Decatur Democrat, Volume 38, Number 1, Decatur, Adams County, 23 March 1894 — Page 8

— MtMMMIM—IIWmW ■■■ I . -- SIBW FOR SPRING AND SUMER. We have just received the finest line of Woolen Dress Goods and Fabrics we have ever shown. FOR DRESSES—K NEW NOVELTY— WASH SWIVEL SILK, the Latest Novelty out. NEW WASH DRESS FABRICS: CRUNKLED DAINTIES. DOTTED SWISSES. TINTED. MULLS, QRGANDIES, ETC. Plain and figured satines in all grades and colorings --- - : New line of Carpets, Lace Curtains and Draperies. ATiT. GOODS ®OX«X> FOR CJ-A.SHI.SSCD JESSE NIBLICK & SON.

Go to John Mayer’s for first-class brick. IStf Money to Loyn —At 6 per cent on longtime Abstracts, insurance ard collections. Farm and city property tor sale. Call on Schurger, Reed & Smith. 42 ts. » Letter Lisi. List of unclaimed letters remaining in the postoffice at Decatur. Ind., for the week s ending March 77., 1894. Jacob Honeiseu. Persons calling for the above will please say advertised. * John Welfley P. M. Dress Making. I have opened up Dressmaking Palors, in I the rooms formerly occupied by the W. C. C., above Ehinger •& Meyers’, clothing store, and would be pleased to see my old customers and many new ones. Come and have your dresses cut without darts, or seams. Perfect satisfaction guaranteed. Ella Kellison. e Bucklen’e Arni ca Salve. The best salve in the world for cuts, bruises, sores, ulcers, salt, rheum, fever sores, tetter chapped hands, chiblains, corns all skin eruptions and positively cures piles or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded. Price 25 cetits a box. For sale by4llackburn & Miller. 22* BOTTLED GOODS. The justly celebrated Milwaukee and Fort'Wayne Beers are exclusively bottled in this city by Kleinbenz To secure either of these brands of the famous foaming drought exterminator, you have only to send us a postal card or leave an order in person and it will be promptly delivered to you in either bottled or kegged packages 9-ly John W. Kleinhenz. Notce to All. That we will keep constantly on hand at our mill corn, oats, chop, mixed chop, bran and shorts of the best quality, and at the lowest possible prices. Will deliver free to any part of ..the city. Call and ex mine stock iind prices, tu-tf » Hart Brothers. Califoaria in Threcand One-Half Days From the snrfw-clad regions of the East to the delightful semi-tropical climate of California is a matter of only a few days journey if the Northwestern Line is used for the trip. Palace Drawing Room Sleeping Cars leave Chicago daily and run through to California without change, covering the distance in the marvelously short time of sh days, and all meats en-rOute are served in dining cars. Daily Tourist Sleeping Car service is also maintained by this line between Chicago and San Francisco and Los Angeles, and every Thursday the party is personally con ducted by an experienced excursion manager. Completely equipped berths in Tourist S'eepers are furnished at a cost of only $(5 00 each from Chicago to the Pacific Coast, thus affording a most opportunity for making the journey jn a comfortable and at the same time economical manner. Varia ble route excursidb tickets, taking in all principal points of interest, are sold at exceedingly low rates. Illustrated pamphlets descriptive of the Mid-Wint er Fair and full information concerning rates, routes, etc., will be mailed free upon application to W. A. Thrall. General Passenger and Ticket Agent Chicago &North- VVestern R’y, Chicago, 111., if you mention this publication. > 1 _________ 51 3 Real Estate Transfers. The following real estate transfers have been recorded since last week: Wm. Freese to Henry Tressler sw X sec 9 tp 28 range if SO acress32oo (X) Geo. W. Pyle to Rosa D. Shoenake ■, in-lots 383 and 281. Geneva.... 50 00 Keo W. Pyle to Rosa 1). Shoemaker pt »w X ne X sec 29 tp 25 range 14 200 00 Henry Harter to Wm. Fields and F. J. McWhinney. in-lot 285, Geneva 100 00 Debora Chapman to Susan Glass, in-lot 565, Decktur , WOO John W ’ague to Wm. H. Niblick sw X X sec 31 tp 27 range 15 40 ac <.:5 11<M) 00 James '!'. Merryman, com to Henry W. ’hart, pt e X se X sec 15 tp 27 1 >.ge 15. spt frac. sec 14 tp“ . 27 rang o 15, 23 75-100 acres.' 500 00 John W. Amspaugh to I'lzra Lister pt out-lot 208, Decatur s 000 00 Theresa Gillie to Ezra,-! aster pt out lot 77, Decatur 1000 00 Albert Britson to Elmer Moses pt-in-lots 886 887 and 888 Jbecatur.... 250 0O John Bixler to Peter M. Schindler s X ne X sec 27 tp 25 range 13 80 acres ■■ ...' 450 b (X) Henry Michaud to Marie S., ■Broadwell, in-lot 42, Berne 1500 00 Wilmer BroadwellJ.o Henry MichA aud, in-lot 42, Bern ? '. 1500 (Xi

