Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 248, Decatur, Adams County, 14 October 1907 — Page 3

Have you Noticed The wind blowing a little stronger and a little cooler. It is going to blow up some bad weather one of these days. Are you prepared with shoes that can stand the wet. We have the best shoes that can be made today. We have given our boys department special attention and will back up every pair of our R K L shoes to be as good as any shoemaker can make you. Sold by the Tague Shoe Store

Toledo, St. Louie 4 V ern Railroad. West. East. 1— 5:50a.m. | 4:52 a. m. 3 —10:32 a.m. j 2 —12:28 p.m. 5— 9:51 p. m. | 4— 7:00 p. m. •22 —19:32 a.m. | *22 — 1:15 p. m. •Local freight o_ FORT WAYNE & SPRINGFIELD RY. In Effect February 1, 1907. Becatur—North Ft. Wayne—South 6:00 a.m. 7:30 a.m. 9:00 am. 19:30 a.m. 12:00 noon 1:30 p.m. 3:00 p.m. 4:30 p.m. 6:00 p.m 7:30 p.m. 9:30 p.m. 11:00 p.m. GET WEDDED TO THE MODEL WITHOUT A MATE W. H LINDSLEY WEATHER. Tuesday fair, light south winds, increasing. Monte Fee made a business trip to Fort Wayne this morning. Frank Garard will leave this morning for Bluffton to attend to business interests. Miss Alta Leidy, of Geneva, has arrived in the city for a visit with Miss Pearl Burdg. Miss Pearl Waston, of Wilson, Kansas. is in the city, the guest of Al Burdg and family. A. W. Scoles of Berne was a caller in our city Saturday. He has returned to his home. Mrs. Al Burdg has gone to Indianapolis, where she will attend the Great Court of Pocahontas. Joe Miller, of Fort Wayne, was a business caller in our city this morning, and has gone t» Willshire on a short business trip. George Shafer, an employe of the Westinghouse Electric people, has returned to Hamilton. Ohio, after transacting business in the city. Counberteit $lO bills are in circulation, bankers report. They are dated 1901, have check letter A, face plate No. 461, back plate No. 201, serial No. 84629945. The pictures of the Buffalo and Lewis and Clark are defective.

TIME to BUY Overgaiters, Spats, and Leggins, Lambs wool soles. We have a nice assortment of these goods. Spats in all the popular colors. \ Charlie Voglewede The Shoe

C. E. Smith spent Sunday with his parents at Richmond. George Shroll was at Berne Saturday afternoon for a short visit with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Hensicker went to Fort Wayne this morning to spend the day with friends. Mrs. Tennyson, of Grand Rapids, Mich., is in our city visiting with Mr. and Mrs. James Hurst. Mrs. Irwin Acker went to Geneva Saturday afternoon to visit with her son. Sam Acker, over Sunday. John Macey of Berne returned to his home Saturday afternoon, after transacting business in the city. Mrs. B. Newcomer returned to her home at Brianti this morning, after making a short visit with friends and relatives. The council will meet in regular session tomorrow evening and transact some matters of interest to the city's welfare. Mr .and Mrs. W. H. Leas, of Waterloo, who have been the guests of their daughter, Mrs. Earl Peters, over Sunday, returned to their home today. The officials of the Great Northern Indiana Fair Association held a meeting at Berne today to discuss plans for next year’s fair. Other business will be looked after. We love to associate with people who will say this is the best world, the best country, the best state, the best county and the best town they ever lived in, and this the best hour of their life. Now that cold weather and winter are coming the father should be nailing up the windows in the barn, the boys should let their whiskers grow, the girls knitting stockings and the mothers weather-boarding the under clothes. The interurban officials of Decatur w r ere business callers here Wednesday afternoon and Thursday forenoon. They are selling stock for the extension of their line to Berne. They have met with fine success here. —Berne News. Won’t a sense of shame run up the backs of some people when they get to heaven and can run their bicycles along those golden pavements for miles, and can sit and listen to the music from the cornet, the uute, the harp, the symbols, the baritone, the alto and the stringed instruments, knowing that they have never given a dollar while on eath to help build a church.

