Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 7, Number 297, Decatur, Adams County, 15 December 1909 — Page 6

TVloney . TO LOAN on Farms at 5 per C. GRAHAM Insurance Agency Decatur, Indiana. *♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦** > * # The Most Complete « « Line of High Grade * • ♦ * Smoking - Chewing J •TOBACCO; * Carried in the city at * * T.C. Corbett's « * Cigar Store * P, J, HYLAND SANITARY PLUMBING Qas Fitting, Steam and Hot Water Heating, Gas and Combination Fixtures 23 Monroe St. Phone 356 SMOKE THE CONGRESS Dr. J. M. MILLER Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Treated LYE» TESTED A CH_aSSE« FITTED MC South Second It « ■ ■ -Decettr HARRY DANIEL Auctioneer — I Now is ths time to book your farm sales. I will get you the high dollar. Call telephone at Pleasant Mills at my expense. CHICHESTER’S PILLS THE DIAMOND URAND. a Ladies! Ask four Dv'vrvfat for JrM fkl-eaes-ieF** I*IIU IO fi< 4 and 4>014 iaeta;.k\\Z/ ho«». «-**ed wrJk Lie* Ribboa. V/ - w Take ns •thvr ftwy of roer V 17 *“ us PfC***- AsMfTrCIUX. ITES.TEW ! > rs KRANI> PILL*, for *& Zr* years k •*" M Always ReKabia SOLD BY OiCISISaWYWiIERf Farmer’s Attention Now is the time to order your fertilizer. John Sheiman sells the kind that brings results. West Monroe St. J. S. COVLBMLE.N.D. L 6. COVCBD4LE. M. $ Drs. J. S. Cuwaate and San Special attention given to diseases of the Eye. Ear, Nose, and Throat Office 118# 2nd Street Decatur, Indians Dr. L. H. Zeigler, VETERINERV SURGEON Monmouth, Ind. ’Phone 9. Plenty of money to loan on farm property at 5 per cent. Privilege o> partial payment at any interest paying time. SCHURGER & SMITH, ts Attornes at Law and Abstracted o — ■ ATTENTION! Rapid Cholera Remedy and Egg Producer —means more eggs. Rapid Roup Remedy —means live and laying hens. Rapid Louse Killer —means ng lice. Rapid Ga>l Remedy—means due sympathy for your horse. Smith & Yager. o - ♦ MONEY TO LOAN—I have plenty of money to loan on farms. No commission charged. D. B. Erwin, attorney at law. tt

A CHRISTMAS AT CAPE HORN. ONCE I had a shipmate who celebrated the most grateful Christmas of his life at the Horn. It was on the Mary Ann, in i December, 1897. She was a deep cut steel clipper, but she was a four masted bark, and four masted barks are all • ugly In heavy seas. The best sea boat 1 artoat will p'unge at Cape Horn, but four masted barks are ail the time un- ' der water. Sometimes they are swamped altogether and float waterlogged around the Horn. Then the current pushes them south to perish in the ice jam. Some sailors can be likened to the four masted barks. They are the sailors who have been too long away from home. All sailors plunge liberally into shore life, but the “too long away from home” fellows are, as a rule, swamped in shore life's breakers. One of my mates on the Mary Ann was Bob Jones, a typical “too long away from home” unfortunate. But bob still had somebody dear to his heart. He had started on more than one trip around the world with the set determination that the end of the voyage should see him rejoin his own loved ones at home. But on pay day at the end of his trips his good resolutions had been broken. It had often gone so, and Bob was hiding self despair under the grim surface of a man hating man Bob and I, with twelve other Yankees. Dutchmen and Swedes, were on the starboard watch under Chief Mate Dickson of the Mary Ann. When we went below on Christmas eve the sea ■ was running high. Sleet and hail came down in the squalls. The western gale had trimmed our sails down to the lower topsails. We had hardly fallen asleep when we heard the man at the wheel strike one bell. Before the signal for “All hands on deck” was answered forward Bob and I were out of our bunks and had our sea boots on. “What’s up now?” growled Bob. and he got his answer from Jimmy, the deck boy, who came rushing in without preliminary warning. “Rise, rise, rise, sleepers! Weather ship for Icebergs on the leeward bow. Rise, rise, rise!” The watch on deck was already setting the fore staysail to head the vessel off the wind. She was running easy when we came on deck, and the storm spanker was hauled out to bring the

