Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 200, Decatur, Adams County, 1 September 1903 — Page 2

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT. IVIHY EVENING. EXCEPT SUNDAY. BY UEW Q . ELLINGHAM. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By carrier, per week. 10<? By carrier, per year $4 00 By mail, per month 25<’ By mall, per year $2.50 dingle copies. Two Cents. Advertising rates made known on application Entered in the postoffice at Decatur. Indiana. as second-class mail matter J. H. HELLER. Manager. William J. Brvan is already in Ohio speaking in behalf of the democratic state ticket nominated 'ast week. Now comes the P. O. information that Johnson county is to have completj mail service by the first of October. This reminds us that Congressman Cromer is almost due with another of his published re-nomiua tion statements concerning the exact status of rural service in his beloved district. Alreadv one of the busiest men in Indiana with his numerous business and trust interests, to say nothing of the political trusts in his care, Senator Fleming’s election as secretarv of the boxboard trust must add greatly to his labors. But if he can pull the boxboard securities up to normal he will deserve a monument.— Ft. Wayne News. Hon. Samuel M. Ralston of Lebanon, who was twice the democratic candidate for secretary of state, says he is not in the race for governor. Mr. Ralston made several expensive and unsuccessful races for what he wanted and must now devote his time to making good what he lost in chasing political rainbows. South Bend Times. On June 10, 1816, delegates from the Territory of Indiana met at Corydon to draft the first Indiana constitution. On June 10. 1904. the editors of the state of Indiana will gather at the St. Louis Exposition to commemmorate the great occasion at the exposition to be held in celebration of the Louisana purchase. The first group constituted makers of history and the editors are the chroniclers of current events. It is regarded as particularly fitting, therefore, that they should be the ones to celebrate the i assembling of the constitutional con-! vention. Prominent republican and democratic senators and representatives | and well-informed students of tinan : cial subjects agree that the pros- 1 pects of important and beneficial I legislation at the next session of congress. viewed from the present j outlook, is extremely doubtful. It is freely predicted that the republican senators cannot lie made as unanimous for the Aldrich bill again as they were at the close of the last session of congress, when the bill was defeated merely Tiecause there was not sufficient time to allow a allow a few of the opposition sena-; tors to give their views. Not only is there less unanimity of republi“in sentiment for what was known as the Aldrich ideas, but the demo-' crats promise to opp se these ideas, although declaring that they will welcome financial legislation that will be of real benefit to the ooun fry J»haaoa'a First Tailoring Job. President Andrew Johnson bad never been ashamed of his bumble origin; had. indeed, often narrated the unhappy story of bis first job at tailoring. He had been summoned, lie would ■ay, to the residence of an Infiueutial citlnn and had been bidden to make over one of the citizen's old coats for the son of the bouse. Johnson, a little nervous through excess of teal, took oft bls coat, turned back bls sleeves, measured the youth ■nd set to work. He was getting along well—the job. indeed, was nearly finished—when dinner time came and be reached out for his coat in order to pvt it on and go home. To his chagrin he discovered then that it was his own coat which be bad cut up for the boy. Iwearlag to Excess. A cricket club in the south of Scot land, which has evidently found that the use of lurid language doesn't add to the amenities of play, has passed the following bylaw: “Any member swearing to excess tuay be expelled.” I have not heard whether the chib committee ha. yet arrived at a definition of “moderate swearing.” The at tempt to find one to meet all cam’s Is likely to result In language both “pain ful and free.”—Glasgow Times

