Decatur Democrat, Volume 43, Number 22, Decatur, Adams County, 10 August 1899 — Page 8

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Honduras. Edwin Burket was at Blufftou last Sunday. A number of our young folks spent Tuesday at Rome City. D. K. Sovine called on friends in Whitely county last Wednesday. There will be an ice cream social for the benefit of the Christian Union church at this place. The social will lie held one-half mile south of here next Saturday evening. All are invited to attend. Eastern Dispatch. Harry Elston was a Decatur visitor last Monday. J. W. Hakes and wife visited Jesse Roe last Sunday. Mr. Weaver visited Artman and family Saturday afternnon. Henry A. Durr and family called on friends in Ohio, Sunday. Date Gause has commenced the erection of a new house on his lot. Date Ray and wife called on friends at Berne last Saturday and Sunday. James and Walter Hakes were at Van Wert and Scott. Ohio, Saturday and Sunday. A. Artman and family and J. Weaver and family visited relatives near Steele last Sundav afternoon. Monmouth. The Monmouth ball club are billed for Hoagland next Saturday. The German picnic held at Berger's grove was largely attended. John Wolford, formerly of Decatur, has now become a resident of Monmouth. John Franks makes his weekly trips every Sunday evening out to the tile mill. Some of cur young folks attendee! Epworth League at Mt. Pleasant last Sunday evening. Mrs. Lizzie Magley and granddaughther. of Kenton, Ohio, are visiting with relatives here. Among those who took in the excursion to Rome City last Tuesday were Lizzie Fonner and Mrs. Fonner. Quite a number of young folks gathered at the heme of Frank McConnell a week ago last Sundav evening in honor of Miss Bertha Railing ' who has been visiting there. Pleasant Mills. O. J. Sumati went to Darke county to visit friends this week. The infant child of Stephen Roebu k and wife is quite sick. W .IS:: th and Earl Cowan wheeled F.rt Wayne last Sunday. J. W. Hill made a business trip to Geneva the forepart of the week. Will Ja sscn. and his brother and sister of Celina. Ohio, are visiting < relatives and friends here. Henry Martz and wife were called to Groveriuii, Ohio. lass week to attend the funeral of their little grandchild.

Messrs. Charles. Yager. Wilson Beery. Morris Boyd and Asa Me Mellen made a bicycle trip to Celina. Ohio, last Sunday. The wedding of Gus Stevely and Mellie Troutner has been announced to take place next Sunday evening at the M. E. church. Rev. N. F Barton will otSciate. We extend congratulations. Geneva. Oil SS cts. The Democrat and Indianapolis Sentinel, both papers, for only $1.50. Fred C. Deitseh and family were at Fort Wayne Tuesday on pleasure and business Mrs John Didct has returned and ■ pened up her husband’s jewelry establishment. Miss Anna Bloomstein of Nashville. Tenn., is in town visiting with her sister. Mrs. Louis Aaeh. E. N. Ash of Fort Wayne, is tilling C. D. Porter’s position in the bank at Geneva, during Charley's absence. J. V. Shimp is building an extensive veranda along the front of his new residence on East Line street. The City Restaurant front has been painted a brilliant red color which makes quite a change in its appearance. The Sons of \ eterans encampment commencing August 18 will be held in Idlewine’s grove, one mile west of town. Billy Borden, the genial porter at the Hotel Shamrock, is slowlv recovering from a two weeks sickness of malarial fever. The members of the Church of God will hold a tabernacle meeting in Bradford’s grove commencing August 10. Evangelist Mins will preside. C. D. Porter is at Petoskey, Mich., for a eouple of weeks on an outing. He was joined by his wife and daugh ter at Coldwater. Mich., where they have been sojourning the past two months.

