Decatur Democrat, Volume 44, Number 49, Decatur, Adams County, 14 February 1901 — Page 7

Scrofula the offspring O r HEREDITARY BLOOD TAINT. Scrofula is but a modified form of Blood Poison and Consumption. The-parent h y is tainted by either will see in the

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child the same disease manifesting itself tn the form of swollen glands of the neck and throat, catarrh, weak eves, offensive sores and abscesses and oftentimes white swell-ing-sure signs of Scrofula. There may be no external signs for

along time, forthe disease develops slowly in some cases, but the poison is in the blood and will break out at the first favorable opportunity. S. S. S. cures this wasting, destructive disease by first purifying snd building up the blood and stimulating and invigorating the whole system. r. M Seals, its Public Square, Naihville.Tenn., "Ten years ago my daughter felt and cut her forehead Prom this wound the glands on the side of her face became swollen and hursted. Some of the best doctors here and elsewhere mended her without any benefit We decided to trv S. S. S„ and a few bottles cured her entirely" makes new and pure •J 1 ‘blood to nourish and strengthen the body, and is a positive and safe cure for Scrofula. It overcomes all forms of blood poison, whether inherited or acquired, and no resnedy so thoroughly and effectively cleanses the blood. If yon have any blood trouble, or your child has inherited some blood taint, take S. S. S. and get the blood in good condition and prevent the disease doing further damage. Send for our free book and write our physicians about your case. We make no charge whatever for medical advice. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANT*, GA.

The cement works at Syracuse, which have been in course of construction for the past two years, have begun operations, working up the marl found in the lake. When in full operation. the plant will have a capacity of nearly 1,000 barrels of cement a day. On February sth and 19th, March sth and 19th, April 2nd and 16th, the Erie railrord will sell Homeseekers' round trip tickets at very low rates to points in the West and South, and on each Tuesday commencing February 12tb. one way settlers tickets will be sold at low rates to points in the West, Southwest aud South. For full information regarding rates apply to Erie agents, or write W. S. Morrison, T. P. A., Erie R. R. Huntington, Ind. 47-3 The first attempt at bolding up a rural route mail carrier occurrred last wrek in Wabash county. A stranger representing himself to be a “government inspector" stopped the carrier between Wabash and Somerset and asked to examine his wogon. Not producing papers to show his authority the driver gave his horse a cut with the whip and escaped. All rural routers in that part of the country now carry big revolvers. Pneumonia Can be Prevented. This disease always results from a cold or an attack of the grip and may be prevented by the timely use of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. That remedy was extensively used during the epidemics of lagrippe of the past few years, and not a single case has ever Iteen reported that did not recover or that resulterf in pneumonia, which shows it to be certain preventive of that dangerous disease. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy has gained a world wide reputation for its cures of colds and grip. For sale by- Holthouse, Callow & Co. f Fifty-one members of the legislature or more than one third —are lawyers. The plurality of lawyers over farmers eighteen. Usually the farmers predominate and it has l>een suggested that this would lie a good year to get through legislation in the interest of lawyers. In the house there are thirty farmers and twentyeight lawyers. In the senate there are three fanners and twenty three lawyers. LaGrippe Quickly Cured. “In the winter of 1898 and 1899 I was taken down with a severe attack of what is called “LaGripp” says F. L. Hewett, :1 prominent druggist of Winfield, 111. The only medicine I used was two bottles of Chamberlain’s Cough ueinedy. It broke up th*' cold and stopped the coughing like magic, and have never since been troubled with grippe.” Chamberlain's Congh Remwly ean always lie depended upon to break up a severe cold and ward off any threatened attack of pneumonia. *t is pleasant to take, too, which makes '* the most desirable and one of the tnost popular preparations in use for these ailments. For sale by Holthouse, Callow & Co. f

TERRIBLE PAINS a Often accompany a fit of acute indigestion. The agony may either soon subside or last for hours. U-KO-MA Pink Tablets is the ever reliable remedy for this distressing affection. Don’t suffer pains and discomfort as the penalty for eating —take U-KO-MA and have —easy digestion. All druggists, t ** 10c. and 25c., or by mail, prepaid. THE U-KO*MA REMEDY CO. Lima, Ohio,

