Decatur Democrat, Volume 41, Number 27, Decatur, Adams County, 16 September 1897 — Page 6

r WHEN PEGGY COOKS. When Bridget rises in her might And takes herself to sudden flight, Then Peggy enters the domain Where Bridget erst was wont to reign. To rescue us from hungry plight She plunges in unequal flght With pots and pans, while with delight And pride I watch and grow quite vain When Peggy cooks. How daintily she moves, and light! I know whate’er she dew s is right And wholly free from mar and stain, And yet —and yet—l find I’m fain To dine down town upon the night When Peggy cooks. —Marco Morrow in What to Eat, THE BAG’S BOTTOM. Blackthorn was a bachelor of moderate views and moderate talents. He wrote for a variety of magazines, and he wrote for 30 years, and during those 30 years nothing in particular happened to him, but at the end of the 20 years he fell asleep in a carriage on the underground railway and went past Gloucester road, where he should have changed, and got out at South Kensington. The incident was trivial enough but for its effect on Blackthorn's life and death. Had he on that day got out at Gloucester road, as he intended, all might still have been well with him. As it is, he will be hanged tomorrow for the murder of the Rev. Julian Sibwell. When Blackthorn got out at South Kensington station, he found himself touched on the shoulder by an elderly parson. For the moment recognition halted. “Am I to be cut dead by my own nephew?” the parson asked in a pleasant voice. “Uncle Julian!” exclaimed Blackthorn. “I am delighted. I should have recognized you in another moment, though it's 10—no, 12 years since we met. ” He was not delighted at all. It embarrassed him to meet on terms of warm family intimacy a man who was in reality a complete stranger to him. The _Rey. Julian Sibwell had a parish, re- I mote and northern, from wMch he very ; lately stirred. The two men were noth- • ing to each other. They had to pretend tg be something considerable to each other and to pretend it at once. “Twelve years?” echoed Uncle Ju- j lian. “It’s 13, to be accurate. Time ! even faster than we think. Let ns hope the number mayn’t prove un- i lucky,” be added with a jolly laugh. “It's the merest chance that we have j met now, uncle. I should have got out I *at Gloucester road, but I fell asleep I and”— ■ “I see. My lawyer brought me to London and the old passion— mineralogy | —to the collection near here. But come, j if you have nothing better to do you I must luuch with me; a hansom to Re- I gent street.” Blackthorn gave in to the friendly related bore, and as they drove off Uncle Julian asked, “And what are you doing —still at literature and journalism?” “Still at it.” said Blackthorn. The old gentleman grew inquisitive and poured out questions. When did his nephew work—night or morning? Both? Any time? It was remarkable. And what sort of work was it? Chiefly stories? Things out of his own head? And on an average how much in a week? Most remarkable, but— Uncle Julian paused on the word “but” and shook his head. Over the luncheon table he gave a friendly warning. One might go on writing and making up, but one was bound to come to the end of it. Had his j nephew no fear of coming to the hot- i tom of the bag? “I’d never thought of it,” said : Blackthorn. “It seems as natural tome • as for you to do your work. With the day comes the idea. ” “But I don’t do my work any more—not the original part; old sermons always. I’ve written 2,000, but I shall never bring it to 2,001. There was a time when the sight of sheets of good writing paper made me want to put writing on them, but that’s gone, and sermons don’t demand the same originality as stories. You should make provision for the time to come, for the day when you get to the bottom of the bag. It’s bound to come, and for all we know it may come suddenly. Twenty years you’ve been writing—it’s wonderful, wonderful!” “Let's talk about something more cheerful.” said Blackthorn. Towatd the end of luncheon he asked his uncle to dine with him on the following evening. The Rev. Julian Sibwell was engaged, but the dinner was arranged for the evening after that. Then Blackthorn went away. He had a feeling of uneasiness that he had never had before, for which he cursed his uncle. The idea of “the bottom of the bag” was absurd, provincial, inartistic, material. Suggestion came in from the life about one, was transformed and used. The bag was always emptying, but it was also always filling. It would always have something in it for him so long as life lasted. There was, he told himself, no reason why he should get into this nervous state, but he remained in that state. He remembered authors who had * ‘written themselves out. ” This gift for receiving stimulating suggestions, this capacity for-selecting the right detail, might break down, and then one would come to the bottom of the bag. And quite suddenly he realized that for him all the eloquent crowded street was mute and empty. The phrase overheard no longer told him the rest of the conversation and the lives of the speakers. The beautiful women passed by and left no thought or descriptive word in his mind. All the life had dropped out of the scene and left it arid and bare. Nothing that met his eyes or ears seemed really to penetrate or to lead to anything. Nothing was suggestive. Everything was isolated. For the first time in his life Blackthorn found himself consciously trying to observe. Selection and detjactiqn had gone.

