Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 25, Decatur, Adams County, 29 January 1907 — Page 2

The Daily Democrat. pnfellehed Every Evening. Except Sunday by LEW G. ELLINGHAM. Subscription Rate*. W week, by carrier 10 cents year, by carrier $5.00 V*r month, by mail 25 cents s»er year, by mail $2.50 Macle copies 2 cents Advertising rates made known on otnlleatlon. Sneered at the postoffice in Decatur, Indiana, as second-class mail matter. J. H. HELLER, Manager. UL. — LJJ ■ L—“ LLB When the Dingley tariff took lumber from the free list and put a ‘protective” duty on it, all of the big lumber interests got their heads together and formed the lumber trust. This trust covers the whole country and has raised the price of lumber until it is almost beyond the reach of the ordinary home-builder. No one is benefited by the duty on lumber except the American monopoly and the Canadian timber owners. To them the consumers on this side of the line pay tribute. The Republican congressman from this state instead of trying to get the duty on lumber repealed are working hard to give subsidies to the ship lines owned by Harriman, Hill and their like. If you want to secure a fat job with some well-heeled New York corporation, first manage to be chosen to some conspicuous appointment at the hands of the administration at Washington. Paul Morton was made president of one of the big New York insurance companies at a princely salary; Chief Engineer Wallace of Panama canal fame, was tendered and accepted a lucrative position with another New York corporation, and now Theo. P. Shonts gets a $50,000 place as manager of the Ryan-Belmont In-ter-borough street railway. Western men are at a premium in Gotham. — South Bend Times. Another opportunity will be given the enterprising people of this city to boost for Decatur. The details are now being worked out by a committee of Commercial Club enthusiasts anu ■when thus arranged will be presented in these columns. On its face it looks like the opportunity of a life time and one that will advance the commercial interests of our city more than anything yet attempted. Get ready to join the colony of boosters. Decatur is a mighty good town. It can be made better by a concerted acton that would increase its manufacturing interests. Concerted action means a united effort. Plans will be ready in a few days. Get ready for the fireworks. The protective tariff “principle” gives indirect subsidies. Now the ship bill is to establish the “principle” of direct subsidies. We are surely going some under Republican rule.

i i i - u i HORSE Eg hi BLANKETS®] A Proud Horse A -I A horse feels proud i J when well dressed. He sj g has good cause to feel b g proud when blanketed fi iz with a handsome and .long-wearing 5A Blanket, b ikrara We Sell Them Schafer H'd'w Co.

Always on the market by the Snow Agercy. Call cr write for recent descriptive lists. No charge for advertising property if left on the market tor the time listed. The Snow Agency ’Phone 230 ' Decatur, Ind.

STORM PERIODS FOR FEBRUARY Rev. Hicks Says the Month Will Have Six Sad Ones. The Rev. Tri Hicks, the noted weather prophet of St. Louis, has forcasted the following weather for February: The First Storm Period—Reactionary, has its center on the 3rd and 4th. This period is near the center of the Venus equinox, with moon on the celestial equator on the 3rd and at last quarter on the sth. Low barometer, general atmospheric unrest, with rain, sleet and snow will center on and touching the 3rd and 4th. Thunder, lightning and tropical rains in southern extremes will be natural at this time. The Second Storm Period.—Regular is central on the 9th. We will put down the 7th to the 12th of February as one of the greatest storm periods lof the winter Torrential rains will be witnessed or heard from, with possible tornadoes in the south. The most general and destructive sleet storms of the winter will follow the rains in many sections, while terrific blizzards fierce gales and blockading drifts will endanger the lives of man and beast to the west and north. Within fortyeight hours of sunset on the 12th, our plant will pass another seismic. As a natural result look for many ice gorge floods and disasters during this and other February periods. As a sequel to all this, look for a phenomenally sudden and high barometer, wild northwesterly gales, and a sweeping cold wave generally, from about the 12th to the 15th. The Third Storm Period.—Reactionary, will culminate on and touching the 15th and 16th. A rapid, decided fall of the barometer, rise of temperature, will possibly electrical storms, will appear on and touching the 16th.

