Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 8, Decatur, Adams County, 26 April 1906 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT EVERY THURSDAY MORNING BY LEW G. ELLINGHAM, PUBLISHER ' U.OO PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. Entered at the postoffice at Decatur. Indiana as second-class mail matter. &HIML HAFER OF H ZEE CCI>NTY~ THURSDAY. APRIL 26, 1906. A REMEDY The congressional primary election ended in another victory tor Congressman Cromer, and for the fifth time he will head the Republican ticket, as their candidate for congress in this district. It was a bitter party brawl, in which everything under the sun was charged and denied. Dirty linen was daily washed and acrimony and bad blood reeked throughout the campaign. The nomination of Congressman Cromer was no surprise to those who watch the signs of political times. He was given undue credit by his opposition, who charged him with being under the protecting wing of Vice-President Fairbanks, thus crediting him with a standing he did not have. In order to take a whack at Cromer, they jumped all spraddled out. on the Fairbanks machine, a political organization that in Indiana has always ruled with an iron hand. This was but one of a series ot blunders, all of which lost to the opposition of the successful candidate many votes and many friends. On the other hand, the federal machine seemingly works better with age. No. a false motion was made or a step lost. They worked the game with many newly invented wrinkles, and as usual, came out on top. The result but illustrates the fact that the only way to cure the eighth district of Cromerism is by the election of a Democrat to congress. But to do this, those who honestly oppose Congressman Cromer, must oppose him at a time when he ean be defeated. There are twenty-two thousand Democrats in this district, and something over twenty-five thousand Republicans. An average of a fraction over seven voles to the precinct will defeat the candidate this fall. Not only defeat him. but forever erase his name as a congressional quantity. If his opponents are sincere, they have a remedy. It is our private opinion expresed that the “subsidized press" of the eighth congressional district is sadly in need of a wet nurse. The Democratic editors of the State have practically perfected the organization of a news bureau to take the place of a State organ during the coming campaign. They have felt the need of a State paper and have, for the last six weeks, considered various plans for the establishment of news headquarters in Indianapolis, and the publication, during the month preceding aiid the five months following the State convention, of an official paper that would, politcially, take the place of a State organ. The report of the Indiana state board of health contains this sensible thought. “It is well to teach the firmer how to increase his corn crop, to make hogs and cattle profitable, < '., and the government does a great wi rk in this line; but I think the gov- <. ument would do a better work if it taught the people how to prevent their children from dying with preventable < Aeases. The present-day housekeeper needs to be taught to scrub less for visible dirt and to scald more for the invisible microbe.’’ —South Bend Times. The State committee has arranged do have a mass meeting in Tomlinson Hall on the night of June 6. the night before the opening of the State convention. It was the intention of the committee to have William Jennings Bryan as the principal speaker at this meeting, but Mr. Bryan's absence from the country has made a change ■necessary. The committee has extended invitations to Joseph W. Bailey, of Texas, and Gov. Joseph W. Folk, of Missouri, to address the meeting. These invitations have just been made and there has been no time for acceptances.