1 A few choice lots yet tor sale at an ex tremely low price in the new addition to the tJity of Decatur. For price and terms cail on Grant Railing. 43 ts - N’otic of Stock-holder’s Meeting. Notice is hereby giv> n that the regular annual meetingof the Stock holders ot the German Building Loan Fund and Saving Association, of Decatur, Indiana, will be held at the oilice of Christen & Schirmeyer, in the t'ity oi Decatur, Indiana, on Monday, April 9. MH,at 7:30 p. th., for the purpose of electing eleven directors of said Association aud for the transaction of such other business as may be properly brought before said meeting. J. B. Hot.THoUr-E, President. F. M. Schirmeyer, Secretary. 1-3 Gasoline Ordinance. An Ordinance regulating the storing of Gasoline within the boundaries of the City of Decatur. fixing a penalty tor the violatisn thereof. and declaring an emergency. Sec. 1. Be it ordained bv the Common Councilof the City Decatur, Indiana, that it shall be unlawful forauy person to keep or store more than five gallons of gasoline within the following prescribed limits of the sit'd city, viz: All that part of the said city bounded on the east by the St Marys River; on the north by .Jackson street; on the- west, by Fourth street. and on the south by Adams street. Sec. 2. It shall be unlawful for any person to keep or store more than one barrel of ga“<* line at any place in the said city w itbeut boundary Hues fixed in Section one (I) hereof. Sec. 3. It shall be unlawful for the owner of any building, or other structure, or of any vacant lot or tract of land laying within said city, to permit any tenant or occupant to keep or store at, in or upon such building, or other structure or vacant lot or tract of land, gasoline k greater quantities than is specified in Sections one (l)and two (2- hereof. Sec. 4. All gasoline whenever kept or stored 111 the said city, shall be kept or stored in an air-tight metal’can or receiver, and it shall be unlawful tor any person to take or draw gasoline therefrom, at any time, except during day light. And such'gosoliue shall be kept or stored not less than twenty (20., feet from where the owner or occupant of such real estate uses any artificial light. Sec. 5. Any person relating any or either of the provisions of this Ordinance shall, upon conviction before the Mayor, be fined in any _aum nor exceeding one hundred dollars Sec 6. This ordinance shall be in full force and efiect from and after its ■ passage and second consecutive publication in t he Decatur Democrat, the weekly newspaper, printed and published in said city of Decatur, Indiana. Adopted and approved in open council Os the City’ of Decatur, Ind., this 20th day of March,'lß94. W. H. Reed, Lewis C. DeVoss, City Clerk 1-2 Executor’s Sale of Real Estate. In the estate of Eli 1 Zimmerman. Sen, :- deceased. I Notice is hereby given that the undersigned executorot the last will and testament ot said Eli Zimmerman, en., deceased, will as such executor, on and after Saturday, the 21 at day of April, 1894, At and on the premises hereinafter described situate in the City of liecatur. Adams county, in the State of Indiana, otter for sale at public auction to the highest and best bidder the , fee simp e of the- following described real estate f rmeily owned by said decedent, situate in rhe City or Decatur, in said Adams county, bi the State of Indiana, to-wir: In-tote numbered 863, 864. 8(15. 866. 86”. 868. 869. 870, 871. 872, 873, B'4. 875. 876, *77. 878,879, 880, 882,-?83, 884 And 885, ali in Zimmerman's heirs subdivision of part out-lots numbered 15. 