Decatur Democrat, Volume 43, Number 39, Decatur, Adams County, 7 December 1899 — Page 12

Pleasant Valley. I January 12 It will be decided. The candidate is abroad in the land. Rev. Mattie Thornton of Portland, was here over the Sabbath. Robert Gould has gone to housekeeping in earnest. Frank Gilpin and wife of Ohio City, visited at Harlo Mann’s last Sunday. Harlo Manncan boast of having the largest hog in this neck of the woods. It will tip the beam at over 700 pounds. Who can beat this for a fat hog? New officers elected at the Pleasant Valley Literary society for December areas follows: Elmore Cook, pres.; Logan Wolfe, vice-pres.: Daisy Gilbert. sec'y. and Alex Durbin, treas. Steele. C. A. Krugh and wife spent Thanksgiving with his father at Elgin. Ohio. Catherine Mallonee has moved part of her goods into her newly purchased

property. Blue. Creek township showed an attendance of 100 per cent at the institute last Friday and Saturday. Chas. Workinger and family Sundayed witn his uncle. Samuel V\oikinger, who resides north of Bobo. A. H. Beatty now has his eye bandaged as the result of an operation for removing a “something which he feared was cancer. There were a large number of Thanksgiving dinners given in our community this year, in fact they were too numerous to give a complete list. The box - vial given by the pupils of district N \ 3 last Thursday night was a suec iness a financial way. as thev cleared more than enough to purchase their reading circle books. Pleasant Mills. We are reminded of winter just now. The busiest people now are the candidates. E. W. France transacted business at Decatur Monday. Chas. Colter, '.wife and babv spent Thanksgiving with Martin Beerv and family. Mrs. B. F. Brewer, we are sad to note, is very ill and her recovery is doubtful. Business quite dull at present, owing to the inclemency of the weather, Ed Fortney and family, of Monroeville, spent the past week here with : his parents. Miss Henrietta Stoops returned to Decatur after a few days visit with Jesse Steele and family. Mrs. Susan Jackson, a former resi-.

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dent of thisplace, but who for several years has resided in Missouri, is here visiting relatives and friends. The young people of this village pleasantly surprised Wm. Comer and wife Wednesday evening of last week with an old fashioned pound party. The pounding was very acceptable. Messrs Trustee Smith. Gilbert Thompson. Nimrod McCullough and Berton Archer, left last Monday for Georgia, where they expect to spend the winter. Our best wishes go with them for a safe and pleasant journey. Linn Grove. Alice Rose of Bluffton, Sundayed with friends here. Ensley & Meschberger closed their stone quarry last week for the season. In accord with rumor Emanuel Reffee has sold his farm of forty acres to George Emick. Rufus Gerber of Wayne county. ■ Ohio, favored the family of Fred Hoffmann with a visit.

W. J. Singhass of Dalton. Ohio, visited the I. O. 0. F. lodge here on Wednesday of last week. Noah Stauffer, after a three months sojourn at Plevnia, Kansas, returned home last Friday evening. Peter Ashbaucher and family of Decatur, spent Thanksgiving with Willis Van Camp and family. Our teachers were in attendance at the county joint institute last Saturday and report an interesting session. Daniel Yoder A Co., completed their contract for crushed stone for the Berne pike the last of the week, and the road has been completed to the Hartford township line. Bert Arthur of Portland, was col- . lecting the public sentiment here last ' Thursday as to the construction of a spur from the G. R. A I railroad at Berne to Linn Grove, and proposes : the service of a mixed train making ' two round trips daily. Six thousand dollars per mile is asked to put the road ready for the iron. Our people are not prone to take to the project as readily as young ducks are to water. A through electric line would better meet the approval of our people at this time. Opera house the 14th. Mrs. John D. Reiter is the guest of her parents at Geneva, for a few days. Long puffs of blue can be purchased at the Burt House cigar stand for five cents. 34tf For sale.—Some fine young Mammoth bronze turkeys. C. D. Kunkle, Monmouth, Indiana. 37-2 w The loudest talker, commercially, is price. That is why we are heard of so far away. The Big Store.

