Decatur Democrat, Volume 43, Number 23, Decatur, Adams County, 17 August 1899 — Page 7

IBS .r pf is a medical lecture ■4 in a nutshell. The Kid- ■ * nevs drain water and imI 1 'tips from the blood. The ■£ makes bile and helps to lE' o ff other waste. If these ■ r n = work badly the body ■ rga " es a cesspool and disease Rs S You must get them into ■ealtby action or die. |odH.McLeans i IrfWaliii 55 L in old and unsurpassed rem- ? Kt for Backache, Debility, J ■eedessness, Lost Appetite, ■LI Tongue, Palpitations and Kl other symptoms of disease in ■hose organs. It cures as well K prevents every serious trouble ■n Kidney, Liver or Bladder. I At druggists, sf-oo per bottle. / Kir DR J H.MCLEAN MEDICINE CO. BTHE Pn.»- aT LOUIB< MO . ■ I For sale by Holthouse. Callow & Co. Bp—

ids M-. Erie Lines ay, M \ fits ■ \ — ■ Z \.Scliedu :>• in effect .li:ne iv '- ■I ■ 111 ■ / 26. 1896. ity wrriTP/ ra H B \ / Trains leave Decaturas ets follows: | WEST. 1» Kir 5 vestibule limited, daily for I I ’ Chicago •■ ■ • • ■ ■■ ■ • 1 12:23 p. m W- ■>, Pacific express, daily for J. mij ' Chicago f 2:25 a. m ■ I,express, daily except sun- I Ug. V day for Chicago 1 10:43 a. m V Cal '.. da “ y . e - XCePt U 10:10a.» av 'Mci3 'Veils Fargo Limited Ex- | ft V press, daily except Monday > b: 15 p. m. ■ 9 iud day after legal hoiiuay ) ;c - I east ■ 8 vestibule limited, dally for I Or- New York and Boston f 7:5. , ~11 Me 2. express, dally except Sun- I dl ‘ day for New York ) 1:58 p.m Me 12. express, dally for New ' York ' 2:25a. m 11 30. local, dally except Sun- • id day > 10:10 a. m ■through coaches and sleeping cars to New 5 Mort and Boston . „ . 1 and 2stop at all stations on the Ci • K Division. Mfraii: No. 12 carries through sleeping cars M-lolumbus. Circleville. Chillicothe. WaverK, Portsmouth. Ironton, and Kenova, via Kiumbus, Hocking Valley & Toledo, and He k k Western lines K . 13 will not carry any baggage. ■ ’ I W. DbLoso. Agent I The G. R- fit I. ■ (Effect June 18, 1899.) (DC u. ■ TRAINS NORTH. tc - +No. 5. *No. 3. *No 7 — .... 9:15 pm 1:05 pin 5:49 a m ■rtf KB;—ter City 1:23 pm o:s9am KK-.. :i 6:07 a in '■oods 6:l9am r « Klet 6:56 am rj. 10:25 pm 2:32 p m 7:05 a m 2:46pm 7:l9am _ 2:55 p m 7:26 a m e Bluh 3:05 p m 7:35 a m iUi 3:18 p m 7:45 a m r? 3:45 p m 8:07 a m !. 3:50 p m 8:12 a m '/ Wayne.... 11:45 pm 4:15 pm 8:35 am except Sunday. +Dally. ■o- | TRAINS SOUTH - | *No. 2. I ♦No 4 ;No.4T - . 12;3> p m 2:40 a m 7: .U p m 1 7:48 a m .... I:l9pm 3:l>am 7:55am 2:i4pm 8:17 am ■fylon 8:25 am ant 2.00 p m 8:35 a m = Millett 2:23 pm 9:C3am ... . 2:35 pm 4.24 am 9:15 a m ft KI 9:23 am | ... 2:50 pm 1 4:40 am 9 32am ’ 9.42 a m Hill »» 44 a m k BL' n 3:06 pm 9 «u a m F 9:55am k ■{■; iter 10:14 a in J 1 3:40 p m ' 5:30 a m V:25 a m ■rTiaily. tDallv ex. Sunday. *Daily except ■f 4iday from Mackinac Ciiv. • K Jeff Bryson. Agent ■? L )CKwood. Gen. Pas Agent. f [ — —

