Decatur Democrat, Volume 42, Number 17, Decatur, Adams County, 7 July 1898 — Page 3

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Additional Locals. YI-KI cures corns and warts. Its Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Baker of Gas City, spent the Fourth with friends here. Don Quinn. Chalmer Schaffer and Will Schrock spent the Fourth at Bluffton. John Fonner, A. J. Smith and L. D. Adams are enjoying an outing at Colen. Michigan, this week. Don’t stop him! He has a bad attack of colic and is making for Holthouse. Callow & Co’s drug store after a bottle of Foley’s Colic Cure 25c. Southern watermellons are already on the market and the home-grown ones will be along before many days. The crop is reported in good condition. The Berne Witness came out last week with a special Fourth of July edition. The paper was printed on red white and blue striped paper and was very neat. Earl Adams returned from Ann Arbor Fridav evening. On Thursdayevening Earl was one of the large law class who received diplomas from the famous college at that place. There is no ? about it. Noquestion indeed with those who have used it, but that Foley's Kidney Cure is absolutely reliable for all kidney and bladder diseases. Holthouse, Callow &Co. j During the last fifty years Great Britian has been at warmore frequently than any other nation. The total number of large and small wars waged during that time amounts to about fifty, or one a year. Quick relief for asthma. Foley’s Honey and Tar is guaranteed to give prompt relief in eases of Asthma. Do not class this with other medicines that have failed to give relief. Give it a trial. Holthouse, Callows & Co. j It requires a good deal of nerve on the part of an editor to be constantly telling the public of the advantages for trade his town possesses when there are merchants in the town who are too close to spend a dollar a year for advertising. This is time of the year when farmers should be on the look-out for all sorts of swindlers. The best way to keep shy of them is to take your local paper. It generally k*x>ps its readers informed as to the whereabouts of these sharks. When you take vacation the most necessary article to have with you (after your pocket book) is a bottle of Foley’s Colic Cure. It is an absolute prevention or cure of all derangments of the bowls caused by change of water. You are likely to need it. Holthouse Callow & Co. j The plum crop in this vicinity suffered much damage from the high winds of last week blowing off large quantities of the fruit. There are a great many remaining on the trees, however, and the crop will be a good one, if something else does not injure it. Bucklen's Arnica Salve. The best salve in the world for cuts, bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains, corns, and all skin eruptions, and positively cures piles or no pay required. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by Page Blackburn.

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Cigars are given to soldiers in the Italian army as part of their daily rations. Frank Barthel went toChickamaugga, Georgia, last Saturday, to visit the members of Co. B. Every barber shop in the city closed at 12 M. Monday in order that the boys could celebrate the Fourth. Many of our citizens took advantage of the low rates on all railroads over the Fourth and visited friends out of town. To Cure a cold in one day. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists, refund the money if it fails to cure. 25c. 26tf Mrs. John Tyndall and son, Dan, returned home Thursday evening after a several weeks visit with relatives in Holmes and Harrison counties, Ohio. Wonderful! Marvelous! are expressions frequently heard about Foley’s Kidney Cure. Do not fail to try this great remedy for all kindey trouble. Holthouse, Callow & Co. j The Spaniards are, perhaps, convinced by this time that a nation of ‘•money getters.” ‘-shop keepers,” and “pig stickers,” make pretty good fighters when the occasion demands. There is one part of the world at least where bicycles do not meet with approval. This is Morocco, where I the grand vizier has steadfastly tabooled the use of "such dangerous instruments.” Quite a crowd of young men cele- ! brated the fall of Santiago last Friday I night. Sky rockets, Romen candles I and fire crackers were important I features. A drunken man on a horse I however, was the drawing card. Roy Archbold returned from Ann Arbor, Michigan, Friday evening, where he has finished a three years' collegiate course in dentistry. Roy was right at the top of his class, and his friends are proud of his success, “I have used Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy in my family for years and always with good results,” says Mr. W. B. Cooper of El Rio, Cal. * “For small children we find it especially effective. For sale by Holthouse, Callow & Co. j We shall presently see the difference in the price of wheat in the far mer's bins, and in the elevators of gamblers and “merchants.” As the sound of the reapers and threshers grow louder, see if the price of the cereal don’t grow “lesser and lesser.” Jay Gould died in 1892, but his affairs are not entirely settled yet. . The state of New York placed a tax of §587,000 on his estate, which was ' contested by the executors. The case I is now before the Court of Appeals, which is probably the final step in its settlement. Here’s an item to make a Yankee feel proud. Every American vessel ; in the Manila fight was built in American shipyards by American workman and of American materials. Every gun was American-built, with an American at the butt-end of it during the engagement. Rheumatism Cured In a Day. ,‘Mystic Cure” for rheumatism and neuralgia radically cures in Ito 3 days. Its action upon the system is remarkable and mysterious. It re- | moves at once the cause and the disI ease immediately disappears. The first dose greatly benefits. 75 cents. Sold 1 by B. J. Smith, druggist, Decatur.

