Decatur Democrat, Volume 43, Number 28, Decatur, Adams County, 21 September 1899 — Page 6

MANY peoplehave badblood. That is because their Liver and Kidneys are sluggish and fail to carry off the waste matter. When this happens the blood is poisoned and disease sets in. To keep your blood pure take OdH.lWans Lwer&l&heyßah a quick relief and sure cure for disorders of the Liver, Kidneys and Bladder. Thousands use it in the spring especially. Your druggist has it. Only SI.OO a bottle. THE OR.J.H.MCLEAN MEDICINE CO. ST. LOUIS, MO. For sale by Holthouse. Callow & Co. I The Rev. Gregg Memorial. The committee which has the Edwin ; T. Gregg memorial in charge, has the work under way. and is meeting with nothing save the most hearty eneour agement and co-operation. Messrs. Lockwood of Washington City, and Bodurtha of Peru, who will prepare I and arrange the subject matter of the volume, that the work say shall re ceive their best efforts, both of tin s< i gentlemen being personally interested in the matter on account of a life long friendship for Rev. Gregg. It has been determined that the ; volume shall consist of from 12.) t 150 pages, with a permanent cloth binding, and shall contain a zinc et '. ing of the popular minister, a bio- ■ graphical sketch, a number of articles by different persons and from differ ; sources commenting on his life, and extracts from his own writings, sermons and addresses. It it intended that the work shall be something worthy of the man and life in whose memory it is published. The "Epworth League and Sunday school at Decatur have given every assurance of help, and parties at Peru have also promised their co-operation. It is the present desire to close the work of taking subscription by about October l.in order that the committee may know by that time how many to have printed, as the publication will be two expensive to have any more made than the subscription list stands for. Until that time subserip tion blanks will be at the G. E. Meek drug store, the Will McC. Brown shoe store and the office of Sunt. < )gg in the city building and the Kokomo Loan and Saving Association, at any of which places subscriptions may be left. Besides these places the members of the special committee from Grace Epworth League will have blanks and see as many people as possible.—Kokomo Tribune. Has No L’se lor the Bell. The Bell Telephone Company came before the city council last Wednes day night asking for a franchise to erect poles and construct a telephone line within the city limits. The council at once passed an ordinance requiring all such companies to give three thousand dollars bond, the sureties to lie freeholders and residents of the county, and in addition to deposit five hundred dollars on a check to that amount in one of the banks to show their good intentions, and requiring them to paint all their poles within the city limits. Those who were present to represent the company had a bond to offer to the consideration of the council but before the ordinance was entirely read withdrew their bond. Heretofore the ordinance only required $3,000 bond with good security, but when it was changed to freehold security it scared them out. The Bell Company, so we have been informed, intended to extend their line all over the county, with probably the intention of running out the local telephone both in the city and that now building over the county, but in this they have run against a snag. We have also lieen told by reliable parties the Bell company had went to some of our business men and offered to put in ’phones at a much less price than they are now getting them, and even offered to put in ’phones for some buyers for nothing. They will get left in any undertaking of this kind, for our people do not intend that any foreign corporation shall come in here and run out the company that is now doing service, or the company that will so in be ready for business all over the county. The Bell people, like the Standard Oil Company, have the reputation of driving all local companies out of business when they cannot absorb them, but they will find one of the worst fights on their hands they ever undertook in this case. We have one of the best telephone systems in the state, with the )s‘St service at the very lowest price per ’phone, and our people are well satisfied and do not propose to have anything to do with a foreign company which the Bell will find out in the end Winchester Herald. Subscriptions for the Rev. Gregg memorial can be taken at Mrs. Bailey’s millinery store. Nactrieb A Fuelling, Aschbaucher <k Bell and the Democrat office. This matter should receive considerable encouragement here, as nearly every one should possess one, a Ixntnd copy, consisting of not less than one hundred and fifty pages will cost but one dollar, anil the delivery of them will not be made before Decern I <er.

