Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 105, Decatur, Adams County, 29 April 1907 — Page 4

ill ■ Accurate prices paid by Decatur merchants for various products. Corrected every day at 2 o’clock. BUFFALO STOCK MARKET. EAST BUFFALO. N. Y., April 29.— Receipts, cattle, 5 cars; market steady. Prime steers @56.00 Medium steers @15.50: Stockers to best feeders... @14.40 Cows @|4.75 Receipts, hogs, 20 cars; market steady. Mediums and heavies.... @>7.00 Yorkers @>7.05 Pigs @>6.90 Receipts, sheep, 30 cars; market steady. Best spring lambs <§>B6s Wether sheep @>6.50 Mixed sheep @>6.25 Culls, clipped @>5.00 CHICAGO MARKETS. Chicago markets closed today at 1:15 p. m., according to the Decatur Stock & Grain Exchange. May wheat ’ 9s s July wheat 82% May corn J uly corn 50 May oats 44 July oats 4 " May pork July pork > 15.8a PITTSBURG MARKETS. Union stock yards. Pittsburg. Pa., April 29.—Hog supply, 8 cars; market setady. Heavies @>6.80 Mediums @>6.90 Yorkers @>6.90 Light @**j.9O Pigs @>0.75 TOLEDO MARKETS. Changed every day at 3 o'clock by J. D. Hale. Decatur special wire service. Wheat, cash 80% May wheat BHa July wheat 83% May oats 50% July oats - 50% May oats 44 % July oats 42 % Rye 63 STOCK. By Fred Scheiman. Lambs, per cwt >0.00@>6.00 Cattle, per cwt >2.50@>3.50 Calves, per cwt >5.50@>6.00 Cows, per cwt >2.00@>2.50 Sheep, per cwt >3.50@>4.00 Hogs, per cwt @16.00 COAL—PER TON.

Hocking lump $4 25 ; Virgniia Splint 4.50 , Domestic Nut b.OO ( Washed Nut 4.50 ( Pi tsburg lump 4.00 Pocahontas 4.75 ' Kentucky Cannell 6.00 Anthracite 7.50 i Charges for ca.rj >»g coal—2sc per i 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 i Lard 9c GRAIN. By G. T. Burk, successor to Carroll Elevator 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 Timothy 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.) ' A- or 2 Jackson Hill lump, f. o. b. mine, $2.50, f. o. b. ecitur, $3.70; cook stove nut, f. o. b. Decatur, $3.70; Hocking lump, $1.75, f. o. b. mine; Hocking lump, $3.05, f. o. b. Decatur; Splint lump, $1.55 f. o. b. mine; Splint lump, $3.10 f. o. b. Decatur. n. MARKET NOTES. Corn —% cent lower. Receipts at Chicago today: Hogs 41,000 Wheat 50 cars Corn 136 cars Oats 187 cars Cattle 29,000 Sheep 23,000 Estimate for tomorrow: Hogs 30,000 Oats 41 cars Wheat 133 cars Corn 185 cars WHEAT, FLOUR, ETC. The Oak Roller Mills quotation. Oak Patent uour.... [email protected] Bran, per ton $20.00 Middlings, per ton 20.00 Rough meal, per cwt 1.00 Kiln dried meal, per cw. 1.50 Screenings, No. 1, per bu 60 Screenings, No. 2, per bu.C 40 Cop feed, per ton 20.00 Wheat, No. 2, per bushel 71 WOOL ANO HIDES. By B. Kalver & Son. ’Phone 442. Wool 23c @ .27 Beef bids 8c Calf hides, B@ls lbs ® 10c Muskrat sc@ .30 Sheep pelts [email protected] Tallow 4%

