Decatur News, Volume 3, Number 7, Decatur, Adams County, 10 April 1901 — Page 4

THE DECATUR N2WS PUBLISHED KVBRY WEDNESDAY BY , B. F. KfrEER, EDITOR. Sintered at the Decatur postoffice as second a, », 'class mail matter. 1 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: One year * 1 ?? Six months Vtoree months 0 WEDNESDAY? APRIL 10, 1901, s== " ' . ’ The democracy of Fort Wayne has 'nominated Henry C* Berghoff, for mayor. John L. King, editor of the Pittsburg Democrat,' is a candidate for state senator to r fill , the uu-explreJ term Qf C. L. Magee of Pennsylvania. Agulnaldo has sworn allegiance to the United States government, at; Manila. The next thing on the prov gram will be to give him a nice, tat government office. Is it not a mockery of justice and a scandal to the pagan world to -see two Christian nations cutting each' other’s throats, in .the name of Chris' ‘ .« i. tian civilization? Carter H. Harrison has been re* elected mayor of Chicago, by a hand* some majority and will begin his third term as chief executive of the city, this weelu His official plur< ality was 28,237.’ Carter H. Harrison, liolld. Wells, John N. Hinkle, Tom Johnson, and Sam Jones were elected mayors respectively of Chicago, St. Louis, Columbus, Cleveland and Toledo. Os course, they are all democrats. An Illinois man stole a freight train some tame ago, but was caught and imprisoned. He made a great f mistake. He should have stolen the whole railroad and became a respectable citizen, instead of a criminal. The Topeka State Capital, the, paper which Rev. Charles M. Sheldon ? immortalized, has changed hands. Mr. Popenoe, the principal owner wh#n Sheldon made his experiment ’X has sold his interest to a local syndi* Xyjte. B ===== It is easy to th-rill with patriotism . when the strainsof the national hymn sound on the air and the stars and stripes flutter in the breeze. But a deeper and truer patriotism is in learning to be the very best sort of | a citizen. Much interest is being manifested in our schools, owing to the coming primary oratorical contest, to be held at the opera house, on next Friday night. Decatur has the talent to be a winner in the final contest, if she I? receives justice. Bluffton seems to be much on the boom order, or, perhaps, on the “bum” order. Three new saloons will be opened at once, despite theii prohibition sentiments. They now have seventeen saloons. Decatur would rather have Chinamen. An important factor in making a ’ ..good newspaper is its established p- reputation for veracity. The good ■ .newspaper is the one its readers are | Willing to swear by and its friends die by. The News tells the truth at all times and contains no “Three Black Crow” stories to delude its readers. I Under the new divorce law of Ind* iiana, now in operation by reason of an emergency clause, it is made the .duty of judges, hearing divorce cases, to appoint the prosecuting attorney or has deputy to appear in all divorce .suits that are uncontested, to make a defense for the absent non-contestee, and in all such Cases the prosecutor is entitled to a fee of five dollars MX. which must be paid him. before a B decree can be issued. The individual who undertakes to &: • get on the popular side of every ques* Btion, shows his ignorance. His opin. k’lon is never valued. Public opinion

rives him no credit, from the fact that his views is public opinion in a lion’s skin. Take own position acd sustain It by sound argument, i Your efforts may at first seem fruitless, but your character will have been established and your reputation made i as an able advocate, and will have its ' effect on tne public mind. The Decatur authorities have at : last supplied a long felt want, by 1 causing the railroads to supply watchmen at the Winchester and Monroe street crossings. These crossings have heretofore been unguarded and considered as very unsafe, by the public. The railroad companies have secured the services of experienced and competent persons, who, hereafter, will be on to warn the unwary traveler against all danger. Indiana seems to have been well ' represented in the detachment of troops that captured Aguinaldo recently. Os the eleven white men who participated in the expedition, three : were Hoosiers. Lieut. J. V Admire, ■ Os the Twenty-second infantry, one , of Funston’s special staff, is from Evansville, and Capt. Russel T. Hazard, who commanded a company of Macabebes, and his younger brother, Oliver Morton Hazard, are natives of Scott county. Bluffton is again in the midst of another muddle. The official board or the Methodist church recently asked 'for the resignation of „ Rev. Somerville iLight, as pastor of the church. A mass convention of all the-ministers and an immense crowd of Citizens, was called for the purpose of remonstrating against his removal. The affair is causing quite a stir in social