Decatur Democrat, Volume 45, Number 43, Decatur, Adams County, 2 January 1902 — Page 5

DOCTOR E. J. Bbardsley, General Practice and Surgery. Hat Special Attention given to Eye. Ear, Nose. Throat and Chronic Disetwea. Expert in Fitting Glasses. Thoroughly equipped for treating Eye. Ear, Throat and Catarrhal eases. CALLS answered, day or night. OFFICE—over postoffico. RESIDENCE—cor. Monroe and Ninth sts Offlce Hours—o to 11 a. ru. 2to4p. m.

Special shoe sale.-The Big Store. C. K. Bell and wife were guests New Years day with relatives at Lima, Ohio. The W. C. T. I', will meet with Mrs. Blossom next Saturday, January 1, at 2 p. tn. The up-to-date farmer will attend the institute here Wednesday and Thursday of next week. All-round printer, married, desires position. Address B. D. Holmes, 508 N. Martin street. Muncie, Ind. James Foreman as treasurer of tho Democratic County Central Committe was transacting business in this city Monday. Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Sutton, of Geneva, spent New Year’s day at the home of J. C. Sutton and wife in this city. For Sale or Trade I have some very good farms for sale or exchange. Also a list of city property for sale at a liargaiu. Money to loan at five per eent. P. K. Kinney, Stone Block, Decatur, Ind. 40tf If it is true that “if a man is treated well at home, he would rather eat at home and sleep at home and loaf at home than anywhere else.” there are a lot of husbands who belong to the henpecked brigade. The man with a fondness for the woman bereft of a husband should keep bis eye on the village of Buchan an, Mich., where it is reported, there are 117 widows, among them many who are young and attractive. A Wabash woman thus thanks an insurance company for the prompt payment of her claim: “August 9th last, husband took out a policy and in less than a month was drowned. I consider it a good investment.” An effort is now bting made to secure the appointment of Henry C. Hanna of Fort Wayne, to fill the vacancy on the Indiana Supreme bench. He is the brother of R. B. Hanna, the late lamented republican candidate for congies.man of that district. In the January number of the Review of Reviews, Mr. Thomas C. Martin tells the interesting story of the latest developments in high speed electric, locomotion, describing the famous tests at Zossen and the results of these experiments as already embodied in traction improvements planned and under way in this coun try. A veteran tobacco chewer, who is somewhat of a philosopher, recently said: “I have been chewing tobacco for forty-two years at the average rate of sls a vear. If I had put this amount at interest each year 1 would today have $4,000, or enough to buy a farm.” Strange to say he has not quit and his experience warrants the statement that he has spit away a farm. A dispatch from Warsaw to the Indianapolis News says that smallpox prevails to sueh an extent in Kosciusko county that it is feared before many weeks the country will be quarantined. The first case appeared in Sidney about two weeks ago and the disease has spread so rapidly that already there are twenty-six cases there with three cases in Pierceton and five in Packerton. “Within five years every farmer as well as every city resident will have his mail delivered at his own door,” is the statement made by Superintendent Machin, of tin- free delivery of the postofliee department. He also says that the rural free delivery system will then be in operation over an area of 1,000.000 square miles, and this will include all the inhabited territory in the United States. Manager Bosse will offer one of the pronounced successes of several seasons when the comedy drama. "The

American Girl," will lx* seen at his house Friday, Jan. 3. The piece is what may be termed a true type of the American dramatists liest efforts. The company, which is under the direction of Mr. A. Q. Scammon, is carefully selected and is headed by the versatile comedian. George F. Hall. The days of the "dizzy blondes” and “bright brunettes” are past. The people have discovered that the beet persons are neither pronounced bru nettes nor blondes, but just plain gray or brown eyed persons, with an ordinary complexion and indescribable hair. They are the best balanced mentally and physically, and are the most capable and willing. They average up better in all desirable respects than the extreme types. The woman who is a slave to the fashion plate is rarely over perfectly gowned, no matter how expensive her apparel may lie. There must be a distinct individuality in clothes to appear well dressed. A simple, inexpensive gown can have the appear ance of perfection in dress as worn by one woman while another with a gown that has cost many times more appears but indifferently clad. After all it is the individuality behind the dress that counts.

Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Cutting, of I Rockford 111., are guests in the city , of Agent John Jewell and wife. Half a dozen of Decatur’s sporty society young men are being liberally roasted by Bluffton boys and girls. They were here Thursday to attend I the dance, which was over at one o’clock. A visitor to the hotel later in the night found the boys, with one! exception, asleep in chairs in the writing room, where they spent four hours awaiting the morning train. The exception was unable to sit in a chair, and his companions secured a room for him. —Bluffton News. It is claimed that Indiana has the youngest delegation in congress. Major Steel is sixty, and the senior; “Jim Watson thirty-one, is the youngest and he has been there since 1896; Robison is forty: Brick and Hemenway, forty-one; Overstreet, forty two; Landis, forty-three; Cromer ahd Holiday, forty-five; Crumpacker, fifty; Griffith and Miers, fifty-three; Zenor, fifty-five; Senator Beveridge is thirtynine; and Senator Fairbanks ten years older. Congressman Steele has served seven terms (fourteen years) prior to this one. “The American Girl,” a comedy drama bv H. Grattan Donnelly, will be offered the patrons of Bosse’s opera house Friday, Jan. 3. The play has a wholesome moral in depicting the final triumphs of a pure American girl, insulted and persecuted by a villain, and her restoration to husband and friends from whom she has been | separated by his machinations. I Strong in situation, lively in action and carefully interpreted, the attraction should bring out playgoers in I force. Elmer J. Ray will offer at public sale at his residence, two miles west and one mile south of Monroe, commencing at 10 o’clock a. m , on Wednesday, January 15. Three work horses, brood mare with foal, yearling colt, two yearlings, ten head of slioats. 200 bushels corn, two geldings, spring | colt, four milch cows, three fresh soon, brood sow. 20 tons of hay. Terms Sums of $5.00 and under cash. All amounts over $5.00 a credit of nine months will lx? given, purchaser giving note with approved security. Good Advice. -The most miserable lx?ings 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 effects, such as sour stomach, sick headache, habitual eostiveness, 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 Ixvttle of August Flower for 75 cents. Two doses will relieve you. Try it. Get Green’s Prize Almanac. Blackburn & Christen ts

Notice On and after .lan. 1. 1602, there will be no more sittings made at Moser’s studio unless payment is made at time of sitting. No work will be finished unless payment is made in full. Under no circumstances will proofs allowed to leave the studio. Re-sittings on account of expression, hair or dress, will l>e charged for extra. These ruleswill l>e strictly enforced. This custom is being adopted in all the leading galleries of the state. We will do you good work. Thanking you for your oast patronage and a contin nance of the same, 1 remain yours, J. E. Moser, Photographer. 'Twas a False Alarm. I have used your Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin anti can truthfully recommend it. Some four years ago doctors told me that I had Bright's disease. 1 was laid up three months and nothing I used helped me and no food would stay on my stomach. I used one bottle of vour Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin and food would stay on my stomach, and I craved something to eat. I got well. There was no Bright’s disease alxjut me. It was a “false rumor.” Ever since I have recommended Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin to friends and strangers. It is just splendid. I have full confidence in it. Geo. F. Benedict, 639 West King St.. Decatur, 111. Sold by Smith, Yager & Falk. j An article which w ill prove of the widest interest to all those engaged in teaching or who may l>e interested in education, is one in" the January Cosmopolitan by Elisha Benjamin Andrews, ex-President of Brown University, who for the first time in a leadingmagazine, has had the courage to show the great evils resulting from the private contract school Irook system educational officials corrupted, school books often the poorest selected, and the prices paid by the children themselves of the highest an annual tax going up into the millions which could be very easily avoided if the proper organization were brought into this effort. Remarkable cure of croup. A little boy's life saved. I have a few words to say regarding Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. It saved my little boy's life ana I feel that I cannot praise it enough. I bought a bottle or it from A. E. Steele of Goodwin, 8. D.. and when I got home with it the poor baby could hardly breath. I gave the medicine as directed every ten minutes until he "threw up,, and then I thought sure he was going to choke to death. We had to pull the phlegm out of his mouth in great long strings. I am positive that if I hud not got that Ixittle of cough medicine, my lx>y would not be on earth today. Joel Demont, Inwood, lowa. For sale by Holthouse, Callow A Co. j

Before Inventory Sale! GENT’S CLOTHING AND FURNISHINGS. All single and odd garments left of our immense stock of fall and winter goods must go in the next thirty days, and positively will be sold regardless of original cost. Come early and share in the rare bargains. All goods are strictly up-to-date, and though low in price will please the most fastidious. Men’s fine black, blue and brown Beaver over- Men’s heavy camoas gloves - - - - fjc a pair coats, worth $7.50, go at - - $4.50 Men’s fine pure wool black and blue Kersey Alen ’ s beav Y fleece(l underwear worth 50 cents dress overcoats, all sizes, worth SIO.OO to goes at - - - 39 c > or 75 c a su it $ll.OO, goat $6.50 , r , , ~ , , Men’s heavy random mixed underwean worth Mens heavy all wool suits worth $7.50(0 2 k cents, goes at - - -15 c a garment SB.OO go at - - - - - $4.50 o s Men’s suits, left of lots that sold at SIO.OO to Boys all wool knee pants go at - 25 c P a i f $12.50, must go and will sell at - $7.50 Youth’s suits, odd garments, at less than cost. Men’s pants, your choice of a lot that sold up to $3.00, go at - - 75 c a pair Child-ien’s suits, the $6.00 kind, go at - $4.00 the $5.00 kind, go at - 3.50 Men’s pants, odds and ends, go at - SO C a P a ’ r the $4 and $4.50 kind, at 2.75 And down to - - - - 75 c Men’s heavy sweaters worth 50 cents go at - 40 c Equal reductions throughout the store. Strictly one price to all and your money back if you are not pleased. Call before the sizes are broken too badly and taj<e advantage of this greatest money saving. Gus Rosenthal, The Square TVlan, Decatur, Ind.

