Decatur Democrat, Volume 40, Number 51, Decatur, Adams County, 4 March 1897 — Page 6

■ BARGAINS! ■ - ; r - FOR EVERYBODY. J. THOS. W. LUEKEY, 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 TWITE Ml) AICTIM SALE. REMEMBER I Stock aui Fixlares all ® i al Tour On Price. AMONG THE STOCK IS 1,500 PacKage Coffee. Such as Lyon, Arbuckle, 4-X, Jersey, &c., all going now at 15c per package. 4,000 pounds Sugar, Reduced to Wholesale Cost. 2,000 Bars Soap, Ivory, Santa Claus, Jackson, Lenox, Bannar, Star and Brown Soaps, at 4c per bar, and other less noted at 2jc per bar. The Majority of Shelf Goods, At one-half the former retail price, or a consideruble Less than wholesale cost, but then it is any way to CLOSE OUT QUICK! 3 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 sacrifice nothing will be charged or allowed to leave the store until paid for.

DECATUR DEMOCRAT. ZDeoatixr, Ind. OEMOCBATIC PRESS CO., - - ITBI.ISHERS. kitchrun" by’city: - At Grenoble, France, an Association Serves Good Food at Cost. Housewives who thirk the co-opera-tive kitcbc n .3 so far in the future that it would be absurd to look forward to it for relief-from daily drudgery will be iut( rest cd to hoar* that a kitchen with Jhe same cud in view as the co-operative La 5 ; been in successful operation for nearly 50 years. The Association Aliiiier aire of Grenoble, France, is a purely n unicipal affair. The city owns it mid supplies meals at cost in its own restr.urant or delivers them at private hom< s. ,

Lverything at the Association Alijiseiii aire is as good as money can buy. The cooks are as clever as any in Franc 0 , which is saying a great deal. The provisions are bought in the best markers and are carefully selected. The service is excellent. The dining rooms are of several grades, according to the furnish- ' ings and the attendance, so that all i tastes may be accommodated. One may , dine there for 3 cents on bread and , soup and be satisfied or one may pay 12 coins and have a full course i.ii r. T_* the Lest rooms, which arcmarli' floored and decor, f d with much eh gi.i.ce, there are waiter; bo lock for tips as naturally as tlx ugh they were in the sweilest of Parisian cases Pure win- which have been properly aged, are served at about &i coms a liter. There is ro financial profit to-the city i in running thi; huge rest;., rant, which serves soli-' 15,000 meajs a day. The! Charges are based on the cost of the | materials used, the employment of help ; and Jibe amount spent in keeping the , utensils, machinery and building in re-8 pair.—Nev; York Pres;. That Wail. There is eonsid- r.j.le discussion in the English pupeis al out the wail of ' the h:insl:<which vis said to have | been heard hi Is ; ] try before the fa- 1 tai. bog moved. A< m i spondent writes | that the ) - Arelnx aeon Whately, the i celebrated a? hl ishop’s son, told him of a certain ill: nee of tile banshee’s cry. The archdeacon said that Jie distinctly heard the wail while in an Irish country parish administering the holy commiinion to a dying man. > ' b. ■ Answered. There is a story of an inquisitive old gentleman who asked g, cabman yhether ho tlicught that his horse preferred Standing still on the rank or drawing the caj,i. 8 “Welt, siy’-” replied cabby, “I think, on the ’eye, he’d rather pull the- cab. You si ?, be reads the names Over the shop v inilers and they makes bin) laugh. ’ —Euand Magazine.

