Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 39, Decatur, Adams County, 28 November 1907 — Page 5

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‘T THE BANQUET Given by the Adams County Association for Judges t .jfcrwin and Merryman. ■ — v r . jfeastmaster and Gentlemen: • Wbei this program wan submitted to me. I noticed that all the names, with the exception of two, had “judge” iHHM Ttie comm l ttee tol( * me they wantld just so many speeches, and flußdn t have judges enough to go round, bo they had put on two real bwyfrs Notwithstanding that compliotffct, 1 protested against being put on the program, but they told me that at a banquet at a certain city In InrllitW a few nights ago, the man who maM the hit of the evening was one anaanced that he didn’t intend to speech, and as I couldn’t make I had a chance to make a Bui Mr. Toastmaster, as I have sat at this festal board; as I have listened r to Bee excellent speeches; as I have I looked at the different faces here assembled. I have grown in a somewhat reminiscent mood, which is not alTrayafconducive to the best of spirits, pleasaDt surroundIt seems to be but a span of dijßsince we met in this banquet MM on a similar occasion, but I fwHpve that age has crept upon some in the past six years, the hairs Whiter, and those that are left, arein sparsely settled neighborhoods; and if the roll were called of those who were with us on that occasion, it would he shown, that time and death with relentless havoc, will cisSm. their own. But such is the and —to my subject, and I with hesitation, so broad a sutfcct as one that deals with the citiaei ship of the lawyer. I can state no Supposition, nor aver no truth, that ; sou did not learn when you opened Sou first books in the study of therecience of law. 1a In it’s comprehensive sense, fiHfh's an of sequences, thus theßaw of Nature is the will of God, the statute books of nature, forftnan’s use, pleasure and delight we and the hill and dale, the mounand the lilies in the valley. Iljainore prosaic law, governing the of men in human affairs, is Wkamade, representing the supreme of man-njaffe boundaries, avertogfwhat is right, prescribing remedit® and penalties for wrongs. And HSBese man-made laws, lies the safety of the citizen and the welfare of a ttnatry, lawyer is one who is skilled in i th® knowledge of these, and the one VH nearest approaches the perfect ?ffltli s of manhood, who lives to Woaote the brotherhqfid of man and Oto rules established by the Creator c£ |be universe, is not only a good tawer, but the best lawyer and the B and highest type of citizen. err is human, and the frailties of auman nature, the difficulty of minds to understand the rules sequences of the affairs of life. Stofs occasion for the citizenship of ®°ke, who by superior attainments, **l; best able to demonstrate and explain, and thus, the lawyer is a necBf. But this difference between

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the trained and untrained mind, the ' developed power of reasoning, and the want of it, together with innate Imagination, and a lack of sober thought, has brought upon the lawyer in all ages, unjußt criticism and unfair censure, and as one black feather may prevent an otherwise bird of beauty from being eligible to entry in the fanciers list; as one black sheep may cast suspicion on the flock, so one unscrupulous lawyer may cause the people to look aßkance upon the profession and say the lawyers are a dishonest lot. If, perchance, they point with fiendish glee to such an one and what man might not grievously err In life —we answer with modest and becoming pride, that no walk in life, no business or profession, contains more honorable and upright men. No manmade law in all the world, no act upon the statute book in any land, that does not show the handiwork of the man that’s skilled in law; no provision within the lids of any book for the bereaved widow and the helpless orphan child, that was not inspired by men of the greatest of all professions—the lawyers—no business of any magnitude; no undertaking that’s startling to the world; no wheel of progress moves, but what the lawyer’s knowledge was the guidance of the effort. To him come the stories of infelicities, sorrows and afflictions; within his breast, mayhap, are locked the secrets, which laid bare, might cause the finger of scorn to point, where respect is only shown. He’s the minister’s friend, the doctor’s counsel, the merchants adviser, and the help of many a weary, stormtossed soul on the sea of life. He acts without fear, and though the laborer is worthy of his hire, he often acts without favor, conscious that in right doing there is self satisfaction, unconscious that he is demonstrating to the world, that “an upright man is the noblest work of God” and that the lawyer Is the safety valve of His universe.

