Decatur Democrat, Volume 41, Number 23, Decatur, Adams County, 19 August 1897 — Page 3

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I HEHB ASB THERE. ■ of Interest, Picked I p XX itli B. fll cil ami S<•lasora—Short Para- ■ 2 rai>l»f»r Bemoerat Readers. ■omßure tbe purity of whisky, ■utore that which is bottled must K uin nered and bear a government K This is in accordance with K, of congress to prevent adul■tiens which have been palmed on the public for years. Iluffton is already considering advisability of taxing bicycles vehicles of all kinds to assist in IB g for the new macadamized ets to be built this fall. Doubtwheelmen wdl cheerfully Connie their small mite for the rilege of having first-class streets. js a matter of fact, says the New rk World, the very best bicycle is the manufacturer less than If it is sold for S3O, retailer, dleman and manufacturer will make money, and SSO is only downward plunge. Next year e but the extravagant will pay ■e than S3O for a bicycle, and it people will be riding very d wheels that cost less than S2O. lome idea of the magnitude of longdistance telephone business ybe gained when it is known tthe Middletown tin plate faey will pay gl,ooo a year for the of a'phone, while the Elwood plate factory will pay $2,500 for same privilege. Other factorin the gas belt and throughout the te pay proportionate rates. They e the privilege of talking to any nt m the United States reached the Bell or Central Union Lines.

keammnraHnmK : 'J 0 f q ’ If) I -h>L— I I To buy your Shoes, is where you can get the best for the Wy I money 1 I | QUALITY | is much better than || j QGANTITY - . I || Especially is this TRUE in buying Ladies’ and Gent’s bine Shoes. || | 8 g We claim not only superior quality, | but the best for the lowest price. I ii JFe must make room for our fall and || P winter goods now coming in. do do 1 this we are offering I I OUR ENTIRE LINE | OF S LADIES’ AND GENTS SHOES . At prices that can not be beat. && Call and be convinced. ■ I lOlttSfi i MOU®!. I |L

An Atlanta man named John Smith has decided to call upon all the Smiths in the world to contribute for a magnificent building in honor of the name. The house is designed to cover ten acres, but if all the John Smiths are to be gathered there at one time a “lean-to” will need to be aided. -4A business man of Xenia, Ohio made a queer experiment the other day. Taking a sheet of fly paper, which weighed exactly one-half ounce, he exposed itto the flies until the surface was covered. Then the flies and paper were found to weigh just one ounce. Counting the flies he found 576. Since the war Indiana h’s spent $180,000,000 for public education and is spending now $6,000,000 annually. It possesses school property to the value of $20,000,000 and its productive school fund amounts to more than $10,000,000. There isn’t a state in the union that equals it, according to population, and but few as progressive in this important work. “A fashionable roadster should be fully 16 hands high, weigh from 1,100 to 1,250 pounds, clean gaited, with plenty of knee action, of steady color and city broke. A horse answering that description is worth more money today than he ever was. He is the beet, cheapest and easiest horse for a farmer to breed and raise. To give him the style, action, carriage and road qualities be must have some trotting blood. At every horse market in America there are buyers from foreign markets watching for and buying up just such animals. We are fast