It seems to depend largely on who the person is whether President Roosevelt prefers a “muck-rake” or white-wash brush to turn him over. — Miami County Sentinel. It actually cost ten dollars to furnish tickets for a congressional primary. which were estimated by those who claim ownership to a “square deal,” to cost three hundred and fifty dollars. Presdent Roosevelt is quoted as saying: "I just put out the inheritance tax idea to start the people to thinking.” It is easy to start the people to talking—a mere trifle will do that —but talkng does not always ripen into thinking, and thinking into action. After Cromer is nominated back numbers of the Republican papers that have been roasting him can not be secured for love nor fiaoney. The Banner has a pretty good supply of them and will have copy for several issues that will be interesting reading to the Stilwell fellows—Bluffton Banner. The Democrat hopes the advance news relative to the announcement from the Thirteenth district that Hon. E. F. Shively will consent to aeeept tue congressional nomination is correct. Mr. Shively is one of the favored Indiana sons, and his acceptance would have a wholesome effect in many other congressional districts. Dan Storms, who used the state s funds and had to resign as secretary of state has gone to Nevada to take a good job with a big mining company. Dave Sherrick, who used the state's funds, was forced to resign as state auditor and has gone to Michigan City to work in the penitentiary. Why this discrimination! —Winchester Democrat. There were just fifty-two people, Republicans. Democrats, reporters and court house officials present at the court room last night to listen to the speeches of Leondias Guthrie, of Muncie, and Frank Snyder, of Portland, relative to the congressional campaign now being waged by the parties ::nd the relative merits of Stilwell and Cromer. —Bluffton Banner. is difficult to see how there can be an issue between the two old parties in the coming state campaign, because the Republican platform stands for everything and ‘ only such things as every good citizen ought to stand for and support.—Berne Witness. There is some material difference in standing for something t and simply professing to stand for that something. The Republican party makes a good many professions and pretensions. and their party platform recently adopted in Indiana is no exception to the rule. The Democrats, on June ”, will make them and stand by them. What would Republicans say if Mr. Hearst or Colonel Bryan were to say what President Roosevelt said of Judge J. Otis Humphrey, the federal jurist who placed the meat trust individuals outside the pale of the law ! Anarchy would be a mild name for it. But the utterances of the president of the United States will be received in a different spirit and he is not in danger of being committed to, jail for contempt, as was our Chicago friend, J. Hamilton Lewis, who ran counter to Judge Humphrey the other day.— Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette. The situation on the rate bill has taken a new turn. The Democratic Senators made an offer to join with the administration Republicans on an amendment embracing features of the amendments proposed by Senators Long. Bailey, Bacon and Overman. Senators Bailey and Overman have undertaken to draw up the compromise provision. For one thing it is proposed that a rat''- shall not be suspended by injunction without a full hearing. The administration Republicans were expressing confidence that this last effort at an agreement between one wing of the Republicans | and the Democrats will succeed.

j Since* the Decatur Journal and t Democrat have both installed linor type machines and the Geneva Herald -a simplex type setting machine, it will soon be time for the M itness to trade its ten fair typos on two of the latest Mergent halers. —Berne Witness. e e Preble township, Adams county, 1 Indiana, is certainly the banner town- ■ ship of yesterday'- primary and went two to one for Cromer, he receiving , six votes and Stilwell three. Even the “subsidized press could not j cheek the stampede. 1 The Logansport Pharos says: Rooses velt appears to be coming round grad- - ually to Democratic theories. He favors revising the tariff. His most reeent expression of opinion indicates that he favors a tax on incomes as a means of checking the concentrat tion of wealth. Roosevelt is getting , nearer in accord with Democratic ? theories all the time. 1 ' If the imposition of an inheritance • or income tax ever becomes an issue before the people, its opponents may depend upon an overwhelming and ■ crushing defeat. There is not the ; slightest doubt as to public sentiment being overwhelmingly with the presi- ; dent on that question. The necessity . for some remedial measure is so ap- ■ parent that many of those who hith- . erto appeared indifferent regarding the proposition now freely admit that something will have to be done to check the growth of colossal fortunes —especially ill-gotten ones like Rockefeller's—South Bend Times. Now comes one Lundy M. Fishe-'. Henry Wise and Charles L. Hollowell, ail pedigreed, dyed-in-the-wool Republicans of Randolph county, who swear that they were offered lump sums of SIOO each for their votes as precinct committeemen for a chairman candidate favorable to the congressional interests of one Horace Stilwell. It is part of the story that they spurned the dirty money. This illustrates a couple of facts that aie important. First, that the congressional contest has reached the affidavit stage and. second, that the honorable, honest and loving life of Mr. Stilwell has not become so contagious that all his supporters carry their prayer book—not their pocket book — in their outside pocket. 1 The prediction is made that before Congress adjourns a law will be enacted divorcing the railroads from the coal business. We are toll that not only the House, but even the Senate is favorably disposed to such leg- . islation. That the people would favor it no one that knows anything about pubic opinion will deny. So strong is the tendency in this direction that some of the railroads are already preparing to dispose of their eoal lands. As a preliminary we are to have a prosecution of certain railroads based on the facts which are , said to have been brought to light by > the investigation held by the Interstate Commerce Commission. This investigation is reported to show that I “there is an airtight trust in control of not only the anthracite coal fields • but of some of the soft eoal fields as L well.” It is related that a Wells county , man who lay dying, and who had al- • ways been mean to his wife, told her with his last breath that he would meet her in heaven. This may account for the woman's strange behavior since, as it was always her 5 chief desire to live a modest Christian life. j A good joke is going the rounds i on Joe Lose, the barber, which is as follows. Joe wanted to go to Port- ; land last evening, and about three o’5 clock went home to dress. While . there a party called to see his chick- ? ens and Joe guided him about the pens. A hen suddenly jumped off a nest and began to cackle and Mr. ’ I Lose went to the nest, took out an ' | egg and unthoughtedly stuck it in his 1 coat pocket. He never thought of the . I egg until something commenced to t ! smell on the train and Joe reached in j his pocket and pulled out the remj nants of the egg. He is standing all 5 kinds of “kidding" today in a good • natured way.

