Daily Democrat, Volume 2, Number 114, Decatur, Adams County, 24 May 1904 — Page 2

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT. BVBBY BVBNINO, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY L. ■ W O. EUL.IN GHA M - SUBSCRIPTION RATES. ?» carrier, per week.... 10c carrier, per year $4.00 By mail, per month 260 By mail, per year $2.60 Single copies, Two Cents, Aflrsnlslng rates made known on application Intered in the postoffice at Decatur. Indiana, as second-olass mall matter. J. H. HE LLER, Manager. COUNTY TICKET For Joint Senator JOHN W. TYNDALL For Representative JOHN W. VIZARD For Prosecutor JOHN C.'MORAN For Auditor C. D. LEWTON For Treasurer JOHN F. LACHOT For Sheriff ALBERT A. BUTLER For Surveyor L. L. BAUMGARTNER For Coroner JOHN S, FALK For Commissioner First District DAVID OVERLING For Commissioner Third District MARTIN LAUGHLIN Some of Nebraska’s leaders now hope to see Col. William J. Bryan a United States senator and to this it is said they have Mr. Bryan's assent. This hope is not shared alone by Nebraska, but from all over the county will be seen a field of usefulness for the twitje leader of the democratic party. Wisconsin republicans are furnishing amusement to the democrats and large chunks of consternation to the republicans, by a wholesale lot of party disruption. They now have two complete state tickets in the field and if given more time one or two more may break cut. .Illinois republicans are also having turbulent times and in all the success of the national democracy seems almost assured. While the democrats in many states are showing a preference for a candidate for president many are also paying their respects to Hon. T. Taggart as a suitable chairman of the democratic national committee. His ability and fitness for such leadership is recognized not only at home but wherever he is known, and the success of the party depends upon just such an organization as Mr. Taggart is capable of giving when given full charge and a free rein. S. V. of Notice. All members of the Sons of Veterats Camp are requested to meet at the G. A. R. Hall at 8:30 tomorrow morning to attend the funeral of Comrade E. G. Coverdale. ILost—Small, spotted lieadle hound. Reward offered if returned to the owner. Dr. Leßrun. 114d5 Important change of time cn th Clover Leaf route effective Sunday, May 22, 1901. Please see agents Clover Leaf Route in regard to same or address Geo. H. Ross, General Traffic Manager, Toledo, Ohio.

Do Yob hqoW? * There is a lot of difference the way an OXFORD fits. Try on a pair of our DOROTHY DODD’S. Then you will know the difference : : : : SOLD ONLY BY Charlie V oglewede THE SHOE SELLER 123 N. Second St. Decatur, Ind.

NATURE’S OWN CURE Hyomei Cures Catarrh Without Dangerous Dragging of the Stomroh. The popularity and increase in the sales of Hyomei are unique in the annals- of medicine. Buch astonishing cures have been made by this remarkable remedy that the propreitors have authorized The Holthouse Drug Co. to sell every package of Hyomei under an absolute guarantee that it will cure catarrh. It it does not the purchaser can have bis money refunded by The H dthouse Drug Co, Hyomei is no ordinary remedy. It is the only method of treatment that sends by direct inhalation to the most remote part of the air passages, a balsamic air that destroy all catarrh germs in the breathing organs, enriches and purifies the blood with additional czone, and makes permanent and complete cures of catarrh. The complete Hyomei outfit costs but SI.OO and consists of an inhailer, a medicine dropper and a ’ bottle of Hyomei. The inhaler lasts a life time, and if one bottle does not cure, an extra bottle of Hyomei can be obtained for 50 cents. It is the most economical of all remedies advertised for the cure of catarrh, and is the ctnly one that follows nature in her methods of treating diseases of the respiratory organs. Breathe through the inhaler for a few minutes four times a day and your catarrh is cured. That’s all. If not cured The Holthouse Drug Co. will refund your money. Clover Leaf Excursions. Lebanon, Ind. State Convention Missionarv Society of the churches of Christ in Indiana. Maj- 18-20, 1904 One fare for the round trip from statons in Indiana. Tickets on sale May 17-18, 1904. See nearest agent, Clover Leaf Route, for full particulars, or address C. D. Whitney General Traffic Manager Toledo, Ohio NOTICE. I am dcing shoe repairing and am located in Kauffman & Smith’s bar ness shop, next door to Schlegel’s blacksmith shop. Bring in your shoes if they need any repairing. Peter Confer.

