Decatur Democrat, Volume 53, Number 50, Decatur, Adams County, 15 December 1910 — Page 2

IB READY FOR THE JURY* \ ; i.'\'#" J- >l,',; ,v ■"i»■■"■* .■<*. '*•:h v;Vj:>• .* Closing Argument la New Being Made In Case Against Menlo Moore. Vinpennes, Ind., Dec. B—(Special to ♦ Dally Democrat)*--The jury In the case of Menlo E. Moore, on trial tor the murder of Charles E. Gibson will get the case tonight and it is very likely that "Moore will know his fate before sunrise tomorrow. It is expected the case will go to the jury at 5 o'clock this evening. A quick verdict is expected. So certain are Moore’s relatives that he will be acquitted that they have made arrangements to send him to Battle Creek, Mich., tor a rest of several weeks. Mrs. Moore will probably go to the home of her parents at Washington, Ind. Attorney Inman closed his argument tor the defense this morning and George Shaw is now making his closing speech tor the state. x — A REGULAR TGta RGY Bente— cUmMm Oreo ate IsMM, jumping ditcaes, wtatatag. atwaye gsa ting scratch*#, rate* sgrataß, bretato temps, bursa or ooaMa. let taw»! Rar wotber just agflted Dtokfon's Arnica Salve and eared ter gutok. Keato everything hsalaNo-bnHa, atoore, oezerna. old seres, sores or B*ss. Wf <L 2fo at all flrsflgteta . • ““'i A horse of unusual intelligence—or maybe it is just all due to the careful and excellent training of his driver, Ted Ramsey —is Tom, the good old. faithful horse of the Wells-Fargo Express delivery service, and it would be a difficult thing to find a horse as quiet, carexui ana wen trained as Tom. We often hear of horses bolting home alone to their feed-boxes, but this Tom is just as faithful in going to work as he is to get home from it. He is kept in the delivery barn on North Second street and from this place every morning at 6:30 o’clock he is hitched to his wagon and started out alone by his carekeepers. Old Tom plods along carnally and well-behaved without a driver to the Erie depot, where 1-e Lachs up the wagon to the place where the express packages are to be traded, and where he is met by his dr'v:r.' He has also learned the art - or lacking up to the express headquarters in the interurban building without a word from his master, but In every case he does just the right thing at the right time and in the right way. Except in the instances where he knows just what to do, he stands patiently and faithfully at his post until the word of his master is given. At noon he waits patiently in front of the express office at the interurban building until the 11:15 car pulls in. This is his signal to go to dinner and he walks away slowly down Second street, north ,to his good dinner in the warm stable. So, if you happen to see Tom walking away, don’t think he is trying to give his master the slip, as more than one person has thought—but remember that he knows what he is doing, and give * him credit for an extra amount of horse-sense and his driver credit for an extra amount of skill in training, and what is as rare, love for dumb animals. ’ •< ■ -*—- ———— I NArouwre gmt »as of the aAOMMwrabK •sversspt«e kind, the MM tea* Mte total wteh you here • ted eted. emiga er Mag disease. trotoMS, eough syrups, ee« liver sft er Aoetors hate all failed. float hue hear er hope. Take Dr. Kings New Dwoov«ry. Satisfaction to guaranteed when used for any throat or lung trouble It has saved thousands of hopeless Miferers. It masters stubborn eolds, Obstinate coughs, hemorrhages, la grippe, croup, asthma, bay fever and whooping cough and is the moat safe -erL’n remedy for all bronchial affections, 50c and >l.ofl. Trim bobUr free rt all druggists. i -—————o — YO. ?, MEN’S SOCIAL CLUB MEMBERS, ATTENTION. Regular meeting Friday evening. All are requested to .be present as matters of importance will be discussed. All members knowing themselves to be indebted to club will pay same as soon as possible. Dues payable not later than the 15th of this month. Special meeting Sunday afternoon for those who cannot be present on regular meeting night. HENRY SWARTZ, Sec’y and Treas. o ■ A FEW fIWOWT WttKbi xr. J. a. BartelL Ddwarderille. 111., writes: ”A tew months ago my kid noys oocame eemgested. I had severe oaekachea and the kitmeys and hip*. Foley Kidney Pills promptly wed rey backache and cow * t.-v the action of -my kidneys.. Tess «. wangnt steal. after my usi«F » w ealy a tow short weeks and I i-sg saatoMßy Minmanl the." Th? rtlftews Drag CM. Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S QABTORIA owl .Aftrh- gA .Ji ■ s &■.