16an<l-17 in said Citv of Decatur. Indi na Also the following described real estate in said City of Decatur, in. Adams county, in the State of Indiana, to wit: Commencing on the north line.of. the ’-iglit of way of the Chicago and Erie railroad at a point which is 71' 2 feet south of the northeast corner of the southwest quarter of section three <3l township twenty-seven (27) n rth range fourteen (14) east, itt’ Adams county, Indiana; thence to run north-on the sectionline 3so» feet, tqdbe south line of * ink street, in the City of Deratin'. Indhujn ; thence sou liwest along tin-south lipe of Oak stree 551’1 feet to the right of way of the Chicago aud Erie railroad; thence northeast along the north line of the said railroad 534'.; feet to the place of beginning. A so the following tract to-wit: Commencing at the east line of Mercer street at a pouit l,?l teet north of the northwest corner or out-lot number 13, in the City of Decatur, Indumn: tin nqe to run northwest aibng the east side of yfercer street 89 feet to the riitht of way of the 1 liicago and Erie railroad 8 rods and'lo2 3 links: ihene southwest parallel with tlm north iineof out-lo’t number 13 t> rode ami 15 links to the place of beginning. A(£o the following tract of land in Adams county. Indiana, to-wit: Commencing at the northwest corner of outlot number 13, in theCityot Decatur, Indiana: thence running nor Invest glonz the east side of Mercer street. 60 feet: ihenc’.i . ortheast parallel with the north line of said out-iot number 13, 11 rods and 5 links to the right of way of the Chicago and Erie railroad-; thence nor: beast along the south lineof said Chi agtL and Erie railroivh tn; feet to the north line of out-lot 13; thenceßouthwestalong the line of said out lot number 13, 15 rodsand 19!! links to tlm place of beginning Terms:—<)ne third cash in hand on day of sale; one-third in nine months, and one-third in eighteen months from day sale. Deferred payments to bear interest at the rate of six per cent, from day of sale until paid, and to be secured to the satisfaction of the undersigned. Said sa e to continue until all said real estate is sold. Washington Slwele. Executor of the will of said Eli Zimmerman, deceased. France At Merryman, Atty’s. 1-4 Notice to Non-Residents. The State of Adams countv. ss. In the Adams circuit court, AprilAterm, Gerhard Kohne, I , vs. | Lavina Morris | Complaint to quiet Margaret E. Avery, > title No. 4631. James H. Morris. I Caroline E. Morris J <3 It appearing from affidavit, filed In the Hbove entitled cause, that Lavina Morris, Margaret E. Avery. James H. Morris and Caroline E. Morris Hie above named detendanta are non-residents of the state of Indiana. Notice is therefore hereby given the said Lavina Morris, Margaret E. Avery, Janies H. Morris and Caroline Morris, that they be and appear before the Hon. Judge of the Adams circuit court on the Ist day of May. 1894, the samsbeingthe2otbjuridlcal day of the next regular term thereof, to beholden nt the court house in the city of Decatur, commencing on Monday, the9th day of April, A. D. 1894, and plead by answer or demur to said complaint, or the same will be heard and determined in their absence. Witness, my name, and the seal of said court hereto affixed, this Bth day of March, A. D, 1894. John H. Lenhart, Clerk. Ry E. Bert Lenhart,Deputy. March 8. 1894. F. M. Schirmeyer and France & Merryman, Atty's for pltff. . 61-4 ' TTOW TO SPECULATE SUCCESSFULLY 11 in stocks and grain. Little book telling 1 all about it, mailed free to any address. Northwestern Grain A Stock Ex., Rialto Building, 1 Chicago ltf

Assignees Sale. Notice is hereby given that Godfrey Christen, assignee of the Decatur Stone & Limo Co., a oorporiulon, as such assignee, on Tuesday, April 10, at the east door of the court house In the city of Decatur, Indiana, between the hours of 8 o’clock a. m. and 4 o’clock, p. m of said dtiv will offer for sale at public auction, the iollowing described real estate belonging to said insolvent corporation situate in Adams county. Indiana, to-wit: The strip of ground, being and laving adjoining the north corporation line of the citv of Decatur, Indiana, extending north to the lands of Patterson & Pillers, between the Public Highway intersecting Second street at said north line and the St. Marys river. Also the following described’real estate, situate in Adams county, in the State of Indiana, to-wit. Commenc'ng at a point, on the west line of out-lot number seventy-three (774) in the town (nowcitv)of