Decatur Democrat, Volume 43, Number 3, Decatur, Adams County, 30 March 1899 — Page 7

HENKY b. heller, attorney AT LAW, * 1 and 2. “’tone Block, opposite OM^ 00 ' 11 ’'court house. Notary Public. Collect 1011 * • K. ERWIN. attorney at law. Monroe and Second street s N<> charge for consul. ia;..r. "7aMl> T - MERRYMAN. ATTORNEY at law, DECATUR. IND. • 1•’ 3 over Adams Co. Bank, to Adams Co. Bunk. ATTORNEY at law, DECATUR. INDIANA. ns l and 2. In the Anthony Holthouse J. F. MANN p.BEATT( MANN A BEATTY. attorneys at law , . varies Public. Pension claims prose°Odd fellows building. I |obB Schurger. Dave E. Smith SCHUKGEK & SMITH. ATTORNEYS at law. . ...wi i oss at lowest rates of Interest g. ™ 'f iit’le. real estate and collections JSsUand 3 Welfley block. <H DeVilbiss & Archbold, dentists. I. 0. O. F. BLOCK. I Office. 42. phone , Residence, 9. NEPTUNE 131’0.H. dentists. Wocated over the city News Stand are wt<rf4 to do all work pertaining to the total profession. Gobi tilling a specialty, ruieof Mayo's Vapor they are enabled to ;.- s - Without nam. Work guarantee d J. D. HALE DEALER IN Grain. Seed, Salt, Oil, Coal, Lime, Fertilizers. jevc.ccr. the Chicago A Erie and clove lair, ireads < tffice and retail store south'Second and Jefferson Streets ITYcar patronage solicited. I Ltai 5120,000. Established 1872 THE OLD ADAMS COUNTY BANK Decatur, Indiana. Does a ?<•!]•? ra' bankins business, makes rolections in al! parts of the country. Buys Wn.township and county <”der>. Foreisn addomestiu exchange bought and sold. Innest paid on time deposits. Officers-V .11. Niblick. President: D. Studeiker. Yicv President: R. K. Allison, Cashier. adC. S. Niblick. Assistant Cashier L Meisse House. I. J . MEISSE, Proprietor. First-Class Hotel. ..KATES.. I $1.50 and $1.25 r PKR DAY. ■wt* lourt House. WRTGAGE LOANS ■*) Loaned on Favorable Terms ■LOW RATE OF INTEREST of Partial Payments. of Tit lefarehillv Prepared I F M. SCHIRMEYER, W Or ' 2d and Madison Sts. ’■ DECATI R, IND 1 Dp - 0. v. CONNELL, fey Surgeon i:i ML I Decatur, Ind. ■ Orp iCßt. 0.0. F. Block. ,v >« Ontario Veteria. K' ‘b>*Ln° r ? nlo Veterinary D.ntaJ ■P* ‘ a! ?e»se« of domesticate* _ (Uy Qr n|ghu *

PEOPLE OF THE DAY. Oliver H. P. Belmont lias become a publisher. He is proprietor of a new weekly journal of the illuminated car- i toon kind, published in New York. The paper announces that it will support the Democratic party, but it will have pronounced views as to what the Dem- / • a Ik *4 PS OLIVER H. P. BELMONT. ocratic party should support. The well known newspaper writer, Alfred Henry Lewis, is the editor of The Verdict, and he is also interested with Mr. Belmont in its ownership. Mr. Belmont is a member of the famous banking firm of August Belmont & Co., and is classed among the wealthy New Yorkers. It has created some comment that the initial number of The Verdict devotes considerable space to . making fun of the Whitneys, the Vanderbilts, the Morgans and others of the millionaires circle. The Queen a Good Housekeeper. Though mistress of numerous palaces, castles and country houses, Queen Victoria keeps wonderfully close track of all her household belongings, showing sound business capacity and a memory for detail which have served her well as a royal ruler. Os course, the daily housekeeping is attended to by deputy, but none the less the head of the establishment is in the real sense its mistress. Like e .erygood housekeeper, the queen knows and remembers her valuable household possessions. Only a small proportion of her many hundred articles for table service are actually in ordinary use, and she is iu the habit of using but three of her many services of plate and china at Windsor Castle. But once, after a talk with the German embassador, who was visiting her, the members of the queen’s household were surprised on coming to the table to behold strange china set before them, each plate adorned with landscape paiutiugs. It soon appeared that, the embassador having mentioned in the morning that his birthplace was Furstenberg, the queen bad recalled to mind a service of china never used and for nine years put away and forgotten by every oue but herself, which had been manufactured there and was decorated with painted scenes of the town and its vicinity. He Slept Well. Sir Henry Irving’s recent visit to Scotland recalls to Scott’s Pictorial an incident of his early history. He appeared at the Theater Royal, Edinburgh, in 1857, and two years later he went to Linlithgow to give a reading there. He was delighted to see his name in big letters on the posters on arriving in the town. He went to the hall, but there was no crowd there —in fact, the caretaker had not arrived, having forgotten all about the reading. Irving went in search of him and things were got ready; 8:80 o’clock arrived, but no one came to the hall —not even a small boy. In recalling the incident, Sir Henry was wont to say, “I never slept better than I did that night. ” Crete’s New