Decatur Democrat, Volume 43, Number 39, Decatur, Adams County, 7 December 1899 — Page 5

fl Eureka Harness Oil is the best fl ■ preservative of new leather ■ ■ and the best renovator of old K fl leather. It oils, softens, black- M fl ens and protects. Use ifc I Eureka ! | Harness Oil I H on your best harness, your old har- |H| H ness. and your carriage top, and they M will not only look better but wear MH ■ longer. Sold everywhere in cans—all ftiHl) flj sizes from half pints to live gallons, y'ir ■ Made by STANDARD OIL CO. A [

A rush at The Big Store. Read the advertisements in today’s issue if you are looking for Christmas gifts. Homer P. Moses and family of Fort \\ avne, Sundayed with the former’s mother and other friends in Decatur. For Sale A good property in Vera Cruz for sale or trade. Good home an d other buildings. William Swartz, Vera Cruz, Indiana. 36-4 For sale —Cheap, if taken at once. Restaurant, bakery and boarding house. Trade established. For further particulars call on or address this office. ts It takes but a minute Ito overcome tickling in the throat and to stop a cough by the use of One Minute Cough Cure. This remedy quickly cures all forms of throat and lung troubles. Harmless and pleasant to take. It prevents consumption. A famous specific for grippe and its after effects. Smith, Yager & Falk, ts Harruff & Lenhart, lawyers, notaries public, abstractors, real estate and fire insurance agents. Money to loan at five per cent, on five years time; deeds, mortgages and other instruments executed. Special attention given to collections and probate practice. Office in the Brock building, east side Second street, Decatur. Indiana. 35m2 An order was promulgated last Saturday by the postmaster-general extending the domestic postage rates of the United States to the Philippines. All the possessions of this country except Hawaii, now have the same rates. When Hawaii was annexed it was stipulated that the laws of the Islands should remain in force, but it it expected that the coming session of congress will change this condition. Such is the testimony of thousands concerning Brown’s Cure, a Perfect Family medicine, the best remedy known for the liver, kidneys and bowels, a positive cure for dyspepsia and all bowel troubles, sick headache, nervousness, constipation and loss of sleep. If you suffer try this great remedy and find health and happiness. Sold by Page Blackburn. Price 5c cts. Yi-Ki cures corns and warts. If 7

IS HERE AGAIN I - AND SO ARE |g SMITI I. YAGER X FALK. | W/ITH THE MOST COMPLETE STOCK OF HOLIDAY GOODS Ever shown in the city gg WWe can not fail to please you with our carefully selected stock. To say our line o. loilet <. Y and Manicure sets are more than complete is expressing it ever mildly indeed. gg — r kjj feg t ri nTO Necktie Books. Bibles Photo- ! Perfumes? Well yes. Work Boxes. Dolls and H and Handkerchief Box line graph Albums. Hanging We have a thousand and games of all kinds. We can & * I fr> none Al' Lamps and Stand Lamps. one different odors for you save you lots of money on we are second to no»e_ All to choose from . We have any of these articles. Our g fan to see theL° ' line of goods. ! always lead in perfumes. dolls all go at bO per ct off. | ai j — — n ” „„ We have a completeline Jardlnlers, Fern Vases, Remember, we give an Gold Pens, Office Sev Wo od ware and Indian Ware Cigar Cases Atlas check with each 25 and Fancy Stationery-a Some- and Smoking Sets. These cent purchase. Ask for very complete assoitmen p . irelv new Never make a most beautiful and checks and get the valu- M and the prices are as low clty . „ seful present . able book FBBE. § as the lowest. — — hgj We are Here to Please, I a SMITH. YAGER & FALK, g

g tKee p your eye on us. The Big ciS?s±r ill t f,n i 1 the Burt House ' stand a short cut to content- ( 34tf Miss Bessie Humphries of Portland, was the guest of her yoiw lady ‘ friends m this city Thanksgiving." " . Our best advertisers are our pleased ' customers, who know they have got 1 their money’s worth. The Big Store. 1 DeWitt’ B Little Farly Risers puri f y the blood, clean the liver, invigorate 1 the system. Famous little pills for constipation and liver troubles, Smith 1 ager A Fallk. ts I will offer a reward of $5 for the arrest and conviction of the parties destroying the township property known as school house no. 1, or anvof the other school property in the township. John Steele, trustee Washington township. 4 W The following "Notis ’ is written on a shingle and tacked up on a vacant I house in Bluffton. “Dake Notis” I Bois and gurls will keeb way here, 5$ I find and Beware. This reminds of us I of a warning which a Portland man posted on his fence. It reads as follows: “Fare Notis” If any man’s or

