Daily Democrat, Volume 4, Number 6, Decatur, Adams County, 20 January 1906 — Page 2

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT mi! bvbwimg, ncsrr scmdat, by Law ca . ■ulin <a m * *-• - IUIICIIRTION RITII B, »»rri<>r, *<•»* (Oc Br earrn-r v-r y*r IS-00 B> u*r t--cih tsc Bf man. > f !-»«• »» 10 ■tn«la eopiaa. tw Ocala Afivcre., ng raloan ada an-,an ut> app Bat. ns' in th a poatnffV-a at I'acatur. Indi • am, ataa'- ndcM.m-.ti maitar J H. MILLER, MMHAOB* — — " 11 - n ... SOME POLITICS. Congrff-rtiian Crumer m playing Terhune for more time He want* Match to oome. He will flood the district with fine garden Beede, •nd it c<>anl« Fanner* know the t>eat »red» ootne from the gorernrarnt. and they duly appreciate them < >ne of the str, n( held* ('romer ba* bad on fanner* i» due to hia attention to their want* on farm and garden need* They obtain fine rcßOlta from them M. ('rimer will »rnd many thoua and* cf package* during March, and many a bou»cwife will call fas* kindneae to her bn* band'* al t ntior. —Ander* n News ijet it be remembered that Hob Gx<rge MoCtadoch an eminent republican, filed lb* charge* of <ff*n*ive partiaansh’] again*! the republican p ,*tm*»ier* of the Eighth di»trict It ’• a repot limn Tow , and the postmaster* had letter be giuwi—f <r Mot nii'Kih 1* n' t a <(Bitter *“ ' ’' ” • State Line Wtti Drake wa» at Wren • n boat net* Monday. U m Hthameri >h »a* a bu»ine»e nailer a* Wren on M >nday Ur* Sim >n Trea*ter »p«ot Sun da* with J W Cowan and family. Fred Htndeniang ie a-»t*ttng Hurt <i«oer at baling hay thi* week, near c >n»cy

