Decatur Democrat, Volume 44, Number 50, Decatur, Adams County, 21 February 1901 — Page 5

Visit Hensley's watch sale this month or you will kick your self to death next month. For Sale Two Durham bull calves?! two weeks okfcone three months old : 7 voting Duroe Jersey sows, will have pigs first of April. Julius Haugk, Decatur, Indiana. 50t2 Fatal delays are caused by experi ; menting with cough and cold cures. Foley's Honey and Tar will prevent a cold from resulting in pneumonia. ' Holthouse, Callow & Co. t

$34.50 to California. The Chicago & Erie R. R. will make low rates ou Tuesdays to points in the west and sout and extremely low rates will be made to California points. M. A. Hamm, Agent. 49-6 There is always danger in using counterfeits of DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve. The original is a safe and certain cure for piles, it is a anothing and heating salve for sores and all skin diseases. Smith, Yager & Falk, ts Holthouse, Callow & Co., the druggists, will refund you your money if you are not satisfied after using Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets. They cure disorders of the stomach, biliousness, constipation and headache. Price 25 cents. Samples free. I “Disbanding the Union Army” is the title of an article by Ida M. Tarbell, which will appear in the March number of McClure's Magazine. This will fully describe the extraordinary feat accomplisheil by the federal government at the close of the civil war, when, without any disaster, a million soldiers were returned to quiet pursuits. The article is elaborately ilius t rated. A certain preacher, when preaching on cleanliness, mentioned that he had seen a brass monkey in his town set up in a store with a cigarette in its mouth. It was automatically arranged so that when the cigarette was lighted the monkey would draw in smoke and puff it out again. The works stopped on <one occasion and the monkey was taken apart to discover the cause, when the works were found to tie clogged and in a filthy condition. Don't put money in your mouth’ says an exchange. You dont know where it has been. A Chicago paper tells about a Chinaman taking a nickle from his ear to pay his fare on a street car. Opposite him was a pretty girl in a state of abstraction. She took a dime from her mouth and handed it to the conductor, who gave her the Chinaman's nickle in change, which she promptly put in her mouth where the dime had been. One day in the spring of 1884. Mrs. Frederic White of Coventry. N. ¥.. asked her husband tobring her a sack of flour from a near-by store. He started to do so, and that was the last she saw of him until one day last week when he walked into the house with a sack of flour on his shoulder, saying as he sat it down that he had not forgotten his errand. He has been in the far west, has accumulated a good deal of money, and will take Mrs. White to his western home. With the beginning of the new year and the new century, every true American should be glad, indeed, that it is his lot to reside in a country where he can enjoy so many of the blessings of liberty. It is true there is still room for improvement along different lines, and all good citizens should use their best efforts in this direction, but when our people realize how much more freedom they enjoy than do the people of other countries, they should lie exceedingly proud of their home countrv. • Clerk Elmer Johnson will have an auction sale of sixty horses at Peoples livery barn on Friday March 8. In the lot are twenty brood mares, seven of which are in foal; twelve roadsters; three high acting cobs; combination saddle horse; two trotters; three pacers; ten farm chunks; five three-years-old colts, and four cheap workers. The horses have been carefully selected. A credit of sixty days will be given, the purchaser giving note with freehold security, with six percent interest, or cash on day of sale. Notice to Contractors. Sealed bids wdl be received at my office until the •th day of March, at 2 o’clock p. m. for the furnishing of materials and the performance of the labor required m the erection of a three story business block and office building, ac'•ordiug to plans and specifications as prepared by Hiram Elder, Archt. oaid plans now on file at my office and at the office of the architect. The ri tfht is reserved by me to reject any one or all bids, also to let the contract each part separately or as a whole. David Studabaker.’ 50-1

Fred W. Gallmeyer will offer for •sale at his residence, two miles southeaat of Freidheim, known as the < hristian Muesing farm, preble town*blP, commencing at 10 o’clock a. m. on Wednesday, Feb. 27, the following Property, to w it: Three head of horses, three mich cows, two years old „, er ’ yearling heifer, three spring calves, 3 brood sown, two will farrow urat and second week in March; 7 R hoata, farm wagon, three seated ‘ipnug wagon, two seated sleigh, pair ’ob-Rhxla, Buckeye mower, new Deer 'ng hay rake, Shuuk breaking plow. •Ptke tooth harrow, spring tooth hargrain drill, hand eider mill, fan*ng mill, cook stove, heating stove, '‘,' rn bidder in field, corn in shock. 1 iickena and numerous other articles. *' r,r L H , o f sa^e: K-00 ami under cash, a credit of 12 months will given, purchaser giving note with , security liearing six per for r tnatur ‘h’- per cent off sett? 1 f P ro P ert . v removed until

