Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 50, Decatur, Adams County, 31 December 1908 — Page 3

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H today Jr. t Charley’s modesty I /Win filed a motion for ■ K L John Stout, convicted .r« ■ tnal for al Co i u mbus C t • proprleto s . f :b P ■ ffiurd<>r Ind the matter wilV° uc h for th.. f , ct I *° dbU ; o n r’ ardent early in th .Decatur lady Ah o ■ dC ' n it is contended by Judge amot.nt of r-,i ■ ,L court should have al t . a P” a laiy , n , de ■ ’ Mt . introduce testimony st s’x- casing ■ him to 111 h man accurth.rm- She in,,,iir- | tMt XTboX shells of the f-d when he ap1 lb \ Cr I the bullet that p d 1 s!Gr y of how ■ the bodv of the marshal ea I«'r o' shoes ■ throU ?b?s death. Among the lx > wk an d they ■ ' aUse< W taken in the case and t 0 non . ■ aceP ’ ?X a n ew trlal lS asked,o < em f ° r ■ °s of John W why she d i d 6 hich he was asked a numbers ana ip...- ■ b for the pu.-pose of imp< . too m-ich ■ questions f evidP nce into: ..nan t ■ ; ■ mem fo!lo* d > impeachm- ’nd 'lealir.- ‘ l’ 0; T b n Miier and the adr lte Id not aoI Mfß ' f statements made by her in : ,n ’ i>-' '• f. | ...on of stat vag on ,. ex< b , Tf , B ?m ce volum tnous and '. h o'o no: fSb l?:Xy to * itwn the th ‘ w, T ! Bsied-oday t Pra< a -.the sym2* ■tally the see king a new trthe T 'do B l '' wer ' US MIU r _Fort Wayne S' on e >< wise J ■ tor Herman Miller. nl ,a thing I ■ tinel. —

■ Unitor McCullough is h ' ■ Agnate intelligently on be ■ w leßKia e Nearly every I ■ Everwne jn , g wron!thlse d A ■andeverybodj els _ Sepator M< , ry ■Hartly any tao age bellevin;d rh■tuCough is 1“ lt « *2 dbe fairly e in’ '’ Sir at tins quest on W oul' w( ~ g, L? right Hnes aM 1 pw,< i pan ~ tbe legal pro urch' A ■’inor.s. governing { a i i»<» ™> t »■ " J SVctng Everything ae r 1 ■«. embaclng • me oa ki -«•- ■ te ’ D eMCt uiors. Nov a rest £3 Rm know . lts .?p bilade lphia” ’•■'■*- The T \ or Phila . lld . J ■Unnot interpret f n senator MeCtClough a“ « ES ■ < the members of the leg sir e RJr asking for views on the . ■ temperance a ' I'•*’] Township and ward | ---1 rd s. »”, "“ u ‘ ---£3 R* lue except in cities an i| , BMHMulwrs This would exclude roa 0 i R4 and vUl,ges where h L I ■4 protection. „ ce . ’. | j A license fee riot - ■felh.wand dollars. I g=a■{ ■»x ”»• 1 =±SR KO< «» and , —- J- iV'IM I All license to n•tail X l=4 by tbe JU f g 4vocac'm giv.-” ~~XX— jtjMß A With power of rivoc I=3 Il M wall

■ Luhl. except in the b " fire limits wjMft'F ll towns. liquor Any vi ° iation * tn Kto forfeit license. hanM Vi AU laws in confliCt t 0 / K.Vnipe-ance law of some ’ IV enacted. Senator McCulW Jl'.Le the facts, figures and ' P> If>r.1 f>r. the subject, and V ’ l % | leader for a just law t < Mt' all people. He be.K lulation-not confiscat 101. Action of personal liberty jMtely right—an 6 tlle P eop e r~ — - .'iar Anderson Bulletin.

