime grandeur, which, while defying all comparison, yet associates itself with the smallest actions. Do not scorn any lowly labor. The secret of the true life consists in understanding 1 the clbse relationship existing between . that whiph is so wonderfully beautiful, 1 so highly spiritual and the things seem- , ingly so small, destitute of beauty and spirituality. i The words “everyday life” recall the days of the week, the commonplace ! days, without variety or brightness. ■ Days are not all one like the other. We have Sundays and holidays, which I have an altogether different aspect from other days. There is a mental . condition for holidays, and, having so j long been under the Dominican influence.Su mood for Sunday, and. in the ! sweet contagion of hopes which each Sunday reawakens in us.®o: le find the mcratain and the forest, the harvest -■ •> beautiful on Sunn d-ys.—Harper’s Ba- ®. • —

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Miss Winnie Watts asissted by her sister, Alma, delightfully entertained a number of her girl friends Saturday evening. Music and “Block” were the amusements, after which a delicious three course luncheon was served. An original fortune telling scheme was introduced during the evening. MUNCIE, Ind., April 3.—The District Committee met at the Delaware Hotel here this afternoon, and named Tuesday. April 24. as the date for the congressional primary election. .One of the rules adopted is that the congressional and county primaries shall be held separately. This is intended to head off Delaware county, who postponed their county primary a few weeks ago. Monroe, Ind., April 3.—Rev. J. A. Sprague left today for Alexandria, to attend the north Indiana conference. Rev. Sprague has had charge of the Methodist church here for four years, and he may well feel proud of his record. He lias built up the church in every way, two handsome new churches, one here and Beulah Chapel, being due to his efforts. At each ehurch in his charge, the membership has grown and the churches are in excellent condition, both spiritually and financially. He is an untiring worker, an excellent minister and his many admirers here hope he will be returned for his fifth year. At a convention held in Kendalville Saturday to select delegates to various conventions, the committee on resolutions reported the following, which were unanimously adopted:

“Whereas, Newton W. Gilbert, representative s in congress for the Twelfth district, has removed Postmaster C. C. Browand from the Kendalville postoffice, after a tenure of only one month, without notice and without assigning any reasons therefor, and “Whereas, Further, when a committee was sent to Washington by the patrons of said postoffice, to interview said congressman and to ascertain his reasons therefor, he purposely evaded said committee and would not allow himself to be seen by the members of said committee, even to the extent of absenting himself from the sessions of the house and giving out word from his hotel that he was away from the city, condemn this action of Congressman Gilbert and denounce him as unworthy of public confidence and unfit for any position of public trust.” Speaking of the verdict in the Weston case, the Huntington NewsDemocrat said: “Word soon spread on the streets that the jury was ready to report a verdiet and in a short time the court room was filled with people. The defendant was brought in and took a chair at the side of his father and his counsel, J. S. Branyan and Judge C. W. Watkins, he placed himself so he could plainly see and hear everything. He seemed to realize more than ever the seriousness of the crime and while the members of the jury came walking in, there was a slight display of uneasiness although it was evident that he was ready to hear whatever might come. ‘‘ The jurors presented a set of men imprisoned for months. The majority of them live in the country and are used to living in the free air. On this account the confinement in the jury room had a telling effect and everv one showed th£ effects of the long hours of hard work. Clerk M. A. Zellers read the verdict which was expressed in a few words. It found that Boston Weston is guilty of involuntary manslaughter, the crime for which he was charged. \\ ith the exception of a downward glance, the defendant showed no emotion at the time of the reading of the verdiet, but a few minutes later large tears rolled down the sides of his cheeks. He saiil notlung and calmly sat with his face turned slightly downward. The attorneys for the defendant asked the jury to be polled and each member declared he had agreed on a verdict. “The jury was then discharged from fnrffier work in the raw and each made his way homeward as rapidly as possible. ’'