Auditor Abe Boch is out agate after be>ng housed a week with the lagrippe, t r> 1 - ,l j? n r? f are familiar with De\\ itt s Little Early Risers and those who use them find them to be famous little liver pi Is. Never gripe. Smith, lager A Falk ts ' A sfnall child of Mr. and Mrs. G. Schuman, who reside east of town died Sunday morning after a few .lays • n »ess. The funeral services were held at the Blakey church Tuesday morning.

\\ hat has become of the agitation for a new Clover Leaf depot ? The right kind of inspiration might bring to life this very much needed addition, and if our wants are not made known to the proper railroad authorities nothing may lie expected from them. A little concerted action here might avail something. A Good Thing. German Syrup is the special prescription of Dr. A. Boschee, a celebrated German physician, and is acknowledged to lie one of the most fortunate discoveries in medicine. It quickly cures coughs, colds and all lung troubles of the severest nature, removing, as it does, the cause of the affection and leaving the parts in a strong and healthy condition. It is not an experimental medicine, but has stood the test of years, giving satisfaction in every case which its rapidly increasing sale every season confirms. Two million bottles sold annually. Boschee’s German Syrup was introduced into the United States in 1868, and is now sold in every town and village in the civilized world. Three doses will relieve any ordinary cough. Price 75 cts. Get Green’s Prize Almanac. Page Blackburn, druggist. ts The Selden- Stetson Company have been holding forth at Bosse's opera house this week, closing their engagement last evening. They have an organization far above the average repetoire and have played to packed houses here each night. On Monday they put on “Wild Cat", a pretty little comedy, and Tuesday night they presented the world famed “Camile”. The work of Maud Selden and Harry Stetson deserve especial mention, while the baritone specialties by Maze Burton were as good as ever heard here. Harry Stetson one of the ownersis of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” fame and for more than twenty years owned the largest company of that kind on the road. His experiences date back to 1872, since which time he has certainly seen the ups and downs of opera and circus life. While in town he has called upon us frequently and we are willing to swear that he is one of the wittiest, bright est and most entertaining showmen wo have ever met. The undersigned will offer for sale on the farm known as the J. S. Railing farm, four miles southeast of De catur and one-fourth mile west of the St. Paul church, beginning at ten o’clock a. m. on Friday, March 1. the following property, to-wit: Five head of horses, consisting of three brood mares, one six year old Belgian mare and one eight year old mare with foal, one two year old mare, two coming yearling colts, one Durham milch cow, one yearling heifer, eleven head of hogs, pure bred Duroe Jersey; consisting of .3 brood sows that will far row- soon, and eight head of shoats, one good two-horse wagon, one new spring McCormick grain drill, one steel frame lever spring tooth harrow, one breaking plow, three shovel plows, one set w’ork harness, one fountain trough, corn in crib, thirty fodder shocks, one barrel cider vinegar, fifty chickens, sixteen Pekin ducks, seven mammoth bronze turkeys, one dinner bell and many other articles too numerous to mention. Terms of sale: $5 and under cash, over that amount a credit of nine mouths will be given; the purchaser giving good bankable note. Six per cent off for cash. Shanna Railing. Fred Reppert. Auctioneer. 49-2 W hat Magnetic Healing Has Done For Me. Decatur, Ind., Feb. 18, 1901. I wish to give my experience to the public, especially to those who may be afflicted in the same way. That having been a suffer for four years or more with pains so that I could aot lay on either side. The only way I could get my rest or sleep was ou any back. The pains ware so distressing that I could not liear the least tiling to touch my side and it w#s difficult for me to properly maintain my ance in walking. My movements were tottering like a man intoxicated, my lower limbs were affected with numbness so much so that I was distressed very much. I had tried different doctors and various remedies and among them a galvanic buttery but received no relief from them all. 1 began to think that I could not live out a short time unless I could get relief and lam sure that I was right, but I am happy to say that I fountl a relief at once when I commenced taking magnetic treatment of Prof. C. F. W. Bartling of Decatur, Indiana. After the first month's treatment it seemed as though a rav of sunshine hail come through a dark cloud. My friends wanted to know what made me hxik so well and happy and I never hesitated a moment to tell them what brought about the wonderful change. I cannot give too much praise to the Prof’s magnetic healing. 1 wish ttiat every one who suffers could hear of Prof. C. F. \V. Bartling and give him a trial. He treats all kinds of diseases success fully. I consider Prof. C. F. W. Bartling one of the world’s greatest, benefactors and I sincerely hope that others afflicted as I was will avail themselves of his method of magnetic healing or treatment. G. M. Haefling, Decatur, Indiana.