Real Estate Transfers. Marv C. Anderson to John Omlor, 3 acres' Root tp. 8650 Austin J. Martz etal to Dore B. Erwin, undivided 40 acres St. Mary s tp, 890. , 4 t Decatur Cemetery As n to C. L. Chapman, inlot 392, Decatur cemetery S3O. Fred Reffe to Geo Emick. 40 acres, French tp, SBOO. D. A. Schneck ex to John Bixler, inlots 80,157, 158 and 147, Berne, 81.500. „ . Fred Reppert, jr.. to M m. Reppert, inlot 833. Decatur, S-150. John W. Smith etal to Lemuel Warmcastle, inlots 689, 690, 691, Decatur, 81. Lincoln J. Carter’s Chattanooga on the 14. Read the advertisements in today’s issue if you are looking for Christmas giftsIngersoll and Delaware. “The late Colonel Ingersoll bad but little use for the state of Delaware,” said Mr. E. V. Turner of Wilmington. “His aversion had its origin in a statement made by Chief Justice Joseph P. Comegys. now deceased. Some years ago Ingersoll delivered in Wil mington one of his most searching lectures against Christianity. Its delivery stirred up the preachers and the religious people mightily, and the chief justice, who was a man of deep piety, made a public statement that if the great agnostic came there any luore he would arrest and try him for blasphemy. The justice also called the attention of the grand jury to the lectures. "Ingersoll was, of course, ready with his retort when he heard of what the jurist had said. He stigmatized Delaware as a state that had but three counties at low water and only one at high tide; that it was Inhabited chiefly by oysters and clams, whose only reason for not migrating was that they had no legs. But, all the same. Colonel Bob didn’t come to our town to lecture again.”—Washington Post. Becoming a British Subject. It is an easy thing to become a British subject. All that an alien has to do is to declare his intention to reside within the British dominions on leaving his own country, and forthwith he takes out his naturalization papers, issued to him by the secretary of state upon his taking the oath of allegiance. These palters invest him with the rights and privileges of a Britisher, except that he is barred from becoming a privy councilor or a member of parliament and also barred from accepting office under the crown. But if an alien lie naturalized by special act of parI liament passed for his own benefit i then he becomes as much a British i subject and has all the rights and ! privileges as though a native.

Fiddle Butt Stealer*. There is a reason why the Adirondack forest fires should become more , destructive each succeeding year Most ' . of the timber there is spruce. M hile spruce is used for various purposes it it valued chiefly as material tor the . manufacture of sounding boards tor all kinds of musical instruments. That part of the spruce tree which is free from branches, extending to from 20 to 30 feet above the ground, is known as a fiddle butt. As there are no branches in that part of the trunk there are no knots, and when the lumber is sawed it presents a smooth Surface, an essential in the making of sounding boards. ; The stealing of fiddle butts is carried on as a regular industry by hundreds of men who own small farms on the outer edges of the forests. These men go into the woods in winter and cut down thousands of great spruce trees. They take from each tree only the base log, which they sell at the nearest sawmill, allowing the remainder of the tree to lie where it falls. The branches become dry as tinder in time, and when a fire is started by a careless hunter or woodsman they furnish an abundance of fuel for the spread of

the conflagration. Many efforts have been made to punish the fiddle butt stealers, but it is a , fact that no jury has ever been got to- . gether that would bring in a verdict of ’ guilty. It is claimed, with much evl- ( dence of truth, that a jury has never , been selected in that section that did not have a fiddle butt stealer among ( its members.— Philadelphia Record. No Wonder He Fled. A tall, solemn looking young man entered the restaurant with a mild, apologetic air and seated himself at a vacant table near the middle of the room. It was evident that be dreaded to intrude. He wanted to get as far away from other people as possi- ; ble. He even blushed painfully when he gave his order, and the most casual observer could have told that he was bashful. Just as his dinner was brought to him a buxom looking woman with seven small children entered the place. The head waiter swept the field with his eye. pounced down upon the table where the young man had sought solitude, motioned to the mother, who clucked to the chickens, and a moment later they were all around that one table. That young man’s face was a serial story. Other people entered the restaurant, ; glanced at the group, smiled significantly. and seated themselves. ”iie doesn't look it, does he?” queried a pleasant faced old lady in an audible whisper. “She looks at least ten years older than he,” murmured a girl at the i next table. He flew to the hatrack, tossed a half crown to the waiter and tried to go tnrough the door without opening it.— London Telegraph.

