Decatur Democrat, Volume 45, Number 38, Decatur, Adams County, 28 November 1901 — Page 5

DOCTOR T&fr- E. J. Beardsley, General Practice and Surgery. Hut Speelul Attention (riven to Eye. Ear ty .se. Throat and Chronic Diseases. Expert in Eittiaq Classes. Thoroughly equipped for treating Eye, Ear Throat and Catarrhal eases CALLS answered, day or night. OFFICE—over postollice. RESIDENCE -oor. Monroe and Ninth sts Office Hours—9 to 11 a. m. 2 to 4 p. m.

Rock of Ages, opera house Dec. 2. We will lay anything away you want at Hensleys. 37 5 Dave Garber was building fences at Geneva last Friday. Will Miesse of the hotel Murray was quite sick several days last week. I have watches from SI .00 to $85.00 which will make you buy at Hensley’s. 30-ts Hear Dr. Foley of the State university at the opera house Friday evening. The great melo drama “Rock of Ages” will appear at Bosse’s opera house Monday Dec. 2. All the skill that the biggest bakery can bring to bear goes into the making of Fox’s “Forex” Butter Crackers. I have my stock of watches, clocks, jewelry and the finest line of gents and ladies rings in now that is handled anywhere. Hensley. 37-5 Illustrated lecture at the opera house Friday evening. Admission 15 and 20 cents. Seats on sale Friday morning. 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 We alwavs like to see people go up in the world, for there may be a chance for us to hang on behind and go up with them. We ought to get a chance to be elevated, for everything else is going up, and meat has ‘done got than” Geo. A. Points, Upper Sandusky, <)., 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 The small sum of one cent a day will feed a native Japanese, while $2.50 a month will keep is whole family, and yet we know of men at this place who get SSO per month who are always behind on their bills and who are eating up this month what they expect to earn next month. 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 & Co. and Nachtrieb & Fuelling. ts On Monday evening Dec. 9th. Rev. T. M. Guild of Huntington, will de liver his lecture “Observation Abroad” at the Mt. Tabor M. E. chruch at Bobo, Ind. Rev. T. M. Guild is well known as an able speaker, and the lecture is full of pleasing pictures of what he saw in Europe. The proetels will go for the benefit of the Epworth League. Tickets on sale at Smiths, Yager & Falk’s drug store. Admission 15 cents, children under eight years, free. The miner's bond in the Cripple Creek gold mine scene in Rock of Ages, is one of the most uniqe seen on any stage in many a day. It must lie seen to lie appreciated. The company will lie in Decatur on Monday, Dec. 2. It is a strong company and should receive generous support. Seats in advance at Holthouse, Callow & Co's, drug store. California-Oregon excursions every day in the year. The Chicago, Union Pacific and North-Western Line runs through first-class Pullman and Tour- ■ ists sleeping cars to points in Cali fornia and Oregon daily. Personally conducted excursions from Chicago to Sau Francisco, Los Angeles and Portland, leaving Chicago Tuesdays and Thursdays. Lowest rates. Shortest time on the road. Finest scenery. Inquire of your nearest ticket agent or write W. B. Kniskern, 22 Fifth ave. Chicago, 111. 33-10

| THANKSGIVING SERVICES. ! Today’s services will be held at 10:30 o’clock at the Reformed | church on .Third street and the program has been arranged as 2 C 5 i follows: 2 t? Hymn by the Choir Scripture Lesson ßev - Pontius Prayer Rev. Pontius S Anthem by the Choir Reading of the Proclamationßev. Hudson Herman Eiscourse • ■ Rev ‘ Aether Hymn 5 English Sermon Rev - Zechiel Collection for the poor C “My Country, 'tis of Thee.’’ Benediction Rev - Grether E aaragawffiWn n n mi jinjutStouiftnAiiAnjTiuwuuuuuinruuinjTjv'h