The Fourth Storm Period.—Regular, will affect storm and weather conditions from the 19th to the 23rd. The central or culminating days will be Wednesday, the 20th, to Friday, the 22nd. The barometer and temperature will show returning storm conditions to the westward by the 19th, and during the 20th to 23rd rain, wind and snow will pass over the country. Cold, bleak winds from the north, with constant tendency to snow squalls, will be the order for many successive days, or until low barometer and equatorial storms move out of the south. A wave of quite cold weather for the season will come out of the northwest from about the 22nd to the 25th. The Fifth Storm Period. —Reactionary, Is central the last three days of February. Threatening changes in temperature and barometric pressure will set in by tbe 26th and 27th to the westward, but the crisis of the period will fall on the 2th, reaching into March in eastern sections of the country. We may figure on very decided storm conditions with a return of seismic disturbances in many parts of the globe, as we pass out of February and into March. o MUSIC AT THE RINK TONIGHT :Season is Nearly Over—Enjoy it While You Can. Roller skating at the rink this evening when music will be furnished by | Med Miller's band. You should attend lif you care for this sport, as the seasion will be over in a very short time. No amusement was ever furnished the 1 people of Decatur which afforded so 1 much clean, healthy pleasure for so i little money as the skating rink. It Tias been conducted morally in every .respect and will no doubt prove as I popular next season as it was this J year. • o— I ONE STEP UPWARD. (Written by Olive Perkins, Grade Four, South Ward. One step upward as the moments fly More and more as days pass by; Every minute one step we take, Bad and good people we make. At last when death reaches us, When we are called to die; And all the friends around us, Will weep and cry. How lonely the mother will be, When her children are laid away; Some day her children she will see, On that great Judgment day.

FINE CORN FARMS And Neat CITY COTTAGES

CONTINUE TO WIN Post Office Takes Two More Games THE FIRST GAME WAS A TIE But That's as Close as the Elks Could Come to Taking Any of the Series.

STANDING. Played. Won. Lost. Pct. : Postoffice 34 25 9 .735 Klondykes ....33 18 15 .545 1 Elks 26 14 12 .538 K. of C 36 17 19 .472 I Palace 32 13 19 .406 The Elks, after holding the famous Postoffice team to a tie game in the first contest last evening, went all to i pieces in the other two and proved to be easy prey for their opponents. The , first game was a dandy and was so ' close that it took the last ball thrown by Dr. Mangold of the Elks to determine the contest. Three pins were left standing and he was forced to get one to tie and two to win. Well, he only got one. The other two games were badly rolled by the Elks, while the Postoffice team kept up their clip and easily won. By losing last evening, the Elks were forced to third place and are now seven per cent behind the Klondykes. The contest is gaining in interest daily and the termination of the race is being eagerly looked forward to. The scores: POSTOFFICE Frisinger 147 157 150 151 Vaughn 180 129 148 152 Foreman 129 138 171 153 Shaffer 184 190 167 180 Peterson 178 191 206 191 Totals 818 825 842 ELKS. France 176 141 145 154 Bell 162 124 133 ,J 43 Sether 169 175 169 171 Crabill 145 131 131 139 Mangold 169 209 190 189 Totals 818 780 768 o — THE DEATH OF JOHN FORBING The End Came at Neighbor’s Home Where He Had Wandered. Within a few moments after he had reached the home of a neighbor whither he had wandered while delirious from his illness, John Forbing, one of the best known Fort Wayne real estate men, dropped dead from heart disease at’ 2 o'clock this morning. Mr. Forbing resided at 201 West Creighton avenue, and for more than a week had been ill, though not confined to his bed. He suffered from a heart and asthmatic affection that made it impossible for him to lie down in comfort and the greater part of the time he spent sitting in his chair. He was apparently improving somewhat, though at times it was noticed he was mildly delirious. At 2 o'clock this morning, after having spent the earlier portion of the night in his chair, Mr. Forbing left the house, and his absence was not noticed by Mrs. Forbing until a few moments later. The sick man walked to the home of a neighbor, E. A. Barnes, superintendent of the Fort Wayne Electric works, at 2401 South Harrison street, a square distant from the Forbing home. Ascending the side porch he rapped loudly at the door, and Mr. Barnes, who hurried down in response to the alarm, found Mr. Forbing at his door, plainly suffering intensely and scarcely able to stand alone. He as sisted Mr. Forbing into the house, and in response to a question as to the meaning of his presence out of the house at that time of night, Mr. Forbing feebly replied that he did not know. Mr. Barnes called to his wife to summon a physician and he then made an attempt to assist the dying man to a couch, but Mr. Forbing expired in Mr. Barnes’ arms in the drawing room be- ; fore he could reach a couch. A few moments later Dr. Brueggeman, who , had been summoned by telephone, reached the Barnes home together with Mrs. Forbing, who had hastily dressed and hurried out In search of her husband, meeting the physcian as he was resending to the call from the Barnes home. The rudlen death of the husband almost prostrated the devoted wife. —Fort "Wayne Sentinel. o From all appearances, as we go to press, Decatur is to be visited by a snow storm. With the roads in perfect condition as they now are, a little snow wouldn’t hurt anything . Squire J. H. Stone was engaged this afternoon in hearing the evidence in the case of the state against Isaac Robison on a charge of intoxication. No verdict was rendered as we go to press. Robison was represented byAttorney J. W. Teeple, and put up a hard fight to escape a fine.

