Decatur Democrat, Volume 44, Number 37, Decatur, Adams County, 22 November 1900 — Page 7

I Lt « • Attend Mougey's Closing Out I y of footwear. You should not fail to supply yourself and family with anything you need in the line of Boots, Shoes and Rubbers, during this sale. Come in and we will show you where your dollar will double in value. Remember, no old, shelf worn goods, but everything fresh and up-to-dyte. All goods CASH. John H. Mougey. 1

Henry Rieter was among old friends here Friday. Bat and Believe, The palate makes argument unnecessary in the case of Fox’s “Forex” Butter Crackers. People taste them and want them right away. The proof of their merit is in their flavor. Try ’em and you'll surely buy ’em. Charles Murray will give away a pair of $5 shoes Thanksgiving eve. Now is Now Hare. But tomorrow is nowhere. Now is the time to buy Fox’s “Forex” Crackers. They are the best. You've tried the rest, now get Fox’s Crackers and you’ll stick to them. They are the most delicious crackers you ever put between your lips. Joe Daniels, of the Preble pumping station, was in town on business Sat urday. Why Do You Commit Suicide? The man who lets a cold “run on” until he finds himself in consumption's grasp is guilty of self-murder. There is one sure, infallible cure Cleveland's Lung Healer. Don’t delay. We will give you a free trial bottle. Large get your monev back if it doesn't cure you. Holthouse, Callow & Co. The Eleventh Hour was the attraction at Bosse's opera house Monday night and played to a good house. A Powder Mill Explosion Removes everything in sight: so do drastic mineral pills, but both are mightv dangerous. Don't dynamite the delicate machinery ot your body with calomel, croton oil or aloes pills, when Dr. King's New Life Pills which are gentle as a summer breeze, do the work perfectly. Cures headache, constipation. Only 25c at Page Blackburn's drug store. A number of 1 >Oth boys attended the funeral of Comrade Sims at Willshire, Ohio, Saturday. Doctors Never Disagree On one point that celery is nature’s own remedy for all nerve diseases. Cleveland’s Celery Compound Tea cures all nerve troubles, indigestion, constipation, liver and kidney dis eases. It purifies the blood and tones up the whole system. We will give you a free trial package. Large packages, 25 cents. Holthouse, Callow Ac Co. Charles King was the holder of the ticket, number 1, which drew the box of cigars at Fristoe’s Friday. Volcanic Eruption* Are grand, but skin eruptions rob life of joy. Bucklen's Arnica Salve, cures them; also old, running ami fever sores, ulcers, boils, felons, corns, warts, cuts, bruises, burns, scalds, chapped hands, chilblains, best pile cure on earth. Drives out pain and aches. Only 25 cents a box. Cure guaranteed. Sold by Page Blackburn, druggist. Miss Anna Peterson, of Battle Creek, Michigan, is the guest of relatives here and will remain for sometime. A famous painting may be worth inillions or a big pumpkin mar take the first premium, but Dr. Caldwell’s byrup Pepsin brings more joy every hay as it liecomes better known and more generally used for constipation, ‘udigestion, sick headache and stomach trouble, (let it at Smith. Yager * talk's. n Mrs. Jeff Bryson arrived home 'roni Denver, Col., Friday morning, ■-he reports Miss Lucile as improving nicely. ' u ’> likely do not want to under a he dying your old garments, because you have made failures, but ms was with the old-fashioned pack"g'‘ dyes that one package colored P °7 and another cotton. Putnam Meless Dyes colors all kinds of wrs at once. You simply boil the s°ods with the dye and they are made You cannot fail in this Sold by *“uth, Yager & Falk. 37-2 • Vail returned from his trip to , *° u ri Sat ’>rday, ho having Iwen King after factory interests there ,Or several days. • Koc'immends it totrainmen. G. H. W p an ’ hima, ()., Engineer L. E. & t r ,**•» writes: “1 have been I .1 a Rreat d(>al with backache. Cur 8 la< l Uce d to try Foley’s Kidney m« °’r i hottie entirely relieved recommend it to any D1 ' tny friends the train Hnli'k W *° nre usually afflicted.” Callow & Co. ’ n

