Decatur Democrat, Volume 40, Number 49, Decatur, Adams County, 18 February 1897 — Page 5

TH E LAST WEEK or 8 XX \| CLOSING I -joUT • • | SALE! | BEFORE INVOICING. . . S k w. H. NIBLICK, Executors. S

additional locals. Go to the prize contest. Subscribe for the Democrat. Go to the prize contest next Sat ti rd ay evening. Crackers —any kind and all you want at the Union Bakery. Rev. H. Theo Wilkens visited at Fort Wayne yesterday. Mrs. W. H. Niblick was shopping at Fort Wayne Tuesday. R. K. Erwin was a professional visitor at Delphos, Ohio, Monday. Wanted —A head cook at the people’s Bakery. Apply in person. A. K. Grubb transacted business at Geneva the fore part of the week. The W. C. T- U. will aeet with Mrs. Blossom next Saturday at 2 p. m. Jacob Schafer is able to be about after several weeks illness with lagrippe. Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Smith of Richmond, are visiting friends in the city. A P. Beatty returned from Kendallville and other points Monday. Mrs. E. T. Gregg entertained the CeciUian musical club Tuesday afternoon. Esq. Ashbaucber of French township, was a business viitor in the city Monday. ' The leading merchant tailors, J. H. Meyer & Bro. All work guaranteed. Decatur, Ind. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Moltz made a pleasure trip to Fort Wayne yesterday, returning today. J. H. Meyer & Bro. high graW merchant tailoring. All work guaranteed. Decatur, Ind. For high grade merchant tailoring call on J. H. Meyer & Bro. All #ork guaranteed. Decatur, Ind. Main street was given a cleaning up during the thaw out, and again makes a very presentable appearance. Edward Flescher is in the city to organize a lodge of the Sexennial League. Its principle feature is insurance. Miss Kit Miesse returned from Fort Wayne Monday, where she had been visiting her sister, Mrs. Van Sweringen. Coffee & Baker ard still headquarters for for meals and lunch at all hours. You wili find at the Union Bakery. Father John Blum is visiting his parents at Fort Wayne. He is as sistant pastor of the St. Mary’s church in this city. J. H. Meyer & Bro. for fine work and low prices. Are the leading merchant tailors in Decatur, Ind. All work guaranteed, The township' trustees are all in the city, being witnesses in the eir cuit court case of state ex rel Noah Mangold vs D. P. Bolds. ■ The Fort Wayne races will take place this year August 9 to 14th. Purses averaging $1,500 will be offered by the association. , The traveling auditor of the G s 1 R. & I. checked up Agent Bryson’s ' accounts last Tuesday and as usual ’ found them in first-class condition. < You can get reduced rates to Ft- * Wayne next Tuesday euening to ! hear General Gordon’s lecture on ' the “last days of the confederacy.” 1 The following letters are reported ; cl aimed by postmaster Welfley: i ovine Haning, Sarah Hilery", Cory t Heiland, Lewis Morrison, George 1 Clark, Chas. Ston 1 Judging from the numerous in-’ quiries there will be any number of bidders on the Decatur & Bluff- ’ ton gravel road, which is sold in ' commissioner’s court March 4. . *