Decatur, Indiana, aa the same is designated on the recorded plat of the- sulalivision of out-lot number thirty-eight (3S' In the town (now city) of Decatur. Indiana, twenty-five rods and two links north of the southwest corner of said out lot seven tv-three: thence northwest along the west line of said outlet to a point where said west line intersects the half section line or to the extreme north point of said out-lot seventv-three; thence east to (ne St Marys river: thence up the St. Marys river following the line of said out-lot to a point thirty-eight rods and twenty links northwest ot the southeast corner of out-iot seventy three; thence west thirteen degreesand forty-five minutes, south twentveight rods to the place of beginning; being all of out-lot seventy-three, except the part conveyed to A. Hurt. S. Rice. Jr., et al. Also the east half of the following described real estate in Adams county, in the state of Indiara, to-wit: Commencing on the west line of out-lot seventy-two i72i in Jesse Niblick’s suMlvision of out-lot thirty-eight t3B) in the town (now city) of Decatur, at a point which is ten rdds arm twenty-four links north and twenty-four degrees west of the southwest corner of said out-lot seventy-two; thence east ten degrees, north twenty rods and three links to thecenter of Second street; t hence south thirty degrees east along the center of said Second street or»e hundred feet; thence west ten degrees south, parallel with the first line run, to the center of Third street to a point one hundred feet sonth of the place of beginning; thence north twenty-four degrees, w-est one hundred feet to the place of beginning. And said assignee will at the same time and place' offer the following personal property belonging to said assignor, to-wit ; One Channeller and attachments, one drill and attachments. one drav wagon, on lumber waeon. harness and numerous other items of personal property belonging to said Decatur Stone & Lime Co . connected with their quarry and lime business. Said assignee, will if desired by bidders of said property, sell all said real estate or personal property as an entirety. Terms—One-third cash in hand, one-third in six monthsand one-third in twelve months from day of sale; deferred payments to bear six percent interestsrom date. payable without releif from valuation or appraisement laws and secured to the satisfaction of said assignee. G. Christen Assignee. France & Merryman Attorneys. 51-4 NOTICE. Notice is hereby given shat the Board of Commissioners of Adams County. Indiana, will meet in speeia 1 session on Tuesday, he b'tii day of April; 1894. for the purpose i f selling bonds to the amount of 125,000. Sealed bids will tie received for said bonds nt the Auditor’s oliice until 2 o'clock p. m. on sn <1 day. 52 3 W. 11. H. France Auditor. Sheriff’s Sale. The State of Indiana. Adiims County, ss: In the Adams Circuit Court, of Adams County, Indiana. James Hendricks, ] vs Franklin 11. Moore, I Phoebe K. Moore, | Win. 11. Nib’iek. i Sarah M. Geissel. | ' \ H. A. Waldron, whoso*No. 4491. Christian name is un- | ktiown. | Martha laiwry, ■ | Abram Simmons, 1 John West. Martha West. J Bv virt ne of an order of sale to me directed by the Clerk of the Adams Circuit Court of said County ami State, I have levied upon the real estate hereinafter mentioned nnii will expose for sale at - public auction at theeasf door iif the Court House in <be City of Decatur, Adams County Indiana, between (he hours of 10 o'clock a. m. and 4 ’o’clock p. tn. on Satiirda-j’, March 31, 18M, the rcnts.and profits for a term not exceeding seven year?:.of the following described real estate, situated in Adams County, to-wit: The northwest quarter of lhe southeast quarterot *eetion tuirty-One '.31). township twenty-seven (27) north, range fifteen(ls 2 east, i in Adam's county. IWliana. Aud on failure to realize therefrom the full 1 amount of judgment, interest thereon and costs. I will at the same time and in the same manner aforesaid, offer for sale the fee simple of the above described premises, Taken as the property of Franklin D. Moore et hI., to satisfy said order of sale, this Bth day of March, 1894. 1# Samuel Doak. Sheriff. 