Decatur Democrat, Volume 45, Number 52, Decatur, Adams County, 6 March 1902 — Page 5

L. C. Miller was looking after business at Linn Grove Monday. .foe Winteregg of Berne was among the committeemen who were in session Saturday. The city primary will come off tomorrow and the candidates are hustling for the final dash. Judge Simmons of Bluffton returned home Frida” evening after holding court here for several days. Will Kunkle, the Bluffton oil mag nate was in the city Monday evening attending to business of importance. Court adjourned Friday night and attorneys and witnesses in the Jay county damage suit were at liberty from that time until Monday. Tomorrow is election day and the candidates are at work just at present, all hoping to win. Returns' will be received at this office tomorrowevening. • Mrs. Nettie Schrock has purchased the J. A. Smith property near the C &E. railway. The heuse will be remodeled and Mrs. Sekrock will take possession about the first of May. Mrs. Sallie H. Adams was nailed by government authorities at Muncie Thursday night on a charge of fraudulent use of the mails. Sallie is purely a Jay county product, having been raised on a farm in the east part of the county, and later taking up her residence in Ft. Recovery, Ohio’ and then in Portland. Her scheme has been to fleece the unsuspecting lovesick widowers by answering advertisements of parties wanting a wife. Surprise and deep regret were occasioned on the West Side and in the city this morning when it was reported that Mrs. J. D. Hoffman, wife of the well known Purdue instructor in the wood shops had died in a Chicago hospital. After an illnes of four years Mrs. Hoffman found it necessary to resort to an operation, which at first was apparently successful. For three days she battled bravely at the end of which time her strength seemed to give way. At 7:45 o’clock Sunday evening she passed peacefully away. Her husband was at her lied side when the end came. The deceased was a popular and widely known young woman, prominent in church and literary circles, and was an earnest and active member of the first Presbyterian church andtheChristian Endeavor society. Her remain were brought to this city today at 12:23 over the Monon and were taken to the family residence No. 132 South Grant street. Mrs. Hoffman is the daughter Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Peterson, of Albion Ind., she has a sister. Miss Jesse Peterson who resides in Montana and another Miss Nan‘Peterson of Albion. Lafayette Courier.

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Dr. Miles Porter of Fort Wayne was here on professional business r ndav. Lewis C. Miller arrived from Linn Grove, Saturday, in time to attend the democratic session. A Decatur theater party attended "1 he Second in Command” by John Drew at Fort Wayne last night. Many Decatur people have been vaccinated within the past ten days and more are thinking seriously of the ordeal. Col. M. B. Miller who two months ago suffered a fracture of his hip, was moved from Providence Hospital in Washington. D. C., to his old home in Winchester last week. While the mode of traveling was not his liking yet he stood the trip all right, and suffered no bad effects therefrom. He is yet and will be for some time to come unable to navigate at his own free will, however his ultimate recovery is expected. A dispatch sent out from Craigville last Saturday said: David Crum was caught a belt and his arm was nearly wrenched from his shoulder. Hie hand was badly mashed. He is one of the owners of a saw mill, known as the Crum, Beery A Cline. They were sawing timber on the Techauner farm, one and one-half miles south of Craigville, when he attempted to throw a belt and it caught him and done its ugly work. The reports circulated about the Blue Creek township macadamized roads are decidedly misleading. In the first place the contracts will be open to competitive bidding, and the lowest bidder who complies with the plans and specifications will be the successful bidder and get the con tract. His residence or where the stone may come from is a question that will not enter into the proposition. There is plenty of stone in Blue Creek township and plenty of contractors, too. and the roads can be built with less money than any roads in the county. Another thing that perhaps is not understood by every Blue Creek township voter, the roads were petitioned under the ten year assessment, and the law plainly states that no assessment shall exceed forty cents on each SIOO valuation. So if a landowner is assessed upon a SI,OOO valuation his assessment would amount to $4 a year or S4O for ten years. Figure these things out and the more your figure the louder will be the clamor for good macadamized roads. It is the best investment any farmer can make. Should the election result favorable to the roads at least one will be built this year and the second next year. Get in the band wagon and let’s make Adams county a regular net work of good roads and prosperous people.

