Decatur Democrat, Volume 52, Number 12, Decatur, Adams County, 25 March 1909 — Page 4

■YMYTITOMBAY BY LEW 0. ILUNQHAM, Publisher. fiVO ,< h'. ?' ■ ' - \ , , ’ ■<*.>. --— • .. Ji-. 11 : 11 11 ./rm UMMB YBAB IM KBVAMOI. aired at ike I Srtshlce alls «n dan mall matter V JrrtciAL paper eg Now the kidnapping business is looking up, another emblem of prosperity—for those who succeed in getting the money in this sort of a game. Decatur disposed of twelve bonds of |I,(MO each this week, which brought a premium of s<so, and Decatur thinks her credit is just about right.—Columbia City Post Now comes the wife of Brother Charley, who planks down something more than thirteen thousand dollars as an inheritance tax to the city of Cincinnati. The poor we have with us always. • . ..j W* If there is anything in brevity, President Taft takes the cake. His remarks to the members of congress ' ' at the special session are the shortest on record, and this fact is to the president’s credit We hope that he will ever he as considerate and kind to his people. "Champ Clark Is a maker of tom* myrot LaFollette is a fake.” This from the well-beloved but jocose Unde Joe. “Uncle Joe has paresis." This from the great tribune of the people, leader of the minority and exemplar of the philosophy of the showmo state. Statesmanship looking up. —Fbrt Wayne Sentinel. Congressman Dixon is one of the selected few that has been designated to mete out just and deserving punishment to Mr. Fitzgerald, the Tammany Hall Democrat who was Cannonized the other day. The task is rather difficult, but the Indiana congressman can be trusted to do the job in the latest and most approved fashion. J' j =SSHS=S=2=B ' ' Ji * Reports are again going over the country to the effect that the big steel corporation is going to enforce a cut in wages of from 15 to 20 per cent, about the middle of April, which will affect 240,000 employes. Ilf may not be so, but people in position to judge all agree that the situation of affairs in this country is not good, and is growing worse instead of better.— Columbia City Post • o The word comes from many manufacturing industries that they have in contemplation the reduction in wages of their employees. The question arises as to whether these reductions are in good faith or whether they are being made to affect the special session of congress and its interference with the particular tariff schedule in which these manufacturers are interested. It is a safe bet at best that they do not want to give up any tariff privileges. Now that Unple Joe Cannon’s authority has been somewhat curtailed, we shall soon learn whether the complaints about the autocratic power wielded by the speaker were well founded or largely imaginary. The Times has long entertained the idea that the main trouble with the house of representatives at Washington is the unwieldiness of its membership. A representative body of nearly 400 ’ „ ambitious men is too large to do business in the ordinary manner. Unless restrained by what may be called restrictive and even arbitrary rules it would soon become a howling mob Instead of a deliberative assembly.—South Bend Times. What the ways and means committee has reported to the house as the result of its labors to frame a tariff £lll by no means determines what the bill will be'when finally it has been passed. It must yet be subjected not only to the tinkering of the house, but must run the gauntlet of the senate. What the upper branch of congress, under the beneficent leadership of Senator Aldrich, will do to the

| G'V ►' v.. l‘( ' guessed at—Fort Wayne Sentinel. ' eeJSBSEBSHSSSC!’ I If there could be Inaugurated « movement all along the line to Induce ; everybody having a fair Income to cht down on mere luxuries and on all de- ( moralizing extravagances, there would soon be visible a marked increase in . savings. Families would be in easier ■ circumstances; could meet their obligations more readily; live happier; enjoy life more than they now do, and prosperity would become a factor Instead of a barren ideality.—South Bend Times. ——pa—w—ay 1 After all the Interests get a good whack at the new tariff law, it will come about as near representing reform as John Dee might wish. After all, John Dee is not the only selfish American who feels disposed to help himself when the plate is passed around. . And we would like to know if there is not a whole lot of buncombe about protection for the sake Os the infants, and tariff for revenue for the sake of the “dear people.’’ After all is said and done every one, nd matter a£out his color or politics, wants to help himself. It seems that James EU Watson can have have any old thing lying around loose at the white hbuse, all of which is convincing Uproot of the fact that he who sometimes loses in the political game, also wins. While Jim is holding down some soft feathered berth in Uncle Sam's foregn service, several other equal, if not greater, statesmen, will have to go hungry or work! The uncertainties of public life is, after all, no different than the uncertainties experienced in the humble walks of life. Congressman Adair has submitted to his first interview since the special tariff session. In that ntejrview he makes it plain where he stands on several mportant features in the pending tariff bill. For instance he would lower the duties on of the necessaries of life and elevate them on the luxuries. He would eliminate the famous “drawback” which enables the Standard OU company to buy tinplate in Wales and bring it into this country without the cost of a cent in duty, thereby competing against the American laborer, who by the way is a great stock in trade of the Republicans during campaign. Congressman Adair is right' in wanting to protect the workmen of this country against the pauper labor of Wales. Since Uncle Sam stands very much in need of additional revenue, Presi--1 dent Taft is to be commended, rather than chided, for insisting on an inheritance tax clause being Incorporated into the new tariff. There is some I force to the suggestion that the states ' should have a monopoly of inheri- ' tance taxation, but inasmuch as the rate is usually very low and anything but really burdensome to the inheri- *■ tors, the objection to Uncle Sam get- ' ting a slice of a big estate falls to the ground. Far better to put a tax on legacies than to re-establish the stamp act or to tax coffee and tea. A good stiff inheritance tax, state and national, might have the further salutary effect of expediting distributions of wealth—of enabling the don- ' or to see what use is made of his accumulations before he blds adieu to this busy world.—South Bend Times. S I-——, -■ ■ | • The ladies are butting in on this 9 tariff making, and have notified the ’ tariff builders that 'they will never ' stand for any increase in the duties on gloves or hosiery! Well} what do you think of that! It has been the impression, for' 10, these many years, that the bill for gloves and hosiery is usually squared by “dad." But if the women folks are proposing to usurp that function from the male portion e of the race and pay for their own Es gloves and hose, they have a right,of e course, right now to begin the battle n for cheaper gloves and hose. But the d chances are they will nsver touch j, bottom. Brigadier General Aldrich i- will never listen to them and Brother - Payne will be too bujy trying to p please the men folks to give any ate tention to the female tariff reformer.

ent time for h« ladles is to let “dad” ( continue to foot the bills or cut a yard off the hosiery and a foot or two off the lengtbr of the fashionable• glove, and thus reduce the price to within reach.—Columbia City Post. The prospect Os any considerable. lowering of tariff rates is anything but bright The bill now before the house seems to have been construct-' ed vflth little or no regard for the ''welfare of the people who are so unfortunate as to be mere consumers. As we showed Monday, the wool j schedule is about the same as that under which the country at present groans. Apparently there was no thought of freeing the people from any of the burdens which they now carry; Nor is there any hint that the bill will be Improved. On the contrary, it is said that the senate, while retaining the present high duties, will insist on restoring those that have been cut down or abolished, to the old figure. The gloomier of our prophets are on record as sayliig that when the bill is compfeted'H will be found to be worse than the present bill. Our people have favored tariff reform; as favor it today, not because the present tariff falls to yield sufficient revenue, not because it is not Sufficiently. protective, but because it enhances the cost of living. This defect which IS vital and fundamental, is not cured. We shall not, of course, judge the completed measure in advance, for It is possible that a miracle may happen. But it does look as though the same old Interests were about to win another victory, and to win it, as usual, at the expense .of the peopje.