Decatur Democrat, Volume 40, Number 19, Decatur, Adams County, 24 July 1896 — Page 4

Special Sale of Wash Goods. Dimil les. . . . | Chnllies • • , , 1 Satin stripe, biqurcd. 10 h Reduced to - 15 C that were cheap at ihd':”tod c '. 8c .I«cj>iiette.])iiclicsse, Good styles, re- [fin ... dticed to - - lUu Swivel Silks. . . — \ll colors, 40c and 50c All D 00l < hilllies, poods,—Silk and All colors, Reduced cotton, reduced to ZJb to 25c SHIRT WAISTS. Your choice any $2.00 waist, reduced to 51.50. Your choice any Si.so waist, reduced to 81.15. Your choice any $1.25 waist, reduced to 81.00. You choice any SI.OO waist, reduced to 85c. Your choice any 75c waist, reduced to 65c. Anything in Wash Coods must CO at the ro E o L V Bto?k TX - Boston Store.

©he democrat N. RLACKPVRN, Proprietor. FRIDAY, JULY 24. 1896. Rates ot Subscription. One Year, in advance ßl 50 six Months. '5 i Four Months. , 5® All subscriptions net paid during the year will be charged at the rate of $2.00. Office in Democrat Building, east sideof Sec ond Street—ground floor DEMOCRATIC TICKET. FOR PRESIDENT. WILLIAM J. BRYAN. Os Nebraska. FOR VICE-PRESIDENT, NATHAN SEWALL, of Main. state! TICKET. Governor B- F. Shively Lieutehant-Gov John C. Lawler Appelate Judges—First district. Edwin Taylor;,second dist., F. E Gavin; third dist.. Theodore Davis; fourth dist., Oalando Lotz; fifth dist., G. E Ross. Secretary of StateS M. Ralston Auditor of State Joseph T. Fanning Treasurer of state Morgan Chandler Attorney-General t.J. G. McNutt Reporter Supreme Court.... Henry Warrum , Superintendent Public Instruction Prof - W. B. Stncltljr State StatisticianO. HrDowney I > IST Hl CT TICKET. Prosecuting Attorney . DAVII) E. SMITH, of Aoams County. I'OITNTY TICKET. Bherifl. PETER P. ASHBAUCHER. —. Treasure!. ... «... I JONAS NET ENSCH WANDER. ■ Auditor. _..— NOAH MANGOLD. ~ ' ■' Surveyor, WILLIAM E FFLK. County Assesssr, ELIAS CRIST. Comm iSsioner—l st d ist rict, •JOSEPH E. MANN Commissioner—2tid district. SAM TEL DOAK. ”

r> 11 1 ■ «■ ■■ J. S. Bailing, breeder of recorded Duroc Jersey swine. I have a tine herd of hogs at present, have sows bred for j September farrow for sale. Male pigs from six to seven months old. {tigs two months old. All breeding stock recorded. Tedigress furnished. I will sell for cash or good notes. Write for ' what you want or come and see them. Residence four and one-fourth miles southeast of Decatur ifiwtf Wanted—Several trustworthy gentlenrui or ladies to travel in Indiana for established, reliable house Salary S7BO and expenses. Steady position, j * Enclose reference and self-addressed! stamped envelope. The Dominion Co.. Third Floor., Omaha Building, Chicago, Illinois. 50w24 A Card. Having disposed’of ray interest in the Arug store to Messrs Smith & (’allow. .1 wish to.settle the book account of the old tirtn wsoon as possible. I thank all my friends and customers fol- their past patronage and trust they will continue with the new firm assuring them of the same square .dealing and purity of goods as heretofore. 718dls l<hv3 J. B Holthovsje •'./’•v-A' .

