Decatur Democrat, Volume 41, Number 24, Decatur, Adams County, 26 August 1897 — Page 3

REASONS FOR USING Walter Baker & Co.’s H Breakfast Cocoa. 1. Because it is absolutely pure. 2 - Because it is not made by the so-called Dutch Proce-s in which chemicals are used. ffl E m 3 * Because beans of the finest quality are used. a I 4’l 4 - “ is made bva method which preserves unimpaired 0 / 'he exquisite natural flavor and odor of the beans. g 1 fill] 5- Because it is the most economical, costing less than one cent h 5 - : k a cup. u i-’l Be sure that you the genuine article made bv WALTFD BAKER & CO. Ltd., Dorchester, Mass. Established 1780. ♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ *♦••♦♦♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦ »*♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦»»»♦♦♦♦••♦• .

PICKINGS pounded and Condensed. Points Interest Well Worth Heading. D use speculating over the mat[he lady who, when a child, d with her back to the tire liner calves melted and run down her ankles or heels, will not a short dress when riding a r , Potvin,a brick manufacturer laislown, has closed his factory he purpose of sending his men lasaa to prospect for gold. Mr. in agrees to pay all expenses year and the men are to divide pqually with him what they e. ,e tax levy for state purposes be the same for 1897 as pred last year. General fund 9 i and 50 cents on each poll, ivolent institutions 5 cents; debt sinking funds 3 cents; jational purnoses If cents and ents and aSO cent poll tax for ol revenues. akes no differenc what your jess is, in order to get rid of wares, whether potatoes or ry, dry goods or legal advice, ute or paragraphs, you must get name into everybody’s ears eyes, and to do this there is ing like original newspaper adsing. Inventiveness, adaptaf. promptness of decision, must Kt your blows, and if you can’t ■ markets, make them. Dart at ■ ideas that will buoy you above Kavee of the commonplace, as Kigry robin drives upon the beK worm.—Jed ncarboro.

The Autobiography of a Shoe. I am a shoe. I was born in 1858. The time was auspicous and prophetic. It was in the month of Taurus, the Bull, of whose hide my sole is made. The Sun entered the region of Taurus in March, and tanned bis cuticle to perfection; while Mercury, fie of the winged feet, was the evening star, and in conjunction with the bright particular star of Taurus. My horsocope, you see. was quite remarkable; and I have fulfilled the promise of my birth. I came of good stock; fine Calfskin and solid hide from South America. Animals from many countries yield up tbeir personalities for my creation. And this is the tale that "goes with the hide. My mother’s name was "Tired of Shoddy.’’ My father’s name was “Demand for Better.’’ They joined together and made common cause for humanity; and I was born for the benefit of mankind. My mission is to Wear; and to Resist the influences of time and usage. Those are my characteristics. They are family traits. They are in the blood. I am the stranded actors best friend, and have often served him a homeward turn. Truly, there’s been many a “tie’' between us, I leave you to guess my name. It falls from the lips of hundreds of thousands. I have won a foremost place in shoedom. A feat indeeu I sit at the feet of Kings, and have acquired considerable polish. I shine with my virtues: tho’ have served to Bievat e many a hungry citizen. I emanate from Avon. Mass : named from the Avon stream upon whose banks Shakespere gamboled. I never dwell in innocuous dessuetude upon dusty store shelves, but fulfill my manifest destiny forthwith. I have supported many a man in more ways than one. I am pretty good as shoes go; but some of them go mighty fast. So fast that profanity is engendered. I have never been good “on a pinch.” and so do not cause my wearers to refer to that place where heat is not of solar origin. My ancesters were familiar with John Bunyan, and so are some of my contemporaries. But lam not acquainted ivith an V of his descendents. In modern spelling the y has been changed to “1” as a bunion is a very personal matter. Personally I can be straight-laced, buttoned up like a Buntan, or as elastic as anything on Congress street, Boston, where my makers, the J. B. Lewis Co., do an immense business. This much of mv history I have told you, and ■ ■ you wish to get better acquainted come and see me. lam to e 9 een six days in the week at the popular store of Holthouse & Mougey.