Rock of Ages, opera house Dec. 2. Everybody looks around before they buy, call at Hensleys. 37 5 L. G. Elingham was a business visitor at Mtaicie last Friday. Jacob Schafer was at South Bend ou business several days last week. A play that will please all “Rock of Ages ’ opera house Monday Dee. 2. Julius Houck was whispering in the ears of the Berne voters Saturday. John H. Runyon of Geneva was shaking hands with friends here Saturday. Opera house tonight. Thomas Dixon on “Backbone,” the world’s greatest lecturer. Our prices on our goods talk for themselves. Call and see how low prices are at Hensleys. 37-5 You can’t afford to miss “Rock of Ages ’ it is a play full of pathos, and the stage settings are fine. 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 Notice to The Public- We will start our mill at Pleasant Mills, Dee. 2nd. 1901. We will grind chop and meal at 2.1 cents per bushel until May 2nd 1902. Cowan & Smith. 39 8 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. Mordoff, Toledo, O. ts For the International Live Stock Exposition at Chicago, the Erie railread will sell excursion tickets on December 2,3, and 4, at the rate of one fare, plus two dollars, from all stations. Tickets good returning until December Bth. All tickets must be deposited with the joint agent at Chicago. For information, see agents. A witty bishop, getting out at a railway station which had a large brewery abutting, noticed the flag at half-mast, and inquired the reason. “The brewer’s grandmother is dead sir,” said the station-master, “and we all go into mourning as a compliment to the brewer.” “Ah, yes!” sighed the bishop, “so I see; even the barrels are in tiers.” The kangaroo walk is done for. It is now the “Picadilly,” and the girl who wishes to exhibit the Picadilly walk must square her shoulders, bend slightly forward from the waist and hold her arms curved like the front legs of a bulldog or the hind ones of a man who was permitted to walk too soon. Try it girls it must be just lovely. When a man goes after a newspaper legally, or when he wants to clean out the institution with fist or club, it is the safest wager in the world that he is guilty of the charge made against him. A sensible man and one with a clear conscience will reason with the publisher of a newspaper and get the retraction he is entitled to. —Garrett Clipper. “Tell them no, that I won t give them a d -d cent.” roared a man to his wife, this morning, and she obeyed him by writing the following: “My husband regrets very much that, owing to hard times, he is unable to help your worthy cause along. He begs you to accept his good wishes, and he will be pleased to donate generously another year.” The automatic stoker is the coming new utility. It will feed the coal itself and keep the fire evenly'supulied without the necessitv of open doors and cold air, roasted shins and singed eyebrows of the fireman. It is good for stationary engines or on locomotives. The Pennsylvania railroad is experimenting with it. All the fireman has to do is to keep the stoker pupplied with coal. .Many New Ca.ses. 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 b»«en cured where other iiiedicines 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

M. F. Rice was caring for lumber' business at Ridgeville last week. A play with a great moral “Rock of Ages,” opera house Monday Dee. 2. Charles Helm and Barney Kalver arrived home from Indianapolis Friday. Now is the time to get your Xmas presents laid away at Hensley’s you can get the money afterwords. 37 5 1 have decided to be a candidate for Recorder of Adams county at the coming democratic primary election, and take this method of Informing my friends. Harry B. Knoff. Notice All persons who are indebted to the late Jacob Fullenkamp estate are hereby requested to call at the store and settle their old accounts at once. Persons who do not heed this notice are hereby notified that they will receive personal notice through the mail. M. Fullenkamp. Watching the old year out at the little church around the corner. The quartette with “Rock of Ages” renders the now famous song “Nearer My God to Thee” in excellent style, this attraction will appear at Bosse's opera house on Monday Dec. 2. Advance sale now on at Holthouse, Cal low and Co’s drug store. The killing of half dozen or more hunters by fellow nimrods in the pine forests of Maine, the fatal shooting of ten and the wounding of sixteen during the first three days of the opening season in Wisconsin, and an unknown number in Minnesota, almost justifies us in classing the pursuit of game along with foot-ball, as a “dangerous or deadly sport.” The new American melo drama will appesr at Decatur on Monday, Dec. 2. Manager Bosse should be congratulated on securing such a strong at tractiom. The play is founded on the evils of drink, the plot is very strong, the climax exciting, the company is far above the average and with the pretty new scenery and novel mechanical effects makes one of the strongest dramatic treats at present traveling. How dear to our heart is that big load of elm that came to our door in the days long gone by. Its now that we miss it, because we don’t get it, and think of that elm with many a sigh. The big load of elm; that water-soaked elm; that brought many a swear from the editor’s lips, but now we don’t get it and how we wish for it as our office is cold and we’re catching the grip.

