Daily Democrat, Volume 3, Number 138, Decatur, Adams County, 21 June 1905 — Page 2

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT ■VIST gVBNIMU, MCKPT »VXD*T, BI LBW <a . ■ LLINOMAM. —«SSCSSS== ' "g ~~ »U»»CRI*TION R AIT Ciß Ij Mrrlrr, |»r ’Oc ly Samer. per y«»r »4.00 ■y ■>»:.. prr month .. ... tsc ■■ b.h, per yrar tt.SO Sin.ls copte., Two Oaata. Mvsrtlaina rates mad. knownon application •nterv.l in tbr postoffice at bvc.tur, Indiana- M necond-cIwM mail matter 4. H. HELLER MANAGER. NOVEL PAROLE k Prisoner Agrees toßecome Temperance Worker fevenror Manly Frets a Notorious Saloon Man Who Was Serving a Two Yean' Jail Sentence •pacta! Telegram To The Oemocrat Indianapohe, June 21.—Governor Hanly today executed the mist extraordinary parole ever granted by an Indiana executive. Samuel Peters. a notorious saloonkeeper of Fowler, Benton county, Indiana, eix months ago received a two years jail sentence for violating the liquor laws by keeping his no torioun dive open at unlawful hours and by otherwise breakng the laws whenever the occasion presented itself. By the terms of the parole, which Governor Hanly granted to Peters, the latter gets his freedom by promising not only to boecme a temperance man, but a temperance worker, also that he will try to re form his friends, will not visit any place where liquors are sold or use liquor in any form. This is »l important step by the governor for another reason, it is the firs* parole granted by an Indiana governor for a man, serving a jail eentenoe outside Marion county ■ and means that scores of jail pris oners over the state will now appeal to him, JUST OUT A Marriage in High Life in Indianapolis. Special Telegram To The Democrat Indianapolis. June 21.—1 t devel- ‘ oped today that Eli Stanley, head of the great Stanley family of gypsies, was reeoently married ot Irene j Cloud, aged fourteen, the daughter of James Cloud of Indianapolis. Cloud himself swore that the girl was sixteen. Stanley avers that Cloud thought him wea Ithy. Cloud and Stanley later fell out and the former brought peace prooeedings ■ against the latter, claiming that , Cloud intends to kill him. The gypsy camp is located west of the city. Youth is Dead. William Weigman, seven years of age, died last night at twelve o'clock, at the ho ne of his parents, seven Tri-! northwest of this city, after an illness of over two years' duration, death resulting from dropsy. The funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock, at the Freidheim Lutheran church, and interment will te made in the Freidheim cemetery. Gypsum wall plaster— Fresn car at Decatur Lumber Co. 12Stf Lost—A ten dollar bill, at the Christian church corner. Finder will please leave that this office and receive reward. Found —A small pucketbook, containing f icrteen cents. Inquire of Charles Miller at City Tracking company office. 1200,000 of money to Joan on city and farm property, on the very lowest rate of interest at Schurger & Smith's law. abstract and real estate office, Decatur, Indiana. IJMtf A ll nersons knowing themselves indebted to Mrs. Alice Peterson, pleasem 1 ! and settle at once and avoid the collector. Mrs. Alice Peterson. 13bd 6t

