Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 81, Decatur, Adams County, 14 April 1903 — Page 2

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT. IVIKT EVENING. EACE FT SCNDAT. BT | LEW O . EL.LINGHAM. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By carrier, per week. lO< By carrier, per year $4 00 By mail, per month 25 By mail, per year.. $2 50 Single copies. Two Cents Advertising rates made known on application Entered In the poatofficeat Decatur. Indi- : ana. as second-class mail matter. J. H. HELLER, Manager. ELECTRIC TALK. A Few Words of Philosophy on George Line. Why All Talk That ills Road will Not be Built Seems Idle. As yet we have not heard anything that may be termed as conclusive proof of the building of the Dr. | George traction lines. Nor ha- anything been discovered which leads us to believe that this proposed electric railway will not be built. In Dr. George we see a keen, con servative. yet far reaching promoter, who has studied the possibility of a traction line between Fort Wayne and Cincinnati and convinced that it can be built and successfully operated, will untiringly devote his time and energy to this accomplishment. Three years ago such a fact seemed utterly impossible, few people believed that two hundred miles of electric railway could be successfully operated by one company. but now the absurdity of the proposition disappears and affairs are assuming a different aspect. Two hundred miles may now be considered no more than a division and through electric car connection between Chicago and Buffalo is not a dream of fancy but a future accomplishment and work is now m actual progress toward that direction. Thus we see that Dr. George is an able calculator and along with his ability in that direction, he demands the confidence in being able to accomplish a project which he had decided, after years of deliberation, as perfectly feasible. What if the road does cost $7,000, 000, equipment and all. Does that signify that the road will not be built?? Not in the least and it can he decided on, that sooner or later the long hoped for interurban line will be constructed. Dr. George is not a capitalist, merely a promoter, who knows what he has. which is evidenced by the fact that for three years he has stood by his project, and since he can in no possible way receive any renumeration until the road is built he is bound to fight his way to recognition. PRESIDENTIAL BOOM. Arthur Pue Gorman Being Grocmed for President, Lout* Ludlow. Washington correspondent to the Indiana polls Sentinel. sends the following to his paper: “The Washington Post today launches the presidential boom of Arthur Pue Gorman under a scare head. In an article on the presidential prosp. cts of the democratic party the Post says that the boom of Judge Parker is waning, not because- of any personal or political defects, hut because the judgment of the party is demanding a trained nun of long experience in national affairs. Previous presidents are mentioned to prove that they had had extensive experience in dealing with men before being calhxl to the head of the nation, and then the Post finds that Gorman is the man to suit the demands of the time. Those who know the extremely dose friendly relations b -tween the Post and Senator Gorman believe that it spoke by authority and that Senator Gorman intends to lie a candidate.’’ Rev. Grether of the German Reformed church, went to Monroe this morning where he attended to business during the day.

CONSOLIDATE. — Independent Telephone Companies Unite. A meeting was held at Logansport ' last night to devise plans to better long distance service of the inde-]x-ndent telephone comjianies by I poooling their interests. The oragnization will be known as the Alllied Telephone company. Walter J. Uhl of Logansport, president; Henry A. Barnhart. Rochester, secretary. Details will be perfected at another meeting May 11. Companies located at Renssalaer, Remington. Monticello. Kokomo. Peru. Rochester. South Bend. Layfaette, North Manchester, and j Logansport were represented, and Fort Wayne. Colubmia City, Winnamac. Wabash. Flora. Bringhurst. and Frankfort comjianies indicate their intention to come into the proposed merger when it is com pleted. INDIANA FAIRS FOR ‘903. The following is a list of Indiana fairs for 1903, with the names and postoffice address of the secretaries: Man- n Driving A<?ocißtion. July 2-25; Glen D. Kimball. Marion. July 2*-3l; L 3. Bowman. Ha-gvr-i wn. F k -r » Dr-ring A’*vialion. July 2S-F1; H. H. Leach. R komo. -*3. August 4-7: R. A. Crtim*. Offood. V i. < .vn. Auru-i 4-*: F. A. Wi«eh*rt. Midi -lie own. I port Drtv-ns Club. Augu-t ♦-*: J. T. • T ’ll.in-' n. Fairmount. August .