The following is the menu for the chicken dinner to be served this evening at th© Methodist church by the girls of the Queen Esther Circle: Chicken Gravy Mashed Potatoes Scalloped Oysters Cream Slaw Jelly Bread and Butter Tutti Frultl Cake Coffee Twenty-five cents will be charged. The girls are also conducting a bazaar of fancy articles, handkerchiefs, etc., suitable for Christmas presents, during the afternoon and evening. The following program will be rendered after the supper: Reading—Ethel Smith. Quartet— High School Faculty. Solo —Rowena Shoaf. Piano Solo—Jean Lutz. Solo—Dolores Ballenger. Reading—Mabel Weldy. Piano Solo—Vera Hunslcker. THE CONSERVATION OF NAURS* RESOURCE* Applies as well to eur physical state as to material things. C. J. Budtong. Washington, R. I, raalteed this condition, and took warning before It was too late. Ha says: "I suffered severely from kidney trouble, the fIL aaaae beta* hereditary te aw family. I have taken four bottles es Foley's Kidney Remedy* sad now eoasMor myself thoroughly cured. This should boa warning to all not to neglect taking Foley's Kidney Remedy unutil it is too late." The Hothouse Drug Oft. - — I The city council met In adjourned session Wednesday evening, Mayor Teeple presiding, and all the members being present excepting Mr. Hale, who was out of the city. Not much time was taken up, there being nothing to consider besides the accepting of the Mercer avenue improvement from J. J. Kelleher & Company, contractors. The clerk read a report of the inspector and engineer, who were to oversee the street and to see that everything was in shape before the city would take the same into, their hands, and which was voted on as being satisfactory from every point of view. Mr. Kelleher also gave his promise that should anything turn up in .the work which he has just completed so: a period of three years he would a! any time make good without additional expense to the city, whatever it maybe. A resolution of acceptance was then read and was passed by the voting of “yes" by all present, thus giving Decatur two of the finest streets it has ever had. Friday, the 16tb, has been set for, the time of hearing objections to the final assessment. Mr. Kelleher then thanked the city for the excellent treatment he received while under the employ of the city, and anything he could do to show his appreciation he would readily do. He left over the Clover Leaf for his home at Frankfort last evening, but before leaving, the council room he rendered a treat to all those present by passing the cigars. He has done his work in an excellent way and has kept his promise to the city in every instance, and the city is considering Jtself fortunate in having secured the contractor to build these two streets. —i o M -FOLEY Kiomrv PILLS HAVE CURE* ME.’ The above te HWtodos from a tat tar-written bg K ■. Wtaktar. Braaa rille, led. *T aoatHwted a severs etew of kidney taoubta. Mr tetakgaw out tad pained ma. I seemed to have lost aU strength and aaMtkMU wm bothered with dtasy epelta, my band would swim aad ©peeks float before my eyes. I took Foley KMney Hite regularly aad am bow parfoegy w»H aad feel Hka a saw asaa. Foley KMaey Pfßs have eared ms’ The HaKboM© Drug On. A LARGE ATTENDANCE. Characterized Funeral of Henry Lankenau This Morning. The funeral of Henry Lankenau, which was conducted this morning from the home and from the Zion’s Lutheran church on West Monroe street, was one of the largest held in some time. The Rev. Wehmeyer, pastor of. the local church, and Rev. H. C. Jans, pastor of the St. John’s Lutheran church, and who had been intimately associated with Mr. Lankenau, the teacher, for many years, delivered the sermon, which was an excellent one The cortege left at 11:30 o’clock, by a special interurban car for Fort Wayne, where the burial took place in . Lindenwood cemetery. , - o : ■. n yw are are «ewosd after tofog 5 according to ffireettoM tww-CMrtei «f a , bcttla of Chambottata’a Btomseh sa< 5 Uvor Tablets, you cm bare ywsr p money back. The tablsta dtoacioo red \ larigvreto the sterna oh, laprwre (br £ digestion, regulate ths bowels. Give them a trial and got writ to all desUera. 1 — "•> " ■' Carl Moses and Tony Hackman, two young men of this city, who have been up in Watson, Canada, situated in