Yesterday afternoon from tour to seven o’clock. Mrs J 11. Lenhart was “At Home." to about fifty of her lady friends, which was one of the most pleasant events of the season The house was beautifully decorated with trailing vines and cut flowers, sweet peas predominating After each guest was seated. Misses Millie Lenhart and Olive King handed each guest a score card with a lead pencil attached and also a slip of paper on which was a number and the name of some animal? which had to be drawn on a blackboard placed in the center of the room. Each one when the number they had in their possession was called, and each one was expected to guess the name of the animal and write it on their score card. A beautiful prize was given the lady who correctly guessed the most, which was captured by Mrs. John Niblick, while the bioby prize was awarded to Mrs J. C Patterson. Delicious lemonade was served during the drawing of the animals of Barnum s menagerie. At six o’clock elegant refreshments were served by the hostess, assisted by Mesdames J. T. Archbold and John Colchin and Misses Olive King and Millie Lenhart. The souvenirs of the evening were small candy animals tied with pink ribbon. Those present were Mesdames NoraYarrish, Theo. Blosser, Holloway, J T. Merryman, P. P. Ashbaucher, John Snow. Rose McLaughlin, J. VV. Merrytuan.il. A. Fristoe, C E Suttles. 1) Siudabaker, Dan Meyers, G. P- Ferry, .]. W. Vail, Jeff Bryson, f Dan Bolds. Fred Shafer, KateChamper, _ Clint Patterson. John France, Dr. McMillen. Paul Hooper, J.D. Hale, W, F j Orcutt, E T Gregg, J T. Arch'bold, L. C. Helm. J. K Mann. llarvey'Nibi lick. A- T. .Lynch. W. IL Nactttrieb, Jake Shaffer, -John Colchin, N. Blackburn. John Tyudaik- Al Steele, bam : Lehman, D Adams, John Niblick, Ari thiir Fishet, E. B. Lenhart, Dan i Beery, Ed Phillips. -John Rice, Dr. Nep--1 tune, Misses Olive King, Minnie Orvis, | Ethel Hale, Nellie Blackburn, Hattie Studabaker. Rev. E. T. Gregg and ’E

B Lenhart • p ■ J. - - • _ At Reifsbiirgh, a villiage in Wells county, lighting struck a telephone pole killing one man' and badly injuring several others. A funeral train had just arrived at the church when a thunder storm came up. Six gentlemen who were unable to get into the church sought shelter /wider the awmng of a store build, jng just opposite the church. They had been there but a shot time when lighting struch a telephone polestanding near the church, and running along the wire to the building, then down the side of the building, striking Richard Burgess, killing him instantly-. The other'‘gentlemen were - niu-v.hat injured by the shock while the driver was knocked from the hearse and stunned. " A Val) «mp at I's. Wayne, where be has a contract for a grist" mill wffiich is well under way. 3EADACHEAfr~.fi j-.w? ~ - ■ Paus Pww.-“Vuec ‘‘. . '7 nr * Vu '- W(n a ausv. • At <L-usgist» Z . -- '

1 A ROUSING MEETING Ln*t Nltfhl-A HU Oruaiilxtitlou— Everybod> Head) For Work. Democratic Club met in Armory Hall for permanent organization. John 11. Heller as chairman of commute ou organization presented report, which was adopted. 