Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 29, Decatur, Adams County, 20 September 1906 — Page 5

John Kern 'made a business trip to Bluffton today. Elmer Johnson made a business trip to Berne today. Ed Ray of Berne, was a business caller to our eity today. John Poling of Redkey, was a business caller to our city today. John Niblick returned today from a business* trip to Fort Wayne. N. k- Loch was a business visitor -at Fort Wayne this morning. Dr. S. D. Beavers was a professional caller at Fort Wayne today. Ed Ashbaucher is on the sick list suffering with catarrh of the stomach. Jesse Smith and Henry Peters took in the fair at Fort Wayne today. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hower were sight seers at the Fort Wayne fair today. Rev. Alfred Fowler returned today from a business trip at Fort Wayne. Mr. and Mrs John Lachot went to Fort Wayne this mornin;? to ririt the fair. Mr. and Mrs. L. T. Brokaw went to Fort Wayne this morning to take in the fair. Miss Lilah Lachot returned today from Fort Wayne, where she was visiting with friends. Miss Virgil Goodman returned today from Monpelier, where she was visiting with friends, » Mrs; H. H. Bremerkamp went to Fort Wayne this morning to spend the day with friends. Mont Evans left today for Kewanna, Ind., where he will attend the funeral of his aunt. Ralph Case • went to Indianapolis today to visit for a short time with his brother, George Case. Mr. and. Mrs. U. Deininger and daughter went to Fort Wayne this morning to take in the fair. C. W. Yager and wife of Pleasant Mills, passed through our eity this moiljnihg, en route to Fort Wayne. * Lawrence Land left today for his home at Carlisle, Ind., where he will spend the winter. While here he was engaged as night clerk at the Murray Hotel. 4 . Diamond D, the game little pacing horse owned by Decatur parties, is entered in the 2:17 pace at Fort Wayne today and is expected to take a piece of the money. Elmer Johnson*finished this oats threshing this morning and realized the enormous crop of 2500 bushels from fifty-two acres of land. This is •a hummer of a crop and is a hard one to beat. Jake Hillinger, the big catcher who formerly played in this city, had one of his fingers split yesterday in a game at Hartford City, which will , . no doubt cause his retirement for the rest of the season. Park Miller and wife left Tuesday for. Decatur after spending a week at the lakes north of the city. He expects to depart soon for Warren, Arkansas, where he is employed at millwright work.—Columbia City i»ost. Word was received this morning from Kewanna, announcing the death of Mrs. J? B. Spafks, who formerly resided in this city, she being a sister to Mrs. Gilson and an aunj toMrs. A, J. Smith and Mont Evans. The funeral services will be helq tomor-. row and Mr. Evans will be in attendance! The following letters remain uncalled for- in the postoffice: MiC. Forest Blum, Mrs. Clara Burns, Joseph Drake, Miss Stella Doolen, Robert David, Walter Goff, Edward 6 Huton, Mrs. S. B. Bnptbland, Mrs. Lew Wilee. Some of the saloonkepeers of Decatur are telling this joke: “k woman book agent went into a place and asked if he had Shakespeare. The German said he had Blai, Eeibold and Anheuser, but > he didn’t keep Shak’s beer and iidn’t care to add a new kind.” That - kind of a spell would go in Decatur all right, for in that town everything that begins with a B or P sounds, "when pronounced by a Decaturite, like Bewr.—W inchester Democrat. The United Telephone company •may soon have opposition at Huntington, one of the Jjest points on i its system. The New Long Distance I Telephone Co., oj: Indianpolis lias I asked for a franchise for a plant I plant there, principally for long dis- ■ tance service, but it is intimated that ■ a city exchange will eventually be E built. The company promises to give ■ the city free toll line service and to ■ erect several booths on the streets

