Decatur Democrat, Volume 38, Number 16, Decatur, Adams County, 5 July 1894 — Page 9

Business Directory. TIE Bilim NATIONAL BASK. OAPITAI WW.«» Kt HPIA'S. fII.KO. Orfuui/oci Aujrust IS. lANI. Officer.:—P. W. Braith. Pre... Daniel Weidy Vice-pre.., 11 8. Peterson. Cashier. J. 8. Peterson, AM’t Cashier. Do a general banking business. Interest paid on time deposits. Buy and sell Domestic and Foreign Kxohange. County and City Orders. Adams County Bank CAPITAL. MOOD. SURPLUS. »i6.0H0. Organised In 1871. Officers:—D. Btudaoaker. Pees.. Rnb't B. Allison, Vice-pres; W. H. Niblick, Cashier. Do a general banking business. Collections made In all pints of the cofintry. County. City und Township orders bought. Foreign and Domestic Exchange ianight and sold. Interest paid on tune deposits. Paul G. Hooper, A ttorncy a-t Lrw lleiatur, Indian*. A. P. lIKATTY. t '• MANS. MANN A BKATTY, 21ttorneyw, I x taries Public. Pension Chtlma Prosenice in Odd Follows' Building. J. T. FRANCE. J. T. MERRYMAN. FRANCK A MERRYMAN, A ttorilova*at* :L »t 1^, < Officb:—Nos. 1, ~ and 3. oveX-tljc 'Adams Countv Bank. Collections a soecfalty. J. TL. 8080, MLASTEII COMMISSIONKK ANO ATTORN EY-AT-LoVW. Beal Estate and Collections. R. K. ERWIN, /K ttr>ria.ev*at*^-» a vV , Room J and 2 Niblick & Tounellier Block, Decatur. IndianaM. L. HOLLOWAY, M. D. Office and residence one door "” rt * l ,,?A r l I n ®, ohurch. Disease of women huq children a specialty. P. B. THOMAS, ITI. ». Physician and Surgeon. Office over Burns' harness shop, east side of Second Street. Decatur, Indiana. All calls promptly attended to tn city or country night or day. ~ jf. Q. NEPTUNE, DENTIST. Now located over Holtbousc's shoe store, is prepared to do all work pertaining Io the dental profession. Gold filling a specialty. By the use of Mayo’s Vapor he is enabled to extract toeth without pain Work guaranteed.

<3-0 TO H. M. ROMBERG J5-OX- Your LIVERY. The Beet Rigs and most Reasonable Prices, tltf MONEY TO LOAN On Farm property on long time. ISTo Commission. Low rate of Interest. Rartial Payments. In anv amounts cun be made at any time and etop interest. Cail on or address, A. K. GRUBB or J. F. MANN, Office:—Odd Fellow’s Building. —AT—MERRWAN’S aB’A.OTOHY Fou can get ail kinds of Hard and Soft Wood, Siding, Flooring, - /Brackets, Moulding, Odd-sized Sash and Doors. In fact all kinds of building material made or furnished on short notice. Look Here! I am here to stay and can sell tans and Pianos I cheaper than anybody else can afford to Sell them; 1 sell different makes. ' CLEANING AND REPAIRING done reasonable. See me first and save ‘ ( money. JT. T. COOTB, Decatur, Hid. For the Democratic State Convention at Indianapolis, August 14 and 15, the G. R. & I, will sell round trip tickets at 53.30 each. Return limit August 18. \ ‘ Pan candies at the Peoples Bakerjr and Rustaurant, three doors South of Post Office. > 46 Ls

AN ITALIAN CHURCH. a house of Worship called “CHURCH OF THE RAGPICKERS."' It la the Queerest Place of the Kind in New York aud Probably In the Country—There Hou. and Daughter* of Italy Combine Religion and lluaineaa. Not many New Yorkers have ever heard of the “Church of the Ragpickers.” Iti the neighborhood of Roosevelt street, where it is located, this is the familiar name of the Roman Catholic chnrch of St. Joachim, of which Father Vincini is the pastor. The members are Italians exclusively, inhabitants of the densely populated district roundabout, and as some of them are ragpickers and have rented the lower half of the church for the storage of their goods tho nickname which- designates the church as tlie peculiar place of worship of this class came into use.