WilMtr Worf* and wtfc •jjwel! Hiodty with J hn Woods bs<l f»n> lly of n«*r W »it Mr* Ad* Wool* end »>n Z*wl, we r * visitor* *4 lb* hots* of 1 A htand'.ford "aoday J H l4*’ht*nb*r«er I* doing sotn* artistic pvnting tor Wtn Ho sfr-t. noar M«-nr wrtlle, t*i • «wk Lo*t —N CM* •< and rare i Finder p ..**** rat am l> Hhaflrr f**4er* n Ixm« — A H»«l Man • «>*d»r pin Wirwh Seventh and Ki*v*i-th Mrwi F odar rsttoß to Wiiiitm Fcflleg' I • vol raorirs uwar 1 THE CAMPANERO. >•*•! ••* Ba■ I-IIh» I* «*» Tall al TSIa rmi» While Sira Thi« bint t'SJUd dara b) .he Aouth Ab« -an Iml ,a and I* I'.nJ by tie! Ko*b>! la about tb*> >,f a Jay Ilia j . i... . , ■ - - toad I*l* a *p;ra! tube u<wrly Ibrw (*'..» iong it -• jet t»l»< h. uottml ail •ear wtb *m«.. »l> t» hniUssT* It ba* a < • • i< < ■* . 1 *twt> tibeij «i;b air I- •ita I.to* a «p -«■ Wbrt- -U Ity It 1-ssoU.e )a'Ujuh’Ui> U » ■otr la loud uad < tear 1 *■- tl.e aoand of , a I" of m.ie* In tl»» midst of tbsa* rstensiv* wild*. geuaraby -m the dry tot of at. aged u. >r* almost out of j <ua react!, you « II »» tba < ampuuem [ No • winged inhabitants <rf th* forest, m» I •wru tiw <»• r > |>ri ■«.; e>i *rj>!p poor* IT* from tbe g» ••miier. cSdaoa •uib aatoii »l meat tie- '.>ll of cam pauero. \ou terr a toll oi.d tb*u a pass* again, omJ tbau a toll and again j a pa-ia* Then ••• is »iiea< f r aig or elg.it uiKutoa. uud tto-u another toll, , Otad ao oft Acta-xia would »* pin mal i rba»r Marte aouhl defer tier rvenibg : ■oug aid orptiru* I :u»< t would drop L«* lute to listen to foioi. »o »nr*t. •<. tiool au-l r- •! <ul <■ la tb» to i of I lis pretty ano*' w hit • «atup suer « Waterloo’* ~W . . , fc « lit ti >u lb America.' £<•.«; u.ii « t > Ku n -4 Its Kl*. • . i gm?;i .nt tldawas rt.e P it W -k Os A-.d.- W M«l vilie bit that wl> b H the chief fan turn end Io i<a »>’•• .it’i Os i*n-«b ■'•■.“t an . .1 : .i ;>• ■ i d.i in;i In I' -I ->f tin t i:r .t: >i> laity tn th- !» 'it. ,i of tl; rtiurrte. i >tii <|-..it twduri? sal -CHiiii ..i - ■> < > . ' fallj to <*Wc <fV •• v ■’» c’tur.-b t < <tw* r*-\ r- 1 , ‘'•r-nuiF nu tbn is I • to I a: I I f/ii’-.- > -Mt ->t' . « h arch 1..-1 o. rtmio-h,. ■>•: n Ku»i" I bj■ i’roi'. ■ w:r i' -i - i 1 Ra-.t ' drH * rrnk. One of the ,-arlh -» of the Atncrient I beanie-! fre’ks waa Louis Jn -i er. whs I lh«il In luther.i Vlrgiuia at ab'-nt tlw i tints of th-- el■•■*.• of the Ih-voi Itloaury j tear His beard was idne and a Ivdf , feet long and comt*i>oud!iig!y thick and benvy. He cou'l lake bis iouh ta« be birtweeu ill* Stigera aud extend bls am* to their full i«!'st!i t acd stlU the ends of the tnu -tacle- were c *cr a foot beyond ills finzer ti: «. J

MISS ANNA WINNES AND DALLAS BUTLER Are Now The Headliners in The Diamond Race.— Many New Candidates Enter The Race and the Contest I Orows Interesting. LADIES I Mia* Anna Winnett. Eastern Star ’ *■ 1 Amanda M. Soldner. German Reformed C hurcb, 8erne...... AbJ Him Winifred John*on, High School • ■ 'J 4t | Mrs. Ed. Luttmau, Zion German Reformed Church ■“’o Mim Dude Voglewede, Bachelor Maid*’ Club 231 Mire Pearl Burdg. Presbyterian Church | Mr* Florence Bern, Pocohantae .. Mim Franci* Bryson, High School .. »■ Mrs. Clayton Dailey, Ben Hur ‘2 Mr*. Geo. Louthsn. W. K. C ■>t. Mary’s Church . ; Mie* Bertha C. Hart, Bar Association i Mr* Tom Butler. Eastern Star, Genera •” Mire Pansy Bell, Methodiirt Church ™ ' Mr* Fred Linn. Rathbone Siaters.. •’’* ! Mis* Lizzie Peterson. Presbyterian <’hurcb . Mum Mayme Smith. Beau Not Club.... .... ■ 2b Mia* Maud L Magiey. English Luthern Church ‘-b I Mrs. JreseSmith, Pathfinders .... j Mim Agnea Kadamaker, St. Mary’s Church Mias Franci* Merryman. Methodist Church ■ ■■• b Mim Fram i* Radamaker. St Mary's Church . b Mm* Agnes Schrock, Cooking ( lub ■' M «• Margaret Mill*. 7th Garde School .... Mi«* Hes* S. hrock, I‘realiyterian Church - Mibb Nellie Siminson. Araiauto Club. Berne 2 Mis* R Conter. Bach hr Maids Club . ... Mis* Mary Heffner St. Mary's Church 1 Mi** Faauy Hile. Cooking Club .... > Mis* Midge Smith. C - * nz Club 1 GENTLEMEN Dallas Butler K of i* •• 4- 2 L C H*lm. 1. < > <) F 151 ! D W Beery. Elk* E Burl |j»ubart, K. ( !’ Wid Duram. Ma* u* ■ Edgar Gerber, German Reformed Church . 2*ib Frank Wemhoff Knights of Columbua ... ‘z ,r *s llni Darwai’hter. H*d .Men .... I'H Ralph < a*e, HigbScho l .... "A \l ill P. S« hr<* k. Elks ‘OjJ < irval Harruff. K of P .... M J Krohn. Eagles - 10 lEd. Kracer. Mason*. Geneva .... •** H. L Vager K of I Earl K Nhaller, K ot P . B rne w Wdl B*r ! mg K of C R« hard’ Parrel. N H C Club '* Fred Fdllenkanip. St Mary’s Church .... Fred \ Mills, K. >f P - • 4 Tom Ehinger. K. of C “ Win Harman. Si. Mary'• Church .... .... ( .areu'-e K o</. st Mary'« Church El Beriing, St Mary * Chinch ■ L Willie John*. St Mary's Church .... L

