Decatur Democrat, Volume 40, Number 50, Decatur, Adams County, 25 February 1897 — Page 7

Smith* daLL are paving the highes cash prices’ter Clear White Ash logs, cut 12 feet long, 12 inciiet* and over nt the toD end. must be clear and staight 1, tHt.t A weed In ttiejgarden can be easily destroyed when it first etarts. Consumption can be nipoed in the bud by One Minute Cough Cure. W. Il Nacb- »*» trleb. Soothing tor burns. sea:ds, chapped handsan lips. Healing for cuts and sores. Instant relief tor piles, stop* pain at once. These are the,‘virtues ot DeWitt’s hazel Salve W. II Nachtrleb A torpid liver means a bad complex ion, bud breath, indigestion and frequent headaches. To avoid such companions take DeWitt’s Little Early Risers, thy famous little pill W o 11 Nachtneb. Lost—-A dear little child who made home happy by its smiles. And to think, it might have been saved had the parents only kept in the house O.ie Minute Cough Cure, the infallible rem edy for croup W H. Nachtneb. All the different foims if skin trou bles, from chapped hands to eczema and indolent ulcers can be readily cured by DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve, the great pile cure. W. II Nacbtrieb Constipation in its worst forms, djs pepsia, sick headache, biliousness and derangement of the liver are r-adily cured by|DeWitt’s Little Early Risers. These little pills never gripe. Small pill, safe pill, best pill. W. H. Nacbtrieb •Minutes seem like hours when a life is at stake Croup gives no time to send for a doctor, delay may mean death. One Minute Cough. Cure gives instant relief aud insures recovery. The only harmless remedy that produces imine diate resulty. W. H. Nachtneb. Chiconi, I’a., “Herald:” Kiqhard Vensel reports One Minute Cbugh Cure the greatest success of medical science. He told us that it cured bis whole family of terrible coughs and colds, as er all other so-called cures had failed entirely. Mr. Vensel said it assisted his children through a very bad siege of meaples. One Minute Cough Cure makes expectoration very easy and rapid. W. H. Nacbtrieb. “I have never had a days sickness in my life,” said a middle-aged man the other day E“What a comfort it would be,” sighs some ■ poor invalid, “to be in his place for a year Bor two.” Yet half the invalids we see ■might be just as healthy as he, if they ■would only take proper care of themselves, ■eat proper food—and digest it. It’s so ■strange that such simple things are over- ■ looked by those who want health. Food ■makes health. It makes strength—and ■strength wards off sickness. The man who ■had never been sick was strong because he ■always digested his food, and you could be■come the same by helping your stomach to ■ work as well as his. Shaker Digestive B Cordial will help your stomach and make ■ you strong and healty by making the food ■ you eat make you fat. Druggists sell it, ■ Tria) bottle 10 cents.

To Cure a Cold in One Day. Take Laxathr -onio Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund he money if it fails to cure. 25c. One Way to be Happy Is to attend to the comfort of your family. Should any one of them catch a slight cold ■or cough, call at ouce on Smith & Callow, sole agents and get a trial boti le of Otto’s Cure, the great German Reim dy, free. Wegive it away to prove that we have a sure cure for coughs, colds, asthma, consumption and all diseases of the throat aud lungs, Large sizes 50c and 25c. An Important Question. If your friends or neighbors are suffering' I from coughs, colds, sore throat, or any throat I or lung disease (including consumption, I ask I them it they have ever used Otto’s Cure. This I famous German remedy is having a large sale I here and is performing some wonderful cures I of throat and lung diseases. Smith & Gallow I will give you a sample bottle free. No matter I what other medicines have failed to do, try I Otto’s Cure. Large sizes 25 and 50 cents. I , Bncklen’a Arnica Salve. I The best salve in the world for cuts, | bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever I sores, tetter,- chapped hands, chilblains, | corns, and all skin eruptions, aud positively | cures piles or no pay required. It is guaran- | teed to give perfect satisfaction or money I refunded. Price 25 cents per, box. For I sale by Blackburn & Miller. .. Old People. I Old people who require medicine to reguI late bowels and kidneys will find the true I remedy in Electric Bitters. This medicine I does not stimulate and contains no whiskey I nor other intoxicant,'but acts as atonic and I alterative. It acts mildly on the stomach I and bowels, adding strength and giving I tone to the organs, .thereby, aiding Nature I in the performance of the functions. ‘ ElenI trie Bitters is an excellent appetizer and I aids digdstion. Old People find it just exI actly what they need. Price fifty cents pet I bottle at Blackburn’s & Miller’s Drug I Store. I A Great Medicine ffliygn Away, I Smith A Cailow are now giving free to all I a trial pad gage of tile great herbal remedy, I Bacon’s Celery King. XT ladies suffering I from nervous disorders and constipation I will use this remedy they will soon be free I from the headaches aha A bkckaehM that I have caused them so mdeh suffering. It is I a perfect regulator. It quickly cures billiousness, indigestion, eruptions of the skin I and all blood diseases. Large sizes 25c and ■coo. . • uy The Grandest Remedy. I Mr. R. B. Greeve, merchant of Chilhowie IT*®- certifies that he had consumption, was I ,<iven up o die, sought al| medical treatliaent that money could procure, tried all Icough remedies he conld hear of out got no Irelief; spent many nights sitting up in a I chair; was induced to try Dr. King’s New ■Discovery, and was cured by the use of two ■bottles. For the past three years he has ■been attending to business, and says Dr. ■King’s New Discovery is the grandest ■remedy ever made, as it has done so much ■for him and also for others in his community. Dr. King’s New Discovery is guaranteed for Coughs, Colds, and Consumption, ■it don’t fail. Trial bottles free at Page ■Blackburn’s Drug Store.

