Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 85, Decatur, Adams County, 5 April 1907 — Page 4

I ■ • Accurate prices paid by Decatur merchants for various products. Corrected every day at 2 o’clock. BUFFALO STOCK MARKET. ——— EAST BUFFALO, N. Y., April 5.— Receipts, cattle, 2 cars; market steady. Prime steers @56.10 Medium steers @55.50 Stockers to best feeders... @54.25 Cows @54.25 Receipts, hogs, 20 cars: market steady. Mediums and heavies . — Yorkers @s‘-25 Pigs @si.2s Receipts, sheep, 15 cars; market steady. Best spring lambs @59.00 Wether sheep @56.65 Mixed sheep @56.25 Culls, clipped @55.00 CHICAGO MARKETS. Chicago markets closed today at 1:15 p. m., according to the Decatur Stock & Grain Exchange. May wheat 77% July wheat ‘9 May corn 46% May oats 42 July corn 42% July oats 37% May pork $16.15 July pork 16.22 PITTSBURG MARKETS. Union stock yards, Pittsburg, Pa., April 5. —Hog supply, 10 cars; market steady. Heartes @57.15 Mediums @57.15 Yorkers @57.15 Light @57.10 Pigs @57.10 TOLEDO MARKETS. Changed every day at 3 o’clock by J. D. Hale. Decatur special wire service. Wheat, cash 77% May wheat 79% July wheat May corn 46% July corn 47% Oats, cash 44% May oats 42% July oats 39 Rye 69 STOCK. By Fred Scbelman. Lam ba, per cwt [email protected] Cattle, per cwt [email protected] Calves, per cwt [email protected]<» Cows, per cwt [email protected] Sheep, per cwt $3.5([email protected] Hogs, per cwt @56.00 COAL— PER TON? Hocking lump $4.25 Virginia Splint 4.50 Domestic Nut 4.0 U Washed Nut 4.50 Pittsburg lump 4.00 Pocahontas 4.75 Kentucky Cannell 6. O'* Anthracite 7.50 Charges for carrying coal —25c per ton or fraction thereof; upstairs, 50 cents per ton. OTHER PRODUCTS. By Various Grocers and Merchants Eggs, per dozen 13c Butter, per pound 18c Potatoes 50c Lard 9c GRAIN. By G. T. BURK, successor to Carroll Elevaor company. Big 4 White Seed oats for sale or exchange to farmers. Wheat, No. 2, red $ 71 Wheat, No. 3, red 70 Oats, No. 3, white 36 Barley 39 Rye, No. 2 55 Clover seed 8.00 Alsyke 6.50 Timothv seed 2.00 No. 1 Timothy hay, baled 13.50 No. 1 Clover hay. baled 11.00 No. 2 Mixed hay, baled 12.00 No. 1 Clover hay, baled 12.00 Corn 58 Corn, white, per cwt 43c@51c Machine husked corn, one cent less. - o

JACKBON HILL COAU Bj George Trlcker. (Wholesale.) Al or 2 Jackson Hill lump, t. o. b Brine, |2.50, f. o. b. Decatur, (3.70; cook stov«* nut, f. o. b. Decatur, 33.70; Hocking lump, sl*7s, f. o. b. mine; Hocklag lump. $3.05,, f. o. b. Decatur; Splint lump, $1.55 L o. b. mine; Splint lump, $3.10, L o. b. Decatur a, ' MARKET NOTES. Cora —k cent lower. Receipts at Chicago today: Hogs 20,000 Wheat 16 cars Com 466 cars Oats 220 cars Cattle 2000 Sheep 15000 Estimate tor tomorrow Hogs 20000 Oats 14 cars Wheat 461 cars Corn ...... 239 cars WHEAT, FLOUR. ETC. The Oak Roller Mills quota*lon Oak Patent flour Bran, per ton $20.00 Middlings. per ton 20 00 Bough meat, per cwt 100 Kl’m dried meal. pe- cwt....... 150 Screenings, No. 1, per bu 60 Screenings. No. 2. per bu. 40 Cop feed, per ton 20.00 Wheat, No. 2. per bushel 71 WOOL ANO HIDES. By B. Reiver A Son. 'Phone 442. Beef hides 8c Calf hides, B@ls lbs @loc Possum sc© .30 Muskrat sc@ .30 24c@ .28 8h«-»o pelts . .25c051.6* Ta»o» 4H

