Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 193, Decatur, Adams County, 13 August 1915 — Page 2

I) A 1 L Y 1) EMOC R A T Published Every Evsalng Except Sunday by The Decatur Democrat Company LEW Q. ELLINGHAM JOHN H. HELLER Subscription Rates Per Week, by carrier 10 eent a Per Year, by carrier >5.00 Per Month, by mail 25 cents Per Year, by mail >2.50 Single Copies . 3 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the Postofflce in Decatur, Indiana, as second-class matter. g DOINGS IN SOCIETY | WEEK’B CLUB CALENDAR. Friday. Do Your Best Class—Mrs. Dick Hill. Mrs. Ollie" Heller, assisted by Mrs. Orval Harrutf and Mrs. Esta Liddv entertained the Loyal Workers' class of the Evangelical Sunday school last evening at the Heller home, in a pleasant way , seventeen being present. There was an interesting flower contest and other games in the social after the business session, anj tempting refreshments were served. Tii<‘ next meeting will be the second Thursday in September at the home of Mrs. S. E. Cramer in tiie country. An toe cream social will be held Saturday evening. August 21. on t’ounrt street. Everybody is invited. The weather was unfavorable yesterday so the Helping Hand societydecided to not have their picnic in Steele's park, but instead remained in the German Reformed Sunday school, where they had agreed to meet. The ladies brought their crocheting and talked an ( ] had a general good time until five o’clock when their tempting array of viands was spread for the picnic supper There was a good attendance. The society will give a pared post sale Tuesday evening. August. 24. in the new waterworks' park. More full announce ment will be made later. Mrs. Minnie Daniels and Miss Margaret Daniels were guests of Mrs. Hugh Daniels at Rivarre yesterday. The anuual'»reunion of the Buti-x family will be held Sunday at tin 1 B. F. Butler home. The Misses Emma and Dorotliy Schultz of this city and Mrs (’.tri Hanna of Fort Wayne have returned from Chicago to which place they iacompanied Miss Ada Cowan on her was to Saskatchewan. Canada on iter her sister. Mis« Emma Schultz returned last evening and Miss Dorothy who also visited in Detroit, will remain in Fort Wayne this week. They visited the scene of the Eastland belt horror in Chicago while there. Mrs. Charles Brodbei k of Seventh street entertained the Good Times club last evening at a delightful party and shower for Mrs. Owen Davis formerly Miss Vera Hunsicker. a bride of this season. The home was prettily decorated in pink and green crepe paper streamers and pink gladioli in vases. Guests besides the members of the club were Miss (ris Robinson. Winchester; Mrs. Ralph

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Mattax and babe of Rushville; Mrs. Amos Yoder. Mrs. Burt lltmaicker, Mrs. hid Ahr. The ladies crocheted, and conversed, and later had the ‘game of progressive (wanuts. Prizes were won by Misses Ruth Gay and Pearl Purdy and given by them to the guest of honor. Luncheon was served at little tables and the menu was a very tempting one. including hot rolls, baked beans, salad, pickled eggs, lemonade, lutti fruitti und cake. After the lunch there was a heart hunt, in which Miss Pearl Purdy won the prize. The shower consisted of many pretty gifts, the one from the club girls being a table mirror These were laid wrapped, in white, on the table, in the library, which was also decorated in white, and to which from Hie archwuy, were drawn white crepe streamers. Mrs. D. B. Erwin and daughters and Miss Florence Cowan motored to Van Wert. Ohio, tod ... anti called on friends.

