Decatur Democrat, Volume 45, Number 17, Decatur, Adams County, 4 July 1901 — Page 3

I $2.00 Spot Cash Is just what it takes to buy this bill of Every one a necessity. 201 b granulated sugar, SI.OO ■ lib can BEST baking powder, 35 I I can table peaches 13 11 can corn 7 gibs prunes 25 111 b Java coffee 20 $2.00 W. W. Moats. TELEPHONE J 77. I ____ ~3~i —~~~~~~— ~~—~ ' Come to Decatur July 4. I Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin cures ■ headache. Sold by Smith, Yager Ac ■ Falk. j Don't expect your ulster to look ■dean and new in the fall, just because ■rou have had it in soak ail summer. The greatest healer of modern I times is Banner Salve for cuts, wounds ■ sores, piles and all skin diseases It ■is guaranteed. Use no substitute. ■ Holthouse, Callow Ac Co. j As "times are good’’ the failures I (18* last week against 163 for the I same week last year) must be only ■ excuses given by the business men to I secure a chance to rest. Thos. W. Carter of Ashboro, N. C, I bad kidney trouble and one bottle of I Foley's Kidney Cure effected a perI feet cure, and he says there is no remI edy that will compare with it. Holt I house, Callow A. Co. j A young man in a neighboring counI ty took his girl out for a ride the other I evening and she fell out. He drove a j mile or two before he noticed that she was missing You can bet such a thing would never happen in Decatur. The horse might fall out of the shafts and not be missed, but the girl—never. A Cough Charmer. Mr. Tyler, of the large wholesale II drug house of Strond, Cobb & Co., Cleveland, Ohio, says: “Dr. Marshall's Lung Syrup is a Cough Charmer, the merits of which have ■ long been realized by thousands of I people. Nothing can equal the reI suits obtained from the use of this I great medicine, its cures are in exact I ratio with the number of cases in I which in which it has been *sed’ and I unless you give it a trial you cannot I convince yourself of its true merit.” I Sold everywhere by druggists. Price I 25, 50 and fl.

The Oldest, the Largest and the Best. I Incorporated. Capital 25,000 inSTDIJLZSTJL Mirai a»i Siirmcal Miliil!, No. 10 W. Wayne Street. A - younge, Jißt WS President American Association 'yip Medical and Surgical Specialists Th* s ablest Specialist in the country HF WILL BE AT THE MIESSE HOUSE, f Monday, Ju,y 15 Dr. Younge has treated more cases "' ( 'h!"llie l> - -•■- t’ il.tr three d<x-tors in the state. LtfWe can cure Epilepsy. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS EXPERIENCE. DR. YOUNGE has treated over 40,000 patients in the State of Indiana since 1872, and with perfect success in every case. A STRONG STATEMENT.—Dr. Younge has deposited One Thousand Dollars in the hank as a forfeit that he has treated more cases of Chronic Diseases and performed more remarkable cures than any other three specialists in the state of Indiana. New methods of treatment and new remedies used. All Chronic Diseases and Deformities treated successfully—such as diseases of the Brain, Heart. Lungs, Throat, Eye and Ear, Stomach, Liver, Kidneys (Bright’s disease), Bladder, Rectum. Female Diseases, Impotency, Gleet, Seminal Emissions, Nervous Diseases, Catarrh, Rupture, riles, Stricture, Diabetes, etc., etc. Consumption and Catarrh can be Cured. Cancers and all Tumors Cured without pain or use of knife As God has prepared an antldotd for the sin-sick soul, so has lie prepared antidotes for a diseased-sick body. Ihese can be found at the v Vonnge’s Medical and Surgical Institute. After an examination we will tell yon Just what we can do for yon. If we cannot benefit or cure you. we will frankly and honestly tell you so, Pathuts can be treated successfully at a distance. Write for examination and question blanks. Carstreetcars »nd carriages direct to the Institute. Call on or address J. W. YOUNGE, A. M., M. D., President L. J. YOUNGE, M. D., M. 0., Manager. No. 10 W. Wayne St. FT. WAYNE, IND.

