Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 145, Decatur, Adams County, 18 June 1915 — Page 2

Charles F. Steele & Co’s Sale DURING THE Retail Merchants’ Association Second Annual Sale, June 22, 23, and 24th, 1'315, will eclipse any heretofore attempted in Decatur. Don’t Miss This Opportunity. Come and secure some of the best goods on the market. HERE ARE A FEW SAMPLES:

$6.00 Belgium Collars, Ilf-inch draft, extra carted. hair face, all sixes, at W.M $5.25 full Sweeney Collars. 17Mr Inch draft, woo) face, billets. and pad thong »ewed, no rivets.l4.so 12.50 Canvas Collars. Sweeney Collar, thong sewed, large draft, no pieced rim. at 52.00

HARPER BIGGIES The Best Buggy made, on steel or rubber, at 15 per cent discount. The season for Fly Nets is at Hand. We have all nev k will e during this sale a discount of 10 to 15 per cent. Team and Buggy Harness, Hardware, Shovels, all kinds of Forks, Ho?'. Bakes, Lawn Mowers, etc., from 10 to 30 iter cent discount Every article in the store will be sold at a great reduction to help make tie Decatur Retail Merchants' second annual sale a success, and one long lo be remembered. CHARLES F. STEELE & CO. NORTH SECOND STREET.

Sunday Excursions from DECATUR to TOLEDO via CLOVER LEAF ROUTE See H. J. Thompson, Agent, for particulars. »-■ 1 ' —■- 1 ~ ■ - "" STOP! LOOK! LISTEN! Big House Wiring and Fixture Campaign, starts in Decatur June 15th. On and after June 15th. the Lawrence Electric Co. will wire all houses and furnish a complete equipment of “Up to the Minute” fixtures (selected by owner) for the small payment of $5.00 down and balance at $5.00 per month. ACT QUICKLY, WRITE US, PHONE US LAWRENCE ELECTRICAL CO. THE QUALITY SHOP

g NEW i H X , Waists, Dresses and Middy Blouses. t K g /fO'U.kkX/ We also have a nice new g II line of the || £ TW latest / \ = ii IB " j (ok ii Mi ’A V rc."3 U“itJjJ T’\ // MB 2 OOw newest 1 ® || shape || E'\A Parasols. Xik g II II = THE BOSTON STORE = «• Dry Goods & Groceries. S aa >llll=lllll —

$2.00 Canvas Collars, soft, flexible, full Sweeney, great for tender shoulders, at $1.50 5 $5.25 Boston Dray Collars, extra curled hair face, larger draft and > better than Boston Track, at.. 54.50

$3.75 leather Collars, straight with Coronas Leather face, a*. $3.15 $2.25 Canvas Collars, a straight thong sewed, large draft, no pieced rim al $1.75 $1.25 Canvas Collars, soft, flexible, straight collar, fine tor tender shoulders, at $1.'.0

The Constipation Curse | Constipation-clogged bowels cause pain and sickness; 95 per cent of our ills, say the authorities. Sentanel Laxatives bring quick relief. All vegetable—contain no calomel. Ten doses for a dime at any druggist’s. Physician’s sample free upon request if you mention this advertisement. The Sentanel Remedies Co., Inc., 800 Madison Ave., Covington, Ky. Less mortar J L exposed feed in- I i side a II I (better Sil I I\\vX I took- ' -tjui ,-r- \ wall outside. Joints soildr. s j UrTn 3 rocs—extra strong block sil- < 2 IjTr* • a*je settles better less chance TTTII S tLLTP for frost. These are jurt a few fOZE 3 iTfS of your advantages with the ffl'l I S ZTTtS Lansing Vitrified 'r j f Tile Silo s : Reinforced with twisted steel U.LL.L 3 ECCC. —ha* continuous doorway. easy XU.I4 st climbing ladder. Build your .-ilo ill T l,l r g-i-LLU to last for generat ions. First 111. Li a ■l.l.Lu cost '/niyeost. Get most dur- U.1.f.1. 2 1.1-l.lJj able construction known in silo YrA l — E JiLV 4 bcilJinf at no greater cost yeJ. Jnj y.UA than others ask. Write today --r-r— S -rWA* for catalog. Ejlll,1 S. N. FRITZINGER g J i Get out offer on Climax § LIIUj ■ Cutters and Bidwell Threshers. DECATUR, IND. StUGGo Worker GEO. BAUMGARTNER BERNE, IND. PHONE 220 Modern House for Rent i A nine room residence on fifth Street, two blocks west of Court House has furnace, electric lights, bath and cistern; A. D. SUTTLES, I At Old Adams County Bank

