Decatur Democrat, Volume 45, Number 35, Decatur, Adams County, 7 November 1901 — Page 3

DOCTOR E. J. Beardsley, General Practice and Surgery. But Special Attention given to Eye, Ear, Nose, Throat and Chronic Diseases. expert in fittiaq Glasses. Thoroughly equipped for treating Eye. Ear, Throat and Catarrhal cases. CALLS answered, day or night. OFFICE-over postoffice. RESIDENCE cor. Monroe and Ninth sts Office Hours- tl to It u. tn. 2 to ♦ p. in.

Bosse opera house Wednesday even ing. Bob Gregory was at Rome City over Sunday doing a little fall fishing. I have watches from SI.OO to $55.00 which will make you buy at Hensley’s. 30-ts Col. and Mrs. Robertson returned to their home at Fort Wayne Friday afternoon. Fred Schafer and son Chalmer were at Rome City the first of the week enjoying a few days outing. Ed Rison who has been clerking at the Burt House for several months left Saturday for his home al Van Wert. Today take Foley’s Honey and Tar. It positively prevents pneumonia, or other serious results from colds. It may be too late tomorrow. Holthouse, Callow & Co. n Experiments are to be made with fuel oil by the Great Northern in the Cascade tunnel to determine the merits of assertions made by railway engineers that oil fuel keeps air in tunnels dear. Up late last night? Then you don't feel just the best today. Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin is very effective for sick hi adiche, biliousness or disordered stomach. Sold by Smith. Yager & Falk. n The old philosophers were right in regarding self consciousness as the peculiar significant mark of humanity. To come consciousness of one’s self and of one’s relation to the spiritual universe is to become alive in the trust sense. To cure a cough stop coughing, as it irritates the lungs and gives them no chance to heal. Foley's Honey ami Tar cures without causing a strain in throwing off the phlegm like common cough expectorants. Holt house, Cal low & Co. n 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

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Miss lantha Gregory was a visitor with Fort Wayne friends Friday. Killarney and the Rhine at Bosse’s opera house next Wednesday eveninc Nov. 13. 8 The only cracker in the United States that has been patented is Fox’s •‘Forex.” Mrs. .1. H. Heller and daughter fanny are guests of friends at Van Wert Ohio. T have the finest stock of rings and watches now on exhibit in Decatur. Call and decide for yourself at Henslev’s. 30-ts Having retired from business, I de sire an immediate settlement of all book accounts. Call at the store and settle same without delay. J. H. Voglewede. 26tf Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets cure biliousness, constipation and headache. They are easy to take and pleasant in effect. For ’sale by Holthouse, Callow & Co. n The strawboard manufacturers of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois had a meeting at Indianapolis the other day and arranged to combine their interests by the popular trust route. The capital stock will amount to $22,000,000. Personal. Will the lady who fell in a swoon last Thursday, in front of the postoffice, call at our store? She suffers from biliousness. Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin will surely cure her. Sold by Smith. Yager & Falk. n The political party that avoids declaring itself in plain terms on public questions through fears of losing votes is no more to be depended upon than the man who refrains from stealing only when he is afraid of being detected in the act. When you feel that life is hardly worth the candle take a dose of Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets. They will cleanse your stomach, tone up your liver and regulate your bowels making you feel like a new man. For sale by Holthouse, Callow & Co. n The state reports 9.000 children had to quit school on account of their eyes. Adams county had 15 of them. Are you going to join them when you can find if your eyes are defected at Hensley’s free. 30-ts Mr. Spurgeon, the famous London preacher, being asked whether a man could be a Christian and belong to a brass band replied: Yes, I think he might; but it would be a very difficult matter for the next door neighbor to be a Christian.” Geo. A. Points, Upper Sandusky, 0., writes: “I have been using Foley’s Honey and Tar in my family and think it is the best cough cure on the market. I would not be without it in my home, as there is nothing so good for coughs and colds.” Holthouse, Callow & Co. n

