Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 41, Decatur, Adams County, 13 December 1906 — Page 4
THE DEMOCRAT BVEBYTHUKSDAYMORNING BY ta <W G ELLINGHAM, PUBLISHED 11.00 PBB YEAR IN ADVANCE. BaMred at the postoffice at Decatur, Indiana as second-class mall matter. Official PAPER OF ADAMS COUHW ©H GEORGE'S SLATE Teana Hopeful's Message For Dear Old Santa Claus. Impelling partially and impartially corrected by papa under the Roosevelt rules and others.] Dere Santy—Wenn U kum along ■With Rainderes nalty nere as strong As Hooley’s goat 2 pull Yore sledd I U'll find Me sleeping inn mi Bedd, Butt on the Beddstedd U will C A pare of Sox 2 bigg.for Me— Thur Papa’s, for mi oan was wett, Bo I yuzed his—now. don’t forgett! 1 don’t want verry menny Things— 1 2 Injun boze R 3 with Strings j And narrers and 1 of themm There Pop gunns that . Shoots itsself with I Air, And 2 Revolvurz, 1 with Kapps 1 Skair themm little Jonsun chapps { And 1 that Shoots a reeul Bawl 1 play with Katts and Pupps; that's j awl. i Oh, yes—l nerely plumm forgott— 1 I want a Kannun saim as whott U brung 2 Jimmy smith last yere, R maybe Bigger—l don’t kere. 1 of themm Kannuns with a Rore 1 That's loud enuff 2 shalk the dore And maik the nayburz shutt thur , yeres And say, .“Don’t play with him, mi ’ deres.’’ I Tes, and sum Powder and a soard And skabburd, iff U kan afford i 2 leev Me themm. U C I’m go’n’ < i 2B a soljer wenn I’m groan And go and Fite the nashun's Kaws, i Upholding Fredum’s wholly laws; Tho Papa sez I want an Orgy • Os Noys around the howse. i " • yores, 1 . QEORGIE. j NOT THE FASHION HERE. Through the efforts of a leading firm , of soap manufacturers in England ten of the largest firms in that country 1 •were consolidated under on central ! management with $60,000,000 capital, j after the fashion followed by our . American trusts. The consolidated ( concern became the British soap trust. It is related that one of the trusts ( first moves was to reduce the weight 1 of the pound package to fifteen ounces I only to restore it when found out. Its program included, so its accusers charged, the manipulation of prices to crush weaker rivals, cornering raw ‘ materials, closing some of its works, 1 and controlling the wholesale and re- , tail trade by selling its own soap and ( requiring small dealers to handle only trust soap. £ When the British public learned of * these things it became enraged. As i a result the soap trust became fright- ( ened and disbanded. Speaking of the ( soap trust’s methods and the power of English public opinion the New : York World says: 1 “Such methods are familiar in this country. The tobacco trust reduced the w’eight of its packages to recoup Itself for the war tax of 1898, but 1 made no change in the packages when i the war tax was abolished. It has entered the retail trade and bullied small dealers into handling exclusively its brands. The steel trust has dismantled plants acquired at the time of its formation. The Standard Oil trust . has run both rival producers and dealers out of business and reduced retailers to utter subjection. The beef trust makes its own prices at both ends and has virtually stifled competition in all large centers. “Popular clamor against the trusts in the United States knows no bounds. Politicians of all parties violently denounce them. Still, no trust has turned about-face and abandoned its position merely because of public pro-
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tests, and very few indeed because of official prosecution. Either the British manufacturer must have a more sensitive conscience or public sentiment in England can be made there a more formidable engine for attack.” Where has our, gold gone?’ asks the New York Commercial. You can search us. The poor devil who is compelled to pay $2,000 for the erection of a SI,OOO house wherein to store his wife and babies, in this season of “prosperity” will continue to cast his vote for “protection.” Some day he will get his blessed eyes open.