Decatur Democrat, Volume 43, Number 3, Decatur, Adams County, 30 March 1899 — Page 3

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Additional Locals. Our officers are still waging a war against the tramps. Miss Mena Myers is at home from Delaware, Ohio, where she has lx-en attending college. Miss Bessie Coleriek, of Fort Wayne, attended the reception here last'Thursday evening. The wedding of Miss Susie Calderwood to Mr. W. S. Porter is announced to take place in this city next Sunday. John S. Bowers and R. K. Allison returned home the latter part of last week from a several week’s tour of the south. Dave Rice and Frank France, two former Decatur boys, were with the Fort Wayne city orchestra, who furnished music for the dance Thurs day evening. Before the discovery of One Minute Cough Cure, ministers were greatly disturbed by coughing congregations. No excuse for it now. Page Blackburn. ts If a man's relatives don’t want to spend the money on one, they sav that his life was such that his memory will be kept green without erecting a monument. The tramps confined in the Adams county jail were again put to work on the streets last Thursday afternoon. They will work ratherthan have a ball and chain attached to them. "Give me a liver regulator and 1 can regulate the world,” said a genius. The drt ’gist handed him a bottle ot DeWitt's Little Earlyßisers. the famous little pills. Page Blackburn, ts The Bloomington Glee Club, which gave an entertainment here Thursday evening, left for Fort Wayne Friday morning. The boys are a nice crowd of fellows and are good musicians. Hobson has been advanced 250 points in the navy for his heroism. This, together with some thousand kisses from the loveliest women in the country, is pretty good reward, even for the Merrimac affair. Going down hill. People suffering from kidney diseases feel a gradual but steady loss of strength and vitality. They should lose no time in trying Foley’s Kidney Cure, a guaranteed preparation. Holthouse, Callow & Co. m D. F. L. Skinner, a bankor of Valparaiso, has offered that city SIO.(XX) for a franchise to build and operate a waterworks system therein. Mr. Skinnar is a man of means and his proposition is cash down. Franchises are valuable. A Valpraiso clerk, in a fit of absent mindness, sold a sl4 plow for 30 cents. The farmer paid the bill, loaded the plow on his wagon and road triumphantly away. Replevin papers have baen issued to recovea the implement. In Paris markets the eggs are dated and one pays according to the freshness, so that it is possible to be certain of newly-laid eggs; or if it is necessary to be economical, yesterday’s eggs or the day’s before are offered at a reduction. Some one has figured that it will be neccessary to translate the Bible into ten new languages for the accomodation of the inhabitants of the Philippine islands. What a pity this could not have been done for them before this beginning of their extermination. An exchange remarks that "some men never look real happy until after they utter a few big words in society.’ This practically amounts to the same as saying that some men are never so happy as when they make other people miserable and themselves ridiculous. A wester paper makes the following gentle observation: “There are thousands of men. who if they had devoted to sheep or poultry one-half the time and energy they have wasted, in pursuit of some thousand dollar office, would be in a position today where they would not take an office as a gift.” The time of year is again near at hand, when the township assessor will be around to ascertain the amount of your earthly possessions. A value will not only be placed on personal property, but upon real estate as well. This is according to law that real estate must be appraised. As the season of the year when pneumonia, lagrippe. sore throat, coughs, colds, catarrh, bronchitis and lung troubles are to be guarded against, nothing "is as fine a substitute,,' will “answer the purpose.” or is “just as good" as One Minute Cough Cure. That is the one infallable remedy for all lung, throat or bronchial troubles. Insist vigorously upon having it if “something else” is offeerd you. Pageßlaekburn. ts

YI-KI cures corns and warts. Its •I. W Place was a business visitor at Wilshire last Thursday. Portland is said to be undergoing an epidemic of measles at present. Barney Kalverisky left for Fort Wayne last Saturday, where he is attendingthe Jewish Passover this week. Humanity is unequally divided between t hose who can’t stand prosperity and those who can’t get any to Stand. Work on the excavation for the cellar of the Studabaker-Allison building was begun last Friday morning and will be pushed along rapidlv. Indiana is one of the few states that has a compulsory educational law, enforcing attendance of children from eight to fourteen years of age. Foley’s Honey and Tar Cough Medicine is unquestionably the best remedy for the throat and lungs. Pleasant to take and is guaranteed. Holthouse 1 Callow & Co. m The professional ball players who belong to national league teams are nearly all in south warming up to be in the condition when the umpire shouts “play ball.” Some philosopher has made this discovery: The difference between the poor man and a rich man is, that the rich man gets his ice in the summer and the poor man in winter. If you have had the grip you need Foley's Honey and Tar to heal your lungs and stop the racking cough incidental to the disease. Guaranteed 25 and 50c. Holthouse, Callow & Co. m A new law authorizes the use of voting machines in Indiana, and at the next election some of the machines will be tried. An Indianapolis firm is