Decatur News, Volume 3, Number 6, Decatur, Adams County, 3 April 1901 — Page 4

THE DECATUR NEWS PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY SV B. F. KIZER, EDITOR Est Entered at tbe Decatur postoffice as second B 1 class mail matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: One year . *IOO Six months Three months 25 » i gj WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1901. Ip £ ' i A business will not prosper without advertising any more than the old B. fashioned mill wheel will run with' fe cutwater. , | . ■ ■ — B*' Cuba now has a treasurer, a real !1 actual live treasurer, whose name is I Carlos Kolos. What has happened to I the present administration, has it ¥ actually no more Neeleys? WT The senatorial deadlock in Nebras--i' ka is broken at last. J. H. Millard, of Omaha, was 1 elected to the long term I in the senate, and Chas. H. Deitrick was elected to the shortterm. fc Indianapolis has the distinction of £ being the only city in the United | States that furnished both a president r and a vice-president. It furnished | both Harrison arid Hendricks. | The Ohio republican convention will be held'jdst as soon as the repub l fe lican “bosses” get all the prelimi- • aries fixed so the convention will know what to do when they meet. b Imperialism is wrong, because it ■ changes every theory of the govern.' I ment. We cannot administer an em> | pire in the Orient and maintain a republic in America.—W. J. Bryan. 8 On Thursday of last week the pubfc-’ • , ■ Mcation of a new newspaper was be* 5 gun in Chicago. The Times-Herald 1 has purchased the Record and the fe new publication is known as the Record-Herald. While England is fighting the lib 1 „ erty loving Dutchmen in South Afrb ca, France and Germany are building ’.J-r . • ' ■ warships, and Russia is taking actual possession of China. The British lion’ r-jyUl have plenty to do, before the . over, to. "what he now claiiiis. ———— I ■ An advertisement in this paper is an outward act that betrays an intention- It indicates that the adver r tiser has confidence in his goods and honestly and plainly states his case, ■ap no doubt backed by an inducement to feoffer prospective buyers. It pays you ■ to read the advertising found in the •fe Decatur News. Marcus Aurelius Hanna is a whole administration when it comes to tne passage of a pet scheme or the defeat’ fe of an objectionable measure. Senator Carter can talk the other fellow’s ............. fe measure to nothingness, at Mark’s command, when a flattering future or 'a proper divison is shown him, as your “Uncle Mark” sees it. Another proper name has been moulded into a name that may find a lasting place in the English language. The gentleman who writes the adver > tisements for a Brooklyn dry goods firm declared that his prices had .been “Carrienatiooized.” No further explanation was necessary. The pub 1 lie understood and the word has been ■■ accepted. •fe 1 The United States is the first great ; power to recognize the annexation.of the South African republics to the British empire. Once it was the Orange Free State and once the great American republic. Would Great Britain be slow in acknowledging / William I, and Hanna I? Time has a marvelous story for the ears of fu* g ture generations, on the subject of i liberty and freedom. King Alfonso XIII, the youthful raler of Spain, who at present is the smallest crowned ruler in the world lives in one of the largest palaces ever tniilt It takes sightseers two whole - days to go through it, and in its ex< ft tensive court yard there is enough

space for quite a large army to drill. The youthful king is said to have no love for such a monster mansion and has expressed his desire to have it changed when he grew to be a than. If Uncle Sam gets another ‘whack’ at Spain; the mansion will not need remodeling. Perhaps we can use it for an insane asylum before the next presidential campaign. Andrew Jefferson, ageip 17, and Emma May, aged 15, were married in Dayton, Ohio, several months ago. The young man is a messenger, earning the princely salary of three dollars per week. The boy and girl couple soon quarreled and have been divorced, the court ordering the young fellow to pay 81.50 per week alimony. Young Jefferson says that McKinley’s administration is a failure. Three former editors of the Fremont Messenger, are now preachers, one is the leader of a choir, and one is the superintendent of a Sunday school. A man who was a “devil” in that office twenty years ago, is now a prominent missionary, and a former job printer is holding a chair in a theological seminary. Well we can’t sing much; we are too homely" to succeed in missionary