Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 108, Decatur, Adams County, 2 May 1907 — Page 4

B MB: 1 ! Accurate prices paid by Decatur ' merchants for various products. Cor- | rected every day at 2 o’clock. i BUFFALO STOCK MARKET. 1 EAST BUFFALO, N. Y., May 2 — Receipts, cattle, 25 cars; market steady. Prime steers @56.00 Medium steers @55.50 Stockers to best feeders... @54.40 Receipts, hogs, 20 cars; market Receipts, hogs, 50 cars; market steady. Mediums and heavies.... @56.95 Yorkers @56.95 Pigs @56.95 Receipts, sheep, 15 cars; market steady. Best spring lambs @57.75 Wether sheep @56.40 Wether sheep @56.50 Culls, clipped @55.00 CHICAGO MARKETS. Chicago markets closed today at 1:15 p. m.. according to the Decatur Stock & Grain Exchange. May wheat 81% July wheat 85% May corn 49% July corn 50 May oats 47% July oats 43 May pork ....... . $15.67 July pork $15.97 PITTSBURG MARKETS. Union stock yards, Pititsburg, Pa., May 2. —Hog supply, 2 cars; market setady. Heavies @ $6.90 Mediums @57.10 Yorkers @17.10 Light ; @57.10 Pigs @ $7.00 TOLEDO MARKETS. Changed every day at 3 o’clock by J. D. Hale. Decatur special wire service. Wheat, cash 83% July wheat 85% September wheat 86% July oats 50% September oats 51 July oats 43% September oats 36% Rye 70 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 @16.00 COAL—PER TON. Hocking lump $4.25 Virgniia Splint 4.50 Domestic Nut b.OO Washed Nut 4.50 PiTtsburg lump 4.00 Pocahontas 4.75 Kentucky Cannell 6.00 Anthracite 7.50 Charges for carrying coal—2sc per ton or fraction thereof; upstairs, 50 cents per ton. OTHER PRODUCTS. By Various Grocers and Merchants. Eggs, per dozen 15c Butter, per pound 20c Potatoes 50c 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. ecatur, $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. MARKET NOTES. Corn—% cent lower. Receipts at Chicago today; Hogs 21,000 Wheat 21 cars Corn 126 cars Oats 167 cars Cattle 6,000 Sheep 6.000 Estimate for tomorrow: Hogs 22,000 Oats 36 cars Wheat 204 cars Corn 220 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 cwt 1.50 Screenings. No. 1, per bu 60 Screenings. No. 2, per bu 40 Cop feed, per eon 20.00 Wheat, No. 2, per bushel 71 WOOL ANO HIDES. By B. Kalver & Son. ’Phone 442. Wool 23c@ .27 Beef hides 7c Calf hides. B@ls lbs <6 9c Sheep pelts [email protected]( Tallow 4%