circles, and much bitter feeling has been created. Oh, Bluffton, thou art a jewel for sensations! _ - Old soldiers should be warned against the so-called Oklahoma industry, which is booming. The bait is a “free home” for 820. It has already caught some of the veterans. Others, more prudent, are writing to the interior department. They are thus saving 819 .98, and are only out the price of a two cent stamp. The only government land now subject to homestead laws, are in the Indian' territory, and that will not be opened up before the middle of the summer. The Oklahoma business is a fake. The Decatur News is a purely En, glish newspaper. The compositors of our office are English, and we are English too. We have some little knowledge of Latin, less of Greek and still less of German—no French. Our correspondents will please bear the above facts in mind. If you send us a communication written in a foreign tongue please write its interpretation on a separate sheet, in plain, everyday English. By so doing the air in our office will remain its naturel color and our readers will .get the facts as they really are, and not as they otherwise might be. ——— The time of the year Is again at hand tnat when we go home for a little fuel ito satisfy the inner man, , we are given a chunk of bread and a i cup of cold -coffee on the back porch to relieve our cravings. To utter a , protest during these dirt hunting ex- , -eursions, is an act of folly, and In fact a man takes his life in his own hands when he attempts IL The bet--1 ter way is to appear satisfied with ' what is handed out to you and slip ! away before the occupant in chief has ' had time to direct your attention tc r where your services are wanted in 5 joining a stove pipe or stretching a 1 carpet. A happier thought would be - to have an important business en r gagement in some other part of the ’ world. I 2 Blank Affidavits for Mortgage Exemptions, for sale ai j the Decatub News-office. Exemption; are made and filed in the month of April « ' Decatur News and , Prairie Farmei 1’ 81 per year. ..

J MRS. MORRISON’S TRIP TO EUROPE 1 Continuation of the Account Published In [ this Paper One Week Ago. - It has drizzled rain at different times all morning, followed by bursts ot brili llant sunshine. One of the .stewards > says, “It is always raining at Antwerp.” We pass many boats and soiae large * ocean steamers. The country is very . flat and the windmill greatly in i vidence. The thrifty Dutchman or Belgian does not allow the wind to pass without work ‘ Ing tor him by turning his windmill to ' drain his land and grind bis eor|i. We are now so close to Antwerp that , Rs spires and crowded roofs lie but a short distance before us, and soqn we lay ! alongside and are ready to disembark. A thrill of anticipation runs through me. We gather our hand baggage /together, and gather in little groups. We wonder about the custom house, as we have ' heard tales of sore trials encountered by [ some people. When our staunch little vessel drops anchor, we swarm, with others, over the gang plank on the wharf boat and into the hands of the customs officers. Ido not know just what is ex- | pected of me, as this is the first time I . have been abroad; but I watch the others and see them claiming their trunks as 1 they come ashore. But mine does not > come. All my party are through and fill- , ing several busses, but I have not seen my trnnk. I finally discover it under a ’ pile of unclaimed baggage, point it out, ! and it is carried to a low platform over ! which is swung a large red letter *M.’ An officer comes and marks it with chalk ' and all is over. I have passed the cuss toms. I did not show a check in proof of ownership, give up a key. or answer a ' question. All there was to it was the placing of a mysterious chalk mark upon the trunk The anticipated ordeal was a fiasco, and with a sign of relief, I * joined my friends and away we rattled, I over streets paved with granite blocks, to our hotel. ' How we gazed out of the windows at curious sights, enroute to the hotel. How s we called to each other to “look there!” as a woman with a low cart, drawn by ' several dogs harnessed abreast, and in the 1 cart three or four shining brass milk , cans, passed, the woman walking alongside, driving; “Oh, look there!” as a Belgian peasant woman with the old native i costume of the country, strode along, or , some other equally curious sight met our eager gaze. When we reached our 1 hotel we entered it with a curious feeling of standing on the borderland of strange experiences—a feeling that was realized I almost every hour for many weeks to follow, and never lost the zest ot keen enjoyment. '> After being assigned, at the hotel en- , J,rance, to our rooms, we walked down a wide and long hah, its length being di- ‘ vided into three sections, twopf them * used as reception rooms, and