Changes al! »rcmnd are noted in t-iady • summary of the siting non te»t. Mi«« Ann* W-.nnes is now at the top of ths ladies* list and Dallas Butler, by the suia.: margin of one v- te, head’ tbs gent mens list, 1. C Helm, the I 0,0 I nanidadte. lias 451 votes to his credit »r.d Dallas Butler baa 452 Mi•* Amamia ildnrr of Bernr, was favored by a large vote and w n->w second In the lidira list. L rge gains were made by SO many yeate'day that llmiud ajm t f irbids mentioning all of them. However, theo ntest has three weeks to run yet and it oan t>e trnthfnily said that the race has bardiy began Everybody and anybody Mill ba* a chance to enter the race even

tiurs ano erouiAttoNs. Candidate! most tie member* of a regularly organised lodge, club, church, school, labor, literary or aortal organisation, and living in Adams county, Th* voting will be by twl lota clipped from the Daily Democrat and by voting certificates i»*n ed with cash aubsct| tion receipts for the Daily Democrat and Weekly Democrat Each ballot ciip]>ed from the paper will count one vote fur the lady ano gentleman name! thereon when received ’at this office lefore the date of expira tion given theron < erf ideates for BOTH a ladv and gentlemen contestant will be i* ued with rena'pte for subscription as follows:

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no* and jump right up ~mong the leaders in a sing's day. The contest is being couductrd honorably, fairly and impartially—ever voting certificates numnered, » ;>- r;ect check is kept on every thin, all ballots and voting certif! antes are preserved and a Commit, i tee of six j>rominent businer* men of Decatur will canvass the oom piste vote at the end of the cotnest and award the trophies, the nun e of the judges will te announced later Hememler, the standing printed I each evening is the total vote ;a»t up to 7 o'clock of the previous evening L' kin the windows of D. M Hensley and W L Lehne and see the diamonds.

DAILY DCHOi RAT~In Decatur Ten weeks, t 1.00.... flOvori Three months. tl.JiO 78 votes Six months, |2 60 150 votes One year. t-. C.... 300 vet** DAILY DCFILM RAT..BV Moil Six month* |1 ?5 75 votes One year, f? 50 J3O votes WfCfiLV DCMOt RAT for New bubacribcta Only. One year, 11.00 50 votes No certificate will be issued for a less payment than tI.IKI Com lunations may be formed between a lady and a gentleman candidate, l>v which the lady and gentleman votes can be rxchangeed The result of each day s ballot ing will be published ia th? Daily Democrat.