woman scows jumps into "this field they will git his or her tails cut oph, as the case may be. Holthouse, Callow A Co. guarantee every bottle of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy and will refund the money to any one who is not satisfied after using two-thirds of the contents. This is the best remedy in the world for lagrippe, coughs, colds, croup and whooping cough and is pleasant and safe to take. It prevents any tendency of a cold to result in pneumonia. A New York man applied to Lincoln for the commercial standing of a man whom he thought the latter knew. Lincoln replied: “Dear Sir: Yours at hand. lam acquainted with Mr. X and know his circumstances. First He has a wife and baby: they ought to be worth fifty thousand dollars. Second—He has an office in which there are a table, worth a dollar and a half, and three chairs worth, say one dollar, and, last of all in one corner there is a large rat hole worth looking into. Respectfully, A. Lincoln.” Notice to Wheelmen. We, the undersigned, do hereby agree to refund the money on a 25 cent bottle of Henry & Johnson’s Arnica and Oil Liniment, if it fails to cure bumps, bruises, scratches, chafes, cuts strains, blisters, sore musles, sunburn chapped hands or face, pimples, freckles, or any other ailments requiring an external application. Lady riders are especially pleased with Arnica and Oil Liniment, it is so clean and nice to use. Twenty-five cents a bottle; one three times as large for 50cents. Page Blackbvan. ts

M raps and hats must go at “The Big Store.” George Kelley of Geneva, was in the city last Saturday sizing up the political outlook. Mrs. R. Churchill, Berlin: Vt., says, Our baby was covered with running sores. DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve cured her. A specific for piles and skin diseases. Beware of worthless counterfeits. Sminh, Yager & Falk, ts Hunters Take Notice.—Hunting and trespassing upon the Robinson farm in French township is positively prohibited, and persons violating will be prosecuted to the full extent of the aw ' F B. Robinson, 32tf Resident Manager. The latest invention is a new wav of i fastening on ladies’hats without using a hat pin. It is to bore small holes in the top of their ears, put in gold loops and have the hat strings tied to them. Thus step by step we thread the pathi way of perfection and ere the dark|ness of death envelopes all the world, . man will have utilized his nose in | holding up his pants or pulling off I his boots. My son has been troubled for years with chronic diarrhoea. Sometime

ago I persuaded him to take some of Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea remedy. After using two bottles of the 25-cent size he was cured. I give this testimonial, hopl ing some one similarly afflicted may | read it and be benefitted. Thomas |C. Bower, Gelencoe, 0. For sale by Holthouse, Callow & Co. d Dwight L. Moody, the great evangelist says in his opinion the outlook for the young man is dark, in spite of ! the usual optismic view of so many i regarding the bright future of the J young man possessed of the right | qualities, and the general verdict that j the man who fails to get along has I only himself to blame. The greatest hinderance he sees to the young man’s ' success, he says, are trusts, a combination and concentration of capital. It is an equal battle of a single brain with a group of brains; backed by I millions of capital. Remarkable Rescue. Mrs. Micheal Curiain, Plainfield, 111., makes the statement, that she caught cold, which settled on her ■ lungs; she was treated by her family physician, but grew worse. He told > her she was a hopeless victim of con--1 sumption and that no medicine could , cure her. Her druggist suggested , Dr. King’s New Discovery for con--1 sumption; she bought a bottle and to • her delight found herself benefitted ■ from first dose. She continued its > use and after taking six bottles, found I j herself sound and well as she ever > I was. Free trial bottles of this Great >! Discovery at Page Blackburn’s drug > 1 store. Only 50 cents and SI.OO every I bottle guaranteed.