A BIG DIFFERENCE. Lipton Didn't Own Yachts Thirty Years Ago. Between thirty and forty years ago Thomas Johnson Lipton staggered ashore in New York, black with coal dust and gasping for breath, from the furnace room of a Charleston steamer. Now in Chicago his abatoirs turn 3,000 hogs a day into food products to be sent to the sea board in 600 refrigerator cars and thence carried to every quarter of the globe in Lipton ships. 1800 men women and boys 'delve in the accounts and reeonings of his London office; 200 Lipton printers strike off the labels and in every part of the C'nited Kingdom in 420 shops and stores which hoist the Lipton flag thousands of employees measure out ha 'p’-orths of tea and sugar. Sir Thomas Lipton says he owes his success to advertising. WERE MARRIED. L. W. Merriman and Maud A. Wells Were Married Sunday. At the dose of the sermon at Steele M. E. church last Sunday morning, Mr. Lemmel W. Merriman and Miss Maud A. Wells stepped forwardTo the altar and were , declared by the Rev.Jas.A. Sprague as husband and wife. The affair, was an exceedingly pleasant one. ] The young people are well known I in the community and enjoy the I congratulations and best wishes of a host of friends. FASHION IN SPEECH. tome Words Go Out of Favor asH Win Their Way Back. The history of the race is written in the words it uses. As we grow and change, so our language grows and changes. Mr. Leon Mead in his book "Word Coinage" points out that some words go out of fashion and come back, like tan shoes and wide rimmed ' hats, although the change in words is much slower than the change In dress. I In Sn-ns-r’s day "forestall." "fain,” ■•seir.:. ." "a.- tanee,” "embellish” and "dapper" were not considered good, but they have since gained resi*ectability and won their place in the language. The seventeenth century regarded as obsolete a number of Chaucer’s words —"transcend." "bland,” "sphere,” "blithe.” "franchise." "carve." "an- 1 them." One by one these words came to life again and walk the pages of our : literature in full vitality. Other words now indispensable which the seventeenth century rejected are “plumage.” "tapestry." “tissue,” "ledge." "tren-1 chant," "resource.” "villainy," “thrill,” “yelp.” “dovetail.” Bacon did not have the good word "encyclopedia.” but u**d the heavy equivalent, "circle learning.” Fulke, the sixteenth century author I who wrote “A Defense of the Sincere! and True Translations of the Hoile Scriptures Into the English Tong." did not admit “neophyte." “homicide.” “scandal," “destruction," “tunic,” "despicable." "rational." Another book published in 1058 puts the stamp of censure on "oblique." "radiant.” “adoption.” "caress," "amphibious." "horizontal.” “concede." “articulate.” "destination." “compensate,” "complicated" and "adventitious." It Is hard to trace the history of a fashion in words. Seldom do we have the precise rec-ord that Chesterfield furnishes us in a letter In which he says that he was present at the birth of the word "flirtation" on the lips of a beautiful woman. Even with that record we cannot tell why "flirtation" remained In the language and was not dropped like hundreds of other new coinages. QUEER SUPERSTITIONS. The following are some curious superstitions that are still extant among F.ugUsh speaking [>eople: If you kill frogs your cows will "go dry." Tickling a baby will cause the child >o stutter. To thank a person for combing your hair will bring bad luck. To kill a ghost it must be shot with a bullet made of a silver coin. To dream of unbroken eggs signifies trouble to come; if the eggs are broken the trouble is past If you boast of your good health strike wood immediately with your fist or you will become ill. To dream of a live snake means enemies at large, of a dead snake enemies deud or powerless. To allow a child to look into a mirror before it is a month old will cause A to have trouble in teething. A child will have a nature and disposition similar to those of the person who first takes it out of doors.—Philadelphia Inuulrer. Creel. His Wife—Charles. I do think you ought to give me more of yottr time. Her Husband—Give you more! Why, you take so much of my time that I couldn't be a second in a duel.—Har-’t.-i b.-ii,’.

