Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 35, Decatur, Adams County, 1 November 1906 — Page 7

,’ 1 I Chief execwVrot red k» to mWWsff * all these the tete.xt teoee rent, if heoee rest means seeded steal tte teoee "tor fee ee» fort of tte thief eseeatWe are* Me family.” But enough of thia rtctexdag tartness! Imagine Joseph W. Folk er Reb- ■ Ort M. L&Follette or William J. Bryan or Theodore Roosevelt engaging In this business of petty grafting. The credit of devising his contemptible scheme for a small graft belongs exclusively to the man who talks incessantly of civic righteousness and of his own moral superiority over his fellow men and his attorney general. Honest Injun, gentlemen, don’t you think that such a graft beats the spots off the pluto poker chip, which the governor is holding aloft throughout the state as one of his stock and standing arguments? Railroad Commission Bill. I will not quarrel wjth the governor as to who is entitled to credit for the enactment of the state railroad commission bill, which became a law at the last session of the legislature, after it had received the approval of the railroad lawyers of Indiana. I am claiming no part of such credit, for I was only attorney for the shippers—and am attorney to help shape the bill and to make argument in its favor before the legislative committee. I declined to lobby for that or any other measure. But the governor says the Republican party of Indiana should be con-, tinned in power so that the bill may be strengthened! Does the governor forget that at the last Republican state convention a resolution was prepared indorsing the railroad commission bill and congratulating his administration upon its enactment? And does he remember that the corporation forces within his party (the six men referred to by Judge Roby in his Fort Wayne speech) were j strong enough to strike that resolu-J tion out of the platform entirely? I quote from the Indianapolis News of April 12, 1906: “Five changes in the Republican platform as originally drafted were made by the committee on resolutions yesterday afternoon. One dropped out the specific indorsement of the railroad commission. » » ♦ There seems to be no question that the specific indorsement of the railroad comeiisslon was omitted through the inuence of some railroad attorneys.” I submit to the voters that if Governor Hanly was not able to secure an indorsement of this measure by his party in convention, it is hardly likely that he will be able to strengthen it in a Republican legislature, over which the railroad lobby, so potent in the convention, will exercise a resistless influence. Interest onj’ublic Funds. The governor claims to be the pioneer reformer on the question of officials turning the interest on public funds into the treasury. It is not important, but I think that honor belongs to that Democratic county treasurer of Marshall county, Williaffi O’Keefe, who, proving his faith by his works, paid all the interest received by him into the treasury of his county. But what can be expected of the Republican party of Indiana on this question? In 1903 Senator Parks, a Republican, introduced a bill providing for this reform. It was promptly choked to death by the Republican leaders in committee and heard of no more. In 1906 the Hon. Den McDonald introduced a similar bill, which met a similar fate at the hands of- the same men. Governor Healy's Influence was not felt in favor of the latter bill. The Republican party has thus had two opportunities to enact this legislation, but has absolutely refused on both occasions even to consider the proposition. Yet the governor wants another legislature of the same kind. What do the people say? He has much to say about a paltry sum of Interest that has recently been turned Into the treasury by one of the state officers. Some time ago I read that the secretary of state had turned in $45 or seme such amount But what about the vast sums of money received by the present state treasurer, under the governor's very nose? The law says it belongs- to the state. The supreme court has so decided. Why boast of the trifling amount received from your auditor during the campaign while your treasurer defies you and is filling his pockets with interest money belonging to the state? You have much to say about Interest money which you claim is owed by James H. Rice and Oscar Henderson, one dead and the. other out of office for eleven years. Why pursue the dead man who can not reply while there is a real live one —a member of your official family —carrying on the business of pocketing the state’s Interest within seventyfive feet of your office door? You know he Is getting It. So does everybody else. How does It happen that a heroic reformer like yourself, who bullied Sherrick into resigning and drove him to prison, now cower and tremble In the presence of Nat U. Hill? Mr. Kern concluded his great speech by reviewing the numerous broken platform promises .of the Republican party in this state, and in this connection askedt “How many broken promises and betrayals of trust must be made before the people are aroused to realisation of the fact that with the forces dominating the last state convention in -control there east be no reform hi Indiana?"

