Decatur Democrat, Volume 56, Number 7, Decatur, Adams County, 9 July 1911 — Page 5

These farms were sold to men from Indiana, Ohio and Illinois--men who have been KI farming what they supposed was the best ■ soil in America, and who put our North- S western farms up for comparison with . it ■ before buying. Speaks well for our soil. ■ doesn't it? We Do Not Recommend all of Minnesota or all of North Dakota-they are big states and contain too many kinds of soil for all to be good. We Do Recommend certain localities in each: namely, RENVILLE and adjoining counties in the South Central part of Minnesota, and RANSOM and SARGENT counties in the Southeastern corner of North Dakota. These particular localities are. beyond doubt the best in those states, and offer greater value for one's money than any other section we have ever examined: and that is just why we are selling farms there. There's lot of satsfaction in handling land that we know is actually worth more than we ask for it, and that our customers can always sell at a profit. It means that our customers areountry, and each one of farm-buyers in the cssep payspes jsaq aqi is a booster for us and our farms. We have nearly 200 of the best farms in the above named sections —farms that are well located, well improved, on good roads, close to good markets, churches and schools I -not a farm of poor or doubtful quality on our list. Let us send you our Northwestern Cata- K logues that tell all about the country, and ■ about our farms and the easy terms on which |g we sell them. You can’t - afford- to- buy- a fi farm anywhere until you have investigate*! g the localities we recommend in MINNESO- g TA and NORTH DAKOTA, where a dollar I will buy two to three times as much actual S soil value as it will in the Central States. g s Drop us a card for catalogues. B Straus Bros. Co. I Capitol, $1,900,000 S Redwood Falls, Minn. Lisbon, N. Dak. LIGONIER, INDIANA. Chas. M. Stahl, Dist. Manager Van Wert, Ohio. g

EVERY MONTH ALIKE In Number of Daye if R- Pearce’s BUI Passes Parliament. There will be no need for children to leant wearisome lines regarding the number of days in the months if Mr. R. Pearce’s bill in parliament for the reform of the calendar becomes law. Then the first two months of every quarter will have thirty days and the last month thirtyone. while each quarter will have exactly the same number of days. There will be only 364 days in the year, as New Year’s day will not be reckoned. It will be a bank holiday, and the next day will be the first of; January. There will be another bank) holiday every four years, which will i not be reckoned either. This leap year will come after the last day in June and will be followed by the first of July. These small changes will simplify the calendar in a wonderful way, as Christmas day will always fall on a Monday. Thus a person's birthday will always be on the same day of the week as he was born, so far as regards those born after 1911- , The only difficulty about the arrangement ia that persons who have been born on certain days under the old style apparently will nevW have 1 birthdays. They can console themselves that they will never grow old•*C Thus there will be no thirty-first of January, as January and February will have thirty days each.*

After this year movable days will come to an end. Easter Sunday will I always be on the fourteenth of April, and the days depending on it will be fixed accordingly.—Pearson’s Weekly. HAD GOOD SESSION. Phi Deltas Will Hold 1912 Convention at Fort Wayne. . 1 The three days’ session of Cue Phi i Delta Kappas, which was held at Peru .! last week, was brought to a .close with I a large number of the members of the various Chapters throughout the state . present. The business sessions were , interesting and much business peri taining to the organization was at ‘ tended to. The selection of officers ’ lor the coming year was made and a I hot contest was on between the different ones in the race for the honors. None of the horns noys were up for i office and the honors fell to all outside 1 cities. Fort Wayne was selected for the place where the next convention will be held, and after the following ! officers were elected the convention adjourned: President, Rouhier Howard, Peru; vice president, Chester Clark, Garrett; secretary-treasurer, 'John F. Cauchat, Indianapolis; auditor, Edward Bishop, Muncie; sergeant-at-arms, William Felghner, Marion. WANTED —Ten dollars per day is beI ing easily made silvering mirrors. Complete instructions, |2. The Acme Chemical Co., the Colton Build- ( ing, Toledo, O. I

