Decatur Democrat, Volume 47, Number 27, Decatur, Adams County, 10 September 1903 — Page 3

I | doctor E. J. Beanislsy, II PraC,ite and SurflCrV - R , Attention given to Eye, Ear, ■ BUI ifroar Chronic Diseases. 8 * pxpcrt in Fittiag Glasses. ■ hiveauipped for treating Eye. Ear and Catarrhal cases. R I p .r rs; answered, day or night. K I ort' 1 ' ’V s’sF’ r eorMonroc and Ninth sts X-' !in atn - 2to4p m -

MKD'’ ----- The Zimmerman farm 1)0 acres, just east of town. For K rtieulars see Mrs. W. C. Fronefield, w. . 205d4wl city* HR Ti „ Fulleiikamp store has received ■ ca f load of fine rockers, which they HjH give to patrons. A ticket is K ifen P with every purchase, and a Hair given for a certain number of ■ jli-Artie Weldy has resigned H rr sitCn as assistant deputy aum accept another position. B, , Wl U>en in the auditor's years and was a H ost valuable assistant. Miss K„.,.v.-r- lias accepted the posiHon left vacant, Hrcv. Gnther went to St. Marys H)h„) Satuaday where he will oundv.' t mission services in the ,-,,ud ehureh. Themorn- - the Retormed church ■j :'y will be conducted by K. v ~, - .md the evening services • Cid of Columbus, <>.. will HA B.iu'icw opera house promoter ■ < ity Friday making ur-■m-teine'/- with D.-c.-.tur contrucW r , to bid on the job in the event the building was to lie conThe promoter stated here that he did not expect v bjtb m his home town as H- --- - ■ •--.-Tors have no cxper(Wt'ide one and two story Rlpildings. ■Smile people seem to think that He w> -tn .-tsare public proptin y can utilize them in any ilu-irable. Old boxes, boards. he placed along the side of >rro ts and n< i effort is made t > ,v.- lii’ in An some cases there K: excuses for this in others not. Mt any r.m the people should be have the same regard for HL”.” pr jierty as the would for Ho .• :.00, .rdi’iwl w ■ ? pliv "Wrong Made Right" ■ill very probably be given here the auspicies of the Tribe of Men Hur The management of the company has been in conferthe Ben Hur executive and it is probable the lodge will accept the com■^Rnr 'softer. They have asked the to hold over until Monday ■:.c will arrange several give positive answer. for the play have arand the printing will be finoffice in a few days, directors announce a second ’t- to,-. - .^Rfhe stit. tax board has sent due m to the auditor of the . vabiation of the railroad-. -■k-Tuph and telephone companies Adim- ■ .unty and according ■h.C 'of calculation, the A- Erie will have to pay valuat m of $365,125, Grand * Indiana $456,255, Clover ’? The Telegraph c<mi sß,oßo,American jS*spSone (.'onipany $7,773, Central *t.Citizens Telephone ■Hcyrnv sl).73<>, United States sl.Geneva $640, State Line $430. $1.2d0, The auditor will ?^R T ' r " -ipp. o-tj. . n these valuations different townships, which Lke o. w.cderable time and is a ,^R' J d remi’l jof) o f figuring to say 1,1 least. _ viewers on the Pete/ Hcdt--I'ditch peteition filed a volumH ,us Friday, which fifty. two pages they all belt!ie r type written or tabular of figures. The viewH n Were John T - A ult, John T. : '.’d v ' , -'tcr Pontius, while hflk acted in the capacity of '»^R IDeVr llaS t’ w “ n five weeks began their labors, and a> h’en a busy five weeks at The ditch as set out will be ‘‘H'r n and pi ° h tcnth miies ne^f '”.000 acres of land and in it' construction are 43" ° WnPrS ' R will traverse in °f Preble, Kirkland. Washington and Root 'P S ’ an, t taken all in all is the largest pieces of ditch ■ ever attempted in the , y te 'j f Their report will be pre0 fi*' 1 commissioners when next Monday.

