Decatur Democrat, Volume 52, Number 25, Decatur, Adams County, 24 June 1909 — Page 4

THEBEMOCRAt” ■TurrTimumAT mokmina by LEW a ELL'NGHAM, Publisher. gbM—R ,« 11 * '.‘".'i**.. ' 1 "'J. M.".TS UjNPBR TEAR IN ADVAM&K. - -.—-- — - -r Entered at the postofflce at Decatur. Ind., as second class mail matter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS CO. NO MEAN CITY * Decatur is no mean city. After a fellow has galavanted around some and seen other cities in this state, and even other cities in other states, he returns with the thought Uppermost that Decatur more completely fills the bill than any other city would. Here we have the noted progress of thrift and enterprise, here we see every one making a little bit of money and the combined fruits of them all, is what makes the grand total so satisfying. Public progress is noted. We have good streets, good sewerage, and a place where nearly every householder owns his own home and takes pride in keeping it as a garden spot All this counts more than you think in keeping and making Decatur the wholesome and pleasant place that it is. Os course we have a few chronic knockers — they have them everywhere you go. The fellow who buys a property for half what he thinks it is worth, and then has to spend a few dollars in making some public improvement — I he knocks. Add to this you have the fellow who knocks because he cannot help it and there you have the sum total of those who never are satisfied and never will be. They find fault with everything that a progressive city council endeavors to do. An improvement that will cost two hundred is immediately figured up to two thousand, and thus the cry goes up and on. But thanks to a fair minded people we have as few of these paregoric people as most any city could have. As a result Decatur is a rip snorting town and getting better every day. NOT PROTECTION BUT PROSECUTION THEY NEED In the senate the other day Senator Beveridge denounced the Nation-

al Cash Register company as one of the worst of the many bad trusts. He offered figures showing that this company, after paying freight, transportation across the sea and insurance, sells its machines in England at about one-half the price demanded from American business men. For illustration, the American price of Style No. 451 is $250, while the English price is $135; American price of style No. 452 is S3OO, while the Englishmen get them for $l5O. Mr. Beveridge said: “The National Cash Register company in driving out competitors, in forcing them to the wall not only in underselling them, but in the use of absolutely every device known to the science of crushing competitors, has probably not been exceeded in the atrocity of its practices by any other similar concern in the country, unless it might be the Standard Oil company. If the things that are alleged about that corporation are true, it has violated the Sherman anti-trust law.’’ After making these charges Senator Beveridge said that while he thought cash registers ought to be put on the free list, he would not go that far, but would ask that the protective duty be reduced from 30 per cent, to 15 per cent. According to the facts as stated by the senator, the National Cash Register company not only needs no protection, but should be prosecuted and punished for its outlawry, a thing which he asserted the government was contemplating. Mr. Beveridge, however, declares that he is a “protectionist” and therefore he is willing to “protect” even such an offender against the law and the American people as the cash register concern. It is amazing. ■ehbssjtss THE BOOSTERS FOR US We still stand by the statement that Decatur 18 no mean city, and that the number of chronic croakers is limited

in number and a little weak in croaks. It really makes a genuine live one ashamed for them when they rattle around trying to make a mountain out of a mole hill, They delight in proclaiming their great wisdom in the financing of every public improvement, in each instance figuring out to a gnat’s heel how the public’s funds are squandered, and how measly corrupt every public official is. Their name seldom heads or tails any public enterprise having for its object the betterment of present conditions or the expanding of commercial enterprises. In other words they are pulling at the tall and the tall Is pretty close to the rear. But we must say that the number of these hot air croakers is small and that Decatur is fortunate* in having a citizenship composed in the most part of the genuine blown-in-the-bottle sort They believe in making Decatur the best and the prettiest town in the country, and they are willing to do their part in" making it everything that it should be. Visitors in the city every day proclaim that Deca-

tur has made greater progress and

more improvements than any town they have visited. They say more than that. They say that Decatur shows more signs of business life than any town around here. When they say this they say what every tone here —except a croaker—knows to be a fact Decatur is all right, and while we have these croakers, we have the livlliest set of boosters that [ever came down the pike. They are I the best that ever happened, and they are the lads that will continue to make Decatur grow and prosper as she never grew and prospered before. The boosters for us. Bluffton is to cut their belt for another street fair this year. Bluffton is a hot town all right, all right. The report of the receiver shows a net earning for the Star league of newspapers for the last year of one hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars. These newspapers have a rocky road to travel. In the broad application of the term, the farmers of Adams county are making hay. Crops never appeared better and this year will be but another fruitful year for those engaged in the happy and successful pursuit, of agriculture. A novel way of beating the public has just been discovered by the commissioners of Grant county. A pauper who has been supported for twenty years at the infirmary is found to have $2,500 in a savings bank. The man is described as not mentally very

