Decatur Democrat, Volume 46, Number 26, Decatur, Adams County, 4 September 1902 — Page 8

Williams Elija Hodge is having his house painted. Jesse Roop Sundayed at Fort Wayne. John W. Hodge spent Sunday at Monroe. Miss Alice Riggs is visiting friends at Monroeville. Arthur Hubbs and wife are visiting friends at Fort Wayne. John Hey and family attended the picnic at Preble Sunday. Some fine logs have been shipped to Fort Wayne from this place. F. A. Laughrey Sundayed with John Urick and family of Monroe. E. Bigs and family were guests of his son, Amos Bigs, at Bluffton over Sunday. Henry Zwick has returned from a trip through Nebraska. He says the crops in that state are looking fine. Pleasant Hills Mrs. John Schrank is visiting her children at Toledo. Trustee Yager and family called on friends here Sunday. Mrs. John Myers is reported quite sick at her home west of town. Preaching at the Baptist church Sunday evening by the pastor, Rev. Scherick, Mrs. Will Cordua and son, Sundayed here with with her parents, D. B Roop and wife. Those wishing fine building stone should call on D. F. Morris. Prices are very reasonable. Mrs. Albert Boner left last Saturday for her former home at Cincinnati to visit relatives and friends. Mrs. Wm. Smith, Sr., returned home Monday from Muncie, where she was acting as nurse for several weeks. Miss Mary Fuller returned home last week, after an extended visit with relatives and friends in the eastern part of Ohio. Gilbert Thompson returned home Monday, after spending the summer with relatives in Ohio. He reports having had an enjoyable and pleasant trip. Miss Mattie Fuller entertained at dinner Tuesday a number of her girl friends. The occasion being in honor of her thirteenth birthday anniversary. Games and other amusements were the order of the day. and they all did justice in partaking of the birthday dinner. May she live to enjoy manv more more such occasions is the wish of her young friends. There seems to be a streak of bad luck at the stone quarry the past week, as two severe accidents have happened within five days. The first victim injured was Willie Conrad, the twelve year old son of John Conrad,

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by getting bis left arm entangled in a shaft, the arm is badly fractured and besides other bruises on the body, the escape from death was a narrow one. Dr. Vizard assisted by Dr. Miller of Decatur, reduced the fracture. The next injured was Charley Spoiler, who is employed at the quarry, while handling a large stone had part of one of his fore fingers severed entirely off. The boys are doing as well as can be expected. West Root. J. C. Evans was on the sick last week. Earl Butler was a business visitor at Fort Wayne Friday. John and Frank Mann Sundayed with relatives near Willshire. Several from this vicinity attended the picnic near Preble last Sunday. A. A. Butler was a business visitor at Fort Wayne Friday and Saturday. Miss Lydia Gresley of Hoagland, Sundayed with Miss Addie Ruckman. Several from this vicinity attended the teacher's institute at Decatur last week. The Evangelical Sunday school held their annual picnic at Fuhrman's grove last Thursday. Miss Alice Fisher of Fort Wayne, spent last Thursday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thos. E. Fisher. The Mt. Pleasant Sunday school attended the picnic at Monroe last Saturday and report a very enjoyable time. Earl Cudler and Olive Close were married at the home of the bride’s parents last Saturday evening by Rev. Corey, of Hoagland. Last Thursday evening at the home of Rev. Carey of Hoagland, occured the marriage of Mr. Martin Stalter to Miss Ada Fisher, both well known young people of this vicinity. The itemizer wishes Mr. and Mrs. Stalter a happv married life. Berne Bert Michaud was at Rockford. 