1 GENEVA NEWS 1 t — — ~ Andrew Miller Alarmed For ills Sons • I -- 1 THEY WERE IN SAN FRANCISO i t And Have Not Been Heard From— W. J. Kelley is Ordered to Portland, . Geneva. Ind.. April 25. —The physicians are reporting that the people in general are ‘•.distressingly heal: .- ' ful." and that there are but very few cases of sickness. There is a slight epidemic of measles, but all necessary precautions are being taken to prevent the spreading of the dis- ' ease. The doctors are now urging 1 that as this is the time of the year when all unsanitary places should be done away with, the people should get busy and thus head off such summer diseases that may come. Mr. and Mrs. Andy Miller and family, and in fact, everybody’ here, are becoming greatly worried because of the fact that no word has been received from their two sons who were in business right in the heart of that section of San Francisco that was destroyed last week. At first Mr. and Mrs. Miller did not worry much, for they felt confident that the boys were safe else they would have heard. Then later they realized that it was next to impossible to get a telegram out of the stricken city. Now. however, that others are hearing from relatives and friends who were in the city at the quake, the Millers are becoming much concerned for their boys. Mr. Miller returned but a few weeks ago from the winter out there and much of the time in San Francisco with his sons. W. J. Kelley, manager of the Hercules Torpedo Company, here, has been ordered to Portland to take a similar position. A new magazine has been built near Poi ’ nd and Mr. Kelley is there now. but will not move his family until the first of the month. Mr. and Mrs. Kelley have a large number of friends here who are loath to have them leave, but •‘Kelley's get to mind the boss.” Will Pettis will take Kelley’s place here. Dr. Swartz is having his offices in High street greatly improved by replacng the old wooden entrance with an up-to-date eement block portico. The offices stand about three feet above the sidewalk and cement steps will lead up to them. Until this spring Dr. Swartz oceuped the one half of the building, but he How uses the whole as he has enlarged his offices by adding several new features useful in his practice.