THE BLACK BEAR. Her Phyaic and Her Food After Her Five Month*’ Sleep. The black bear has her cubs, from , one to three, in her den during the mouths of March and April, and it is an Interesting thing to know that she has the power to give birth to her young at least two weeks before the proper time if driven from her den. She will return to her cubs if let alone. In the den she cares for her young until the snows of the north country have sufficiently melted to permit of her getting about when she ‘hits the trail” again. She eats nothing during the five months that she hibernates, except that from time to time she will lap the icicle which is made by the freezing of her breath on her paws. She ventures forth as socu Ms the snow has sufficiently melted to permit of her getting about and for several days will eat nothing but hemlock bark and certain roots, which act as a physic. When in her normal state of health I again she is ravenously hungry and will diligently fish the brooks and streams in search of a dinner of trout, j will hunt up the carcasses of deer or moose which have been overcome by , the severity of the winter or will prey upon porcupines by quickly putting her , paw under the stomach and rolling the! porcupine on its back, then with a slap | tear out the entrails and escape the quills.—Field and Stream. ANXIOUS MOMENTS. The Quarter of an Hour Following the Winning of the Derby. The anxieties of owners of race horses competing in the Derby do not immediately end as the horses pass the j Iges. The fatal "objection” may snatch the laurels from the victor. The possibility discovered itself over Caractacus’ race. The owner had striven in vain to get a jockey of repute. His offer of a life annuity of £IOO a year to Gostley in case of success had been: declined. A stable boy named Par-1 sons had eventually to be trusted, and. I to the surprise of the learned, he got I the horse home, winning by a neck. Going to scale, the lad could not draw the weight. In breathless silence the bridle was sent for, and that Just enabled him to balance the scale. But now Lord Stamford appeared to object that only his own horse and two others had gone the full course. The winner and the rest were already past the starting post when the flag fell. Admiral Rous looked at his watch. “Twenty minutes," he said. “An objection to hold good must be lodged within a quarter of an hour.” And so the stable boy’s win passed into the records, but the owner of Caractacus declared that not for £I,OOO a moment would be again endure the agony of that short period following the race.— London Saturday Review. PILLS AS WEAPONS. The Curious Duel That Was Arranged by a Doctor. An extraordinary duel, which at the time created an immense sensation, was one in which the decision was arrived at not by swords or pistols, but by means of a deadly poison. The men—who, it is hardly necessary to say, had fallen out over a lady—had left the arrangement of details to their seconds, and until they faced each other they did not know by what method they were to settle their differences. One of the seconds was a doctor, and he had made up for the occasion four black pellets, all identical in size and shape. “In one of these,” he said, “I have placed a sufficient quantity of prussic acid to cause the almost instantaneous death of any one who swallows it We will decide by the toss of a coin which of you is to have first choice, and you will alternately draw and swallow a pill until the poison shows its effects.” Two of the pellets were then taken as the toss bad decided, but without effect in either case. “This time,” said the doctor, speaking of the two pellets remaining, “you must both swallow the pill at the same instant” The choice was again made and in a few seconds one of the men lay dead on the grass — Pall Mali Gazette. “He Who Keepeth Hie Tongue.” An old fashioned minister was vlsit- . Ing his son In New York recently and ’ was taken to a fashionable church for ; the Sunday morning service. The pastor is a young man of great culture, , but evidently his oratorical efforts did not greatly impress the visitor, for when they were walking homeward the son remarked approvingly: “That was a good sermon, an excellent sermon. The congregation like j Dr. Blank very much.” 3 “Yes, a good sermon undoubtedly,” 3 his father replied. “It could not poss slbly have touched a sore spot any- ) where.”—New York Herald. ) ( Nonsense Literature. , I believe it was De Quincey who . said. “None but a man of extraordi--3 nary talent can write first rate nonsense.” He was right And he might have added that none but a man of extraordinary taste can fully appreciate first rate nonsense.—Japan Times. 1 Two Failures. , Homely Man—l married for beauty. , Sarcastic Man—You remind me of a ) friend of mine who married for mon- ) ey. Homely Man—How’s that? Sar- ) castic Man—He didn’t get it. —Chicago 1 News. Returned. “Yes; this tower goes back to Wll--7 liam the Conqueror.” c “What’s the matter? Isn’t it satise factory T— New Orleans Times-Demo-■o craL 4 1