Found A fine wrap at an unheardof low price at The Big Store. Low Rate of Interest. Money loaned at five per cent, interest, payable annually or semi-an-nually, at option of borrower, with privilege of partial payments at any interest paying time. " No delay in making loans. F. M. Schirmeyer, Decatur, Ind. 9tf Bismarck’s Iron Nerve Was the result of his splendid health. Indomitable will and tremendous energy are not found where stomach, liver, kidneys and bowels are out of order. If you want these qualities and the success they bring, use Dr. King’s New Life Pills. They develop every power of brain and body. Only 25c. at Page Blackburn’s drug store. Thomas Parker, a Philadelphian, has made a successful enterprise of hunting alligators on the Mexican coast. He located at Mazatlan and has just shipped the skins of 9,000 saurians, which are found all along the coast of Mexico in great numbers, to leather manufacturers in Philadelphia and New York. Parker has a big force of Mexicans employed in hunting the animals, which infest the laggons and shoal water. “One Minute Cough Cure is the best remedy I ever used for coughs and colds. It is unequalled for whooping cough. Children all like it,” writes H. N. Williams, Gentryville, Ind.. Never fails. It is the only harmless remedy that gives immediate results. Cures coughs, colds, hoarseness, croup, pneumonia, bronchitis and all throat and lung troubles. Its early use prevents consumption. Smith, Yager & Falk. ts At the next general election in this state two constitutional amendments will be voted on. One is to give the General Assembly the power to prescribe qualifications for the practice of law, and the other is to increase the size of a supreme court from a limit of from three to five judges, to a limit of from five to eleven. The amendments will be printed on the ballots. It will be the first time in the history of the state that constitutional amendments have been voted on. » Don’t Be Afraid. So many people are afraid to use medicines that are put up ready for use, why this should be we are unable to say, Dr. Marshall’s Lung Syrup is a cough medicine that has been sold for twenty years, thousands of people have used this, and there is not the least danger in using it, as this medicine is prepared from the best roots and herbs, known to medicial science by competant persons, this medicine is guaranteed to satisfy in all cases of coughs, colds and throat or lung trouble, it can be given to the smallest child without danger, and is very pleasant to the taste, try it. By Dealers. Price 25, 50, and sl. d

Closing out sale of ladies wraps and trimmed hats at “The Big Store.” The W. C. T. U. will meet with Mrs. H. M. Blossom next Saturday, December 9, at 2 p. m. Candidates were out in full force last Saturday to attend the meeting of the democratic committee. Rev. G. Hunter Myers and family were the guests of relatives and friends here over Thanksgiving. Rev. J. Q. Kline spent Sunday with friends at Lima, Ohio, where he met a sister who he had not seen for nearly thirty y ears. Our line for the Holiday trade will be larger than ever before, and will please you. Special prices for teachers and Sunday school societies. J. Martain A Co. About half the cases appealed to the Colorado supreme court are reversed, the majority of them on technicalities, due largely to the fact that judges of the county courts are not necessarily lawyers. Tn selecting a cigar, it is best to select from a stock selected by experienced selectors who select their goods to meet the demands of those who smoke select cigars. To be found only at the Burt House cigar stand. 28tf “I was nearly dead with dyspepsia, tried doctors, visited mineral springs, and grew worse. I used Kodol Dyspepsia Cure. That cured me. It digests what you eat. Cures indigestion, sour stomach, heartburn and all forms dyspepsia. Smith, Yager & Falk. ts The Methodist Sunday school held a meeting last Sunday afternoon and selected officers for the coming year. They are J. W. Vail superintendent, Jeff Bryson assistant and Nellie Blackburn, second assistant, Lee Walters secretary, Rachel Merryman assistant secretary, W. S. Sutton chorister, Arthur Suttles librarian, Jonas Tritch assistant, Mrs. J. W. Vail organist and John H. Lenhart treasurer. Story of a Slave. To be bound hand and foot for years by the chains of disease is the worst form of slavery. George D. Williams of Manchester, Mich, tells how such a slave was made free. He says; “My wife has been so helpless for five years that she could not turn over in bed alone. After using two bottles of Electric Bitters she is wonderfuly improved and able to do her own work.’’This supreme remedy for female diseases quickly cures nervousness, sleeplessness, melancholy, headache, backache, fainting and dizzy spells. This miracle working medicine is a godsend to weak, sickly, run down people. Every bottle guaranteed. Only 50 cents. ’ Sold by Page Blackburn, druggist.

The New Fair Store Toys, T oys. Toys. We bought the entire line of a large importing house, which we will sell at one-third the real value. 1 P Dressed dolls from A up 4-P Wooden blocks U p Zip Iron toys ■ tv 'up ftp Child s hay wagons up ftp Child’s china dishes U p 14-inch kid body dolls bisque 1 Q head with hair Doll cabs from up We also carry a complete line of Fancy Toilet Cases, etc., at prices to suit everybody. The New Fair Store, Alwavs The Lowest, DAVE VAW CLEEF, PROPRIETOR.