Peter Smith went to Geneva this morning to look after business affairs. Mrs. an Erwin went to Fort Wayne this morning to spend the day with friends. Miss Rosa Smith has gone to Monroe for a brief stay with friends and relatives. John Reiff, of Solomon City, Kansas, is in the city, the guest of D. P. Reynolds. Mrs. A. C. Gregory went to Forts Wayne this morning to visit for the day with friends. C. Bokuechti and Louis Fruchte went to Berne this morning to look after business affairs. G. W. Tevis has returned to Cincinnati, Ohio, after attending to business matters in the city. Mrs. R. O. Johnson has gone to Monroe after enjoying a short visit in Ihe city with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hocker. Miss Merle Burdg left this morning for Indianapolis, where she will demonstrate the famous B. B. ointment and cream. Miss Minnie Rush returned to her home at Geneva Saturday aftehnoon after making a pleasant visit in the city with her sister. Mrs. D. M. Robbins, of Portland, who has been the guest of Mrs. L. C. DeVoss for a short time, has returned to her home. Mrs. C. Engle and daughter. Grace, of Portland, who have been making a short visit with relatives at Markle, enroute to their home. Mr. and Mrs. A. Rayn, and Miss Ruth Ramy, of Portland, who have been the guests of R. B. Allison and family over Sunday, returned to their home this morning. Harvey Rice returned to Berne this morning to resume his work with the Adams County Lumber Co., after enjoying an over-Sunday visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Rice. Hard to Photograph. There is said to be no portrait more difficult to make by photography than that of a colored person or a baby. The dark skin of the former reflects no light, and the lineaments are therefore only indistinctly shown on a photographic plate. A baby, on the other hand, is restless, with changeable expression and uncertain pose. The predicament of a Germantown amateur may therefore be imagined when he was asked to take the picture of a baby, aged four months, in the arms of its colored nurse, black as she could be. Several attempts resulted in a successful picture of the baby, but the result was displeasing to the nurse. An exposure long enough to secure the features of the nurse resulted in decided twists and turns on the baby’s part that upset the latter's pictorial aspect to a noticeable degree. Just now the amateur is figuring on how to get out of it and hoping that fate will help him by separating the nurse and child long enough to make it possible to please all concerned. — Philadelphia Record.

The Age of an Oyster. It is just as easy to tell the age of an oyster by looking at its shell as It It to ascertain the age of a horse by examining its teeth or a tree by Inspecting the circles revealed by the ax or saw when it is laid low. When the oyster is six months old it is as big as a dime, when one year old it will cover a silver half dollar, and when two years old will be about the circumference of a silver dollar. The oyster, unlike the crab, is not obliged to seek new quarters or build a new house every time he grows appreciably. The extensions that he puts on his house are clearly marked by a well defined ridge. Oysters are esteemed to be at their best when between four and five years of age, and the planters endeavor to protect the beds for that length of time. Conscientious oyster men—that is. men who are not inclined to kill the goose that lays the golden egg— always return to the bed oysters that are too young.—Pearson’s. Mystification. His weakness was prevarication. His wife detested lying and constantly urged him to mend his ways. One morning she said: “Will, see if you can’t be perfectly truthful today. Don’t tell a lie. Now, promise!” He promised and went away to work. When he came home to dinner, she ■aid: “Dear, did you keep your promise?” “I did,” he replied soberly. Then he caught her In his arms. “Darling,” he cried, “I will not Me to you. When I said I had kept my promise to you. I did not tell the truth; but, believe me, that was the only lie I told all day.” For twenty-two seconds she was lost in perplexity. Then she gave it up; the problem was too deep for her. The Part He Lost A New England man tells of a prosperous Connecticut farmer painfully exact In money matters who married a widow of Greenwich possessing in her own right the sum of SIO,OOO. Shortly after the wedding a friend met the farmer, to whom he offered congraWlatlons, at the same time observing. "It’s a good thing for you. Malachi, a marriage that means SIO,OOO to yon. "Not quite that. Bill,” said the farmer; “not quite that.” “Why,” exclaimed the friend, “I understood there was every, cent of SIO,OOO In it for you." “I had to pay $2 for a marriage license.” said Malachi.