Fifty Years Ago. Grandfather’s hatl And within it you see, Grandfather’s favorite cough remedy. Whether 'twas Asthma, Bronchitis or Croup, Or baby at night waked the house with • whoop, With Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral Gran’ther was sure That no cold or cough would e’er fail of a cure. In hats the styles change, but the records will show Coughs are cured as they were 50 years ago. Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral has no equal as a remedy for coughs, colds, and lung diseases. Where other soothing elixirs palliate, Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral heals. It is not a cheap cough syrup, which soothes but does not strengthen; it is a physician’s cough remedy, and it cures. It is put up in large bottles, only, for household use. It was awarded the medal at the World's Fair of ninety-three. It has a record of SO Years of Cures. A VIOLET IN HER HAIR. A violet in her lovely hair, A rose upon her bosom fairl But, yli, her eyes A lovelier violet disclose 1 And her ripe lips the sweetest rose Thr.-'s ’neath tha skies. A lute beneath her graceful band Breathes music forth at her command. But still her tongue Far richer music calls to birth Than all the minstrel power on earth Can give to song. And thus she moves in tender light The purest ray, where all is bright, Serene and sweet, sheds a graceful influence round That hallows e’en the very ground Beneath,her feet. —New York Ledger. FIRED AT RANDOM. Hardesty had been called down to the town of his birth Uy the summons of the real estate agent into whose hands he had intrusted the care of the property he had received from his father’s estate. Estate is a big and general word and many people use it in a grandiloquent manner in speaking of a corner lot in a marshy suburb. In Hardesty’s case it meant a little better than that, but it was no vast Anneke Jans tract by any means. He had rot been in that little town for 17 years—indeed since the days of his school attendance. He recalled how on one summer afternoon he had vaulted out of a window just ahead of the schoolmaster’s hickory, how when walloped for it at - home he had left the house in anger, and how that night he had boarded a freight train bound Cincinnatiward —and had never gone back. Often he had thought of the old place and when the days of his middle age came they found him wondering and wondering and dreaming at odd times about Milt Woodard’s cooper shop and the other things—but he did not go back.

After the death of his father and when he had come into the old family residence ho seemed to wonder and dream all the more. Once he had met the father' of Doras Alderman at a quadrennial session of the Methodist confer- ’ ence and had talked to him of Doras, who had been a schoolmate, but in general he had had little communication other than that witnessed in the letters between himself and the real estate agent. Now, on this evening, 17 years afterward, he trundled into town in a sleeper and thought smilingly of the day when he had rolled out on a box car. The agent bad written him to the effect that somebody had offered a famous sum for the old Hardesty homestead, purposing to cut it up into an addition to the city. The agent, a boyhood friend, had suggested that Hardesty come down Worn Chicago to give personal attention to the matter, for by so doing he believed that a few thousand dollars more could be realized. Dreaming of the old days, Hardesty left the train at the depot. It was a stone and brick depot, he noticed, find not th© little frame, structure. in which he and Tom Coyne had loafed in the summer of old days. He remembered Tom Coyne very readily, and thought with especial amusement and interest upon the episode of the Jmmblebees. Before reaching the town he had decided that the very first thing he would do would be to .go into the little old wooden station and examine the- to see if the initials “D. H., ” for David Hardesty, were still there where he had cut them on the wainscoting, to the fury of Johnny Clark, the station agent. He had counted a great deal oh the pleasure of this investigation, and it annoyed him somewhat to step off the car and into a spick and trig depot of masonry construction. After the affront of this evidence of progress and prosperity had somewhat worn away he started to walk down the road to the residence of the agent, his old friend. He knew the location of the house, for as a boy he had been able to draw a map of the town, showing every residence, outhouse, chicken coop and fence. Somehow, however, he found the quest abitdifflcult. New streets ap-

