Decatur Democrat, Volume 41, Number 49, Decatur, Adams County, 17 February 1898 — Page 3

Select type of the Mrbeat order of excellence lu nuuinfnctnre.” Walter Baker & Co.’s BREAKFAST COCOA 5 Absolutely Pure —Delicious —Nutritious. Costs Less than One Cent a Cup. Be sure the! you yet the DORCHESTER, MASS. genuine article, made at ____________________ Established ....8y.... g WALTER BAKER & CO. Ltd.

LATKMT NOTEfc. - — From Evcrjuhere, Important I ■nd Otherwise. To cure a cold in one day. 'I ake Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. 25c. 26tf The Indianapolis city council has repealed the state law against prize fighting by passing an ordinance that pugilis’s may pound one another for ten rounds. A genuine wild wolf was killed in one of the fashionable suburbs of St. Louis the other day. There is a atrip of wood ju»t beyond and it is supposed that a pack of wolves have a den there. A school boy was asked to explain the formation of dew. His answer was: “The earth revolves on an axis every twenty-four hours, and in consequence of the tremendous pace at which it travels it prespires freely.” A man died while being shaved m a woman’s barber shop at Chicago on Sunday- There are several women barbers in Kansas City, but none of their customers have died yet, although some of them have had a close shave. it is announced that Lady Mur ray has purchased, near Antibes in the Riviera, a large house, which she proposes to convert into a home of rest for authors and artists in poor circumstances. The home will be opened February 1 next to May 31, and henceforth from November 31 to May 31. —New York Post.

’•!» . f.. IT TA A rich man to draw a check, A pretty girl to draw attention, A horse to draw a cart, A porous plaster to draw the skin, A toper to draw a cork, A free lunch to draw a crowd, And shoes like the following to draw trade: Ladies’ Russian calf tan welt, regular price $3.50, to close out $2.50. Ladies’ kid Welt sole, regular price $3.50, to close out $2.50. Ladies’ Dongola kid 75 cents, SI.OO, $1.25, $1.50 and si-75-Ladies’ Kangaroo calf, $1.50. Gent’s box calf, tan or black, any style toe, $3.00; regular price $4.50. Gent’s fine shoes 90 cents, $1.25, $1.50, and $2.00. We have placed on sale' a lot of Ladies’ Oil Grain shoes, wool lined and unlined, at 85 cents. Do not miss seeing them: they are dandies. Holthouse & Mougey.

An editor in a neighboring town attempted suicide the other dav, because be was hard up. He had probably made up his mind to keep warm the rest of the winter despite 'he broken promises of subscribers to “bring that wood.” Confine the old hen in a coop placed near the garden and see what havoc the chicks will make among the insects which have so worried you and destroyed your garden crops. Try it and you will be surprised at results. Milk tn any form, sweet or aour, is greatly relished by birds of all ages. Buttermilk is very acceptable and highly nutritious. It pays far better to feed your spare milk to chickens than it does to teed it to pigs. Try it one season. To the Klondike by balloon is the latest hopeful promise. This added to steam railroads, electric trolly cars, snow trains and dog and deer coaches, will make that interesting country 'he most sensible summer resort of the year. A Northern Indiana man is now engaged in the more or less glorious work of eating a goose a day for thirty days on a wager of 1200. At last accounts be had disposed of his twenty-third goose on schedule time. The more one contemplates this teat the more inclined he is to think that there is a suspicion of cannibalism about it;

I have given Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy a fair test and consider it one of the very best remedies for croup that I have ever found. One

