Decatur Democrat, Volume 44, Number 11, Decatur, Adams County, 24 May 1900 — Page 8

Eastern Dispatch. Wilma, Cowan is calling on relatives at Fort Wayne. Watch for the total eclipse of the sun next Monday. „ Saints have been been holding a revival meeting at Pleasant Mills. Ib-p ■* fr> ii reliable sources show that Willshire has a few cases of mumps. Willshire will erect a new scb(»l house this summer at a cost of near $15,000. Earl Cowan of Chicago, who was * here a few days visiting his parents, returned to the city Thursday accompanied by Floyd Wpods and W. W. Smith. Linn Grove. ***•- Grandmother French is visiting her daughter. Mra, P. Huffman. Mrs. Lavina North and daughter Nora were the guests of friends here on the Sabbath. Putting < iiit the corn is about completed here and our farmers go forth with encouragement. Fred Hoffman was at Fountain City last week, in the interest of their late building contract there. Aaron and Jacob Augsburger of Berne, attended the I. O. 0. F. lodge here on Wednesday night of last W. H. Shepherd returned from Greenville, Ohio, Monday, where he attended the funeral of his sister-in-law, Mrs. Elinor Hartzell. The Misses Cart ,Dunbar and Mary Baumgartner left sot Angola. Indiana. Monday, where they will attend college during the ensuing t'tvn. Central Spy. James Navel and wife were at Pleasant Mills last Friday on business, James Stultz has moved on the ' Wm. Niblick place near the Union Chaple church. W. H. Somers and wife of Williamsport. visited relatives in‘our community last week. Several applicants from our community passed examination last Saturday at Decatur for county diplomas. James Archbold, who has been serving as a state’s juryman at Indianapolis for a couple of weeks, returned home last week. Jachy Cline, who has been attend - ing sc h&.l at Ada. Ohio, visited his _ father and other friends L«u_ Saturday and Sunday. The YcmngPeople’sChristian Union which has been at the Union Chaple church, is moving along nice-t ly with Charley Rabbitt as president. I Messrs. Jachy Cli»e and Dalias Spuller went to Ada, Ohio, last Monday where they will resume their studies so as to better themselves for teaching. . Steele. Barn to Mr,and Mjs. William Wells, a boy. Born to Mr. and Mrs, Wesley Hamrick, a boy. Born to Mr, and Mrs. Emanuel Triyier, a 1- y. Everybody should att»;jii the memorial services at-Steele cemetrv. May 30. Mrs Flora Riley, of Bluffton. isVisiting with friends and relative of Sterne this week. llarrey Hocker. of Monroe, preached at Salem Sunday instead of B. H. I‘vter- who v. i- ut quarterly meeting. Steele was well represented at the quarterly meeting held at Pleasant Mills last S ituut .v and secured the next meeting for tuis place, , \ fire oecurw< i at one of the oil wells on the Pruden farm Sunday. The 6’1,-,'ke « - plainly visibfr here and •wired quite an excitement among th >—• who lived south, as it happened when the people were gathered at church. , Some children were playing with matches m Emanuel Triciter's Sunday and ”t fire to the straw stack, ■ which came very near burning a large near by. To make matters worse Mrs. Tricler was quite sick and has been much worse since. When Jasper Case went to the field to work one morning last week, he found that some one had been there before him. and chopped off his plow handles and stole his clevis. We learn later that the cicvia was returned and confession made as to the chopping, but we withold the names of the guilty |rurties.

