Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 99, Decatur, Adams County, 22 April 1907 — Page 4

MBS Accurs' 1 ' P r,ce * P ald by Decatur mercw' ,e * for various product*. Cor regard every day at 2 o’clock. BUFFALO STOCK MARKET. EAST BUFFALO, N. Y„ April 22.— Receipts, cattle 2 cars; market steady. Prime steers @56.00 Medium steers @55.50 Stockers to best feeders... @54.00 Cows @54.50 Receipts hogs, 30 cars; market steady. Mediums and heavies.... @57.00 Yorkers @57.00 Pigs @57.05 Receipts, sheep, 40 cars; market steady. Best spring lambs @59.00 Wether sheep @57.00 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 7854 July wheat 80% | May corn 47% July corn 48% { May oats 43% July oats 41 I May pork $15.90 July pork $15.92 PITTSBURG MARKETS. Union stock yards, Pittsburg, Pa., April 22. —Hog supply, 10 cars; market steady. Heavies @57.00 Mediums @57.00 Yorkers @57.00 Light @57.05 Pigs @57.00 TOLEDO MARKETS. Changed every day at 3 o'clock by I J. D. Hale. Decatur special wire service. Wheat, cash 79% May wheat 80% July wheat 82% May oats 48% July oats 49% May oats 44 July oats 42 Rye 69 STOCK. By Fred Scheiman. Lambs, per cwt [email protected] Cattle, per cwt. [email protected] Calves, per cwt. [email protected] ; Cows, per cwt [email protected] Sheep, per cwt. . [email protected] Hogs, per cwt @56.00 COAL— PER TON. Hocking lump $4-25 Virginia Splint 4.50 Domestic Nut 4.00 Washed Nut 4.50 Pittsburg lump *OO Pocahontas 4.75 Kentucky Cannell 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; 1 Potatoes 59c t Lard 9c , GRAIN. j By G. T. BURK, successor to Carroll ( Elevaor company. Big 4 White Seed ( cats tor sale or exchange to farmers. I . 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 Corn, white, per cwt 43c@51c Machine husked corn, one cent less. o „ JACKSON HILL COAL. By George Tricker. (Wholesale.) 1 Al or 2 Jackson Hill lump, t. 0. 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; Hockiug lump, $3.05, t. o. b. Decatur; Splint lump, $1.55 t o. b. mine; kpllnt lump, $3.10, t. o. b. Decatur

MARKET NOTES. Corn—y* cent lower. Receipts at Chicago today: Hogs 41,000 Wheat 42 cars Corn 348 cars Oats 404 cars Cattle 23,000 Sheep 25,000 Estimate tor tomorrow: Hogs 23,000 Oats 34 cars Wheat ’ 238 cars Corn 221 cars WHEAT, FLOUR, ETC. The Oak Roller Mills quotaik'n Oak Patent flour $3.6" <34.00 Bran, per ton s2o.oi> Middlings, per ton 20 00 ’■'••ugh meat, per cwt I 0»i KLo dried meal, per cwt 15" Screenings, No. 1, oer bu 6o Screenings, No. 2. per bu <’«>p 'eed. per ton 2o.‘«i Wheat, No. 2, per bushel 71 WOOL AND HIDES. ■•y 8. Kai ver & Sou. MX Woo! 23c@ .26 Beef hides 8c C'aU hides, B@ls lbs ®loc Muskrat ..' sc® .30 Sweep pelts 25c?$31.t>»