High Commissioner. Prince George of Greece has assumed the duties of his new position as high commissioner of Crete and is established in the administration building at Kha- . fl PRINCE GEORGE OF GREECE. nia. On his arrival British. French, Russian and Italian flagships stationed in Suda bay fired royal salutes in honor of the prince. Prince George is the second son of King George of Greece, and is related to the royal families of three of the greatest empires in Europe—Russia, England and Germany. He is a very popular young man with the people of Greece, as well as with his royal relatives and their courts in other countries. He is very democratic, and is a great lover of all outdoor sports, being something of an athlete himself. Diminutive Senator. Senator Simon of Oregon is the smallest man in the senate. As he stood m the marble room, surrounded by a group of enthusiastic Oregonians, the crowd towered around him until he looked like a hazelnut at the bottom of a quart measure. His diminutive size is all the more remarkable when it is remembered that the statesmen who have repre- | sented Oregon in the past have all been of large stature. Senator Dolph was over six feet tall, ex-Senator Mitchell is well built and Congressman Kula w as tall and straight as a pine.

DO ROCKS GROW? Instances In Which n Beal Process Has Been Noticed. Is it indeed true that rocks grow in the sea? Are there reefs in course of rapid formation ? A circular recently issued by the minister of marine calls at tention to unknown rocks along the seacoast and offers premiums to fishermen who discover rocks not shown by the charts. An inhabitant of Biarritz writes to Cosmos: “W hat is taking place at Biarritz is ' probably occurring along other rocky shores and’may well explain the deficiencies of our charts. Submarine| rocks grow, and in the course of a few years a reef may be found where there i was none when the chart was prepared. I When I was a child, some 50 years ago, the rocks lying farthest west in the belt of rocks surrounding our promontory hardly showed at lowest tide. An old fisherman told me that when he was 10 years old he was on a Biarritz boat near this r«ck. His master showed him the rock, then covered by several feet of water, saying, ‘Child, if you live to be 60 years old you will see this rock out of water. ’ “Today the rock, which, in the childhood of the old fisherman, was covered with water and in my childhood was hardly uncovered at low water, is 20 meters above the water. “A more recent fact; Fifteen years ago a fisherman perceived at a distance of 200 meters from the rock just mentioned, beyond the belt that protects us, a new rock which was beginning to ‘grow. ’ Today this rock, which was not in existence 25 years ago. shows itself at high tide. It is at a spot where the charts indicate ten meters of water at lowest tide and endangers navigation. " Evidently our charts are not revised often enough. If rocks “grow." as claims the correspondent of Cosmos, revision should be made every ten years. But do they grow? There is no doubt that the seacoast rises and sinks. There is a pronounced seesaw movement along the Atlantic shores, but is it sufficient to cause rocks to grow out of the water in half a century? The question is interesting, illusion is easy, but indifference would be criminal in a matter so dangerous to navigation as submarine rocks. —Current Literature. A Misfit Assignment. A well known chief engineer of the navy, who weighs about 300 pounds, was recently ordered to one of the smaller gunboats on the Pacific station. He did not particularly like the assignment, but be made no protest —at least in words. He simply sat down and made a sketch of the exceedingly narrow doors that lead into the engine rooms of the gunboat to which he was ordered, marking the dimensions of the doors in figures on the sketch. Below his drawing of one of the engine room doors this jolly chief engineer made a neat sketch of himself, full figure, not exaggerating his Falstaftian paunch a trifle. He attached his own dimensions in feet and inches circumferentially to this sketch of himself. Then he put the sketch in an envelope and “respectfully submitted" them to the bureau of navigation. It was a sort of document that occasionally makes a hit. She Shuns the Camera. Miss Braddon's pet aversion seems to ke a photographer. We hear that some time ago she was offered the sum of SIOO and a royalty cn all copies of her portrait which were sold, but she absolutely declined to be photographed. So great is her fear of being “snapshotted" that when she meets a stranger whom she suspects of photographic designs she invariably turns away from him. To her friends Miss Braddon is known as Mrs. Maxwell, the widow of Mr. John Maxwell, the publisher. She spends her time between Litchfield House, her charming house at Richmond. and Annesley Bank, in the New Forest. She is an enthusiastic collector of china, and some very