When Gunpowder Wee New. A curious feature about the evolu- I tion in methods of hunting was the I hesitation with which gunpowder was I taken up by the great nobles. Not only I did it take quite a century to familiar- I ize hunters with it, but the evidence I that has come down to us shows that I the humble classes were the first to I use it for shooting game. Maximilian,' I ardent sportsman that he was, tells us I himself that he could shoot farther I and with greater accuracy with his I crossbow than his keeper could with I the fire tube. To prove this he tells us I the well known story of a certain I chamois standing at 200 fathoms, I which, after being pronounced as too I far off by his henchman, who was arm- I ed with one of the first sporting firearms I mentioned in print, comes tumbling I down, pierced at the first attempt by I the emperor’s bolt. From other sources I we learn of strict measures being I adopted to prevent poachers and “wood I loafers” using firearms, and this at a | period when princes still used the ’ I cumbrous crossbow and spear. It was I only in the last quarter of the six- I teenth century that firearms had ousted other weapons for certain forms of I the chase, the deer battue being among I the latter.—Gentleman’s Magazine. — The Poisonous Black Sea. The Black sea, which in some parts I has a depth of more than 6,500 feet, is I poisoned by sulphureted hydrogen wherever the water is deeper than 1,200 feet. This accounts for the curious fact that there is no organic life below that depth, excepting perhaps some bacteria of very low order, impregnated with sulphur. The causes for this phenomenon are explained by the quick outflow of the fresh water through the Bosporus, while salt water coming from the Mediterranean enters through a deeper current into | the depths of the Black sea. The waters on the surface are, therefore, controlled absolutely by horizontal currents of considerable force, and vertical currents which might carry the noxious gases from the bottom to the surface and fresh oxygen from the surface to the bottom are hardly ever I noticeable. The water at great depths is so saturated with sulphuric gas by the disintegration of organic matter sinking to the bottom by reason of its weight that no fish or other living being which needs oxygen for its organic system can exist beyond a stated depth. Station Derelicts. In every station one may find those who do not take trains or meet them, nor attend those who do. Some come to the waiting room only to wait—respectable derelicts still hoping that something will turn up, and wrecks who have given up hope. It is a warm place in winter, the seats are comfortable, and thoughtless passengers often obligingly leave newspapers behind them. It makes good waiting. There are so few other places to wait —so cruelly few for women adrift, but not yet foundered. Sometimes, to de-. ceive that meddlesome busybody, the station detective, they carry in traveling bags and pretend to be pulled down with their burdens, emptied long since at the pawnshops.—Jesse Lynch Williams in Century.

Why He Let Them Wed. Dean Plgon had a quaint old verger whose name was Sagar. Imagine him, a venerable figure with gray hair, skullcap, gown and verger’s staff. In ignorance they had married a man to his deceased wife’s sister. Sagar, w'hose business It was to settle the matter about the banns, was at once cross examined. "Oh, yes, vicar,” said he, "I knowed right well! I knowed parties.” “But why did you not tell me? I should have forbidden them.” "Well, vicar, it was just this way. do you see. One of the parties was eightyfour and t’other eighty-six. I says to myself: ‘Lord, it can’t last long. Let ’em wed, and bother the laws!’ ” London News.

