Decatur Democrat, Volume 46, Number 42, Decatur, Adams County, 25 December 1902 — Page 3

DOCTOR E. J. Beardsley, Central Practice and Surgery. „ . sneclal Attention Riven to Eye, Ear, S«eTbroa> and Chronic Diseases. Expert in Fittioq Glosses. «,»«ni»hlv equipped for treating Kye, Ear TbcroOK Throat rtn ,i Catarrhal cases. OALI-S answered, day or night. Of’FICE- over postotfiee. RESIDENCE— oor. Monroe and Ninth sts offlce Hours-'J to 11 a.m. 2 to 4 p. m.

for Sale Two brood rows, each w«h pigs by B ‘ Je - Juhuß Houk. 2t J Fred France of Huntington was a Sunday visitor with Decatur friends. For Sale Two Aberdeen Angus s.ll calves. Enquire of John HesS. 39 - 8 A Carnegie library was dedicated iD Few York on Saturday and there are 64 more to follow. Dr. Welbourn’s Anti-Bilious Pills, “the Pills that Does.” Blackburn & Christen. 28tf Dick Townsend of the Burt House was a business visitor at St. Louis the first of the week. Dr. Welbourn’s Crocus Lung Syrup. Sot merely a relief, but a cure. Blackburn & Christen. 28tf The minister may loose spirit and the choir may fight but his Satanic majesty never gets discouraged. Dr. Welbourn’s Pile Ointment. It cures to stay cured and we guarantee it. Blackburn & Christen. 28tf Jack Frost is now reminding usthat there has beeh an anthracite coal strike in this country. Dr. Welbourn’s Wheat Phosphate Iron Pills. Guarnteed in nerve troubles. Blackburn Ac Christen. 28tf If whiskey is man’s worst enemy, a jrreat many obey the command of the scripture and love their enemies. A kidney or bladder trouble can always be cured by using Foley's Kidney Cure in time. Holthouse Drug Co. d The laundry girls of Troy, N. Y., are going west to see if they can collar a husband. It is said that fully 500 will go on the hunt. Dr. Welbourn’s Queen of the Mead ow Tonic. It makes weak men and women strong to stay strong. Black burn & Christen. 28tf I have One Hundred Thousand Dollars 5100,000, to loan on real estate at 5j per cent interest. No commision. D. B. Erwin. ts Novelists long since learned that the only way to keep from spoiling a good story was to end the book when the hero and heroine got married. Examine our goods and if prices ! don’t prompt the sale and show our i interests to be mutual, your visit will be a pleasure to us that will be thanks fully received. Coffee A Mangold, Prop. 37tf For the sole use of honeymoon couples one of the Russian railway companies has built a special Pull man car containing luxuriously fitted dmmg, smoking, sitting and sleeping apartments. Have you backache? Do you feel tired? is your tongue coated? These are premonitions of liver and kidney troubles, and can be promptly checked by taking Dr. J. H. McLean’s Liver and Kidney Balm. For sale by Holthouse Drug Co. d Two weeks from next Saturday, December 29, there will lie offered for sale on the streets of Decatur, a five years old driving mare, sound in every particular. A credit of nine months will be given the purchaser. Barney C. Everett. 40-3 A colored woman threw the odds and ends of medicine left after her husband's death into the fire. The explosion that followed carried the stove through one of the windows. “Mos Pow ful movin’ medsin I evah saw’d," said she. “No wondah the old man gone died, , Report from the Reform School. J L. Gluck, superintendent, I’runtytown, W. Ya., writes: “After trying all other adwertised cough medicines we have decided to use Foley’s Honey and Tar exclusively in the West \ ir ginia Reform School. I find it the roost effective and absolutely harmloss. Holthouse Drug Co. d The Standard Oil Company advanc'd the price of coal oil in Indianapolis » cent a gallon due to the increase in demand owing to the use of coal oil for fuel in place of coal. The Stand an! OR Co. has just put out a large number of coal oil stoves and to this roay be attributed the main cause for advance in the price. Better than a