If you want rich, wheaty flavored crackers buy Fox's “Forex.” Go to the opera house Wednesday evening and see the best show of the season. Twenty people from hear attended the light opera “ King Dodo ” at Fort Wayne Friday night. 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 Not a dissenting vote. A perfect laxative. That is the unanimous verdict of the people who use Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin. 50c and SI.OO sizes. Sold by Smith, Yager <k Falk, n Great Britain has 214,000 troopsengaged in the South African war. The Boers have about 11,000 men under arms. The ratio is 19 to 1, except when it comes to fighting then love of liberty and home evens the tieing up. W. J. Shively, Batesville, 0., speaking of Banner Salve, says. “I used it for piles, and it has done me more good than any salve I haye ever used, and I have tried a great many kinds.” Holthouse, Callow & Co. n A Van Wert girl named Gibson fell from a bed onto a piece of fancy work containing a sharp pointed needle. It ran into her left knee and broke off beneath the surface. The piece was buried so deep that it could not be located by a physician. The only cure for tuberculosis is Enk Preparation No. 26. Price $3. Its effects are felt from the first dose. There is hope in these cases as long as there is life. We have plenty of cases where the patient has been confind to bed four and five months. Sold by Holthouse, Callow & Co. and Nachtrib & Fuelling. ts At Anderson the other night, an old maid’s convention was held, The antiquest dressed in Jenny Lind costumes and read papers. One of them discussed “How to Raise Children,” another, “Lost Opportunities,” and still another, “Why We Never Married.” That Throbbing Headache Would quickly leave you, if you used Dr. King’s New Life Pills. Thousands of sufferers have proved their matchless merit for sick and hervous headaches. They make pure blood and build up your health. Only 25 cents. Money back if not cured. Sold by Page Blackburn, druggist. n 1 China can be mended with water glass and powdered asbestos. Mix the asbestos with the water glass until like a thick cream. Cover the broken edges with this and press to- , gether, fastening firmly. The article should stand several days to allow the cement to harden. . Enk Preparation No. 31 is a positive cure for dyspepsia and indigestion. For all manner of stomach troubles it will be found beneficial and very rapid in its action. Relieves congestion from excessive use of alcoholic drinks. Sold by Holthouse, Callow <k Co. and Nachtrieb <A ingA weather crank tells an exchange that we would have a fine fall and winter. He basis his prediction on the condition of the wind on the 20th and 22nd of September and when the sun was crossing the line a sign that has not failed him more than twice in forty years. Recommends it to trainmen. G. H. Hausan. Lima, 0., engineer L. E. &W. R. R., writes: I have been troubled a great deal with backache. I was induced to try Foleys Kidney Cure, and one bottle entirely relieved me I gladly recommend to any one, especially my friends among the train men, who are usuallv similarly afflicted.” Holthouse, Callow & Co. n Merchants are complaining of the present weather for the reason that it has put a damper to their fall and winter trade. When the weather turned cold the fall buying began and was just progressing nicely and then the warm zephyrs turned the tide to shirt waists summer goods and the purchases of that class of goods were light. A nice cold wave would liven up business in the dry goods,clothing and shoe lines 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 linen added to the list that have been cured where other medicines have failed to Ido 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. Price 25, 50 and sl, n The report for 1900 of the state board of medical registration and examination will show that there are in Indianapolis 647 physicians and about sixty five hundred in the state. The residence of every physician will lie shown, when he was issued a license to practice in Indiana, what college he is graduated from, the dale of his graduation ami the school of medicine he represents. “Last winter an infam child of mine had croup in a violent form, says Elder John U Rogers, a (Christian Evangelist, of Filley, Mo. _“I gave her a few doses of Chamberlain s Cough Remedy and in n short time all danger was past and the child recovered,” This remedy not only cures croup, but when given as soon as the first symptoms appear, will prevent the attack. It contains no , opium or other harmful siibstancs I and may bo given as confidently to a <' baby as to an adult. For sale by 11 llolthousc, Callow - & Co. n

J. E. Toole in Killarney and the Rhine at the opera house Wednesday night. Si Plunkard band took the people by storms as usual Friday and by the way they can play some. Why wait until the last moment and take what is left. Go early and have your Xmas presents laid away for you at Hensley’s. 30-ts Say “No” to the man who offers you a cheap substitute for Fox’s “Forex” Crackers. If you don’t, he wins and you lose. It costs less to make poor imitations. Remember I will lay away anything for you until Xmas without deposit on same. Allowing you the advantage of a large selection at Hensley’s. 20-ts There is no state in the Union that occupies a more prominent place in the literary world than Indiana. And just now the stage is presenting the American public some four or five fine procuctions dramatized from Ind iana novels. For Hoarseness. Benjamin Inger son of Hutton, Ind., says he had not spoken a word above a whisper for months, and one hottie of Honey and Tar restored his voice. Be sure you get Foley’s. Holthouse, Callow - & Co. n The unmarried women of Indiana not only have $29,000,000 in the sav ing banks, but every single one of them from eldest to youngest sighs to lean her head on some man's breast and hear him ask if she will be his’n. Don’t go west looking for good mines. Seymour Webb. Moira, N. A’., writes “I had been troubled with my kidneys for twenty-five years and had tried several physicians but received no relief until I bought a bottle of Foley’s Kidney Cure. I earnestly recommend Foley’s Kidney Cure.” Take only Foley’s. Holthouse, Callow & Co. n The Logansport Journal thinks the Indiana fanner the greatest freak in all the world. Indiana not only has frog,skunk weasel. Angora cat and peppermint farms, but a man up north has started a leach farm and is making more money than many moneyleaches over the state. Great Luck of »n Editor,