VOLCANIC ACTIVITY. A Theory to Ksplala the Source and Cauiie of Eruption*. In a volume on volcanoes Professor C, Doelter undertakes to tell why volI'unoes have eruptions. Melted rock such as is flung from Vesuvius requires a temperature of l.fszl degrees Fahrenheit. so that it becomes liquid only far I dowu in the earth, perhaps sixty or a I hundred miles. Below the outer crust of cooled and solidified rocks there must lie a large zone of rock which stll! > reuiaiiis solid because its temperature is less than that of the melting point corresponding to the pressure under which it rests, and below that again j there must lie roek or magma in a state of fusion. It is to tiliM magma : that Professor liocitei* look* for the ! primary source of all volcanic activity At the same time the depth at which this primary reservoir of magma lies and the pressure untlcr which it is confined are so great that a direct eruption from It is liieomeivable. l»ut when, by movements in the overlying crust or othcru ise, a channel is opened the magma may rise to a depth where it is * surroumled by roek nt a lower temper- , ature than the melting point. In these , cireunistanees solidification begins. From all volcanoes large quantities of steam, of carbonic acid and other : gases are evolved, and the course of | every lava stream is marked by clouds ' of steam evolved from the cooling lava. At one time and the Idea is will com- ■ tnon this steam was supposed to have , lieeu derived from sea water which j hud obtained access to the molten lava - while still underground, but this ex planation I* now generally reje< ted. lie- - Ing impossible lu some cases and iuad ' equate in all. and the greater part of 1 the steam and other emanations from a volcano are now regarded as directly derivtsl from ::n original store in the interior of the earth. However this may be. it is certain that the magma from which volcani lava is derived is not merely In a state of igneous fusion, but Is cotnliin**! witli water an 1 gases. I whi- b are given off as It solidifies and : by th,- 1 .- escape frequently form minia-1, turc volcanoes on the surface of lava *trv:-.ms. If the solidification takes place un derground the steam and gases are ex

polled, nnd. If there Is tio free escape,' pressure may Increase till It becomes grent enough to overcome the resist I snee of the overlying rock and so lend to an eruption and the formation of a , volcano, v.liose character will depend on the nature of the reservoir from . which the eruption t > >k place. The French Student. Some <»f the French students nre mis-' erably jss-r. .Noone knows bow much poverty I* hidden under those long curls and pale face- Sometime.! in the 111-rai es in the i - eid.ig one sees a st-i dent take a pi« <- of dry broad out ot hi* pocket and nmu li it while study Ing, that he:ng his wiiole supper. There was one student who always walked with hl» coat codar turned up He was found frozen dead one morning. He bad hardly anytblnz <>n underneath bis • oat. But ‘.hile Aiuericau students who rtu<l themselves hard up will d< manual labor, if nothing better can bt found, a French student would rather starve than do so. and as one of them expresses! it. “Bather starve during nine year* and not do manual labor than live fairly well and finish the same studies In three years and work for a living.’*—Paris Letter in New Fork Post. Il«»a»ra In Mnm. la < ’anpur Wbituey's ln>ok “.lunjzlf Trull* mid Jungle Peoples" he says: “Tlie Klauiese builds his house of one »tory and on stilts for several reasons. The first, no doubt, is to avoid the un pardonable sin of living in a lower; story while nn tipper one is occupied : by other human beings, especially wo- ! men. w ho In Siam are not regard'll as of much importance. The second, nsd ‘ I should nay the most practical, if not : the most aesthetic, reason Is to hav« ’ a waste gate easy of access for the con tlnmilly flowing saliva from betel nut | chewing and household refuse, which may thus be easily disposed of through the crevices of the openly constructed floor.” Tspoleun's Mother. Napoleon * mother was ns much of a soldier as her great son. On one occasion, when he wanted bls own way, she gave him t.» understand that the first duty of a soldier was obedience, and that If he wished to be a soldier he must, first <>f nil things, learn to obey. He had. to the < nd of bls life, the highest regard for his mother. At hi* court she was stylrsl "Mme. Mere.” Speaklug of the Influence of the mother on the character of the child, he said. “The future destiny of the child Is always the work of the mother " lliirtl to Trarse*. “Excuse me, Sir, but you have taken my umbrella " “But this umbrella ha* my initials on It.” to --- tic- ti V. 1;-- gave it to m-." ‘ Wlieto did he get it “He said it was loaned t > him by a fiit-nd wlm has since moved away.”— A Piiiiii'dl Y<»u ttkt‘ y<»ur roast bc<?f rftre, do you not?” asked the lust. Not run*, iiaswered the man who is impoverished, but erammatleaJ-“rarely.**—Wur-hinKton Star. Lovetnukin* -Mr*. Knlcker How tau you give a bull without a ballroom? Mrs. R<>.-ker —ILt ■n t 1 got e.glit ccy corners and two staircases?-Harper’s Bazar. Policy consists in serving God in such a manner as not to offend the devil.—Fuller.