The month of March was ushered in Saturday morning, and as it always furnishes a delightful variety of weather, it will be well to study the month as Parson Hicks sees it. The month comes in on the wings of a storm that will be accompanied by rain, sleet, snow, wind, and continuing for four days. For the next five days there is to be thunder and lightning, with warmer weather. The new moon on the 9th ushers in a storm period, and the people will be amused with thunderstorms and with downpours of rain and hail. This storm period is to last until the Kith. After a short breathing spell a reactionary storm is due on the 19th, accompanied by rain and snow, changing to cold. The storm period in which Boreas and the equinoctial powers will make one of the final and worst clashes is central on the 24th, covering the 21st to the 26th. There will be violent gales and storms, bringing snow and blizzards. Cold weather follows this storm period, changing to warmer as the month gives way to April with, her showers. Munster Eela. Many- of the islands of the western Pacific have in their streams and lakes large numbers of eels of immense size I which seldom are used as food by the i natives, who seem to have a horror of I the snakelike creatures. The eels of ( Strong’s island, one of the Caroline group, are peculiar in that they hiber-1

nate regularly and seek for their place ’ of hibernation the loftiest places which j they can find. These eels sometimes will climb mountains 2,000 feet high and select the summit as the place fcr their winter's rest. They select or make a depression in the soft, moss covered soil and tit themselves into it snugly, remaining for months at a time absolutely motionless and inert. Sometimes the eels are covered with moss or vegetable debris and at other times they are found exposed to view with their broad, flat heads doubled back upon their bodies. After their season of rest upon the mountain tops the eels wriggle their way down to the valleys and, plunging into the rivers and lakes, begin to feed upon the crawfish, for which crustacean they have a fondness which Is shared by the natives. These eels are excellent eating, but nothing will induce the natives to touch them, alive or dead. Familiarity Aids Sight. The exceptional powers of vision attributed to uncivilized men and to civilized men who pass their lives in the open air. supposing they exist, are eas-1 ily explained. They are only mani- ' tested while looking at familiar things which the supposed possessors of such sight have been long trained to see. The shepherd distinguishes ‘sheep where the town dweller sees nothing.

because tne one is accustomed to tue place and objects and the other not. The herdsman distinguishes cattle and the huntsman his prey because they are practiced and see little differences which perhaps they cannot describe, but which they perceive almost unconsciously. The sailor and the longshoreman detect what the visitor fails to see out on the horizon and will tell you of the peculiarities of rigging which enable them to distinguish one bout from another. Os course they ire used to these things and undoubtedly see more and also guess more than the casual observer. for in my experience they are not seldom wrong.—Popular AstronoFirearm. In Ruula. As an illustration of how closely everything is watched In Russia, take their system of registering firearms. When a weapon of any kind is purchased a permit must be secured from the local authorities. The name of the man who makes the purchase, with the number of the weapon, is recorded. If the purchaser ever wants to dispose of the weapen he must notify the authorities and cause the transfer to be recorded on the books of the flrm wfilch sold it. Historical “Bulls.” Grave historical writers are occasionally guilty of what are called “Hibernlcisms.” The following passage occurs in a popular history of France: “It is extremely doubtful whether

this prince. Merovteus. ever existed at all. but lie had a son, Childeric, whose existence is well authenticated.” The following is also from a historical work: “Like Samson of old. who. armed only with the jawbone of an ass, put LIDO 1 Philistines to the sword.” Her Lovely Lettuce Dish. “I want.” she said hesitatingly as she poised her basket in front of her pretty chin with a thoughtful air, “to get some lettuce.” “Yes'm,” said the marketman. “Here’s some: very nice it is too.” “Is it all that color?” “Why—er—yes’m. All lettuce is green, you know.” “Ob, of course! But. it’s too bad. I got a lovely blue dish to put lettuce in, but I’m sure green would look horrible in it. I never thought about there not being any shades, you know.” And as she turned away the marketman was almost sure he saw a tear of disappointment in her eye. ‘ Hi» Hope. “I hope,” said the serious man, “that you haven’t been betting on the races.” “I hope so, too,” said the young man with the red necktie and the restless eye. “I hope I will wake up tomorrow and find out that the whole thing was a wild dream, but there’s no use hoping.”—Washington Star.

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