A Contrast. Mr. Dapper is one of that class of men who are scrupulously neat in their personal appearance, but who never fail to leave chaos behind them in the scene of their preparations. A neighbor recently called on Mrs. Dapper and remarked: “One rarely sees a more well kept man than your husband. He always looks as if be had just come out of a bandbox.” “Very true,” returned Mrs. Dapper, “but”—with a sigh—"you ought to see the bandbox.”—Pearson's Weekly. Plain Living. How totally different is the effect of a plain, rational and nutritious diet upon the man who eats to live. His appetite requires no pampering, and yet he enjoys his food, and at the same time —what a gormand is deprived of —he is thoroughly alive to all the pleasures of life and able for its duties. Dr. Robert Bell in Health Record. His Awful Dream. Sydney Smith had been ill, and a friend having called to see him in- > quired what sort of night he had pass- j ed. “Oh. horrid, horrid, my dear fel-' low! I dreamt I was chained to a rock and being talked to death by Har-1 riet Martineau and Macaulay.” A Polite Thrust. “Professor.” said a senior, trying to be pathetic at parting, “I am indebted . to you for all I know. ' | “Pray don't mention such a trifle,” , was the reply.—Pennsylvania Punch. Life is hard for mnny people, and ■ we have no right to withhold any word or touch or act of love which will lighten the load or cheer the heart of any fellow struggler—La Belle Star.

will happen-evenwith such TWfIL a neat housekeeper as the II W | Malleable Girl. 01 /jj The Malleable girl is not careless, but then jjl accidentswill happen. She is not worried, _ _ however, for she knows that twice the amount ■——of water will not crack the top of her range because it is thoroughly annealed stove plate. A cake of ice can be plac.d on it while the top is red-hot without in anywise affecting the casting. Should any of this water run down onto the oven, it will not hrecrack as cast iron would under similar conditions. Should an accident of a similar character happen to another range, it would break and firecrack into a s?ore of pieces. You will be glad to learn of other distinctive features of this wounderful range. Drop Into Our Store Schafer Hardware Co. Any Time From October 21st. to 2(3 th. You will be served with Three Minute Biscuits and Delicious Hot Coffee and Presented with a Beautiful Cook Book and a Useful Souvenir. u \V7'A.k purchased during this exhibit,you AAr itil IL3CII have a free choice of a complete set of high grade cooking ware, a fifty-nine piece handsomely decor 1 ed semi-porcelain dinner set or several other valuable and attractive y presents well worth ~

O. N. Luelling left this morning on his regular trip to Berne. C. D. Kunkle was a business caller at Berne today, and will return this afternoon. George Tricker went to Berne this morning to look after business relative to the Great Northern. Philip Baker went to Berne this morning to attend a called meeting of the Great Northern officials.

V; Hp; •• Miss Bianca West ||ln Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall

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Mrs. Chauncey Sipes went to Geneva Saturday afternoon to remain over Sunday with her sister, Mrs. Wells. Dr. C. P. Foreman, of Winona, arrived in the city Saturday afternoon. He filled the pulpit at the Presbyterian church Sunday. Mrs. J. H. Franke and Mrs. Rinehart and daughter Marguerite, of Fort Wayne, spent Sunday in our city, the guestfe of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Forbing.

D AMV IMP Do You Do Any? DnliMllu if Not, why Not? Did it ever occur to you that a bank account, even though it may be a small one, is the safest means of doing business? Your checks are the bee: receipts for all bills paid, and yonr funds will be neither lost or stolen from vaults. You can open an account with any amount from one dollar up, and we will obligate ourselves to keep your finances straight and furnish you with the necessary check books and deposit books free of charge. If you are not accustomed to oank-j Ing just call and talk it over with any of our officers. The Old Adams County Bank. Originally Established in 1871 RESOURCES OverGNE MILLION DOLLARS

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Miss Ruby Miller has returned o Linn Grove to resume her duties as teacher in the schools of that place, after being tne guest of her mother over Sunday. Just; before putting up the winter stove it would not be a bad idea to examine the flues and see if they are in a safe condition. A disastrous fire might be prevented by a little care at the proper time.