Decatur Democrat, Volume 40, Number 51, Decatur, Adams County, 4 March 1897 — Page 2

OUR MAKERS OF LAW INDIANA GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN BIENNIAL SESSION. Brief Summary of Each Bay's Proceedings Prepared Especially lor Our Patrons—Readers Can Know Just What Their Representatives Are Doing. Indianapolis. Feb. 24. —The legislature devoted all day Tuesday to important business questions. The senate passed a bill extending the life of the Lake-Laporte superior court and a bill fixing the fees of the constables. It then tbok up rhe McCord building and loan bill, a dupliwle of the measure that passed the house, and spent the / rest of the day in amending it. It f knocked out the section authorizing the X auditor of state to make examinations upon demand of 10 stockholders and made a few other amendments, but this was the only vital feature of the bill attacked. There was a hard fight upon the question of taxing running stock, but the bill in that particular » * was permitted to stand.* The house spent very nearly the whole day considering a mass of insurance legislation ujioii second reading. One of these, a blanket bill, regulating foreign insurance companies, was amended in some particulars and sent to a third reading. A hard fight arose over an amendment offered declaring the “board plan” unlawful, and it was only withdrawn after assurance was given that the Sutton bill, drawn for this pur-* pose and applying to all kinds of insurance companies, would be pushed. A blanket bill for the organization of home mutual companies—one of the Commercial club series—was killed, partly from the belief that it would interfere with farmers’ mutual companies and partly from the fact that it contained many inconsistencies and duplications. For the same reason another bill, providing for the organization of home joint stock companies, was killed. The house was about to tomahawk another blanket bill for the organization of life and accident companies on the assessment plan, but recommitted it. Another bill providing a standard form of policy, such as in use in Massachusetts and New York, was permitted to escape after some amendments that bear rather heavily upon the insurance companies. The most important of these is one providing that both appraisers shall be residents of the counties where the loss occurs. Indianapols, Feb. 25. — Neither branch of the legislature accomplished anything of very large importance on Wednesday. The senate recommitted the building and loan bill aud passed six minor bills, the most important of which wasnne providing that 10 cents per day shall be paid for janitor service in country schools. Then it passed under suspension of the rules the caucus measures putting the benevolent institutions into the hands of non-partisan boards of three and amending the Fort Wayne charier. The house passed a few bills Wednesday. The first handed down was the Littleton bill repealing the apportionment of 1885. Mr. East raised objections to the bill and it was passed by a strict party vote of 51 to 42. Mr. Thomas’ bill providing for a commission to make a revision of the statutes, which failed a few days ago for want of a constitutional majority was handed down and had a narrow escape this time the vote being 51 to 37. It provides for five commissioners to be appointed by the governor at SSOO each with $2 00 per day for each clerk hired. Mr. Willoughby’s bill legalizing the acts of Kno’’ county commissioners in selling certu.n real estate was passed without objection. Senator McCord’s insurance bill repealing the old laws and fixing a penalty of 10 per cent upon home companies failing to adjust and pay losses within 60 days was passed by a unanimous vote of 80. Mr. Monyhan’s bill to change the term of court in Jackson, Washington and Orange counties was passed. The medical bill was special order on second reading, and, after amendment, was ordered engrossed. Mr. Reynolds' local option bill was killed. by a heavy majority. The temperancr committee handed in a report for the indefinite postponement of thebill, Thereport was adopted by a vote of 67 to 25. The ways and means committee introduced the appropriation bill, which was ordered printed.