Dry Goodß Co ’ vs - F. Bw er madp , aCCOUnt - rule to an--3(16 abß «]«ejithi a five days. W eß u^ Pe fi t d ad a mr ' ° f Tbereßa Edward Elzey 'Xd’V’ 18 iSSU6d tO fh!s city and Ftb f a laborer of Berne. ‘ e Dav idson, 17, o f Burdett Dußois 2? « Kief er, Oklahoma and n°i‘ ma " fr ° m 23 old Sdav t r KraUSe> tr “« « Ifens. i’ ‘:' d ' CVa ' ••• fart ner O s M . pn Pau debush, 25, a Magner, 21 a , CoUnty ’ aß d Mabel county. " ’ * Ch ° ol teach er of this isswd to C< Chs alS ° Sh ° W a ,Icense W. a railrn a J ' Purman ’ Ohio a' . COndUCtOr from Marof this city JeDnie S,udaba ker. 53, Bemdeed to ana bert CaSe ’ quiet ««« Anna Purdy e" e B tOWDShip ’ $1; 1% acres in nr Ben3 ’ Amerln e, >BOO- E WiM V ' aßhln Bton8 ton township. Mutual Life Ins Co*' 78 Northwestern township, $3 ,300. ’ & VaTwert mSey ’ 25 ' a farmer Knave/ a T' s’’ 5 ’’ ° hl °’ and Ella Knave. daughtpr of of Union township, were granted a carriage license. panted a W Franv " W ' SWy V9 ’ $125. k ' 81 ° n ]ud sm ent . demand

"A TEXAS RANGER,” The big western play success, “A Texas Rangen" will be the attraction at the opera house Saturday night, ec. 26th. While the management is rather reticent in revealing the details of the play’s story, for fear of robbing the audience of some part of the pleasure that follows a dramatic surprise, it is given out that the play tollow-s more or less closely episodes a: have actually occurred in real life.

Dayton Gause was attacked by a bilious dizziness while unloading fodder at the barn of W. C. Counterman in this town Wednesday forenoon He fell fro mthe wagon, and when he was taken from under the wagon by John Custe:\ E. Brown and the Herald force, he had the appearance of a man stricken with apoplexy, but Dr. Roller, who was quickly on the scene,

. - — w d expressed the belief that Mr. Gause r was injured internally as a result of c the fall.—Willshiie Herald. W. F. Fisher, state food inspector, ' was in the city this morning circulating among the three mills, collecting f samples of bran and shorts and tak- c ing orders for the feed tags. An in- ' spector or deputy makes a trip to the c city every few weeks to make sure * that the laws are being obeyed, but 7 have never found the least fault with f any of the feeds put on the market f by the local millers. The first of the E new year the millers will have to ' make a full report of the number of ’ tags they now have on hands, the 1 dumber they had at the beginning of his year and thein purchases during 1 ,‘ie entire time. This will show the 'nount of feed that has been sold by ‘ 15 "» mills—Bluffton Banner. I tr ( 3 t audge Charles E. Sturgis, of Bluff- . sitting as special judge in the —ceware circuit court, yesterday gave n g iidveTe ruling to the contentions , ,na ve remonstrators against the pro- , natior! improvement of three public , ar SOW 8 in Hamilton township as pened byd for by James R. Moore and st effli Dennis Connell and others - oiganiilllam Langsdon and others. In A-hlcb ’ords. Judge Sturgis designated t 8 Lyoe appeals had no standing in r he patid they were referred back to c-tiis faonmissioners’ court—Bluffton !c e r abil' lb* in tha-om Geneva is to the effect IV»s. L<yotin Laughlin is slowly rein order from the attack of heart a«s been suffered here several days letce the 1 is thought that he will Jornd its attend tomorrow’s session

> ointt T , . - ag and eftty commissioners. It is -U'insible fat Mr. Laughlin he here las to the 's meeting as there are rive will be' to be signed. I Lai, Augusrprise was given Trus-e-lshmt this De, of Preble township ar has fining by his teachers. ndlLy is deser r es from office next g h| o teachers wished to in-1 I»t ® r - an ‘ appreciation for his a Me esiding . He was presented Hulstnan accide. o ak n eJeer and a ves whin much Phad. Those present -lot engoning a 1-1 au and Johanna el is treune manner one, Johanna Are sllpicted two- flve - Mina Case, his • recoveriiucate and Charles six.