A Drina Madr Wall and Vald. Tbe Sunset Mugaalu. tells • alory of Ua rehabilitation of the character of Johnaon Bide., a noted Indian t*m peraucs orator of bygnis days Use day be was caught In the act of drinking a giu«s of whisky and was fined. Neither Indiana nor white* would listen then to hie tetn|*rance speeches. Poor Jobuson was In despair. tine day. however, be had an Inspiration. He asked Senator l>oollu of the Nevada legislature to absolve hl* sin by act of legislature. Senator Doolin was agreeable. and Introduced and earned through ‘Senate Joint Concurrent Res olutlon No. 11." which is as follows: •taaolved, By the senate, the people of the State of Nevada concurring, that the drink of whisky taken by Johnson Sides on the 17th day of September In the city of Virginia, county ot Story, be and Is hereby declared null and void." Thus was Johnson Sides made a good man again. He became at once . a power among bls own people. resumed bis advocacy of the cause of water and was listened to with great respect —Cleveland Leader. Ullaf m Diplomat l». The London Pall Mall Gaxette discusses the word “diplomatist." Interpreting it as “one with a double duty and a double responsibility”—to bis own country and the country that receives him. The evolution of “diplomatist" from the Greek verb for "to ! double” Is very eeriooa. "Diploma." a doubling, was specialised as a folded . paper and particularly tn Roman times an official passport or license. Thus "diplomatic science" down to the end | of the eighteenth century meant the science of manuscripts and documenta, which explains a modern writer's strange remark that "there Is not a shadow of diplomatic doubt thrown : over the Integrity of tbs third gospel.” j Dr. Murray's Dictionary assigns the translation to the modern meaning to Lelbnltx's "Codex Juris Gentium Diplomatlcus" (documentary code of International lawi and ti e title of a similar French work. "Diplomatic’' came to be considered as meaning “International documentary.” and then the “documentary” dropped out Vaehaaaiaa (less* Rises. ••Circuses." said the old ring master, “have developed, evolved and changed. From the one ring of the past they bare grown tn three rings, plus an elevated Mage, and there are many other Improvement*. But in one particular there has been no change since time began, and that is In tbs dimensions of the ring A circus ring is always the same siae--forty two feet nine inches in diameter Go where you will, you will never find a circus ring with different dimensions from that. A bareback rider can ride best to a ring of this site. All riders train to such a ring and all horses are trained In such a ring There would be trouble for horses and men if the sine of the ring should be changed. It would l>e

like changing th. sise of the baseball diamond, only worse.’’ — Minneapolis 1 Journal. ( 1 Cow Hhedfl. One of the most interesting studies of Insect life is tbe relationship between , anta and plant lice, or aphids. These ( plant lice supply honey dew from tbe ( juicM which they take as food from plants The ants are very fond of thia sweet substance and care for the ( aphids in a manner that seema to us surprisingly intelligent. They sometimes carry them bodily to a better feeding ground and driw away certain of their enemies. It la claimed that they even build sheds of mud in tbe ( crotches of shrub* and small trees. On account of this insect relationship one may truthfully call the ants "farmers.” the aphids “cows" and these protecting mud case, “cow sbetla.” —St. Nicholas. I The Greatest Evil. The Persian author Faadi tells a story of thee sages—a Greek, an Indian and a Persian—who in the presence of the Persian monarch debated thia question. Os all evil* incident to humanity wh’ch is the greatest? Tbe Grecian declared. “Old uge oppressed with poverty;’’ the Indian answered, "Pain wrth Impatience," while the Persian, bowing low, made answer, ( “The greatest evil, O king, that I can conceive is tbe couch of death without one good deed of life to light tbe dark some way.”

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SIGNATURE EXPERTS THEY ARE THE REAU SAFEGUARDS OF A MODERN BANK. lot Only the kutoeraph, bat the Katies Body, ot the Cheek la Closely ■o-rutlolaed b> These Rapid aud Almost lutalllble Workers. One of the most trying positions In our business, said a bank official to a writer In London Tit-Bits, is that of signature expert-the man who has to examine daily every draft that comes to through the clearing bouse aud vouch for its genuineness. Our bank, one of the largest In the city, employs six clerks who do nothing all day long but examine checks, aud when I tell you that It is no uncommon thing for lU.UOt* drafts to come in during a single day you will understand that the job is not altogether the sinecure it is popularly supposed to be. These clerks have not only to acrutl aixe the sigu.tuiee of both drawer aud drawee, but also examine the "filling tn." the latter being jest aa in>|>ortanL perhaps more so from a monetary point of view, as the signatures. As a matter of fact, the commonest forgery with which we have to deal la the "raising' of checks. and a forger of this nature generally chooses a check bearing a genuine signature, but having very little “filling in." For Instance, be knows that it would not be difficult to raise a check from £3 to £3.000. for all be has to do Is to erase the word "pounds," Insert the word “thousand” aud then add the erase! word again. 1 have seen plenty of this kind of work during thw time I have been examining checks. One of the most Impudent pieces of forgery, however, that 1 ever came across was a check raised from £•> to £SOO The forger bad evidently relied on colossal I: ! :.«’<nce crr-ying him through, forte had simply added a couple of ciphers and then between the words “five" and "pounds” bad placed an omission mark and written the word "hundred" i love, adding the initials of the drawer of the check just to give the thing a look of careless gejUiueness. It was so astoundU ’ a piece of cool audacity that we had beta on the check, two of my a-«lstauta dec’r.rlng it to be O. K.. while the other three and myself declared It to be a forgery Further Inquiries, of course, proved that the opinion of the majority was the correct one. It Is marvelous what a vast number of signatures some clerks will carry In their mind's eye. as It were, and thus be able to pass ehecks by the thousand without once having to refer to the sig nature books. We bad a clerk here a few years ago who was little less th :n a wonder. He knew perfectly the sig natures of at least 5,000 customers and could detect the alteration of a stroke In any one of them in an instant.