bright,- but he seems to have been shrewd enough to get his living off the tax-payers for a score of years. The latest exhibition of excitement • craving men and women was in the Crown Point automobile race on Friday. Some 200,000 people are estimated to have gone to see the dangerous feat of fast speeding. That no one was killed was a gracious miracle, although several were severely injured in the mad scramble to reach the grounds. The event furnishes an explanation for the insane driving of the scorchers who are daily sacrificing human Ilves. When thousands of people will endure hardship and face dangers to see such an exhibition, and when the metropolitan papers will devote two or three pages to accounts of it, is it any wonder that the actors are speed-mad? —South Bend Times. ■ The last sad rite were said Friday over the remains of the late Jacob Hart and his body was laid to rest in beautiful Maplewood. He was a citizen of Adams county for more than sixty years, and he was one of those gentlemen with whom it was a pleasure to converse of the early days. Such men as Mr. Hart helped to make this country what it is, the best in all the land, and the passing of a pioneer of his Integrity is always marked because of the many sad hearts the going out of such a life brings, even when he has attained that age where it is known the days are numbered. Today we are promised the opening gun at Ada, Minn., of a campaign for

known as the “LaFollette and Bryan* organisation. It la expected to furnish a nucleus for the dissatisfied members of both the old parties—a sort of “insurgent” Tallying point. The curious might ask why Bryan men should want ano tlicr party. Is net the control of one through three, national campaigns sufficient to gratify ambition? Pray, also, why is it LaFollette and Bryan? Do they expect the “peerless leader” to play second fiddle in LaFollette’s concert? —South Bend Times. Lorimer, elected to the United States senate from Illinois, by a combination of bolting Republicans and foolish Democrats, signalizing his advent into the senate by Joining the Aldrich gang. He declares that he will stand with the Rhode Island boss on all tariff measures and the first vote he cast was against free print paper, and in favor of $4 a ton duty. The only thing accomplished by the Democrats In helping to elect Lorimer was to split the Republicans of Illinois into factions which have since entered upon a war of extermination among themselves. And in the end that may produce some good political results.

The election of Miss Jane Addams, of Hull House, Chicago, as president of the national conference of charities and corrections for 1910 Is significant It is the first time In its thirty-six years of existence that the organization has placed a woman at Its head, and the election of Miss Addams was unanimous. It is a recognition not only of Miss Addams’ own personal service, but of the fact that along these social-economic lines of phllantropic effort woman is a worthy co-worker with man. The general secretary of the conference Is Alexander Johnson* of Fort Wayne. No more worthy or more efficient selection could have been made for this position.—South Bend Times, j—Papers in this part of the state announce that grain buyers expect to start buying new wheat at a dollar a bushel. It is also predicted that the quality of the wheat this year will be fine, unless a wet harvest should have to be contended with. It is true that the acreage of winter wheat is not so large as it was last year, but the acreage of spring wheat is much larger than it was a year ago. White the outlook was no good this spring, the wet weather brought out the wheat in great shape/and the yield per acre will be as high as the average. In some parts of the state the green bug and wet weather have done some harm, but up to the present time no complaints have been heard in this county.—Columbia City Pest.

A local option election is being held today in Warrick county and It is said to have been the fiercest campaign of the kind ever held in the state. It is admitted that more than SO,OOO circulars have been distributed over the county and when the local papers took up the fight for the drys, the wets immediately installed a plant of their own and both sides have said some mighty mean things about eateh other that will live long after the local option question has been peacefully laid aside. The wets are accusing the rural route carriers at Boonville, the county seat, with having destroyed a part of their literature after it had been mailed, % and they are threatening all kinds of trouble. And so it goes. It will be a relief when the question has been decided in all the counties of the state. IS AN ABUSED MAN (Continued from page 1.) the contract is now invalid, there Is due Rev .McCarty the amount; asked in his petition, the debt comprising moneys advanced the defendant, expenditures made by him on Improvements on her property and for services as manager. The attorneys intimate that several additional paragraphs will be filed to the complaint but will not divulge their nature.— Portland Sun. Q'' .ll Z Democrat Want Ads. Pay