0., Friday. Oscar Augesburger is going to high school. Barbara Neusbann has been very, sick this week. J. F. Lachot Sundayed at home: with his famdy. C. J. Egiy was a business caller at Geneva Tuesday. Dora and Huldah Sprunger spent i Tuesday in the country. Charlie Peterson, of Decatur, was a caller at Berne Tuesday. F. J. Heacker was the guest of Liberty Center friends Tuesday. F. M. Schirmeyer of Decatur was a business caller in Berne Tuesday. Rev. Beck, of Mt. Eaton, Ohio, was

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i the guest of Chris Stengle and family over Sunday. Kee Ryan of Fort Wayne was a caller at caller at Berne Tuesday. Gertrude Eley was married Satur- ' day evening to Mr. Mason of Geneva. Rev. Oaks of Fort Wayne held ’ quarterly meeting at the Evangelical ’ church Sunday. I Chris Egly and family returned home this week from Illinois where they had been visiting. , Albert Soldner returned home Saturday morning from Oden, Mich., where he spent the summer. A telegram received by E. T. Heacker from H. T. Scott of Grafton, ' Ohio, states that his father George Scott died Monday evening Mr. I Scott is a brother to Grandma Heaker. The Berne public school opened ■ Monday the teachers are as follows: , Mary Baumgartner, room one. Rosa Wittwer, room two. Rufus Soldner, room three. Florence Johnson, room four. Emma Byrley, room five, J. t D. Honidy. room six. Prof. B. A. Winans, room seven. There was a I large enrollment of scholars. ) Watt. The rain of Sunday evening was a . nice one. > E. F. Roth lost one of his fine cows recently. W. E. Miller has quite a sick horse ■ for some time. E. F. Both is still in the hospital at Fort Wayne. And now the farmer makes preparations to cut corn. Mrs. C. Stevens spent Monday the , guest of Mrs. McGill. Earnest Kruckenburg marketed hogs at Wren this week. John Woods is building a barn for Mr. Sandiford on the state line. Mrs A. Stindler accompanied by her niece Syloia Behz spent last week with triends at Fort Wayne. E'r these items appear in print the Van Wert fair one of the finest in the state will be going in good style. The little daughter of E. H. Lyons | had her arm painfully scalded by a I cup of hot coffee Saturday evening. Harrv Uhl.of Kendallville, was in; I our midst Sunday while here he was the guest of his daughter, Mrs. Lewis ! Grossman. Remember farmers that the Great Northern Indiana Fair is going to be by far the best fair ever held in the | state. Sept. 23 io 26. The German Luthern church gave a missionary Festival last Sunday. The sermon in the afternoon was preached in English and a nice purse ( was raised.

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Linn Grove. Nona M. Hoffuianun is visiting friends at Bluffton this week. Wm. Lindsey and son Raymond, of Marlon, are visiting at this place. Miss liarel Trees of Poling, is being entertained by Miss Nellie Hunt. I Several of our people attended the picnic west of Geneva last Saturdav. Miss Agnes Thompson of Decatur, is the guest of M. L. Kizer and family. Mrs. George Schlagenhauf spent a few days with her sister, Carrie at; Berne. Miss Sara Hoffmann and sister, Clara, Sundayed at their home at Honduras. F. A. W. Lindsey and wife paid a visit to to their son, Fred, at Geneva last Sunday. Eugene Lindsey has added a corn cutting and binding machine to his farm implements. Wm. Judd has moved his family to French township where they will reside permanently. Miss