arranging to manufacture them. A town school board in Ohio is proposing to furnish costumes for all graduates to wear at commencements. If this is done there are some who would be willing to “gradurte” about twice a year with this consideration. Cal. Sinninger of Co. E. late proprietor and editor of the Warren Independent is now confined in the fort at Matanzas waiting the action of a general court martial. He is charged with writing articles derogatory to an officer. Not one child dies where ten formerly died from croup. People have learned the value of One Minute Cough Cure and use it for severe lung and throat troubles. It immediately stops coughing. It never fails. Page Blackburn. ts Brvan's reply to Bob Ingersoll’s statement that' the silver champion had played his hand lost and is now a back number is brief. He says that inasmuch as Ingersoll does not believe in a future his predictions amount to nothing. It is estimated that a careful person can go from Decatur to Paris, see the great 1900 exposition and return for S2OO. As a large number of Decatur people cross the water each year, it is probable that quite a number of them will visit the exposition. Printing that is not attractive had better never have been printed. The impression your printing makes yonr customers is the impression your customers get of you and your style of business. Are you up to-date? Give us your work and you will be. Walhalla, N. D„ Mar. 15, 1898. For loss of appetite, general dibility and convalescence after any illness, there is nothing so beneficial as Dr. J. H. McLean’s Strengthing Cordial and Blood Purifier. I am enjoying vigorous health from its use. E. A. Sharpe. Eor sale by Holthouse, Callow & Co. m If vou would get the most for your money watch the advertising columns of your home paper. The man who pays good hard money to invite you his store is not going to beat you in qualtity or price. He cannot make the price of his advertisement out of one sale but hopes to keep your trade for the future. Some of the spring styles for men s clothing will attract considerable attention, asserts an exchange, especially the trousers, which will becreased to 'within four inches of the bottom, below which the crease will be pressed out. Blue serge will be worn more this season than before, and vests will be cut high. Recommended for lagrippe. N. Jackson, Danville. 111. writes: My daughter had a severe attack of la-o-rippe seven years ago and since then whenever she takes a cold a terrible cough settles on her lungs. U e tried a great many remedies without giving relief. She tried Foley’s Honey and Tar which cured her. She has never been troubled with a cough since. 2b cents. Holthouse, Callow & Co. m

The big Studababer sugar camp near Bluffton, is in full force now. There are 1500 trees and all have been tapped. It takes 50 to 60 gallons of sap to make one gallon of pure syrup and the Studabaker camp averages about twenty gallons of syrup a day. The annual output is about 300 gallons of molasses. Rheumatism Cured in a Day. “Mystic Cure” for rheumatism and neuralgia radically cures in 1 to 3 days. Its action upon the system is remarkable and mysterious. It removes at once the cause and the disease immediately disappears. The first dose greatly benefits. 75 cents. Sold by Smith & Yager, Druggists, Decatur. The summer days of May and June will bring no joy to the boys who had planned to while away the time with their poles and lines on the banks of i the fishing stream. It will be no use for them to plan all week for Saturday, nor will it do any good to play hookey and go fishing. The law make them liable to arrest if they are caught fishing in any way in these months. For frost bites, burns, indolent sores, eczema, skin diseases, and especially piles, DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve stands first and best. Look out for dishonest people who try to imitate and counterfeit it. It’s their endorsement of a good article. Worthless goods are not imitated. Get DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve. Page Blackburn ts A Michigan surgeon is reported to have made an anatomical discovery that will result in the abolishment of headaches. If the discovery should prove a success and is within reach, fear of a swelled head as a result of emptying too many flowing bowls will no longer wield a restraining influence upon persons who enjoy filling them.selves to the chin with spirits formenti. Given up by four doctors Beaver Dam, Ohio. My daughter, after being treated by four doctors and being given up for lost, a neighbor recommended Foley’s Kidney Cure. Today she is able to walk several miles without fatigue. I feel we would have lost her if it was not for your medicine. Respectfully. Mrs. j. M. Bailey. Holthouse, Callow & Co. m A county correspondent writes: “Not much wire fence in being built this spring owing to the infant industry, the wire trust, running that article up beyond the reach of the farmers. If tire farmers were to organize and control the price of cereals they would be termed anarchists and the government would confiscate their property.” Such is the testimony of thousands concerning Brown's Cure, a Perfect Family medicine, the best remedy known for the liver, kidneys and bowels, a positive cure for dyspepsia and all bowel troubles, sick headache, nervousness, constipation and loss of sleep. If you suffer try this great remedy and find health and happiness. Sold by Page Blackburn. Price 5c cts. Yi-Ki cures corns and warts. 