Years ago, when Roosevelt street was pot so squalid and as overflowing with human beings ns it, is today, this church belonged to a Methodist Episcopal congregation. There wore merchants, solid men of down town New York, living there, and the neighborhood was eminently respectable. Now the church ntunds AvftiTaStduFap lodging house on one side ah(lj» typieaf slum grocery store on the other. A nest of tough saloons are near by, up ami down the street. Organized in 1888, the Italian population thereabouts grew so rapidly within ru radius of a mile that the church has now one of the largest congregations in the city. The building is of brick and is dingy and dirty. It is only by standing across the street that yon can see a small cross on the roof, the only thing about the edifice that Suggests its religious character. Looking in on the first floor, you will witness a curious sp-ctacle. The whole depth and breadth of the floor is filled with rags. Rags loose, rags in piles and rags in bales ready dor shipping are all about. Big cranes and chains for hoisting purposes run here and there. Half buried in these piles of rags are men, women and children—the men and women busy aasortingxags and the fat, brown youngsters tumbling about in play or sleeping, as the case may be. • It is the biggest ragshop in this city. It is wholesale and retail in the sense that here the individual ragpickers’ of the town disjsise of their wares, which are assorted and baled and sold for manufacturing purposes. The pastor of St. Joachim's rents' tins lower floor to the company that conducts this rag business at a gohd rental, ami indeed were it not for that the mission would suffer. Italians are very practical about their religion, when they care for it at all, and they are very slow at contributing to the support of the church and expect a good deal of religion for a very little money. The church pronefis' on the flbdr*BVer the ragshop, and this in itself gives an odd character to the services at times. On Weekdays the men are at work in the basement when services are going on up stairs, and qne can plainly hear them joining in the responses and chants during the celebration of the mass. While a reporter was there the other day one of tho ragpickers ift the basement sang a hymn to lhe Virgin while the services were going on, and his voice was of rare sweetness and purity. At certain hours of thd day laborers will come in, set their picks and shovels in a corner, and then join in the devotions. The 'peanut venders and fruit stand keepers in the neighborhood always attend the services for at least a few minutes each day. Bootblacks wander in with boxes on their backs and say a few brief prayers, and the Italian population generally 7 comes and goes.

Six masses are said in St. Joachim’s church ever}’ Sunday, and from 1,200 to 1,500 persons attend every mass, so that some 9,000 or more people worship in the little church every week. Father Morilli, who established this mission, and who conducted it for years, has been sent to New England to organize Italian churches there. His place has been taken by a younger priest, Father Vincini. The position of parish priest of St. Joachim’s is that of a patriarch. Not only does he marry his parishioners, baptize their children and bury their dead, but is their constant adviser in other matters. He settles their disputes of all Sorts, from business differences to lovers’ quarrels. One trouble the priest haS to contend with is the manner in which his charges get married. Coming from' Italy, where civil marriages are the proper thing, the Italians believe that the .‘same laws obtain here. As a result the Italian quarter is filled with professional marriage brokers and matchmakers. They bring couples together for a fee, then steer them to the city hall, where two men have for years done a steady business securing aidermen to marry couples, in getting certificates for them andarranging all the details of city hall weddings. Father Vincini tries to impress upon liis people that he will marry them for nothing at all, but they still flock to the city hall. Some of them buy pictures of the building and send them to Italy so that their friends may see the . .palace, in which they were married.— New York World. Another Use For Paper. Among the latest things made out of paper are artificial straws for sipping cobblers and various iced drinks. Everybody knows that real straws are apt to be defective, but the imitations never fail to draw. After they are rolled they are treated with paraffin to render them water tight and nonabsorbent. The same patent covers mouthpieces for cigarettes, which are manufactured in a similar fashion.—Philadelphia Times. Over Long Ago. He (who has just proposed)—Don’t give me your answer now. Think it over. She (calmly)—l did think it over. I thought it was all over when I saw you I flirting bo outrageously with the Barstow j&ks&ewYork