scripps-Mcßae Service. Indianapolis, April 3,-David E. Sherrick will spend tonight in a felon’s cell in State ’s' prison at Michigan City . He was taken there today by Sheriff Sonbier . To avoid the curious crowd the sheriff nian’julated a coupe and got the er on the train -without being no’ d. Sherrick broke down last night ’er visiting with his family, but w rly well composed this morning Tuesday afternoon at two o’Cock the thirtieth annual meet ng le Woman’s Presbyterial Mission ociety, of the Fort Wayne IT y, will convene in this city. T » ?r of delegates is not limite 1 ' i is understood that about fi 1 >e present. The public is ivited to be present at an ’> if the sessions. As arrange r ' ogram is as follows: WEDYESDAY. APRII I 2 I Prayer Service. Miss Grace C fi ■ tn Minutes <\£ last meeting.. Mer Report of Foreign Secretarc .. . Mrs. Anna S ’ er. Business. Appointment of Committees Report of Secretary of Literatu ■ Miss Florence Purvience. Help for Study Classes Miss Glenn. Letter from Miss Beaber . . read by Mrs. S. D. Beav,,rs. Christian Endeavor Hour and Report of C. E. Secretary Mrs. Groofveld. Hymn. WEDNESDAY, 7:30 P. M. Anthem. Devotional Service, Rev. Alfred Fowler Hymn. Plaza work in New Mexico Mrs. Herbert Campbell Solo, Mrs. Harry Deam. Offering. Hymn. Benediction. THURSDAY. S» A.JU. Devotional service,. .Mrs. F. W. Willis Business. Report of Home and Freedman’s Secretary ...Mrs. J. C. Moorec Our Opportunities... .Mrs. W. H Mann. Letters from our Home Missionary Miss Chase Mrs. J. C. Moore. Solo, Miss Kettler. Misplaced values. Mrs. E. W. McKeehan Prayer. Mrs. A. M. Beisel. Money, Miss Clara Gilbert. Helpers, Mrs. It. A. Hatfield. Patience, Mrs. H. A. Loomis. Hymn. Work among the Freedmen Miss Cathcart. Questions concerning this work. Election of Officers. , Praver. THI RSDAY, 1:30 P. M. Prayer service. Mrs. E. H. Montgomery Report of Committees. Resolutions. Place. Persia, Dr. Mary Bradford. Prayer Service. Adjournment.

A regular storm period -extends from the 15th to the 19th, having its center on Monday, the 16th, storms of rain and thunder will follow tothe 19th, in the east. Another change to rising barometer and much cooler will follow. A reactionary storm period is central on the 22d, 23d and 24th. A series of threatening to violent thunder storms will be quite natural for three to five days at this time, say from about Saturday, the 21st to Wednesday the 25th. Normal April showers and hail may succeed. A regular storm period extends from the 26th to the 30th, having its. center on the 27th. The moon is at extreme north declination on the 29th inducing atmospheric currents from the south. Thunder storms with heavy rains and hail in many localities may be expected passing eastwardly over the country from Friday the 27th toMonday the 30th. Rising barometer and change to much cooler will follow up these storms from the northwest. The forecast of Prof. Hicks for April Weather is substantially as follows: The first storm period extends from the 2d to the 7th, having its center on the 4th. A marked fall of barometer will be noted in western sections; change to warmer will be advancing eastward out- of the same region. On the 4th the conditions will grow into cloudiness and rain. During the 4th. sth and 6th wide areas of cloudiness and rain will pass eastwardly across the country breaking into severe squalls, thundergusts and hail in various localities. A reactionary storm period is central on the 9th. 10th and 11th with high temperature, low barometer and forceful storms, beginning about the 9th and passing eastwardly pcross the country from Monday, to 9th,No Thursday, the 12lh. Sleet and snow will most probably attend the northern ami western tangeitts of these storms. Change to cooler weather will follow for several days, causing frost in many sections during the nights ♦r jb< ' weei .y i- : Hail storms will be im s;t ts. * ' vmlffit I■< : . the passage of tt:r-e 1 clouds.