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Sam Honston and Illg Corns. Professor Hiram Corson of Cornell university, who used to be a reporter for the United States senate, tells this story about Sam Houston: "We reporters took .urn and turn about each for an hour One day 1 was sitting Idly In the reporters’ gallery, waiting my turn and looking on. Presently my attention was drawn by Senator Houston. Huge of frame, he was particularly huge of feet, and those extremities were rendered the more conspicuous In those days of boots by being incased in laced shoes. On this occasion there seemed to be an amount of pain In those feet proportionate to their size. "The senator kept one upon his knee, rubbing it, with an anguished expression and periodically exchanging for the other foot. After awhile he unlaced his shoes and drew them off. Then the nursing of his aching toes continued for a time as before. But no relief came, and at last, to my utter amazement and amusement, he slowly divested himself of a long blue woolen stocking, and, taking the huge jackknife with which he was wont to pass the time whittling, he proceeded deliberately to pare his corns in the senate of the United States." But He Made a Good Officer. Some 20 or 25 years ago a gentleman of this place was elected constable, and although be had no opposition his nervousness as to the result was quite noticeable all during the day. After the polls closed and be was declared elected he hied him to the river bank, in the meantime having armed himself with an old pepper box pistol, one of the earliest patterns of the revolver, and shortly after was heard to go through this colloquy with some one unseen. Pointing his pistol at a sycamore tree lie exclaimed in dignified and dramatic style: “Haiti I am constable of this district and command you to halt. You won't, eb? Well, here goes”—bang! "I hate to do it. but it is in the discharge of my official duty. Now. I told you to stop, but you wouldn't”—bang! Just then the old pepper box became unmanageable and bang, bang, bang, bang went the remaining four loads. The firing soon attracted a crowd and the tree was thus saved. But, notwithstanding the episode of the sycamore and the scars it still shows, the gentleman is said to have made a good officer.—Hazlegreen (Ky.) Herald. A Girl's Idea of Boys. At an examination in a certain school for girls an essay on "Boys” was ordered written, and this was one of the compositions: “The boy Is not an animal, yet he can be heard to a considerable distance. When a boy hollers he opens his mouth like a frog’s, but girls hold their tongue till they are spoke to. and they answer respectable, and tell just how it was. A boy thinks he is clever because he can wade where it is deep, but God made the dry land for every living thing, and rested on the seventh day. When the boy grows up lie’s called a husband and stays out nights, but the grew up girl is a widow and keeps house.” An Eye to Boniness. A little boy named Peter at a public school saw his teacher faint and fall. In the general confusion it was impossible to keep so many curious beads cool, and the little ones flocked round the prostrate woman and her sympathizing colleagues. But this small boy kept both his color and his coolness. Standing on a bench and raising his hand, he exclaimed: "Please, teacher, can I run home and tell father to eonie? He makes coffins!” An Interesting Experiment. That the earth revolves on its axis can be proved by .a simple experiment. Fill a medium sized bowl nearly full of water and place it upon the floor of a room that is not exposed to jarring from the street. Upon the surface of the water sprinkle a coating of lycopodium powder. Then take powdered charcoal and draw a straight black Hue two inches long upon the coating—the line should be north and south. After this is done lay upon the floor a stick so that it will be exactly parallel with the charcoal line. Any stationary object in the room will answer as well, provided it is parallel with the line, if the bowl is left undisturbed for several hours, it will be seen that the black mark has turned toward the parallel object and lias moved from cast to west, in a direction opposite to the movement of the earth on its axis. This proves that the earth in revolving has carried the water with it, but the powder on the surface lias been left a little behind. To Extract a Splinter. The easiest way to extract a splinter deep in the flesh of the hand or foot is by means of steam. A rather wide mouthed bottle is tilled two-thirds full of boiling water, and the Injured spot is held close over the opening. The suction draws tne flesh down, and a little additional pressure is used to assist the exit of the intruder, in a few moments the steam extracts the splinter, and the inflammation rapidly subsides. Glove Silver. Glove silver was the strange name given to a custom which prevailed in England during the middle ages—namely, the granting of a certain sum of mouey to servants to buy gloves with on Lammas day, or, as it is ca.led now. Bank holiday. Hindoo Carpenters. In India the carpenters have an almost universal objection to sharpening their tools. They never set their saws, and when they get a grindstone they cut it into pieces and use the fragments for anything except to put an edge on chisel or ax.