The city treasurer is endeavoring to collect delinquent water rentlal, in accordance with instructions from the city council. Emanuel Tricker filed an affidavit Saturkay before ’Squire Smith, charging John Kihm with trespass. Kihm was arrested but the case was not tried that afternoon, owing to the absence of Prosecutor Moram A citizen of this city made the remark Thursday that many of our macadam streets were in worse con dition than the country roads. A little well directed work would put them in better condition and it is to lie hoped that something will soon be begun. The western railroads it is reported are about to inaugurate a two cent fare. If this comes about it will only be a short time until the eastern roads will do the same thing. Three cents a mile is entirely too much and it is hojied that a universal two cent rate is not far off. A peddler named Stevenson was arrested Wednesday and tried in Mayor’s court next afternoon. There was no serious charge against him and ho was locked up for safe keeping. The mayor gave him his freedom and he left the city. He was formerly connected with a paper at Monroeville. A new graft is being worked on the farmers over the different parts of the state. It is a man who has non-freezing stock tanks for sale. When a farmer buys one he is given the exclusive agency of several townships for their sale, without extra charge. The simple request is made however, that he signs three papers. The farmer signs and papers in a few days turn into notes. Negotiations for the locating the Keith’ piano player factory here are still on and with good chances of success. We are informed that a meeting ot the Commercial Club is to be held and a committee appointed to call personally on Mr. Keith at Chicago. It is beleived that with a very little effort the concern could be brought to this city. The benefits of such a plant are surelyknown to every intelligent Decaturite and it is ’to be hoped that the committee will be successful. The Dallas base ball team won the pennant in the Texas League this season by a big margin which was just contrary to what was expected. Dallas, finished with .667 per cent, winning 34 games out of 51 played while Corsianna the next best had a mark of .588. Fort Worth finished with .412 and Waco .353. Thomas Railing of this city was with the Dallas team this year and pitched the last regular game of the series. Dallas was pitted against Waco and won in a score of 4 and 3. In this game Railing let the opponents have six hits and he struck out seven men. Parents, friends, relatives, and ■ -‘t< 3sk idsv • searching tne entire city for Esther, the two year old daughter of Henry Koeneman. Esther has been wont to play near home, and has never attempted to venture very- far. But last evening she toddled down to Main street, and was carried with the crowd down Second street, and finally stopped at the Hendricks grocery on East Monroe. By this time Esther had been traveling three hours, it was long past her bed time and she was very tired. But when she started home, she could not find the way, and couldn t tell any one where she lived. Fortunately one of the searching party ran across her at this time, and brought her safely home. At the beautiful country home of Joshua and Mrs. Bright south-west of the city at 8 o'clock Wednesday evening, their daughter Dollie C., was united in marriage to Mr. John W. Panish of Washington township, this county, the knot being tied by Rev. Jas. A. Sprague of the Monroe Methodist church. The ceremony was performed in the presence °f a small circle of gut s s who after extending congratulations repaired, to a bountifully laden table. While the invited guests were enjoying the feast a multitude of uninvited freinds made their presence and felit i ous congratulations known by a hilarious outburst of discordant music? to the delight of all present—both outside and m. MrParrish and his bride refused the compliment in a gracious manner bv presenting themselves upon the front porch, where they treated the boys and received in return manyhearty hand shakes of congratulations. 1

I nclaimed letters are at the postoffice for B. Hilbon Cassel, Ira Baker and Miss Lillian Mars. The Presbyterian ladies will hold an exchange each Saturday during the month of September one door north of Everett & Hite for the benefit of the church. All kinds of home baking may- be procured. Your patronage and orders solicited. Open at 9:30 a. m. Miss Jessie Magley left for Detroit Thursday where she will enter a school of oratory- and voice culture. Miss Magley has attended the school before and recently secured a free scholarship to the 'institution by writing a prize essay which was published in a school publication. Forest Vail has been suffering for three weeks with a dislocated shoulder. He fell from a wagon sometime ago but upon examination, it was thought nothing was the