Decatur Democrat, Volume 41, Number 27, Decatur, Adams County, 16 September 1897 — Page 7

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HUMOR OF THE HOUR. The following story of the late Dr. Kidd of Aberdeen and his beadle is, told in the “Humor of the Scot.” The kirk officer, it would appear, was a victim to the national vice. He had often been censured, as often forgiven, and yet again would fall into his old ways. One day the worthy doctor was confronted by Jeems, so intoxicated that all his customary caution and sleek humility had flown. In a reckiess mood he | challenged the burly old doctor to come ' and drink with him. Recognizing the ’ futility nf trying to reason with a man in such a state, Dr. Kidd replied: “Oh, aye, Jeemsl I’ll come wi’ ye, an I’ll drink like a beast to please ye." “Hooray!” said the beadle. “Come along!” So they entered the inn, this strangely assorted couple, the mark of observation to mauy a curious eye. Jeems started to order a “mutchkin, ” but the reverend doctor filled a glass with cold water and quaffed that. "Hoots!” expostulated the bacchanalian beadle. “Ye said ye wad drink like a beast, doctor. ” ‘ Aye, Jeems, an so I have,” was the dignified reply, “for ye know a beast it wiser than a man an drinks only what’s gude for it—an that’s cold water." GETTING READY Every expectant mother has »trying ordeal to face. If she does not li\ get rea< i. v r \ I' there is no telling L—«- what may happen. U Child-birth is full of uncertainties if ‘ a ' ure ■ s not given proper assistance. Mother’s Friend j 3 best help you can use at this time, i ts a liniment, and when regularly apP ied several months before baby comes, !' advent easy and nearly pain- ». It relieves and prevents "morning Scknegg, ’ relaxes the overstrained musC ‘ (s ’ relieves the distended feeling, short- i labor, makes recovery rapid and cer- ® without any dangerous after-effects, other’s Friend is good for only one Purpose, viz.: to relieve motherhood of “W and pain. seat bv d 2l lar per bottle at all drug stores, or n? ress on receipt ot price. tion Books > containing valuable informsapplication’ to** 1 Sent ‘° aD> sddr *“ T!IE BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO.. Atlanta, Ua.

He Always Does. Chorus of Excited Voices—Heavens! A boat wrecked, you say, and none of J its occupants escaped? Life Saver (grimly)—Only the fellow who rocked it.—New York Truth. Net Startled. “Hold on tight, ’ said the driver of the Deadwood coach “1 may give you a sudden tip. “ “I’m used to em, ’ said the senator ] He Feared For Them. Mr Burrows was m the parlor, but what was said in the nursery could be plainly heard. “That’s a uice baby boy, ” said the] visitor “He has your eyes and nose I and smile. ” “Yes. but look—see! He has his father’s teeth ” Then Mr Burrows got angry and | called up: "Take em away from him, ] Mary Don’t let him play with my teeth.” —Pearson’s Weekly Why She Didn’t Want to Go to Heaven. One of Caribou’s bright 4-year-old girls, in answer to a question, surprised and amused her hearers. The conversa ] tion among the older people was in re- | latioti to heaven, and some one asked the I little miss if she did not want to go to | heaven when she died. The young girl turned, looked at her father and said: "No, I don’t want to go to heaven. I want to go where papa goes.

A Lost Art. He—My dear, 1 understand that the dime museum is exhibiting a woman i who is 150 years old. She—Well, what of it? He—l was thinking, my dear you might go see her and ask her how to make pumpkin pie.—New York Weekly. Os the Same Order. Midnight Burglar—Fork out every farthing you've got or I’ll— Jones (half awake) —Look here, Maria, tins is coming it too strong. | Didn’t I give you all 1 had when I came home? —Judy. The Wheelman’s Revenge. “What defense did that scorcher offer?’’ “He said he was only trying to get even with the women who had tun their baby buggies against his heels. —Chicago Record. Uncle Eben’s Wisdom. “I can’t he’p wonderin, said Uncle Ebeu, “es a lot o’ dem folks dat’sa-gwiu ! to Klondike wouldn’t git rich anyhow ' es dey was wiliin to work as hahd at J home as dey’ll hatter up dar. ” Thirty-three different kinds of pearls are found in various parts of Russia, 17 , being peculiar to the country. It would ! pay to fish for them systematically, but iat present most of them are found by ' ignorant peasants, who sell them for a i few roubles to merchants, to whom ; they are worth 100 or more. One who has made a study of dyspepsia claims that in a large number of cases the disturbance is due to the use of lard. He suggests the liberal use of beef tallow to the exclusion of all pork fat as a remedy. He says a person who is fond of grease can saturate his food in I this with no resulting digestive disorder.