COLOR BLINDNESS. th. Incident That Opened John Dalton's Eye, to Hit Affliction. John Dalton, the famous English chemist Hint natural philosopher, without whose discovery of the laws of chemical combination chemistry as an exact •science could hardly exist, was wholly color blind. His knowledge of the fact came about by a happening of the sort which we call chance. On his mother's birthday, when he was a man of twenty-six. be took her a pair of stockings which he had seen in a shop window, lalteled "Silk, the newest fashion." “Thee has bought me a pair of grand hose. John." said the mother, "hut what made thee fancy such a bright color? Why. 1 can never show myself at meeting In them." John was much disconcerted, but he told her that he considered the stockings to be of a very proper go to meeting color, as they were a dark bluish drab "Why, they're as red ns a cherry. John.” was her astonished reply. Neither be nor his brother Jonathan could see anything but drub In the stockings, and they rested In the belief that the good wife's eyes were out of order until she, having consulted various neighbors, returned with the verdict “Varra tine stuff, but uncommon scarlety.” The consequence was that John Dal ton became the first to direct the attention of the scientific world to the subject of color blindness. THE DRINK CALLED COFFEE. Here Is the Way They Made It In the Seventeenth Century. There are in existence in Great Britain a few copies of an ancient cookbook, published in 1662. that gives what is perhaps the first English recipe for coffee. The recipe reads: "To make the drink that is now much used, called coffee. "Ths coffee berries are to be bought at any Druggist, about seven shillings the pound. Take what quantity you please, and over a charcoal fire, in an old frying pan. keep them always stirring until they be quite black, and when you crack one with your teeth that it is black within as it is without, yet if you exceed, then do you waste the Oyl. and If less, then will it not deliver its Oyl. and if you should continue fire till it be white it will then make no coffee, but only give you its salt. Beat and force through a lawn sieve. "Take clear water and boil one-third of it away, and it is fit for use. Take one quart of this prepared water, put in it one ounce of your prepared coffee and boil it gently one hour, and It is fit for your use; drink one-quarter of a pint ns hot as you can sip it. It doth abate the fury and sharpness of the Acrimony, which is the gender of the Diseases called Cronical.” Beat the Bank’s System. The boy entered the Cleveland bank and laid a half dollar with his bank book on the receiving teller’s window "We don’t receive deposits of less than a dollar." said the teller. The boy yielded reluctantly to the system and drew back. But he did not leave the bank. He crossed the corridor and seated himself on a settee. The teller noticed him sitting there and also noticed the reflective look on his face. The boy waited for some time, thinking it over. Finally he arose and went to the paying teller's window. A moment later he confronted the receiving teller. "I want to deposit this dollar and a half.” be said. The teller grinned. The boy had just drawn a dollar from his little balance and was using it as an entering wedge for the rejected half dollar. And so the sys tem was beaten by the boy. and a considerable accession of bookkeeping labor was the price of defeat.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. History Made Palatable. Joseph Salvador, the French historian, and Jules Sandeau, a novelist, made their meeting at a public reception the occasion for a dispute as to the respective places which they occupied in the world of letters. “The reading of history is like a pill —ft needs the sugar coating to make it palatable.” argued the novelist. “Ah. but it is the ingredient which cures, not the coating,” remarked the historian. “Then let us divide honors," said Sandean, “for if it were not for my sugar coating your historical facts would dry on the shelves." Tolstoy’s Intensity. Everything in Tolstoy’s character, says a Russian writer, attains titanic proportions. “As a drinker he absorbed fantastic quantities of liquor. As a gambler he terrified his partners by the boldness of his play. As a soldier he advanced gayly to bastion four, the bastion of death at Sevastopol, and there be made dying men laugh at his witty sayings. He surpassed every one by bis prodigious activity in sport as well as in literature." Agriculture. No other human occupation opens so wide a field for the profltable and agreeable combination of labor with cultivated thought as agriculture. Ere long the most valuable of ail arts will be the art of deriving a comfortable subsistence from the smallest area of land.—Abraham Lincoln. A Strike. "Why don’t you go to the dance tonight. Harold? Haven’t you any flame?" “Yes. dad.” said the Harvard student. “a flame, but no fuel.”—Life. A grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man.— Saadi. I

