Decatur Democrat, Volume 45, Number 37, Decatur, Adams County, 21 November 1901 — Page 3

DOCTOR E. J. Beardsley, (iencrol Practice and Surgery. • But Special Attention given to Eye. Ear, S ise, Throat and Chronic Diseases. Expert in Fitting Glasses. Thoroughly equipped tor treating Eye. Ear, Throat anil Catarrhal cases. CAT.LS answered, day or night. OFFICE—over postofflee. RESIDENCE -cor. Monroe and Ninth sts Office Hours--!! to 11 a. ni. 2 to ♦ p. tn.

\Ve will lay anything away you want at Hensleys. 37 5 R. J. Holthouse Sundayed with his family in this city. H. L. Conter was attending to business at Indianapolis several days last week. I have watches front SI .00 to $85.00 which will make you buy at Hensley’s- 30-ts Bob Gregory was at Rome City over Sunday on business of an important nature. Do not let the dealer give you crackers that he claims are "just as good.” Xonecan compare with Fox’s "Forex.” B. Kalver & Sou will pay 40c per 100 pounds for mixerl iron. 50c per 100 pounds for rags an 1 5c per pound for rubber. ts Mrs. C. C. Schafer is at home from a months’ tour of the east, including visits to Buffalo, Washington and New York. Charles Banta and wife, of Lima, Ohio, were visitors in this city Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred V. Mills. I have my stock of watches, clocks, jewelry and the finest hne of gents and ladies rings in now that is handled anywhere. Hensley. 37-5 Within a radius of one hundred miles the Chicago A Erie railroad will give a one and one-third rate November 27 and 28. Today take Foley’s Honey and Tar It positively prevents pneumonia, or other serious results from colds. It may be too late tomorrow. Holt house, Callow & Co, n Notice to The Public We will start our mill at Pleasant Mills, Dee. 2nd. 1901. We will grind chop and meal at 2| cents per bushel until May 2nd 1902. Cowan A Smith. 39 8 There’s as much difference between Fox’s "Forex” Butter Crackers and imitations as there is between genuine dollars and counterfeits. Fox's is the only genuine. Many farmers throughout the county are posting, “No hunting” notices on their farms, and will not permit quails to bo shot on their farms this season. As an insect destroyer they have no equal. Up late last night? Then you don’t feel just the best today. Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin is very effective for sick headache, biliousness or disordered stomach. Sold by Smith. Yager & Falk. n Now it is stated that water from a gas well is a sure preventative of hog cholera. In proof of the statement a Howard county man avers that his drove drank such water and grew fat and throve, while hogs on neighboring farms diet! by dozens because of cholera. 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 ii Co. n A four-year-old girl who was spend ing a night away from home knelt ;.t her hostess’ knees to say her prayers, expecting the usual prompting. Find ing Mrs. B. unable to help her out. she concluded thus: "Please God ’scuse me; I can't remember my pray ers. and I’m staying with a lady that don’t know any.” Enk Preparation No. 31 is a posi five cure for dyspepsia and iudiges tion. 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 A Co. and Nachtrieb A Fuell Ing- ‘f A lady whoso husband is not as ho should be, has a hard time with their only son. The other day she tried moral suasion upon him saying: "Now Johhnie. if you are a bad boy, you can't go with mamma to heaven when you die.” "I don't care," said Johnnie, “I’d rather go where papa goes anyway.” The little insects are the most re liable weather prophets to lie found and their habits and instincts are an interesting study. When crickets make a hubbub it is an insect sign of rain, ami when the glow worms shine brilliantly, and especially after mid night, instead of turning off their lights an hour or two before, it will certain y rain before many hours. “Last winter an infant child of I mine had croup in a violent form, says Elder John W. Rogers, a Chris tian Evangelist, of Filley, Mo. “I gave her a few doses of Chamberlain s Cough Remedy and in a short time all danger was past and the child re covered.” This remedy not only ••ures croup, but when given as soon as the first Minptoms appear, will prevent the attack. It contains no opium or other harmful substation and may be given as confidently to a baby as to an adult. For sal* by Holthouse, C.111.T.v A '*'• 11 • .