. ..... 11 | MY COUSIN SUSIE | [Original] “Howard.” »ald my college chum, coming into my room with a ruef<--face, ‘T'm In a hole.” “A deep one?” , _ “Yes I have ouly two days In which to prepare for examinations Without putting in all my tune sure to be conditioned on two subjet at least. And now comes a letter from my mother to tell me that my cousin Susie, her ouly sister's daughter, is coming to town especially to see me. She has promised her mother and my mother that she will not go home without having seen me. She comes on Friday, supposing I’ll be free till Monday, whereas these cursed exams require every moment.” “Is your cousin pretty?” “How do I know? I have never seen her. She was born and brought up in California. But what has that to do with it?” “If she is pretty and attractive, I might help you out.” “It isn’t that she is to be entertained. She must be entertained by me.”

“Very well. If you haven't seen her I suppose she hasn't seen you. I will be you.” Ned Coit and I discussed the matter pro and con and at last, both being young and foolish, decided that I should meet his eousln at the station, take her to the theater and the next day conduct her through the college grounds and buildings. I went to the station to meet her—Ned's mother had said she would wear our college colors in a buttonhole —aud I found the loveliest, daintiest, prettiest bit of feminine humanity I had ever seen. It was late in the afternoon when she arrived, so I drove her to the house of a friend with whom she was to stay. After dinner I called for her and took her to the theater. Now, I would rather guard a football goal against eleven stalwart men than again guard the secret that I was not her cousin Ned. She attacked me in front and on both flanks. “I have always fancied you were dark complexioned,” she said, “like your father, and I find you light Cousin Molly (Ned's sister) told me that you were of a retiring disposition and dreaded strangers. I feared you might make some excuse for not meeting me. I find you very easy to get acquainted with.” Then she began to talk about her relatives in California, of whose existence I was supposed to be cognizant but whom I fiad never eser I blundered and stumbled, rushed madly—to speak figuratively—to the right, then. frantically to the left, and I had no eooner smoothed over one bit of Ignorance than I fell into another. If she had tried deliberately to trap me she could not have done better. However, I got through without any positive evidence that I was playing a part. When I parted with her I knew enough of her family to send my love, mentioning them all by name, and just before the train started I felt emboldened to attempt a cousinly kiss, but she drew back with a decided refusal. For the next week the person of Susie Leigh kept between me and my books. If in hours of idleness I danced or skated I was oblivious to the person I danced or skated with and called them all Susie. Then came a letter to Ned from his cousin, which he turned over to me. She showed far more affection in her letter than she had shown me in person. I replied to the ; letter warmly and received a warmer I reply. After considerable correspond- I ence I wrote offering my heart and band. Her answer was that on no ae- ' count would she marry a cousin. Here was a complication that had not been foreseen. If I confessed that I had played upon her credulity she would refuse me, and- if I remained her cousin I knew by the tone of her letter that I could not persuade her. Besides, I couldn’t possibly marry her without the whole affair coming out. Meanwhile she had written Ned’s mother that he had been more than kind to her during her visit and she hoped he could come out to San Francisco as soon as he had been graduated and make his cousin a visit. Being in for it, I concluded to accept the invitation. No sooner had I passed my final exams than I sped across the continent. I found “my cousin” Susie a very different person since I had proposed to her. She showed none of that ease she had shown in my company during our first meeting, though since my proposal this was to be-ex-pected. I made up my mind to confess at once, but before doing go stated a similar case of which I pretended to have heard. Susie declared that the man who bad played such a part could not possibly be possessed of gentlemanly instincts. This threw me on my beam ends. For several days I went about with her, feeling and looking as if I bad melancholia, and finally told her that I would return to the east. I had no sooner made this announcement than her manner changed perceptibly. During the evening before my intended departure she gave me every encouragement. The clock struck 1 in the morning before I summoned courage to tell her the story that proved me to be without gentlemanly Instincts. She burst into a laugh. “You stupid thing!” she said. “The day you drove me from the station and handed me out of the carriage a lady who knows you well saw you through a window and told me who you were.” It is now ten years since my marriage, and I think it about time my wife ceased to banter me on the subject of my playing cousin, but she shows no sign of doing so. SUMNER CHILDS.

