Decatur Democrat, Volume 43, Number 40, Decatur, Adams County, 14 December 1899 — Page 2

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His Opinion of Shakespeare. There is a story going about concerning a famous man of letters who visited Washington recently. He appeared at but one dinner party. There he sat next the young daughter of x noted naval officer. Her vocabulary is of a kind peculiar to very young girls, but she rattled away at the famous man without a moment’s respite. It was during a pause in the general conversation that she said to him: “I'm awfully stuck on Shakespeare. Don't you think he's terribly interesting?” Everybody listened to hear tlie great man’s brilliant reply, for as a Shakespearean scholar he has few peers. “Yes.” he said solemnly, “I do think he is interesting. I think he is more than that. 1 think Shakespeare is just simply too cute for anything.”—WashCostly Lessons. “What’s that there young man's business?” asked Mr. Parvenu. “He’s a tutor, I believe,” replied his wife. “What does he teach?” “One of them old sciences. I s'pose,” answered Mrs. Parvenu. “I ain’t just sure what it is, but last night Maybelie told me be was giving her some lessons in osculation.” “Well. I s’pose she’s got to be educated.” returned the old man. “I only hope he won't charge no fancy price for his lessons.”—Chicago Post. Steadfast \ature. "I have seen Brother Bruggetts grow from a poor young man to a middle aged millionaire.” said the aged minister, "and it has not changed him one bit. When he first entered my church, he established tlie habit of putting a quarter in the plate every Sunday, and, though he has since grown rich, he puts in his 23 cents.”—lndianapolis A Delusion and n Snare. “Friends? 1 should say so. Never suspected that 1 had so many. Have to let them in one door and out the other. Best lot of fellows you ever saw. Give ’em a big stag party tonight.” Then the misguided youth sat down and drew a cheek against the generous legacy he had received within the month and resented an insinuation that his finish was visible.—Detroit

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He Stood the Test. One of the hardest tests given applicants who go before the civil service commission boards of examiners is in the form of printed matter, which is to be copied without a single change. It is said to be surprising to find how many intelligent people find it impossible to properly stand this test. They can frequently correct errors in language which they cannot copy verbatim. There was lately an applicant who showed his aptitude for this work. He was given a printed page and told to copy it. “Want it just like this?” he asked. “Without a change,” the examiner replied. The man labored. The printed matter was on a white sheet and was spotless, with the exception of a fly speck on one of its corners. The sheet the student had was minus a blemish in that particular spot, but when it was turned in there was a well imitated fly speck. There was not a flaw in the work, and he received a rating of 100 on that portion of his examination and today is one of the best and most trusted employees in the service of the commission, where be was detailed shortly after taking his examination.—Washington Star. A Difficult Lay. A New England woman is the owner of a hen which appears to choose her surroundings with a discriminating eye. Soon after her present owner acquired the hen she discovered the creature's fondness for stepping into the house whenever she could effect an entrance and laying an egg on the down coverlet which ornamented the bed in the “best chamber.” One day the hen managed to get in unobserved during a season of sweeping, and her presence was only discovered as she made her way hastily out of the side door, cackling with triumph, some time later. As the best room coverlet had been out of the way during the sweeping, the mistress of the house looked about for the egg which she felt sure bad been laid somewhere. She found it, after half an hour’s search, on the plush mantel covering in the parlor, where the hen must have sat in state between a china shepherdess and a glass vase. Nothing on the mantelshelf had been disturbed, although just how the hen had managed the delicate business will never be known. —Y'outh’s Companion. DnhMns For Food. It is an interesting fact that when the dahlia was introduced into Europe it was not as a flower that it was valued, but as a vegetable. The plant is said to be really akin to the potato, and it was thought that it would prove an important addition to our food resources. The single variety seems to have been imported first, the Marchioness of Bute having introduced it about 100 years ago. It came to us from Madrid-, the Spaniards having, it is believed, found it first in Mexico, and it was introduced into France as well as England. A few daring adventurers appear to have made trial of it as an edible root, but it is never an easy matter to popularize a new article of food, and the tuber of the dahlia did not take on. If it had done so, the probability is that we should never have troubled much about its cultivation as a flower. We never do grow things for fruit and flower, too. and if we had sacks of dahlia bulbs in Covent Garden we should have had no dahlia show at the Crystal Palace.—London Corresnond-