INSPECTED THE NAVY SECRETARY ROOSEVELT VISITS THE NORTH ATLANTIC SQUADRON. London Chronicle Say* Spain Han Virtually Loot Cuba—Hr. lluiteras' Report on Yellow Fever—What linn Been Paid Old Veterans. Fortress Monroe, Va., Sept. 10.—The Dolphin returned to Hampton Roads yesterday with Assistant Secretary Roosevelt who has just completed an inspection of the North Atlantic squadon at sea and while under full fleet manuvers. This is the first inspection made in recent years under such conditions and the results were highly satisfactory. In summing up the results of his inspection of the squadron Mr. Roosevelt said: The trip has been in every way more than satisfactory. The target practice under service conditions, the fleet manouvres, the practice with the searchlights at night in discovering and sinking drifting targets, have each and all been done in away which reflects very high credit upon the admiral, his captains and their officers and crews. The signaling both at night and in daytime, including the day signals witli the Jap fireworks, has been excellent. The rapidity and precision of the practice with the rapidfire guns and the extraordinary accuracy with which the huge turret guns were fired were equally noteworthy. In short there is every reason to be satisfied with every detail of the management of the huge warship from conning towers to the enginerooms and gun turrets. This is the first time that such a squadron of modern ironclads has ever been unuer command of an American admiral; indeed, it is the first time in peace that an American admiral has ever commanded a squadron relatively so formidable, com-1 pared with the warships of other powers. ' At last we are beginning to have a navy fit to uphold the interests of our people, a | navy which, though too small in size, I need fear comparison with no other as re- | gards the quality of its ships and men. WORLD’ WHEAT CROP. Statistics Furnished by the Agricultural Department. Washington, Sept. 14.—The complete monthly wheat report of the statistician I of the agricultural department was is-j sued today. It says in part: High i prices for wheat have for several weeks past been bringing out supplies quite freely and this in turn has reacted upca prices, causing some decline from the highest figures of August. With an annual average European product of over 1,428,000,000 bushels during the six years from 1891 to 1890 inclusive, we exported an average of 166,373,872 bushels a year. This year the European crop will, in round numbers, amount to 1,329,000,000 Winchester bushels, or 99,000,000 bushels ; less than the average of the six years in I question. If we make the comparison I with the figures given for 1897, the de- j fleienoy in the European crop is still | greater, the average for 1891-1896 being I 1,428,000,000; crop of 1897, 1,315,000,000; difference, 113,000,000.

LONDON PRESS ON CUBA. Spain Must Face the Fact That She Has Lost Cuba. London, Sept. 11.—Commenting upon the increasing difficulties of the position of Spain, The Daily Chronicle says: “It is plain that Cuba cannot be reconquered. If the Madrid cabinet is unwilling to face the facts and to confess that Cuba is lost, there will be a worse humiliation for Spain. President McKinley would be less than an American and more than mortal if he abstains from throwing an ultimatum into the scales. “The co-operation of the American squadron will give the insurgents command of the island, shut up Captain General Weyler and his rabble in Havana, without hope of help by land or sea. It is possible that Cuba will enter the American union; but the Cubans have fought so hard for independence that they are unlikely disposed to part with it, even to so powerful a neighbor.” Dr. Gniteras Reports. Washington, Sept. 10. — Dr. John Guiteras, the yellow fever expert, has telegraphed to Surgeon General Wyman as follows from Ocean Springs, Miss.: “Os three suspicious cases reported by me, one confirms yellow fever by autopsy; another by subsequent course; the third case is not yellow fever. Last evening I diagnosed another case of yellow fever. We have then two cases in a sick list of 40. There have been here a few cases of yellow’ fever in the midst of a widespread epidemic of dengue.”

Money the Old Veterans Received. Washington, Sept. 10.—The annual report of the auditor for the interior department shows the amount paid for pensions during the last year was $140,477,637. The payments on pension account for the fiscal year 1896 was $138,722,427, and for the fiscal year of 1895, $140,558,641; 1894, $137,119,551, and for 1893, $154,552,214. The cost of the service last year was $3.99 per SI,OOO, for 1896 $4.07, for 1895 $4.00, for 1894 $3.77 and for 1893 $3.35. Indiana Postmasters. Washington, Sept. 10.—Indiana postmasters were appointed yesterday as follows: New Pittsburg, Lawrence I Stick; Raub, A F. Hunter. Washington, Sept. 14.—Indiana postmasters were appointed yesterday as follow?: Brighton, Amos Long; Como, Asbury Robbins; Edwards, J. T. Lucas: Fincastle, T. L. Grider; Markland, William Rayborn; Monroe City, Elias Lloyd; Ridertown, W. R. Lawson. TREATY SIGNED. Shoshone. and Bannock Indians Agree ! to bell a Portion of Their Lands. Pocatello, Ida., Sept. 13- —It is announced that 12 of the chiefs of the Shoshones and Bannock Indians of the Fort Hall reservation have signed a treaty for the sale of 150,000 acres of the southern end of the reservation for $4 an acre, or in round figures, for $600,000. This will open up the southerni end of the reservation to public settle-; ment. John ▼. F»i well Appointed. Chicago, Sept. 13.—General Secretary E. V. Smalley announces that the executive committee of the National Sound Money league has appointod John V. Farwell, Jr., of this city, vice president of the league for Iliinoiß.