Ancient Fashion Jargon. The language of the fashion plate j and the woman's paper Is sufficient . ( appalling to the mere man even in , these davs of emancipated and, we , nmv presume, more grammatical worn- ] anliood, but, according to an t’Xtract j from a fashion journal of 1.5., the jai , ] gon of over a century ago was even . more astounding. This is how the pa- ( per described the dress of a certain Mlle. D at the opera: ’ She anoeared in a dress of "stifled si-’hs,” 'ornamented with “superfluous regrets," the bodice cut in a "perfect candor" point and trimmed with “uidiscreet complaints.” Her hair was dressed in “sustained sentiments.” with a headdress of "sustained conquest,” ornamented with several flyawavs” and "downcast eye” ribbons, and ’her collar was "beggar on horseback” color. No doubt all these marvelous terms conveyed some meaning to the fashionable woman of the days when French society danced on the edge of the volcano of 1789, but to their descendants of a hundred years later they have absolutely no meamng.-San Francisco Argonaut.

Red Tape In Russia. Every time a Russian minister leaves town his colleagues are notified of the journey, besides the council of the empire, the cabinet of the emperor, the empire’s controleur and secretary, the sacred synod, the emperor’s military secretary, the empress, the governors of Moscow, Varsovie. Kieff, etc., ad Infinitum, to all appearance. When he returns, the same minute notification performance is gone through. So each ministerial departure from and return to St. Petersburg involves an issue of some 200 notices. There are IS ministers, and taking three journeys as the average for each, we have at the end of the year a grand total of I some 10,800 official papers. The Holiday Habit. Within the memory of men by no means aged Christmas and Fourth of July were the only two days In the year on which there was anything like a universal abstention from wore. Even Thanksgiving day found many men at their desks or shops, and on the lesser holidays the streets wore an almost everyday appearance. The rule now is when there is a holiday to take it. Men have discovered a positive economic advantage in occasional "days off.”—Chicago News. — — A Snd Discovery. An old woman from Tasmania, ! sauntering through the chamber of bori rors at Melbourne wax works, in Aus- , tralia, recognized the figure of a hangI ed murderer (George Chamberlaim as | that of her long lost son. Up to then ■ the poor old woman had been hoping ! that her offspring would turn up 'it any time with an affectionate greeting anil a big bag of money for mother.

An Almentminded Man. There have been a great many stories about absentminded men, where one forgets his house address, another what business he is in and where an. other has to refer to the mark on his handkerchief before he can remember his own name. There is a farmer named Rogers in the north, who possessed a Jersey-cow, which he used to drive morning and evening to and from the pasture, not far from his home One morning, as one of his neighbors was passing along the road, he met Mr. Rogers walking In the middle of the lane, his mind apparently engrossed with some weighty question. The neighbor called out: "Good morning, Mr. Rogers. Where are you going?” "Why,” said Mr. Rogers, in a surprised way, "I'm driving the cow to pasture.” And he waved his band toward where the cow ought to have been. “Well, where’s the cow?” asked his friend. “I suppose I forgot to let her out of the bam.” answered Mr. Rogers humbly as he realized bis position. And he had.—Columbian. A Sure Cure For Howls. “I say, mamma,” said Charlie, who was watching his mamma bathe the new girl baby, "what would happen if you would put her in the bathtub and go away off and leave her to wash her ownsclf. like me?”

“I’m afraid.” said mamma, “that little sister would get water in her mouth and drown.” “Would it fill her all up full with water so she couldn’t howl no more?” inquired Charlie. "Yes. I’m afraid it would.” said mamma, pleased with tne interest Charlie was taking in his sister’s welfare. "1 say, mum,” exclaimed Charlie enthusiastically. "let’s put her in right away.”—Providence Telegram. MARKETS. CORRECTED BY J. D. HALE, GRAIN MERCHANT, DECATUR, IND. Wheat, news 63 Corn, per cwt, yellow (new) 37 Corn, per cwt. (new) mixed 36 Oats, newls @ 22 Rye 50 Barley• • • • • Clover seed 3 i@ 420 Timothyl 00 (0 1 10 Eggs, fresh 20 Butter 1, Chickens Ducks 0° Turkeys (tAAQA 16 to 19 Wool, washed 20 and 22 Hogs ■••••• 3 00 TOLEDO MARKETS DEC. 6, 1:30 P. M. Wheat, new No. 2 red. cash.... 86L May wheat i--> Cash corn No. 2 mixed, cash.. ->l' j Dec. corn• - 3 | Prime clover 0