Lucy Hilty returned Monday from Beaver Dau, Ohio, where she visited her parents. Mrs. Clary Dunbar and Miss Lena Dunbar of Wisconsin, are vising their people at this place. Samuel Opliger and Peter Hoffmann made a return business trip to Decatur Wednesday. Frank 0. Lindsey and familv were guests of Mr. and Mrs Charles Fouts at Bluffton last Sunday. Richard Hunter of Bluffton, joined his wife who has been staying with her mother over Sunday. Mrs. M. L. Kizer is at Decatur at the bedside of her father, Mr. Bender, who is not expected to live. John Brvant of Marion, joined his wife here who has been visiting her people during the past month. Miss Nellie Neaderhouser has returned to her position at Bluffton, after a week's visit at her home. Albert Shepherd of Bluffton, visited Lewis Dunbar over Sunday. Mr. S. was bereft of his companion last week. Frank Haughton and wife spent Sunday at the bedside of Mrs. Haughton’s grandfather, Mr. Bender, at Decatur. Miss Cora Neaderhouser was at home over Sunday. She returned to | Bluffton Monday accompanied by her sisters. Nellie and Telso. Quite a number of Evangelical church adherents assembled on Tuesday and excavated the cellar for the parsonage. Ten of our young men headed by Bert Heller, organized a brass band on Monday evening. They will soon favor our people with their choicel selections. Levi Augsberger finding his 25horse power gasoline engine inadequate to run the machinery at his stone quarry, has exchanged it for one of 40-horse power. Rea! Estate Transfers Decatur cemeterv to L W Lew ton, lot, S3O. Andrew J Miller et al to W O Miller. pt sec 24, tp 25, rg 14, 30 acres, $llOO. R Sumption te M T Sumption, inlot 173 Geneva, SIOOO. John Lee to Wilson Myers, w J s e J sec 6. tp 27, rg 15. $3,300. Elmer Eaton et al to Geo W Knittie, pt sec 15, tp 28, rg 15, 1 ac, SIOO. Wm Roth io G W Knittie, pt sec 15. tp 28. rg 15, 1 acre, S9<JO. J Nye to C E Kuchanan, pt sec 34, tp 27, rg 15, 18 acres. S9OO. C M Franre to R B Grego r y, pt sec 19, tp 27, rg 15, 2 acres. S9B 60. E J Kinney to M J Vail, pt sec 28, tp 25. rg 15, 40 acres, SI6OO. E J Gard to John Piel, inlot 195, Geneva, SISOO. Nancy Ross to M A Hamrick, pt sc 34. tp 27, rg 15, 2 acre, $l7O. C A Friend to Rosina Murz, pt sec 4, tp 28, rg 15,40 acres. $2400. M Kirsch et al to Helen M Blossom i pt outlot 70, Decatur, $1530. . Wm Buck et al, to Wm Chrisman, pt sec 29, tp 25, rg 15, $225. — I nantlnfnotory. “You should bp a little more explicit i In your statements,” said the editor tc i the new reporter as he glanced over a ; batch of copy. “Here you say that ; the Hon. J. Edward Cashly. who has been under tne care of three pbysi- > clans during the past ten days, is now out of danger.” "Well, isn’t that plain enough?” queI Tied the new pencil pusher. “Certainly not.” replied the autocrat of the sanctum. "How Is the uninitiated reader to know whether the Hon. J. Edward is on the highroad to recovery or dead and out of reach of the j three physicians?”—Chicago News. Mot Quite So Painful. Teacher—What does the word celibI acy mean? Class—The state or condition of being single. Toucher— Correct Now. if you wantI ed to express the opposite of celibacy, j or singleness, what word would you use? A Bright F’upll—Pleurisy. A Difference. Marle-I have an engagement with | Cbolly and I don't know bow to get I out of It. Helen—Haven’t you nny reason for breaking it? Marie—Yes. 1 have a reason - Cholly I is the reason—but 1 want an excuse.— Puck. • “Your daughter tins bud a grent many admirers.” "Oh, yes! She puts nearly all her window curtains on the rods with her old engagement rings.”

