Daily Democrat, Volume 3, Number 155, Decatur, Adams County, 12 July 1905 — Page 2

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT IVU! (TENINO, EXCirr SC* DAY, ET U■ W <a. BLLINaHAM. SUB BCR IFT ION R AIT CB By Carrier, PW tOO By corner. per year Ba.OC By Bab. per month Etc I* Bab. per yeat 01.00 Slug). eoplaa. Two Cent* Mvortlsing rales made known on application loured io the poatoffiee ai liecatu.*. Indiana. an aecond-olaw wall waller J, H HELLER MANAGER T<>m Brewlehan. one of the favorite writer* and citv editor of the Journal Waaette, in slated for city clerk of Fort Wayne, and thue the democrats of the Summit city are nbowing rare good judgment, and at the name time rewarding a meritorioun and hard working young democrat. The recently announced plan to ahiit the control of the Panama Canal from the War Department to the State Department gives the presidential - candidate makers something new to talk about. It is taken as an indication that Mr Roosevelt has transferred hie affections from Taft to Root and that from now on the latter must be considered the favorite of the administration. —Sentinel. Contempt for the law is contempt for the will of the majority. Governor Hanly is right. A public officer who takes an oath to en. force the laws and breaks that oath at the behest of law breakers is not a man to be trusted or believed. The place to change the law is m the legislature. The place to change the legislature is at the polls, if its laws do not express the will of the majority.—Fort Wayne Jounral Gazette. Saw President. By United Press News Association. Oyster Bay, July 13—Senator Knox Lett Sagamore Bill this morning. saying that his visit had nothing of public importance. Immediately afterward the president took an ocean plunge. Linn Grove. Mrs. David Heller is seriously ill. The Misses Orrilla Bierie and Kate Mesohberger spent Sunday with fuends at Decatur. Mieses Cora and Ida Neaderhouser and brother, Homer, aru miking a week's visit with friends at Dunkirk, Ind. District Deputy Grand Master L. C- Helm, of Decatur, officiated of' the Rebekah lodge on Friday even ing of aet week. Mrs Levi Baumgartner, son and daughter, John and Pearl, of Decatur, visited their people here a Jew days the last and first of this week. Rev. String, wife and son. Mrs. Henry Eichhorn and daughter, Minnie, and Miss Nellie Neader houser were guests of Mrs. Mary Neaderhouser last Friday.

Jacob Baumgartner, wife and family. Benjamin Baumgartaer and family, H>e Misses Sarah and Louvina Baumgartner and Messrs Walter and Cvrus Baumgartnfer of Bluffton, paid our townslady and family a visit on the Sabbath. The I. O. O. F. installed the following officers on Wednesday evening of last week: Jacob Augsbur ger, N- G.; J. Djuglass, French V. G.; Lorenzo Dunbar, secretary. Also on Friday evening the Rebekabs installed Mrs. E nma Eckroate N. G.; Mrs. Dr. A. Haugbtoe. V. G. ;and Mies Lena Adler, eecntary. Silas Kizer, the most observing farmer of Hartford township, and perhaps us Adams county, brought us some stalks of wheat for inspection, where just above the joint the straw is about two inches in length, and on dissection are found living worms with no visible sign of ingress or egress and are very unsightly when exposed under the magnifying glass. He has sent specimens to Washington, and to the Indiana experimental station. George Heller and wife were seriously hurt on Monday afternoon near this place by the horse they were driving, becoming entmled with a chain attached to a calf, resulting in upsetting the vehice and injury. Mr. Silas Kizer just favored us with a report from the experimental station at Washington, informing him that the insect found in the wheat plant, is the larvae of one of the four winged flies, a speiimen of isosma, and do serious injury. •

