Decatur Democrat, Volume 46, Number 23, Decatur, Adams County, 14 August 1902 — Page 5

Visit Soldier’s Home at Dayton, jug. 20, over G. R. & I. ninin? room girl and dish washer pa nted at the Burt House. Sneeial train over G. R. & I. to 4K,Aug.20,0n1y52.00. F L. Carroll looked after the grain si’nesa at his Monroe elevator Tuesay afternoon. S 2 300 for three days races at the iirabould bring the greatest bunch Morses ever seen in the county. y r 9, Charles H. Colter is still quite II but her condition seems consider'bjy improved over a week ago. j. \V. Thomas and wife of Winliuster. visited in the city over Sunay with Col. and Mrs. M. B. Miller. Mrs. Roy Archbold and eon, Richrd, left yesterday for a visit with her a r ents and other relatives at Waseon, )hio. Mr. and Mrs. E. X. Ehinger arrived om e Monday afternoon from a ten avs trip to Atlantic City and New 'ork. Dr. Oliver Milham and wife of .Chiigo, arrived in the city Monday for several days visit with R. D. Patterjn and family. Dick Haefling of Columbus, Ohio, ras the guest of relatives here over iundav. He is employed on the locking Valley railway. Lou Mailand came home from Men, Michigan. Tuesday morning, je reports the Decatur colony as beng in the best possible health. A representative of the Randolph ounty fair association was here Frilay advertising for this years meeting chich will be held next week. Dayton Steele was thrown from a iorse Monday evening and had his rm broken. Dr. D. D. Clark was died and dressed the wound. An ice cream social is announced o occur at North Salem church east if the city Saturday evening August 3. Every one cardially invited. The city band has reorganized with larvey Hart as director, and their lervices will no doubt be in great denand during the rest of the year. The Deering corn shocker was givin a trial on the Schafer farm Tueslay and is said to have worked like nagie. Quite a number were out to ice it operated. About a hundred Decatur people rere at Fort Wayne Monday to atend the big Wallace shows. They ay it is an even better attraction than when here last year. Robert Gregory came home Satnrlay (torn a two week’s camp at Long and Dallas lakes. He says he had the time of his life. John Smith, his lartner, will remain a month longer. Subscriptions have been paid this week by L. R. Blossom, Wm Baughman. H. S. Jackson, W m Frazier. Mrs. David Everhart, Lyda Meyers J B. Buhler, J. E. Roe, W. H. Martz, Richard Haefling, E. T. Walseh, J. M. Willie, James Ernst L. A. Jackson and J. A. Lindsey. Mrs. Matthias Schafer arrived home Tuesday evening from Denver. Colorado, where she has-been for the past two months. During her absence she also visited Hot Springs, Arkansas for several days. Her trip was a most enjoyable one and a profitable one from a health standpoint, as she gained over ten pounds in weight. Although it seems that the|big shows have declared a boycott on Bluffton, the little fellows are not so particular and thosh who do not help fight the battles of their bigger brothers are profiting by it. The show loving public are always in a half starved condition and a ten cent medicine show would draw a packed house. The man with nerve and capital enough to start an ojiera house can make himR df a snug fortune by taking advantage of the conditions. —Bluffton Banner. We are in receipt of an interesting letter from J. H. Stults of Longmont, Colorado. He says that in wme portions of that state there has been an over bundance of rain this .'’ear, while in others there has been scarcely no rainfall, and his section of the state belongs to the latter c as s. As a consequence the crops are abort and if rain doesn’t come soon People will suffer for want of water the rainy season which begins *o March of each year. An article i, lp P , * ( l th o Denver News, sa -, at the Longmount oil field is one of tbe best in the state. The Ohio Oil otnpany claims to have struck oil at ' depth of 870 feet and there is great witement, and the oil fever has brokn o,lt in good earnest at Longmount. : n ‘\??, an illness of forty-seven days ' ■ i l c “ typhoid fever was the prin‘!lctor but which was suppleti<n ,M Bevera l severe compliearno 8 ’ eQ ding in lung fever or double L ? mou,a ’ Chester Lewton died last a h°nt half-past seven, it onmlr most critical and «n o ?. lca . ca '”' that has come to,the fnr ’ On medical profession t rn „v? n - v r , a . day- Attacks of spinal all in r ?h t 8 di’W'ase. heart failure th,,‘J ) l’? are d but were overcome and Mti«r! \ ent rec overing in a highly iiia(l,,' lP a Ory " ay ' Monday lung fever filial, ltß both lungs timn a ? 1 n eat h resulted at the thirty u Ol ®bove. The deceased was broltan k y ” arß °ld an ‘l leaves a wanJi, ’' ar ‘**l w ife and baby. He town«h‘ M ° n W. Lewton, of Root Auditor Cn d r“ br ° thor of , Dt ’P ut - v t 'D' Dewton. At the time ths fun«Ji° pr ° HS arra ngements for probahi„ ~?? ro not complete but Saturday" 1 ,0 tomorrow or