Two Scapegraces | j [Ortciaal.J There is no ether such frisky animal as a midshipman In'the navy—that is, where the midshipman is ashore on leave. Possibly now that war vessels have changed from light wooden structures, riding the waves with white wings like a bird, to a machine shop driven by steam some of the romance may have been,, knocked out of the middies, but fifty years ago, when the United States frigate Honeybee sailed into Havana harbor, she hac| as rollicking a lot of “juniors” as.ever were got together in a fighting ship. Hbb Merrett and Ned Perry, both midshipmen, could get into more mischief in one day ashore than the rest of the officers would meet in a month. No sooner had the Honeybee dropped her anchor than both lads applied for leave to go ashore. “You can go,” said their commander, “but remember that these Spaniards are a hot, jealous lot, and if you’re not careful you’ll be brought back with a machete sticking in you.” The injunction was unheeded. The middies went into Havana, hired a vehicle for a drive and, passing the plantation of Don Antonio Cordoza, espied Donna Ysabel Cordoza, his daughter, aged fifteen, playing under the palms at some distance from the house. / Now, what followed would have stricken the girl’s parents with horror. They considered Ysabel a child, forgetting that in the tropics girls expand li\e the foliage. The young rascals called to Donna Isabel to ask the road, chatted with her in bad Spanish and asked her to drive. She cast a fright'ened glance in the direction of the house, climbed the wall, and, taking a seat between the two middies, away they went as fast as the bony, half j starved horse could take them. Either I officer made a good chaperon, so there was really no harm in the escapade except a violation of custom. • The ride finished, the girl was dropped safely where she had been taken up, and, during the stay of the Honeybee in the port of Havana, Bob Merrett made frequent visits to the palm wood, at last sailing away with Donna Ysabel’s heart. A year passed before he saw her again, when his ship touched at Havana and he went to the Cardoza plantation with a proposition for the girl’s hand. He was informed that if he showed his face there again he would find a resting place in -a neighboring cemetery. 1 Bob went back to the ship and told his sorrow to his friend Perry. The result of the interview was that Perry agreed to go tp the plantation in mufti, steal away the girl and take her to a village the two middies had passed through on their way to the plantation. There her lover was to meet and marry her. There were several defects in the plan, not the least of which was the fact that they agreed to a rendezvous in a little square in the center of the village, rather a public place for such a meeting. The next day, both middies having obtained shore leave, Ned went on ahead, agreeing to have the girl at the trysting place, though the hour must necessarily be Indefinite. Bob waited Impatiently in Havana till he could wait no longer, then went to the village and took a seat in the public square. After waiting an hour it occurred to him that possibly if Ned had been successful in getting the girl they might not find it quite safe to rendezvous in so conspicuous a place. They might be hiding in some of the houses. Knocking at several of the doors, he asked those within if they had seen a young couple. No one had seen a young couple. Along came a hawker of toys. Bob thrust his hand into the man’s basket, drew out a tin horn and blew the dinner call with a mighty blast Up went a window sash on the opposite side of the street, and Ned Perry’s head was thrust out. “I thought that would bring you,” said Bob. “What luck?’ “Come over here and I’ll tell you.” Bob crossed the street and was admitted to the house. Inside were a Spanish woman and a black eyed maiden just budding into womanhood. But she was not Donna Ysabel. Bob looked at her disappointed, then at his friend for an explanation. . “I’ve good news for you,” said Ned. “Donna Ysabel was frantic at your repulse and told her father she would kill herself. So he has consented to look up your credentials and if you’re all right he’ll consent/’ “That’s good news, sure enough,” said Bob, “but what are you doing here?” Ned frowned at his friend, glancing at the same time atthe then, bidding them good afternoon, the middies left the house. “Well, what is it?” asked Bob on the sidewalk. “Drifted Into a cross current and struck the girl inside there.” “Oh, I see!” The next day Midshipman Merrett called upon Don Cardoza, renewed his request for Donna Ysabel and presented his credentials. There was not much money in his family, but his progen-.' Itors had been in the navy for nearly a century and were eminently respectable. So Don Cardoza yielded, and Ysabel Cardoza became Ysabel Merrett. . The other of these scapegraces, after leaving a sweetheart in each of a dozen ports, finally had the undeserved good fortune to marry a beautiful and wealthy countrywoman of his own. Both men turned out far better than might have been expected, attaining high rank in profession. EDWARD MORRISON. ■ / h T»- »

• BOIIJJTE 111 Ytters StonM RaJ Carefully the Fefloitef Specific Instructions. Broey rotor who goes to the polls is interested In making his hello* effective. Instruction in voting, therefore, eannot be too thorough. Not only la thia especially true as to first voters, who will have their first experience with the Australian ballot -system, but It is true of all others because of the changes that have been made in the law since it was originally passed. At public meetings and privately voters should be given accurate information as to what is required in casting a ballot. The following instructions, therefore, should be studied, as they will be found of value: The device at the head of the Democratic ticket is a rooster. The device at the head of the Republican ticket is an eagle. The Democratic ticket is in the first column, the Republican ticket Is in the second column, and so on. Below is a sample of the heading of the Democratic and Republican tickets, with thee respective party devices, in the order in which they will appear on the ballot: DEMOCRATIC TICKET. REPUBLICAN TICKET. ' y or secretary of State, ““““ For Secretary of State, \ DBM - JAMBS F. COX KEP ‘ FRED A. SIMS. J When you go to your voting place you will be handed three ballots: The State ballot—On red paper, containing the candidates to be voted 081 for State offices, except for Senator and Representative. The county ballot —Printed on white paper. The township ballot —Printed on yellow paper, containing the township candidates. If you want to vote a straight Democratic ticket, make a cross within the circle containing the rooster at the head of the first column of the ballot. INSTRUCTIONS TO VOTERS: First You must get your ballot and the blue pencil from the Polling Clerks In the election room. Second. If you desire to vote a straight ticket, then make a cross, thus X, within the large circle at the head of the ticket containing the device of the party for whose candidates you desire to vote. If you do not. desire to vote a straight ticket, you must not make a cross in the large circle containing Ing the device of a party, but must make a cross, thus X, on the small square to the left of the name of each candidate for whom you desire to vote, on,whatever list of candidates it may be. If the large circle at the head of the ticket Is marked With a cross or otherwise and the ballot is marked with a cross or otherwise at any other place, it will, be void and cannot be counted, unless there be no candidate for some office in the list printed under such marked device, in which case you may Indicate your choice for such office by making a cross, thus, X, on the square to the left of the name of any candidate for such office on any other list. The cross must be placed within or on the circle or square, or the ballot will be void and can not be counted. Third. Do not mutilate your ballots, nor mark them, either by off a name or writing one upon nor 'in any other way put a mark upop them, except by placing one in the circle or on the squares, as above described. Otherwise the ballot will not be counted. You must not put any mark of any kind upon your ballet except in the manner above described. Fourth. After you have marked your ballots, and before you leave the election booth, fold them up separately so that the face of each one can not be seen, and so the initial letters of the names of the Polling Clerks on the back thereof can be seen. Then hand your ballots to the Inspector, the pencil to the