Movl» Instead of Movy. It m a siguUicuut development of Shgllsh spelling in th* circle, of the uneducated that the word uacd to represent in short form moving picture hn* taken the form movie. The plural moving picture* wns reduced to the Milldtsh form movies in deference perunps to th«> growing intelligence of the patrons of those works of art. And tlien when occasion arose to use the singular It was not spelled ns the spell Ing Itook rules would make lt._ tnovy, but movie. And we read of the movie show. The ending “le” has always been popular in pet names, ns in Abbie. Annie, Carrie, Fannie, Jennie, Jo sic. Katie. Lottie, Mnttie, Billie, Johnnie, Willie, etc. The spelling with ”y" Is Inter and in tome names less common, Currie is seldom Carry, and Annie is never Anny. The ending “ie” was formerly pronounced in these names ns it is in Held, but shorter and with a secondary stress—" Jen nie.” ••Wfl-lle," etc., so "little Blllee.’’ It is the popular si>elling in bonnie, collie, laddie, lassie, birdie, doggie, mousie and other words of Scottish and nursery association*. — Simplified Spelling Bulletin. The Hurt Flower. Somebody, a scientist, has assured us that plants are not insensible to injury— thnt a flower may feel the hurt <t rough treatment Whether this is true or not, there comes the notion that it would be a blessing If everybody bad the imagination to fancy a violet sensitive to rough bauds ami the weight of a careless heel. 'Twould mean more gentleness in a world none too tender toward many of the beautiful tilings of life. More than a century and a quarter ago Ilobert Burns, on turning down a mountain daisy with the plowshare, broke into a song typical of his sympathetic nature: Wee, modest, crimson tipped flower, Thou's met me in an evil hour. These two lines are suggestive of the whole poem—a simple, sweet melody whose dominant chord was contrition. This century old song is in harmony with the views of the modern scientist. The hurt flower Idea is good enough to have a place in our thoughts. We lose nothing when we snuggle., a little closer to nature.—Toledo Blade. z De Quincey’s Vice Explained. De Quincey’s style was variegated enough, but bls diet was monotonous to a degree, his dinner for the last thirty years of bls life invariably comprising some loin of mutton, boiled rice ami coffee. Every day he interviewed the cook and told her to prepare these dishes, adding, "If you do not remember to cut the mutton in a diagonal rather than a longitudinal form consequences incalculably distressing to my system will arise and will prevent me from attending to matters of overwhelming importance.” No wonder the bewildered Scotswoman when thus drenched with polysyllables for the first time was heard to remark. "The body has an awful sicht of words.”— London Strand Magazine. The Sex of Ships. The word “ship” is masculine in French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese and possesses no sex in Teutonic and Scandinavian. Perhaps it would not be an error to trace the custom of 5 mlninizing ships back to the Greeks, who called them by feminine names, probably out of deference to Athene, goddess of the sea. But the English speaking sailor assigns no such reasons. The ship to him is always a lady, even though she be a man-of-war. She possesses a waist, collars, stays, laces, bonnets, ties, ribbons, chains, watches and dozens of other distinctly feminine attributes.—Collier's Weekly. Business Jokes. The clerk who thinks the house can’t do without him. The salesman who has his trade personally anchored. The buyer who cannot be fooled. The stenographer who knows best what the old man ought to say. Tl>e credit man who can always trust bls intuition. Tlie head of the firm who always sticks to the way he always did it. The customer who doesn’t know what he wants. The house that won't advertise, because its goods are “different.”—Printer's ink. Good In Either Case. Mal>el—What are you going to do with all these flowers after the carnival is over? It's a shame to waste them. Maud—They won't be wasted. Jf Jack sees • UM 1 before papa does there'll be a wedding, and if papa sees Jack before I do there'll be a funeral.— Puck. Black Howlers. Regarded as weather prophets by the natives, the “black howlers,” largest of the Panamanian monkeys, set up a roaring howl suggestive of the lion for volume of sound. They bowl often est before or during a storm, hence the native belief.—Argonaut Tough Luck. “I’ve been wearing the same suit of clothes for five years. That's pretty tough.” "Os course it is, my friend. But Tm worse off than yon. I've had the same automobile for five years. ’ —Binning ham Age-Herald. Pa's Definition. I,'enfant—Father, what is a “sepulchral tone of voice:” I-e Pere—That means to speak gravely- —Dartmouth Jack-o'-Lantern. If you are content you have enough to live comfortably.—Plautus.