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IMAGINATION. Instance* Showing How It Has Made Well Men Sick. The domination of imagination over tig? normal exercise of the faculties is no new idea. Samuel Rogers suffered from a violent cold from the effects of what he believed to be an open window at his back, which in reality was closed. An instance of this known to the medical faculty is more strange still. Two men stayed at a house in which an inmate had died of cholera. One man placed In the room in which | the patient had died was in tgijorance : of what had occurred. He slept well ' and was no worse. The other, wrong- ■ ly told that the room In widen he slept was that in which the cholera patient had died, spent a night of mental agony nnd in the morning was actually found to be suffering from this complaint. He died of cholera. A similar instance was mentioned the other day by a friend of the writer. Two London men stayed in the country st a house where scarlet fever was reported. One, an unimaginative, healthy minded fellow, awoke all right in the morning. The other, a nervous, sensitive man, was very ill—had not slept and had broken out into a terrible rash which both declared to be scarlet fever. A wire to a London medical man was dispatched, and by the first train he hurried down. The supposed fever patient proved to have no fever at all beyond an imaginary one. As a fact, there was no scarlet fever in the house, the case had been wrongly diagfiosed. and the frightened visitor had tortured himself into a violent rash, all without cause.—St. James Gazette. BASKET BALL. An American Game With No Uncertainty a. to Ita Origrln. Basket bail as a recreativq game is unique in its origin for two reasons: First, it is our one positively sure, home American production: secondly, the name, date and place of. Its authorship are exactly known. Basket ball was born In the year 1891 at Springfield. Mass., and its author was James Naismitb. The story is short enough to be interesting. In that town is a training school connected with the Young Men's Christian association and of course professors, anting them a professor of psychology, who is paid to teach the young ideas how , to think effectively. In one of his lectures be called attention to certain conditions upon which the brain could with advantage be exercised and challenged his class to supply the requirements to meet them. The conditions were the invention of a new game which could be played indoors in a limited area by a defined and uualtern- ' ble number of contestants and adaptable to both sexes, t’pon this hypothi esis one of his pupils, James Naii smith, the same night evolved basket ball. It was put into practice the next ' day experimentally and found to meet ' the conditions and limitations laid down by the professor admirably. But it had more than an academic value, as its spread as one of our most appreciated pastimes attests.—lllustrated Sporting News. Fooling the Colonel, I doubt If the pranks of the present day subaltern are as pluckisb as those of his predecessors. I can remember a story that went the rounds some years ago of a daring junior of the Grenadier guards who chaffed bis eMonel in a fashion that would not be tolerated today. But the colonel was not disposed to deal leniently with him. He kept unusually late, or rather early, hours, so one day an early parade was ordered unexpectedly, and five minutes before the hour the colonel rude past the culprit’s quarters. Cheerfully unconscious of impending doom, the latter leaned out of his bedroom window in the airy garments of sleep to say good morning. The colonel chuckled and rode on. but to Ills surprise at the stroke of time the subaltern stepped out on parade fully dressed and all In order. He knew of the trap and had donned the looser garment over bls uniform to take a rise out of his superior—London TatJer. Where Wive* Are Pawned. They have a curious way of utilizing wives and daughters in some parts of India. If a man wants money be puts ! these members of his establishment in | pawn, and his creditor detains them until the de tis discharged. Tbe custom varies in different localities. In Nellore the Yercalls pledge their daughters to creditors, who may either ; marry them or give them away, ami I a man who hns to go to jnll deposits ■ his wife with another man of her tribe until bis return. In North Arcot unmarried daughters arc frequently mortgaged and become tbe absolute property of the mortgagee until liquidation. He Wouldn't Ask Farther. Contributor—Would you take it kindly if I were to ask you on what grounds you refused my latest poem! Editor—Yes. If you’ll take kindly to my true statement of the case. Contributor (after slight hesitation) -Good day, sir.—Baltimore American. flood Fortune. Mr. Backlotz (enviously)—She has the greatest luck in selecting servant girls. Mrs. Backlotx—Don't talk nonsense! You mean she has great luck in having servant girls select her.—Exchange. Ills View >nd Hers. He—As for me, life Isn't worth the living without you. She—As for me, tbe living you earn Isn’t worth the life. —Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. No stvord bites se fiercely as an evil tongue.—Sidney.