How to Open a New Book. Hold the book with its back on a smooth or covered table; let the front ! board down, then the other, holding the leaves in one hand while you open a ■ few leaves at the back, then a few at the fnmt, and so go on, alternately opening back and front, gently pressing j open the sections till yon reach the center of the volume. Do this two or I three times and you will obtain the I best results. Open the volume violently I or carelessly in any one place and yon j will likely break the back and cause a start in the leaves. Never force the back. If it does not yield to gentle opening rely upon it the back is too tightly or strongly lined. A connoisseur many years ago, an excellent customer of mine, who thought he knew perfectly how to handle books, came into my office when I had an expensive binding just brought from the bindery ready to be sent home. He, before my eyes, took hold of the volume, and tightly holding the leaves in each hand, instead of allowing them free play, violently opened it in the center and exclaimed, “How beautifully your bindingsopenl" [almost fainted. He had broken the back of the volume, and it had to be rebound.—“ Modern Bookbinding Practically Considered,” by William Matthews. Got the Wrong Woman. A pastime which obtains among the farm classes of Korea, known as the “packing off of widows," consists of a raid by some disconsolate widower and his friends on some village known to contain a young widow, the forcible abduction of the lady in question and her marriage to the widower. An instance of this kind has recently come to our notice. A widower living in one of the villages of Kangwha with 11 friends went to a hamlet close to the walls of Kangwha city where a widow lived and eeized and carried off. after somewhat of a battle, a young lady. It so happened, however, that they had mistaken the house and unfortunately got hold of the wrong lady. Early the next morning an indignant posse came in pursuit, but the men who bad committed the dastardly deed succeeded in eluding them. The yonng lady, however, was rescued, and after the house of the widower and its contents had been completely demolished she was escorted home in triumph by her bus band and his friends.—Kobe Chronicle. Hook Swinging: In Bengal. The people of Gangutia, in Bengal, have a barbarous practice called hook swinging. They deck themselves out with garlands, and then assemble together to undergo the most horrible torture. A wire about a quarter of an inch in diameter and seven feet long is pierced through the tongue, and then the wretched being will dance for over half an hour with the wire still hanging through the tongue. Some of them form themselves into a row and are then sewed together by a wire needle threaded with cord. They are sewed by the arms and look like herrings on a wire when ready for the book. It is thought that the victims are drugged considerably beforehand, owing to the sullen, dazed expression they wear throughout, but sometimes one or two faint and are with great difficulty brought round again. When Home Is Siteet. Fewer wives would sit louesomely a"t home while husbands roam elsewhere in search of entertainment if more wives realized that home should be something besides a clean place to eat and sleep in. Men "hate" women's tea parties and large show functions, but they like dinner and supper parties. Many families refrain from entertaining because they cannot do so on an expensive scale. It is, however, possible to give small dinners and suppers that are both enjoyable and inexpensive. Ask people who either do or will like each other, ami if you wish the women to have a good time have just as many men guests as women guests. If the men are to have a good time, make sure that some of the women are pretty and flattering. Men like to be flattered. Oh, yes, they do.— Gentlewoman. An t'gly Story of Irnguay. Here is one of Robert Crawford’s stories about Uruguay “Two men surprised a farmer and his wife in their little hut while it was broad daylight. The man was seized and bound, and the two villains proceeded to torture him to make him disclose the hiding place of his hoard. The wife begged and pleaded as the horrors increased, the man proving obdurate. “Finally she said she would tell them where the treasure was if they would follow her. One of the two accordingly went over to the chest in the corner with her. She opened it, fumbling about inside of it for a moment until she found what she was looking for. In another moment the thief at her side was dead and his fellow covered by a large revolver in the hands of a small but eager woman of the people. He got away before she cculd quite make up her mind to shoot him too. “Then the husband was released and the neighbors, some miles away, called in. Word was finally taken to the central police authority of the state; the officers came, viewed the dead thief — and identified him as their attorney general. It is not unlikely,” Mr. Crawford adds, “that bis accomplice was the judge of the criminal court.” El olutlon. A girl named plain "Mary” at her birth dropped the “r” when she grew up and became Miss May. As she began to shine in a social way she changed the "y” to "e” and signed her letters Mae. About a year ago she was married, and now she has dropped the "e,” and it’s just plain "Ma.” That’s evolution. —Rogersville (Tenn.) Review.