117 By an act of the last legislature it is made “unlawful for any person to kill any wild bird, other than a game bird, or purchase, offer for sale any such wild bird after it has been killed or to destroy the nests of the eggs of any wild bird.” The penalty for violation is a fine of not less than $lO nor more than SSO, to which may be added imprisonment for not less than ten nor more than thirty days. Rev. E. Edwards, pastor of the English Baptist Church at Minersville, Pa., when suffering with rheumatism, was advised to try Chamberlain’s Pain Balm. He says: "A few applications of this liniment proved of great service to me. It subdued the inflammation ami relieved the pain. Should any sufferer profit bygiving Pain Balm a trial it will please me.” For sale by Holthouse, Callow & Co. ‘ m France has now a law by which marriage may be dissolved without cost to the applicants. The Paris divorce court devotes Thursdays to gratuitous decrees. On one day recently 294 couples were divorced during a session of four hours, an average of more than one divorce a minute. The applicants belong to the working class, in which divorces were infrequent before the passage of the new law. Bismark’s Iron Nerve Was the result of his splendid health. Indomitable will and treni endous energy are not found where stomach, liver kidneys and bowels are out of order. If you want these qualities and the success they bring, use Dr. King’s New Life Pills. Thes develop every power of brain and body. Only 25c at Page Blackburn’s drug store. Not a cast iron stomach. Os course you haven’t. No one need have. Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin is a remedy prepared on purpose for stomach troubles, weak stomack, sour stomach, big stomach or little stomach, or any irregularities caused from indigestion or constipation. They can be permanently and throughly cured by the use of Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin, which is made in three sizes, lOcts, 50cts, and SI.OO. and is sold by Holthouse, Callow & Co. m A Kansas hog raiser, giving his experience in feeding hogs, says five acres of sweet potatoes fatten more hogs than twenty-five of corn. He had sixty hogs that would yield him 18,000 pounds of pork, and estimates that the cost of their feed is not more than $26 in actual cash for labor and exjienses in his sweet potatopatch. He also claims that this food imparts a flavor to the meat that far surpasses that of corn for any animals.

W. H. Niblick and F. M. Schirmyer were business visitors at Geneva last Friday. Mrs. W. J. Vesey, of Fort Wayne, spent Sunday in the city the guest of relatives and friends. Volcanic Eruptions Are grand, but skin eruptions rob life of joy. Bucklen's Arnica Salve, cures them: also old. running and fever sores, ulcers, boils, felons, corns warts, cuts, bruises, burns, scalds, chapped hands, chilblans. Best pile cure on earth. Drives out pains and aches. Only 25 cts. a box. Cure guaranteed. Sold by Page Blackburn. It is estimated that it will take the 160th Indiana only about two weeks to make up their books, receive discharges and be started homeward afterthey oncereachthe United States. Therefore April 15 will about see the boys home. If they are discharged at Savannah each man will receive travel pay sufficient to send him home any route he ehoose’s almost. In addition the new army law provides for an extra month’s pay. “I Was Weak, Nervous and Run Down.” I want to testify tothe good Brown’s Cure has done me. I was weak, nervous and run down in vitality when I commenced taking it; it has done everything for me and I am now a new being. A number of my friends also speak with gratitude of the good your medicine has done them - it is indeed a grand remedy. Yours Gratefully, Mrs. L. V. Criig, 907 Mass. Ave., Indianapolis, Ind. Cincinnati, Richmond & Ft. Wayne Railroad Company. Richmond, Ind.. March 6, 1899. The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Cincinnati, Richmond and Ft. Wayne Raliroad Companywill be held at the office of the Com pany in the city of Richmond, Indiana, on Thursday, April 6, 1899, at 10 o'clock a. in., for the election of eleven directors and the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the meeting. C. B. Liggett, 52-6 Secretary. It will cost you more to build a house this year than it did last. Lumber dealers have been notified of another advance of 50 cents per 1,000 feet on common lumber and $1 per I, feet on all good lumber. This is the third advance since the Ist of January, and lumber is from $3 to $5 higher per thousand feet since the year was ushered in. Lath and shingles have advanced from 20 to 25 cents per 1.000, and everything that enters into the construction of a house has advanced. I have been afflicted with rheumatism for fourteen years and nothing seemed to give any relief. I was able to be around all the time, but constantly suffering. I had tried everything I could hear of and at last was told to try Chamberlain’s Pain Balm, which I did, and was immediately relieved and in a short time cured I am happy to say that it has not since returned. Josh. Edgar, Germantown, Cal. For sale by Holthouse, Callow & Co. ' m An exchange tells what is necessary for the proper reception of the assessor when that important official comes around: This is the year when the assessor fixes the value of real estate and improvement for taxation during the next four years and an exchange says don’t sod your yard, don't whitewash your hen coop, turn the kids loose in the front yard and let ’em fix the flour bed fix them right, throw- the potato pollings on the sidewalk in front the house, run down a few strings on the piano and softsoap the front steps. Havejthe premises looking asbumy as possible, its to your own interest. No Right to Ugliness. The woman