Now is the time to subscribe for the Democrat and get all the nows, only per year. Herman Yager departed Sunday mprning for an extended absence in “Fatherland.” He accompanies a shipment of horses for Frisinger & Fisher, j The ladies of the St. Vincent sewing society will meet Wednesday afternoon, Feb. 24, at the residence of Mrs. W. H. Niblick on north Second Street. Francis E. McLain has been the Adams county bar, having stood the test of examination by a committee of three appoftded for that purpose. Squint ameve on the Boston advertisement of their suit and skirt opening. Men as well as women can wear them —but the men might have some trouble getting them on. If yoif want to trade for a farm, or a farm for city property, if you want to "buy a farm cheap on easy terms, or want to buy or trade for city property you get a bargain of .. R. K. Erwin. A lady’s purse was found yn the streets ‘Monday. The same was left at this office and can be had by the Owner providing they describe the purse and pay for this notice. ,J An opening.—The Union Central Ljfe Insurance company, of Cincinnati, Onio, want an active man for.th b agettey of Weils county with headquarters at Bluffton Ap ply to <t. D. Baer, gerieral agent, Detroit,’Mich. M. E.isef vices at the court house next Sunday. S. S. at 9:15 a. na., preaching at 10:30. Subject, “The Constitution.” The Junior Order American Mechanics will attend -in a body- Junior League at 3 Senior League at 6, preaching at 7 p. m. I All are cordially invited. In this issue you will find a tn*p containing the republican gerrymander, r t be fruits of the present legislature. Study it well and lay "Away for future reference. It is a rank partisan effort to disfranchise many thousands of voters in the state, and is, no doubt, tutional.On account of Department of Superintendents of the National Educational Association to be held at Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 16 to 18, the G. R. & I. will sell ticket* at rate of one and one-third fare for the round trip, on the certificate plans from all points. > J. Bryson. TheseCond “silver haired” prize contest wiil .be hqld in the Christian chu&h nexFSaturdav evening at contestants are ladies fromthe-Presbyterian, Baptist and Methodist churches and from the W.’ C. T) U. Other recitations will be Also a cornet solo by a email lad. The young ladies will furnish music, besides vocal and instrumental music. Altogether a most interesting program will be rendered and an amusing and enjoyable en tertainment had, for the small sum of ten cenjU. Do not miss it. The Portland Normal and Business college is doing most noble work, and arrangements have been completed for a strong addition of specialists to the faculty of teachers for the spring and summer terms, which open March 23 and June 1. Special attention will be given along the lines in which recent laws demand higher grades. Special teachers’ business course will be given. Tuition and all expenses are lower and advantages greater than any other similar in stitution. All their teachers are specialists. Those wishing to advance their grades in common branches or do special work in any of the higher "ranches or business branch*s would. do well to spend their summer, fiom March 23 in the Portland Normal add Business « college' t 47t5

HAHKETI. COKRICTED BY J. I>. HA Lt, GRAIN MERCHANT DECATUR MARKET. Wheal I 80 Corn, per cwt (mixed) 24 Corn, yellow, 25 Oatx, old : 16 Oats, new... 14 Rye Barley ' 25 Clover seed *4.50 Timothy.. LOO Butter 12 Eggs 16 Chickens .. .05 Ducks 06 Turkeys 09 Geese >... .05 Wool 09 to .13 Wool, washed ...Hand .17 Hogs ..... .............. 3.00 TOLEDO MARKETS JAN. 27, 1:30 P. M. Wheat No. 2 red, cash I .87% May wheat < 88 Corn No. 2 mixed, cash ? 22 Corn No. 3 ... 21 Mr. and Mrs. Schmidt entertainen at progressive pedro Tuesday evening. The evening was spent in the usual game. The prizes being won by Mrs. D. Niblick and H. CoL hin, and the booby by Mrs. F. Deamer E'aborate refresh n ment« were served an 1 all had a good time. UNCLE BAM’3 AUCTION SALE. Aanual Disposal «f ths Aooumulations of Um DoaK Luttar OUica. One of the queerest ‘‘institutions” of the national capital is the annual clearance sale of the dead letter offioe, in which a vast accumulation of articles gone astray in the mails is sold to the highest bidders. The auction house where it is held is continually crowded with excited man, women and children, and beside it the bargain counters during the holidays are as havens di rest, for when Uncle Sam goes into the junkshop business great things are expect ed. As in the church fair raffia, you pay a small amount of money and trust to luck to get back more than its value. The articles, previously listed in a wholesale sort of way, are tied up in bundles of from three to a half doaen and “auctioned” for what they will bring, the average bids ranging between 10 cents and a dollar. Nobody is permitted to examine the geode before purchasing, and no money is refunded to the dissatisfied. Everybody hopes to pull a genuine plum from the pie in the shape of a diamond ring, a silk dress pattern <ae a silver teapot, and although comparative blanks are the rule, there is always the possibility of a prize. For example, the auctioneer holds up one of these odd shaped bundles, listed “pictures, underwear, music, cigars.” Going—going—gone—for 90 cents to a dapper young gentleman who was caught by the word “cigar.” He opens it on the sport—an unwise thing to do if me objects to good natured ridicule—and this is what he finds: Six cigars, broken into bits with so strong an odor that one wonders bow a sledge hammer coulu. have done it; underwear —a female lOoent “jersey;” pictures—. a collection of newspaper cuts designed for ’amusement of some small child. The lot would be dear at a quarter and is of no use to the buyer. In the dead letter office proper—that charnel house which swallows nearly i half a million missives every month—it I is positively harrowing. More than 40 bushels of ; holographs have accumulated there, awaiting the annual crema- j tion. There are tresses of hair enough ■ to stuff a dozen mattresses, grandmoth- i ers’ silver locks and babies’golden curls, many no doubt cut from dead brows, | and small sums of money which poor workmen send home to feed their wives and little ones, and servant girls save frpm their scanty wages for needy par | ents—gone to Uncle Sam’s rich purse, not because the United States wants it, but because the senders’ writing or or- . thography was beyond mortal ken. It is hard to realize that in this land of, schools, at the close of the nineteenth I century, there are so many people so ignorant or so careless as to send several millions of letters a year without stamps or addresses or with addresses which no man can make out. People seem to be so intent on what goes into the letters that they forget'all about the superscription. It is estimated that $4,500,000 in drafts and $80,000,000 in cash ils received every year through dead letters.—lndianapolis Journal. Mlaara Accept a Redaction. Tibbs HaUtb, Ind., Feb. 18.—Ono hundred miners employed by the Coal Bluff Mining company have voted to moo*o nnethor 5-cent reduction and rebmm work at M cents • tea.