AFTER THE TEMPEST. The Genial Calm That Settled Over the 1 Pretty School ma'am. 1 A pretty scboolma’am once taught I school tn a Long Island village. All | the young fellows for miles around . were mud about ber. but the school- , ma’am was proud, and none of the ! boys seemed to stand the ghost of a chance. Young Jim Brown, the judge’s son < was the best looking chap in the ’ town, nnd Jim probably loved the . scboolma’am more than any of her ( other swnltis. but he never had the ( pluck to declare himself. He felt too small mid mean before the bennty mid ’ learning of the seliixdma’um But one ' day, the schindmit’atu being iiwuy on I a visit In New York state. Jim asked ] advice of the editor. The editor said; ■ "Take the bull by the horns and in ( sort an announcement of your forth 1 coming imirrlnge in my society col I umn. It will cost you only !>0 rents’ • So Jim Inserted an announcement top the effect that the school nui'uin mid he would be married the next month j and would spend their honeymoon m j Atlantic City. , Well, ii short time after this nn i : nouncement appeared the school ma'em came back home. Jim heard on all 1 sides how furious she was. For sev- 1 eral days he kept away from ber < Then one afternoon as she was com Ing home from school he ran plump Into her in the lane. She let him know at once what she thought of him and his outrageous ' conduct She stormed and raved, and her pretty eyes flashed tire. Jim stood first on one foot and then on the oth er, and finally he blurted out: "Well. If you don’t like it I can have the announcement contradicted." “Oh. bother It!" said the schoolma'am "It's too late now."—Washington star. THEY LIKE PRISON LIFE A Claes of Persona In Japan Who Try to Break Into Jail. In Japan there are people who make sham confessions In order to obtain a period of the comparative warmth and comfort of a Japanese prison. The Japan Mall says: “The police slang of the capital has words to describe aud distinguish these persons. ’Meshl kul.’ or the rice criminal, will steal some small article from a shop front in such away as to be seen doing it. He then makes a bolt of it. pursued t>y the master of the shop, or some faithful kozo, but presently allows himself to be caught and banded to the police He has to ’do nine for his pretended theft, but his rice i> secured for a period, and when that period Ims elapsed he will allow himself to be caught again "The 'unandou.' or 'eel bowl - criminal. Is wilier than the one Just mentioned. He does uot actually commit a crime, such as will pur him Into the convict side of the prison, but allows himself to be found looking in suspicious places, underneath the brond verandas of a temple, or In tbe garden of a private house. He gets into prison all right but he secures the more generous treatment of the bouse of detention, which is to the fare of the convict jail what a - dish of eels Is to a bowl of plain rice. "The 'kuruma' Is a criminal who makes a sham confession in order to sneak a free railway ride. The Asasi tells of a case connrrred with a murder. known as the 'decapitated corpse case.' which took place last year. A man gave himself up to the police in Sendai'ws the perpetrator of the crime. He was brought to Tokyo and his story Investigated. It was found to be a pure fabrication. A Strauss Story. A French contemporary tells a ’ piquant story of the composer of "Salome." He was dining one night with a party of musical friends when the conversation turned on the compositions of the kaiser. Some of the guests had expressed their opinions pretty freely when Herr Strauss put his finger to his lips anil said: "Sh-sh! You should never run down the compositions of crowned beads in company. There Is no telling who wrote ; them.” Some Letters. > An ingenious person has discovered that the three most forcible letters in our alphabet are NRG (energy), that ■ the two which contain nothing are M T (empty), that four express great corpulence, O B C T (obesity): that two are in a decline, D K (decay); that four Indicate exalted station. X L N C (excellency), and three excite our • tears, yet when pronounced together are necessary to a good understanding —t, E G (elegy and leg). Willing to Compromise. “Didn’t you promise never to do that again?” "Yes. father.” “Amd didn't I promise to whale you good if you didn’t?” “Yes. but I broke me promise and won’t told you to yours.” — Toledo Blade. To the Point. At a teacher's conference one of the school principals row to propose the toast, “Long live the teachers." And a meager, pallid assistant instructor in a hollow voice asked, "On what?”—Ladies’ Home Journal. Its Resemblance. "Did the man whose auto was in collision last night give it a cursory ex amination ?" "It sounded that way. air."—Baltimore American. Advlee la not disliked because It Is j advlee, bat because to few people I i know hew to gtva K-Leigh Bent |