—lndianapolis News. ‘ ~ A Religious Author’s Statement . Rev. Joseph H. Fesperman, Salisbury, N. C., who is the author of several books, writes: “For several years I was afflicted with kidney trouble and lest winter I was suddenlgjdrieken with a severe pain in my kidneys and was confined to bed. eight days unable to get up without assistance. My urine contained a thick white sediment and I passed same frequently day and night. I commenced taking Foley’s Kidney Remedy, and the pain gradually abated and ’ finally ceased and my urine bedune normal I cheerfully recommend Joey's Sidney Remedy.” The HOLTHOUSE DRUG CO. Pupils in the graded schools of Bluffton will adopt a new and novel methods of studying geography, that is, a system will be given a trial with a few of them, in the matter of letter* writing. The plan was suggested by letters received by grade pupils from pupils of schools in other cities, especally from Ohio. _The children of those cities write to tell of their home city of their geographical surroundings, clmate, etc.; and invite a reply. The pupils who are most proficient in studies may be given opportunity of answering some of them. Letters of a similar nature have also been received from Seattle, Wash., advertising the exposition at that place.—Bluffton News. - —— THE LURID GLOW OF DOOM was seen in the red face, hands and body of the little son of H. M. Adams, of Henrietta, Pa. His awful plight from eczema had, for five years, defied all remedies and baffled the best doctors, who said the poisoned blood had affected his lungs and nothing could save him. “But,” writes his mother, “seven bottles of, Electric Bitters completely cured him.” For Eruptions,. Eczema, Salt' Rheum, Sores and all Blood Disorders and Rheumatism Electric Bitters is supreme. Only 50c. Guaranteed by all druggists. - ■ —o —h- ——• On last Saturday evening a surprise 1 was sprung on the Rev. L. Buyer, pastor of the Evangelical church at Linn Grove, for the purpose of giving public expressions of appreciation for the work which has been accomplished by this earnest pastor in that town and community during the past two years. The ladies of the W. 0. T. U. gave the first surprise by meeting at the parsonage for the rendition of a literary. program after which they presented to Mr. and Mrs. Buyer a beautiful piece of table linen across the corner of which was embroidered in large letters “W. C. T. U.”-Berne Witness. z —■ o’ l 11 i' r ■ IT SAVED HIS LEG. “All thought I’d lose my leg,"writes J. A. Swenson, Watertown, Wis., “Ten years of eczema, that 15 doctors could not cure, had at last laid me up. Then Bucklen’s Arnica Salve cured it sound and well” Infallible for Skin Eruptions, Eczema, Salt Rheum, Boils, Fever Sores, Burns, Scalds, Cuts and Piles. 26c at aB druggists. a wwiiwiiniifgmiimi i i r u %!' ""* Democrat Want Ads. Pay

’school at ’’'Heidelberg Vve\ity Tiffin, Ohio, suffered a broken nose some time ago as the result of -a fall i while engaged in a basket ball contest He kept the matter secret frdm relatives here and it was only recently, after the Injured member had been completely restored to the normal by a course of treatment from a facial specialist that he wrote home telling of the accident He was laid up for 'more than a week after his fall.— Bluffton News. ■■ O '■ “M threie year old boy was badly constltpated, had a high fever andwas in an aWful condition. I gave 1 him two doses of Foley’s Orino Laxative and the next morning the fever was gone and he was entirely welL Foley’s Orino Laxative saved bis life.” A Wolkush, Caslmer, Wft. The HOLTHOUSE DRUG CO. —; G. A. A H. Sohiedler, of Marion, was at Bluffton Monday evening and spoke to * large audience there, his subject being prison life. Mr. Schindler was for. several years warden at the prison north, and as a matter of fact what he sadd at the Bluffton meeting was more tbpn. interesting ■ - ."-L* o-— NEAR DEATH IN BIG FOND. v ■ “ Vi> I" ■*** = '"■■. 1 It was. a thrilling experienco to Mrs. Ids Soper to foOe death. “Foo years a severe lung trouble gave me intense suffering,** she writes, "and several times nearly earned my death. All remediea failed and doctors skid I was Incurable. Then Dr. King's New Discovery brought quick relief and a cure so permanent that L have not been troubled' in twelve, yearn.'? MpSoper Uvea in Big Pond, Pa. It works wonders in Coughs and Colda, Sore Lungs, Whooping Cough, Hemorrhages, Lagrippe, Asthma, and all Bronchial affections. 50c and 11.00. Trial bottle free. Guaranteed by all druggists. The Acker cement works are kept “busy iff order to keep pace with their growing business. Since the first of January they have furnished blocks for the foundations of fifteen houses with pever&r more in sight This is doing fine for so early in the season, and blds fair th be a busy summer at their works. . -.u -1 . "0 — Permanently relieves constipation and indigestion. Regulates Hie bowels, builds up waste tissue. Makes pure blood. Ton grow strong, healthy and robust Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea, the safest, nicest Spring tonic.3s cents. ’ SMITH, YAGER tt FALK. | -o -•——*■- Dt. Haughton, tor many years a Ltim Grove, but tor a year or two has lived a retired life in Bluffton, i« just recovering from a Serous illness, which will be good news to his many Adams county friends. Dr. Haughton lived in