Attention, old soldiers. The manufacturers have instructed Holthouse, Callow & Co. to give a bottle of 25c size of Foley’s Colic Cure free to the first soldier of the civil war that applies for same. It is the great remedy for Chronic Diarrhoee, cramps, colic and bowl complaints. j Rome Citv For the season May 15 to Oct. 31, ’IB9B, the G. R. & I. will sell excursion tickets as follows: to parties of 1 to 9, §2.35, return limit Oct. 31; to parties of 10 to 49. $2.00, return limit three days from sale: to parties of 50 or more, $1.65, return limit three days from sale. Where’er you go, what’er you do 'tis best to keep this rule in view don't bite off more than you can chew and though your friends may 'he but few, stick to them always just like glue, as long as they will stick to you. To every obligation true, the just and righteous, to pursue, these are the things that you should do. A railroad official who keeps well informed regarding financial matters of railways says in the last year so many of the securities of roads have been purchased by capitalists of this country that several of the largest railway systems in which, two years ago, English inventors held the balance of power, are now controlled by American capitalists. Twenty cents a day is the Spanish soldier’s pay when he gets any. Onedollar a month contents the hard figting Turk. The $15.60 our private soldiers recieve is not such a pittance after all. This amount is over and above the clothing and food furnished by the government. The soldier’s pay may be fairly said to l>e equivalent to $35 a month in civil life. Many inquiries have been made as to the difference of time between this nation and the countries involved in the present war. We herewith publish the facts: Havana’s time is 30 minutes earlier than ours; Madrid is 4 hours and 42 minutes earlier; the Canaries are about 4 hours earlier; the Philipines are 11 hours and 51 minuts earlier. The largest stock yards in the world are in Chicago. The combined plants represent an investment of over $10,000,000. The yards contain over twenty miles of streets, twenty miles of water troughs, fifty miles of feeding troughs, and seventy-five miles of water and drainage troughs. The yards are capable of receiving and accommodating 20,000 head of cattle, 20,000 sheep, and 120,000 hogs. The volunteers who think that sls. 50 per month is small pay may find consolation in the knowledge that the common soldiers in Russia receives tcree rubles per annum about 32.25. The day nations consists of two pounds of suchary, which is a very coarse kind of bread made of cracked rye, baked hard at first, then cutintosmall pieces and further dried in a heated oven; a small quanity of salt and some soup. "A day that does not develop an American hero in these times,” says the Pittsburg Dispatch, “is not accounted worthy of much consideration.” The heroes who have chances for “development” receive their full due. but there are thousandsandthousands to whom such opportunity for spectacular development never comes, but who serve their country just as bravely and faithfully. Here’s to the undeveloped heroes. Notice. We, the undersigned, do hereby agree to refund the money on two 25-cent bottles of Baxter’s Mandrake Bitters, if it fails to cure constipation, billiousness, sick headache, or any of the diseases for which it is recommended. Also will refund the money on aSO cent bottle of Down's Elixir, if it does not cme any cough, cold, croup, whooping cough or throat or lung difficulty. We also guarantee one 25 cent bottle of either of the above to prove satisfactory or moneyrefunded Page Blackburn. Our baby has been continually troubled with colic and cholera infantom since his birth, and all that weeould do for him did not seem to give more than temporary relief, until j we tried Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera I and Diarrhoea Remedy. Since givI ing that remedy he has not l>een i troubled. We’want to give you this 1 testimonial as an evidence of dur grati- | tude, not