To the Deaf. A rich lady cured of her deafness and noises in the head by Dr. Nicholson's Artificial Ear Drums, gave SIO,OOO to his Institute, so that deaf people unable to procure Ear Drums, may have them free Address No. 2616 The Nicholson institute, 780 Eighth Avenue New York. Caveats, Trade marks, LIT O| an j Copyrights secured promptly for moderate fees. Patent guaranteed in every ease. All forms of practice relating to PENSIONS, bounty, back pay, prize money, additional homestead claims and all kinds of Public Land business attended to with care. Burton T. Doyle & Co., Washington, D. C. Sett hrs’ rates to the northwest via Clover Leaf route. Each Tuesday n November, the Toledo, St. Louis a Western Kailroad will sell one way and round trip settler's tickets to Helena and Butte, Mont., Portland, Ore., Spokane and Tacoma. Wash., and other points in the northwest at very low rates. For further information apply to nearest agent Clover Leaf agent Clover Leaf route. For Sale—Farm belonging to Kizer heirs. Farm ot sixty-three acres, or more if desired, located one and a half miles up the Wabash riverfrom Buena Vista. Farm has a frame house 20 by 37, two-story, kitchen on side 14 by 16, barn 26 by 40 ft., two wells of water and cistern, smokehouse, corn crib, wagon shed and other buildings. Twelve acres of valuable timber and stone quarry. For terms of sale see M. L. or J. Kizer of Linn Grove, or F. Kizer of Poneto, Ind. 33 8 Winter tourist tickets to southern resorts via Southern railway, 6895 miles, Winter tourist tickets on sale October 15,1900, until April 30, 1901. The Southern railway is the best line to all resorts in Florida, Georgia. Alabama and the Carolinas, either via Louisville, (Cincinnati, Chattanooga or Birmingham. The Southern railway is the best great trunk line from Washington. D. C. to the south. Best line to Cuba. Best line to Porto Kico. Map folders. Cuban and Porto Rican folders, winter home folders and “land of the sky” Ixxiklets mailed to any address. All inquries answered promptly. Patronage solicted. All lines sell tickets through via this great system. Vestibuled limited trains all the time. J. C. Beam, Jr., Chicago, 111. C. A. Baird,Trav. Pass. Agent, 204 N'eave Bldg.. Cincinnati, H. Tayloe, Asst. Gen'l. Pass. Agent, Louisville, Kv. 31t12 The undersigned will offer for sale at his farm five miles northwest of Decatur and one mile west of the Blakey school house, on township line on Tuesday, December 4, the following property, to-wit: Two brood mares, five years old; two milch cows, will be fresh soon; four ewes: eight shoats, weighing each 150 pounds; farm wagon with three-inch tire: buggy, hay ladders, hay rake, mower, cultivator, shovel plow, breakingplow, harrow, corn marker, set double harness, set single harness, fly nets, horse blankets, new Ixib sleds, crosscut saw, seed sower, clover seed, timothy seed, Hound Oak heating stove, iron kettle, household and kitchen furniture, 60 shocks of corn fodder, hay in mow and numerous other articles. Terms of sale: $5.00 and under cash. Sums over $5.00 a credit of nine months will be given, purchaser giving note with approved security. William Deister. Fred Keppert, auctioneer. Whatever may be said <>f the scientific causes upon which the Rev. Irl R. Hicks bases his yearly forecasts of storm and weather, it is a remarkable fact that the specific warnings of every great storm, flood, cold wave or drouth, have been plainly printed in his now famous Almanac for many years. The latest startling proof of this fact was the destruction of Galveston. Texas, on the very day named bv Prof. Hicks in his 1900 Almanac, as one of disaster by storm along the gulf coasts. The 1901 Almanac, by far the finest, most complete and beautiful yet published, ia now ready. This remarkable book of near w<> hundred pages, splendidly illustrate.! with charts and half tone engravings, goes as a premium to every subscriber who pays one dollar a year for 1 rof. Hicks, journal, Word and Works. TUb Almanac is sent prepaid for only 25c. Order from Word and Publishing Company, 2201 LocustStreet, St. Louis, Mo. I

