Daily Democrat, Volume 2, Number 299, Decatur, Adams County, 28 December 1904 — Page 2

HE DAILY DEMOCRAT. •▼■BY IVISISO. BXCBPT SUNDAY, BY -■ W O . ELLINQHAM. • •■SCRIPTION RATES. *» otrpler, per week 100 B» aarrter, per year $4.00 4y mall, per month 26c »» mail, per years2.so (Ingle copies. Two Cents. •< ax trilling rates made known on application 1 stared in the postofflce at Decatur. Indlaa laeond-olase mall matter 4 H.HELLER, Manaqbr. V-'-L. . ~~ The Jackson Day banquet at Lafayette on January 10, gives evidence of being a healthy gathering of those who believe and advocate the tenents of democracy. Nine out of ten of the congressmen who are clamoring for an increase of salary from five to ten thousand a year never earned that much before they became patriotic and commenced to save the country. Besides the present salary is more than the average congressman is worth —Muncie Herald. Many newspapers in the district are carrying cards to the effect that Congressman Cromer’s stock of garden seeds is larger and better than ever. Application for a supply of the same is cordially solicited, mail reaching him at his Washington address. This is another qualification of the fitness and greatness of Mr. Cromer as a con pressman, TOOK SICK William Baker of Kendallville Was Sick A Grand Rapids Passenger Had Severe Stroke of Heart Trouble William Baker, a leading manufactmer of t Kendallville, was taken quite sick on the train here today while enroute from the later place to Galveston, Texas, suffering a severe stroke of heart trouble, and for a time it looked as if his case was serious. The train was held here for nearlv ten minutes, and all possible efforts to get a doctor was made, but none could be reached. By this time Mr Baker had revived somewhat and insisted that the train proceeding, stating that a doctor’s presence was no longer needed. His family consisted of his wife and two daughters, were with him, alt being badly frightened over his condition. Mr. Baker is engaged in the manufacture of hospital tables and desks that are adju Hable to the patients’ bed aiding them Tn partaking of a meal or writing a letter, and is reported as being in good financial standing. It is the intentton of Mr. Baker and family to sjiend the balance of the winter in the South. Mr. Baker is quite welt known here. ROOF BLEW OFF John Drake, who resides five miles south of this city, had the misfortune yesterday atfernoon, during the heavy wind storm to have the entire roof of his large barn blown completely off and carried fifty feet from the building. John was in the city today trying to induce carpenters to go with him at once and rebuild it. As his grain and hay is now exposed to the weather. State Line. Lase Gaunt was at Wren last Friday. Otis Shifferly was at Decatur on business last Thursday. George Stewart was a business caller at Decatur last Friday. Mrs. Dora Aohetn, of near Daisy, was a caller on John J. Wolf and family la t Thursday. John Schnepp and Leonard Hobnepp were business callers at Wren last Thursday. Lase Herle, of near Wren, was at Deoatur last Friday evening for his Christmas presents. The schools closed last Friday for a week’s vacation or until after the holidays. Albert McGill, who took sick a few days ago, is no better at this writing.

-l-H-l-H-H-i-I-M-H-H-H-t-HHH-H-t ? The Sound of t I A Voice ? X K.eith Gordon X •j* Copyright. IWH, by Frances Wilson y

