Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 49, Decatur, Adams County, 24 December 1908 — Page 5

STATE ATTORNEY OF Tennessee •f 0 re ’ 4 < ia the s ■fe& wry finest / it' ■■. iuv-forant £ B. ad t S A W r MC ‘ I ! fr i JS% *8 I ►teak ?l i||||i P | I *m»le $ £., — "• fi \ jSsWi?- nc> M OBi ■LJf pwil wBBMj [ ?:. '*■ ■ ■ : HON. LAI’S I>. M’COltD. iT Hon. laps. d. mccord, 1325 Washington, D. C., Ex-Adji. n | * General State of Tennessee, and Sta>’l I Attorney at Nashville, is an ard a l t friend of Peruna. He does not hesit J ] to give public endorsement to this v<3 t excellent remedy. As a tonic Peruna has no superb ■ ’ But it is as a catarrh remedy it I.*l f achieved its world-wide notoriety atl ! ' success. Any catarrh remedy to become p< a inanently effectual in the cure of c:H tarrh must contain tonic and in vigors *1 ing qualities with its anti-eatarrha ] qualities. Catarrh Is always an cxpres-l sion of nerve weakness, either locaf* or general. It is, therefore, important] that a catarrh remedy should possess: reliable invigorating qualities in order to thoroughly rid the system of catarrh. Pe-ru-na for Colds. Hon. R. 8. Ryan, now residing in Xomy, Alaska, was formerly a member of the English House of Parliament tnd Secretary io the late Irish patriot, Charles Stewart Parnell. His Washington address is, New Willard Hotel, Washington, D. C. He writes: “I have used Peruna and can recommend your,remedy as a very effective cure for colds and catarrhal com. plaints.”—R. 8. Ryan. Ask your Druggist for a Free Peruna Almanac for 1909. DEATH IS CERTAIN Mrs. Crill Called to Bedside of Her Dying Mother AT HOAGLAND Woman is About Ninety Years of Age—Sustained a Fall Mrs Frank Crill. of Hammond, who I for many years resided in this city, I vss the recipient of a message TufcsI day to the effect that her mother, I Mrs. Sweet, of Hoagland, was lying at I the point of death and Mrs. Crill and* I daughter, Georgia, left; immediately I for this city, arriving here that evsn--1 ing- They went to at e ght I oclock after visiting a few hours ■'ith I friends here to be at the bedside of I the aged lady who, in all probal: ity I ’’ill die jn the very near future. Mrs. I Sweet, who is about ninety years of I tfe. sustained a fall last snnier ■ which caused internal injuries and | rendered her practically helj! ss. I Since that time her health has grad- ■ "ally declined, assuming dangerous I Proportions of late weeks. She is >ne I of the oldest residents of Allen county I and loved by all who know her It S is thought that had she not euff ed I the fall she would have survived to ■ celebrate her one hundredth '»irtl ay. I Mrs. Crill will remain at Hbag nd 1 ""til the crisis is passed. f■— o — / Miss Merle Burdg will arriv tot or- » from Garrett to remar >er ■ 'Mstmas as a guest of her ar- tB, ;J an d Mrs. A. L. Burdg. 1 Miss Perle Burdg has arriv I 1 me I -br a visit with her parents >id ill 9 fetnrn to resume her scho v. rk J® hi the kindergarten at Ci eir ati ■ Iai »iary fourth. Bort Niblick returned las' i ht ; B o® Quincy, Illinois, to be tl g st P » hi* parents over Christina: a’er B * ‘oh he will return to resit ie his H fcaool work at that place fo ' low ' n S groceries will c sH hristmas from ten o'clock ir 'he II b of the day: F - vMills> Ho ' T ■' l || ~~ —- Fverett H'“ e - I CASTOR IA ■| Infimts <wd Children Kr Yn Din Ahnp BHD V the I — JH V*oWof