“For two years all efforts to cure eczema in the palms of my hands failed,” writes Editor H. N. Lester of ■ Syracuse, Kans., "then I was wholly cured by Bueklen’s Arnica Salve.” It's the world’s best for eruptions, sores and all skin diseases. Only 25c at Page Blackburn's. n i , Over at Poneto the other night a fellow whittled out of jail with a pen- , knife. The town marshal tacked a • piece of gunny sack over the hole through which the prisoner escaped and the jail is just as safe as ever. Hereafter when a prisoner is locked up in the Poneto jail he will be searched for toothpicks, darning needles and other tools of a similar nature which 1 might be useful in breaking out of jail. Corning. Ohio. November sth, 1900 Pepsin Syrup Co., Monticello, 111. While visiting in Taylorsville 111., I 1 came across your Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin. Have used two and one half bottles and it has done me more good than all the medicine I have used for two years. Please let me know if you will send me three or four bottles and what it will cost to send it to Corning, Perry county. (thio, and oblige. Mrs. Sarah A. McCracken. Sold by Smith, Yager A Falk. n Richard Floury, a farmer who lives about ten miles south of Hartfort City is in possession of a freak in the way of a pig with three tails. The animal was born about two weeks ago and does not seem to be bothered in any way by its strange caudal appendages. The body, legs and head are perfect Iv formed. Each tail, although slightly smaller than the ordinary appendage, has the regulation curl, and the animal presents a comical appearance. Astounding Discovery, From Coopersville, Mich., comes word of a wonderful discovery of a pleasant tasting liquid that when used before retiring by any one troubled with a bad cough always insures a good night’s rest. “It will soon cure thecough too," writes Mrs. S. Himelberger. “for three generations our family have used Dr. King’s Now Discovery for consumption and never found its equal for coughs and colds," It's an unrivaled life-saver when used for desperate lung diseases. Guaranteed bottles 50e and SI.OO at Page Blackburn’s. Trial bottles free. n There is a debate on at Jonesboro between Elder Denny, of the Christian church, and Eider Roberts of the Adventists on the subject of Sunday observances. The second debate of series was held Saturday evening and three remain to be given. When the gentlemen have finished their respective adherents will be stronger in their belli fs but the public in general will continue observing the Sabbath as their understanding and inclinations dictate. Marion Deader. Good Advice. The most miserable beings in the world are those suffering from dyspepsia and liver comI plaint. More than seventy-five per cent, of the people of the United ’ States are afflicted with these two diseases and their effects, such as sour stomach, sick headache, habitual costiveness, palpation of the heart.! heart burn, waterbrash, gnawing and ' burning pains at the pit of the atom ; ach, yellow skin, coated tongue and i disagreeable taste in the mouth, coin ing up of food aftereating, low spirits, 1 etc. Go to your druggist and get a bottle of August Flower for 75 cents. Two dotes will relieve you. Try it. Get Green’s Prize Almanac. Page Blackburn. ts

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Contained in Roots, Barks, Gums, Buds, Berries and Plants. Placed in the ground by the GREAT SPIRIT for the healing of mankind. Marvelous! The Doctor can tell you your complaint by simply looking at you without asking questions. Consultation free in all diseases of men, women and children. Perfect cures guaranteed in all cases undertaken. Catarrh, Lung, Throat, Liver, Stomach, Blood Diseases, Scrofula, Sore Spots, Pimples, letter, Eczema, Eye and Ear, Kidney, Bladder, Piles, Rheumatism, Heart Disease. All female complaints and weak children promptly cured. Young, middle aged and old men who are troubled with nervous debility, loss of memory, weakness of body and brain, loss of energy and organic weakness, kidney and bladder affections or any other form of special diseases can here find a speedy cure. Address all letters to DR. CHAS. MENDENHALL, Fort Wayne, Indiana.