field diversions. A Federal Officer Who Read Novels Between Engagements. General Horace Porter tells the following anecdote in his ‘ ‘Campaigning With Grant” in The Century: During the ten days of battle through which we had just passed very little relief, physical or mental, had been obtained; but there was one staff officer, a Colonel B , who-often came as bearer of messages to our headquarters, who always managed to console himself with novel reading, and his peculiarity in this respect became a standing joke among those who knew him. He went about with his saddle bags stuffed full of thrilling romances, and was seen several times ‘sitting on his horse, under a •brisk fire, poring over the last pages of an absorbing volume to reach the denouement of the plot and evincing c greater curiosity to find how the hero and the heroine were going to be extricated from the entangled dilemma into which they had,been plunged by the unsympathetic author than to learn flu result of the unrounding battle. One of his peculiarities was that be took it for granted that all the p< epic he met were perfectly familiar with his line of literature, and he talked about nothing but the merits of the late'st novel. For the lust week he bad been devouring Victor Hugo’s ‘ ‘Les Miserables. ” It v-us an English translation, for the c.aicer had no knowledge of French. As he was passing a house in rear of the “angle” he saw a young lady seated c-i the porch, and, his hors -. b- led to her with all the grace of a Chesterfield and endeavored to engage her in conversation. Bef<T. he had gone far he took occasion to remark, “By. the way, have you seen ‘Lees pronunciation. Her black < yqp snapped with indignation as she tartly replied: “Don’t you talk to me. that way. They i are a good deal better than Grant’s misi enables anyhow!” This was retold so often by those who heard it that, for ! some time after, its repetition seriously 1 endangered the colonel’s peace of mind Religions In New Zealand. The Nev; Zealand Gazette gives the census tables dealing with “Religions of the People.” Out of 703,360, the total population, 702,238 gave.answers on the census forms. The Episcopalians numbered 281,166; the Presbyterians, 159,952; Methodists (of all kinds), over | 73,000; Roman Catholics, over The other sects come far below these figures. Unitarians “Our Father’s .Church” numbers 80. There is one “esoteric Christian,” one “salvaj tioii Catholic,’” one “sinner saved by ; Grace” and .kmc,“Christian freethinker.” One is a “Bible freethinker,” another “believes in his Maker;there is one “pessimist,” one “natist,” one “truist” ami oim “heathen.” Nearly 16,000 objected to’ stateuheir position. Subscribe fur the Democrat.

MACHINE LUNCHES. THE GERMAN AUTOMATIC DISPENSER OF QUICK REPASTS. The Slot Principle Applied to Restaurants. No Waiters to Fee or to‘ Swear At—A Good Lunch Basket Scheme Used on German Railways. Germany is showing the rest of the world how “quick lunches” may bo served without employing waiters and how a hungry person may have just what he wants to eat and drink at a fixed price without paying an extra tip and without feeling himself called upon, no matter how particular he may be, to find fault with the. service unless he is satisfied to make his complaint to a mechanical contrivance, which differs from some waiters in so far that it makes no pretense of caring a rap or the turn of a handle how uncomfortable or how badly served the hungry one may be. The contrivance, which has been perfected by the Quisicaua company of Berlin is so perfectly arranged that even those people who object to the manner of washing the cups ami plates in the ordinary quick lunch places are deprived of their cause for complaint because every customer may supervise the cleaning of the cup which he will use, and if he is so inclined may attend to the duty himself. The quick lunch stands are provided with automa ic spraying nozzles for cleaning glass and china and insure perfect cleanliness. No rubber tubing is used to conduct liquids, silver tubes being employed for the purpose. The service is run by clockwork. In place of the ordinary counter there are sets of ornamental cabinets ranged along one side of the room, which have a shelf projecting at a convenient height, upon which glasses and .cups are placed. Above these there are faucets and a number of slots to receive the coin. When the customer has decided what sort of a drink he wants—coffee, tea, chocolate or beef tea —be drops the coin in the siot and receives the regulation quantity. The cold drinks—lemonade, soda water and ail sorts of ‘ ‘soft drinks”—are kept in gir.ss vessels and the hot drinks in nickel tanks surrounded by a hot water bath, which is heated by gas.