THE PLAN OF * l T ° Have Both Cour Township and Option Laws i GOVERNOR’S Arrangements Being For This Gre Event - —— Indianapolis, i nd „ Dec . Antl-saoo. |,, sw _ for consideration by the rt ambers of the l egislature SXwS 1 ;- doi Interring «. t|l «• «. pl.« „„ the special session of the 1 in September. Mr. Minton, r for two local option laws, and a 8 on a theory t PC llquor lawa - ’hen not c It t’d Muen one i ast ad lot repeal directly or by j n a |e former, both will stand. 5 ■n has advanced the idea ; TOElators may enact a law > 1, 1 towns hip and ward locs • hout repealing either dlt ■ implication the county op , fl compromise measure w« t>y Mr. Minton as a mean, . Jig those democrats in the i Je a township and ward , Jed. without interfering, ■ ’• js of those in the countie ' Stations are already M( ] f’ylittK on the saloon quest , <’ tye present law. The pi , P ; 4ed by Mr. Minton vh l fc <ors were considering ft . i - t|on bill in the special i b,l ii not receive consider hiapolis, Ind . Dec. 2 I are being made I I f o r reception and ball to J d.er'lpvernor and Mrs. Thcrt Mai 1 a t the Propylaum di nigh Bionday, January 11. f 1 fair Ibe known as the gove inaugl ball. Several 1 hundre vltatilre to go out. The co tee onjU gementSj he , ade d by d -’h oison, bas already bi the P to a point so near oc tion tht can be said that tl ceiving e j s to contain th, lowing minent Indianapolis zens: -'B«uijamin Harrison, . , \ hltcotfiiey. General and Charles erj Bishop and Mrs. cis, the?. Mr. and Mrs. 1 Haines. and Mrs. W. L. 1 Mr. and Albert B. Anderson and Mrs. U ghton A. Fletchei and Mrs. | er j c m. Ayres, Mi Mrs. Volji\ Malott, Mr. and Thomas Trt, Mr. and Mrs. A ’ tus L. MaMr. and Mrs. John ■ rin, Mr. an-s. John W. Kern , and Mrs. Jq Carey, Mr. and r Evans Woe Mr. and Mrs. I [. rnand Mayet and Mrs. Erne Burford am. an d Mrs. Met . Nicholson. » entire Propyl has been Tied for the occ , and will be itifully decorati f flags and hoi evergreens. A , chestra of tei ncre pieces wil nish the mus ie dancing to t at 10 o’clock, iyffet luncheon be served. TBjtations are issued in a fe» s There w many out-of-tjuests. MARKEIf; DEATH. I “Three years was mark death. A gravej) U gh war ' ing my lungs t< >s. Doctor ' ed to help me, anjhad fled* my husband go drg's Ne* covery." says MrJ Williaf Bac. Ky. "The fj gt . help 3 and improvement un ti]i gained 58 poundjlfght a- v health was fully rj ThF icine holds the 't healir 3 ’ ord for coughs a| ds an g and throat dis<pr s pneumonia. Sold i|guarai , y all dealers. 50c ai|j Tattle free. Here is ReHefwom. If you have pains bac'Cary, Bladder or Ki rou tnd want a certain, ph h e rre for woman's ills. t r hery’S Australian-Leaf. It i“ e jev-er-failing regulator. U g> or bv mail 50 cts. S ige FREE. Address, Th<b e ay Co., Leßoy, N. Y. o— —_ The date for the Knights of Pythias loield in Hartford City has ged from February 4 to FctThe postponement w-as maary owing to the inability and lodge officers to be piing another district meet inf. Cloudy tonight andy; warmer-. JgnjsM.