DOESN’T BAi K DOWN SOUTH AFRICAN BEPUBLIC REPLIES TO ENGLAND. Accuses Chamberlain of Making New PropesaK In His Last Note—Orange State Says It Is Too Late to Talk Peace Press Comments. Pretoria, Sept. 18.—The reply of the gi .ernmeut of the South African republic to the latest dispatch, dated Sept. 12, .of the British secretary of state for t a* colonies. Joseph Chamberlain, after acknowledging the receipt of the British note, proceeds in part as follows: •‘The government deeply regrets the withdrawal, as the government understands it, of the invitation contained in the British dispatch of Aug. 23 and the substitution in place thereof of an entirely new proposal. “The proposals, now fallen through, contained in the Transvaal dispatch of Aug. 19 and Aug. 21 were elicited from this government by suggestions made by the British diplomatic agent in Pretoria (Conyingham Greene) to the Transvaal state secretary (F. W. Reitz), suggestions which this government acted upon in good faith and after specially ascertaining whether they would be likely to prove acceptable to the British government. This government had . by no means an intention to raise again needles-’y the question of its political statu.-, but acted with the sole object of endeavoring, by the aid of the local British agent, to put an end to the strained condition of affairs. “As regards the joint committee, the Transvadl adheres to the acceptance of the invitation thereunto given by her majesty’s government, and cannot understand why such committee, which before was deemed necessary to explain I rhe complicated details of the 7-year i law, should not be deemed unnecessary, and why it should now, without much inquiry, be thought possible to declare this law inadequate. ••Further, there must be a misapprehension if it be assumed that this government was prepared to lay proposals for a 5-years franchise and a quarter representation of the new populatii i before the volksraad for unconditional acceptance. As to the language, th.s government never made any offer sucn as is referred to, considering, as it did, such a measure both unnecessary and undesirable. “The proposed conference, as opposed to the joint committee of inquiry, this govi rnment is likewise not unwilling to enter upon, but the difficulty is that an acceptance ’hereof is made dependent upon the acceptance, on the side of the Transvaal, of precedent conditions which this government does not feel at liberty to su mit to the volksraad; and, moreover, tl subjects to be discussed at rhe conference remain undefined.” "This government ardently desires and gladly accepts arbitration as its firm intention is to adhere to the terms of the London convention of 1884.” The dispatch concludes by trusting that the British government on reconsideration, may not deem it fit to make more onerous or new proposals, but will alidere to “Great Bntains’s proposals for a joint commission of inquiry as previously explained by the secretary of state for the colonies to the imperia! parliament.” "TOO LATE” President Steyn’s Reply to an Appeal to 1 reserve the Peace. London, Sept. 18.—All the dispatches from South Africa this morning talk of the imminence of hostilities and the preparation for them. In Johannesburg it seems to be taken for granted that the Orange Free State has approved President Kruger’s note and promised active assistance in the event’ of war. An official telegram pasted at Volks Rust says that the Transvaal, with the assent of the Orange Free State, repudiates British suezrainty and adheres to the seven years’ franchise. At Capetown it is reported that Mr. Hofmeyer, t lie Afrikander leader, sent a communication to President Steyn of the Orange free State, entreating him to do his utmost to preserve peace, but that he received in answer the words: “Too late.” LONDON PRESS Comments on the strained Situation In tlie Boer Country. London, Sept. 18.—The Morning Post says: “The Boers mean to fight. That is the plain English of iu” The Standard says: "The Transvaal note is unsatisfactory and, indeed, a dangerous composition. It might be going too far to say that the last hope of peace has vanished or that diplomacy has said its final word, but it is idle to deny that the rulers of the Transvaal have brought their country very close to the brins of a disaster which the British government has done its best to avert.” The Daily Mail says: “President Kruger’s defiance has terminated a long period of unrest and uncertainty in South Africa, for, whatever may be the issue of the present situation, one thing is ceriain that dualism in South Africa will end forever.” The Daily Chronicle says: “We regret that the Boers by rejecting a fair offer made in fair language have taken a line giving fresh points to the argument of their enemies that President Ki '—vi is a shifty and impracticable politician, fit only to be spoken to across a line of bayonets.” These extracts fairly represent press opinion in London. All the papers characterise the attempt to represent Conyingham Greene as suggesting the Transvaal’s former proposals as mere shitty prevarication.