Notwithstanding the innate suspicion of laymen, these facts are recognized by men in every avenue of life, and that is why, I admonish my brethren, to avoid doing, in some unguarded moment, any act that might bring discredit or cast suspicion upon the profession. There is much expected, of the lawyer, as he not only makes the law 6, but, when you stop to think about it he executes them as well, and that is why he should be a model of citizenship, a man of morals, his integrity undoubted, and his character beyond reproach. The lawyer with these essentials of developed manhood, will see luster to his career, honor to his profession, respect, of his fellowmen and the love of the community in which he resides, and thus, God-fearing and Christ-loving, by precept and example, he may say to every man In every highway and byway of live, as Thanatopsis says: “So live, that when thy summons comes to join the innumerable

caravan that moves to the realms of shade, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry slave at night Scourged to his dungeon, but soothed and sustained By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.” o —■ HAS ISSUED A CALL. Democratic State Committee to Meet Friday. Indianapolis, Nov. 26. —Chairman William H. O’Brien, of the Democratic state committee, has issued a call for a meeting of the committee at the Grand Hotel, in this city, next Friday, at 10 o’clock, for the purpose of fixing the dates for holding the conventions in the various districts to ele«t district chairmen, who will be members of the state committee, when it is 're-organized, January 8. The basis of representation for each county to the district conventions will also be fixed This call is issued in line with the announced determination of the Democrats to get into the next campaign early, in fact, before the Republicans get started. It is understood to be the purpose of the Democrats to hold early state and national conventions, and thus place themselves on the aggressive side of the fight instead of taking a defensive At the Mauonee senooi house last Friday evening was held the necktie social. The crowd was large and the ties sold very reasonable. Afterwards boys had to hem the aprons. The one that sewed the best hem was given a prize wMch was a pair of black socks and which was won by Charles Newheart, of Preble. Then they voted on the prettiest girl and this prize was a box ff bonbons which was won by Etta ETzey. try democrat want ads.

IT IS VERY FILLING The More Candy a Nation Uses the Less Alcohol— Some Other Pointers. “Give the children plenty of pure sugar, taffy and butterscotch and they’ll have little need of cod liver oil,” says Dr. Woods Hutchinson in the Christmas Woman’s Home Companion. “In short, sugar is, arter meat, bread and butter, easily our next most Important and necessary food. You can put the matter to a test very easily. Just leave off the pie, pudding and other deserts at your lunch or mid-day dinner. You’ll be asonished to find how quickly you’ll feel ‘empty’ again, and how ‘unfinished’ the meal will seem. You can't get any working man to accept a dinner pail without pie in it. And he’s absolutely right. The only thing that can take the place of 'sugar here is beer or wine. It is a significant fact that the free lunch counters run in conection with bars furnish every imaginable thing except sweets. Even the restaurants and lunch grills attached to saloons or bars often refuse to serve dfsserts of any sort. They know their, business! The more sugar or sweets a man takes at a meal, the less alcohol he wants. Conversely, nearly every drinking man “will tell you that he has lost his taste for sweets. The more candy a nation consumes the less alcohol. “The United States government buys pure candy by the ton and ships it to the Philippines to be sold at cost 'to the soldiers in the canteens. Ail men crave it in the tropics, and the more they get of it, the less ‘vino’ and “whisky they want. ‘ "In fine, the prejudice against sugar is horn of puritanism and stinginess, equal parts. Whatever children cry for must be bad for them, according “to the pure doctrine of original sin; besides, it costs money. I know families in the rural districts yet where the head of the family groans over every dollar’s worth of sugar that comes into the house as a sinful and unwholesome luxury.” o MUST STOP FOR CROSSINGS. Steam and Electric Lines Must Obey the Rule. Indianapolis, Nov. 26. —Hereafter all locomotive engineers and interurban motormen will be required to stop their trains or cars at all railroad crossings outside of the limits of cities and towns in the state, where the crossing is not guarded by a switchman, or by a mechanical device recognized by the laws of the state as making the crossings safe for the trains to cross them without coming to a stop. This decision was announced today by the state railroad commission, Commissioner William J. Wood having given his opinion on the matter. A conference of railroad managers and attorneys was held some time ago and it was unanimously determined by the counsel and the members of the commision that stops should be ipade at all unprotected crossings in the state that lay outside the cities and towns. The question of whether criminal action •should be instituted against motormen or enginemen who did not obey this ruling of the commission, was decided and Commissioner Wood announced that the commission would apply the criminal statute wherever the ruling was disregarded outside of town. - — PRESENT PETITION TOMORROW Attorney Amsden Here Today Securing More Names. Attorney W<lM. Amsden, of Marion, was here Tuesday, securing more signatures to the petition for a pardon for Joseph Osborn, who was sent up for life from here for the murder of his father-in-law, John Busenbark. Mr. Amsden went to Indianapolis yesterday and presented the petition to Governor Hanly, in hopes that same will be acted upon at the meeting of the board of pardons on December 4. The petition is a strorg one, being signed by 3,000 of Joe’s neighbors and friends from Grant county and 500 from this county. Tint list here includes every member of the jury who convicted him, the court, attorneys, county officers, business men and many of his former neighbors and acquaintances. He wxs convicted December 24, 1903. . —o The funeral of Bet Houk was held Sunday morning at ten o’clock at the Lutheran chursh at Hoagland. Rev. Rainer officiated. A large crowd was present and Rev. lalner spoke at length concerning th* past life of the deceased, which he jortrayed in a beautiful manner. Intrrment was made in the Antioch cemetery, The floral offerings were beautfui and profuse. The graduating class of the Decatur high school attended the funeral in a body.