Linn drove. Edward Nickola of Holland, Mich., is visiting his brother George, here. Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Kizer took in the excursion to Chicaso on the 30th ult. Auditor Mangold and son of Decatur, made us a friendly call on Tuesday of last week. Hoffmann Kizer have closed their place of business and Linn Grove is again without a meat market. Mrs. Solomon Mosser and son. Chris. Christian Stuckey, Crist Eicher and others went to Decatur last Tuesday. In case the Cincinnati Post be correct. Albert Musser who is serving a life sentence in our penal institution for the murder of Mrs. Stoltz, has been granted a new trial. <1 The Schlagenhauf Juniors crossed bats with the Linn Grove Shamrocks last Sunday. Nine innings were played which resulted in a score of 15 to 29 in favor of the Shamrocks. Albert Kronin put us in charge of the largest apple seen here this sea- i i son. and known as the Huffman apple. ; ' It belted thirteen inches and weighed | twelve ounces, and was by far too I palatable to keep for its beauty. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Morrow made : a trip to Chicago last weekaud visited their daughter. Mrs. Robert Kyle of i Evanston. On taking their departure Mr. and Mrs. Kyle accompanied them to the train, on their return home Mrs. Kyle had the misfortune to break her arm caused by stepping on a banana peel. Adams County Teachers' Institute. The annual session of the Adams j County Teachers' Institute convenes in the circuit court room. Decatur. Ind.. August 14 to 18 inclusive. This I institute is not an assortment of essays and addresses, but a teachers' 1 school of instruction, systematically conducted by competent instructors. Its essential object is to combine ped-; agogical inspiration and professional training, the old -in fact all the progressive teachers can be profited by this week's work. Trustee’s Day—; Thursday. These officials will undoubtedly be present and observe at- ■ tendance and profession! interest of all their wide-awake teachers who desire and deserve promotions. The new Ideal Music Reader will be used as a text in all music lessons. A Kimball piano furnished by kindness of J. B. Stoneburner. We call special attention to the evening lectures. ; We have been fortunate in securing Rev. Earle Wilfley for Tuesday evening. We earnestly ask a hearty cooperation. and extend a special invitation to every friend of the publicj school. Yours for success. Irvin Brandyberry. County Supt. A Narrow Escape. Thankful words written by Mrs. Ada E. Hart, of Groton. S. D. "Was taken with a bad cold which settled on my lungs; cough set in and finally terminated in consumption. Four doctors gave me up. saying I could live but a short time. I gave myself up to my Savior, determined if I could not stay with mv friends on earth I would meet my absent ones above. My husband was advised to I get Dr. King’s New Discoverv. for consumption, coughs and colds. I gave it a trial, took in allbight bottles. It has cured me. and thank God, I am saved and now a well and healthy woman." Trial bottles free at Page Blackburn's drujr store. Regular size 50c. and $1.(0 Guaranteed ori price refunded. For the homeseekers excursions south and west the Clover Leaf will issuse the usual low rate excursion , tickets from all stations on the first and third Tuesdays ;l June. Juiv. August. September and October. Stop over privileges on the going trip, return limit as previous excursions. Cail on nearest agent. Ilm3 Tetter, eczema and skin diseases yield quickly to the marvelous healing qualities of Banner Salve made from a prescription of a skin specialist of word wide fame. 25c. Holt house. Callow A; Co. a MARKETS. CORRECTED BY J. D. HALE. GRAIN MERCHANT, DECATUR. IND. Wheat, newJ 63 Corn, per cwt (mixed) 42 Corn, per 'cwt. yellow 42 Oats. old 23 Oats, newls 18 Rye 40 Barley 30 Clover seed 3 60 @4OO Timothy 90 Eggs, fresh 11 Butter 15 Chickens 05 Ducks 05 Turkeys 08 Geese 04 Wooll6 to 18 Wool, washedlß and 20 Hogs 3 40 TOLEDO MARKETS ATO. 8. 1:30 P. X. Wheat, new No. 2 red.cash....s 70 > Sept wheat 7ij Cash corn No. 2 mixed, cash.. 34 Sept corn 32 Prime clover 3 50

