Decatur Democrat, Volume 52, Number 7, Decatur, Adams County, 18 February 1909 — Page 6

DMSOTMff HIS BIRTHPLACE. Kentucky Finn Sent of GohOration Today. PBESIDENT DELIVERS ADDRESS Extol* Car*«r of Groat Liberator In Speech at Laying of Cornerstone of the Lincoln Memorial—Distinguished Mon Present — Escort of Former Wearers of Blue and Gray For Mr. Roosevelt—Exorcises Under Auspices of the Lincoln Farm Association. Hodgenville, Ky., Feb. 12.—At America's Bethlehem, near this town, where her savior was born 100 years ago, the nation paid tribute today to the memory of Abraham Lincoln. Eloquent speakers extolled his fame, and on the spot where stands the cabin in which he first saw the light the cornerstone of the Lincoln memorial was laid. The principal figure at the laying of the cornerstone was President Roosevelt, who delivered the main address. The services at the Lincoln fartt were held under the auspices of the Lincoln Farm association, which has labored long and assiduously In the effort, now crowned with success, to mark worthily the scene of Lincoln’s birth. The association was represented by its president, former Governor THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL. Joseph W. Folk of Missouri; its indefatigable secretary, Richard Lloyd Jones, who had active charge of the arrangements for today’s ceremonies, and other officers and members. Man Who Saved Cabin Present. A prominent figure in the crowd of distinguished men at the ceremonies was Robert J. Collier of New York, to ; whom the country owes the preservation of the cabin in which the great liberator was born. In 1860 the cabin was removed from its original site to another a mile and a half distant, near Davenport There it served as a sprlfig house until the early eighties, when it was bought by an enterprising showman and carted around the country to serve as an attraction at world’s fairs ( and elsewhere. From this ignominious fate i| was rescued by Mr. Collier. The outgrowth of his efforts to preserve It as a perpetual memorial for the nation was the Lincoln Farm association, whose labors will take concrete form In the marble memorial which will be built around and over the shack In which Lincoln was born. Acting as escort for President Roosevelt and lending a very picturesque touch to the occasion were the members of the Louisville post of the Grand Army of the Republic and the members of the Louisville camp of the United Confederate Veterans. The mingling of the blue and the gray on this occasion elicited from President Roosevelt many expressions of delight Th* Men Who Spoke. The exercises at the Lincoln farm began at noon. The opening address was delivered by ex-Governor Folk, who spoke on “The Lincoln Farm Association.” He was followed by Governor Willson, whose theme Was “Lincoln’s Mother State.’’ Then came President Roosevelt, whose “Lincoln Centennial Address’’ was received with earnest attention and at Its close with great applause. The president’s successor as orator was Secretary Wright, who spoke for “The Confederate Veteran.” Last on the list of speakers was General James Grant Wilson, the well known writer and orator, who spoke for “The Federal Veteran.” The lay-. Ing of the cornerstone followed the ad- , dresses. President Roosevelt spoke as follows: We have met here to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the birth of j one of the two greatest Americans; of I one of the two or three greatest men f of the nineteenth century; of ope 1 of the greatest men In the world’s ' history. This rail splitter, this boy who passed his ungainly youth In the dire poverty of the poorest of the frontier folk, whose rise was by weary and painful labor, lived to lead his people through the burning I flames of a struggle from which the nation emerged, purified as by fire, born anew to a loftier life. After long years of iron effort and of failure that came more often than victory, he at last rose to the leadership of the republic at the moment when that leadership bad become the stupendous world task otf th* time. H* grew to know