. vessel to the wind I on the other tack. | Bob was sent forI ward to furl the 1 forestaysail. The I rest of us went J to the braces and I pulled the yards I In to starboard. I Then came the I ugliest part of the I job. Slowly the | Mary Ann turned I to face her foe I again. But before I she could head I her bow against L the mighty seas I they broke over I her from stem, to I stern. I Bob came aft I from the staysail to join us just as 6 we all jumped out of the way,

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for a big breaker came thundering over the weather rail. The breaker caught Bob at the fore backstays. He jumped up and put his arm through the colls of the fore sheet, hanging lu straps in the royal backstay. The straps were rotten, and Bob and the coil sheet rope dropped and disappeared in the boiling deck waters. The waters surged to leeward and carried a dark object with them. The skipper threw a life buoy from the poop. “Poor Bob!" said everybody to himself. It was all we could do for blm. Bob was gone, and there seemed to be no help for It. We had the Mary Ann snug at last Our watch had still an hour more below, not long enough to make it worth while to crawl into our bunks, and we lighted our pipes, lay down on our chests and discussed poor Bob. BUI, who was Bob’s own chum, went to Bob’s bunk and overhauled the things. “It is enough to make anybody ripping mad to think of a rotton old strap chucking a poor fellow overboard,” mused Bill. ‘Thristmas night too. Say, boys, who.; we auction this stuff off we’ve got to show Bob up handsome to his friends.” It must be explained that when sailors die at sea their belongings are sold ■ at auction to the crew. This custom ' serves a double purpose. It Is easier to ship money halfway around the j globe than to insure the safe delivery cf an old wooden cheat A good sum of money Is also more welcome to most heirs than a chestful of tarred rags, i Besides, the sea auctions give the shipmates of the dead an opportunity to “raise his reputation ’ by adding generously to his account Everybody wanted to fill the Christmas stockings of poor Bob’s folks. The chief mate, Dickson, good naturedly consented that the auction should be held then and there and came to the forecastle with pencil and paper to record the sales as fast as they were mada * “Here you are, boys—here you are! Get your money ready. The greatest Cape Horn sale ever held will now start,” rasped the old chief. “First

I article is a valuable straw pillow. Ro i member what Bill Shakespeare says, ‘Uneasy rests the head that hasn’t got a pillow.’ What am I bld? Two dol--1 lars? Thank you! Three—four— five—six—six I have. Cai>e Horn prices, gentlemen. Eight—ten—ten—are you | all done? Tom, you can have It for I $lO. You may get a better one in San Francisco for 50 cents, but you can’t duplicate It for SSO within a thousand j miles of this place. “Next article is a handsome standup linen collar. It has only been worn by poor Bob in Liverpool and can be washed absolutely clean for the small price of 5 cents. It is the only article of its kind that has ever been for sale at Cape Horn. What am I bld—a dollar—two, two-fifty, three-fifty, fourfour—are you all done? Sold to Dick for $4. Dick is a sport now. Wait a i minute; there is a button in the back of the collar. You will have to buy ! the button separately, Dick.” And so each worn and patched garI ment of poor Bob was sold at “Cape ! Horn prices.” Bob's shipmates took

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“Hem! Well, we will see what is in it anyway,” assented the mate. When the canvas cover was opened a score of letters in soiled and torn envelopes dropped out. “I see no harm in letting yon fellows get a little home sentiment out of these old letters,” said the mate, “but you must not keep them. They must be forwarded to Bob's friends. You boys can bid for the privilege of reading the letters.” Dick for $9 bought the right to first pick. He took the best preserved envelope and its Inclosure and went away to read the letter. The sale continued, letter after letter fetching a neat sum. Half the letters were sold when Dick came from his corner and interrupted the sale. He looked troubled and shook his letter in our faces. “Boys, this letter is from the girl,” said he. “She's a dandy. Bob was no good. He didn't go home when he was paid off In Liverpool; he didn't go home from New York; hd didn't go home from San Francisco when he could have made the trip In a day. The girl is waiting yet.” The mate, who had been intently reading one of the letters, here Interrupted. “Bob’s mother is getting old, and she is poor. She does not ask for money, however. All she wants is her boy. He will never return to her now. Poor Bob’s mother! Poor Bob!” At four bells the lookout gave us b:-i “All’s well! Side lights burning bright.” Suddenly he began to beat the forward bell like mad. ( The lookout was shouting and waving his arms from the forecastle head, where he stood clinging to the raiL When we reached the fore part of the hdase the lookout attracted our attention to a dark object leaning limply against the starboard lighthouse. It was Bob Jones. We carried him into the forecastle. The mate and the whisky bottle were brought forward, and Bob slowly came to his senses. “I was slambanged something fearful, boys.” drawled Bob. “That breaker caught me rigftt. and the blamed strap broke. Then over she rolled to leeward”— “And I saw you go over the side,” interrupted Dick. “Not I. It may fiave been the sheet coil,”-continued Bob. “I was washed