Indianapolis, Feb. 26.—The senate on Thursday passed the Adams-Jay court bill over the veto of the governor. It is rumored that the governor proposes to veto the metropolitan police bill and if he does there is likely to be a very pretty fight. Mr. LaFollette, author of the Adams-Jay bill made a very bitter speech on the, floor of the senate against the use of the veto power. The Semite defeated a batch of bills that had been vetoed by Governor Matthews, among them the special charter bill for Terre Haute. It revived only one of these measures from the last legislature, a bill providing a uniform time for drawing grand juries: It passed house bills changing the time of paying taxes to the first Monday in May and the first Monday in November; giving city councils power to tax and regulate bankrupt sales, . street fakers, vehicles, telegraph poles and many other things; providing that discharged prisoners shall be furnished I with money, a railroad ticket and a suit of clothes; making it a misde meanor to purchase proprietory bottles: providing for getting service upon foreign insurance companies through "the auditor of state and regulating ferry charges, It defeated senate bills for wide tires; providing for the auditing of tow iship warrants; providing punishment for the man who sells his vote; increasing the force of the attorney “■ general. The house after a struggle advanced the Nicholson antiquartshop bill, killing the substitute proposed by the temperance committee. It postponed consideration of the appropriation bill and passed the following bills: The fish bill, providing heavy penalties for the slaughter of fish and permitting the fish commissioners to appoint deputies; requiring that evidences of debt must * have been listed for taxation before collection can be enforced, and amending the ditch laws. ■ Indianapolis. Feb. 27. — The house worked all day Friday in committee of the whole on the appropriation bill and the bill grew about f 17,000 in the operation. Os this the Eastern Insane hospital got SIO,OOO per year and the Knightstown home $5,000 per year. The big fight of the day was made for higher appropriation for the Northern

! prison. The friends of the prison ; were not successful, but claim that they were defeated by a ruling of the chair, and will try it again on second reading. The senate cleaned up the political legislation by passing the caucus bill to restore the appointment of prison directors to the governor. This was so amended as to make it apply only to the Northern prison, the Southern prison having been converted into a reformatory by a bill just signed. It also passed the bill restoring the appointment of the statehouse engineer to the governor. Both of these now go to the governor for his signature. It also passed house bills extending the charter of a Perry county cottonmill; providing for the reinvestment of the lands of the State University, and relieving incorporated towns of less than 1,500 of the necessity of organizing school boards. The house before taking up the appropriation bill passed, under suspension of rules, the Vandalia bill authorizing the attorney general to institute suit and employ legal council. The house then resumed the rollcall for calling uphills and passed Mr. East’s bill to compel the Monon to accept connections and freight from spur roads built into the stone quarries, Mr. Canada’s bill to prohibit the sale of tobacco to minors under 18 years, and Mr. Thomas’ bill authorizing towns to contract with pnvate water aud light companies. The last action of the evening was the engrossment of the Hugg 3-cent fare bill, while the streetcar lobbyists were napping. Both the streetcar bills now stand for final passage in the house. The senate at its night session killed the Sunday baseball bill by tabling an amendment that carried with it the bill and passed a number of local legalizing acts.

Indianapolis, Mmch I.— But two subjects were considered in the legislature on Saturday. The senate spent the whole day in amending the bill modifying the spec ; al verdict law that had passed the house and finally sent it to third readir . The house spent the whole day upon the appropriation bill, increasing the appropriations for the prison north $21,500 and reducing those of the State Soldiers’ home by SIB,OOO. A hard fight was precipitated by an amendment offered by Mr. Nicholson to wipe out the appropriations given to the educational institutions on the ground that they were amply provided for by the special tax levied for them two years age, and this was left in the air when the house adjourned. Indianapolis, March 2.—The house passed the appropriation bill Monday and then passed the Adams-Jay court bill over the governor’s veto. The senate killed the fee and salary bill and passed the senate bill to regulate building and loan associations, aud the following house bills: for the protection of innkeepers; regulating the practice of wills; authorizing the institution of suit, against the Vandalia; to prevent the slaughter of quail and grouse; providing for the mowing of weeds on the highways; to prevent the listing of land in highways against abutting property owners; extending the terms of the Dearborn county commissioners. At its night session the house defeated the bill for a system of township libraries and a bill providing that all county treasurers shall take office Jan. 1, failed for want of a constitutional majority. The bill to disannex the Forsythe track from Hammond was killed by the adoption of a motion to strike out the enacting clause. The following bills were passed. House bill to provide for the organization of savings banks; establishing the grading system in prisons; broadening the powers of oil companies in condemnation proceedings; providing monthly sessions of county commissioners in Vanderburg county and senate bill amending the law regulating laud partitions. Appropriation Bill. Indianapolis, Feb. 25.