nine months have returned to this I city and will Spend the winter months here. They left here the-forepart of March, going direct to Watson and where they purchased a section of land or six hundred and forty acres. They have five hundred acres broken and expect to cultivate about six hundred acres. They will plant,' wheat, oats and flax, for which the climate is good for the growing of these products. Wheat is the principal grain raised and from twenty-five to thirty bushels are realised to the acre. People are settling there from all parts of this country and every two weeks train loads of prospect!,ve buyer? are being taken to that place. The property is becoming very valuable and is on the increase all the time. Mr. Hackman and Mr. Moses have purchased a twen-ty-horse power gas engine, which they use for the breaking of the ground and do their own work, assisted by a number of helpers which they have employed to care for the place.. The climate there is very comfortable and one can work the entire summer with much ease, the days being very long, the sup shining there nearly nineteen hours at a time, one being able to work until ten o'clock at night It is one of the most prosperous countries on the globe and these two young men are more than pleased with the step they have taken and the prospect for the future is very bright They will remain here until about March, when they will return to put out their crops. MANY CHILDRKI* ARE fIfCKLY, \ ■ Mother Swete tardett for Children break up colds to >4 hours, cure feverishness, headache, stomach troubles, teething disorders aad destroy worms. At all druggists. Sample mailed free. Address Alloa S. Omstead. Loßoy, N. Y. Another question came before the board of county commissioners today that made it necessary for them to call upon the county attorney, F. C. Dailey, for an opinion. This was the matter of a bill for, >725, .filed by Coroner Herman Thomas, covering items of expense which he listed as growing out of the Kingsland wreck, in which forty-one persons lost their lives. The question before the -6omm|6sioners was whether they could legally allow all of the items, and in the amounts set out While no decision was given today, the county commissioners 'expressed unofficially the probability that the bill' will be cut considerably. There is a question as to Whether the coroner should charge as a separate case each death investigated, or put in his bill at so much per diem for time spent in the Inquest, treating it as one investigation instead of separate investigations. The law says that the coroner shall he allowed >5 per day for the first day in holding an inquest and >2.50 per day for each additional day.' The bill file is on the theory of each death being a separate case and >2.50 per day each additional day in each ease. The commissioners, appear to take the view the entire investigation in the cases of those who died on September 21st should be considered as one case—Bluffton News. t ' ~ TWO » Ajrßflgr TfoML •< »» «ro tatasr* Mritae « «f---tarwMA Mat te* tatag to «s» M4* wrste'WflMta RM. Mft RIVER IS FROZEN. Ota St. ■Mary’s Is Ice-bound—Early Coat of Mall. — The old St. Mary’s river Is icebound and her placid Surface is rendered even more so with its two-inch coat of glassy armor. The ice king began his reign remarkably early this year and the children are anticipating days and days of skating sport as the ice wlirwlthout doubt list the remainder of the month. Neighbors, too, in the farming regions, who Add the in-j terveniim river and long road round-! about to the bridge, cutting off many a | pleasant visit, will take advantage oil the ice-span to open the social season! for the winter. I . jr.