PRESIDENT’S LETTER Cause of His Third Term Letter—Rural Route Service. Washington, November 26.—The attack made by Representative Charles N. Fowler, of New Jersey, on President Roosevelt and secretary of the treasury Cortelyou, which was published broadcast, astounded administration officials. Mr. Fowler has been chairman of the house committee on banking and currency for several years and was slated for reappointment to the same chairmanship on the organization of the new congress. That he should have come out so strongly against the administration and its plans for the relief of the financial situation indicates that Mr. Roos# velt, if he has any definite suggestions for currency reform, must look to some other spokesman in congress. It also indicates that Mr. Fowler will oppose any plan other than his own for meeting necessities of conditions that will be discussed in the president’s annual message now being printed. Mr. Fowler has always been very determined in supporting his own views, and his uncompromising attitude and the attitude of other financial experts in congress has heretofore prevented any possibility of agreement. Washington, November 26.—The story of how President Roosevelt came to write the letter to cobinet officers asking hem to instruct officeholders under them to refrain from working for a third term nomination for him is not without interest. One week ago today two United States senators from western states called on the president and said in substance: “We have been trying to do something for Taft in our state, but we find it impossible to make any headway because your federal appointees, who are really in control of the situation, are determined to nominate you for a third term. They will not do anything for Taft, but are very active for you.” “That must be stopped,” said the president, and that afternoon he called in several of the federal officeholders here, including First Assistant Postmaster General Hitchcock, who has been active for a third-term movement. The same afternoon the letter, the text of which was made public aturday afternoon, was written by the president. Washington, November 26.—T0 meet inquiries which have been received at the postoffice department in regard to the business being done on the leading rural delivery routes throughout the country, Assistant Postmaster-General DeGraw has submitted to the postmaster-general a list of 993 routes in the several states on which 25,000 or more pieces of mail were handled during the three months ended June 30, 1907, together with the value of stamps canceled on mail collected on such routes.