•ftSc rf”’*’" buj Charles Meibers was on the sick list several days last week. Call and look my stoefc over. 1 will be glad to show you at Hen sJeys. * 37-5 Dr. J. W. Yizzard of Pleasant Mills was among our entertaining callers Saturday. C. A. Neuenschwander, of Wabash, township, was looking after business here Tuesday. Me have clerks to show our goods call and see them, you need not buy at Hensleys. 37 5 Mr. and Mrs. Frank Christen have moved into one of the Allison homes on south Third street. Thexiverall exhibition at Holthouse, Schulte A Co's, clothing store Saturday was well attended. 1 have the finest stock of rings and watches now on exhibit in Decatur. Call and decide for yourself at Hens!ey s. 30-ts Daniel P. Bolds, of Peru, was in the citv last I riday attending to business and shaking hands with his numerous I friends. 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 Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver ■ Tablets cure biliousness, constipation I and headache. They are easv to take ' and pleasant in effect. For 'sale by Holthouse, Callow & Co. n The charitable man gives for the i sake of giving and never savs anv--1 thing about it. When the other fellow puts a nickle in the contribution box he never thinks that he has had his money’s worth until he can tell at least ten people. For Hoarseness. Benjamin Ingerson of Hutton, Ind., says he had not spoken a word above a whisper for j months, and one bottle of Honey and j Tar restored his voice. Be sure you get Foley’s. Holthouse, Callow A Co. n We should like to have a settlement with all having accounts at this office whetheron subscription or otherwise, before January Ist. Don’t put this off. but remember that short settlements make long friends. It is a good policy never to let accounts run I past a new year without a full settlej meat. 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 nervous head aches. They make pure blood and build up your health. Only 25 cents. Money back if not cured. Sold by Page Blackburn, druggist. n On the first and third Tuesday in each month during the season of 1901 to all Western and Southwestern points low rate personally conducted excursions. All the comforts of home in our free reclining chair and case cars. Write for particulers to C. W. I Mordoff, Toledo, O. ts One of the softest snaps of any in ' town is that of the telephone lineman. | It's so much fun a morning like this I to climb a forty foot pole and sticking to the side juggle wires while the wind freezes the workman’s breath in blockesof ice worth SO cents. W. J. Shively, Batesville,O., speaking of Banner Salve, says. “I used it for piles, and it has done me more good than any salve I have ever used, and I have tried a great many kinds.” Holthouse, Callow A Co. n The cost of running the state government for the fiscal year closing October 31 was $5,541,832.26. This includes all warrants to the state educational, penal and benevolent institutions, payment on the state debt, salaries of tin stat < officers, including circuit judges and prosecuting attoi neys. Corning, Ohio. November sth. 1000 Pepsin Svrup Co.. Monticello. 111. While visiting in Taylorsville 111., I came across your Dr. Caldwell :i Syrup Pepsin. Have used two and one-half j bottles and it has done mo more good I than all the medicine I have used for, two vears. Please let me know if you will send me three or four bottles and what it will cost to send it to Corning, Perrv county, Ohio, and oblige. Mrs. Sarah A. McCracken. Sold by Smith, Yager & Falk. n Miss Virginia Harned's recent appearance as Alice of Old Vincennes at English's opera house in Indianapolis calls to mind a sequence of coincidences. On the very spot where the opera house now stands once stood the old homestead of William H.English. In this home Mr. English wrote “ Tlh* Conquest of I he Northwest, and from this book Maurice Thompson secured his historical setting for his “ Alice of Old Vincennes.” And now on the same site stands the theatre where Miss Hamed triumphed as the heroine of Mr. Thompson's story.

Notice—We, the undersigned, do hereby agree to refund the money on two 25 cent bottles orboxesof Baxter’s Mandrake Bitters, if it fails to cure constipation, billiousness, sick-head-ache, jaundice, loss of appetite, sour stomach, liver complaint, oranvof the diseases for which it i« rec'ommonded. It is highly recommended as a tonic ami blood purifier. Sold liquid in bottle, and Ini.lets in boxes. Price 25 cents for either. One package of either guarmteed to give satisfaction or moneg r ,.f , '■ d. Page Diac!