More remarkable still was the fact that be recognised with equal facility the riirnatures of those customers whose checks only came in once or twice a year. But be made an art of his work, and I afterward discovered that most of bis evenings were spent In studying and learning tbe signature, of the customers, for he was a wonderful band at copying writing, and whenever a new signature would come in. one with which be was not acquainted, he would at once facsimile it in bis pocketbook aud by the next morning would be able to vecogulie it among 10.000. Signature clerks aie not. as a rule, supposed to make copies of customers autographs, but many of them do, and some men are clever enough at the work to even deceive themselves. Os course. It is understood that when the signature clerks are net examining checks they are studying the autograph books In order to familiarixv •hemselves with the caligrapby of every customer. Each check, you must understand, passes through the bands of each clerk In turn, *o that if one should pass a forgery or a "raised” draft it is very unlikely that the entire staff would do so. All these checks, of course, come through the clearing house, and if we should pass a forged draft and not find out our mistake before 3 o'clock In the afternoon our bank would be held respoualble. One of the commonest dodges adopted by the modern check forger la to get a customer of some small country bank

' to Introduce him to that Institution as a Mkeiy depositor. On the recommen- i datlon of the friend (who is probably , quite unaware that the acquaintance be made some few months ago is a "wrong ’un”) there Is no difficulty in accepting their new client’s check for i [ <2.000, and the following day when the ! same customer calls and withdraws j £IOO to £SOO, as the case may be. he is , politely handed the cash, and then, of I course, loses no time in skipping the town. After the |>ogus customer's check has passed through the clearing . bouse it is returned to the bank on which it has been drawn, and the fraud [ Is at once discovered. Another part of a signature clerk's I duties is to see that no checks are post- i dated, as. of course, no drafts must be | paid until they fall due. On occasions a careless man will postdate a check, but as a rule the mistake Is purposely ] made. This spotting of postdated checks, however. Is the easiest part of a signature clerk’s work, and It Is very seldom that a check so dated escapes him. Then, again, we are often notified that payment on certain checks has been stopped, and the clerks have to be on the lookont for these, and It must be a very careless staff indeed that lets them sjip by. We are held responsible for all checks passed after we have received notice to stop payment. But It*is very seldom now, owing to the cleverness of the exjierts. that any forged checks, “raised” checks. post