—Philadelphia Record- B Governor Hanly proposes, it is alleged, to go further than the recommendations of his railroad commission in his attempts to secure railroad legislation. Governor Hanly is assuming considerable of a contract in this undertaking, but it is certain that even if he loses he will have caused a general stirring up of dry bones: —Fort Wayne News (Rep.) If the millionaires and multi-million-aires of this country had half as much wisdom, judgment and sense of justice about thefn as they have wealth, they would urge congress to act upon the suggestion of President Roosevelt and recommend the passage of a graduated inheritance tax. Their happiness would be greatly enhanced by adopting such a course.—South Bend Times. The sacrifice of liffe upon the altar of football for the year 1906 was 11 young men who were sufficiently intelligent to pass an examination and gain an entrance into college. Last year thirteen men gave up their lives and for the six years last past eightytwo stalwart men, who were the pride of parents who made self-sacrifice that enabled their entrance into college were killed in the game. Congress is certainly right in taking the position that President Roosevelt has no authority to dictate how certain words shall be spelled in documents turned out by the government print shop. The greater part of the. reformed spelling favored by the president is allright and will doubtless in time be generally adopted, but any attempt to force the adoption of those methods of spelling will surely be resisted —and properly so.—South Bend Times. 9 ===== The people of Japan, where they suffer from over-population, will try municipal and State ownership. The result of* their new industrial policy •will be watched with great, interest. The conditions there are more J <, . »k. favorable than in this country for such a policy; the Oriental peopjt will endure much more of a paternal government than we can imagine, they are prepared to give up all their individuality if need be and allow the State to perform every function. ARE PROPERTY OF THE PUBLIC A Kokomo Opinion on Interest on Public Funds. KOKOMO, Ind., Dec. 10.—Complying with a request made by the county commissioners, County Attorney Wolf has filed with that body a written opinion regarding the ownership of interest that accrues on funds intrusted to county treasurers. The opinion holds that the funds are the property of the public, and that it naturally follows that all accretions to such funds are the property of the public; that county treasurers are morally bound not only to deposit, such funds in solvent, conservative banks, but also to obtain the highest possible rate of interest and account therefor to the county. The Howard County Commissioners will take this opinion as their warrant for demanding of Glen Lindley, who takes the treasurer’s office January 1, that he make arrangements to account for all interest accruing on funds he may deposit during his term of office. When Lindley was nominated for treasurer he declined to announce that he would give to the county the interest. — A CIAKAXTFED CURE FOR PILES.
! TW By ARTHUR J. BURDICK [Copyright, 1906, by Arthur J. Burdick.]
/ A THE CONTRALTO.
Christmas in the old home village And the good old. time quartet.
There Briggs, contralto; The soprano, Mary Jones, And the tenor who was noted For the clearness of his tones. But the basso was the stunner — Had a voice so hoarse and ‘ strong
Il would fairly knock the slivers, I So to speak, right off of song! I can recollect the anthem . Always sung on Christmas day. “Gloo-rye, gloo-rye, in the ’ighest!** We could hear the tenor say. Then the basso joined the effort. “Pay-son airth, goo-dwill toe man; Gloo-rye, pay-son, gloo-rye, pay-soa”—-That’s the way the anthem ran. -
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“awngils sang the gi>awd reef-rain.’* Then the women gathered courage: ’ “Awngils sang the glawd reef-rain;** , And the basso followed after: “Awngils, raff-rain,” o’er again. "Reef-rain,” “raff-rain,” “ruff-rain,” "roof-ram,*' Shouted each; then all went back And began again at “Gloo-rye,” Sailing on another tack.
THE SOPRANO.
And, to peaceful silence sinking, Let their voices gently float.
l/w 6 .1 j Y , .Zrr,.siw.-WH THE BASSO.