51-3 Bv Daniel N. Erwin, Deputy. —| ' ' ! ’ — . Notice to Non-Residents The State of Indiana. Adams county, ss: Tn the Adams Circuit Court, April term, 1894. Rilanda Garwood et al vs. ' ' Martha Garwood > No. 4622. Isaiah Garwood | ■Chas. A. Melsreimor I et al j It appearing from affidavit, filed In the above enwtled cause, that Isaiah Garwood, Charles A. Melsreimer, John Puckett, James Murphy, the unknown heirs of James Murphy deceased whose Christian names are unknown, John Hardesty, the unknown'heirs of John Hardesty deceased, whose Christian names are unknown; Sarah Ann Hardesty, the unknown heirs of Sarah Ann Hardesty deceased whose Christian names are unknown, of the above named defendants are non-resi-dents of the state of Indlana. Notiee is therefore Jiereby given the.said Isaiah Garwood, Charles A. Melsreimer, John Puckett, James Murphy, the unknown heirs of James Murphy’ deceased, whose Christian names are unknown. John Hardesty, the unknown heirs of John Hardesty deceased, whose Christian names are unknown. Sprah Ann Hardesty', the unknown heirs of Sarah Ann Hanlesty, deceased whose . Christian names are unknown, that they be ahd appear before the Hon. Judge of the Adams Circuit Court on the 23rd day of Apiil. 1894, the same being the 13th J urldical day of the next regular term thereof, to bo holden at the court house in the city of Decatur, commencing on Monday, the 9tli day of April, A. D. 1894 and ' plead by answer or denyir to said complaint, or the same will i e lienrd ai d determined In ■ their absence. , Witness mv name, nml the seal of said court ■ 1 hereto affixed this 2<li Ii day of February. 1894. John H. Lenhart. Clerk. 1 By E. Burt Lenhart, Deputy. France A Merryman, Att’.ys for Pl’tiff.

— "BY AND BY.” •‘Mamma, take mo on your knee,” 1 ' The baby teased, with ploading oya. •‘Mamma, won’t you sing to me?" But mamma answered "By and by.” •»♦» ♦ , • • “Mamina, ain’t it most by'm by now?" Cuuio with a patient baby sigh. She could not understand, somehow. What mamma meant by "By and by." • Mamina, busy with her book, Read the lonely twilight long, Noticed not the tired look, Nor paid lhe patience with a song. Lo, the night had settled down. And baby's chock was hot and dry. The doctor stood with thoughtful frown And only murmured "By and by." Next day. just as the sun had set. The small voice said, with a tired smile: "Mamma, dear, Is it by’m by yet? I’ve waited such a long, long while!" The stars that dreamed the night away In benediction beamed on high, . Smiles on the sweet lips seemed to play— She dwelt in the faroff “By and byi" »»♦»»»• Mamma sighed in her troubled nap Her teardrops gleamed in lhe drowsy gloom; She woke with a curly head in her lap— And a lullaby softly filled the room. • —Judd Lyman. THE TRISE GHOST. —»— Jacques had just committed an awful deed—a fearful crime—in short, a murder—yet so far he felt no remorse. It happened in this way: He was not naturally cruel nor wicked—only quick tempered and impulsive. A law student, diligent and thorough, a philosopher imbued with Schopenhauer, he led a dreary life, lacked money, gave lessons and scarcely kept soul and body together. Tne Jntrdeu began to weigh heavily on him, and at times he felt an angry revolt against his circumstances, a dissatisfaction that might—and did, as we shall sej—lead him to the lowest depths of infamy, t One summer evening, hungry and penniless, raging at the thought of a pleasure party planned for the morrow, which he must give up for want of a little money, he walked beyond the city gates, and at about 8 o’clock he found himself on a long and lonely road which stretched straight on till it was lost in the gloom. Then like an evil omen there came a heavy crash of thunder, and great drops of rain began to fall. Jacques did not fear the storm except as concerned his clothing and his health. He did not wish to spoil his garments nor catch an expensive attack of pneumonia. No shelter. To the right, as to the left, a barren plain. At last by ,r ood fortune he spied a tree standing alone, a crooked, twisted apple tree. The tired man crouched under its branches. The fury of the storm redoubled. Everything, even nature, seemed against poor Jacques. Chilly, soaked, exasperated, he shook his fist in the air as the