AFTER A LONG ILLNESS Suffered From Tuberculosis —Arranged for His Funeral Services Which will be Held Friday. Frank V. Crill died at his home in the north part of the city TuesdaJ I evening. An illness of several months! duration was relieved a few mom-j ents before five o ’clock, when he ' breathed his last. The deceased was ■ a printer and had lived in this city about eighteen years, his home hav- . ing been at North Manchester. He was a splendid workman, a good hearted and congenial comrade and was known to nearly everyone in the city. He had been in poor health for nearly a year, suffering with tuberciulosfe. About three months ago he was compelled to rtfsign his position as foreman at this office and since then sank gradually. For several weeks he had been unable to speak above a whisper and his death had been almost daily ex- , peeted. However, he held up bravely and not until last Thursday did he remain in bed. Yesterday he was very low, scarcely recognizing those about and died peacefully at the 1 hour named. He joined the Methodist church last winter and during > this summer was taken into full r membership. He died a devout Christian. A devoted wife and one son, Ralph, aged six, survive him. 1 Frank realized his approaching death and last Saturday wrote out directions for his funeral, which he * gave to H. B. Heller, Master of the 1 Masonic lodge Sunday. He asked that his funeral be in charge of the Masonic lodge of which he was a member, that the services be held from the home if possible. He requested that Rev. White deliver a ’ short talk, speaking of his' conversion and love for Jesus, that a quartet be selected from the lodge to sing at least two songs, “ Nearer, , My God to Thee,” and ‘'Jesus, Lov£r"'of My Soul.” He also asked that his pallbearers be Masons. The directions were headed, "Funeral—- ’ Simple-rrMaspnic,’ 1 ’ was dated September 15 and closed with the solemn word "Amen.” In accordance , with his request the funeral will be held Friday morning at ten o ’clock from the house, weather permitting, otherwise from the Methodist church. Persons desiring to view the remains may do so at any time Thursday or Thursday evening. Mr. Grill was forty-five years of age. He was born at North Man-, Chester, Indiana, February 14, 1861. o Dandle* of Papua. " Even thenatives of Papua have their fine gentlemen, their dandies. To rank in this class the young man is compelled to lace his waist and to have * nose ornament of polished shell. But as an explorer says, “very few young blades can afford to possess one. and accordingly It may be lent either for a consideration or as a very special fa* vor. The possessor of one of these ornaments could easily buy a wife for it and sometimes it is p%id as a tribal tribute by one should he have to paj blood money or be unable to give the statutory pig as atonement for a murder.” Papuan husbands, too, have a primitive "way of dealing with their re calcitrant wives. A man named Gedon had a shrewish helpmate whom he attempted to tame according to . this method: “He would pick up a billet of wood when she was halfway through a tremendous scolding and give her a terripc blow over the back. Thereupon ensued pandemonium. The other men and women would gc flier round, jabbering, but they would make nd attempt to stop the beating once it had besuo ’’ , 'ir• •' ■ ■■ The Fashionable Dinner. Eight men exclusive of the butler ata required to serve a dinner of twentyfour covers, one being allowed for every three diners. Another is stationed In the pantry to “run in” the courses. ‘ Absolute order and silence reign among these men, who perfectly understand the butler’s cabalistic signs. Electric signals pass constantly between chef and butler. From the seating of guests until the ladies leave not more than eighty-five minutes should 1 elapse, for long diruers are considered 1 bad form. Upon theses occasions < scarcely a member of tire domestic 1 corps escapes some special duty. The ■ housemaids assist the pantry maid. I After each course twenty-four silver ’ plates and countless smai‘ sliver must i be carefully cleansed, wiped very dry ' and then polished with chamois before I being put away. Nearly 200 pieces of. ! engraved crystal ware must be washed ( 1 and polished, and it is too costly and 1 brittle to be hastily handled.—Every* i body’s Magazine. ' i —————— | Ca*h T*ur Check*. ] It is not well to keep checks locked < Up in your desk. Cash them. It is se- < curity for yourself, if the drawer is , * not entirely reliable, and a favor to i him if he is. “Stale” checks are an | annoyance to bank officials and a gen- < eral hindrance. Cash your checks! i Sarcastic. i < Softly—l’d have you to understand. ? ] sir, that I’m not such a fool as I look, t Sarcast—Well, then, you hove much to ] i be thankful for. 4