HE WAS A PLUNGER Defaulter Brown Would Spend One Year's Sal try In a Single Day. f In ■innati, Nov: 20.— The experts who have been working with Receiver Tucker on the books of the German Nallo.ial bank nt Newport. Ky„ place the shortage of Erank M. Brown, the missing assistant cashier and individual bookkeeper, at $191,500. According to reports from those who were with Brown when lie left last Tuesday night, he had less than SSOO with him. Investigation shows that Brown spent the money as fast as he got it, mostly on races, cards and women. He was known as a plunger J ears in betting and the names of four women are published whoseapartments lie is said to have furnished and maintained in the most lavish manner. One of these women, the one that became jealous and gave him away to the bank officials, has disappeared and her whereabouts can not be learned. Brown’s salary was onlv $1.,00 per year. Cases are now cited where he spent more than that amount n one day. II is bond was for SIO,OOO and it is go-d as far as it goes. Gone to Canada. Fort Wayne. Nov. 20.—Fred J. Stone, a • incinnati traveling man. who is in this city, says that Frank Brown, the defaulting cashier of the German National bank at Newport. Ky., is. in Canada. Stone is a friend of Brown’s, and says that the latter after leaving Newport, went to St. Louis, where he shaved off his mustache and otherwise altered his appearance and left for Canada. He passed through Indiana on a Big Four train early yesterday morning. Stone was witli Brown at Winchester, Ind. HOLOCAUST IN HOTEL Four Persons Burned to Death In a Pennsylvania Village Fire. Oswayo, Pa.. Nov. 19.—Four men were burned to death in a tire which destroyed the McGonigal House, a 3story frame building, the hotel barn and the operahouse here yesterday. The three buildings were burned to the ground in half an hour from the time the tire started. yw Churches At War, New York. Nov. 20. —Two fierce onslaughts on the Church of Rome enlivened the proceedings at yesterday's session of the general missionary commission. On each occasion an audience which tilled every part of the large auditorium in St. Paul’s M. E. church, where the committee is meeting, broke into applause and no effort was made by the chair to check these demonstrations of approval. Charges Against a Preacher. Omaha. Nov. 20.—Rev. Francis Hermans. who had charge of a Swedish church at Salt Lake live years ago. has been traced to this city. Hermans, who lived here before going to Salt Lake, is charged with killing two young women who were members of his household in tills city. His wife is also accused of having burned the bodies of liis alleged victims in a furnace. Corn Above the Average. Washington. Nov. It;.—The preliminary estimate of the average yield, per acre, in corn in 1900, as published in the forthcoming monthly report of the statistician of the department of agriculture. is 25.3 bushels, as compared with an average yield of 25.31 bushels in 1599, of 24.76 bushels in 1898 and a 10-year average of 24.10 bushels. MARKET QUOTATIONS Prevailing Prices For < rain. Provia* and Livestock on Nov. 19 Indianapolis Grain and Livestock. Win-at Wagon, 73c; No. 2 red. weak, T3c. Corn Steady; No. 2 mixed, 3G%c. Oats I'lniier; No. 2 mixed, 23%c. Cattle -Firm at s3.oot<rs.sti. Hogs Quiet at $4.<104i4 IM). Sheep Weak at $2.t»i4i3.85. Lambs—Steady at $3 h04;5.25. Chicago Grain and Provisions. j Opened.! Closed. Wheat— 11 Novs .71%!$ .70% Dec .71%; .70% Jan -72%, .71% ('orb - Nov! .:«•%’ .40% Dee j .33%i .37,% May | .38 . 35% Oats— 1 I N0v21% .21% Dee 22 .21% May 24 . 23% Pork Nov 10 50 Jan 11 00 11 02 Lard— Nov 7 12 7 12 Jan 8 82 6 85 Klba—- , 782 1 .... Jan._ 825 I 625 Closing easli markets Wheal. 70%,-; corn, 40%c; oats, 21%c; pork, $10.50; lard, $7.12; ribs, $'1.92. Louisville Grain and Livestock. J Wheat—No. 2 red and longberry, 75c. Corn No. 2 white, 42%e; No. 2 mixed, 42c *(>ats—No. 2 new. 24%c: No. 2 white, 27c. Cattle Slow at $2,504(4.00. Hogs Lower at s4.<Hi4i I SV Sheep Steady at $2,004(3.00. Lambs—steady nt »3.00®4.50. — Cincinnati Grain and Livestock. Wheat Easy; No. 2 red, 70c. Corn Easier; No. 2 mixed, 37c. Outs—Dull; No. 2 mixed, 24c. Cattle—Dull at $2.25«14.85. Hogs Active al S3.'HM 1.05. Sheep—Dull at $1.504(3.00. Lamba—Dull at Chicago Livestock. Cattle Steady; steers, $4.40(45.85; stock «a, »2,2.V<t3.70. Hogs Low, i alt $4,054(5.00. Sheep Stolid,F nt 854(4.25. Lambs Weak nt $4.4t»i5.10. New York Livestock. Cattle Active nt $3,504(5.80. Hog* Sternly nt 15.25415.5<>. Sheep Lower nt $2.254i4.<»>. Lambs la>wer at $4.00415.25. Toledo Grain. wbeat Active, easli, 74c; I tee. 71 %c. Coru Active: No. 2 i‘u»h. 38c. Oats hull; No. 2 S2%e.

