Decatur Democrat, Volume 39, Number 22, Decatur, Adams County, 16 August 1895 — Page 3

TO THEDegressive <□ H e—FARMER OF 1895. 1 - /E wish to say that we have now on hand the New W Force Feed, Low Elevator, Champion - Binder ECCENTRIC GEAR, Demonstrated in harvest of 1894, to be the jK-l <? LIGHTEST DRAFT And having- the advantage over all other Binders in handling Rye or down grain, and Wnl Forfeit Price of Binder L If we cannot demonstrate to any practical farmer that we have advantages over all other Binders and Mowers. Come and let us show you and be convinced. We are here for the purpose of showing k you these facts, and if you fail to see and buy a Binder or Mower of any other make than the Champion. you make The Mistake of Your Life. J BINDER TWINE, PLOWS, HARROWS, And, in fact, the largest stock of HARDWARE In the city, together with'the lowest prices. Thanking | our customers for past favors, and hoping for a continuance of same, we remain Truly yours, I JOHN S. BOWERS & CO.

REDHOT HAYMAKING. One Amateur’s Experience Was Complete and Satisfactory In One Day. The hottest experience I ever met with in the country was the day I helped to make hay. The farmer began to I call tis shortly after midnight, and sfter a long siege of intermittent yelling he succeeded in his design of getting us out of bed several hours before it was necessary. It was then Ba. m. About two hours later we had had our breakfasts and were entering the hayfield. When one gets into trouble, the opening scenes are always alluring. A gorgeous sunrise was in full swing in the east. The dew lay on the grass, and the >\ air was cool and invigorating. I could not but agree with the poets that the scent of the new mown hay was very inspiring. I felt like a colt and was keen to jump into the sport. • The first heat consisted in bunching the hay after the rake, which the farmer himself drove about the field with many r loud “gees” and “haws,” but few “whoas. ” The old rascal took a fiend- ; ish delight in crowding us. It began tc . look a little like work. When the fey was all bunched, the high ladder wargons were driven into the field. Being a novice, I was assigned the duty of loading. I stood upon the wagon and built the load as the hay was pitch- , ed to me theoretically, but on me actual- ’ ly. The first dose knocked all the poetry out of me. The blazing sun had sucked up all the dewdrops and was now high in the u east. He seemed to focus his scorching rays on the wagons, and the hay crackled and sizzled about mo like frying fat. It was noon 20 times all at once. I thought I was becoming liquified. I sank to my neck in the hay and roasted in a concentrated oven of absorbed solar heat. Not a breeze stirred. No friendly cloud hovered near to screen the orb of fire. I * vainly tried to fancy I was in the Arctic

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ocean and the wagon was a floating iceberg. The old pitchers, inured to the heat and the avocation, still fed on the » hay. We were jerked into the bam—from the frying pan into the fire—and I was there barbecued for half an hour in the hot beds of the mow. Out we shot again into the broiling ' field. All day long this process of slow torture continued. It was a little drama from the snowless land inserted into real life, the farmer impersonating Satan, the pitchers his archangels and myself Charon’s lost passenger. But, thank heaven, the farmer was no Joshua, and tho sun at last completed his trip across tho skies and disappeared beneath tho mdpijfain. The next : day my place on tho wagon was occupied by some other fool.—Philadelphia Press. i Galvanic Brbnzing. By means of a recent French improve- : ment the process of galvanic bronzing ' is said to have been made not only more . sirnpld, but capable also of giving every tone, from that of barbadian < bronze to antique green, governed by the length : of time that the copper is allowed to i remain in contact with tho liquid. Aft- 1 er the piece has been well scoured it is : covered by means of a brush with a i mixture composed of 20 parts of castor oil, 80 of alcohol and 40 parts each of soft soap and water. Thus treated,’the < piece left to itself for a period of 24 I hours becomes bronzed, and if the dura- ; tion of contact be prolonged the tone i changes, a very great variety of tones, pleasing in their appearance, being ob- i tainable in this manner. Tho drying is i finally effected with hot sawdust, the i only remaining operation being then • thrtt of coating the piece with a colorless varnish largely diluted with alco- i hoi, thus insuring work of tho finest : character.-—New York Sun. ’i

