Decatur Democrat, Volume 47, Number 20, Decatur, Adams County, 23 July 1903 — Page 3

■ 1.111- Ky — ■ ■■ — M 11.1 ■Y ■ — IM—RV? £ O-i, “ 'X"“ p "“ I Schafer Hard J ICO S1 | Can saye m °ney and still make I W3F6 COHipSfiy I I — —J the old house look like new. I we have the goods I

j Mr. anil Mrs. C. W. Colter. Mrs. 8 A J Smith and daughter, Midge, Knd Miss Mary Fonner, formed a Karty that will spend several days Kt Rome City. I Born to Mr. and Mrs. Frank MerKiman south of Steele, a big boy Kulj’ 17. All are doing well but Kran<lpa and grandma are nearly Krostrated as it is the first child. ; I Farmers of near Lebanon are coKperative by raising : h ‘ep. The flock K driven from one farm to another Ks-d in this way they always have Hresh pasture and get around just K'ften enough to keep the weeds I Priof. S. P. Langley of the SmithKonian Institution at -Washintgon Hias built an air ship at a cost of | 17(),000 which he believes will surKiount all difficulties heretofore encountered in aerial navigation. A Krial will shortly be made and the are anxiously waiting for the KKutcome. Mr. Langley is a man of and no doubt he has a maKhinc which will make America |||a’iious. I ■ The price of crude oil took a 2 advance Thursday afternoon * both the eastern and western making the price of the Indiana oil *l.ll per barrel. The IHlpward tendency of the oil market I It is believed will stimulate operaII mens in all sections of the Hoosier and start much new work. I ?■ ’ advance came as a surprise to | aost of the producers, but it is welnevertheless. I BMi-'. W. B. Wagers died at her I Ipme in’Wren Thursday at 11:30 of trouble. She was the <l,mgh■Sr of Amos Guilick of St. Marys j Bwnship and was thirty nine years, ■wi'k months and one day old. children have proceeded her ■ Heaven and three are still living, ■he funeral services were held ■mdav morning at 10:00 o'clock at United Brethren church at Wren, interment at Mt. Tabor. «... summer meeting of the In- ■ Mana Horticultural Society will be hfcld at Pe.nalton, Madison county. |Hdiana on Tuesday and yc<l.nea- | August 4 and 5. Programs have V'n issued and show that the meetM? is to be one of the best farmer Mnventions ever held in the state. Mted lecturers and specialists from Mover the the state have subjects Ml arrangements are being made ■ take care of the big crowd. DisAys of fruits and vegetables will Mmade and pfemium awarded.

I GO WEST! 100,000 Acres for Sale in Nebraska, N. Dakota, Montana and Washington. | Adapted to general farming, fruit growI ing and grazing. IMPROVED and UNI IMPROVED. Healthy climate; conveniI ent to schools and churches. EXCEL- | LENT RAILROAD FACILITIES and ■ good markets. Low rate railroad fare to I prospective purchasers, either one way I or round trip. I also have a few rare I bargains in ILLINOIS FARMS. Bor further information cajl'on or address f. M. Schirmever DECATUR, INDIANA.

The Holthouse Drug Company is I having the front of their Main street store decorated in silver and ’ gold colors. Such a combination makes a very attractive front and besides is something entirely new. The platform built from the side walk into the Big Store basement. caught fire Sunday night and for ! a time caused some little excite- ■ . ment. It was soon extinguished I however, by passers by. Smould-1 • ering coals from the old fire 1 > ignited the platform. Special G. A. R. train via Chicago ' 1 & Northwetsern railway.—Leaves | Chicago p. m., August 11th, for San Francisco; $50.00 for the ’ i round trip, Chicago to Los Angeles i and San Francisco. Correspondingly low rates from other points. Three trains daily through to the coast without change. Daily and • personally conducted tourist car ■ excursions. Write for itinerary, ilustrated folder and full particu lars. A F. Cleveland 2334 Superior street, Cleveland, Ohio. The building of the Decatur and ' Preble macadamized road progresses rapidly and before the year has gone it will have been completed. ! Stone is now being placed along the Fleming farm and the graders work east while the roadway is leveled up ahead of the grading. The big hill at Schurger’s which has been a menace to teamsters and the traveling public in general for many years has been cut down until it is scarcely noticed. The road has been straightened along the Wolbert farm. Though she was sick for four weeks, the report of Mrs. Harvey Segur’s death Friday morning wasa blow to everybody. Yesterday it was predicted she would recover, but there was a sudden turn for the worse and she died at ten fifty. A combination of brain and nervous troubles from what she had been suffering was the cause of her death. Mrs Segur was formerly Miss Florilla Burt and was married to Mr. Segur at Angola in 1878. Over • to this city, and she has been an < active church worker and highly i respected citizen ever since. She was forty nine years old last Wednesday. She leaves a husband and 1 four children. The funeral was i held from the Christian church, 1 Monday morning at ten o’clock, i with interment at Maplewood ceme- i tery.