Have your Xmas presents laid away at Hensleys. 37 5 Beery A Holthouse held their last horse sale in this city Saturday. ' John jiunyon of the south part of the county, was a visitor here last Saturday. Our prices on our goods talk for themselves. Call and see how low prices are at Hensleys. 37 5 Peter Soldner and J. Winteregg, of Berne were here the first of the week, business being the drawing card. I have One Hundred Thousand Dollars SIOO,OOO, to loan on real estate at 5J per cent interest. No commision. D. B. Erwin. ts All members of the W. C. T. U. are requested to meet with Mrs. Scott Hughes next Saturday, November, 23 at 2 p. m. to transact business of importance. Not a dissenting vote. A perfect laxative. That is the unanimous verdict of the people who use Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin. 50e and SI.OO sizes. Sold by Smith, Yager & Falk, n The man who believes in striking at the root of things and getting back to first causes suggests that the only effective method of stopping the divorce evil is to refuse licenses and make it a criminal offense to get mar ried. To cure a cough stop coughing, as it irritates the lungs and gives them no chance to heal. Foley’s Honey and Tar cures without causing a strain in throwing off the phlegm like common cough expectorants. Holthouse, Cal low & Co. n Orphans’ home board of the Rathburn Sisters and a Knights of Pythias committee decided, at a meeting held at Indianapolis, to purchase a farm for the location of a home for orphan children of members of both organizations. The home will accommodate 150 children, and will cost about $60,000. Seymour Webb, Moira, N. Y„ 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 A Co, n Twelve Lima saloon keepers, last Saturday started to serve their ten days jail sentence and are each to pay a fine of SSO for various infraction of the law. Stevens another saloon keeper, was given a fine of $75 and 30 days in jail and a Mrs. Boop was fined SIOO. Judge Cunningham passed sentence. 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 Bucklen’s Arnica Salve.” It's the world’s best for eruptions, sores and all skin diseases. Only 25c at Page Blackburn’s. n Someone has suggested that known anarchists be compelled to go out into the country and feed corn shredders. Well it would try their nerves to engage in this sort of work. The corn shredder is more dangerous than a modern battle. A greater percentage of those engaged in the work are killed or wounded than there is on the field of battle. 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 she had spent over SI,OOO and submitted to a serious surgical operation without relief. She used four bottles of Enk Preparation No. 39 and is entirely well. Sold by Holthouse. Callow A Co. and Nachtrieb A Fuelling, ts The state board of education at tl eir meeting last week considered alx ut twenty high schools. Arrangements were made to visit the high schools located in all parts of the state. The inspection will concern the teaching force, apparatus, sanitation, buildings and courses of study and will bo tl e most thorough ever undertaken in the state. Recommends it to trainmen. G. 11. Haiisan, Lima, 0., engineer L. E. AW. R. R., writes: I have been troubled a great deal with backache. 1 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 usually similarly afflicted.” Holthouse, Callow A Co. 11 It’s just as sensible to expect a crop of corn to plant itself, grow and finally land in the crib without the help of labor, as to sit calmly down and wait for the town to prosper without any effort. We will get just what we work for. It would be strange indeed if there were not some men in our midst who are willing to do nothing but float around in the pool of stagnation like leeches ready to fasten to the body of prosperity and suck the blood which they did not help to make. Don’t be a leech.