Frank E. France was a Grand Rapids passenger to Fort Wayne Tuesday. You cannot afford to risk your life by allowing a cough or cold to develop into pneumonia or consumption. One Minute Cough Cure will cure throat and lung troubles quicker than any other preparation known. Many doctors use it as a specific for grippe. It is an infallible remedy for croup. Children like it and mothers endorse it. Smith, Yager & Fulk. ts 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 Many New Cases. Our patrons are delighted with Dr. Marshall's Lung Syrup and they say that nothing equals this medicine for coughs, colds and all throat and lung trouble. Several new cases have been added to the list that have been cured, where other medicines have failed to do the work. Dr. Marshall’s Lung Syrup is taking the lead for a genuine cough medicine, it never fails to cure. The first dose gives relief, and guaranteed to give satisfaction. Sold everywhere. Trice 25, 50 and SI.OO. n State of Ohio, City of Toledo, Lu cas county, ss. Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of J. F. Cheney & Co.. doing business in the City of Toledo, county and state of aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of One Hundred Dollars for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Hall’s Catarrh Cure. F. J. Cheney. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this 6th day of December, A. D. 1886. | Seal ] A. W. Gleason, Notary Public. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo. O. Sold by druggists, 75c. Hall's Family Pill are the best. n Unclaimed Letters: Geo. B. Fowley, Henry D. Lederer, Sol Mincer, Miss Ida Merimer, Mattie Miller. Not He. “You have a good deal of assurance to come to me for charity," said the man of the house, "with your face all bunged up from fighting. You’re nothing but a bruiser!” “No, sir,” replied the seedy vagrant, who was not wanting in spirit “The other feller wuz the bruiser. I’m the bruisee.”—Chicago Tribune. Independent. We admire the independence of a western poet who says In a preface to bis volume: “If the critics don’t like this book. I wish to say to them that I do. If they tear it to tatters, I shall pick up the pieces and embark in the plastering business. lam here to stay, and you bet I've made up my mind to it.”—Atlanta Constitution. Hot Water Peddlers. In northern China hot water peddlers go about with a whistling kettle, the whistle announcing flint the wnter Is at a boiling point. W ien they hear the whistle, the people run with their teapots and buy enough hot water for their day’s tea. Getting Thin is all right, if you are too fat; and all wrong, if too thin already. Fat, enough for your habit, is healthy; a little more, or less, is no great harm. Too fat, consult a doctor; too thin, persistently thin, no matter w hat cause, take Scott’s Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil. There are many causes of getting too thin; they all come under these two heads: overwork and under-digestion. Stop over-work, if you can; but, whether you can or not, rake Scott’s Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil, to balance .vith your work. You can’t live m it—true--but, by it, you •an. There’s a limit, however; /ou’ll pay for it Scott’s I .mulsion of Cod Liver Oil is the readiest cure for ’can’t cat,” unless it comes of your doing no work--you can’t mg be well and strong, without .line sort of activity. The genuine has a it picture on it, . <o no other. It you have not M -led It, eend for roa sample. Its a- ,|»'puC .. r| -eeablo taste will "MTe i| surprise you. ill 17 ;COTT&BOWNE - IL Z Chemists, - >7 h Ki* <O9 P.. ar I Street, swLiik'" New York. sOc. and $1.00; all druggitts.