Gold Fish Free with each one; pound package Climax Coffee. 17-4 j Decatur horses that were at Van I Buren were brought back to this city last evening. Martha Fox, Candlel Broom, Ben H., True Worth, Hazel' Pierce, Domineer and Guy E. were . in the bunch. Loch & Linn have on exhibition in front of their place of business . their large manure spreaders, I : These machines are a no velty and I the question “what are these” is i plied vigorously all day long. Benjamin F. Miller of Briant, Indiana was in the city on business I Monday. Mr. Miller is manager and owner of a private bank which i does a flourishing business in that busy little Jay county metropolis.: The Decatur uniformed rank K. of P. mustered in three more members I at Friday night’s meeting. The boys are making considerable progress, and in the course of time will be one of the largest and best disciplined orders in the state. A. J. Smith certainly has no kick on the wheat crop of this year. ; Friday he finished threshing, fifty acres of wheat securing nine hundred and fifty bushel from that area. This is however an unusual i showing for this year. A good time social will be given by the Epworth League on Friday evening in the lecture room of the M. E. church. There will be no charge and all the members and their friends are cordially invited to come and enjoy the refreshments and social fun. The general superintendent of the | Pennsylvania lines has started a new system by which the entire tonnage of a train may be calculated. At present tonnage is only estimated. For instance if an engine is of 2,000 tons rating, and a train made up in accordance this is considered the actual weight. But under the new system the tonnage of each car will be considered and a greater showing is expected. W. B. Reynolds returned from Vurinn. I called on account of the serious illness of his son John Reynolds. The latter, who is a derrick builder had been hurt on the hand and it was thought that gangrene was setting in at the time but such a serious turn was averted. Mr. Reynolds states that his son is improving rapidly and will soon again be able to return to his work. State of Indiana vs John J. Black. •.... ...... .. i» the only case Monday in Mayor Coffee’s court. It seems John J. started in to celebrate Saturday night, and was feeling hilarious when picked up by a night police. He plead guilty to the charge of intoxication, and was sent to jail to work out a nine thirty fine. He gave his name as Amos Houdeshell, and his home at Geneva. Harve Thompson a lad of about seventeen, filed charges against Harry Straub this morning for assault and battery and the defendant was fined fifty cents and costs, a total of about SB.BO, by "Squire Baughman. Straub unmumuringly paid the fine and then swore out an affidavit against Thompson for provoke, The case will be denied this evening in ’Squire Baughman’s court and it looks as though it would result tit for tat. NIGHT WAS HER TERROR. •‘I would cough nearly all night long,” writes Mrs. Chas. Applegate, of Alexandria, Ind., “and could hardly get any sleep. I had consumption so bad that ft I walked a block I would cough frightfully and spit blood, but, when all other medicine failed, three SI.OO bottles of Dr. King’s New Discovery wholly cured me and I gained 58 pounds.” ' It’s absolutely guaranteed to cure coughs, colds, la grippe, bronchitis and all throat and lung troubles. Price 50c and SI.OO. tri’a bottles free at Blackburn & Christen’s drug j

FROM July 15th to August 15th any thing we have in our store you BIG can buy NOW at a reduced p ice. We mean just what we say. Our stock is | the largest, the best selected in style, quality and finish, as you know we are the experienced dealers in our business, gl 4 44 which enables us to buy cheap and seJL JL 1 JLX lect onl y the BEST, well made Furniture that will stay together, the kind - you always did and always will find in j" 4 4Ji our store - P a y s t 0 bu y Quality at JL prices right. Call and be convinced as others have done. Do not forget the ’ I place, the “old place” opposite court ***3 I & I house. A NEW LINE OF GO-CARTS ————> I JUST ARRIVED now I L.Yager&Sons ON. | DECATUR, IND.

THE AVERAGE BRAIN. What It Weight anfl the Number oi Cells It Contains. Whether it be the brain cell of a glowworm or one trembling with the harmonies of 'Tristan und Isolde” the stuff it is made of is much the same. It is a difference of structure apparently rather than of material. And the chemical difference between a brain or nerve cell and that of the muscles or the skin seems reducible mainly to a difference in thg proportion of two sub- : V-■ "•• •. 'AeAYf-j b<>f, for example, is from 70 to 80 per I cent wateif; the brain is from 90 to 95 per cent water. And a brain or nerve cell may contain from five to ten times as much phosphorus as. let us say, tlie cells of the liver ar the heart. The actual quantity is of course extremely small—by weight but a fraction of 1 per cent. About three pounds avoirdupois of this veil complex pbosphorized stuff make up an average human brain. There is * lot more of it distributed down one's spinal column, and little wherever a group of muscles are to be moved, and others still, the sensory or feeling nerves, which are everywhere. It is hard to find a cubical half inch outside the bones where they are not. All told, the nervous substance, which for the sake of making its functions clear I have called the matter which thinks, forms a not inconsiderable por tion of the body outside of the bony skeleton. It is made up of distinct and separated units, for the most part extremely minute, though some attain a length of two or three feet. These units, for lack of a more misleading name, are called cells. The “cells” which run from the small of your back down into your legs and wiggle the same or inform you when a member of the family is stubbed, are the longest. Those of the brain are mostly so small as to tax the powers of the microscope. Their average length would be measured in thousandths of an inch. There have been many attempts to get at their actual number. It is certainly large. Computations for the bruin alone range from OOO.WXi.OOO upward. One. due. I think, to Waldeyer. sets the to'al number of brain cells (average) at 1,600,000.000.000. This would mean a brain population exceeding the known population of the earth. —Carl Snyder in Harper's Magazine. Moon SuperstltionxThe eclipse of the moon is full of portent to the Macedonian Mohammedans. It indicates bloodshed. It is met with reports of firearms, and the imams call from the minarets the faithful to public prayers in the mosques. This recalls in a striking manner t ie practices of many savfge and barbaric nations. The great ma- I