beautiful specimens of ceramic art adorn her rooms. The Word That Caught Them. The Kansas City Journal says: “At Fort Scott the other day the Presbyterians and the Methodists had an old fashioned spelling match, with 32 on each side. One by one the contestants were spelled down until only two Presbyterians and one Methodist remained. Then the master gave out the word ‘ptisan. ’ and all three missed it, leaving a victory for neither side. Ptisan is defined in the dictionary as a mucilaginous decoction used as a drink, and it is not to be expected that Presbyterians and Methodists would know much about drinks. ’ See Your Heart Beat. The value of Roentgen rays is every day increasing. A new instrument has just been perfected. It permits the doctor to see the pulsations of the heart and hear its beatings at the same time. Many doctors think that a nervous patient can be more certainly assured of his normal condition if allowed to see it himself. For such people the screen which reflects the heart is replaced by a mirror, whereon the image is cast. By inserting the ear tubes in his ear and holding the reflector he can hear and see his own heart beat. Aniiqut- chessmen. A pair of chess knights, beautifully carved in ivory and stated to be over 300 years old, were sold for 15 guineas the other day at Crosbie’s auction room at Kilburn. They were specially interesting as being an exact representative of the armor worn by man and herse in the days of Edward 111. each detail being carved with much precision —Lon don Mail. American Shipping:. American shipping carries about onehalf of the total sea commerce between the United States and neighboring foreign countries, as Canada, the West Indies. Mexico. Central America and the north coast of South Amer'ca.

OFFICERS IN UNIFORM. Volunteers More Anxious to Display Themselves Than the Regulars, In the unwritten code of army and ! navy officers sartorial ethics play an im- i portant part. The regulations of both { branches of the service define the uni- i forms to be worn with so much exact- [ ness that any tailor may make them, and custom has defined the occasions on I which officers should wear citizens’ clothes. It is customary, for instance, j for naval officers who go ashore when not on official business to don their plain clothes. Much the same code of dress prevails in the army, and no regular army officer under normal conditions would appear in the streets in uniform. When an order was issued at Washington during the war commanding all staff officers to wear their uniforms while on duty, there was a great shaking out of moth balls and a lot of grumbling on the part of such of them as have offices in the Army building in this city. This order meant the purchase of new uniforms by many of them, and while they complied with the letter of the command they took every opportunity to exchange their uniforms for their plain clothes. It was noticeable during the summer and fall, however, that the volunteer officers were just as anxious to wear their uniforms as the regulars were to get out of them. One of the sights down town morning, noon and night was the appearance of a young man. hitherto unknown to fame, in his uniform of a volunteer officer of the signal corps. He wore the whole outfit, boots, spurs and all, notwithstanding the heat. He was the official censor at the down town cable offices for a few glorious weeks, and as soon as he was commissioned an officer in the signal corps, that he might have some military authority, he got into bis uniform and staid in it apparently until he was mustered out. During the fall one of the coast line boats which left this port for the south carried among its passengers a very imposing looking family. It consisted of papa, mamma and several half grown children. Ail of them were more or less military in their dress. Papa's uniform was concealed under a military coat'as he came aboard, but it was very evident that he was no slouch of a fighting man. Mamma wore a blue military cape and patriotic buttons and flags, and the children were all blue and gilt lace. The boys wore uniforms much like their father’s, and the girls wore dresses that might have served a daughter of the regiment in a Bowery melodrama. It was a surprise to the other passengers when at dinner they discovered that papa was a staff officer with “U. S. V. ’ on the collar of his coat and. moreover, that he belonged to a state regiment which was not in service at that time. He and his family were off on a two weeks’ vacation, and he elected to wear his uniform. One night last week an officer in uniform appeared in the balcony of a Broadway theater. His seat was well around to the end of the balcony, and as he stirred around a good deal he attracted no little attention from the people in the orchestra chairs. “I’ll bet a supper for the crowd," said a man who had seen service and who was annoyed by the sight of the man in uniform at the theater—“l’ll