w tott.-t \ „jivr l. greatness, but never ease. Success earn* to him, but never happiness, save that which springs from doing well a painful and a vital task. Power was his, but not pleasure. The furrows deepened on his brow, but his eye* were undlmmed by either hate or fear. His gaunt shoulders were bowed, but his steel thews never faltered as he bore for a burden the destinies of his people. Hl* great and tender heart ■blank from giving pain, sad th* task allotted him was to pour out like water the lifeblood of the young men and to feel in his every fiber the sorrow of the women. Disaster saddened but never dismayed him. Triumph was his at the last, and barely had he tasted it before murder found him, and the the kindly, patient, fearless eyes were closed forever. Lincoln and Washington. As a people we are indeed beyond measure fortunate In the characters of the two greatest of our public men, Washington and Lincoln. They were alike In essentials—they were alike in the great qualities which rendered each able to render service to his nation and to all mankind such as no other man of his generation coqld or did render. There have been other men as great and other men as good, but In all the history of mankind there are no other two gre&t men as good as these, no other two good men as great Widely though the problems of today differ from the problems set for solution to, Washington when he founded this nation, to Lincoln when he saved It and freed the slave, yet the qualities they showed in meeting these problems are exactly the same as those we should show in doing our work today. Lincoln saw Into the future with the prophetic Imagination usually vouchsafed only to the poet and die seer. He had In him all the lift toward greatness of the visionary, without any of the visionary’s fanaticism or egotism, without any of the visionary’s narrow jealousy, of the practical man and inability to strive in practical fashion for the realization of an Ideal. 1 No more practical man ever lived than this homely backwoods Idealist, but he had nothing In common with those practical men whose consciences ' are warped until they fall to dlstln- 1 gulsh between good and evil, fall to ' understand that strength, ability, ' shrewdness, whether in the world of q business or of politics, only serve to , make their possessor a more noxloua, a more evil member of the communi- ' ty, If they are not guided and controlled by a fine and high moral sense, i Lincoln’* Qualities Needed Now. We of this day must try to solve ! many social and Industrial problems 1 requiring to an especial degree the 1 combination of Indomitable resolution 1 with cool headed sanity. We can profit 1 by thq way In which Lincoln used both t these traits as he strove for reform. < We can learn much of value from, the very attacks which following that course brought upon his head, attacks alike by the extremists of revolution and by the extremists of reaction. He 1 never wavered in devotion to his principles, In his love for the Union and In his abhorrence of slavery. Timid and lukewarm people were always denounc- s Ing him because he was too extreme; t but, as a matter of fact, he never went to extremes.

Yet perhaps the most wonderful thing of all and, from the standpoint of the America of today and of the , future, the most vitally Important was the extraordinary way in which Lincoln could fight valiantly against ( what he deemed wrong and yet pre- " serve undlmlnlshed his love and respect for the brother from whom he differed. In the hour of a triumph that would have turned any weaker man’s bead, in the heat of a struggle which spurred many a good man to dreadful vindictiveness, he said truthfully that so long as he had been in his office he had never willingly planted a thorn in any man’s bosom and besought his supporters to study the Incidents of the trial through which they were passing as philosophy from which to learn wisdom and not as wrongs to be avenged, ending with the solemn exhortation that, as the strife was over, all should reunite in a common effort to save their common country. * “Mightiest of Americans.” He lived in days that were great and terrible, when brother fought against brother for what each sincerely deemed to be the right, in a contest so grim the strong men who alone can carry it through are rarely able to do justice to > the deep convictions of those with whom they grapple in mortal strife. At such times men see through a glass darkly. To only the rarest and Loftiest spirits is vouchsafed that clear vision which gradually comes to all, even to the lesser, as the struggle fades into distance and wounds, are forgotten and peace creeps back to the hearts that were hurt. But to Lincoln was given this supreme visldn. He BkFnot hate the man from whom'Tle'diffireiCt ;Weakness was as foreign as wtokednessy te his strong, gentle nature. But Jbls courage was of a quality so. high that it needed no I bolstering} at dark 'passion. He saw cleartv' that tbe'iwtae high qualities, J the Mmfe' coui?afee! ahd willingness for i Self 'sdcriffce ahd det-otton to the right as it was given them.to. see the right, belonged both to the men of the north and to the meii of the south. As the yefltre ifolL by. arid as alt of us, wherever we dwell, grow to feel an equal pride in the valor and self devotion, 1 alike of the men who wore the blue and the men who wore the gray, so this whole nation wfll grow to feel a peculiar sense of pride in the mightiest of the mighty men who mastered the mighty daya the lover of his country and of an mankind, the man whose blood was shaj for the union of his people and for the freedom of a race, Abraham Lincoln.