—The appropriation bill was completed by the ways and means committee Wednesday hnd introduced in the house, and 400 copies were ordered printed. The appropriations for the state departments are characterized by numerous increases of a small nature. In the governor’s office the clerk and messenger each get SB6O per year. The quartermaster general gets SI,OOO, instead of S6OO. In the auditor of state’s office the settlement clerk gets $1,200 per year. The auditor’s office is also given $1,500 per year and expenses for a traveling deputy. In the attorney general’s office the stenographer is given a raise of $l5O per year. The rest of the stenographers in the state house get S6OO per year. Upon the maintenance funds of the state institutions the. bill cuts, that of the Central Insane hospital from $240,000 to $225,000, that of the northern hospital from $90,000 to $87,500, that of the eastern hospital from $90,000 to $85,000, that of the Soldiers’ Orphan home from $90,000 to $85,000, that of the prison south from $85,0(K) to SBO,OOO and that of the prison north from SIOO,000 to $85,000. The southern hospital is raised from $76,500 to $82,000 and that of the feebleminded school from $70,000 to $75,000. In specific appropropriations the prison north is given $52,000, the prison south $44,500, the state soldiers’ home $49,355, the Central Insane hospital gets $21,200. The educational institutions get their maintenance funds from a special tax levy but Purdue is given $3,500 per year for repairs and specific appropriations amounting to sls .000, the State University is given $5,000 and the State Normal SIO,OOO. Passed Over the Veto. Indianapolis, March 2.—The AdamsJay court bill, which the senate passed over the veto of the governor, came into the house late Monday, and the governor’s veto message was read. Mr. Eichhorn championed the bill, declaring that the message itself showed ample reason for passing the bill. He mads the point that it was not the number of cases but the character of litigation that determined the time required. There were plenty of dodgers, and the doorkeeper was sent out to nrive them in. He created a commotion in the corridor by calling their names over and over again. The bill was passed, notwithstanding the veto, by a vote of 54 to 29. Sang While She Died. Anderson. Ind., -March 2 Mrs Thomas Swift died yesterday of consumption. Several weeks ago she dismissed her physician and took sunbaths, and apparently improved. A i e Bu F erert a relapse. Yesterday she began singing and shortly after expired.

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OLD TIME DOCTORS. The Student* Helped Their Teachers In Practical Work. During the last century in America the malical education of a young student was generally what he picked up by serving as an apprentice to some noted practitioner, which combined the duties of a student with many menial affairs. He ground the powders, mixed the pills, rode with the doctor on his rounds, held tlie basin when the patient was bled, helped to adjust the plasters, sew the wounds and run with vials of medicine from one end of town to the other. It Was a white day when such a young man enjoyed the rare good fortune of dissecting a half putrid arm. So great indeed was the difficulty of obtaining anatomical subjects that the medical school of Harvard college made a single body do duty for a whole year. Under such circumstances the doctor’s knowlm.ge was practical, and derived from personal experience rather I than from books. The advantages of : study were sparingly enjoyed. Few I physicians boasted of a library of 50 ■ volumes. His apprenticeship ended, the student returned to his native town to assume the practice cf mpdicine. At that period, with the exception of the minister and the judge, the doctor was the most important personage in his community. His genial face, his engaging manners, the sincerity with which he inquired after the carpenter’s daughter and the interest which he took in the family of the poorest laborer made him the favorite for miles around. He knew the names and personal history of the occupants of every house he passed. The farmer’s lads pulled off their hats to him and the girls dropped courtesies as he passed. Sunshine and rain, daylight and darkness, were alike to him. He would ride ten miles in the darkest night over tue worst of roads in a pelting storm to administer a de sc of calomel to an bld woman or attend a child in a fit. The drugs were stowed away on the shelves of the village store, among heaps of shoes, Rohan hats, packages of seeds and flitches of bacon. The physician was compelled to compound his own drugs, make his own tinctures and put up his own prescriptions. His saddlebag was the only drug store within 40 miles. Each spring the blood must be purified, the kidneys excited and the damsel who fainted profusely bled. Large doses of senna and manna and rhubarb and molasses ■were taken daily It was safe to say that more medieme was taken every year by the well th"n is now taken by