! Ju^'| hwire Performance at Decatur Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin cures i stomach roubles. Sold bv Smith, 1 Yager Ac Falk. A Nebraska paper says that a musical cigarette boy is the latest thing out Every time you open the box and take a cigarette out it plays Near er, my God to Thee.” . Any advertised dealer is author ized to guarantee Banner Salve for tetter, eczema, piles, sprains, scalds, burns, ulcers and any open or old sore. Hhlthouse, Callow Ac Co. Australian papers state that the experiment of the West Australian government in turning domestic cats loose in the southeastern districts of the colony, to check the invasion of rabbits from South Australia, lias been a pronounced success. Hundreds of men are going to Kansas to help in the great harvesting of that state. There is a demand for hundreds more. The wheat crop in that state is unusually heavy, and the farmers are needing a great deal of outside help in order to care for it properly. A Poor Millionaire Lately starved in London because he could not digest his food. Early use of Dr. Kings New Life Pills would have saved him. They strengthen the stomach, aid digestion, promote assimilation, improve appetite. Price 25c. Money back if not satisfied Sold by Page Blackburn druggist, j At the postoftice when you get your mail, you are required by a good many people who are not patrons, to stand in front of the boxes and read your mail, as if there isn't any one on earth but yourself who has any license to get mail when you do. P'lease remember this and oblige a disgusting public. A postmaster writes: “I wish to add my testimony to the genuine merit of Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin. I have tried many remedies but have found your Syrup Pepsin superior to all other laxatives and stomach medi cines. My wife and I both use it and know it does all that you claim for it. Yours sincerely, C. O. Kinne, Alma, Kansas.. Dec. 22, 1900. Sold by Smith. Yager & Falk. j Attorney General Taylor will be asked to construe the law on keeping marriage licenses a secret after they have been granted. A number of arrests have been made at Jeffersonville at the direction of the irrate fathers whose daughters have eloped and married, although not of legal age. The keeping secret of names of local couples is not complained of so much as not giving out licenses issued to persons living in the county, no entry being made until the marriage certificates are returned.