After numerous councils among themselves and a visit and talk by Bishop Joseph Swarts to the leading men of the Amish settlement* over the central states, the fifteen defendants in the damage suit brought by George Pallle against the elder* of Adams county church, have , decided to pay the |I,OOO judgment secured against them by the plaintiff in the recent trial of the case In the Jay |Mrcidt court. The firm of Snyder & Smith, local attorneys for the defendants, received instructions late Saturday afternoon from Judge Heller, of Decatur, chief counsel, to the effect that the judgment would be paid and no motion for a new trial will be made. An erroneous report was in circulation Monday that Faille would receive but little of the SI,OOO as liens covering the major portion of the amount had been filed by his attorneys for their fees. James J. Moran, one of P&llle’s representatives said Monday that only a small part of the judgment had been claimed by the 'lawyers. A motion will be filed by Snyder & Smith, oh the first day of the March term of court, asking that the costs in the case, which are now against the defendants, be re-taxed and thrown upon the plaintiff. The costs are comparatively light, this being the first hearing of the case. Aside from the costs, unless the motion receives favorable action, each of the defendants -will be required to pay $66.66, as his share of the total amount of the judgment —Portland Sun.

WILL LEAVE FOR WASHINGTON Another Indiana Congressman Going to the Capital. Hon. Martin A. Morrison, of this city, congressman-elect from the ninth district, will leave the city on Thursday for Washington, D. C., to begin his duties. Mr. Morrison will be sworn in when the house organizes on March 4th for the special session. Mr. Morrison will be at Washington when the battleship fleet returns from its cruise around the world and will see the ships on the grand review. He will also be there at the Inauguration of Taft and Sherman. ..He has not as yet decided where he will make his headquarters. It is not known how long the special session will continue.—Frankfort Crescent — HOPES TO BE PARDONED. Daniel Swartz Was Sent up from Bluffton a Year Ago. •- j " Daniel Swartz, the former Oklahoma suburb resident who was Sentenced to the state prison at Michigan City last March upon a finding of guilty of the charge of child desertion, has written to Deputy Sheriff fierce that he will be paroled, he thinks without doubt, at the first session of the board of pardons after the erpdratton of his minimum sentence of one year. As he was sentenced in March by Special Judge Waltz his case will not be taken up by board of pardons until their session the succeeding month in April. Swartz writes that he is still working in the prison blacksmith shop and that he has a perfect record as a prisoner, not a single black mark having been registered against him. —Bluffton News. , . I ' i. O ——— —-— SICK HEADACHE. Sour Stomach, Heartburn,Canker Sore Mouth Cured by Mi-o-na Sick headaches are caused by indigestion and a general disturbed condition of the stomach. Cure the Indigestion, and the headache, nausea, heartburn, sour stomach, and that “all in” feeling will vanish. Mi-o-na tablets will cure indigestion or any other stomach trouble. They will relieve almost instantly. Holthouse Drug Co. has po much faith tn them that he will give you your money back if they don’t Mi-o-na cures by making the stomach strong enough to produce enough gastric juices to digest all the food you want to eat. It promptly *puts n< wllfe and energy into the overworked and played-out walls of the stomach. Use Mi-o-na for a week, and you can eat what yo uwant any time you want it, and take pleasure in doing it. Your blood will be richer, redder, purer after taking Mi-o-na, and it only, costs 50 cents a large box, L “I was speedily cured of stomach complaint by Ml-o-na. Anything I can say in favor of Ml-o-na is not too strong.”—William Hess, Benton Harbor, Mich. : ~ • HYOME| CURES CATARRH* ASTHMA, Bronchitis, Crow, Cough* and Colds, a money back Sold and guaranteed by HOLTHOUSE DRUG CO.

; Calmly and peacefully as sinking - into deep slumber, conscious of her surroundings, but oblivious of the grief which would be caused as a of thtft spirit Os Mrs. Mites retwned'-to whehce it Gams,;MQaday nlghh a* outgoing of life being Recorded at the hour of Although of a ripe old age, the good deeds the (deceased icannot be reckoned by the number of years she ha* lived, and they have been many. The abrupt ending of her earthly career of seventy-six years- duration will signal profound sorrow among her acquaintance* in whom she has found lyyal friendship in the walk of life. Mrs. Mites has lived an eventful life. She was identified with the early history of Decatur, prominently, having charge of the tavern in which she breathed her last, during the civil war, when her beloved husband Shouldered a musket and wetn to the front to fight for the liberty of his countrymen. It was in the early sixties that Mr. and Mrs. Mites engaged in the hotel business in the hostelry which has been known as the Indiana House for more than fifty years. Many a weary traveler, during this time, has found consolation tn the hospitalities of the Mites* whose kindnesses had no bounds. About thirty years ago Mr. MJtes died, and since then the decedent has conducted the hotel as before. Old age did not cause her to retire to inactivitly, but a complication of diseases which found inception a few weeks ago forced the aged woman tj take to her bed from which she was -doomed never to rise. During the past few days her condition has been critical and, even the most optimistic abandoned hopes for her recovery. She did not resent the coming of the death angel, but willingly and peacefully passed into eternity to sleep the sleep of the just. The poignancy of the grief caused the friends of the departed woman is fathomless, and her memory will live in the minds of Decatur people as long as they shall live. The funeral services were held from the house Thursday afternoon at one o’clock, the Rev. Septnagle officiating and interment will be made at the Decatur cemetery.