In his last will and testament, probated today, John E. Taylor, whose death occurred June 30th, gives all his personal property, consisting of ho'isehoia goods, cattle, hogs, horses, poultry, and farm implements, all money, notes, mortgages, to his wife, Mary Taylor. He also leaves to his wife all his real estate, rents and profits as long as she Ilves. At her death each of the children, William ' Taylor, Cora Harr. Mary French, Joeann Grove and Norval Taylor get one fifth of the price received from the sale of the land, which at her death is to be sold at private sale He asks that he be furnished with a fifty-dollar coffin, and that a sixty-u< 1 lar monument be erected at his grave The wife is to pay the debts aud tax* r, on the land, and she is named excel trix. F. S. Armantrout and Kobe:' E. Hickerson were witnesses to the will, which was executed March ".1 1911. County Clerk .iarne-.. P. Haefllng will close his office all day tomorrow—-Ju). Fourth being Cue only holiday allowed this office except Sundays. He stated that, as warm as it is, he wouldn t care if the remainder of the week was Fourth of July. Frank Gillespie, clerk of the Jaycircuit court, was a visitor with County Clerk J. P. Haefllng a short while Saturday afternoon enroute to Fort Wayne. Real estate transfers: Samuel Simison, attorney, to John Simison,, first thirteen numbered lots in Buena Vista, SBOO. o '■ This evening at 8 o’clock at the Presbyterian church a reception will be tendered the new minister, the Rev. William H. Gleiser, who on last Tuesday evening was ordained into the ministry and installed as pastor of the local church. A very interesting program has been arranged and all the ministers of the city and their congregations are cordially invited to come and spend the evening and assist in giving tbe new minister a welcome. The following program will be given, the Hon. C. J. Lutz presiding: Organ Prelude —Mrs. C. J. Lutz. Address of Welcome —Rev. D. O. Wise. Solo —Dr. Fred Patterson. Address—"ln Behalf of the Business Men" —Hon. C. L. Walters. Solo —Miss Marie Allison. Address—"ln Behalf of the Church —Hon. D. B. Erwin. Response—Rev. William H. Gleiser. REV. CHURCH PREACHED. At the Pleasant Mills M. E. Church Sunday Evening. The Rev. Chester W. Church returned this morning to Fort Wayne, after a short visit here since Saturday. Sunday evening he preached at the M. E. church at Pleasant Mills, the pastor, the Rev. D. A. J. Brown, having resigned on account of ill health. Tbe Rev. Brown was on a circuit of five charges, and Superintendent J. A. Beatty of Fort Wayne has not yet named a successor. The charges are much grieved over the enforced resignation of the Rev. Brown. o DOCTOR COOK HERE. Fourth of July afternoon and night, the Star theater will show a film entitled “The Truth About Dr. Cook,” consisting of two thousand feet of new film taken by a photographer accompanying the expedition. A competent lecturer will be present to explain the film from time to time and you should not miss seeing this instructive film —giving reaitistic scenes of the land of ice and snow. The same old price,—a nickel. o — ■ ■ — “THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY” Was the Text Taken by Rev. Gleiser at His Sunday Morning Service. Rev. William H. Gleiser, pastor at the First Presbyterian church, delivered a convincing and appropriate sermon Sunday morning, taking as his theme the famous story, “The Man Without a Country." He told the sad life of Lieutenant Philip Nolan, who was given the verdict he asked for when he cried out at a court martial that he hoped he might never see or hear of the United States again. His wish was granted and he lived for fifty-six years on the high seas. Ho loved his country and no punishment could have been more complete than his. He died hugging the old flag to his breast. Rev. Gleiser said that there could be but one thing worse than a man without a country and that is the man without a God. Jt was a great sermpn and proved Rev. Gleiser’s ability beyond question. q— The board of cominlSßioners is in session today, th* regular July term, and the routine of business is being I taken care of. The board went to I BtqffGc® -la automobile at noon, leav- • -• •