- — LIO*I FXjWdVwS A vniß-w. te Ffctatetfß g oavoge Roa fondteil the taMHI tttot a Chita throri tote Ms ■ca**. !>»»««■ *» • ®’» , « * oometimM rre»< wheo leaot regntaed. Often RI ronrea ttroougk ootea, croup «d | wboeFlng <W- TW stay *«» toot Dr- King's Rfowriorr rosdd have oared. ’A tew !•*»« <***< I <rar babqr «f a very bad owe of step," I write* Mrs. George B. Davie of Fla» I ttoMk N. C. "Wo always give It to him wtreu ha takes cold. a *»« -lerftst wredlldfle for buMerf." Dost fa*| teetta injtite. lugrtope. wttor* keeooHtMgna, w«ak hmgs, Me *«« «.«. Trim tetu. frree OoorenMod Mt EtUEtete. —— Democrat Want Ads Pay. - 1 - ; V"* 1 Children Cry CAST ORIA

I 11itI vii 11Illi iiii iiill | lYiy I ' I'. •, .. Wit That Helped the Anclenti rtriva null faro fliuav SOME FIFTH CENTURY JOKES Wi. Absretmlndte Professor Wm • ProHfi. Sourre of M-lmret to th. doetore of Those Dsye-The Source Os Many Modern Joke* | The maxim that there to nothing new under the sun applies, it would seem, more truly to jokes and wlttlotsms than to anything else, chief differences between the j«rt« of one generation and that of another lie natoly in their form. The kernel la practically the Nevertheless It to interesting to exhume some of these ancient jokes ahd to recognise In themt the ancestors of the things at which we laugh today to the pagee of our humorous publications. Some hnnftrous writers dearty love to make fun ot the absentminded, unpractical university professor, who outside of his own subject lets hto wits wander it nd Is very slow to grasp anything In ordinary Hfa Buch jokes as these were cracked centuries ago by the students and graduates of the great universities in ancient Greece, for K h a mistake to suppose that what wo now call "college life* was unknown to the anefenta. ( As a matter of fact the student at the University of Athens or at the University of Alexandria was very much the same sort of mortal as is the student today, and his professors were not so very different A wltiy Greek named Hierocles, a graduate of Alexandria, collected some time In the fifth century a volume of jests which were current among the students with regard to the woolgathering type of professor. A number of them are translated here as being of considerable interest In the history of humor and especially of college hu«or: < . A professor, wishing to swim, was ■early drowned, whereupon be swore that he would never touch water again ■ntll he had learned how to swim. Os twin brothers, one died. A professor thereupon, meeting the Survivor, asked. "la It you that died or your i v A professor, learning that a raven would live for more than 200 years, bought one to test the matter. A professor, wishing to cross a river, went oh board the boat on horsebackWhen some one asked the reason he gnswered that ho wanted to g«t over A professor, looking out" of the window of a house which he had bought •sked tho passersby whsther ths house fessor, said. "I heard you were dead-* “And yet” replied tho other, “you aee that I am stiM alive." “Well” said the first in perplexity. 1 don’t know what to believe, for the man who told me about ft is h rnuch more truthful man than you!” A professor, so danger of being shipwrecked. called for his tablets Ahat hs might make bls will. Seeing thereupon hfs slajes lamenting their fate, he MUd, “Do not grieve, for > am going to •st you free." A professor dreamed that he had • slants: Ms foot Another professor, baring teamed the cause, remarked. "It served you right for why do yoo sleep with*A proft«£r. meeting a doctor, tad Mmsclf behind a wait' Bome one asking tho cause, ho answered. "1 have phyaician." A protetMor. wisuin< io teaca ms horse to baa smin eater. him no food Mt all At length, the horse baving starved to deatfc tbs professor exclaimed. “I bare suffered a great leas, for just as he bad learned not to eat be died!’’ • . . Dewoa, inquired about bl. health. The invalid. the* when you eomo to ask bow 1 am li j wUI wofworwer-**' .u.TuIT.uS-v-* «M J-M ™«. • m* t. n» T-rt I txHSHtD. MM VWW Oil *OCtW 01 UIO | WIBM, üBW fra■ __ I MfoA fYi* rtintcfita dlmlnlßuOu woflO' tuO “a* ilofXr* a bald man and'a bar I Wf trftVMttur wgotnGF tivroGu to seep watch in turn four hours, each while | the others slept The bather’s turn I csißo first. Ho quietly shftVGd the k • •> we I WMD ’*“1“ vIUp»W ttWVteW uiiu« got up enduing it bare, cried out: I « w xs. KmIA oremre A’s ITlXhf** judge; I poked Mm, but he eilied me a Han*

