Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 49, Decatur, Adams County, 7 February 1907 — Page 2

*THE WILD BALSAM APPLE. Ita Seed Holders Are Suggestive of Lace Purses. In the brooks of autumn in certain places many little lacelike bags may be seen drifting along with the current or stranded by the shore. They are the inner coats or bodies of the wild balsam appies (Ecbinocystls lobata) which have dropped from the vines overhanging th? stream and now float lightly away with their large seeds. The green prickly bag of the balsam apple itself began to form in late summer. and by autumn it has withered and faded to a pale straw color. We may see the trailing vines with their shrunken pods decorating the brookside bushes far into the winter. The outer coat of the pod gradually rots away, and the inner bag or seed car- ' rier is now released and exposed as a delicate, webby network of tough fibers. A thin skin or membrane fills up the space between these meshes, but that also falls away through ths action of water and the winter storms until only the ball-like tissue of the “purse” is left. These little purses, being extremely light and buoyant, float far and wide over the submerged swamp lands in late autumn, carrying the seeds with them and so planting the vine in new situations. If, however, we take these seeds home with us and plant them there, Mother Earth will suitably reward us in the following year with vines of our own. They will spring up and spread rapidly until all the stone walls and garden fences are decorated with the tracery of their stems and star shaped leaves. —St Nicholas. GOLD AND THE SEA. 1 Why the Metal la Shipped In Bara Rather Than In Coin. , “When the banks ship gold across the Atlantic,” said a banker, “they prefer to ship It in -bars rath< than in coin. It loses less that way.” “It loses less?** “Yes, sir. If $1,000,000 in gold coins is shipped across the sea it is only $809,800 on its arrival. It loses from twelve to fifteen ounces, about S2OO, .through abrasion, through knocking about with the motion of the waves. The sea makes, gold lose-weight, you. see, the same as it does human beings Gold bars lose less. In fine weather they will only lose about SIOO to each million. In the ugliest weather they don’t lose over $l5O, whereas In like conditions gold coins have been known to lose S3OO. As go Id shipments of $lO,000,000 often occur, to make these shipments In gold bars Instead of-gold coin is a saving of SI,OOO or more. It is odd to think when you cross in one of those gold laden ships that every wave that hits the boat clips off 10 to 15 cents from its golden cargo.”—Philadelphia Bulletin. Cruel, but Heceeeary, The Eskimos dread the winter and take early precautions to provide against famine. As the season approaches the great ’herds of reindeer migrate southward, and the walrus or the seal are all that iremaln tat food. . 'Xhen an to hf intis' blowing the. walrus Is easily found on the outer edge of the Ice paeki; When it is blowing off the shore, however, the ice packs . sail out to serflwiftf the walruses on • them. The natives then class their - numbers In a Jist from the strongest to the weakest The food that is in store is divided up, the weakest having the smallest quantity, the strongest the largest Thus the mightiest hunters ' have strength to provide for the others. It is a cruel system, but nevertheless a necessary one. If all were weak, • all would die; if some are strong, they Will save many of the weak.

I Th* Largest Pipe. What is described as the largest pipe In the world is valued at £B,OOO and is counted as one of the most remarkable pieces of carving in existence. The pipe is made of one solid piece of meerschaum and represents the landing of Columbus. There are twentyfour figures in the scene, each one four inches high. The carver who executed this masterpiece is dead, and, as the demand for this sort of work has nearly died out, it is practically impossible to find a man to duplicate it—London Telegraph. / Mouth Ulcers. Little ulcers that appear in the mouth from time to time are exceedingly annoying and painful. An old fashioned household remedy is alum, the powder or crystals being applied to the yellow center. But this is a bitter, nasty dose. A physician has prescribed the use of a saturated solution of potassium chlorate, applied every two hours. “Saturated solution” means as much potassium chlorate as can be dissolved ig a certain amount of water. * - Lepera and the Law. The Norman-English laws enacted that a leper had neither power to sue in any court nor to inherit property. During his lifetime he was permitted to enjoy the usufruct of any property in his possession at the time he was ’found guilty ” so to speak, of leprosy, but all rights of disposition over it ho lost Autobiography of a Family Man. I was born in New York and went to Boston to be born again. For the first twenty-one years of my life I was known as the son of my mother, for the next thirty as the husband of my wife and for the last ten years as the father qf my daughter. I claim, therefore, to be a family man.—lndependent ’Tis not the size or grandeur of the structure, but the contentment that abides within, that insures a happy home.— Henry Sutphin.