Polling Clerks, and immediately leave the election room. Fifth. If you are physically unable to mark your ballots, or can not read Bnglieh, so inform the Polling Clerks, and make an affidavit to that effect* They will then go with you into the election booth, and you can then tell them how you desire to vote. and they wfll mark your ballot for you. Neither you nor the Potting Clerks must permit any other person to hear or see bow your baKot is marked, ft la a penal offease to declare you can not reed English ar can not mark your batkrt, if, in tact, you can. [ln no case oan the baftots be marked by the Polling Clerks It the vote* aaa read the Engkeh langnegA and is physloSfty able to mark his ballot. Moo san they mark ft uotfl the voter has made the proper affidavit] Math. If you Should aortdentaUy, or by mistake, deface, mutilate or spoil one of our ballots, return ft to the PoH Clerks and get another one of the sumo ktod. Seventh. You must do* aooep* a ballot from any person outside of the etec* tfam room. Any ballot outside is fraudulent; and ft Is a penitentiary offense to have ft in your possession, whether you attempt to vote It or not Eighth. You must not attempt to hold any conversation in the election room eaoep* with members of the Election Board and the Polling Clerks. Ifteth. Use only the btae pencil handed you by the Polling Clerks In marktag your ballots, ft you mark with any other pencil, your ballot so marked will be void, and will not be counted. Tteth. You must not put any mark of any kind on your ballot, except as above described. VOTING BY MACHINE. It yw are unable to rote by machine on account of physical disability or inability to read English, mid make ai affidavit to that effect, you will be instructed or assisted by the Polling Clerks, as in the case of voting by ballot K you request it, you will, upon being registered by the Polling Clerks, be instructed by them as to the manner of voting by machine. You can not remain in the voting machine booth more than one minute; and no person can be in or near the machine when a voter Is in the voting machine booth unless ft la the Polling Clerks while instructing or assisting the voter. TH* NEW LAW AS TO BUYING ANO SELLING VOTES. ■_ (Approved March 0, 1900. Acts 1905, p. 481.). Penalty Jor Buying Votes. L That whoever, directly or indirectly, hires, buys or offers to hire or buy, or furnish any money, or other means to be used, or directs or permits his money or other means to be used, or handles any money or other means, knowing the same to be used to Induce, hire or buy any person to vote or refrain from voting any ticket or for any candidate for any office, to be voted for at any election held in this State; or whoever attempts to induce any person to vote or to refrain from voting for any candidate for any office to be voted for at any election held pursuant to law or at any primary held In this State, by offering such person any reward or favor, shall-be fined in any sum not more than fifty dollars and disfranchised and rendered incapable of holding any office of trust or profit for a period of ten years from the dato of such conviction. Penalty for Selling or Offering to Sell Votes. 2. Whoever sells, barters, or offers to sell or barter his vote or offers to refrain from voting for any candidate for any office to be voted for at any election held in this State, either for any money or property or thing of value or for any promise or favor or hope es reward, given or offered by any candidate to be voted for at any election held In this state or by any other person or persons, shall be fined in any sum not more than fifty dollars and disfranchised and rendered incapable of holding any office of trust or profit for a period of ten'years from the date of such conviction. Witnesses. 3. Any person called as a witness to testify against another for the violation of any of the provisions of sections one or two of this act, is a competent witness to prove the offense, although he may have been concerned as a party, and he shall be compelled to testify as other witnesses, but such evidence shall not be used against him in any prosecution for such or any other offense growing out of matters about which he testifies, and he shall not be liable to trial by indictment or information or punished for'such offense. .

