Decatur Democrat, Volume 38, Number 16, Decatur, Adams County, 5 July 1894 — Page 6

DRUGS. DRUGS. DRUCS I ' .W. H. NACHTRIEB . o o 3 Is the place to get anything in the line of 3 ° DRUGS, PATENT MEDICINES, 1 X 8 OILS. PAINTS, 8 5 a a- a , O and everything kept in a first-class Drug Store at “ I . z ROCK-BOTTOM PRICES. «5 « 1 o u ] 2 Don t forget the place, -j “ W H. NACHTRIEB ° ■ ■ -.C ■ •' , gj| DRUCS. drugs.

A Household Treasure. D. W. Fuller, of Canajoharie, N. Y., says that he always keeps Dr. King’s New Dis-, covery in the house and his family lias always found the very best results follow its use; that he would not be without it, is procurable. G. A. Dykeman Druggist Catskill, N. Y., says that Dr. King’s New Discovery is undoubtedly the best Cough remedy; that he has used it in his family for eight years, and it has never failed to do all that is claimed for it. Why not try a remedy so long tried and tested. * Trial bottles free at Blaekburn & Miller’s Drugstore. Regular size 50c. and fl.oo. Successors to A. R. Pierce.) * Four Big Successes. Having the needed merit to more than make good all the advertising claimed for them, the following four remedies have reached a phenomenal sale. Dr. King’s New Discovery, for Consumption, Coughs and Colds, each bottle guaranteed-Elec-tric Bitters, the great remedy for Liver, Stomach and kidneys. Bucklen's Arnica Salve, the best in the world, and Dr. King’s New Life Pills, which are a perfect pill. All these remedies .are guaranteed to do just what is claimed for them and the dealer whose name is attached- herewith will be glad to tell you more of them. Sold at Blackburn & Miller’s, drug store, successors to A. K. Pierce.) Crist. Bocknecbt has added to bis already hue establishment a No. 1 Pool Table. Lovers of this game will find everything first-class at Crist’s Place Electric Bitters. Tliis remedy is becoming so well known and so popular as to need no special mention. Ail who have used Electric Bitters sing the same song of praise. A purer medicine does not exist ami it is guaranteed to do all that is claimed. Electric Bitters will cure all diseases of the liver and kidneys, will remove pimples, boils, salt rheum and other affections caused by impure blood. Will drive malaria from the system and prevent as well as cure all marial fevers. For cure of headache, constipation and indigestion try Electric Bitters. Entire satisfaction guaranteed, or money refunded. Price 50 and 81.00 per battle at Blackburn & Miller's drug store, {successors to A. K, Pierce.) .■ I -V- ——■—- —■ - — Two Lives Saved. Mrs. Phoebe Thomas, of .Junction City. 111., was told by her doctors she had consumption and that there was no hope for her, but two bottles of Dr. King’s New Discovery completely cured her and she says it saved her life. Mr. Thus. Eggers. 139 Florida St. San Francisco, suffered from a dreadful cold, approaching Consumption, tried without result ever)thing else then bought one bottle of Dr. King's New Discovery and in two weeks was ci -ed. lie is naturally thankful. It is such results.of •which these are samples, that prove the ■wonderful efficacy of this medicine in „ iCoughs and Colds. Free trial bottles at Blackburn & Miller’s’Drug Store. (Successors to A. R. Pierce.) Regular size 50c. and 41.00. BOTTLED (.OODS. The justly celebrated Milwaukee and Fort Wayne Beers are exclusively bottled in this city by John W. Kleinhenz. To secure either of these brands of the famous foaming drought exterminator, jou bave only to send us a postal card or leave an crder in person and it will be promptly delivered to you in either bottled or kegged packages 9-ly John W. Kleinhenz. 50 Dozen heavy weight KNEE PANTS at 25 cents per pair at Ike Rosenthal’s stf

H 0 Suffering from Lost Manhood Night Emissions or other unnatural losses, Weak or Loss Sexual Power, Nervous Debi lity, Weak Memory, Defective Smell, Hearingor Taste, Weak Back, Constipation, Small or Weak Organs, Varicocele, Pimples, Bad Blood, Rheumatism, etc., etc. It will cost you nothing to learn of our perfect method of curing you. Send your full address. Strictly confidential. , GOTHAM MEDICAL CO., 52 Union Square, NEW YORK CITY, N. Y. MAELSTROM KStandme No. 17K39.) / ■ i - W • '■ ' * •• >" •■ ■ SUBr • — In View of the Fact that hi Hg, Hems Are bringing high prices in the eastern mar kets. we would kindly urge or ask farmers and others desirous of breeding lor a profit to call aud examinejthe WeH-bred, High Acting Stallion kept otJsaac Peterson’s burn and owned by A. A. BOOH, »E< ATI B, IND. Remember every pair of giaeses you buy at D. M. Hensley’s you only pay one half as much as you pay other opiciflns and have the privilege of returning them if they don’t suit. He will take back every pair that is not correct. Get yourselves or your friends a pair of glasses at D. M. Hensley’s. 33 ts —.— ... ' Money to. Loan—At 6 per cent on long time. Abstracts, insurance and collections. Farm and city property for sale. Call on Schurger, Reed & Smith.

