Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 90, Decatur, Adams County, 11 April 1907 — Page 4

B MBS Accurate price* paid by Decatur merchant* for various product*. Corrected every day at 2 o'clock. BUFFALO STOCK MARKET. EAST BUFFALO. N. Y., April 12.— Receipts, cattle, 15 cars; market steady. Prime steers @55.90 Medium steers @55.40 Stockers to best feeders... @54.25 Cows @54.25 Receipts, hogs. 40 cars: market steady. Mediums and heavies.... @57.10 Yorkers @57.10 Pigs @57.25 Receipts, sheep, 60 cars; market steady. Best spring lambs @s9ls Wether heep @56.75 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 • 1 % July wheat May corn 4 J i July corn May oats 43 % i July oats 3 May pork $16.0* July pork 16.12 PITTSBURG MARKETS. Union stock yards, Pittsburg, Pa., April 12.—Hog supply. S cars; mar*ei steady. Heavies @ Mediums @57.15 Yorkers Light @s>.oo ...... @ st>.9s TOLEDO MARKETS. Changed every day at 3 o’clock by j D. Hale. Decatur special wire service. Wheat, cash >9% May wheat SOt* Julv wheat 81% • arv.

May corn 4| '» July com 4814 Oats, cash 45 May oats 43 <s July oats 40 % Rye 69 STOCK. bj Fred Scheiman Lambs, per cwt. $5.06®56.0fl Cattle, per cwt. $2.50'5'53.50 Calves, per cwt. $5.50® 56.00 Cows, per cwt [email protected] per cwt. $3.50©54.00 Hogs, per cwt 6 $6.09 COAL— PER TON. Hocking lump $4.25 Virginia Spllnr 4.50 Domestic Nut 4.00 Washed Nut 4-50 Pittsburg lump 4.00 Pocahontas 4.75 Kentucky Canneil 6.0° 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 cats 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 Tlmothv 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 J Corn, white, per cwt. 43c@51c' Machine husked corn, one cent less. l-ZI oJACKSON HILL COAL. By George Trlcker. (Wholesale.) Al or 2 Jackson Hill lump, t o. b mine, $2.50, f. o. b. Decatur, $3.70; eook stove nut, f. o. b. Decatur, $3.70; Hocking lump, $1175, f. o. b. mine; ■ Hocaiug lump, $3.05, L o. b. Decatur; Splint lump, $1.55 t o. b. mine; Splint lump, $3.10, t o. b. Decatur. MARKET NOTES. Corn —cent lower. Receipts at Chicago today: Hogs 18,000 Wheat 26 cars Corn 193 cars Oats 201 cars Cattle 4.500 Sheep 15.000 Estimate for tomorrow Hogs 17,000 Oats 18 cars Wheat 218 cars Corn 258 cars

vorn *OB cars WHEAT, FLOUR. ETC. The Oak Roller Mills quoia-’f'u Oak Patent flour 33.6< jfJ-l.Oi. Bran, per ton .120.00 Middlings, per ton 2fi oo Rough meat, per cwt 1 Kiln dried meal, per cwt. I 5Screenings. No. 1, oer hu. Cn Screenings. No. 2. per bu. 4o Cop teed, per ton JO.ao Wheat, No. 2. per bushel 71 WOOL ANO HIDES. By B. KaJver * Son ‘Ebons MX Wool 24c@ .27 Beef hides 8c Calf hides. B@ls lbs ©loc Muskrat sc© .30 Sheep pelts 25c0»1.50 Tallow tv*

i Smith & Jones, i [Copyright, 1906. by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.] Jonas K. Smith and William B. Jones were schoolmates and bosom friends. At the age of twenty they entered the same counting room. Two years later Smith weut into the draper’s business, and Jones went to South America to represent a firm. Three years after Jones had departed for South America things so changed with his firm that he returned. Smith knew that be was coming and was the first to greet him. Neither had married during the interval. The draper had prospered, but desired to enlist more capital and enlarge his business. Jones had money and became a part , ner. So great was their faith in each other that no papers were drawn beyond those making it a legal partnership. They trusted to each other in everything else. The partnership con-| tinned for five years, and the firm made money. This made at least sixi teen years that they had been daily i together as boys and men. and one \ would have said that each thoroughly understood the other. One day, in view of further improvements, they had a balance sheet drawn. This showed the exact share of each and the profits made. There was a differ- ' ence of just a halfpenny in favor of Smith. The matter was first mentioned in a joking way and in the greatest good nature, but later on it became a bone of contention. Here were two lifelong friends who had handled thousands of pounds between them disput- . ing about a halfpenny. Each declared that he was actuated by principle, and so hot did the dispute rage that a dissolution of the copartnership was agreed upon. Jones went out of the firm and established an opposition trade. In two , years he bankrupted both concerns. ■ j People for thirty miles around were j ; furnished with free railroad tickets to | come and buy, even at half price, and : they were furnished free meals at the : stores. When bankruptcy came It made a