PUBLIC SALE. The undersigned will offer at public sale at his nome 2% miles north of Decatur, beginning at 10:00 o’clock a. m., Thursday, Feb. 18, 1909, r the following property, to-wlt: Horses,.; Cattle, Hogs: •>! >•-<**. '■ Horses—One bay work team, 1 bay coach horse, gelding 4 years old, lady broke*; 1 bay general purpose mare 4 ear old, 2 two-year-old colts, general purpose; 1 yearling mare colt, sired by the famous True Worth. Cattle—One Jersey cow, 7 years old, giving milk; 1 dark red cow 5 years old, giving milk; 1 red Durham cow 3 years old, giving milk; 1 roan Durham cow 5 years old, will be fresh In March; 1 Jersey cow 4 years old, will be fresh In March; 1 Jersey heifer years old, will b efresh in March; 1 full bloded Durham heler 2 years old, will be fresh In July; 1 Durham bull calf, one year old. Sheep—Eight head of fine Shropshire ewese. Hoge—One full bloded 0. I. C. sow, will farrow Ist of April; 1 full blooded O. I. C. boar, 1 year old; 5 full bloded O. I. C. shoats weighing about 70 Ibe; 1 full bloded Duroc-Jersey sow, will farrow the last of March. Implements —One farm wagon and bed, 1 Buckeye fertilizer disc drill, good as new; 1 John Deere riding breaking plow, used on eseason; 1 walking breaking plow, 1 check rower corn planter, 1 good land roller, 1 2-horse hay rake, 1 self binder and mowing machine, 1 2-horse com plow, 1 double shovel plow, 1 hovel plow, 1 bobsled, 1 lever spring tooth harrow, 2 spike tooth harrows, 1 top buggy and harness, 1 com shelter, 1 large copper kettle, 1 iron kettle, 1 emery grindstone, 1 grindstone, 1 10-g&Uon churn, 1 grain' cradle, 1 heating stove, 1 coal oil cook stove, 1 coal oil heating stove, 1 good parlor organ (very good). Poultry—Turkeys, one full blooded Bronze tom, 3 full blooded Bronze hens and 3 ful blooded young turkeys. Chickens, six dozen laying hens, mostly R. I. R, 1 R I. R.,cock. Gr^in— 200 bu. selected Big Four seed oats, also one pair dump boards, and many other article. if weather Is bad sale will be held Inside, and hot coffee will be served free,. .Free lunch. Terms—ss.do an duhder cash on day of sale; over 15.00 a credit of nine months time will be given to purchaser who gives approved security. 4% per Cont discount for cash. ED LUTTMANN. John Spuhler, John Singleton, Auct. ■ o "■■■ 1 —- Hundreds of thousand* of people use Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea as a family tonic. If taken this month it will keep the family weg all sprihg: Hf it falls get your money back. *'ss 'cents. .up. ■ SMITH, YAGER A FALK.

