Decatur Democrat, Volume 42, Number 4, Decatur, Adams County, 7 April 1898 — Page 3

Addition* 1 Locals. YI KI <* ures corns aud warts- _ * , stews the best in town at °- vst f Aker's Bakers. High grade bicycles at a low pnce at E&h. Meyers & Co. 4-3 u>aa Fannie DeVilbiss spent Su X with friends at Bluffton. .. wagons and sumes, latest JXdlowS prices at Ellsworth, jfyers A Co. ' Our people fall out among them ” but let an outsider interfere 1 we solidify like gramte. Ta Cure a cold in one day. Take Tawtive Bromo Quinine Tablets. All Joists, refund the money if iHads t 0 cure. 25c. , life for 50e. Many people have ten cured of kidney diseases by takUT a soc lu’ttle of Foleys Kidney Cure. Holt h mse A Callow, a The man who puts his spring clothes nn simply because of a little mild Lther in March is an uncompromZ canidate for quinine or a tombstone. t Rheumatic, a never failing cure for rheumatism in all stages and connitinns Trv it and be cured. Manu- ? tundby the T. Rheumatic Cure Co., Huntington, Ind. For sale by all druggists. Young Huffman, the fifteen yearold at Ossian charged with rape, was fenced Friday by Judge Vaughn to the reform school. His sentence berins April 12 at which time his father will accompany him to Plainfield. A patent was recently granted to a Nebraska man for a device whereby the milkmaid is relegated tothestatus of a back number. It makes practicable the milking of a whole stable full of cows bv machines, with verylittle trouble, by the person in charge. If vou wish to reach Alaska it will lie to your advantage to call upon nearest agent Clover Leaf route. Through tickets via San Francisco or Portland at lowest rates. Full particulars upon application to C. C. Jenkins, Gen’l Pass. Agent, Toledo, Ohio. If the country editor were tosnapat all the great inducements held out he would soon be a millionaire. If he ran a pafier according to the popular notion he would be in the poor house. If he published half the items that are sent him he would be in jail one* half the time and in the hospital the other half.

The first bridges were of wood, and the earliest of which we have any account was built in Rome fifty-five rears before the birth of Christ. The next was erected by Julius Caesar for the passage of his army across the Rhine. Trojan’s great bridge over the Danube, 4,770 feet long, was made of timber with stone piers.

Special Easter Sale. Saturday, ftpril 9th. Meq’s, Worrieq's £ Children's ....Shoes.... OUR ftll bright qevV goods; latest styles aqd patterns, CHOICE, $1.79. MoUgey Sc Locße. Efroltholise old Stand.

It is said that at least one hundred citizens of southern Indiana are now digging gold in the Klondike. Glad tidings to asthma suffers. Foley s Honey and Tar gives ouick and positive relief in all cases. Holt house & Callow. .. cl An eccentric Michigan farmer died last week. His will, which has just been probated, leaves the greater wart of his $15,000 fortune to Barnum & Baily s Circus. If matters are not pushed along a little more rapidly some fear that this war agitation may not end in time for the newspapers to give proper attention to the approaching base ball season. It is easier to admire a great man than to adopt for ourselves those principles which made him great. Merchants envy their successful competitors yet hesitate to compete with them ill the use of newspaper space for advertising. There are three Tennysons of the late poet laureate’s family, and generation yet living—two sisters, the youngest in her eighty-first year, and Arthur Tennyson, nearly eighty-four, Fredrick, who died a few days ago, was in his ninety-first year. Farm for Sale.—A well improved farm, known as the Bunn farm, with thirty acres of heavy timber, located two miles east of Ossian, in Wells county. For particular call on or address W. H. Ruprioht, Ossian, Ind. 44-3 mos Italy has paid SI,OOO for the large mosaic recently discovered at Terre Annunziata at the foot of Vesuvius. It contains seven male figures, with an acropolis like that at Athens in the background, and probably Represents Plato's Academy. A splendid border of flowers and fruit incloses it. A tax ferret has added over $700,000 worth of property to the tax duplicate in Elkhart county. One man in Jackson township has shelled out about $1,200 in taxes, and the total collections reach almost SIO,OOO. This money came from persons who failed to give the assessors a full list of all their property. How to Look Good. Good looks are really more than skin deep, depending entirely on a healthy condition of all the vital organs. If the liver is inactive, you have a bilious look; if your stomach is disorded, you have a dyspeptic look; if your kidneys are affected, you have a pinched look. Secure good health, and you will surely have good looks. “Electric Bitters” is a good Alterative and Tonic. Acts directly on the stomach, liver and kidneys, purifies the blood, cures pimples, blotches and boils, and gives a good complexion. Every bottle guaranteed. Sold at Page Blackburn’s drug store. 50 cents per bo;tle.