Miss Ixtuise lank of toluic bus )., and ller niece, Miss Louise Link of Grand Rapids. Michigan, are grists of their cousin, Mrs. John Uhritten. They came to attend the M.igley re'union. The Pythian Needle club wilt resume its festivities again and w'll meet next Monday evening at the K of P. Home after the temple session. The hostesses will be Mesdames Geo. Houser. John I). Myers and Ollie Chronister. All members are urged to be present. Glen Warner and family of (Jothqti and Miss Bernice Warner of Misha waka are here, guests of their sister. Mrs. Clyde Rice. Miss Laura Moses of Canton. Ohio, who has been visiting here with t’te Mrs. Julia Moses ang E. S. Moses families. left today for Kelley's Island, near Sandusky. Ohio, for the remain der of the season. COURT HOUSE NEWS Sheriff Ed Green went to Riehuioml today to re-commit George Snyder to Easthaven asylum. o For Wayne & Springfield Ry. Company. TIME TABLE. Northbound. Cars leave Decatur st 5:60, #:# 11:30. 2:30, 5:45, 3:50: arrive at For Wayne at 8:53. 9:40. 12:40, 8:40, 6:5* ind 10:40 Southbound.

Leave IT. Wayne at 7:00, 10:00, 1:60, 4:00, 7:30, 11:00; arrived In Decatur at 8:19; 11:10: 2:10; 5.10, 8:40, 12:18 Connections are made at ForWayne with the Ft. Wayne '4 North ern Indiana Traction Co., The Toled* & Chicago Interurban Railway Cora pany, The Ohio Electric, and Indian* Union Traction Company; also with the Pennsylvania, Wabash Nlckb Plate. L. 8. 4 M. 8., C. H. 4 D„ wnO G. R. 4 I. railroads. Freight Service. Freight service con sista at one train each way daily; Leaving Decs tur at 7:00 a. m. and returning, leav Ing Fort Wayne at 12:00 a. m. ThW enables shippers to telephone orders and receive shipments promptly. W. H. FLEDDERJOHANN. General Manager, - - Decatur, inn WE WANT 5.000 MEN AND WOMEN —in the next thirty days. Live wire partners in every town and city, to help us handle our fast increasing real estate and general agency bus!iness. We will share enormous profits with those who will join us now. You receive a life membership. Write today for free particulars. B. F. Loos Co., Des Moines, lowa. 175t-m-tf THE ART OF SELLING b OR CASH— This little brochure explains fully how we can sell your real estate or business for cash; no matter where located. We mean it. Write todaydescribing what you have to sell, buy or exchange, and receive this booklet free—B. F. Loos Co., 403 W. Walnut St., Des Moines, lowa. m-th-175tf HERE is a reiuedy that will cure most al! skin arg scalp troubles. Eczema, Barbers Itch, Itch, Cuts and Sores. Why waste time and money when B. B. Ointment is an ointment ot real merit? Ate your druggist. if not handled send 50 cents to the B. B. Ointment Co., 217 Mooroe street, pecatur, Indiana. ~ 9

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OLD AND UL'RIUUS CLOCKS Marvels of Workmanship Were Some of Those Products In the Centuries Gone By. While the clockmakers of today possess skill and Ingenuity in the highest degree, the clockinakers of other days showed no srfiall ability In their line, since the product of theft labors was frequently not only of the most complicated sort, but of such excellent workmanship that it seems tc have been made for all tlmd. In this relation there may be mentioned a clock at Castletown. In the isle of Man, that was telling the hout before Oliver Cromwell was boru, aud there is a clock still marking time at Castle Hushen which Queen Elizabeth herself presented to the lord of that castle more than 300 years ago. There are other clocks of even more ancient date. At Schramberg, in the Black forest, there is to be seen an alarm clock that was made In 1680. It Is still in good working condition, hi form It resembles a lantern wherein is a lighted candle, the wick being automatically clipped every minute by a pair of scissors. The candle is slowly pushed upward by a spring, which also controls the mechanism of the clock, and at the required hour of waking an alarm is sounded, and at the same time the movable sides of the lantern fall and the room is Hooded with light Not so long ago the French government acquired from a private collection an extraordinary alarm clock that once belonged to Napoleon Bonaparte This not only indicates the time of day, but the day, the month, the year, the mean solar time, the phases of the moon, aud, in addition, the quarterhours. its attachments include a thermometer. One of the most curious of clocks was that made by a poor man of Milan. It was constructed of bread. Every day the maker set apart some portion of his daily bread, which, by a process of which he would not divulge the secret, he was able to render as hard as metal. From these fragments of bread he thus constructed his clock, which is said to be an excellent one. keeping good time. A man named Le Roulatt, living at Limoges, France, is recorded as being able to make clocks from any material, no matter how unsuitable It may have seemed. One clock be fashioned entirely from old newspa- j pers converted fcito pulp; another from large and small sticks held together by wire; a third from discarded tobacco cans aud so on. Some of Le Roulatt's clocks are said to have been models of workmanship.