SERVIAN WEDDINGS. ~' The Bride Collect* the Gifts, Which Must Be In Money. If you receive an invitation to s wedding in Little Servia on the west side, you must not buy a present and take it with you or send it. That would be bad form, and the bride would probably feel insulted, but when you went to the wedding you would take with you the price of the present in money. At the wedding you would find several hundred men and women all making strange motions and talking in a strange, excited manner. After the guests had assembled—and everybody in the colony would be welcomed—a young woman would pass around the wedding cake. Behind her would come the bride carrying a silver platter, and upon this she would collect the money given as presents. At the majority of weddings the platter is piled high with silver dollars, and around the edges are bills of various denominations, from $5 to S2O. It is not uncommon for a bride to receive SI,OOO in cash. This amount, it must be remembered, is given by men who ! are mostly laborers In the packing houses. Sometimes the groom passes cigars, and every guest will take a cigar and hand him a dollar. Another custom Is to place a dollar in the large glass of whisky and every man take a drink, each drink costing a dollar. These weddings are a great feast for the guest, and there is always plenty to eat, and sometimes the groom rents I a hall where all may dance.—Kansas j City Star. THE MONKFISH. This Glutton Has Many Names and an Appalling Appetite. Among the most curious of fishes is one known on the coast of Maine as monkfish, by Massachusetts fishermen i as goosefish, by Rhode Islanders as • the bellows fish, in Connecticut as the J molligut, in North Carolina as the alli mouth. On the other side of the Atlantic it is called wide gut, kettle maw and other names. Its adult length is about four feet, its weight about fortypounds. The fish is a glutton, with no finely discriminating palate. It Is said to bolt the wooden buoy of a lobster pot with an apparent satisfaction equal to that with which it swallows a mackerel. Dogfish, sculpens, squids, crabs and lobsters are items in Its ordinary diet. Its Massachusetts name Is said to have been given It because of its practice of swallowing geese. Seven wild ducks are said to have been taken from the stomach of one of these fish, which had pulled them down one by one from the surface of the water. The fish habitually lurks upon the bottom, though it is occasionally seen near the surface. It is sluggish in its ordinary movements, but very quick and ready with Its powerful jaws and well fitted by nature for its mode of life. Its margins bare long fringes, which sway in the currents like vegetable sea growth, deceiving the unwary prey.—Philadelphia North American. Animal* In Groups. The ingenuity of the sportsman is perhaps no lietter illustrated than by the use he puts the English language to in designating particular groups of animals. The following is a list of the terms which have been applied to the various classes: A covey of partridges, a nlde of pheasants, a wisp of snipe, a flight of doves or swallows, a muster of peacocks, a siege of herons, a building of rooks, a brood of grouse, a stand of plover, a watch of nightingales, a clattering of cloughs, a herd or bunch of cattle, a flock of geese, a bevy of quails, a cast of hawks, a swarm of t>ees. a school of whales, a shoal of herrings, a herd of swine, a skulk of foxes, a pack of wolves, a drove of oxen, a sounder of hogs, a troop of monkeys, a pride of Hons, a sleuth of bears, a gang of elks. Identified Himself. “Some people have odd ways of Identifying themselves.” said a disgusted westerner visiting New York. “The other night a man came up to me in my hotel and claimed old time acquaintance. I saw visions of the confidence game at once and fought shy. How do you think he convinced me? Well, str, he finally pulled out one of bls eyes. Yes, sir. he did. It was a glass eye, of course, but I then realized his peculiar affliction despite a greatly altered appearance. But, do you know, it wasn't a pleasant performance. In fact I suggested that he ought to carry a duly certified identification card.”—New York Globe. We love in others what we lack in ourselves and would be everything hut what we are — Stoddard. oNOTICE TO BREEDERS. > Smart and Rock. Smart is the Chas. Ahr Belgian stall Hon that Jacob Huser and William . Scherer have purchased and Rock is .he well known Huser horse which tie kept at Monroe three first days ’n the week, and at Berne the last three lays of the week. Ransom Smith has been employed to care for these horses. 98-lmo NOTICE. I will put in any cement sidewalk - ithin the corporate limits of the city >f Decatur according to the plans and pecifications for 12% per foot, and ill guarantee the same for three ears. JULIUS HAUGK. 1 104-61

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. i NORFOLK, VA. Jamestown Exposition. Very low rates. Tickets on sale, April 19th to Nov. 30th. i PHILADELPHIA, PA. B. P. O. E. Tickets on sale July I 12, 13 and 14. SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y. Triennial Conclave K. T. Tickets on sale July 5. 6 and 7. SEATTLE, WASH. I. O. 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. oWOOD FOR SALE—Split hickory wood at the Whipstock factory. A N. York. Phone 502 83 —

Farmers! Attention! *• C- ' I - — 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.

B RO O H . .is!! 1 IMPORTED BELGIAN STALLION will stand at the Hosier Barn in De- ; catur on Friday and Saturday of each > week during the season. Wil] also ! stand at Monroe on Monday and Tuesi day of each week and at my resll dence, two and one-half miles west ' of Pleasant Mills on Wednesdays and • Thursdays. This horse has a flrst--1 class pedigree. Service, $15.00 to in- ( sure colt to stand. JACOB RAWLEY. Owner. [ ft. R. No. 10. Decatur. Ind. r Important Notice to Taxpayers. May 6, 1907, is the last day for paying the spring installment of taxes. Unless paid at said date a pen--1 alty of 10 per cent will be added, ac--9 cording to instructions from the state 1 auditor, I am compelled to obey the 1 law to the letter. It is impossible for 5 me to grant any favors. I trust all 3 taxpayers will remember this and 3 settle on or before May 6, and avoid 5 paying penalty. Yours very truly, J. F. LACHOT, : 86-lmo. Treasurer. 0 See Lettie Kintz for all kinds ot 1 Art needlework, material, teaching, ! etc. Lessons Wednesday and Saturday afternoons, from 1 to 4. Madison street 84-ts.