The Young Folks’ Dancing Club had another good time in the Masonic banquet hall last evening, where they danced and danced until it was nearly time to say good morning. There was a large crowd in attendance and everyone had a splendid time Worley Reiff and Bert Juday were on the music end and as usual they made good with the crowd, , The second entertainment given under the auspices of the Geneva High School Alumni was given in the U. B. church last evening. I. M. Cochran, lecturer and reader, was the entertainer, and to say that his is an entertainer of rare ability is not amiss. Prof. Coehran is one of the most pleasing readers ever heard here, and those who were in attendance last evning cannot say too much of him. His selections were all good and very highly appreciated. Geneva. Ind.. April 20. —Guy Ricketts. one of the best known and most prominent young men of Gepeva. left here this morning for Kendalville, where he has taken a position as book keeper in the Grand Rapids freight offices. Guy has been working for the company for several years and for the past five years has held the position of operator here. During that time he has made friends beyond number, all of whom dislike to have him leave, but who are pleased to learn that he has a much better position, both as to work and salary. Thursday evening certainly seemed like the good old summer evenings for the band boys gave the people a sort of surprise in the nature of a concert. The streets were filled with people anywa.. : of the pleas-

ant weather, the fizz fountains were , bu-v. the concert was good and every thing combined made a person think ; j.-was a mM->iimn:er - ventm. instead - 4of an April evening. The bam! will I open the regular concert season the first Thursday evening in May. There are several queer things that Geneva may boast of, but probably the queerest of the queer is a rooster owned by Bob Black. This rooster was bound to “set.” and Mr. Blaek, as a sort of experiment, placed some i eggs under the bird and danged if he ain't settin’ yet. The rooster is a cross between a bantam and a pheasant. ami is as pretty a little thing as one could wish to see. But he s as cranky as an old hen when on his nest. Mr. Black is taking great interest in the bird and its sudden desire to combine the mother ami father business. Geneva, Ind.. April 24.—Election day opened fair here and there was quite a little undercurrent of excitement noticeable among the leaders of both sides. Indications point, at this time, towards the getting out of an early and a large vote, but so far there has been no one who would make a bet for either Cromer or Stilwell. It seems to be generally conceded in a man to man talk, however, that the former will win by a small majority here. Van Emmon, the drayman, is having the street sprinkler repainted and put in shape for business and he will begin the work of fighting the dust in a few days. The merchants especially, are ready for him now, for every little gust of wind sends clouds of dust into the stores and the stocks of merchandise receive the benefit. Mr. Van Emmon will also use the wagon on some of the residence streets. The work of tearing down the old I. O. 0. F. building is progressing slowly but surely, and all that will be left in a day or two will Ire a pile of plaster. The work of putting up the new building will begin as soon as the lot is cleared. This will give several men work and things are brightening up some in the oil fields, so that there are vry few people who have an excuse for idleness. The last dance of the season for the Fortnightly Dancing Club is to be held Thursday evening, and it' is intended that it shall also be the best dance, too. It is probable that there will be several other dances held before the warm weather comes to town but this will be the last regular hop. Miller and Reiff will furnish the music. A CARD OF THANKS. We desire to express our sincerest gratefulness to those who helped us with words and deeds during the sickness and death of our beloved daughter and sister. Mr. and Mrs. U. Deininger and family. CARD OF THANKS. I, in this manner, desire to thank the many friends and neighbors who so kindly assisted in the sickness and death of our beloved wife and mother. J. R. BOYD and family. Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Kase and Mrs. J. L. Kohlbacker returned to their homes in Huntington after visiting a few days with Miss Pearl Briner. Mr. and Mrs. William Ealey.l of Fort Wayne, are now the guests of Miss Briner. Frank Center returned today from Kalamazoo, Mich., where he was spending his vacation with his many friends. Frank is an employe of the Mitten factory and took advantage of the closed condition of the mill to spend his vacation. ■ D. D. Leslie, of North Judson, yesterday afternoon secured a judgment by default against William Goodwin, the jeweler now lodged in jail on a charge of robbery. The judgment was rendered in ’Squire Smith’s court, on a board bill that Goodwin jumped. The amount was $5.00. Tom Stettler was arrested yesterday morning early by Night Policeman Joel Reynolds, and lodged in jail on a charge of public intoxication. He was arraigned this morning before Mayor Coffee and was given the usual dose, a dollar and costs, amounting to nine dollars and thirty cents. He will board it out with Sheriff Butler. There was less sickness in Indiana during the first three months of this ; year of any year since the state board of health began keeping a record. ' Secretary Hurty made this statement [ today. Deaths were fewer and the ■ general health of the state was bet- . ter. Dr. Hurty says it is accounted for in two ways. In the first place [ the weather was fine and people were i enabled to be out of doors most of the i time during those months. This was i a great advantage inasmuch as most i of the disease in Indiana, according . to Dr. Hurty, are indoor ailments. °