Hundreds of people from here were I at Preble Thursday to witness the ■ burning the tank of oil. B. Kalver & Son will pay 40c per 100 pounds for mixed iron, 50c per 100 pounds for rags and 5c per pound for rubber. ts Ringling Bros, show is billed for Marion July 13, Buffalo Bill at Fort Wayne July 12 and Wallace at Bluffton July 15. De\\ itt’s Witch Hazel Salvo should be promptly applied to cuts, burns ami scalds. It soothes and quickly heals the injured part. There are worthless counterfeits, be sure to get DeW itt’s. Smith, Yager & Falk, j An exchange says that the smell of paint may ,be taken away very easily by closing up the room and put ting in the center a piece of charcoal on which has been thrown some Juniper berries. Those famous little pills, DeWitt’s Little Early Risers compel your liver and bowels to do their duty, thus giving you pure, rich blood to recuperate your body. Are easy to take. Never gripe. Smith, Yager & Falk. j Colonel James Allen, a former resident of Laporte, but now serving in the volunteer U. S. Army, has been promoted to be a brigadier-general in the regular army. His commission having been announced from Washington. W hat two cents will do. It will bring relief to sufferers from asthma or consumption, even in the worst cases. This is about what one dose of Foley's Honey and Tar costs. Isn't it worth a trial? Holthouse, Callow At Co. j It is a good idea to give a quick and complete change once a day to the air of living rooms, smoking rooms, bedrooms and dinning rooms. This is best effected by opening windows that will make a direct draft—keeping in mind that a few minutes onlv are required to accomplish the purpose. “I am indebted to One Minute Cough Cure for my present good health and my life. I was treated in vain by doctors for lung trouble fol lowing la grippe. I took One Minute Cough Cure and recovered my health.” Mr. E. H. Wise, Madison, Ga. Smith, Yager Ac Falk. It is reported here that Earnest Efland, of this town, who has been employed by a Decatur, Ind., firm at Pleasant Mills, recently lost all of his tools by the burning of the engine room of the stone crushing plant where he was employed. The tools were valued at s2so.—Delphos Herald. She Didn't Wear a Mask. But herbeatuty was completely hidden by sores, blotches and pimples till she used Bueklen's Arnica Salve. Then they vanished as well afi all eruptions, fever sores, Ixiils, ulcere, carbuncles and felons from its use. Infallible for cuts, corns,burns, scalds and piles. Cure guaranteed. 25c at Page Blackburn’s. j The board of directors of Woodlawn cemetery, Lima, will not allow any more Sunday burials in that cemeterv, unless death be caused by some contagious disease which is a menace to the health of the community. The new order of things is the result of an understanding between ministers, undertakers and others whose presence are necessary at a funeral. You can never cure dyspepsia by dieting. What your body needs is plenty of good food properly digested. Then if your stomach will not digest it, Kodol Dyspepsia Cure will. It contains all of the natural digestants hence must digest every class of food and so prepare it that nature can use it nourishing the body and so replacing the wasted tissues, thus giving life, health, strength, ambition, pure blood and good healthy appetite. Smith, Yager Ac Falk. *j The man who looks like thirty cents comes sneaking back to town. He waits till darkness covers all: he waits till the sun goes down. He wants to hide his sun burned cheek: he shuns the jeering glance. He feels ashamed to show the mud on the basement of his pants. He hides his fish rod and his boots: he limps awav to lied, and of the fish ho did not catch not cue brief word is said. In dreams he sees his cork go down, he gives the rod a yank and lands a bass that weighs four pounds upon the grassy bank. Heartburn. When the quantity of food taken is too large or the quality too rich heartburn is likely to follow, and especially so if the digestion has been weakened by constipation. Eat slowly and not too freely of easily digested food. Masticate the food thoroughly. Let six hours elapse tie tween meals and when you feel a fullness and weight in the region of the stomach after eating, indicating that you have eaten too much, take one of Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets and the heartburn may be avoided. For sale by Holthouse, Callow At Co. j Good Advice. The most miserable lieings in the world are those suffering from dyspepsia and liver complaint. More than seventy five per cent, of the people of the United States are afflicted with these two diseases and their effts-ts, such as sour stomach, sick headache, habitual coativeness, palpation of the heart.' heart-burn, waterbrash, gnawing and burning pains at the pit of the stomach. yellow skin, coated tongue and disagreeable taste in the mouth, coming up of food aftereating, low spirits, etc. Go to your druggist and get a bottle of August Flower for 75 cents. Two doses will relieve you. Trv it. 1 Get Green’s Prize Almanac. Page Blackburn. ts