Good Thnughfs by R«v. Beabers. The following is the sermon of Rev. Thomas Beabers, at Smiths Chapel, January 30,1901. Text: Seek ye the Lord, while he may lie found, call ye upon him while he is near. Isiah, 55-6. We infer from the text, that there may be a time when he can not be found and that there will be a time come when we shall knock and he shall open the door not unto us. There is a class of men and women sinning away their chance, as may be said “crossing the dead line.” All that seek the Lord Jesus Christ may find him. Now is the accepted time, to-day is the day of salvation. The time may soon be here when our only chance is lost and we are dashed into eternity. There are per sons who, at sunrise were living, hearty and healthy, but now they are dead. Thereare persons living tonight, who ere the sun rises in the morning, their souls will have taken its flight. I care not how good or how bad a man is, if he dies in his sin he will go to hell. If ho dies in sin he looses all. It is a misspent life. We go to the fire that is not quenched, and torment is eternal. Men and women are seeking after something in this world. They are seeking after every thing else but the important thing. 'Seek the Lord while he may be found. Some are seeking after wealth, popularity and honor and leaving the essential thing go. Some are living as though there is no hell or heaven or death. They will wake up in hell and cry for some one to quench their thirst. If God were to send the death angel we would be lost if we had not changed our ways. Now you have the opportunity: seek ye the Lord while he may be found.

We ought to prepare now. It is not only sinners that should seek the Lord for forgiveness, but Christians also, for if they die in sin they are lost. There is not any danger of a man being saved unless he seeks to be saved. We might seek the Lord in our own way and not find him. They that are determined to find the Lord in their own way will never find him. W hen we seek the Lord in his way, that very day, that very hour, that very minuite shall we find salvation. I remember a young man that had sought the Lord repeatedly for five years, but he sought him in his own way and thought he was not very bad. I said to him one day, “you are not very bad are you?”" “No,” that is what I think. That’s it if you die in sin you will go to hell. We must not go around whispering about it, we need to seek hiuHind call nightly upon him; some say it is excitement, some say it is the fussy people that act happy. I wan't to say that this is the stillest world that we will ever get to. You take that man whoie house is on fire; does he go about whispering? The time will come when we will not have the chance, to day is the day of salvation. Take the man or woman sixty years old, at the age of 20 or 25 they were almost persuaded, but they refused and are now deep in sin, something utiraoclous has to happen to change there ways. There is many a person that is hurled to eternity in a moment. The time will come when we will not have the opportunity. The time will come when they shall pass away and us with them. Shall it lie said that you have passed through the tears and prayers of many. We want to see you saved; now is the time while you are in health. Arise and seek the Lord, for God only knows but what it may lie the last time. John nn«t Joiißfhan. A very dramatic conversation, printed in the London Outlook, has the double puriKise of satirizing both tie- English and American bent of mind and manners. The "smart Yankee” Is represented as coming home to his admiring town aiul telling in somewhat exaggerated dialect what he thinks <ff his cousin overthe water. “Bay, tell us." said a friend, 'lair the English so terrible slow and dull, after all?” “Waal,” replied the traveler, “I reckon so. I sat down one night In the parlor of a little village pub. Yes; It’s a public hotiM-. but they call it pub In England. “There wuss the tsiss of the puh the local butcher. the local everything, and there wuss myself. 1 just listened, though I mn'i say there wuss much to listen to. The talk ran like this: " ‘1 'ear ns Ted Kobinson got the sack last week, remarked a villager. “’Ted Robinson?’ said the other villager, deliberately putting smoke. “ 'Yuss; 1 'ear so. Ted Robinson got .the sack las’ week.’ “A pause. More smoke. “ 'Got the sack, eh’f *’ 'Y’uss; 1 'ear as 'ow 'e did.’ “A longer pause. ** ‘Las' week, was it. 'e got the sack?’ “ ‘I 'ear as ’ow 1t was ins' week.' “A long, long pause. “ 'Ah! I 'card that a Friday.’ “And,” continued the Yankee, “not a soul among 'em smiled. It was their reg'lar mental diet. Oh yea, smart men the English are and no mistake." With Fmphsals. “Say, Joe.” remarked Stroller, who was anxious for a jaunt, “what do you say to a traiup after dinner?” “Generally,” replied Joe Rose. “I say, 'Get out. or i'll turn the dog ou to you.'"- Philadelphia Record. If the poor people did but know how little some millionaires enjoy their wealth, there would t»e lest envy in the world.—Chicago News. When you sell an article by weight, remember that other people have act les.—Atchison Globe. ,