| THE ACME B, CORNELIUS 1 Copyright, mo. by Amartaan Free. U i - J "George." said Mr. Skinner, “you’re an excellent young man. but you have no bustnesa shrewdness about you. When my girl marries I don’t wish her to marry a man who Is liable to I slip up on providing. 1 wish her to have a husband who can make money. When I was your age my father gave me a thousand and told me to use ft and my wits together. Out of that thousand I’ve made >20,000. No; 'b c ™l I °°' re ■barp enough. •w I haven’t t father to give n* >I,OOO, ’• said George. ”1 haven’t a father st all" -Well, George.” said the other, "l')l tail you what I'll do. I’M tend you a dollar. Come and see me at the end of a year, and if 1 find you’ve done well with it I’ll tend you a thousand. The dollar is only to try you without making any serious loss. The thousand will be ito set you up. Then if after another year sou have made your thousand grow Hl throw Id Grace. I don’t megn that you must make something out of nothing, but you must come pretty near IL” George took the dollar and his de-[ parture without, making any further remark. * “Grace."'‘said Mr. Skinner one day some months after this. **a man came Into the office the other day and sold me a bottle of some stuff for getting grease out o| clothes. I've spilled some gravy on my coat. You'll find the extractor In my bedroom closet. I wish you’d bring It and take out the gravyr J Grace brought a box containing a white paste and a small bottle. After reading the directions for application on the label she seraped some of the paste on to the grease spot on her father's coat, poured some of the liquid from the bottle on to the paste and rubbed It with a cloth. The mixture formed a frothy substance, which, on further application of the liquid, was easily rubbed away. But the grease spot remained. ft occurred to Mr. Skinner that he had been done by the man who had sold him the grease eradieator. Nothing In the world Irritated the old gentleman so mpch as to find a mah sharper than himself. “Acme Grease Eradicatorf* be exclaimed contemptuously, reading from the label. “Hl bet ft Is a swindle, and If It is HI go for the company that sells It Hl have was a young cnemiat ano Mr.. nxmner’s nephew. A few days later the analysis came so. ft was this: “Sogp and water.” “Soap and water, eh! 1 reckon I can get a few thousand for keeping still anyway." remarked the old gentleman. and. sending for his lawyer, te commissioned him to see the Acme Grease Eradlcator people and find out what they were willing to give for keeping their secret The attorney did so and reported that the company were now using a different eradlcator. that they would pay nothing for secrecy and were too rich for Mr. Skin* ner to punish. They were turning out tons of their eradlcatora daily, and ft was sold in every city, town and hamlet in the country. A few weeks after this fate daughter reminded him that the year he bad accorded her lover to make the dollar he had given him sprout was about to expire. Mr. Skinner remarked contemptuously that the dollar had doubtleas long age gone for cigarettes. That evening George called and tendered the loaned dollar. “Well. George," remarked the tender. "I confess I never expected to see ft again.” “You said. Mr. Skinner, that If I made ft grow you’d lend me a thousand and if 1 made that grow you’d give me Grace.” “So I did. boy. WeR. what have you done with it?" “A million dollars." Without regarding Mr. Skinners pus* aled look