Decatur Democrat, Volume 39, Number 40, Decatur, Adams County, 20 December 1895 — Page 5

Great Closing Out)Sale! $25,000.00 WOnTII — - ‘-•S Dry Goods, Cloaks, Carpets, Queensware. To be converted into cash at a TREMENDOUS SACRIFICE. *The time is limited. We can’t afford to wait. The selling must be quick, the goods must be sold. Now is your time to get TWO dollars worONE. You can’t realize the bargains offered until you see them. Ladies Capes and Jackets. — Fine quality boncle and and beaver jackets, ripple back sbawl collar, $8 50, former price sl2 50. Extra line quality boucle jacket, ripple back, silk lined, shawl collar, sll, former price sls. Genuine astrachan cape. $8 Good coney fur cape $l5O. Great reductions in dress goods—Fancy novelty dress goods 35c, Turmer price 50c All wool benrietta 374 c, former price 75c. Fancy novelty dress goods 20c. Endless other bargains too numerous to mention. Call early and make your selections. - Now is the time to buy. JOHN & W. 11. NIBLICK, Executors.

4 i felt ■. Fls 1- SKI H JjT IE =■ -Of.-Z.f&t, “I if iijf 3 I I•*J »x4-~-h-.1 j H'' 1 A 6- A ■' fl J fefcaWMMCTWPIgr.. TOUR LAST (MCE To get this Oak rocker for only SS.OD - .J. . early, for they will not last long- at that price. ; Woodward & Ball. Dr. Chas. E. Miller will again be at Hflthouse & Smith's drug store Saturday, Dec. 28th. Those who need glasses and those who have had difficulty to get the proper glasses, are specially invited to call, 39-2 Skate.!! Skate.!!! We sell the Barney & Beery skates, the best made, at the same price you pay for cheap, light-made skates. Call and see them. - - 39-2 Ellsworth, Myerl & Co. A Cough Charmer. Mr. Tyler, of the largo wholesale drug house of Strong, Cobb & Co., Cleveland, Ohio, says, Dr. Marshall’s Lung Syrup, is a cough charmer, the merits of which, have long since been realized by thousands of people. Nothing can equal the results, obtained from the use of this great medicine, its cures are in exact ratio, with the number ot cases in whksh it has been used, and unless you give it a trial you can not convince yourself of its true merit. Sold everywhere by druggists. Price 25c, 50c and SI.OO. d Monroe Items. The literary held at the Hendricks school ’house one mile south of Monroe was a grand success. The patrons of the school (taught there by Edwin Macy) were on hand with everything palatable. The teachers ot the Monroe school will entertain the patrons and everyboy else next Tuesday with speeches, essays and good singing. Mr. Hocker, the principal, would be pleased to have every > parent who takes an interest in their children's education to be there. Miss Maria Wealton is improving from a fall she bad a few weeks ago. r Mrs. Nicholas Wagoner Sr. is no better, and is failing very fast. «.

Mrs. Wagoner is the mother of our neighbor, Jesse E-sex. The Jtrw Order United American Mechanics, of MQnroe, Jwill give an oyster supper at their’lodge room next night. Everybody invited.’ Clinple Items. Homer Castelmnn was in our burg* this week buving hogs. T Mr. and Mrs. E. Hart and Mr. and Mrs. C Friend called on Mr. and Mrs John Spar Sunday-evening. Chas. Maun and wife gave us a call Monday. We are informed that some arrests will be made this week of parties who were disturbing services at Dixon Sun day and Sunday evening. If people can’t behave themselves in Gods house they should be punished for it. One of the most shocking events that ever occurred in this neighborhood took place last Thursday morning when Samuel Fortney attempted to take his life by cutting Ins throat with a razor. The story is us follows: Samuel Fort- , ney whose home is two miles southeast of Dixon, but for the past live years has been in southern 111., came home to visit his parents, David Fortney, whose family is having a severe seige of fever, six of the family being victims. After a few days visit he started for 111., but on the way be took sick and after reaching his destination was advised by friends to again return home, and after reaching home he took to bed. On Thursday at 4 o’clock a. m. the nurse left his room to wait on some one up stairs and while gone he got up, took his razor out of his trunk and cut his throat from ear to ear almost severing the windpipe. He then started for the barn to die, but ! at this writing is still alive. Mr. Foftney is a highly respected young man 3!) years of age and single. A partial stroke of insanity and despondency caused him to commit the act. IS CATARRH CCRABLT2 Mr*. Mary Alexander Says It Is in a Recent Letter. Mrs. Mary Alexander, of Piper City, 111., writes: “My health had been failing for seven years. The doctors pronounced my case one of bronchial ca tarrh. I could get no hope of recovery from any of my physicians. My friends urged me to take Fe-ru-na. At this time I was confined to my bed. At this time I was confined to my bed. After taking one battle of Pe-ru-na I was able to sit up and the swelling on my body and limbs began to disappear. When I had finished the. third bottle I was entirely well and felt as well as ever in my life. I can heartily say that I believe Pe-ru-na saved my life.” Catarrh attacks any part of the human system. Not only are the throat and head liable to catarrh, but all other parts of the organism may be affected by it. There is catarrh of the stomach, kidneys, liver, etc. Pe-ru-na is an internal systemic remedy, and cures catarrh wherever located. An instructively illustrated 64-page book on catarrhal diseases sent free by The Pe ru-na Drug Manufacturing Co., Columbus, O Dan Erwin was at Bluffton Tuesday, putting in some) new pianos Verily, Decatur is a trading point for all of our neighboring cities. Farmers, when In Decatur eatat Union Bakery and you will get value received. d3ostfw43tf