He Had the Most—Perhaps. A comic actor who had been engaged to entertain a family party proposed at the conclusion of the performance a little game of his own. Each of the company, himself included, was to stake half a crown, and the pool would be taken by the person who possessed the most of the articles which he (the comedian) would inquire for. Ou his assurance that he would take no mean advantage, but run the same risk as the rest, all the members of the party consented, and between £3 and £4 was soon laid on the table. The actor added his piece to the pool, with a cunning smile, and then said: ‘■Now, which of you ladies and gentlemen happen to have the greatest number of false teeth?” Deathlike silence reigned for about a minute, then a burst of laughter, both hearty and in some cases forced. “X have three,” continued the actor. “Who has got more?” The comedian took the pool.—London Tit-Bits. Senator Bate's Authority. The late Senator William B. Bate of Tennessee was a major general in the Confederate army and never quite reconciled himself to the defeat of the south. Soon after he came to the senate he formulated a set of rules which I be called "Rules for my proper legis--1 latlve guidance.” Whenever a proposij tion came up about which he was undecided he would take the printed slip containing these rules from bis pocket and study it carefully. “Bate,” said a colleague one day, ; “what is that slip of paper to which you refer so frequently?” “That,” said Senator Bate, “is a little reminder of my belief on constitutional questions." "Where did you get it? Think it out yourself?” “No, sub,” replied Bate, with much dignity; “I found most of those immortal truths in the constitution of the Confederate States of America.”—Saturday Evening Post. “Orchestra” and “Noise.” In Shakespeare's time no musical dictionary could have distinguished between “orchestra” and “band,” for the simple reason that neither word was then English In a musical sense. “Orchestra” did not arrive before the eighteenth century and even “band” ' not until the latter .half of the seventeenth. when Charles 11. had a “bam of violins," in Imitation probably of Louis XlV.’s “bande.” The old English word for a band of music was “noise.” “See if thou canst And out Sneak’s noise. Mistress Tearsheet would fain hear some music,” says one ' drawer to the other at the Boar's Head tavern. And just so Ben Jonson has I “a noise of fiddlers” and “a noi§e of trumpets.” The old word is wanted I for many a gathering of musicians outside this writer's flat.—London Cbron- ' icle. Writing on a Train. i “No matter how fast and rough the , pace,” said a brakeman, “you can write i; with perfect ease and comfort on a i' train if you hold a cushion on your lap. ■; You rest year tablet and your arm on i the cushion, and somehow or other neither jolt nor jar disturbs you. The soft cushion nullifies every tremor. > Your writing is as legible as if it had • been done at your desk at home. We

railroaders have a good many accounts to make up while traveling, and hence we u-unlly hnve a cni'lif-m handy. Drummers and other experience*! travelers are great hands to borrow our cushions from us when they have a little correspondence to attend to.” “Talesman" In English Law. A talesman, according to English law, is a juror summoned to fill a gap, and formerly, at any rate, this was often done by taking any suitable person who was present in court. “Tales de clrcumstantibus” (“such of the bystanders”) were the first words of the order directing this process. Good Pkkwlckians way remember that, as only ten special jurymen were present on a memorable occasion. Mr. Serjeant Buzfuz “prayed a tales,” whereupon two of the common jurymen, one of whom was the unfortunate chemist. I were pressed Into the service.—London Standard. The Very Worst. Douglas Jerrold was seriously disappointed with a certain book written by one of his friends. This friend beard that Jerrold had expressed his disappointment and questioned him. “I hear you said was the worst book

I ever wrote.” * I “No, I didn't.” came the answer. “1 said it was the worst book anybody ever wrote." Where It Snows In Summer. Snow, it appears, only falls in the antarctic in summer and on those rare occasions at other seasons when the wind blows almost due south, and, strange to say, these south winds are warm winds, raising the temperature to 50 or 60 degrees F. They seem «k m to the snow melting Foehn winds of the Alps. Fully Posted. “Could you do the landlord in "She Lady of Lyons?’ ” asked the manager of a seedy actor. “Well, I shoukl think 1 might. 1 have done a good many landlords.” It Might Speak. The Artist—Oh. ze madam has zo grand face. I shall make ze speaking likeness. Henpeck—Er—well, old man, you needn’t go so far as that, you know.—Metropolitan Magazine. T raitor. “They say that he fell overboard as the ship rolled on its .side.” “You might say that be left tlie ship in the lurch.”— Yale Record.