A Changed Paris. "Paris considers itself safe now, and, like an invalid just out of danger. is able to sit up and see a few friends. The Folles Bergeres! How like old times! Surely you won’t be able to help laugiiing there! In that slim and preoccupied audience there is a dry laugh or two occasionally, but mostly they dream at the ceiling Comedy scenes go for pathos—men rise, yawn, and walk out. 18 this a dress rehearsal, college boys’ theatricals, or what? The house dritts further and further away until suddenly—‘La Marseillaise!’ and the crowd is on its feet, electrified, joining in the chorus, shouting Vive la France!’ With the waving tricolor for a spur the show picks up for a while until a shudder runs through the spectators—oh, that fancy bayonet drill by the chorus! And now the women leave; their faces are a little white. “No, the eity has little appetite for gayety; it is gripping realities. A myriad poignant needs keep Paris busy. And as the trained nurse in the operating room does not laugh or ask questions, but silently passes the instruments, so anxious, obedient Paris is straining every nerve to assist the surgeon, and has no thought for anything but war. And, stimulated by its great peril, that thought has been so concentrated by suffering. by sacrifice, and service, that Paris has been lifted into a new order of being. It has gone on. tt has gone up.”—Estelle Loomis in the Century. Beauty’s Barefaced Pomp. “It is a healthy human impulse to defy the influence of Ciree. And there is, indeed, -a barefaced pomp of beauty—beauty that cannot enter a room without giving the whole house a shock; beauty that, as Mr. Kipling vigorously says, 'hits you right between the eyes and knocks you flat’ — of which the mere existence carries a challenge to stand up against that avalanche. I do well remember a certain opening night when Miss Maxine Elliott sat throned in a stage box, and the emotions of the w-hole audience beat and broke upon that imperturbable statue, icily regular, splendidly null. About that beauty the shivering mortal mind fluttered in hope of some reassuring blemish, slipped along the glacier without finding a crack, and, blinded by excessive light, fell away, baffled. It was natural to revolt against that.” —The Century. Crook In Mule's Tail; Unsound. In the Kansas City court of appeals a decision was recently handed down that a crook in the tail of a mule is an ansoundress, and a farmer who had bought a pair of mules as sound recove; ed the cost price from the seller. No Wonder. “That young widow does not like to speak o& -her late husband. She sr.ys he died of such a terrible shock.'’ "So he did—in the electric chair.”

