Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 32, Decatur, Adams County, 6 February 1907 — Page 2

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The Daily Democrat. Every Evening. Except Sun day by LEW G. ELLINGHAM. Sabecription Rate*. f er week, by carrier 10 cents Fw year, by carrier »5 00 F«r month, by mail 25 cents Fwr year, by man <2 50 fltegf* copies 2 cents advertising rates made known oe Sffpileatlon ■atered at the postoffice in Decatur, tefftena as second-class mall matter. J. H. HELLER, Manager. THE PIRATE TRUST. The Interstate Commerce Commission has put on record a report shoeing that the Standard Oil company' continues its criminal practices entirely undisturbed by the puny efforts of the government to make it do better. It has always been a part of the Standard's policy not only to get the best of every situation, but to min its pqn; je’itors. Says the Philadelphia Record- “ - This is the third document wi'hin a year setting forth this fact. The other two are the report of the com ( mlssioner of corporations and the bill in equity filed by the attorney general for the dissolution of the combination. All of them describe the same infamous methods of this remorseless pirate among corporations. The present report, after relating some of the standard's methods, says: The competitive methods of the company in the past have been fair and disreputable. Its motto has been the destruction of competition at any cost, and this policy has been pursued without much reference to decency or conscience.’ "The main allies of the Standard in crushing competitors are the railroads. In late years it has not received rebates, but it has extorted from the railroads equally illegal and oppressive secret rates. Its pipe lines enable it to bring pressure to bear upon the railroads. The latter will make low and secret rates to the Standard for fear of losing its business. Or they will maintain high rates where the Standard does not nse the road and the independents must, and then the Standard pays the railroads for the transportation of oil through its own pipe line, thus subsidizing the railroad to shut the independent producers out of market.” But as a matter of fact nothing new can be said about the Standard Oil company. No words are strong enough to describe its infamies. And the question pressing for solutions is, whether the people are going to allow the Standard Oil company and the ether trusts to own them. They are doing as they please in Indiana and will do so until state officials are elected who will, stand up for the rights of the people. MUSIC AT THE RINK TONIGHT. Music by Miller's band, good lively, inspiring music at the rink tonight. Join the happy throng of roller skaters for the mid-week skate . You will enjoy every minute of this clean, moral, happy event and there is no other way in which you can have a better time in Decatur. Music also on Friday and Saturday nights. o D. B. Ointment cures eczemr. itching piles, poison and all pimples and skin troubles. 60 cents a box. Sold at Moithouse Drug store, and Elaekburn’s Drug Store. 16-3 mos.

SCORE TWO TO ONE In the Klondyke-Palace Bowling Contest THE GAMES WERE FAIRLY GOOD Four of the Totals Being Over the Eight Hundred Mark—Cal Peterson Does the Best Work. STANDING. Played. Won. Lost, Pct. Postoffice 37 27 10 .728 Klondykes .. ..36 20 16 .555 Elks 26 14 12 .538 K. of C 39 18 21 .460 Palace 35 14 21 .400 The Klondykes showed their heels to the Palace team last evening in! in their regular scheduled game and won two of the three games hands' down. The last two contests were very close, but by magnificent bowl- j ing in the last few frames the ffion-j I dykes pulled ahead of their rivals and, I refused to be overtaken. The KRm-j dykes, by winning the two games is-. creased their lead over the Elks andare now seventeen per cent ahead, which represents three full games. They also cut down the margin between themselves and the PDstoffibe team and with a little more consistent bo*fiae havfc a chance in the race. Cal Peterson had the high score and high average. Scores: KLONDYKES. Klein 134 193 178 168, Lankenau 159 176 113 149 Volmer 132 148 180 153, Bell 177 154 182 171' Peterson 182 187 149 173 Totals 790 858 802 PALACE. Coverdale 134 163 154 150 Shaffer 148 136 161 148 Crabill .........122 160 166 149 Peterson .. 177 205 155 176 Archbold 121 158 174 151 Totals 702 822 810 - - I Manager Harry Strohm of the Elks, ! bowling team, received a letter this j morning from the manager of the Decatur Elks' team stating that they ■ would arrive in this city Friday noon ' prepared to play the game of their ■ lives against the local Elks five on j Friday night. This game was to have , been played last Friday, but owing to ’ the fact that the alleys had been rented for that evening by a party of young ladies, it was necessary to call the game off for the time. In their letter to the boys here the Decatur I fellows say that their line-up will be composed of five chosen from the following experts: Vaughn, Sether, Studabaker, France, Kern, Peterson, , Coverdale, Mangold or Frisinger. The . locals can choose from Barr, Todd, I Lipkey, Orin Craven, Charles Merriman, Jesse Markley, Ray Sturgis, Carl Benham or Bert Wisehanpt.— ! Bluffton Banner. o THE PASSION PLAY.

The beautiful story of the crucifixion, as played in the little village of Oberamergau, Bavaria, by the villagers of that little hamlet, is the most pronounced production ever presented on any stage, and is the most sacred to these people, as its presentation every ten years is to fulfill a mission or vow made by their ancestors hundreds of years ago. Thousands upon thousands of strangers from all parts of the world go there to see this wonderful production. The Electric Amusement company of New York, will give a reproduction of this beautiful play at the Bosse Opera house on next Monday and Tuesday, Feb. 11 and 12. The prices of admission will be 10, 20 and 30 cents. Seats on, sale at the Holthouse Drug company. Saturday morning.