MTWMK The Great Humorist When a Boy Posed as a "Medium.” JUST WANTED TO SHOW OFF. His Own Stary of Hit Temptation and Fall, the Way He Improved Hit Opportunity and the Dramatic Climax to Hia Performance. An exciting event in our village (Hannibal) was the arrival of the mesmerlzer. I think the year was 1850. He advertised his show and promised 11 marvels; admission, as usual. 25 cents; '' children and negroes half price. The village had beard of mesmerism in a I general way, but bad not encountered , it yet Not many people attended the i first night, but next day they had so many wonders to tell that everybody’s icuriwlty was fired, and after that for ! a fortnight the magician had prosper- , ous times. I was fourteen or fifteen i years old—the age at which a boy is willing to endure all things, suffer all things, short of death by fire, if there- ' by he may be conspicuous and show off before the public—and so when I saw the “subjects” perform their foolish antics on the platform and make the people laugh and shout and admire I had a burning desire to be a subject myself. Every night for three nights I sat in the row of candidates on the ', platform and held the magic disk in the palm of my hand and gazed at It and tried to get sleepy, but it was a failure. I remained awake and had to ' retire defeated, like the majority. Also II had to sit there and be gnawed with > envy of Hicks, our journeyman. I had i to sit there and see him scamper and 1 jump when Simmons the enchanter ' exclaimed. "See the snake —see the ’ snake!" and hear him say, “My, how I beautiful!” in response to the sugges- ! tion that he was observing a splendid sunset, and so on—the whole insane . business. I On the fourth night temptation came, and I was not strong enough to resist , When I had gazed at the disk awhile ' I pretended to be aleepy and began to i nod. Straightway came the professor ' and began to make passes over my head and down my body and legs and 1 arms, finishing each pass with a snap of his fingers in the air, to discharge the surplus electricity. Then he began to “draw” me with the disk, holding it in bis fingers and telling me I could ' not take my eyes off it. try as I might. ' So I rose slowly, bent and gazing, and ' followed that disk all over the place, ; just as I had seen others do. Then I i' was put through the other paces. Upon I suggestion I fled from snakes, passed I buckets at a fire, became excited over

hot steamboat races, made love to Imaginary girls and kissed them, fished from the platform apd landed mudcats that outweighed me, and so on, all the customary marvels, but not in the customary way. I was cautious at first and watchful. I>eing afraid the professor would discover that I was an impostor and drive me from the platform in disgrace, but as soon as I realized that I was not In danger I set myself the task of terminating Hicks' usefulness as a subject and of usurping his place. It was a sufficiently easy task. Hicks was born honest; I without that incumbrance, so some people said. Hicks ' saw what he saw and reported accordingly; 1 saw more than was visible and added to It such details as could help. Hicks had no imagiuation; I had a double supply. He was born calm; I was born excited. No vision could start a rapture in him, and he was constipated as'to language anyway, but if I saw a vision I emptied the dictionary on to it and lost the remnant of my mind into the bargain. At the end of my first half hour Hicks was a thing of the past, a fallen hero, a broken idol, and I knew it and was glad and said in my heart, "Buc-

cess to crime!" Hicks could never have been mesmerized to the point where he could kiss an Imaginary girl in public or a real one either, but I was competent Whatever Hicks had failed in I made It a point to succeed in, let the cost be what it might physically or morally. In 1847 we were living in a large white house on the corner of Hill and Main streets. My father died In It in March of the year mentioned, but our family did not move out of it until some months afterward. Ours was not the only family in the house; there i was another—Dr. Grant's. One day Dr. Grant and Dr. Reybnrn argued a matter on the street with sword canes, and Grant was brought home multifariously punctured. Old Dr. Peake calked the leaks and came every day for awhile to look after him. The Grants were Virginians, like Peake, and one lay when Grant was getting well enough to be on his feet and sit around in the parlor and talk the conversation fell upon Virginia and old times. I was present, but the group was probably quite unconscious of me, I being only a lad and a negligible quantity. Two of the group. Dr. Peake | and Mrs. Crawford. Mrs. Grant's mother, had been of the audience when the Richmond theater burned down years before, and they talked over the frightful details of that memorable tragedy. These were eyewitnesses, and with their eyes I saw it all with an intolerable vividness. I saw the black smoke rolling and tumbling toward the sky; I saw the flames burst through it and • turn red; I heard the shrieks of Ow . despairing; I glimpsed their faces at s the windows, caught fitfully through i) the veiling smoke; I saw them jump 0 to their death or to mutilation worse

