Herald and Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 6

Ao, -Liiursaay, July, This space belongs to the Deneen Business Men 's Club, of Decatur. the commission and the courts, and this Is that the great majority of retailers have not gone to the trouble to make themselves conversant 'with the laws. Imagine-an architect making plans without having read the building laws of the community, or an insurance company starting in to do business with no knowledge of the underwriting statutes of the states, and you have a parallel. Ignorance of the law excuseth no man. A remarkably small number of dealers know of the guaranty clause for which a three months' fight was made in the legislature.

This clause puts the responsibility for adulterations or misbranding back on the manufacturer where it really belongs, provided the manufacturer is within the jurisdiction of the Illinois courts. The guaranty clause in the laws of some states do not make the important provision that the manufacturer shall be a resident of Illinois, thereby opening the door to an inter-state traffic in near-foods whicb the state in which the goods are sold Is powerless to prevent. GOVERNOR DENEEN AND GOOD ROADS Decatur Herald. DECATUR HERALD. Established October 8.

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No at tentlon paid to anonymous There are about 94,000 miles of public Mffhways iu Illinois and $5.000 000 are paid annually for the maintenance of roads and bridges in the state. To in sure trie wisest expenditure ot this vast sum, the Illinois High wav Commission was established, in 1905, by act of the General Assembly. This commission acts in an advisory capacity to local officials both in townships and cities. Its office IMPORTANT WORDS REFORM AND REVISION." When an individual passes from the state of an habitual drunkard to that of a sober man he has reformed. When an individual ceases to habitually do wicked things or any other thing injurious to himself or the community we say that he has reformed.

We never In such cases use the word revised because drunkards and law-breakers are never revised but are sometimes reformed. That period in the history of the church called the reformation is never referred to as the revision. Men go out as reformers of society but never as revisers of society. A church sometimes revises its creed or confession "of faith but never reforms them. So also laws are revised sometimes, that is is not to build hard roads, against the will of farmers and others, but to experiment in road building and determine the best kind of roads for the various parts of the state.

Through its efforts the use of the simple drag has been successfully employed in more than 15,000 instances and more than that number of miles of earth roads have been kept in good condition during the past year. Crushed stone to the value of $3,100" will be" furnished bv the commission each No. year to road districts desiring this material for hard roads. All it costs is a re quest for the material but that request must be made before the Commission will send it. The work of this commission is ranidlv rowinc into oup of tlip in-mnrf- ant departments of the state government.

To Governor Deneen belongs the LET THE HERALD FOLLOW YOU. Before leaving on your vacation, be sure to order THE HERALD sent to your new address. Absence from home makes home news ail the more interesting. Give old and new address when ordering change, and THE HERALD will be sent you without additional cost. credit ot creating a department of such practical benefit to farmers and others a department which is but another exemplification of his sensible and practical administration of the state's business.

iJI It may be like tearing down an idol yet. nevertheless, it would be good sense to abandon for the present the disposition to purchase a city hall site. to say something may be added to or taken from the original text. So a tariff law may be revised retaining the central principle but the reformation of a tariff law cannot be accomplished without destroying the central principle or governing factor any more than a drunkard can reform and yet continue to get drunk. The Republican party, which favors a protective tariff talks about revising the tariff meaning the schedules.

No Intelligent Republican ever talks of reforming a Republican tariff. The Democrats who believe in a free trade tariff may consistently talk about reforming a Republican tariff because tho act of that party as to a Republican tariff would be to destroy the central principle of protection which to their notion would be a reform. The leaders of that party, including Mr. Bryan, however! in order to cover up their principle of free trade, endeavor to confuse the people by using the words "Reform" and "Revision" as meaning the same thing. They refer to a Republican or the party declaring for tariff revision as favoring tariff reform which is absolutely untrue.