SOME TRACTION LINE NEWS First Car Made Run to Fort Wayne in Good Time. After three years of trials and tribulations, which has been undergone by the stockholders and officials of the Fort Wayne & Springfield Interurban line, the first link in the electric line that will eventually be constructed from this city to Springfield, O„ was opened for regular traffic this morning. The first car to make the entire run from Decatur to the interurban station in this city arrived at 10:30 o’clock, having made the run of 21.01 miles in one hour and fifteen minutes. On board the car was C. Sheldon and Elmer Fledderjohann, of Decatur, officials of the road. They expressed themselves as delighted with the fine showing made by the first car to be run on the regular schedule. Upon its arrival in this city the car was boarded by Frank J. Kleekamp, the cbmpan’s attorney and one of the principal stockholders of this city, who witnessed the operation of the car with satisfaction.

On board the car, besides the officials, were a number of passengers who were picked up along the route. Returning the car left here at 11 a. m., being thirty minutes late on account of some trouble experienced with a cross-over switch near the corner of Main and Calhoun streets. The cars will come in on Calhoun street, running to Main, thence from Main to Clinton, north on Clinton to Columbia, and to the interurban station on riarrion street. —Fort Wayne News. — o* FOR THE FEBRUARY TERM Which Begins Next Monday—Jury to Report in Two Weeks— Mar- , riage License issued. The February term of the Adams Circuit court will convene Monday and a continuous session of eighteen weeks will follow, there being no vacation between the February and April terms. The jury commissioners met at the clerk’s office this morning and selected the following men to serve as petit jurors for the February terms: Henry Haugh, Union; William M. Dillman, Jefferson; William Fleetwood, Wabash; Christ Marbach, Union; Albert Bracht, Kirkland; August Worthman, Preble; Charles Helm,* Washington; Henry Barkley, Washington; William Jaebker, Preble; William Bleberich, Preble; A. J. Reynolds, French, and Isaac Teeple, Jefferson. They will report for duty two weeks from Monday on February 18. A marriage license has been issued to Roy Ellis Heller, aged nineteen, and Louise Alice Scherry, aged eighteen, both of Kirkland township. Judge Erwin has been conducting court at Bluffton this week, acting as special judge in a sensational divorce case.

JOINS THE HARRIMAN CROWD Frank Robison Accepts Position in Engineer Corps. Frank Robison, for some time a resdent of this city, left this morning for Salt Lake City to take a position in the engineering corps of the Harriman lines.'"Mr. Robison will make the trip byway of Fort Wayne and in all probability his location in the west will be permanent. While for some time Mr. Robison has not been engaged in this sort of work, yet he is perhaps better equipped for it than any other for many years this was his profession. He started into railroad engineering from the ground up, spending six months in charge of a section crew and going from that work by slow degrees to the very highest grade of work in the business. His experience will fit him to cope with any problem that may confront him in his new position. Mr. Robison’s family 'will remain in the city for the summer at least and will not make arrangements to leave until later. —Bluffton Banner. ■—a —■■ ■ Attorneys Abe Simmons, F.t- C. Dailey, Levi Mock and W. H. Eichhorn are home from Indianapolis, < where yesterday they made the second oral argument of the Studabaker-Fay-lor case before the appellate court The three former are attorneys for Faylor and Mr. Eichhorn for D. D. Studabaker. It will be several days before a decision will be handed down by the court. —Bluffton Banner. Two bachelor girls were in the postoffice recently talking about the men. One remarked that she wouldn’t marry a man who swore or drank, chewed or smoked tobacco. The other said that all that kind had married long v ago, and if she didn’t change her mind she’d always be an old maid. Noth are thinking about the matter. Future development will show whether or\ot they will hold to their Ideals.