TRAGEDY OF AN INSECT The Sand Fly Lives but a Day tfter Uomin* Into the Liirht. Here is the tragic story of the sand fly: It has but a day to live in the light. In order to earn the right to that day of life it lives from one to three years in darkness, down in the mud at the bottom of lakes or rivers. Moreover, the sand fly is perfectly harmless. It does not bite. It has no sting. It cannot even eat. All it can do is to flit about for a few hours, enjoying the light of day or the glare of an electric lamp. The sand fly is known to scientists familiarly as the May fly. In scientific terms it is called ephemerida. This name is taken from the Greek word ephemeros, which means lasting only for a day. To the scientists the sand fly is one of the most interesting and beautiful of insects. The fly lives but a day at most, but before it sees the light it has lived for from one to three years tinder the water in the form of what the scientists cal) a nymph. This nymph can both walk and swim. As it grows it molts, and after about the ninth molt tiny wings appear on its thorax. These grow larger until the insect comes forth from the water a sand fly. It then has but one duty—to lay its eggs. This done, the sand fly zigzags through the »lr until its brief life is ended.—Chicago Inter Ocean. Value of I.lffht. An English physician of high standing recently made an address before the Manchester and Salford Sanitary association in which he said: "I have spoken of light as purifying our atmospheric environment and as freeing us from certain superficial parasitic distempers, and 1 wish to remind you that it has still more deep and intimate human relations of a sanitary nature, for light is a necessary condition of mental and bodily well being. Its tonic physical effects are everywhere recognized. “Essential for all purposes of life, light is a universal stimulus. Falling on the eye it sets up in the brain functional activities associated w’th Intellectual and emotional states, and attempts have been made to discriminate the physical effects of its different elements. Whatever the therapeutic value of the different rays of light may be. white light heaven's own mixture. is the normal physical atmosphere. and variations in its intensity have probably widely diffused constitutional effects.” \ Will and Three Wedding*. In Warsaw a banker died and left his entire fortune to whichever of bls three nieces—daughters of three different brothers and sisters—married first The parties interested in this provision were present when the will was read, and all of them took immediate steps to secure the prize. By procuring special licenses and taking other unusual measures it was found that the earliest possible time for a wedding to take place was at 8 o'clock on the morning of the tenth day after the will had been read. Before noon on that day all three nieees appeared at the notary's office with certificates showing that they had all become wives between 8 and 8:15 o'clock that morning, though not one of them had even been engaged when the will was read. All three claimed th* fortune, and tb» courts solved the ditfleulty by dividing it into equal parts. The Genina of Labor. Two hundred persons, waiting for a train, intently watched an old man driving six inch spikes with an iron maul. Now. there Is nothing unusual or extraordinary about driving spikes with a maul, even though the head of a spike is only three-eighths of an inch square and that of the maul only threequarters. But there was a fascination In this old man's work. His genius for driving spikes was manifest. He never missed a blow. He never needed more than three blows to send a spike home with its head buried in the planking. He always gave three. There was a rhythmic harmony in his task that appealed to all. In his particular line he excelled. That is the genius of labor.—New York Press. Rhlna.-ero* and Tapir. The rhinoceros and the tapir, both found frequently in the tertiary deposits. are still represented by almost identical forms. One species at least of the rhinoceros survived unchanged long after the appearance of man. Their rang.- extended as far north as Siberia, and their bones have l*een found in caverns ki England. France and Germany. on the banks of the Irrawady and st the foot of the Hiu tlayas. Careful Maa. “Mr. Jonesmith Isn’t in.” said the maid at the door. “Will yon leave your name?” “Oh. no." replied Professor Absentmind. "Von see, I may need it myself before I see him again.”—Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. Like s Woman. “If you'll notice." said Finnick, “the poets invariably say ‘she’ when referring to the earth. Why should the earth be considered feminine?" “Why not? Nobody knows just how old the earth is.”—Philadelphia I-edger. Hr Stood For It. Physician Your ailment Is rheumatism. eh? Is It a esse of long standing? Patient (steamboat pilot!— Yes. sir: I think that's what guv It to me.—Exchange. Dr. not presume too much that you are Intrenched In any person's friendship. —Schoolm aster. Too tnnny men mistake alcoholic thoughts for go’.his.—Atchison Globe.