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 applied and five minutes later the pain had disappeared and no more suffering was ex perienced. In three days the child waji wearing her shoo 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 injuries without maturation ami in one third the time required bv the usual treatment. For sale bv Iloltlrmse. Callow Co. n

Everybody looks around before they buy, call at Hensleys. 37 5 Everybody was in town Saturday and candidates were conspicuous. Frank Lichtle has removed to Ham ilton. Ohio, where he will make his future home. 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 M anted We desire to purchase about twenty cord of good body four foot wood. Call on or address Charles E. Suttles, secretary. Decatur School Board. " ts 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 If oil operators have spent $16,000000 in the state and have taken out only $8,000,000 it is a good thing and should be encouraged. At this rate we ought to be able to break the Standard Oil octopus in the course of a few thousand years. 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 A Falk. n One cannot pick up a daily these days but he sees from one to a dozen or more robberies, followed in many instances with the murder of people attempting to defend their propertv and of the officers endeavoring to arrest the thieves. Nothing escapes the light fingered gentry. j When you feel that life is hardly I worth the candle take a dose of Cham- ; berlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets. They will cleanse your stomach, tone up your liverand regulate your bowels making you feel like a new man. For sale bv Holthouse, Callow A Co. n Loads of gold and silver are hauled through the streets of Cripple Creek daily and almost unobserved. But let a farmer haul a load of potatoes into that town, Decatur or any other town and dozens of people will climb onto the wagon to see his precious freight. 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 eases as long as there is life. We have plenty of cases where the patient has been eonfind to bed four and five months. Sold by Holthouse, Callow A Co. and Nachtrib A Fuelling. ts Mary Shaw.of Muncie, has appealed to the headquarters of the United States army at Chicago, asking that the Muncie boy, E. B. Harmond, be released, as she considers herself responsible for his desertion from Ft. Sheridan. It will be remembered that the young man deserted from the army post to attend Miss Shaw's birthday party on October 25th. 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. Price 25, 50 and sl, n A man at Anderson by the name of Clark believes that he has invented a gun that will shoot without the use of powder It is what is known as an electric gun. The inventor says that he can shoot as hard and far with his electric gun as anyone can with powder. A trial will be given the gun the first of December. If it proves successful it will revolutionize modern warfare. Notice to Wheelmen. We, the undersigned, do hereby agree to refund the money on a 25 cent bottle of Henry A 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 ex ternal application. Lady riders are especially pleased with Arnica and < til Liniment, it is so clean and nice to use. Twenty-five cents a bottle; one three times as large for 50cents. Page Blackburn. ts Muncie barbers have decided to “charge five cents extra for shaving masculine necks on Saturdays." The hardware merchants and other deal ers in razors are doing a rushing business. For several years Muncie barbers have been trying to raise the price of shaving from ten to fifteen cents. Each time this price was established it was followed by such a falling away in receipts that the barbers were compelled to restore the old price. Good Advice. The most miserable beings in the world are those suffering from dyspepsia and liver complaint. More than seventy-five jier cent, of the people of the United States are afflicted with these two diseases and their effects, such ns sour stomach, sick headache, habitual costiveness, palpation of the heart, heartburn. waterbrash, gnawing and burning pains at the pit of the atom nch, 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. Try it. Got Green's Prize Almanac. Page Blackburn ts