MEMORIES OF QUILTING TIME One of Llfo'e Simpler Pleasures That May Ba Classed With Things of the Past. Probably we don't have much of ft In the cities any more, perhaps there never was much of it done in the cities, but out In the country and in the hamlets and villages and towns quilting time used to be an occasion of merriment combined with utility; It was In the early home what the logrolling was outside; it had its place and prestige along with the sugarmaking, with the husking bees and the apple cuttings, the comfort knittings and a lot of other happy functions ot an earlier day. Today wa buy our comforts and our quilts and our sugar and practically everything we use; we have our corn husked in the fields either by hired hands or machinery; we live in a hurrying, labor saving age, and maybe we have sacrificed much of quality for quantity, value for something esteemed more pleasing to our esthetic senses. But the old-fashioned quilt, which would withstand the kicking of lusty young savages in the attic bedroom for at least a year, was some quilt. Mother and aunts, sisters and nieces, neighbors and friends came in to help make it; the home became a social center, where quilts were made and perhaps where some little gossip at the expense of absent ladies was Indulged in. Usually, at such times, there was something good to eat, rather better than the ordinary bill of fare, prepared—and that’s where the kids came in for a good time, though often they had to wait, like Lazarus, at the gate, or door, until their superiors had feasted, when they fell to and left not even crumbs. Quilting time was always a fine time; perhaps the snowflakes were flying, but usually the work was done along about the time the bees were buzzing and the flowers were in bloom, with the sunbeams flashing from the flying needles. —Evansville Courier. Land of Sickle and Sheaf. The people in our country each need about five and a half bushels of wheat to tide them over a year. Our promised crop, approaching a billion bushels, means ten bushels for every inhabitant. This surplus is enormous that, taken in the aggregate, it is difficult to comprehend. No other coun try in the world ever produced such a vast quantity of white bread material la a single year. None ever had such a huge amount to sell to foreign peoples. During the current crop year thte United States has exported about a million bushels of wheat every day, thus setting a record beyond all prece dent. Moreover, the price received for it, due to the war, is far greater than the average price during the past decade. Viewed in a purely selfish light, the American farmer is doubly blessed with an unparalleled crop at the very time when wheat is dearest. Our exports of wheat hare powerfully aided iu building up in our favor the greatest trade balance ever accumulated in a twelve-mouth by any nation. If our country were a corpora tion and needed a trade mark, the happiest selection would be a sickle and sheaf.—Philadelphia Leader.

Planting Sugar Cane. In a recent article in the Bulletin of the Pan-American Union on cane sugar in the Americas It is stated that sugar cane is planted, not sown. A small piece of the cane, long enough to include two or three of the rings, or nodes, is laid lengthwise, or stuck in a slanting direction, along a furrow which runs the length of the field. In some sections the primitive fashion of planting in holes is still employed. When the trench is planted the pieces of cane are lightly covered with earth. In a few weeks they show growth above the ground, the germ buds at the rings Jtaving begun to shoot out in the form of young cane, the ring having at the same time thrown out rootlets into the soil. The parallel trenches are made far enough apart, say at least three feet, to enable the workers, when the wide-spreading canes are getting ripe, to go between the rows and remove the dying leaves which burden the ripening cane, thereby enabling the naked cane to mature faster. Valuable Misinformation. In the large dining room of the Hotel Marseilles hangs a large equestrian painting representing Gen. Robert E. Lee. It is the mascot of the Hungry club, which has its dinners at monthly intervals at this hotel, and was painted by a member of the club. Recently a lady on the West side gave a bridge party at the hotel in aid of her pet charity. Among the players, was a modern Mrs. Malaprop, a typical “climber" with considerably less education than cash. Consequently she was never backward with misinformation on most any subject that came up. During a cessation in the play one of the ladies expressed admiration of the picture and a desire to know whom it represented. It was Mrs. Malaprop’s opportunity. “That, my dear,” she assertively explained, “is General Marseilles, a noted Frenchman, for whom the hotel is named.”—New York Times. Safe Knife. Customer—This penknife you sold me is so soft that the blade is dull before I get through sharpening a pencil Street Vender —Yah. Dat is zo ven you gomes to sharpeming de point against your thumb you won't cut youraelfw -,SH— I II - ... • .