The Louisville Courier-Journal, says: "They promise us tariff reform! They actually promise us tariff reform! Tariff reform! Good Lord!" "They" the Republicans, not promised tariff reform. Not all. They have promised tariff revision, which differs as much from tariff reform as a sober does from a drunk. But why does Mr. Water-son exclaim in this manner? He does it to leave the impression that the people favor tariff reform and that the Republicans propose to deceive them by promlsing tariff reform, which they have not done.

They recognize no need of tariff reform. The present tariff is endorsed by the people as a principle and they will endorse it again at this election unless the working men by direction of such leaders as Gompers on a false issue vote themselves out of a job as they unfortunately did in 1892 by restoring the Democratic party to power to give the country tariff reform. The Republican party is opposed to tariff reform. It does not propose to tear protection to pieces, turn it upBidc down and destroy the prosperity of the country. What they propose is to revise the present protective tariff law so that the schedules made eleven years may be adjusted to the industrial and commercial conditions of today.

There is a radical difference between "reform" and "revision." W. J. Bryan is especially interested in the colored vote he expects to re ceive. Much more interested indeed than he ever has been in discouraging MARK YOUR BALLOT: For Governor 1X1 CHARLES S. DENEEN the lynching of negroes.

It was a wise move to move in the direction cf the construction of that 10-inch water main. It is always well to have ammunition to fit your cannon If you intend to use the cannon. Since Mr. Bryan is advertised as a different kind of statesman to what he was in 189S and 1900 he will not be in position to complain If the people give him several kinds of a trouncing. The Individual or any aggregation of Individuals who have no higher object in a primary election than to get the scalp of somebody' in the party should be informed at once that there is no premium on Gov.

Tates continues to make the same kind of speeches against the Deneen administration that the Democratic candidates for governor do which may account for the affection displayed by the Democratic press for him. WMyGiraey VARIOUS TOPICS. ihe business portion of Detatur Petroleum V. Nasby used to refer to Samuel J. Tilden as the "guileless patriot." If Nasby were alive he would probably be inclined to use the words In connection with the determination to make campaign contributions public.

yesterday afternoon bore the appear ance of a broken down boom town. A short distance beyond its northern There are so many candidates for the nomination for minor state offices before the primaries that the individual voter will have some difficulty deciding who is the best man. He enjoys the personal acquaintance of but few of them. of his watch-case, which he was carrying in his vest pocket. How the lightning could transfer the girl's image to the young man's back is a scientific mystery.

This phenomenon, however, is not altogether new. There are mar-y cases on record where lightning has imprinted the Images of nearby trees, foliage, and other objects in the vicinity upon the bodies of the persons struck by the electric current. Some time ago lightning played a queer tattoo trick upon a New York girl. While crossing Canal street she was struck by a bolt. Afterward it was found that the lightning had run up one of her legs and had then drawn Eefri The Republican state convention commends the administration of Gov.

Deneen for the honest business methods he has employed resulting in great saving to the people. Gov. Yates denounces the administration. The people are called upon to decide, whether they believe Mr. Yates is wiser and more honorable than the convention.

limits, where the boosting game was being played the scene was sufficiently metropolitan to suggest Coney Island on a hot Sunday afternoon. To quote the words of an esteemed contemporary, "Every knock's a Those who do not wish to see Decatur bigger and busier should guard against knocking. The Deneen-Yates campaign is rapidly developing into an endurance contest. Mr. Eryan is due for another scare when somebody comes along to tell hfm that the anti-imperialism plank in the Denver platform, when carefully tjia the Image of an hourglass upon her waist.

Srnntor Crnne' Baa'trall. From the Boston Herald. Baseball is a chronic complaint of Senator Crane. When he was governor of Massachusetts he took his entire Are The analyzed, proves to be an endorsement of the Republican administration's course in the Philippines. Ten thousand bottles of whisky, wine and beer, which were held to be below the standard of liquor for med-ican purposes, were poured into the river at Guthrie, Okla.