clean sweep. Both tnen went out into the world without a dollar. Smith took a situation in a warehouse, and Jones secured one with a real estate agent. Smith secured board far away from the other place, but inside of two days Jones was a boarder at the same place. Then they spoke for the first time in two years, and their words were overheard by the landlady, as testified to afterward. As they met in the upper hall Jones said: “Smith, I have just a word to say to you. I shall kill you some day for your meanness about that halfpenny.” “That’s my intention toward you.” That was all. They sat at the same table and slept within a few feet of each other for five months and never passed another word. They ignored each other’s very existence. The other boarders in the house come to understand the situation and fell into it, though of course it was a subject of general remark. On a dozen different occasions mutual friends interceded, but each time they were rebuffed. That poor little halfpenny stood in the way and could not be put aside. At the end of five months a relative of Smith died, and he decided to buy a bouse in a suburb of London and have a widowed sister act as housekeeper. This project was talked over at the table before all. It was a most curious thing that Jones should be in the employ of the real estate man who had erected the houses in the suburb referred to and that it was a part of his duties to show would be purchasers through the

bouses. Such was the case, however, and one afternoon when Smith alighted from the underground at the suburb he found Jones ready for him. It must have been a surprise to him. and yet h- was equal to the occasion. He asked to be shown a certain house, and Jones led the way into it. People on the street heard and saw this. That evening neither man returned to his boarding house. They did not return next day. Then the police were spoken to. and a search was instituted. Smith had said that he was going to look at a house. Jones had said that be was going to show a house to a customer. They found the house into which the two men had gone and had not been seen to reappear with its outer door unlocked. In a room upstairs they found Smith and Jones dead. What happened was told by a tramp who was in hiding in the house because he had committed a theft and feared the police were after him. He was asleep in an upstairs room and was awakened by the sounds of the men’s voices tn dispute. He heard one say: “Smith. Providence has sent you nere to your death. I am going to kill you!” “Jones, I have been waiting for Just sueh an opportunity to take your life!" replied the other.

There was little or nothing more said before they closed with each other. The struggle lasted about five minute*. It was beard, but not seen, by the tramp. It ended by Smith being dashed against the sill of a window with such force as to f; vture his skull. It was the opinion of the doctors that he may have lived on for an hour. Jones started to go downstairs, but sat down on the top step and fell back and died. He had a wenk heart and bad overexerted himself. The tramp had to climb over bim to get downstairs. That was the end of one of the strangest feuds ever started from any cause, and one has bat to read the particulars to wonder if any human ba•ng ever comes to really understand another. M. QVAD.