• • : Os the Twentieth : | • Century. • • • • By Otho B. Senga. • • • • • • Copyright, 1907. by May McKeon. • ••••••«••••••••••••••••••• As Dr. Blyth stood in the hall a young girl stepped from an adjoining room, inquiring anxiously, “How do you find my father, Dr. Blyth?” “His condition Is serious,” he admitted. “but with good care”— She cut short the conventional platitudes. “When will he be able to go out again?" “Not for weeks,” emphatically. Her look of anxiety deepened. “What is your father’s business, Miss Hall?” “He is manager of the local tele- I phone system and attends personally ’ to repairing and keeping up the line.” “That means a great deal of hard work?” sympathetically. “Yes, particularly in the winter. The circuit comprises nearly 300 phones, and the line extends out into the coun- | try in alt directions.” “Discontinue it in the winter,” unthinkingly. “The subscribers need it more then,” i gravely. "Nearly all of them are farm- . ers and depend upon their telephones j for communication with the village and with each other.” “If possible, keep from your father all anxiety concerning the business. I J fear nervous prostration in his case.” j During his round of calls Dr. Blyth thought often of the beautiful girl with the sweet, grave voice. He was a stranger in Lindsey and was taking up his uncle’s practice. “Fred Hall sick? That’s too bad!” was his uncle’s comment. “But they’ll manage all right,” with a country doctor’s knowledge of his patient’s as- ■ fairs. “Mrs. Hall is strong and a good nurse. Fidelia understands the business thoroughly. Too bad she isn’t a boy. It will take about all the manager’s salary to hire a man to come here from the city to do the outside work.” Dr. Blyth was disappointed when several calls were made upon the sick manager without seeing Fidelia. She was constantly in his thoughts, and her lovely face seemed always before his eyes. By chance his next call was in the evening. Fidelia met him iu the hall as he was leaving. “Do you feel encouraged. Dr. Blyth?” “Yes,” kindly, “but his nervous condition is serious. Is he worrying about the business?” “I think not,” hopefully. “I hold his position as manager, and that encourages him. He has all confidence In my ability.” "You are a brave girl,” enthusiastically. “You have some one for the outside work?” She hesitated, coloring rosily. “I—l have the services of a very competent lineman.” “Where Is your ‘central?’” “Here,” Indicating the room adjoining. “I’ve always been father’s hello girl,” smiling brightly. On several succeeding calls the physician saw no one outside the sickroom but Edith Hall, a girl about thirteen, sharp of eye and of tongue, wholly unlike Fidelia, be thought “I’m hello girl now,” she cried importantly. “Fidelia’s out looking after the line—the lineman.” He recalled his uncle’s remarks regarding Fidelia’s knowledge of the business. “The brave little girl,” he murmured, with a tenderness wholly unaccountable. “She will wish to supervise the lineman’s work for awhile. I’d like to be the lineman If it means a daily drive with the little Fidelia.” On the following evening he saw Fidelia In her office. He reported hopefully of her father and rejoiced In her words of praise for his professional

care. “I’ve often thought,” she observed earnestly, “that I’d like to be a doctor.” Dr. Blyth smiled somewhat satirically. “You forget, Miss Hall,” rather loftily, “your physical inability to cope with the hardships incident to a coun- ; try doctor's life. He must brave any storm or cold. A delicate girl like you couldn't endure it.” A little flickering smile lurked for an instant at the corners of the pretty