peared, invii ng him to walk down into what had been green fields, but which were now “additions” and “places, ” all built up with trimly painted frame houses. He found the object of his search at last and was admitted. His friend, the <agrnt, who had only partially expected him, did not know him at first, and indeed Hardesty would lave passed the other a thousand times before recognizing in his brown mustache and glossy collar any semblance to the patched and freckled boy who had helped him to rob Frank Stone’s historic melon patch. The agent introduced his wife and said Hardesty would remember her, but I Hardesty, would have done nothing of ' the sort, except for the fact that he had I learned from con\’spondencq that his friend had married little Eda Stone, daughter of the sovereign of the melon patch. They talked, after dinner, about business and about the improvement in the city—it had been a village in the old days—aid about the advisability of Hardesty selling his property. ‘‘Really,” said Hardesty, ‘‘l don’t knew that I care to sell. You see, the old homestead has been in the family for generations, and it seems almost a sacrilege to dispose of it. Why, I was born in that house. I used to look over the fence there at the gooseberry bushes in Gallagher’s place anel v ond—by the way, are the Gallaghers living there yet?” ‘‘Oh, no! They moved away long ago, and a fine, big, stone public school has been built there. ” ‘‘A stone public school? Why, Henry, when we were boys, a one room frame house did us well. Do you remember how we used to revile the boys who attended the academy and call them ‘academy rats,’ because the academy had two rooms, and consequently two stoves?” “Yes, and they called us ‘district rats, ’ and we fought about it,” said Henry. ‘‘By the way, Dr. Culver lived on the other side, didn’t he? Well, there is a whisky cure institute there now—a big one—the third in the state.” The next morning Hardesty started out to view the property before finally deciding not to sell. He declared that it was hardly worth while, as he had no pressing need for money, and it was always pleasant to think of the old times, and the old place, and the old home. ‘‘When we get to that comer,” he said, proud to show that he still remembered things, ‘ ‘we will turn and cross the common, passing by old Mrs. Marvin’s cottage and swinging to the right by Hen Gettle’s hothouse.” ‘‘l’m afraid we can’t,” said the agent and friend. ‘‘You mean to cross the common, don’t you, as we used to in making the short cut for the river when we went fishing? Well,” as Hardesty nodded in a delighted affirmative, ‘‘we can’t do it, for it is all built up now. Mrs. Marvin’s cottage site is taken up by the residence of the mayor, and Hen Gettle’s home is now his home no longer, but is a three story hotel. You see the town has been progressing in 17 years. ” Hardesty looked at his friend in wonder and not altogether in pleasure. “On the w’ayOhe said, ‘‘l should like to pass the old one room school where Lo Ellenwood used to teach, and out of the window of which I leaped 17 years ago. It is down this way, isn’t it?’ ’ * ‘lt has been moved flack in the lot, and a big grocery has been built on the front—the playground, you know, where we used to play foot and a half and sailors’ Bombay. The old school has been converted into a stable for the horses of the man who runs the grocery. We abandoned it as a school ten years ago and erected a pressed brick structure down in the next block. We have been progressing materially. ” 7 ‘‘You don’t mean to tell me the old school is used as a stable?” cried Hardesty. “And that playground gone too? Why, the happiest moments of my life and yours were passed there listening to half witted Billy Mendenall imitating bird songs and skinning the cat on the horizontal bar, which we bought by a subscription of old iron and rags. ” ‘‘Yes, it was in the way of improvement. ” As thifey talked they walked. Hardesty hardly knew himself for the changes in the old town—the dear old town back to which he had looked so fondly. Off there in Chicago he had been in the habit of passing opinion on men and saying: ‘‘Ah, you poor, hustling, deluded mortals, you are entirely different from Squire Lo Stone and Ott Templar and the- other quiet, tranquil souls in that other town where my old home is. lam glad I have that dear place. It will be like an anchorage to me in this stormy sea.” Atad now, and^ow —why, just think of it 1 The old school a stable 1 ‘‘Henry,” he finally remarked, “there is just one tiling I seriously want to and must see. There used to be a big cottonwood tree over on the river bank—you reipember it—where I carved iqy name one day—my name and that of a girl. I’m married now, but, do you know, I’d like to see that old tree and see if the initials are there yet. The girl was Ida Jordan. I suppose, of course, she has 12 children and’ .’— “She’s dead, Dave—died two years after you left. And the tree has been cut down to give way to a lumber yard and’ ’— Hardesty interrupted him. ‘‘Say,” he cried, “you sell that stuff of mine for what you can get. I don’t want to see it again. Your town is too prosperous for me. There’s only one thing more I want to know. I want to lick the man who cut down that tree. Who is he? Where can he be found?” “It was on my land, and I cut it down,” said his friend, the agent.— Chicago Record. The five principal fortresses in Bulgaria are at Rustohuk, Silistria and Widden on the Danube, Varna on the Black sea, and Shumla in the interior. Edinburgh is 8,875 miles northeast of Washington.