...Final Clean Up... GUS ROSENTHAL, Always on top for up-to-date goods—Always below in Price, In order to continue giving best VALUE and HIGHEST STANDARD in up-to-date goods, 1 shall now close out all my winter goods and will sell all of these regardless of cost to clean up stock and make room for soon ariving spring goods. All economic buyers should take advantage of this rare opportunity and lay in a supply for future needs the investment being from 50 to 100 per cent, interest. Men’s Ralston Chinchilla Overcoats, 100 men’s fine fur hats in Fedora, Pasha, former price $6.00, now Golf and Crusher, latest shapes and shades, worth $1.60 to $2.25, to §3.25. clean up go at 75c each. Fifteen Men’s wool suits, nearly all sizes, formerly $6.50, now Twenty dozen men’s heavy Scotch Rans3.oo. dom underwear, formerly 25c, now 15c each. , Fifty Men’s heavy, all wool suits, late designs, all sizes, formerly $8 to $lO Twent y-three dozen men’s heavy cotton o >- nn fleeced underwear worth 50c, now §5.00. 35c each. Fifty men’s fine cheviot and cashmere suits, all of late patterns and cuts, Twenty five dozen men’s wool, fleece formerly sl2 to sls, now lined underwear, worth 76c, now §7.50. 45c each. One hundred and fifty men’s fine TRUNKS and VALISES The best dress overcoats at little more than ONE- assorted stock in the city, price uniHALF the old price. formly low. We always give what we promise. No misrepresentation. YOUR MONEY BACK IF YOU WANT IT. FREE—fine, large thermometer with $lO purchase. GUS ROSENTHAL, Decatur, Indiana. “’The Square Man.”

Cl>invne Criticinm of Onr llphnhet. The high class Chinaman, speaking through his interpreter, was giving the eminent American visitor his impressions of the English language. ”1 cannot understand." he said, “how anybody ever finds time to learn it. Take that singularly formed letter in your alphaliet, for instance, the letter ‘g.’ WLat an awkward and ill shaped character it is! What Is the significance of that little curling projection at the upper end of It? I have never s*vu anybody who could tell me. Then, again, when the learner has familiarized himself with that letter and can recognize it at sight he learns that it is only a part of a word and that it enters into tlw- composition of thousands of words. It has different promiuciatlons and sometimes is not pronounced at all, being entirely silent. Now, when you see one of our Chinese characters you know at once what it is. It is a wonder to me that your people do not discard the cumbersome forms of your written language ami learn our simpler and more easily understood system.’’ The eminent American could only bow his head in humiliation and prom Ise to bring the matter before the educational authorities of Ills native laud. Too Muth For the ('nl». One of tlie wealthiest wlue merchants in I'aris and also one of its stoutest citizens was the hero of an episode wSiich caused much laughter lu the Rue Princesse. M. H„ the corpulent mnn, hailed a cab. whleli came alongside the curb. He opened the door and. getting a purchase on the railing of "cabby’s” seat, tried to hoist himself In. Bat his weight was too much for the vehicle, which careened over and, as the sidewalk Is very narrow, crashed into a window of a printing office. M. R. had meanwhile collapsed on the ground, and "cabby” by a miracle dung to his uncertain perch. Then followed a stormy parted. The printer came out and wanted to have the price of Itte broken window, the fat tnau tried to get the cabby to drive him away, and cabby refused to take any siK'h load on Imanl. Finally all parlies adjourned to the police station, where the difficulty was straightened out, and .M. R. set to work looking for another cab.—Paris Temps. Sbrlnklna. On<* upon a time there was a Bathing Sult which was much reprehended iu that it was not modest. There was likew'se at lids same time also a Violet whose modesty was a matter of universal comment. “What is your system,’’ asked tho Bathing Sult, accosting the Violet, “for i I would fain be thought modest too?” “Why, I shrink,” quoth the Violet, mean Ing no harm. Rut when the Bathing Suit shrunk In pursuance of this hint It was only reprehended the more and was finally cast away as being quite Impossible.—De- ’