After the temperance people demand the enforcement of the law against pollution of streams, the way they can get rid of the stuff, will be to let it staff out for a drive and surprised them by having the rigs pull up at an open field and announcing there was to be a baseball game. Two nines were chosen and the game began. Pretty soon somebody came along the road. "What teams are they?" he asked of one of the drivers. "Why.

that man pitching is the governor of Massachusetts," the driver replied. "The one catching is the lieutenant governor, the first baseman is a Congressman; the second baseman is the judge advocate general." evaporate. BEFORE WE BUY A CITY tl.1, SITE. Opposition to the appropriation of $50,000 for the purchase of a city hall site does not indicate a lack of progress, or an unwillingness to see the city prosper. It indicates the opposite.

Business men who are against the J50.000 feature of the appropriation ordinance do not expect to see Decatur go down hill. They expect and want to see It advance. They do not expect to see a bankrupt city next year, but they want the administration and the board of aldermen be on their guard against the useless tying up of funds when there are other things for which money is needed more than for a municipal building. Some of needs are the following: Increased filter capacity and more thorough filtration of the water for domestic uses. An intercepting sewer to protect the water supply from contamination near the point of intake.

More lamps for the Illumination of the streets. Involving 'an increase in the capacity of the plant which experts declare to be out of date. A viaduct at the Jasper street crossing of the Wabash that there may be some safe and easy route into that part of the city lying north of the Wabash and east of the Illinois Central tracks. A more substantial structure for the fire department apparatus now at House No. 1 on West Main street.

The installation of a garbage crematory to consume waste matter now lying exposed, endangering health. One and perhaps two hose houses in the outlying districts. A small modern repair plant for the patching of asphalt at one-fourth the cost at which It is now being done. A gradual extension of the fire alarm system. An increase in the fund for keeping clean the paved streets especially in the business portion of the city.

An increase in park appropriations. Decatur will not be charged with being unprogressive if it supplies to the necessities before erecting a fine municipal pile. And now It turns out that Senator Hopkins aided the deep waterways "Say!" Interrupted the passerby. "Perhaps you would like to know who I am. "I'm Napoleon Bonaparte." project as a result of which Congress-man Foss' battleships may be brought into the heart of Illiopolis.

The Only Refrigerator Made that Has the Entire REMOVABLE ICE CHAMBER. By the patented construction of The Gurney the ice chamber is in no wav attached to the body of the refrigerator, being entirely separate, and can be lifted "out for cleaning, leaving no portion of it in the refrigerator. this chamber being" strongly constructed of heavy galvanized iron, it is impossible for the ice man to break it or cause leakage. The ice men who deliver the ice will tell you that the Gurney is the best refrigerator to buy; as they deliver ice- to more than 1,000 of them in Decatur. 3 i -A -n Si ff Denver advices Indicate that Chair man Frank Hitchcock has fully recovered from that nervous attack.

That M. Rojestvensky that died at Bad Nauheim. however, probably got obituary notice far longer than he ever dreamed of inspiring. By this time the person who sent the poisoned ale to the Philadelphia Dhvsi- cian probably has fallen in with the Widow iinn ess at LaPorte. The railroads might try the exDeri- ment of excursion rates on freight when the wheat begins to move next month.

Ull BROS THE PRESERVATION' OF THE OLD COURT HOUSE. The old log court house in Fairview park is Decatur's most sacred his-toric relic, and it is a satisfaction to know that the little time scarred building in which the voice of Lincoln was once heard is finally to have a permanent location worthy of it. No organization does so much in preserving and marking things historically dear as the Daughters of the American Revolution, and the enterprise of the local chapter is warmly to be commended The little cabin is about the last reminder of pioneer days when tho piow naa lurnea 10 me sun little of the Illinois soil. It recalls the time when the loar hut. save in the villae-ps ww tha lu OI naDitatlon, and Reujju QCTBntcM Hot Cb ho Y.

lue "aa lue umm source oi rood supply. It brings back. the picture of the rough, honest pioneers who battled with hardships to hew out the embryo of a government in the wilderness. But best of all it places before the mind's eye the form of Lincoln, himself, the tall, ungainlv lawyer then little known outside the circuit in which he practiced. No one can read the life of the Emancipator without being impressed with the fact that Lincoln was great not despite of but because of his early training.