one as an > office. On the right side of the hill were high French windows, reaching to the floor, and opening into a court yard filled 5 with tropical plants. On the left, the > walls were hung with beautiful Flemish The hotel extended around the four sides of the court yard. At the 1 end of the hall a broad stairway ascend- . ed to the upper floors, and at one side of the stairway was the elevator, a queer, primitive looking affair, with doors like a pair of French windows. Three or ' four.entered it, which filled it pretty 5 full, and the man grew excited. He made them understand, by gestures and repeated trials at starting it, that too 5 many were in, so two ladies stepped out? ; He closed the doors and ran up stairs to meet it on the next floor. Then the thing slowly begun to move and we stood r and stared at the Slowly creeping thing, i and then sat down and laughed heartily, j It looked like a sedan chair being pulled ceilingward. Almost invisibly it climbed upward and we, who were awaiting i our turn, watened its slow ascent with , the keenest enjoymeqt. Six feet —eight feet away from the floor, and wo wipe away the tears of hearty laughter, and 1 watch the top of the elevator slowly be--1 gin to disappear from our sight Two trips it makes, taking the older ladies first, when some of our party grow impatient and declare they will wait no t longer on .“that fossil” and , walk up 1 stairs. But I was not going to miss a ride in anything so entirely unique. My ‘ last ride in an elevator had been to go 1 up to the eighteenth story of a building 1 in New York. With one sweep upward a and a breathless gasp, I was at the top. Here was the other extreme! I had heard of an European “lift” and I was n not going to be done out of my first enQ counter with it for lack of a little patience. In due time, the “Waif” and I r ‘ enter and are duly wafted heavenward, b The “lift” is worked by water power, we p learn by questioning the porter. We got off on the first floor we reached. In Europe, our first floor they call the 0 ground floor; our second floor is their □ first, etc. We followed the maid, who „ sits in the hall on each floor, ready for <* . service, in neat cap and apron, to our e room, which we examine with much ini' terest. The floor is carpeted; there are e two single beds of dark, polished mahogany, coze red with silken comforts, an immense bolster at the head and on top of that an immense square pillow; across the foot of the bed is a small down feathit er bed in a garnet satin cover, and a is white lace one over that. The room also 1. contains two small cabinets of dark polished wood with a brass candle stick and jr wax candle on each, one large washstand with two toilet sets complete, plenty of

towels (hotels In Europe uo ■mum™ soap. Each of us carry -our own.), four or five large mirrors on the wall, a good sized table and a frame to set a trunk upon. We looked at the door and found it secured by a lock that looked as if it bad been made by the village blacksmith, several hundred years ago. The walls were at least a couple of feet thick. The windows were deeo, French, opening inward like a pair of shutters, from which we could look down into the tropical court yard, with its greenery and its fountains. The windows had clean musLjn sash curtains, then damask curtains. Everything was neat and clean. I describe the room in detail, because it is just about what we hid everywhere, only varying In quality and the style of the door latch and the pattern of the wall paper. Some places the furnishings were more elegant than others and after a few weeks the down feather bed disappeared and the necessity of always leaving our key In our door. These home made latches had no duplicate keys, and.the maid must have the key to care for the room, except In Italy, France and England. And right here 1 must say that when you went to your loom at night, you always found the bed with the covers turned bank, ready for occupancy, and after one night in a place all your little , eccentricities catered to, the maid next morning discovering that you had ca»t aside this or that, or all, bolster, pillow , or down foot warmer. The next night you find things just as you like it. In five minutes we leave our room and 1 are down stairs inquiring of the porter the way to the cathedral. It is only eleven o’clock and we feel sure we will be in time for part of the service. The cathedral is the largest and most beautiful Gothic church in Belgium, and one of the great churches of the wor’d, and I was wild to see it. We walked a few squares and coming to an imposing looking church, we went in. We were" Bot used to European cathedrals, and judging by Decatur churches, it was large. It was full of worshippers, almost to the doors; and these doors!