Dolnar It <>>' Halves. “My wife went west the other (lay to visit her sister who lives in California,” mid Brown with a smile. "I was unable to go with her on account of being detained here on a matter of business that needed my attention: so I went witii her as far as Chicago, saw her safely on an overland train and then came back. But before 1 left her I looked up the porter and gave him half of a $5 bill that I had torn in two, saying that my wife had the other half and that he would get that at the end of the journey if he would see that she needed for nothing on the trip.” The porter’s eyes stuck out, and be faithfully promised that my wife would receive the best of care; so I came away feeling that she would not lack for anything. "When 1 returned home I discovered to my horror that I had neglected to give my wife the other half of the bill. Today I received a letter from her reminding me of that fact and saying that she had torn a dollar bill in two and given it to the porter. “Somewhere along the line there ! must be a wild eyed darky with the I halves of two worthless bills in his ; possession and a firm conviction that ■ be has been worked by some sort of a new flimflam game. “I am very anxious to have my wife I return so 1 can find out from her what sort of reasoning she used when she gave that porter a half Instead of the whole of that $1 bill.”—Detroit Free Press. Changed Her Mind Too. A young couple in a Lancashire village had been courting for several years. The young man one day said to the woman: "Sall. I canna marry thee.” “How’s that?” asked she. “I’ve changed my mind.” said he. “Well, I’ll tell you what we’ll do,” said she. “If folk know that it’s thee as has given me up. I shanna be able to get another chap, but if they think that I’ve given you up then I can get another chap. So we’ll have banns published, and when the wedding day comes the parson will say to thee, ‘Wilt thou have this woman to be thy wedded wife?’ and tha must say, ‘I will.’ And when he says to me, ‘Wilt thou have this man to be thy wedded husband?’ I shall say. ‘I winna.’ ” The day came, and when the minister said, "Wilt thou have this woman to be thy wedded wife?” the man answered: “I will.” Then the parson said to the woman: "Wilt thou have this man to be thy wedded husband?” And she said: “I will.” “Why,” said the young man furiously, “you said you would say, ‘I winna.’ ” "I know that,” said the young woman, “but I’ve changed my mind since.” —London Answers. He Didn't Bite. “I never can tell a story and have it come out all right,” said a little woman plaintively the other day. “I thought 1 had such a good one not long ago. 1 was walking along and heard one street boy say to another, ‘Oh, you go buy 10 cents’ worth of potash.’ ‘What for?' says No. 2. ‘For 10 cents,’ yelled the other, and ran off giggling. "1 thought it was pretty good, and I’d try it on Charlie at supper. But when I told him to go buy 10 cents' worth of potash lie never said a word, and 1 knew another joae had fallen flat and kept still. But the worst was later. He put on his hat and vanished after supper, coming back in a minute with a little parcel that he handed to me. “ ‘What’s that?’ asked I. “ ‘Why, the potash you said you wanted,’ answered he, and 1 nearly had hysterics on the spot. Did you ever hear anything so perfectly awful? I won’t ever try to get off anything funny again.” And the little woman sighed as she walked away.—Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Tells Its Oren Story. In a pretty Wisconsin town not far from Milwaukee there is a “spite fence” which tells its own story to all the world. It is a high and tight board affair and cuts off a view across a number of beautiful lawns. The man who lives on one side of it evidently feared that the fence would bring down on his head the condemnation of his neighbors. Not wishing to be unjustly blamed, he has therefore painted on his side of the fence in letters that can 1 be read a block away these words: “He built this fence. I didn’t do it” The man on the other side also had no idea of letting a false impression get out. Accordingly he has painted I on the other side of the liigh barrier: “I hud to do it.” — Sharpne.. of Lunatics. Having an appointment to preach at an insane asylum for the first time, the editor of The Christian Register asked the medical director for some points. He said the most important thing was | to avoid any attempt on the part of I the preacher to accommodate himself I to his audience as if they were different from other people. He said: "If you attempt to adapt yourself to tuefr condition, they will instantly discover it, and they will hate you." She Knew It. Polite Passenger—Madam, this Is the I smoking car. Old Woman (producing her pipe)— Yes. I tho’t it be. Great convenience, ain’t they?—Ohio State Journal. No hero expects people to pat him on i the back for bis nets. Heroism is spontaneous. and he who stops to count the reward loses both the opportunity and the glory.- St. Louis Star. When a man Is calm in a shipwreck, it does not necessarily follow that lie is brave. He may be seasick.—Detroit i Journal.