I FAMOUS GAMESTER. Amazing Skill of Captain John Scott at Whist. HIS RAPID ROAD TO WEALTH. The Winnings of the “Gentlemen Gambler” at White's, In London, In th* Eighteenth Century Exceeded $5,000,000—Fox’s Reckless Play. Os all the gentlemen gamblers at the close of the eighteenth century in England a single one is noted for the Immensity and the regularity of his winnings. This was John Scott, who, beginning as a penniless captain, wound up his career as a millionaire general. On the subject of the campaigns he conducted history is silent, but contemporary London was full of talk of bls marvelous luck with dice and cards, and the marital misfortunes of his later life gave more material for the gossips. Writing to Richard Bentley from Arlington street on Feb. 25, 1755, Horace Walpole says; “The great event is the catastrophe of Sir John Bland, who has flirted away his whole fortune at hazard. He t'other night lost in reckless play an immense sum to a Captain Scott, who at present has nothing but a few debts and his commission.” Sir John Bland, to conclude here the history of that luckless dicer, shot himseif dead, after losing the last of his fortune, in Kippax park. Captain John Scott was of that branch of the numerous Scott family of which Sir Walter was a member, and his ancestor in the thirteenth century was that famous chemist, Michael Scott, who won the name of wizard. A later Scott distinguished himself in the time of Charles 11. by marrying, when he was himself only fourteen years old. a lady who was three years his junior. The bride was Mary, countess of Buccleueh, in her own right the richest heiress in Scotland. The marriage was a secret one, and none of the friends and few of her family were informed of it until the day after. The youthful bridegroom did not profit greatly by this match, for his bride died at thirteen. Iler sister Anne, who succeeded to her titles and estates, made a marriage with the pet son of Charles 11., Monmouth, and had a numerous family.

It was sixty years later, or about 1750, that young Scott, son of the laird of Scott's Tarvet, entered King George's army. Two years later he was in London and in the midst of the most reckless set of spendthrifts, rakes aud gamesters that English society has ever known. Sir John Biand was only one of a thousand rich youug Englishmen who threw away fortunes over the gaming table at White s. The one historic loser of that era was Charles James Fox, Pitt's rival. Fox gambled away, all told, no less than $5,000,000. Scott was the very antipodes of Fox. When he died, at a ripe old age, he left a fortune as great as that with which Fox had begun, and every penny of it bad been won at the gaming table. Fox was a ripe scholar. Scott was almost illiterate. Fox said that losing was the next greatest pleasure to winning. Scott never lost or so rarely that it did not affect the serenity of his career as a v.-?.uie" Fox woal 1 go home in the morning after a night in which he had gambled away £IO.OOO or £20,000 and Immediately lose himself In a study of Sophocles or -Eschylus. Scott, like the sensible fellow he was, would button his coat over the portemounaie in which he carried away winnings of an equal or even greater amount and Immediately go to bed so as to be fresh for play in the evening.

When Scott found himself in London and amid the wild young men of his era, he determined that gaming was his wily chance of getting money. When he engaged himself to throw a series of mains with Sir John Bland, he had, as Horace Walpole puts it, nothing “but a few debts and his commission.” His shrewdness taught him that there was netting in dicing, at which a stupid man has as good a chance as a bright one, and so he speedily gave up hazard and applied himself to whist, at which game fortune fights on the side of the skillful player. Never'ln the history of play did men gamble for such high stakes as Scott and Ids victims did at White's between 1753 and 1780. Scott’s system was an exceedingly simple one. He gave himself the best of it in every possible way. He never went to the gaming table unless bls head and bls stomach were in the very best order. He never lost his composure or his good nature for an instant He played a perfectly fair and honorable game, and at first he made it a rule never to play for more than a fixed sum, which jhe could afford to lose. He won so ' steadily that it wasn’t long before he I was prepared to risk any sum which even the wealthiest or the most reckless of his adversaries would venture i to propose. » ! A story which illustrates capitally Scott’s patience in the face of -bard luck lias been preserved. One night while he was nt the card table news

'■ was brought to him that his wife, the first Mrs. Scott, had given birth to a 1 girl. I “Ah." he said. “I shall have to double my stakes to mak' a fortune for this young lady." | But in a few hours lie was £B.OOO to the bad. Retaining his Invariable serenity. be said he was sure of his luck returning, and at 7 a. m. he went home i the winner of £15.000. That's the sort of play that went on at White's night after night dnring the years that John Scott was winning the largest fortune ever accumulated by a gentleman gambler.

