Decatur Democrat, Volume 43, Number 18, Decatur, Adams County, 13 July 1899 — Page 7

B* Erie Lunes Schedule In effect June ■I ■ 111 "F / 26. 1898, X. / Trains leave Decaturas follows: WEST. .5, vestibule limited, daily for 1 p m ■ duly for: m | Chic* 1 *- 0 ;•••• - extent Sun-» f 10:«a. m ■ atiocal. dally except Sun- (f E l3 ' except‘.Monday ■ 6:15 p. m. I SSay after legal bolldayf I EAST L vestibule limited, daily for I F ’ Jew York and Boston. .... f 7:57 , ■ ..express, daily except Sun- I B'"'dav P for New York ..... I 1:58 p. m ■ 19 express, dally for New < LS° v„rk f 2:25 a. m local, dally except .Sun- - m fcrough coaches and sleeping cars to New ISEns 1 aud2 stop at all stations on the C & 12 carries through sleeping cars Ik ambus. Circleville. Chillicothe. MaverBl Portsmouth. Ironton, and Kenova, via Sibtnbus. Hocking Valley & Toledo, and Krtolk V Western lines K, 3 will not carry any baggage ■° w I W. ueLono. Agent The G. R. & I. (Effect June IS, 1899.) TRAINS NORTH. i *No.S, i *No.3. *No7 ■try lanmin'City: '• 1:23 pm 5:59 am *^ on ■ l : sip - tu ■ . s 6:l9am ■inchester J 9:53 pm 1:54 pm 6:28 am E e j 6:37 a m K.rpvilie .110:1)7 pm 2:12 pm 6:44 am Kfet 6:56 am ■rtiand 110:25 pm 2:32 pm ,:U3am K int 2:46 pm 7:19 am ■neva 2:55 pm 7:26 am K' ° e n 3:05 p m 7:35 a m Knroe.:.. 3:18 pm 7:45 am KcATL’K 11:08 pm 3;32 p m 7:5) am Knmouth •• ■•••• ■Hiatus S :l , J I am Kalland 3:ao p m 8-12 am Manis • • K rt Wayne.... 11:45pm 4:l.iptu B:3>am •Daily, except Sunday. tDaily. TRAINS SOUTH KT ITIONS. ‘No. 2. i~*No 4 tNo. 42 Brt Wayne ... 12:3> pm | 2:4u a m 7:10 p m ■an.- I Kagland 1:00 pm :31 atn Elllams 1:05 p m 7:41 a m Knmouth 7:48 am KCATUB... I:l9pm 3:18 am 7:55am Enroe 1:32 p m 8:07 a m Lrtie 2:44 pm 8:17 am Evlon 8:25 am K'neva 1:52 pm .... 8:27 atn Eant 2.ouptn 8:35 am Ky 8:42 am Krtiand 2:15 pra 4:05 am 8:53 am nlett 2:23pm Warn Idgeville 2:35 pm 4:24 am 9:15 am one 9:23 am inchester.... 2:50 pm 4:40 am 9:32 am bods 9:42 am low Hill 9:44 am pun 3:o6pm 9:soam ihnson 9:55 a m luntainCity. 3:20 pm 10:04 am lester 10:14 a ui Lrry . Ichmond 3:40 pm 5:30 am 10:2.>am [♦Dally. tDaily ex. Sunday. ‘Daily except ■tutday from Mackinac City. Jeff Bkysos, Agent |L Lickwood. Gen. I’as Agent. first Class Night and Day Service between Toledo,Ohio, AND Bt. Louis, Mo. FREE CHAIR CARS DAY TRAINS—MODERN EQUIPMENT THROUGHOUT. [ESTIBULEDSLEEPING CARS ON NIGHT TRAINS. WSF.ALS SERVED EX ROUTE, any hour DAT B SIGHT, at moderate cost. k for tickets via Tolado, St. Louis 4 Kansas City R. R Clover Leaf Route. For further particulars, call on nearest Lgeut of the Company, or address C. C. JENKINS, Gcaera! I’asirnaer Agest, TOLEDO, OHIO. L St. L. &KC.R. R. In effect Jan 3,1899 EAST. assenger 5:51 a. m xpress 7:1.1 p m ail 12:05 p m. ocal 6:UO p m. WEST. hssenzer 4:14 a. m xpress -.28 a. rr ’all 12:05 p rr peal 7:00 atr E A. Whinkev. Agent I*" ■ Dr. Williams’ Indian Pile ■f. L will cure Blind. S r w Bleeding and Itching fl loPiles. It absorbs the tumors, a allays the itching at once, acts ®Sas a poultice, gives instant relief. Dr. ‘Wiiiiams'lndianPiieOint- — ment is prepared for Piles and ItehH ing of the private parts. Every box is warranted. By druggists, by mail on re*ipt of pnee. 59 cents and #I.OO. WILLIAMS ■ANUFACTURING CO.. Props. Cleveland. Ohio. Nachtrieb & Fuelling. O°r famous BLT F. E DlilnED lABKI.IiKASO ■ D!iluE.li if’ ■■h’’ t,# ’' 1,1 th, ‘ I world. Prices will sur- ■ TUfllir prise vou. We deliver ■ I VVINr fr,,m Chicago. Onia n a ■ ■ Wlllfc or St. Paul, as desired. ■ Write for prices and temples- B MONTBOMERY WARD & CO.. CHICAGO | | Alf’nKrAl Produce each a disease having definite patholOni 11 m °£ v - The disease yields ■ ”piuma easily to the Double ■ Toh A rrn Chloride of Gold Treat- ■ '-'"CAVVO ment as administered at W the Keeley Institute ■ as Marlon _the only ■ Institute in Northern Indiana. Communications Confidential. 1 1903 South Adams .Street. f