John L. Sullivan offers to raise a reigiment of prize fighters. It is his scheme to talk the Spaniards todeath. A beacon of hope. To those afflicted with kidney or bladder diseases is Foley’s Kidney Cure. Guaranteed. Holthouse & Callow. a Every year p<<ople grow more in favor of good roads. Where material for making them is abundant, and as it is in Indiana, the best of roads should be built. Ossian will not have two telephone systems. As soon as the Bell people heard that an independent telephone line was looking over the field, toll rates were cut from 25 cents to 15 cents. The property destruction by water this spring has been very great both east and west. The damages in Ohio are estimated at ten millions of dollars, while in this state they also reach a large sum. Have you had the grip? If you have, you probably need a reliable medicine like Foley’s Honey and Tar to heal your lungs and stop the racking cough incidental to this disease. Holthouse & Callow. a A pure whiskey agrees with any food, in fact aids digestion. It tones the stomach, increases the flow of the gastric juicesand so promotes strength and flesh. A pure whiskey like Harper Whiskey. Sold by Luttman & Burdge, Decatur, Ind. A noval entry of dismissal of a criminal case appears on a justice’s docket in Chesterfield. The defendant, charged with assault and battery, died. The entry reads: “This case is venued to the court of glory by the angel of death, where God is the judge.” H(tmeseekers’ Excursion.—Chicago & Erie railroad to the south and west. Agents of the Erie Lines will sell home-seekers’ tickets to the south and west at one fare for the round trip, plus $2.00. Tickets on sale April sth and 19th, 1898. For information, inquire of your nearest Erie agent. The man who sits down in the corner of a lot'and waits for an old cow to back up to him to be milked, will probably go without milk all his days. The man who says, -‘give us this day our daily bread” and sits down to the table and waits for the Lord to come and lay down the loaf in front of him, starves to death. Even in those soul harrowing senatorial descriptions of conditions in suffering Cuba, there must be left much to the imagination. Os the utter horror of the conditions which prevail there at our doors, there is much which must remain out of print and untold in public places. How much longer will these conditions be £ permitted to exist ? A few months ago, Mr. Byron Eve ry of Woodstock, Mich., w-as 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 Smith & Yager. f The Krag-Jorgensen rifle is the weapon with which the United States army is now equipped. The weapon is sighted fori,Boo yards, will carry a bullet three miles and is a “killer” at two miles, The bullet discharged from it go at a velocity of 2,200 feet a second. It is breech-loading gun, carrying cartridges in its magazine. The gun is made at Springfield, Mass. About half of the country schools have closed and most of the others will end next month. Owing to the economical expenditure money allowed them some townsliip trustees are able to hire their teachers for several weeks longer than others. In most places the last day of school is one of ceremony and a feast in which the pupils, their relatives and friends take part. A queer (?) medicine. There is a medicine whose proprietors do not claim to have discovered some hitherto unknown ingredient, or that it is a cure-all. This honest Medicine only claims to cure certain diseases, and that its ingredients are recognized by the most skilled physicians as being the best for kidney and and bladder diseases. It is Foley's Kidney Cure. Holthouse & Callow. a Goto Mrs. Della Sheets’ milliner store at Berne. Indiana, to buy your spring hats. Prices lowest. Largest stock toselect from. I make a specialtv of trimmed hats where another such a line cannot be produced in Adams county. You will lx* surprised when you ask the price, and will go home in a good humor. Yours to serve, Mrs. Della Sheets, 3.5 Berne, Ind. Reduced rates to Pacific Coast. Seattle, Portland, Tacoma, Spokane, Helene, Butte, Garrison, and other points in Oregon. W ashington, Montana and California, may be reached at extremely low rates via Clover Leaf Route. Choice of routes beyond St. Louis with through tourist and Palace sleepers at small cost additional. Call on nearest agent or address C. C. Jenkins, Gen’l Pass. Agent, Toledo, Ohio. 24