! MICHAEL ANGELO. “ •' The Humble Start In Life of the Fa mous Master. Two boys were herding swine 11 Italy. They were evidently discussinj some very important subject, for thej were earnest at it A -mail approach, ed, and the boys separated, each f<n j his own side of the pasture. The mar I was angry and was shaking his han<! . at them. The boys said nothing; thej j drove their swine in and were quiet ai I a mouse about it. The man had saM i they should stay eut until dark, ans I the sun had not even set yet. Aft® • they had driven the swine to their re tpective places each crept to his room took his clothes and tied them in » bundle. This done, they both crep down and ran to the road which led to Rome. One’s name was Peter; th« other Michael Angelo. Both were pool boys. They tramped and tramped, and the first thing they did when they reached Rome was to go to church. After they had rested aud prayed thef looked for employment. Peter received employment as the cook’s boy in sonti cardinal’s house, but Michael code find nothing to do, so he almost despaired. He went to his friend Peter, wbl gave him something to eat and at night secretly let him into his room in the attic to sleep. This went on for a long time, Peter content to let his friend do this and Michael contenl also. Michael when in church had seen some fine pictures. One which fascinated him was “Christ Ascending to Heaven.” Taking bits of charcoal, he went to Peter’s room and drew pir tures on the white walls. One day th* cardinal had occasion to go to the room. Michqel had meanwhile secured employment in the cardinal’s kitchen The cardinal, upon seeing all the pictures, was' dumfounded with theli accurateness. He called Peter and Michael upstairs and asked who had drawn them. Michael confessed he had, but said he thought he could rub them out again. The cardinal explain ed to him that it was all right so fat us the wall was concerned. He toot Michael and sent him to a drawing master and gave Peter a better posi tion. And Michael worked.hard- at bl» drawings, learned diligently and be eame the renowned Michael Angelo one of the greatest paluteii; of hit ilana / He Had Already “Et.” know a western Kansas town where the rules of etiquette are purely upon a logical basis,” said a man from the short grass country the other day. “The daughter of the hotel keeper at whose hostelry I was living was to be married. I received an invitation. At about 11 o’clock in the evening the wedding supper was spread. An old lady came down the table side, passing the viands to the guests. When she reached my plate sfie skipped me and began again with-the next man. The,, old lady had seen me eating my supper as usual at 6 o’clock. “ ‘You’ve et,’ she said as she gave me the go by. Things began to look dubious for me. Then an old man came aloujg with more food. He also had seen me eating at the usual evening, hour. IJp shied around me with a look of surprise that I should.be at the feed rack again and said, ‘Why, you’ve et.’ “Everybody had been ‘saving up’ for the occasion so that they might eat like heroes at that wedding feast. The fact that I had not been missing any meals nearly ostracized me in that happy gathering.”—Kansas City Times. The Fate of Citie*. Some ancient cities have disappeared. The archaeologist digs through the sands of the desert, the accumulations of vegetable mold and the debris of human habitation in a search for the palaces of great kings, the markets of wealthy traders and the homes of a once numerous people. The massacres of ancient warfare may explain som« of these dead and buried cities. The Inability of people in early history to deal with the sanitary problems of a congested population may have been a contributing cause to their-destruction., ' Cities may have died because' thteir‘ people could not H« Butin most eases a change in the routes of com* merce will be found to have diverted the stream of nourishment from a city and left it to die of starvation. Yet the Eternal City and Athens, Byzantium, Jerusalem, Antioch and Damascus illustrate the tenacity of munici pal vitality, even though a long succession of centuries brings great changes in the methods and subjects and courses of traffic,--Philadelphia Record. A Papal Bull. ▲ papal bull is published by the pope. It may be an edict, n decree or a rescript which contains an order or a decision to be publicly declared. It is only indirectly that the word “bull” is applied to the document Itself. It belongs property to the seal, without which the pajftr would not be recognized. This seal is rarely of gold or of wax. It was originally of lead and is still commonly