Gft-PIT/¥L $100,000.00. SURPLUS $9,000.00 • • Tf+E Deg/vtlr N/vtion/vl BftNK. (fte-orjldqizcd I, 1895.) DIRECTORS. P. W. Smith, President. r- /n rr.l” > I W. A. Kuebler, Vice-President. UtO/i I (J Fl. C. A. Dugan, Cashier. 1 E. X. Ehinger, Assistant Cashier. J. B. Mason. J. H. Hobrock. INDI/VN/Y. Sidney Diseases 1 CUIED THAT HAD BEEN J .^. onounc «d Incurable I ‘ Ph L SiCia "- ced m c : r abi r c e I bO l L myself a nl able to te*tif v ln M " mer £My face to day ° ■ * ,S , nd it health, an., v er K ■ made it su b >'B <went y^ven J, ” -' — 1 ' ,hj " I did ..ne ..... I'W n gr> ‘"I. ,an '^'ainj sun ,e „ ’I'M l '<eand| <:atl -s cf "s med lcal . u , OSMB that », T |y —-- BANNER SALVE is the Great Healer. Sold by Holthouse. Callow &Co., druggists. Decatur. Edisons Phonograph Better than a Piano, Organ, or Music Box, for it sings and talks as well as plays, and don’t cost as much. It reproduces the music of any instrument—band or orchestra—tells stories and sings—the old familiar hymns as well as the popular songs—it is al ways ready. See that Mr. Edison’s signature is on every machine. Catalogues ot all dealers, or NATIONAL PHONOGRAPH CO., 135 Fifth Ave., New York. OWHCN IN DOUET, TRY They have xtood the test of yean. QTDnUP J l‘ ave cure d thousands of A|K||Nn X * XX/Cases of Nervous Diseases, such VIIIUHV Debilitv, Dizziness, Sleeplessfl PAIM 1 pess andVancocele,At;ophy,&c. AUAI li 1 f ** z ’ They clear the brain, st. engthen ► r,w the circulation, make digestion perfect, and impart a healthy vigor to the whole being. All drains and losses are chtcked ptvincinently. Unless patients > are properly cured, their condition often worries them into Insanity, Consumption or Death, j Mailed sealed. Price f • per box; 6 boxes, with iron-clad leg..’. Guarantee to cure or refund tho • xaosc;, ss.an. Lend ior free book. Address, PLAL MEDICINE CO.. Clevaiund. U Page Blackburn, druggist. Decutur, Indiana. PILLS ■M&DJL or and banish "pains jpaasagy of menstruation.” They are “LIFE SAVERS’’ to girls at MX womanhood, aiding development of organs and body. No known remedy for women equals them. Cannot do harm —life becomes a pleasure. PER BOX BY M AIL. Sold > by druggists. DR. MOTT'S CHEMICAL CO., Cleveland, Ohio. For sale bv Nacbtrieb & Fuelling. HEALTH and vitality W M |ILn fa I II DK. Mcrrrs ■ ■■ NICK VKHIIVH r? The £ reat remedy for nervous prostration and all diseases of the generative organs of either sex, such as Nervous Prostration, Failing or Lost Manhood. Impotent y, Nightly Emissions. Youthful Errors, Mental Worry, excessive use O s Tobacco or Opium, which lead to Consumption and Insanity. With every AFTPD IKINC order we guarantee to cure or refund the money. Sold at SI.OO per box, Arlen UOIHO, 6 boxes for $5.00. DM. MOTT’S <If ETIK AL CO m Clevelaudt OhioFor sale by Nacbtrieb «Jx Fuelling. IMA.- BUY THE — *AM Superior Condition Powder AISIO Hoosier Chicken Cholera Cure Every package warranted or money refunded al Page Blackburn's, Decatur, Ind. Drug Store. " - -'I -'"" A TH-E NO. 2 WOWS »H Maqlfoldlqg. LB. rvarrirnoqd Typewriter. ..rta-s.. The InipfoVcd MANIFOLDING HffMMOND Method. Typewriter Gompaqy incrcwed MANIFOLDING 69th to 7Oth st*». Power. Enst Hiver, Superior New Yortf. • MAIFOLDINO Result. Branches In principal cities, And a number nf valuable Keproaentatlvea everywhere. Mechanical Improvement.,