I VEGETABLE NOVELTIES. Some of the More Appetizing Ways of Serving Root* and Leaven. There is a horrible mondtony about the way cauliflower, asparagus and celery are always served. An invariably white sauce is poured over them, and they are sent tojhe table with tiresome regularity. They may be varied by being covered with quite a thick white sauce, sprinkled with parmesan cheese and colored a delicate brown before the fire. Or any of them, after being cooked, may be atewed in brown gravy. Even tho despised cabbage is capable lof being made appetizing. After it is boiled and pressed dry it should be | chopped fine and dried again by being put on the fire in the saucepan. Add a lump of butter, season with pepper and salt and ktdd a little grated nutmeg. When hotjrerve on squares of hot toast. Alashed carrots are quite as palatable as mashed turnips. They should bo cooked, passed through a sieve and put into a stewpan with a piece of butter, ' a spoonful of cream, a drop or two of tarragon vinegar, whisked up and seasoned with pepper and salt, arranged in tho form of a mound and sprinkled with a little chopped parsley. Cucumberj are seldom used except i raw, and yet they are both delicious ■and digestible when cooked. The peel I should be removed, and the cucumber / should be boiled until t 'lider, then drained and sliced and simmered, in good brown gravy, to which a very little chili vinegar has been added, for seven or eight minutes. Radishes, like cucumbers, can bo serWd hot as well as in salads. They should bo tied in bunches and boiled for 18 or 20 min- ( utes; then placed on toast and covered with white ranee. Peas, French beans and sprouts are greatly improved by being. tossed for a f w minutes previous to sending to tab 1 a in a saucepan containing a lump ( J fresh butter, a teaspoonful of cream, a pinch of caster sugar and seasoning of pepper and salt. A rather more simple way of treating French beans is a la Francaise. They are put into a pan with a piece of butter, the juice of half a lemon and a , little pepper and salt. A ragout of peas needs but to bo eaten to bo appreciated. Put three ounces of butter into a saucepan with a teaspoonftil of minced onion, a few leaves of | fresh mint, salt. When these ingredients have simmered for a few minutes—tako care that they do not acquire the least color—add a quart of green peas and shake the pan to prevent their burning. After five minutes add half a pint of water, a very little borax and half a tcaspoonful of powdered sugar. Cover the pan closely and draw it to the side of the fire and let theconi tents cook slowly for about three-quar-ters of an hour. If allowed to boil, the water will soon be absorbed, and unless more is added at once the peas, instead i of being large and tender, will be -I shriveled mid hard..—Ciucinuati-zfcknm mercial Gazette.

A Bottle of Tea. I When you are starting out on a journey of two or three days’ duration, a bottle of tea should accompany you. Tea is one of the best things iji the world to put in drinking water to improve its taste And counteract the effect of change in water, which affects some people seriously. Take a quarter of a pound of tea—black tea is best, or the uncolored Japan—and pour over it nearly a quart of boiling water. Let it stand for an hour or two; then pour ofi’ the liquid in a bottle, put a glass stopper in it and carry in your traveling bag. Pour a tablespoonful- or two in the water you drink. If you desire iced tea to drink with your lunch, you have only to put two op three tablespoonfnls of i the decoction in a glass and add ice wa--1 ter from the cooler, and you have a pure and healthy drink. It is said that the reason the Chinese drink so much tea is because the water in that country is such horrible stuff. —Washington Star. I • Nature’s Sovereign Remedy* “I don't know how many times,” said a young father, “I have heard toy 7-year-old son say from his little bed to his motheV sitting beside him, ‘Mamma, my tooth aches,’ and I don’t know how many times I have heard his mother say to him (he never will let her do anything for him and all she can do is to i sit by him and soothe him): ‘Well, • dear, why don’t you go to sleep? If ; you’d go to sleep, it would stop aching. ’ i Somehow this always seems very funny i to me, though the little un takes it | very seriously, and I believe his mother i does too. Pretty soon I hear him say to 1 his mother, ‘Will it stop aching if I go ■ to sleep?’ and I hear his mother say, ‘Yes, dear,’ and after awhile everything is quiet, and then I know that the youngster has taken nature’s infallible cure tor the toothache —and for many other of the aches and ills of life—he has gone to sleep. ” —New York Sun.

He Made Her So. Cholly Chupleigh (on Broadway car) —Won’t you allow me to offer you my seat? Young Lady—No, I thank-you. I am not a bit tirefl. Cholly Chumpleigh —- But, really, don’t you know, I couldn’t think of allowing a charming young creature like yourself to stand while I Young Lady (interrupting hastily)— Thank you. I think I will take it. But I wasn’t a bit tired when I got on the car.—New York World; “The laziest cigarette smoker I have seen lately,” said a citizen, “was a young man who crossed the street the other day with a cigarette in one hand and an unlighted match in the other. He held the sulphur end of the match against the rim of the wheel of a wagon that was passing and let the wheel light it as it revolved. ” The first private library mentioned by historians was that of Aristotle, B. C. 884. Strabo says it was large, but does not mention the number of the books.