plaster. A piece of nannel dampened with Chamberlain’s *am Balm and bound on the affect’d parts, is better than a plaster for a ‘atneback and for pains in the side or ' , ’st. Pain Balm has no superior as * liniment for the relief of deep-seat 'd- muscular and rheumatic pains. °r sale by Holthouse Drug Co. d Nothing slow about this. PhiladelPma street car builders are sending street ears all over the world. A frightened horse, running like mad down the street dumping the oc--1 tipauts, or a hundred other accidents j lr “ every day occurrences. It be•ixives everybody to have a reliable "alve handy, and there’s none as good w Bueklen’s Arnica Salve. Burns, -'•ts, sores, eczema and piles, disapP e “ r quickly under its soothing es ect. 25c, at Blackburn & Christen’s drug store. d

Ri Dr i bou ™’ B Ague ’ Fever and Blood Pills, lhe guaranteed malaria cure. Blackburn & Christen. 28tf Bert Mangold is at home from Indianapolis, where he is attending dental college. 6 Don’t be imposed upon by taking substitutes offered for Foley’s Honey and Tar. Holthouse Drug Co. d A great many people cannot be convinced that the world will continue to revolve when they die. Foley’s Honey and Tar positively cures all throat and lung troubles. Refuse substitutes. Holthouse Drug Co. j . A woman may be weak, fickle and simple but we must admire the way she bosses the lord of creation known as her husband. Dr. Welbourn’s Sweet Bugle. Instant relief for pains or gripings. All ciaims guaranteed. Blackburn & Christen. 28tf A bitter contest is raging in the German parliament over the question of protection to home industries. Dr. Welbourn’s Rose Ointment, instant relief in all skin diseases and effects a permanent cure. Guaranteed. Blackurn & Christen. 28tf Notice to Farmers. We are grinding chop at 2| cents per bushei or onetenth toll Grinding every day in the week. Cowan & Smith, Pleasant Mills, Indiana. 39-8 For Sale- Thoroughbred Poland China and English Berkshire swine, of large strains either sex. Bargains if taken soon. E. S. Christen, Monmouth, Ind. ts An agitation is in progrss in New York looking to a plan by which taxes can be reduced, The assessed value of real estate of that city is $3,330,647,579. A timely topic. At this season of coughs and colds it is well to know that Foley’s Honey and Tar is the greatest throat and lung remedy. It cures quickly and prevents serious results from a cold. Holthouse Drug Co. d Farm For Sale- An 80-acre tract of land, three miles southeast of town on stone road; 6 room house; good barn and outbuildings; good well; splendid orchard and vineyard: 60 acres under cultivation. Address. M. McC Stoops, Petersburg, Indiana. 41-2 A drummer for a St. Paul liquor firm gave a customer some samples of liquor and the state supreme court now holds him liable for disposing of liquor without license. Logically this would make it illegal to “treat” any person to liquor. Coughs, colds and constipation. Few people realize when taking cough medicines other than Foley’s Honey and Tar. that they contain opiates which are constipating liesides being unsafe, particularly for children. Foley’s Honey and Tar contains no opiates, is safe and sure and aud will not constipate. Holthouse Drug Co. d Osteopathy in Decatur at Burt House on each Monday from 8 a. m. to 3 p. m. Examination free. Acute and chronic diseases cured. Head office. Ft. Wayne, Ind., rooms 24, 25,26, Bass block, over First Nationalbank. Graduate of Dr. A. T. Still. Kirksville, Mo., and licensed by the State Medical Board. Nearly three years in Ft. Wayne with best of references. 