■ -U. George A Fletcher. Fairmount. Lebanon. Au? 11-14: Riley Hau«er. Lebanon. New. a>:it. August 11-14: W. L Risk. Newcastle. Lawrenceburg. August 11-15; H. L. Nowlin. Lawrenceburg E'hnbtirg raees- . Auru«t 18-2 . Ea«t F.nterpr.-e. August la-21: R. S. Thomp- ~ Rising Sun. E. *ud. August 18-2?; Frank H. De Hority. I Elwood. Frankfort. Ang. ls-22; W. G. Himmelwngbt. Frankfort. Rockport. August la-22: Jame* A. Payne. R e kport. Muncie. Aug. M-Zs: M. 8. Claypool. Muncie. New Harmony. August 24-28; George C. Tnyr New Harmony. B<«welL August 24-28; W. H McKxaght. Bo»welL Corydon. August 24-2*: Affix; Weaver. Cory--3 Bridgeton August 24->: T O. Miller. Bridgeton. Franklin. August 25-2e: W. S. Young. Franklin. EuahviUe. August 25-2>; J. Q. Thomas. Rushvide. Newtown. August 11-28: Thoma# NevBoonville. Autuit 11-September 5; J F Richer leon. Boonville. Liberty. !Bept l-«: Milton Maxwell. Liberty. | k "alem. Bept 1-4: W W. Stevens -a.em. < r wnpo.nt. Sept 1-4: Fre t Wheeler. Crownpoint. . Lafayette. Sept 1-4: < w Travis. Lafayette. Anderson *ept 1-4: D. H. Dubin Anderson. > Coriugtoa. Sept 1-3; Rv«s De Haven, tovingI ton. Shelbyville. Sept 1-5; C. E. Amsden. ShelbyBedford. s**pt 1-5: S. T Tollman. Bedford. * j Brax;.. sept 2-»; Arthur D Dans. Brazil. < rawforchviiie. Sept 7-11; W F Huiet.craw- < furdavihe. . C hn*ney. Sept 7-12: J P chnsnev. Cbruney. Princeton, sept 7-12; W. T. H -pknw. Prince--1 . ton. -way zee. Sept <-11: W H Ammon. Swayree. ixhumbu. -x-pt E.l ReCmen. Columbus. V alparaie*. *ep( e-11: E. >. Beach. VaiparaiRameiton. Sept "-I1; C. ' Campbell. Rame;i< n.* R-.’Cheater. Sept g-12: F Dillon R k beater. Huntingburg. >ept E. W Pickbardt. H .Qtmabnrg Indiana state Fair. Sept lt-18; Cha- Downing. 1 InlianapuUa HuntingVjD. Sept U-lt; A. L Beck HuntingF ton. a Decatur. Sept 22-25: T H Harns. Berne Port.and. Sept ZB-Oet i Jame* F. Grave*, yi Port and. TKendallville sept 2S-oct 2. J • Coni goe. Kendallville. . Vlncenae*. Oct b-10: J. M House. Vincennes. Ar.go.a. Oct <-»; Omik Goodale Angola Bremen. Oct L G Ditty Br»-mea Bourbon. Oct I>-1<: B W Paras. Bourbon. 1 Ft. Wayne, uc: 11-17; Wiiaam JoLnaon Ft. Wayne WHAT BRANDING MEANS, t How the Hor.c Feel. Dnrinis the Maddening l-roee.a. Now. most Meers and all horses object to the branding process, says Sewell Ford in ’ Horses Nine." Even the spiritless little Indian ponies, accustomed to many ingenious kinds < f abuse, rebel at this. A meek eyed mule, on whom humility rests r an ’ all covering robe, must be properly mp d before submitting. In branding they first get u rope over your neck and shut off your wind. ! Then they trip your feet by roping your fore legs while you are on the - Jump. This bring* you down hurt! and t i with much abruptness. A cowboy sits j on your bead while others pin you to the ground from various vantage points. Next some one bolds a redhot ' iron on your rump until It bus sunk ? deep into your skin. That is branding, i The burr, of a branding Iron is sup- , posed to heal almost Immediately. ‘ Cowboys will tell you that a horse is nl ways more frightened than hurt during the operation and that the day aft- [ er lie feels none the worse. All this I you need not credit A burn Is a burn, whether made purposely with a branding iron or by accident in any other way. The scorched flesh puckers and smarts. It hurts every time a leg is moved, it seems as if a thousand needles were playing a tut too on the exponed surface. Neither Is this the worst of the business. To a high strung animal the roping, throwing and burning are a trelueudoua nervous shuck. Fur days after branding a horse will jump and start, quivering with expectant agony, at the slightest cause. , A Disgrace to His Race. "Will 1 go r-round an' shake hands with th’ prltcflghter?" be repeated. "N'iver! lie's an Irishman an' n dis-gra-ace to bls native laud; no lisa.” “How is that?” “He won't fight ixclpt fr money.’’— Chicago Post.