Whistling Jack. Jack McCarthy is familiarly knowu wherever he goes as “Whistling Jack.” The prefix to Jack is tacked on him 10 minutes after he lauds at auy city, aud he has been in every town of over 10,000 inhabitants in the United States., Jack can hardly be called a boy now. He is 23 or 24 years old. He made his first appearance in Pittsburgijbout 10 years ago, a thin, nervous little chap, who stuttered so distressingly that the charitably inclined willingly gave him the price of a paper rather than hear his pitiful attempts to cry liis. wares. Somebody told him one day that if- he would whistle when he'came to a word that he found unpronounceable he would soon cure himself of his painful stutter. J ack tried it, and in less than six months the whistle was as fixed a habit as the stuttering. At the end of a year he could no more speak a dozen words without 11 whistles than he could fly, and this was the way he got the sobriquet of “Whistling Jack.”—New York Mail aud Express. The Linen Duster. “It is a long time,” said a traveling man, “since I have seen a linen duster of the old fashioned kind, which wrinkled and creased whenever you sat down- in it, especially if the weather was a little damp, and which kicked after you had been 100 miles or so in it as though yon had worn it around the world 17 times, all the way bj’ rail, and had sat up in it all the time, but alpaca dusters are still worn.”—New York Sun. Miss Russell’s Fondness For Poker. I am informed that one reason of the little rift within the Perugini lute consisted in Miss Russell’s predilection for poker. This is a science to which the golden diva lias devoted much study. She likes a game of poker and plays it on the strict rules laid down by General Schenck. Her parties for this diversion are usually composed of four or five people, each of whom is a millionaire. But Miss Russell’s income averages $50,000, and she can afford to play. The limit is high and the betting lively. Signor Perugini, whose salary is ohly $l5O a week, could not sit down at such a game without risking his entire week’s eapnings. Consequently' he was ruled out ami had to solace himself with sentimental arias up stairs while his wife was winning or losing a fortune down stairs. This isolation brought disquietude to his thoughts, and next morning he was perhaps not so cheerful a companion as a diva would wish at the breakfast table.—New York Press. A Mistaken Idea. She was reading over the column- of marriage notices. “It can't be true,” she said, “that marriage is a lottery.” •’And why not?” asked the young man with her. “Because there is a law against lidvertising lotteries, and look at this,” she replied. handing the paper to him.—Detroit Free Press. A Time Killer. Ed—What do you do to pass away the time? Ned—Easy enough. I just give my promissory note to some one for 30 days, and the time passes quickly enough, I assure you.—Loudon Quiver. Something She Would Stop At. “I don’t believe that horrid Miss Bolton would stop at anything.” Bob—Did you ever try her with a ■oda fountain? —Chicago Inter Ocean. Found — Handkerchief containing money. Owner call at this office.