ARE SAI) FACED MEN. THIS IS WHAT ONE OF THE CRAFT SAYS OF DEEP SEA DIVERS. » A Life That Inn’t Exactly JoUy—A Veteran Telia of Experlencea He and Other Divert Have Had—A Cloae Shave —Fairyland on the Ocean's Bottom. “I suppose you sometimes see some fearful sights in wrecks,” said a reporter to a veteran deep sea diver. *'Yes» but you get used to ’em when you have been in the business long. When I first started diving, I was sent down to report a wreck. Nobody was supposed to have been drowned when the vessel went down, but when I went into the cabin the first thing I saw was the body of a man seated at the table. The water was very clear and magnified him until he looked about four times his natural size. His hand was upon the shoulder of a little boy, who was sitting on his knee. It was my first experience with dead bodies, and it gave me a shock. Now I don’t mind ’em at aIL Most of the tales you hear about groups of dead people sittin round quite natural in a cabin are lies. A body will rise after being in the water a couple of weeks and be found floating up against the ceiling. When they have their legs under a table, they sometimes sit right where they are until their bodies decay away, because they are held down by the table, which is usually screwed to the floor. ‘‘An English diver I knew once bad a pretty nasty experience with sharks. He was diving in a wreck ivhich had been loaded with live cattle. When she had been down at the bottom for a month or so, the bodies of the cattle became light and floated up against the hatchways. As soon as he started the after hatch, the cattle began to float out aud up to the surface of the water. The locality was infested with sharks, and they soon began to gather round the hatchway, grabbing the cattle as they came out and following them up to the surface, fighting among themselves. Some of the cattle had been tied, and they floated out as far as their ropes would allow. The sharks gathered round them and began to tear them to pieces. Pretty soon they began to fight, and poor Marsh—that was his name—was afraid to go up for fear he might be attacked and afraid to stay down because one snap of a shark’s mouth would have severed his air hose in a twinkling. He gave the signal to be hauled up in a hurry and went biff among the school of sharks and through them. In going through a shark snapped at him and took off his right hand, so that he had to give up the business. ” “What’s the narrowest escape you ever had?” “Well, about the closest shave that I remember was when I was putting some copper on a steamer’s bottom while she was in dock. I took some plates down with me and did some work on one side of the hull, after which I wanted to put some plates on the other side. The vessel was about three feet off the bottom. ’I crawled underneath, dragging some plates after me. When I had been working for some time, I noticed my air was getting short, so I went to try to get under the keel again to be hauled up. I found the steamer nearly on the bottom squeezing my air nose oetween ner keel and the ground. The tide was giving out, and she had gradually sunk until she was almost aground. I had forgotten all about the tide, and when I pulled the hose I found it would not budge an inch. I can tell you scared it no word for how I 'felt. “If the bottom had been soft, it would not have mattered so much, but it was rock, and the hose was gripped like a vice. There was nothing to do but wait. If she fell any lower, the air would be entirely shut off, and I would simply have to die. You can bet I shall never forget those few minutes when I was waiting to see whether she rose or fell. My head felt as though it was bursting and my nose and ears began to bleed. Presently I felt the air getting a little fresher. I took heart, aqd soon she began to rise with the turn of the tide. There was plenty of time for me to get my nerve back before she was high enough off the bottom for me to crawl under. I didn’t get it back, however, but just stood there trembling until I could squeeze’under her bottom aud give the signal to be hauled, pp. For weeks after that I was a sick man, and my hearing has never been right since. “Sometimes,especially in tropical waters, the bottom of the sea is a lovely sight. I have seen a forest of kelp and seaweed gently waving with the tide which looked like fairyland. The dim light aud the bright colored fish darting about make it look all the more beautiful. A bit of seaweed on land does not ‘Amount to much, but if you see a regular forest of it growing it looks very different. “If you stand still for a minute, the fish will swim all around you and examine you just as a lot of human beings would look at some strange animal. At the slightest movement .they whisk their - tails and not a living thing is to Jue seen. “It takes the life out of a man somehow, diving does, and I never know a diver who did much smiling. They are all rather grave, sober faced men.” — New York Tribune. Porter or Porterage. An officer being moved from one station to another sent in a bill, in which was an item for “porter. ” The item, after having exercised the intellects and received the indorsements of five successive officials at the war-office, was disallowed bn the ground that “porter” could only be allowed if taken under medical advice. The officer respectfully . informed his superiors that the “porter’' charged for was hot drink, but, the individual who had carried his baggage. The reply was that this should hAvo been entered as “porterage, ” whereupon the officer ventured to inquire whether I if he took a cab this should be put down ... .