CHANGE IN METHOD Governor Makes New Rule for Appratsint Railroads I Opoctal Telegram To Tho Democrat ' Indianapolis, Jnly 12—The gov- ' ernor revolutionized the appraising rules of the state tax board tor In dian railroads, which had heretofore been appraised on the basts , of groaa earnings only, in answer to a question of the Baltimore AOhio tax agent, tbe governor said, "Hereafter the net earning*, grow earnings equipment and physical coudition’wiU In taken into consideration. Agent Norton of the Baltimore Ohio, was rebuked by the governor when Norton spoke doubtfully of the fairness of the board. HE RETRACTS Editor of New York Paper Takes Back His Story of Alice Roosevelt. Special Telegram To The Democrat New York. Jnly 12—The New Yorker, a newspaper, whose editor was arrested for criminal libel on statements made about Miss Alice Roosevelt's actions whih visiting at Cincinnati, published a retraction today. The original story said that Congressman Longs worth and his friend b had introduced Miss Alice to several Cincinnati bookmakers WON’T GO BACK • President Burns of knights of Labor Makes Statement. By United Press News Association. Cleveland. 0., July 12—We must not go beck we are a unit; that's the way the matter stands now, said President Burns of the assem hly to three hundred Knights of Labor this morning President Faulkner of the glass workers union said, that the Burns crowd would not l>e saked to return to the convention. They will have to ask to come back he said. CANTON GETS IT Ohio City Secures Franchise From Fort Wayne. By United Press News Association. Canton, Ohio, July 12—The directors of the Canton Athletic club tonight acoepted the franchise of the Fort Wayne Central league taam and will succeed that city in the league. Canton will play out Fort Wayne s schedule the games to have been played in Fjrt Wayne being played in Canton. Bv join ing the Central Canton drops out of the protective association, composed of Ohio and Pennsylvania clubs. A SOCIAL Ice Cream and Cake at Lower’s Lawn Saturday Evening. •* _ The Union Chapel United Brethren church will give a lawn social next Saturday evening, July 15th, at the beautiful country home of Joseph Lower, a mile and a half east of town. loe cream and cake will 'ie served and a genuine good time is guaranteed. You are cordially invited to attend 154d5. No Book Making. By United Preu News Association. Indianapolis, July 12—Governor Hanly will separately notify the sheriff in each county in the state where race meets will be held, that he will expect the sheriffs to suppress bookmaking. He has already written three letters of this kind. New Suit Filed. The Decatur Egg Case company filed suit today against William Williams to replevin one sorrel horse, bay horse, grey horse, grey mare, two wagons and set of harness, all being valued at |3OO. Merryman & Sutton appear for the plaintiff.

THE APPOINTING POWER. A Story of Rr.eia.ut Graaf ail aa Obeli.at. Subordinat., General Grant’s grueroaity to bls i foe*, bis many private and official kind-ueasi-a to the widow* and orphan* of Coufederate euldirrs. I* an old tale, but It bears repetition In the form of an Incident wlmii Ih len D. Long*tn-et give* In "Lee and Longstreet at High Tide." The widow of n Confederate officer applied to the |H>»t<>ffi< e department to I* appolutrd postmistress In a small southern town. Aa she heard nothing of her application, she went to Washington to press It. She was tumble to move the authorities nt the poetoffiet department and was about to go home lu despair when a friend suggested that it might l>e worth while for her to see the president. With much effort she summoned courage an<l apiwared at the White House The president received her In a moat friendly manner and after hearing her story took her application and wrote a strong but brief Indorsement on the back of It. Rhe hurried in triumph to the |M*toffice department. The official to whom she presented the application frowned and pondered over it for some time and then wrote under the president’s Indorsement "Tbl* being a fourth class office, the president doe* not have the appointing power.” The application was handed back to her. and she went away In deep distress and was again preparing to return home when another friend told her by all means to take the pa|>er back to the president, so that he might see bow his Indorsement bad been received. When the president read It be wrote under the last indorsement. "While the president doe* not have the appointing power In this office, he has the appointment of the |>oatmaster general.’' and. summoning hl* secretary. President Grant directed him to accompany til— Indy to the department and In person deliver her application to the postmaster general. She received the commission before she left the office. STREET ETIQUETTE. While walking with a lady, the gen tleman should take the side next the street. One salutation Is all that civility requires when passing a person more than once on a public promenade. K the lady with whom you are walking is saluted by another gentleman, acknowledge the sume by removing your hat . > • • — Tbe gentleman should raise his bat when asking a lady’s pardon for an Inadvertence, whether she is known to him or not. Should you desire to converse with a lady you should happen to meet do not detain her. but turn and walk in her direction. While walking with a lady in a crowded thoroughfare and obliged to proceed singly, the gentleman should ! precede the lady. When Goldsmith Wrote. An old volume which au Atlanta ' booklover prizes was found In an ok! { bookshop recently. It is "The History ; of Rome,” by Oliver Goldsmith. GoidI smith's name takes one back to the literary fellows of that day, the back ! work they did to keep life in them, for when Goldsmith was at work writing that history be was doing twenty different things besides, little odds and end* that brought money for his daily bread, with a scolding landlady laying down the law to him, for It was the time when the great Dr. Johnson "thought himself lucky when be Baild dine in a collar on sixpence worth of tri;>e aud a pennyworth of bread and wipe hl* fingers on the back of a Newi fouudland dog after his greasy meal I” i And to think of the growling that is ■ done by the little authors of the pre*- ’ ent day I—Atlanta Constitution. “Home. Iwret Home* "Home, Sweet Home.” Payne's song. I was originally a numlter In the oja-ra "Clarl. the Maid of .Milan.” a production brought out iu 1823. The opera was a failure, aud nothing Is n»w known of it save the one song, which became instantly popular. Over 100,000 copies were sold In the first year of its publication, and the sale in one ’ form or another has been constant ever since the first appearance of this beau- 1 tlful theme. The melody is a Sicilian i folk song and was adapted to the words by Payne himself. Baar Way. “I want to do something that will draw out the conversational abilities of my friends,” said the hostess. "That’s very easy,” answered Miss Cayenne. "Give a musical."—Washington Star. Nightcap, and Insomnia. All one has to do In order to secure a good night's rest is to wear a nightcap. We are assured that the greet secret is to keep the head warm, and then one may sleep like a top.—London Draper. No Etc.—. She—ls there any insanity In the Snobbs family? He—No. It's too bad there isn't. It would give them a legitimate excuse for some of their actions. —Detroit Free Press. Wot Th nt Kind of n Hfrver. Heavy Tragedian — Hurry up with my order. I am used to people serving m* In a hurry. Walter—l don't doubt It, but I am no sheriff. More Than Rent. “Are you bent on spending all of your money?” “No; I’m broke."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. - —

