Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 14, Decatur, Adams County, 16 January 1907 — Page 2

The Daily Democrat. Fnbilthtd Every Evening, Except Sunday by LEW G. ELLINGHAM. Subscription Rates. Per week, by carrier 10 cents Per year, by carrier $5.00 Per month, by mail 25 cents Vxr year, by mail ...$2.50 i&sisle copies 2 cents Advertising rates made known on (bM»lieation. Entered at the postoffice in Decatur, Indiana, as second-class mail matter. J. ELLER, Manager. SEEMS EASY FOR HARRIMAN. The Interstate commerce commission, without digging very deep into Harrimans railroad business, uncovered tome startling things The parent group of Harriman lines consists of the Union Pacific railroad company, the Oregon Short Line, the Southern Pacific and the Oregon Railway and Navigation company. These are known as the “Four Pacifies," and are all operated by one management, which is located at No. 120 Broadway. Harriman holds the presidency of each company. The “Four Pacifies” have interest by stock ownership in various railroad and steamship lines as follows: Absolute control of the Pacific Mail Steamship company. Absolute control of the Portland & Asiatic Steamship company. Absolute control of the Oriental & Occidental Steamship company. Absolute control of the steamship line on the Atlantic ocean formerly Known as the Morgan line, but now known as Southern Pacific steamers. These steamship lines are the ones which are to receive the subsidies provided for in the bill pending in congress. Stock interest in the Illinois Central railroad. Harriman’s influence is so great as to dominate the road, and he was lecently able to depose Stuyvesant Fish from the presidency.

Stock interest in the St. Joseph & Grand Island railroad. ’ Stock interest in the Baltimore & Ohio railroad. Stock interest in the Chicago & [ Northwestern railroad. Stock interest in the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad. Stock interest in the New York Central £c Hudson River railroad. Control for ninety-nine years of the rates of the San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake railroad, a competing line. Joint control with the Rock Island over the Chicago & Alton. Harriman is practically the whole thing. The directors of his various companies always do exactly’ as he recommends. They give him power to buy railroads, build railroads, sell railroads, do as he pleases with railroads and with money wtihout even referring the matters to their consideration. The commission was astounded to learn of the enormous powers given Harriman by the executive committee of the Union Pacific railroad. If Harriman is not “disturbed” in his business he will soon solve the “ownership” question. Members of the county councils and township advisory boards, w’ho nowreceive only nominal sums for their services, would get substantial pay by two bills introduced by Senator Tyndall. One bill would give each member of a county council $3 a day for every day actually devoted to the work of the council and 5 cents a mi'e for ! every mile traveled in attending meetings. The other bill would allow members of a township advisory board in making levies for township funds to include $2 a day for themselves. — Bluffton Banner. Have you tried one of George Klein's cigars? Call on him at the Palace bowling alleys.

ANNOUNCEMENT }C i ■ k• 1 ‘ 5 ' ■ > The undersigned have established a plant near Decatur. Ind. and for the oderless and sanitary reduction of dead animals such as Horses, Cattle, Hogs, etc. Parties losing such stock by death will please notify us by phone at onr expence &r by card and we will remove the carcass free of cost as promptly as possible. DECATUR FERTILIZER Co. Phone No. K, 14. KALVER & HURST props .' .. .

BOWLING LEAGUE Klondykers Took Three From K. of C. AVERAGES WERE ONLY FAIR K. of C. Boys Out of Form and the Klondykers Won On Their Merits. STANDING. Played. Won. Lost Pct. Postoffice ..27 20 7 .740 Elks 21 13 8 .619 Klondykes ...30 16 14 .503 K. of & ....27 12 15 .444 Palace 26 11 15 .423 Stars 15 1 14 066