FURNACE COMPANY 18 MOVING Nine Men Working at Whipstock Factory—Waring Glove Company Pushing—Van Camp Busy. The Krick & Tyndall Company are running on full time, thirffe odd employees being busy •taking’ large sewer tile for shipment to various points in Indiana, Ohio and Michigan. This plant is the second largest in the state and for ■' equipment links first. They are now arranging' for still greater improvements. rAh vated side track for dumping Coal will be put into operation. This little bit of railroad building will cost .-them $1,500, but when complete will save them an average cost of $4 a car for unloading coal. Last year they consumed 160 cars of coal and. this year the amount estimated will be 200 cars, so thd actual saving will be great, besides the time. They are also going to install a 150-horse power corless engine. The Decatur Furnace Company are moving into their new buildings this week. Several cars of their stock has already arrived from Angola and by the end of the week it is thought that all machinery will be under roof in this city. It will take a month, perhaps, to install everything for running and after that time it is expected to make this industry one of the best in its line. Their furnace is a success, the one being operated in this office heats a room 22x132 feet and does it with less luel than three stoves did any winter previous. It is the intention of the company to push the manufacturing of these furnaces to the limit. The Whipstock and Handle Factory, a . new Decatur industry located in the Van Camp building, known to our people as the old Lynch factory, is busy making an exceptionally good whip stock and hatchet handle. Nine men besides Mr. York, the manager, is employed by this little factory and they are not idle a minute. I The output of the Waring Glove Co. for the next eight months is already sold and now that institution with its 100 employees are trying to satisfy a hungry horde of wholesalers who bought, hoping for early shipments. Their Huntington factory is likewise pushed with orders. The Van Camp Machine Works is doing a rushing business, the lean being given the Van Camp cistern top. Mail orders come daily and in quantities for this special piece of iron. The general business of this concern is growing rapidly and additional room will soon be necessary to keep pace with their business. The Bluffton school board has decided ■ to abandon the summer grade schools which have been conducted in that city for several years and the summer season will be given over entirely to vacation. - ■' ENJOY AN EVENING OF MUBIC Happy Event Occur* at the William Scherer Home. The hospitable home of Mr. and Mrs. William Scherer, near Monroe, was a scene of a happy time Thursday evening. The event included a six o’clock dinner, one of the Scherers’ famous feasts, followed by an evening ' of music, the principal actor being Prof. Wlthaus of Berne, one of the ' most famous pianists and violinists in the country. This noted musician has been a music student for years, ! studied abroad and appeared before nearly all the crowned heads of Europe. His health failed and he recent- | ly located at Berne, coming from Chi- . cago. Others present were Mr. Wil- j bur Nussbaum of Berne, Jacob Kalver . ’’■nd Phil Macklin of this city, Miss Effie Reicheldeifer of Geneva, and : Messrs. Murray Scherer and Leonard 1 Smith and Miss Ethel Smith of Monroe. I Another enjoyable feature of the evening was two pretty solos sang by ’ little Miss Ona Davis. o After eluding the officers all day ( yesterday, Fred Blazer was captured j by Officers Ed Green and Sam Frank ( last night at twelve o’clock at his , home on Sawdust avenue, he being ( found in bed at that time. He was lodged in jail and was arraigned before Squire J. H. Smith this morning to j answer to charge of provoke and j plead guilty and was assessed a fine ■ of a dollar and costs, amounting in ( all to nine dollars and thirty cents. , Being unable to settle the amount or •give security, he was returned to jail ( where he will board it out with Sher- , iff Meyer. Mother Grays sweet Powders for ' Children, used by Mother Gray, a nurse in Childrens' Heme, New York, breaks up Colds in 2 4hours, cure Feverishness Headache, Stomach Troubles, Teething Disorders, and Destroy Worms. At all 1 druggists, 25c. Sampl mailed FREE. Address Allen S. Olmstead, ließoy, N. X.

THEY MAY MEET THE DEMANDS Controversy Between Rockford and Chattanooga For the Fort Wayne and Springfield. Dr. P. T. Walters, T. Leininger, S. E. Evans, Frank Hlsey, and A. Bebout, composing a committe representing the citizens of the community in and about Chattanooga, 0., were in the city today, holding a conference with W. H. Fledderjohann and other officials of the Ft. Wayne & Springfield Interurban company in regard to the extension of the line on south, and what the company would expect of the people in that community, in relation, to having the line run through the town of Chattanooga Mr. Fledderjohann intimated to the committee what the company would expect and the committee seemed favorably inclined toward the same and stated they they could meet the demands. Untler the present condition of affalrs lhe company now have two proposed routes south. One goes through . Pleasant Mills, Willshire, Rockford, Mercer and Celina, while the other goes through Pleasant Mills, Willshire, Chattanooga, Mercer and Celina. Which of the two routes they will decide upon, Mr. Fledderjohann is unable, at present, to state. However, the fight for the line among the southern towns is getting warm. o WALL STREET FINANCIERS Many Indiana People Writing for Place*—The President to Speak at Canton, Ohio. «— ■ ■—<