*.* ■ lX . I 4ht* Effect Sunday Jun* |l, 1901. iMSUs ; No. IJ—Dally 2:00 a. m. No. M—Dally, ex, Sunday,. 2:00 p. m. No.’MlDwly p. m. Westbound. No. 7—Dally 1:61 a. m. No. 9—Dally 8:19 a. m. No. 3—Daily ...........12:46 p. m. No. 21—Daily, ex. Bunday. 10:10 p. m. No. 15—Daily ?:80 p. m. GRAND RAPIDS A INDIANA. Sounthbound. No. 6—Daily ..12:47 a* No. 12—Dally, ex. Sunday. .7:16 a. m. No. 2—Daily,ex.Sunday ..1:11 p. m. No. 18—Sunday only ....8:36 p. m. Northbound. No. s—Dally 1:28 a. m. No. 7—Dally 7:57 a. m. No. B—Dally,ex.Sunday ..8:07 p. m. T. ST. L. A W. R. R. No. 2—Frankfort to Toledo, Ex Sunday ......11:27 a. m. No. I—Toledo to Frankfort. Ex. Sunday 11:49 a m. No. B—Delphos to St Louis, Daily ....7:21 a. m. No. 4—St Louis to Delphos, . Dally 8:08 p. m. NO. s—Toledo to St Louis, daily 10rl7 p. m. No. 6— st Louis to Toledo, daily 5:05 a. m. Daily Interurban Schedule THE FT. WAYNE A SPRINGFIELD Trains Leave Trains Leave Decatur Ft. Wayne 5:50 a.m. 7:00 a.m. 7:00 a.m. 8:30 a.m. 8:30 a.m. 10:00 a.m. I 10:00 a.m. ■ M:3oam. 11:30 a.m. 1:00 p.m. 1:00 p.m. 2:30 p.m. 2:30 p.m. 4:00 p.m. 4:00p.m. 5:30p.m. 5:30 p.m. 7:00 p. mJ 7:00 p.m. 8:30 p.m.' 9:30 p.m. 11:00 p.m. Theater parties taking the 7:00 p. m. car will arrive at Calhoun or Berry strets ,Fort Wayne at 8:10 p. m. The last car leaving Fort Wayne at |l:00 p. .m. will wait until after the BhOW ‘ _____ It coaxes back that well eelink. healthy look, puts the sap of life in your system, protects you from . disease. Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea has no ejual as a spring tonic for the whole family. 85 cent®, Tea or Tablets. ' -'’J 1 - ' SMITH, YAGER & FALK.

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AFTER OTHERS FAIL. D. C. Scott, Avon, Ky., says: 'I used Bourbon Hog Cholera Remedy after other remedies had failed and It speedily effected a cure. It has cured several herds In my neghborhood without the loss of a single hog.” Sold by H. H. Bremerkamp, Decatur, Ind. - ' O —-—, t ORLY LOST ONE. Mrs. Cynthia Duncan, Georgetown, Ky., eays: "I had occasion to use Bourbon Poultry Cure with my tin - * keys this year and It cured them. I only lost one, don’t think I would have lost it If I had used this medicine sooner.” Sold by H. H. Bremerkamp, Decatur, Ind. ■ o' r--" — ARRANGING SPEAKING CAMPAIGN The Drys Are Beginning the Activities of the Campaign. The following dates have been set for speaking in various plarts of the county: Sunday, Feb. 14, 2 p. m., Union U. B. church in Blue Creek township, Fred Rohrer. Monday evening, Feb. 15, Salam M. B church, Blue Creek, township, Dr. C. E. Line, Portland. Monday evening, Feb. 15, Court House, Decatur, Myron T. Watterman, Kansas City, Kan. Tuesday evening Feb. 16, Ev. church Linn. Grove, Dr. C. E. Line, Portland. Tuesday, Feb. 16, Kohr school house, Union township, German speaking by Fred Rohrer. Wednesday evening, Feb. 17, M. E. church, Geneva, Dr. 0. E. Line, Portland. Thursday evening, Feb. 18, Schnepp school : house, Union township, Fred Rohrer. ■ , , / .< Friday evening, Feb, 19, Monroe M. E. church, Dr. C. E. Line, Portlands Friday evening, Feb. 19, Blue Creek church, Jefferson township, Rev. Frank Hartman. ■» Monday evening, Feb. 22, Mission church, French township, Rev. J. W. Kliewer, of Berne. 1 Many other dates will be arranged a little later. o 1 - • Here Is Relief for Women. If you have pains in the back. Urinary, Bladder or Kidney trouble, and want a certain, pleasant herb cure for woman’s ills, try Mother Gray's Australian-Leaf. It R a safe and nev. er-falHng regmator. At Druggists Or rss < ; Aft SkWf/'SSj ♦ ' # -1* A- * -UO • I -r- 1

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