Dick Townsend, a native of this city and for years owner and manager of the Burt House, now conducts the National, at Peoria, Illinois. As in former years, one does not have to be a mP.ltonafre patron to secure Dicks good will. Recently he gave a big Christmas dinner to the newsboys of his city, which was described as follows in the Peoria Star: Twenty-five tables groaning beneath e weight of the delicacies of the season, and each surrounded by eight ravenous newsboys and carriers to the number of 200 in all was the unusual sight presented in th. dining room at the National hotel lasi night when the genial Dick Townsend gave his Christmas dinner to the newsies. Just before 8 o’clock a p:<ocersion of seventy-five boys who had been lind up in front of The Star office marched along Jefferson avenue to Hamilton street, where they were joined by fifty of the boys who deliver and sell the Journal. They maxhed around the court house square and in reaching the corner of Main and Jefferson the line was swelled by fifty boys from th e Herald-Tiunscript In front of the Y. M. C. A. building the boys entertained the idea that 'the first to reach the hotel would get the best seats and in a moment the ranks were broken and with yells that could be heard fori blocks they stampeded so- the hotel entrance. There they were halted by the circulation managers of each newspaper who had c.iarge of the squad and were ma rhe.l up stairs and into the dining room in good order. Arrived there they took their seats with precision and awaited the oncoming of the viands. These were speedily served by the large force of waitresses which had been increased for the occasion and then the attack began. Dick Townsend had resolved that these would be a sufficiency of supplies to enable the boys to gorge themselves and a plate with liberal slices of roast turkey, flanked with cranberry sauce, celery, stewed corn, mashed potatoes and bread and butter was placed before each of them with cups of steaming coffee to wash the solids down. Then followed big slices of pie and later came cake and when, the ice cream was brought on a cheer went up that threatened to crack the ceiling. This concluded the banquet and when each boy was stuffed to Tepletion they rent the air with shouts of “He’s all light.” “Who’s all right?” “Dick Townsend,” This was repeated until it had been considered that the giver of the feast had been paid the usual compliment and that his efforts were gratefully appreciated. During the evening a colored newsboy named Brown, did a vaudeville stunt |ty walking on his hands the full length of the dining room and back and the spectacular effect was heightened by a lajge crack in the bosom of his pants at the sight of which the house came down. In the spirit of emulation a similar feat was performed by a white newsboy named Lofthouse who duplicated the hand-walking feat and threw in a few handsprings byway of good measure. While the boys were settling down to their seats one of them blew a package of “snezum” into the air, which for the time kept them busy in attending to their neglected noses but it did not detract fiom their appetites. Taking one consideration with another the newsboys’ dinner was a signal success and in each heart the 200 newsboys have a warm place son the whole-souled Dick Townsend, the giver and patron of the feast.

AGAINST POSTAL SAVINGS BANKS Congressman-elect Korbly Talks to Democratic Club. Indianapolis, Dec. 28. —Holding it is not the province of the national government to go Into the banking business, Congress-elect Korbly, In a talk befcre the members of the Indiana Democratic Club last night, said he wculd not vote for any measure that may be offered in congress looking to the establishment of postal savings banks. He declared that the passage of a law authorizing the guarantee of bank deposits is a much more needed measure. “The proposed postal savings banks is merely an effort to meet the proposition of guaranteeing bank deposits,” said Mr. Korbly. “Personally, I am opposed to the postal savings bank. I am a Democrat and Ido not believe that the government ought to be asked to do fori the people what they are able to do for themselves. Py the establishment of the postal banks the government will be placed m the banking business, and God knows the government ought not to be in that business. As your member of congress I will say now that I am against the postal savings bank. — o While y° u are grumbling about other things, don't overlook the fact that this winter weather we are having is about the made to order kind ana the air on these mornings is about good enough to eat. Try it and see i if it don't brace you up more than a | dnnk of any stimulant would do.