SPOON'S. The Date of Their Origin Unknown, Tney Are So Very Ancieut. If you desire to know about the scarcity of really reliable data on the history of spoons, take down your handbooks and encyclopedias and see if it doesn’t take you a long while to learn anything concerning their origin, “nativity,” etc. In fact, the antiquarians do not pretend to give us anything of value in that line-. It is admitted that they are “very aneient,” but just, exactly how old they are and by whom and where they were first used are points upon whi< h- v.c me left completely in the dark. Creiglitbn says, “Spoons must have lift u a very ancient invention, for a Saxon .«-pf-on of perforated ; ibicr gilt, ornament 'd v. it h gems, was found in a grave at Sane, Tlmiict." When forks xvire ituknown, spoons played a vi ry important part at the table. Spue ■ of the thirteenth century, and even late r, had handles terminating m a knob, knot, ace.ii or other odd and omul < rsonie devic es. About the period of . restoration, of winch so much is s;. ; . in English history, a great change was made in the forms of gpcoits. In some of the unique patterns the “spoon” part was divided into two, throe 1 and even four parts, and the liaridlp always split or twisted and turned up instead of down and back. Spoons of that period were all blunt instead of being pointed as in the forms generally seen at present. They continued short and blunt clown to the time of George I, when they were first macle pointed and had the handles turned down instead of up. About the’year 1500 what were known as “apostle spoons” were introduced. They were so called because they had the figures of the 12 apostles carved upon their handles. They were generally given by sponsors to children at their time of baptism. The wealthy presented the entire 12, those who could not afford to indulge in such extravagance giving one or more, according as tbpy felt able. The most curious and remarkable spoon in the world perhaps is a “coronation spoon,” preserved among the other royal relics in the tower of London. The bowl is of gold and the handle of silver. The handle is split down the middle and set with all kinds of precious stones. The relic is valued at about £20,000, or upward of SIOO,OOO. —St. Louis Republic. China. The Alatchoorian has always been aware that there were large deposits of coal “in his midst,” but he used to imagine that they were under the control of eyil spirits, and he therefore would not touch them himself nor allow any one else to. A good deal of that old nonsense has been brayed out of him by recent events—the war and the practical enterprise of the Russians in his territory—and the fields are now being opened. They are abundant and are found all over the country and will have the most important influence in its development. The climate, soil and geographical situation of Manchuria are favorable to the maintenance of a large, enlightened and progressive population, the root of which, in many races interblended through many ages, is already there. With a Russian railroad running through the country and Port Arthur as the outlet and inlet of its commerce, a new chapter of its history will be opened, and the humdrum career which it has pursued since the days of Kublai Khan, and as much further back as anybody wishes to go, may merge into a more active and enterprising one, giving her a new status in the world and a new relation to its affairs.—New York Tribune. James Crichton, better remembered as “the Admirable Crichton,” could read, write and i.i -pute in 12 different languages. He was an expert swordsman, a civil and military engineer, a mathematician, a dramatist, and al though but 23 year -old at the time of his death he was the master Os all the science and learning of his age.

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