A conundrum: A clerk is employed in a store at 85 a week. His actual weekly expenses are $9; he wears 810 suit of clothes, 88 shoes and occasionally takes his girl out buggy riding, to the theater and to banquets How much fier cent, does the merchant make on Ins goods and how long will belie m business.- Auburn Courier. At the beginning of the year 1901 there were 250,000 more barrels of apples in common storage and 17,000 more in cold storage at Chicago than at any other time since 1890. Dealers in that citv have apples “cornered.” They are asking 82.75 to 8.3.75 per barrel for common apples, and fancy apples are held from s(> to 88 a barrel. That s what makes good apples so rare and high. 830.00 Chicago to Portland, Seattle, Tacoma and North Pacific Coast, via Chicago & North Western Railway, optional routes via St. Paul or Omaha. Tickets on sale each Tuesday, February 12 to April .30. Shortest time enroute. Finest scenery. Daily touristcarexcursions personally conducted semi-weekly. For tickets' illustrated pamphlets and full information inquire of nearest ticket agent or address Chicago & North-Western R’y, 22 Fifth avenue. Chicago, Hl. 49 6 Tne largest seed distribution ever made by the government at any one time began last week. Before spring planting time is over hearly 13,000,000 little packages of garden' seed will have been received by the fanners of the country. The appropriation for the distribution was raised $40,000 by congress at the last session, making a total sum of $170,000 available for this purpose. No right to Ugliness. The woman who is lovely in face, form and temper will always have friends, but one who would be attractive must keep her health. If she is weak, sickly and all run down, she will be nervous and irritible. If she has constipation or kidney trouble, her impure blood will cause pimples, blotches.skin eruptions and a wretched complexion. Electric Bitters is the best medicine in the world to regulate stomach liver and kidneys and to purify the blood. It gives strong nerves, bright eves, smooth, velvety skin, rich complexion. It will make a good-looking charming woman of a run down invalid. Only 50 cents at Page Blackburn’s drug store. The following remedy is given as a preventative and cure for small pox and scarlet fever and has been used by many, and it is so simple that it is worth trying. It is as unfailing as fate and conquers in every instance, even in small pox when the pittings are filling: Sugar, J teaspoonful; Digitalis, 1 grain; sulphate of zinc, 1 grain. Dissolve in a wine glass of distilled water or water that has been boiled and cooled. Take one teaspoonful every hour; diminish the dose according to age for children and either of the above diseases will disappear in twelve hours. His Life was Saved. Mr. J. E. Lilly, a prominent citizen of Hannibal, Mo., lately had a wonderful deliverance from a frightful death. I telling of it he says: “I was taken with typhoid fever, that ran into pneumonia. My lungs became hardened. I was so weak I couldn't even sit up in lied. Nothing helped me. I expected to soon die of consumption, when I heard of Dr. King’s New Discovery. One bottle gave great relief. I continued to use it, and now am well and strong. I can't say too much in its praise.” This marvelous medicine is the surest and quickest cure in the world for all throat and lung trouble. Regular size 50 cents and SI.OO. Trial bottles free at Page Blackburn's drug store.

An Atlanta enterprise of great merit. It affords ns great pleasure to call attention to the advertisement of the “Mother’s Friend,” appearing in this issue. The Bradfield Regulator Co., of Atlanta. Ga., have at great expense issued a most attractive and meritorious book, which they mail free, containing information of the greatest value and importance to all ladies expecting to become mothers. That the “Mother’s Friend” is a remedy wonderful in its effects, and re : heves the expectant mother of incredii ble suffering and robs the final hour l of confinement of its dread, pain and terror, is fully attested by the experience of happy mothers all over this ■ continent. A perusal of the Itook will convince any lady, and the use of ! “Mother’s Friend” cause her to be--1 come its enthusiastic friend, blessing the hour when first she heard of it and was induced to use it. Send your name and address to the Bradfield Regulator Co., Atlanta, Ga., and receive in return, free, this excellent ■ book containing information of value I to all ladies.