a " ii-.'.'. .'••jwr'- & '- W ’ ? " s ijt **• iA’ i ' ’ ! l| ’ -J L ‘ *’ ■St— l ».»• ■ r i. fr) Id ■ JddtSL! C.,c| Via the Chicago, Union Pacific North Line. , , « . < Through electric lighted train lew than three ® days Chicago to the Pacific Coast day in the year. ~ • Direct connections with steamsfiffiLdmes to Australia and the Orient. . New Route to Southern via and the newly opened Salt Lake XStete. service fast schedules and afc WtUake make this a charming route for Splendid n&V San Francisco and Portland, of room and privn e compartment sleeping shops and provided with all travel rooms and 'suite; usually large and, cammodiAiy: dressing rcsms for ladies. lamps -« tioa and library *- x'Supcrb dining car service. | THE BEST OF EVERYTHING # lj£AM| •’’l'F »u assure* scll Ticbct* vi» c*':»so. Union *«cn« tm north-Wcstc** u>*e. ■mW A. H. Wa gener, T. A., 215 Jackson Blvd , Chicago. tbu,

ERRONEOUS BELIEFS. SOME ODD NOTIONS THAT ARE FIXED IN MANY MINDS. I’opnlar Ik nor.i □<•<• nw to I.nw In Everyday Occurrence* — Unmbier’t' Mistake* In Bank »—-The I'indinc; ol Dead Bodie*—Sunday Contract*. It In an American predilect on to believe tile outre and freakish stories that are based solely on hearsay testimony and tu reject often the commonplace matter of fact. A list of the cheerful iies that arc eommonly believed would till a .oiuuie. Only u few of them at*

given beiow. How often have you been inflicted with the story of the man who was overpaid when cashing a check at the hank uud the cashier telling him thai no mistake* would be corrected aft<s the customer left the window? Ac cording to the story, the cushler laid down the mandate before the cashier knew the mistake was in his favor. It makes an excellent yarn, but diligent seareli discloses that it never had any foundation in fact Banks have no such rule. If a customer is underpaid or overpaid the mistake will appear when the balance is struck at tlie end of tlie day s business, and the error will be cheerfully rectified. But the majority of the public believe the fictitious story of “bow the fellow got the best of the bank’’ simply because it Is a good story and they like to believe It Probably the most common error on the part of the public Is the belief that when a dead laxly is found no one has a r!g!-t to touch or move the remains ’until the coroner comes " There never was an, such law, is not now and probably never will be. The c-tizen who is of au inquiring turn of mind has a perfect right to examine the dead bodies he runs across in the course ot bis travels, to move the remains ami even search the pockets of the deceased, provided, of course, that bls motives are honest. That is all that is necessary.