SPECIAL EXCURSION RATES via CLOVER LEAF ROUTE. ATLANTIC CITY. N. J. Meeting American Medical Association. Tickets on sale May 31st to June 3rd. CHAUTAUQUA LAKE, N. Y. Special excursions, July 5 and 26. NORFOLK, VA. Jamestown Exposition. Very low rates. Tickets on sale. April 19th to Nov. 30th. PHILADELPHIA. PA. B. P. O. E. Tickets on sale July 12, 13 and 14. SARATOGA SPRINGS. N. Y. Triennial Conclave K. T. Tickets on sale July 5. 6 and <. SEATTLE, WASH. I. O. G. T. AND CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR. Tickets on sale June 19th to July 12 th. SPOKANE. WASH. BAPTIST YOUNG PEOPLES' UNION. Tickets on sale, June 19th to July 12th. LOS ANGELES, CAL. Mystic Shrine, German Baptist, and National Eclectic Medical Association. Tickets on sale April 27th to May 18th. SUMMER TOURIST RATES to all the popular resorts; tickets on sale June Ist. For rates apply to nearest Clover Leaf Agent or address W. L. ROSS, Genral Passenger Agent. Toledo, Ohio.

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. HINDRANG German coach stallion of the finest type, seal black good bone and muscle, weight 1400 pounds. Will make the season of 1907, at the Hoosier barn North Second street, Decatur, Ind. See him. Your patronage solicited. JESSE BUTLER Owner Important Notice to Taxpayers. 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. o— CEMENT WORK GUARANTEED. We are ready to take contracts for all kinds of cement work, such as concrete foundations, sidewalks, cellar floors, etc. Where we furnish the material, we guarantee the work. Send us your orders, or call us by phone. No. 556. BUTLER & BUTLER, 71-*tf Decaur, Ind. o The Price of Health. “The price of health in a malarious district is just 25 cents; the cost of I a box of Dr. King’s New Life Pills," writes Ella Slayton of Noland, Ark. New Life Pilis cleanse gently and impart new life and vigor to the system. 25c. Satisfaction guaranteed at Blackburn Pharmacy. Money to loan at lowest rates of interest on real estate securities. Abstracts furnished. Schurger & Smith, attorneys-at-law. 76-lmo I have any amount of money to loan on farms. Harvov Harrutf, Decatur, Ind. 86-18 t. FOR SALE —Good Domestic sewing machine, book case and baby cab. Inquire at Democrat office. 93 FOR SALE —Two Tennessee .Jacks, one 14 and other 15 bands high. For sale at the right price. Robert Hanlin, R. F. D. 2, Ft Recovery, O. 75— AN INSIDIOUS DANGER One of the worst features of kidney trouble is that it is an insidious disease and before the victim realizes Hag uc m<y uiiVC tt fatal mar ady. Ta ie Foley’s Kidney Cure at the first sign of trouble as it corrects irregularities and prevents Bright's disease and diabetes. THE HOLTHOUSE DRUG CO.

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Capital Surplus $100,000.00 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 • — Reliable Life Insurance Reasonable Cost $9,500,000.00 GUARANTEE AND RESERVE FUNDS Cost on $1,009.00 In 1906 was Age 21 $5 25 I Age 40 SJO.Oj) Age 30 $7,50 | Age 50 $1250 Other Ages In Proportion Established in 1879 The Banker’s Life Ass'n. Des Moines, lowa J Z Brickley, Dist. Mgr. Bluffton, Ind.