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Berne. Berne is talking of celebrating the 4th of July. Bernhard Sprunger is again able to attend to business. Aut Michaud of Portland, was a call-*. town Tuesday. Amos Hirshy and Sam Schindler went to India: .polis Monday night. Lightning struck the house of Norm Jaeobs last Thursday evening, doing only slight damage. German school began Monday morning at the public school house, with Prof. Klewier as teacher. Marshal Burry is cutting down the street along the Orphan's home and ug the machine shop. Mr. and Mrs. John Soldner cele brated their golden wedding Monday with nearly al! their children and grand-children j sent. Their son Jonas. arrived 'ay morning from California. Rev. Voruholt w ill deliver the baccalaureate sermon to the graduating class at the Mennonite church next Sunday evening. While the commencement exercises will be held at the Reformed church on Monday evening. Pleasant tills. A. M. Fuller transacted business at Ohio City. Tuesday. The meetings held here last week closid Sunday evening. Samuel Steele and wife spent Sunday at Rockford. Ohio. Mrs. Hester Blaney of Decatur called on friends hare last week. ‘ Dick Boyd and family Sundayed in the village with their parents. Samuel Shamp and wife of Decatur minglod wi h friends here Sunday. \ Rolx«t Peterson and wife of Decatur spent Sunday with John Noll and family. The members of the Grange of this place willugive an ice cream social at the hall neSt Saturday evening. EarfCcKvan Returned to Chicago last Friday. He’was accompanied by Will Smith and FWyd Wood of this , place, who have also gone to the windy city to seek employment. Word was received hero M wday that Gilbert Thompson of thf« pla<4. who with Trustee, Smith spent the past winter in Georga. is quite ill anal may not recover. He wants to return home, but his friends think he canndl stand the trip. y „■ ■ Peterson. H. A. Breiner has the mumps. FrStik Martin has purchased a new buggy. Singing school has closed at Pleasant Dale. The elevator at this place is nearing completion. David Werling was here on business Monday. Andrew Stalter made a trip to Craigville last week. The old saw mill shed it- being torn down and ha tiled away. Miss Tillie Huffman of Ft. Wayne is here visiting friends afrd relatives. J. M. Beery returned from Woodstock, Mich., where he has bpen doing some canvassing. V. S. Pease of Honduras, boarded the train here for Malinta, Ohio, to-i visit a few days with friends. There will be an ice cream social held at th« Election school house on i Saturday evening, June 2. . Everybody invited. > »n last Sunday Miss Sadie Breißer very pleasantly entertained a number ; of her friends in affray that they had a very-pleasant time. cf> We think at present that the name i smokev village would lie the proper ■ name for Peterson, on account of the i saw dust on fire, and the • people are near smoked out of town. french Township. Abraham Biberstine offers, , his farm for sale. • Chris Luginbill is hauling rock for road bridges. Simon Smith sold his farm to Albrecht Reber. V. D. Be’J is the French township census enumerator. Chris Me«ehl>erger is hauling com .to Berne th week.

1 Peter Moser and family drevh to Woodburn on a visit. Watch for the eclipse next Monday morning at 7 o’clock Mrs. Mary Ann Bracker lost a valuable horse last week. Rev. JJonerieh pays a visit to the at present. 11. H. Stucky of Decatur, was here one day last week on business. David Luginbill and Elmer Schindler each purchased a new rig. I’cv. Joe Gerig of Allen county, preached to the Defenseless Mennouites Sunday morning and evening. There will lie a convention held in the Defenseless Mennonite church by the Dan Yoder Amish people on June 7 and 8. Rudolph Schugg came near having a serious accident while helping to raise the barn of John Smith jr., last week. Levi Beeler while driving a pin with an ax on the frame, accidentally let the ax faP down and striking Mr. Schugg on the arm cutting a deep gash to the bone. VISHNU’S COmTnG. The Great Event That Is Expected by Pi hub Hindoos. Just at this time, if the predictions, of pious and learned Hindoos are wortli anything, millions of women—, all the -caste” women throughout In-i dia—will be thrown simultaneously in-I to a swoon lasting an hour and a half. It Is the tenth Incarnation of the god Vishnu that is looked for. and this to the Hindoo means the end of all things earthly, just as to the Christian means the judgment and destruction of the world. Vishnu has come on earth nine times In us many different forms. This lime he is to appear in the heavens mounted on a white horse, brandishing a flaming sword resembling a comet. Women of all castes are expected to swoon-all the women in India, save! those who have forfeited the'r rights by trafficking with the unclean. Vishnu is the second god of the Hindoo trinity and to all Intents and purposes the supreme god of the Pan theon. In the great Sanskrit epic, the! Ramayana, he is treated as the ruler , <<• all things. He made heaven and . earth. He reclines on the lotus and is I shaded by the many headed serpent. ' Brahma, the four headed, springs from his body. But it is for his avatars. or relnca rations, that he is chiefly remarkable. It is believed that whenever the world has been disturbed he has descended in a small portion M>f bis essence and corrected toe evil. Sometimes he has'been a wonderful animal, a monster, a superhuman being: at other times be has been born in humfifi likeness, but bas possessed divine powers. If such if character as Moses, say. or John the Baptist or St. Paul or perhaps even or Napoleon had appeared ajpong the Hindoos, his overmastering spirituality or eloquence oryvisdom or military genius, as the case might be. would so powerfully have impressed bis contemporaries that the tradition of his greatness, handed down to the next generation . might easily give rise to the conjecture. I then the-hypothesis, then the theory, then the positive belief as an article of | religftus faith that he was Indeed the great Vishnu, come on earth again clothed in divine powers to help bu tnanity over its sough path toward perfection. Vishnu's ftdncarnntioni In their ac J cepted order are: 1. Matsya (the fish);! 2. Kurma (the tortoise); 3. Varaha (the ■n boar): 4. Narasingba (tbe man lioniq 5. Vamana (the dwarf); 6. Parasurama; 7. Rama; 8. Krishna; 9. Buddha. There are other versions of hia ap pearances on earth which vary widely from this. Some Hindoo theologians ascribe as mart* a« 30 avatars to the illustrious deity. But. these are notj orthodox, and tbe reincarnations I I preached by them must be regarded : as apocryphal. Orthodox Hindoos are very sfrict on I this point. Tbe tenth, or white horse avatar, is' known as Kalki. An ancient prophecy I assigned it to this present age. the fourth, Kaliung.—New York JourCautions Man. "Are you married?" lie asked of the man who sat next to ? him on the sub- ‘ urban train. “What’s that to you?” was the un-! gracious retort. » “Ob, no offense meant; no offense at | all. I’m a bachelor myself, but I’ve; ! just been visiting a married sister, and I feed the need of expressing my views on children to some one. If you're married, though, possibly It wouldn't be wise.”—Chicago Post

