Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 13, Decatur, Adams County, 31 May 1906 — Page 8

TOR THE BASEBALL FANS Bits of Baseball News Picked Up* Here, There and Everywhere. The line up for the first game will be as follows: Pirce. catcher; Robinson, pitcher; Hillinger, lb; O. France, 2b; Aug. ss; Bales, 3b; B. France, left field; Peterson, center field, and Coffee, right field. This will make a strong line-up as the entire batting strength is present. All the players are in first class condition and anxious for the first game to be called. The team finished their preliminary work yesterday and are now resting for the struggle. All are hitting the ball and running bases in elegant style. A fence has been built thirty feet back from each base line and no person not interested will be allowed nearer than this fence to the playing grounds. Heretofore the people have been in the habit of crowding out onto the grounds and have thus spoiled many good plays. A new gong has been installed at the ball park, which wilt be used today for the first time. This will be used to announce that the time has arrived for practice and., when the. same is to close. This feature is a good one, as it only insures each team fifteen minutes work out. The Schafer Hardware Company is putting in the same. Big Jake Hillinger has already won a home in the hearts of the fans by his all around work at first base. He hits the ball hard and is very fast for a big man. He is also a catcher and can relieve Price in a pinch. The second game will be called in fifteen minutes after the first one closes or just long enough for the pitchers to warm up. Railing will do slab duty in the second game and Price will be in the receiving line. The right field position has been settled and goes to Ed Coffee, who has thus far outclassed rtfre rest. He is fielding is hitting well and is accurate in throwing and will be a tower of strength to the outfield. In fact, his fielding during the recent workouts, has verged on the marvelous order. The Marion team arrived today over the Clover Leaf and are a husky looking bunch, and look as if they knew ht>w to play the game. They are confident of winning at least one game and claim they will make the Decatur team go some to beat them in the second game. Allegar, who pitches for the Marion team in one of the games today, formerly resided in this city. He comes highly recommended,as a good pitcher and will no doubt make' the local team step some to beat him. Nevertheless, he will have a worthy' opponent in either Railing or Robinson. William Mumma, a former resident of Adams county, died last night at his home in Paulding county, 01 The funeral services will be held tomorrow at eleven o’clock at the Grove church in Root townsihp. The coffin trust has slipped up 25 per cent, but there are two ways of beating it even at that, one being by the nitro-glycerin route and the other via the crematory plai. Keep it mum though, or the coffin trust will corner them. - 4. ‘ ■ ■ > ’ • > i *LPending a settlement of’the differences between the miners and operators of the Indiana field, the price of clay building brick continues to rise, and now is $1 a thousand abote the rate that existed prior to the wage scale controversy. The national organizer of the Socialistic party is in our city and is endeavoring to organize the party here so that they may be able to get better results at the general election. He is holding interviews with several of our business men today.

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A report on the factories and industries of the state just issued by State Statistician J. H. Stubbs chows that ! there have fie- r. rapid strides in almost all b’Mt’.c i s of indu?T.' •luring the last five years. Terre Hauc Ip.s made the most rapid gains, but South Bend, Indianapolis and Muncie are close behind. The Country Folks Social Club danee at the Knights of Columbus hall Tuesday even, was attended by a large crowd and a fine time is reported. The music was furnished by the Med Miller orchestra and was up-to-date in every respect. This club has a reputation for entertaining royally and always have a large crowd. • Mrs. August Hirsehey died at Portland Friday form burns received two weeks ago. She lived about five miles south of here and while lighting a fire, using coal oil, her arm was badly burned and blood poison followed. She was taken to the Portland hospital, where she died. The funeral services were held Wednesday. The ladies’ Missionary Society of the Presbyterian church met Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. C. A; Dugan