matter with him. As he seemed to not improve, another examination was held showing his shoulder had been thrown out of place. It was set Friday and Forest is getting along nicely. Little is ever heard of Sockalexis, the first Indiana ball player in the National league , who several years ago, was a great attraction with the Cleveland bunch. After the brief period in which he shone among the stars, “Sox” was for several seasons all in. and now is said to be running a ferry boat somewhere in Maine, a stunt that one member or another of his family- have been doing for years. The home talent troupe which is practicing in this city will open at Bosse's opera house in a few weeks. The play- will probably be given under the auspices of some lodge or local club. Several of these are figuring with the management and the play will be given for the one offering best inducements. The play is entitled “Wrong Made Right” and will make a hit. The organization is now complete several out of town members have arrived this week. The first dress rehearsal will be held tonight. A Decatur citizen who has just returned from the west, speaks very highly of the prospects of the western country. Indian Territory and places in Oklahoma are increasing at an enormous rate. In one instance a town, seven years old has twenty five thousand inhabitants and twelve railroads. The country is an excellent farming country. a« the crops indicate, as nearly every farmer harvests two crops. The land is porous, and thus drains itself, the water never standing on the surface. Seven feet below one can strike water, and the cereals are able to draw water, this distance in case of a drought. At the home of Joseph Dailey one mile south of Steele, on Mondayevening at 7 o'clock occurred the marriage of his daughter Nannie i r . »!•:. .< • ■' • ’• ’*»< ;.<• •’ • * Ind. Quite a number of guests were present. A delicate luncheon was served in courses. The bride and groom were the recipients of a number of handsome and useful presents. The ceremony which was perfomed by- Rev. Jas. A. Sprague of Monroe, was the happy consummation of a college courtship. the young people having met and wooed while students in Purdue University. They will attend the same institution the coming year. The bride's many- friends here unite in best wishes for her while they congratulate Mr. Gates upon winning one of Adams county’s most winsome lasses. The board of directors of the Great Northern Indiana Fair have decided to make Wednesday, one of the best fair days, as children's day. All children under twelve years of age will be admitted free. The board have also decided to arrange for an educational department and to make it one of the best features of future fairs. On children's day this year they- will start the ball rolling, and appoint a committee who will confer with teachers and school officers, with a view of making cash premiums for the best work in Ihe different grades. This feature should certainly receive I the encouragement of every- parent, teacher, superintendent, principal and trustee, as it will nltimatelv result in good being accomplished. School officers-should take up this feature and help to push it to a successful te tioh - In to the fair everything is moving with precision, and from the present kutlook this year's exhibit will be the best that ever happened..

| Rev. Allen went to Genova Friday to attend the afternoon session of the U. B. church meeting and also to see several of his old school mates who are members of the conference. Mrs. Z. O. Lewellen of Monroe brought a box of luscious white grapes of the Niagara variety- co this office that look better and taste better than anything we have indulged in for some time. They were simply great and Mrs. Lewellen says they have a good lot of them. The people of Lafayette are going to put forth every possible effort to have the legislature of the United States open the Wabash river for navigation as far up stream as Lafayette. A joint convention will be held at Terre Haute Sept. 16 to outline the battle and a “boom train” will be run from Lafayette at the time to carry the up river enthusiastics. Frank Annon of this city is preparing to take the Civil Service Examination for the United States railway mail service. The civil service “exams” will be held in October and Mr. Annon will try at Fort Wayne which is the nearest examination point. In the spring Frank worked as weigher of mails for three months and so liked the work that he has decided to try- for a permenant position and no doubt will be successful. Mrs. M. Gilson went to Portland this morning where she will make a short visit with relatives. Mrs. Gilson has been visiting at Paragould Arkansas for several months and returned to this city only yesterday. She states that all the Decatur people who live in that locality are getting along nicely and like the place