Conversation Without Words. The traveler in a foreign land is not necessarily he!pless because he does not know the language. Nor was a correspondent who admits that when he entered Italy his nine words of French and 15 words of German were of no great nse to him. He says: In Genoa I went into a photographer’s shop and selected a dozen photographs. I pointed at the photograps and looked at him inquiringly, which meant “How much?” He nodded his head and wrote “14“ on a slip of paper. I nodded, signifying “I will take them. ” He walked over to a calendar hanging on the wall and pointed to 29. Then he walked back and picked up the photographs and shook his head. Which clearly meant that he could not allow me to take the ones I had selected, but would have the others printed by the 29th. Thereupon I pointed to 25 on the calendar and said “Roma,” which meant that I should depart for Rome on that date. He nodded and then pointed to 30 and asked “Eh?” which meant, “Shall you be in Rome until the 30th?” I nodded violently. “Hotel?” he asked. I wrote my Rome address on a slip of paper. In making change he held out 1 lira. “Poste. ” he explained. Then I departed. Ordinarily a shopper selecting a dozen photographs to be printed to order and forwarded to him at the next town would spend ten minutes or more in making inquiries and giving directions. Our total conversation was jast five words.-— Chicago Record. Muscular Powers of n Beetle. The following anecdote of a three horned beetle will give some idea of its vast strength of body. A beetle was brought in, and, there being no box at hand in which to put it, it was clapped under a quart bottle cf milk, which happened to be upon the table, the hollow at the bottom cf the bottle allowing the insect to stand upright. Presently the bottle began to move slowly and glide along the smooth table. propelled by the muscnlar power of the imprisoned beetle, and continued its travels fcr some time, to the astonishment of all who witnessed it. The weight of the bottle and its contents could not have been less than three pounds and a half, while that of the beetle was about half an ounce. So that it readily moved a weight 112 times greater than its own. A better notion than figures can convey will be obtained of this feat by supposing a lad of 15 to be imprisoned under a great bell weighing 12,000 pounds and to move it to and fro upon a smooth pavement by pushing it from within. — New York Sun. The Diet of the Consumptive. Dr. Cutter of New York, one of the editors of The Dietetic and Hygienic Gazette, declares the most important part of the treatment of tuberculosis patients is the diet. It should, he sajs, consist largely of animal foods. Os these, eggs and milk should preponderate. Eggs are best given raw when the patient can take them thus. The albumen of the egg is similar to blood albumen and is digested, or rather absorbed, into the blood without undergoing an elaborate digestive process. The white of the egg, mixed with water, is often tolerated when the yolk cannot be borne by the stomach. Bone marrow of the ox he regards as of greater value than cod liver oil. Good butter may be used freely and should be spread thickly on thin slices cf bread. Heavy meals are to be avoided. The patient should take small quantities of food between meals. Soldering Glasq. Margot, in some interesting investigations in soldering glass, has established the fact that an alloy composed of 95 parts of tin and 5 parts cf zinc will melt at about 392 degrees Fahrenheit. Becoming firmly adherent to the glass, it is unalterable and exhibits an attractive luster. An alloy containing 90 parts of tin and 10 parts of aluminium will melt at 500 degrees Fahrenheit, and also forms a strong and brilliant solder for glass. With these two alloys always ready to hand, glass may be soldered as easily as two pieces of metal. When the glass is heated in a furnace, the soldering can be accomplished by rubbing the surface with a rod of either of the compositions named. The alloy as it flows can be evenly distributed with a soldering iron.—St. Louis Post-Dis-patch. A Dog Story by Pepys. The following story of a dog of the restoration has been taken from the voracious Pepys under the date Sept. 11. 1661: “ToDr. Williams, whodidcarry me into bis garden, where he hath abundance of grapes; and he did show me how a dog that he hath do kill all the cats that come hither to kill his pigeons, and do afterward bury them, and do it with so mnch care that they sbsll be quite covered, that if the tip of the tail hangs out he will take np the cat again, and dig the hole deeper. Which is very strange; and be tells me that he do believe that he hath killed above a hundred cats.” “The Best Man That Ever Lived.” After hearing so many women express themselves upon the subject we have come to the conclusion that “the best man who ever lived.” if be ever marries, will have to take what he can get. The ordinary, everyday sort cf man will probably continue, as heretofore, to gather in the cream of the fair sex.’— Bouton Transcript. Mostly Exotics. “What tremendously tali men your policemen are! Are they natives. “Oh, no I Nearly all of them came out here and grew up with Chicago. ’ Chicago Tribune.