work and fbo tired to teach theology, but we are passionately fond pt chicken; therefore, we can see our finish. The capture of Aguinaldo, the Fili pino chieftain, has at last been affected through the daring bravery and commendable strategy of the heroic General Funston. This was a com summation devoutedly wished for many moons, and now that the prisinor is in the custody of Uncle Sam, the way may be clear to the establishment of a republican form of government in the islands. Let us hope that now white-winged peace will spread her pinions over.that unhappy country, and that ere long ner places may be made glad unde-r'wise legislation and her rejoice and blossom -as 'the rose. t EASTERTIDE MILLINERY. The Present Decorations are the Finest Ever Displayed in Decatur. - The proprietors of the various millinery stores of Decatur, are certainly showing great taste in their selections of spring styles. Their shop windows are marvels of beauty and loveliness and the maiden's of Decatur are already waiting patiently for Easter day. An exchange has the following to say: “I say that the men realize more than do the women that Easter will soon be here,” Said a man that has been married for several years. “Os course, if you are not a married man you know neither the joys nor sonows of Eastertide. You do not know the ecstasy of having a dear little wife, who will from this time on until Easter, treat you just as she did before you were married, by telling pou how muchdearer you grow to her every day. and—then you will not know of that blank feeling a married man sometimes experiences when he realizes that he has simply given over every cent he has for his wife’s Easter pin money. But when you see her on Easter morning she looks so bewitching that you are really glad that she managed in such a smooth way to get the money.” RESOLUTIONS OF GOOD WILL Adopted by Decatur Pastors on Account of Removal of Rev. Gather from the City. Whereas, the Rev. F. J. Gather and wife are about to remove from the city of Decatur; therefore by the members of the Pastor’s association of Decatur, be it Resolved! That we hereby assure Brother Gather and his wife of our sincere regrets that they are to be no longer with us in the work of the Lord in this city; Resolved: That our hearty prayers and affection ate wishes shall accompany them, that wherever they may go long life, health, usefulness, prosperity’ be theirs, and that for them “At evening time it may be light;” Resolved, That these resolutions be spread on record in our journal; that a copy of the same be furnished to Brother Gather by the secretary of tbe association; and that they bo published in the papers of the city. C.‘ G. Hudson, J. Q. Kline, D. Mabtz, H. C. Duckett. ~' < " a < Blank Affidavits for Mortgage Exemptions, for sale at the Decatur News officer Exemptions are made and filed in the month of April. Decatur News and Prairie Farmer ,«1 per year.

MR*. MORRISON’S TRIP TO EUROPE Continuation of the Account Published in this Paper Two Weeks Ago| * - We passed the Scilly islands to the left and soon had our first glimpse of land, and a restless, expectant movement began to be felt by the passengers. We had a quiet, uneventful voyage. Once, there was a momentary feeling of disquiet when some of the steering gear broke, while we were in mid ocean, but the sea was calm, aud the sky clear, and in an hour all was right again, and we were moving along as usual. f As we neared the Lizard. I thought of Mrs. Frazier, of Marion, whose daughter and sister were lost here three years ago, through the captain taking his vessel too near shore, and striking submerged ro -.ks. We were so close to shore that we could see people walking, and even the white head stones in the little graveyard could be plainly seen. I soon begun to get sea sick as we entered the English channel, and I bad to rethe to my deck chair, but all day 1 watched the white cliffs, or green fields, or village or city. Sometimes we were very, very close in shore. When we passed the Isle of Wight, we were so close we could see the great resorts of Ventnor, and Sandown. This is the island upon which Queen Victoria’s favorite home, Osborne House, is situated, and where she died. We could easily see the great summer hotels at Ventnor, and the villas, castles and other buildings bn high ground back of the town. Our dear Madatne spent a month here once, and says it was delightful. The grass, and foliage of the trees, was a vivid green; it was most refreshing to look upon. The wifidlng roads here and there gleamed white through openings in the landscape, and many paned windows glistened in the sun, from large houses half hidden among green groves. As we passed Portsmouth, and I looked across her fine bay, I thought of England’s fleet which sometimes anchors here. We steamed up the channel all day, and about dark passed the fortress of Dungeness, and, about ten o’clock, the cities of Folkestone and Dover. Ttys was a beautiful sight. The two cities, close together, each brilliant with electric lights, looked like a tairy land; miles and miles of twinkling stars of light stretched along the shore. Across tbe water to our right, was the French city of Calais. Along ,tha- .whole- -length of the were light houses, both stationary aud revolving.’ They peeped '&t us through the night, like sentient beings, each with an individuality all its own, so that the mariner could tell by them how to steer his ship. Some had a hasty wink, some a slow, steady gaze, some were blue, or green, or red, or a flash like a streak of lightning—something always that, the sailor mlghtknow just where he was On the darkest and stormiest night. As we passed the lights of the city of Calais, I thought of the struggles for her possession, and how sore England was over her loss, the last of England’s French possessions, and Queen Marv saying that when she died they would find written upon her heart—‘Calais! Calais!’ After we passed here I went below and none too son, for the waters of the German ocean which begun to meet us, was causing a fresh uneasiness within me and I laid down, a very sea sick victim of circumstances. The next morning, early, another pilot ceme on and the last mail taken from tbe boat for Flushing, or Vlissingen, the Dutch name for the town, as they call it on the boat. It is situated in the Dutch province of Zeeland. .on a point of land at the mouth of the Hond. or West Schelde, where it empties into the southern end of the North Sea. The river is quite wide here, almost an arm of the sea, and the land on either side we soon see, and with what interest we look out upon the vivid green shores. The grass never seemed so green or the sky so blue, as with sea sickness gone we gaze abroad. Until the day before, for ten days we had seen nothing but sea and sky, the smoke of a far distant steamer, or the smoke stacks of one -a little nearer. The landscape looks very flat, but we do not see much as yet, for the high banks on each side, which are artificially ’ made and called dykes, hide the country. > We have always heard that nothing goes to waste over here and every foot of ■ ground is cultivated, and that is shown ! in the hay, grown down to the water’s i edge, on these river dykes. Much of it ■ is already cut and lying in oroad swathes, curing in the sun, some pitched . into small cocks, to be carried home on ; the backs of men and women—principally women, as later I see. As we go 1 further up the river, the red roofs j of houses and chimneys begin to peep over the tops of the dykes, and the furi ther up we go the lower the dykes are, , and ths more of the houses are seen, r until after a while the houses and fields i are in plain view How quaint these f little homes are, with stiff trees planted near, all exact reproductions of the little, stiff, wooden Noah’s ark. so dear to my childhood, on days following a Christmas. Windmills are scattered here and there with their broad arms aloft, as we see them on blue plates, all of which, int aiscriminately, are called : Delft.’ Then s there are the cattle in the fields, so fat, . and so sleek and so orderly. There-are no fences, only ditches, but the cows look r as it they never trespassed in the wrong field, or Qion looked upon a neighbor’s

Madame says, ‘’l hope we can visit a farm house in Holland. I did pn.ee and the stables were as clean as a floor and the tails of the cows were tied to the ceiling with ribbonK” Oh, this queer, delightful country! How I longed to be on shore, it gave promise of such interesting experiences. The landscape Is very fiat, and I t acked -mv brains to try and recall some of. the things I had read about it. I know that a very large part of Holland is a delta formed by the deposits of the river Rhine and other rivers, just as the Mississippi delta and the delta of Egypt have been formed; that it has been perseveringly rescued from the sea by enormous labor, and kept from being swept away, by these, and other huge dykes. But to sail on the river and see the laws of nature seemingly reversed, is quite odd. To glide along on the top of water and look down the chimneys of houses on land is not common, although it can almost be done at New Orleans, the Mississippi being nine feet higher than the city. The lowest ground in Holland, I am told, is twenty-four