1 Name of organization was decided to be, “16 to 1 Bimetallic Union of Adams County.” Speeches were made by, Charles N. Spencer, John T. France, Win. 11. Heed and David Eley. she following officers were elected: Chairman, David Eley; ViceChairman, F. E. McLain; Secretary, H. L. Conter; Treasurer, J. 11. Heller; Lecturer, C. N. Spencer. Executive eommitte: David Eley, Pres; John Lose, L. G. Ellingbiin, W. IL H eed, D. E. Smith. Meeting next M inday night at club rooms on Monroe street. About 150 names were enrolled last night. Will Silver Win. An editorial in the London Commerce, a recognized trade authority, a champion ot monometallism for England, and claiming the largest circulation m the world, has caused considerable talk among American business men. From it the following extract is taken; “Leaving the question of tariff for a moment, let us consider what a bimetallist America will mean for us. In the first place it will mean an immediate premium upon United States exports. The effect of coining silver at the proposed ratio would, in all probability, bring about a great ‘boom’ m manufactures of all kinds. Wages might rise in proportion to the advantage which exporters would derive who sent their goods to a gold-using country, to-wit, the United King dom. The manufacturers of the states would not be quite in the same position of vantage as the agriculturists of the Argentine, nor the exporters in India, but they would have sufficient leverage over the manfacturers here to turn the scale in every trade where now there is a doubt which way the market tends. In tin plates, many kinds of machinery, including some of the very heaviest, in leather and in many sundry manufactures where the British producer can with difficulty hold his own, the effect of the change would be decisive Then this policy is also a bribe to the farmers’ American dead meat—live cattle being prohibited—wheat and all farm for exportation would come over in greatly augmented quantities, for the difference in exchange would mean such an addition of profit that an immense stimulus would be given all along the line. As to silver mining, all that can be said is that there would be a rush. The dimensions of the movement would depend upon many things impossible to foresee. These anticipations of what has become possible are not, be it remembered, based on mere theory. We know already too well what to expect from foreign traders tn a country where silver is the standard currency. India, Japan and Argentine are all bearing witness to the insidious effects on British trade of conditions similar to those now in perspective in the United Spates. Meantime, we cannot too soon face the possibilities and realize the true significance of the position as it is.” Thumb and Finger Off. A son of Daniel Huffman, of Preble township, met with an accident yesterday which caused him to lose the thumb and fore finger of his left hand at the second joint. He was blasting stumps and one of the caps on a fuse failed to explode He tried it several times and then took a pin and holding the cap beteen his finger thumb, picked the precaution when the cap exploded with the above results. Ezra Mallonee and wife are visiting friends near Ft. Wayne.

Niagara Falls Excursion. Wednesday, July 29, 1596. -VIA THEwimim onio railway. On Wedne-diiv. July 29. isstl. the Northern oliio Riillwity " lil run their popular iinnuul ■ excursion to Cleveland, Bullate ami Nlagra . Fall;-at the rollowing' very low rates, viz: i»<l|*ho» 85 00 (oliiinbit* Grove 5 OO Hiuiiioii r» oo ! I'.l'lilltftOll ’> OO Caret • •"> 00 eiuuore •’> 00 ; t hat tick! . I • r > 00 v. xv U ashtnuloii 5 OO PI) Itloelli . 5 00 Next London . . ? 5 00 spencer •"> 00 Jledinu !