T». Stuart S.«»« The family name of the Rttinrt* wa. digitally, as Mr. Hayley observe*. Fltzalan. The origins! Walter Fits alau. brother of the ancestor of the duke* of Norfolk, was Ion! high steward of Scot laud, and fnuu this circumstance lit* branch of the family appears to have adopted the name of Stewart. When the change begun i« uot certain, but It wa* probably not later than the time of Alexander, the great grandson of Walter Fltanlnn. for both bls sons James, the grandfather of Robert 11. aud nil the Scottish Stewart kings, mid John, the ancestor of Lord Darnley appear to have borne the name of Stewart. - Notes and Queries. A DesiealßC Hoelor. The Sydney Bulletin tells of a motoring doctor who ran Into mid capsized a pedestrian. He looked behind him and. seeing the tnnn still prone, mnde a circuit and rau back. Intending to stop beside and help him. But the motor shot a yard or two beyond the mark aud hit the man again just as be was getting up. The doctor turned bl* car once more and was cautlousiy stealing near to the prostrate sufferer when an excited sjiectator rushed from the sidewalk and. shaking the victim, exclaimed: “Look out! He's coming at you again!” Whereupon the man scrambled up and started to run. Hate All Around. The famous English Chief Justice Holt and bls wife hated each other to the limit, aud when “be fell dangerously 111 he was so delighted that he became disgracefully tipsy. But his wife was equal to the emergency'and sent for the great Dr. Radcliffe, who hated Holt, and therefore out of spite when the case was presented to him came with groat promptness and saved her life.—Loudon Chronicle. Horrible Einmplr. "Maw. what is a horrible example?" asked the youngest boy. looking up from his newspajier. The eldest l>oy stopped bls figuring long enough to say. "Walt till you get into algebra, aud you'll find auy amount of 'em.” - The Royal Hoad to Learning. Freddie—What’s an honorary decree, dad? Johnson—That's a title a college confers on a man who would never be able to get it if he had to pass an examination.—Tom Watson's Magazine . A Game of Chanee. • May—You have never taken part In a game of chance. ha v e you? EthelNo, but I am going to be married next week. BUSINESS MENTION Glass furnished free with all frame* below 16x20 inches Lvmao Bros. Stone and cement blocks, the best In town, sold by Julius Haugk. See him before buying. 127tf G R. &|I. Rome City excursion Season tickets good until October 31, 12.30. Fifteen dav tickets, 11.90. $6 00 to Niagara Falls and return via Clover Leaf, Monday, Auguet 2 1905. T. L. Miller, Ag’t. Gypsum wall plasterFresh car at Decatur Lumber Co 138tf Our window and door screens are second to none. Decatur Lumber Cc. 114«itf The ‘‘Variety” Mandolin club will give an ice cream social Friday night, July 14 on the M E. church lawn. Music will be furnished all evening by the club. Everybody come out andjenjoy an evening of music and refreshments. 153d5