Those long solitary journeys, the association with the honest, plain spoken neighbors those noon hour speeches in the courthouse square all united, in a man of his seriousness of mind and depth of thought to make him the leader of a nation The preservation of the courthouse is a legitimate contribution to historic interest. Zeal in marking every rock and tree is sometimes carried fn It will be money in Mr. Roosevelt's pocket, if he will spend a portion of the summer brushing up on the monosyllabic dictionary. LIGHTNING'S FREAKS Seems to Moke a Specialty of Tattooing I mil co on Victims. From the Cincinnati Enquirer.

Every season lightning plays many peculiar pranks. This summer its strangest freak was inflicted upon a 10-year-old youth. Joseph Cambon. In the Bronx -district of New York city. While walking along a shaded street under a row of poplar trees during a thunderstorm, young Cambon was knocked down by a blinding flash of lighting.

He was picked up, carried into a neighboring house, and soon regained consciousness. He Complained of a severe pain a burning sensation on his back. When his clothing was removed, it was discovered, to the astonishment of those present, that the outlines of a pretty girl's face and head had been tattooed on the skin below the shoulder blades by the lightning. The image stood out with startling distinctness in vivid red lines. Stranger still, the girl was easily recognized as a belle of the neighborhood.

"Why, it's Sadie It, exclaimed one of the attendants. Young Cambon was! completely nonplused when he heard this, for it was the girl with whom he was keeping company. He then ac This woman says she was saved from an operation by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Lena Henry, of ISTorristown, writes to Mrs.

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Every woman suffering with any female trouble should take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound." FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN. For thirty years Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, made from roots and herbs, Las been the standard remedy for female ills, andhas positively cured thousands 01 women who have been troubled with displacements, inflammation, ulceration, fibroid tumors, irregularities, periodic pains, backache, that bearing-down feeling, flatulency, indigestion, dizziness or nervous nrostra.t.i on SPECIAL Wednesday and Thursday ONLY. Men's Work Shirts (Sizes 14 17.) Soft attached coltars, in Cham-brays, Percales, Satines.

etc. Plain blue, blacks, checks, stripes and combinations by the score. The SOo kind, for two days only 'J tent that leaves some doubt as to the historic value of the things thus desisr nated, and unfortunately patriots do not atop at absurdities. On the Let us tell you what DREAMLAND PARK has to offer this week. The DeMonieos in the seven silver circles is the best free act you have seen Refined, marvelous and pretty.

GOOD VAUDEVILLE SHOW Dancing and good music; boating; pool hall; roller coaster; penny arcade; motion pictures. Nothing like it anywhere else. GO OUT TONIGHT iroaa between Lexington and Bedford, from four nr hv marl Nlran l. HOm cKre on nis ramous midnight ride stands a house the gateway of wh.ch is marked with a sign bearing the iegend: "Here Paul Revere would have stopped had he come this way." OXE PURE FOOD LAW. Tj fccnuKnechfs instructive talk on the workings of the Illinois state law which was heard by a small audience in the courthouse Tuesday evening, plainly showed that not only the retailer but tle house holder is profiting by reason of this statute.

Harmfully adulterated goods are longer for sale in Illinois, and the section making proper labeling imperative is the housewife's best protection. A more complete law would be hard to find in any state. One thing that Mr. Schuknecht brought out retail grocers should carefully consider before they cer-lain. of unjust, treatment by Why don't you try it Mrs.

Pinkham invites all sick women to write her for ad vino. No matter vlat price others sell lor. Cheap Carley sells for less. Nuf Cerl No T. knowledged that he had a small photo- She has sruided thousands graph, of the.

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