Decatur Democrat, Volume 41, Number 19, Decatur, Adams County, 22 July 1897 — Page 3

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K hihk-bit* H I(iy News picked up by Our ■ fVatehtul Pencil Pusher*. ■ Advertise first to make people ■‘.' v ,, u r product; then to make ■em continue buying it. R Ba New Yorkju4gp 4Uqutfbfi‘i‘d a iror who appeswe'd in, the bax in a . y '. ie ,..,<nm“.wATiTUiga-swea°ter. B 0 •*' •A, ni»e nren®a-l problem i< Bf twice and a half it-lens’-h «»f a half a stick is a loot ha-ks, l‘”’g Is the stick? r’rtdi-is jut* f-orfun and don’t use iuit pwtlet Ewmvtt Culley, he of Willshire m-ld fame, purchased the PlyIndependent a short time >O. After an ownership of two tfks he disposed of his interests y returned to Geneva, Indiana, je home of his youth. -Philanthropic people in Fort farne have petitioned the city luucil for the money to build a ome for tramps. It is to be hoped ut this news will become generalr known and all the “Weary hlhes” Hock to that haven of re age. .Owensville has the champion hot either liar who declares that he hopped wood so fast once that it paired two axes to keep him busy, f.de he heated an ax red-hot he id a boy cooling off the other ax r holding it in a creek, the water fwhichg.it so hot that it would ild hogs a mile below where he as chopping.

z-xi n i OH! g ohi hi wXI I u U JI OU u iilbiiybj g w v ® They have bargains that excel all || •> ethers. Read, then go and see for your- m B. self? Their bargains last week brought crowds to see them, who left more than 0- ple-ased. They have arranged to offer you many new bargains. Note the fol- || Lmvmg prices and compare with others: m Oi p A few pairs of ladies’ kid slippers, sizes 12 to 3, for the little sum of- -25 c Ladies’ OxTosds, tan or black, - -4 0 c A few pairs of ladies button shoes, 75 c Ladies’ fine green shoes, cloth top ,si-9° || O Ladies’ chocolate vici kid, silk vesting top, - - - ul Ladies fine Dongola shoe, lace or |L button, ----- si-5° Ladies’ fine black kid shoes, - - $2.00 || Gent’s buff shoes, - - ~ Gent’s patent leather shoes, - SIOO$ lOO Gent’s chocolate vici kid, coin toe, $1.75 || B:oin toe, - /i-75 fed :oe, - - S L ~S I S C j. . if hildren s plaid top o suit. Call in ana member, we nave g se. ml

An exchange remarks that bathing suits this season wi 1 be away above par. We are not well enough posted on the scientific anatomical terms to know just where par is situatod, but it is t•> be sincerely hoped Skey w-il.l not shrink above last s- , aSbn«’s startling standard. •to A weil known newspaper man of Valparaiso, has applied for a patent on a device to prevent flies from bothering it readers in summer time. The invention consists in using sticky fly-paper in the place of common print paper. He expects to realize a fortune as a result of his genius.—Ex. Board of trade arouse from your slumbers A genilemaq living at Wabash, Ind., lias written a letter to parties in this city asking about the inducements for a hat factory. The factory will employ from 50 to 150 men, and liberal w’ages are paid to employes. The proprietor is anxious to hear from this city, and a little activity on the part of our citizens would add another industry to this city. At the great meeting of the Endeavorers at San Francisco ia-t week, the banner for the greatest proportional gain tn the number of societies in the last twelve months went to Ireland, and the junior banner for the same increase went to Spain. This shows the worldwide character of the Christian Endeavor and its work. That a young American society, whose founder'is a gentleman still in the prime of life and present at the San Francisco meeting, should so have spread abroad is nothing less than wonderful.