who is lovely in face, form and temper will always have friends, but one who would be attractive must keep her health. If she is weak, sickly and all run down, she will be nervous and irritable. If she has constipation or kidney trouble, her impure blood will cause pimples, blotches, skin eruptions and a wretched complexion. Electric Bitters is the best medicine in the world to regulate stomach, liver and kidneys and to purify the blood. It gives strong nerves, bright eyes, smooth, velvety skin, rich complexion. It will make a good-looking, woman of run-down invalid. Only 50 cents at Page Black burn's drug store. You may want to keep posted on the new dog law. so we give it to you in all its severity: The new dog law provides that all dogs that are alive on April Ist. will cost their owners one dollar each. Heretofore, if a man did not want to pay for his dog, he could take him out in the back yard, shoot him and thus satisfy the assessor. If the dog is living on April Ist the dollar will have to be paid no matter if the dog dies the next minute. Being [thus forwarned. the reader, if he has a dog, should be prepared to “put up” the dollar when the assessor comes around or put the dog out of the way before the month of April is ushered in. State of Ohio, City of Toledo. Lucas County. Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney A Co., doing business in the City of Toledo. County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of One Hundred Dollars for each and every case of Catarrah that cannot be cured by the use of Hall’s Catarrah Cure. F. J. Cheney. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this 6th day of December. A. D. 1886. A. \V. Gleason, (seal) Notary Public. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts directly on the blood and mucous surface of the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. Cheney & Co., [Toledo, O. Sold by druggists 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best, m

His Life Was Saved Mr. J. E. Lilly, a prominent citizen of Hannibal, Mo., lately had a wonderful deliverance from a frightful death. In telling of it he says: “I was taken with Typhoid Fever, that ran into pneumonia. My lungs became hardened. I was so weak I couldn’t even sit up in bed. Nothing helped me. I expected to soon die of consumption, when I heard of Dr. King’s New Discovery. One bottle gave great relief. I continued to ,use it, and now am well and strong. I can't say too much in its praise.” This marvelous medicine is the quickest cure in the world for all throat and lung trouble. Regular size 50 cents and SI.OO. Trial bottles free at Page Blackburn’s drug store; every bottle guaranteed. Obituary. Elizabeth Dunafin Crist, was born in Fairfield county, Ohio, on the 25th day of June 1840, and departed this life March 24, 1899, aged fifty-eight years, eight months and twenty-nine days. At the age of six years she moved with her parents to Adams county, Indiana. She was married to Elias Crist October 27, 1859, to this union was born six children, four sons and two daughters, one of which has proceeded her. For nearly forty years she has been a constant companion and helpmate to her bereaved husband. She leaves to mourn their loss a loving husband, three sons and two daughters, an aged sister and a host of friends. With Mrs. Crist has fallen a faithful wife, a patient mother and a highly esteemed friend and neighbor. Funeral services were conducted at the home by Rev. N. P. Barton on Sunday morning at ten o’clock. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. This remedy is intended especially for conges, colds, croup, whooping cough and influenza. It has become famous for its cures of the diseases, over a large part of the civilized world. The most flattering testimonials have been recieved, giving accounts of its good works; of the aggravating and persistent coughs it has cured; of severe colds that have yielded promptly to its soothing effects, and of the dangerous attacks of croup it has cured, often saving the life of the child. The extensive use of it for whooping cough has shown that it robs that disease of all dangerous consequences, Sold by Holthoue, Callow & Co. m Last weeks issue of the Arthur Illinois Graphic says: “The great and only “Immortal j. N.” is again on the road “lifting the veil” and removing the presure.” He lived through the recent spell of sickness with the press, pulpit and medical profession all against him and is playing the same old game among his friends. “J. N.” left Urbana last Friday for the east and it is thought he is visiting relatives in Ohio. The veritable old crank has failed to visit Arthur in the past two years and we hope that a few more may pass by before he makes another formal call.” His Wife couldn’t Cook. So he declared to apply for a divorce, for he considered he had good grounds therefore. But the Judge, after hearing his complaint, scratched the bald place on the top of his head, looked over his specs at the poor fellow, shifted the quid of tobacco to the other side of his mouth, and said: “Youdon’t need no divorce. You go home and ask your wife to forgive you. On the way stop at Holthouse, Collow & Co. and buy a bottle of Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin; take it according to directions and if you can’t eat anything in less than a week from biled cabbage up, come up to me and I will give you a divorce and alimony both.” m According to a recent change in the pension law if a pensioner is a drunkard, or for any other cause fails to support his family, the pension examiner is allowed to take one-half of his pension and give it direct to the family. .