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LAWTON AND GRANT FORMER OCCUPIES SAN MIGUEL AND Tllii LATTER OLANGAPO V.ilfiOlT RESISTANCE. GENERAL YOUNG'S SOLDIERS March For Thirteen Hours Without Food — They Are Reported Harefooted and With but a Very Small Amount of Ammunition. Manila, Dec. 12.—General Lawton with the Thirty-fifth infantry and four troops of the Fourth cavalry, has occupied San Miguel without a fight. The insurgent commander, General Pio del Pilar, who made his headquarters there with supposedly the largest force of insurgents north of Manila, is believed to have divided his men into scattered bands. The inhabitants have petitioned for a strong garrison. Colonel Hays, with cavalry, had two brushes with the insurgents, the Americans having two wounded. Grant’s Advance Guard. Manila, Dec. 12. —The advance guard of General Grant’s command under Major Spence, arrived at Olangapo, Subig Bay, during the night of Saturday Dec 9. which place was occupied with little resistance, the enemy fleeing. Major Spence had an arduous march over the mountain trails from Diualupihian. The Baltimore and Oregon and a chartered transport have arrived at Olangapo from Manila. The navy was disappointed to find the army in possession of the place, which they had hoped to capture. A detachment of marines under Captain Myers, occupied the navy yard at Olangapo, and will hold and occupy it as a naval station. The yard consists of seven new large buildings and some repairing and machinery shops, all damaged by the bombardment of Sept. 23. During the morning of Dec. 10 the navy transported Major Spence’s command from Olangapo to the town of Subig, five miles distant. The enemy was seen deserting Subig as the troops landed, and the latter occupied it without any resistance. They found the place abandoned by the retreating enemy who fired a few shots. The Americans deployed to the right and left of the town and killed one of the enemy. General Grant and the remainder of his command arrived at Olangapo Sunday afternoon. He proceeded yesterday to Subig and joined Major Spence. General Young's Troops. Dispatches dated Concepcion, Dec. 2, from a correspondent with the detachment pursuing Aguinaldo, have just reached Manila by a messenger. The military wire on all lines to the northward are continually cut by the natives or are crowded with government business when working. According to these advices, General Young was at Condon Nov. 29, having three troops of the Third cavalry, Cunningham's scouts and Major March’s batallion of the Thirty-third infantry. The nominal strength of his command had been reduced one third by sickness. Tfie horses were worn out and handicapped by lack of shoes. The infantry, after a march of 100 miles from San Jacinto, were shoeless and all were living on the country. The troops had no amunition except what they carried in their belts.

"General Young, having then been without communication with General Lawton for 10 days and not knowing the disposition of the other troops, or whether support was being sent forward, resolved to keep moving. Having received information that the insurgent General Tino, with 1,000 men, was somewhere to the north, and that Aguinaldo, with General Pilar, five women and 400 soldiers of his faithful Bulacau battalion, was in the mountain to the east, General Young decided to divide his force. He proceeded himself toward Vigan, hoping to attack General Tino witn his handful of men and to prevent him joining Aguinaldo. Major March, with Bis battalion and Cunningham’s scouts, started over the mountains toward Cervantes, after Aguinaldo, who was reported to have been there on Nov. 29. Tais column marched for 13 hours without food. M’GLORY’S GOODBY Bottle Found With a Message From the Captain of the Niagara. Port Colborne, Ont., Dec. 12.—A bottle containing a piece of paper on which was written the following, apparently by the captain of the foundered steamer Niagara, was found on the beach yesterday: “Expect to go down any minute. Captain McGlory. Goodbye. Steamer Niagara foundered about three miles from Port Maintlaud. ” Pieces of the wreck, identified as belonging to the Niagara, have drifted ashore. Philippine Ports. Washington, Dec. 12.—Secretary Root yesterday said that he had sent no directions to General Otis to open up the ports in the Philippines. The matter was in the discretion of General Otis, however, and the war department earnestly hoped that the day would not be far distant when all of the ports could be safe ly opened. Memphis, Dec. 9. —An important meeting of the southern leaders of the People’s party was held in Memphis yesterday and it was decided that the executive committee shall be requested to call a meeting for February for the purpose of naming a date for the nett national convention of that party.