and were royally entertained. A program which included a.paper by Mrs. W. A. Lower; vocal solo, Rev. Alfred Fowler; paper, Mrs. C. F. True, and piano soioi Miss Carrie Thomas, was carried out and was enjoyed by all. Refreshments were also served. It is said that the administration’s investigation of the coal railroads, which already has produced such startling testimony, has hardly scratched the surface. The astounding revelations made to the interstate commerce commission in Philadelphia have served to whet the official appetite for more, and after the Pennsylvania fields are cleared up the commission will go to West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and then to the oil and coal fields of Kansas and Colorado. ———l ■■ ■■■— ■■■- ——• » AT THE COMMERCIAL CLUB Mr. A. Van Camp and Clafk J. Lutz Will Make Addresses. , J Evqry patriotic hustling citizen of the city who wants to improve our business conditions and expand, and every “knocker,” those who see no good in anything or any one and who fairly chills the atmosphere in talking down anything that would build up our city, should be at the Commercial Club Thursday evening of this weeek. It is a business meeting for business purposes. Mr. A. Van Camp will discuss the subject “Our Opportunities and the Duty of Our Citizens.” Mr. Clark J. Lutz will address the “Knocker.” Thus both sides of the question will be thoroughly covered. .You will hear something good, something practical and to the point. Every citizen of the town is invited. Let’s get ready to push and do something substantial for Decatur. Thursday evening at the Commercial Club. I WEAK KIDNEYS MAKE WEAK BODIES Kidney Dfoeases Cause Half the Common Aches and Illa. As one link weakens a chain so weak kidneys weaken the whole body and hasten the final breaking-down. Overwork, strains, colds and other causes injure the kidneys and when their activity is lessened the whole body suffers from the excess of uric acid circulated jh the blood. Aches and pains and languor and urjnary ills come, and there is an everincreasing tendency towards diabetes and fatal Bright’s disease. There is no real help for the sufferer except no real help for the sufferer except kidney help. •" Doan’s Kidney Pills will act directly on the kidneys and cure every kidney W. J. Stiver, grocery man, 902 east Center street, Warsaw, Ind., says: “A lame back annoyed me for several months, brought on by too close confinement at my calling. During the time I used many make-shift medicines guaranteed to cure kidney complaint; but I met wit hvreyiinffd 2589457890 but I met with very indifferent success. An advertisement about Doan’s Kidney Pills in our Warsaw newspapers attracted my attention and I go t R box. Continuing the treatment for some time it resulted in a cure. I am only too pleased to recommend Doan’s Kidney Pills.” For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y„ sole agents for the United States. Remeber the name—DOAN’S—and take no other.

THE SHARK HUNTERS. - Horrible *«t Alleged Painless Way «tke Fish Are Killed. The strictly commercial business ot ■hark hunting is done in small sloops whose headquarters are in the more northerly Norwegian ports. The crews are for the most part made up of pure blooded descendants of the vikings, who are still to be found fii any number among the codflshers of Hammerfest of Tromso. And a magnificent race of men they are! Accustomed from boyhood to a life of hardship, they have away of treating Father Neptune with a slightly contemptuous toleration, like an old friend, of somewhat uncertain temper; whose rapid changes • from smiling benevolence tc wild, blustering anger are on the whole rather amusing than otherwise. They care nothing for danger and little for suffering—in themselves or in others. Why, then, should they stop to think that perhaps a maimed but still living shark can feel? The fishing is done off the coast of Iceland in about eighty fathoms of water. Three or four gallows-like structures are rigged up around the sides of the sloop and from each of these hangs a pulley block, over which runs a strong rope, and to the end of this the baited hook is fastened. A plentiful supply of ground bait is thrown out to attract the quarry, and such is the eagerness with which the take the bait that sometimes each one of these gallows-like fishing rods will have Its fish hooked and fighting for life all at ,the same time. There is no “playing” the fish. It is not necessary or possible, and the powerful tackle Is hardly likely to break, no matter how fiercely