The Klondykes evened up for their defeat of Monday night by taking three straights from the K. of C. boys last night. The Knights have not been practicing lately and were out of form, Colchin, one of the best bowlers in the city, getting the low score, 94. The highest team score was 808 by the Klondykes and the hghest indivdual score was Klein’s, 107.- Peterson and Klein were even for high average, 173. For the K. of C. team, Cappy Johns had high score and high average. The scores: KLONDYKES. Klein 158 155 207 173 Lankenau 144 177 189 i7oj Bell 149 147 115 137, Lachot 154 133 129 139, Peterson 202 150 168 173 Totals 807 762 808 K. OF C*. Berling ...-. 164 Tsa 158 15J> Johns 150 170 JtSTJb Ifijß Niblick 134 118 163 yl3B Colchin a, 169 94 148 127 Wemhoff 162 133 160.. 152 Totals ...- 779 170 800 0 An Old Medlelne. “Ground oyster shells,” said the physician. “were used as a medicine by the mediaeval doctors—a medicine for the rickets and scrofula.” I "How absurd!” j “Absurd? “Not at all. Oyster shells i contain lime, nitrogen, iron, sulphur, ( magnesia, bromide, phosphoric acid and iodine. Those are all excellent tonics. ' You know how hens ea| ground oyster ' shells and thus produce eggs with good, 1 thick, strong shells? Well, as the oys- | ter shell powder acts on eggshells so I . have no doubt it acted in the middle j ages on the bending, crumbling boijes of the rickety, putting strength and firmness into them. Ground oyster shells, I am convinced, would be good | things for frail children today. They I would strengthen the frame, increase , the appetite and have a splendid effect on the teeth.”—Philadelphia Bulletin. | A Cnrtours niiti Rare Book. The most curious as well as one of the rarest books known to collectors is the edition of the Vulgate issued by Pope Sixtus V. some time between 1585 and 1590. The book, as Disraeli ; described it, “fairly swarmed with er- I rata." So numerous were they that a j number of printed paper slips contain- i ing the proper words were parted over the errors, and, this device proving in- | efficient on account of the immense , number of mistakes, as many of the copies as could be found were called in I and destroyed. Only a few remaitk .and the hook with its paper patches com- 1 mands an extremely high price. — More Important. Nell—May doesn’t Seem so quick to ; deny her age now as. she used to be. j T.ell -ho. She’s got very stout lately. I Nell- -What has that got to do with . I it? Bell—lt takes all her time now to deny her weight.—Philadelphia Ledger. Olden Times. "Why de yon say olden times?” asked n little girl who had been listening to n Bible story. "Times are ever so •rreb older now tljan they were in thoer days.” " , J O - »< ■ : —. - Do you smoke? George Klein at the Palace bowling alleys has all the • good ones.

A JEWISH CHRISTIAN SCIENTIST Wonderful Influence New Religion Had on Warsaw Man. J. S. Shield, a Hebrew, who engaged in business in Warsaw in 1887, and ten years later was forced to suspend business through failure, has not only recouped his losses but has established a reputation for honesty and integrity that' should make any man feel proud, and which proves most conclusively that he is a man of remarkable pluck and energy as well. When the business he had conducted failed, the creditors placed Mr. Shields in charge of it to close it out. | When the creditors had been satisfied i and the stock closed out Shield s in- j debtedness was nearly $20,000. In 1898 ■ he filed a petition to be declared a ' bankrupt and the year following was j so declared, thus absolving him from J the payment of all obligations standing against him. The Warsaw- Times tells what happened then, in the fol- ( lowing: “In the year 1900, remarkable as it may seem for a man of Jew-ish lineage I Mr. Shield took up the study and investigation of Christian Science. This ' single circumstance, as he explains it. I brought about an entire change in his • career. From an aggressive, quick-1 tempered and vindictive nature —a man who had given over most of his i life to an inherent desire <o amassl wealth, which is generally acknowl- ! edged in those of Jewish descent than those of any other race —he was transformed to calmer, better and hoi-, ier ideps. It this change of thought, he says, which brought the 1 determination to make good' the 1 1 debts from which he had been re ; 1 leased by his discharge in bankruptcy.. Thus it was that every dollar during . the last five years that he could | spare out of his business has been . sent to the old creditors of the Enterprise and today he is makng his last payment on the entire indebtedness—nearly $20,000. He states he | would have withdraw-n from business long before this had it not been for . his determination to pay all these claims against him. Now that his business interest have been disposed of. Mr. Shield e-pects to d.-'.'Jte hi.t 1 entire tier.* I? the study and practice cf Christian Science.” Creditors of Mr. Shield will perhaps .

. . — - • — “ ----- . ! have more regard for Christian Science | in future than in the past, but all the 1 credit can I a r 'i': u. at •• outed to that doctrine, for there must he a fotmdatidfe upon wt ch »o bail No .lot;'t there was >• .p'suieJ a ’"'• p seated deI sire in the heart of Mr. Shield to deal fairly and squarely with all men, and the study of Christian Science intensitsyd that desire and stirred him to more heroic efforts to accomplish his purpose. I o | A MONSTER CIRCUS MERGER ( Wallace and Hagcnback's Are Under One Canvas. A half million dollar circus merger ; was effected at Peru Friday afterI noon, when the Great Wallace shows ! and Hagenback's shows were com- ■ bined. : The Hagenback shows are now on j the way from old Mexico where they have been for several months and ’ wiy arrive at the Wallace winter : tfiarters in Peru next week. Fifty car- , Renters and masons are enlarging the ' buildings at the winter quarters and putting up new ones. The name of the allied shows has not yet been selected. The combination now ranks with the I world’s greatest tent enterprises. It *will travel on board eighty-five cars, and will start out the last Saturday < in April. The second performance ever 'given by the Hagenback show was in Peru in 1905. o , MUSIC AT THE RINK TONIGHT I Glide Otter the Perfect Floor and Enjoy, ..the Occasion. Tonight should be an ideal one for the roller skaters for when it is stormy without (the bright inside is more delightful.. Mueic tonight and a big crowd. Jbin* them. Quite a crowd enjoyed the rink yesterday and the pleasure's continue each day. Music also on Friday ahd Saturday nights. Don’t forget, music this evening. Come. Come. Admission ten cents. o LOST —A signet ring with initials, “B. B.” Return to Miss Bertha Butler and receive reward. ' 14-3 t