Go to Dayton Aug. 20. $2.00 9 n ThG i bi s, e A eurßion t 0 Dayton, Aug 20, only $2.00 round trip. IhrVt’ *7 Sc hirmeyer returned last Tuesday from a short visit with relatives at \ an Wert, Ohio. eoXhouse b ‘“ in6 " "° Und th * Marriage licenses were issued this week to William H. Blowers to Opd 1 . Good, James Muter and Della M. Daisy BTv Or “’ Ge ° rge Wahr<?r a “ d A national school inspector in Ireland was once examining a class in geography, and having reason to correct an answer to a question regarding longitude, proceeded to ask fora definition of latitude. There was a slight pause, and a youg lad answered: we have no latitude in Ire land. The government won’t allow us any.’, J. J. W heat of Chicago, with a little box under his arm, conferred with Governor Durbin and other state officers Tuesday. He has been making some investigation of the peat beds in Indiana and he is enthusiastic over what he believes are the possibilities of development along this line. He is anxious that State Geologist Blatchly institute a thorough investigation into the extent of peat beds in this state. State Statistician Johnson reports plenty of rain in nearly all parts of Indiana, though in a few places crops have suffered from a drought. In Lobin township, Perry county, there has been no rain since July 2; in Orange county the crops have been “burned by drought? In Spencer county a correspondent says the corn has been “fired badly ” The state statistician also says that Indiana will have the biggest gcorn crop in her history. Marriages, births, divorces and deaths are all matters of appropriate mention in every well regulated weekly paper, but such mention is often absent simply because information is not given the publisher, but who gets the blame for their non-appearance? Show some interest in the wellfare of the local paper; get to the office such intelligence as the public generally are interested in, thus pleasing them as well as accommodating the publisher, who works for the public good. The editor is not übiquitous; he must and does depend upon friends to help him make an interesting paper. An exchange is in receipt of the following urgent communication: “I have wrote two stories and a poem in Person and would like to Sell or Trade the same to my interest. I will be bold to state that Money is needed by me for Necessaries of Life; but if no Spot Cash Sale can lie maid, I will be open to a Trade of some kind, to be concluded on mutual. I can write with great rapid ness at any time —day or night. I hope we can come to reason, and be Friends Ever Afterwards. Let me know soon as Money is needed by me. “I suppose,” said the facetious doctor to the carver of monuments, “you finish your gravestone as far as ‘ln Memory of’ and then you wait for someone to die?” “Yes,” answered the stone cutter with a grave smile, uncess they are patients of yours, in which case I keep right on.” “Now,” continued the doctor, “how do you correct your errors after the stones are lettered?” “That’s easy; a widow who trades with me got me to engrave on her husband’s tomb, 'the light of my life has gone out.’ When she married again we added, ‘but I have struck another match.” A story comes from Elwood to the effect that eight j-oung men, who de sire their names withheld for the present, have formed what they term a “Pall bearers’ club.” The idea was evolved from the difficulty to get men to earrv to the grave the remains of Alice Shaffer, who died recently, Pallbearers they say are difficult to get at any time, owing to the fact that hundreds of people shrink from such a duty. They will wear full dress evening suits of the latest approved pattern and will work in conjunction with the undertakers. A reasonable sum will be charged for their services. Some of the editors out in Kansas are passing the compliments of the season, as far as each other is concerned. This is the way in which a Wellington editor alludes to his loathsome contemporary: “In the filth of his surroundings, w-ith confusion, his fetid breath mingling with his degenerate thoughts, the tobacco juice dripping from his chops like froth from the jowls of a hydrophobic dog, his matted and unkempt hair hanging over bis hungry and eager countenance, his sunken eyes staring in sodden imbecility before him, his craven and liver-colored heart weak from a reclining breast-bone, this fool talks of respectability.” A storv of how Sir Walter Scott won from a schoolmate rival the coveted place nt the head of the class seems not to have been often told. Scott had long desired to precede his comrade but could not, the rival being versatile ami studious. One day Scott noticed that whenever a difficult question was asked his mate, the young man’s hand inadvertently sought a certain button on his waistcoat while his mind went in search of the answer. In an advantageous moment Scott severed the thread that held the button. The young num arose to answer a question, his hand sought the button. It was gone and with it his composure and answer. Scott stepperl into the breech and mastered by strategy that which he could not by industry.