the sick in the same time. Water was denied the patient tormented with fever. In its stead was given a small quantity of clam juice. Mercury v> us taken until the lips turned blue and the gums fell away from the teeth. The writer has a vivid recollection, ' when about R years old, in a raging fever, pleadiur for water. The nurse handed the pitcher, and the child satisfied her burning thirst. Her brother, overhearing what was going on, rushed into the room, Exclaiming, “You will kill her, ” but it was too late. —American Magazine. Our Dear English Cousins. Somebody has been informing the London Times that “American children are trained in their higher schools to exercise the ritual of ‘saluting the flag’ in military style, and that their martial ardor is by this and other means so blown into flame that when these young persons leave their schools they form themselves into societies and take a vow to avenge with their blood any insult to their country’s flag.” This somewhat vivid description has excited the horror of another reader of the Thunderer, and he leaps to a conclusion in the following amusing and highly characteristic style: “Apparently your correspondent uses the expression ‘young person’in the technical sense of a female creature somewhere between a girl and a woman. Does he really desire that young females of this kind should in England form themselves into societies to avenge with their blood any insult to the union jack in Venezuela dir elsewhere? Seriously, I think that the American example in this, as in some other things, is to be avoided as degenerate rather than followed. Surely our ancestors managed to conquer at CrOssy and Poictiers and Agincourt, at Blenheim and Trafalgar and Waterloo, without all this absurd civilian ritual on the part of schoolgirls, this religious worship, or rather idolatry, of the personified country under the symbol of a flag, and these silly vows by young Hannibals in petticoats. If the people of the United States is really beginning to worship itself as fin abstract unity, it is. a sure sign that it -is beginning to abandon the only true worship, and to retrograde to mere civic paganism. ” Episcopal Prerogative. The only daughter of the Right Rev. William Croswell Doane of Albany is a Carried woman living in the same town with he? episcopal father. Mrs. Gardiner and her large family of small children crossed the Atlantic on a steamer, where the following remark >’as overheard by another passenger. Her little son was “caught’? in some game of play. “Why,” he exclaimed, “I can’t be ‘it!’ My grandfather is a bishQDl’ ” •

Legal Advertising. I’I'OINTMENT OF A DMINIBTRATOR No'lco Is hereby given, that the undersigned ha« been appointed Administrator .of the astute of Nancy Davis, late ot Adams county, deceased. The estate is probably Insolvent. ItosKiiT A. Davis, Administrator. Fobruarv 6. 1897. 48-3 Maim & Beatty, Attorneys. Notice of final settlement of ESTATE. —< Notice is her. bv given to the creditors heirs ami legatees of William Jackson, decerned to iippear,in the Adams circuit court, held ai Decatur. Indiana, on the 12th day of April. INC. and show cause if any. why the filial settlement accounts with the estate of said decedent should not l*e approved: and said heirs are notified to then and there make proof of heirship, and receive their distributive •disres. Dani sir. Jackson. Administrator. Decatur. Ind , Ferubury 29. ISB7 Peterson & Luts. Attorneys. 51-3 OF INSOLVENCY. In the matter of the estate of Martin Adler, deceased, in the Adams circuit court. No. "'ll. Notice Is hereby given that upon petition tiled in aid oour'’. by William A'ler administrator of said estate, selling up the insufficiency of ihe estate <>| said decedent to pay the debts and liabilities thereof, thejudgeof said court did. on file 4th day of Feruary, 1897, tind said estate to b ■ probablvXnsoivent. and ordered tno same to lie settled accordingly. The creditors of said estate ate therefore herein-notified of such insolvency, and required to tile their claims against said estate for allowance. Witness, the Clerk and seal of said court, ae Decatur, Indiana this Fourth dav of February. 1897. [seal] John H. Lenhart, Clerk. France & Merryman, Atty's. 48-8 ADMINISTRATOR'S SALE OF REAL . ESTATE, —— Notice is hereby given that John Captain, administrator with the will annexed of the estate of Michael Fuchs. deceased, by order of the Adams circuit court of Adams county. Indiana, will as such administrator on or after* Saturday. March 13.18(17, at the law office of France & Merryman. in the City of Decatur Indiana, between the hours of Id o’clock a m and 4 o’clock p. tn., offer for sale at private sale to the highest and best bidder the fee simple ot the following described real estale ordered sold by said court, situate in Adams county, in the State of Indiana, and described as follows, to-wit: The west half of the northwest quarter of section thirty [36], in township twenty.slx [26] north, range fourteen [l4| east, containing eighty acres. Terms;—One-third cash in hand; one-third in six months, and one-third in twelve months. Deferred payment to bear six per cent, interest and secured by freehold and m rigage security. John Caftain Administrator, with will annexed of Michael Fuchs, deceased. France & Merryman, Atty’s. 48-4 -'K'TOTTCE OF COMMISSIONER'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned a commissioner of the Adams circuit court, of Adamscounty Indiana in acase pendingin the said court wherein John B. Koontz.adminisistrator of the estate of Jachomver Baldwin, deceased is plaintiff, and Jonah B. Corson, et. al are defendants, will offer for sale at public auction at the Geneva Bank, in the town of Geneva, said county and state, on