A PET SQUIRREL. Mo attar AnDnal b Be Cbaa la Ita Ve»Mr. W. J. Stillman, the art eritie. has written a pathetic story of Owe pet squinch, Billy and Ham, that bo coco •wnod. The article appears in The Century. Mr. Stillman says: In my favorite summer rosert at the lower edge of the Blaek tercet, the quaint old town of Laufenburg, a farmer’s boy one day brought mo a young squirrel for sale. He was a tiny creature, probably not yet weaned, a variation on the ordinary type of the European aciurue (Beiume vulgaru), gray instead of the usual red and with black tail and oars, so that at first, as he contented himself with drinking hie milk and sleeping, I was not euro that be was not a dormouM. But examination of the paws, with their etelioalo anatomy, so marvelously like the human hand in their flexibility and haudinese, and the graceful eurl of hie tail, settled the question of gonna, and mindful of my boyhood and early pets I bought him and named him Billy. Taeaa the first moment that ho became my eompenion he gave me his entire eauffdenee a_d aeeepted hie dmnesticatian without the least indication that ha eensidered it captivity. There is generally a short stage of mute rebollie® in wild eroetures' befoeo they eeaao to aeeept na entirely as their friends—a tanging for freedom which makes preeamticna against sseapo noseeeary. This never appeared in Billy. Mo eaaae to me for his broad and milk and slept in my pocket from tbs first med being easosoed as completely as M he had been born nadir my reef. No other animal is so etaua in its pemonal habits as the equinol when in health, and Billy soon left the basket which cradi*d his infancy and habitually slept rnder a fold of my bod cover, soasetimec making his way to my pillow and sleeping by my cheek, and he never knew what a eage was except when traveling, and oven then for the most part he slept in my pocket. Mo went with me to the table d’hote, and when invited out sat on the edge of the table and ate his bit of bread with a decorum that made him the admiration of all the children in the hotel, so that ho accompanied me in all my journoya He acquired a passion for tea, sweet and warm, and to my indulgence of I fear I owe hie early tarn. He had full liberty to roam in my rooms, but his favorite resort was my work table when I was at work, and when his diet became nuts he used to hide them among my books and then come to hunt them out agairii like a child with its toys. I sometimes found my typewriter stopped and discovered a haselnut in the works. And when tired of his hide and seek he would come to the edge and nod to me, to indicate that he •wished to go into my pocket or be put •down to run about the room, and he soon made a limited language of movements of b's head to tell me his few wpptp —food, drink, to sleep or to take .a climb on the highest piece of furniture in the room.