“HE TRICKY BRAIN CELL. X hat Happen* When We Know a Xante W hich Encapen V*. The anatomy of the nervous system, and consequently Its physiology, was regarded in the past as very simple. Cayal showed that the specific brain cell is an independent unit provided with multiple processes, by menus of which it is capable of acting not through one nerve alone, but several. This independent brain unit or cell is calk'd a neuron. A simple illustration of how the neuron works is furnished by our not infrequent hunt for a name or an idea which we know we possess. We feel that the name is there, but we cannot recall it. We get various names near it. beginning even with the same letter or the same vowel sound, yet only after minutes or even hours does it actually occur to us. What is supiMjsed to happen is that the particular cell of intellection which we are using throws out its process among the cells of memory for names, and though this process is brought in connection with tells containing sim liar names, it is only after a more or less prolonged search that it hits on the right one. It is as if the telephone operator in the central office felt around blindly for the connection wanted, and only after putting the plug into various holes eventually struck the proper one. —Dr. Joseph Walsh in Booklovers Magazine. The Elusive Lead Pencil*. What becomes of the lead pencils l« as insolvable a problem as what becomes of pins. No one ever really uses up lead pencils; no one drinks them, so to speak, to the very dregs, unless it is one of those admirable people who keep journals and cash accounts and who usually carry a sort of penholder arsingement In which they insert a half length pencil and go on ana on using It and sharpening it until it is all gone. Very few people ever get pencils worn down as far as a half length. They disappear before that stage is reached. What becomes of them all? Hundreds of thousands of them annually are lent to young children and never seen again, but wl.at do the children do with them? I*o they eat them up? Possibly. Everybody has seen lead pencils the upper end of w hich have been chewed into a brush, but children do not possess such ostrich stomachs as would enable them to consume all the pencils that disappear. The Gloomy Sentrlen. To and fro march the sentries in front of Buckingham palace, meeting face to face for a moment and then separating without a word, as if their feud were too deep for speech. This spectacle is whtched with sympathetic Interest by American visitors, who occasionally intervene. The sentries were glaring at each other one morning when a stranger standing close by remarked. "Come. boys, make it up!" Another American proposed to heal the breach with a little friendly conversation. “Say. does your king live here?" he opened genially. The two sentries stared impassively and then resumed their tramp. Up came a policeman. “Can I tell you anything, sir?" said he. "Yes.” answered the American. "Tell me why these* young hearts are silent and sore. Anyhow, why can't they whistle. 'We never speak when we pass by?’ "—London Chronicle. The Lady and Her Mose. There is a washerwoman In Taris who is in great trouble. Two years ago she bad a fight with her busband, in the course of which so much skin was taken from her nose that some new had to be grafted on. Recently she made the horrifying discovery that a fine coat of hair was growing in her new nose and then learned that the doctors at the hospital who bad treated her had used skin from a human scalp for grafting purposes. The poor washerwoman then went to the courts to a«k for a divorce, urging cruelty as cause, because it was her husbands brutality which took the original skin off her nose which resulted in the grafting, the hair and the ridicule of her neighbors. Crow Quills Make the Be.t Pen*. A quill pen maker says that no pen will do as fine writing as the crow quill. It requires the assistance of a microscope to make a proper pen ont of such £ quill, but when made it is of wonderful delicacy. The microscopic writing told of la books of literary curiosities was all done with a crow quill. The steel pens of the present have very fine points, but somehow a finer point can be given to a <iulll than has ever been put on a steel pen, and for delicacy nothing can equal It Sympathy. Young Wife (rather nervously)—Oh. cook. I must really speak to you Your master is always complaining. One day it is the soup, the second day it is the fish, the third day It is the joint In fact it’s always something or other. Cook (with feeling*—Well. mum. I'm sorry for you. It must be quite hawful to live with a gentleman of that sort.— London Punch. A Cabman's Retort. Irascible Old Gentleman (putting head out of four wheeler that la crawlIng along at an unconscionable pare)—l say. cabby, we're not going to a funeral. Cabby (promptly)—No. and we ain't goin' to no bloomin' fire either.—London Tit-Bits. Willie** Bedtime. Willie—Pa. If a war ship is called "she" why Isn't It a woman-of war? Father—lt's your bedtime. Willie.Boston Post. An orator or author is never successful until he has learned to make his words smaller than bls Ideas.—Emersou.