She Didn’t Like the Job. “I used to work for a collection agency in one of the northern cities,” said a lady perfumery drummer, “and my experience was tolerably exciting. My duty was to sit at a roll top desk in the office and impersonate the proprietor. Light work, did you say? Just you wait. All day long men would come in red eyed to lick the boss. ‘W here’s the fellow that sends out these blackmailing letters?’ was the usual salutation. Then I would smile sweetly and say: ‘l’m the proprietress. What can Ido for you?’ At that the visitor would look dazed, mutter things under his breath and walk off. “Well, things went along all right for nearly a month. Then one day a little, wiry chap walked in carrying a blaek cane. ‘Where’s the boss ?’ he said. I gave the usual fairy story. ‘Don’t believe a word of it.’ be replied, ‘still I can’t beat a woman.’ He thought awhile, and something in his eye made me feel creepy. ‘l’ll have to take it out on the fixtures,’be said finally, and, upon my word, he broke every blessed thing in the shop. He did it quickly and systematically, and you never saw such an awful ruin! As a wind up he broke the chandelier and bade me a polite good day. When the proprietor came in. he had a fit. It was after that I went into the perfumery business. The work is harder, but it is much less trying on one’s nerves.”—New Orleans Times-Democrat. Men Who Live In Nests. In the bushmen of Australia we find, perhaps, the lowest order of men that are known. They are so primitive that they do not knew enough to build even the simplest forms of huts for shelter. The nearest they could approach to it is to gather a lot of twigs and grass, and, taking them into a thicket or jungle. they build a nest for a home, much as does a bird. The nest is usually built large enough for the family, and if the latter be very numerous then the nests are of a very large size. Into this place they all turn and snuggle and curl np together like so mary kittens. Sometimes the foliage will grow together and for a sort of natural covering, but there is never any attempt at constructing a protection from the rain and storms, and it is a marvel how they endure them. But, though the bushmen of Australia are the very lowest in the scale of ignorance. they possess a rare instinct, that equals that of many animals and is in its way as wonderful as man’s reason. It is almost impossible for them to be lost. Even if they be led away from their home, blindfolded, for miles, when released they will unerringly turn in the right direction and make their way to their nest home, and, though these are all very similar, they never make a mistake.—St. Louis GlobeDemocrat. Saved by a Laash. A professional nurse at Leeds. England. was remarkably successful in the care of patients suffering from smallpox, diphtheria or pneumonia. In fact, she bad never lost a patient with one of these complaints. Not long ago, however, she had a pneumonia case which was given up by the physician, much to the nurse’s chagrin. “He can’t live thicugh the sight,” said the doctor. Sure enough, when the nurse went to give the sick man his medicine, be only shook his head. The distracted nurse saw her proud record about to be broken and she urged the patient to take his dose. “No use," he murmured. “Well, sir,” said the nurse in despair. “you’ve got to take it! And if you die I’ll kill you !” Whereupon the patient began to laugh, tcok his medicine and got well. Touch In Telegraphy. Roland Belfort, who has been interested in some of our articles cn wireless telegraphy, writes: “Having worked mostef the Atlantic and eastern cables, I can testify to the ease with which an operator recognizes bis distant colleagues by their touch. “Often I have heard the exclamation. •There's that confounded X come on!’ immediately X transmitted bis first signal. “Some operators’ signaling is so weak and shadowy that the work of deciphering the signals is quite doubled. ••It is also easy to tell whether an operator has been in convivial society previous to taking duty. By the signaling a cablist can tell whether his correspondent is tired, angry, depressed, merry or moody.”