rain fell down like threads of steel. “Such weather, such weather!” After a little a second person came grumbling up to lean against the tree, with his back to Jacques, whom he,had not perceived. The newcomer seemed to be a little tipsy, for he rambled.on aloud in a husky voice: “This is fine! Those fellows played me a pretty trick in driving off with my carriage and leaving me to walk home alone with all this money in my pocket ’ Jacques, hearing these fatal word sand yielding to the temptation of his evil passion, fell upon "the stranger, strangled him and emptied his purse. This accomplished, he turned toward home. The apple tree, which had not budged during thia incident, began to follow him. It is not a customary occurrence for an apple tree to ‘follow a man. and therefore Jacques cannot be accused of weakness if we admit that he felt a little surprise. Hearing the roots sliding behind him, he turned and beheld the tree, a dark shadow on the darkness. “l am nervous,” he thought. “It is a fancy!” t He continued to walk, and the tree continued to follow him. “Either 1 have gone mad,” said Jacques, “or this manifestation is an inexplicable freak of nature.' But I shall soon know, for when I ret into the city the peop ■ will not let a apple tree, go by without making some remark.” But the people passed and made no remarks, and the tree did not appear to mind them.» Jacques meditated. “Well, then,” he continued, “it is certain that this apple tree is a visible form of remorse, such as Ban quo’s ghost was to Macbeth and the commander to Don Juan, but this hallucination is the more singular because I feel no remorse at all. The tree seems to disregard received tradition. Never mind! I have got some money. After a night’srest my tree will have disappeared.” He quickened his step, not to escape from his apple tree, but because he was weary and longed for repose. Before the door he wondered if the apple tree would enter. He even felt a kind of interest about it on account of the narrowness of the hall, fearing the branches might be broken. He rang, went in, and the door closed. The tree remained outside. Jacques smiled, not that the tree annoyed him, only he thought the janitor might have objected to such a companion. In his own room he counted his ill gotten gain—a considerable sum—then he suddenly thought df the tree and looked out. It was on the sidewalk gliding to and fro. It even moved politely aside to allow two policemen to pass. Jacques went to bed and slepj soundly till morning. Heavy knocks on his door awoke him. “Oh! Ah! Yes, to be sure!” It was his friends, whq,came to seek him for the pleasure party. He threw on his garments and opened the door, greeting them gayly. Then he finished his dressing while proposing lively plans for the day. He slipped several goldpieces into his pocket, and they started off’ together to meet the rest of the company at the place agreed on. ” The apple tree, which waited respectfully for him on the sidewalk, began immediately to follow him like a well bred lackey. Jacques, who felt no grudge,

.a—gave It a little smile of acknowledgment as though it were an old acquaintance. Wnen the party of ladies and gentlemen was complete, Jacques insisted on regaling them all with vermuth and ordered the waiter to give one to his apple tree, though it seemed to sketch a gesture of refusal with its boughs. The waiter, who did not understand, looked angry. » As they entered thq carriage to drive the railway station Jacques gave his tree an amiable nudge with his elbow, making some joke about leaving it behind. Impassively the tree waited on the sidewalk till they started, when it followed the conveyance at a quick trot. Leaning over the window, Jacques watched it. Once he gave a little cry of terror as a heavy vehicle crossed its path, and he thought it might be run over, bat it escaped. "What in the world is the matter with you?” exclaimed his companion in surprise. “Don’t trouble about me. It is only ' my apple tree” “Your apple tree? Why, what can you mean?” But Jacques did not explain. At the station the tree did not get lost. Jacques began to feel himself cruel in trotting the poor thing so far. He was growing attached to it really. He was | soon reassured, for it galloped beside the train like an outrider attending the car- ; riage of a sovereign. Only Jacques was so absorbed in Watching it that he neglected hrafnends, and one of them —a laoy, who him , —reproached him gently for his preoccupation. 