| BETTY’S I j PRINCES"' » Ey TEMPLE DAILEY £ i> . * '► Ccpyricat. 1' 'W Tcmytc DcJrw *> The Martha Washington was an hour behind time. On the pier at Old Bay was piled a waiting cargo—coops of restless chickens, watermelons Vbose dark green rinds proclaimed their inner lurfciousness. barrels of vegetables and a disconsolate calf in a crate, which gave forth occasional complaining mentis, protests against the strangeness of Its position and its separation from its kind. Betty sympathized with the calf. She, too, was lonely. The only ether visible occupant of the pier was Pink Johnson. Pink was crabbing, and Betty wondered if it would be beneath the dignity of her position as a traveler If she went over and watched him until the boat came. On ordinary occasions she and Pink visited freely, but Pink had recognized an extraordinary event and with true negro instinct had kept his distance. Before Betty decided, however, there appeared just above the horizon a faint streak of smoke, then a dark body, which, growing larger, proved to be the Martha Washington. She came along slowly, throwing up a crest of white water in front of her and leaving behind a broad road of dancing, foam tipped waves. As she steamed up to the wharf many hands were ready to receive the lines thrown to hold her fast, for negroes of various ages and sizes rolled out from behind boxes and barrels, while from the ox carts on the shore descended lazy drivers, who lounged down to get the small stores which the boat would bring. Pink Johnson was on his feet, winding up his crab line. He threw the chicken bead which had served for bait back into the water. “Hit cert'n'y do seem a pity to was’e good haids," was his reflection, "but I’za got to he'p Mis' Betty Ma'shall on to dat boat, seein' she aln’ got no white folks dat’ll do hit.” He went over and picked up Betty’s satchel and lunchbox. “To waw’m fo' de cun'l. wasn’ hit. Mis’ Betty?” he questioned. “Oh. yes. Pink. Grandfather couldn't come. Some gentlemen called, and he bad to stay to talk over business.” Perhaps the "cun'l" might have had the grace to blush over the excuse he had given had he heard the trustful words, but as be was at the moment engaged in compounding mint juleps for four “gentlemen” who bad dropped in to discuss the merits of the new horse which was to be entered for the Pimlico races it is not likely that thoughts of lonely little Betty weighed him down. But Betty was net unhappy. This was the first great event cf her life. How it had come about she hardly knew, but "Cousin Mary Marshall” was to be married, and Aunt I.elir.. Betty's dead mother's favorite sister, bad written that the little girl was to come to the wedding. So Dilsey, Betty's mammy, had pack?d Betty’s simple white dresses and had promised to take good care of grandfather, and, with a kiss, Betty had started away in the old surrey. Upon her arrival at the wharf she had sent Calvin, the driver, home at once, that he might wait on the colonel's guests. Hence it happened that Pink Johnson was the only person to bid Miss Betty Marshall of the “Hall" goodby when she started on her first trip from Old Bay. To the man and woman, passengers from a famous watering place down the bay, who leaned over the rail lazilywatching the loading and unloading of freight, the Martha Washington appeared merely an old tub of a boat, but in Betty's eyes it was glorified. Betty knew every one on board, from Captain Warfield to the stewardess, for. while Captain Warfield was a Maryland man and the Marshalls were Virginians, still the captain's mother had married Colonel Marshall’s third cousin, and if that does not constitute kinship nothing does, at least in the opinion of these clannish and warm hearted southerners. As for the stewardess, she talked of Dilsey and Calvin in a tone which bespe' familiarity, while the unqualified respect with which she asked after Colonel Marshall showed the murks of certain pickaninny days, when the colonel was “Marse Bob.” It was supper time before Betty finished exploring the boat. Betty had a place of honor near the captain, and she answered his questions ami told him the news of her little community In the charming fashion and unconsciousness of self which are the inheritance of the well born child of the aouth. The princess watched the eager, sweet face from the other side of the table. She was not really a princess, but that was the name Betty had given her when first she came on deck. She was tall and fair, and there was something about her gown which was different from anything Betty had ever seen. It was straight and plain and dark, but there was n dash of bright color In her silk blouse, and Betty thought It beautiful. The gentleman with her Betty cnil (1 the prince. Ho wns very bandsome, but he looked tired, at least his eyes did. The princess looked tired too. or perhaps bored would be a better word, but Betty had not yet added to I vocabulary some words which the drenry experiences of muturer life make necessary. When they all went upstairs and out