I! j Mr a short t th® H 5 acres, one mile .• ■ , Added tody (arffi , a i so 188 acres in Root township i I J, town of ’ imDrof emejt»and fine soil. p IM ” Preb onpr4NT—-6 iut® Bol SeT ' D » melß property cn i o 1M formerly « tbe Doak « B 1 M< ? nroe /‘S’for the sacres with improvement# or the 21HS H I! reduced pnoe yw 3 I: mentioned herein on 11th. st. reduced from *BOO | ;; :i J’ a ‘ffilSa resLßvOtt P . fine black land and fine i mprove _ || - ’ “will list a few more farms for short peric ds. I have two b UJ - ♦iL o ersfo OfiOorfiOacrefarm. If you have one to sell ♦|> | " No charge || ' St. Marys township, west of Pleasant Mills, good j| ‘I 5° , -ir , nikes etc, 565 per acre. J ■ m ?ioS farm’well improved,five miles from Decatur, up.to- || o 62 Nacres welHmproved land in Kirkland township as good *| 3 64 on the state line, good house, barn || ♦ W nnd other buildings, complete, s6b an acre if sold soon. *| '! 95 acres, three miles from Decatur for the next 3fMays SSCOO, tl ’ ’ ”0 80 acres in Union township, fine house and barn and fine land ♦ I <’ -7Q township, four miles from Decatur SBO an acre ♦ ! o 75 20 acres Washington township well improved with tile and <• good buildirgs, four miles of Decatur fIW per acre, o 77 100 acres four miles of Decatur, fine soil, SBS per acre, o 80 160 acres near Geneva, fine buildings and a good deal at JiQ I S’ 83 30 acme, two miles from Decatur, unimproved, all cleared at t '; 85 miies from Decatur, all cleared, no buildings, t ’’ 87 Macros, three miles from Decatur, all cleared, fair buildings ♦ '’BB 80 acres two miles from town well improved, 190 an acre. ! I < • 90 20 acres with house and barn one mile from Decatur at a bar- ” ' ’ 95 SO acres of good improved black soil in Union township for ; I ' ’ 55000 '' I ’ > 97 120 acres in Kirkland township, fine improvements and best I 1 , of soil at SI2OOO i» 120 acres well improved two and a half miles from Decatur on / I ’ nike a bargain if taken soon at $7500 ' ► 108 acres near Decatur $6500 if sold by Feb. 15. ] [ II Some of these farms are quoted on easy terms and for cash can ■ • < ’ be purchased for even less money. Any information concerning , ! I any of this list will be furnished on application. • / < ’ Besides these farms we have some small tracts in and about the J | j: city for instance: Two and a half acres with two heuses on 13th.at. 1 ' ' ’ at a bargain. Three 5 acre tracts on the weet side. One 5 acre I i o tract, terms easy, price low. One 7 room bouse on Bth. ; ° street $llOO each. One bouse on 11th. street >BOO. Three good o 1 <! houses on west Monroe street, and some up-to-date properties up ” ° town. Two vacant lots in the Fullenkamp addition, cheap vacant / ! • lots in other parts of the city, a few to sell on weekly or mcnthly ;; *' payments. 11 ; ’ 10 acres, fine improvements at a bargain—ln sight of city ' • 2 v want lots on west side of south Bth street, a bargain at $225. < • 2 farms, 3 miles from city on pike $65 per acre 1 ‘ < ► ; Keep your eye on this ad’ as changes are made every few day*. ; 1 ’ Call on or address DAN EFRWIN. o Corner, Monroe & 2nd. st. DECATUR, IND. ;; IHtHMHHtlHtlttltMttHttmiMtttttHttttHHl ? Music Cabinets

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TWO CENT FARES IN ARKANSAS * > (Scripps-Mcßae Special ) , Little Rock, Ark., Jan. 29—The two > cent rate bill passed the legislature this morning with but one dissenting vote.