I HOWII fEELSTOBE heldup The Sen r. it lon Partly Described by One Who Has Been There. “How It Feels to Be In a Train Robbery,” unlimited volumes by E. M. Morton, who was very much in it. and has a feeling of gladness that he is out of it. Scene—Between Elburn and Maple Park, near Dekalb, Ills., about 50 miles from Chicago. Time—lo:3o o’clock p. m. Friday. Oct. 13. 1899. Occasion—The arrival of the Chicago and Northwestern fast mail and express. E. M. Morton’s friends say be could recite it, and if be were able to describe the affair as graphically on paper as he has verbally since his return to Council Bluffs fame and fortune would be his lot instead of mail bags and time cards. He is a postal clerk and was in the car next to that which was dynamited by the bandits. And he didn’t run a bit at that exciting period. The reason was a gun held by one of the robbers and pointed in tlie direction of Mr. Morton’s head, which at that moment, he says, looked to him like one of Dewey's cannons. “Say, I thought it was all a joke at first,” he explains. “A brakeman jumped aboard my car after the engineer had obeyed the stop signal and brought the train to a standstill. The brakey had his hands above his head and looked real funny. He turned about, facing outward. ‘That’s all right,’ I says. •You can put your hands down now.’ But he didn't put ’em down. ‘Well,’ I says in a tone meant to reassure him, ‘put ’em down, why don’t you?’ He didn’t look around at all, but replied in a voice that sounded a* though he had a chill. 'This is no joke.’ “Some one outside then says, ‘Shut up!’ in away that sounded as if he knew what lie was talking about, and I then turned my face around against an awful big gun. Soon another clerk was put in the car. and he had his hands heavenward, too, and kept ’em there, and 1 began to realize that the thing was no comedy. Three of us were holding our hands up then, and we didn’t look a bit funny. Next in came the express messenger, his bands up. and there were four of us, and none of us laughed. “Then tlie explosion came, and tlie force of it rocked our car like a ship at sea in a gale. A masked man witli that cannon pointing toward us held his place just outside at the car door, and we didn’t dare to move. “After about 25 minutes two men— I think only two—joined the watchman at our car. and they ail went away together. One of ’em yelled back, ‘Don’t you marks move for a little while, or you'll get a lead pill!' and we didn't move for—well, maybe a minute or two. I’ve been called a mark before, but 1 never felt so much like one ns 1 did in those few minutes. "When we got outside, we waited around for the engine to lie brought back. And. say, that engineer was a sight! It's not true that he was v.-ound-ed in the breast. They didn’t even shoot at him, though they did fire at a brakeman; but the engineer looked as though he had been half shot anyhow. He was completely -wilted and could hardly talk. He didn’t even want to turn back from where they had made him run his engine up the track a couple of miles, and when he was approaching the spot again they say he tried to bide in the tender. Anyhow, he was like a leaf when he was helped out of his cab. "We had to leave the poor fellow at De Kalb, though his borne is in Clinton, la., where be leaves the train on the regular run. The delay was five hours, and we got in here at 12:30 today instead of 8:50. We made up some time by fast running. “Yes, the rest of us were cool enough, I guess. I didn’t pay much attention to things, except to that man’s orders to keep my hands up.”—Council Bluffs Nonpareil. Evening Ip the Honors. It was at President Hadley’s reception that tlie following bit of conversation was overheard: Dr. Dwight, turning to a prominent young alumnus of Yale, after greeting him with. “Hello, classmate!” said something about his own very recent return from tlie country, adding afterward: “By tlie way. I owe one of the New Haven newspapers a grudge. It printed an item about me a few weeks ago to this effect: ‘Ex-President Theodore Dwight lias just returned from his summer home at Norfolk.’ Now, my name is Timothy, and my summer home is at Litchfield.” “Well, that is one of tlie tilings, at all events, that can be very easily rectified. doctor,” said the alumnus pleasantly. “Yes,” replied the doctor, with a droll smile, “they might say, and I think it would be satisfactory to me, that ‘Professor Alfred Hadley has just been elected president of an institution at Waterbury.’ ’’—New Haven Register. Curiosity Gratified. Some young women, according to the Philadelphia Record, noticed a foreign looking man pushing a closed baby carriage. Their curiosity was aroused, and one of them asked to see the baby that was so completely covered. The man hesitated, but finally succumbed to the girls’ glances, and, unbuttoning the apron, he disclosed a small, rotund gentleman, with mustache and Napoleon, quietly chewing an unlighted cigar. The girls were speechless with surprise and shame for having so intruded on the man's privacy, although he was a tiny one, under three feet in length. He graciously pardoned the women as he stroked his mustache ' and invited them to see him at the Ex- . port exposition, where he had just arrived to be exhibited. Then bidding them goodby be ordered bls attendant to continue with the daily ride.