I becoming a horse producing coun'rv. At Indianapolis is one of the , best horse markets in the country I and living as close as we do where the horses could be marketed without danger or expense of shipping by rail. Adams county ought to I become a great horse producing county.” -4Trustee Wheeler of South Bend, was greatly surprised when the law firm of Talbot & Talbot presented for payment from the township fund a bill of S2B forchickens killed iby dogs. The case is new, but is ' found to be in accordance with an ' act passed by the last legislature, putting chickens in the same category with sheep when the victims of canine attacks. Many more such cases will follow. Some of the eastern newspapers ) are having what they term fun, ' writing drivel about farmers wanti nig hands at $2 per day. The facts ; are hands are plentiful at half price and many farmers don’t need them at all. If farm hands could command $2 per day, times would be 1 good and work plenty. There are j a c ass of people when they have I nothing else to do, try their funny gun on the men who toil, and tin fortunately many eastern editors belong to this class. -4The Indiana Liquor League in session at Anderson passed resolutions condemning “illegitimate methods in the saloon business, which includes gambling, wine rooms and pool playing.” A movement to organize all “illi legitimate” saloon men was adopted and will be carried out as the most effective way of gaining legislative favor. Organizers will be sent to every section of the state 'at once. George Peepe of Anderson was elected president; Dr. Cal- ! len of Indianapolis, secretary. There are numerous cases of typhoid fever over the county and 1 people should be on the guard against the encroachment of the ! desease. Be careful of your diet, i and more important than all, be sure the water you drink is pure. If you have a surface well, boil the water. This year, as it was last, the typhoid victims can, in nine cases out of ten, trace the disease to impure water. There lurks the deadly germ and it is far better to carry pure water a 1 mile than to run the risk of combatI ting the insiduous uncooked germs i with which surface water is imi pregnated. An exchange after interviewing I the business men and loafers of bis I city say all of the most successful business men were whipi ped freely when they were young, j while twenty-seven of the thirty I street loafers interviewed w'ere ' mamma’s darlings when they were little; the other three were raised by their grandmothers. Moral. Thrash your boys soundly when they are young to make good business men of them; but to furnish a good supply of street loafers, the mamma should make pets of their boys, or send them to their grandma’s to be spoiled. A Peruvian who has just returned from a pleasure trip to Juneau, Alaska, brings home an assortment of stones of the Klondyke which he obtained in that country. ■ Here is one of them reported in the Peru Journal: Speaking of the liquor business at Circle City the Peruvian says that every time the customer buys a drink the bar tender passes out a whisk broom. What to do with it a new customer does not know until he drinks his whisky, then he very readily finds out. The whisky is so bad that it produces fits and as soon as the patient recovers he uses the broom to brush off his clothes. A glass of “booze” costs a pinch of gold, which amounts ’ to about 75 cents in money. -4A Missouri lawyer thinks there is no use trying to down a newspaper man. Well, he’s right at that. Give him a pencil a bit of paper, and an editorial chair, and the world belongs to him. His paper will come out somehow and i somewhere. It may look as though it had been shot out of a catapult, or fired out of window with a bootjack attachment, but it gets outand stays out, and keeps coming out every day just the same. A news paper has more lives than the proverbial cat, and there is no use trying to squelch it when there is a determined man who has hold of the throttle. He simply puts on a little more steam, throws her wide open, jumps the obstruction without a scratch in perfect safety. Os course, his editorials may not be inspired with love for humanity, nor his ink have enough of kerosene in it, but he gets there just the same, and receives the reward in that

New Fall Goods AT Boston Store Next Week. Our buyer is now in the eastern markets, and has secured an immense assortment of Dry Goods. Prices will be as low and in many cases LOWER than last year. No trouble to show goods. We invite you all to call and see them, at Boston Store. I. O. O. F. Bloclv KUebler <& Moltz Go.

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MIRTH DAKOTA. Hendrum, Minn., No doubt the readers of the Democrat would like to hear how the people fare in North Dakota 11 landed in Dakota about a week ago, and found harvest not yet begun, but by this time it is fairly under way. The crop of wheat is not as good as has been, but on the ! average it will be a fair crop, if | the weather will permit the harvest ( to go on. At present it is raining I with no prospect of quitting. Tak ing it genera l ly, this has been a hard season on the crops here. Not much hay has been made, and if it keeps wet as it looks, it may be some time before it can be made. The gentleman for whom I am working commenced harvest Aug. 9, 1897. He expets it to require from twelve to fourteen days to finish for him. It is a great sight for one who has never seen the like. One farm near here runs twenty-five Deering binders in the same field. The fields are generally a mile square. We have harvested five days with two seven foot cut binders, and it will require I eight or nine days more to finish the field. The early wheat seems to be the best. Late sowing is nearly eaten up by the rust. The straw of spring wheat is heavy in places but not so long as winter wheat. Oats are a heavy crop, but whether they can be saved is the question. Potatoes are generally good. On the Minnesota side the crops along the Wild Rise river are a total failure. Some farmers have no wheat or potatoes. It will surely make hard times with them, even harder than they are at present. Prosperity has not found its way here yet, but if McKinley unlocks the door may be it will get here oy next year this time. Giving you my promise to write again, I will close. Yours truly, A Hoosier. It is always gratifying to receive testimonials for Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoe Remedy, and when the endorsement is from a physician it is especially so. “There is no more satifactory or effective remedy than Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy,” writes Dr. R. E. Roby, physician and pharmacist; of Olney, Mo.; and as he has used the Remedy in his own family and sold it in his drug store for six years he should certainly know. For sale by Smith & Callow. a

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