than death. The picture Is before nie yet and can never fade. Very well, three or four years later I was king bee and sole “subject” tn the mesmeric show. It was the beginning of the second week. The performance was half over. Just then the majestic Dr. Peake, with his ruffled bosom and wristbands and his gold beaded cane, entered, and a deferential citizen vacated his seat beside the Granta and made the great chief take it This happened while I was 1 trying to Invent something fresh in the way of a vision in response to the proi lessor’s remark: | “Concentrate your powers. Looklook attentively. There, don't you see something? Concentrate—concentrate Now, then, describe it” Without suspecting it Dr. Peake by entering the place had reminded me of the talk of three years before. He had also furnished me capital and was to become my confederate, an accomplice in my frauds. I began on a vision, a vague and dim one. (That was part of the game at the beginning of a vision. It isn't best to see it too clearly at first It might look as If you bad come load ed with lt> The vision developed by degrees and gathered swing, momentum, energy. It was the Richmond fire. Dr. Peake was cold at first, and his fine face bad a trace of polite scorn in it but when he began to recognize that fire that expression changed, and his eyes began to light up. As soon as I saw that I threw the ■ valves wide open and turned on all the steam and gave those people a supper of fire and horrors that was calculated to last them one while. They couldn't gasp when I got through—they were petrified. Dr. Peake had risen and w as standing and breathing hard. ’ He said in a great voice: “My doubts are ended. No collusion could produce that miracle. It was totally impossible for him to know those details, yet he has described them with the clarity of an eyewitness, and with what unassailable truthfulness God knows I know!”—Mark Twain's Autobiography in North American Review. i THE WILDCAT. It I* a Coward and Only Fights When It Is Cornered. Regarding the cougar, the largest member of the feline family in the United States, it may be said that it is blessed with more than a rightful share iof names. In one section it is the panther, somewhere else it is termed mountain lion, in another locality it is called a puma, and the old time backwoodsmen will tell you blood curdling stories of “the painter.” In northeastern Washington it is generally B[>oken of as the cougar. The writer in a long life spent with rifle and trap has hunted and killed these animals in their native haunas ; and can bear witness to one truth re- ! garding them all—wherever found or i under whatever name, their habits are I identical.

Among many people—and this includes those who should know better — this animal is looked upon as very dangerous. Awe Inspiring stories are told of the cougar springing from a rocky ledge or an overhanging tree and rending the helpless wayfarer passing beneath. These anecdotes have been heard by all and believed By many, nor will I deny that such things may have occurred, but it is safe to say that practically all these stories are exaggerated and many of them downright lies. Over thirty years ago, in company with an old and experienced frontiersman. I was shooting deer, elk and bear and selling the meat to a gang of tie cutters in the Rocky mountains. Cougars were more abundant than I ever saw them elsewhere, yet it was per- ; fectly safe to roam the woods at will. Rolled in my blanket, I have passed many a night under the sheltering branches of some big tree without even ! a fire to scare these animals away. I was never attacked by one unless ' It was cornered or perhaps so badly wounded as to be unable to get away. Under these conditions nearly any animal will fight for its life. — Sports Afield.

Hi* Emendation. "The most laconic man I know of is a deaf and dumb man In our town,” one of the party remarked. "He never writes on his little pad more than enough to convey his meaning. | “It happened be was a good poker player and one night won a watch and chain from a young man of the town. The young man’s father, a very pompous Individual, beard of it and. meeting the successful gamester on the street next day. stopped him. The deaf and dumb man produced his little pad. On it the irate and pompous father wrote, ‘I understand you won Bob’s gold watch the other night.’ He handed it to the deaf and dumb man. expecting to see him change countenance and offer to give up his spoil. The latter did not quite do that, however. Instead he took the pad, wrote two words carefully on it and returned it. The pompous father read inscribed thereon: “ ‘And chain.’ "That ended the affair.”—New Orleans Times-Democrat.

Teo Much. There come times when the desire and need for a vacation are quite overbalanced by other things. When Mrs. Hanson had nursed the chfldren of Berryville through an attack of scarlet fever she resisted all suggestions from grateful parents that she go off for a month's rest at their expense. “No,” she said, with weary firmness, “I’m obliged to all but I haven't got strength. I could either get ready and stay at home or I could go without getting ready, but I couldn't do both anyway tn this world.’ —Youth s Compan-

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 iow 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 7. SEATTLE, WASH. I. 0. G. T. AND CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR Tickets on sale June 19th to July 12th. 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.

FOR SALE at once—Brass bed. davenport, leather rocher, buffet, red velvet Brussels carpet Inquire 116 S. Fifth street. ’Phone 56. 98-6 t 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 for my residence. BROOK

IMPORTED BELGIAN BTALLION will stand at the Hosier Barn in Decatur on Friday and Saturday of each week during the season. Will also stand at Monroe on Monday and Tuesday of each week and at my residence, two and one-half miles west of Pleasant Mills on Wednesdays and Thursdays. This horse has a firstclass pedigree. Service, $15.00 to insure colt to stand. JACOB RAWLEY, Owner. R. R. No. 10. Decatur. Ind. COAL Feed and Seeds Peninsular Portland Cement Oypsuin Bock Wall Plaster We make a specialty of furnishing HIGH GRADE CLEAN COAL that will burn. J. D. HALT Cor. Jefferson and 2nd Sts.