feet below the sea, and when it is storming and the tide high, sometimes the ground on the laud side of the dyke is thirty feet below the sea on the water side of the dyke, and all that keeps the hungry sea from swallowing up this sturdy, unyielding country, is the mountains of granite, which have been brought at enormous expense from Norway and Sweden and sunk under water as barriers to the sea, for Holland has no stones. If human care were removed for six months the sea would covey the whole country. But these dykes, or ramparts, of earth and stone are raised along the coast, so broad and strong that the waters cannot pass through them, and so high that -the sea cannot sweep ovey them. 1 have been told that the foundation of a sea dyke is from 120 to 150 feet 1 wide. They secure a solid/bundation by ramming down the soil ordriving in piles. They prefer making the dykes of clay, but when they cannot get it they make the outside of clay, and the inside of , earth, sand and clay. But clay alone is preferred as being water proof. Or, the water side of the dyke it slopes very gradually, one foot in twelve or thirteen feet in a sea dyke. It is thought better I to a’low the force of the wave to expend itself over a large incline. The dyke is protected by masonrV along the sea, and by vast heaps of stone and rows of piles driven in. Sometimes these dykes are forty feet high and a road runs along the top. When one stops to think tha,t the greater part of Holland is fencedin, in this wav, the country and the bravery of its people, in living here, will appear wonderful. I have been told that the largest embankments are the dykes of Helder, in North -Holland, and of West Kappel, not far from Flushing, and the expense of keeping them in repair is ver.y great. Each one costs about $400,000 annually, while the sum total expended throughout Holland in repair of dykes and water levels, is more than $35,000,000 annually. Yet this little country pays it cheerfully, knowing her life depends upon the strength of her dykes. A special corps of engineers are employed, whose sole duty is to watch the state of of the waters and guard against accidents. The winter is the season most liable to accidents. When the wind blows southwest for some days, the surface waters of the Atlantic are driven around the coast of Scotland into the German ocean. If this is followed by storms from the northwest, the sea is blown with great violence through the English channel. The Straits of Dover are too narrow to let all this water pass through readily, so it falls back upon the coast of Holland and the strong dykes alone keep it from submerging the country. Watchmen are posted day and night along the danger line, to give instantaneous warning of any appearance of weakness in the dynes and workmen, under a skilled leader, are always ready to repair them. Just imagine the intense anxiety every one must feel at such a time. Not only in fear of a leak, but in fear of the high tide, driven higher by fearful storms, rising so as' to flow over it, which also means ruin 1 and death. When such a danger is near a bell is rung and every one hastens to work, and with great rapidity an upper rampart, as well as a second wall within, is constructed, to keep out the waters. It is a race between man and the tide. If they are afraid of the strength of the dykes, large sheets of sail cloth or mats of woven straw are laid on the outside at the suspected place. This prevents the earth from being washed away by the waves, or the cement from the stones. This is, of course, only temporary and is removed after danger is past Sometimes though, these precautions are ineffectual. Doubtless you remember that the greatest part of the present Zuyder Zee was once dry land, but in the thirteenth century the sea swept in and inundated the country, drowning the inhabitants, and forming the. present bay or whatever it is. Many times has the sea broken through and swept away a part of the country and its inhabitants. Tbe struggle between the sea and the people of the Netherlands still goes on. The sea steals and *tfie people reclaim. The latest project is the attempt to recover a part of the Zuydbr Zee, if the plans do not miscarry (and I hardly' think they will, as they have reclaimed so much other laud successfully), 800 square ' a

F A KM EKS Should be aware that they are paying too much for the tools they use on their farms and it will pay them big to see the Spot Cash Store and get the prices of such articles as they need before buying their 7 next summer’s goods. Reasonable time given on all farming tools at lowest prices. MONROE, Spot Gash Store. I ■ • ...