Ambition. Contented, nuninbittomi jM'ople tit* a'l wry well in their way. They form a neat, useful background for great i>ortraits to be painted against, and they make u respectable if not particularly intelligent audience for the active spirit* of the age to play Iwfore. But do not, for goodness sake, let them go stalking about, ns they are *>■ fond of doing, crying out that they are the true models for the whole species. Why, they are deadheads, the drones, the street crowds that lounge about galling tit those who are working. They never know the excitement of expectation nor the stern delight of necotapitebed effort, such as stir the pulse of the man who has objects, hoi>es and plans. To the ambitious man life is a brilliant game-a game tbnt call* forth all his tact and energy and nerve; a game to be won in the long run by the quick eye and the steady hand and yet having sufficient chance about its working out to give it all the glorious zest of uncertainty. And if he be defeated he wins the grim Joy of lighting; if he loses the race he at least had a run. Better to work and fail than to sleep one's life away.—Jerome K. Jerome. Equestrian Statue*. "On the night of the unveiling of General Sherman's statue in New York Mr. Whitelaw Heid suggested that Bishop Potter, Mr. St. Gaudens and myself go to ills home in Madison avenue for dinner,” said General Francis V. Greene. "I there declared that of nil the thousands of equestrian statues that had come to my attention the one of General Sherman was the best. Mr. St. Gaudens then surprised me by saying that doubtless I was not aware that there were not a hundred equestrian statues in the world. Bishop Potter’s son-in-law, Mr. J. E. Cowdin, was at tl>e dinner. Some time afterward, on a hot summer night, we were at dinner In the Union club when Mr. Cowdin chanced to refer to the statement of the famous sculptor. 'You were wrong,’ Mr. Cowdin told me, ‘but Mr. St. Gaudens was not right I have collected pictures of all the equestrian statues in the world, and I managed to get 111.’ "—New York Herald. Ocean Temperature*. The steamer Albatross, which Is used by oceanographers, makes records of deep sea temperatures. These temperature observations prove that the ocean has a far more limited range of heat and cold than the land, its maximum surface temperature being about 85 degrees I'., and its minimum atiout 29 degrees F. in the most frigid depths, the “cold puddles” between Greenland ami Norway. The average ocean temperature at a depth of six or seven hundred fathoms is 36 degrees F. One of the mysteries of the sea is a regular nightly temperature rise of half a degree at a depth of 100 fathoms. This unaccountable temperature variation has been, observed by the Albatross over and over again.— American Magazine. Why Teeth Chatter. Although the muscles which affect the action of the jaws are especially under the control of the brain, the chattering of the teeth is really a spasm caused by chill or fear, nnd all spasms act independent of the will. The muscles which operate the jaw act in a series of involuntary little contractions which pull the jaw up and permit it to fall of its own weight. This action is quick, and the chattering occurs from frequent repetition. The cold has a similar effect upon the jawmuscles to that which some poisons have in causing spasmodic action in other parts of the Ixxly. He Was Unanimously Elected. When the term of the old negro preacher had expired he arose and said: “Breddren, de time am heah fo’ de delection cb yo' pastoh for anudder yeah. All dose faliorln’ me fo' yo' pastoh will please say -Aye.’ ’’ The old preacher had made himself rather unpopular, and there was no response. “Ha!” he said. “Silence gibs consent alius. I'se yo’ pastoh fo’ anudder yeah.”—Exchange. Old Divorce Cure. In old,Holland when a couple applied for a divorce they were locked up in a one room, trying out cabin with one dish and one spoon. If after a month they had not come to an agreement they got the writ, which was seldom asked for after this treatment. Natural Result. “Mamma,” said small Elmer, “let's go in the back yard and play football.” “I can't play the game, dear,” answered the mother. "Huh!” exclaimed Elmer scornfully. 'That is what comes of having a woman for a mother.”—Chicago News. One Is Enough. “Before she married him, you know, she used to say there wasn't another man like him in the world." “Yes, she says she’d hate to think that There was.” Had an Aim All Right. Cole—l like to see a woman with an *im in life. Now, has your wife any •im? Wood—Rather! Look where she hit me with a plate!—Chicago News. Sympathy Needed. “Jiggs’ wife speaks ten languages." “I move we adopt resolutions of sympathy and send them to Jiggs."—Buffalo Express. Loneliness is an all pervading coovclcusness of self.