, ANAEMIA. Condition* In the Blood of Which It la the lieault. | anaemia means a condition in which the blood is deficient either in quality or quantity. It is a question among physicians whether there is ever an actual permanent reduction in the total amount of the blood. The quantity must vary. of. course, from hour to ; hour, according to the amount of fluid that is drunk and the amount that is lost by perspiration and in other ways, but it is probable that the average remains about the same from day to day, except in cases of actual starva- . tion and deprivation of water. Anaemia, then, is mainly a question of the makeup of the blood—that is, of the number of its red corpuscles, oi cells, and the relative amount of hemoglobin—the coloring matter—which these contain. The blood is a complex fluid, but in simple terms it may be said to be a salty solution, containing two kinds of cells—the red and the white corpuscles. The white ones are the scavengers of the body as well as the policemen and soldiers. They protect the body from the disease germs which threaten its existence. The red corpuscles, on the other hand, are the commissary department. They bring to the tissues the oxygen which they need and remove the gaseous waste products. If the red corpuscles and the substance of which they are most largely composed, the hemoglobin, are reduced in amount the tissues suffer for lack of oxygen, and there is a lowering of all the vital processes. The lessened proportion of hemoglobin accounts for the paleness which is the chief outward sign of anaemia. It is common to speak of two forms of anaemia—primary and secondary. Primary is the term used when the anaemia can be traced to no definite cause, but seems to be a disease In itself. Secondary is the word used ■when the anaemia is evidently the result of some other condition, such as wasting disease or poor nourishment. It is then only one of the symptoms of such underlying state. Among the chief causes of secondary anaemia are drains upon the system byfrequent losses of blood or by diarrhea or other wasteful discharges, chronic poisoning by lead or mercury, by the essential poisons of certain diseases, such as rheumatism and tuberculosis, and by poisons formed in the body and not promptly removed, which is called “anto-intoxication.'’ and finally the destruction of the red corpuscles by a micro-organism, as is the case in malaria.—Youth’s Companion. Great Canals ns Panic Causers. ‘‘The effect of opening the Suez canal,’’ writes William R. Stewart in the Technical World Magazine, “was so marked In the first confusion which it introduced into the business world that it constituted one of the prime causes of the universal commercial and industrial panic of 1873. “By transferring the distributing points for trade from England to the Mediterranean ports of southern Europe it terminated the vast warehouse distribution system of the former country and led to the disappearance of the class of merchant princes who hitherto had monopolized the eastern traffic As it was with the owners of English warehouses, so it was with the owners of hundreds of sailing vessels and the dealers in six mouths' bills. For the Suez canal, by bringing steamers into use in place of the sailing vessels which had been making the 5,000 mile longer voyage around the Cape, enabled a cargo to be sold and delivered within a month after the order had been sent, and business men without capital were able to borrow money at a low rate and supplant the old established bouses in the eastern trade." Aaaize Trumpeter*. Assize trumpeters, like men of othei callings, have their records, of which they have good reason to be proud. The most famous of them, says the Liverpool Post, has probably been Harry Rowe of Nottingham. Rowe was born in 1728 and was for a time trumpeter In the Duke of Kingston's light horse, in which capacity he took part in the fight at Culloden. After bis military service was over Rowe settled in York and bad the good fortune to be chosen as trumpeter to the high sheriff of that county, in which office be served for forty years. M hen he died, in 1800, the following was bis epitaph: “Here lies the body of Harry Rowe, who for the space of forty years held the office of chief trumpeter to the high sheriffs of Yorkshire. Dur.ng his whole lifetime he was never known to give a blast that tended to the uis honor of his king and his favorite airs being ‘God Save the King and ‘Rule, Britannia.' ” Bi« Proflt** In Trees. Get right away from the idea that cause trees do not grow and ripen as fast as other crops forestry in t wood lot will benefit future genera tions only. Most forest trees nreach commercial size well witbin a ordinary lifetime and many ot them in a much shorter period. Did it occur to you that this country ° p today few investments which equa <■ safety and in net returns the thr l • growing tree of a commercial!.' ' a able kfcd? Don’t fall into the way thinking that the only interest . tree yields is its annual growth in itself shows a fair return. g ut trees are not only increasing in s • they are also increasing rapn ‘- T * value. A few days’ work in the " ‘ lot each year will yield more money the same effort than any other on tt»? farm. This is a strong s • ment, but the facts bear it out.— r a Ing.