SHE IS BETTER TODAY But Still Very Sick—No Other Cases Reported— Is in Country. Mrs. L. B. Brokaw, of this city is reported as being very sick and con’ftned to her bed at the home of Mr. and Mrs. S. O. Bowser south of this city the result of eating oysters Sunday at noon. Mr. and Mrs. Brokaw early Sunday morning drove to the Bowser home to spend the day and at noon when dinner was served oysters was one of the courses and as Mrs. Brokaw in very fond of oysters she partook very heartily of the same. However, this particular dish did not seem to be relished by any of the others, and Mrs. Brokaw was forced to eat alone. About five o’clock in the afternoon Mrs. Brokaw was seized with severe cramps and in a short time commenced to vomit and was deathly sick. Dr. Parrish, of Monroe, was summoned and at once pronounced it a case of poisoning and proceeded to 4reat the patient accordingly. However, she was no better yesterday and Dr. S. D. Beavers was summoned and he also diagnosed the case thfe same as Dr. Parrish. Mrs. Brokaw was reported as resting some easier today and is apparently out of danger. The oysters eaten by Mrs. Brokaw were of the tub variety and were purchased in this city. However it is rather queer that Mrs. Brokaw should be the only victim when many other families eat oysters from the same shipment. PNEUMONIA FOLLOWS A COLD but never follows the use of Foley’s Honey and Tar. It stops the cough, heals and strengthens the lungs and prevents pneumonia. THE HOLTHOUSE DRUG C 0...

TO COMMISSIONERS Who Will Meet and Report —Watkins Divorce Case Set for Trial. From present appearances Judge Merryman's first term will be a busy one, several important cases have been set down for trial. In the case of J. H. Voglewede, guardian for Elizabeth M. Gluting et al, vs. John Gluting et al, partition, an answer was filed by J. H. Voglewede, who is also a party defendant. Effle M. Springer, who’is asking a divorce from her husband, John M. Springer, filed a motion and affidavit for an allowance of expense money. In the matter of Mathias Miller et al petition for drain, same was declared sufficient and L. L. Baumgartner, James M. Wiley and Charles Morrison were named commissioners, ordered to meet at Hirschey and Winteregg’s office at Berne on December 5, to qualify and shall file a report on December 20. The divorce case of John W. Watkins vs. Clara Watkins has been set for trial for Friday, November 29th. In the John H. Beery et al petition for drain, declared sufficient, referred to L. L. Baumgartner, Simeon Bowers and James M. Wiley as drainage commissioners, ordered to meet at clerk’s office December 3rd and report on January 2, 1908. MEETING IN CHICAGO The Time Limit Will Probably Not Exceed Two Weeks. Chicago, Nov. 26. —Clearing house certificates will be a thing of the past two weeks hence. There will be plenty of the actual currency to meet all needs of the holiday business. This is the opinion expressed by leading bankers of New York, Chicago, St. Louis and Kansas City who gathered at the Union league club in this city yesterday for conference. The meeting was called to consider the resumption of currency circulation and whether it would be'hiecessary within the next couple of weeks to extend aid to the western cities. There were present a dozen leading financiers from the east and middle west. At the close James B. Forgan, president of the First National bank of Chicago, Left for Washington, where he will acquaint the president with the sentiment of the conference. While the session was secret it was stated after the close that no definite action was decided on for the resumption of currency payments, but it was the general impression that money could be safely put into circulation in about two weeks, when it was believed that New York situation would he sufficiently cleared up so as not to affect the country.

The Keller Incubator Company received a letter last evening from a man by the name of Mr. Zogg, at Fartland, Oregon, informing them to at once ship to his address one of their three hundred egg machines and a brooder. The shipment will be made at once. To receive letters from this distance goes to show that the Keller incubator is certainly the machine. Monpelier grocers are slated for some fines as the result of the school authorities starting a crusade against the use of tobacco in the schools. Several students have been caught with the goods on them. Already five affidavits have been filed in Justice Nelson's court charging merchants with selling tobacco to minors and from present indications more are to he filed. The first business meeting of the new Indiana-Ohlo base ball league, held at Richmond, was attended by representatives of the Van Wert Anderson, Bluffton, Richmond and Portland teams. Preliminaries were gone over and steps taken to make the league an eight club affair to comprise the towns named together with Huntington. Kokomo. Piqua and Lima, eight to be selected from the list. — Van Wert Bulletin. A mistake was made in Saturday’s issue in stating that the Elks memorial servioes would be held at the lodge room, as the same will be conducted at the opera house. In this way all desiring to attend can be easily accommodated and seats will be afforded all. Remember, the public in general is invited to attend. An excellent program is in order and you will be welcome Indeed.