TAJTOO THE WEDDING RING. A British Social Reformer Suggests Branding Both Bride and Groom. Deaß Sin—l wish in all earnestness to make known u suggestion that would save, many a broken heart among the sensitive and many a breach of promise case among the mercantile, and would considerably lighten the lafora of the police courts and law courts. My suggestion, is that every married man and every married woman should have a circle tattooed around the third finger of the left hand in place of or. aw well as the wadding ring. This would be a sign that could never be taken off or effaced and would therefore leave a leaser margin for the treacheries and tricks of bigamists and other great and small offenses against law. society and individuals. To mike this proposition practical and distinctive, of course certain rules would have to be made. For instance, any unmarried man or woman tattooing their third finger to lie heavily fined. Every widow and widower to add a distinguishing mark to their ring. Every jnarried man, or woman disunited by .law to hkrt’ a bar of erasure across their wedding ring, and those who marry two or three times to add tlie extra circles accordingly. The o]: ration of tattooing could with all reverence be performed by an expert in rhe vestry after the church service, or at the registrar's office for those who only go through the civil ceremony. This tattooing may seem a return to barbari>m, but our much vaunted civilization has introduced such numerous aids to deceit tiiat a safeguard and a warning, such as a tattooed wedding ring, would become a practical preventive of much sham, folly and wrong. Only those who have sympathy for unlawful liberty will demur against the idea being realized. I shall be pleased to hear from at 11 who approve of my scheme and are willing to assist in forming a society to influence others in bringing about a custom that would help to insure peace, respect and happiness to many homes and hearts. Yours faithfully, B. T. Knollys. —Letter to Pall Mall Gazette. An Umbrella. “Show me an umbrella,” says a manufacturer. “that has holes worn in the silk about the ring at the top, while the body of the material is still intact throughout, and I will show yon the owner of an umbrella who doesn’t deserve to Own one, if it is a good one. And show me an umbrella that has holes in along the ribs before natural use of it should make them come there, and I will show you an owner who carries his umbrella more for the sake of appearance than for utility.” A wet umbrella placed handle down drips the moisture from it at the edges of the frame' and the material with which it is covered dries evenly and leaves no spot still soaked with water. If the' handle is upward, the water runs down .to Qmy£pyLat where the cloth lining about the ring holds a good deal of it and in a comparatively short time rots the material', and it breaks, easily. The man who carries his umbrella swathed in its case when it is not called into use by rain will soon find it wearing out from top to bottom. This is because of constant friction between the case and the silk, and no matter of how good quality it may be the holes will appear in it long before they should, and the provider of the umbrella will of course lie blamed for selling inferior or damaged goods. There are ipany people so ignorant of the proper treatment of an umbrella that they will actually roll it up when wet and leave it to rot and mold until the next time they want it for use.—New York World.

The Tornado’s Twist. The tornado and the cause of its formation seem to be less perfectly understood than even the ever mysterious electricity. That a tornado has a violent spiral motion and a distinct ascending movement is well established. The rapid rotary motion tends to fdrih a vacuum in the center of the fuhpel shaped volume. and this sncking'fdrcb brings about devastation. When aitornado surrounds a house, the air inside of it forces the walls asunder instantly. But the inception of a tornado and the causeikwhich lead up to it have not. yet been disbqyered. The scientist tells us that the air of valleys becomes heated and rises, cold air ‘rushes in to take its place, the wind hits against a hill, is changed in its course and goes cavorting down the valley* and that makes a tornado. But what gives it the twist? And there are no mountains in the Mississippi valley, but cyclones form there. Weather bureaus, with all their costly, delicate instruments, have never yet satisfactorily explained what gives the tornado its twist. The world is looking for a man who can discover the tornado in its native lair and definitely define, distinguish and describe it. All this is for the benefit of our neighbors of the east, for the tornado never visits California . —San Jose Mercury. , No Offense. A boy was once brought before “Old Steady" Baker, the mayor of Folkestone, for stealing gooseberries. Baker turned over Burn’s “Justice,” but not being able to find the article he wanted in the book, which is alphabetically arranged, he lifted up his spectacles and addressed the culprit thus: “My lad. it’s very lucky for yon that, instead of stealing gooseberries, yon wqye not brought here for stealing a goose. There is a statute against stealing geese, but I can’t find anything about gooseberries in all Burn, so let the prisoner be discharged, fori suppose it is no offense.” —San Francisco Argonaut. Too Paltry. <*Mr. Superintendent, I have come to report that last night as I was going home somebody fired a pistol at me, the ball of which went right through my hat here.” ••Is that all? You can come again when the bullet has ■gone through your head. Before then I am not in a position to deal With the matter.”—Ulk. ...

THE m WK STORE Is the only place where you can buy Goods at 1-2 their real This is admitted by all who examine our goody. WILL GIVE SPECIAL INDUCEMENTS FOR THE NEXT 30 DAYS Must have money! We want to make room for our large Stock. If you miss this chance, you will lose money. NEW YORK STORE, Decatur, F. SCHAFER & LOCH’S HARDWARE STORE. lleadciu.ai’tcrß 3F*or STOVES AND RANGES. H’inter is now close at hand and you will need a stove. We have an endless variety and a large stock to select from, and our prices are REATERS A * 1 Robes, Blankets, TFhips, I 11li 1 VlAPlr Al Buggies, Surreys "ill mlv'K VI Road Carts and tji'e celebrated 1 urnbull Wagons, Is Unequalled in the City. OF’Call and see us, 2nd street. Decatur, Ind.