4-ts An editor desiring the news, asked a man to write it from his neighbor hood and received this reply: “We have got two school marms aud the hog cholera and about fifty bushels of pot- toes and a tarnal fool who married a cross eyed girl liecause she had a mule and forty acres of land, and the same is your humble correspondent. To improve the appetite and strengthen the digestion, try a few doses of Chamberlain s Stomach and Liver Tablets. Mr. J. H. Seitz, of Detroit, Mich., says, “They restorer! my appetite when impaired, relieved me of a bloated feeling and caused a pleasant and satisfactory movement of the bowels.” There are people in this community who need just such a medicine. For sale by Holthouse Drug Co. Every box warranted, d A large number of motor omnibuses of a new type will soon lie upon Lon don strets? They are being built near Edinburgh for a maximum speed of fourteen utiles an hour. Sweden has decided to operate by electricity the 2200 miles of rail way which she owns. The electricity will be generated by water power, which is abundant in that mountainous country. Women aud Jewels. Jewels, flowers, candy, man that is the order of a woman’s preferences. Jewels form a magnet of mighty power to the average woman. Even that greates of all jewels, health, is often nnned m the streneous efforts to make or save the money to purchase them. If a woman will risk her health to get a Z"t«l gem, then let herfortify her self against the iusiduous consequen So'coughs, colds ami broueh-al affections by the regular us Dr. Boecbee’s German Cough Syrup, n will promptly arrest its twirlv uiml heal th * . imigs and bronchial lubes and drive the dread disease from the H S H ' ' . is not a cure all, but d■« « ; “ > cure for coughs, colds and bn chial troubles, you c® n Ket ble remedy at Blackburn* ten's. Get Green’s Special Almanac.

Dr. Welbourn’s Rheumatic Aegis. Works wonders. A trial will convince the most sceptical. Blackburn iv Christen. 28tf A system of pensioning railroad employes 13 to be established upon ad lines of the Southern Pacific. This effects several thousand railroad employes. Dr. Welbourn’s Coca Liniment. In tonsihtis, croup, neuralgia, burises, burns, frost bites, etc., its effect is ike magic. Blackburn At Christen - 28tf W anted at Once An ambitious and energetic man over 21 years of age to work himself up to a good salaried position with a 'argecompany. Answer in own hand w ting. P 6 Box 231, Decatur, Ind. ts Chicago bankers, merchants manufacturers and railway men in general disagree with James' J. Hill in his views of impending commercial trouble, I hey say the prosperity is likely to continue. A costly mistake. Blunders are sometimes very expensive. Occasionally life itself is the price of a mistake, but you’ll never be wrong if you take Dr. King’s New Life Pills for dyspepsia, dizziness, headache, liver or bowel troubles. They are gentle, yet thorough. 25c at Blackburn A Christen’s drug store. d The most crooked railway in the world is one from Boswell to Friedens, Pa., the air line distance being five miles. The road doubles on itself four times, and at one point, after making a loop of about five miles, the road comes back within 300 feet of itself on a grade fifty feet lower. Boy’s life saved from membranous croup. C, W. Lynch, a prominent citizen of Winchester, Ind., writes: “My little boy had a severe attack of membranous croup, and only got relief after taking Foley’s Honey and I ar. He got relief after one dose and I feel that it saved the life of my boy.” Refuse substitutes. Holthouse Drug Co. d The Blackford county jail official has been playing “freeze-out” with his prisoners during the recent cold snap, and there is talk of some of the unfortunates bringing damage suits for the misery they were subject to in the frigid apartments. A fuel scarcity was the cause of that state of things. The “wearies” all gave Hartford City a wide berth during the cold weather. Notice—We, the undersigned, do hereby agree to refund the money on two 25 cent bottles or boxes of Baxter’s Mandrake Bitters, if it fails to cure constipation, billiousness, sick-head-ache, jaundice, loss of appetite, sour stomach, dyspepsia, liver