the hooked shark may struggle. But the shark is not for his size a game fish, and except when he is actually being hoisted out of the water there is no very serious strain on the tackle. If be does how and then get away it is not because he ever toanages to break the line, but because S lightly fixed hook easily tears through the soft cartilaginous skeleton of his head and so sets him free. As soon as a shark has taken one of the baits tbe hauling tackle attached to his particular gallows is manned, and without any superfluous fuss or ceremony he is hauled up to the sloop and hoisted just clear of the water. He is not brought on board at all, but with a few bold slashes his liver is cut out as he hAngs and is thrown into a tub to be further dealt with later. Then his eyes are put out, and he is ctft adrift to go and complete the tardy | process of dying where and bow'he pleases. All this sounds vCry horrible, but I there is one curious fact which goes far to make us believe tha't this death cannot, after all, be such a cruel one as at first appears. It is this, the fishermen say—that unless they put out the shark’s eyes he will afterward cause them a lot of trouble by coming and taking the bait a second time. It sounds incredible, but the statement is thoroughly well authenticated by eyewitnesses who have seed a liverless shark do just this very thing. Sciontists doubtless are right in saying that the shark (which by anatomical classification is one of the lowest of the fishes)/does not feel pain in the way more highly organized animals feel it We will cling to that belief, for it is consoling—to us, if not to the shark, who is thus sacrificed that hte liver may supply us with—what? It is a secret not to be spoken aloud. Norway is one. of the great centers of the cod trade, and from cod is made cod liver oil, and shark’s liver oil tastes and looks exactly like it.—Pearson’s Magazine. The Nature of an Oath. Some years ago a case was on trial before the judge of a court in a city adjoining Boston in which among .the numerous witnesses for the defense i?as a decidedly ignorant appearing and shiftless looking colored man named Jones, who was to testify a* to an alibi. He was finally called, and the usual oath was about to be administered, when the attorney for the prosecution' arose and addressed his ’honor, sug-’ gesting that Mr. Jones be interrogated as to his understanding of the. solemnity of an oath. The judge therefore asked the witness If he understood the nature of an oath, to which he replied, "Yes, sah.” "Well,” said his honor, "what Is it?” To which Mr. Jones immediately replied, “When you tell a He, stick to it” —Boston Herald. Self Control. A Boston woman was standing on a street crossing waiting for a car when a box of powdered charcoal fell from a passing wagon and broke open. The beautiful light dress she was wearing was ruined by the dust. The driver, who stopped to recover the package, saw the damage and said, “I am very sorry, ma’am.” The woman bowed and replied, “It was not your fault sir.” He that taketh a city is indeed a small person beside the possessor of such self control as that.—Youth’s Companion. Not Hla Tongue. “I ain’t got no doubt,” said Hiller, “but what I kin git that there job as Consul in that place in England. It’d be a cinch too.” . "Oh, yes,” replied Peppery, “if you can learn to speak the language.”— Philadelphia Press. Eloquent Stillness. "What makes you think Bilkins is In love?” “I was in the next room to him and his girl and overheard one of their silences.”—Life. Forgiveness is better than revenge.— Plttacus.

OCEAN ROPES. A Marine Plant That Grows a Steas Three Hundred Feet Lon*. f The largest marine plant and proba1 bly one of the highest plants known on ' this globe is a gigantic seaweed, the i nereocystis, the stem of which baa > been found to grow as much as 300 . feet long. It was first discovered not far from the Alaskan coast, but has since been found floating in various I parts of the Pacific ocean along the I American and Asiatic shores. This seaweed grows in a very curious manner. Large quantities of It are found i at a little distance from shore and at depths not exceeding 300 feet. On I loamy bottoms large thickets i plant take root, and a stem of tbe i thickness of ordinary cord grows upward. At its top there is a pear shaped I balloon, which grows with the stem, , and when it reaches the surface of the , water it often measures six feet and . more in length, with a diameter of four feet six inches. This balloon has, of course, an upward tendency and keeps tbe stem growing