’Squire Kirk of Alexandria, became annoyed at a jury because it took them so long to render a verdict in some trivial matter and or dered them into a box car that was standing on the switch, after which the door was shut and locked. They still hung out, but when an engine was hooked on they soon made up their minds. Bob Burdette says: A woman is afraid of a mouse and runs from a cow but a book agent can’t scare her. She cannot sharpen a pencil, and outside of commercial circles she cannot tie up a package to make it look like anything save a cooked cross-section of chaos; but land of miracles! see what she can do with apin. We believe there are women who can pin a glass knob on a door. It is possible that all the pas senger engines on the Clover Leaf will be equipped with electric headlights. The reason for this is the fact that a train was saved by one of them. The train was a fast express and had on board a large number of people going to Toledo. The engineer by means of the electric head light, discovered a cow fastened in a cattle guard, and was able to stop his train in time to prevent a bad wreck. The compulsory education law enacted by the last legislature, is in effect and requires parents and guardians to send children, between the ages of eight and fourteen, to school for a term of not less than twelve consecutive weeks each year, unless said children are physically unable to attend. The law provides for an examining board, truant officers, penalty, &c., so get the

the little Hoosiers in readiness and start them in with the school vear, and keep them there until they grad uate. A meeting of the executive and advisory committee of the Indiana Bimetallic League will be held at the Grand hotel in Indianapolis, on Thursday, Sept. 2, at one o'clock. A full attendance of committeemen is requested, as several matters of importance will be proposed. All other Indiana democrats and others in sympathy with the work of the League are cordially invited. Allen W. Clark, Chr’m. Greensburg, Ind. A pretty girl of sweet 16 in Pennsylvania reached for a flower, and a snake on the bough bit her arm. She fainted, and a voung ; man found her, threw water in her face, and was hysterically told that she had been bitten by a rattlesnake. He drew away the poison with his lips, and now there is the founda- j tion for a thrilling romance. But after they are married some crusty old fellow will tell her that a rattlesnake cannot climb a bush, and then she will know that the blacksnake is harmless. Temperance people will be delighted to know that whisky drinking has fallen off nearly 6,000,000 gallons. The internal revenue commissioner thinks the decrease is due, not to any sudden spasm of virtue, but to hard times. It prosperity comes, bringing flushed pocket books in its wake, there will, the commissioner thinks, be a corresponding increase during the next fiscal year. There is a possibility that the commissioner is mistaken in his belief, as whisky drinking as a beverage is decreasing. Milder drinks are steadly crowding out whisky. Beer has done very much in this direction. * The suiting club idea is taking hold in good shape in many towns. Here is the plan: Twenty-five fel- | lows pay two dollars every two weeks. At the end of that time a i drawing takes place and one of the : number gets a suit for two dollars and he drops out. Then in two weeks another suit is drawn. This continues until twelve suits are drawn. On the thirteenth week j each person who has not received a j suit gives up a dollar and is given | one. It means simply that twenty- | four persons will get their suits from two to twenty-four dollars, i and the other thirteen will get theirs for twenty-five dollars, having bought them on the installment | plan, and it helps the tailor during the dull season, he getting a little over twenty-three dollars for each suit. An exchange describes a man ; who could not afford to take his I home paper as follows: “By get- { ting hold of a foreign advertising sheet he spent one dollar writing how to k?ep sober. The answer was to take the pledge. He sent fifty two-cent stamps to find out how to raise beets and received a postal card reply: “Take hold of the top and pull.” ft was the same fellow that sent 50 cents to a fellow in the east for twelve useful household articles and received a paper of needles. He is a relative of the man who sent five dollars to find out how to write without pen and ink, and the answer was try a lead pencil. He must be a twin brother to the man who sent two dollars to find out how to make money without work and was instructed to “fish for suckers like we are doing.’” Every sincere friend of bimetal lism deeply regrets the continued decline in the price of silver, ft not only affects the mining opera- ! tions in the silver states, but renders more difficult than ever any satisfactory readjustment of our metabc ! money system. The cause of this decline is therefore a matter not only of deep concern but also of general interest. The whys and wherefores may’ be found in this statement: Since 1870 the world’s total production of silver has increased from about 40,000,0000 ounces annually, to 160,000,000 ounces annually, and show no signs of future decrease. The metal is so intimately mingled with gold, copper and lead, that if it had no value whatever it would still be produced in large quantities. The gold now coming from Alaska is combined with a large amount of silver, and many copper and lead ores are rich in it. The cost of extracting it from gold, silver and copper ores may, therefore, be reckoned as nothing, while from many exclusively silver bearing ores it can be obtained at a profit so long as it can be sold for 25 cents per ounce. On the other hand the world’s consumption of it has not kept pace with its increased supply. The sup-

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. Block. KUebler & Moltz Go.