ENGLISH HALL MARKS The True Ones Are the Leopard and the Lion. LEGACY OF THE MIDDLE AGES Th* Sy«t*m Invented by the Goldsmith*' Company of London Is a Lasting Index to the Age and Genuineness of Old Silver Articles. Every mark on your old sliver means something, and if you care to be sure about its age or maker a study of these marks and the system is essential. A record has been kept at Goldsmiths’ hall, London, for five centuries of all annual date letters and of the registered silversmiths and their private marks. In 1337 King Edward IIL granted a charter to the Goldsmiths’ guild. During the reign of Edward IV. the Goldsmiths' Company of London, as it came to be known, Invented and put into practice an alphabetical system of marks, changing each year. There were similar codes in the provincial assay offices. This system is one of the few bequests of the middle ages which have stood the test of time practically without change. By the provisions of this system we have not only a lasting index by which to judge the age of gold and silver, but we have a guarantee of genuineness. Neither the date marks nor maker's marks are hall marks, properly speaking, though all marks on silver are commonly referred to as hall marks. The true hall marks are the leopard and the lion. The leopard’s head was used first from 1300, and in 1545 a lion passant was added. These marks were punched into the metal with a die. the animal appearing in a shield or oblong field. Until 1550 a small crown appeared over the lion: from 1557 to 1(580 the puncheon followed the outline of the lion’s body; after that the lion appeared on an oblong shield. These various forms of the hall mark indicate certain broad periods and are sometimes helpful in determining the age of a piece of silver when the date mark Is indistinct The date letter or year mark system seems to have been definitely settled about 1518, for, although there was an alphabetical system more than fifty years before, it is customary to go back to 1518 as an accurate starting point Charles 11. raised the standard of the metal, and in 1695 the new quality was given a new mark. Britannia sitting in an oblong puncheon, with a lion’s head erased. The standard was found to be too soft for practical purposes, however, and in 1720 there was a return to the old and present standard of metal, with the leopard's head and the lion passant Naturally these Britannia pieces are rare. Makers began to use their private marks about 1363. At first they used the first two letters of the surname. About 1739 the initial* were substituted. For example, prior to this date Paul Lamerie’s mark was La. After ward it became P. L. Thus were four marks on the silver up to 1784—leopard's head, lion, date letter and maker's mark. In 1784 the sovereign's head was added—the governmental customs mark—making five punches in all. There were changes from time to time In the fixed ball marks which are worth noting. For example, the leopard’s head was set in a puncheon following its outlines until 1678, when it began to appear in a symmetrical shield of five sides.

In 1696 the head was reduced somewhat in size. In 1720 the leopard lost his beard and his shield became oblong, and in 1823 his crown was taken away from him. These were all London marks. There were in addition provincial marks. The Edinburgh hall mark dates from 1457. It was a triple turreted castle or tower. The standard mark was a thistle, which was substituted for the assay master's initials in 1757. The date letter cycles began in Edinburgh in 1681. Glasgow had a curious emblem —a tree with a bird in the top, a bell hanging from one branch and a fish across the trunk, stamped in an oval puncheon. The Sheffield and Birmingham hall marks were a crown and an anchor respectively, with the lion passant as the standard mark. Dublin had a crowned harp. Now, to go back to the subject of date marks, I cannot do more than barely indicate what there is In the subject for those who wish to go into it seriously. Different cities or halls had different year marks. I will deal only with the London marks, as being by far the most important. Each year had assigned to it a letter of the alphabet which was stamped on every piece of silver made or aold in London that year. When the alphabet was used up they went back to A again, taking usually a slightly different form of letter. These alphabets stopped at the letter U, so that each of these cycles is an even twenty years in length. One way of counterfeiting old silver is to make a perfect copy of an old piece in some alloy and give it a thick coating of silver by Lie modern electroplate process. Such counterfeits are treated skillfully, hall marks and all being reproduced. On the bottom or Inside of the piece may sometimes he found the granulated or crystallized surfaces left by this process, though these are usually tooled over if in sight Sometimes English hall marks have been cut from a spoon or other small article of great age and transferred to a larger piece of more modern make.—Country Life In -kseoelea.