—ancient wooden ones, eight or ten inches thick, studded with ancient hand made nails and clamps and plates of iron—the heads of-the nails as big as a silver quarter. The doors were probably 500 years old. How I did enjoy those time worn, yet still strong, oaken doors. We stood in the back of the church, and as my eyes roved over the large church and the throng of worshippers. I felt a distinct feeling of disappointment. This was not my idea of a cathedral and I felt that once more my expectations had outstripped reality. There were many curious things to see, however. There was an old woman, bent and wrinkled, with a curious mob cap, made of black lace and het aud ribbon, upon her head, and long dangling ear rings in her ears, who walked around all through services, collecting money in her bare hand, from this and that and tne other one. The money seemed to be big copper coins that gingled, and she collected from people sitting. The chairs were quaint, low, splint bottomed, with a high slat back and a narrow shelf on the top of the back. When not sitting on them, people turned them around and knelt on the seat, and used the shelf on the top of the back for a prayer book rest, or arm rest. I describe them for we found them in all the churches of Europe, and you pay the old woman ten centimes (two cents in our money) for their use. We saw many people going In and out, so we did not stay long. Out in the vestibule we stopped to look at a great pile of curious objects, hundreds of them, like a small, narrow box foot stool with a perforated top, and we wondered what they could be. Suddenly I happened to think. “Foot stoves!” I exclaimed. “Os course,”, someone answered. You see, in the winter these churches are not warmed and these stoves are filled with a square of red hot peat which makes a foot stove. You pay the old woman something for this attempt at comfort. Instead of going the direct road back to our hotel we wandered along the streets, gazing at the curious old houses, and the statues of past worthies, in the , squares, and the quaintly dressed inhabitant. Our hotel was in the old part of the city, for which I was thankful. I , knew our time in Antwerp would oe , short, and as I came to see the old I wanted to be domiciled among the old. > The curious architecture of the buildings, their quaint, solid, substantjal olden time appearance, was fascinating to me. Both its past and present took hold of me—the past, in its ancient architecti ure embodied in these substantial stone buildings, and the history clustering around them —the present, in theqpaint- : ly dressed folk we pass upon the street. Mr. Bryant said, “If you want to see a i city, wholly Flemish in its character, ; you should visit Antwerp.” When we returned to our hotel for i lunch, at twelve, we learned that we had ■ not been at the cathedral, but had gone i in the opposite direction to it. We felt - chagrined, yet at the same time glad, as ■ I did not enjoy being disillusionized, and . as one of the great cathedrals of the > world, the morning’s exhibit - had been a • failure. The call to lunch was sounded i by a farmer’s small dinner bell, which > hung in the lower hall. Just think of a i big hotel in this country having a bell - Tung! The next day I saw this bell rung t several times, with a few hasty jerks, as > people were leaving. Doors flew open on - all sides as the servants flew out, and 1 lined up on either side, or both sides of j the hall, for ’'tips.” The “tip” is a great f annoyance in European travel; but our I

FARMERS— I Should be aware that they are paying too mush for the tools they use on their farms and it will pay them big to see the Spot M Cash Store and get the prices of such ar- | tides as they need before buying their j ■ next summer’s goods. Reasonable time j/ ) given on all farming tools at lowest prices, ■ MONROE, lIiDHIU. Spot Cash Store. I

mciTiEcim County and Township Daniel D. Heller, Circuit Court Judge John C. Moran Prosecuting Att’y Henry Dirckson. .State Representative Abe 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. ...1.. .Coroner J. R. Graber...Sup’t County/Infirmary Irvin Brandyberry Sup’t Schools cbUNTY COKWUONEKS. Joseph E. Mann .V. .First Dls’t Samuel DoakSecond Dls’t Frederick ReppertThird Dls’t Clark J. Lutz... County Attorney COUNTY COUNCILMEN. William Hulley..First Dis’t Frank Heiman...Second Dls’t John O. Kraner.Third Dis’t COUNCILMEN-AT-LABGE 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... W. D. Huffman... Peterson Wasbingtod. ...T. S. Coffee ....Decatur St Marys.. Chas. Yager. .Pleasant Mills Blue Creek... .Davison Mattax... .Steele M0nr0e..... John J. Soldnerßerne Faench... .Rudolph Schug... .Vera Cruz Hartford.. Samuel Opllger..Linn Grove Wabash..