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away up under the forecastle head. I guess I went clean off in a faint after I had cradled to a dry place. When I,’ woke up I made for the forecastle, but I couldn’t make it. I dropped right off again at the lighthouse.” When Bob had been bandaged up and given a warm breakfast he was the old Bob once more. The boys j>oked lots of fun at I him when they returned bis ! things to him. “Hold on. boys; i let us make a

bargain with Bob,” the imperative Dick broke in. “Here is my Bible. If Bob wIU swear to go home to his mother and the girt from San Fran- 1 cisco he crn take the auction money along as a (Jhristmas present.” “That’s right! Come on. Bob Swear, man, swear!” *1 do, so help me, God, and a merry Christmas to yon all, boys!” 1 sobbed Bob. "I will go home, boys—l will!" ( And be did.—Philadelphia Ledger.

A CHRISTMAS CARD. By F. TOWNSEND SMITH. [Copyright, 1909. by American Press Association.] Peter Young and Frederick Ayres were playmates lu childhood. attended the same school and left the same college in the spring of 1801 to enlist in the same regiment In the Union army. They campaigned together and after each light Immediately sought each other to learn of their mutual safety. On one occasion Young shot a Confederate who was about to run a bayonet into his friend's breast. Ou another Ayres carried Young, who had been wounded, for miles on a retreat,' saving him from a southern prison and perhaps death. Their devotion to each other was well known in the army in which they served, and they were referred to as furnishing an Example of a typical friendship. In the fourth and last year of their service they quarreled. Both bad become subaltern officers and were tentmates. One day Young entered their tent and, looking under his cot, missed a chip he kept there as a rest for his soap. * s “What’s become of my soap dish?” he asked his friend. “What soap dish?” “That chip I had here.” “Oh. that dirty thing! I threw it out.” “What did you do that for?” angrily. “Because 1 propose to have the tent I live in respectable.” “And I propose to have something to put my soap on. and 1 won’t allow any man to interfere with it.” It is not essential to give the steps by which these two bosom fsiends became more and more angry and finally alienated. The contemptible cause was a chip which its owner considered a soap dish and bis friend as not sufficiently aesthetic to grace their canvas habitation. They did not speak to each other during that campaign and before another Ayres had been transferred to the staff and assigned to duty with a different corps. In 1865 Young and Ayres were both again in civil life. On Christmas morning of the next year on going to the postoffice for his mail Ayres was handed an envelope addressed to him in the familiar handwriting of his friend? Opening it. be drew forth a card on which was a picture of a dove with an olive branch in its mouth. Nothing wag written on the card, nor did any letter accompany it, but the recipient knew that his friend had remembered bis birthday and sent a peace offering. He was not a demraistrative man—nor was Young, for that matter—so be put the card in his pocket, saying nothing to any one about it. but thinking on it a great deal.

care that none of them contributed less than a month's wages to Bob's final pay day. The mate at last put his band to the bottom of Bob's chest, and from a corner he brought up a bundle of papers wrapped in an old piece of canvas tied together with yellow silken cigar bands. The mate held the bundle thoughtfully in his hand. He hesitated to trespass. “Open it up!” shouted the men in chorus.

The next Christmas morning Young’s wife, whom be had just married, banded him an envelope the superscription on which was in Ayres' handwriting. It contained the Christmas card he had sent Ayres on his twenty-third birthday. Mrs. Young asked her busband what it all meant. He prevaricated. He was ashamed to' tell her the story—firstly, on account of the insignificant cause that had separated him from his friend; secondly, because he blushed at this missive passing between them, worthy rather of two schoolgirls than two veterans of a great war. For forty years the card continued to pass at Christmas time between the two friend-enemies. Picture processes ithproved, and the little dove of 1865 was a sorry looking bin} beside the dove of the twentieth century. Besides, the card was worn and soiled. Possibly had the two friends been near each other they would have returned to a closer relationship. But in all these years they never met. Ayres never married, and Mrs. Young, who meanwhile had come into possession of the story of their quarrel said facetiously that she believed he loved her husband too well to marry a woman.