They met first in the dusk of a June evening, and, as Mrs. Stanton said, it looked like a sheet and pillowcase party. The drawing room was ghostly with pictures, statuary and chandeliers draped in white muslin, the furniture bulking awkwardly in its summer linen. Lansing had dropped in to see the Stantons and say goodby, and soon after Mrs. Audley, who was, it transpired, to sail with them on the morrow, was ushered in. She hesitated for a moment in the doorway, a tall, slender, unsubstantial figure in white. Then as they rose and Mrs. Stanton stepped forward to greet her she spoke, and the obdurate heart of Richard Lansing fell, without a sound, without a flutter of resistance, a willing captive to the most exquisite voice he had ever heard. In the flow of small talk that followed he was strangely silent, floating, as it were, on the music of that voice, with its beautiful modulations and strange, minor pitch. He scarcely heard what she said. Indeed, with a voice like that, words became ridiculously unimportant. Rallied by Mrs. Stanton upon his silence, he replied to her banter awkwardly and with an effort, like a man aroused from a dream. Later, when Mrs. Audlej njse to go, she yxtendeij her hand to liim frankly*" Then she out into the glimmering light of the hall, followed by Stanton, who weftt to put her in Ikt cab. — The moment they were out of hearing Lansing turned to his hostess, with highwayman-like directness. “Where is Mr. Audley?” he asked sententiously, with a grim determination to know the worst without delay. “Really. Dick!" she mocked. “Is the foremost bachelor of our set ‘taking notice’ at last? How very interesting!" "Where is Mr. Audley?" he repeated doggedly. "Dead these three years," she answered. Then at the long breath that she heard him take in the soft gloom of the room she added warningly, "But Penelope has many suitors!" She had indeed so many that Lansing used to wonder afterward by what miracle she had been preserved for him. It was six months before he saw. SF" 1 F/nM n //fa JWfl ll B «W // -IK I,!. 1 MBS. STANTON STEPPED FORWARD TO OREE'. HEK. or, rather, heard, her again. A deatli in his family and the precarious state of the great business tiiat lie managed prevented him from carrying out his first mad scheme of following her pell mell across the Atlantic and as many continents and parts of continents as need be. After the first few weeks faithless Mrs. Stanton had ceased to keep him informed of their whereabouts. But. though Edith Audley seemed to have drifted beyond his ken. that rare, caressing voice still sounded in his ears, and in dreams he saw again that straight, slim, unsubstantial figure, the face a mere pale phantom from which two shadowy eyes looked out. It was just before the Christmas holidays. and Lansing ha I decitied that nothing should keep him looker. Unit in spite of fate he would sail for Europe within th" next ten days, when tile tinkle of tire telephone belt arouse 1 him. He lifted the receiver to his ear, and at the sound that greeted tiiur be felt as If a flame of happiness ran over him. "Is tills :j:>” Cortlandt?” I The voice was unmistakable. Though the wires imparted generously of their own metiilllcness, It was still the most beautiful voice in the world I’nlike Trilby’s right foot, which had a rival In her left. Mrs. Audley’a voice had no rlvn). Lansing was ns certain’that it was she who was sponklmt ns he was that It was himself who was listening. "This Is .".."2." he beg in. Before he could get further there was a des lalrinv exclamation from the Other end of the wire, while the only voice In tile world pleaded. “Won’t you please ring off?" Lansing laughed delightedly, but that laugh cost him his chance. “How are you. Mrs. Audley?" he began, hut a buzz, buzz z. buzz zz z. buzz z-z-z was all that he got for his

pains. Nor did his frantic ringing nor the things lie said to central avail him. “Don’t know, sir. Can’t find out,” was all that the distant, impassive voice of the operator vouchsafed, and with a sigh of exasperation lie at last hung up the receiver. She was back in the city then. Somewhere in tile wilderness of brick and stone that incomparable voice was making music, but not for him. Suddenly Mrs. Stanton’s warning remark fell upon his ears as if it had been spoken by some invisible presence. “Penelope has many suitors." The thought goaded him. While be tarried, allowing mere life and death matters to detain him, what might not have happened? The truth came to him now with a terrible, crushing force. The one thing hi life greater than all other things was love. And. strange and unnatural as it might seem, he loved with all his heart a woman whom he had practically never seen, since that brief, dim half hour in the Stanton drawing room seemed more like an encounter of souls than an actual meeting, where the sweet, strong woman of her bad been revealed to him in that strange, vibrant, caressing voice. Inquiry at the Stanton residence did not put him forward. They were still in Europe, and the housekeeper did not know when they would return. Nor could she tell him anything of Mrs. Audley. Baffled, but determined, he left no stone unturned for the next three weeks, but without success. Edith Audley seemed to have disappeared in the crowd of the unknown, and he wondered if that fool Stanton would ever bring his wife back from Europe. Then, in the most casual manner, the information that he bad sought in vain came to him. Waiting moodily for a frigid in the Turkish room the Waldorf late one afternoon, the strident repetition of a name at last recalled him to his “Symington! Mr. Symington!" sang out a call boy in a nasal tone, looking inquiringly about as he sauntered through the room. None of the men scattered about the room responded, and the boy tried another tack. “Card for Mrs. Audley! Card for Mrs. Audley!" he reiterated, with an expression that implied that the fellow who had sent his card to that lady must be trying to conceal himself. Then suddenly a gentleman near the door beckoned to him energetically. “Mr. Symington?” demanded the boy. At the gentleman's negative re ply he looked away very weary. But when the latter, pressing a quarter into his hand, asked a certain question he replied with mitigated severity. Lansing’s first impression of her when at last she came toward him in broad daylight was that she was like a reed. The eyes were dark and a trifle wistful, the mouth wide, flexible, with thin, vivid lips. And then that moving voice fell upon his ears for the third time, and he only knew that she was all that he had ever dreamed of in woman—and more. “Talk to me! Talk to me!” he would beg playfully during the weeks that followed, when he was trying with all the arts he could master to lead her to the point that he had reached at a bound. “I'm growing jealous of my own voice,” she said to him at last, with a hurt, questioning look in her eyes. “1 sometimes think that it isn’t my friendship that you care for at all, but it’s only that my voice appeals to you. touches some chord in you. 1 don’t just like it.” And it was then that Lansing toid her, told her with an ardor that she could not doubt, ending with. "Your voice, my darling, is the most beautiful thing in the world, but it’s beautiful because it is you put into sound.’ Ami. being but a woman, what could she do but believe? London’s First City Directory. The first dire tory dates from 1595, Queen Elizabeth’s reign. A copy of it is in the British museum, entitled "The Names of All Such Gentlemen of Aceompts as Were Residing Within the City of London." Tlie next does not seem to have appeared for nearly a hundred years. It was called "A Collection of the Names of Merchants Living In and About the City of London." This was printed for Lee. Iximbaru .treet. in 1677. The names were arranged alphabetically, 1.790 in number. In a separate list were the names of no fewer than forty four bankers ttndi r the heading "Goldsmiths Who keep Running Cashes,” twenty-three of them being then In Lombard street. Tills . book contains the mime of the father of Pope, the poet. , The first directory, expressly so called. was compiled by Brown In 1732. who soon Issued it annually and realized through it a large fortune. The earliest postofflce directory appeared In ISoo a)id successive volumes hate been brought out yearly ever since.— London Telegraph. Story of Ganymede's Birth. A college professor while giving an examination in mythology In a country school called upon a bright looking g’rl and asked the following question: "Who was Ganymede?" Promptly came the answer, "Ganymede was the son of Olympus and nn eagle." The class teacher blushed for her pupil and exclaimed: “Why. Elizabeth! Where did y m '"nrn that?" “Indeed It nays so In the book." rt piled the girl. The professor then asked the girl to find the p' ice anil rend the paragraph aloud, w! ereupon tiie class was both astonished and delighted to learn thnt Ganymede wan borne to Olympus by an engle--Lippincott's.