that you need it to advertise your meritorious remedy. —G. M. Law, Leokuk. lowa. For sale by Holthouse Callow & Co. j The mode of dress in the Philippines is simple and cool in the extreme. The ordinary costume among well-to-do of all classesis made of whitesheeting. A coat and vest made to order costs but $2. The coat buttons up closely about the neck. A thick felt hat of broad brim, a pair of white canvas shoes a light undervest and socks and there is your Phillipine costume the year round. About eighteen of these suits are sufficient to a newcomer in ordinary standing, but he must expect often to wear two a day. Remarkable Rescue. Mrs. Micheal Curtain, Plainfield. 111., makes the statement, that she caught cold, which settled on her lungs; she was created for a month by her family physical!, but grew worse. He told her she was a hopeless victim of consumption and that no medicine could cure her. Her druggist suggested Dr. King’s New Discovery forconsumption;she bought a bottle and to her delight found herself benefited from first dose. She continued its use and after taking six bottles. found herself sound and well; now does her own housework, and is as well as she everwas.—Free trial bottle of this Great Discovery at Page Blackburn's drug store. Large bottles 50c and SI.OO,

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War Hap Free. Latest official indexed maps of the world, Cuba and Phillipine Islands for pocket use, issued by the Chicago & North-Western Railway, free, for two cent stamp. W. B. Kniskern, 22 Fifth avenue, Chicago, 111. Two years ago wild lettuce sprang up in the fields of some of our farmers and became so obnoxious by killing so much of the growing crops that extreme measures had to be used for its extermination. It is known as the Russian thistle and is hard to eradicate. It will cut its way through anywhere it happens to thrive and should be very carefully looked after. A good rule to follow in pronouncing the Spanish names that now form so large a part of the matter in the newspapers is to assume a confident look and pronounce them any old way you like in a firm, assured tone. More than likely this will convince the other fellow that you have investigated the matter, and he is not likely to attempt to correct you. Very low rates to Omaha. Neb. via the North-Western Line (Chicago & North-Western R'y. Excursion tickets at exceptionally low rates Omaha and return (affording a visit to Grand Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition, Omaha) will be sold July 12th, account of National Republican League meeting. For rates and other information ask your nearest ticket agent or write, A. H. Waggener, 7 Jackson place, Indianapolis, Ind., or W. B. Kniskern, 22 Fifth avenue, Chicago, 111. Ice cream is an older sweetmeat than many would suppose. In the beginning of the seventeenth century, goblets made of ice and also iced fruit, i. e.. fruit frozen over, were first brought to table. The lemonadesellers of Paris endeavored to increase the popularity of their wares by icing them; an Italian named Procopt Conteaux, in the year 1660, conceived the idea of converting such beverages entirely into ice. Ice cream, or iced “butter,” as it was first called, soon followed. It was first known in Paris in 1774. Persons troubled with diarrhoea will be interested in the experience of Mr. W. M. Bush, clerk of Hotel Dorrance. Providence, R. I. He says: “For several years I have been almost a constant sufferer from diarrhoea, the frequent attacks completely prostrating me and rendering me unfit for my duties at this hotel. About two years ago a traveling salesman kindly gave me a small bottle of Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. Much to my surprise and delight' its effects were immediate. Whenever I felt symptoms of the disease I would fortify myself against the attack with a few doses of this valuable remedy. The result has been very | sa.isfactory and almost complete relief from the affliction. For sale by. Holthouse, Callow & Co.