fl “The Foot Jhu a ” savs an eminent English doctor, “will carry enough poison to infect a household. ” In summer-time, more especially, disease germs fill the an, multitudes are infected, fall ill, die ; multitudes escape. These messengers of mischief do not exist for millions. Why not ? Because thev are healthy and strong —protected as acrocodile is against gunshot. It is the weak, the wasted, the who fall ; those who have no resistive power so that a sudden cough or cold develops into graver disease. We hear of catching disease! Why not catch health ? We can do it by always maintaining our healthy weight. Scotts StnulstOTL of Cod-liver Oil, is condensed nourishment; food tor the building up of the system to resist the attacks of disease. It should be taken in reasonable doses all summer long by all those whose weight is below the standard of health. ! If you are losing ground, try a bottle now. -3» For sale by all druggists at 50c. and 11l something that was near to panic he did the very worst thing that he could have done. He drove back to bis chambers and tried to write. Os course he could not write, wor- 1 tied by his fears and paralyzed by a ■ self distrust that was new to him. He j shut his eyes and tried to call up a pic- : ture. He could see nothing but an aged j parson hovering over a green speckled j omelet, waving a hairy forefinger and I saying; “You will come to the bottom ’ of the bag, my dear boy, You should | uiake provision It may be quite end-1 den. ” ; He sat bolt upright and tapped on the table with bis nails. “I must pull | myself together,” he said. He reflected | that there bad been many other occa- | Sions on which he had been unable to I writ*. He had also to reflect that there . bad always been a reason; that he had i been mentally or physically tired or ill or distracted by’ something which, for the moment absorbed his mind, and that now there was no reason which he could trace. He made no further attempt to work. He paid a call, dined out, went to bed early and slept peacefully for ten hours. He felt when he woke that he was in the best of health, but he also felt that his mind was blank and arid. He had an bout’s work to do before 4 in the afternoon —a story to finish. The story was already half written, and that comforted him; he would not have to make a start; it would only he necessary to get into the vein and go on, and he remembered that it was a splendid story and that he had found his previous work on it fascinating and delightful. He read and read again what he had written. Yes, it was good, but he could ' not for the life of him remember how he had meant to finish it, nor could he think of any end that was at all satisfactory. His thought had stopped like a thread cut short. The story began well, but it was like a story that had been written by another man. It seemed to him to lead to nothing. At 3 o’clock he wrote a note of excuse. His work had never been late before, but he said that he was ill. Then he tried to occupy his mind differently. He had bought a quantity of Japanese prints, and he turned them over. Then he put them away, turning out a big drawer in an old cabinet for the purpose. There was a lot of rubbish in the drawer—relics of holidays abroad, an ) old silver crucifix, a little branch of coral, a handful of foreign coins and the little red bulb that the mad American had given him, together with a I somewhat fantastic story. The day waned and the next day came. The waste paper basket was piled high, and Blackthorn rising from his seat looked out at the dawn. He was quite sure now that he would never write again, and he bated his uncle as he had never hated any man. “He has taken away my nerve,” he said, “and that is all that one wants—nerve, the belief that one can do it” His cheeks were pale and his hands shook. He really was ill now, and he had not been to bed. He went into his bedroom and locked himself in. Then in the early morning he dressed for the evening and sat on his bed waiting until the | evening came, admitting no one, send- I ing hie servant away, turning over in I his hands the little red bulb. He would 1 hold it over the claret glass between his ■ thumb and the second finger and break ’ j it. It would not show if he held it like ■ that. So the Rev. Julian Sibwell died in a ! Regent street restaurant and Black- ! thorn's death by hanging will take I place tomorrow. In the interval between the death of the man who took from him his nerve and his own execution he is said to have written much which is far above the level of his previous work, and indeed amounts to genius. But this is rumor.—Barry Pain in Black and White. To Gatt Consumers. Pleas’ return your mixers for your heating stoves if you do not want to use them in October, on or before the 25th of this month, so that we can give you proper credit. Otherwise you will be required to pay for the stoves at winter rates. LoGAN-rroBT & Wabash Valley Gas Co. 26 3