very- much. Mr. and Mrs. Mark McConnel who live at Cardwell, Missouri are contemplating moving to California but will visit in this city before leaving there for the far west. Henry F. Pohlman of Kokomo whose wife sued for divorce, has filed a cross complaint in the Superior court, in which he charges that she has been married eighteen times, and that to his positive knowledge she has four husbands living in that county, all of whom have been divorced from her within four years. He alleges that eight of her divorced husbands live in Ohj4. Pohlman says his wife is a “ professional ’ ’ in marriage business; that she will marry- a man, live with him for a time, and then seek another. The complaint also says that for four years the woman has been “an organized institution devoted to the purpose of getting herself married.” The Harris palatial car company was organized under the laws ofthestate of New Jersey last week with a capital of $1,000,000 for the purpose of operating a train of five rolling palaces between New York and San ments and conveniences that a Fifth Ave, hotel patron will not know he is out of New York if he doesn't look out of the windows. This five car train the company- purposes to build will be known as the WaldorfAstoria de luxe train. Its patrons will be kept exclusively by- the fact that the passengers will be booked from one end to the other in the best hotels in each city through which 'it p isses. The train will have everything from to laundry, and nothing a patron of the Waldorf Astoria can get by pushing a button will be lacking. Postmaster Brittson has prepared his report on rural routes for the month, of August and from the same the following facts have been gleaned: Route one, C. E. Dailey carrier, number of pieces delivered 5,423, collected 744, value of stamps cancelled $8.29. Route two, W. H. Engle carrier, delivered 4,829 pieces, collected 480, value of stamps cancelled $9.21. Route three, Ralph V. Bea her carrier, delivered 5,173 pieces, collected 773, value of stamps sll. Route four Henry W. Fuhrman carrier, delivered 4161 pieces, collected 354, value of stamps $6.70. Route five Mel Butler carrier, delivered 5,463 pieees, collected 672 value of stamps $12.85. Route six, Elmer E. Archer carrier delivered 4,304 pieces, collected 460, value of stamps $8.70. Totals—pieces delivered 29,353, collected 3.183, value of stamps cancelled, $57.75. Route number five again looms up with the best business in number of letters delivered and stamps cancelled while number three sent out the greatest amount of mail. Route four did i the least business. . |

TRAINING A LION. A Dnrin» Performance That Had a Very Simple Explanation. Not long ago a lion tamer who was exhibiting in a German circus in Holland attracted immense crowds at every performance by doing what seemed to be the most daring of acts in the lions’ cage. He would climb into the cage with great pieces of meat and throw it to the roaring beasts. The moment they had leaped upon it he would spring among them and put bls foot on it. The animals wotwd growl furiously, and then, just as the spectators were all waiting breathlessly, expecting that the beasts would tear him to pieces, they would shrink back cowed. After be had repeated this ex citing act for many days an Englishman made a wager with him for a big sum of money that he would not dare to do it after the Hons had been starved for three days. The trainer considered for a moment and then accepted the wager, making only the condition that he be allowed to have three weeks of preparation At the end of three weeks the trainer announced that he was ready, and the process of starving the lions began. The Englishman kept guards posted around the cage day and night to make certain that not a morsel of food should be given to the animals. At the expira tion of the three days all Amsterdam rushed to the circus. The lions were maddened with hunger, as any one could see and hear, for they roared continually, and their attempts to break through the bars showed how angry they had become. In the' height of the uproar the trainer entered the cage with an immense piece of beef in his arms. He tossed it on the floor of the cage, raised his whip and, 10, not one lion dared to approach it. The mighty brutes lay crouched, roaring and growling so hard that their great frames shook, and each kept his terrific yellow eyes fixed hungrily on the meat. But not one of them stirred. The trainer stooped, lifted the beef and tossed it to them again, and in a moment the lions were in a great tawny ball, rending and snarling and tearing, with blood from the mangled beef spurting all over the cage. The Englishman paid bis bet and then tried to find out how the lion tamer had acquired such wonderful control over his beasts. At first the man would not tell, but at last he consented to explain it. During the three weeks’ period ot preparation he had always starved the lions from the very beginnli’g. T'. m. on the fourth day, be would enter the cage with a piece of beef which had been soaked in kerosene oil. The lions would no sooner pounce upon it than they would shrink away, sickened by the stench. Then he would throw them a fresh and good piece of beef, which they would devour tn a moment. The lions soon became so accustomed to expecting that the first piece of beef that was thrown to them was not good that at the end of three days they would not even move from their corners when the trainer threw it on the floor of the cage. They would not try to eat anything except the second piece. So the daring trick had a very simple explanation.