OLDEN DAYSURGEONS They Were Exempt From Jury Duty In Capital Cases. IN A CLASS WITH BUTCHERS Thought to Bo Too Bloodthirsty to Calmly Pass on the Taking of Human Life — Executioners Performed Operations and Acted as Doctors. When Great Britain’s statute book was still in tbe Draconian state from which it was redeemed by Sir Samuel Romilly and tbe penalty of death was inflicted for the most trivial offenses, surgeons were exempted from serving on juries in capital cases. It must not be supposed, however, that this was because their profession was believed to make them too humane for such work as was then imposed on jurymen. We are sorry to say it was for the opposite reason. They were exempted on the same ground as butchers, w-hose occupation, it was thought, tended to make them too bloodthirsty. This ought not perhaps surprise us, since two or three centuries ago executioners not Infrequently performed surgical operations. This seems to have been particularly the case in Denmark. At any rate, we have more

knowledge on this point in regard to that country than any other. In Janus some time ago Dr. K. Caroe of Copenhagen published a number of documents bearing on the subject. The most ancient of these bears date July 24, 1579. and Is a license issued by | Frederick 11. to Anders Preimut, executioner of Copenhagen, granting him the right to set bones and treat old wounds. He was expressly forbidden to meddle with recent wounds. In lAC9 it is recorded in the municipal ! archives of Copenhagen that Gaspar, the hangman, had received four rigs- ■ dalers for the cure of two sick children In the infirmary. : In 1638 Christian IV. summoned the executioner of Gluckstadt, in Holstein, 1 to examine the diseased foot of the crown prince. In a letter addressed to Ole Worm, a leading Danish physician of the day, Henry Koster, physician in ordinary to the king, complains bitterly of the slight thus put upon him. He says that for two w>hole months the hangman, “who is as fit to treat the case as an ass is to play the lyre.” hnd the case in hand, and the doctor was not asked for advice, and, although the case went steadily from bad to worse, the executioner received a fee of 200 rigsdalers and a large silver goblet—“rewards,” says the doc- , tor plaintively, “which tbe greatest among us would not have received had he succeeded in curing the prince according to the rules of art.” Again, in 1681, Christian V. gave a fee of 200 rigsdalers to the Copenhagen hangman for curing the leg of a page. In 1695 Andreas Liebknecht, tbe Copenhagen executioner, was In such repute or his treatment of disease that he wrote a book on the subject “in the name of the holy and •ver blessed Trinity.” In 1732 Bergen, an executioner in Norway, was authorized by royal decree to practice surgery. j

Even up to the early years of the nineteenth century this extraordinary association of surgery with the last penalty of the law continued. Erik Peterson, who was appointed public executioner at Trondhjem in 1796, served as surgeon to an infantry regiment in the war with Sweden and retired tn 1814 with the rank of surgeon major. Frederick I. of Prussia chose his favorite hangman. Coblenz, to be his physician in ordinary. It might tie suspected that this peculiar combination of functions had its origin in a satirical view of the art of healing, but In the records we have quoted we can trace nothing of the kind. Perhaps the executioner drove a trade In human fat and other things supposed to possess marvelous healing properties. He mny thus have come to be credited with skill in healing, though the association surely represents the lowest degree to which the Burgeon has ever fallen in public esteem and Bocial position. Compared with the hangman, a gladiator and even an undertaker may be considered respectable.—British Medical Journal. ■ “Painting the Town Red.” "That expression, ’painting the town red,’ is not.” writes a correspondent, “the creation of some unknown cockney genius, as some would seem to infer. Its birth has been traced to “The Divine Comedy.’ Dante, led by Virgil, • comes to the cavernous depths of the place swept by a mighty wind where those are confined who have been the prey of their passions. Two faces arise from the mist—the faces of Francesca and Paolo. ’Who are ye?’ cries Dante in alarm, and Francesca replies sadly, ‘We are those who have painted the world red with our sins.’ ’’—London News. Development, “Remember,” said the earnest inventor, “it isn’t so many years since the telephone caused laughter.” “That’s true,” answered the man who has trouble with central. "At first it caused laughter; now it causes profanity.”—Washington Star. I Proof. Mrs. Shellpod—Hiram, some o’ them there hobos hev stole the wash offen the line ag’in! Farmer Shellpod—Haow dew you know they wuz hobos? Mrs. Shellpod—Becuz they tuk everything but th’ towels.—Chicago News.

If better were within, better would eome out—German Proverb.