Important Notice to Taxpayer*. May 6, 1907, is the last day for paying the spring installment of taxes. Unless paid at said date a penalty of 10 per cent will be added, according to instructions from the state auditor, I am compelled to obey the law to the letter. It is impossible for me to grant any favors. I trust all taxpayers will remember this and settle on or before May 6, and avoid paying penalty. Yours very truly, J. F. LACHOT. 86-lmo. Treasurer. For catarrh, let me send you free, just to prove merit, a trial size nog es Dr. Shoop’s Catarrh Remedy. It is a snow white, creamy, healing, antiseptic balm that gives instant relief to catarrh of the nose and throat. Make the free test and see. Address Dr. Shoop, Racine, Wis. Large jars. 50 cents. Sold by W. H. NACHTRIEB. FOR SALE —Two year old bay driving mare. First house east of Beery church. on the tone r>e. A. AurandC. church 01.o 1 . the st >u .■ pike. A Aurand. 86-6 t Money to loan on farms at low rate of interest. No commission. Partial payments allowed and interest stopped. DORE B. ERWIN. Tues & Fri Attorney-at-Law. WOOD FOR SALE—Split hickory wood at the Whipstock factory. A. N. York. Phone 502 83 — FOR SALE —Two Tennessee Jacks, one 14 and other 15 hands high. For sale at the right price. Robert Hanlin,! R. F. D. 2, Ft Recovery, O. 75 — WANTED —A girl to do general house work. Inquire of J. H. Smith, 210 S. Ninth street. 84-6 t FOR SALE —Rose Comb Rhode Island Red eggs. A setting of 15 eggs for 50 cents. Inquire of Lose & Sons. 75-ts See Julius Haugk for stone, cement blocks, Portland cement and coal. Fresh car of cement just received. Phone 74. 71*-24t FOR SALE OR RENT—A good blacksmith shop in a small town; only shop in town: good location. Inquire of John Scheimann. at City Coal & Feed Yard. 'Phone 240. SB-6t FOR SALE —Good brood mare in foal seven year old; two-year-old colt sound; good work horse, seven years old. weighs 1600 pounds. Call at Bultemeier’s livery barn. 84-12 t See Lettie Kintz for all kinds of Art needlework, material, teaching, etc. Lessons Wednesday and Saturday afternoons, from 1 to 4. Madison street. 84-ts. FOR SALE —Complete threshing outfit. Goar Scott rig, 16 horse power engine. In good condition, having been used but a short time. Address C. H. Waiters, rural route ten, Bluffton. 88-6 t

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The Knights and Ladies of Honor has age. large surplus, large membership rapidly increasing, now in 36 states, headquarters in Indianapolis. Patronize home institutions. S6-5t EGGS FOR SALE—R. C. Buff and White Orpingtons. Winners of Ist, 2d, 3d and 4th prizes at Decatur Poultry Show. Chicken with best record of all breeds. SI.OO per 13. J. B. Drummond, Decatur. 74-18 L FOR SALE OR TRADE—A good work horse; will trade for young stock or sell. Arthur Fisher. 3t I have any amount of money to loan on farms. Harvey Harrutf. Decatur, Ind. S6-18t. Join an order that your mother, your sister, wife and sweetheart may join. 86-5 t For a good job of spouting, roofing, copper or galvanized roding, see Thos. A. Leonard. 84-6 t. FOR SALE—Two good cows; one has a calf by her side; one will be fresh May first. Inquire John Scheimann. at City Coal Yard. 'Phone 240. 88-6 t The Knights and Ladies of Honor has no connection with the Knights of Honor, nor has it had for thirty years. 86-5 t LOST —A back comb, gold mounted with three brilliants. Return to this office. Join the Knights and Ladies of Honor as a charter member, and thereby save initiation fee. EGGS FOR SALE—For Single Comb Rhode Island Red eggs for hatching, calle phone 428. 87-6 t FOR SALE—Nine Shropshire sheep with their lambs; Durocs with pigs by side;four Shorthorn male calves: B. P. Rock, W. Wyandotte, R. C. B. Leghorn and R. C. Rhode Island Red eggs for hatching. E. S. Christen. Decatur. Phone F-12. 87-*6t Money to loan at lowest rates of interest on real estate securities. Abstracts furnished. Schurger & Smith, attorneys-at-law. 76-lmo EGGS FOR SALE—Settings from White Branmas. high scoring bens. My birds took first prizes at the De catur Poultry show. Price 75 cents per setting. Michael Miller, Monroe. R. R. No. 1. 54-*2mo. Farmers Attention Just received a load of high-grade fertilizers, and in order to sell it quick I will sell it cheap. Inquire John Schinnan, at City Coal & Feed Yard. 'Phone

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Capital Surplus SIOO,OOO 00 20,000.00 FIRST NATIONAL BANK DECATUR - INDIANA P. W. Smith W. A. Kuebler, President Vice Pres C. A. Dugan, T. J. Durkin Cashier Asst. Cashier F. W. Jaebker Teller Deposits Resources $490,000 $650,000 P. J. HYLAND? SANITARY PLUMBING FITTING Steam ** D Hot Water Mini us md whin«»tiw fixtuies 13 Monroe St. Wiowc 33 • f HARPER \ / KENTUCKY I I WHISKEYI \ for Gentlemen / \ who cherish / \, Quality. / For Sale By JOS. TONELLIER JOS. B. KNAPKE