In calling for a letter at the post--1 office always a-k “anything for me?” ; Don’t give your name, as the postj master has no earthly business with it, and when informed "No,” don’t vou believe it, but tn surprise and wOnder ask the postmaster when he expects one for you. Should he ask your name and where you expect a letter from, tell him it is none of his business, but that you are expecting one from the west. •to This is the time of year wber 'the editor with the ice about his . ears wonders what to say next and how to say it. A mid-summer madness falls upon him when he writes about other men, women and children going off to the lakes, and he curses his lot with long words, but *ll tke same he saws woed ad 1 the time asid grins at t«he men who tell him that he is only amd editor . and doesn’t need a vacation. Verily, life has its heat along with its ice I cream soda “to A Hoosier farmer while at work in a corn field, was approached by two “confidence” men. After listening to their propositions a few i minutes, indicating all the time that he was the sucker they were I looking for, he excused himself to go to the house and get his pocketbook, returning, however, with bis shot gun. The confidence chaps fled. It was discovered afterward that the farmer takes the local paper and therefore learns the ways of the world. > Charges have been preferred against Mayor Cast of Huntington, 1 and his trial will be held next ’ Thursday. Pending an investiga- j tion of the charges against him, he refuses to sign city orders and the laboring people are compelled to do without their money until the case is decided. The council have the right to impeach him and oust him from office if the charges are proven, and as the color of the council is tour democrats and two republicans, | who knows but what Huntington may have a new mayor. Congress seems to be distressed over the Americans in Cuba, others I lose sleep over the condition of the I people in India. Still others worry I about the Armenians. Measures I are proposed to raise large sums of money to relieve these various suf- | ferers. But it is just as well to remember that there are thousands upon thousands of citizens in this : country are now and have been tor years in the greatest distress, many suffering for the bare necessaries of life. Would it not be just as well for charity to begin at home. -to If a man has a two-dollar bull pup, he would look after it carefully and not let him be around at nigtit all over town. But if he has a boy it is different. He is turned loose at an early age to go to the devil, and then people wonder where the army of tramps, bums, loafers, dead beats, gamblers and drunkards come from each decade. They are germinated from the poor seed, gathered from our homes and sown broadcast on our streets and alleys It may be that your boy is making a growth in that direction. At all events, the boy ought to be given an equal showing with the bull pup. Up in Koscusko county a husband has made a new use of injunction measures. His wife declared she was going to California. The husband desired that she stay at home and cook. She said she would, go. Then thehusbamd thought about injunction, went before the-court and had the proper restraining.order issued and now his wife will stay atbome. A great scheme; that man should be voted a med’4l and be pit jon the pension list. He has opened the way for his down trodden | brethren. He has demonstrated the fact that man has some rights that woman must respect or she will have a suit by injunction on her hands. Standing in Avilla, a pretty little village in Noble county, this state, is the house erected the latter part of last year for the poor old people of Indiana by the Homan Catholics ol the statej under the charge of the Franciscan Sisters of the Sacred Heart. Those who love to see old people at their be«t will feel repaid for their trouble in reaching Avilla. Although this is a Roman Catholic institution, built from donations of Catholics of Indiana, still to their credit it must be said that no one is debarred on account of religious principles. At present there are ten non-Catbolic inmates of the home and they appear as happy and as well-used as the rest. The home I has 166 rooms, exclusive of laundry, 1 kitchen and refectories. The heating and sanitary arrangements are I perfect.— Michigan City News.

Wash Goods Sale ftT BOSTON STORE, ON Thursday, Friday and Saturday, July 22. 23, 24, 6c Dimities—only a few colors left; goods worth 8 and 10 cents; this sale only 6 cents. ioc Lappet Mulls and fine Dimities—anything that sold It i2%c or 15c, this sale 10 cents. 20c French Organdies —quite a line, sold at 25 and 30 cents; this sale only 20 cents. 8c Jaconetts Batistes—quite a nice assortment, worth 10 and 12%c; this sale only 8 cents. I2j4c Lappet Mulls, in black and colored grounds, worth 20c; this sale only I2| cents. 35c Shirt waists —nice assortment of elegant styles; see these goods; worth .55c and 75c; this sale 35 cents. We Invoice next Week, And are selling all summer goods at cost, Boston Store. I. O. O. F. Block- Kliebler & IMoltz Go.

Evidence in the auditor of state’s j office confirms the supposition that regular judges of the state who j draw pay as such have been making a “fat thing” on the side out of special judge service. In some cases it is claimed that they draw three days’ pay for less than one day’s work. The law allows them extra pay for this service although they are drawing regular pay at the same time. The settlement sheets iu the auditor of state’s office show that the cost to the state for extra service during the six months ending June 30 was $9,535, and at this rate the cost amounts up to nearly 820,000 a year. In Marion county, with its large population, the cost for extra service was but $25, while in Elkhart county alone the cost I was $970. -to The new ordinance, which went into effect at Kansas City Tuesday, committing women as well as men to the .stone pile for infractions of I the municipal laws is not one which I will be copied in other cities, and [ which, for the good name of the town on the Kaw, ought to be repealed forthwith. Compelling women t© perform the most arduous physical labor alongside degraded iMinpn; vagabonds amd-petty offenders wouid tire last spark of pride and setf-respeet in the breat of any woman and place her beyond the possibility of re-clama-tion. The idea is so revolting to anyone whose moral sensibilities are not hopelessly blunted that it is a marvel the Kansas City council ever permitted the ordinance to go upon the municipal records. Every newspaper office occasionally gets a notice to discontinue the paper and some of the notices are amusing. The Democrat seldom ever gets a notice to discontinue a subscription, but some other office prints the following notices: “Please discontinue my paper; I am financially abashed.” “Please discontinue. Your paper is second to none and should be liberally patronized.” “I don’t want the paper any long er and ask to be resigned." “Very nice paper. I like it very much, so please stop it.” “In order to appreciate the value of your paper the coming vear, I shall be obliged to give it up.” “I like your paper very much. I gave the two last ones to an old man to read. He said it was through reading some of your writ-|