A Christmas came round when Peter Toung was in no mood to remember to send the card with the dove and olive branch. A crisis had come in his affairs. and what he had been for years building fell with a crash. The crown of his and his wife’s sorrow was that his health broke down under the strain. Had he not after these many years come to tread in a rut he would have written to learn the cause of his not receiving his token. But ho had never written a line or spoken a word to the man with whom he had quarreled in his youth, and it seemed too late for him to begin. The result was that he refrained from writing and worried. One day—it was shortly before Christmas—Mrs. Young, rummaging in her husband's desk, found the old card. It occurred to her at once that in her husband’s preoccupation and distress he had for the first time forgotten it. She had saved a paragraph taken from a newspaper mentioning her husband's failure in business and another stating that he was suffering from nervous prostration. Placing these items with the card in an envelope. she sent it to Ayres. Christmas morning brought a letter from Ayres inclosing his check for SIO,OOO and a note statfiig that it was sent in the hope that it would place his friend again on his feet. The Christmas card he would thereafter keep in his possession. That was the end of the partial estrangement. Mrs. Young telegraphed Ayres urging him to Join them that evening at a Christmas dinner. Ayres took the first train and reached the house of his old friend to find him and his wife waiting for him. And there and then they laughed over the soap dish incident.

TO CLOSE UP SHOP Decatur Merchants Have all Agreed to Cease Business Christmas Day. ARE TO CELEBRATE • r This Agreement Gives the Store Keeper and Clerk a Day for Home. We, the undersigned merchants of the city of Decvatur agree to close our respective places of business all day Christmas, Saturday, December 25. 1909: * Niblick & Co. M. Fullenkamp. True & Runyon. Kuebler & Moltz. Everett & Hite. J. H. Voglewede & Son. F. V. Mills. Fred B. Tague. Steele & Weaver. Charlie Voglewede. The Meyers & Daily Co. Holthouse, Schulte & Co. Winness Shoe Store. Schaub, Gottemillei' & Co. Schafer Hdw. Co. Elzey, Vance & Hite. Yager Bros. & Reinking. C. E. Baughman. Moses & Meyers. Moser's China Store. Mrs. J. S. Bowers. Mrs. M. P. Burdg. day & Zwick U. Deininger. Mrs. C. Boesse. » Lamon & Lee. Teeple, Brandyberry & Peterson. Yoder & Brushweiler. Hower & Hower. Sam Hite.

PUBLIC SALE. Having decided to dispose of my livery stock, I will offer same at public auction, beginning at 1 o’clock p. m, sharp, at my stable on East Jefferson street, opposite Decatur Lumber Co., on Saturday, December IS, 1909, the following property, to-wit: Horses— One bay gelding, six years old, an excellent road horse, absolutely lady broke; dapple gray mare, 7 years old, good roadster; 8-year-old roan horse; also a cheap work horse. Buggies— One canopy top surrey, Bimel make; one rubber-tired Moyer spring buggy, one rubber-tired top buggy, one steeltire buggy, one open rubber-tired runabout. Harness—One set double harness, good as new; 5 sets of single harness, of which 3 are good as new. I will also offer a feed cutting box, like which there are none in this section and in which anyone interested will secure a valuable bargain. Look this up. Also robes, whips, office fixtures and miscellaneous articles. Terms—All sums of $5.00 and under cash in hand; over $5.00 a credit of 6 months will be given, the purchaser giving his note therefor with approved freehold security to the satisfaction of the undersigned. No property removed until settled for. CLEM J. KELLER. Noah Frauhlger, Auct ■ o PUBLIC SALE.

The undersigned has sold his farm and will offer for sale at his residence, six and one-half miles southeast of Decatur and two and one-half miles southwest of Pleasant Mills on the old Pelz farm, beginning at 10 o’clock a. m., Wednesday, December 22, 1909, the following property, to-wtt: Horses, bay mare, 7 years old In spring, weighs 1,400 pounds; grey horse, 12 years old; bay mare, between 11 and 12 years old; colt, will be 3 years old in May; colt, 2 years old in spring; mule, 7 months old. Cattle. One fresh cow, 2 cows, will be fresh in January; 1 cow, will be fresh in spring; two-year-old steer and 2 spring calves. Three ewe lambs and one registered Shropshire buck. Hogs. Two sows, will farrow in March; male hog, ten shoats, weighing 80 to 10 Opounds each. Farm Implements. Two horse riding plow.