Hard Heads. A duel among native Australians . affords a droll study of physical endurance and natural courtesy. The affaire d’honneur is conducted on orthodox lines. Seconds are chosen and the place of meeting arranged, each party assuring the other that the remembrance of the insult or the casus belli can only be removed with a waddy stick, casually mentioning at the same time the design and weight of his own weapon. The duel then proceeds somewhat on these lines: The aggrieved one bends forward, hands on knees, and Invites his opponent to test the soundness of his club on his (the challenger’s) head. Politeness does not demand that the vigor of the blow be modified by regrets or remorse, much less such a reply as, "Not at all, sir; after you.” The descent of the club is remindful of the conundrum. "Should an Irresistible force come in contact with an immovable mass, what Is the result?” In this case a little local warmth is generated. It is now the other fellow’s turn, and the game proceeds as before, varied by mutual requests to bit a little harder. Either combatant leaves the field without a stain on his character and tasting the quintessence of satisfied honor should his opponent's club be broken over his head. Hence These Tears. “Mamma.” said the happy young wife, "do you think it was just the thing to sit there and weep as you did at our wedding? If I had been going to my funeral, you could not have acted more heart broken.” “Oh,” replied the distressed lady, applying her handkerchief to her eyes, “I am sorry I made such a spectacle of myself, but 1 couldn't help it. I have always thought so much of George and he has been so kind to me.” “Why. mamma.” exclaimed Alicia Saint Claire, "what do you mean? Am I to understand that you are sorry for George because he married me? The idea! Do you mean to insinuate that I am not”— “There, there, my child,” the mother interrupted, "do not misjudge me. You know how George has always been in the habit of taking me with you and him to the theaters and upon excursions and how considerate he has been of me in every way. If George had been my own son. he could not have been more anxious to promote my happiness." “Well, was that any reason why you should sit there and blubber ail through the ceremony?” "My darling, don’t you understand? I was becoming his mother-in-law.”— Chicago Times-Herald. Dlsil Ins ionized. “I’ll never say another word about the advantages of a European education for girls,” said the woman from the west. "I’ll never talk about the charm of the convent bred young woman. I’ve lost my last illusion, and one of the prettiest young women in Washington acted as iconoclast for my benefit. She is more than pretty. She has a look of being somebody, and she is somebody. She belongs in the diplomatic corps. “I saw here at a big reception two or three weeks ago. and 1 watched her with delight. 1 thought how boisterous and unrefined most American girls seemed beside her. 1 actually blushed to think how their slang must shock her. So gentle, so quiet, so exquisite. I kept as near her as 1 could, for 1 wanted to hear her speak. At last 1 stood next her in the dressing room. Somebody wanted her to go home. She didn’t want to go. and what do you think that exponent of highest European feminine culture said? " 'No,’ she said. ‘I don’t want to go home. I’m going down stairs for more feed.’ ’’—Washington Post. Higli Price For Straightness. One of the difficult problems in practical mechanics is to make a "straight edge." How difficult it is may be judged from an incident which occurred In the shops of .1. A. Brashear, the astronomical instrument maker. A customer asked Mr. Brashear what would be the price of "a perfect straight edge of glass 36 inches long. ’ “It can't be made absolutely perI feet,” said Mr. Brashear, “but it could I probably be made with a limit of error I amounting to only a fraction of a wave length of light.” “How much would that cost?” “About §40.000!” It turned out that the customer wanted the straight edge for a scraper and that an error of one sixty-fourth of an inch would have been insensible for his purpose.—Youth’s Companion. Spilled Ink. When ink has been spilled, the first thing to do is to remove as much of the liquid as possible with a damp cloth. Then dip a clean rag into some skimmed milk and sponge the stain. The cloth and milk must be clean for each application. A little benzine or ammonia will remove any grease which the milk may make. Madrid's Slums. Madrid abounds in slums, which are even greater eyesores than those of Whitechapel. There are labyrinths of narrow old streets, bordered by the most uninviting hovels, and from the squalor of these abodes spring the components of the ferocious mobs which are the bane of the city. The Chinese are very fond of foreign song birds. Forty years ago, when canaries were first introduced to that country, a pair cost §l2; now they have multiplied to such an extent that a pair can be bought for 75 cents. It is estimated that there are 240.000 women domestic servants in London, and that 10,000 of these are always out of situations or changing their places.