until it floats on the surface of the water. From the tup of > this balloon a large tuft strong, thick, spadelike leaves grow out, which originally are not more than two feet long and which grow and split until from the balloon a roselike growth of from fifty to sixty-five feet in diameter covers the water. This gigantic weed grows in such quantities that near the shore large meadowlike islands are formed, which impede navigation. Tbe natives of the Aleutian islands make manifold usage of this plant. From their strong dried stems they make ropes 250 .feet and more long, while balloons of this weed furnish them with large vessels after they are dried, the smaller ones being used in their boats to bail out water. The long leaves, after being dried, are cut Into narrow strips and used for wickerwork. the making of baskets and similar furniture. LAPP WOLF HUNTERS. Swift Rnnnera on Snowshoes Make Short Work of the Brutes. The Swedish Lapps live entirely with, by and upon their reindeer. A Lapp who owns a thousand deer is a very rich man; but, as taxes are ‘assessed upon the number, of -deer, he is inclined to underestimate his herd. The most dangerous enemy to the herd is the wolf, who, if so disposed, can kiH thirty deer in a night. A band of I wolves can make a rich Lapp poor. | When the snow is deep and soft and It is announced that wolf tracks have been seen in the neighborhood of the 1 deer the swiftest runners on snowshoes prepare for an exciting chase. The wolf may have a start of a mile or two. but the track it leaves in the deep, soft suow is so prominent that the hunters can follow it at their best speed. The wolf, though- he may run fast, has but slight chance of escaping the short men who on snowshoes rush through the wood, dart down steep hills and jump from ledges several 1 yards in height.. Each hunter does his best to outrun the others, for the wolf belongs to the Lapp who strikes the first blow. As soon as the leading hunter is close enough to the wolf he 1 gives it a heavy blow across the loins with his strong spiked snowshoe staff. If there are other wolves to be pursued. he kills it outright; if not, he disables it and waits till all the hunters arrive before giving the death stroke. On Tippin* the Hat. New Yorkers sthl cling to the ancient custom of tipping their hats when greeting a wale friend of acquaintance. It is a common sight to see a staid, prosperous looking business man as he passes an acquaintance tipping his hat, although the other is alone and unaccompanied by a woman. It is the same after a party has been together somewhere, at dinner, .probably, or at the theater. You will notice that as one separates himself from the others be will say good night or au revolt and t then tip his hat. Also whenope/inan WrtntTQduced to another it is dollars to a subway ticket that he will lift his chdpeau. Wonder why it is. They ■ don’t do it in Pittsburg.—Pittsburg ' Dispatch. Crusty. , The new stenographer’s yellow hair glittered in the flood of sunlight that poured through the window of the office. But old Duke, the bookkeeper, had no eyes for the girl’s beauty. He lighted a cigar and set to work. “Mr. Duke,” said the stenographer. /‘Huh?’’ the old man grunted. "Look here,” she said imperiously, "I am sorry, but smoking always makes me sick.” “Then,” said Duke, without looking up, “don’t ever smoke.”—New Orleans Times-Democrat. Au Irish Compliment, An Irish gentleman said to an English officer, “Do you know Mr. X. of—?” The officer disclaimed having that pleasure. “Ah, he is a very nice fellow and a good friend of mine. But he has been dead these six years. An’, i shore, you’re very like him!” The ofci fleer said he had been compared to a good many things in the course of his lifetime, but never before to a six-year-old corpse.—London Spectator. Latter Day Breeslpess. “How often do your / housemaids dust?” 1 “Do you mean how often do they fan the furniture.” asked slangy Mrs. Nuwedd, “or how often do they skip out?”—Louisville Courier-Journal. If poverty is the mother of crimes ’i want of sense is tbe father of them.— ] Bruyere. . , J . j