THE PORCUPINE. Only Known Creature That Eats th. Folinflre of the Hemlock. "You don’t have to skirmish around much to get feed to fatten one of these hemlock porcupines on," says an old woodsman. “Just sprinkle some salt over a stick of cordwood or saw log for that matter, and he’ll eat the whole business ami enjoy it as you would mince pie.” The customary diet of these animals is hemlock browse. I he? make themselves a home in a hollow Jog or under the roots of some old tree, bin jilways within reach of a big hemlock.

hemlock is their pasture, and they make beaten paths going to and fro between the tree and their home. Once up in a tree the porcupine goes out on the big limbs and. pulling the small branches in with one paw. browses on the pungent leaves. In going through the woods you will find little piles of these fine leaves on the ground under hemlock trees. That means that a porcupine is feeding in the tree, the leaves on the ground being dropped from his feast. Sometimes a porcupine will remain in a hemlock tree for a week at a time, hugging close to the trunk at night and feeding during the day. This curious little beast is the only known living thing that eats the foliage of the hemlock. DANGER SPOTS IN A STORM. Places to Avoid When the Lightning Is Flar.hillK. Out of doors trees should be avoided in a thunderstorm, and if from the rapidity with which tbe explosion follows the flash it is evident that electric clouds are near at hand a recumbent posture is the safest. It is seldom dangerous to take shelter under sheds, carts or low buildings or under the arch of a bridge, and a distance of twenty or thirty feet from tall trees or houses is an eligible situation, for should a discharge take place these elevated bodies are most likely to receive it. It Is well also to avoid water, for It is a good conductor, and the height of a human being near the stream may determine the direction of a discharge. Within doors we are tolerably safe in the middle of a carpeted room or when standing on a thick benrth rug. The chimney should be avoided on account of the conducting power of the carbon deposited in it. and gilt moldings or bell wires are sources of risk. In bed we are tolerably safe, since blankets and feathers are bad conductors. It is injudicious to take refuge in a cellar, because the discharge is often from the earth to a cloud, and buildings frequently sustain the greatest injury in their basements. QUEEN BEES. Wonderful Provision of Nature by Which They Are Made. A marvelous phase of bee life is the power which they possess to raise queens, or mother bees, from eggs or very young brood that would in the ordinary course produce workers, which are neuters, or undeveloped females. If by any chance a queen Is killed or l lost tbe whole colony would perish were It not for this wonderful provision of nature. Much perturbed at first at their loss, the bees after some hours settle down and deliberately build a pear shaped structure known as a queen cell. This Is much larger than an ordinary cell, rough, irregular and strong. In this the selected eggs, or larva;, are lavishly supplied with “royal jelly,” which is highly stimulative and ; In which the baby queen literally floats during her period of growth. The result Is that certain organs and ovaries which remain dormant in a worker bee are perfected, and the new queen hatches out in about fifteen ' days, or six days sooner than the. workers.—London Answers. Headdrccsca In Africa. The married women and the men of the upper Mobangi wear their hair long and In braids, which are profusely adorned with colored beads woven In and out among the locks. This coiffure excites the astonishment of all travelers who see It. Coquetry is the privilege of the sex under the tropics as well as in civilized lands, and the women are very proud of their headdresses. The arrangement of their hair requires a number of days, and while it is in progress or when they fear that it will be disarranged they cover tbe hair with a finely woven net of wood fiber. Ivory needles handsomely carved keep the arrangement [ In position and give It a truly artistic j aspect. , , —7— ———_ Curious I.rgnl Cnatom. A Curious custom is in vogue In ninny parts of India. If a dispute arises between two landowners two holes, nre dug close together, in each of which defendant’s and plaintiff’s lawyers have to place a leg. They have to remain thus until either one of them Is exhausted or complains of being bitten by Insects, wnen he is judged to be defeated and bls employer loses his case. Audience Not Gleeful. “So you belong to a glee club?” “Well.” answered the youth with longish hair, “that’s what we call It, but no one seems very joyous when we ting."—Washington Star. Wall Street Proverb. "A fool and bls money,” remarked tbe observer of events anj things, "soon get on the opposite tides of the market.”—Yonkers Statesman. Don’t tfcrow away the ladder by Which yen climbed. Lae n tor kinfiling wned —Smart bat

Buckskin Bill's CONSOLIDATED WILD WEST Grand Military Tournament and Rough Riders of the World r-fr a™? 1,000 MEN AND HORSES Among the manv features of this Mammouth Exhibition will be feats of Marksmanship bv Male and Female Crack Shots of the World, in Plain and Fancy Shooting. Wild Bronchos, herd of Buffalo and Texas Steers This enormous outfit is transported in its own Special Railroad Trains of 34 double length ears, complete in every particular, carryingall the Par- ' aphernalia required for the largest Arena ever erected, seating 20.000 people, protecting the audience from sun or rain and be- ' ing delightfully cool and so arranged as to be erected near the city in an easy accessible location. On day of arrival there will be given FREE STREET PARADE AT 10 A. M. Bv Cavalrymen. Aitillervmen, Cowboys, Indians and Wild Horses: Buffalo, long horned Texas Cattle, Overland Mail Coach, Fraire Schooner, Wagons and other relies of the west used in davs gone by, all of which will be enlivened by Five Bands of Music, led by Col. V. F. Cody's Famous Cowboy Band b Two Exhibitions Daily, Rain or Shine. Afternoon at 2, Night at 3. Doors open I hour earlier WILL EXHIBIT AT Decatur, Tuesday May 31, ’O4