> 00 With corresponding reductions trotu inletmediate points. hulr troin all stations to Put-in-Bay anti rein ri>. si.oo. In itddition to the above, the purchasers of these tickets will be given privilege of special excursion side trips to Lewiston-on the Lake, including'a steamboat ride on Lake Ontario, lor 25 cents. To Toronto and return by lake from Lewiston, ffl.Oti Tickets ot admission to places of special interest nt or near Niagara Falls, but outside the reservation, including toll over the Inter national Bridge to the Canadian side, elavaters to the water's edge at Whirlpool Rapids on th*- Canadian side, will be offered on train it a seduction Irom prices charged alter reaching the Falls. OO NOT MISS This opportunity of spending Sunday at the greatest historical spot in the United States. Excursion will arrive at Niagara Falls 8:00 a. m. Thursday. July 30. isiMt- Returning, passengers can leave the Falls any day within the limit ot their tickets, connecting withs'eamer at Buffalo, which leaves there every day at s;3O p. tn. Passengers can have stop-over privileges on return trip at Cleveland, Sandusky. Put-in-Bay, etc. For pamphlet giving full detailed informa non. call ou any agent Northern Oliio Ry., or address C. F Daly, G. P. A., Indianapolis, Indiana. 715dS I'Jwl OlDMNoliitlon of Partnership. The uniersigned have by mutual con sent this day dissolved the partnership heretofore existing between them iu the drug business in the'city of Decatur under the firm of Holthouse & Smith. The book accounts will be found at the old place of business., Those indebted to the above named firm are requested to settle within the next 30 days. T , J. B. Holthouse. July 15, 1896. B. J. Smith. 718dl8 19 z 3 Toledo Excursion.—On Aug. 6, the Ladies Aid Societies of the Christian, Baptist, Presbyterian and Methodist churches will run their annual excur sion to Toledo over the Clover Leaf road. The special feature of the excursion will be a boat ride to Presque Isle, the noted picnic resort, a distance ot eight miles. The fare for the round trip idcluding the boat ride is 81 25 Real Estate Transfers. S Bell to E E Zimmerman uttd 2-12 pt of 160 A, Kirkland tp $ 250 00 I Lehman to C C Schu'g inlots 334 and 335 Berne ~...$ 400 00 M Hartnett to D E Kelly et al 120 A, W ashington tn S2OOO 00 J L Harper to M E church Pleasant Mills X A, St Marys tp $ 50 00 II Pennington to L .1 Pennington part outlot 86 Decatur $ ‘2OO 00 I) 1} Warner.fo A W Scoles 47 A, Jefferson tp 500 00 Farm For Rent. For Rent.—A good farm of 110 acres in St. Marys township, one mile north of Rivare and four miles east of Decatur. The farm is under good cultivation and has good buildings. Will rent for two or five years for cash or note with good approved security. Call on or address for the next 30 days 19w5 Wesly Bowser, Bobo, Ind. Farm For Sale—A Farm for sale will take some town property in payment, the farm is two miles from the city, is under good cultivation, good frame house, two good log bards?, two good orchards, two wells of good water. For further information call on or address, John Meyer, Decatur, Ind. dtf Bwß Niagara Falls Excursion Aug. 18th — Wait for the Clover Leaf Niagara Falls exclusions Tuesday, Aug. 18th. Excursion tickets will be sold from various 111,, Ind. and Ohio stations. Greater privileges than heretofore. I ull particulars will be given later. C. C. Jenkins, Gen’L Pass. Agent. The G. R, & I- will run a special excursion train to Rome City August 3rd, for %1 50, round trip which includes admission to Assembly ground. Ibis is Epworth League day,aud Bishop Ninde, president of tbe World’s Epworth League, will speak Special rates —To Rome City from July 27tii to August 12th. $1.70 fdr the round trip. This includes admission to the as* ' sembly. Get a program of the a Kent. Ask ’ for them by telephone and they will be sent to your house. C. L. Lockwood, G. P- A. i Miss Minnie Bell, of Briant, who 1 has been the guest of Lynch ■ returned home today. Miss Jennie Bollman is at Huiitfngton. When you need Dr. E. H. Leßrun, you can phone him at his residence. Phone 114.