IS love’s Vibrometer.« iti her f pr,jfessor >" she said, toying |«y»lng to a scie C nUfi tantl> refenin 8 i’ance v, „„ ’ tific caus «- If. for io y^Vgi;evoM offec, i »er on ei K 1 10 glve nie even a i-’ you w‘ e ® nniversar y of our wed- : 'ind that “th eiC h“ Se yonrself on the de n on X I, impresSentlv str n ain . had not been suf-•Mdbe-well’,?h<>reaS yonr aetlOTl * ’ w ould be just horShoU u ld Say that mental <ctare;. an<rther toeotlon blurred the ) BtUl be horrid - Toni aaantlmen £ materiaUsm that an nament has gone out of you.” ssa] Sentiment: You mean sentimentalRtic innf>’ f‘ Lr hat ls Ben timentalisml .nufaeturtd emotion. I Bay mann .beemre.t fw R nuth e ’ blul - anger, fear, pity. And hll f . , T nilln y. couples does it tie up in t' oll / e- h' ‘‘ l ., chaiQS who are not fitted >bvJv . *?, er? With what result: i.lsery and divorce.” ture'Then you don’t believe in marriage i is? love. You would scorn those hapases moments of lovers In the moont o? fit, among flowers, listening together :ting. St s a,ns ° r sweet music.” doesJV' y n ° t say with Shakespeare, ‘To Ltinr ■ Jascivl " us Pleasing of a lute? 1 ‘ ant y< ”L that 811 these things induce Mn. salon, but is mere passion a suf thoent reason for marriage?” idin:*°f course not!” (indignantly), scientist, where he reaches a 5 . andatlon for his faith, stands on lav ° Ck ' Th . ere ’ 8 where I stand in rmo' “ a,ter of lovp - w e have attained »PO- a knowledge of what love is. We Platy not always be able to determine between two people in a t it fficient degree to warrant marriage, ! tt t I believe the day will come when fhe.W’ 11 be measured to a scale, just as . measure our weight, temperature Ise.” r In other words, a trained nurse puti wtove thermometer on our hearts and i lids zero, temperate, grand passion, cou ihe case may be. People who sub Esicf 1° BUI h absurdity are indeed fit tc ion. under ’he care of a nurse. A lunoasylum is the proper place sot an.” in 200 marriages 100 of th# pp'-oiples are brought together by youi fe teonlight. flowers, music and such Bas e; the other hundred by a—well, call L vibrometer. In the first hundred hie je® we cannot expect all to turn out rno PPily. bet us assume that sixty are ( PPy. thirty unhappy and ten are di e reed. Now, if every case pronounced t»mn) the vibrometer to l>e genuine loveMey, 95 per cent, to allow for errors—iroul'ns out happily if the amatory oscilK>ni|fl° ns continue through a long life, Mild you admit the scientific method be the better?’ *Oh, certainly! And if you should c imp a gas into me from one of youi ■Tabominable machines that would make ke soar in the sky I would admit that FjOU are conjurer.” “Now, I have said that we know ,yhat love is. It has been defined by . Ir. Scheibler of the Berlin Institute f Electro Therapeutics thus: ‘The os?r. illations In the interior of a person's !r. iody, as may be seen in the case of I Vibratory attraction, are in harmony—\u>hat Is to say, they are at the first ~ movement In complete accordance with the oscillations in the interior of some ,other person s body. 1 “Oscillations! That's a man's love. ’ And the more women between which eshe may oscillate the better, I suppose." >rt “Please don't interrupt. ‘lt is, of I; course, necessary that the reactionary . sentiment’ “Sentiment? You mean clockwork.” —“‘in the case' of the two sub- ' jects' 1 “Automatons.” —“‘should be of an agreeable Mi ture’”— “A grin painted on their faces." —“ ‘since the two vibrations facilitate the movement of all the atoms which in this way accumulate and emit their rays without disturbing the diffusion’ ’’— “I suppose each heart is a lighted tallow candle?” —“ ‘this it is which causes the sentiment known as sympathy’ "Machine sympathy. I'd stick a pin in a man who would offer me such sympathy.” —“‘and which subsequently causes love.'" , “Oh. heavens! And this is love! Then I suppose cotton mills where shuttles are continually vibrating are brimful of romances. And think of the cases in watchmakers’ shops where the watches all hang together to be regu lated. How they must vibrate for one another! And is this the kind of love you are offering me?” ’ “My love for you is not a offer. It can only exist with yours. “Do bring the vibrometer and let us see whether we are lovers.” “There is yet no such instrument. The nearest we can get to It is by the touch.” taking her hand. “Do you feel a thrill’ That’s vibration in unison. This pressing my lips on yours is a more sensitive test.” o “I think I do feel it just a little. „ ■Terhaps a cardiac juxtaposition - “A what?’ "I will illustrate. I fold you in mj arms so that your heart will beat against mine. Thus. “Oh. professor, the three tests tog “futon reactionary vibratory aentl“•l don’t care what you call it H’s too nice tor a C ythtor iTCHßL j