complaint, or any of the diseases for which it is recommended. It is highly recommended as a tonic and blood purifier. Sold liquid in bottle, and tablets in boxes. Price 25 cents for either. One package of either guaranteed to give satisfaction or money refunded. Blackburn & Christen, ts Micheal Stavroff, who assasinated Premier Stambuloff, of Bulgaria, has made a confession, saying he was hired to commit the murder by M. Ludikanoff. present premier of the interior. Fight will be bitter. Those who will persist in closing their ears against the continual recommendation of Dr. King’s New Discovery for Consumption, will have a long and bitter fight with their troubles, if not ended earlier by fatal termination. Read what T. R. Beall, of Beall, Miss., has to say: “Last fall my wife had every symptom of consumption. She took Dr. King’s New Discovery after everything else had failed. Improvement came at once and four bottles cured her. Guaranteed by Blackburn A Christen, druggists. Price 50c and SI. Trial bottles free, d Railroad managers estimate that the Canadian wheat belt in the far north-west will lie in a short time producing 1 ,<XX),OOO.(MX> bushels of wheat avear under the stimulus of ' projected railway construction. Don’t be afraid. So many people are afraid to use medicines that are ready for use, why this should be we are unable to say. Dr. Marshall’s Lung Syrup is a cough medicine that has been sold for twenty years, thous ands of people have used this and there is not the least danger in using it as this medicine is prepared from the best roots and herbs, known to medical science by competent persons this medicine is guaranteed a safety in all cases of coughs, colds, throat or lung trouble, it can Ire given to the smallest child without danger, and is very pleasant to the taste. Try it sold by dealers. Price 25 50 aud 51. d The “Billion Dollar Express,” as it is called, on the Morristown branch of the Lackawanna railroad, is one of the finest trains in the world. It derives its name from the large number of millonairs that ride on it. This is the season of the year when the prudent and careful housewife replenishes her supply of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. It is certain to be needed before the winter is over, and results are much more prompt and satisfactory when it is kept at hand and given as soon as the cold is contracted and before it has become set tied in the system. In almost every instance a severe cold may be warded off by taking this remedy freely as soon as the first indication of the cold appears. There is no danger iff giving it to children for it contains no harmful substance. It is pleasant to take both adults and children like it. Buy it and you will get the liest. It always cures. For sale by Holthodhe Drug Co. d

Bids were opened in the auditor’s office Monday for the construction of the George Ohler and Samuel Segrist ditches. The former was bid in by Calvin Miller for $590, and the latter went to Frank Davis for SIOSO. Both were the lowest bidder. Notice to Wheelmen. We, the undersigned, do hereby agree to refund the money on a 25 cent bottle of Henry At 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 fiOcents. Page Blackburn: ts Since the doctors told us that kissing makes people sick, we can account for the continual epidemic of fever among the young people here, there and everywhere. A thousand dollar's worth of good. A. H. Thurnes, a well known coal operator of Buffalo, 0., writes: “I have been afflicted with kidney and bladder trouble for years, passing gravel or stones with excruciating pain. I got no relief from medicines until I began taking Foley’s Kidney Cure, then the result was surprising. A few doses started the brick dust like fine stones and now I have no pain across my kidneys and I feel like a new man. It has done me a SI,OOO worth of good.” Holthouse Drug Co. d