THE CHANGELESS PLAYS. I’ve wandered to the theater, I’ve been to see tho shew; I’ve listened to the some old jokes we heard long years ago The villain died the same old way—hia death was hard and slow— The last act saw his finish, Tom, like twenty years ago! The heroine, she suffered, Tom; you should have hoard her weep; Her hair was golden in its hue, for peroxide is cheap. She found the missing will, though, Tom; she always did, you know, When we went to the theater some twenty years sgo. The jokes were just the same ones, Tom, about the ma in-law, Likewise the gout, the stovepipe and the female suffrage jaw, And, yes. they sprung the one about the good old ba hi head row; It sounded as it used to, Tom, some twenty years ago. The hero struts about the stage and hoarsely whispers. "Ah, I see it all!” And then the crafty villain mutters "Bah!” The play is just the same, dear Tom; the plot i# thickened so. It looks the same as when we went some twenty years ago. The soubrette is the same, old boy; she has the same old wink. Her cheeks are just as radiant; they have the same soft pink. She’s billed as Little’Tottie now, and, say, she doesn’t show Her age as much as when she played some twenty years ago. The songa are full of "mother, dears,” the star takes all the stage, The jokes and other dialogue show very little age, But youngest of the lot, dear Tom, the soubrette’s cheeks still glow As pinkly as they used to do some twenty yean ago. —Josh Wink in Baltimore American. o'«*0 > eO-»‘0‘»'0-»-0*0 0'»-0-«'0'»-0*0-eO-*C | Financiaf Deaf inns i I Os Duovau's Bou I i I ♦ He Tried Hard to Make Money, but | Always Failed, O ♦ i O-s-O-«-O-«-C •-0-»0'«-00*0-0i'0-»0»0-»'0 Dugway was out, but was expected back shortly, and Vance undertook to entertain the visitor. He was in a confidential mood. “I've been try in to make some money again,” he said. “So?” said the visitor. “But. that’s nothing new. is it?” “Well. I don’t know,” replied the boy, curling himself comfortably among tho pillows on the lounge, "1 s'pose 1 try often enough. Jiut it looks like 1 ain’t a money maker. Pa says I am cut out for a confidence man. but 1 don't seem to get the best of him ever. Say, do you keep books, an do you know when you have too much money?” “I never found out that I had too much.” “Well, pa lias, an it makes him feel bad. When I go down to the office I see all kinds of money arouud—dollars an half dollars an quarters till you can't rest, an nobody seems to pay any attention to it. particular. 1 as’ pa about it. an he said that he knew to a cent bow much they was because he kept, books an made them balance every night. I wns wonderin whether he’d know the difference if 1 took a little of It. just what I needed. I don’t like to ast pa for money.” “Why?” Vance wriggled a little and bit his handkerchief. "Well,” be said at last, "be always wauls to know what 1 want to do with it.” ‘'lmpertinent curiosity. Why don't you get him to make you a used allowance—so much a week?” “I did try. 1 wanted him to give me a nickel a day. I don’t want a whole lot of money, but I like to have some. Ted Cunningham always has money, an when he wants me to pitch to a crack or anything I have to own up that I’m broke." “Puts you in an embarrassing situation.” “1 thought I would see whether pa could tell alxiut bis money, an so when Mr. .Jones was gone to lunch an pa was In the back room 1 put the 50 cents that you gave me that day in with the other 50 cents in the tray. I didn’t like to take any out. because I didn't know but it might be so. Then ma an me went borne, but we bad to wait dinner fur pa that night, an then be didn't come for ever so long after we was through. M't ast him whnt made him so late, an be said that he bad been hnvin the dickens own time over at the office because Mr. .tones an him coub'n't make the casli balance. There was 50 cents over. He looked awful mad about It. an mo didn’t sny anything more about him belli too late for dinner, an 1 didn't like to say about me hnvin put the 50 cents in, because I thought he wouldn't like It. 1 thought the best thing 1 could do wao to tell ma. so i told her, an she said that I had better go to pa nn tell him I was sorry an how It happened. I didn’t do It, but I guess she did, because'pa threw down my 50 cents at the breakfast table In the mornin an told me never to let him cutch tne at any such monkey tricks ns that again or he’d make lip need skin grnftln. He said that he worked four hours on account of what I’d done, an It wouldn’t have been so bad If there bad been 50 cents too little. I ast lilni why. an he said that then be could have called It a mistake an paid the 50 cents out of his own pocket. T don’t see why he couldn’t have given tho 50 cents nway to somebody an said it was n misti'ke, do you?” “It looks to me like false logic,” said tho visitor. “Did you make up your mind to tlx It for a shortage next time?” “1 don't know what you mean. I didn’t do anything. 1 told mn I wanted to make eotne money, an shc'old me to think up some way an sliff would help me If she could, and so I thought I might raise some chickens, so I wont to Mrs. McClellan an ast hot - whnt she would sell me ti dozen chickens for.