BETTER THAN PILLS. The Gymnaaiuni Haa Cored Many a Case of Dyspepaia. William 11. Evarts used to boast that he had never even looked into a gymnasium, which was his way of saying that in his opinion gymnastics were all nonsense. "People say to me. "Mr. Evarts, you're hale and hearty when you ought to be tanking of jour grave,' and the}" wonder bow I do it." Os course the secret of the Paleness and the heartiness was temperance—moderation, says the New York News. No man who goes to bed on a supi>er us mince pie and Welsh rabbit and wakes up for a breakfast of sausage and buckwheat cakes and then spends most of the day twisting from one side ■ of a desk to the other can long avoid the prescription of hot water thrice a daj- before meals. "Temperance" is one of the words that are ridiculed until they impress themselves upon giddy humauitj" with the effect of a branding i iron. Some happy mortals like Mr. Evarts . have no use for a gymnasium, for they find gymnastic apparatus everywhere. The street is their half mile track; the two flights of steps—or maybe ten flights—are the lung developers: the free and vigorous swing of the arms and the throwing out of the chest are as good as parallel bars. There are men somewhat intemperate in their temperance, displaying too much of the good thing. They crack your knuckles when they take you by the hand; they pound >ou on the back, as if a fishbone were stuck in your throat, and say, ""Brace up. old man: you'll be round shouldered if you don't take care.” But there is tins to be said in favor iof tiie gymnasium—it has cured many a cas ■ of dyspepsia and to that extent has made the world sweeter. DOING A GREAT DEED. How Phillipa Broaki Sobered Down n Too AapirinK Youth. When Boston's great preacher, Phillips Brooks, was a student at college, be decided to enter the ministry. His , instructors advise, him against this step because of an imj>ediment in speech. "The professors had all the argument on their side.” said the fa- 1 mous clergyman years after when by patient effort be had gained control of his voice, '"but naturally I could not protest, for words failed me.” To this preacher's study there came i one day a youth, physic-ally perfect, j ambitious for honor and looking for a short cut up the road to success. He intimated that be wished to do some great thing letter than it could be done by any one else. Phillips Brooks wrote rapidly upon a piece of paper while his visitor was speaking, sealed It in an envelope and then suggested that the note l>e read when the man reached home. The letter read: "Stand In the moonlight and you will cast a shadow No man can east a shadow Just like it." The young man realized that the preacher had made bis honest ambition seem ridiculous, but made another attempt. On the original letter he wrote. ""Possible, but I desire that the deed I do be of benefit to tuy fellow men.” Baek came the original letter, with these words added: "Then stand in the sunlight and permit the workingman to eat bls lunch in your shadow.” AH Happens In a Second. A second is the smallest division of time in general use. and when we consider that In one year there are about 314*58.000 of these periods it would certainly seem as if it was enough for all practical purposes. But. after all. a good deal can happen In the fraction of a second. A light wave, for instance, passes through a distance of about 1864)00 miles in this length of time. A current of electricity has probably an even greater speed. The earth in Itself moves in Its orbit at a rate of about twenty miles a second. A tuning fork of the French standard vibrates 870 times per secr-nd to produee the note A on the treble staff May and December. Our great-grandfathers had away of , announcing marriage ceremonies which would hardly find favor nowadays. The following cases in point have been unearthed; “On Aug. 22. 