mouth. “Don’t you approve of women being physicians?” “Frankly, Miss Hall, I do not.” "Aren’t you somewhat old fashioned, doctor, not to say antiquated, in your ideas?” quizzically. “Perhaps,” stiffly, “but there are so many occupations for which a woman is wholly fitted that it seems regrettable she should enter upon one entirely unsuited to her.” “And may I ask,” demurely, “what are some that you consider suitable for women?” “Well,” hesitatingly, “first, homemaking. A woman should be—er—a wife and—and mother, of course.” “Those privileges,” quietly, “are de- i hied some women. Go on.” “Schoolteaching,” triumphantly, ’’millinery, dressmaking.” “Not at all up to date,” smilingly. “Anything else?’ “Weil—er,” lamely—“l don’t recall anything at the moment.” “xou wouldn’t approve, then, of a woman being a steamboat captain or an engineer or a house painter or a mason?” “Certainly not. The last two are utterly impossible anyway." “Oh. I don’t know." lightly, “I can

even Imagine a woman being a good lineman.” Blyth laughed in open sarcasm. “I wouldn't care to see the woman. Wouldn’t she be a terror!” “Why?” sharply. “Take your own lineman, for example, Miss Hall. Fancy a woman in his place—driving In all weathers about this sparsely settled country, climbing poles, sitting astride crossarms!” He shrugged bis shoulders Impatiently. “That's worse than being a doctor!” Afterward he wondered If she would tMiik he disapproved of what she was doing. He hoped not. He considered it entirely commendable for her to manage this business during her father’s illness, and the office, being in her own home, made it seem essentially womanly. He promised himself that he would see her often. He had never before met a girl who seemed to answer so fully the requirements of his ideal. But as the days went by his glimpses of Fidelia were tantalisingly Infrequent. He disliked to Inquire for her. He fancied there was malignant satisfaction in Edith’s brief answer, “Out—with the lineman.” He ventured another evening call, but Fidelia was in charge of the switchboard, and opportunity for conversation was limited. His half conscious resentment toward the lineman prompted a question as to his competency. “You have to go around with him all the time,” he grumbled jealously. Fidelia blushed. “The lineman is fully competent, but I like to go. I am very fond of’— An imperative call for “central” interrupted. and the sentence was not completed. Blyth remembered it uneasily. Was it the lineman, or had she meant to say that she liked driving in the glorious autumn weather? He grew despondent as the weeks went by, and, no matter how cold or stormy the day, Edith gave the same irritating answer, "Out with the lineman.” Then he resolved to settle the affair. He loved the girl. He was sure of himself now. He would boldly make the opportunity to tell her so. She should choose between him and that—his adjectives would nit have been uttered in Fidelia’s presence—lineman! The thought of her was 1 uppermost in his mind as he drove toward home on a cold, windy day in early spring. i “Oh, if only I”— He cheeked the half uttered words, smiling tenderly as he dreamed a young man’s beautiful day dreams of love and life. Ahead of him in the lonely country ! road he saw a horse and buggy standing by a telephone pole. Instinctively he looked up. “The lineman!” he exclaimed Interestedly. "I’m thankful Fidelia Isn’t with him this miserable day!” The man climbed from the crossarm and came down the pole with the swift I ease acquired by constant practice. “He’s a little chap,” thought the doctor. “Perhaps that’s why Fidelia watches him so closely.” The lineman sprang Into the buggy, with his coil of wire and bag of tools, driving rapidly away. “I'll overtake him and speak with him. I—l ought to be halfway decent to a little chap like that” But the lineman's slim, boyish figure, erect in the lighter vehicle, held the lines over an animal that sped along as if ware of his pursuit Blyth caught a glimpse of a rounded red cheek under the lineman’s close cap. A wild thought a glimmering of . the truth, sent the blood to his own cheeks, and he urged his horse on. He reached the driveway at Hall’s In time to see the slim figure leap from the buggy and dash Into the house. The doctor followed hurriedly. “Go tell your sister that I must see her at once!” His Imperative command startled Edith into Instant obedience. When Fidelia entered the room, with cheeks that rivaled the crimson of the soft robe she wore, Blyth sprang toward her. She motioned him back with a repelling band even while her eyes gave him the assurance he sought. “You know you don't approve—you said”— “I don’t care what I said! I was wrong. Fidelia. I approve of anything that you do and of everything that you are, Fidelia, my little lineman!”