F" SILVER AND GOLD. Fiirewell. my little nw»etheart, Now fare you well and free: Ci* I claim from you no promise, ’ ’N • You claim no vows from mo. The reason why?—the reason / Right well we can uphold— I have too much of silver. And you've 100 much of gold. A ptmr.lo this, to worldlings. Whose love to lucre flies. Who think that gold to silver Should count as mutual prlxc! But I’m not avaricious. And you’re not sordid sou led | I have too much of silver, And you’ve too much of gold. Upon our heads the reason Too plainly can be seen; I am the winter’s bond slave, • You uro the summer’s queen. Tro few the years you number, ',oo ninny I have told; I have t.,0 much of silver. And you’ve too much of gold. You have the rose for token, 1 have dry leuf and rime; I have the sobbing vesper,. ■O You, morning bells at chime. I would > hat I were younger (Yet you grew never old) — Would I had less of silver, But you no less of gold, -Edith M. Thomas. Look Toward the Light. In a sickroom there was a little rosebush in a pot in the window. There was only one rose on the bush, and its face was turned full toward the light. This fact was noticed and spoken of, when one said that the rose would look no other way save toward the light. Experiments had been made with it; it had been turned away from the window, its face toward the gloom of the interior, but in a little time it would resume its old position. With wonderful persistence it refused to keep its face toward the darkness and insisted on ever looking toward the light. The rose has its lesson for ns. We should never allow ourselves to face toward life's gloom. We should never sit down in the shadows of any sorrow and let the night darken over us into the gloom’ of despair. We should turn our faces away toward the light and quicken every energy for braver duty and truer, holier service. Grief should always make us better and give us new skill and power; it should make our hearts softer, our spirits kindlier, our touch more gentle; it should teach us its holy lessons, and we should learn them, and then go on with sorrow’s sacked ordination upon us to new love and better service.—Selected. To Care For Flowers. To keep flowers looking well the water be changed daily and old blossoms thrown away. Then the groups should be carefully adjusted with relation to each other so no two tall specimens should appear together. A little sunlight may do no harm, but cut flowers exposed to the full rays of a powerful sun wilt at once, and a pretty arrangement is soon spoiled. Early morning is the proper time to pick flowers. They should be immediately sprayed with a rubber sprinkler, which, by the way, is invaluable th one who is gathering fresh blossoms. We are apt to treat flowers carelessly—a haudful of them picked in the heat of the day without a good sprinkling is soon in the same condition as a fish out of water. —New Y ork Advertiser. The Man, the Coat and the Banana. A big gray goat walked the other day down Whitehall street. When he came near to a venders cart which stood, piled with bananas, by the curb on the east side of the street, he paused and surveyed the fruit with a fixed and expressionless woodenness of countenance. A man Who came along as the goat stood there stopped "and bought a banana. He stripped the banana and handed the peel to the goat. Then the man and the goat both stood there and ate—the goat with undeviating gravity, the man with a rising smile. When they had finished, the man went on his way, the smile still playing on his features. The goat passed on with a countenance of unbroken woodenness.—New York Sun. z _ Wbat He Meant. Adolphus — I’m afraid I hit him deucedly hard. I just looked at him, you know, in a significant way and said, “The fools aren’t all dead yet. ” Arthur—And what did he say? Adolpuhs—He said: “No, but yon aren’t looking well, Dolly. You’d better take care of yourself. ’ ’ Wonder what in time he was driving at?—Boston Transcript. Two Opinions. Lord Fitzboooy—Now—aw—Miss Evelyn—on this dower question, you know. Don't you—aw—think every wife ought to have a little money—aw? Miss Evelyn—Yes, indeed, my lord. I’m right with you there. Because then, you see, if the girl makes a bad job of it, she will be fixed to back out.—New York World. San Francisco is the most cosmopolitan city in the world. The holidays of every nation /ire commemorated by public parades. Every civilized language may be heard, and the ships of every maritime nation from the British man-of-war to the Maltese felucca and the Chinese junk are seen in the bay. After “Paradise Lost’’ was printed it was translated into French, and this version falling into the hands of an innocent Englishman he translated it back into English arid sent it to a publisher. The manuscript is now in the British museum. Great Britain owns 31,000 square miles in Borneo, and so great is the confidence felt in the permanence of the British rule that over I,ooo*ooo acres of land have been leased for 999 years. During the last century an original copy of Magna Charta, seals, signatures and all, was found in the hands of a tailor who was about to cut it up for patterns. An Irish chiropodist announces that he has “removed corns from all the crowned beads of Eurone.”