-...P. A. MacklinGeneva Jefferson. .James Kinney. .New Corydon TOWNSHIP ASSESSORS J. A. Flemming... .Union Chas. E. Magley....Root Henry D. LinnemyerPreble G. M. T. HouckKirkland Wm. A. Wisper......Washington Daniel RoopSi. Marys Wm. Frazier Blue Creek Henry Dolch Monroe 0. A. Augsberger....French Geo. W. GentlsHartford f. P. Hollingsworth....,Wabash Jas. M. Duff......Jefl'erßon JUSTICES OF THE PEACE Albert Mauller ) Union John A. Ehrman j L. H. Zeigler.....Root Wm. Zimmerman! ‘ Kikland James H. Ward J James H, Smith ) E G. Coverdale Washington Wm. B. Reynolds J William Comer l St Marys Washington Kern ) John W. Merryman ) Blue c H. H. Foreman J Frank C. Foreman ) ...Monroe Samuel L. Rlesen f Christ AshbaucherFrench Alfred J0hn50n........ Hartford I- N. Veley ) Wabash Andrew J. Byrd f Samuel Fetters )’...Jefferson! John Ault f CONSTABLES. Wm. P. Barkley ..Union William Blackburn ) James Ault !■.... ..Washington Herbert Pennington ) Alva Comer )St. Marys John Thatcher I Frank Neadstine Blue Creek Hazel Andrews) Monroe Charles Goss ) Wm. N. Burnett French Peter D. KizerHartford Lewis Mason Wabash Geo. Hiller ) i party was large and all hotel arrangements were made “including tips.” The landlord was to fee his own people. We found, at lunch, our party augmented by four more people, and our nice American conductor transferred to another party, and we were given a Frenchman. We were all indignant, but found ourselves helpless. The newcomers expected to find just a small party, so were also disappointed. We started out after lunch in another effort to see the cathedral, and going in ' the opposite direction, and “following . j the street car track,” were soon before it. ■ Yes, there it was. A real cathedral! The

* CHURCHES. jl EVANGELICAL— Sunday school, 9:15 a ■ in., A. Van Camp, superintendent; preach H ine 10:30 and 7:00; Junior Y. P. A., 2 p. ga m Hettie Gillion, director; Senior M Y.’ p. A., 6:80 p. m.. John Buhler, W president; teacher’s meeting Tuesdjpr fl evening at 7 o’clock; prayer services ■ Wednesday at 7 p. m.. John Buhler class |j leader, Friday at 7p. hl, J. TV. Bucks, ■ class leader. D. Martz, Pastor. H BAPTIST—Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; preaching, 10:30 a.m. and 7:00p.m. Junior ■ Union meeting, 2:30 p. m.; B. Y. P. U.» : <| 6:30 p. m. . prayer meeting Wednesday r M 7 p. m. F. J. Gathers Pastor. M METHODIST—Sabbath school, 9:]5 a. m: ■ preaching, 10:30 a. m. and 7:00 p. m; Jun ■ ior League, 2p. m: Epworth League devotion at 6 -30 p. m. Prayer meeting Wedx nesday evening at 7 o’nlock. C. G. Hudson, Pastor. ■ UNITED BKETHEREN—Sunday school 9:15 preaching, 10:30 and Bp. m; Juniors, 2:30 p. in; Y.P.C. U, 6:30 p. m. Prayer and- ■ praisemeeting Wednesday* evening at 7:30 ■ o’clock. J. Q. Kline. Pastor. / ■ — , illfl REFORMED—Sunday school, German. 9:30 a. m: preaching, German, 10:30 a. m ; M Y. P. S. C. E., 6:80 p. m., English, even- ■ ing services, English, 7:00. ■ E. W. Kruse, Pastor. I ' PRESBYTERIAN—Sunday school, 9:15 a. I m., John W. DeLong, superintendent; ■ preaching 10:30 a. m. and 7:00 p. m; Jun- ■ ior Endeavor, 2:30 p. m., Miss Nettie- 1 Moses, superintendent; Y. P. 8 C. E. at I 6 ;80 p. m. H. C. Ducket, Pastor, fl I ST. MARY’S CATHOLIC CHURCH—First mass, 7:00 a. m; second mass, 9:30 a. m; vespers, 6 p. m. Suu time. Theo. Wilken. Pastor. jj CHRISTIAN—Sunday school, 9:15 a. m;- | preaching 10:30 and 7:00 p. m; Christian fl Endeavor, 6p. m. Rev. Hunter, Pastor f GERMAN LUTHERAN.—Services every other Sunday at 2 p. m., in the Christian g church. (Rev. Heinze, Pastor. | NOTICE TO NON RESIDENTS I The State of Indiana, ) I 1 > ss. B 'County of Adams, ) fl In the Adams Circuit Court, February ( | term, 1901. - ; Mathias Colchin No. 6215 vs 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 W. 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 Chris- , tian names are unknown, that they be and' appear before the Honorable Judge Os th« Adams Circuit Court on the fifteenth day of May, 1901, the same being the thirty third Judicial nay 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 or demur to said complaint, or the same will be heard and determined in their absence. BW I Witness, 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. i Schurger & Smith, Attorneys for Plaintiff. J. D. HALE DEALER IN 6RAIH, HAY, SEEDS. SALT. MILL FEED, COAL, “ .-'I z WOOL. LIME. |SI Best brands of Louisville and Portland Cement Garden and Lawn Seed, Flower Seeds in bulk, Onion sets, Flowering Bulbs aud Roots in season. ~1 \ . ELEVATORS Clover Leaf, and Chicago & Bsie < *' railroads, near depots. OFFICE « RETAIL WAREHOUSE — S E. Cor. Jefferson and Second Sts I ■ --Your Patronage Solicited.’. | ‘ lower pafrt was hidden by buildings, several stories high, crowded against it and > dwarfing themselves thereby, but the cathedral rearing itself loftily and proud- ’ ly, far above them, its lofty spire toweri ing heavenward, its picturesque roof ; breaking the sky line irregularly. Elizabeth Studabaker Morbison. * ' i s (To be continued.) 'I : A