—London Mail. A Poser. Passenger (on ccean liner)—Think we’ll break tbe record, captain? Captain (witheringly)—Well, do you suppose we are only running this shij to carry passengers and freight?—New Orleans Times-Democrat. The Poor Man’s Paradise. Did it ever occur to you that the summers in the south are more plea sant than in your own state. In order to convince you of this fact the Mobile and Ohio Railroad have arranged with their friendly connections to run special low rate excursions to the Gulf of Mexico and return, on the first and third Tuesday of each month, June, July, and August. If you want to see the South at its best, make up a party and take a summer trip. Solid, wide vestibuled trains with ladies lavatory and gentlemens smoking room in all first-class cars. No charge for showing the country. The finest fruit laud on earth, no swamps or malaria. Good crops and abundant rain-fall. For rates apply to your nearest ticket agent. Descriptive literature and full information, address, J. T. Poe. General Traffic manager, C. M. Shephard. General Passenger agent. Mobile. Ala. M. H. Bohreer, 1028 Majestic Bldg., Detroit, Mich.

Too Mooli of a Jar. A little group of professional men were talking of dentists the other day when the stout man of the party related a humorous incident that occurred some time ago. It happened in a dentist's office in Kansas City. A typical cow puncher came in and : wanted a tooth treated. He was a big ! fellow with an immense soft hat, and when he deposited himself in the operating chair everything creaked. “Mind you don’t hurt me,” he said in a menacing tone, and then the dentist got to xvork. After boring into the tooth a moment he paused. “Now.” he said, “don’t stir. If you do, this tool may slip and your nerve will get a nasty jar.” All went well for a few moments and the big fellow threw his bead back. There was a yell, a scramble, a falling chair, and then a brawny fist flew out, and a dazed and bleeding dentist picked himself from the floor on the opposite side of the room. “You blamed idiot,” he mumbled with his hand on his jaw. “I told you not to move!” “Thet don’t make a mite o’ difference!” roared the cow puncher. “No man kin hurt me like thet an live!” And. seizing his big hat. he plunged heavily down the stairs, anathematizing the whole dentist fraternity at every step.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. How He L'Red His Pistol. “If you ever have to use a pistol,” said a man of experience, “the chances are you'll find yourself in endless trouble with the courts. When I was living out in Texas I adopted a scheme that worked like a charm. I went armed, like everybody else, but I always kept one blank cartridge under the hammer of my revolver, for use as a bluff. “Gue day a professional bully made a dead set at me. and when I saw that a fracas was unavoidable I whipped out tbe gun and blazed away square in his face. The suddenness of the thing scared him nearly to death, and he tore down the railroad track and fell into a cattle guard, thinking he was killed. Another time a fellow threatened to carve me on sight. I met him coming into a store and instantly opened fire. He skipped out nimbly and couldn't be found for three days. Those blank cartridges saved my bacon and my reputation. and, best of all, saved me the untold tribulation of defending msyelf in a murder trial. After that I was regarded as the gamest citizen in town, and the had men gave me a wide berth. Os course I always had five good bullets in reserve in case the bluff failed to work, but. I’m thankful to say, I never had to use ’em. ” —New Orleans TimesDemocrat. The Name Tombiffbee. Mr. Charles Gibson of Eufaula, I. T., says that Tonibigbee river is often written about and is in history, and not' one in a thousand knows why it is called Tombigbee. Years ago there was such a thing as a white man coming among tbe North American Indians. It was the case with the naming of this river. There was a lone white man among the Choctaw Indians. He was a friendly white man, not a boomer nor a land grabber, nor was he a hobo. He was a workingman and farmed a little, built houses or huts for the natives. and here comes in the history of not only the naming of the river, but when the North American Indians began to bury their dead this white men