She. Too, Was ot a Lame Family. At a little informal married women's luncheon out tn Eekington the other afternoon, given by the hostess In honor of her "guest from the west." a dainty, languorous, black eyed woj man under 30, the conversation swttch- ; ed to the subject of large families. It appeared that most ot the lunchers came from prolific families. Each apI peared anxious to give her family's ■ large tribal record for a considerable distance baek. and none noticed the alarmed countenance of the hostess as the talk progressed. The hostess made many ineffectual efforts to signal the | conversation to a standstill; likewise, she unavailing!}- endeavored to side , track the large family theme. But it i was no go. and it was finally up to her “guest from the west" to set forth the numerical contributions of her ancestors to previous censuses. When ! the question was put to her directly, I she exhibited nary a flinch, but. smiling languidly, remarked; "I am the youngest of 12 daughters and 18 brothers." "Impossible!" exclaimed all of the , • women except the hostess, who contemplated the figures on her fan with a drawn, dreary smile. “Not at all,” replied the guest. "You are perhaps unaware that 1 was born and reared in Salt Ijike City.” “Oh."' blankly exclaimed the other i women. "Quite so!” I , Then the hostess experienced no dis- j Acuity in shifting the current of talk into the weather channel.—Washington Post j ; Pricing; a Pair ot Trousers. Lord Brampton was on one occasion f

presiding over a case In which the plaintiff was giving evidence against a man who had stolen a pair of trousers from his shop. “How much were the trousers?" queried Hawkins. "Well," replied the plaintiff, "it depends who wants to buy them. 1 sell them to one man for 30 shillings, to another for 25, but you can have them for 23 and G," "Sir.” cried Hawkins angrily, "I want you to tell me how much those trousers are worth!” “Well," replied the plaintiff, "shall we say 22 shillings to you?” "Look here,” thundered Hawkins, "if you do not instantly tell me what those trousers are worth. I'll send you to jail for 14 days for contempt of court" “Well, well!" replied the frightened plgintiff eonciliatingly, "you may have them for a guinea. I'm giving them away; still you may have them at that price.” Even the stern aspect of Judge Hawkins could not stop the roar of laughter which broke out on bearing the reply, a roar in which Hawkins, after a few minutes, joined himself. Snake Eat Snake. A sight was witnessed one day at the Zoo that has been the talk of the people managing the animals of the garden ever since. Keeper Myers, who has charge of the snake cages, was about to feed the reptiles, when, to his horror, be saw one blacksnake measuring six feet devouring its mate, which was about the same length and size of itself. The-reptile tad swallowed its fellow bead first and only a foot and a half still remained outside its mouth. It was lying quietly, and about once every 30 seconds a swallowing motion would seize it. when as much as two inches of its meal would disappear. Myers opened the cage , and. grabbing the powerless snake by the talk began tugging away to release it This proved to be no easy task, as the eanniballstically inclined monster had a firm hold on its breakfast After several minutes of pulling that brought the perspiration out on the keeper the snake was set at liberty. For a time it seemed paralyzed, but i gradually regained its strength.—Cincinnati Enquirer. His Finish. “Ah. Hortense." be cried. "I cannot give you up. Yon must reconsider the terrible sentence you have just imposed upon me. I refuse to believe that yon know your own heart." The proud girl looked at him for a moment as if she were half sorry, and then, becoming firm again, she said: "No. Percy Hendershot. 1 have decided! It can never be!" "But you will tell me." he pleaded, “what I Lave done to deserve this treatment, will you not?" “Yes," she answered, "since you ask me to do so. 1 will Nothing!” Remembering, them that be had never held a job for two consecutive weeks, he staggered out into the misty night.—Chicago Times-Herald. The Red Sea. At certain seasons of the year the Red sea is almost unbearable. The water taken from 70 to S? feet below the surface of the sea at t» o'clock in the morning will often register a temperature as high as 90 degrees. If, in addition, a sandstorm thinks fit to blow, the whole air is full of a mist made of innumerable particles of fine hot sand, which blind and suffocate at the same time.—Favorite Magazine. Ventilating Bees. In tropical countries there are what one can only describe as ventilating l<ees. During the hot season two or three bees post themselves on their heads at the entrance of the hire and fan the interior with the incessant motion of their wings. They are relieved at intervals by fresh bees who carry on the process. They are kept to their duty by a sort of patrol of bees. This is a well authenticated fact. The two eggs laid by a pigeon almost invariably produce male and female. Some curious experiments as to which of the eggs produces the male and which the female Lave resulted in showing that the first egg laid la the female and the second the male.