Bob Miller now employed as brakeman on the Clover Leaf was the guest of his parents over Sunday. Mr. John Tippis, Colton, 0., says: “Foley’s Honey and Tar cured my little girl of a severe cough and inflamed tonsils.” Holthouse, Callow & Co. j The preacher who took for his text: “He giveth his beloved slegp,” not long after glanced around and said that the way his congregation had worked into the affection of the Lord was truly amazing. \\ hen you want a modern, up to date physic try Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets. They are easy to take and pleasant in effect. Price 25 cents. Samples free at Holthouse, Collow Ac Callow As Co’s drug store, j There is one manner of life by which man gets lower and grows meaner, another by which he ever rises and grows nobler; it is for the man to choose. The whole of wisdom consists in finding and following the upward path. It is easier to keep well than to get cured. DeWitt’s Little Early Risers taken nowand then, will always keep your bowels in perfect order. They never gripe but promote an easy and gentle action. Smith. Yager As Falk, j For sale. 20 acres SI,OOO, 40 acres •SHN), 30 acres >I6OO. 160 acres SI,OOO, 400 acres $9,000, 420 acres SIO,OOO. All well located and good soil and well improved and will stand the very closest investigation. W. W. Olcott, North Yernon Ind. Ray Center, N. D., March 21, 1898. For years I have been troubled with inflammatory rheumatism, and last winter was confined to my bed helpless. I began taking Dr. J. H. McLean's Liver and Kidney Balm and applied locally the Volcanic Oil Liniment and was completely cured. J. Allison. For sale by Holthouse, Callow As Co. " j The Clover Leaf is cutting down its force of employes indicating the fact that the business of the road is not as big as it was a few’ months ago. Three through freight crews were laid off at the Frankfort vards last week and now another order has been issued which applies all along the line to cut the section crews down one man, making only four men in a crew, including the foreman. “I wish to truthfully state to you and the readers of these few lines that your Kodol Dyspepsia Cure is without question, the best and omly cure for dyspepsia that I have ever come in contact with and I have used many other preparations.” John Beam, Middlesex. Fa. No other preparation .equals Kodol Dyspepsia Cure as it .contains all the digestants. It will digest all kinds of food and can't help but do you good. Smith, Yager Ac Falk. j Notice—We, the undersigned, do hereby agree to refund the money on tw’o 25 cent bottles or boxes of Baxter’s Mandrake Bitters, if it fails to cure constipation, billiousness, sick headache, jaundice, loss of appetite, sour stomach, dyspepsia, liver complaint, or any of the diseases for which it is recommended. It is highly recommended as a tonic and blood purifier. Sold liquid in bottle, and tablets in boxes. Price 25 cents for either. One package of either guaranteed to give satisfaction or money refunded. Page Blackburn. ts The latest illustration of “doingevil that good may come” has been brought to light in Hartford City where a young man answered the following ad: “On receipt of $1 we will send,secure ly sealed, a beautiful bound book of 400 pages, full of good things. Every sport should have one. The most wonderful book ever written. French and English translations. Prohibited in some countries. Write at once.” The confiding jierson who forwarded a dollar received a fifteen cent bible. Bluffton Banner. Notice to Wheelmen. We. the undersigned, do hereby agree to refund the money on a 25 cent bottle of Henry Ac Johnson’s Arnica and Oil Liniment, if it fails to cure bumps, bruises, scratches, chafes, cuts strains, blisters, sore musles, sunburn chapped hands or face, pimples, freckles, or any other ailments requiring an external application. Lady riders are especially pleased with Arnica and Oil Liniment, it is so clean and nice to use. Twenty-five cents a bottle; one three times as large for 50ccnts. Page Blackburn. . ts An exchange says: “One of the loving husbands of this city, who had exhausted all the explanations for late hours and had no apology ready silently slipped into the house about 1 o’clock, softly undressed himself and began rocking the cradle by the beiF side as if he had l>een awakened from a sound sleep by infant cries. Ho had rocked the cradle for five minutes, when his wife, who had witnessed the whole maneuver, said: “Come to bed. John, here’s the baby. How’s This? We offer One Hundred Dollars for any case of catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. F. J, Cheney Ac Co., Props.. Toledo, Ohio. We. the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all I business transactions, and financially I able to carry out any obligation made by their firm. West Ar Truax, wholesale druggists, Toledo, (). Walding, Kinnan Marvin, wholesale druggists, Toledo, (). Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting direct ly upon the bkxxl and mucous sur fact's of the system. •Price, 75c. per, bottle. Sold by all druggists. Tes timonials free. Bull’s Family Pills are the b*st. j

Big Store. Furniture, Queensware, Notions, Sewing Machines, Stoves, Carpets, Linoleums, Dry Goods, Clothing Groceries Shoes. The Big Store Kern, Beeler & Co. Decatur, Ind.