1} AUGUST SALEFII - .iii.mmibii „ HmBI « J AT GUS ROSENTHAL’S. I a All goods in the store will be sacrificed to be moved and must I | go before the end of this month. All goods are strictly first-class 1 g and not the cheap kind purchased for special sales by some s | merchants. Here are a few of the many rare bargains- I I 65 Young Men’s Suits, Strictly first class, some too Young Men’s good all wool and worsterd I » all wool, worth $6.00 to $7.50 . .- . 53.00 suits, worth up to $9 go at .... $4,95 ■ a 50 Men’s suits, worth up to $7, go at . .$3.00 o v , t g 5 en , s sultS) worth up t 0 S JO gQ at $4 95 * g 150 Boys’and Children’s Suits, worth $1.25 xr , *1 * I to $1.50 75c each 40 Men s Al paca coats, worth SI.OO go at 1 I 25c each * ■ 20 dozen men’s fine dress shirts, worth 50c , * £ go at 30c each Iwenty-five doz men’s and boys caps warth ■ f 25 cents go at iOc each > ■ Ten doz men’s work shirts, worth twenty-five xr , r ,-rr 1 r e , W ■ „ 0 at ‘ißceach 250 Men’s fine stiff and soft fur hats worth from S ■ s ’ $1.50 to $2,50 go in this sale at . . . . 75ceach ■ 1 Many more great money saving values to make it well worth 1 I your while to see before buying; as your dollar will buy twice I | what it will elsewhere at : : : : : : : : ■ MN | THE SQUARE MAN. r DECATUR, INDIANA. |

TTal’s Thnnks. “My niece Mary was always a well meaning girl, but she would say tbe wrong thing almost every time,” said one cld gentleman to another, “and she’s got a boy that's going to be her very counterpart.” The old gentleman’s eyes twinkled, and his plain, good natured face was puckered with enjoyment as he drew from his pocketbook a small sheet oi note paper. “I sent Hal a toy monkey that plays all kinds of pranks when it's wound up,” said he. chuckling; “sent it to him for his birthday. Now, you listen to this letter of thanks 1 got from him today. He’s just eight years old; “Deer Uncle Neri—l am delighted with the munkey, thank you. He makes me think of you very often. And whenever mamma winds him up and he begins to jump mamma and I feel as if we were back at your house where all those toys are. and mamma will look at the toy and say. 'That’s your Uncle Ned all over.’ Goodby from your gratefull HAL” —Pittsburg Bulletin. Lake Michigan’s Water. Like Michigan has no visible inlet. Where, then, does it get its replenishment? From the Rocky mountains. Through rents and crevices, down into caverns at the roots of these mountains, pour ever the waters from melting snow. Four thousand feet they sink to strike a gravity incline that levels with their floor under Chicago. Under that city and elsewhere on the west side of Lake Michigan—this is the proved theory, theory as good as proved — the snow covered Rocky mountains are constantly sending their waters to supply flowage ami evaporation that are ever going forward in the watery expanse. * Charles Reade at Work. A friend once called on Charles Reade and found him sitting at his desk placidly smiling, while with great precision and deliberation lie inscribed ids thoughts on a sheet of foolscap in a large schoolboy text. He might have been writing n love letter, he seemed so happy. lie was in reality scarifying a “criticaster” in language that made his friend's hair stand on end.— London Telegraph. Appreh«m«lve. “Please, sir, I wouldn't go out today If I were you,” said the old landlady. “Why not?” asked the surprised artist. “Because a crowd of men were looking for you, and they said they were the hanging committee.” — Chicago News. A IJlftcrcnc*. Recently a girl in a public school was asktsl by her teacher to explain the difference between the words balance and remainder. Iler answer was, “You can say ‘a man lost his balance and fell,’ but you cannot say ‘a man lost his remainder and fell.’”