I have One Hundred Thousand Dollars SIOO,OOO, to loan on real estate at 5J per cent interest. No commision. D. B. Erwin. ts Wanted We desire to purchase about twenty cord of good body four foot wood. Call on or address Char les E. Suttles, secretary. Decatur School Board. ts Lost On Oct. 31 between J. P. Crist’s and this city a ladies spring jacket gray, lined throughout with , light silk, single brested without! buttons. Finder please leave at this . office. ts Mrs. D. T. Morris, of Maple Grove farm, south of Union City, Ind., was cured of an inflammation of the bladder, of twenty years’ standing, after j she had spent over SI,OOO and submitted to a serious surgical operation j without relief. She used four bottles ! of Enk Preparation No. 39 and is en , tirelywell. Sold by Holthouse. Callow <k Co. and Nachtrieb & Fuelling, ts The editor of the Kansan, Newton. Kan., has made a vow to print the names and state th: crime of every man, women or child arrested in that town from now on. It will be well for this editor to have his clothing well padded before starting the experiment. Notice —We, the undersigned, do hereby agree to refund the money on two 25 cent bot tles or boxes of Baxter’s Mandrake Bitters, if it fails to cure constipation, billiousness, sick-head-ache, 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 Two lines of trade are getting a little slow these days farm deals and public sales. The price of land has been elevated by farmers until it is hard to find buyers at the figure. Public sales have become so numerous that as many as three have been held in one day in the same locality. The amount of stuff thrown on the market has knocked down the price of everything but corn and oats which sell at more than the market price.

Notice to Wheelmen. We, the undersigned, do hereby agree to refund the money on a 25 cent bottle of Henry & Johnson’s Arnica and Oil Liniment, if it fails to cure bumps, bruises, scratches, chafes, cuts strains, blisters, sore musics, 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 live cents a bottle; one three times as large for SOoents. Page Blackburn. ts A story is being told of a Bluffton young man who went to make his usual Sunday night call on his sweet heart who resided in the country. The youngster was met at the door by the man of the house. This is what he said: “Young man Ido not object to you calling on my daughter, but you will have to make your little bow and hit the ground on this occasion, as we are going to have a select party here tonight and no one is invited but two or three old women and the doctor.” Jumped on a ten penny nail. The little daughter of Mr. J. N. Powell jumped on an inverted rake made of ten penny nails, and thrust one nail entirely through her foot and a second one half way through. Chamberlain’s Pain Balm was promptly implied and five minutes later the pain liad disappeared and no more suffusing was ex perienced. In three days the child was wearing her shoe as usual and with absolutely no discomfort. Mr. Powell is a well known merchant of Forkland, Va. Pain Balm is an antiseptic and heals such in juries without maturation and in one third the time required by the usual treatment. For sale by Holthouse, Callow & Co. n

DECATUR, IND,. Thursday, Nov. 21, . . . AT , . . Hotel Murray. Returning each month for one year, and is pre>ared to heal the sick. The Doctor spent many ears of his life among the Indians and he treats ns patients with nature’s wonderful remedies

THE NEW FAIR STORE HAS JUST RECEIVED A SAMPLE LINE OF INFANTS LONG CLOAKS AT 50c ON THE DOLLAR. WE HAVE SILK EMBROIDERED ONES FROM 75c UP. COME AND SEE THESE SPECIAL VALUES k’w iMimßKesw Tnw~

The Enemy of Dyspepsia. I Bailey’s Dyspepsia Tablets is cerI tainly the worst enemy dyspepsia has today. It drives out that dreadful disease whenever taken persistently. It brings complete relief from the taking of the very first tablet; chocolate coated. Mrs. R. A. Pierce, Mason Citv, lowa, writes: "I have suffered for years with stomach trouble. Bailey’s Dyspepsia Tablets have certainly done wonders for me. They are the best medicine made, and cure indigestion, belching and all dyspeptic troubles.” Price 25c. Made by Lakeside Med. Co., Chicago. Sold by Page Blackburn. A prominent lady writer says, “If man would do all that women think they ought to do, Eden would lie re gained.” This valuable piece of real estate was lost to man because he simply did what women thought he should do. But then possibly we can finn it where we lost it. Spreads Like Wildfire, When things are "the best" they become “the best selling." Abraham Hare, a leading druggist of Belleville, ()., writes: Electric Bitters are the best selling bitters 1 have handled in 20 years." You know why? Most diseases begin in disorders of stomach, liver, kidneys, bowels, blood and , nerves. Electric Bitters tones up the stomach, regulates the liver, kidneys : and bowels,purifies the blood.strength ens the nerves, heneeeures multitudes of maladies. It builds up the system. Puts new life and vigor into any weak, sickly, rundown man or woman. Price 50 cents. Sold by Page Blackburn, druggist. n An Indianapolis man while leading a cow home, attached the rope to his bodv, as a measure of precaution against her escape. He attempted to cross a railroad tarack in front of a coming train. After diligent search the pieces of ro|x> have all been found. Funeral tomorrow. No flowers.

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