Toledo, St. Louis & Western Railroad. East. Na 6. Com. Traveler, dally. 5:22 a.m. No. 2. Daily Mail. ex. Sun. .11:42 a. m. No. 4. Daily Express 7:00 p. m. No. 22. Local Freight 1:25 p.m. West. No. 1. Daily Mall, ex. Sun.. 5:53a.m No. 3. Daily Express 10:37 am. No. 5. Com. Traveler, daily. 9:12 p.m. No. 23. Local Freight 10:37 am. oCHEAP EXCURSIONS. Via Erie R. R. to points in the west and southwest. On the first and third Tuesday of each month, we will have on sale, both one way and round trip tickets at exceedingly low rates. Call on Erie agents for particulars, or write O. L. ENOS. Traveling Passenger Agent, Marion, Ohio. C. L, WALTERS ATTORNEY AT LAW Office over Brock’s tin shop Second Street. Decatur, Indiana SEE Haefling & Ernst FOR ALL KINDS OF Electric Wiring WORK GUARANTEED 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

AUCTIONEER HABBY DANIELS Decatur, Indiana. R. R. 8 LIVE STOCK AND FARM SALE AUCTION* EERING, A SPECIATY Your Bqslbcs solicited. Call ’Phone No. 13E Line Decatur 29** XewX /HARPER \ I KENTUCKY \ (whiskey) \ for Gentlemen / \ who cherish / X Quality. / For Sale By IOS. TONELLIER IOS. B. KNAPKE CALL ON Citv Trucking Co. you STORASt, TRUCKING, Etc. Heavy Work a Specialty Phone 412 CHAS. MILLER

Cures Biliousness, Sick fR V fR Cleanses the system Headache, Sour Stom- | | fT | T\| | | thoroughly and clears ach. Torpid Liver and R* ■•■ ■ R sallow complexion ß o c Laxative Fruit Syrup HOLTHOUSE DRUG COMPANY

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

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JOHN SPUHLER. ROR THE NEXT 2 0 DAVS WE WILL SELL OUR Famous Incubators and Brooders AT A REDUCTION OF 20 PER CENT FROM

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JANIERS Janiers the Great Fearchon Norman Horse will stand this season of 1907 at his old stand known as old H. D. Fuelling’s Farm. Terras: sl2 to Live 20 Days A sure Foal Getter. HENRY F. FUELLING, Owner and Keeper. R. F. D. Ne. 3. 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.

John Souhler The Live Stock and General AUCTIONEER will get you the high dollars for your property Call early for dates. ’Phone I 5“ Wenc ' S3> I Office 430

the catalogue price while they last. We are compelled to do this in order to make room for our new machinery that will arrive for the manufacturing of our incubators. Here is an opportunity for you to get one of the famous Keller Incubators and Brooders at prices that will never be offered you again. We will have a machine hatching Saturday, April the 27th, at the factory, and will have the chicks in the Brooder at the factory showing Its workings, and caring for the chicks. Remember that the special discount is for the 20 days only. Come early and secure a machine at these prices. Every machine warranted perfect. This Special offer expires May 15th.

Relioble Life Insurance Reasonable Cost $9,500,000.00 GUARANTEE AND RESERVE FUNDS Cost oi $1,000.00 It 1906 was Me 21 $5 25 I Me 40 SIO.OO Me 30 $730 I Age 50 $12.50 Other Mes In Proportion Established in 1879 The Banker’s Life Ass’n. Des Moines, lowa J. Z. Brickley, Diot. Mgr. Bluffton, Ind. Eye Ear Nose Throat Glasses Fitted also special treatmsn fer Diseases. Lungs Kidneys, atom ach and Rheumatism. Cancer treated. J, N. Younkin D. 0. M. D. TOCSIN. IND. P. J. hylanT SANITARV plumbing O-.A.A rITTTNG Steam »Hot Wator Haotinj MS Mt COUBHATIOR FIXTUBEt 23 MoarorSt. Phoee 35*