FIRES ANDJNSURANCE What Being Burned Out May Mean to a Business. DAMAGE ONE CANNOT COVER. Enormou* Losses Caused by the Suspension of Operations and the Drifting Away of Trade That Are Not Appreciated by the General Public. “I suppose you heard that Blank & Co. were burned out from the roof to the basement last night?" remarks the man In the car. “No!" exclaims the friend who hasn't seen the morning paper. "I suppose they carried insurance?” “Oh, yes—a hundred thousand of it!" returns the first speaker, at which his ' friend settles back with the comment; that everything is all right then. This is the layman's conclusion almost invariably. Some big concern burns out, but with insurance to an , amount seeming to cover the loss the i average man is disposed to feel that it; is all right. He doesn’t stop to think of the enormous risks of a business which cannot be covered by insurance and whieh for weeks, months or years after a fire are crippling and perhaps ruinous to the fire victim. Take, for example, a highly organized factory plant in prosperous times which has been turning out a vast specialised product from the hands of thousands of expert workmen. This plant, fitted with costly machinery, is covered by insurance upon Its visible, material assets. Fire sweeps it and iays everything in hopeless ruin. If every piece of machinery, every building and all material adjuncts of the plant have been covered to full value in such a plant, will the reader dare make a rough guess as to what the limitations of loss Only the other day I stepped into a bookbindery, unostentatious in Its street signs and occupying a fifth floor in an obscure street. In the elevator shaft was that peculiar odor which marks the track of fire and firemen days and weeks after such an accident. “Most of the fire was next door,” explained the proprietor, “but I guess the smoke and the water were about as bad for us. Sometimes It is almost better to have the fire yourself than be next door to it.” Which seemed to be especially true of book material. Where smoke and soot had failed to blot and ruin the stock, water from the engines In the street had flooded it until ruin alone was descriptive. Everything had been closed down, workers In the plant were idle, nnd the proprietor was ayalting the adjustment of she Insurance which he had been carrying. But tn the extent of this insurance Itself was a knotty situation. Ordinarily the house had carried policies which would have left it the minimum of risk on Its machinery, stock and materials. Ordinarily a still further blanket policy was carried for the purpose of covering the normal amount of book material on hand owned by others and contracted for rebinding. But only a few days before the fire the house had received a consignment of $5,000 ..orth of lawbooks to be bound. These volumes, aside from intrinsic value, represented I so much of other value as to make the risk abnormal for almost any season. And these books were ruined. Before receiving them the binder had asked the owners to take out a policy for themselves protecting them against such fire loss. The flrm had not done so, and when the fire damage came the disposition of the owners was to hold the binder for them under one of the binder’s blanket policies. On this one disputed point, taking it into court, will some one make a guess as to what this one feature of the fire may cost the binder, who to all purposes was “insured,” if it should be settled in the supreme court after five or seven years, for example? But in the case of the big manufactory, with its imported special machinery, its season of rush work and its enormous and fluctuating stock of material—if on tha morning after the fire the assuring companies settle in full for the visible losses, how much has the company been damaged? Os first consideration, perhaps, is the enormous payroll of the concern. If most o' the mechanical work of the plant has been done by pieceworkers, still the necessary force of directing employees on salary is a problem. The determination of the owners is to start up anew. Tried and proved employees must be retained while the work of rehabilitation goes on. They must be paid even if they are to do no more tttin wait. Settlement of some kind must be made with contractors who have been supplying raw materials from the hands of other thousands of workers. No matter what the clauses la contracts providing Immunity in case of fires, strikes and acts of Providence, every line of business affecting the welfare of the manufactory has been affected. The plant is a total loss. Before it can be rebuilt the ruins of the old factory must be cleared away. In the meantime all those customers of the manufactory who have been pressing for the filling of contract orders find themselves shut out of any chance for receiving them. They turn at once to other competing establishments for the work. Not only does the burned out firm lose all chance of profits from this wmrk, but it is running a long chance of losing some of Its oldest and best customers of ' ySars’ standlng.-Cblcago Tribune.