Ungallant Cromwell. We have heard a great deal lateiy of the chivalrous consideration shown by men and women In the good old times, i but the casual remarks of various writ- I ers of those days tend to dispel the illu- ' sion, says the London Chronicle. John Aubrey, for instance, writing about 1678, tells us that “King James I.’s court was so far from being civil to women that the ladies—nay, the queen herself—could hardly pass by the king’s apartment without receiving some affront.” And in one of Richard Symon’s pocketbooks there is the following account of Oliver Cromwell’s behavior at his daughter’s wedding In 1657: “The lord protector threw about sack posset among the ladyes to soyle their rich cloaths, which they took as a favour, and also wett sweetmeats, and daubed all the stooles where they were to sit with wett sweetmeats.” Bells and Money. A thousand men can go to work at 7 o’clock in the morning without the ringing of a bell, and why is it that 300 people cannot assemble in a church without a previous ding-dong-ing lasting half an hour?—Detroit Free Press. Why. man, it’s because they go out at 7 o’clock to get money. Put a twenty dollar gold piece in each pew every Sunday and you may sell your bell for old metal—Louisville CourierJournal.

Tim Hurst's Baseball Troubles. At the close of that memorable seamu when Tim Hurst managed the Browns for Von der Abe be laid over iu Philadelphia on bls way to his home up the state, and while iu the Quaker City be told his daily experiences while running the Mound City club. “My Mondays." said Timothy, “were devoted to telling the St. Louis sporting editors bow I was going to win the pennant the next year. Tuesdays I would be kept busy denying to the club owners that I had ever made any such statements. Wednesdays I would be explaining to the newspajsers why we weren't winning games. Thursdays I would be fighting with Chris to keep him from fining the players all the money they had coming to them. 1 rldays I would generally be busy all day getting the terms of pitchers that no batter could hit.” “And on Saturdays?” “On Saturdays 1 would spend the day signing players that couldn t hit any kind of pitcbing.”-Duluth Herald. Paint and Ocean Travel. “The worst feature of ocean travel is never mentioned in steamship company prospectuses or in books of travel,” said a returned tourist “It is not seasickness, for only a few are taken that way in the ocean greyhounds that neither rock nor pitch. It Is not the narrow quarters or the Inferior cooking or the tipping habit. It is paint There Is always wet paint on an ocean j steamer, and there is never a sign on 'it to warn passengers. The modern i sailor Is a painter, constantly wielding I the brush, always painting some part of the ship or other, there is hardly a passenger on an ocean liner that does | not land from a voyage with some ari tide of apparel damaged by paint. A sailor told me once that every ship is i entirely repainted inside and out at 1 least three times a year. The work , goes on constantly in port and on the sea, and the passenger never can escape.”—Philadelphia Record. Lightning Flashes. Lightning flashes iu a storm are found by an English observer to be much less irregular in period than they appear. Such storms have usually two foci, sometimes three, from which the flashes radiate, and the discharges from each come at regular intervals. The apparent irregularity is due to the • varying rates of the different centers. In one storm noticed the two foci were about a mile and a half apart, and in an hour the northern center emitted thirty flashes at intervals of fifteen. ■ thirty, forty-five, sixty and ninety seconds. and the southern center gave sixteen flashes at intervals of seven- ■ teen, thirty-four and fifty-one seconds. ' Another unexplained observation is that just before each great flash there ! is a momentary faint lighting up of the sky in the stormy region. It Made a Difference. An excited man rushed into a lawyer’s office and without any preliminary burst out, “Has a husband a right ! to open his wife’s letters?” “Certainly, | sir, certainly,” was the reply. "Open j all you please.” “Well, here is a letter J my wife has written to your wife and asked me to deliver. I think there’s , something unpleasant in it about me. I ■ wish you'd open it and if there is just burn it.” “Humph! Does my wife know your wife is going to write to her?” “Yes.” “And if my wife doesn’t I get this letter she’ll soon find it out, I won’t she?” “Os course.” “On second i thoughts,” said the lawyer thought- ! fully, “I believe there is a legal finding to the effect that it is a criminal offense to open a wife’s letters. I couldn't take the risk, sir; indeed, I couldn’t” Echo Verses. Echo verses were sometimes used effectively for epigrams and squibs. Thus a critic once wrote: I’d fain praise your poem. But, tell me, how is it When I cry out “exquisite” echo cries I “quiz it?” And when in 1831 Paganini was drawing crowds to the opera bouse at extravagant prices the Times printed the following lines: What are they who pay three guineas To hear a tune of Paganini's? Echo—Pack o’ ninnies' —London Graphic.