A FATAL CARD. How It Killed the Religioue ment of the London Times. I When the Thunderer decided to devote one or more of its columns daily to an ecclesiastical department all England sat up and admired. Tbe man chosen to conduct the column was a rather elderly and occasionally convivial younger son who for years bad contributed church news to the paper, but had never dreamed that he should attain the extreme honor of actually becoming one of the editors of the Thunderer, that world shaking power. The promotion went to his bead, made him dizzy. He saw himself a power in the land, one who perhaps would make or unmake ecclesiastical dignitaries. | On the morning of the announcement of the new venture the new Incumbent j came into town on his usual train from Surbiton, his head swimming with delight At the foot of Ludgate hill he met an old friend, whom he forthwith led into the Green Dragon bar. Arthur, said he, “we really must celebrate. What d’ you suppose has happened? Oh, you’d never, never dream it! Look! What d’ you say to that, old boy?” “That” was a newly engraved card on which appeared this announcement: MR. CECIL APPLEBY BOTSFORDHETHERINGTON Ecclesiastical Editor, The' Thunderer. “My word, old chap. It’s tbe most de-

lightful news I’ve heard in an age!” cried his friend. “Let’s have just one more. Here's to you! Success!” Before he reached Temple Bar the ecclesiastical editor bad met five other friends. To the fifth he observed: ”D' ye know, Ned. with that card I could call on the ar-archblsh’p ’f Canterbury. Yes. He’d see me immediately. Won’erf’l card this. Indicates position ’f strordinary responsibility ’n' dignity." Halfway to the office of the er Mr. Botsford-Hetherlngton hailed a hansom. “Have you,” he inquired, with much gravity—"have you a fast and well appointed cab? Yes? Very well, then. You may drive me to Lambeth palace." At the palace a footman took one of the new cards and conducted the owner of It to a pleasant reception room, where he snuggled in a vast chair and instantly went to sleep. The archbishop of Canterbury happened to be very busy with his chaplain, but at the sight of the card he felt sure that something of Importance was at hand and sent his chaplain te inquire. That tall, slender, dark, ascetic gentleman strode slowly to the reception room and after a slight but decorous struggle succeeded in waking the caller. ' “His grace,” said the chaplain, “begs to know how he can serve the Thunderer?” “Tel! his grace,” responded Mr. Bots-ford-lletherington, “that I’m awf'ly busy thinking and I’m sorry I shan’t be able to see him till tomorrow. Very sorry.” Forthwith be relapsed into slumber. Two sturdy men deposited him in bis fast and well appointed cab and ordered the driver to deliver him at the office of tbe Thunderer. There the ecclesiastical editor and the ecclesiastical department simultaneously vanished.— Harper’s Weekly.

Truth Versus Politeness.

Ethel was going to take supper with a little frieud. “Now. dear," said her mother, “when you are leaving you must bid Marian s mamma good night and tell her you have had a very pleasant time.” W’hen the little girl returned her mother asked if she had done as she told her. “Not ’zaetly. mamma,” was the reply. "Marian took the biggest piecs of the apple and spilled lemonade on my new dress, so I couldn’t say what you told me. but I told her mother good night and said I guessed Marian had had a very pleasant time.”—Judge. Called Him In Writing.

A tourist in an out of the way region of England put up one night at an amiable old lady’s cottage, the village inn being full. Now, the tourist was very deaf, which fact he took pains to impress upon the old lady, together with instructions to wake him at a particular hour in the morning. On w»king a good deal later than the time appointed he found that the amiable old lady, with commendable regard for propriety, had slipped under his door a slip of paper on which was written: “Sir. it la half past 8!” — Harper's Weekly. Her Husband’s Business. “Now, madam,” said the gas man with the gray cur! in the middle of bls forehead after he had asked her twenty questions more or less apropos of her application for the privilege of paying for gas. “what, is your husband’s business? What is be doing now?” “I can’t be sure, of course.” the woman replied, “but I have my suspicions. I had to divorce him before he died.”—New York Press. His Phenomena! Luck. “You say he is lucky?” “Yon bet.” “In what does his luck consist?” “Marriage, you see, is his hobby.” “Well?” “Every woman ha marries gets a divorce.” Wooden. Tenement Tessle—And de novel says de heroine had a willowy form, used to pine for her lover and would spruce up when she seen bitn coming froo do gate. Sbaaty Sue—Gee. where did tibe work-in a aawmill?—Bxcban|e.