50c on the i.UUb Having purchased the Beauchamp stock of Fairmount at FIFTY CENTS OX THE DOLLAR. I can, AND WILL, sell Boots, Shoes and Rubbers cheaper than was ever heard of. For example: Men’s good boots, worth $2.00 to §3.00 for- 51.25 Men’s good shoes, worth §1.50 for-- - 1.15 Men’s enamel shoes, worth §4.00 for-- 1.98 Women’s fine shoes, worth §3.00 for-- - 1.98 Women’s warm lined shoes, worth §1.75 for- 1.10 Misses’ fine or heavy shoes, worth §1.50 for- 1.00 Babies' good shoes for .35 Men’s felt boot outfit for 1.75 Men’s B K Artics for LOO Women’s B K Artics for .90 Child’s B K Artics for .39 Men’s rubbers for -65 Women’s rubbers for .35 Child’s rubbers for -20 In fact anything you may need in the Boot, Shoe or Rubber line at unheard of prices, and remember, these are not cheap shoes, but high grade shoes sold CHEAP. Also a fine assortment and can fit out the most fastidious. It will be to your benefit as well as mine to investigate. J. 0. Holman, The Shoe Man. West Side Second St. OL R SIGN. Big Shoe and Big Sale.

Tlie Business Instinct. Too many people are accustomed to think of politeness in address as appropriate in company, but quite out of place in business. An engaging manner is useful everywhere. This axiom is amusingly illustrated by a story which Justin McCarthy tells. Soon after the civil war. he says, I happened to be standing on a bridge in New York amusing myself by studying the crowd, when a shrill, youthful voice accosted me with, “Cap’n, shine yer boots?" Tlie chance distribution of titles was ready and liberal at the tme when so many soldiers were returning to civilian life, and I paid no attention to the invitation. Just then a rival bootblack passed, and, imagining where tlie cause of my indifference lay, he advanced, and, pushing past the unsuccessful claimant, he gave me a military salute and appealed to me with the captivating words: “Brigadier general, shine yer boots?” I had my boots shined on the spot.

Legal advertising, VTOTICE OF FLECTION OF DIRECTORS OFTHE DECATUR NATIONAL BANK. DECATUR, INDIANA. Notice is hereby elven to the stockholders of tin- Decatur Nat io tai Bank. Decatur. Indiana. that Ur re will he a meeting at the hanking rooms of said bank, in Decatur. Indiana, Tuesday, January 9, 1900, between the hours of 10 o'clock a. m and 3:30 o’clock p m . for the purpose ot electing a heard of directors for said bank lor the rear I.W. 39-4 C. A. Duoan, Cashier. gHEBLFF'S SALE. The State of Indiana. Adams county ss: In the Adams circuit court of Adams county, Indiana. Elizabeth C. Martin 1 I „ )• No. 5.999. Christopher Haviland, Hannah J. Haviland. | By virtue of an order of sale to me directea by tae clerk of the Adams Circuit Court, of said county and state. I have levied upon the real estate hereinafter mentioned and will expose lor sale at public auction atthe eastdoorof the Court House in the city of Decatur, Adams county, Indiana, between the hours of 10 o’clock A. M. and 4 o’clock P. M. on Friday, December 22,1899, The rents and profits for a term not exceeding seven years, of the following described real estate, situated in Adams County Indiana, to-wit: The northwest quarter of the northwest quarter ot section thirty-three in townshin twenty-five (25) north of range fourteen east containing forty acres more or less in Adams county, Indiana. And on failure to realize therefrom the full amount of judgment. Interest thereon and costs, I will at the same time and in the same manner aforesaid, offer for sale the fee simple of the above described premises. Taken as the property of Christopher Haviland and Hannah J. Haviland to satisfy said order of sale this 28th day of November, 1t99, DANIEL N. ERWIN, Sheriff. ] Jacob Butcher, Attorney.