KEEP HANDS OFF President Cleveland Issues a Warning to Lord Salisbury’s Government, .■* 4 ■ I MONROE DOCTRINE UPHELD. Great Britain Must Not Encroach Upon Venezuelan Territory. RECEIVED WITH MUCH ENTHUSIASM. Staid Senators Applaud the Message to the Kchn—Members of All Parties Congratulate the President on the Strength of the Document — The Government Will Probably Make an Investigation _ For Itself and Act Accordingly. Washington, Dec. Isl.—The message of President Cleveland to congress transmitting the correspondence between Secretary Olney and Lord Salisbury relative to the Venezuelan boundary dispute created a real sensation in Washington yesterday. There was a great popular craving to learn just how the president would deal with Lord Salisbury’s refusal to Submit t)ie matter to arbitration, and the message was lisPRESIDENT CLEVELAND. tened to with intense interest in congress and was read with avidity on the streets. Nowhere was there a voice lifted in dissent to the doctrine so firmly laid down by the president, but on the contrary therq was an outburst of patriotic feeling that must have been highly gratifying to the chief executive. The message was received in the senate with such cheering as has not.been seen in that staid old body for years. On the streets the message was discussed, and old veterans of the latfe war talked exultantly of what they were prepared again to undertake at the call of their country. In the great hall of the pension building the employes gathered and sang with gusto, “Star Spangled Banner” and “America.” At the white house messages poured in from men of all parties and every section of the country congratulating the president upon his message. The matter was of the greatest interest in diplomatic circles, and the general impression on a sober second consideration of the note was that, the matter has not yet reached a stage where war" is imminent, and that the hint of Great Britain’s purpose to reopen negotiations with Venezuela looking to a settlement of the dispute between themselves, perhaps may be regarded as the indication of how the matter will end. Newspapers of the country, of all shades of political, opion, are unanimous in their commendation of the stand taken by the president. Apparently whffii it conies to a question between the United States and a foreign country all parties are as one. Following is the full text of the president's message: To the Congress: In my annual message, addressed to the congress on the 3d inst., I called attention to the pending boundary controversy between Great Britain and the renublic of Vein zu'ela, and recited the substance of a representation made by this government to her Britannic majesty’s government, suggesting reasons why such dispute should be submitted to arbitration for settlement and inquiring whether it would be so submitted. The answer of the British government, which was then awaited, has since been received. The reply is emlAodied in two communications addressed by the British prime minister to Sir Julian Pauncefote, the BHtish ambassador at this capital. One of the communications is devoted exclusively to observations upon the Monroe doctrine, and claims that iu the present instance a new and strange extension and development of this doctrine is insisted on by the United States, and that the reasons justifying an appeal to the doctrine enunciated by President Monroe are generally inapplicable “to the state of things in which we live at the present day,” and especially inapplicable to a controversy involving the boundary line between Great Britain and Venezuela. Important to Our Peace and Safety. Without attempting extended argument in reply to these positions it may not be amiss to suggest that the doctrine upon which we stand is strong and sound, liecause its enforcement is important to our peace and safety as a nation, and is essential to the integrity ot out free institutions and the tranquil maintenance of our distinctive form of government. It was intended to apply to ekery stage of pur national life and capnot become obsolete while our republic endures. If the balance of power is justly a cause for jealous anxiety among the governments of the old world and a subject for our absolute noninterference, none the less is an observance of the Monroe doqH'ine of vital concern to our people and thei r governmeifc Assuming, therefore, that we may properly insist t’tpon this doctrine without regard to “the state of things in which we live” or any changed condition here or elsewhere, it is not apparent why its application may not be invoked in the present controversy. If a European power, by an extension of its boundaries, takespossessiou of the territory of one of our neighboring republics