“ ) — ,? ■ The Sufferings of Little Stanley Christen at Chicago TO BE BROUGHT HERE «■■■■■■■■■» .. T ‘ ’ Arrive this Afternoon Over the Erie-No Funeral Arrangements Stanley Christen, the little five-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Christen, qf Chicago, died at the home in that city, at four o’clock yesterday morning After an Illness of several weeks. The sad news came this morning in a message to Mr. H. L. Conter. Stanley became ill about three weeks ago, his aliment being at first diagnosed as gastritis. He sank gradually, the news being encouraging one day and the next perhaps extending but slight Mrs. Conter went to Chicago a week ago, to assist Mrs. Christen who was completely worn out. A card from her yesterday said that the physicians had abandoned all hope and it was known that the end was near. Stanley was born in August, 1904, in the city of Chicago, where he spent his short life. He visited here frequently with his parents, and had many friends, due to the fact that he was unusually bright tor one of his years, and 'the crowd where he was found was alway s a happy one. He was here about two months ago. It is believed now that his death was due to spinal meningitis, and it is said that the doctors expressed the opinion during the last few days of his illness that should he live he would have been blind and an invalid during his life. It Is a very sad death and has caused no little sorrow here, the more so because his mother is in very poor health, and it is feared the shodk from this loss will be almost more than she can bear. The remains will be brought here and will be taken to the home of Mr. Conter on Winchester street. A later message received this afternoon, stated that the funeral party will arrive here over the Chicago & Erie At 3:38 this afternoon. ■o~ WOMEN WHO ARE ENVIED. Those attractive women who are lovely In face, form and temper are the qpvy of many, who migjjt be like them. A weak, sickly woman will be nervous and irritable. Constipation or Kidney poisons show in pimples, blotches, skin eruptions and a wretched complexion. For all such, Electric Bitters work wonders. They regulate Stomach, Liver and Kidneys, purify the blood; give strong nerves, bright eyes, pure breath, smooth, velvety skin, lovely complexion. Many charming women owe their health and beauty to them. 50c at all druggists.

ADAMS COUNTY BOY BOOSTED Dr. Buckmaster, the local veterinary surgeon, who was formerly a partner of Dr. Coover, of Montpelier, has been appointed a deputy veterinarian, and has already made several official trips to examine animate which were diseased. Dr. Coover was recently appointed state veterinarian by Gov. Marshall and he In turn handed a plum to his former business associate Mr. Buckmaster Is a very able man, and Dr. Coover could not have made a‘better selection. Mr. Budkmaster will still continue to make Montpelier his home and what work he does as deputy will be In the surrounding country. —Montepeller Dally Herald. —o- - BOUQUET FOR DICK TOWNBEND Grain Men Handed Him a Vote of Thanks. Before adjourning their annual session yesterday the following resolution, which goes to show that when It comes to entertaining convention guests Peoria is strictly up to date. “We, the Grain Dealers’ Association of Illinois, at the sixteenth annual convention in the city of Peoria, held in the National hotel, in appreciation of the care, courtesy and attention rendered by the management of the National hotel, hereby “Resolve, That we tender a vote of thanks to Mr. Dick Townsend, the proprietor, and the management and assistants of the hotel, for their uniform courtesy, attention and kindness to the delegates, visitors and ladies In attendance during the two days’ convention, and we render them our sincere approbation and thanks for the many favors. *S. M. Wayne, president ;S. W, Strong, secretary.”—Peoria (Ill.) Star. -;0 - . » Democrat yy anx *«y

Marshall Field was a commercial traveler; so were John Wanamaker and Toiff Murray. So also were Dwight L. Moody, the great evAngelist, Richard Cobden, the famous English statesman and writer. Ex-Gov-ernor Frank Black, of New York, followed “the road’’ with his sample cases before beginning his legal and political career. Walter D. Moody, one of the chief executives of the Chicago Association of Commerce and author o? “Men Who Sell Things” was for fifteen years a road salesman. This list might be extended almost indefinitely. Occasionally the commercial traveler leaves the road to enter one of the professions. Milton J. Foreman, one of the leaders of the Chicago bar, president of the Chicago Charter association, aiderman, and a power in local politics, was a “stdr" hat salesman and took his law books on the road with him until he was well grounded in the rudiments of the profession. Another commercial traveler, Charles N. Crewdson, took a course in the University of Chicago after he was married. There he became interested in Egyptology and later, between his regular commercial trips on the road, visited Egypt and studied the ancient ruins at first hand. This brought him into print in a series of travel articles, and he found that he could write, and write well. Later he began to draw upon his experience as a commercial traveler for literary material and scored a success and a national reputation. But he resolutely withstood all temptation to be drawn away from the read. His work kept him in touch with the world of affairs, and one day his alert eye caught sight of the opportunity to start a novel business enterprise “on the side.” His “road partner’’ became his actual partner in the new enterprise. Their work for their respective houses took them where they most needed to go in the interest of their private venture. Today one of these men draws a salary of $12,000 and the other a little less than that, while their private venture probably yields them more than they earn from their regular calling. —Forrest Crlssey, in the July Everybody’s.