Thursday, March 25, 1897, at the hour of 2:30 o’clock p. tn., the following de eribed real estate ordered sold by the said court, to-wit: The southwest quarter of the northeast quarter of section thirty-two [32.] township twenty-five north, range fourteen east. Also <’omtnencing at the northwest corner of the northeast quarter of the northeast quarter of st ct ion thirty-two [32.] township twenty-five [251 north, range fourteen [l4] esst. said county and state, thence running south to the northwest corner of the southeast quarter of the northeast quarter of j-aid section thirty-two [32,1 thence east to the west line of the right of way of the Cincinnati, Richmond & Fort Wavne Railroad, thence north on th' west line of the said right of way to the north line of said section thirty-two [32.] thence west on said section line to the place of beginning. All in Adams county, Indiana. and containing in all 52 acres. The said real estate will be sold either as a whole or in parcels, as may be decided by the undersigned. TERMS OF SALE. One-third cash In hand; one-third in one, and one-third in two years from the date of sale. The deferred payments to bear six per cent. interest from date of sale and be secured to the[saiisfaction of the undersigned by good free-hold and mortgage security, and to he sold tree from the mortgage now on the said GBtat© Dated this 24th dav of February. 1897. s. James F. Mann, Commissioner. Mann ft Beatty, Attorneys 50-4 OF SALE OF REAL ESTATE By the Auditor of Adams county. Indiana. Mortgaged for School Fund. To whom it may concern: Notice is hereby given that in pursuance of the statute in such cases made and provided, I, Noah Mangold, as the Auditor of said county ot'Adams, will offer for sale at the court house doqr in the city of Decatur, ot said county, on Monday, March 22, 1897, Betweeq the hours of 10 o'clock a. m. and 4 o’clock p. m . the lots or parcels of lands described below, or so much thereof as may be necessary to pay the principal and interest, due thereon on the day of sale aforesaid, also th©damages and costs of sale. The conditions of said mortgage having been forfeited, and therefore have become due and payable: Mortgage No. 1,150 dated July 19, 18 9. executed bv A. Me W. Bollman and Elsie B. Bollman [his wife] for the Use of the common and congressional school fund on the following described tract parcel of land to-wit. The west half of out lot number eighty-one [Bl] in J. D. Nuttman.s southern addition tolhetown [now city] ot Decatur, Indiana, to secure the payment of the sum of five hundred and fifty dollars [ssso] with interest, at the rate of six per cent per annum, payable annually in advance according to the conditions of a note attached to the mortgage. Paid principal and interest on the day of sale will amount to six hundred and thirty-eight and 54-100 dollars [s63B MJ and two per cent damages and costs of sale. Also mortgage No. 1,2>16, dated April 30. 1893 executed by Mercy A. Andrews and Robert Az Andrews [her husband] for the use of the' common and congressional school fund on the following described tract or pareel of land towit: The south half of the northeast quarter of tlie northeast quarter of section thirty-two in township tw« nty-seven 27 north range fourteen [l4] east, in Adams county. Indiana, containing twenty [3o] acres more or less, to secure the ’>ayment of the sum of three hundred and sis y dollars [s3so] with Interest at the rate of six per cent per annum, payable annually in advance according to the conditions of a note attached to the mortgage, said principal and interest on the day of sale will amount to three hundred and efghtr-nine and 90-100 dollars [5889,901 and also two percent damages and costs of sale. Also mortgage No. 1,291 dated July 16,1892. executed by Frances McCampbell for the use of the common and congressional school fund on the fol lowing described tract or parcel of land, to-wit: The northeast quarter of the southwestquarterof section thirty-three in townshin twenty-eight [2B] north range fourteen [l4] east in Adatns county, Indiana, containing forty [4o] acres more or less, to secure the payment of the sum of eight hundred dollars [Boo] with interest at the rate of six per cent per annum payable annually in advance according to the conditions or a note attached to the mortg»g°, said principal and Interest on the day m sale will amonnt to nine hundred and twelve and 80-100 dollars [5912.80J and also two per cent damages and costs of sale.. Also mortgage No. 1.331, dated April 12. 1894, executed by Sarah Tumbleson and Samuel Tumbleson I her husband] for the use of the common and congressional school fund on the following described tract or parcel of land towit: The northeast quarter of the northeast quarter of section twenty-nine [29] In townsnip twenty-six [2B] north range nfteep 115] east In Adams county, Indiana, containing forty 140] acres more or less, to secure the payment of the sum of seven hundred and fifty dollars [s7so] with Interest at the rate of six per cent per annum payable annually in advance according to the conditions of a note attached to the mortgage. Said principal and interest on the dav of sale will amount U> •even hundred and ninety-two and 80-100 dol- ■ ...