Youthful Misinformation. Among the answers to questions at a recent school examination were the following interesting examples of youthful misinformation: “Gross ignorance Is 144 times as bad as just ordinary ignorance.” “Anchorite, an old fashioned hermit son of a fellow who has anchored hisself to one place.” “The liver is an infernal organ.” “Vacuum is nothing with the air sucked out of it put up in a pickle bottle. It is very hard to get." Only Two In Office. A man in a certain township was elected constable. The members of the family were much elated and could scarcely contain themselves with their newly acquired civic honors. At last ' one of the smaller children said to the wife, “Ma. are we ail constables?” The mother replied: “Gwan. child! I Nobody’s constable but me and your paT*—Atchison Globe. The Real Cause. Tommy — What was you bawlin' about last night? Willie— W’y, when paw and me got home from fishin’ maw didn’t have supper ready, and I whimpered about it, and paw licked me. I “And be licked you Jis’ fer whlmper--1 In’r “Naw; because supper wasn’t ready." Patience Is the support of weakness; impatience Is the ruin of strength.— I Colton.

REAL ESTATE Sams fine farms and good values located in Van Wert County Ohio. 176 acres, 10 room house, a drove well, wind pump, summer houee.bank bsru 40x80, well fenced with page wire, well ditched, 2j miles to market will sell for SBS per acre and take Ji 000 cash and give from 5 to 20 years to pay balace at 6 percent in erest. 142 J acres, 8 room house, a good barn, well ditched and fenced, 6 oil wells, paying fl » day, 3 miles from a good market, SBS per acre, will take SIOOO cash and give sto 20 years to pav balance at 6 percent interest. 80 acres, 4 room house, double log barn with broad stable | mile to church and school, 3 miles to a good market, will take $5,000 —$1009 cash balance in 5 years at 5 percent interest. A good 40 acres to trade for a residence property or a business. 100 acres, 8 room house, wood house, smoke house, one barn 40x50, with sheds, corn crib, hog pens and all necessary buildings. All In good repair, two god orchards, well fenced and ditched, on pike 2% miles to Van Wert. Price $lO5 per acre. 40 acres, 5 room house, good barn and granary, good orchard, all black soil, well ditched and fenced, 6 miles to Van Wert. Price $4,000. 60 acres, 7 room house, new granary, good barn, all black soil, well ditched and fenced. 5% miles to Van Wert. Price $6,000. 160 acres, 2 good sets of buildings, three barns, all cleared except 10 acres, wel fenced with wire fence, well ditched with tile; has no open ditches, on pike, 2% miles to Van Wert. Price SIOO per acre. 60 acres, 5 room house, summer kitchen, good frame barn, good soil. 10 acres in wheat; 15 acres plowed for oats, well ditched and fenced, on pike, 2% miles to Van Wert. Can give possession this spring. Price $5500. Will take $2250 cash and give five years to pay balance. 40 acres, all black soil, level land, on pike one mile to market, will exchange for a livery stock or residence property, or sell for $2,500 and take SIOOO cash and give 5 years to pay balance at 5 per cent interest Meat market for sale, doing a good business, in a good town. Will sell at invoice. Reason for selling, poor health. Millinery store for sale; one of the leading stores in V’an Wert. Grocery store doing a good business. Will seU at invoice. In a good town of 10,000. Livery stock, 8 head of horses, buggies, harness, etc. Doing a good business. Drug store doing a good business in a town of 2000. Will sell at invoice. Two properties on Tenth street. Will sell at a bargain if sold soon. I also have several good properties for sale in the city of Decatur.