FROM OLD MEXICO Miss Hattie Studabaker and Mrs. Champer at Home Here Again OTERS REMAIN SOUTH Mrs. Morrison and Daughter Will Spend Summer in Mexican Mountains Miss Hattie Studabaker arrived home from a several months’ trip through old Mexico, the greater part of the time being spent at Oaxaca, where are located a number of other Decatur people. She was accompanied home by Mrs/ Katherine Champer, who has been a guest at her daughter’s home at Fort Worth, Texas, for some months. Mrs. Morrison and daughter Miss Harriet and Miss Melnerding, of St. Louis, remained in Mexico, and will likely spend the summer there. It is a delightful country and the people from here who have spent winters in the clime where the thermometer varies but ten or fifteen degrees in an entire year are all pleased with the land. Since their arrival home Miss Studabaker and Mrs. Champer have been resting at their home on Fourth street. They are glad to be here again, and their many friends will be more than glad to greet them and hear from them of the wonderful lands of the south. .. ■ •■o • I BEFORE THE BAR N. H. Brown, an attorney, of Pittsfield, Vt., writes: “We have used Dr. King’s New Lite Pills for years and find them such a good family medicine we wouldn’t be without them.” For ChjHte, Constipation, Biliousness or Sick Headache they work wonders. 25c. at all druggists. ■ ; ■—— JOHN B. SCOTT TRIAL. Fort Wayne, Ind., June 23.—The trial of John B. Scott, a saloon keeper,who shot and killed Walter Thornton in his saloon ih this city, has begun in Columbia City, after a change of venue. The Jury was selected -late yesterday afternoon. Prosecuting Attorney Thomas is being assisted by Wler Carver, prosecutink attorney of Whitley county. E. V. Emrlck is conducting the defense, assisted by Frank and w' F. McNagney, formed ■ a U 11

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A farmer residing about six miles west of this city was thrown from his rig and dragged several yards Sunday afternoon, his horse becoming frightened at an automobile. For a short time it looked as if the farmer would be killed, but he escaped with a few scratches.—Bluffton Banner. —■ —•— — 1 A Cure For Gapes. Mr. Frank P. Clay, Paris, Ky., says: •‘Last year I raised hundreds of chickens free from gapes by giving , them Bourbon Poultry Cure in their’ drinking water. I also find this remedy to be a sure cure for cholera and limberneck. Sold by H. H. Bremerkamp. ’’ r It z Frank Porter, of Parker City,' returned to his home after a few days visit with Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Porter and family. HOW TO CURE BKIN DISEASES. The germs and their poisons which cause the disease must be drawn to the surface of the skin and destroyed. Zemo, a scientific preparation, for external use, wijl do thia and will positively cure Eczema, Pimples, Dandruff and every form of skin or scalp disease. Write for sample, - E. W. Rose Medicine Co., St Louis, Mo. See photos of many remarkable cures and show case or window display at Smiths Yager & Falk drug store. Ask for sample. Fr. Eichinger of Fort Wayne, returned to his home today, after attending the Commencement given by St. Josephs school last evening. ■■ .11 U'.. "I . I ' >C" Fifty Years’ Experience. Mrs. W. W. Ralston, Hopkinsville, Ky., says: “I have been raising chickens for fifty years and Bourbon Poultry Cure is the most satisfactory remedy I have ever used or chicken cholera and gapes.\l would not be without it. Sold by H. H. Bremer- , kamp. ■ ■ i. / ";-o 1 " ■ • Earl Archer and family went to Pleasant Mills today, after a visit with Mrs. George Wemhoff and fam-> ily. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Archer live In Michigan, and will visit with Mr. Ed Frantz and family at Pleasant Mills. Before they return to their home they will continue their visit here-for a week. • -O— — This la An Easy Test Sprinkle. Allen’s Foot-Ease in one j shoe and not in the other, and notice the difference. Just the thing to use when rubbers or overshoes become necessary, and your shoes seem to