But the establishment is not limited to drinks, and the hungry man may also be served. Sandwiches and cakes are kept in a glass stand, circular in shape, which is covered with a glass bell. Each bell contains about a dozen sandwiches, and the purchaser indicates his choice by dropping his coin info the slot opposite the kind he wants, and the stand revolves sufficiently to bring bis sandwich to an opening where he may take it out. Stands similarly arranged provide hot beef, chicken and other meats. The quick lunch is nothing new in Germany, though, as any person will know who has made a-railroad trip between Berlin and Copenhagen byway of Warnemunde. A man who made the trip several years ago said: “We were coming back from Denmark and stopped at a little place ch the German frontier at about noon. Everybody was hungry, and the American contingent was disappointed when the conductor shouted, ‘Funf minuten aufenthalt. ’ Wo knew that five minutes would not give us time for a meal, and we lost no time in leaving the coach as ’ soon as it was unlocked. Everybody rushed pMlmcll into the restaurant, where a lot of wire things that looked like old fashioned rattraps were piled up. Everybody grabbed a- trap, paid about 25 cents for it and rushed back to the train. “What looked like a trap was really an ingeniously contrived lunch basket having three compartments. In one was an ample portion of chicken; the next contained sandwiches, and the third a dainty piece of pastry and a small, bottle of wine, over which a little drinking glass was fastened. Little salt and pepper shakers and a knife and fork •were fastened to the sides, and the whole was covered with a Japanese paper napkin. The fact that we -were all hungry and that the whole arrangement was unexpected may have had something to do with our enjoyment of the luncheon, but it was agreed that it was the most perfect of the ‘quick’ kind we had ever seen. The bottom of the wire lunch basket was covered with a piece of glass, and a paper beneath it bore the request in German, French and English to leave the empty .basket with the trainhand. ” \ M anagers of quick lunch places say that the automatic restaurant would not be patronized sufficiently to make it pay m New York. “The main object of the automatic arrai'gement, ” said one, “is to do away with waiters and save the outlay on that account. We have accomplished that end by making every man his own waiter, and I believe that breakage in machines, falling off in trade and counterfeit coins would make a change fromour present system to the automatic an expensive experiment As to the quick lunches for travelers on railway trains, much can be done, and no one knows that better than the traveler who. is compelled to make a meal df what he can buy from the dealer in pies, apples and sandwiches who hawks his wares ; through the cars. The buffet and the dining cars have reduced his field of operation, tfut he is still in business, selling the same old sandwiches to the people who cannot afford to ride in drawing room curs, and to them the quick lunch on the plan of those which they have in some parts of Europe would be a blessing. ” —.New York Tribune. ® His Ability. Fuddy—You say that Biglin gets a salary of SIO,OOO. And there is positively nothing in Biglin—he is-not an educated man and he has no natural abilities. Duddy—Except the ability to get a salai-y of SIO,OOO a year. — Boston Transcript.

GENERAL STATE NEWS i -. ..... Ainerieau Company LoMe« Heavily by Fire. Alexandria, Ind., March 2.—Late yesterday the alarm was given that the American plateglass works was on fire. The fire originated in the engineroom, and was beyond control before help was secured, the city water mains not reaching near enough to be available. The grinding and polishing departments were completely wrecked, and the casting hall was seriously damaged. The loss will reach 50,000, fully covered by insurance. The rebuilding will be done at once. Five hundred men are thrown out of employment. Bin Fire at Fort Wayne. Fort Wayne, March I.—A most destructive fire raged here for seven hours yesterday morning and before it could be subdued had laid in ashes half of a prominent business block, entailing a loss of $125,000. The fire originated in the cellar of Morgan & Co.’s hardware store from a defective furnace, and spread rapidly in all directions. Insurance $90,000. Farmer 1 . Skull Crushed. Greenwood, Ind.. March I.—Green White, a farmer living four miles northeast of here, was found uncoimcious Saturday i:i his stable. Both jawbones were broken, his skull crushed and his feet and legs badly mangled. It is believed to be a case of foul play. Mr. White was unconscious when found and cannot live. _ _ Portland DrugKiHt Suicides. Portland, Ind., March I.—George Hartman, a druggist of this city, left home last night a week ago, without saying anything to his family. Yesterday his body was found under the amphitheater in the fairgrounds A white powder was on his beard and a morphine bottle at his side. Pied Suddenly. Muncie, Ind., March 2.—Last night when Mr. and Mrs. William Abbott retired the latter was ill with la grippe. Three hours afterward Mr. Abbott awoke and found his wife cold in death. Mr. Abbott is a director of the Union National bank. Mysteriously Murde/ed. Evanhvillf, Ind., March 2.—Nicholas Trautvetter was mysteriously murdered near Millersburg, Warwick county. Robert Moore has been arrested and charged with the crime. Both were suitors for the same lady’s hand. Molders Strike Because of Poor Tools. Noblesville. Ind., March 2. —The molders in the American Carbon factory are on a strike. They claim the company did not furnish them first class tools to work with. The strike throws 150 men out of employment. Woman Hangs Herself. Goshen, Ind., March 2.—Mrs. Hattie Sternberg, aged 36, committed suicide yesterday by hanging herself. Melancholia over the death of her child was the cause. * Will Have the Records Examined. Terre Haute, Ind., March 2.—The county commissioners of this county have decided to have an expert ex”-nine the county records for a period of six years. Shut Down For Want of Gas. Parker City, Ind., Feb. 27. —The Woodbury Glass company has closed its factory for an indefinite time. Scarcity of gas is the cause of shutting down.