NUUAKA FAL.LV EXCURSION. Tuesday, August 20th, the Erie Lines, (Chicago <fc Erie railroad) will run an excursion to Lake Chautauqua, Niagara Falls Toronto and Lake of the 1000 Islands, at the following rates and limits: Lake Chautauqua $4 00,5 days limit; Niagara Falls $5.00,5 days limit; Toronto $6 00,0 days limit and Lake of the loot) Islands, $10.50, io days limit. Limits given being in addition to date of sale. Stop overs will be given on return trip at Niagara Falls, Buffalo and Chautauqua. Special through train leaves Decatur at 2:85 p. in, arriving at Niagara Falls next morning at 7 o’clock. Sleeping car accommodation should be secured in advance. The Erie is the only line running through bn its own tracks to Niagara Falls and Chautauqua and thereby insures passengers against delays. For further information address any agent C. & E. or J. W. DeLong, Decatur, Ind, Gravitation and the Blood. We ordinarily think of the attraction of gravitation only as producing what we call weight, and as governing the motion of the earth and other planets in their orbits. But gravitation acts in a very important manner upon the circulation of the blood in our veins aud arteries. An elaborate series of experiments has recently been carried out in England to determine just what effect gravitation exercises in this respect, and how its disturbing influence is compensated in the bodily mechanism. It has been found that man probably possesses a more complete compensation of this kind than any other animal, and that tiro monkey stands in this respect next to man. Injuries to the spinal cord, asphyxia, and poisoning’ by chloroform or curare paralyze, more or less completely, the power of compensation, aud then the influence of gravitation ou the circulation of the blood may become a serious danger. In such a case death is more likely to result, according to the couclusions of Professor Leonard Hill, if the body is placed in such a position that the abdomen is at a lower level than the heart But the danger may be diminished or removed either by elevating the abdomen or by compressing it so as to drive the blood up to the heart. When the Leart itself, however, has been injured, as by chloroform, there is danger in forcing the blood too rapidly into it. Professor Hill finds that, generally speaking, the best position for the body, when the power of compensation for the effects of gravitation has been arrested, is with the feet up instead of with the feet down. — Youth’s Companion. A Sad Death. Can you describe anything worse thana young person dying by inches with consumption, cutoff in the bloom of youth, when bright prospects of happiness and prosperity are before them. A very sad death indeed. Is it not a fact that most eases of this kind are brought on by a cough, only slight at first, then more violent followed by night sweats and a general breaking down of the entire system. These are cases in which people are to blame, why not check this this slight cough. Dr. Marshall’s Lung Syrup is guaranteed *o cure. It will prevent consumption. Try it before it is.too late. By druggists. Price 25, 50, aud sl. r ■ . a At the Pearly Gates. St. Peter (from within) —Who agitates the.celestial latchstring? Strong Voiced Shade—’Tis I, the new woman. A mere man is with me. St. Peter—’Tis well. Let each state his attributes. New Woman—You know me. Icame, I saw, I conquered. The Mere Man—My office is to salute, submit and surrender. St. Peter—The I’s have it. Place your sycophant on the toboggan and step inside.—Washington Times. Voice of Experience. Grinncn —Dying at a' hotel is, it seems to me, the saddest thing on earth.' Barrett—-'I here is only one thing sadder—living at a hotel. —Chicago Trib--9 _____ Deafness Cannot be Cured by local applications ns they cannel reach the diseased portion of the ear There is only on * way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional renx-dif-s. Deal ness is caused by imintlatncd condition of the nmeous lifflnir of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is inflamed you have a rumbling’sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed, deafness Is iln result, and unless the inflammation ean be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will bfu dyjstroyed forever: nine cases out of ten are caused by "catarrh, which is nothing bat an inflamed condition of mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of deafness (caused by catarrh) that can not be cured bv Hail’s Caturrali Cure. Send for circulars: free. F. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, O. Sold by all Druggists. • a Died With His Chum. Tu the reminiscences of General Sit Evelyn Wood, himself a brave English soldier, a touching instance of courage and self sacrifice is giveir. One June day in 1885 a detachment of English.marines was crossing the Woronzoyv road tinder tiro from the Russian batteries. All of the-men reached shelter in pie trenches except a seaman, John Blewitt. As he Was running a’ terrific roar was heard. His mates knew the voice of a huge cannon, the terror of the army, and yelled: ' “Look out! It is Whistling Dick!” But at the moment Blewitt was struck by the enormous' mass’ of iron on the knees and thrown to the ground. He called to his special chum: ‘ * Oh, Welch, save me! ” The fuse was hissing, but Stephen Welch ran out of the trenches, and seizing the great shell tried to roll it off of his comrade. » It exploded with such terrific force that not ait atom of the bodies of Blewitt as? Welch was found. Even in that, time 'when each hour had its excitement, this deed of heroism stirred tlw whole English army. One of the officers searched out Welch’s old mother in her poor home aud undertook her support while she „ lived; and the story of his death helped his comrades to nobler conceptions of a soldier’s duty.,