could make a ccffin and persuaded tbe wild men to bury their dead under tbe sod. This good man lived on the banks of the river. The Choctaws did net know bis name, but called him tbe coffin maker, which in Choctaw is etombe igbee. From this the white man has changed the abeve Choctaw werds to Tombigbee river. —Minneapolis Tribune. Mnst Have Been Blind. Here is rather a good story, which has also the merit of being true. A large firm in Aberdeen recently engaged as office boy a raw country youth. It was part of bis duties to attend to the telephone in his master’s absence. When first called upon to answer the bell, in reply to the usual query, “Are you there?” he I odded assent. Again the question came and still again, and each time the boy gave an answering nod. When the question came for tbe fourth time, however, tbe boy, losing his temper, roared through the telephone: “Man, a’ ye blin’? I’ve been noddin me heid ass fort’ last hauf ’oor!”— London Mail. Dehorned to Save Room. Down here they saw the horns off the “wild” or Texas cattle befoie they ship them east. The animals pack better, take up less room in the cars, are not so likely to injure one another and look better to the buyer. A Texas steer may carry just as much beef and tallow as a muley cow, but his long horns make him look leaner. Texas cattle have a bad reputation, too, and when their horns are sawed off they look as innocent and harmless as a barnyard heifer. —lola (Kan.) Letter Chicago Record. A Terrible Threat. “George,” said Mrs. Younglove, “do yon know that you have kissed me only once during tbe past three hours?" “Yes," he replied, “and if yon eat any more onions I may make it three hours and a half next time." She could only tremble and wonder if it were to turn out that her love had been misplaced, after all. —Chicago News. Temper, says an authority, has immense influence on the tone of the singing voice. An ill natnred or querulous person will invariably have a catlike quality in the voice, which is perceptible in singing quite as much as in speaking. The population of the world increases 10 per cent every ten years.

How Sea I.IonM Capture Gulls. In capturing gulls the sea lion displays no little skill and cunning. When in pursuit of a gull, it dives deeply under water and swims some distance from where it disappeared : then, rising cautiously, it exposes the tip of its nose along the surface, at the same time giving it a rotary motion. The r.nwaiy bird cn the wing, seeing the object near by. alights to catch it, while the sea lion at the same moment settles beneath tbe waves, and at one bound with extended jaws seizes its screaming prey and instantly devours it.—Scientific American. The Printer's Joke. The Arkansas City Traveler says that when tne printer who was working on a farm was told by the farmer s wife to set a ben he replied, “Leaded or solid?” Which reminds us of Uncle John Speer’s story of the printer in his office who was setting up a story and had a knight say. “Begone, base brevier!” afterward explaining to the indignant anther that there was no minion in the office.— Kansas City Journal. Blllville'g Postmaster. Onr new postmaster ran so fast for office that be didn't have time to get educated. The following sign is posted on the postoffice window: “Thar is 2 Lettairs inside for Molly Gibbens. They look like they’re from her son. Bill, who is Bin Mustard Out. Allsore 2 Lettairs for Hise Holman (I mean, One-legged Hise) which looks like they’re From the Widder Stevens, as Her Ritin is knewed by Everybody. Call an git ’em—Hise an Molly.”—Atlanta Constitution.

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An L'nsinceesNfnl Operation. “Yen tohl me you expected to perform an operation for appendicitis on old Beasley. How did you come out?” "Badly.” “Is Beasley dead ?” "No. As soon as I suggested tbeoperation he sent for another doctor.” — Cleveland Plain Dealer. The Sermon Not Long. “Was my sermon long this morning?” asked a preacher who had been taken to task for running over time, and who bad carefully kept within a half hour “No. dear doctor. ” was the reply of the parishioner. “It wasn't long: it only seemed so " — Boston Watchman. Martyrdom. Mrs. Feeley—Mrs. Love must have been devotedly attached to her husband. Mrs. Steele — Her grief amounts to insanity. She has a small fortune in diamonds, and she has been in mourning nearly two years.—' '