Ing at 11:40, where they met the Wells county board on she County Line Macadam road. They are dun to return at 3:30 to take up the work here. 1 County Treasurer Yafw-r tiled hi« monthly report, showing the amount of taxes collected, etc., which was duly approved. I Proceedings for the John Shafter County Line Macadam road were certified here by the adltor of Wells county and placed upon the records of Adams county. bids for furnishing coal for the county Institutions wete received, but no awards were made, the matter to be taken up later. Extras were ordered for the Rodenbush, C. C. Beers and Schafer macadam roads, where it was shown necessary. Columbia City, Ind., July 3 —lt was definitely announced Saturday at South Whitley that the Vail hoop, stave and heading mills will be rebuilt in that town and to show that they were in good faith tbe Vails ordered George Cook, their manager at that place, to again put men to work in cleaning up the debris of the late fire and to make the necessary preparations so that the buildings could be erected as soon as possible. This announcement. -. ame after an interview with Robert Emerson of South Whitley, a member of the Business Men's association, had with A. T. Vail at Fort Wayne Friday evening, at which time the Valls made a little further concession to the citizens of South Whitley in the way of reducing their original demand of $2,000 to sl,000, and when this became known at South Whitley the amount was raised within half an hour’s time, and Mr. Vail notified of the same, the result being that tbe men were ordered back to work. It looked for a time as though South Whitley would lose this industry and the people of that town did everything in their power to get the Vails to come back, and their efforts in this respect are now rewarded. According to the agreement the people of South Whitley are to pay ine taxes on the property for the next ten years, are to furnish water free and are to pay the Vails SI,OOO in cash. Tnis factory employs one hundred men. The picnic as planned by the Evan geiical Sunday school to be held at the Henry Barkley grove tomorrow is a suie go. Everything is in readiness for a general good time —providing the , weather is lavorable. Everybody wishing to join the picnickers is requested to come to the church. Conveyances will leave the church at 8:00, 9:00 and 10:00 a. m. Some should be ready for the first trips, for if all wait for for the last there will be too many for the hack. Amusements of various kinds will be provided tor. Bring I your swings, hammocks, croquet sets, t ball and bats, etc. Ice cream, lemon- .' ade, fruit, etc., will be sold on the , ground. The band boys have kindly ; consented to join us for a few hours and furnish us with music. We certainly appreciate this. Thanks to the ' boys in advance. ‘ Everything is in readiness for the .' Fourth of July picnic to be given by . the Baptist church of this city and " also of Pleasant Mills. The Parent v grove, mid-way between the two cities, : will be the scene of much pleasure t throughout, the day and many from a the two churches will be in attend fl ance. Free transportation for tbe e children and the me tubers of the fame Hies has been provided for and the a hacks will leave the church Tor the grounds at 9 o’clock. There will be all kinds of refreshments to be had ” on the grounds—candies, fruits and ; ice cream. It will be one of the oldr time happy gatherings and the day one long to be remembered, o t NO DAILY DEMOCRAT TUESDAY •- Tomorrow is the Fourth. It's a hdls iday the states over, and pn3k<tue'<t , li/ ii i all business in Decatur -will J, a consequence there wtlS C,o publicao tion of the Dally Defhocrat tomorrow r The news hustlers and type rustlers I get but few holidays in the year, and r we are sure that this one will be s cheerfully permitted by our big family r of readers. t FOURTH AT ROME CITY, i Mr. and Mrs. Sam Shamp and Mr. ) and Mrs. S. E. Hite and family will t leave tomorrow morning at 3:30 » o’clock in the automobile for Rome I City, where they will spend the t Fourth, fishing. Any one wanting . fish, the boys say, should put in their orders in advance. w — -- i Mr. and Mrs. Henry Gerke and son, . Kenneth, attended the wedding of : their nephew, Carl Speckman, to Miss > Clara HonnanO, which took place yes terday afternoon in Fort Wayne.