■ 1 ■ > ■ ■ OFFICIAL DIRECTORY — _ oF=== County and Township — Daniel D. Heller, Circuit Court Judge John C. Mohan Prosecuting Att’y Henby Dirckson. .State Representative Abe Boch Auditor Elmer Johnson. .Clerk Jonas Neuenschwander ... .Treasurer Dan N. Erwin Sheriff T. M. Gallogley ...Recorder Geo. E. McKean . /Surveyor Elias Crist., Assessor C. S. Clark.... Coroner J. R. Graber. . .Sup’t County Infirmary Irvin Brandyberby. .....Sup’t Schools COUNTY COMUIIONEHS. Joseph E. Mann First Dis’t Samuel Doak Second Dis’t Frederick Reppert .Third Dis’t Clark J. Lutz .County Attorney COUNTY COUNCILMEN. William Hulley .First Dis’t Frank Heiman Second Dis’t John O. Kraner. .Third Dis’t COUNCIL MEN-AT-LARGE David Steele .Peterson H. H. Myers.. Decatur Samuel Soldner Berne TOWNSHIP TRUSTEES Union Fred Koldway Decatur Root Lewis Boknechtj Decatur Preble..... .C. W. Rupright Ossian Kirkland.. .AV. D. Huffman.. .Peterson Wasbingtod... .T. S. Coffee ... .Decatur St. Marys.. Chas. Yager. .Pleasant Mills Blue Creek... .Davison Mattax... .Steele M0nr0e..... John J. Soldner Berne Faench... .Rudolph Schug... .Vera Cruz Hartford.. Samuel Opliger. .Linn Grove Wabash.....P. A. Macklin .....Geneva Jefferson. .James Kinney. .New Corydon TOWNSHIP ASSESSORS J. A. Flemming Union Chas. E. Magley Root Henry D. Linnemyer., Preble G. M. T. Houck .Kirkland Wm. A. Wisher. ...Washington Daniel Roop .Si. Marys Wm. Frazier Blue Creek Henry Dolch Monroe 0. A. Augsberger ...French Geo. AV. Gentis. Hartford f. P. Holiingswortb Wabash Jas. M. Duff Jefferßon JUSTICES OF THE PEACE Albert Maullef 1 ..Union John A, Ehrman (■ •••••••• L. H. Zeigler Rpot Wm. Zimmerman > Kikland James H. Ward ( -- James H. Smith j EG. Coverdale | AVashington Wm. B. Reynolds J Wilfiam Comer ) st Marys Washington Kern ( - John AV. Merryman ) Blue CreeK H. H. Foreman ) Frank C. Foreman ) .......Monroe Samuel L. Riesen | Christ Ashbaucher. French Alfred Johnsons... .Hartford a Vel r Y n £ Wabash Andrew J. Byrd j # Samuel Fetiers) Jefferson -.John Ault ) CONSTABLES. * Wm. P. Barkley .Union William Blackburn 1 James Ault > Washington Herbert Pennington 1 Alya Comer ) St. Marys Johp Thatcher t Frank Neadstine Blue Creek Hazel Andrews 1 Monroe Charles Goss j Wm. N. Burnett. French Peter D. Kizer Hartford Lewis Mason • Wabash fl ’ ller [ .......Jefferson Chas. Duer ) a. . miles of land Will be reclaimed within the next thirty-three years, at an estimated expenditure of $48,000,000. They plan to build a huge dyke across the Zuyder Zee, following shallow water and adjacent islands. They expect it to take nine years to make this dyke, which will cost $17,000,000, and then twenty-four years to pump this basin drv. The slow methods of .windmills will be used, because Os their economy. The returns on the enormous expenditure of capital will begin with the pumping, as the land, on accountol its extreme richness, will have . a market price of S3OO an acre, and will, ’bTsdld as fast, as the water is taken 'away. ‘ All this time lam taking to tell about