Watch Competitions. Very few people know that there are, in connection with the Geneva watch trade, comp< titions involving verv largo sums of money, a goodly proportion of which finds its way into England. A certain number of watchmakers at Geneva nominate certain dealers in England who shall bold competition watches made by the former, and the names of snch dealers are agreed to by the whole of the said makers. Prizes ranging from £3OO downward are given to the makers whose particular watches shall keep the best time and remain in the finest condition during 12 months. The English dealers who hold the watches during the 12 months have to keep a daily record in regard to the loss or gain of time evidenced by their charges, and they are of course in absolute honor bound to keep a correct one and not to tamper with the watches beyond winding them. No given maker’s watch in the competition bears any name or distinctive mark other than peculiarities of construction by which the name of the maker can be identified by the holder. Tho watches are of the usual kind manufactured for trading purposes and not mere “exhibition” watches, and the holder of each prize winner receives one-half of the award. —London Standard. Mr. C. G. Strong, principal of the public ’ schools at Anderson a Cal., says: “I have j used Chamberlain’s Pain Balm and haye found it ah excellent remedy for lameness and s'ight wounds.” # Lameness usually results from a sprain, or other injury, er from rheumatism, fir which Chamberlain’s Pain Balm is especially intended aud unequalled. It affords almost immediate relief and in a short time effects a permanent cure. For sale bj’ Blackburn Miller, druggists. a Aluminium. In obtaining, alumina from clay, according to Hoibling, supposing a clay cf a known strength in the alumina, for each molecule of the latter there is incorporated with the clay three molecules of ammonium sulphate and an almost equal weight of neutral potassium sulphate. One molecule of the latter is theoretically sufficient, and the whole is well worked up and made into hollow bricks, these to be baked at 270 degrees to 280 degrees. The ammonium sulphate is then decomposed into acid ammonium sulphate and ammoniacal gas, which may be collected in a condenser. The acid of the ammonium sulphate is first thrown upon the neutral potassium sulphate, which becomes acid sulphate, and the latter at this temperature, in presence of alumina and clay, is neutralized by the alumina, forming double aluminium and potassium sulphate—i. e., alum. The bricks are then extracted by methodic lixiviation, and the silica may be used for cement. The alum i« freed from iron byrecrystallization, and the solution may be treated for the precipitation -of the alumina by means ui the ammonia which has ffieen distilled off. To obtain the alumina in a granulated state it is spread out upon stages in a tower traversed from top to bottom by the hot moist ammonia obtained on baking the bricks. One night when Mr. Isaac Rees was stopping with me, says M. F. Hatch, a prominent merchant of Quartermaster, Washington, 1 heard him groaning. On going to his room I found him suffering from carnip colic. "He was in such agony I feared lie would die. I hastily gave him a dose of Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera ami Diarrhoea Remedy. He was soon relieved and the* first words he uttered were, “what was that stuff you gave me?” 1 informed him. A few day sago we were talking about his attack and fie said lie was never without that remedy now. , 1 have Used it in my family for several years. 1 know itswmth' and do not hesitate to recommend it t<> my friends and customers. For sale b,y Blackburn & Miller, druggists - a ,■ Burmese Girls. In evOry household the daughter has her appointed work. In all but the richer merchants’ houses the daughter’s duty is to bring the water from the well evening - and morning. It is the gossip-, ing place of the village, this well, and as the sun sets there come running down all the girls of the village. As they.filj their jars they lean over the curb and talk, and it is here that are told the latest neyfts, the latest flirtation, the latest marriage, the little scandal of the place. Very few mets come. Water carrying is not theif duty, and there, is a proper time and place for. flirtation. So the girls have the well almost-to themselves. Almost every girl will weave. In every house there will be a loom, where the girls weave their dresses and those of their parents. And very many girls will’have stalls in the bazaar; buri of this I will speak later. Other duties ‘'are tho husking of thb rice and the making of cheroots. Os course in the richer households there will be servants to do all this, but even in them the daughter' ■ will frequently weave, either for herself or. for her parents. Almost every girl will do something, if it be only to pass.the time.