dose has always been sufficient, although I use it freely. Any cold my children contract yields very readily to this medicine. 1 can conscientiously recommend it for croup and colds in children.—Geo- E. Wolff, Clerk of the Circuit Court, Fernandina Fla. Sold by B. J. Smith. f Dr. Ashton Buchanan Talbot of New York, aged 37, has just inherited $1,000,000 bv the death of his wife, who was 82 years old. Before he married her he lived in a house with an old lady of 80, who left him SBOO,OBO. There is no law against this sort of thing, and public sentiment can’t stand up against $1,800,000. Desirable representative wanted in this county for the Acetylene Gas Machine; finest light known for city or country residences,churches, stores and schools; brilliancy for excelling electric light or city gas eat one-half cost; absolutely safe; easily operated; unusual opportunity Address for termsand full information The Craig Reynolds Foundry Co., Dayton, Ohio. An Ohio editor says that hay fever is caused by kissing grass widows. A Missouri editor says it is caused by a grass widow kissing a fellow by moonlight. An lowa editor says it is caused by the fellow kissing the hired girl while she is feeding hay to the cow, and a Jasper editor is of the opinion that it is caused by missing the girl and kissing the cow. A few months ago, Mr. Byron Every, of Woodstock, Mich., was badly afflicted with rheumatism, His right leg was swollen the full length, causing him great suffering. He was advised to try Chamberlain’s Pain Balm. The first bottle of it helped him considerably and the second bottle effected a cure. The 25 and 50 cent sizes are for sale by B. J. Smith. f Closing out sale: —Having concluded to handle farm implements, wagons, buggies only, we will close oat our large and well selected stock of hardware, stoves, paint oils, robes, whips, etc., at cost. Remember we will absolutely close these lines all out at cost and you will get bargains in everything. Come before the stock is broken. Yours truly, Ellsworth, Myers & Co.

Minnesota has 3 law to encourage tree planting. A bounty of $2 50 an acre is offered, and at least one acre must be planted, while ten acres in a year for more than six years gets the bounty ot 12.50 per acre. Any tree but the black locust may be planted. Last year bounI ties were paid to twenty five counties for planting 7,524 acres. The law has been in operation sixteen years. In that time more than 100,000 acres have been planted in trees. An Oklahoma editor upon retiring from the editorial control oi a back woods journal said: “It is due to the public that I should make a full confession before 1 retire from the active control of the Spider. I procured the position merely to procure office and now that I have been elected constable of this precinct. I will step aside editorial duties to give another aspiring man a chance. I have made triends and killed two men during my editorial career for which I am thankful and deeply indebted to this community.” Mr. Ward L. Smith, of Frederickstown, Mo., was troubled with chromo diarrhoea for over thirty years. He had become fully satisfied that it was only a question of a short time until he would have to give up. He had been treated by some of the best physicians in Europe and America but got no permanent relief. One day he picked up a newspaper and chanced to read an advertisement of Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. He got a bottle of it, the first dose helped him and its continued use cured him. For sale by B. J. Smith. t >We live in a land of high mountains and high taxes, low valleys and low wages, big crooked rivers and big crooked statesmen, big lakes, big drunks, big pumpkins, big men with pumpkin heads, silver streams that gambol in the mountains and pious politicians who gamble in the night, roaring cataracts and roaring orators, fast trains, fast horses, fast young men, sharp lawyers, sharp financiers and sharp toe shoes, noisy children, fertile plains that lie like a sheet of water and thousands of newspapers that lie like thunder. The supreme court has settled the

Now is the time TO DO YOUR Spring Sewing. In order that you may be able to do this we have ordered in our NEW SPRING GOODS. New Percales * New Bates cents. § Ginghams | Yard wide, good, heavy I Cents. fine cloth, nice assort- | Waist and skirt styles, ment of elegant designs, g Colors guaranteed; best I2| cents. 5 cloth made, io cents. Zypher Ginghams j ' 8 cents. 1 Diathane, T . k cents. Light plaids and stripes, g soft finish, sold every- g The triumph of Ameriwhere at 12R and ioc. g can printing, shadow Our price S cents. g effects, 121 cents. SPECIAL THIS WEEK. LL. Muslin, 4 cents a yard. Come to Boston Store. I. O. O. F. Block. Kuebler & Moltz Co.

question once for all that the county surveyor has control of the public ditches after they are completed, even if they run into another county. The Steuben county auditor refused to issue a warrant to pay for repairs on a DeKalb county ditch that extended into Steuben county, and the court compels the payment and holds that the county surveyor ot a county whose board of commissioners build a ditch has authority to keep it in repair throughout the entire length at the expense of the counties in which it lies. In South Africa the savage tribes have a peculiar ceremony which they put the matrimonial candidate through previous to entering the holy state. His hands are tied up in a bag containing five ants tor two hours. If he bears unmoved the tortures of their continual stings he is considered qualified to cope with the nagging and daily jar of married life. Such a man would make an admirable husband, you see. He would not be upset by the thoughts of a new bonnet, or grow irritable every time the stake was overdone. The idea of having a patience trial for those about to marry might very well be adopted. A Clever Trick. It certainly looks like it, but there is really no tnck about it. Anybody can try it who has lame back and weak kidneys, malaria or nervous troubles. We mean he can cure himself right away by taking Elecrtic Bitters. This medicine tones up the whole system, acts as a stimulant to the liver and kidneys, is a blood purifier and nerve tonic. It cures constipation, headache, fainting spells, sleeplessness and melanchely. Il is purely vegetable, a mild laxative, and restores the system to its natural vigor. Try Electric Bitters and be convinced that they are a miracle worker. Every bottle guaranteed. Only 50c. a bottle at Page Blackburn’s drug store. Just inside of one of the leading drug stores of this city, says an exchange, there is a blackboard which is used very effectively for advertising purposes, the “ads” thereon being goten up m a very catchy manner. For instance, the other day the following was written on it to catch the eye of young lady customers: “Have you a sweetheart? If so, buy him a bottle of pure soda