of that material. Load was used for seals in the time of the ancient Romans and Is still used for that purpose in Italy. The Italian i name of this bit of lead is “bolla.” It ' was in Latin “bulla.” Both the mate- i rial and the form have dropped out of i sight. The Roman bulla was a circu 1 lar disk or a case like a watch or a ’ cir ular locket. It was worn by boys 1 or noble families attached to a chain i which was wound several times round 1 the neck and which fell in front so that 1 the bulla rested on the breast. This 1 object was frequently a little ease which contained some charm against sickness and the “evil eye,” which wal dreaded even more than disease. At a j later time the bulla was worn by ] the sons of freedmen at Rome. Its ust i was a mark of rank and gentility. ii ’J *

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I Etiquette Amon* Forest Ranvera. While in the forest reserve in which we hunted I met several of the forest rangers, all of them intelligent men. some with college education, men who seemed peculiarly adapted to their calling, who knew the mountains thoroughly, handy with an ax and gun and full of resources. A degree of ethic? obtained among the sportsmen, guides, trappers and forest rangers that was interesting. When any one goes to a deserted cabin, in most of which would be found food, bedding, a stove, etc., it is proper form for liim to stay all night, eat all be can put away under his belt, if in dire need divide any supply of tobacco and matches he may find, but he must take away nothing else, since to carry off an article of little value, such as hammer, hatchet, pinchers, snow glasses, screw driver, fish hook, pipe or otljer similar article might inconvenience the owner greatly when he happened along and wanted them and was forty miles or more from a source of supply. If a belated wanderer fails to wash the dishes and leave a supply of dry wood sufficient to build a fire and cook a meal he is at once tabooed and bis companionship is not sought after. — Northwestern Sportsman. The Siae of the Sun. The sUn, provided we measure only disk seen with the smoked glass, is 866,000 miles in diameter—i. e., 108 earths could be comfortably ranged side by side across the disk. To cover the surface would require many thousands. To fill the interior we should need 1,300,000. On a smaller scale we might represent the sun by a ball two feet in diameter and the earth by a good sized grain of shot. Let the sun be hollowed out, then place the earth at Its ceuter and let the moon revolve about it at its real distance of 240,000 , miles. There would yet remain nearly 200.000 miles of space between the Zareoh t’ urliit and the inclosing shell of the sun. Indeed to journey from one side of the sun to the other, through the center, would take one of our swift express trains nearly two and a half years. So vast a globe must be heavy. Since its density is only one-quarter that of the earth it only weighs as much as 332,000 earths, or two octillions of tons. The attraction of gravity on its surface would cause a man whose weight was 150 pounds to weigh two tons. Herbert Soewce»A queer instance of the working of i Herbert Spencer’s mind is mentioned by the two sisters in whose household <he Hved. He came to the table one day absorbed in thinking about some photographs of the nebulae he had just received: “As he rose from his chair he stood for a minute gazing with gleaming eyes into the distance, and then muttered in a disjointed fashion, as if half to himself, -words; to this millions of suns, each probably having its own system, and supposing them each to be the size of a pin’s head they are fifty miles apart! What does it all mean?’ And then, without a pause and only a change of Voice, ‘The fluff still comes out of that cushion, you know,’ as with a wave of his small, thin hand toward it he passed rapidly out of the room, leavipg us both bewildered by the quickness with which his mind worked.” A Heavy Sample. Sometimes the rigors of patent office procedure are not without their humorous side. A New York attorney filed an application for improvements in a centrifugal pump. The patent office declared the invention inoperative and demanded a working model. The patent office was requested to send an examiner to Trenton to Inspect the machine in actual operation. This the patent office refused to do. The attorney, therefore, politely sent a seven syn FW to the. patent office—sent It moreover, from Trenton to satisfy a skeptical examiner. Twenty-one men were required to get it Into the examiner’s office.