on deck. It was growing d ark , . captain left Betty to Inrown’SS* ' so sac v ■ .. a; , ( i !v . • ''«S; | rail, i the res. mce in the foaming w ak ? : learner, which reflociiZ the : tae stars above. Betty called them’.? mermaids lamps. She was breathless over the rail, her euri, 1 ? 1118 with the spray and forg etfu i J*®* ehilliness of the evenfng-for Wavaletta walking through the i,Z beneath the waves, carrying ft above her head the lamp which light her lover, the Knight of Foamy Crest, to the cavern of th» monster, the Crab of the Deep, she felt a soft wrap folded about 2 and the pressure of arms that wZ withdrawn reluctantly. “Oh, thank you!” said Betty would you mind waiting just a min ,,, until I finish with Wavaletta?” “ Presently she turned to the prlncet, and told her all about it and that sb was sure the knight would eonauw the Crab of the Deep. 4uer "And then what will happen?" asked the princess. w 1 "Then the knight will marry Wavs letta.” “And then?” "Oh, they will live happy forCT afterward,” said little Betty. All of which goes to show that Betty was not a worldly wise little woman and that she still believed in love and many other things which it pleaset the world to call old fashioned, while many a w man with an ache in her hear wishes that the old fashion might become a new fashion and that she might have some of the sweetness of the romance and roses of her grandmother. Now, the princess was wiser than littie Betty, and she knew that in the great world there are other things than love and that to have money is a very great thing and to have name and fame is greater and that to have a coronet on oue’s note paper is the greatest of aIL So for a long time the princess was silent, and Betty thought she must be counting the stars, so steadily did she look up into the heavens. But the princess was thinking of a girl who had believed in fairy talesor.ee. And now this girl had been married three weeks, and she had married not her prince, her knight, but a title, an estate, a fine house and a position In society. For the first time she loathed It nil. In the quiet night beneath the stars. In the fresh, sweet presence of a little child, there came to her a longing for something beyond that at which she Lad grasped. Suddenly Betty spoke. “There comes the prince.” Then she laughed a little. "You see, I made a fairy tale about you too.” The woman turned and looked at the man coming up the steps. Yes, be was good to look upon, and he was good, and he loved her. She had not thought of it before Yon see, there had been the title and the estate. He stood there for a moment with the light from the saloon window shining full upon him, then came toward them iu the darkness and stood behind the princess' chair, tall, straight, indifferent. The princess rose and stood beside him. There was a light in her eyes, but the moon was hidden, and he could not see her face. The night was not dark to her, but glorious—glorious in the light of a new resolve. “This is Betty Marshall, Otto.” she said, “and you must thank her for entertaining me while you were away. She has been telling me a fairy tale. Would you like to hear it?” “If you wish.” “Well, a prince loved a princessIsa’t that it. Betty?" "Yes,” said Betty, “and the princess loved the prince.” The man laughed—a little bitterly. “That was only in a fairy tale,” be said. The princess protested. "No, no; listen. Otto. The princess did not know her heart at first, but afterward, afterward”— "Oh. you are telling it all wrong' cried a mystified little voice. But no one listened. “Afterward she found that love was the only thing in the world, and so"ller voice faltered. “And so?" questioned the indifferent listener. The princess finished breathlessly, “They lived happy forever after.” Iler hand rested on his now, and In the unusual action and In the gladness of her voice he felt that some change bad come to her. Then the moon enme out and he saw her face, and slowly over his own there crept a dawning comprehension, and when little Betty went sleepily to bed to be coddled by the stewardess and told tales of “When yo’ ma was a girl” she left on deck two people wh o ® fate had willed should be brought together by the faith of a little child in the sweetness and beauty of life. A 9ea«onable llemedy. A poor woman, understanding that Oliver Goldsmith wns a physician an bearing of his great humanity, *°' licited him by letter to send her something for her husband, who had 1"' bis appetite and was reduced to » most melancholy state. The goo* l n " tured poet waited on her instantly. « D after some discourse with bls put-*n-found him sinking with sickness a»* poverty. The doctor told the hone pair that they would bear from n" In an hour, when he would send t.»n some pills which he bellevCtt "" u prove efficacious. , , t He immediately wont home »» I ten guineas into a chip box , following label: "These must !>«■ ll * as necessities require; be patient a of good heart.” He sent bls . with this prescription to the com 1 ■ less mourners, who found it cont i a remedy superior to anything ’ or bls disciples could ever aduiiu |l!