ply has quadrupled, while the consumption has scarcely doubled. The result is an immense accumulation of it, which hangs over the market and constantly* threatens to break down the price. The United States treasury alone holds 100,000,000 ounces, the Bank of France about 200,000,000 ounces, and the Imperial Bank of Germany 80,000,000 ounces, much of which will some day be offered directly or indirectly in exchange for gold. Besides this, there are immense hoards of it in Asia, buried in the ground or worn as personal ornaments, which, in the advance ot civilization, will be turned into more profitable forms of property. —South Bend Times. Stands at the Head. Aug. J. Bogel, the leading druggist ol Sreveport, La., says: “Dr. King’s Mew Discovery is the only thing that cures my cough, and it is the best seller I have.” J. F. Campbell, merchant of Safford, Ariz, writes: “Dr. King’s New Discovery is all that is claimed for it; it never fails, and is a sure cure for consumption, coughs and colds. I can not say enough for its merits.” Dr. King’s New Discovery for consumption, coughs and colds is not an experiment. It has been tried for a quarter ot a century, and today stands at the head. It never disappoints. Free trial battles 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 & St. Paul railway, 40 Carew Building, Cincinnati, Ohio. Eleetrle Bitter*. Electric Bitters is a medicine suited for any season, but perhaps more generally needed when the languid, exhausted feeling prevails, when the liver is torpid and sluggish and the need of a tonic and alterative is felt. A prompt use of this medicine has often averted long and perhaps fatal|bihous fever. No medicine will act more surely in counteracting and freeing the

- system from malarial poison. Head- ! ache, indigestion, constipation, diz--1 ziness yield to Electric Bitters. 50e. t and $1 per bottle at Page Blaekc burn’s drug store. * The Chicago A Erie Railroad Co. t to Tennessee Centennial and International Exposition at Nashville, * Tenn., May 1 to October 31, 1897. The C. E. R. R. Co. will sell 10 and 20 day and season excursion tickets account of above named Ex- ’ position. Rates from Decatur, Ind., 1 $19.90, $14.60 and $10.60 for round trip. For further information call p on or address J. W. DeLong, Ag’t. 5 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 efi’ fective remedy than Chamberlain’s 8 Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Rem- " edy,” writes Dr. R. E. Roby, phy- > sician and pharmacist; of Olney, Mo.; and as he has used the Remr edy in his own family and sold it in his drug store for six years he 1 should certainly know. For sale ■ by Smith & Callow. a To Atlanta from Louisville withi out change.—CommencingMay 2nd, ■ the Southern Railway in connection with the Queen & Cresent Route, extented its Louisville & Chattanooga sleeping car line through to Atlanta. Through sleeper leaves Louisville daily at 7:35 p. m. arriving Atlanta 11:40 a, m. Close connections, Union Depot, Chattanooga for Birmingham, Meridian and New Orleans. Also to Atlanta for Georgia and Florida points. When traveling south or southeast, see that your tickets read via Louisville & Southern Railway. All ticket agents sell them. Wm. H.TAYLOE.Ass’t. G. P.A. Louisville,Ky. A Remarkable Cure of Chronle Diarrhoea. In 1862, when I served my country as a private in Company A, 167th Pennsylvania Volunteers, I contracted chronic diarrhoea. It has given me a great deal of trouble ever since. I have tried a dozen different medicines and several [ prominent doctors without any permanent relief. Not long ago a friend sent me a sample bottle of Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, and after that I bought and took a 50 cent bottle; and now I can say that I am entire-

)y cured. I cannot be thankful enough to you for this great’Remedy, and recommend it to all suffering veterans. If in doubt write me. Yours gratefully, Henry Steinberger. Allentown, Pa. Sold by Smith & Callow. a VACATION DAIS. In the Lake Regioos of Wisconsin, Northern Michigan, Minnesota, lowa and South Dakota, along the lines of the Chicago, Wilwaukee & St. Paul Railway, are hundreds of charming localities preeminently fitted for summer homes, nearly all of which are located on or near lakes which have not been fished out. These resorts range m variety from the “full dress for dinner” to the flannel shirt costum for every meal. Among the list are names familiar to many of our readers as the perfection of Northern summer resorts. Nearly all of the Wisconsin points of interest are within a short distance from Chicago or Milwaukee, and none of them are so far away from the “busy marts of civilization” that they cannot be reached in a tew hours of travel, by frequent trains, over the finest road in the Northwest—the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway. Send a two cent stamp for a copy of ‘•Vacation Days” giving a description of the principal resorts, and a list of summer hotels and boarding houses, and rates for board, to Geo. H. Heafford, General Passenger Agent, Chicago, 111. If you want rich, red blood, new health and strength; if you want your wife or daughter to forget there are such things as nerves, headaches, despondency and weakness and to see them have rosy cheeks and bright eyes; if you want to have the pale, weak children restored to the cheerful, natural health they should enjoy, get a bottle of Brown’s Cure, a perfect family medicine. It is pleasant to take ard is the grandest remedy known for all troubles of the liver, kidneys and bowels. A certain cure for dyspepsia and all stomach troubles, sick headache, nervousnses, constipation and loss of sleep. If you or any of your family are suffering try this great remedy now and find happiness in its cure, Sold by Page Blackburn, druggist. Price 75 cents. Yi-Ki cures corns and warts, 15 cents. Kdacate Yonr Bowel* With Cascaret*. Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever. 10c, 25c. If C C C. fail, druggists refund money.