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J. H. Meyer & Bro. for fine work and low prices. Are the leading merchant tailors in Decatur, Ind. All work guaranteed. Coffee & Baker still lead in fine bread. The same old price—two loaves for five cents, and the loaves are larger than any five cent loaf sold in town. *

The after-dinner task of dish washing loses | its terrors, and all household cleaning is accomplished quickly and easily by the use of \SI Largest package— greatest economy. THE N. K. FAIRBANK COMPANY, Chicago SL Louia, New York, Boston, Philadelphia.

I n f* r n - Du HO. A Complete Stock of * NEW DESIGNS ..... AT .... . i3iaGkburn r s DRUG STORE. “The G. R. & I. (Effect Sept. 27. TRAINS NORTH. ♦No. 3. +No. 5. *No. 1. Richmond 11:00am 11.45 pm 2:50 pm Parry 11:10 “ 2:55 “ Chester 3:01 Fountain City. 11:25 " 3:11 “ Johnson 11:35 " 3:21 “ Lynn 11:40’ “ 3:26 “ Snow Hill 11:43 ’ 3:32 “ Woods 11:40 " 3:34 " Winchester.... 12:00 “ 12:30 pm 3:44 “ Stone 12:10 pm 3:55 “ Ridgeville 12;19 " 12-15 am 4:05 “ Collet 12:32 - 4:18 “ Portland 12:42 “ 1:03 am 4:30 “ Jay “ 4:l° “ Briant 12:5> - 4:46 “ Geneva -... 1:07 “ 4:56 “ Ceylon .i....... 4:58 “ Berne 1:18 “ 5:05 “ Monroe 1:32 “ 5:21 “ DECATUR 1:45 " I:slam 5:35 “ Monmouth 1:53 " 5:41 “ Williams 2:01 “ 6:51 •• Hoagland 2:03 “ 5:56 “ Edams 6;11 ‘‘ Fort Wayne.... 2:35 ‘ am 6:25 ♦Daily, except Sunday. +Daily to Grand Rapids. TRAINS SOUTH ♦No. 2. rNo. 6 7No. 4. Fort. Wayne.... 12:35 pin 12:45 a m 5:45 a m Adams 5:58 Hoagland 1:00 “ 6:13 “ Williams 1:05 “ 6:18 Monmouth 1:13 “ 6:24 DECATUR. .. 1:19 “ 1:32 “ 6:30 “ Monfoe t.. 1:32 “ 6:44 “ ; Berne 1:44 “ 6;56 “ Ceylon 7:04 “ Geneva 1153 " 7:06 “ Briant 2:00 “ Jay 7:21 “ Portland 2:14 “ 2:20 “ 7:30 “ Collett 2:23 7:41 “ Ridgeville... . 2:35 “ 2:48*“ 7;50 • Slone 7:59 “ Winchester.... 2-.50 “ 3:02 “ 8:09 “ Woods 8:22 “ Snow Hill 8:25 ‘ Lynn 3:05 “ 8:32 ‘ Johnson 8,:11 8:38 “ Fountain City. 3:20 “ 8:49 “ Chester 9:01 “ Parry 9:08 “ Richmond 3:40 " 4:00 “ 9:15 “ +Dally Grand Rapids. tDnily ex. Sunday. Jeff Bryson. Agent CL Lockwood. Gen. Pas Agent. Erie unes. •' "tj B3s In effect Dec. \ ■ N I / 6- 1896, Trains leave Decatur as follows: WEST. No. 5, vestibule limited, daily for Chicago 12:23 p. m No. 8, Pacific express, dally fori Chicago 1:48 a, m No. 1, express, daily except Sun- I day for Chicago ( 11:06 a. m No. 31, local, daily except Sun-I day I 10:10 a> m No 13. Wells Fargo Limited Ex- | press, dally except Monday > 6:43 and day after legal holiday ) east; No. 8, vestibule limited, dlilly for I New York and Boston ) 7:57 No. 2, express, dally except Sun- I day for New York | 2:00 p.m No. 12. express, daily for New I York.., I 1:30a. m No. 30. local, dally except Sun- 1 day f 10:10 a. m Through coaches and sleeping cars to New York and Boston Trains land 2 stop at all stations on the 0 DE. ivision. Train No. 12 carries through sleeping cars to Columbus, Circleville, Chillicothe, Waverly, Portsmouth, Ironton, and Kenova, via Columbus, Hocking Valley & Toledo, and Norfolk & Western lines. J. W. DbLong. Agent W.G. MacEdwakdh. T. P.A.. Huntington. The Clover Leaf, T., St. L. & K C. R. R. -In effect Jan 3. 1897 ' EAST, . Passenger a. tn Express...., P.m Mail I-: *’J>-»» Local • ”-.o!>p m WEST. Passenger J - Express Mall L..l2:f*p m Local .loilaa m K. A. Wui.NilEV, Algent.