1782. at Bath, Captain Hamilton, aged twenty-eight, married Mrs. Monson, an aged lady of eightysix, but i>ossessing rank and much wealth." “Robert Judge of Cooksborougb, Ireland, aged ninety-fire, to Miss Annie Nugent, aged fifteen. Robert Judge was an officer In King William's arm* and was wounded in the nose.”—London Express. Oddities of Lorr. He—l don't know Low it is. but I've noticed It is the girl who puzzles all the other girls "what be could hare seen in her” who is the first to get tnar- ! ried. She—And it Is the man that the girls j say they wouldn't have If be were the : last man on earth who has his pick of all the pretty girls In town.—Boston Transcript. Imprrnflvr. Schoolmaster— Now. Jones, give me a sentence, nnd then we will see If we can change it to the Imperative form. Pupil—The horse dtnws the wagon. Schoolmaster--Now put It in the Imperative. Pupil—Gee up!—Chums. Nothing more completely btflies one who Is full of trick and duplicity than straightforward and simple Integrity in another.-Cutton.

OUR SENATE. An Enallsh View of Its Power, Atthorlty and Performance. The senate has played a very great part in American history, and. on the whole, the tremendous power and au thoritj" wielded by the senate have been well exercised. The majority of the senators are statesmen f great pclit Seal ability as well as men ot high char acter. There are few sights in the politic! world on either side of the Atlantic more impressive than the senate in ses siou. The sense not only of a very high standard of personal capacity, but of the Immense powers which it wields, seems to pervade the assembly. The smallness of their nembr-. the fact that they are armed with authority which is executive as well as legislative and the knowledge that they represent not mere localities, but states, in their corporate capacity, and states which are often as j>opuious as European kingdoms, naturally fill each individual senator with the sense of i>ersonal distinction. A United States senator is a very great man. and be knows it, and the senate, as a whole, is in- j tensely conscious ami proud of the might, majesty and dominion which it wields. To make a comparison, it matters very little what an individual member of the British house of commons thinks and means to do. still less what an individual British ueer thinks and means to dp ou any given subject, but it matters a very great deal what a sincie United States senator thinksand means to do. The senate can veto every appointment made by the president, whether the man nominated for office be a judge of the supreme court or an am bassador or merely a collector of customs. Again the senate can. by refusing to pass it, veto any bill sent up from the lower house, no mattei i whether the bill is concerned with the raising or spending of money or with | alterations in the law. Lastly, not a | majority, but any minority which num- ■ bers over a third of the senate can re fuse to ratify any treaty presented for ratification by the president. Thus the executive can make uo binding treaty with any foreign power unless it can . obtain a two-thirds majority -fi the senate. In other words, the senate eat; : say the final word not only in regard to ali legislation, but in regard to all finance, ali appointments to high office and to foreign affairs of the nation.— London Spectator. CYNICISMS. Most people would rather throw a stone than a bouquet. Every wife has the Inward hope that her husband's next wife will be mean to him. Don't thick a man can keep a secret Just think of the bad things he knows on himself. A father has much to be thankful for Z his daughter doesn't look apologetic when be enters the room. When kin apparently get along well, they get less credit for peace than for ability to keep tbeir skeleton hidden from the public. When a man keeps a bill before pay- i ing it to look it over, it means that he I doesn't exp>ect to find blunders, but \ , that he wants to gain time. If you praise a man who really ought to be in jail, it is said that you have a kind heart, but if you praise a worthy man it is said you belong to a mutual admiration society and are slushy.