Washington, Feb. 1. —A number of Indiana people are writing to Wallington in the hope of being appointed to posttlpns as inspectors under the new pure food law, apparently not knowing that to obtain such a place it is necessary to first pass the civil servicq ; ewninatlon. The first examination for this* work will be held on February 5. As all the places are thoroughly covered by civil service it is absolutely impossible to land such jobs by political influence. ■ i o SHE WILL GO TO OKLAHOMA Mrs. Foster of Wincheser Street is to Leave Us. So far as we are concerned, Marshal Green and The Democrat are at peace with the world. This truce of peace is caused by the fact that the word is out that Mrs. Fester of Winchester street “boarding and rooming” fame is packing her household goods and in a few days will leave Decatur for Oklahoma. The residents of Winchester street will not shed a very copious stream of crocodile tears over this departure. Os course, they will all miss her —and some other people will miss her—but they will try and worry along some way. —o ■■—' IN FAVOR OF THE LANDLORD Representative Vizard and Dr. Hurty Have a Round—Bingham Likely to Win Out Representative Vizard of Adams, is a physician with a large practice. Dr. Hurty is secretary of the state board of health and when Dr. Hurty’s bill was up for consideration Dr. Vizard said things. He charged that Dr. Hurty was a persistent and obnoxous lobbyist. Dr. Hurty said that he had saved Dr. Vizard’s life when the latter was suffering from small-pox, and this was the return he was getting. Dr. Vizard declares that Dr. Hurty’s life-saving story is a vision of Dr. Hurty’s mind. And that is where the matter stands up to this time. The men do not speak as they pass. o MRS. SALEM CLENDENEN IS DEAD Was Well Known in South Part of the County. Elcee Clendenen, wife of Salem Clendenen died Monday afternoon at four o’clock at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Sarah J. Hart, of Adams county, three and one-half miles west of Geneva. For a number of years Mr. and wife resided in Portland on North Meridian street, but last spring on account of her failing health, they went to the home of Mrs. Hart to reside. The deceased was a daughter of Stephen and Mary Prouty and was bom near Mansfield, Ohio, March 9, 1836. The husband and two children survive, John R. Clendenen and Mrs. Hart. Funeral services were held Wednesday morning at eleven o’clock from the residence conducted by Rev. S. A. Armstrong of Salamonia, with burial in the Brown cemetery near Geneva. —Portland CommercialReview. ■. / • u ’Mu- Vu&z - ' 2 ’ '‘ » . aji ■'vr*' '

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. RAILROAD LEGISLATION COMING I • , At Last the Paper Trusts Are to be Taken to Task by Congressional Investigation. * 4 Washington, Feb. 2. —It is evident that the new system of meat inspection provided for by the legislation of the last session of Congress is here to stay. Members of the house committee on agriculture who were opposed to some features of the legislation of last year are now ready to admit that the law is working admirably. So well satisfied is the house, with the law that no changes were Suggested by the house committee. Washington, Feb. 2.—There i/now full confirmation of the report that the president is preparing to enter on a new railroad legislation campaign. Within a short time he will send to the Interstate Commerce Commission a letter in which he will outline in a general way his idea of the research the commission shall make with the view of laying the foundation for legislative action at the. next session of congress. This letter will be made public. It is authoritatively stated that no one except the spectacular need take fright at the program the president is working out. Washington, Feb. 2. —Once more the paper combinations of the country are to be placed on the grill by the federal government. The judiciary committee of the house will report favorably the resolution of Representative Williams directing the commissioner of corporations to make a thorough investigation of these concerns. The investigation will not only affect newspapers which pay $26,000,000 annually for the paper they consume, but book publishers and boxboard, writing, and other paper manufacturers who consume at least $71,000,000 worth of paper. o COMPILES CHURCH STATISTICS Miss Stubbs’ First Report is Rather Interesting. Indianapolis, Feb. 2. —The first o»cial statistics compiled by Miss Mary A. Stubbs, chief of the Indiana bureau of statistics, concerns the churches of the state. The compilation shows that the six-ty-two denominations, or sub-denomi-nations in the state, have a total church membership of 930,855. In all there are 6,808 congregations, 6,740 of which have churches of their own. The church property in the state was valued in 1906 at $24,221,860, and the amount paid to support the denominations was $4,011,255.66,. The amount paid to the support of the Sunday schools was $301,838.17 and the amount paid for the support of home missions was $195,581.23. The number enrolled in the Sunday schools was 578,015 and tjie number enrolled i in the parochial schools was 42,571. The salaries paid out to the ministers in all the congregations or meetings amounted to $2,236,45).79. This 1 amount, taken with the number of ministers given, 4,519, would show j the average salary a year to be just i about SSOO. j

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BIRTHDAY OF A PIONEER LADY Grandma Teeple of Geneva—Came to County in 1833. The 73rd birthday anniversary of Grandma Teeple was celebrated January 25 by the children congregating at her home on Railroad street, where she prepared dinner for them and their families. The dinner she prepared herself without any assistance, and wouldn’t have it any other way, and in this she is spryer than many women much younger in years. Grandma Teeple is yet spry and enjoys the very best of health and her children are ndver happier than when gathered about her in these reunions, and Grandma—well, actions speak louder than words, and if you don’t believe that she is happy, too, then you are not a good judge Grandma Teeple is one of the old settlers, ccming to this county about the year 1833, when there were wolves and to be seen amid the uncleared and sparsely setled forests. Those of the children present were: John Case, wife and family of Willshire; Isaac Teeple and: famly and S. H. Teeple and family We wish Grandma Teeple many more happy at home birthdays with her family and continued healh and happiness.—Geneva Herald. o—J — Children who are delicate, feverish and cross will get immediate relief from Mother Gray’s Sweet Powders for act on the liver, making a sickly child strong and healthy. A certain cure for worms. Sold by all druKjrists. as rant.