A TRYING ORDEAL. The Fattening Process of a Marriageable Girl In Tunis. The marriageable girl in Tunis has a trying ordeal to go through after her betrothal to the man not of her choice, but whose choice she is. She lias to be fattened to the required size before the ceremony can take place. As soon as the betrothal takes place she is taken to a room and there cooped up till the fattening process is concluded. Silver shackles are fastened round her wrists and ankles, and the task of her parents and future husband is to increase her bulk till her wrists and ankles till up the.shackles. If the husband is a widower or lias "discharged” his first wife, the girl has tile shackles of the first spouse placed on her, and she must fill them out. It takes a long time to do this as a rule, and sometimes it cannot be accomplished in spite of all efforts, it is then open to the future husband to cryoff the bargain or waive the condition. In the case of a bachelor he takes care to see that the bracelets and anklets are not too large—that is, if he is fond of the girl—but if he is being forced into the marriage by his parents, he Is a great for custom. Stout girls are the more quickly snapped up in Tunis.—Pictorial Magazine. Alexandrian Scientist.. Among the great scientists of the Alexandrian school, or, rather, mathematicians, were Pappus, one of tbe greatest of ancient mathematicians; Theon, and Ills unfortunate daughter, the famous Hypatia—who appears to have been a better mathematician than her father—the story of whose life and tragic death is familiar through Kingsley's novel. Unfortunately none of her works is extant. She was the last of the Alexandrian philosophers who attained any fame. She lived about 415 A. I». Not only is this o* university renowned for the Impulse which it gave to science, but it also extended its protection and aid to literature, poetry and the tine arts. For example, Ptolemy I’hiladelphus did not consider it beneath him to count among ins personal friends the poet Callimachus, the author of a treatise on birds, who honorably maintained himself by keeping a school nt Alexandria. Among the most distinguished poets may be mentioned Lycophron, whose work “Cassandra” still remains, and Theocritus, whose exquisite bucolics prove how sweet a poet he was. Fntol Worry. Hewitt—lt is worry, not work, that kills. Jewett—Thnt’s so, especially when a fellow worries himself to death because ho cannot get work.—Brooklyn Life.

FARM FOR SALE! We will sell on such terms of payment as may be agreed on, one hundred acres of land in section 26, Root township, Adams county, Indiana. This farm has on it a frame dwelling house, one stable and wagon shed, one barn, com-crib and wagon shed, one splendid well of water with steel windmill and galvanized iron tank, 80 acres under cultivation and 20 acres of good woods pasture. This sale to include two work horses, one set double harness, farming implements consisting in part of one Milwaukee binder, used two seasons; one mower, plows, harrows, two wagons, etc. Also fifteen head of cattle, consisting of one short-horn bull, eight milk cows, six spring calves.' Also eight acres of growing corn. All for 54,700.00 sold in thirty days. D. D. HELLER & SON, Decatur, Indiana. Decatur National BANK, Decatur, Indiana. Capitalsloo,ooo.oo Surplus 12,000.00 niRECTOMS -'MJ OfFICLRS I*. W. SMITH, President. W. A. KUEBLER, Vice President. C. A. DUGAN, Cashier. E. X. EHTNGER, Assistant Cashier. D. SPRANG. J. H. HOBROCK. JOHN B. MASON. DEPOSITS. July 23, 1*97 »U 15,013 77 July 14. W 1M.4H5 57 June 30. ISHH 272,130 4* June 29. 1900 299,432 *1 July 15' IWI 3H3.0H8 42 July 111, 1902 392,314 14 BEWARE! Os buying an American Clover Buncher of any one but NIBUCK&SUMMERS Sole agents for Adams county, as they are the only firm who furnish you repairs.