CHURCHES. EVANGELICAL—Sunday school, 9:15 a m., A. Van Camp, superintendent-, preach ing 10:30 and 7:00; Junior Y. P. A., 2 pj m., Hettie Gillion, director; Y. P. A., 6:30 p. m„ John Buhler, president; teacher’s meeting Tuesday evening at 7 o’clock; prayer services Wednesday at 7 p. m.. John Buhler, class leader, Friday at 7p. m., J. AV. Bucks, class leader. D. Mabtz. Pastor. BAPTIST—Sunday school, 9:30 a. m.; preaching,lo:3o a.m. and 7:00p.m. Junior Union meeting, 2:30 p. m.; B. Y. P. U., 6:30 p. m.; prayer meeting Wednesday, vp. m. F. J. Gathers Pastor. METHODIST—Sabbath school, 9:15 a. m: preaching, 10:30 a. m. and 7:00 p. m; Jun ior League, 2 p. m: Epworth League de ■ votion at 6 -30 p. m. Prayer meeting WedneSday evening at 7 o’alock. C. G. Hudson, Pastor. UNITED BKETHEREN—Sunday school 9:15 preaching, 10:30 and 8 p. m: Juniors, 2:30 p. m; Y.P.C. U, 6:30 p. m. Prayer and praisemeeting Wednesday evening at 7:30 o’clock. J. Q. Kline, Pastor. ■ . ■ . - - 1 1 -— REFORMED—Sunday school, German. 9:30 a. m: preaching, German, 1(1:30 a. m; Y. P. S. C. E., 6:30 p. m., English, evening services, English, 7:00. E. W. Kruse, Pastor. PRESBYTERIAN— Sunday school, 9:15 a. m., John AV. DeLong, superintendent; preaching 10:30 a. m. and 7:00 p. m; Junior Endeavor, 2:30 p. m., Miss Nettie Moses, superintendent; Y. P. S C. E. at 6:80 p. m. H. CL Ducket, Pastor. ST. MARY’S CATHOLIC CHURCH—First mass, 7:00 a. la; second mass, 9:30 a. m; vespers, 6 p. nt. Sun time. Theo. Wilken, Pastor. . ~- r -- - CHRISTIAN—Sunday school, 9:15 a. m; preaching 10:30 and 7:00 p. m; Christian Endeavor, 6p. in. Rev. Hunter, Pastor GERMAN LUTHERAN.—Services every other Sunday at 2 p. m., in the Christian church. Rev. Heinze, Pastor. NOTICE TO NON RESIDENTS The State of Indiana, 1 gg ;Couuty of Adams, ) In the Adams Circuit Court, February term, 1901. Mathias Colchiu ) No. 6215 vs L Petition for Partition Lucy E. Rout, et al ) and to Quiet Title It appearing from affidavit filed iu the above entitled cause, that Lucy E. Rout, John AV. Rout, her husband, Joel March, March, his wife, whose Christian name is unknown, all the unknown heirs of Joel March, all the unknown heirs of March, his wife, whose Christian names ' are unknown of the above named defendants are non-residents of the State of Indiana. Notice is therefore hereby given the said Lucy E. Rout, John W. Rout, her husband, Joel March, March, his wife, whose Christian name is unknown, all tne unknown heirs of Joel March, all the unknown heirs of March, his wife, whose Christian names are unknown, that they be and appear before the .Honprable Judge Os the Adams Circuit Court on the fifteenth day of May, 1901, the-’same being the thirtythird Judicial oay of the next regular term thereof, to be holden at the Court House in Decatur, commencing on Monday, the eighth day of April, A. D., 1901, and plead by answer dr demur to said complaint, or the same will be heard and determined in their absence. VVituess, my name, and the seal of said Court hereto affixed, this ,■ eighteenth day of March, (Seal) 1901. Elmer Johnson, Clerk. By James P. Haefling, Deputy. Schurger & Smith, Attorneys for Plaintiff. (Id. hale] I ..... .DEALER IN GRAIN, HAY, SEEDS, SALT, ■ MILL FEED, COAL, WOOL, LIME. Best brands of Louisville and , Portland Cement Garden and Lawn Seed, Flower Seeds in bulk, Onion sets, Flowering Bulbs and Roots j in season. £ : * I ELEVATORS , Clover Leaf, and Chicago & Erie railroads, near depots. - ; = OFFICE* RETAIL WAREHOUSE . ■ SB. Cor. Jefferson aud Second Sts g ’ I .-.Your Patronage Solicited.'. I 1 - dykes, we are slowly steaming up tb< - river. I say “slowly” advisedly, because i too swift a passage is prohibited by law, I as tending to weaken tfie dykes. Oui i river bends and curves and twists from 5 Holland into Belgium, where it coutinL ues Its sinuous course, and a few miles i farther up we reached Antwerp. Elizabeth Studabakeb Morrison, t (To be continued.)