Now is the time to get your Xmas presents laid away at Hensley’s you can get the money afterwords. 37 5 Terre Haute makes as a claim for distinction the fact that a four-year old girl made and baked a pie. She got together the material for apple pie, rolling the dough etc. She past ed and clinched the top to the bottom putting the pie in the stove, watched it, and took it out when it was baked to perfection. 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 the cough too.” writes Mrs. S. Himel berger. “for three generations our family have used Dr. King’s New Discov ery 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 50c and SI.OO at Page Black burn’s. Trial bottles free. n Joseph Hennings, of Anderson, grand tyler of the Grand Lodge of Elks, will be a candidate, at the next annual meeting, at Sait Lake City, for the office of grand esteemed lecturing knight. "Joe” Hennings, as he is familiarly known over Indiana, has a wide acquaintance throughout the domain of the Grand Lodge. At Alilwaukee, in the 1901 meeting, he was unanimously elected grand tyler. Does Your Stomach Distress You? Do you have pain in the side, nausea, sometimes vomiting, distress after eating, belching, constipation, loss of appitite, dizziness, flatulence, moth patches, sluggish looks, pimples and a repulsive complexion? If you have any of these symptoms, you have dyspepsia or stomach disorder. The new discovery Bailey’s Dyspepsia Tablets brings quick relief, followed by a permanent cure. Pleasant to take. Price 25 cts., 5 forsl, postpaid. Doctors prescribe them. Sample tree. Made by Lakeside Medicine Co., Chicago. W. J. Bailey written on each package. Sold by Page Blackburn. There is a disposition among men to cling to the negligee shirt, though the season is here when good dressers are supposed to don the “biled” article. But the starchless garment has a big advantage in a point of comfort, and as but a small bit of it shows as men dress in winter, there is no good reason why we should not be comfortable though lacking in st vie. Greensburg, Pa., July 11, IS9S. About four weeks ago one side of my abdomen began to enlarge from a growth inside. It grew to such proportions that it seemed to till the alxlomen. Then dropsy began and swelled both legs and stomach to twice their normal size. The doctors called the trouble enlargement of the spleen, and told me I must die. I was removed from the hospital and sent for Dr. J. H. McLean’s Liver and Kidney Balm. I took seven bottles and continually gained and am well in every way. The dropsy entirly disappeared and left the growth very small. Michael O'Neill. For salebv Holthouse, Callow A Co. n Judge Brownlee makes a noval suggeston to reduce the number of divorces, He would have a law fixed SIOO as the lowest fee to be paid a lawver. Doubtless this would be pro hibitive in scores of cases where a divorce is secured for $5 or $lO. The time required for plaintiff to earn a f*e of that size might effect a change of mind and the dismissal of many cases.

“Pin Your Faith to Enk’s” T&CSfe ' O ' ‘ - • 'e k ± “THEY’RE GOOD.” DR. JOSEPH ENK’S HOMEOPATHIC PREPARATIONS Hit’ll class, twentieth centut v tncdicinen. tn.tnv vr.iis in advance of prevalent BytUlD • Seventy remedies for seventy different diseases. Baoh renedy pi edi . - sly for a tingle disease. Cure a greater proportion f <.l s th in the bt I pn%tit ima m their '• Cure < ailed • III< 111 all» ( .!• <■, after they are given tip by phvsiciant. We have reoorda of marvel ae cureti and the rrmediet create a sensation in all communities where they are tntrodut ed. ( ores are •peody and pennanont Prici • bring then within the roach of the poorest in purse. John A. Roscnbush, druggist of Union ( it. Ind., says: ‘ i have used the Enk Preparations personally and in my family f I m tl <■ 1.1 t three years with the most perfect satisfaction. We have many families here that rely npon these Preparations In all cases of sick ness. and they certainly get along with less trouble and expense than their neighbors who stick to the old methods." Ottl I’ miphlfi .. I to Hl 'lth. and** Treatise on Prh ite Diseases," free to all by mail or of druggists. MEDICINE CO., Union City, v r ,. 11 i'i nq>i>, <'ui|. w x- Co., and in. htileb & Fuelling.

i i ■ The furniture Business is no Side Issue HCRC. *T*HIS STORE is full and complete in every detail. No matter what your wants or needs are we are in a position to meet you more than half way with meritorious goods and low prices. Ready at all times to undersell our competitors, quality considered, no matter what they offer. If we haven’t in stock what you want, for a very small margin of profit we’ll get it for you. A comparison of prices and quality is fair that’s all we ask. We can furnish Aj a Rocker for.. sig 0 y or sell you one for $20.00 and have them at the intermediate prices and guarantee them equal to any the amount of money you pay us will buy. will stand lots of bragging. Here's thirty as handsome, well constructed. finely upholstered couches as were ever grouped together and prices as low as you ever saw them. Dinins Room furniture is right up to the top mark for style, finish and prices: Sideboards,China Closets those YICTOR tables are the only tables for convenience and beauty chairs at all prices and figures waiting to lie looked at. WE ARE MAKING BIG PREPARATIONS FOR THE HOLIDAY TRADE, Kcepvourcvc onus tor FURNITURE. i i H