tifo county for many years and was especially well known over the southern part of the county. ; J■ o — How can any person risk taking tome unknown cough remedy when Foley’s Honey and Tar costs them no more? It is a safe remedy, contains no harmful drugs, and cures the most obstinate coughs and colds. Why experiment with your health? Insist upon having the genuine Foley’s Honey and Tar. The HOLTHOUSE DRUG CO. — O' - • Dr. Fred Metts, Ossian, was taken to the Hope hospital at Fort Wayne last night, where he underTefit an operation this morning for appendicitis. He recovered well from the operation and according to reports from Fort Wayne this ai|ternoon, shows evidence of an early recovery. —Bluffton Banner.; »' — q—KILLS WOULD-BE SLAYER. a k merciless murderer is Appendicitis with many victims. But Dr. King’s New Life Pills kill it by prevention. They gently stimulate stomach, liver and bowels, preventing that clogging that invites appendicitis, curing Constipation. Biliousness, Chills, Malaria, Headache and Indigestion. 25c at all druggists. — (>, Pirl Laßue, former old Bluffton ball player, .will leave today from Fort \ Wayne for Columbus, 0., where he ’ will join the Columbus American association ball team. Manager Quinn of the Columbus team, became at- ' tracted with Laßue’e work while he ’ was playing last year with the Ohio statq league. “Big” Gus Fogle, who ; also played with the Bluffton etam, ’ has been ordered to report Monday to thdt Fort Wayne Central league team. ’ —Bluffton Banner. /' yimA ■ O finlproved Michigan Farms. Good Homes cheap. Come up on the excursion. Write me for list. B. T. Curtis, Reed City, Mich.

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| very enthusk Utio over this line ever r Since it was proposed and he thinks that there will be no trouble abodt the building of the line. He said he did not know whether the people of Linn Grove and Geneva have raised the entire >75,000 yet or not.—Bluffton Banner. In attempting to renew the fire in the kitchen stove with chips which she carried in her apron, Miss Minnie Martin was seriously, if not fatally burned Saturday evening st her home just east of Etna Green. Miss Martin is partially blind and did ndt see that there was, fire in the stove. When she threw thC chips into the stove the apron caught fire and her clothing soon was in flames. She ran into the yard followed by her invalid father who finally succeeded in tearing off the 'burning garments. ’ O' V' r ' ; ' The many friends of Miss Maude Shoaf will be Hfterested to hear that she is making marked progjress in her studies at the School of Expression, Boston, whore she has bean featured on several recent programs of public recitals given by the students. One of the most notable appearances she haa made was when, in the oneact p<gy “For Halt a Million" by Clara Sherwood, she interpreted the role of "Mildred Lawton” the herotfie of the story. On Saturday, March 20, Mih Short again appeared, presenting the monologue "Out Calling With Willie.” In these and several minor characters Miss Short bar rtfoWn. much natural talent and has grasped the principles of vocal and literary art as Trid down at the eastern school with remarkable aptitude. This ‘‘report coming direct frorp the principal of the Boston school certainly makes it gilt edged and will be good news for the many Decatur friends of Miss Shoaf. During her many visits here as a guest of Mr. and Mrs. Clark J. Lutz, she has become acquainted with and Is a-favorite among nearly all the people of this city, and they all wffl be glad to hear of the progress she is making in this great school of culture. Miss Jean Luts s another Boston student, thia being her first year at the New England Conservatory of Music, and where ihe too, Is making great progress in piano and pipe organ studies. She plays for Miss Shoaf at all her public recitals, and the word comes that both of them are making the cultured ones <if Boston take notice. ‘ - Mr.’ D. L. Guilfoyle of South Bend, arrived Tuesday and the meeting of the board of directors for the Decatur Furnace company was held, and which .dealt entirely with the additions mentioned for this great and growing Industry. The meeting developed" a unanimous opinion among the members of the board, and the question of building was fully determined, Plans are now being worked out as to the exact size and the many other details that always go into an enterprise of this kind. These will be thoroughly worked out within ! the next few days or week and then the work of erection will begin without delay. Sixty or ninety days from ( this-time will see the addition made ' and then it will be but a short time until this addition will be filled wth workmen turning out an Increased output from this institution, which for months