/COMMISSIONERS' ALLOWANCES Ordered by the court that the foliowine named persons be allowed the amount set opposite ineir name and for the purposes herein specified: A N Steele A' Bro, goods for asylum I 34 15 .1 R A Lvdia Graber overseeing asylum. 150 > ’ Jr cob Bogner, work for asylum 24 14 Liana Cord ua. do 39'" Emma Mosser, do 39 hi Clifford Lee. do 35 CO Christ Lugenbill. stock for poor farm.. 47 5n Lilly Scheil. work lor asylum 13 00 A Van Camp & Buck, goods for asylum 19 >1 J D Ha'.e do 44 60 J B Bolder & Bro. do T T Cioud. do 8 1° Smith, Yager & Falk. do F Schaler, Son A Lock. do 23 31 John Brock do Ashbaucher & Bell, do 26 81 M Burns, do 3 55 Kirsh & Sell me ver, do 3 25 Chis. Eichenberger. work for asylum.. 15 00 John Mouser, goods for asylum 39 40 JII Vogeiwede. transportation for poor 339 John Steele, overseer poor. R R fare.... 5 00 Keubler A Moltz Co. goods for poor 4 55 Niblick & Co, do 6 VO J Fulleneamp, do 5 98 Rosenthal Bros. do 5 70 Winnie shoe Store, do J H Vogeiwede. do P Holthouse & Co. do 23 1»> Mills AM vers. do 7 21 Jacob C Miller. do 2 •» Everett. Hite & Co. do Gerber A Sprunger. do Holtbouse. Callow Co. do 2 H' Drs P B Thomas and C S Clark, medical attendance on poor 100 hi J Fulleneamp. goods for poor 2 49 Gay A Zwick. do H H A Frisioe. keeping and boarding poor 56 ~■» John H Mougey, goods for poor 6 1 Jacob We ch ter, do 37*. D D Clark, med attendance poor 37 J D Nidiinger. overseer poor J .* ' " oodward A Bail, goods for poor 20 Lewis Fruchtc. do 37 •-» Holthouse. Callow ACo goods for CH. 5l" Rose & Bel), electric lights for C II•••• 78 0” Mil.er A Ford, goods for CH ‘' C N Christen, supt. painting CH A jail 33 4 s T Ernest, janitor CH Kirsh A Sellmeyer. goods for CH 22 Van Camp & Bucks. do . - • 1 Logansport & Wabash Valley Gas Co, gas for C H and jail 1 * John H Mougey. goods for jail ~ “ Holtbouse. Callow A Co, goods for jail 13 4' Thos M Gallogly, stamps recorder office <> ■ Jonas Neuensehwander, stamps Treasurers office J; J.' Irvin Brandy berry exchnge postage etc ~4 » Elmer Johnson, salary as clerk 9a •>* Irvin Brandybery, salary as Co Supt.. - 312 Dan Erwin, salary as sheriff 44b 4Noah Mangold, salary as auditor iThos M Gallogly, salary as recorder.... -04 i. Jonas Neuenschwander. salary Treas. • 4-» J-’-W E Fulk, Services as surveyor IbU w Geo M Haefling, services as superintendent erection abutment J S Bnwers, work and material bridge. ™ . J Haugk, due on erection abutment. .. 8d J J Witschi, over’ing con of arch » r’ C Doehrman services supt bridge 3. •> John A Mumma, repairing bridge ’ . L G Ellingham. stationery "i- h L G Ellingham, printing •••••• f,, L H Corbin, contract painting etc C H-. ' Woods A Mann, extra on C H tower .0 Geo A Kintz, services on E W M R- * Elmer Johnson. Remington typewriter «- Attica Bridge Co. steele bridge J W Myers, services as supt east W G K a? Wm Geary, services as nightwatch ... la u II F Costello, services as secretary ot Adams county board of Health S* Gaffer Bros, painting jail .... Wm H Darwacter. labor west HSR.-- * C J Lutz, services county attorney.. ©• Wi jg A Mohurin architect work superintendent C H tower iq an Wm B Burford, stationery - J R Shafer rent for surveyors office.... w 0 Samuel Doak service as commissioner., v Fredrick Reppert, do ‘2 J; J. E. Mann, do . . 00 Dan Erwin, attending commissioners Novemberand December sessions I. the undersigned hereby certify that foregoing statements are true and correct, found among the records In my offee. Noah Mangold, Auditor Per C. D. Lewtoii. Deputy. _ PARKER’S HA2R BALSAM Clean sea and beautifies the nair. Promotes a luxuriant = Never Fails to Restore GW Hair to its Youthful ColorPrevent! Dandruff and hair falling. ” 50c. and gl OO at Druggists. J