She Kept Cool. She was a young woman with a vivid imagination and a rapid tire vocabulary. ■■Oh," she said to a young man recently. "1 did come so near seeing a dreadful accident yesterday! It was just too shocking!" -How did it happen?” queried the youth. "Why. you see, it was like this: There was a horse coming along at the corner of Prospect and Case a horse and a buggy—and they didn't see the motor was so close —that is, the people in the buggy didn't see it—there was a woman driving—a woman and two children, 1 think—and she tried to drive the horse across the track—the buggy bad a top to it. and she didn't hear the bell—and the motor came right up and pushed against the buggy and pushed it along, and the horse jumped a little, and the woman screamed, and the children —well. I couldn't hear the cbildren-but the man wasn't strong enough to stop the motor, and it pushed the buggy right off the track!” "And where were you ail this time?” inquired the interested youth. “1 stood by the curb.” "Yes." "I was so nervous, you know.” "Yes.” “And I ate chocolate creams just as fast as I could and prayed."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. L'ncle Sam's Only “Tip.” Tips given to Pullman car porters by government employees while performing official duties are considered legitimate charges against Uncle Sam. They

are the only tips which are accorded this distinction. This interesting fact has just been gleaned through the display by a government official of a bill of expenses which be intended to present for a recent trip which be made In the service of the government. He cxbib!?t w J the statement as an evidence of the elose manner in which the government did business. He had to present a receipt for every expenditure made, even a receipt from the Pullman , car conductor for his berth. The only item for which there was no receipt was "Tips. 50 cents.” When asked what the tips were for. the officer said: "They were tips which I gave to Pullman ear porters. The government allows those, but they are the only tips which are allowed. If 1 tip the waiter nt my hotel or the man who carries my bag. the tip comes out of my pocket, but the tipping of Pullman car porters, a quarter for each journey made on a sleeper, is such a recognized custom that the item for such tips is always allowed by the government to officers when traveling on government business."—New Orleans Times-Demo-crat. Hoyt Emery Is Quarried. Emery comes from the island of Naxos, in the eastern Mediterranean. ' whence it has been exported for the : last two centuries or more. The beds I are in the northeast of the island, the deposits descending into some of the neighboring Islands, the emery being found in lenticular masses, resting on \ layers of schist in limestone almost identical with Parian marble, the finest marble known, which comes from the island of Paros, close by. There are about 3UO men engaged In the trade, ad of whom have to be married before they are admitted to the fraternity. The material is much too hard to be dug out or even blasted. Great fires are lighted around the blocks till the natural cracks expand with the bean and levers are then inserted to pry them apart. This system Is continued until the blocks are reduced in size to masses of a cubic foot or less, and they are then shipped as if they were coal. There are saM to be 20.000.000 tons yet available at Naxos, and the last reported year’s export was 3,930 tons. It is one of the hardest substances known.—lronmongery. Don't Put a Bird In the Window. "Never put a bird in the window," said a bird fancier to the reporter the other day. "1 rarely go into the street in summer, or even on a mild day in winter, that I do not see unfortunate canaries bung in the windows. Even if the sun is not broiling the brains under the little yellow cap. a draft is blowing all the time over the delicate body. People have been told a thousand times that they must not put a bird in the draft, yet how few remember that there is always a draft in an open window!”—Berlin (Md.) Herald. Ink Blots on Paper, To remove ink from paper pour enough water over a teaspoonful of chlorinated I.me to cover the stained portion. Moisten a clean piece of linen and rub It lightly with the mixture. If the stain is not of too long standing. It will disappear, if more than one application is required, let the paper dry before wetting the second or third time. If the spot is rubbed. the texture of the paper will be spoiled. Dry it gently with a piece of dry linen. A He* Hnit. An English paper says that the hat ot a cvrt»:n shortsighted master at Eton blew off one day, and as be started in pursuit a black hen dashed out of the gateway. The schoolmaster saw the ben and thought it was bis ban and all Eton was electrified by the spectacle of a bat less and breathless reverend man bunting a black ten from one end of the street to the other. i Twice a year the Caspian overflows and strands miluons of fish—sufficient to feed the whole of central Asia if advantage could be taken of these im--1 mense resources given by nature. Astronomical instruments of glass i were used by the Chinese as early as 2283 B. C.