"It’s good policy to bring one world at least,” said he. "Good business policy." she mocked. “You see," he explained, “she bad wealth and ‘position’ and every eligible man in ?he county at her feet, and”— "And the memory of a Christmas eve and a bunch of mistletoe,” she interrupted. Thurlow made vicious jabs with the tongs at the burning logs. He succeeded in upsetting the tire shovel and spilling the chestnuts iuto the blaze. The girl had turned her head from him. but he had a glimpse of one little ear flushed red. Thurlow suddenly laughed harshly. "Goodness!” he said. "Just imagine his coming back to her on Christinas eve. with no worlds, no anything, save his worthless self! Imagine that! How ridiculous it would seem to her! She would laugh!’ 1 She turned to him. Her eyes blazed, and something suspiciously like tears glistened on the lashes. Her hands were clinched. “She’d be a wicked girl if she did,” she said hotly. Thurlow turned his eyes to the chandelier. In the flickering light of the Are he studied It carefully for several moments. Then be turned to the Are again. "Thank hea. en, it’s holly up there on the chandelier! If ft were mistletoe I’m afraid—l’m afraid be might come back—tonight—without his world in tow.” Miss Wentworth rose. She. too, looked thoughtfully at the chandelier. "Ob, you foolish boy!” she said, laughing softly. “Did you ever see hollj with leaves like that and—and—white bwrles?" • x-*-**"- «—— She was standing directly beneath it, her eyes upturned, her face glowing red in the firelight. “Dear, it's—it’s”— Thurlow sprang from the chair. • * * * * * • Some minutes later Freddy Carver pulled the portieres apart. “Aren't you dancing?” he Inquired. "Come on out. And for heaven’s sakp stop scenting up the whole house with burnt chestnuts!" A HarnileMN I<l i<»«yncrnNV. Mrs. Compton looked at her old | friend with a slightly defiant gaze. “So you heard I’d married into a peculiar ■ family," she said slowly. “Well, I won’t deny but what the Comptons have got some ways that aren't just like everybody else’s. But my husband is just about the same as other folks most o’ tlie time.” The old friend gave her the smile of one who is open to conviction, but said nothUig. "He’s got one little peculiarity.” said Mrs. Compton, moved to confi denee by the smile. “It’s known in the family, but I don't speak of it outside. However, you being an old school friend and living way out west, I feel different.” - . The smile grew more encouraging and sympathetic. "It's nothing that worries me—not really." said Mrs. Compton hastily. "It’s just a little habit Silas has got into When he’s riled, Instead of say- , ing much he goes up to the garret and takes everything out of my old piece bag and puts it on over his head and ties it round his waist good anil hard and sits there till lie feels better. I suppose some folks would call that a ! kind of a peculiarity, but I never take any notice of it, only I tell him he’s got to put the pieces back, and he does.” THE COMMON SPARROW. Hr In Mot Uwnyx the Selflnh Vagabond He la Painted. The house sparrow has been called a nuisance, a street gamin, a vagabond, a thief, a robber, and this by many so called bird lovers, yet. in my opinion, lie is one of our most Interesting birds. He is lively, bright, thrifty and brave. | No one, not even his worst enemy, can gainsay this. He is also ever ready to help his own kind out of any difficulty Into which they may fall. One day. as I was walking up street past a large mill where dozens of sparrows were collected. 1 saw some- j thing which has much increased my esteem for the so called little street i gamin. It was in nesting time, and . young birds hardly able to fly were quite common. As I walked on my attention was attracted by one of these in the middle of the road alone. He was sitting there and every little while giving out a little disconsolate chirp, j While I was watching him a delivery cart came down the street at full speed. The young bird was likely to I be erushed, but I was not the only ob- j server of its distress. As I watched about a dozen sparrows flew down and gathered round it. I didn’t know what was going to happen for the minute, I but I was soon enlightened. The flock of newcomers fairly hustled the little one out of the way of the oncoming cart and into the safety of the ditch. I don’t know exactly bow they did |t, they moved so quickly, but I think It was In the same way that a man is I carried onward In n crowd. He helps I himself a little, and the people around him sweep him forward. The little In- j cident clearly showed thnt sparrows ' are not always us selfish and unsee)- | lug as they are. painted.—Amateur I Sportsman. Os the best society It used to lie said j its conversation affords Instruction, while its si'euce imparts culture.— Goot he