tions of Asia, sucn as tue ninuoos uuu the Chinese, still cling to the belief in the eclipse monster. The latter meet it with prayers, like the Turks. But even in civilized Europe, both anc\ert and modern, one finds numerous proofs of this superstition. The Romans came to the succor of the afflicted moon by flinging firebrands into the air. by the blare of trumpets and the clang of brazen pots. The superstition survived through the middle ages into a very late period. France, Wales and Ireland offer many instances as late as the seventeenth century. A Temple of Divorce. So long ago as 1250 the wife of a Japanese regent obtained from the government permission to rescue women, from the bands of cruel husbands. The means she took were, very simple. A new sect of Buddhism known as the Zen was just then being formed. In the temple of the Zen sanctuary was established for fleeing wives. When they wished separation or divorce from their husbands, they could claim protection under the wing of the temple. Cree across the threshold, government officials would not be allowed to interfere, still less the furious husbands. This “temple of divorce” was supreme umpire on matters of matrimonial disagreement. The practice of the “privilege of the temple” was maintained for over COO years. Facts About Animal Structure. The complexity of animal structure Is marvelous. A caterpillar contains more than 2,000 muscles. In a human body are some 2,000,000 perspiration glands, communicating with the surface by ducts, having a total len*t) of some ien miles, while that of the arteries, veins and capillaries must be very great. The blood contains millions of corpuscles, each a structure In itself. The rods in the retina, which are supposed to be the ultimate recipients of light, are estimated at 30.000,000. and Jleinert has calculated that the gray matter of the brain is built of at least 600,000,000 cells. The Anlmalw In Heaven. According to the Mohammedan’s belief. there are ten animals in heaven. These form the following strange menagerie: The calf offered by Abraham, the ox of Moses, the whale of Jonah, the ass of Balaam, the ram of Ishmael, the ant of Solomon, the camel of the prophet Salech, the cuckoo of Balkis, the dog of the seven sleepers and Al Borak, the animal which carried Movva to hocrrnH Anti-Golden Rule. “What are you going to do for the men who have put you in your present position?” "My dear sir.” said Senator fiorghum, “that is not the question. Prosperity is ■ attained by observing what people can

do for you, not what you can do for other people,”—Washington Star. Proof. “Old Swaddleford always pretends to be as deaf as a post, but I believe be can hear as well as anybody.” “What makes you think so?” “Nobody ever saw him walking along a railroad track in advance of a train.” —Exchange. f -. A Tired Brother. “What you gwine to do w’en you “Nutbin’ ’tall, but des’ crawl in en’ rest”—Atlanta Constitution. Difficulty is only a word indicating the degree of strength requisite for accomplishing a particular object. One sure way to tell whether a man is a crank or not is to draw him into a discussion. If he doesn’t agree with you, of course he’s a crank. The Vai] cottages on Seventh street are undergoing'a siege of repairs and in the end they are to come out the better with an addition of a porch. CLOVER LEAF EXCURSIONS. Two Personally conducted Excursions.—To Colorado, Utah and California are being organized to leave the first week in July and August. Very low round-trip rates and no change of cars from Ohio and Indiana points to destination. If you have not yet arranged for your summer’s vacation, write the undersigned for full information. G. A. A. Deane, jr., T. P. A. Missouri Pacific Railway, 200 Sentinel Building, Indianapolis, Indiana. San Francisico, Cal., Aug. 17-22, 1903.— National Encampment of the G. A. R. Very low rates. Winona, Indiana.—Special round trip tickets on sale every day from May 15 to September 26, 1903. Put-In-Bay, Ohio. July 27-Aug. 1, 1903.—’Knights of Columbuus Outing. One fare for the round trip. Pittsburg. Pa., Aug. 4-8, 1903.— Thirty-third General. Convention Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America. One first class- fare for the round trip. For rates, folders and full inf- relation regarding above excursions, consult nearest ticket agent Clover Leaf Route or address. C. D. Whitney, General Traffic Manager, Clover Leaf Route, Toledo, Ohio.