■ — OSTEOPATHY Dr. Charles Blackman Treat all rhroniedisnases with marked buceesi. OECATUff, THURSDAY JAN. 17 MURRAY HOUSE PROM 1:30 p.m to 5 p m 7 p tn to 9 p m &

an advance payment. Kark Twain, HI. Good Brother and the Broken Sagar Boni. My mother had a good deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed ‘t. She had none at all with my brotter Henry, who was two yeais y - ' than I, and I think that the uubmken monotouv of his goodness and truth , fulness and obedience would have been a burden to her but for the relief' and ( variety which I furnished m the other direction. 1 was a tome. was alu | able to her. I never thought of it be j fore, but now I see it. I net er k . Henry to do a vicious thing toward me or toward any one else, but he fre- I quently did righteous ones that co-t me > as heavily. I- was his duty to report : me when 1 needed reporting and neglected to do it myself, ami he was very | faithful in discharging that duty. He is Sid in "Tom Sawyer.” But Sid was not Henrv. Henry was a very much finer and better boy than ever Sid was. It was Henry who called my moth- , er’s attention to the fact that the j thread with which she had sewed my | collar together to keep me from going , in swimming had changed color. My j mother would not have discovered it but for that, and She was manifestly piqued when sgje recognized that that prominent bit of circumstantial evidence had escaped her sharp eye. That detail probably added a detail to my punishment. It is human. We generally visit our shortcomings on somebody else when there is a possible excuse for it. But no matter. I took it out ' of Henry. There is always compensation for such as are unjustly used. I I often took it out of him-sometimes as an advance t payment for something which T hadn’t' yet done. These were occasions when the opportunity was j too strong a temptation, and I had to draw on the future, I did not need to copy this idea from my mother and i probably didn’t. Still, she wroughtupon that principle upon occasion. ■.[ If the incident of the broken sugar bowl is in “Tom Sawyer”-! don’t remember whether it i§ or not—that is an example of it. never stole sug- ; 'ar. He took it openly from the bowl. His mother knew he wouldn’t take sugar when she wasn’t looking, but she had her doubts about me. Not exactly doubts, either. She knew very well I would. One day when she was not present Hepry took sugar from her , prized aud precious old English sugar | bowl, whfcji was an heirloom in the family, apd he managed to break the bowl. It was the first time I had ever had a chapce to tell anything on him, and I was! inexpressibly glad. I told I him I was going to tell on him, but be , was not disturbed. When my mother came in-and sjw the bowl lying on the

i floor in fragments she was speechless [ for a minute. I allowed that silence to work. I judged it would increase the effect I ®is. waiting for her to ask "Who did that?” so that I could fetch out my news. But It was an error of calculation. When she got through with her silence she didn’t ask anything about it. She merely gave me a crack on the skull with her thimble that I felt all the day down to my heels. Then I broke out with my injured innocence, expecting td make her very sorry that she had punished the wrong one. I expected her fb'flo something remorseful and pathetic.. I told her that I was not the one—it was Henry. But there was no upheaval. She said without emotion: “It’s all right. It isn't any matter. You deserve it for something you’ve done that I didn’t know about, and if you haven’t done it, why, then you deserve it for something that you are going to do that I shan't hear about,”—From Mark Twain's Autobiography in North American Review. Christianity, Buddhism and Nirvana. Buddhism and Christianity are at one in that they perceive our life here is but for a moment and if rightly lived it must be lived In view of an eternal life or a life hereafter. Life does not cease with <?ur departure. It continues still beyond, and that life beyond will be shape! by the life here. Both insist on this, yet there is here a strange difference of emphasis, for that which is promised In Buddhism is that in proportion as we are righteous here so shall existence hereafter be shortened, whereas in Christianity it is promised that in proportion, as we are righteous here we may be assured of an immortal Use hereafter. In Buddhism desire Is regarded as the evil thing and as that which produces existence. When e man is filled with desire up to the moment of death thereafter that s<jf asserting desire goes on. He Is reborn and gpven further opportunity. He may still maintain a degree of self assertion and be born over and over again. This is the immortality of B iddblsmi ' But if he succeeds in altog*ther suppressing desire. if he can entirely obliterate personality, then he has attained to Nirvana here and hereafter—Exchange. “Keyi” and “Quayt,” The keys off the Florida coast illustrate, by the spelling and pronunciation of their name, the remarkable power words he ve to affect other words more or less Lke themselves. These keys, deriving their name from the Spanish "cay a shoal rock or barrier reef, woyld still have been called “cays,” no d-übt. but for the influence of the kindled word which we now write “quay,” but still pronounce “kee." The new spelling is modeled on the modern French “qual,” but the pronunciation Is a trace of the old Boelling "key.” which prevailed from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century. Yet undoubtedly this “key” used to be pronounced "kay." and so. as Shakespeare s and Dryden's rhymes prove, did the key of a> lock. It was the door “kay’s” change to "kee” under Scottish influence that set the example to the others.—London ChronW cle '

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