George told Ms story. With the dollar he had , received te bought two cakes of white soep for 5 eents each. The soap te cut tato eundlea and ran a wick through each candle. Five cents more he invested tea bottle and filled Itwlth pure water. Fifty centa, more wejit for a tabte. Yten te went to a and begun te tats grctisc spots ttiiir ctotlicfl of th# poo pie outside the show. Tho apoto te made Mmtelf by epiiting his -teudie made for the grease eradlcator that ftZ had b S o?teM to tT Bp fl t George took a partner and the next night did a good buslneaa." “What did you Skinner eagerly. \“Sold!" exclaimed the old man. .are .flow selling a real eradl-1 cator on the demand worked ' wuldn t buy the plant and the bus!- > j I I” vvvaluesj ofl lUU£ vYmiv.iA* aVUIUv LUpl> j I lo^Tto"re^l")

i ■ ... •>, fl life has been hanging by a thread lor the past few days, this morning at W ha nt Tnh A khh in'Wß the north part of the city. About 4« months ago Mrs. Close, with her sister and other relatives, went to visit ibereMra CfosTjuff^’thTfirsTat-' I IXX Zft’was nXa & r 8 y r to d b e rinr l her home on a cot. Since that time she has gradually declined. Mrs. Close was the daughter of Mf*> ■ and Mrs. William Daugherty. She | emta ™s mTlhd ° 1 " 0 ’ I childhood She came with her parents to Allen county, Indiana, and iew to« womanhood. She was married x c xzxx I four miles west of this city. They * B lived in this, vicinity for some twenty- 4 ? S™ X l ' . WJo .nd uter to I UtaraTnd’ 8 . ft wkS l came here and has resided since with l| her sister, Mrs. Raudebush. - Mrs. Close is survived by three I daughters, all living at PalHsbell, . Mont. They are Mrs. William Mrs. Lizzie Smith and Mrs. Tom She also leaves a grandson, CharleTTf Hutcheson, whom she reared as » 1 own. He lives also in PalHsbell. A I daughter, Mrs. William and a son, Will Close, besides an inplß fant daughter, have gone before. I George Daugherty Os Oklahoma, Ham H. Daugherty of Big Rapids. ■ Mich., and Mrs. John RaudebusW. < I this ,city are surviving brother: pn&| | sister. 9 The funeral was held Saturday* I morning at 10 o'clock from the M, .E. ;■ church, the services being conducted I by the pastor, the ReY. Sherman POW* I ell. Burial in the Decatur cemetery. ■ MOTHER O!»ACV SWEET ROW- B DERfI FOR CHILDREN. teMwsrutty used by Matter Gray*/fl iiro TaSftJteei “wTstoteX I uovftiß filler trefitroy worutA. vvor UMlmoaiAU. Tfcey baMt | £ "■ L , I In probate court, R. K. Allison, e< Ji cutor of the R. B. Allison,estate, fll|gl a current report. He also filed a Be| ■| bond, releasing Haefling, Moltz, Evert fl| ett and Hite, former bondsmen. The fl bond is for >15,000. > ■ About forty witnesses were in coigMa this, morning attending the case of l|| Rosie Passwater vs. Charles Passw|Oi ter, for divorce. The case seemed to I be a very interesting one. parties'Jg live in Blue Creek township. L. C. De- » Voss is attorney for plaintiff and D&HI B. Erwin for defendant. - J;. ■ Ji-. ■ Laura A. Foughty vs. Charles. K. I Foughty, divorce, counter showing .■ filed by defendant. Ordered that de-fl| of court and the additional sum for I clothing to be paid within five dayfljjflli ' Real estate transfers: John t| Summers to John Townsend, to John J. Summers, 280 acres, Mon-flgJ roe tp, >30,000; Z. O. Lewellen 3to| William Scherer, 50 acres, Monroe $7,000; C. U. Dorwin to W. R. Dorwin.M lot 285, Decatur, $1,100; Don L. Qufan.l to Martin Miller, lot 189, DecaturJfl'J o Bfcjg AT POINT OF DEATH. 3 Mrs. Ellen Touhey at Winchester Very Low. J Mrs. P. J. Hyland has returned fromfl|g Winchester, where she has been kt the! bedside of her mother, Mrs. Ellenfll the advanced age of seventy-five years, has become so low that her death Itfl ■ expected at any time. At times seems somewhat improved, and thenfl'J she sinks back Into the same criticglß|| condition, and the end is thought to befl very near. *' • ~”-r;“ — fl PERRY DAVIV PAW KMXgR Lid allays the awful ftchfog Iqulto bites, Zsc. 35c and 50c botttesjg