lars [I7IN 80] and also two per cent damages and costs of sale. All persons claiming the equity of redemption or any Interest In the above described premises lire hereby notified of theforegolng sale, Auditor’s office, Decatur. Adams county, Indiana, February 23, 1897. NOAH MANG 'LD. 50-8 Auditor Adams County. PRISONER OF HIS FEARS. Sultan Um Fifty Beds and Lets No One Know Which He'll Occupy. “The ‘commander of the faithful’ is of middling stature, rather under than over the average, and of weakly constitution. His countenance has no wicked expression. It is of the Circassian type front the mother’s side, but bearing the marks of degeneration. The eyes are haggard, the forehead insignificant and narrow, the eyebrows very thick, forming two great ares, which coalesce. The largo nose dominates the whole physiognomy and is slightly inclined to one side at the lower extremity. The mouth is large, the lips thick. The sultan wears his beard long, and care has sprinkled his hair and beard with silver within the last few years. It is a family tradition among the heirs of Osman to in a loud voice. Abdul .Hamid’s utterance is strident and imperious. It is the voice of a master addressing those whom he regards as his slaves.” Ever since he has been on the throne Abdul Hamid has rarely gone to bed at night to rise in the morning like an ordinary mortal. He seldom retires until dawn, but rises again at 8 o’clock, having spent the night hard at work listening to reports and attending to the affairs of state. When he has nothing else to do, he read 8 French detective stories, for he has an all pervading idea that conspiracies are being hatched against him, and passes his time circumventing an imaginary conspirator Nobody knows where he will spend any part of the day or evening. Often he enters a building, and, while the sen tries at the deer believe that he is inside, he has gone by a back door and to some other building. Moreover, in whatever part of the palace he may be, there is a permanent service of surveillance day and night, and he is constantly accompanied by a score of persons, who organize a special service in the building or apartment where he happens to be for the moment. Where the sultan will sleep is never known. He possesses more than 50 beds in the different parts of the palace, and these bedrooms are separated from the rest of the edifice by iron doors and furnished with most ingenious and complicated locks. Two superb Wat. Bernards also sleep outside the door of the apartment in which the sultan may be sleeping, for he knows that four footed guardians cannot be tampered with. Formerly the members of the imperial harem used to move about among the numerous pa’aces on the Bosporus, but Abdul Hamid put a stop to it. The la4ies of the harem never have the benefit of a change of air. Their palace is their prison, and rowhere does phthisis claim so many victims as in the harem of Yildiz.—Contemporary Review The'Telling of It. The other day at a social function I came upon two friends, one of whom had just returned from a luxurious voyage round the world in a millionaire’s steam yacht. ‘ ‘Have you found anybody willing to sit down and hear you tell about it?” mischievously asked the other. * ‘No, ’ ’ was the laughing answer, “I have no* even ventured to make the attempt.” And I applauded this discretion, for “tolling about it” is the most dangerous indulgence possible to one who would be loved as a companion. It is the way that bores begin, and a first yielding to the enticement has often led to one of those fatal cases of self consideration which stamp the afflicted speaker»forever with a brand. He may have seen a ghost or a murder—nay, even may have chanced to meet an emperor in his shirt sleeves. No matter; let him be silent upon these subjects in which his own personality must claim the lion’s share. The time will come, perhaps, in some autumn twilight, at the end of a long house party, when the whole company may gather about him and clamor eagerly for his adventures. But until then he should cling to the fifst precept of conversation, which commands him taieave ample room for the display of wit in others. —Scribner’s. The Rhine fortifications. The early Romans found the swift current of the Rhine sufficient defense against the gigantic Germans, but to protect th© peaceful settlers against all possible danger every ford on the upper Rhine and every convenient crossing place on the lower stream was fortified, and thus a chain of posts was extended from the sea to Strasburg. A Greek-English Pun. The Watchman records a witticism of the late Professor Kendrick of Rochester university. Having one day in the classroom remarked tht the Greek preposition “eis” invariably means “into,” he was reminded by one of his pupils that a professor in another college had asserted the contrary. “Well, ’’ was the reply, “if that be true, I can only say that he has slipped up on the ‘eis, ’ that is all. ” Bricks of 1618. The first bricks made in this country for built ; ng purposes were manufactured by cc.onists in Virginia in 1612. They were used in the construction of a church edifice at Jamestown and the residence of the governor of the state. A part of the Jamestown church is still standing, and the bricks are in a good state of preservation, showing that the colonists believed in making articles to resist wear by exposure to all kinds of weather. —Boston Budget. Evident. Reporter—Did you find out the cause of that suicide this afternoon? Officer McGobb —Yis, sor. It wor a rope.—-Indianapolis Journal.