’ He Laa*he< Last. " " ~ A certain lady who wished to hav* some fun at tbe expense of an agent who had ofttimes solicited her to insure herself and family, asked him on one occasion if be would insure the cat. The agent, to the astonishment and no small amusement of some friends, promptly offered to do so, provided she paid the first premium down. The lady, still thinking to hoax hinj, expressed her willingness to do so, and placed.a shilling on the table. The agent quickly produced a proposal, filled it in and obtained her signature while those present were on the tiptoe of expectancy as to what was to follow. “Now, madam, with your permission, may I see the cat?” “Certainly,” she replied, at the same time pointing to a glass case which contained the stuffed remains of the poor defunct cat A chorus of derisive laughter burst from all present, but to their dismay the agent turned, bowed politely, at the same time picking up the shilling, and exclaimed: “When that cat dies, madam, kindly call at our office and claim the insurance money. Good morning;”—London Telegraph. The First Stove. The most Important uses of fire were taught by fire itself. As the primitive man stood near the flames of the burning tree and felt their pleasant glow he learned that fire may add to bodily comfort, and when the flames swept through a forest and overtook a deer and baked it he learned that fire might be used to improve the quality of his food. The hint was not lost. He took a burning torch to his cave or hut and kindled him a fire on his floor of earth. His dwelling filled with smoke, but he could endure the discomfort for the sake of the fire’s warmth and for the sake of the toothsomeness of the cooked meats. After a time a bole was made in tbe roof of the hut, and through this hole the smoke passed out. Here was the first stove. The primitive stove was the entire house, the floor was the fireplace and the hole in the roof was the chimney. The word “stove” originally meant' "a heated room.” So that if we should say that at first people lived in their stoves we would say that which is literally true. -St. Nicholas. Practical Diagnostic Sign of Death. Dr. Ott of Llllebonne (through Journal des sciences medicates de Lille) suggests the following practical and simple method-of. aicertalning whether or not life is present:. The point selected Is the forearm, which is quickly accessible, is free from hair and 18 easily exposed. Tbe arm is extended horizontally from the body and the forearm pronated. If the test is made in the open air a cloak is held so as to shield the part from all motion of the atmosphere. The flame of a candle is now directly applied to a spot on the forearm, which is closely watched by the observer. At the end of a few seconds a swelling rapidly forms and bursts. If it contains air or gas the tissues are lifeless. If it contains liquid or exudation life is present. “Man tlie Street.” Emerson was not the first to use this phrase in his “Conduct of Life,” which was published in 1860. In the first series, of the “Greville Memoirs,’’ under date March 22, 1830, occurs the following passage: “Then will come the question of a dissolution, which one side affirms will take place directly, and the other that the king will not consent to it, knowing, as ‘the man in the street’ (as we call him at 'Newmarket) always does, the greatest secrets of kings and being the confidant of their most hidden thoughts.” It would appear from this that the expression was in common use among racing men in 1830.—Notes and Queries. The Drama of the Sunset. We never tlr? of the drama of sunset. I go f orth each afternoon and look into the west a quarter of an hour before sunset with fresh curiosity to see what new picture will be painted what new phenomenon exhibited, what new dissolving views. Every day a new picture is painted and framed, held up for half an hour In such lights as the great artist chooses and then withdrawn and the curtain falls. The sun goes down, long the afterglow gives light, the damask curtains glow along the western window, the finst star Is lit, and 'I go home.—From Thoreau’s “Winter.” Power of Words. Words have not their import from the natural power of particular combinations of characters or from the real efficacy of certain sounds, but from the consent of those who use them and arbitrarily annex certain ideas to them, which might have signified with equal propriety by any other.—Oliver Cromwell. Persistence. The way to reach or to attain to anything is to bend oneself toward it with all one’s might, and we approximate It just in proportion to the intensity and the persistency of our effort to attain it—Success Magazine. A Hard Cut. Mrs. Newcast—l am thinking of taking a short holiday and visiting some of the scenes associated with my ancestors. Mrs. De Bleu Blood-Cutting—Oh. but slumming Is so horribly out of date nowadays I Where to Have * 8011. Thomas Bailey Aldrich, commenting once upon the trials of Job, remarked that the only proper place to have a [boll was between “John” and “O’Reilly” . . . .