bet a supper for the crowd that that fellow up there is a volunteer. If he were a regular, ho wouldn't be in uniform. ” Several people around him heard this offer to bet, and when at the end of the next act the officer descended from the balcony to look up a friend in the orchestra circle they craned their necks to see what his uniform was. When the wise ones saw that he was a surgeon and that he was a “U. S. V.,” they passed the word along, and the man who had seen service said, “I told you so.” —New York Sun. An Indiana Ghost Story. The residence of James Kile, in the southern part of Noblesville, has been visited frequently of late by a mysterious personage, presumably a ghost. The doors have been opened, peculiar sounds have been heard, and articles are often found scattered about the rooms. The other night a party of six men, headed by Officer Bowlin, visited the place with a*view of ascertaining the cause of the mysterious disturbances. Their trip was not without its reward, for they saw a figure in the form of a woman robed in white appear on the veranda about midnight. She conversed freely with the men and inquired concerning the welfare of many well known people of this city. When they attempted to advance in the direction of the figure, it disappeared as mysteriously as it came. —Indianapolis Sentinel. Lasting Impression. The fact that early impressions linger long in the memory needs no proof, but an interesting illustration of it happens along now and then. “There are men, ” said Jones, “whose simple personality is more persuasive than any oratory could be. who can impress you more powerfully with a gesture, a wave of the hand, than if they uttered whole dictionaries of words. Did you ever come across such a man ?’ “Oh, yes," replied Brown. “My father was a man of that kind. I came across him, as it were, quite frequently. It was when I wse across him—across his knee—that a wave of his hand always impressed me most powerfully. Ah, yes."—Youth’s Companion An Easy Going; EnibnßAndor. Count de Cassini, the czar’s embassador to the United States, is said to be the most democratic of all the diplomatic representatives at Washington. Unlike the chiefs of other embassies or legations, he has no office hours and will see any one who calls on business whenever he is in the house. Count Cassini speaks excellent English and is most pleasant in his manner.

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HUMOR OF THE HOUR, “Yes.” admitted the old sleuth, who has been a thief taker for a good many years, "there’s such a thing as suicidal mania, and like every other genuine article it has a counterfeit. Let me tell you of a case. “One of the most worthless and shiftless fellows that ever lived in Detroit was named —well, never mind the name, but a good many of the old timers will remember him by the nickname of Spilley. Every time he got into serious trouble he used to inform me and some of the others who looked after his conduct that he was going to make way with himself. He would bid us goodby, shed tears over his depravity and disappear. always to turn up again like a bad penny. “One morning Spilley informed ma that he was going to end it this time ‘sure. ’ He was tired of the whole thing and must get away from it. I laughed at him and chaffed him about his lack of sand. He indignantly resented the insinuation and asked me to loan him a double barreled shotgun. I replied that one barrel should be enough for him. “ ‘l’ll tell you. cap. ’ he replied blushingly, ‘you’re right about it. I’m a good deal of a coward. At the first report I’ll run like a scared pup, and I want the other barrel so’s to bring myself down on the wing. ’ “In two days he returned the gnn. ‘Cap,’ he said, ‘durned es I didn’t miss with both barrels. I’m goin to practice np on wing shootin, and then it’ll be all eff with me.’ ” —Detroit Free Press. An Unlucky Mortal. “It does seem, ” sighed the old lady, “that my John hain’t got any good luck in this worl’. He went in the war, an they shot off his leg. That wuz somethin, kaze he got a pension fer it. But on his way home the train run off the track, an instead o’ cuttin off his good leg, so’s he could git damages, it run over his wooden leg. An to my sartin knowledge he’s been in a life insurance company ten years, an he ain’t dead yit. an ’pears like thar ain’t no prospects of it. I never did see a man hold on like him!" —Atlanta Constitution.

A Drop From the Poetical. 'ifMB “Jes" one taste ob nectar, Maud. “ “Dat ain’t nectar, silly. Dat am cold cream —I’ze got chapped lips."—Ally Sloper. I.ibel on a First Class Hotel. A Caribou man lately wandered into a remote hotel that doesn’t keep a dictionary, and on coming down in the morning was asked by the landlord how he rested. “Oh. ” replied the gentleman, “I suffered nearly all night from insomnia.” The landlord was mad in a minute and roared, “I’ll bet you $2 there ain’t one in my house.” —Daily Kennebec Journal.