We were waiting for the beds to be made up in the Santa Fe sleeper and passed the time swapping yarns. “I met recently,” said the secretary of a Columbus (O.) corporation, “an old professor of Miami university, where ex-President Harrison graduated. He said that when Harrison was a senior in college an elderly man, whose name I have forgotten, came there to make a speech in favor of the abolition of slavery It was only the average abolition speech of those days about slavery—its wrongs, its injustice and the final results of its continuance. In those days, of course, very few of the colleges or college communities shared the sentiments of the abolitionists The most progressive of them seldom went beyond the Henry Clay or Daniel Webster ground of compromise. Harrison bad already a reputation as a college orator and was called on to reply He was unprepared at a moment’s notice to present a very formal argument, and in order to gain time to collect his thoughts he began with glittering generalities 'The gentleman,' he said, ‘was conversant with his subject. He is an older man than I am. He is a more experienced man. He is taller He has more whiskers He has longer hair’— “’And better manners, interrupted the stranger in a mild, remonstrant voice from the front seat he had taken to hear the young orator The youth stopped, blushed, could not recover his speech and sat down without finishing. ” —Chicago Times-Herald. From an Irish Root. Metaliferous Murphy was an assayer and justice at White Pine, Nev., in early days. He was called Metaliferous because a piece of grindstone was sent to him once for an assay, and he reported that it went S4OO to the ton in j gold and S6O in silver. One day his I constable, who had held his office for I about a year, asked: “Judge, what does the et al. I see in the titles of suits mean?” “Yer ignorance surprises me, sir,” declared the judge. “It is a Latin phrase taken from the good old Irish ; phrase ‘At all, at all. ’ ” —San Francis- | co Post. Educate Your Bowels With Cascarets. Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forcer. 10c. 25c. If C. C C. fail, druggists refund money. Don’t Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your Life A nay, i To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag netic, full of life, nerve and vigor, take No-To* Bae, the wonder worker, that makes weak men strong. All druggists, 50c or -fl. Cure guaranteed. Booklet and sample free. Address Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or New York.

GREAT SILVER MUf IAEETING. The greatest social and political event of the season, held under the auspices of the Allen County Bimetallic Union, in the grove at MO'\ROEVILLE, INDIANA Thursday, Sept. 30, 1897. This will be a gala day for the silver people of Allen and Adams counties, Indiana, and Van Wert and Paulding counties, Ohio. It will be Bi-State and Bi-Metallic. Good Bands of Music in attendance. Also the famous Bluffton Campaign Olee Club. AN OLD FASHIONED BARBECUE! Will be one of the special features. Six Beeves will t>e Roasted Come and feast your mind and body for one day FREE. It will be entirely educational in its character, and a non-partisan presentation of the great economic question ot National monetary reform will be presented by able speakers. A FULL DAY OF ORATORY. Addresses will be made by the following list of Speakers: Ex-Gov. Claude Matthews. General A. J. Warner, of Indiana. of Ohio. Hon. J. M. Robinson, Hon. O. P. Eversole, of Fort Wayne. of WayM . Hon. R. K. Erwin, of Decatur. H on. A. N. Martin, of Bluffton. Hon. R. C. Bell, of Fort Wayne. Hon. T. R. Marshall, Hon. J. S. SnOOkS, of Columbia City. of Paulding. Hon. B. A. Rollison, Dr. S. R. Robinson, of DelphoSj Ohio The Free Silver Poet, of Michigan. Hon. Henry Colerick, Hon - John France ’ of Decatur, of Fort Wayne. Judge Edward O’Rourke, Judge Levi Mock, of Fort Wayne. of Bluffton. HON WALPOLE G. COLERICK, of Fort Wayne, will be Chairman of the meeting, assisted by the Vice Presidents of the Bi-Metallic Unions. For further details see large bills, or address A. S. ROBINSON, Pres., Monroeville, Ind. J. J. PETERS, Sec’y., Monroeville, Ind. EXCURSION RATES ON ALL RAILROADS.

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