, f Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U.S. Gov’t Report Powder , ABSOLUTELY PURE _ -1 ,1

ENGLISH CAVE DWELLERS. Eridencc* of Them Found Iu the Keßlon Stade Merry by pobin Hood. The .town of Nottingham is 124 miles north of London. A part of the town is on low lying ground close to the rivet i Trent, where Hoods sometimes occur, I but the rest of the town is built on a . series of red sandstone hills. It is situated on the southeastern fringe of the great Derbyshire coal field, and the historic forest of Sherwood formerly spread almost up to the city walls. Now this forest has, in a great measure, been cut down, ami this has reduced the I rainfall, raised the temperature and rendered the climate of the town drier and more bracing than it used to be. The mean annual rainfall is now 25 inches and the temperature 47 degrees. As sandstone is soft and easily cut it is only natural that the early dwellers in caves came and lived in holes dug in the hills of Nottingham, particularly as the forest close at hand was a good hunting ground where game could be captured for food. ■ Bronze and other tools employed by these early and prehistoric inhabitants are occasionally found, and the first name known to have been given to the place was Snotingaham. This in Celtic means “the home among the rocks. ’’ Afterward it became one of the towns of the kingdom of Mercia, and in the ninth and tenth centuries was one of the five chief northern strongholds of the Danes. Already what is now known as the Castlehill was a strongly fortified position, and it was in his attempt to capture this fortress that Alfred the Great was signally defeated by the Danes. Two hundred years later, when William the Conqueror in his turn subjugated the Saxons, lie rebuilt the castle of Nottingham and placed it under the command of his natural son, William Peverel. But it was here also that Saxon resistance continued for many a long year, for it was in the great forest hard by that Robin Hood and his merry men dwelt. These outlaws were Saxons who were dissatisfied with the Norman rule and preferred a life of brigandage tc submission. The holes dug in the rocks, the passages made through the sandstone mountains, enabled these bold foresters to occasionally appear in the town and close under the Norman battlements. —Boston Post. BAD BILL’S BREAK. / It Was a Sensational Feature and Shut Up the Whole RcvivaU Bad Bill was a well known character in the west and there are many stories told of his exploit?, but one of the best has never been 'printed, and was related to a reporter by a man whe was present when it occurred. Great ’Bend, Kau., now one of the best towns in the state, was at one time about the worst. That was when it was a railroad terminus before Dodge City was established. A traveling evangelist weut to Groat Bend aud tried to start a revival. There were a few Christians in town, and these all attended the first meeting, the ouly one of the unregenerate present being Bad Bill, who took a front seat. Every one feared trouble when he walked into the church, but he sat quietly during the exhortation. The evangelist requested all who wanted to go to heaven to stand up, and every person present except Bill arose. When they were seated again, Bill got up, and, drawing two pistols, said: want to go to lieaven. Now, anything I can do to b.elp this game along and give ph asure to the players, I'ul in l< r. You all want to go to heaven, and I’ll give you as good a chance as you’ll qver have. The first man that gets up I'll give him a ticket clean through, without any stop overs. ’’ The evangelist crawled under a seat and the members of. the congregation laid on the chairs. “Well,” said Bill, “I see you wasn’t in earnest, so we’ll put out the lights and call this meeting adjourned.” One by one ho shot out thfc lights, an|l by morning the evangelist was on his way to Hutchinson) while the members of the congregation kept quiet aud made no further Attempts at holding a revi val.—Washington Star. Wasted Time* Watch any ordinary coming together of people and see how many minutes it will be before somebody frets. That is, makes a more or less-complaiuing statement of something or other, which most probably every one in the room knew before, and which probably nobody can help. 1 Why say anything about it? It is cold, it is hot, it is wet, it is dry; someBody has broken an appointment, or ill cooked a meal; stupidity or bad faith somewhere lias resulted in discomfort — there are plenty of things to fret abqut, if we, are weak enough to heed trifles. It is simply astonishing how much annoyance may be found in the course of ' every day’s living, even at the simplest, if one ouly keeps a sharp lookout on that side of things. Even Holy Writ says we arc prone to trouble as sparks fly upward. But even to the sparks flying upward, iu the blackest of smoke, there is a blue sky above, and the less time they waste on the road the sooner they will reach it. Fretting is all time wasted on the road. — Pittsburg Dispatch. <, ■ The first paper made In western Eu-, rope was manufactured in Spain in 711. It is said that the process came from the cast, being brought into Spain by the Bloors. .