—-Blackwood's Magazine. “It is thejiest patent medicine in tire world” is what E- M. Hartman, of Marquam, Oregon, says of Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhma Remedy. “What leads me to niakethis assertion is from the fact that dysentery in its worstr-iorni was prevalent,around here last summer and it neyer took over two or three doses of that remedy to effect a complete cure.” For sale by Blackburn & Miller, druggists, a Choosing a Wife. The plainest features become handsome unawares when associated only with kind feelings, and the- loveliest face disagreeable when linked with ill humor or caprice. People should remember this wtfen they are a face which they are to semevery morning across tho taeakfiist table for the remainder of their lives.—N. P. Willis. Dr. Price’s Cream Baking Powder World’s Fair Hitrheat Medal aui Dipie - . *- ■v-S - ' ‘ •

Awarded Highest Honors—World’s Fair, •DR; VWCfj CREAM BAKING POWDER MOST PERFECT MADE. A pure Grape Cream of Tartar Powder. Free from Ammonia, Alum or any other adulterant. 40 YEARS THE STANDARD. Make Clothing For Dogs. It is well known that there are dentists in London and in Paris whose specialty it is to fit lapdogs with a set of false teeth. It now appears from a Parisian monthly magazine of fashions that there are tailors and fashion plates for dogs. The list of garments includes mackintoshes, Jaeger vests, comforters and respirators, side pockets with a lace 1 handkerchief inside, fur collars, small ' lilk umbrellas, which dogs are taught to tarry over the head.—Chicago Tribune. CIDER. CIDER. CIDER. I will comrmmce making cider Thursday, August Bth, and will run every Thursday until later in the season. I will make cider every day. I also grind plow points at any time at my factory on Third street, opposite water works. Peter Kirsch. 20\s3 FIVE HANDSOME LOT* for sale in Grant Railing’s addition. Enquire 3tf Grant Railing. While it is very unpleasant to have to part with our friends, yet it is the case in life. But it is a real pleasure to have gentlemanly undertakers to assist you in the performance of this sad duty. You will find Woodward & Ball very pleasant gentlemen. 21wti We have sold the Superior Drill, both plain and fertilizer, for the last three years, and they have given the very best of satisfaction. Call and see. They are the only force teed drill made. We are selling the fluted feed for 840 00. We can save you money. 19-4 Ellsworth, Myers & Co. For bargains iu men's and boys’ Tan shoes go to Henry "Winnes, 9tf Woodward & Ball, the leading furniture dealers of the city, carry a fine line of queensware, glassware, and in fact they are the only dealers in cut glassware Cali and see them and the finest display of chinaware ever in the city. 21wtf Tor Sale or Rent—An 80 acre farm all under cultivation, well drained, one and one-half miles north of Preble, in the best of neighborhood. Inquire of CiißisTortiEß Kirsch. 19 4 Decatur, Ind. New York’s River Tunnel. There is a big hole under North river. Some day it will be a. tunnel connecting this city and Hoboken. No work has been done for four years, but the owners of the hole are now trying to raise money iu London to complete their tunnel before a bridge can be built over North river. Only 1,230 feetremain to connect tho holes bored from either shore, each of which is now full -of water. This water has simply soaked through' since work vvas abandoned on the death of tho principal backer. fat 83,000,000 has been poured into the hole, and only §500,000 will be required . to complete it:—Now York Letter. Free. Delivery.—Leave your orders sos chop, bran, midliugs. ear or’shelied i corn, oats and screening.. The best , flour on earth. .Ail.delivered at your door. A. Vancami*. 4t>6dl2 18 a 8 Money to Loan—At sx per cent oh long time. Abstracts, insunmee and ixillections.- Farm arid city property for sale. CilTl on Scburger. Reed ASmitti. 42tf A fine present should always be selected from the best goods: in the city. When you want to rnake h, ‘present to anyone, there is nothing so vice as the ftae chinaware vou can buy so cheap at Woodward i Bali's, '2lwtf Hamess is way up. but we are not . on our prices. AU hand made, pure oak stock or no sale. 19-4 Ei.i.sWok ru. M YSKikt Co. If you want good foot-wear at old knock-down prices.- go early and attend the great clearance sale at Holthouses’ shoe store. 21 w 2— Dr Price’s Cream Baking Powder What’ She Saw. Mme. De Cornuel went to Versailles to see the French court, when M. De Torcy and M. De Seig“ - 'lay, both very young, had just been appointed ministers. She saw them as well as Mme. De Maintenou, who had then grown old. When she returned to Paris, some one . asked her what remarkable things she had seen. “I have seen,” she said, “what I never inspected to see there. I have seen love ixi its tomb and the ministry in its cradle. ” ■ . . -;ts/.• 0 . . ... .i "' .