A SMALL SPOT MAY BE CANCER. MfiQT VIfiIEAIT PAQFQ UAUu The greatest care should be given to IYIUuI VIULLiII UAuLu nAVu any little sore, pimple or scratch which shows no disposition to heal under ordinADDEAQCH AT FID2T AQ ary treatment. No one can tell how soon these AITEAnCU Al rind I Au will develop into Cancer of the worst type. So many people die from Cancer simply bell FQr PIVIPI cause they do not know just what the disease is; IVII.nL rIIYIILLU) they naturally turn themselves over to the doctors, and are forced to submit to a cruel and dangerous operation—the only treatment which the doctors know for Cancer. The disease promptly returns, however, and is even more violent and destructive than before. Cancer is a deadly poison in the blood, and an operation, plaster, or other external treatment can have no effect whatever upon it. The cure must come from within—the last vestige of poison must be eradicated. OMr. Wm. Walpole, of Walshtown, S. D., says: “A k little blotch about the size of a pea came under my left W eye. gradually growing larger, from which shooting pains K at intervals ran in all directions. I became greatly alarmed P and consulted a good doctor, who pronounced it Cancer, r and advised that it be cut out, but this I could not consent to. I read in my local paper of a cure effected by S. S. S., and decided to try it. It acted like a charm, the Cancer becoming at first irritated, and then discharging ver T freely. This gradually grew less and then discon MMEwy tinued altogether, leaving n small scab which soon drop- . ped anf i now on 'y a healthy little scar remains where what threatened to destroy my life once held full sway.’’ liLSffissSi: \ Positively the only cure for Cancer is Swift's Specific— S. S. S. FOR THE BLOOD —because it is the only remedy which can go deep enough to reach the root of the disease and force it out of the system permanently. A surgical operation does not reach the blood—the real seat of the disease- because the blood can not be cut aicai/. Insist upon S. 8. S.: nothing can take its place. S. S. S. cures aiso any case of Scrofula, Eczema, Rheumatism, Contagious Blood Poison, Ulcers, Sores, or any other form of blood disease Valuable books on Cancer and Blood Diseases will be mailed free to any address by Swift Specific Company, Atlanta, Georgia.

DON’T FORGET Your Easter Hat. The week before Easter every man who can afford it discards his old plumage and buys a new hat. Without a stylish hat no part of a mans attire appears just right. It is a mans crowning glory on a dressy occasion. And now this Easter we are offering the handsomest line of hats everdisplayed in this city at prices that bring high qualities within the reach of every one. For instance we offer: ■ Stylish, -thadcmajk. Durable, Ka* Up-to-Date. A New Spring Style Derby and Fedora Hat in colors and shapes that are absolutely “the thing”—in quality equal in every way to those which other stores sell for 50 cents and $1 more —our Easter price is only $2.00. Another grade of Mens Derbys and Fedoras-not quite so high in quality, but the equal of any hat sold elsewhere for $2.00 is made in correct shapes and colors, and is offered here at the Special Easter price of $1.50. Lots of new things for Easter week. Come and see. Kern, Brinson & Beeler. The Railroad Gazette has compiled from its monthly statements the number of accidents on American lines in 1898, showing that there were during the year, 2,228 accidents, in which 426 people were killed, only forty-six being passengers, the smallest number in any year, 1895 excepted, since the statistics have be published. i Winter Excursion Rates to Southern Resorts via .Southern Railway. Beginning October 15, winter excursion tickets to principle Southern resorts, including Asheville and Hot Springs, S. C., and Florida points, are on sale by connecting lines via Southern Railways. Tickets allow 15 days stop-overs, and are good to return until May 31, 1899. The Southern Railway quickest and best. Write for maps, schedules and lates. Wm. H. Taylor, Asst. Gen. Pass. Agent, Louisville, Ky. m3l-99 L. L. Syphers, the well known liverymen,of Willshire, was in the city ■ looking after business interests last j Friday.