Greeting. Thanking my friends for their liberal patronage and good will in the past, and particularly in the past year, I wish you all a happy and prosperous New Year. Respectfully, Gus Rosenthal. A Card. Owing to the severe illness of my son, I have been confined to my borne for the last two weeks. The report has been circulated that I have withdrawn from the race for clerk. I would say to my friends that the story is untr le and that I will continue the canvas until the primary. Hoping soon to be able to get out and work, lam Yours Respectfully, P. J. Bryan. ______ A little child of Mr. and Mrs. William Welker, who reside in the west part of town was found dead in bed yesterday morning, having died from paralysis of the heart. Funeral services will be held this morning at eleven o'clock. “Some time ago my daughter caught a severe cold. She complained of pains in her chest and had a bad cough. I gave her Chamlrerlain’a Cough Remedy according to directions and in two days she was well and able to go to school. I have used this remedy in my family for the past seven years ami have never known it to fail.” says James Prendergast, merchant, Annato Bay, Jamaica, West India Islands. The pains in the chest indicated an approaching attack of pneumonia, which in this instance was undoubtedly warded off by Cham|s>rlain's Cough Remedy. It counteracts any tendency of a cold toward pneumonia. Sold by Holthouse Callow & Co. j

Th., name of H. Grattan Donnelly usually carries with it a suggestion of comedy or boisterous farce. In‘‘The American Girl,” however, which is to lie presented at Bosse’s opera house Friday January, 3rd. Mr. Donnely has constructed a play in which the comedy is second to the real interest, in which the farce element is evil. There are several exceedingly strong scenes, and there is a plot that maintains its interest until the last curtain. The story is that of a Virginia girl Jasmine Carew, who secretly married Philip Devon, an artist and who is st'perat.*d from her husband through the machinations of Sampson Goaft, who wants to tnarrv Jasmine. Two children, twins, are born, and the apparently deserted wife follows the husband to England, the villian Craft having foreclosed a mortgage on her home and forc'd her away. She struggled with poverty, but Finally finds husband and friends through the attractiveness of her children. Ros Bolter, an American hustler, and Twister, a precocious serving inaid who becomes famous as a music hall singer in London, furnish the comedy element, and assist in nntangleing the plot.

John Brown. On Christmas eve last, there passed away another father in Israel to be forever with the Lord. Another pioneer of Adams county departed from the scenes of his labors, from the home his faithful toil had provided. The church was deprived of a faithful member: the community of an excellent citizen, and a large family circle of a loved and revered father. On Sunday, December 22, John Brown fell at his doorstep, sustaining severe injuries. For a day it appeared that he might recover, but Tuesday he became unconscious and sank away and was gone in the evening hour. He had achieved the great age of 85 years. 3 months and 2 days. Mr. Brown was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania.’ He has been a resident of Adams county for some fifty years. His wife departed this life some two years ago. and one son and two daughters had died l>efore him. He left a multitude of descendants who almost filled one side of the church the day of his burial. There survive him eight sons, five daughters, fifty-one grandchildren and thirty-one great-grandchildren. His coffin was Irorne on the shoulders of his sons. He united witii the Presbyterian church of Decatur in 1861, and remained a faithful and consistent member of the same until the end came. His late pastor, the Rev. H. C. Duckett, says the kindest things of him and of his Christian character. Ho writes that he never saw Brother Brown but what he was happy in the Lord; that in a number of conversations with him, he found him to be perfectly orthodox as to scriptural doctrine, a Presbyterian in every sense of the word; that to his pastor he was as a father, always present in the house of God, ever ready with godly counsel. Mr. Duckett tells of their last interview, how they prayed together, read the Word, and how Father Brown, just able to sit in his chair, rose to his feet and blessed his pastor and his wife, as a father to a son going out upon a journey. Brother Duckett says of Father Brown that he possessed the mind of a little child in spiritual matters, just such as the Savior said everyone must be to inherit the kingdom of heaven. Father Brown’s funeral took place from the Presbyterian church of Decatur, Friday, the 27 inst., and was conducted by the Rev. Dr. C. G. Hudson, assisted by Rev. Begor. The interment was in the Decatur cemetery by the side of his wife. Having lived long and well, having faithfully done his duty in his generation, he has* now gone to his rest, that rest so well de served, so valiantly won. There may his sons and daugli era, his numerous descendants, his fellow church members, his neighbors all, meet him again in the Many Mansions.

Mrs. Mary Lligidricks of Geneva, visited relativeFhere last week.

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