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against its will, and in derogation of its rights, it is difficult to see why, to that extent, such European power does not thereby attempt to extend its system of government to that portion of this continent which is thus taken. This is the precise action which President Monroe declared to be “dangerous to our peace and safety,” and it can make no difference whether the European system is extended by an advance of frontier or otherwise. , Salisbury’s Objections. It is also suggested in the British reply that we should not seek to apply the (Monroe, doctrine to the pending dispute, because it does not embody any principle of international law which "is founded on the general consentof nations,” and that “no statesman, however eminejit, and no nation, however powerful.’are competent to insert into the code of international law a novel principle which was never recognized before,.and which has not since been accepted by the government of any other country.” Practically, the principle for (which we contend has peculiar, if not exclusive, relation to the United States. It may not have been admitted in so many words, to the Code of international law, but. since in international counsels every nation is entitled to the rights belonging to it, if the enforcement of the Monroy, doctrine is Bomethiu’g we may justly claim, it has ijs place inthe code of international law as certainly and as securely as if it were specifically mentionecL and when the United States is a suitor before the high tribunal that administers iirternation.il law, the, question to be determined-is whether or not we present claims which the justice of that code of law can find 10 > be right and valid. The Monroe doctrine (jnds its recognition in those principles of international law which are based .upon the theory that every nation shall have its rights protected and its just claims enforced. Os course, this government is entirely confident that under the sanction of this doctrine we have clear rights and undoubted claims. Nor is this ignored in the Biitish reply. The prime minister, while not admitting that the Monroe doctrine is applicable to present conditions, states: "In declaring that the United States would resist any such enterprise if it was contemplated, President Monroe adopted a policy which received the entire sympathy of the English government of that date.” Not Iu the Code of International Law. He further declares. “Though the language oPPresident Monroe is directed to the attainment of objects which most Englishmen would agree to be salutary, it is impossible to admit that they have been inscribed by any adequate authority in the code of international law.” Again he says:*“They (Her Majesty’s government) fully concur with the view which President Monroe apparent ly entertained, that any dist urbance of the existing territorial distribution in that hemisphere by any fresh acquisitions on the part of any European state, would be a highly inexpedient change.” In the belief that the doctrine for which we contend was clear and definite; that it was founded upon substantial considerations and involved our safety and welfare; .that it was fully applicable to our present conditions, and to the state of the world’s progress, and that it was directly related to the pending controversy", lind without any conviction as to the final merits of the dispute, but anxious tolearn in a satisfactory and conclusive' manner whether Great Britain sought under a claim of boundary to extend her possessions on this continent without right, or whether •she merely sought possession of territory fairly included within her lines 1 of