I —_ Would Be a Loa* Journey Even Wltk Transportation Facilities. . There Is a perpetual fascination about the stars and the immense distances at which they lie from one another and from us. To demonstrate the vast distance of Centauri from this planet a popular scientist gives the following illustration in London Answers: “We shall suppose that some wealthy directors, for want of outlet for their energy and capital, construct a railway to Ceutauri. , We shall neglect for the present the engineering, difficulties, a mere detail, and suppose them overcome and the railway open for traffic. We shall go further and suppose, that the directors have found the constructiori of such a railway to have been peculiarlyeasy and that the proprietors of interstellar space had not been exorbitant in their term* for right way. “Therefore, with a view to encourage traffic,' the directors have made the far* exceedingly moderate—viz, first class at 1 penny per hundred miles. Desiring to take advantage of these facilities, a gentleman, byway of providing . himself with small change for the journey, buys up the national debt of Britain and a few other countries and, presenting himself at the office, demand* a first class single fare to Centauri. “For this he tenders in payment th* price of the ticket, £1,100,000,000. “Having taken his seat, it occurs t» him to ask: “ ‘At what rate do you travel?* "‘Sixty miles an hour, sir, including stoppages,’ is the answer. “ ‘Then when shall we reach Centau- r ri?’ “ Tn 48,663,000 years, sir!’ ” HENRY BELL’S COMET. The Flrat Steamer That Plied For Hire la Great Britaia. Among the curiosities of advertising may surely be placed the first advertisement of the first steamer that plied for hire in Great Britain—namely, Henry Bell’s Comet. Thus ran the advertisement in the Glasgow Courier of 1812: "Steam passage boat, the Comet, between Glasgow, Greenock and Helensburg. For passengers only. The subscriber having at much expefise fitted up a handsome vessel to ply upon the river Clyde between Glasgow and Greenock—to sail by the power of | wind, air and steam—he intends that the vessel shall leave the Broomielaw on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays about midday or :at such time thereafter as may answer from the state of the tide and to leave Greenock on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays in the morning to. suit the tide. The elegance, comfort, safety and speed of this vessel require only to be proved - to meet the approbation of the public, and the proprietor Is determined to do I everything in his power to merit public 4 encouragement. The terms are for the present 4 shillings for tbe best cabin and 3 shillings for the second, but be- I yond these nothing is to be allowed to servants or any other person employed about the vessel.” What would poor neglected Henry Bell have said could he have seen his humble little Comet, of whose elegance, comfort and speed he was so proud, alongside a modern ocean racer or on® of the latest palatial river steamers of the Clyde or Thames, all so well advertised?—Chambers’ Journal. Why Timothy Grass Is So Called. .The forage grass known to the farmers of the United States as timothy is so called because first Introduced and extensively cultivated In this country by one Timothy Hanson, a farmer of Marjdand. This species of grass Is well known in England and all over western continental Europe, where it is grown extensively by most farmers between the Mediterranean and the North seas. The botanical name of this grass is Phleum pratense. Timothy is known in the British Isles as cat’s tail grass and in several, of our . eastern states as herd, orfierd’s, ’ grass. It was grown In large quantities in Maryland and'Pennsylvania long before a spear of it had ever been seen in England, th* first seed of It ever seen In the last named country being Imported from America. The “If” Is Rather Important. Here’s something that may save your life when a bull gets after you: When a bull charges, just before the final lurch he shuts his eyes, and If you have the presence of mind to stand stock still until he is about two or three feet from yon all you have to do is to step aside, and he misses you. Any child with sufficient presepce of mind to do this can let a bull charge all day with perfect safety. This Is not a new thing, as it is one of the secrets of the bullfighter in the countries where the sport is practiced. - The bullfighters say that a cow dobs not do this, and they would never try any such tricks with a mad cow. '. g - Their Annoyances. ’ Neighbor—l called to say that you must keep your dog frolh barking. He won’t let our baby sleep, householder —l’m glad you called. I wanted to Say , that if you don’t keep your baby crying I shall have to'enter a cord®*’ }, plaint It annoys my dog awfully. Works Like Maarie. Caller—Have you ever known any cures effected by what they call suggestion? Mrs. Hewjams—Oh, yes; I once cured Willie of a violent toothache by suggesting that he go to the dentist’s and have the tooth extracted. —Chicago Tribune. Naturally. ' Knicker — There goes a man who would rather fight than eat Bocker— ’ Soldier? Knicker—No;dyspeptic.—Wat* son’s Magazine. - — I •- *