THE COMMUTER. How lie Spends His Honrs of Flatly Railroad Traveling, The much abused suburbanites, whom the cartoonists picture as coming to the city every morning from “Lonesomehurst,” “Lost Mau's I.ane,” “I’ninehurst-by-the-Trolley” and other places with equally suggestive names, are au interesting class of individuals. The transient element of the i city’s population spends several hours I every day whirling over the railroads. ; When the novelty of these daily bits of railroading has passed into the monotony of years of travel through i the same country the commuter has learned to make the l>est of the time he spends on the train. The “card fiend” is a prominent figure In this class. Both morning and evening four or five games of cards I are going on in every smoking car, and it is safe to say that thousands of dollars change hands in this "innocent amusement” while the players are hurrying to or from business. Next to the “card sharp” Is the man who only enjoys his cigar and paper. He is oblivious to all his surroundings and only shows animation when he is at his journey’s end. Many of the ixilleies and plans of some of this city's most successful business men have been born or developed on these trains. Tlie short i respite between the bustle of the city and the cares of home life is to this tyiM> <>f man n season for meditation. Another Interesting commuter Is the individual who Is on good terms with all his fellows. He travels up and down through the car exercising his repertory of latest jokes or sympathizing with some gloomy looking friend who thinks that all the world is against him. He seems to never grow weary in his well doing. The train life of the commuter is now and then enlivened by wrecks. Though tossed about and sometimes cut and bruised, he generally escapes serious Injury. Ruch ez]M.*riences as these he considers the spice and coloring of his existence.—New York Mall and Express. COLOR OF GOLD COINS. Meaaona For Dlfferencea In Tint of Coins of French Mlatnae. Some time ago a Frenchman placed together a number of gold coins of French mintage of the loginning, middle and end of the last century- He was much surprised to see that they differed In color, lie set ulsiut finding out the reasons for this difference, aud the results of his investigations lure been published in La Nature. There is a paleness about tlie yellow of the 10 aud 20 franc pieces which l>car the efilgies of Napoleon 1 and Louis XVIII that Is not observed in the goldplecea of later mintage. One admirer of these coins apeaka of their ••olor as a ’’beautiful patents’’ and expresses regret that It Is la-king lu later

coins. The explanation of it is very simple. The alloy that entered into the French gobi coins of those days contained as much silver as copper. and it was the silver that gave the coins their interesting paleness. The coins of the ent of Napoleon 111 were more golden in hue. The silver had been taken out of the alloy. The gold coins of today have a still warmer and deeper tinge of yellow. This is because the Paris mint, as well as that in London, melts the gold and the copper alloy in hermetically sealed boxes, which prevents the copper from being somewhat bleached, as it always is when it Is attacked by hot air. So tlie present coins have the full wartnness of tint that a copper alloy can give. If the coins of today are not so Mindsome in the opinion of amateur collectors as those issued by the first Napoleon, they are superior to those of either of the Napoleons in the fact that it costs less to make them. The double operation of the oxidation of the copper and cleaning it off the surface of the coin with acids is no longer employed, and the large elimination of copper from the surface of the coins, formerly practiced, made them less resistant under wear and tear than are the coins now in circulation. F No Keys to White Honse. In these modern days the front door of the White House is not locked at night. Practically no doors nre locked, and if the steward should look around for keys he would probably not find half of those formerly In use. Big policemen are about the only doors at the executive mansion ,They guard the main doors at all hours of day and nigh., and there is no need to close and lock the Inner doors. Before President Lincoln's time policemen were rare at the president's home, and when all the clerks and servants Lad gone home at night the housekeeper went around and carefully locked all the doom inside and outside except to rooms occupied by those going In and coming out —Washington Star. • So It W as. j "Mamma, come quick! The catsup on the shelf.’’ “Drat that cat! I'll make Addle strings of her In no time if 1 lay my hands on her! She's forever Into something.'’ and the enraged mnterfamlllus vigorously pounded her way Into the pantry. "Where is she, Tommy? I don’t see her." “See who?" “Why. you said the cat was on the shelf." "I never Mid there was a cat on the shelf." “Yes. you did. You said, ’The's cat's up on the shelf.' ” "So I did. and I say It yet. The catsup on the shelf right before your eyes. Don’t you see It? There In that old wine bottle.” and he quietly but very swiftly dodged out Into the kitchen.—