ATTEND Fort Uayne Business College. For Thorough Course in I took - keep s k n a H • Typewrit log, Penmattailip, Itaokit.ij and English. Write for particulars. 49152 FO KT WAY NE, INDIA NA. / Erie Liines / Schedule in effect June 26 » 189S - Trains leave Decatur as follows: WEST. No. 5, vestibule limited, daily for I Chicago f 12:23 p. m No. 3, Pacific express, daily for i Chicago f 2:25 a. m No. 1, express, daily except Sun- i day for Chicago j 10:43 a. m No. 31, local, daily except Sun- i day | 10:10 a. m Nol3. Wells Fargo Limited Ex-| * press, daily except Monday - 6:15 p. m. and day after legal holiday I EAST No. 8, vestibule limited, daily for I New York and Boston f 7:57 No. 2, express, daily except Sun- I day for New York f 1:58 p. m No. 12. express, daily for New I York f 2:25 a. m No. 30. local, daily except Sun-' day f 10:10 a. m Through coaches and sleeping cars to New York and Boston Trains 1 and 2 stop at all stations on the C & E. Division. Train No. 12 carries through sleeping cars to Columbus, Circleville. Chillicothe. Waverly. Portsmouth. Ironton, and Kenova, via Columbus. Hocking Valley & Toledo, and Norfolk Western lines ♦No. 13 will not carry any basrgage. I W. DeLong. Agent The G. R. & I. (Effect February 8, 1899.) TRAINS NORTH. STATIONS. i *No. 5. |*No. 3. Btcnmuuu 11:0a pui I:US p m 5:40 ain Parry | . Chester 5:50 a m Fountain City. 11:23 pm 1:23 p m 5:59 a m Johnson 6:08 a in Lynn 11:36 pm 1:36 pm 6:13 am Snow Hill 6:l9am Woods 6:21 a m Winchester .... 11:51 a m 1:53 pin 6:30 ain Stone 6:38 am Ridgeville 12:06 a m 2:13 pin 6:46 a m Collet 6:58 am Portland 12:21am 2:38 pm 7:06 am Jay 7:16 a m Briant 2:53 p m 7:22 a m Geneva 12:41 ain 3:00 pin 7:28 ain Ceylon 7CO ain Berne 12:49 a m 3:08 pm 7:36 a m Monroe 3:17 pm 7:48 am DECATUR 1:08 a m 3;27 p m 8:00 a m Monmouth B:osam Williams 3:4lpm 8:11am Hoagland 3:47 pm B'ls am Adams Fort Wayne..,, 1:45 am 4:15 pin B:4(iam ♦Daily, except Sunday. +Daily. TRAINS SOUTH STATIONS. |*No.2. 6 J No. 4 Fort Way ue 12.4 Up m 12:40 am 7:10 pm Adams Hoagland 1:05 pm 1:09 p m 7:38 pin Williams 1:10 pm 7:43 pm Monmouth 7:slpm DECATUR .. 1:22 p m I:<4 a m 8:00 p m Monroe LXJpni 1:44 am 8:12 pm Berne 2:43 pm 1:34 am 8:22 pm Ceylon 8:30 pm Geneva I:slpm 2:03 a m 8:32 p m Briant 1:58 pin 2:11 a m 8:40 p m Jay 8:47 p m Portland 2:llpm 2:25 am 8:58 pm Collett 2:2opm 9:oßpm Ridgeville... . 2:3lpm 2:45 am 9:20 pm Stone 9:28 pm Winchester.... 2:48 p m 3:03 a m 9:37 pin Woods 9:47 p m Snow Hill 9 49 p ni Lynn 3:06 pm 3:25 a m 9:55 pin Johnson 3:11 pm 10:00 pm Fountain City. 3:19 pm 3:40 am 10:09 p m Chester 10:19 pin Parry Richmond. ... 3:40 pm 4:00 am 10:34 p m +Daily. tDaily ex. Sunday. *Daily except Satur day from Mackinac City. Jeff Bryson, Agent C.L L 3CKWOOD. Gen. Pas Agent.

First Class Night and Day Service between Toledo,Ohio, AND St. Louis, Mo. FREZEZ CHAIR CARS DAY TRAINS—MODERN EQUIPMENT THROUGHOUT. VESTIBULED SLEEPING CARS ON NIGHT TRAINS. ««-JIEALS SERVED EX ROITE, any hour DAT OB NIGHT, at moderate cost. Ask for tickets via Toledo, St. Louis 4 Kansas City fl. R. Clover Leaf Route. For further particulars, call on nearest Agent of the Company, or address C. C. JENKINS. General rannrnaer Agro*. TOLEDO, OHIO. T., St. L. &KC.R. R. In effect Jan 3, 1819 EAST. Passenger 5:51 a. m Express 7:16 p m Mail 12:05 p m. Local 6:00 p nt. WEST. Passenger 4:14 a. m Express 8:28 a.m Mall 12:06 p m Local 7:00 atn E A. Whiskey. Agent