FOR SALE„ DRAINED TILE. We manufacture and keep lin ntock all nizes fron 3to 18 ? | inches. Call or write and get prices. Special shipping rates. : Satisfaction guaranteed. KRICK, MEYERS & CO., DECATUR INIIANA. I Unrnpoc Hu Guo. We have them and everything in that line, and will make you hard time prices. But call early. SECOND HAND DEPARTMENT Never so large a stock or such bargains. H. S PORTER Look Here! 1 am here to stay and can sei Dips and mos cheaper than anybody else can afford to sellthem. I sell different makes. CLEANING AND REPAIRING done reasonable. See me first an(l save money. I. T. COOT* Decatur, Ind. AT Merryman’s I Factory 1 You can ffet all kinds of |—o o o Hard and Soft Wood, S'ding, Flooring, Bracket*, Odd Sized sash and Doors. In fact all kinds of building material made or furnished on short notice. JOHN S. BOWERS —DEALER IN— STONE,I .... CRUSHED STONE.... I Can deliver on line of;Railroad. Also, d HERCULES POWDER. J For Stump Blasting, Always on Hand. H CURED WITHOUT COST. I BLOOD POISON. “The life of all flesh is the blood thereof.”—Leviticus xvll, 14. The late Dr. Rioord, of Paris, was the most celebrated authority in the world otr SyptillOcJH 'Scrofula, and other blood diseases, These orders, whether inherited or acquired, cause ■ skin eruptions, sore throat, ulcers, spelling of , ■ ' the glands, fallingout of hair, discus-of bones . H l perviousness, impairment of sexual power W ) and perinature medtai and physical decays/® To any sufferer we will send, I >n receipt of six ■ >. cents In stutnps.'Dr. Rlcord’s famous prescrip- ■ i tionforthe blood. Positive and permanent M i cures guaranteed. Address The Rioord fledi- I'* ail Co. MarijuO, 14. ‘ | ' ' '' '\j|