American locomotive builders are buying large quantities of steele in Europe. The nut and bolt manufacturers of the United States have made a $25,000,000 combination. Revolution imminent. A sure sign of approaching revolt and serious trouble in your system is nervousness, sleeplessness, or stomach upsets. Electric Bitters will quickly dismember the troublesome causes. It never fails to tone the stomach, regulate the kidneys and bowels, stimulate the liver, and clarify the blood. Run down systems benefit particularly and all the usual attending aches vanish under its searching and thorough effectiveness. Electric Bitters is only 50e, and that is returned if it don’t give perfect satisfaction. Guaranteed by Blackburn & Christen, druggists. d A single gas company in London owns over 130,000 coin feed meters, through which the public purchases gas by the pennyworth. Consumers are numbered by milliins, and they are increasing daily. Brain-Food for Nonsense. Another ridiculous food fad has been branded by the most competent authorities. They have dispelled the silly action that one kind of food is needed lor brain, another for muscle, and still another for bones. A correct diet will not only nourish a particular part of the body, but it will sustain every other part. Yet, however good your food may lie, its nutriment is destroyed by indigestion or dyspepsia. You must prepare for their appearance or prevent their coming by taking regular doses of Green’s August Flower, the favorite medicine of the healthy millions. A few doses aids digestion, stimulates the liver to healthy action, purifies the blood, and makes you feel buoyant aud vigorous. You can get this reliable remedy at Blackburn & Christen’s. Get Green’s Special Almanac. ts The South Carolina manufacturers have been adulterating baking powder and the government has found it out. They will have to rise and explain. Good Advice. —The most miserable beings in the world are those suffering from dyspepsia and liver complaint. Moro 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 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. Blackburn Ac Christen ts A new secret organization has been launched in Kendallville. The name of the society is the Fraternal Assurance Society of America. The headquarters of the society are in Fort Wayne. Cures blood poison, cancer, ulcers, eczema, carbuncles, etc. Medicine free. Robert Ward, Maxey s, Ga., says: “I suffered from blood poison, my head; face and shoulders were one mass of corruption, aches in bones and joints, burning, itching, scabby skin, was all run down and discour aged, but Botanic Blood Balm cured me perfectly, healed all the sores and gave my skm the rich glow of health. Blood Balm put new lifeinto my blood and new ambition into my brain.” Geo. A. Williams, Roxbury, face covered with pimples, chronic sore on back of head, supperating swelling on neck, eating ulcer on leg, bone pains, itching skin cured perfectly bv Botanic Blood Balm sores all healed. Botanic Blood Balm, cures all malignant blood troubles, such as eczema, scabs anil scales, pimples, running sores, carbuncles, scrofula, etc. Especially advised for all obstinate < ases that have reached the second or third stage., Druggists, sl. To prove it cures, sample of Blood Balm sent free and prepaid by writing Blood Balm Co.. Atlanta, Ga. Deacrilie trouble and free medical advice sent in sealed letter. • d

REPORT or CONDITION Decatur National Bank, Decatur, Indiana. September 15, 1902. resources: Investmentss369,ssl 75 U.». and County Bonds 55 151 00 Futures4.ooo 00 ™ange 92 ,466 28 T0ta1 5549,584 79 LIABILITIES. Capita1...........5100,000 00 Surplus and Undivided Profits 16 368 96 Circulation 95nno m $549,584 79 DIRECTORS AMD OFFICERS. P. W. SMITH, President. C. A. IH'GAN Cashier W. A. KtIEBLKK, Vice-President. E. X. hH INGEIL Ass't Cashier J. H. HOBROCk. D. SPRANG. J. B. MASON.