-Nirfgß- ——- —i U AUTOMOBILE and motorcycle drivers uii I BE DELIGHTED WITH THE Ci.u v R l AM) Rtl.lFl' FOUND IN 01 R GOGGLES AND DRIVING GLASi SES. COOI COMFORTABLE AND « COOI) LOOKING. PRICES VERY | mSONABLE. TRY A PAIR. I 25c A PAIR AND UP. ISWIjfWELfiY STORE H "If its new, we have it.” ■ Artistic Engraving Expert Repairing I •• yx Jf - ’ LET US PROVE THESE POINTS TO YOU!! 1. The easiest running mower because of ball bearings and brass crank boxes. 2. The lightest draft because the entire weight is carried on wheels, and eliminates all friction. 3. The longest life because of its easy running qualities and fine material. 4. The greatest cutting power because a’l power is utilized on the cutter-bar. Ask us to demonstrate the Walter A. Wocd, Mower. Lee Hardware Company SPECIAL VACATION TOURS VIA CLOVER LEAF ROUTE TOLEDO, DETROIT, CLEVELAND, CEDAR POINT PUT-in-BAY, BUFFALO AND NIAGARA FALLS Tickets on sale every Saturday at Decatur during the Summer at greatly reduced fares RET URN LIIVIIT 15 days. See H. J. Thompson, Agent, or address Chas. E. Rose, A. G. P. A.

FOR SALE —Two good Durham milch cows. Also a number of good young cattle. —Roy Runyon. 'Phone S ' L - 144 t 3

KELLASTONE STUCCO w means the only genuine wltpr nr w Inot1 not affected b - v Heat, Cold, Crank J eather It does not Shrink or £ a n * P TL f L Oni do ?F and window Casings with nil Preparations do. Being mixed metal or Utlf "Ts w „ eather -“? d °. n P es> CALL And See Our SAMPLES. E. L. CARROLL 4 SON

for RENT—Four furnished room for light housekeeping, Line street 'Phone 521 Monroe street. —B. Sholty. 140-tts-tl