A SAD EXPERIENCE As Told by Secretary J. N. liurty OF THE STATE HEALTH BOARD The Moral Shows the Terrible Resu t of ' Not Preventing Consumption."

Indianapolis. Feb. 6. —The eldest oi three brothers was nine, the second seven, and the third five. They had ’ come, the younger ones hold of bards to the office of the State Board of Health to see what could be done for their mother. Montgomery. the oldest, said: “My mother is sick in bed with consumption, and Mrs. Homer told us to come and tell you and you would tell us where to take her.” “No,” he said, in answer to our questions. "We haven't any father; he died sixteen months ago of consumption. My sister, too, died of consumption and me and my two brothers and mother are all there is. Yes, mother worked to support us. She sewed and I was elevator boy at Smith s block. 1 ain't doing nothing now, and we haven't naything to eat except what the neighbors give us. Please tell us where we can take mother. She coughs all the time, and —and —l am afraid —she's —she s going to die.” In imagination there appeared a picture of a true, good woman, fatally stricken with the great white plrgme She lay on a miserably furnished bed in a bare room. Piece by piece it had been stripped of its furniture to procure food. The thin, transparent hands, pale wan face, unnaturally bright eyes and hollow cough haunted me without seeing them. Afterward. a visit and investigation proved , that imagination had not run riot. Indeed. it had not pictured all. The last stages of the relentless disease were entered, there remained but a few days for the mother who had givetl, birth to four souls and who had fought a good fight. Between coughs, and in gasped whisperings, she made, no complaint, uttered no regrets, but expressed solicitation for the welfare of her children. They had' come but j of her life, she had worked all her life * fbr them, and now. when that life* was on the €Ve of departing, it was not herself, bnt the boys whom she had hoped to bring to useful manhood, about whom she spoke. The room was dark and damp, and the four dollars a month rent went to a man whose name was on the published list as paying taxes on SIOO,OOO and over. The window admitted filthtainted air from the back yard and through the front door came the hot street air laden with infected dust. Nothing could be done except to administer a dose of morphine to give temporary sleep with its brief oblivion to pain and care. It would be murder to give enough to hasten the permanent oblivion which was inevitable in a few days. Yes. it would be murder and the law. silent and inactive before, and during the' killing by the preventable disease.! would then tremble with activity. De-| tectives and police would hunt the ’ murderer, the last cent in the county treasury would be spent to apprehend and convict him, and for the economy quack would declare against “spending money for any such crank idea as preventing consumption.” “Please tell us where we can take

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mother.” I might have replied in truth, To a grave; that is the o place the great Christian State of Indiana has for the reception of poor, widows with consumption. —J - _ Harty, Secretary of State Board o j Health. — n for SALE— a black stallion, three rears old. Cali on Phillip Brinneman. corner Line and Elm street.. •32-bt Deeatur. A Good Do<. It is related by Professor Beil that when a friend of his was traveling abroad be one morning took out bis purse to see if it contained sufficient change for a day's jaunt he intended making. He departed from his lodgings, leaving a trusted dog behind. When he dined be took out his purse to pav and found he bad lost a gold coin from it. On returning home in the evening his servant informed him that the dog seemed very ill, as they j could not induce him to eat anything. i He went at once to bls favorite, and as soon as he entered the room the faith- , ful creature ran to him, deposited the j goid coin at his feet and then devoured the food placed tor him with great eagerness. The truth was that the | gentleman had dropped the coin in the morning. The dog bad picked it up | and kept It In his mouth, fearing even ■ to eat lest he should lose bis mastery property before an opportunity was as-< forded him to restore it-€hambers’ j Journal. ——————- Or tri* of Crescent Bread. The origin of the Viennese bread shaped like a crescent, which is found tn most places ou the continent, dates ( back to the tirns when the Austrian t capital was being besieged by the j Turks under the terrible Grand 4 ixier Kara Mustapha, and as they failed to take the city by assault they decided j to dig a passage under the wails and ■ so penetrate into the town. In the day- j time the noise of the siege made the ( sound of the tunneling Inaudible, and I at nighttime the defenders of the J place were asleep, all but the sentries and the bakers. It was the bakers ( who, as they baked the bread for the t garrison, beard the pickaxes of the | miners coming nearer aud nearer and j gave the alarm. In the fighting the Bakers' association took their share with the utmost bravery, and as a re-1 ward for their services the emperor gave them permission to make a special cake shaped like the Turkish cres-' cent.—London Sketch. Once a Vest at Pirate*. Lundy, in the Bristol channel, is an island where one may see an earth- j quake at auy time. There is nothing alarming about these 'earthquakes,’’ j however. They are simply certain curious crevasses in the west of the is-, land, which the local people call by; that name. Lundy in former centuries was a notorious nest of pirates. In King Henry IH.’s time William de Marisco, a traitor to the king, built a castle there and set up as an early Captain Kidd. And so it went on through the centuries until in the middle of the eighteenth Thomas Benson, a Barnstable merchant, who was then lessee of the island, was convicted of piracy and smuggling and expelled. I He had a contract for carrying con- i victs to the American colonies and ’ used quietly to land them on Lundy and use their labor thpro

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