DID YOU GET IT? Your wife told you to bring home a dollar bottle of Dr. Caldwells Syrup Pepsin y° u Forgot ■gß it, you would JP better tie a string on your finger to-mor-row morning I * ai ’d cvcr y'' nic ’ It,'' you *°ok at >1 you will think ■ of the med icine that cures Constipation, Sick Headache, Indigestion, and every form of Stomach Trouble. H. T Hull, or Noblesville, Ind., writes: "I feel It my duty to give you a voluntary testimonial for Syrup Pepsin. My wife has been troubled with Chronic Constipation In a most severe Stage. We nave tried all remedies we could ear of. together with prescriptions from local Physicians, and until we finally got hold of your remedy, found no relief; but after taking your remedy for a few days only, we have results that are simply marvelous I aend you this entirely unsolicited, and will surely speak a good word for your remedy wherever aud Whenever I can. ” Your druggist has it or will get it for you. 50c and SI.OO sizes. Your Money Back It It Don’t Benefit You PEPSIN SYRUP CO., Monticello, 111. Smith, Yager fit Falk.

DIRECTNESS AND ACCURACY. W hi •ought U) aim STRAIGHT AND HIT THE mark, -rxH-lslly in the treatment of a very Ures dans of lhat were l.'irig mislarge"isw* phy*clans through J r ' f the »pe«"»l functions and *Wwten Uft in health and in fl j a* Thi. nc-essitated none to to b<»t or Timos in two special sense*,—tt FXBAVSTtvi STI DY to know What W M the real cause of the InnumerTlde ache* pains- drains and weaknasses, whkh aflic.d women, and again to I which nature had pr-vided «o plentifully for the hzai.lNO or ! Thoroughly convinced that alcoholic | stimulant.* and medicines prepan.iwlth alcohol did far moi* harm than ic««il he prepared hi* remedies, extracted their

Our winter's stock of bard coal | is in and you ar* out. Get your order in early. Decatur Lumber • Co. Winona Lake. Ind. Fifteen day ticket sale May 10 to September 30, 11.95. Season tiedets May 25 to S*pteral>er 30, limit Octi ber 31, (2.55 I GRAND LOW RATE EXCURSION. To Niagara halls and Seashore Re. sorts, Via Clover Leaf Route. The popular yearly excursion to I Niagara Falla and the Jerae) CoMt | Reeorls, via Clover Leaf Route will < be run on the following dates: August 2 and 16 —To Niagara Falls and return. August 2 and 10—To Atlantic City, (k-ean City, Sea Isle Citv. Cape May. N. J., and other Atlantic coast resorts. All tickets good returning twelve days from date of sale See nearest Clover Leaf agent, for rates or address W.L. ROSS. Gen. Pass Agt. Toledo. Ohio.