“AS BOLD AS A LION.” Rather Say Bold rm a Partridge if You Would Be Exact. 1 The only explanation of the adage, 1 “As bold as a lion." is that the lion's 1 magnificent. muscular body, his noble 1 head, great mane, the fact that he is a ' wild beast and—still more probably—his deep throated roar that sounds so extraordinarily bold hare made him j 1 feared for generations. But th« lion I ■ belongs to the family of cats and is ; 1 not bold. To those who know best he | is not brave even In the hour of dan- i ger. The lioness, who is smaller, less terrible to look upon and is without a i mane, is brave in defense of her young. 1 but she. too. is not bold. She is merely ' bolder than the lion. In comparison ! with any animal that can face danger ! and fight “fair" the lion is a coward. I 1 To prove it let us see for a moment how it is that the lion chooses to hunt his prey. The lion does not hunt. In the reeds and grasses near some pool in the Jun- ' i gle he lies hidden where be knows that other animals will go to drink. Cat- I like, he leaps upon his victim, striking ; It with his powerful paws. Then bis j great jaws break the neck of the un- | ' fortunate creature be has taken by surprise. and the Hon boldly carries off the carcass to devour it where be will. The folk who live on the outskirts of jungles in the lion's country sometimes lose their sheep and goats when a hungry lion can muster courage to go near a human habitation In bis search for I foo<l. lie goes at night and stealthily "I'o knows hut that his heart pit-a-pat and his big limbs tremble at every sudden noise? The natives of Ind a and of Africa know, however, that they can frighten away a thieving lion by fire and torches. if cornered i and forced to fight he win do battlel Zlit^’i bnt he ,luPSn ' t *** k •‘ ,l ' flght. and any traveler will tell vou ! .that at a rule the “ki llg of bvllHts . ' bolts on sighting a man. To be nt bold as a partridge —at brave, unselfish, daring, heroic as a Partridge-ie something one might bi Proud to boast. No H on defends its young with the courage of a partridge The lioness at bay will turn tn defense ot her cubs, will fight the enemy win Ker. Khe schemes to .o d the dsn ’ to herself but she n n ,ract attention dogs on and lb lend th » I»"mvX7T "* al least j£.tory of the partridge“ ,e t the mother bird has been t.?/ * ‘L‘ Bt •oprtiue moment. Under th«/ D lfeat the dogs .he will Wry no * P with drooping wing *‘“ P ' Into the liellef »b„, , OewlT * them!

The King and the Preacher. Dr. South on one occasion after preaching before Charles 11.. who. by the way, did not care any more than the humblest dissenter to listen to a read sermon, was twitted by the king of having read from a manuscript. “How is it, Dr. South,” said his majesty, “that you. who are so famous for preaching without book, should read your sermon when you preach before me?” "May I answer your majesty with another question?" replied the witty doctor. "How is it that your majesty always reads your speeches to your faithful commons?” “Odsfish, doctor." said Charles, “because I have asked them for money so often that by this time I am ashamed to look them in the face.” Dr. South, it must be admitted, had fairly laid himself open to the retort. He Kept Hl* Seat. The nearsighted man, comfortably ensconced in the corner of the car, looked up at the woman who was holding a large bundle in one hand while she clung to the strap with the other. "Madam,” said he, a wave of sudden generosity sweeping over him, "I make it a rule never to give my seat up to any woman, but I will be glad to help you. Let me bold your bundle for you." “Oh. thank you, sir,” replied the fair passenger; "1 hope you know bow.” Whereupon she deposited a gurgling six-month-old infant in his lap. to the undisguised joy of the rest of the strap holders.—Cincinnati Times-Star. WonopoHea In Old Enarlnnd. Monopolies wore quite common In England long before the days of the Stuarts, while it was under a Stuart, James 1., that an act was passed declaring void all monopolies for the sole buying, selling ami making of goods excepting patents for fourteen years for any new process or new manufacture. This indeed was the first step toward free trade. The Tudors were really the groat creators of monopolies. and Elizabeth was the greatest developer of them.—All the Year Bound. Plain F'nouffh. "What was the trouble?" "He couldn't swim.” “What has that to do with bis fah* ure?" "He got into a company whers tba stock was all water."—Automobile. The Paternal Idea* Miss Roxley-I lost my heart Inst night, pa. I accepted Mr. Poorman. Mr. Box ley -Hub! You didn't loss your heart You must havs lost yous head.—Philadelphia Ledger. Snare Others. “Yoti talk an awful lot about your••lf. Catherine." I "Well, it keeps me from talking about, other people.”—Detroit Free Preas