-1—! Gcttfnft Tmy Much Mixed. Ono curious xyntpfcin of the overthrow of common sense by science iu such a study as domestic economy is the fact that the papers are frequently ; marked by grotesque misspellihgs, not I merely es scientific terms, but even . I more especially of common words which * i in Other papers would present, no difficulty whatever. This is a mark of the I papers of senior schoolgirls, who study the Subject of domestic economj- as well as of oldi r students, and to such an extent that an examiner is forced to the conclusion that this study is in some ; occult way a danger to orthography. To invest in “cousins,” to have, the fingernails nearly “pain'd,” “poodles” of water, “mineh meat,” “roasted stake, ” to have the drains “slushed” with water and to break a class up into “drafts,” may jre taken as a few ex- • ampies of this tendency. But scientific terms are by no means safe from variations, as the two following quotations, this time from the papers of schoolgirls, will show: “Car bonny cassid” is an unusual yet recognizable form of carbonic acid. “Lack tail ducks” may not be so easily recognized. One might suppose that it referred to a species of waterfowl related in some way to the Manx eat, but it is really intended for lacteal ducts. Pcssib!^'the functions of these vessels was no less a mystery to the writer than the spelling of their name. —Blackwood ’s Ma gazine. Water S 3 a Quart. In speaking of the Papazo Indians Mr. McGee said: “They inhabit a country es broad plains, with mountain ranges between them. The mountains are remarkably rugged and rise sharply from the lowlands. All over tlie plains live the Indians. The country is one of the most arid regions on the face of the globe, a whole year passing sometimes without a drop of rain. Geologically it is a curious place. The streams rise in the mountains, but never reach the sea, and the debris carried by-the rivers, instead of finding its way to the ocean, is spread upon the plains, the rivers drying up before they reach the sea. Semland, in the state of Sonora, was never seen by a white man until about two years ago, when the bureau of ethnology sent out an expedition to explore that region. The natives are constantly vigilant, every moment, from day to day, week to week, month to month, year to year, expecting and dreading the approach of an enemy. They are always prepared for any emergency. The dearth of water was the greatest obstacle to ths exploration. Every drop we used was carried from 12 to 15 miles by men under heavy guard. Water there is more valuable than gold, and often we measured it out in spoonfuls. In counting the dangers and labor of securing water we estimated its worth at from $3 to $4 a ■quart.”—Baltimore American. , > Rapid Reading. What an inestimable boon it would be if we had the faculty of grasping sentences, paragraphs and perhaps pagei at little more than a glance! That there have been men gifted in that way is an undoubted fact. Macaulay possessed that faculty in a remarkable d( gree, and most editors have it tc a lesser extent. He would take up a volume for an evening’s intellectual enjoyment, and before he yefired he had the contents fully impressed upon his marvelous mind. Dickens was another of the remarkably rapid readers. George Eliot’s ‘ ‘Adam Bede” came to him one day. Beforeffiii ordinary bedtime he had read it and pronounced this remarkable dictum., “That book was written by a woman. ” Others required days of leisure to read it, and the question, of authorship was the question of the time in literary circles. Os a well known lawyer it was one? said that he was able to read a newspaper article or a page of a book at what seemed to the observer to be but a glance. Endowed at the same time with a powerful memory, he was enabled to digest st leisure what he had absorbed in haste. Very much the same was said of Daniel Webster, who read “Don Quixote” in a single night.—Strand Magazine. A plumber ,in Bremen or Hamburg, by hard in a favorable season, can make nomore than $5.40 a week. Cosmopolitan New York. A curious characteristic of New York is the extraordinary mixture of languages that has come about within the last few years. Few people living on Fifth avenue or, its short side street tributaries realize that there are miles of this city where English is either not spoken at all or brokenly, where there is a mixture of tongues as confusing as ever made trouble on the towter of Ba- ' bel. ; A Russian emigrant who settled on the east side studied German six years before she discovered it was not the lan-, guage of th'eQOountry. She was not a stupid woman, but her tenement and her street were German and her world did not reach beyond. —New York Journal An Attractive Perfume. Mrs. Gazzam —When the mosque of St. Sophia was built at Constantinople, musk was mixed with the mortar, and that perfume still overpowers all others in the neighborhood. Gazzam—Then that accounts for tho wonderful attraction there is in Constantinople for the Muscovites. —Detroit Free Press.