—Scientific American. Title* In Germany. The question of title is one of the j most delicate in Germany, a fact of which the stranger is constantly reminded in intercourse with the people, particularly the women. Frau Professor, Frau Director, Frau Doctor, are most particular about their husband’s titles being attached to their own names; but when it comes to military circles it is different, and both men and protest vigorously against ths sharing of titles.* Lieutenant von B. objects to having.his wife addressed as Frau Lieutenant, which title belongs as well to the wife of Lieutenant Schmidt or Haff of a leu aristocratic regiment Road Marker*. On some of the Yorkshire moors ( white posts are to be seen along the narrow tracks which serve as roads. They are called “stoops” and are qpme- | thing like boundary posts in appear- , ance. A casual observer might imagine that they really did denote a county or parish boundary, but such is not the case. When snow covers the - ground and the paths ate invisible these posts point out where they lie and so save the wayfarer from being lost.—London Mail. The Teacher’* Joy. Parent—How did you get along with your geography lesson today, Johnnie? Pupil—Beautifully. The teacher was so pleased that she made me stay after school and repeat it all over again, only just to her, _ ...... «... d ■

CONTROL OF ENEKI3Y I* It Possible For the Unman Rao« to Avert Extinction! The only conceivable way in which the human intelligence can ever succeed in averting the “procession of the great year” is not by postponing ths Issue, but by reversing the process. The question is this: While energy is being dissipated In accordance with the natural law, can we so manipulate things as to accumulate energy, mak- : Ing the unavailable available—notwithstanding the fact that cosmic processes ’ seem to be essentially irreversible? Now there is assuredly no inherent reason why we should not accomplish this. It is true that hitherto all the atomic evolution that has been observed is atomic disintegration. We may speak now, indeed, of the analysis of the elements. But so it was, we may remember, that the older chemistry began, and yet analytic chemistry was the precursor of synthetic chemistry. V7e began by breaking up compounds, but now we can make them—can, indeed, make compounds hitherto unknown in nature. Similarly, it is more than probable that we shall ere long learn to achieve the synthesis of the elements as well as their analysis. No energy is ever lost Even when the radium atom, itself the child of the uranium atom, breaks down and dissipates its energy, ending, it is supposed, as the dull atom of lead, the original energies are not destroyed. Why should they not be gathered up again and thus again become available? Are matter and energy to go od their way, ultimately destroying the human race? For myself, I incline to t>:e view that victory will rest at last With “man’s unconquerable mind.”— C. W. Saleeby, F. R. 8., in Harper’s Magazine. Church Pillar*. The joke of the vicar of Withycombe, Devon, at the Easter vestry as to his laggard churchwarden being not a “pillar” but a “buttress” of the church because he supported it outside reminds one, says a correspondent, of another joke of the same kind delivered from a London pulpit by the Rev. John McNeil. John was minister of the “Scotch church,” Regent square, at the time and in his pwri homely way wks driving his points home with telling effect. He suddenly paused, after exhorting his congregation to be workers, and then, with a twinkle In his eye, said, “You know, I always; thlnfc of church members being divided into two classes—pillars and caterpillars.’’— London Chronicle. When Makin* Fast the Fla* Halyard* “Many a slender flagpole has been ruined,” said a rigger, “by drawing the halyards down too snugly when making them fast after hauling down the flag. If this is done in dry weather end it comes on wet, the shrinking of the 1 halyards thus drawn taut to start With may be enough to bend the pole, and if it should be left In that way long enough the pole would be permanently bent Flag halyards when no flag is flying should be made fast with * little slack.” Chaa*e* From a Fi*b to * BTt*< The story of the early life, transformation and final death of the Chinese quail is the most remarkable that is found in the ornithological literature of the world. The narrative in all its unreasonableness is found in the story of om chung, which is the name the Chinese quail is known by when at home in the Flowery Kingdom. Celestial authorities on bird lore declare that no specimen of om chung was ever known to live a year; that they do not lay eggs, as all other known species of birds do, and, finally, that their progenitor is a slimy, four jointed worm, which has a red head and a sting on the end of its tail. This queer seacoast i • worm, according to the curious legend.l Os om chung, lays 100 eggs annually.’ Fifty of these become fish and the otb-! er fifty are worms of the same species as the parent. The fish that has come into existence in this curious manner also lays 100 eggs a year. Fifty of these become water denizens after the image of their parent, and the others become birds of the famed om chung family. These om chungs, or Chinese quails, never breed, and are only brought into existence as above related. We gfive the above not as a literal fact, but as a specimen of the Chinese ides •f evolution. oou-<xs«iva *jr .xuuiotrr. “Mamma, I’s got a stomach acho.* Mid Nellie Bly, six years old. “That’s because you’ve been withont hmch. It’s because your stomach Is •mpty. You would feel better if yen had something in it” That afternoon the paster called anfi tn the course of conversation remarked tha* he had been suffering all day with • ery severe headache. •‘That’s because it is empty.” said Wellie. “You’d feel much better if yoo had something in itAmerican Spew tataK. The Bead Sea. Tfov Dead sea is 1,300 feet below sea level. There can, of course, be no outlet for the Dead sea, and the volume of from 6,000,000 to 10,000,000 tons of water that the Jordan throws into It every twenty-four hours must be carried away by evaporation. Not a solitary dwelling is on its coasts, and there is no living thing in its waters. As w-i stand on the north shore the sea stretches out some forty-two miles toward the south and is, on an average, eight miles wide. The water is of a greenish blue and as clear as crystal.

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s — * h SALVATION ARMY SERVICE k C p Lew Towne to Leave Geneva—Antie 8 Spitting Ordinance to be 0 Enforced. e • t, GENEVA, Ind., Sept. 13.—One day e missionary conventions will be held 8 in the Methodist church here and the » church in Ceylon next Monday and t Tuesday. On Monday the services will p be held here and among those who |. will take part in the programmes d are Revs. C. G. Nelson, M. B. More gan, J. O. Stutsman, C. B. Daugher--0 ty, David Wells, C. B. Sweeney, W. H. Daniel, W. P. Herron and many g others. On Tuesday the meetings will be held in the Ceylon church. The conventions are held each year and , are always a source of inspiration to a pastors and congregations for greata er and better work in the line of h church benevolences. A cordial invitation is extended for all to at’f tend these services. e Several members of the Portland e Salvation Army camp were here last s evening. They conducted an open air I- in front of the business • rooms and after a few songs and ' prayers took up a collection. The collection is always the most imoprtB ant part but no one needs to kick for . the Salvation Army has done more good, solid charity work than hundreds of the fashionable churches. - • The small towns cannot appreciate ’ the doings of the Salvation Army. It is in the city where their labors , make a showing and the people inr stead of making fun of the tambourt ine show, help fill it with "the t goods.” Among the several Geneva resij dents who have made preparations to 1 leave here this fall are Mr. and Mrs. Lew Towne. They will make their future home in Caribou, Maine, and , Mrs. Towne left for that place this 1 week. Mr. Towne will remain here 1 several months yet. Both have been very popular people here in Geneva society and their friends are loath to have them leave.. Mrs. Towne was accompanied by Mrs. A. P. Hardison and son who will visit relatives in Maine until the Christmas season. Some time ago an anti-spitting ordinance was passed- by the council and people given due notice of the same. For awhile they observed the new Ithe gutter. There’s no reduced > price on quantity either. It would Ibe cheaper to remember the law, J carry a can or sponge—anything but the sidewalk. i ....

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