1 “You are jealous of myapple tree?” he asked her laughingly. “Apple tree! Apple tree!” They began to chant it to the tune of a popular song, , improvising words which they thought : appropriate. Jacques really feared they might hurt its feelings, but it did not seem to mind. The chosen spot was reached; The day sped on in mirth. Jacques was wild with merriment', never losing sight of his attendant tree. Some one proposed a row on the river. “No, no!” cried “Perhaps he may not know how to swim.” “Who?” “My ap”—— • “Apple tree! Apple tree! What is the joke? ,Do explain." Jacques reddened a little. These people could not possibly understand. He looked at his tree as if to consult it, and it seemed to him that the tree had no objection to the water. The boats set off, and the apple tree followed. Jacques kept on the alert, ready to hold out a helping hand—he was so fond of his tree! In the evening at dinner Jacques imbibed recklessly, and he did not forget to fling a glass of champagne over his apple tree. He grew very tipsy and quarrelsome. “I am tired of you all!” he cried Jo his friends. "You bore me inexpressibly! I shall leave you and go off by myself—with my apple tree!” They laughed good naturedly and tried .to keep him. The ladies looked annoyed, but off he went. It was-night now and very dark. He went along the steep bank, still accompanied by his tree. He felt horribly humiliated and asnained, for ,he was staggering and stumbling, while the sober tree slid on erect and firm. Jacques zigzagged along in a deplorable fashion nearer and nearer to the water’s edge. Feeling the necessity of support, he sidled up to the apple tree. “You are my friend,” he said. “Let me lean on you.” He threw his weight against the tree, but his body encountered the empty air. He lost His balance, rolled down the steep declivity into tiie river and was drowned. The tree, left-to itself, returned to the , field from whence it came.—Translated From the FiCnch For Romance. A Commercial Cupid. He wanted her all for his own, as 1 some foolish lovers do, but she was not an emotional monoj«)list of tliat kind. On the contrary, she had syndicated her affections, and there were half a dozen young men, each of whom was quite as much to her as was this young 1 Romeo J. Gould. Not only had she disposed of a number of blocks of stock in her heart, but she gloried in it with true speculative pride, and when he would Seek to claim i her as his own she would taunt him : with it and toll him she could not afford ■ to make an emotional specialty of him, and that he must be content with what she felt inclined to let him have. > "Spare my tender feelings,” he cried to her one evening in the gloaming, after she had told him how bis account i stood. “Spare my tender feelings.” 1 She smiled with sardonic sweetness. 1 "I’m sorry I can’t accommodate you i —real sorry,,but I can’t. The best 1 ■ can do for you is to tender my spare feelings.” 1 Then, after the long depression, the I crash came, and he sank into hopeless emotional bankruptcy.—Detroit Free ’ Press. California Redwood Trees. We have evidence in California that . redwood trees cut down 60 years ago ) have made sprouts which are new trees I from 3to 5 feet in diameter and frdtn > 100 to 150 feet high. It is the rapid > growth of some of these trees which j leads people to doubt their great age, - but there seems to be no reason for doubting that the method of calculating . by annual rings of wood is sound, and i that the great age imputed to some of > these trees has solid groundwork to • build on.—Meehan’s Monthly. r .-—■■■•- ■— '■'■-> -- - ' — % Strange, Indeed. j In view of the fact that there are > manufactured in the United States be- - tween 40.000.000 and 47,000,000 packs j of playing ca ids every year besides those imported, it does seem strange that a - man sometimes fails altogether to find ■ the single little ace he needs to sing I first tenor In a blithe and frolicsome , quartet.—Boston Globe.