dated checks or Stopped checks pass the vigilant ryes of our staff without ' being detected, but when one doeswell although the signature clerks are 1 not held monetarily responsible for the I loss. It means a bad mark against them | In the future, aud they feel Its effects i next time promotions or "rises" are ‘ being handed out. Altogether, though the work I* InterI eating and even fascinatin'.’ In « way. ' ths responsibilities are -o groat that the effect on the nerves is often very trying at times. One thin !we are parI tlcular about, and that I* to take no I chances, if we have the slightest doubt about the gentlli ::«»■•* of a cheek we at once communicate, either by tele- ! graph, spe"! il messenger or telephone. I with the supposed drawer of the check i and to t‘ , ’.a way turn doubt Into certainty. Luring the Inst three years not , a single w ng check has passed our vigilart optics, and. though I say IL who should not. I do not believe there is a e’everer set of experts anywhere than those who compose my staff. A LINCOLN STORY. n» aawtwiii was DMo*t rwget Absst the Cast Hsok. "The first cltixea of Illinois and the greatest of American presidents" is the manner to which Mr. Carr refers te Abraham Lincoln In "The Illini.” He j recalls the first time be ever beard Mr. ' Lincoln's name. It was at a country ’ hotel, and one of the residents of the j town was telling of a "curls yonng feller" who bad worked to a sawmill, but i gave up the job to go into the Black Hawk war. "He was working for a gentleman 1 named Kirkpatrick, and one day somebody said to Kirkpatrick: .'You ought to get a cant hook for that young fellow to move logs with. It’s too bad to make him roll them about without one.’ "The sawmill tender asked what a cant book would cost, and they said f 1.50. The young fellow said. ‘lf you give me the dollar nn' a half I'll go on tackling the logs an I do now with a wooden spike that I make myself.’ "'Donef said the loss, aud he didn't need to buy any cant book. “But. do you know, that boss was so mean that he beat that poor boy out of that money. He never gave it to him. . 1 “That fellow went on tending sawmill and telhug stories and never let on about the cant hook. Presently came the Black Hawk war, and they pitched In and raised a company, and Kirkpatrick set all his pins to be captain. but that young fellow hadn't forgotten about the cent book, and be just lecame a candidate for the captain's place himself, and when the company voted be bent old Kirkpatrick four to one. I beljwd to elect him, and when be got elected be turned to me and said. ‘Bill, I’ve got even on that cant hook.’ | “He is the most curious fellow I ever mw. There never came a man Into the nelgtliorhood but he'd find out Just the things that man knew best. He never gave the schoolmaster any pears after be found be knew grammar until he'd learned all the grammar the teacher knew. He found a fellow who knew bow to measure off laud. and. sure aa you live, this fellow quitted him and quitted him until he learned the trade, aud then be got some tools and went out himself a-settiug section corners and making lines aud setting stakes to show people where to put their fences." ( “What became of this young many “Well,” said Green, "be went and I learned law. set up in Springfield and got to congress. But be couldn't get elected for the second term. He's as good a fellow as ever lived." continued Mr. Green, "but he’s kind of common, sort of just like everybody else; no bet ter. no worse; just a good feller.” "What's bis name?" "Abe Lincoln.” replied Green. A Postase Status Dilenata. Former President Salomon of Haiti had bis troubles with the postage stamps of that disturbed republic. General Salomon objected to his own portrait being placed on the stamps, so a local artist was commissioned to design a female head representing Liberty. But the i*ople mistook this for a i portrait of Mrs. Salomon and objected, i They said, "The president would not have Na portrait on our stamps, but be i put his wife's on instead.” Salomon admitted the resemblance, and finally be consented to use his own portrait to adorn the stampa. At about the time the new issue was made Salomon had been deposed by hie enemies, who final- ! ly decided not to go to the expenee of , issuing new stnmix, but to use the Salomon stami*, affixing them upside : down. By this device all concerned ’ were satisfied, and from that time forward all letters bearing the stamps the right way up were said to have been charged double postage on delivery, just as though no postage bad been paid. The First Wnlklns Itieks. The well born Egyptian carried a ' staff with hte name Inscribed In hiero- : glypbics, but walking sticks. In the general sense of the word, were first ! used by the gallants of the fifteenth I century, Canes are first heard of In j the reign of Henry VIII., probably Introduced to Europe after the discovery of America. Walking sticks were adopted by th* effeminate Henry 11. of France about the middle of the sixteenth century. These French sticks, with a ribbon and tassel to pass over the wrist, were. ’ however, not used by gentlemen of ' fashion In England until 1(155. When first Introduced they were ' formed with an indented bead to afford a more easy rest for the hand. Afterward they were crowned with a round and hollow top, which contained nut--1 meg or ginger and sometimes sugar candy for the asthmatic or a store of aauff. L

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The Birth of Pleasure Travel. First Pieasu e WTHAT is belived to be the first Excursion W , , Train on the purely pleasure excursion train on Erie Railroad an y railroad in the United States was run from Goshen, N. Y., to New York, July 4, 1842, and attracted less than a hundred pas singers. The public did not understand it. ■ Long since then they have discovered . what pleasure travel really means; and also that no road is better adapted than the Erie, today the favorite route for those on “pleasure bent.” The direct oute to Cambridge Springs, Chautauqua Lake and Niagra F alls; the most picturesque add interesting to New York and the Atlantic Coast. I. I. WALLACE. G. r. A.. 21 CORTUNB ST.. hEW YORK. ■ .. ■■ - - — to the orFicr or the low AGENCY. ECATUR, INDIANS. If you want to mH your farm or city property for cash, list it with the 1 W AGENCY. We have several cash buyers as soon as what they want is put upon the market. If you wish to buy a country home or city nek enie, we may have just what you want, as our lists comprise several thousand scree of good farm lands in Indiana and a large number of city properties. Besides these, we have timber and prairie lands in Missouri, Minnesota and Arkansas, in all stages of improvements. Property adver tiaed without expense to the owner, if left on the market forthe time listed.