Twas a pleasure thus to listen And to watch the vocal race. Once again I’d like to hear them And behold each well known face. 1 may live to be a hundred. But I never will forget
Quistmu in. the old home village And that good old time quartet.' ON JAPANESE SCHOOL QUESTION Says He is Exercising a Great Many Functions —Now Has Idea He i* 1 the School Supervisor. I ' ' t WASHINGTON, Dec 12.—1 n a most r bitter and sarcastic speech. Senator ’ Raynor of Maryland, before the United 1 States Senate this afternoon attacked President Roosevelt for the latter’s 3 threats in connection with Japaneset San Francisco school situation. The J senator said: ) “The president is exercising a great many functions, executive legislative s and judicial, lawful arid unlawful, cont stitutional and unconstitutional. He > is now possessed of the peculiar idea , that he is the supervisor of the pubt lie schools of the country, but we will a certainly disabuse his mind of this. !. ( If he hks the power, as he claims to r have, to call on the regular army, to t shoot holes in the San Francisco i- school board because they put Japanese children in certain schools, it would be particularly unfortunate If '• be should bombard the city which the earthquake so recently played such • havoc with, public sentiment would 8 likely be against him.” / :
1 F there's one thing thal this Christmas i More than others I desire, Tis to hear aChristmai anthem By the old time village choir. I may live to be a hundred, But 1 never will forge*
KS 1 1 4 \n ' / THE TENOR*
After various frantic efforts, Going back from time to time, 7 Singly, doubly, all together, In a climax quite sublime, They all met at last in concert On the anthem's final note
GOES AFTER LUMBER TRUST Former Adams County Man Stirs ’Em Up at Lima. LIMA, 0., Dec. 12. —Upon the two weeks’ probe into the affairs of the alleged national lumber trust, made here by the last grand jury, may be based national prosecution by the department of commerce and labor. Prosecuting Attorney Welty thoroughly investigated, so far as dealers here were concerned, and at the conclusion of the Inquiry declared retail dealers were more sinned against than sinning, and that if., a lumber trust existed it was one higher up with the producers and wholesalers who commanded what retailers should charge. It is said that price lists were shown by years, all printed from one and the same price, yet coming from a dozen wholesale concerns, each with Its allotted territory. It is further said • that prices were set to show just what should be charged on various classes of work, and that home builders were completely at the mercy of this nationpl trust, operating on a “pool agreement,”.; similar to that unearthed in the prosecution, of the bridge trust in this State. Prosecutor Welty admitted that since the resolution of Senator Kittridge of South Dakota, asking for a probe, he had been approached for data. Mr. Welty also admitted- that Comissioner James Garfield of the commerce and labor bureau; had made a request of him to file a petition against the lumber men, butthat he was not prepared at this time to comply with the request. Government men are said to be now working on the report of the grand jury session, all testimony having been taken by a stenographer, and secret service men are engaged in confirming this testimony throughout the country. It is alleged that prices in the lumber trade have more than doubled in the past ten years. CAMPAIGN IS TO CLOSE SOON In the Famous Life Insurance Battle. December 18 the polls will close in the life insurance campaign. Beyond question this has been the most widespread campaign against the administration tickets of the New York Life insurance companies that has ever been waged. The International Policyholders’ | committee has taken the fight for votes into practically every State of the Union. The present of both the New York Life and the Mutual Life of New York have used every facility in their power to elect the administration tickets for the directorate of the two companies. All along In the fight the international committee has had two factors to contend with; the lassitude on the part of the policyholder and the agency force of the two companies. So far as can be ascertained the policy holders have not become as excited about the matter as the international committee desired. The general run of policy holders thought that, of course, the present administration would be ousted from office, and have not paid much attention to voting. It is estimated that not one-half of the votes are in. Policyholders here voted in the election. ; — THEY LARGELY PREDOMINATE Sixty-One Lawyers in the Indiana Legislature. 0 If the General Asembly of Indiana, which is soon to convene, passes any | laws that are afterward held to be unconstitutional by the courts,' doubtless much of the blame will be laid on the shoulders of the lawyer-legislators, who will largely predominate, numerically at least, in both chambers. The third edition of the legislative directory, just out, shows that there will be sixty-one lawyers in the Legislature—-thirty-three in the House and twentyeight in the Senate. Old-tijners say this is a record-breaker; it means .that two out of every five members in the General Assembly are lawyers. There will be thirty farmers, sixteen business men, five editors, twelve doctors, six Insurance agents; four contractors, five bankers and one minister. ■ -—o . ANNUAL STOCKHOLDER MEETING 1 . , The First NatiortaJ Bank to Elect a Board of Directors. o/li The annual stockholders meeting dT . the First National Bank, will be held ( at that banking house between the hours of nine and four o’clock on Tues- . day, January 9. At that time a board I of directors will be chosen. The First National is one of the solid and subi stantial Institutions that never gets i tired growing, and always keeps sever- , al paces in advance of. that progress ■ that has and is making Decatur the best town in the State. Upon the date J of this meeting the stockholders will j' be entertained with reports from the i bank officials which will recite an inI I creased business showing a healthy I growth and a bright future. ’ . .