■—■—l hi . !■ ■■■■■ J Two Fine Building Lots VY7T- HAVE FoR SALE two fine building lots, located cne ” square north < f ihe Lutheran church on Tenth street The* lots are on the west side of the street, are well drained -one is cotter lot—and are very desirable for building purposes. These lots can be bought on the installment plan, with small cash payment down and remainder in weekly pe.rmeats, or liberal discount for cash Do you want a home in the city? Prepare for the future by buying a ,•.t ncv while the price is low. Full List of Farm and City Property for Sale The Northern Indiana Real Estate Co. ' REPPtRT, rPUCHTC & LITTCRCR. Phone 430 ——- STONE-CEMENT BLOCK I have on hand quite an amount ol the beet Cement Bh c is ever on the market. Building, Bridge and Concrete Crushed Stone 73<’wt roi’tlnuci Cement nnct X>yn*mito Call and see me if you need anything in this line JULIUS HAUGK, “Sa. - L ~- ■■mi I IL II f--. l j ■ i — ®s6™ Portland ■ I From Chi AND RETURN 11 ■ I daily to Sentemh 3 the Ch A cago & North-Western Ry,ll I I Cheyenne and p 5" 3 °‘ Cho,ce of routes via Omaha, II ■ I through the J, 0 8 "' V,a St ’ Paul and Minneapohs, II ■I through the nl ®‘ n rA Sccner y ° f Colorado and Utah, II Bl Rockies With f kC t McDonald Country or the Canadian fl W\ Park at sli«rFt t, A <etß via Calif °rnia or via Yellowstone II W\ r 1S • 4 advance ‘n rates. f> w\ low rates from other points, account /I CENTENNIAL II Countries the largest neatest grain and fruit railing gg th » ®oat aggreuive rich n anH D il Umb * nn f ‘ n “ u « ,r '*a. and tome of Jg *• r ‘ ch • nd ■ ro *'«g atlas in the world. Jg, »I f V d I? •■petition tad SrWnfpß i 411 Mfea “ ~tk* u »*•«• P I 11 IktUgSsßHy Avt , Chicago,

virtue* and pnwrvjM them hoi. then, guld.sl f.y "q"'r l ' h ' )u ’«l« formed combinations hy ull . mum of medicine produced t h‘* ‘ resulL Ihi* Insured hi, , •MlkJ gave him the reputation of.Z?* •* ful »peciall»L and, uulu, i...,, prescription that hr thu» came * ma favowtic,* Ju 1 J*Mk origin of •*. n Dr. Plerce’t Favorite Pres cript e as now known. In n<> k hm.1,1, was It a" patent medicine b ul **»i! REAL I’KKM ItIPTIo.N or . REAL DOCTOR. * that hud run lsu> gresi cause It etyed m.,?.. th.M'M every ten of the cast's | lt 1 ft correctly used. it

One of the Important Incrwu this now wrld-famou.-p; sciui-tiox • la BLUE COHOSH which was In great repuu- s™ . American Indians a c.iitury squaws used it forth. r . !„ f , special troubles, partlculsri. < eSing of the pains’.." * it *Pap<**r rts.t," Then 'V other ingredients in this ■ Piu„ J!!* ,I « I Namely: Lady's Slipp,, ituTTV o’' 0 ’' , Golden Seal aud Unicorn n.'t, k It Stands Alone not ..m, , h w ' gredlents. but also as th? f 2 l i!! > lu ♦ I advert!*.*! remedy for Wnman Jai’*’ . which absolutely contain, xg *uojj It Stands Alone **«*..«*- the makers of which tak. th. lr fully Into their confldenc. and exactly what they are taking T bt? Pierre- can afford to do. havohitw I’k> scuirrioNsuch ingredlenta and *tt.r a formula that ha* thousands of , * u. Its credit, placing it. ,„. r ,g ,*«• criticism. Dr. Pierce’s 1,000-page "Medlesl i. viser," is the most useful book* published. A copy , n ?! paper covers sent on receipt of ->i ’ cent stamps to pay mafiir.g ,A * cloth binding 31 stamps, K. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. * **.

I For portraits and portra.t k«; W -all at Lyman Bros. For K-nt—A neatlv furano front Foom. for gentleman; reasoa. able 515 Nuttman avenue, eongy ; of north Sixth street ts For Rent—A two-story by y house, nine room*, cistern and tv drant water. Honee oeated » Second, near Jefferson street. [ a . quire of Irvin Brandvberry

VOTICE ‘ Notice is hereby elven that IbnryKrd. wt>o is the owner In fee simple..t lnk.|» an.' hers 1.«. A« S. t>. 7. B. ». 10. 11. 11 1.- U. u, u, 17. IK IS anl SB lu Frsnk Hsu th . audit:.« u the town, now city of liecat ,r lnd:atx. t* a let It lon r n the 14 day of Jut •1 <' t its ofßce of the citv Clerk of the city of D‘ sftt. m Adame county. Indiana prvying h r , vacat ion of -aid addition and .» . th. » ey. streets and Inlota in said addition -»g , •■ t, wi.. <<o eup for ht bring tel r. I < oiun.«« Council of said < Uy st tl sir -spier mee-intr to be held In tbecoun-- tight of said city on the Ist day of August. ts« J. R M. I tllT city i .era. HtMO Ksi't IM - I'etit aaar