LIST YOUR , Farm and City Property WITH The Chas. F. Walter Real Estate Agency. LOCATED OVER - — Gus Rosenthal's Clothing Store

Robert Schrock came home from Crawfordsville Saturday for a holiday visit with friends. He is attending Wabash college and is getting along nicely. A glass or two of water taken half an hour before breakfast will usually keep the bowels regular. Harsh cathartics should be avoided. When a purgative is needed, take Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets. They are mild and gentle in their action. For sale bv Holthouse Drug Co. d Self-preservation is the first law of nature, and when you get full value for your money, it is a safe invest ment. Preserve your health with good warm underwear and get value received for your money in purchasing the same at “The Bazaar.” Coffee & Mangold, Prop. 37tf Do not commit the blunder of holding a slice of bread in the air to butter it. Break it into two parts if it is a large slice, and spread it there. Above all, do not hold it high in the air while eating it, as the gouges and teeth marks are not pleasing to the eyes of the rest of the company, donkey's Home Journal for January. Thet following are the list of unclaimed letters: Mrs. Kate Kind. Miss Myrtle Foughty, Carl D. Hazelton, A. Dix, Fay Grosser, S. S. Anderson, Miss Vera Andrews, Mrs. John Colchin, J. A. Biddiecome, Miss Lulu Chronister, J. A. Canden, Chas. F. Meyers, Della Miller, Jaue Patterson Daniel Patterson, Mrs. Perry Renners Mrs. Ed Swegart, Lew Weaver. Emma Robinson, F. E. Krick, Chas. F. Myers and William Walker. Remember that cresses, olives, rad ishes and celery are all to be eaten with the fingers. They should be placed on the bread-and-butter plate, not the large plate. Fish in this country is properly eaten with a fork, and a morsel of bread held in the left hand. In foreign countries both knife and fork are brought into service. For fresh fruit a silver-bladed knife should be used. Conkey’s Home Journal for January. How to prevent croup. It will be good news to the mothers of small children <0 learn that croup can be prevented. The first sign of croup is hoarsenuss. A day or two liefore the attack the child becomes hoarse. This is soon followed by a peculiar rough cough. Give Chamberlain's Cough Remedy freely a i soon as the child becomes hoarse, or even after the rough cough appears, and it will dis pel all symptoms of croup. In this way all danger and anxiety may lie avoided. This remedy is used by many thousands of mothers and has never been known to fail. It is. in fact, the only remedy that can always lie depended upon and that is pleasant and safe to take. For sale by Holt house Drug Co. d The /ltd-winter term of the International Business College, Ft. Wayne, Ind., begins Monday, January .sth. Write for catalogue. <5-a

Sore Throat! Don’t delay; serious bronchial trouble or diphtheria may develop. The only safe way is to apply ■PainkUkr a remedy you can depend upon. Wrap the throat with a cloth wet in it liefore retiring, and it will lie well in the morning. There is only one Painkiller, “PERKY DAVIS’.”

Special Notice. Please settle all accounts you may owe me, either by cash or note, by January 1, 1903, Dr. M. F. Parrish, Monroe, Indiana. 10 3 Low Rate of Interest. Money loaned at five per eent. in terest, payable annually or semi-an-nually, at option of borrower, with privilege of partial payments at any interest paying time. No delay in making loans. F. M. Schirtneyer, Decatur, Ind. 9tf DL'RHAM BI LLS FOR SALE. I have for sale five full blooded short horn Durham bull calves, one two-year-old, two yearlings and two spring calves. All are eligible to be registered and are high grade stock. Callon William F. Reichert, near Oak Grove school house. Monroe township. 41-3 Registered Short Horn Cattle for Sale I have a number of short horn eat tie extra fine stock for sale, and will dispose of them at a low nriee and on easy terms. I have more than I can take care of and you can get these at a bargain. The herd consists of bulls, heifers and calves, and I know if you want good stock 1 can please you. Call on or address J. P>. Corson, Decatur, In i.. R. R No. -. 111 f Ofllce Calender*. A very serviceable calendar has been issued by the Chicago A North Western R'y for the year 1903. The figures are large and easily distin guished, the days of the month and the consecutive day of the year are both shown; and the publication is of that solid and creditable sort which makes it desirable for business men and manufacturers Send four cents in postage to W. Kniskern, Passenger Traffic Manager, 22 Fifth Avenue, Chicago. To The Farmers of Adam* Countv. Bring in your corn. The following cash premiums will be paid by the firm, J. H. Hall, Son A Fulk. Real Estate Agents, rooms Nos, I and 2, t Studabaker Block, for Adams county corn brought to their office. For the best six ears of yellow corn. 12; for the second best SI. For the best six ears of white corn. S 2: for second best SI. Premiums to lie awarded Feb. 7, 1903. We have three men to judge this corn, their names in an envelope, sealed and deposited in the National Bank. 42-6