B ■ Accurate prices paid by Decatur merchants for various products. Corrected every day at 2 o’clock. BUFFALO STOCK MARKET. EAST BUFFALO, N. Y., Dec. 12.—. Receipts, cattle, 200 cars; market steady. Prime steers @55.75 Medium steers 4. @55.00 Stockers to best feeders. . @53.75 Cows @53.75 Receipts, hogs, 200 cars; market steady. . Mediums and heavies .... @56.45 Yorkers :. ~2. @56.45 Pigs @56.65 - Receipts, sheep, 100 cars; market steady. Best spring lambs ....... @sß.oo Wether sheep ..... @56.00 Mixed sheep @55.65 Culls, clipped ............ @54.00 CHICAGO MARKETS. Chicago markets closed today at .1:15 p. m., according Co the Decatur Stock & Grain Exchange. May wheat 78% December* wheat 74% May corn <4% December corn A.. 42 May oats 36 December oats 34 I ■■ .US ■■ ■■■■— ■■ PITTSBURG MARKETS. Union stock yards, Pittsburg, Pa., Dec. 12.—Hog supply, 25 cars; market steady. Heavy hogs @56.50 Mediums @56.50 Yorkers @56.50 Light .x @56.50 Pigs ....... .............. @56.50 TOLEDO MARKETS. Changed every day at 3 o’clock by J. D. Hale. Decatur special wire service. May wheat .... 81% December wheat .5............ 77 May corn ,. f 44% December com 43% May oats .... 37%T December oats 36% Oats, cash 36% Rye, cash 69% MARKET NOTES. Corn —% cent lower. Receipts at Chicago today: a Hogs 28,000 Wheat 42 cars Corn ..162 cars Oats 189 cars Cattle t -. 32,000 Sheep 32,000 Estimate for tomorrow: Hogs 7 Y. 777. 47,000 Wheat ...49 cars .Corn : 180 cars Oats ....... % j,..;.... 11l cars STOCK. By Fred Scheiman. Lambs, per cwt .$5.00@?6.00 Hogs, per cwt @55.75 Cattle, per Cwt [email protected] Calves, per cwt [email protected] Cows, per cwt [email protected] Sheep, per cwt [email protected] COAL— PER TON. Hocking Jump 5 54.00 Virginia Splint .....' Domestic Nut .., 4.00 Washed Nut 4.25 Pittsburg, lump. 4.00 Pocahontas Kentucky Cannell ..... 7 ......... 5.50 Anthracite ......... .- 7.25 Charges for carrjring coal —25c per ton pr fraction thereof; upstairs, cents per ton. ' - GRAIN. * By E. L. CARRLL, Grain Merchant. Wheat, No. 2, red - $ 70 Whea't, No. 3, red 67 Oats. No. 3 white 32 Barley 38 Rye, No. 2 .....<..7.......... 54 Clover seed 7.40 Alsyke . 6.40 Timothy seed ..7-2.00 No. 1’ Timothy hay, baled. 14.50 No. 2 Timothy hay, baled.... "13.00 No. 1 Mixed hay, baled 7. 13.00 :No. 1 Clover hay, baled ....... 12.0 J) I Corn, yellow, per cwt 45c@50c iCorn, white, per ewt .43c@48c Machine husked Corn; one cent less. WHEAT, FLOUR, ETC. The Oak Roller Mills quotation Oak Patent flour [email protected] Bran, per ton .$20.00 Middlings, !>er,ton ............ 20.00 Rough meal, per cwt 100 Kiln dried tnedl, pe~ cwt. 150 Screenings, No. 1, ner bu....... 60 No. 2, per bu. 40 Cop feed, per ton ... 20.00 Whelt, Nd. 2, per bushel 70 OTHER PRODUCTS. Ry Various Grocers and Merchants Eggp, per doz. 28,c Butter, per pound 18c Potatoes —soc Lard ........ A-.. ..........7.77TTW WOOL AND HIDES. By B. Kalver & Son. ’Phone 442. Beel hides 10c Calfh ides @l2c’ Mink ..1....... [email protected] ( Btepk a :.. 20c@ $1.40. j • •< > - • - - • [email protected]' 1 IPossum ........ *..loc@ .40J Muskrat 4c@ .20' . Sheep pelts [email protected] Tallow 4% JACKSON HILL COAL. By George Trfcker. (Wholesale.) ■ 11 or 2 Jackson Hill lump, f. o. b i (nine, $2.50, f. o. b. Decatur, • $3.70; cook stove nut, f. o. b. Decatur, $3.70; Hocking lump, $1.75, f. o. b. mine; 1 Hocking lump', $3.05, f. o. b. Decatur; Splint lump, $1.55 f. o. bl mine; ■ Splint lump, $3.10, f. o. b. Decatur. [ —_o — i Miss Anna Radamacher left this • morning fbij Indianapolis, where she ’will make an extended visit with her 'sister, Mrs. John Gerard.