Robbed the Grave. A startling incident, of which Mr. John Oliver of Philadelphia, was the subject, is narrated by him as follows: I was in a most dreadful condition. My skin was almost yellow, eyes sunken, tongue coated, pain continually in back and sides, no appetite — gradually growing weaker day by day. Three physicans had given me up. Fortunately, a friend advised trying Electric Bitters: and to my great joy and surprise, the first bottle made a decided improvement. I continued their use for three weeks, and to my life, and now a well man. I know they saved my life, and robbed the grave of another victim.” No one should fail to try them. Only 50 cts per bottle at Page Blackburn’s. The following notice which may be interesting to our farmer readers was sent out by the Purdue University Agricultural Experimental Station: At this season of the year, young chickens and skim milk are more abundant on our American farms, than at any other time. In view of this fact, ’it would be well if more people growing chickens, would feed them some of this milk. Skim milk is a food which contains muscle and flesh forming material in a form to is? readily taken up and digested by the system. Milk that has beed skimmed has really lost but a small amount of its value as a food, the cream consisting of considerable fat. which in itself is the least nutritious part of the milk. The cheesy matter left in the milk, is its most valuable part for food, ami tends to produce a vigorous, healths ul growth, where fed calves, pigs and chickens. If more American pigsand chickens were fed less corn and more skim milk, it would not only be to their lasting benefit, but it would also eventually result in financial benefit to the farmer. With the purpose of studying the effect of skim milk diet on young growing chickens, an experiment was conducted at the Indiana Agricultural Experiment Station, in which two lots of chickens were under observation. There were ten chicks of two breeds in each lot. ranging from four to six week of age at the beginning of the experiment. Each lot received the same food, care and treatment, excepting one wa.s fed all the skim milk wanted, while the other was given none. The grain fed consisted of two parts crushed corn, one part bran and one part ground oats. They were also fed cracked bone, cabbage and lettuce. When the experiment began the total weight of one lot of chickens was only onehalf an ounce more than the other. The experiment lasted from July 11 to September 5. The results of the feeding show that the chickens fed milk and grain ate some considerable more grain than those receiving no milk. The results also show that the chickens of lot 1, receiving no milk, made an average weekly gain of 2.62 ounces, while those fed milk, made a

gain per week of 4.46 ounces, or over one-fourth pound. The chickens fed ' milk made a more rapid and uniform gain than those fed grain only. The general results of the feeding, in ev--1 ery way seemed to show the superior influence of the skim milk on the growth of the birds. These chickens • were raised on the Station gounds, • were uniform in character, and kept ’ under good conditions under confinement so that no food was availa- ‘ ble, excepting such as was given by I Mr. Anderson, who conducted the experiment. It would lie well if our poultry growers would place plenty' ! of skim milk available to the chickens. • If the vessel containing the milk was ’ thoroughly scalded daily to keep the sanitary conditions good, the feeding , of the milk would unquestionably re- . suit in profit. Further information on the subject will be forthcoming in . bulletin 71 of this Station, which will be mailed to all persons on the Sta- , tion mailing list, as well as to other applicants while the supply lasts. C. S. Plumb, Director. Wisconsin farm lands. There is a rush now to the choice unoccupied 1 farm lands along the line of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway in Central Wisconsin. Good quarter sections can now be had for 57.00 and upwards per acre, one-third cash, balance on long time at current rate of interest. For further particulars address W. E. Powell. General Immigration Agent, 410 Old Colony Bldg., Chicago, 111. A Handsome Book for a Two Cent Stamp—New Publication by the D. & C. Line. To those who contemplate taking a summer outing, we will mail for 2c. postage our illustrated pamphlet, which contains a large number of fine engravings of every summer resort between Cleveland, Toledo, Detroit and Picturesque Mackinac. It has many' artistic half tones of points of interest of the Upper Lake Region. Information regarding both short and extended tours, costs of transportation and hotel fare, etc. Address A. A. Schantz, G. P. A., Detroit, Mich. Very low rates to the booming South" on the first and third Tuesdays of each month, the Southern Railway have on sale low rate Home seeker’s and Settlers tickets to the many pointson its great system, which traverses the great southwestern states Kentucky. Tennessee. Virginia, f North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi. Now is the time to go to the southland. which is now on the eve of the greatest prosperity ever known. The Southern Railway is also the line to Asheville. N. C., “The Land of the sky” and many other delightful resorts lie along its line. Write for a Summer Home Folder, “The Land of the Sky,” and a large complete map or any information desired address Wm. H. Tayloe, Asst Gen’l Pass. Agt, 219 Fourth Avenue, Louisville, Ky