ings that he was converted to free silver, so stop the paper.” Another filled the blanks on a printed card, such as is furnished to postmasters for the purpose, and it read: “A copy of your publication addressed to Rev. J. H. is detained as undelivered for the reason given below.” Then followed the printed words, underscored, “Removed, present address unknown.” j And under that was written, “DeI ceased.” It is asserted that one of the crack players on the Decatur ball team is a fellow by the name of Touhey, who is in jail on a six months' sentence for stealing. Whenever a visiting team plays in Decatur, Touhey is taken to the ball ground by the sheriff, allowed to finish the game and then is escorted back to jail. From this it should be inferred that to become an expert ball player it is necessary to serve a term in jail, of course.— Kendallville Sun. Well, ball players ha-ve to live, and as the demand -does net equal the supply, many of them are out of a job and consequently short of funds. They must, therefore, either starve or steal. Many of the professionals would no doubt be able to put up a better game it taken care of as Touhey is.—Columbia City Post. The residence of Ex-Goyernor Matthews, near Clinton, Ind., was burglarized Wednesday night, July 14, 1897, and the following silver ware stolen: One solid silver soup ladle, with medallion head on the Handle, and think marked on the back of handle “Mattie.” One dozen silver ice cream spoons, gold bowl, square handled with small beading of silver up each side of square, round ball at the top of handle marked “Mattie.” These were in black leather case lined with dark purple. Two cases of plain pearlhandled knives, one dozen in each case; cases black leather, and think lined with bright blue. One dozen plain silver after dinner coffee spoons, in ta*h colored leatherette case lined with pale blue. One dozen plain spoons in a brown silk case, hand painted on back with for-get-me-nots, and tied with pale blue ribbon, lined inside with a tinted blue chamois skin. One spoon, a Georgia spoon, enamelled in the bowl with watermellon. One leaf Ericson spoon. One Witch spoon from Salem. One Boston Tea

Party spoon. One spoon with “Matthews” ent in the handle. One spoon with Cleveland, wife and baby on it. One San Francisco spoon, with Calla Lilly on handle. One Jackson spoon with Hermitage in the bowl. One Philaaena spoon from Niagara. This describes some ot the souvenir spoons in the brown silk ease, besides in that ease there were spoons with the different cities marked in the bowls, such as Clinton, Chillicothe, Terre Haute, St. Louis, etc. There was one spoon with an oyster shell making the bowl, and another with a fish line and pole forming the handle in that collection. One pie knife in a case of peacock blue plush, and across one end a pink flower embroidered. One small fancy spoon in shape of a ladle suitable fordipping sauces, and had a twisted handle, and was in a pale salmon pink ease. Six salad fortes, plated, and in a box case, never having been 'used. A liberal reward will be paid for the return of the above goods to the owner, but the thief will probably return the stolen goods and ask the goverenor’s forgiveness as soon as he discovers the scarceity of ice cream and pie. The Grandest Remedy. Mr. K. B. Greeve, merchant of Chilhowie, Va., certifies that he had consumption, was given up to die, sought all medical treatment that money conld procure, tried all cough remedies he could hear of, but got no relief; was induced to try Dr. King’s New Discovery, and was cured by use of two bottles. For past three years 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. THE SUNSHINE STATE Is the title of a generously illustrated pamphlet of sixteen pages in reference to South Dakota, the reading matter in which was written by an enthusiastic South Dakota lady—Mrs. Stella Hosmor Arnold —who has been a risident of the Sunshine State for over ten years. A copy will be mailed to the address of any farmer or farmer’s wife, if sent at once to Robt. C. Jones, Traveling Passenger Agent, Chicago, Milwaukee A St. Paul railway, 40 Carew Building, Cincinnati, Ohio.