Christian Endeavor Excursion to Cleveland, Ohio, July 11-15. The Toledo, St. Louis & Kansas City R. K. Clover Leaf Route, will issue at all stations special low rate excursion tickets. Ample return limiU The Clover Leaf Route has been declared the special route for Missouri Endeavors and also for Southern Illinois. Special vestibuled trains will be provided for their accommodation. In ’taking Clover Leaf, Endeavors and others are given choice of rail going or coming, or a portion of the journey via Lake Erie with stop over at Put-in-Bay. The steamer “City of Toledo" will leave dock foot of Jefferson St. daily 9:30 A. M., connecting witli Fast Line No. 6. arrive at Put-in-Bay 12:30 noon. Leave Put-in-Bay on steamer “City of Strait” at 2:30 P. M., arrive at Cleveland foot of Superior St., at 6:00 P. M. No route offers like privileges, when fast train service, ample equipment, convenience in connections and the high standard of the passenger steamers, above mentioned, is taken into consideration. For tickets. Sleeping ear berths, etc., see nearst avent Clover Leaf Rome, or ad dress C. C, Jenkins, Gen’l P. A.. Toledo. Ohio,. Don't Be Afraid. So many people are afraid to use medicines that ere put up ready for use. Why this should be we are unable to say. Dr. Marshall's Lung Syrup is a cough medicine that has been sold for twenty years: thousands of people have used this and there is not the least danger in using it: as this medicine is prepared from the best roots and herbs known to medical science by competent persons, this medicine is guaranteed to satisfy in all cases of coughs and colds and throat and lung trouble. It e»u be given to the smallest child without danger. and is very plaasant to the taste. Try it. By dealers. Price 25, 50 and ?1.00. j Notice:—Big money to hustlers; easy work and.good pay. Call at my office on South Second St., or address, Joseph Z. Wagner. Wl2-4 Decatur. Ind. In time of peace prepare for war. The great German Remedy. Elzey’s Choiera Balm, sold by Holthouse & Smith, Decatur, Ind. The best medicine on the market for cramps, diarrhtea, cholera morbus, la grippe, &c Prepared by John Elzey, Men roe, Ind. 12tf For the Best Bread. I’ies and Cakes Call at the C. & E. Bakery. 8 ly Albert Schurger, Prop. AL ATERS Painter and PaperHanger. All work Prices reasonable. 52 ts For best and cheapest goods go to Henry Winnes’. w9tf For Sale—The American Eagle left on exhibition at this office several months ago by Mr. John Stoutenberry, of Kirkland township, and which is properly cured and mounted, is for sale. Any one wishing to buy this rare bird can do so by calling at this office.

A RETIRED BUSINESSWOMAN. A Page From Her History. The Imuoßt'irt experiences of others are interesting. The foflovim; D no.exception: “I had been troubled with beait disease 25 years, much of lira! lime v-y seriou.-ly. For live years I waslrras »>•<! by one physician eon.inuoilsly. I was in business. but obliged to retire on account of my health. A physician told my friends that J could not Uvea month. My fee: ami limbs were badly sv.oi-l-.-ii, and I was hid. el in a serious eontltfton when a gent leant n directed ray attention to Dr. Mill s’ New Heart Cure. and said that his sister, who had be . n articled v, >-Il heart (itsease. It id been cured by the remedy, and was again a strong, he il.liy woman, i purchased a. not tie of the Heart Cure, and in less than ' an hour after taking the first dose I could feel a decided improvement in the circulation of >nv blop<L__\V 1 u;i l 1 ie,d t;ikcii t-hveo tloses-I— VoultTmove tny ankles, something i had not done for montlis.nhd my limbs had been swollen so long that they seemed almost put it tied. Before 1 had. taken one bottle of the New Heart. ( : ure the swelling had all gone down, and I was so much better that 1 did my own work On my recommendation si’:: others tire taking this valuable remedy." - Mrs. Morgan, 5t?9 W. Harrison St.. Chicago, 111. Dr. Miles’ New Heart (Sure, a discovery of aa eminent specialist in heart disease, issold by ail druggists on a.,positive guarantee.or sens by the Dr. Miles Medical Co.,Elkhart, Ind., on receipt of price. ?1 per itottle. six bottles for $5, express prepaid. It is positively free from all opiates or dangerous drugs. , Sold by ail Druggists.

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