HOW TO FIND OUT. Fill a botile or common glass with ■ urine and let it stand twenty-foui hours; a sediment or settling indicates an unhealthy on dition of the kidnets. When urine stains')men|it is evidence of kidney trouble. Too frequent des're to urinate or pain in the back, is also convincing proof that the kidneys and bladder ate out of order. WHAT TO WO. There is comfort, in the knowledge so often expressed, that Dr Kilmer s Swamp-Root, the great kidney remedy fulfils every wish in relieving pain in the back, kidneys, liver, bladder and every part of the urinary passages. It I corrects inability to hold urine and sca)aiu3 pain in passing it. or bad effects following use of liquor, wine or beer, and overcomes that unpleasant necessity of being compelled to get up many limes during the night to urinate. The mild and the extraordinary effect of Swamp-Root is soon realized. It stands the highest for its wonderful ; cures of the most distressing cases. If I you need a medicine you should have . the best. Sold by druggists, price fifty cents and one dollar. You may have a sample bottle and pamphlet both sent free by mail. Mention Decatur Democrat and send your address to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghampton, N. Y. The proprietors of this paper guarantee the genuineness of this offer. Why Pay Bent! Better own a faim! Start now! Cor-1 respondence solicited from intending | settlers. The North-Western HomeSeeker gives practical information to those interested in the pursuits of agriculture. dairying aid cattle raising Send for free copy to C. Traver, Rooms 3 and 4. Marine National Bank Building, Pittsburg. Pa.

The Chicago Erie railroad will sell Home Seekers excursion tickets to points in the west, northwest, south and southwest at one fare for round trip plus $2.00. Tickets on sale August 17ih. September 7th and 21st, and Oct. •sth aud 19th. Return limit 21 days. J. W. DeLong. Agent. Remibgtoi' Brothers of 309 Broadway. New Y’ork, have opened a western office in the Chamber oi Commerce Building, Chicago, for the better handling of their increasing western business, their eastern office remaining, as heretofore, at 309 Broadway. The firm will continue at both offices with their specialty of county seat dailies and weeklies.— Extract from the Newspaper Maker, July 1.1897. One fare excursion tickets are on sale (schedule permitting) between Clover Leaf stations. Limit date of sale apply to nearest agent. No stranger visiting Chicago should be without a copy of the “Souvenir oi Lincoln Park.” It can only be procured by enclosing twenty-five (2-5) cents, in coin or postage stamps, to Geo H. Heafford, general passenger agent, 410 Old Colony Building, Chicago, 111. OCATIOK FOR Bl SINESS MEN Ou Chicago Great Western Railway, in towns situated in best sections of lowa. Illinois. Minnesota and Missouri. Ovefifty different lines wantea including bankers, bakers, blacksmiths, doctors drugs, hardware, harness, furniture, general stores, grain and stock buyers, marble works, creameries and various manufacturing industries. Information and assistance free. Send for maps and maple leaflets containing farm lists and description of each location. W. J. Reed, Industrial Agent. Chicago Great Western Railway. 601 Endicott Bldg. St. Paul. Minn.

One Way to be Happy Is to attei d to the comfort of your family. Should any one of them catch a slight cold or cough, call at once on Smith Callow, sole agents and get a trial bottle of Otto’s : Cure, the great German Remedy, free. We give it away to prove that we have a sure cure for coughs, colds, asthma, consumption and all diseases of the throat and lungs. Large sizes 50c and 25c. An Important Question. If vour friends or neighbors are suffering from coughs, colds, sore throat, or any throat or lung disease 'including consumption,; ask them if they have ever used Otto’s Cure. This famous German remedy is having a large sale here and is performing some wonderful cures of throat and lung diseases. Smith & Callow | will give you a sample bottle free. No matter what other medicines have failed to do, try j Otto’s Cure. Large sizes 25 and 50 cents. “I have never had a days sickness in my life,” said a middle-aged man the other day “What a comfort it would be,” sighs some I poor invalid, “to be in his place for a year ■ or two.” Yet half the invalids we see might be just as healthy as he. if they ; would only take proper eare of themselves, eat proper food—and digest it. It’s so strange that such simple things are overlooked by those who want health. Food makes health. It makes strength—and strength wards off sickness. The man who had never been sick was strong because he always digested his food, and you could be- ’ come the same by helping your stomach to work as well as his. Shaker Digestive Cordial will help your stomach and make you strong and healty by making the food you eat make you fat. Druggists sell it. Trial bottle 10 cents. Rare bargains are being offered by Decatur merchants. See their ads elsewhere in this paper. Everybody Says so. Cascarets Candv Cathartic, the most won- | derful medical discovery of the age. peasant and refreshing to the taste, act gently and positively on kidneys, liver and bowels, , cleansing the entire system, dis|>el colds, cure headache, fever, habitual constipation i and biliousness. Please buy and try a box I of C. C. C. to-day; 10, 25, 50 cents, bold and I guaranteed to cure by all druggists.