0 He was from the beginning devoted 0 to' me, and naturally became like a 1 -spoiled child. If I gave him an uncraok- > ed nut, he rammed it back into my hand to be cracked for him with irre- ’ Bistable persistence. I did as many parent* do, and indulged him, to his harm add my own later grief. I could not re1 sist that coaxing nodding and gave him 4 what he wished —tea when I had mine • and chicked his nuts, to the injury of 1 his teeth, I was told. In short, I made 1 him as happy as I knew how. i 1 Church Preferment In Xn*lnnd. 1 The plain truth is that not a few church appointments during the last 13 3 years have seriously weakened the episr copal bench, and it is high time that somebody spoke out and said openly 1 what everybody has been saying in pri- ’ vate. The bad old days of the court ’ bishop are happily past. But it seems as 3 if, in selecting men for high office in T the church, more importance is attachr ed to considerations of family and connections and private means than to the matters which are really of primary r moment. Surely in these democratic } days such considerations are, to say the least, of minor consequence. The l serious issues which are now before the 1 church render it an absolutely vital neL cessity that her leaders should be select- ’ ed from among her very best men. 3 What would be thought or said if the judges, for example, were choeen on so- ? cial grounds rather than for reasons of personal capacity and fitness? And yet . it is the simple fact that an ordinary churchman is at a loss even to guess at the reasons which dictated the nomination of at least one-half the present ' bench of bishops, tb say nothing of ’ deans and canons. What makes the matter more grave is the significant fact that the majority of these question- ! able appointments have been made ' within the last 12 years and by three | different prime ministers. What is the | result? Omitting the two archbishops and the bishops of Wales, whose appointment is governed by exceptional considerations, there are not more than i ten of the remaining 28 sees which can be said to be occupied by men of the first rank, whether regard be had to scholarship, eloquence, personality, administrative ability or amy other qualification necessary to their exalted office. I Os the rest, some may be ranked aa good second rate men, but there remain at least ten prelates who cannot even attain to that distinction.—Saturday Review. A Priest and His Sons. A curious spectacle was witnessed the other day in the chapel of the Jesuit school, Rue de Madrid, Paris, when Abbe Courbe celebrated his first mass. The new priest was assisted at the altar by his two eldest sons, who have also entered the priesthood, one being a Capuchin. By the marriage which he had contracted before he took ordere Abbe Courbe had several other children, all of whom were present at the oecemany.

BARGAINS! FOR EVERYBODY. J. THOS. W. kOEKEY, Who has been confined to his room most of the time on account of poor health, will start, in a few weeks, on a western trip in search of better health; hence the stock of goods now on hands and situated in the Luckey Building, will be CLOSED OUT AT PRITATE AND AUCTION SALE. ’ REMEMBER K&SM and Fiitms all so ■ al Yow (hm Price. AMONG THE STOCK IS 1,000 llosi. Package Coffee. Such as Lyon, Arbuckle, 4-X, Jersey, &c., all going now at 15c per package. 4,000 poiixxcljsi Sugar, Reduced to Wholesale Cost. NB» r - 2,000 Bars So»x>, Ivory, Santa Claus, Jackson, Lenox, Bannar, Star and Brown Soaps, at 4c per bar, and other less noted at 21c per bar. The Majority of Shelf Goods, At one-half the former retail price, or a considerable Less than wholesale cost, but then itis any way to CJLbSE OUT QUICK! 1 B- • ' And first come will be first served, for when a line is once out, no more will be replaced. So come early and quick, and don’t forget your money, for at such a nothing,will be charged or allowed to leave the store until paid for. ' ■ - ■ - - ,11 - ' I The Oldest, the Largest and the Best. Incorporated. Capital $ 125,000. X u kJTJZJ Jo Medical and Snmcal Itislitole. No. 107 Colhoun Street.

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TWENTY-FIVE YEARS EXPERIENCE. DR YOUNGE has treated over 40,000 patients in the State of Indiana since 1872, and with perfect success in every case. • . s < A Strong StcitOment — Or. Younge has deposited One Thousand Dollars,in the Bank as a forfeit that he has treated more cases of Chronic Diseases and performed more remarkable cures than any other three Specialists in the state ot Indiana. New methods of treatment and new remedies used. All Chronic Diseases and Deformities treated successfully—such as diseases of the Brain, Heart, Lungs, Throat. Eye and Ear, Stomach, Liver, Kidneys (Bright’s disease), Bladder, Bectum. Female . Diseases, Impotency, Gleet, Seminal Emissions, Nervous Diseases, Catarrh, Rupture, Piles, Stricture, Diabetes, etc,, etc., □ Consumption and Catarrh can be Cured. Cancers and all Tumors Cured without pain or use of .knife As God has prepared an antidote for the sin-sick soul, so has He prepared antidotes for a diseased-sick body. These can be found at the lounge’s Medical and Surgical Institute. After an examination we will tell you just what we can do for sou. If we cannot benefit or cure-you, we will frankly and honestly tell you so, Patients can be treated successfully at a distance. Write for examination and question blanks. ears and earriages direct to the Institute. Call on or address J. W. YOUNGE, A. M., M. D., President. N. B. SMITH, M. D,, M. C., Manager. No. 107 Calhoun St. FT. WAYNE, IND.

J. W. YOUNGE, M. D. President American Association Medical and Surgical Specialists. -THE— Ablest Specialist in the Country, WILL BE AT THE BURT HOUSE, * -ONMonday, March 1,1897. Dr. Ybungc has treated more cases oj Chronic Diseases than any other three doctors in the state. We can cure Epilepsy.