“Last winter an infant child of mine had croup in a violent form,” says Elder John W. Rogers, a Christian Evangelist, of Fillev, Mo. “I gave her a few doses of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy and in a 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 substance and may be given as confidently to a baby as to an adult. For sale by Holthouse, Callow & Co. n The state auditor is ready to make his November apportionment to county treasurers of the funds in his hands belonging to the permanent endowmei t fund of the Indiana University. The money thus apportioned is loaned by county treasurers in the same way the common school fund is loaned and interest upon it is accounted for at the semi annual settlements made by the counties of the state. The apportionment is made upon a basis of 6.8 cents per capita. 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 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 50cents. Page Blackburn. ts The complete novel of the Christmas Lippincott is by Louis Evan Shipman, Author of “D’Arcy of the Guards.” It is a genuine romance of Old France, in which a young Amer ican gentleman, as polished as his Gallic rivals, fights and wees by turns until he wins a gentle lady from the toils of a dark conspiracy against her fortune and freedom. The story breathes of chivalry and partrieian manners ami isas full of color and movement as if it were set on the stage. A young fellow in this city was talking tenderly over the telephone to his lady love the other Jay, and during the gummy conversation, he ar dently called her his “star of hope.” The object of his heart’s affections at the other end of the line, thought he said “bar of soap,” and grew very in dignant over the supposed rub, and told him that she would never be used to wash his socks and if that was what he expected had better look elsewhere for a “bar of soap.” Astounding Discovery, From Coopersville, Mich., comes word of a wonderful discovery of a pleasant tasting liquid that when used Ixtfore retiring by any one troubled with a bad cough always insures a good night's rest. “It will sixm cure the cough too," writes Mrs. S. Hitnelberger. “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 60c and fl .00 at Pago Black burn’s. Trial bottle* free. u

THE HARVEST HOME. THANKSGIVING IN OLD ENGLAND (N THE LONG AGO. Brinnlni; Home the Last Load of Grain — Soiiffs and Pranks of the Harvesters — Old Seottlsh Cnelomi. The Harvest Queen. In the old simple days of England, before the natural feelings of the people had been checked and chilled off by Puritanism in the first place and what may be called gross commercialism in the second, the harvest home was such a scene as Horace’s friends might have expected to see at his Sabine farm or Theocritus described In bis “Idyls,” says the Montreal Star. Perhaps it really was the very same scene which was presented in ancient times. The grain last cut was brought home in its wagon, called the hock cart, surmounted by a figure formed of a sheaf with gay dressing, a presumable representation of the goddess Ceres, while a pipe and tabor went merrily sounding in front and the reapers tripped around in a hand in hand ring, singing appropriate songs or simply by shouts and cries giving vent to the excitement of the day. Harvest home, harvest home. We have plowed, we have sowed. We have reaped, we have mowed. We have brought home every load. Hip, hip, hip, harvest home! So they sang or shouted. In Lincolnshire and other districts hand bells were carried by those riding on the last load, and the following rhymes were sung: The boil "ha do shake, and the bells do rinp, So merrily comes our harvest in, Our harvest in, our harvest in, So merrily comes our harvest in. Hurrah! Troops of village children, who had contributed in various ways to the great labor, joined the throng, solaced with plum cake in requital of their little services. Sometimes the image on the cart instead of being a mere dressed up bundle of grain was a pretty girl of the reaping band, crowned with flowers and hailed as the "maiden.” Os this we have a description in a ballad of Bloomfield's: Home came the jovial hockey load. Last of the whole year's crop. And Grace among the green boughs rode, Right plump upon the top. This way and that the wagon reeled, And never queen rode higher; Her cheeka were colored in the field And ours before the fire. In some provinces—we may instance Buckinghamshire—it was a favorite practical Joke to lay an ambuscade at some place where a high bank or a tree gave opportunity and drench the hock cart party with water. Great was the merriment when this was cleverly and effectively done, the riders laughing while they shook themselves as merrily as the rest. Under all the rustic jocosities of the occasion there seemed a basis of pagan custom, but It was such as not to exclude a Christian sympathy. Indeed the harvest home of old England was obviously and beyond question a piece of natural religion, an ebullition of jocund gratitude to the divine source of all earthly blessings. In the north there seemed to have been some differences in the observance. It was common there for the reapers on the last day of their business to have a contention for superiority in quickness of dispatch, groups of three or four taking each a ridge and striving which should soonest get to Its termination.

In Scotland this was called a kempIng, which simply means a striving. In the north of England it was a mell, which, 1 suspect, means the same thing (from French melee). As the reapers went on during the lust day they took care to leave a good handful of the grain uncut, but laid down flat and covered over, and when the field was done the “bonniest lass” was allowed to cut this handful, which was presently dressed up with various sewings, tyings and trimmings, like a doll, and bailed as a corn baby. It was brought home In triumph, with music of fiddles and bagpipes, was set up conspicuously that night nt supper and was usually preserved in the farmer's parlor for the remainder of the year. The bonny lass who cut this handful of grain was deemed the harvest queen. In Hertfordshire and probably other districts of England there was the same custom of reserving a final handful, but It was tied up and erected under the mane of a mare, and the reapers then one after another threw their sickles at it to cut it down. The successful individual called out, “1 have her!” "What have you?” cried the rest. “A mure, a mare, a mare!” he replied. "What will you do with her?” was then asked. "We'll send her to John Snooks,” or whatever other name, referring to some neighboring farmer who bad not yet got all his grain cut down. This piece of rustic pleasantry was called "crying the mare.” It is very curious to learn that there used to be a similar practice in so remote a district as the Isle of Skye. A farmer having there got bls harvest completed, the last cut handful was sent, under the name of goabbir bhacagh (the cripple goat), to the next farmer who was still nt work upon his crops, It being, of course, necessary for the bearer to take some care that on delivery he should be able Instantly to take to bls heels and escape the punishment otherwise sure to befall him. Well Itonsteil. All munmrr long the b.my.rd h«rd The turkey’e br.g .nd bnaet, And now they're clad that bumptiou. bird On all aldea get. a roaatt A Welcome Giieot. “Will you have any guests nt your Thanksgiving dinner, Mr. Cloverseed?" •'Well, I'vs saed a turkey.” — New lark Warld.