J. S.BOWERS i C« HARDWARE, SASH DOORS, BLINDS, f paints; 4 LINSEED OIL, LUBRICATING Olli MYERS FORCE PUMPS, , NEYS STEEL TRACKS HAY CARRIERS, COOK & HEATING STOVE! BINDER TWINE, rcSpe, MILLBURN WAGONS, BUGGIES, IRON ROOFING, NEW HOME SEWING MACHINE (Best on Eartl HAY RAKES, HAY LOADERS, HAY TEDDERS, BRYAN <fc- PRINCESS BREAKING PLoW FLYING DUTCHMANS, SULKY FLOWS, ‘ RIDING & WALKING CULTIVATOR CHAMPION REAPERS, MOWERS & BINDER Latest Improved and the World s Best. We will sell as low as t' lowest. Call and get our prices. 1 ’ i Notice to Teasers.' ' Notice is hereby given that there will b public examination'of teachers at the dll’i« the County Superintendent,-in Decatur, , diann. on'the last Saturday of each tnot Applicants for license most “present proper trustee’s certificate or other evide of good moral character;” and. (o lie 61101" fill must pasß a good examination in ort’ raphy. reading, writing, arithmetic, g« niph ■•. Knglish grammar, physiology, hist of the United States, science of education also answer a list of questions based on st standard work in literature. For March 1 April. 1894. the list wdl he based on > American Commonwealth”—D. C. Heal ’ edition. For the six months beginning, v the May examination, Shaksepeare's Jll Ciesar will be the basis for questions on . 11 arv work. F.xamlnattenslor primary license will held on (he last Saturdays of March, April M»v. respectively. Examinations will begin promptly at 8:3 in. No license will be granted to under seventeen years of age. J. F. Snow, Co. Sup • Kxecutor’n Sale of Kcal Malate. Notieeis hereby given that the‘undersig executor of the will of Henrietta Myers, erased, will as such executor, on or a Tuesday, the 3rd dav of April isni.jit the office of France & Merryman, in the Qitv Decatur, In Adams county, in the Stat Indiana, oiler for sale at private sale to hiirhest and best bidder, the fee simple of following described real estate situate in City of Decatur«ludiana, to-wit: In-lot number one hundred and forty-i (144), in the original plat of said town ft city), of Decatur, Indiana, on the folio) terms, trewit: One-third part cash in hand on the da; sale; one-third in nine months, and one-t: in eighteen months from date of sale, ferrod payments to bear interest at the of six percent, from date of sale until p and to be secured to the satisfaction of executor. / ‘ William H. Niblick, Executi France & Merryman, Atty's. & Notice to Non Residents. t The State oi Indiana, Adams county, SS. < ’n the Adams Circuit Court, August t( 1894. Thomas Wisner, 1 vs. j James winner. [ Complaint toqui David F. Wisner, j title No. 4838. Sarah Wisner, | wy Aaron Wisner. | t A K. Mary Wisner. J t It appearing from affidavit, filed IR| r above entitled cause, that James MfW' David F. Wisner. Sarah Wisner. Aaron | ner and Mary Wisner the above named def» ants are non-i eddents of the State of InCf Notice is therefore hereby given thef 4 James Wtaner, David F, Wisner. SarahSnt r, Aardn Wisner and Mary Wisner,jhat , be and appear before the Hon. Judftv oi Adamfl C-rcuit Court, on the 13th da; August, lb'.’4, the same being thattrst jUrh day of the Augus 1894, term thereof. t< holden at the Court House in the G‘ty ot I tur. commencing on Monday the loth Augu't A.D. IStH. and plead by answe - demur to sum e imp’aint. or the tafiw'V'* • heard and determined in their absence. Witness, my name, and the seal of said e hereto affixed, thts 22nd Qf Maj-cp D. 1894. John H. Lhnhart, Lie _j.- Bv E. Burt Lenhart, Depu KFcfluok’' *» - I fir , Will <HW> p !fvt,ij| :