She said that depended on what I wanted, whether it was Plymouth Kocks or Brown Leghorns or banties or what. So I said Plymouth Rocks, an she told me she would let me have a dozen of them for $25. "1 knew that I couldn’t get that much money, an I thought 1 might just as well buy eggs an set them under a common a.” “That was a bright idea.” “Yes: Mrs. McClellan told me it would be the best thing I could do. an then I could raise a dozen chickens an sell them for $25 myself. Ma gave me the dollar to buy the eggs an loaned me a ben what wanted to set. It takes a hen a awful long time to hatch chickens, though. I used to go out most every morniu an raise her up to see if she had got any, an she squawked an pecked at my band. Gee! But it was about three weeks before I got any chickens, an then there was only three of ’em. That old hen wouldn’t wait for the others to hatch, an when I broke 'em open to see if there was any chickens Inside of ’em I wisbt I had let ’em alone. I guess that old hen knew all right.” "What was the trouble?” Vance held his snub nose expressively between bls thumb and forefinger. “I was slidin down the kitchen roof,” he continued, “an I knocked a board down, an it fell on one of the chickens an squashed it dead, an the other two was both roosters. I wanted some money one time an I sold one of ’em to the lady next door for a quarter. That was nd she'd give me for it. I told her it was a blooded Plymouth Rock, but she said she didn’t mind that, just so long as it would make a good fry. I kept the other one all summer an then took it to Mrs. McClellan an ast her what she'd give me for it. “She said that she'd trade me a pair of rabbits for it an I could make more money raisin rabbits than I could raisin chickens an the rabbits was worth $1 a pair. So I took the rabbits. One of them was named Dick an the other Lizzie. I used to like Dick the best. Ma wouldn't let me keep them up in my room, so I had to build a place for them out in the wood shed an keep them there, except when 1 turned them loose. They was awful cute. Lizz.ie used to eat dough out of my baud. She liked dough better than anything.” “Haven't you got them still?” "No. 1 gave them away. 1 got kinder tired of tendin ’em, an they didn’t have any litile rabbits at all. I couldn’t see how I was goin to make any money out of ’“m. an when I said anything about it pa he’d laugh. “1 ast Mrs. McClellan about it, an she said that hers had had two or three litters since she sold me mine, an she couldn't see how it was. Pa said they didn't have lucky names, at least Lizzie didn't. 11b said she ought to have been named Willie or Pete.”

"Then the rabbit business wasn't a success?” “N'huli. I lost all I put into It exceptin the quarter 1 got from tbe lady next door for the little rooster.” “How about your mother?” “Oh. she was only baekin tne. She knew she was takin chances. I wislit I had that dollar back, though. I need a dollar the worst way. Don’t you know a good, easy way tor a boy to get a dollar? I don't want to have to wait for It too long. I’d ast pn to give me one. only I ast him for one yesterday, an be wouldn’t give it to me. I ain’t goin »o ast him again.”—Chicago Record. A Bit of Hoyt'* Wit. In his palmy, healthful days almost every act of Hoyt was an ane-dote, and there were very many of his acts. One that will appeal particularly to theatrical people is told by an actor as follows: “Hoyt made many friends, and some of them were real fast friends. Two of the fastest in both the affectionate atul convivial sense be took with him In the production of one of his successful comedies iu connection with the business management of the piece. Now, It is true of ail theatrical management that there Is always ‘rivalry between tbe man ahead of the show’ and tbe ‘man back with tbe show' a« to which will be the whole thing. After these two men had been on the road with the company for several weeks a strong rivalry grew up. nud the man ahead of the show billed himself on the programmes as manager and the other as agent. Os course tbe reduced gentlemen ‘kicked.’ and to settle the dispute the man who wns the whole thing wired Hoyt In some anger, 'I want to know how I shall bill on the house programmes.’ Quick ns a flash the answer came from Hoyt, ’Bill him ns excess baggage.—Hoyt.’ ’’—Kansas Cltv Star. No Venture About It. "Is this your first venture In matrimony?” the preacher asked while the bridegroom was out In the vestibule giving certain Instructions to tbe best man, who was also his head clerk. "My dear Mr. Goodleigli," she replied, almost blushing, “this isn't a venture at all. He has given me deeds to more than SOO,OOO worth of property already.”—Chicago Times-Herald. Inh erltrd. •Ta,” said little Willie, looking up front his arithmetic, “what is a linear foot ?” "Why— er—it linear foot.” replied pa. temporizing, "why, it’s one that’s hereditary. Didn't you never hear tell of a linear descendant?”—Catholic Standard and Times. Both of the sons of Thomas Jefferson were members of congress from Virginia while he was president. One of these was Timinas Maim Raudolph and tbe other John W. Eppes. The average weight of a sheep fleece Is 5'... pounds.

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