Toledo, St. Louis 4 Western Railroad. East. N 0.6. Com. Traveler, daily. 5:22a.m. No. 2. Daily Mail, ex. Sun. .11:42 a. m No. 4. Dally Express 7:00 p.m. No. 22. Local Freight 1:25 p. m. West. No. 1. Daily Mail, ex. Sun.. 5:53a.m. No. 3. Dally Express 10:37 a.m. No. 5. Com. Traveler, daily. 9:12 p.m. No. 23. Local Freight 10:37 a.m. CHEAP EXCURSIONS. Via Erie R. R. to points tn 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 ’a 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 Free C. A. Dugan, T. J. Durkin Cashier Aset. Cashier F. W. Jaebker Teller Deposits Resources $490,000 $650,000 | AUCTIONEER HARRY DANIELS Decatur, Indiana. R. R. S LIVE STOCK AND FARM SALE AUCTIONEERING, A SPEUATY Your Bostnes solicited. Call Phone No. ISE Line Decatar 29**

/ HARPERX / KENTUCKY \ I whiskey) \ for Gentlemen / \ who cherish / X Quality. / For Sale By JOS. TONELLIER JOS. B. KNAPKE CALL ON Citv Trucking Co. STORA6L TBUCKIH6, Etc. Heavy Work a Specialty Phone 41S CHAS. MILLER 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. i BUTLER A BUTLER, 71-*tf Decaur, Ind.

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 i 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 John Souhler The Live Stock < and General auctioneer Eif. --oBH will get you the * high dollars for your property e:ir ’- v f° r dates. ■ ' . Igi ’Phone £l siden “ 531 Office 430 JOHN SPUHLER. FOR THE NEXT 2 0 DAYS , WE WILL SELL OUR I I Famous Incubators and Brooders AT A REDUCTION OF 20 PER CENT FROM the catalogue price while they last. We are com- ; pelled to do this in order to make room for our ) I I new machinery that will arrive for the manufacJ * turing of our incubators. Here is an opportunity I r for you to get one of the famous Keller Incubay 9 u tors and Brooders at prices that will never be offered you again. We will have a machine Z M Sn hatching Saturday, April the 27th, at the factory, and will have the chicks in the Brooder at the >; 'I factory showing its workings, and caring for the Q chicks. Remember that the special discount is r 11 - -SJI for t * le 20 days on| y- Come early and secure a ' machine at these prices. Every machine warranted perfect. This Special offer expires May 15th.

JANIERS Janiers the Great Pearchon Norman Horse will stand this season of 190? at his old stand known as old H. D. Fuelling’s Farm. , Terms: sl2 to Live 20 Oajs A sure Foal Getter. HENRV F. FUELLING, Owner and Keeper. R. F. D. Ne. 3. COAL Feed and Seeds Peninsular Portland Cement Gypsum Rock Wall Plaster We make a specialty of furnishing HIGH GRADE CLEAN COAL that will burn, j J. D. MALI ' g Plxon. 0 1 ■ Cor. Jefferson and 2nd Sts.

Reliable Life Insurance Reasonable Cost $9,500,000.00 GUARANTEE AND RESERVE FUNDS Cost on $1,000.00 In 1906 was Me 21 $5 25 I Me 40 SIO.OO Me 30 $7,50 | Age 50 $12.50 Other Ages In Proportion Established in 1879 The Banker’s Life Ass’n. Des Moines, lowa J. Z. Brickley, Dist. Mgr. Bluffton, Ind. Eye Ear Noae Throat Glasses Fitted also special treatmen fer Diseases. Lungs Kidneys, Stonr ach and Rheumatism. Cancer treated. J, N. Younkin D. O. M. D. TOCSIN, IND. P. J. hylanF SANITARY PLUMBING O2LS ZF’X’Xri'XIXI a Steam *« Hot Water Mini CAS AND COMBINATION FIXTURES S 3 Ftoaroc SI. Phot 330 Bicyclesßepaircd And Tires in stock. Guns Repaired Lawn Mowers Ground. Baby Buggy Tires in stock and put on. Orders taken for Rubber Stamps o all kinds. Saws fitted at F. E. SMITH 131 South Second St. DEC ATI R