THE DEAbANT QUEEN SHE HAD LIVED FOURTEEN YEARS I AND HAD MANY COURTIERS. •—" ■—— I A Touching Scone at the House of Sir John Lubbock- What Would Seem Trivial to the Lay Mini! aSerloiui Matter the Naturall.t Interesting Factu About Ant*. The waste of life in an Ordinary formicary is great Multitudes are continually perishing beneath tho. careless trend of human beings and cattle. A man or woman can hardly walk the garden without destroying many lives of busy creatures intent upon errands of their daily life. Birds pick them up us a delicate morsel. Toads and serpents are fond of a menu of living anta, and other creatures prey upon them. Therefore it becomes necessary to recruit the community day bx day, and the number of recruits must exceed the daily waste if the social power of tho family is not to be diminished. No wonder, therefore, that the fertile queon is a person of such consequence rnd is so carefully guarded. But it may be asked, Is she able to meet such demands upon her fecundity? Quite so. Tho number of oggs which im ’ ordinary queen can lay in any ono season ( amounts to many thousands, and tho possible capacity of a single queen no doubt reaches scores of thousands of fer- ' tile eggs. I was permitted to note the touching interest which focuses upon the queen of a formicary while visiting Sir John Lubbock one summer morning at his ( home in London. This distinguished naturalist had succeeded in preserving two nnt queens to a marvelous age, one of these having reached the vast antiq- , uity of 14 years. This longevity was due to the careful protection extended by Sir John and his attendants, for it is true of emmet herds as well as of domestic animals that they thrive under human protection. As I greeted Sir John on the morning referred to, in re- ' sponse to an invitation to breakfast with , him and some of his friends, I inquired at once about the health of his ancient , queen “Alas, doctor!’’ ho cried, “Ihavo sad news to toll yon. My old queen is dead!” “Dead!” I exclaimed. “This is sad news indeed. When did sha die?” “Only last night,” was the response, “and I have not yet told my wife about it, for I dare say rhn iri’l feel as badly over tho loss as myself. ” Perhaps this may seem trivial to the ordinary lay mind, but to Sir John Lubbock and thfe writer it was a serious matter, for it ended ono of the most interesting experiments as, to the prolonged; life of invertebrate creatures that the world has ever known. “May I see the queen?” I asked. “Yes; she is just here in the adjoining room. ’ ’ Turning aside from the waiting company of distinguished persons who were , to sit down with us at breakfast, wo wont to see the dead queen. She lay in ; one of the chambers, as I have described them, resting on her back, with her six , legs turned upward and bent in the rigor or death. A crowd of courtiers surrounded her. Some were licking her, as though iu loving caro of her toilet. One would nip an ’antenna and another a leg, and by various other solicitations sought to arouse her. Alas, there was no response! It was curious and touching as well to watch their methods. “They have not yet accepted the fact,” said Sir John, “that their queen is really dead. Indeed I doubt if they are fully persuaded thereof. They have been surrounding her thus and trying to get some response from her ever since she died. ” ■ So wo left thtS royal dcathroom. Whether this interesting creature was taken by its kindly guardian and placed .in a collector’s bottle, or upon an entomological pin, or left for interment at tho hands of her devoted courtiers, I never learned. But rift ono who witnessed that scene could doubt the strong interest and affection with which tho venerable queen ant was regarded by her subjects. Speaking of interment, it may not bo amiss to say that ants have a curious habit of carrying the sead of their own community from tho confines of the formicary, depositing them together in a convenient spot outside the bounds. * So far as I have observed, they do not treat the carcass of an alien.ant in this way, but appeal- to show this mark of respect to those of their own community alone. This is the basis, of the popular notion that ants have cemeteries for the burial of their brotherhood. I have verified the fact to tho extent above stated, and the point opens an interesting field for larger and morS"uctivo study by some enterprising >lover of emmet life. It has been said that the ant egg when dropped by the queen is seized by one of the attendants and carried away to the nurses. These receive it and place it ia one of tho chanfliers along with others of its kind. In a little while the egg becomes a little white worm, or larva, with a greedy appetite for sweets. It is as/hclpless as a human baby and as dependent upon the adults. That caro is not wanting. Ono can hardly fail to notice also' the common characteristic of maternal fondness in dealing with these baby ants. The nurses shift the little ones back and forth, from ono position to another, far at least as a human being can judge, without having bettered the matter in the least. Seemingly they have only indulged the fancy of a-iAother to move about her baby just to gratify her own affections. They even appear to me at times to take tho little things up and dandle them, after the fashion of a young mother and her first infant. However, all this may be but “anthropomorphism, ” a state of mind from which the observer of social insects can scarcely ever wholly escape.— Rev. H. C. McCook in Northwestern Christian Advocate. If time is money, whycan’t a man pay his barber with the time he spends , waiting for his turn? • . _,. an* ~.