WILLARD’S HOTEL TO GO. A Lotts Line ot Dlsttnsrnished Men Were Entertained There. Willard's hotel, so long a landmark of Washington, where so many presidents have spent their first night in town just before inauguration, is to disappear. For over half a century tbe building has belonged to tbe Willard family, whose peculiarities of busi-: ness management made it almost a foregone conclusion that the old hotel would remain unchanged forever. Ihe death of the oldest of the three brothers, however, together with certain consolidations of interest, has put the ownership in the hands of Joseph \\ 11lard, a young and enterprising v irginia lawyer, wbo is not content with the old order of things. He has formed a company and had plans prepared for one of tbe finest buildings, Mr. Willard says, which the District has thus tar seen. It was at Willard's that Lincoln slept when be first came to Washington, in 1861. It was put Willard's that regl- | aient after regiment marched on down over the Long bridge into the war of the rebellion, and McClellan. Hooker, Burnside and other noted generals reviewed their armies from the little balI cony on the Fourteenth street side, i There have been rumors of a plan to , tear down tbe old Willard's and to put up a new structure for many months, , but the gentlemen Interested have al--1 ways up to the present time said that I they had nothing to give out regarding the matter. A lease on the property. It is said, bas been one of the matters that have prevented any consummation of the plan until recently. The architect is now working on the plans, and it Is expected construction will begin early In the spring. X charter was granted to a company in Virginia a few weeks ago to “buy. construct or operate a hotel In tbe District of Columbia and for other purposes.” Mr. Willard was one of tbe incorporators. E. J. Stellwagen was another. It is now known that this company will build the new Willard's.—Philadelphia Ledger. IN A MANILA PAPER. The “Ads." Seem to Be the Most InterestlnK Readins. Manila can't be such a bowling wilderness. after all, judglng.from tbe appearance of a daily paper called Freedom, “an American paper advocating Greater America.” which Is published out there. In the matter of news the Issue of Friday, Sept 22. | is not startling, but a glanee through i tbe advertisements is more interest- J Ing. Fully one-half of tbe advertising seems devoted to the liquor traffic. Tbe Saddlerock, announced as “tbe only first class American restaurant' and dining room In Manila,” takes a whole page, and stress is laid upon the I faet that ft bas been opened by “the greatest epicurean that ever visited the archipelago, assisted by chefs from ! the New England states and a corps I of American waiters.” Other restau-: rants, several conducted by Japanese. I also advertise, but they are oversbad-, owed by the Saddlerock. A clothing bouse advertises “men's ! s“its. made to order, for $4.50," and among the professional cards are a painless dentist, a man with an unpronounceable name who repairs typewriters, a dealer In electrical supplies. | several lawyers and two tattoo artists, i I’. Blanc advertises a choice line of "jewellery” and adds. "English spoke.” , | There is also a soap factory, which ad-! ; Tertises as a side Issue “old superior i brandy, sold in bottles, barrels or hegs- ! heads.’’ The educational announcements are . confined to an English school, where I "no charges are made to the children of the p<jor and moderate charges te all others.” and to a school of stenography. In the matter 6f amusements i there is no choice. If you don’t like I i tbe Manila museum, where the leading i attraction l< "a living woman, 25 years . old, having three legs, ' ee feet and l 15 toes,” you can go « ’hout.—Phila- | del ph la Record. A Dob With Brains. Speaking of Intelligent dogs, what is to be said of the one who visits his master at a private hospital on Comiqpnwealth avenue every day at 10 and : 4 o'clock? As regularly as dear old I Cyrano de Bergerac visited Roxane In { the convent this faithful dumb creai tun* apjiears at the door of the bouse ! and barks to be admitted. After he i has seen hh master and satisfied him- | self that all is well he departs again, : to return the next day at the same hour. If dogs do not reason, bow will these dally visits, always on time, be accounted for? Last winter he was a patient in the Harvard Veterinary bos- i nttal. where his owner went every aft-