TYROLESE CUSTOMS. ' PwMliar Mainer la Which Prepaaala •f ISarria** Ara MaXa. There is an eld custom prevailing among the Tyrolese regarding proposals of marriage. The first time a young man pays a visit as avowed lover he brings with him a bottle of wine, of which he pours out a glass and presents it to the object of his desires. If she accepts it the whole affair is settled. Very often the girl has not yet made up her mind, and then she will take refuge in excuses so as not to drink the wine and yet not refuse it point blank, for that is considered a gross insult, proving that she has been merely trifling with the affections ol her lover. She will, for instance, maintain that the wine “looks sour” or that wine disagrees with her or that she is afraid of getting tipsy or that the priest has forbidden her to take any—in fact, she makes use of any subterfuge that presents itself at that moment. -* The purport of these excuses is that she has not come to a decision and that the wine offering is premature. This strange custom, dating very far back—according to one account, it was known as early as the ninth century—is called “bringing the wine” and is synonymous with the act of proposing. Shy lovers, loath to make sure of their case beforehand, find it a very happy institution. Not a word need be spoken, and the girl is spared the painful “No” of civilization. If any of the wine is spilled or the glass or bottle broken it is considered a most unhappy omen—in fact, there is a peasant’s saying for an unhappy marriage, “They have spilled the wine between them.” SACRED fCROCODI LES. The Famous Shrine and the “Labyrinth” In Egypt. The crocodile, one of the most sacred animals of the east, has given its name to several ancient sites. Os the various cities of crocodiles the names of which have been handed down to us by Herodotus, Pliny and Strabo, perhaps the most striking was the “Crocodllopolls” of the ancient Egyptian province of Fayum, which, according to tradition, was built by that pharaoh who “made the lives of the children of Israel bitter with hard service.” This province lies within an almost complete circle of hills—a little oasis in the midst of the desert, where roses and grapes mingle with figs and olives and luxuriant palm trees grow almost into forests. Its capital Is Medinet, and a little to the north of the city are a number of irregularly shaped mounds. Beneath these are the ruins of the pharaoh built “Crocodilopolis,” the “City of Crocodiles,” later called Arsinoe and the shrine of the sacred crocodile of the neighboring Lake Moeris, which was then 450 miles In circumference. This lake held the sacred crocodiles* and as each died in turn it was buried in one of the 1,500 underground sepulchers of the world famed “labyrinth” at hand, side by side with the embalmed bodies of successive pharaohs. ■> ————— Holy Saturday In Naples. Naples celebrates in a curious manner Lent and the end of Passion week. Ropes are stretched from to house across the streets in the ancient districts on the day of the carnival, and dolls made of rags, wearing the traditional Neapolitan costume and carrying a distaff and bobbin, are suspended from these ropes. At the feet of the spinner is attached an orange containing seven feathers, corresponding to the seven weeks of Lent Each week one feather is plucked, so that only one remains at Holy Saturday. Then, as soon as the cannon of Fort St Elmo and the church bells announce the nobn hour and the resurrection of Christ, firecrackers, which have been tied In long strings to, the orange at the dolls’ feet are lighted, and the Quareslma figure explodes amid the cries of the crowd, wherein pious formulas and profane phrases alternate. London’s Most Ancient Court. The ancient court of hustings is of Saxon origin, and the name is derived from bus, a house, and thing, a matter of cause—that is, a house or hall of causes. Courts of the kind were established in all the great cities, and, as regards London, it is the supreme as well as the most ancient court and Is the court of appeal from the sheriffs’ court. In the earliest times it was held weekly, but It is now summoned only as occasion requires. Golf. A writer In an English paper has this to say regarding the game of golf: “Golf Is a great game, but shiver me niblicks if I think it comes up to tiddledywinks. It is played with a couple of farms, a river or so, two or three sand hills, a number of implements resembling dentist’s tools, a strange language much like Hindoostanee, any old clothes and a large assortment of oaths.” Two Look*. He climbed down from the pay car, with his month’s wages still in his hand. “Sure, ye must be feelin’ rich, Pat, with all ye have there,” said a bystander. "And what does this signify to me?” answered Pat. “Just two looks, wan whin I get It and wan whin I give it to the ould woman.”—Life. Just as Well. Singleton—No man can tell just what a woman will do next. Wedderly—And It’s just as well he can’t. Otherwise she’d be sure to do something altogether different.—Chicago News. He that runs out by extravagance must retrieve by parsimony.—From the Dutch. \