, A. O. HOLLOWAY, Physician and Surgeon. • Office over Boston Store, Residence aoroaa the street from bls former home. 38-81 If 7 : 4. T, rRANCH. 4, T. MKnnTMAN. It. ». FRANC® ft MERRYMAN. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, DECATUR. IND. Office—Noh. 1. 2 mid 3. over Adams Co. Bark. Wo refer, by permission, to A is Co. Butjk. A. P, BEATTY t, r. MAgB MANN ft BEATTY, ATTORNEYS AT LAW And Notaries Public. Pension claims prosecuted. Odd Fellows building. I KN. ffl. L. HOLLOW AY, M. D. Offieeand residence one door north of M. B. murch. Diseases of women and children a pecialty. i Paul G. Hooper, Attorney a,t Law , BecHtur, Indiana. Patents a specialty. R. K. ERWIN, A.ttomey-at-Xj»xv, rtoom 1 and 2 Niblick &. Tonnellier Block, Decatur, Indiana. R. ’S. PETERSON ATTORNEY AT LAW, DECATUR, INDIANA. Rooms 1 and 3. in the Anthony Holthouse Block John Schurger. W. H. Reed. DaveE.Smlth SCHURGER, REED & SMITH. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Money to Loan at lowest ratos of interest Abstracts of title, real estate and collections Rooms 1. 2 and 3 Welfley block. 38 A. L. DEVILRIES, DENTIST I. O. O. F. BLOCK. Professional Dent Ist. Teeth extracted without pain. Especla I attention given to bridge work like lllusi tm l.m above. Terms reasonable. Office- t-i cond st reet, over Rosenthall’s clothing si ore. 85-ly E;. E. H. LeBRUN, Yetfirioiry Surgson mi Dentist, Decatur, Indiana. Office:—Corner Second and Madison street. Treats all Diseases of Domesticated Animals, making a specialty of Optica] CasM. O*lls day or night, promptly attended to. 8»-ly Capital $120,000. Established IBTI THE OLD ADAMS COUNTY BANK Decatur, Indiana. Does a general banking business, makes collections In-all parts of the'country. Buya town, township and county orib is. Foreign and domestic exchange bought uud sold. Interest paid on time deposits. Officers—W.H. Niblick. I'residl-iu. D. Studebaker, Ylce President; R. K. Allison. Cashier, and O. S. Niblick. Assistant Cashier J €?. TNUFU’TVTISrE, DENTIST. I I I ■ T mF W ■ Now located over Holthouse’s shoe store, t prepared to do all work pertaining to the lental profession. Gold filling a specialty. Hy the use of Mayo's Vapor he is enabled to extract teeth without pain. Work guaranteed. Dr. 0. V. CONNELL, Veieriiary Surgeon mi Dentist. Decatur, Ind. Office I. 0.0. F. Block. Graduate of the Ontario Veterinary College and Toronto Veterinary Dental School. Trea ts al) diseases of domesticated animals Callsal,tended to day or night. 18 J. D. HALE DEALER IN Grain, Seed, Wool, Salt, Oil, Coal, Lime, Fertilizers. Elevators on the Chicago & Erie and Clover Leaf railroads. Office and retail store southeast corner of Second and Jefferson Streets, dyvour patronage solicited. i DECATUR DIRECTORS: CAPITA I. P.W. Smith, SIOO,OOO. J. H. Hobrook, J, B. Holthouse, NATIONAL hvrplvs $5,000. OFFICERS: KU N K P. W. Smith, President. Ufa I ill I J. B, Holthouse, Vice-Pres. — 0. A. Dugan, Cashier, E. X. Ehlnger, Asst. Cash'r A general banking business is transacted. Foreign drafts issued. , Interest given on time deposits.