The Armenians claim direct descent from Noah, as he settled in their country after the flood. Their country has been conquered successively by 4 2 different nations. General Booth thinks Lot’s wife must have had some Scottish blood in iter veins, judging from her reluctance to pack up and leave her native city without thinking over the matter. If the entire population of the world is considered to be 1,400,000,000, the brains of tins number of human beings would weigh 1,022,712 tons, or as much as 96 ironclads of the ordinary size. An Italian peddler from whom a New York policeman demanded a license showed confidently a certificate of discharge from Sing Sing prison, which he said he bought, believing it was a I license Southern California has 3,000,000 orange trees, 1,700,000 apricot trees, 1,000,000 peach trees, 1,050,000 prune trees, 1,200 lemon trees and 740,000 olive trees, most of them not yet at the bearing age. Cats can smell even during sleep. When a piece of meat is placed immediately in front of a sleeping cat’s noso the nostrils begin to work as the scent is received, and an instant later the cat will wake up The barbers of Nordhausen, Saxony, are compelled by law to cleanse and disinfect their brushes, combs and razors immediately after nse and before they are applied to the hair or beard of another customer. There are 536 authorized guides in the Alps; 104 of them have taken a regular course of instruction in their profession and have received diplomas; 35 of them are between 60 and 70 years of age, and 6 are over 70. Stockport, England, boasts the largest Sunday school in the world. The ' total number of scholars at present on ' the books is no fewer than 4,834, while there are 238 male and 195 female teachers —a grand army of over 5,000. There are more breweries in California than there are in Illinois, more distilleries in Massachusetts than there are in Kentucky, and more cigarettes manufactured in New York state than in all the Other states of the country combined.

In the long arctic nights there is a constant difficulty in keeping awake. Greely had to make very strict rules to keep his men awake during the long arctic night Beds were not allowed to be made, aud the men were compelled to get up aud move about. A gentleman traveling in Persia says he has been in a town where the bells ring for prayer five times a day, and business men rush out of their offices to the churches, leaving their places of business alone and unlocked, aud nobody ever has a thing stolen. Coal miners as a class are not very susceptible to consumption, their troubles being more asthmatic and bronchitic. Where the air particles are sharp and cut the lung tissue tuberculosis will intervene, and the mortality among miners of tin, among grinders and that class is large. Gold Versus Life. Men are at present risking their lives for gold. There is a stampede of eager, willing martys to the inhospitable couu try of the Klondyke. Many will perish fj m cold and hunger. Notone quarter of lhe people who go there will ever return Not one half of those who do return will return any richer than they went. They will not only endanger tbeir health, but their lives for the sake of gold. And yet everybody says that health is more precious than gold The thing which restores health is. therefore, more precious than gold Pe-ru-ua restores health, cures all forms or weakness, all forms and stages ot catarrh, builds up broken-down constitutions, bring new life back to all those who have become prematurely old. The latest aud best book ever written on the subject of female diseases will be sent tree to women only, for a short time. Address The Pe ru-na Drug Manufacturing Co., Columbus, Onio.

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A Stock Buyer RECENTLY ENCOUNTERED A __SEVERE EXPERiekjj Peter Schurtz, of BatesvHle, who is Known as il Largest Stock Buyer in that Part of the Count- 5 Tells of an Interesting Incident in His Life. the Democratic Herald, Bateeville, Ind.

"Who is that elderlv man with the gray beard driving those cattle?” asked a reporter recently of a merchant in Batesville. Indiana. “Why that is Peter Schurtz, the largest stock buyer in this part of the countrv. He had a severe ei|>crieiice lately. I called on him one day to transact some business ami I found him very sick. I did not think he would ever recover aud neither did his family or his physician, but somehow he learned of the curative powers of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People, and commenced taking them aud he speedily recovered.’’ The reporter was anxious to have a talk with Mr. Schurtz regarding Kis illness, and he accordingly interviewed him. Mr. Schurtz was born sixty eight years ago on the farm where he now lives. When alxnit forty years old he stated that he began to be afflicted with crampsand nervousness, which in later years developed into kidney trouble of a violent character. “ I suffered all those long years with intense pain in the back, and from nervousness. I tried different physicians, mid they all described my case as a form of diabetes. Strychnine and nitre, and several other remedies were tried, as well as chance of climate, but nothing did me any good. I was so nervous that I could not lift a cup to my mouth, unless it had a handle to it. I was confined to the bed much of the time. The phvsicians did not help my case, and neither did the many proprietary medicihes which 1

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