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3 breaking plows, 3 shovel. plows, 1horse cultivator, 2-horse cultivator, self dump hay rake, McCormick binder, Deering mower, 2-horse disc drill, 2 two-horse wagons, set •of dump boards, 3-seated spring wagon, 2buggles, pair of ladders, 2-horse harrow, spring tooth harrow, mud boat, 2 sets of work harness, set of bugy harness, new check rower corn planter, 10 bales of timothy hay, about 8 tons of timothy hay in mow, 10 Oshocks of shredded fodder, 600 shocks of fodder, 39 shocks of corn and fodder, post auger, 2 spades, long-handled shovel, scoop shovel, tile scoop, 3 pitchforks. 2 barrels, one-tytlf barrel of salt, shaving horse, heating stove, glass cupboard, 12 chicken coops, 17 young turkeys, 7 ducks, 4 geese, Shepherd dog, hay fork, rope and car, pair of bolsleds, grind stone and numerous other articles. Terms. —All sums of $5.00 and under cash in hand; over $5.00 a credit of 9 months will be given, the purchaser giving his note therefor with approved freehold security to the sat isfaction of the undersigned. ALBERT PELZ. J. N. Burkhead, — o — . — ■ -- RAILROAD BULLETIN CHICAGO & ERIE * Eastbound No. B—Daily 2:27 a.m. No. 12—Daily 4:05a.m. No. 4—Daily 3:38 p.m. No. 22 —Daily ex. Sunday. ..1:49 p. m. No. 14—Dally 8:57 p.m. Westbound No. 47—Daily 8:17 a.m. No. 3—Daily 12:47 p.m. No. 21 —Daily, ex. Sunday. .10:10 a. m. GRAND RAPIDS & INDIANA In Effect September 26, 1909. Southbound No. 4—Daily 2:48 a.m. No. 12 —Daily, ex. Sunday.. .7:06 a. m. No. 2 —Daily, ex. Sunday.. .1:11 p. m. No. 16—Sunday only 8:00p.m. Northbound Na s—Dailys—Daily 11:48 a. m No. 7 —Daily .»7:57 a. m. Na 3 —Dally, ex. Sunday.. .5:15 p. tn. T-, STS L. & W. R. R. Na 2—Frankfort to Toledo, Ex Sunday 11:27 a. m Na I—Toledo1 —Toledo to Frankfort , ffx Sunday 11:49 a.m. Na 3 —Delphos to, St Louis, Daily 7:21a.m. Nr. 4—St. Louis to Delphos, Daily 8:03 p. m Na s—Toledo5 —Toledo to St Louis, Daily 10:17 p.m. No. 6 —St Louts to Toledo, Dally 5:05 a.m. Daily Interurban Schedule THE FT. WAYNE & SPRINGFIELD Trains Leave 7 rains Leave Decatur Ft. Wayne 5:50a.m. 7:00a.m. 7:00 a.m. 8:30 a.m. 8:30a.m. 19:08a. m. 10:06a.m. 11:30a.m. 11:30 a.m. 1:00 p.m. 1:00 p. m. x 2:30 p. m. 2:30 p.m. 4:00 p.m. 4:00 p.m. 5:30 p.m 5:30 p.m. 7:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m. 8:J0p. m. 9:30p.m. 11:00p.m.' Theater parties taking the 7:00 t>. tn. car will arrive at Calhoun and Berry street. Fort Wayne, at 8:10 p. m. The last car leaving Fort Wayne at 11:00 p. m. will wait until after the show. YOUNG MEN WANTED. Government Paye Railway Mail Clerks i SBOO to $1,400 a Year—Free Scholarships are Offered. Uncle Sam holds spring examinations for railway mall clerks in this vicinity. The job is for life; hours are short salary twice monthly and vacation. To any young man this is the opportunity of a lifetime. Thousands of appointments are to i be made. Common school education 1 is all you need; city and country peo- I pie have equal chance. Start to pre- 1 pare now—free information. Free scholarships this month. Write immediately to Central Schools, Dept. 208; Rochester, N. Y. IMI-14-21-28Jan.5-6-7-8-9 '

Farmers Attention!! J. N. Burkhead, Monroe, Ind., is the Leading Auctioneer of live stock orfartn sales. I have had eight years of ex. perience. Write for dates in time. Telephone at my tx . ponse. J. N. Burkhead. ' a' i KBr- J Fanners Attention!! John Spuhler the live stock and general auctioneer, is prepared to book your sale, which will mean a successful, sale tc you. He is the auctioneer that gets the nigh dollar for all property sold. Claim dates early. Phone: Residence 531; office 430.

John SPuhler, AuCt.

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