DID YOU GET YOURS? Our August clean-up sale on Old Hickory and Parry Buggies has been a “hummer so far and our stock of these buggies is being rapidly depleted. Better Come In Early And Make Your Selection. This is absolutely a closing out sale in this line and we don’t want to have a buggy left in stock. Many people are also taking advantage of the 15 per cent discount on all light and heavy harness. Don’t Le‘t This Opportunity Get Away. Schaub-Dowling Co.

| OLD-TIME COLD CUREDRINK HOT TEA! ‘ -•-• -• Get a small package of Hamburg Breast Tea, or as the German folks cull it,‘‘Hamburger Bru ft Thee. ’at any pharmacy. Take a tablespoonful of the tea, put a cup of boiling water upon it, pour through a sieve and drink a teacup full at any time during the day or before retiring. It is the most effective way to break a cold and cure grip, as it opens the pores of the skin, relieving congestion. Also loosens the bowels, thus breaking up a celd. Try it the next time you suffer from a cold or the grip. It is inexpensive and entirely vegetable, therefore sate and harmless. m RHEUMATISM FROM STIFF, ONG JOINTS Rub Soreness from joints and musclea with a small trial bottle of old St- Jacoba Oil Stop “dosing” Rheumatism, It’s pain only: ndt one case in fifty requires internal treatment. Rub soothing, penetrating “St. Jacobs Oil” right on the “tender spot,” and %y the time you say Jack Robinson —out comes the rheumatic pain. “St. Jacob’s Oil” is a harmless rheumatism cure which nover disappoints and doesn’t burn the skin. It takes pain, soreness and from aching joints, muscles and bones; stops sciatica, lumbago, backache, neuralgia. Liml>er up! Get a 25 cent bottle of old-time, honest St. Jacobs Oil” from any drug store, and in a moment you'll be free from pains, aches and stiffness. Don’t suffer! Rub rheumatism away. o SAGE IB EPS YOUR ■ DARK It's Grandmother’s recipe to bring back color, thickness and lustre— Everybody is using it again. Gray hair, however handsome, denotes advancing age. We all know the advantages of a youthful appearance. Your hair is your charm. It makes or mars the face. When it fades, turns gray and looks dry, wispy and scraggly, just a | few applications of Sage Ten anil Sulphur euluinces its appearance a hundred fold. Don’t stay gray! Look young! Either prepare the tonic at home or get from any drug Store a 50 cent bottle of “Wyeth's Suge and Sulphur Hair Remedy." Thousands of folks recommend thia ' ready-to-use preparation, because it dark ' ens the hair beautifully and removes dandruff, stops scalp itching and falling i hair; besides, no one. can possibly tell, ■as it darkens so naturally and evenly, ou moisten a sponge or soft brush with it. drawing this through the hair, taking one small strand at a time. By morning the gray hair disappears; after another application or two, its natural color is restored and it becomes thick, glossy and lustrous, and you appear years younger. o— HEADACHE STOPS, IfURAIGJA GONE Dr, James' Headache Powders give instant relief—Cost dime a package. ® r J. e ' rae king, splitting or dull, throbbing headaches yield in just a few momenta to Dr. Tames’ Headache Powders which cost only 10 cents a package at any drug store. It's the quickest, surest headache relief in the whole world. » Don't suffer! Relieve the agony and distress now! You can. Millions of men and women - have found that headache and neuralgia ™ lser X *2 needless, Get what you ask

SATURDAY SPECIAL ON FLORENCE WICKLESS BLUE FLAME OIL STOVES No wicks to burn or buy no valves to clog. FPF? With eac h stove sold Sat, Aug. 14 lIuX 5 gal. National Light Oil. HENRY KNAPP & SON | I ICE-TEA AND LEMONADE GLASSES In dainty Etched and cut Designs, with or without handles. See our summer special in water ■ tumblers. |PUMPHRErFKIRYSTi |f “If its new, we have it.” J Artistic Engraving Expert Repairing mi in iurn i mi i linn iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiihiii >ll Holstein Heifers __ For Sale I still have a few of those extra Holstein heifers tor private sale at Kekionga farm,a mile east of Decatur. They are first, class, almost to registry, and all bred to fine full-blooded bulb of the best milk strain. First come, first served. 1 also have some registered yearling biG*' from farm in Trumbull county, Ohio. In addition, I have 20 full-blooded Duroc sows, bred. I will accept casfy or bankable paper fo* any of this stock. M.F R is iKg ER DE.6/VTbFt, IND.