' J ernoon to see him. Does be rememner this, or what Is it that tells blm when ft is time to start or where to seek the man he loves best In all the world? 1 confess nothing has so puzzled me as this Instance of canine devotion.-Bos-ton Herald. Masonry In War. The London Chronicle tells this story , of Majuba Hill: "A slightly wounded i commissariat office! was being covered by the ritle of a Boer sharpshooter, when the former made a Masonic sign. , The Boer lowered his rifle, and, stepping over to tbe other, made him a prisoner, but treated him In especially hospitable fashion as a brother member Os the craft. The commissariat man ascertained that Mr. Kruger nnd General Joubert were also Freemasons ” »n connection with this an "Old Mason" writes: "The story is not a solitary Instance. Many similar touching Incidents occurred during the FrancoGerman war. Not only are President Kruger and Fiet Joubert enthusiastic I Freemasons, but practically every | educated Boer belongs to the order. Most of the British officers also belong I tn the craft " The CournKe of Hawka. One female bin! in her first season took 32 rabbits. 3 hares and 2 magpies, and in tbe next year 210 rabbits. 2 leverets, 11 partridges. 4 magpies and 2 squirrels. A goshawk will go on catching rabbit after rabbit, or take five or six birds In succession, for they do not tire like falcons. Nothing comes amiss to them. Hares, landrails, pheasants, rabbits, waterfowls, ducks, rats, stoats, weasels, mice, even a hedgehog Is not despised. Their headlong courage is simply astonishing They will charge into a quickset hedge till they have to be cut out. or dive among rocks and bowlders. Captain Bland of Draycott. near Stoke-on-Trent, bad a goshawk which stuck to a bare till it twice rolled head over heels. Then the hawk Hew after It again and was shaken off. while the hare escaped into a flock of sheep. Tbe same bird, pursuing a rabbit, flew right down a large bole in the side of a quarry ami dragged tbe rabbit out of It The "smash” with which a big hen goshawk goes into an evergreen tree after a pigeon sounds as if a football had been violently kicked Into tbe branches.—Loudon Spectator. Hom Helena Won. “Let me tell you something funny almut tbe capital of Montana.” chats Victor Smith. "In 1892 the competition ( rested between Helena. Anaconda, I Butte City, Bozeman. Great Falls, Deer Lodge and Boulder, without a decision. In 1894 it was reduced to a match be I tween Helena and Anaconda. \V. A. . Clark was for Helena. Marcus Daly was for Anaconda. Anaconda seemed to have tbe best of It. when tbe genius 'of Clark prevailed. He made no at--1 tempt at bribery. He just said to i every voter be could lay bands on: “ 'lf you want a dead cinch. I’ll give It to you. Go and bet $5.0u0 at ! even money or any odds you please ■ that Helena will be tbe capital. If you : lose. I'll make good the $5,000. If you win, yop return my $5,000 and keep |he winnings.’ ' "Needless to say. Helena was chosen. And the arrangement did not cost Clark a cent "—Kansas City Journal.

ROY ARCHBOLD, DENTIST. . I. 0.0. F. BLOCK. Phone • Office, 164. Hhon i Residence, 153. HENRY B. HELLER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Office, room* 1 »n<l 2. Stone Block, opposite court house. Collections. Notary Public. * AMOS P. BEATTY, ATTORNEY AT LAW AndNoikry Public. Pension claims Drosecuted. Odd Fellows building. 1 T. MERRYMAN. ATTORNEY AT LAW, DECATIIt, IND. O ffice -Nos 1. 2. 3. over Adams Co. Bank I refer, by permission to Adams Co. Bank. . ERWIN * ERWIN. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. ‘ OrriCT.-Corner Monroe and Second streets ' Utiom prac,l,l “ n ’ r ' charge fur John Schurger. Dave E. Smith SCHI'RGIR A SMITH, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. MORtY TO LOAN at Inwewt rnt4*M of

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