RUNNING SORE <- ON HIS ANKLE. Astor Qi* Yflarc nf Intoned Obstinate sores and ulcers which AlltJl OIA I cal OUI IHIGIIOu refuse to heal under ordinary treatSuffering, Promptly Cured p u o O O entire circulation is in a depraved condition. They Uj Oi di Ui are a severe drain upon the system, and are constantly sapping away the vitality. In every case the poison must be eliminated fr m the blood, and no amount of external treatment can have any effect. There is no uncertainty about the merits of S. S. S. ; every claim

made for it is backed up strongly by convincing testimony of those who have been cured by it and know of its virtues by experience. Mr. L. J. Clark, of Orange Courthouse,Va., writes: “For six years I had an obstinate, running ulcer on my ankle, which at times caused me intense suffering. I was so disabled for a long while that I was wholly unfit for business. One of the best doctors treated me constantly, but did me no good. I then tried various blood remedies, without the least benefit. S. S. S. was so highly recommended that I concluded to try it, and the effect was wonderful. It seemed to get right at the seat of the disease and force the poison out, and I was soon completely cured.” Swift’s Specific—

S. S. S. FOR THE BLOOD —drives out every trace of impurity in the blood, and in this way cures permanently the most obstinate, deep-seated sore or ulcer. It is the only blood remedy guaranteed purely vegetable, and contains not a particle of potash, mercury, or other mineral. S. S S. cures Contagious Blood Poison. Scrofula. Cancer, Catarrh. Eczema, Rheumatism, Sores, Ulcers. Boils, or any other blood trouble. Insist upon S. S. S.: nothing can take its place. _ V aluable books mailed free by Swift Specific Company, Atlanta, Ga. I 1 I I ! 11 I I I I I I I II I II I I I 1 I ~ ~l FOLEY’S HONEY TAR z ISTHECREAT j — THROAT and LUNG REMEDY. ~ 1 1 I I I I ! I 1 I } I I I ] II I II I I I I I Sold by Holthouse. Cal'ow & Co., druggists. Decatur. We carry q Generai Line of Patent Medicines, SW >,T Drug Sundries, Paints, Oils and Wall Paper, Prescription Work we give our Special and Careful Attention. We solicit your patronage. Respectfully yours, Stengel & Craig, West Main Street. BERNE, INDIANA. ' willii Z’-z EEa in (vorid IT is grown in the mountain district of Ceylon and SPECIALLY prepared to suit the American trade. It is packed on the garden where grown, in one-pound, half-pound and quarter-pound soldered air-tight lead packages, thereby retaining all its wonderful fragrance. It is sold only in these lead packages — never in bulk. If you want the very best tea, ask your grocer for NABAN. OWNERS OF THE CELEBRATED CANNED FRUITS AND VEGETABLES, COFFEE, BAKING POWDER, EXTRACTS AND TABLE LUXURIES. Franklin MacVeagh & Co., Chicago. FOR SALE BY George Archbold, Grocer. Decatur, XxxdIMXLA.

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