THE FRONT Hfe| RANK JFy IS STEEL, NOT CAST IRON. Suitable for large or small building. Bums wood, coal or gas. Ilnvo You Scon O\ir AMERICAN MANURE SPREADER ? F'l'V’E SOLD XTSJ OJNTE Day I och&Linn Don’t Forget It! The Detroit ROUND TRIP EXCURSION Under Auspices Entre Nous Club. Decatur to Detroit and Return WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 9, 'O3. Special Train Leaves 5:40. a. m Via Clover Leaf Route and White Star Steamer. ROUND i Going and returning same day, $1 75 TRIP TICKETS Returning in Four Days $2.75 For particulars ask Clover Leaf agents or Will Winnes, Jess Robison, Bruce Christen, Com. ARE YOU SORE? USE jaracamph Relieves Instantly or Money Refunded. SUN BURN, CHAFING, Prickly Heat, Insect Bites and Stings. It Cools. It Soothes. It Cures. Sold only in 25c.. 50c. A JI.OO Bottles. At *ll gwd Dnttjisu. For sale by Holthouse Drug Co.

TIME TABLES G. R. & I. (In effect June SI. 1HB) TRAINS NORTH. No s—Dally No 3— bally (except Sunday 5:32 pm No T—bally to Grand Rapid* s:uu a m TRAINS SOL'TII No i— Dally (except Sunday 1:19 p m Not—Dally.-.. 2:32 a m i No IS—bally (except Sunday: TilTam 1 No. It— Sunday only 8:46 p m ■ CLOVER LEAF. In effect May 3. IMU3. EAST. No «—Commercial Traveler, dally... 5:25a n> No 2—Mall, dally, except Sunday .11 SO* m I No t—l>ay F.tores* deity 5 43 p m No £2—Local Freight 1:10am WEST No 3—Day Expreta. dally 5 25 am No 1 Mall, dally, except Sunday .11:25* m No s—Commercial Traveler, dally » l»p m No SB— Local Freight 13:05 p m CHICAGO & ERIE. In effect June It. IXB. WEST. No 3-Buff*lo-€blc*go Limited, daily 3:10 a m I No *—Expree*. dally ..I:42am '■ No 3—New York and Chicago Limited through coach Columbus and Chicago dally 13:33 pm No 13— Well* Fargo Expreu* except Monday Stiffs tt, No 31—Marlon-Huntington Acc tn 10:10art EAST No *—Veetlbule Limited for N Y . 355 a m No S—Marion and Oolumla* except Sunday B Ma m No 4—New York and Boaton Limited through coache* Colutnbu* and Chicago 3 34pm i No Id—Buffalo and Chautauqua Lake 9:55 pm No ’i wlll n . ot . c * rrT >*«g»g*. 3 and 4 ha* ' through coach Columbut to Chicago. ——■■— For Stile—House and lot cheap and on easy terms also SO acre farm, black ground, |55 per acre. P. K. Kinney aoodfi

St. Paub I Minneapolis Only |t6 round trip from Chicac daily throughout the summer rround trip to Duluth. C rri-j : ingly low rates from all j Four trains a day from Oiit.oi including the famous el( ■ lighted North-Western United. Special low rates are n w eifect to the various sun::: ' resorts of Wisconsin. N rtl.tr:. Michigan and Minnesota, The Black Hills Yellowstone Park the mountain resorts of C r.i ' and Utah, and a score oft! ’ places of interest to the tourist California, Oregon, Wash:: and Alaska. Complete and ample train o '- vice to all points west ' i.i the < cago & North-Western K.i-»--A Mriee ot tablet*. oae V»1 »b h Is ' ' *••• <»l Colorado. a wot be r ut Caiihrei* 4 a Bother entitled “Hiatt to Tourits I r s . w rate* aa-i schedules will be j r i'iv ’ ap«a application to aay ticket ut i W. B. KNIBKERN, PASMMOVR TRAFFIC MANACLR.