According to ihe recent calculations of Prof. J. C. Kapteyn, of Amsterdam, 900,000 miles a day is the velocity with which the sun and its planets are speeding through the space in a northerly direction. The brightest star in the heavens toward which we are going is the brilliant Vega in theeonstellation Lyra,’ a sun unquestionably much greater than ours. Every year, by Prof. Kapteyn's estimate, we draw some three hundred million miles nearer that star.

SHIRTWAISTS ■ - Are here, and we are showing the latest effects. ASK TO SEE .1 Percule Waist, 50c. Madras Waist, 75c. Organdies Waist, SI.OO If you want a waist, don’t waste your time elsewhere, but come direct to the Boston Store. READY MADE SKIRTS AT A PRICE

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For Sale or Trade. —I have the following properties for sale, or will trade for desirable property in the city of Decatur: One farm of 60 acres, one farm of 100 acres. Two houses and lots in good shop town of 10,000 inhabitants. City property will trade for country property. Will sell on terms to suit the buyer. 43tf Richard K. Erwin. There is something exceedingly amusing in the life of every newspaper man, says the Auburn Dispatch, if down beneath the surface of life’s tragic events he can see the humorous side of his fretful existence. Their is hardly a man without a grievance which he wants aired in the paper. He would not sign his name to it so ten dollars, yet he expects the editor to compose the article, set it up and stand all the responsibility for nothing. Mr. Ward L. Smith, of Frederickstown, Mo., was troubled with chronic 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 Smith & Yager. f The latest information with reference to rates for tickets, railroad train schedule, sailing dates of steamers, cost of freight per ton, etc., to Alaska and Klondike gold fields will be cheerfully given upon application to ticket agents of the Chicago & Erie R. R. Are you going? If so, you may find it pleasant to join one of the numerous parties we are constantly sending, Ftdl particulars will lie furnished bysending your name and address advising date you wish to start to W. S. Morrison, T. P. A., Huntington, Indiana, or to F. W. Buskirk, A. G. P. A., Erie R. R., Chicago, 111. On April 5 and 19, 1898, the Chicago. Milwaukee & St. Paul R’y will sell round-trip excursion tickets (good 21 days) from Chicago. Milwaukee and other points on its line, to a great many points in South and North Dakota and and other western and southwestern states, at greatly reduced rates. Take a trip west and see what an amount of good land can lie pur chased for the least money. Further information as to rates, routes, prices of farm lands, etc., may be obtained on application to any coupon ticket agent or by addressing the following named persons: W. E. Powell, Gen’l Immigration Agent, 410 Old Colony Bldg., Chicago; H. F. Hunter, Immigration Agt. for South Dakota, 291 Dearborn St., Chicago or George H. Heafford. General Passenger Agent, Chicago, Illinois.

OBUYS a black brocade or novelty skirt, tafetta lined, velvetene bound. d.,) BUYS a Lizard effect brocade, fancy ePu.’JV taffetta lined and faced IIA HUYS an all silk brocade, best taffetta •I.VV any facing.