s TheFallof the Empire < [Copyright, 1908, by American Press Assoelation.] The young soldier-king’s ambition was towering. At thirty be found himself the first general of his age. Not centent with being master of his own kingdom, he sought to make himself master of all kingdoms within his reach. While the king's traits were Napoleonic, there was one trait that was not Napoleonic. Napoleon, while he was a gallant, never permitted any woman to influence him in matters of government. lie was not afraid of the fair sex and took no precautions against women. The soldier-king, ou the contrary, feared their seductions. He was aware that they governed the world and considered that it would be impossible for him to build up the empire he intended if he were himselt governad by a woman. A bachelor, he proposed to remain a bachelor. And for fear that he would be captured he permitted only the homeliest women tc come near him. On one occasion when he was told that a young girl had come to his tent to beg for protection from his soldiers he asked, “Is she comely?" When answered in the affirmative he replied, “Then let her be veiled.” There was one petty duchy. Illsteria. still unconquered which was important to the soldier-king. From its geograph teal position it was the main link in the states from which the empire wae to be formed. Though small, its conquest would be difficult, for its terrl tory constituted an elevated plateau whose only approaches were through mountain defiles. The king sent a de mand for its submission. A reply was returned that the duke would yield tc the inevitable if the kir.t would grant certain conditions. If not he would defend his dukedom till every man in it had been killed. The king then sent a messenger to aSk the conditions. A reply came that they would only be presented at a meeting to take place between the twe sovereigns. Midway up a defile leading to the duchy was a pocket well adapted for n place of conference. The duke proposed that he and the king meet there and discuss the terms by which his domain should pass under the king’s rule. The king might bring all the guard he wished. The duke pledged himself to go alone. The king, unwilling to be outdone in an exhibition of confidence, declared that he, too, would go alone and unarmed. All these matters having been adjusted, the king rode, with a small guard, to the mouth of the defile, where he left them and proceeded to the rendezvous. The duke was seen coming down the mountain, an old man with a flowing white beard and hair. The sovereigns met at the door of a pavilion that had been erected for the conference. The duke produced a golden key, unlocked the door and motioned the king to enter. When inside the duke relocked the door. This startled the king, but he said nothing. Surely if treachery were intended he was a match for tins feeble old man. Then the duke led the way into a handsomely furnished room, in the center of which were a table and writing materials. At one end of the apartment an open fire. The duke threw the golden key in among the burning ' logs. It immediately ignited. For a moment the king stood in wonder at seeing gold burn, then rushed forward to rescue the key. He was too late. “It was of wood, your majesty,” said the duke, “and gilded. We are shut up here together for this conference. Neither can depart, for there is no opening except the door whieh is locked and no key with which to unlock it Let us proceed to business.” As the duke spoke the last words he threw his hat on the floor, pulled off a white wig and false beard, divested himself of his ducal robes and stood before the king in superb dress, a woman of transcendant beauty. “I—l was to meet the duke,” stammered the king, drawing back. “I am the sovereign of Histeria. My father has abdicated in my favor.” The king put his hand before his face to shut out the vision of loveliness. “These are my terms,” continued the duchess, “the only terms on which I shall surrender. I will pay your majesty 500 pieces of gold annually as tribute for ten years.” The king made no reply, but, dropping his hands, stared at the symmetrical creature. Her features were those of a cameo, her complexion that of white and red roses, and her eyes were a marvel of loveliness. “Your grace,” he said, dropping on his knee. “I am at your mercy.” The duchess pointed to the writing materials. The king wrote: The independence of the duchy of Histeria is acknowledged and guaranteed. The duchess read and turned her great eyes, lit by a heavenly smile, on the monarch. Then, touching a spring in the table, a drawer flew open, She seized a key and started for the door. The king followed and caught her in his arms. She looked back, and her -lips were pressed by his. When the king rejoined his attendants he was a changed man. He knew that the lands he had conquered would always be liable to be wrested from him without the duchy of Histeria. One by one they received back their sovereignty, and when the last was made independent it was announced that the king was about to be married. The soldier-king made the Duchess of Histeria feis queen, and he did not get her till every country he had conquered had been made free. HAROLD OTIS.