| A MATRIMONIAL | | BLUNDER [Original. I A girl stood peeping through an opening made by a door standing slightly ajar. She soliloquized thus: “Not very good looking. Nose very bad. Hair fine and glossy, but there’s not enough of It A little too tall and slender.” It was in the old city of Genoa, where many of the marriages are brought about by brokers. They keep a list of marriageable girls and their good points, such as accomplishments, beauty, fortunes, etc. The brokers arrange the marriage for the would be groom with the girl’s parents, and the couple are introduced afterward. Either party may recede after the introduction, but if the man wishes to do so he must pay the- brokerage and expenses. Such an arrangement had been made for the union of Vittori Conci and Lucia Armodeo, and the young lady, having made up her mind what course to pursue, opened th& door and stepped into the apartment where the gentleman awaited her. Ten minutes later he left the house, and Signorina Armodeo joined her mother in the library. “I think,” said the daughter indecisively, “that I shall decline to fulfill the contract. He is either very wise or , very stupid, for he opened his eyes upon me—they are his only redeeming feature — but scarcely opened his mouth.” The front door creaked and her father entered. “It’s all off,” hb said. “What do you mean?” asked the daughter, starting. “I met Signor Conci on the doorstep. He declines to complete the contract. He chose rather to pay all expenses. However, since you are only seventeen, there is yet time.” “Indeed there is,” replied the daughter under her breath and with a dangerous glitter in her eye. One evening soon after this episode Vittori and Lucia met at a ball. - “Good evening, signor,” she said. “I am glad to meet you again. Because we do not marry there is no reason why we may not be friends,” and, slipping her hand within his arm, she walked away with him. The orchestra was playing one of Straus’ delightful waltzes, and what could the young man do but propose that they should dance? Then, when they had finished, the girl proposed that they should sit awhile in a recess and chat. He seemed embarrassed at first, but his companion put him at his ease. Indeed, before they parted he felt bold enough to apologize for having refused to marry her, but his courage forsook him and he stammjered incoherently, “Don’t speak of that,” she said. “It was presumptuous in me even to think of such a thing. You are so much brighter than I, so prominent socially; a marriage between us was not to be considered. Besides, there is too great a difference in our ages.” “I am thirty,” he remarked, somewhat chopfallen. “And I am only seventeen. Thirteen years is a great difference. I respect elderly men, but a chit like myself should not aspire to marry one of them.” Vittori went home feeling very uncomfortable. Lucia in her ball dress had appeared far more to advantage than in home costume. He regretted his decision. But what troubled him most was to have been Informed that he was passing into an age which young girls consider old. One day Vittori met the broker who had made the contract for him. The man chided him for withdrawing. Vittori admitted that he had made a mistake. “I’ll fix up a new contract,” said the broker. “I’ll pay you another commission.” “Done.” A few days later the broker notified Vittori that a; new contract had been made with Signor Armodeo for his daughter’s hand. Vittori was much pleased. He did not know how Lucia fslt In the matter, but Italian girls were used to obeying their-’fathers. There would be no trouble. ’ One day the broker informed Vittori that all had been arranged and he might call upon Lucia as soon as he liked. He found Lucia arrayed in her most dainty visiting costume, with hat and gloves. “I am pleased to see you, Signor Conci, but I fear there has been a mistake. My father has Informed me that he had made a new .contract for us. This he has done without my consent. Yesterday I was eighteen and of age, coming Into my fortune. I am sorry if you are disappointed. As I have told you, your gray hairs stand between us.” “My gray hairs!” said the astonished Vittori. “I was not aware that I had one!” “You must not be put to expense In this matter. Here Is my check for the commission. Good evening. lam sorry that you have been put to unnecessary trouble. You must excuse me. I am going put” The suitor tottered to the door and out into the air, which he sadly needed, though it did not revive him. For a week he was on the verge of suicide, then settled down to a miserable existence. The next time he met Lucia she treated him so cordially—almost affectionately—that he plunged into a furnace of hope, but on a second meeting he was transferred to an icy pool of despair. After keeping him swinging between the two extremes for several years she cut him dead one day on the street. A man who has refused a woman had better afterward keep out of hec Way. MARK ANDERSON. •