“Faust,” the most instructive play in America, will be presented at the Bosse Opra House under the management of Geo. A. Mansfield. Decatur and surroundings should prove their appreciation of manager Bosse’s effort in securing this great attraction by Giving him a large audience. This company carries its own scenery and electrict effects. No introduction is needed to the star, Mr. Porter White, as he is known throughout thecountry as “ The Greatest Living Mephisto.” I have given Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy a fair trial and consider it one of the very best remedies for croup that I have ever founk. One dose has always been sufficient, although I use it freely. Any cold my children contract yields very readily to this medicine." I can conscientiously recommend it for croup and colds in children. —Geo. E. Wolff, Clerk of the Circuit Court, Fernandina, Fla. Sold by Smith & Yager. f How Father Time cools the feverish ambition of the Iwy who sets out to scale the dizzy height of fame’s ladder was never more clearly set forth than in the illustration of the boy who, at the age of eighteen, spends his time figuring on how to conquer the world; after a few years you find him drawing plans for much smaller contracts, later still he would feel satisfied if he could conquer himself, and itfrequently takes all the help of religious influence—and sometimes the Keely cure —to do that.

In Kokomo a stone pile now is in operation which proves to be a good thing and comes as near solving the tramp question as anything can. It has accomplished great good, as the following from the Kokomo News will show: -‘The stone pile has not only served to rid the city of tramps, but it lias been the means of terrorizing certain lawbreakers in the city, who have been committing certain little misdemeanors with impunity and for no other purpase than to serve a jail sentence and thus lie boarded free for thirty or sixty days, but when work stares them in the face they go to the ropes before the call of time. Now is the time to go South. The Southern Railway, in connection with the Queen & Crescent route, is the way to get there. The only line running vestibule trains to Florida. The fastest time ever made—only 25 hours Louisville or Cincinnati to Jackson ville. No change of cars. Berths reserved in advance. Excursion tickets on sale daily to principal resorts south. Special low rate excursions first and third Tuesday in each month from Louisville or Cincinnati. Get your tickets, taking you over the Southern Railway and you will never regret it. For information, good maps, rates and tickets, apply to Wm. H. Tayloe, Asst Gen’l Pass. Agt., 216 Fourth Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky. C. A Baird, Trav. Pass. Agt. Louisville, Kentucky.

The Time of Renewal.

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beautiful season so disagreeable a malady as the so-called “spring fever’’ should unfit a great many people to enjoy the unaccustomed sunshine and freshness that prevails. What is spring fever? It is that sluggishness and irritability which eveiyone takes a spring tonic for. “Bad blood”some people call it. A great deal of “blood medicine” is sold in the spring of the year. The blood, the vigor, the health must be renewed, with the trees and Howers and grass. The principal difficulty is, which of the numerous spring tonics is the best? Which will cure permanently and remove quickly all the disagreeable symptons? Read what Mrs. Adlin Adams, Crafton, Ky,. says of Pe-ru-na: “I was about to give, up all hopes when I concluded to take Pe-ru-na. I believe it is the best medicine in the world. I can't speak too highly of it.” A book containing several hundred letters similar to the one from which this is an extract, will be sent free to any addressbythe Pe-ru-na Manufacturing Company, Columbus, Ohio. “Faust” is certainly the strongest, most instructive and entertaining play written. It will lie present’ 1 at the Bosse Opra House Monday April 11, under the management of Geo. A. Mansfield, and no one should fail to see it. This company carry their own scenery, which is said to be very fine, and electrical effects which are startling in the extreme. Porter White, the star of the company, has made the most thrilling success of bis career as “Mephisto.” His fine vigorous acting, handsome presence and strong voice contribute much tothe successof the play. He will have the support of an excellent company. Seats on sale at Holthouse & Callow’s drug store. Ax Enterprising Druggist. There are few men more wide awake and enterprising than Page Blackburn who spare no pains to secure the best of everything in their line for their many customers. They now have the valuable agency for Dr. Kings New Discovery for consumption, coughs and colds. This wonderful remedy that is producing such a furor all over the country by its many startling cures. It absolutely cures asthma, bronchitis, hoarseness and all affections of the throat, chest and lungs. Call at above drug store and get a trial bottle free or a regular size 50c and SI.OO. Guaranteed to cure or price refunded.

All nature is renewed in the springtime. The sky takes on a fresher color, the trees don their Easter ga rm ent severything seems glad and happy, It seems a pity that at such a