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 A camera fiend in British Columbia while endeavoring to take a phograph at the extreme edge of a cliff, made a misstep and fell a hundred feet into the water below. On his way down he pressed the button. The resultant picture is the best in his collection. Jas. G. Amerthoff, Della, ()., writes: “I had an obstinate sore on my face which everything else failed to heal. After one application of Banner Salve it began to heal and after three ap plications it was entirely healed leaving no scar. u Holthouse, Callow & Co. j_ Before a man is married he is a dude, and after marriage he is subdued. Before marriage he has no buttons on his shirt, after marriage he has no shirt. Before marriage he swears he wouldn't marry the best woman on earth, after marriage he finds he hasn't. On the strength of applying for a divorce, a Van Wert woman went off I and got married to another man bei son» her case caniu up in court. Upon hearing*)! tier second marriage her attorney had her divorce procetxlinga dismissed from court: and now she l has two husbands and a good show to be prosecutixl for bigamy. White Men Turned Yellow. Great consternation was felt by the friends of M. A. Hogarty of Lexington, Ky., when they saw he was turning yellow. His skin slowly changed color, also his eyes, and be suffered terribly. His malady was yellow jaundice. He was treated by the Ix'st doctors, but without benefit. Then he was advised to try Electric Bitters, the wonderful stomach and liver rem edy and he writes: “After taking two bottles I was wholly cured.” A trial proves its matchless merit for all stomach, liver and kidney troubles. Sold by Page Blackburn, druggist, j Druggist takes customer’s advice. Mound City, Kans., Oct. 22, 1900. Dear Sir: I wish to add my endorse ment and recommendatidti as to the merits of Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin. I have sold it as a druggist and it always gives satisfaction, and my customers are loud in its praise. 1 myself had Ixxm troubled with my stomach, and hearing so many of my customers speaking of Syrup Pepsin. 1 tii.xl it. with the result that it cured my trouble. I unhesitating iwommended Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin as a laxative and stomach remedy. Yours truly, J. M. Hawkins. Sold by Smith, Yager & Falk. j

The undersigned is a proficient electrician and will give moderate prices for all kinds of electric wiring, etc. Call on or address Clark Stevenson, Decatur, Ind. 16-6

A bad complexion generally results from inactive liver and bowels. In all such cases, DeWitt’s Little Early Risers produce gratifying results. Smith, Yager & Falk. j See the Shape. Fox's “Forex” Butter Crackers are not shaped like other crackers. They are sweet and nutty. The fresh flavor of delicious sound wheat is distinctly noticed in “Forex”. Get them and you get complete cracker satisfaction. Pierre Pascele, an Indian who was arrested and handcuffed in New Mexico, escaped from his captor and disappeared. Next day he sent a messenger to the Sheriff offering to return the handcuffs upon receipt of the key to unlock them. The request was granted and all hands seem satisfied. The Same Old Story. J- A. Kelly relates an experience similar to that which has happened in almost every neighborhood in the United States, ami has been told and re-told by thousands of others. He says: “Last summer I had an attack of dysentery and purchased a bottle of Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, which I used according to directions and with entirely satisfactory results. The trouble was controlled much quicker than former attacks when I used other remedies." Mr. Kelly is a well known citizen of Henderson, S. C. For sale by Holthouse, Callow & Co. j Instead of letting the rose bushes grow straight up, bend over the larger canes and hold them down with a hooked peg of wood. When so treated new sh(x>ts will start from the whole length of the cane, and it is on this new wood that the flowers will be produced. Even the hybrid, or June roses, which bloom but once during the season, treated in this manner can be made to produce flowers through a much longer season. Summer complaint is unusually prevalent among children this season, A well develops! case in the writer’s family was cured last week jy the timely use of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remtxly one of the best patent medicines manu factored and which is always kept on hand at the home of ye wrilie. This is not intended as a free puff for the company, who do not advertise with us, but to benefit little sufferers who may not lx l within easy access of a physician. No family should lx< without a bottle of this medicine in the house. especially in summer time.— Lansing Journal. For sale by Holthouse, Callow A Co. j