| '*■ A SMALL KINDNESS. The Gentle Little Woman Who Gnve It RoI eelveil a Bl* Reward. Many years ago, when sewing ma- ' chines were in their infancy, if indeed' they had been invented, a little elderly bachelor entered tho parlor of his boarding house mid in away peculiar to himself made this request: “Which of you Indies will hem a couple of handkerchiefs for me?” There was a well bred sniff of disapproval, but not one ussenting voica The only ono that broke the silence recommended him to take the handkerchiefs to a seamstress who attended to such work. • “It’s pretty lonesome tp have no women folk belonging to you, ” said tho old bachelor, “but I guess I can get along. Thank you, ladies, for your kindness, ” and he bowed himself out. At the same moment a timid hand detained him, and a low voice said in his ear: “Leave them with me. I—l will see that they are hemmed neatly. I have a friend who will do them—for company. ’ ’ “Take them, ” said the old bachelor gruQly; “much obliged, I’m sure?’ ■ She was a gentlewoman, although sho sewed for a living, as all women did in that day who did not teach school. She replied not to jeers of her companions when she sat in the parlor at her work, except to say that it was a small thing to ( do for a follow being. “But he is a miser,” they persisted. Nevertheless tho handkerchiefs were hemmed and returned to the owner, who did not offer to pay for them, but did withiu the year many tho gentle soul who hemmed them. The thereafter of their married life reads like a fairy story. Both have passed away from tho prosperity which surrounded them, but iu the heart of the city of Boston there is a marble block that was built with the accumulated interest of the fortune bequeathed to their eon, who is no other than Montgomery Sears, the millionaire. This story, iviliko most stories, is true.—Detroit Free Press. LORD RUSSELL’S BASHFULNESS. The Great English Barrister Was Quite Dlltident In His Youth. In his “Journalist's,Notebook” Mr. Frankfort Moore tells a story of the early life of Lord Russell. It may, he says, surprise some of those persons who have been unfortunate enough to- find themselves witnesses for the prosecution in cases where Lord Russell has appeared for the defense to learn that in his young days he was exceedingly shy. He has lost a good deal of his early difii deuce, or, at any rate, he manages to prevent it betraying itself in such away ns might tend to embarrass a hostile witness. As a rule, witnesses do riot find that bashfulness is the most prominent characteristic of his cross examination. But I learn from an associate of Lord Russell’s that when his name appeared on the list to propose ur to respond to a toast at one of the dinners of a patriotic society of which my informant as well as Lord Russell was a member he would, spend the day nervously walking about the streets and apparently quite unable to collect his thoughts. Upon one occasion the proud duty devolved upon him of responding to the toast, “Ireland a Nation.” Late in the afternoon my informant found him in a condition of disorderly perturbation and declaring that he had no idea of what he should say, aud he felt certain that, unless he got the help of the man who afterward became my informant, he must inevitably break down. “I laughed at him,” said the gentleman who had the courage to tell the story which I have the courage to repeat, “aud did my best to give him confidence. ‘Sure, any fool could respond to Ireland a nation, and you’ll do as well as any other. ’ But even this didn’t give courage,” continued my informant, “and I had to sit down and give him the chief points to touch on in his speech. He wrung my hand, and in the evening he made a fine speech, sir. Man, but it was a pity that there weren’t more of the party sober enough to appreciate it!” The Coming Railroad Engine. “The railroad engine of the future will be a very different machine from those now in use,” said T. C. Willoughby. “In tho first place, it will be so arranged that it will run in a vacuum by means of air pumps. It will be of torpedo shape, in order to offer the least possible air resistance, and the air which goes into the primps will be utilized as an additional motive power to that obtained from, the steam or electricity used. Such an eugirie could be constructed to make at least 200 miles an hour and would wear longer than any now used, for the reason that friction would be reduced to a minimum. A combination of the principles of the present locomotive and of the Pennoyer airship would result in a revolution in the mechanical world. lam not mi ih-/ ventor, but J know that such a macliiuo is feasible and will some day be perfected.”—Cincinnati Enquirer. A Big Concern. A commercial traveler was fragging about the magnitude of the firm he represented. “I suppose your house is a pretty big establishment?” said the customer. “Big? You can’t havo any idea of its dimensions. Last week wo took an inventory of the employees mid found out for the first time that three cashiers and four bookkeepers wore missing. That will give you some idea of the magnitude of our business.” —Manchester Guardian. English Smarts. First Swell (pretending to mistake for an usher a rival whom he sees standing in dress clothes at the coatroom of the theater)—Ah! Have you a programme? Second Swell (up to snuff)—Thanks, my man. I got one from the other fel- • low.—London Answers. . Am,. ~ «> ~ ■