back have been unable to keep pace with the business that came to them. \ Mr. Don L. Quinn, manager at the ; Coppock Motor Car company came in ; from IndlanapollsTuesday night,and in his Inside pocket he carried the contract accompanied by the cash and notes for the third car sold in that city during the last thirty days. This ; car goes to the Court House Grdcer i Co., and as soon as it can be comi pleted will be added to the many t Coppock cars already there. Mr. . Quinn informs us that the Coppock t company is a comer and that the field > at the state capital is a mighty fertile > one for the Decatur company. He t talks not only enthusiastically but he i accompanies this enthusiasm! with a , knowledge that looks good below the surface. Mr. Quinn is developing into one of the best motor car men in the business, and at Indianapolis the . Coppock is quite a favorite, -=e ——a j—o —- Democrat Want Ads, Pay

the Scottish Rite temple on South Pennsylvania street, voted to establish a consistory of sublime princes of the Royal Secret at Fort Wayije. This consistory will be the only one in Indalna outside of Indianapolis, and was obtained after a long effort br Scottish Rite Masons of Fort Wayne. Through the institution of the new consistory the territory of Indiana have to be divided so that some of the territory heretofore] under the jurisdiction of the Indian* I apolis consistory will be transferred! to Fort Wayne. Fort Wayne will] have exclusive jurisdiction over twen-| ty-two counties as follows: Alien,! Wells, Lagrange, Noble, Wabash, St] Joseph, Porter, Blackford, Miami,! Elkhart, Fulton, Kosciusko, DeKalb,! Adams, Steuben, Huntington, Whitley, I Marshall, Lake, Jay, Starke and La- 1 ports. At the same time concurrent! jurisdiction is given over the fol- 1 lowing seven counties: Randolph, l Delaware, Csss, Grant, Jasper, New-] Pulaski. There are already] one thousand members of the Scot-] tish’ Rite in Fort Wayne jurisdiction,] and the institution pf the consistory] Is a notable advance for Masonry in] that city. ] • <>...»■»» ■x'i IJlllllllv , al Washington, March the S>tir«,4MMiOß t < the house yes-1 terday Mr. Payne of New York, chair-1 man of the committee on ways an J means, concluded his speech in ex-1 planation of the tariff bilL He wail on his feet almost all of the five hour! and ten minufos that he had the fioorl At times he gave evidence of beinj greatly fatigued and leaned on hil desk, hoping in that way to get a litl tie rest. The majority leader begaJ his speech this morning in no partici ularly good frame of mind, but as thl day wore on he exhibited the best ol humor. He closed amid the plaudit! of the Republicans, who erowdel around him and extended their coni gi atulations. His arguments coverel a wide field. He took the positiol that the bill would not injure the tin! plate or steel file industries rt thl United States, and that free hide! would not be a menace ,so the fail mere. He discussed the fnheritaqcl tax at great length, and said it woull not. give rise, to perjury; or fraud. H| held to the view laso that an fneoml tax was, wholly unconstitutional. Thl minority leader, Mr. Clark of Mi J souri, followed, and had proceeded bil a minute on two, when, at the Sum gestion of Mr. Payne, he snspendel and the house adjourned. 1 Washington, Mardh 24.—Robert 1 Tracewell, controller of the currency whose home is In Corydon, Ind., hsl prepared his resignation to be sent fl Secretary of the Treasury MaeVeigfl soon, and Merrill Moores of India™ apolis is being prominently mention J as his probable successor. The offlfl pays a salary of $5,500 a year. Mfl Moores was a classmate of .Presidefl Taft at Yale and was one of the mol active workers in the president’s bX half in Indiana in the campaign, g is because of this old friendship aifl recent support that it is said tlfl president is seriously considering tlfl appointment intends after leaving tlfl Tracewell intends after leaving tlfl government service to engage in tlfl practice of law in Washington. H Washington, March 24.—That a dfl termined effort will be made to rfl duce public expenditures to such fl extent that governmental needs mfl be met by revenues derived from dfl ties on imports, and without resortifl to any p-f the special >taxjatiofl schemes that have been suggested B connection with tariff revision, is isl dicated by a remark made today fl Senator Aldrich, chairman of the sefl ate committee on finance. B o ,'JB Mr. and Mrs. Fred Remly of Fcß Wayne,, went to Maumee, 0., on tfl noon train to ~islt relatives. B 0 B COULD NOT EAT. B W. H. Clay, Lexington, Ky., sayfl “Our fowls were so sick with cholefl some of them could not eat. isl poured Bourbon Poultry Cure dow them and did not have a single fofl to die.” H Sold by H. H. Bremefkamp, Decfl tur, Indiana. B