Tber* is also a prevalent belief that a trite signed or contract entered into cn Sunday Is void and that either party can plead the fact of the sacred day to S"t out <>f a bad bargain, ibis is not Hue. if a man enters into a contract or sign* a note ou Sunday he is legally bound and can have no defense that be would not have if the transaction had (x-curre 1 In the middle of the week. I bad my back against my own house wlmn I struck this man,” say* the defendant in polhe Court. He behoves that bn proximity to his castle gives him more rights than be would Lave if he W e r( . lu , lj( . Htreet Tlljß be ~es has been the cause of nueb can-ank.-r-ms rt'gation. nrl it has ever Hsu. .-d In t! ■ ruling that a man Rias " right io m f.-ml himself in e reasonabe manner If ho !s ; ,i: .-u.-d, whnt . and position, •’< -its :> - in th( . ( , IMC . ti ‘ mX', lbi ‘ e b ; !:i Breat In ■ ran.,.- mimb-.r three, and without ; nr: eha.ss fo.- tIK . belief. ls bJ ' " n ‘ r " ">nt if a -tr , v I; ."■* ’7 S T C !l!i> forth " lbiri ’ he / t,? “ ,J( l and al). T lle f;lcta t<” .‘ t vt M "- v persons die it ■ fltst ,;nkm K . and if ha s the faee l or'‘t'r”' J ' t 0 rlw ’ to tho ™ r ' Ai-m t mat ho will he ... , u 0 7 a f a ln In au eddy or sunk from’ f Water ” f,e<?Ple ha ” an I a ha,f doz en time* ’rnn there is the third congestive l commonly believed to be fa’nj I u?« r j; p fr - tis: -- ue first or second attack.

If a man succeeds in weathering tw<i of them the odds are In fav ,r of h-j coming out victor in the third. Almost every community possesses a citizen who boasts the fact that he has a- |. ver plate in his skull. Surgeons say that very few attempts were ever made at such an operation, and all of them were failures. There does not exist a man who lias a silver plate in hi* skull, although many men honestly lielieve that they are carrying this species of paraphernalia in their erauiutnx. The bone of the skull cannot live and be healthy in the presence of a foreign body. It Is said by surgeons to be a physical impossibility, but this serr<* In no way to overcome the commo* and erroneous belief. The medical fraternity has another false belief to combat in cases of "shinglee.” This disease consists of n akin eruption, always following affected nerves and commonly appearing nn the body. It is a very common belief that if the "sbiugies" eompletel surround the body and strike a meeting point the patient will die instantly. The belief is untrue.—Kansas City Journal.

WANGKANG CEREMONIES. Hovr the Chinese Attract and Destroy Evil SpiritN. Recently the Chinese residents of tlie Straits Settlements had a gn at procession, called “wangkaug," to get rid of a large accumulation of evil spirits, says a writer in the Chicago News. Ceremonies of this sort are held by the Chinese about once in fifteen yearn. The plan is to construct a richly decorated junk, till it with dainty eHtablee, money, live animals, incense and other tempting tilings and then to take It about the city with music and appropriate singing and great pomp generally. This causes the evil spirits to eonie out to see wuat is going on. Beholding the splendid Junk and its rare contents, they crowd Ir. rJe. Demons of sickness are espeeialiy sought for and snared. After the junk has been sufli' iently paraded so that it is chock full of d* nions, it is burned and the evil spirits IHtrlsh. Formerly the junk was set adrift on the ocean, but sometimes it was stranded on some island or other, cj using great suffering to the inhabitants thus exposed to the attacks of the marooned spirits. So now die Junk is burned at the close of each ceremony of the sort. The Chinese in the vicinity of Sings pore spent about $ 10,'MHi in getting rid of their demons this fall. Failure. “Oh, George, 1 don’t think that new safety razor of yours amounts to anything at all.” “AVhy not, dear?” “Because I tried to use it today, and I couldn’t do anything with it. ’ “What were you trviug to do "-m it?” “I was only trying to sharpen p I"’“* ell, and it wouldn’t cut a bit. 'I *’ waukee Sentinel. Nog Always n Sig*. “Knowit must be one of the hr a:.’-'-anti best informed men in town “Wb., do you think so?” “Because I understaml be > s r ’ an Intelligence office.' - Dallas . " 3 - Wxijiotan nnd SmngKlioKMany a lady smuggles who weald no more tip her ball into toe better i" 3i ' Bon at croquet than she would cut t throat or scuttle a ship. Andrew L* n fGenuine benevolence Is not stationtry, but peripatetic. Xt goes about doMg good.—Nevins,