WEEK AT NIBLICKS Studebaker Family and Descendants to Meet Away from Home FOR FIRST TIME On Christmas— Sickness of David Studabaker Necessitates the Change For the first time for more than forty years, the members of the Studabaker family will enjoy their family Christmas dinner away from the old homestead, located a little dis- X tance east of the city, the deviation from the old esablished custom being necessitated as a consequence of the sickness of David, the son of Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Studabaker. who reside on the home farm. Mrs. John Niblick has never spent a Christmas other than at the home place, and this year her home will be the scene of the festivities of the annual occasion, the relatives having been invited to be at their home Thursday night and for Christmas breakfast. The relatives will gather at the Niblick home Thursday night, where a social session will be enjoyed during the evening, the guests to remain there ail night. A sumptuous breakfast will be served in the morning, after which the older ones will converse vrei miniscently of days gone by. repair- : ing to the home of Miss Hattie Studai baker for dinner, where the delicacies 1 of the season will again remind them I of the glorious holiday. The party , will be banqueted at the home of , Mrs. Morrison for supper and all in i all a great time will be enjoyed. The t party will consist of the following: ’ Mrs. Morrison and daughter Harriet; ! Miss Hattie Studabaker. Mrs. Chamj per, Messrs, and Mesdames A. D. j Suttles and family; O. P. Edwards and . wife, of Leipsic, Ohio; Veseys from j Fort Wayne, and the family of John 1 Niblick. i, o 0 *A. Van Camp went to Monroe this ™ afternoon on a business mission. J Mrs. Alice Griffin, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, arrived in the city this ’ afternoon for a visit with her brothc er. Dr. Raineer. Emory Wasson, in jail at. Hartford e City, is reported much better and may 1 be released, instead of going to RichF mond or to the epileptic village at Newcastle. Wasson has promised, if he is released, to go to Ramah, Colo., ( where his father is located. It is ■ believed thecha nge in climate, if he t abstains from cigarette smoking and 1 other excessive habits, may effect a ’ cure. i I Henry Thoma received word this I morning of the death of a brother whom he visited while in the old I ccuntry this summer. The brother, ’ William Thoma, resided at Eversdora and his death was due to kidney trou- ' ble, impurities in the blood and the infirmities of his age. For some time he had suffered with an abcess on i the leg and some six months ago this i was cured with the result -that the I poison from the core was driven into 1 his system and hastened his death.— Bluffton News. Police are seeking the capture of the person who recently mailed a letter to George Miller, of Valparaiso, demanding that S2OO be sent to J. M. Anderson, at Elkhart, before the end of the year, or Miller's family and that of his father-in-law, Jerry Trump, of Goshen, would be killed. Miller sent the money and then told the officers. He has now gone insane from worry over the blackmail scheme. The writer of the threatening letter is believed to have been a woman. The dedicatory exercises at the Huntington county court. house, which had bean set for December 29, have ben indefinitely postponed on account of the impossibility to get the 1 speakers desired at that time. Hon. J. E. Watson has written that his father is in a dying condition and that he has 'Cancelled all his engagements in order to remain at his bedside. Neither l> W. Simms, of Lafayette, Senator Beveridge nor W. F. McNagny. of Columbia City, found it possible to be present on the date originally chosen. Ray Meredith, impersonating Santa Claus in the window of the Morris store at Columbia City, Monday afternoon, came pear ibeing burned to death. His regalia caught fire from a small gasoline engine near by and the flames had almost enveloped him before he was able to tear the burning garments frotn his body. The di apery in the store window also caught fire, but it was extinguished in " time to prevent a serious fire.