— Atchison Globe. — I tear Enough. It was a Maine girl of whom the stoi ry is told that she refused to marry a . most devoted lover until he had amassed a fortune ot $10.(00. After some ex- ! postulation be accepted the decree and went to work. About three months . after this the avaricious young lady, j , meeting her lover, asked: "Well, Charley, bow are you getting ' along?" "Oh. very well indeed.” Charley returned cheerfully. “I’ve $lB saved.” The young lady blushed and looked i down at the toes of her walking boots and stabbed the inoffensive earth with the point of her parasol. “I guess.” she said faintly—" I guess. Charley, that’s about near enough.” — Philadelphia . Ledger. The Mornlns Bath. An admirable way to take the morning bath by those who dread a daily plunge into cold water Is recommended by au authority as follows: Stand In 1 hot water deep* enough to cover the ankles, fill a basin with cold watef and 1 sj'onge the body off quickly. Dry and rub vigoniusly and get Into flannels before drying the feet. This Is better for any one than daily immersion. It is the rubbing more than the water i that Is needed. Sponging off gives the excuse for the after rubbing, and the good result i« gained. Wins. “Ah," she sighed, “the great men are 1 i all dead."’ "But the beautiful women are not,” be answered. Then she looked soulfully up Into his eyes and told him she had said It just ' to be contrary and not because she thought it for a moment—Chicago Rec--1 j ord-Herald. Hopelraa Effort. Mrs. Jagway—Ebenezer. you have been hanging around the «aloons again Mr. Jagway—l*ll not d'celve, you, m’ ' dear. Mrs. Jagway—Ebenezer. You can't!— Chicago Tribune. More Than Petit. Madge— He stole a kiss from me. ’ Mabel—Well, that was only petit lar1 eeny. Madge—lt wasn't; It was grand.Town and Country.

■M I I I ■ I I I I I Comparative Statement of j FIRST NATIONAL BANK Decatur, Indiana. RESOURCES. April 9. 1903. April 30,1902. Loans and discounts ■? 406,036 42 § 359,846 93 Overdrafts 6,016 24 ',737 23 C. S. bonds 26,034 37 25.500 IJO Adams county bonds 31,042 00 27.160 00 Real estate and furniture 4,000 00 6,453 6! Exchanges 93,368 75 81.205 59 1 Cash 32,751 72 25.980 51 I $ 599,249 50 S 533,883 99 LIABILITIES. Capital s 100,000 00 S 100,000 00 Surplus.... 15,000 00 11,000 00 Undivided profits 3,688 09 7.260 43 Circulation 25,000 00 2;>,060 00 Deposits 455.561 41 390,623 50 S 599.249 50 S .533,883 99 DIRECTORS P W. SMITH President. C. A. DTGAN, Cashier. w A. KUEBLKK. Vice-President. E. X KHISGEK. A-s't Cssbiet J H. HOBROCK. n. SPRANG. J. B. MASON. 1.111 LLll LI THL IT 11. LIX m I.IIIIIX XLL Ll. LULL LULL 111111 hi I ALWAYS INSURE ! 3 8 Your property in ” iThe Continentoh h -Insurance Company t ORGANIZED 1848. ” r 3 L. A. GRAHAM, Resident Manager. 3 0. J. BAYES, U :: Solicitor, t h h OFFICE OVER TAGUE'S SHOE STORE. M £ 2 All Losses Paid and Adjusted from this office ITYTTTYT'STTnTTTTTTTTTTTTTTYTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT'nTTTTT

For Sale—Owing to poor health I , will sell my store and property at Magley, Indiana, or trade same for f.rm or town preperry. Anyone wanting to go into business would do wall to come and investigate same or write Robert Case, Maglev, Indiana. ROY ARCHBOLD, DENTIST. I. O. O. F. BLOCK. Ph „„. ) offlee. IM. Phßne i Ketldenoe. MS. LAWN GRASS SEED. Renew your old lawns by sowing the beet seed — BILK GAIMN SEEK, fresh and true to name. SWEET PEAS. NASTL'RTIIMS and Flower Seeds of all Kinds. J. D. HALE, Comer Jeffenon nnd Second Sts. Tbunn s. MdSO

THE NOTED Draft Stallion McFarlane Number 4715. will be found the coming season at the Riverside Livery and Feed Barn. Thia horse is too well known W need any recommendation. He baa been owued and kept in Decatur f° r three years by Peter Amspaugh. and will be in bis hands this season 66d3wtf