water.” A youog man who dropped in to get a glass of soda water saw it. Next day he was passing by with his girl, and as they were going in to get some soda water he told her to read the sign. He spoke before be looked, and to his dismay the inscription on the blackboard was: “Have you a baby? If so use sterilized milk.” The Greatest Discovery Yet. W. M. Repine, editor Tiskilwa, 111., “Chief,” says: “We won’t keep house without Dr. King’s New Discovery for consumption, coughs and colds. Experienced with many others, but never got the true remedy until we used Dr. King’s New Discovery. No other remedy can take its place in our home, as in it we have a certain and sure cure for coughs, colds, whoopingcougb, etc.” It is idle to experiment with other remedies, even if they are urged on you as just as good as Dr. King’s New Discovery. They are not as good, because this remedy has a record of cures and besids is guaranteen. It never fails to satisfy. Trial bottles free at Page Blackburn’s drug store. For all kinds of woodwork ng. such as dressing lumber, flooriing siding, moulding frames and ail kinds of brackets, balusters. New ell posts, porch columns, and tanks for all purposes, go to P. Kirsch’s Planing Mills. I also manufacture washing machines known as the Decatur Washer. When in need of a good washer come to my factory and save a few dollars on a machine. I have a feed mill and grind all kinds of feed and will be running mill every day. I also have the agency for the Baker Galvanized Steel Wind Mills and can sell you the best wind engine made. Come and get prices before buying. Resp’t, P. Kirsch. Factory N. 3d st Large Mlehtgan Potatoes for Sale an Nine rnonthu Time. I have six hundred bushels of large Michigan potatoes for sale in lots of ten bushels and upward at 80 cents a bushel on nine months time, purchaser giving his note with good security. Now is the time for farmers to supply themselves with potatoes at a reasonable price. The potato crop is seventy million bushels short this year and will sell for one dollar and fifty

cents a bushel in the spring Levi Barkley, opposite Romberg’s livery barn. 45 4

Clover Leaf herd of large English Berkshire, headed by Model 3374, Perfection 6578 and Pearl 6580, for sale. Address Willis L. Magner, Monroeville, Ind. 47-7 If you wish to reach Alaska it will be to your advantage to call upon nearest agent Clover Leaf rrnte. Through tickets via San Francisco or Portland at lowest rates. Full partiealars upon application to C. C. Jenkins, Geu’l Pass. Agent. Toledo, Ohio. For sale or trade: —I have the following propertie- for sale, or will trade for desirable prop rty in the city of Decatur: One farm of 60 acres, one farm of 100 acres, Two hou-es and lots in good shop town of 10,000 inhabitants, City property will trade for county property. Will sell on terms o suit the buyer. 43tf Richard K. Erwin. Time hangs heavy on the hands ot the prisoners in Michigan City penitentiary, says Warden Harley. “We now have only .308 men working on contracts, leaving 500 men idle,” says he. “If you could hear these men grasp the iron bars in the cages and plead with me to give them work when I pass, you would get an idea of what a terrible punishment is the idleness forced upon them. I have done all I could to relieve them. In tearing down the old chapel 1 had the men pull out the wire nails in the old timbers one by one, and then straighten them. In this way I secured six barrels of nails which was used over again m the old building. When the brick for the structure came I had it dumped in a far corner of the prison yard and then set the men carrying it a brick at a time to the bricklayers. If a man carried more than one brick, I sent him back with all he brought. I have adopted other schemes to keep them busy. For instance I got some old files and set a number of them polishing up the cell doors. It took one monte to polish a door and now they have a brilliant finish. By this time next year there will ba only 250 men engaged in contract work.”