Got Even With ItaJidolph. One night when traveling through Virginia John Randolph stopped at an inn near the forks of two roads. The Innkeeper was a fine old gentleman, and, knowing who his distinguished guest was, he endeavored during the evening to draw him into a conversation. but failed. But iu the murmug, when Mr. Randolph was ready to start, he called for his bill and paid it. The landlord, still anxious to have some conversation, tackled him again. “Which way are you traveling, Mr. Randolph?” “Sir!” said Mr. Randolph, with a look of displeasure. “I asked,” said the landlord, “which way you are traveling?” "Have I paid you my bill?” “Yes.” “Do I owe you anything more?” “No.” “Well, I am going just where I please. Do you understand?” “Yes.” The landlord by this time got somewhat excited, and Mr. Randolph drove off. But to the landlord’s surprise In a few minutes be sent one of the servants to inquire which of the forks of the road to take. Mr. Randolph, still being within hearing distance, the landlord yelled at the top of bls voice: “Mr. Randolph, you don't owe me one cent; take whichever road you please!” A Habit. The lawyer asked the witness If an Incident previously alluded to wasn't a miracle, and the witness said be didn’t know what a miracle was. "Oh, come,” said the attorney. “Supposing you were looking out of a window In the twentieth story of a building and should fall out and should not be injured. What would you call that?” "An accident,” was the stolid reply. “Yes, yes; but what else would you call it? Well, suppose you were doing the same thing the next day; suppose you looked out of the twentieth story window and fell out and again should find yourself not injured. Now, what would you call that?” "A coincidence,” said the witness. “Oh, come, now,” the lawyer began again. “I want you to understand what a miracle Is. and I’m sure you do. Now, just suppose that on the third day you were looking out of the twentieth story window and fell out and struck your head on the pavement 20 stories below and were not in the least Injured. Come, now, what would you call it?” "Three times?” said the witness, rousing a little from his apathy. "Well, I’d call that a habit.” And the lawyer gave it up.—Gentlewoman. Crime Detecting by n Lock of Hair. One recalls the method of discovering a thief by chewing rice, said to have been practiced in the east. But it Is not necessary to go so far to find a more remarkable method of thief catching and not so well supported by sound reason. A lady In I‘aris Is reported to have lost her purse iu a dressmaker's establishment. She had all the young ladies of the establishment called in. so it is seriously reported, and demanded from each one a lock of her li <. The tokens were then pinned to pieces of paper bearing the owner's names, and as the customer left the establishment she remarked: "My purse has been stolen, but as I do not wish to subject innocent girls to the humiliation of being searched 1 intend early tomorrow morning to submit your hair and handwritings to a somnambulist and clairvoyant, who will tell me which of you is the thief.” in the course of the evening the lady received an anonymous pareel containing intact her purse with its contents.

The Has Pleased Him. "See that man?” said the clerk of an up town hotel to me this evening as a handsome, middle aged man strolled through the lobby. "That Is the president of the Life Insurance company. He married his stenographer last spring. It was quite a romance. He and the girl and his office boy were coming down in the elevator in the insurance building one afternoon when the stenographer saw a mouse on the boy’s shoulder. She threw her arms around the president's neck and screamed to him to protect her. The mouse cowered in a corner until the elevator reached the bottom floor and then escaped, the girl holding the president all the time. Weil, he liked the sensation of being hugged by a pretty girl so much that he married her a few weeks afterward.” “And what became of the office boy i ’ I asked. "Oh, be has a desk in the office at a good salary now aud is iu line to be president in due time,” answered the clerk carelessly.—New York Cor. Pittsburg Dispatch. Nothing In It. “I see from the papers that a man fell into the docks and was drowned," said Phildog. “Couldn’t swim, I suppose," said Wagster. “That goes for nothing,” said Phildog. "Look at me. When I was washer! overboard, going to the Isle of Man, I couldn't swim a stroke, yet I kept myself afloat by keeping my brad"— “Certainly, your head kept you up,” remarked Wagster. They don’t speak now.—Spare Moments. ..

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