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For Sale—A number one work mare at a bargain if sold soon, four miles south of Peterson and four miles west of Monroe J. H. FULK. 299d6 See me for fire insurance. I represent none but first-class companies. H. HARRRUFF. We have for sale at a bargain, if taken soon, the Bottenfield farm, 160 acres well improved, in sec 25, Kirkland township. ERWIN & ERWIN. 285de2wks I write deeds, mortgages, contracts, and do all kinds of notary work, find renters, and collect rents. Give me a trial. H. HARRUFF. NoticeGolden Gleam Stove Polish, the only dustless and waterproof polish on earth. Call 'phone 445 and it will be delivered at your house. 298d2wks Fann Lands That Are Cheap in Dollars Bat Rich in Soli. Dick Townsend has completed arrangements whereby you can go to Mandon, North Dakota, for 126.65 from Chicago and return. Lands from |4 to <1 per a ?re with free home stead adjoining. Come and see us over First National Bank Decatur Ind., We can also sell you farms in Virignia, Mississippi Tennessee and Arkansas. Excursion iates to North Dakota any day during the week, except Saturday and Sunday for three or more. Dick Townsend over National Bank Residence 422 Jefferson St. Phone 109. d&w Strong Testimony. Gilmore Drug Co,, Fletcher, Ohio Gentlemen: Having a horse with a bad bruise on one of its hind legs, I was indveed to try a bottle of your Caustic Oil, and as I got such good results from its use, I have used it for many other ailments, such as lame back, sore throat, fresh cuts, etc., and have found it just as beneficial in all cases, in fact I would not be without it, and can recommend it to anyone, either for man or lieast. Yours truly, O. O. Lentz, D. D. S., Piqua. Ohio. Special Low Excursion Rates via CLOVER LEAF ROUTE. Season 1904-05 Christmas and New Vears Holiday tickets sold, Dec. 24-25-26 tmd 31»t; and Jan. Ist and 2d. Good to return until Jan 4th. inclusive. at a rate of cue and one-third fare for the round trip. Hom eseekers Rates to West and Southwest Ist and 3rd Tuesday in each month to and in 1« ng April I'los. greatly reduced rates. • atesto Mlsscuti. AikansaK Indian erritorv and the Southwest daily un»’ Dec. blst g jod 80 day a. California, toc-l Coast Touris* tickets nsale via ad n i »us. Good 0 months. St M>ver privleges of ten days. Pullmu Palace Sleeping Cars, free reclining (hair and Case Cars, (Meals served a la-carte), high back seat coaches on all through trains. For rates and information apply to nearest Ticket Agent, or address Indiana State Granger. Marlon, Ind • Dec. 13-ibth. One fare plus 26 cents, good until Dec. 17th; Indiana stations only. Confidential: If vou contemplate a trip to any point write rs for special inform ation. W. L. ROSS General Passenger Agent M. A. CHAMBERS, ™e<fo. Ohio. Traveling Passenger Agent. Frankfort. Ind. T. L. MILLER, Arent. Decatur. Inp

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