WHISKEY IS ALWAYS THI MASTER. Strong drink is the greatest cause of failure. Both directly and indirectly, it is a source of ! downfall and defeat. It controls its victims through their own potations and it makes them suffer; for the bibulous habits of their friends. ” The young man of average in- ( telligence has a certain amount of ambition. He has clearly-definedl plans for the future. They may.; be limited to the pursuit of a modest calljng, or they may reach to positions of wealth or power.—i Whatever they are, he has a chance of wdnnig if he will make the effort. But success in any direction means work; —hard and; persistent work. Such work calls) for a healthy body; it calls for) an unclouded brain. One of the chief essentials toj health is sobriety. One of the I first requisites of clear and vig- ? . orous thought is sobriety. No; one can accomplish the best results when he is ever so slightly l under the influence of strong! drink. . The young man who wants toj succeed must let whiskey alone.: If he begins by drinking a little,' occasionally, or socially, he soon' reaches the point where it be-' comes a necessity. Nothing! stands still in this world. There! is an inexorable law that compels! progress or retrogression. And I the drinking man exempHfies itel workings more than any other. . But he is always on the losing! side. Even when he is able toj keep his allowance of stimulants! inside of the limit of visible in- 1 toxication, he is bringing himself under the power of an insidious poison that will find some point of attack later on. Much suffering is attributed to other causes thatJtas its inception in the moderate use of alcoholic liquor. This question *of moderate drinking is misleading, in many ways. It deceives its victims with a promise of added strength and it deludes their friends into following their example. >lf you have been unfortunate and have acquired an appetite for liquor or morphine, write Dr. W. V. Daniels, Manager of the Marion Keeley Institute. He wriH tell you how easy it is to be cured. Piles quickly and positively cured with Dr. Shoop’s Ma«ic Ointment. made for Piles alone—and it does thework surely and with sattsraetton. Itching, painful, protruding' er tUfad piles disappear like magic by its use. Large, Nickel Capped glass jars, 50 cents. Sold- and recommended by W. H. Machtrieb. ———o THE SADDEST WORDS. (Chicago Record-Herald.) Os all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: “We’re sued again.”—H. H. Rogers. Os all sad words, “No alimony,” Are .the saddest tome. Years truly. Boni. • 7 / a Os all sad words, the saddest X know Are “Tariff Revision.” Yours, Unele ; Joe. Os all sad words of pea or tongue, The saddest are thebe: “Afad she's so young.”—T. C.?fsatt Congressman Cromer serves notice upon , the Republicans of this district that he does not propose to efface hiinseff politically He has, been sent by mandate of his party to the political shades but he announces upon his go- 7 ing that he expects to return, and the ghost of the Muncie congressman will cause much concern to more than one Republican-with .oongressional aspirations before ar plums aad efiiolaX toon boats haveno , attractions for him at this time. He prefers the sweets of revenge to. the ) confections of public office — .Anderson New« MISS ANNA MACKE IS DEAD* Preble Township Girl Dies After a Few Years Illness. .. Miss Anna Maeke, the fourteen-year-old daughter of Hr. and Mrs. William Macke, who reside' ta Preble township died Tuesday «©rHing art five thirty o’- .| clock, after an four years, death resuking-Awa —■numption, fol- ; lowing a Jhae «eige wf rheumatism. She was a bright yoang lady and had a hoot of friends who will mourn their loss deeply. The funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at two o’clock at the Preble Lutheran church, Rev. Klausing officiating, and interment will be made in the Lutheran cemetery. , o Famous Strike Breakers. ,The most famous strike breakers in the land are Dr. King’s New Life Pills. When liver and bowels go on strike, , they quickly settle the trouble, and. tha , purifying work goes right on. Best cure for constipation, headache and t J dizziness. 25c at Blackburn Pharmacy. I at the sneeze stage.” j