Through the entire month of a I will clean U P m y dress good«ri gUst II to make room for fall goods -p \ thing in the store is marked i n fl figures, and you can see for von? 1 ? LIL LIU that this is really a “CUT Prto? sale. Remember CASH IS kiiti Since adopting the cash svstl>>, 1 February I have increased mv I more than 25 per cent. WHY? cause people are getting their I open to the fact that CASH alw J secures the lowest price. This W ust sale will prove a great benefit?’ , you if you will but improve the on IV HA portunity. P I ( I School dresses for fall and wint / J will soon be needed, and you can n f afford to let this sale pass by withou J J supplying yourself. ~ ut Double fold woolen dress goods. 124 c, go this month for 9 cents. 0 P nw IV V Double fold woolen plaids and fancies, rec,], J \ \ price 15c, go this month at 11 cents. 0 11 1(1(1 36 and 38 inch all wool and mixed, plain, plaidJi W V and fancies, regular price 25 to 274 c, now at -j - 36 inch genuine Jamestown Worsteds, the be.-t IAA r n £° ods in Ameriea f or wear ' re^u lar price 33>e aa d I| | (l 3**“ mon th at 25 cents. I I \ 36 inch Jamestown Coverts, regular price 42h> go this month at 31 cents. "■' JVvLIU Mv entire line of 50c goods, plaids, plain ami fancies, all nice and new. go this month at 38c. SFiue wool dress goods in all the Ijest and latest •j A patterns, in plain plaids and fancies, regular | price 60e. go this month at 45 cents. High class suitings of all kinds, regular price t 75 cents, go this month at 55 cents. U V« The entire line_ of very liest suitings, plain and fancy, regular price 90c to SI.OO, all at 724 c. IN ADDITION—j -|A,A to the Dress Goods Sale for Aug- \ ust, I will give you the same lib - J I, V UVI eral DISCOUNT on SILK SHIRT * WAIST PATTERNS. You can get these rare bargains only through » the month of August. Come early and get best selections. ’ [ PfNll f IUUu UUull Oulu uu-

A Miraculous Escape. It happened that in the last month of the reign of Charles I a certain ship chandler of London was foolish enough to busy himself over a barrel of gunpowder with a lighted candle in his hand. He paid the price of his folly. A spark fell into the gunpowder and the place was blown up. The trouble was that the man who did the mischief was not the only one to perish. Fifty houses were wrecked, and the number of people who were killed was not known. In cne bouse among the 50 a mother bad put her baby into its cradle to sleep before the explosion occurred. What became of the mother no cne ever knew, but what became of the baby was very widely known. The next morning there was found upon the leads of the Church of All Hallows a young child in a cradle, baby and cradle being entirely uninjured by tbe explosion that had lifted both to such a giddy height It was never learned who tbe child was, but she was adopted by a gentleman of the parish and grew to womanhood. She must surely all her life have bad a peculiar interest in that church. —Sir Walter Besant's “London.” Ice Explosions In Siberia. A recent Siberian traveler relates “At Sadonsk in the intensely cold nights the silence was sometimes broken by a loud report as of a cannon. This was the bursting of cne of the ice bubbles in the river, a phenomenon I bad neither heard nor read of before. The streams coming down from tbe hills were frozen on tbe surface some six to nine inches thick. The water beneath flowed faster than it could escape, and the pressure, on the principal of a hydraulic press, became irresistible. First, the elasticity cf the ice was seen by tbe rising of circular mounds from six to eight feet in diameter and from four to five feet high. Tbe bursting point came et last with a report like an explosion. The water escaped, but soon froze again. I have seen scores of these ice hillocks in a few versts of the river.” A Brldse of Coffin. When the British forces were marching to Peking in 1860. after the capture of the Taku forts, one of the rivers became so swollen with the heavy rains that it was rendered almost impassable. While in this quandary a bright idea suddenly struck one of our officers. Being well aware that the Chinese generally order their coffins years in advance and keep them on tbe premises and also that they are perfectly airtight, he consulted with his brother officers, with the result that orders were given to search all the houses cf the village and collect every coffin. With the aid of a few empty casks the soldiers constructed a poetoen bridge of coffins sufficiently strong to bear tbe artillery, and the river was

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