W. H. PARKER 412 13th, St Decatur Reliable Life Insurance Reasonable Cos I $9,500,000.00 GIIBANTEE *lO HcSESVE FUNDS Cost on $1,000.90 In 1906 was Age 21 $5 25 I Age 40 SIO.OO Age 30 $7,50 I Age 50 sl2 50 O'her Ages In Proportion Established in 1879 The Banker’s Life Ass’n. Des Moines, lowa J. Z Brickley, Dist. Mgr. Bluffton, Ind.

Farmers! Attention! <• Stop and think! Be honest with yourself. You will have to say J. N. can get you just as much for your property as anybody. Thanking you for your past patronage for the last five years, I still remain.

Yours for a successful sale. J. N. BURKHEAD Monroe, Ind. Phone Call Central at Monroe tor my residence.

A Successful Sale Will be the result if you employ an Auctioneer that KNOWS HOW to manage your sale. 12 years of almost daily experience enables me to get you the highest prices for your property. Office over Burn’s Harness shop. I have no other business. fredreppert THE AUCTIONEER All Farmers Attention iiuHiii iijii .. t 1 $ John Souhler The Livestock General AUCTIONEER r will get you the £?MwWSM high dollars for y° ur P r, 'P ei ry fe ■ Call early for dates. i ’Phone I sidence 53' JOHN SPUHLER. THtsTs THE KELLER INCUBATOR COMPANY’S AD Now is the time to buy a famous Keller Incubator and Brooder. The Incubator and brood, j. er whose record has never been equaled. r ' --.-7.Tgg,. -' Why buy a famous Keller Incubator and Brood. 1 - ~ ! er? Because it is the only machine manu. ■ factured today in which you are guaranteed (ji t Z - I nature’s principles. We are the only manu. i *; ji-'L 1 . facturers today guaranteeing you 100 per cent ili‘'w~~ - TTTMfc of all the heat 100 per cent of all the oil. 100 1 ' 1 l pet - cent ot P ure f res h air at any and all n gjf stages of your hatch. Every machine tested I ■ i’ ffj before it leaves our factory. Can or does any ! f other manufacturer guarantee you anything as ' . good? Or meet our guarantee? This la the only H H machine that does not damp over its lamp and H i I O-W waste 50 per cent of everything. Send for a W f re€ catalogue which tells you the rest. We pay the freight on all machines to you. Buy the famous Keller Incubators and Brooders, whose record has never been equaled. Address all orders to Keller Incubator Co., Decatur, Ind., U. S. A. Box F. Prince of India During the week of the popular show “The Prince of India” The Ft. Wayne & Springfield Ry. Co. will run an hour and a half schedule. CARS LEAVE DECATUR. CARS LEAVE FT. WAYNE. 6:00 a.m. 7:30 a.m. 7:30 a.m. 10:30 a.m. 10:30 a.m. 12:00 m. 12:00 m. 1:30 p.m. 1:30 p.m. 3:00 p.m. 3:00 p.m. 4:30 p.m. 4:30 p.m. 6:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m. 7:30 p.m. 9:30 p.m. 11:00 p.m. The ii:qo P. M. car will be held until after the show. W. H. FLEDDERJOHANN, T. W. SHELON, President and Gen. Mgr. Gen. Supt.

[GOAL] Feed and Seeds f Portland t Cement i Gypsum Rock Plaster We make a specialty of furnishing HIGH GRADB OLBAB COAL that will burn. J. D. HAU Ftioxi* B Tor. Jrfferaon and 2nd flu | ; - ■ WOOD FOR SALE—Split hickory J wood at the Whipstock factory. A. ; N. York. Phone 502 83—

CALL ON Citv Trucking Co. TOR STORAfIt. TRUCimS, Etc. Heavy Work a Specialty Phone 412 Chaq. Miller c. l Walters' ATTORNEY AT LAW Office over Brock’s tin shop Second Street. Decatur, Indians