ownership, this government proposed to the government of Great Britain a resort to arbitration as the proper means of fettling a question, to the end that a vexatious boundary dispute between the two contestantsTniglit.be determined, and our exact standing and relation in respect to the controversjfcmight be. made clear. Tins proposition has been declined by the British government upon the grounds which, in the circumstances, seem* to me to be far from satisfactory. It is deeply disappointing that such an appeal, actuated by the most f ciejidly feelings toward both nations directly concerned, addressed to the .sense of justice and to the magnanimrfy of one of the great powers of the world, and touching its relations to one comparatively weak and small, should have produced no better result. What the Government Should Do. , The course to be pursued by thjs government, in view of the present conditions, does noLappear to admit of serious doubt. faithfully for many, years to induce Great Britain to submit this dispute to impartial arbitration, and having been now finally- apprised of her refusal to do so. nothing remains but to accept the situation, to recognize is plain requirements and deal with it accordingly. Gre^t;Britain's present proposition lias never thus fur been regarded .is admissible by Venezuela, though any adjustment of the boundary which that country may deem fo£ her advantage, and may ’enter into of her own free will, caiiiiiV- of course, be objected to by the United States. Assuming, however, that the’attitude of Venezuela will reniMmunchangeil, the dispute has reiiciied*w2n a stage as to make it nefw incumbent upon the United States to take measures to detcymine with sufficient certainty for its'jiistilication what is the true division'll line iieiween the republie of Venezuela and British Guiana. The inquiry to that end should, of course, be conducted carefully and judiciously, and due weight should be given to all available evidence, records ami facts iu support of the claims of both parties. In. order that sttch an examination should be prosecuted in a thorough and satisfactory manner, I suggest that the congress make an adequate appropriation Tor the expenses of a commission to be appointed by the executive, who shall make the necessary investigation and report, upon the matter with the least possible delay. When such report is made and accepted, it will in my opinion be the duty of the United States to resist by every means in its power, as a willful aggression upon its rights and interests, the appropriation by Great Britain of any lands or the exercise of governmental jurisdiction over any territory, which, after investigation, we have determined of right, belongs to Venezuela. In making these recommendations I am fully alive to the responsibility incurred, and keenly realize all the Consequences that may follow. I am, nevertheless, firm in my conviction, that while it is a grievous thing to contemplate the two great English-speaking peoples of the wifrld as being otherwise than friendly comnetitors in the onward march of civilization and strenuous and worthy rivals in all the arts of peace, there is no calamity.which a great nation can invite equal to that whitjh follows a supinij submission to wrong and injustice ami the consequent, loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which is slpelded ami defended a people’s safety and greatness. • Gkover Cleveland. The directors of the Baltimore and Ohio rftilrotul have declared the regular setoiatinual dividend of 3 per cent on the ffreferred stock, payable Jan. 2. -

Notice of Election of Directors of Decatur National Bank. Notice is hereby given to t stockholders the Decatur N tional Bank, of Decatur, Indiana, that there will be held an election at the banking rooms of said bank in Decatur, Indiana, on Tuesday, January 14, 1-896, between the hours of 10 a. inland 4 p. m., for the purposes of electing a Board of Directors for said bank for the year 1896. C. A. Dugan, Cashier Decatur National Bank. Dr. D. J, Erwin has purchased the exclusive right to use the Dr. J. C. Kennedy “Apparatus and Patent Process Treatment - ’ in Adams county, from his representative. Dr. Dean, who has for the past two weeks, began demonstrating to the people of Decatur the practical of this scientific discovery. Eminent physicians who have been free enough from ethical prejudice to-give an advertised, patented discovery a fair investigation, have acknowledged this process to Lie the only method, scientific, or otherwise, by which the middle ear can be reached and medicated without injury to the drum, oscicles and eiistruchiap canal. Further it has been proven by practical experiment that by no method of inhalation of volatile substances, medicated steam or dry air even can one particle of medicament be induced to enter the deeper air cells in a healthy lung much less in a diseased one. By the Patent Process medicines are forced into the deepest air cells with absolute sifpty, (demonstrated on thousands of cases treated.) Congestion is relieved, hemorrhage is stopped, closed air celis are opened, lung capacity is increased and functional activity (the phenomena of appropriating oxygen from the air and giving carbolic acid to the air is markedly increased. Cut this out Continued next weekDr. Erwin will give one demonstration treatment and consultation free, to all afflicted with deafness, catarrh, diseases of the lungs, paralysis and all other diseases of the nervous system. Office oyer Journal office. Office hours from 3 to 5 p.m. 40-4 .7 ’ T Catarrh (Cannot Be Cured. " With local applications, as they cannot reach the seat of the disease. Catarrh is a blood or Constitutional disease, and in cider to cure it you must take internal rente dies. Hall’s Catarrh cure is taken internally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is not a duack medicine. It was prescribed by one of the best physicians. It is composed of the best tonics known, combined with the best blood purifiers, acting directly on the mucous stirfaces. The perfect combination of the two ingredients is what produces such wonderful results in curing Catarrh. Send for testimonials, free. E.s,l. Cheney a- Co., Proprietors, Toledo, O. Sold by druggists, Price 75c.