Equal Values Every cent of the dollar expended here for rzr ■ —J I ’b secure the equivalent in good leather and work, manship. This footwear is as fine as it looks No poor material or bad work in a single pair prices Xre erare ameaßinferior shoes ei C 8 e e Women's Shoes, Misses Shoes, Girlls Shoes, also a full line of Felts and Rubber Goods for winter wear at Lowest Prices. Guaranteed. John H. Mougey. I

Stores Will Close. The undersigned dealers in dry goods and general merchandise have agreed to close their places of business today at ten o’clock, and to remain closed the balance of the day on account of Thanksgiving. Niblick & Co., Keubler A Moltz, Kern, Beeler & Co., Charles F. True, M. Fullenkamp, Dave VanCleef. Notice to Hunters. Hunting is postivoly forbidden on my farm. Albert Spuller. 35-2 m For Sale. A farm of 174 acres, well improved, four miles east of Geneva, Ind., in oil field. Address, Jacob Miller, Decatur, Ind. 31t8 Low Rate of Interest. Money loaned at five per cent, interest, payable annually or semi-an-uually, 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 Attention Farmers. Decatur, Ind., Oct. 28, 1901. Mr. Atz has been authorized by me to sell and take orders for the Farmers Handy Gate in Adams county. No other agents for this county have legal right to manufacture or sell said gate in Adams county, state of Indiana. By order of Emil Bram, local agent. Spreads Like Wildfire. When things are “the best” they become "the best selling.” Abraham Hare, a leading druggist of Belleville, 0., writes: Electric Bitters are the best selling bitters I 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 amt bowels,purifies the blood .strengthens the nerves, hencecures multitudes of maladies. It builds up the system. Puts new life and vigor into any weak, sickly, run down man or woman. Price 50 cents. Sold by Page Blackburn, druggist. n How’s 1 his? We off. r One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of catarrh that can not be cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. F. J. Cheney <& Co., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by their firm. West A Trenv, whole sale druggists, Toledo, (), A’aiding, Kinnan A Marvin, wholesale drug gists, Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of thesystem. Testimonials sent free. Price 75c j>er bottle. Sold by all druggists. Hall's Family Pills are the best. n The residents of Hamilton county have, by the aid of the courts, stopped the work of constructing an electrical system on the Miami and Erie canal.! They aver that the company does not pi pose to run an electric canal line at al , but are building a railroad along the canal for the hauling of passengers freight and trains. This they say, is in voilation of their grant from the state board of public works, and that the board had no legal power to make such a grant. An alleged philanthrophist gives a I fortune to publish a certain book on hypnotism; another throws millions into libraries, but no Croesus seems to have the charity or wit to notice the millions of imperfectly nourished children who are growing up to stunt ed manhood and womanhood. Such philantrophy is largely egotism, and indicative of a desire to bo remember ed somehow, a form of vanity not so rank as that of the man who burned the temple of Minerva that his name might be remembered, but it surely is not virtue that merits apotheosis.

i Good Advice.- --The most miserable linings in the world are those suffering from dyspepsia and liver comI plaint. More than seventy-five per I 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 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. Try it. Get Green’s Prize Almanac. Page Blackburn ts The Indian and the Northwest. A handsomely illustrated book issued, bound in cloth and containing 115 pages of interesting historical data relating to the settlement of the great Northwest, with fine half-tone engrav ings of Black Hawk, Sitting Bull, Red Cloud and other noted chiefs; Custer’s battle-ground and ten colored map plates showing location of the various tribes dating back to IfiOO. A careful review of the book impresses one that it is a valued contribution to the history of these early pioneers, and a copy should be in every library. Price 150 cents per copy. Mailed postage prepaid upon receipt of this amount by \\. B. Kniskern, 22 Fifth avenue, Chicago, 111. 34-7

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