SOON TO RESUME Demand Money Goes Begging at Three Per Cent. New York, Nov. 27. —New York bankers are expecting a resumption of cash, payments in lieu of the check system which has been employed during the present financial stringency, in a very short time. The return to a strictly cash basis in banking transactions is largely dependent upon the loan rates on money. These rates are steadily declining and call money practically went begging in Wall street at 3 per cent and below. Rates on time loans are high but are gradually being reduced. As Boon as the time loan rate reaches 6 per cent it is believed the bankers will feel assured enough of their psoition to resume cash payments. New circulation from the issue of the new 3 per cent treasury certificates of indebtedness will be available within a few days and this will be an important factor in hastening the return to the usual conditions. While it is declared that the New York banks are in a position to resume currency payments at once, many such predictions have been made within the last few days, they are said to be awaiting assurance from the interior that other cities there have been satisfactorily supplied. So long as the interior demands are heavy the New York banks are inclined to hold their currency in readiness for transfer and to ask the indulgence of their local patrons to the extent of accepting checks which are being handled with comparatively little inconvenience. SHIPPING WHEAT TO THE EAST Big Crop of Northwest is Moving Rapidly. Spokane, Wash., Nov. 27. —Wheat grown in the Palouse and Big Bend . grain belts, south and west of Spokane is now being moved to Puget Sound 'and Columbia-river points for shipment to Asia, Africa and Europe at an average rate of 250 cars a day, while the movement of the apple crop of the Inland Empire estimated to be worth $14,000,000 to the east is on in earnest. Most of the wheat is consigned to Liverpool, Eng., and as soon as it is loaded drafts are drawn on the strength of the bills of lading and money shipped here on them. In this way the railroads and the exporters hope to assist in the importation of gold and currency into Washington. The crop in the 12 wheat producing counties in eastern Washington give the growers 75 cents a bushel or a little more than $30,750,000 this year. o ■ ’ ■ ■ Pursuant to a call by the mayor the council met in special session at eleven o’clock today and adopted a resolution ordering the clerk to draw his warrant for two hundred and forty dollars in favor of Jesse O. Smith who recently secured a contract to tear down the old brick stack at the city plant. By the term of the contract Smith was to receive his money as soon as the work was completed, hence the special meeting. This was the only matter taken up. A man who gave his name as Bert Smith was arrested by Marshal Green yesterday afternoon and arraigned before Squire J. H. Stone this morning where he plead guilty to the charge of public intoxication, and was fined $9.80. Smith is a painter by trade and has been seen drunk on several occasions. On.last night he became violent hence his arrest. Editor V. A. Geiger, who had a wreck with a Fort Wayne street car several weeks ago, in which his auto pushed a street car off the track, and damaged some new cement sidewalk, will be asked by the city to pay for it. The sidewalk board will meet Tuesday evening and the amount of damage will he fixed. It is not believed that it will be such a great amount that he cannot pay it. — Columbia City Post. A BROAD STATEMENT. This announcement is made without any qualifications. Hem-Roid Is the one preparation in the world that guarantees it Dr. Leonhardt’s Hem-Roid will cure any case of Piles. It is in the form of a tablet. It is the only Pile remedy used Internally. It is impossible to cure an established case of Piles with ointments, suppositories, injections, or outward appliancesA guarantee Is issued with every package of Dr, Leonhardt’s Hem-Rotd, which contains a month’s treatment. Go and talk to Holthouse Drug Co. about it. Price $1 00. Dr. Leonhardt Co., Niagara Falls, N. T.