—lVashington Post. WHEN WOMAN PROPOSES. llethodH of the Hungarian Gypalev nn<l Burmese Maidens. In England leap year is supposed to confer upon the fair sex the privilege of choosing her life partner for better or for worse, but the custom is more honored in the breach than in the observance. The gypsies, especially in Hungary, enjoy and make a very extensive use of the right at all times in accordance with an ancient custom. Thus - land of the Magyars as soon as her heart is smitten takes good care that the smiter shall hear of the havoc he has wrought and have a chance of consoling her. With this praiseworthy object in view she has a love letter indited, places a coin in a piece of dough, bakes it and throws the cake and billet doux during the night into the bedchamber of her bridegroom elect. Then she possesses her soul in patience and awaits developments. The Burmese maiden begins her marriage campaign at a much enrilei In order to get together a goodly gathering of young men from whom to choose she places a lamp in her window at night-it is known as "the lamp of love”—aud entices all those youths who are candidates for the order of Benedict. In sunny Andalusia the peasant girl whose heart has been stolen by a stalwart young husbandman prepares a tasty pumpkin cake and sends it to his home. If he eats it—and the Andalusian girls take good care to make it highly edible—the pair are forthwith betrothed.—London Telegraph. Cleanliness and Arsenic. In Styria and Carinthia there is much arsenic eating among the peasants. The women take it to give themselves a good complexion and to make their hair fine and glossy. The men take it because they believe that it gives them wind in climbing in the chase after chamois. There is nothing of this sort in Cornwall and Devon. In Styria and Carinthia it is known that an arsenic eater can never be broken of the habit and that if arsenic be compulsorily kept from the eater death rapidly ensues. It is believed in the Tamar —and this is perhaps true—that an arsenic worker is fit for no other work. He must remain at this occupation. Health and breath fail him at other employments. Eventually it may be that chronic arsenical poisoning ensues. But this may be staved off, if not wholly prevented, by scrupulous cleanliness. by care taken not only to wash in the “changing house,” but to bathe freely at home. As one of the foremen saM to the writer. “Against arsenic the best antidote is soap taken externaliv.”

SIN GRAVEN UPON MARBLE. Warning to Thone Who Take Snnfl During' Worship. There is a quaint old parish church in T’lurien, Brittany, built in the early part of the fifteenth century and having, with many other primitive arrangements the bell rope from the belfry hanging- down from the roof of th* nave and dangling just in front of th« pulpit, so that the process of bell ringing is performed in full view of the congregation. But what was more peculiar was the projection at right angles from one of the walls 'also near the pulpit) of a sculptured hand and arm of full size as though held out from the shoulder by somebody built into th* solid fabric of the wall itself, and tb* hand opened and. palm upward and fingers extended, had a suggestion of appeal and solicitation which naturally provoked curiosity. As there was no inscription or anything to hint at the nature of the story that evidently lay behind the sculptured limb, I made inquiry of a charming old lady who was decorating th« altar with flowers in view of the next day’s high mass, and she told me that many years ago, in the faroff past, there was a wicked villager who went indeed to mass, but was far from devout, and on one occasion he so far forgot himself in the service on a hot summer’s day as to hold out his hand through the open door or window to an equally undevout friend outside for a pinch of snuff. The pinch was duly given, but St. Peter, the patron saint of the church, was so scandalized by sc terrible a want of reverence that he straightway paralyzed the arm of the offending snuff taker, who thereupon took to his bed and died, but not before he had admitted the justice of his punishment and had left directions in his will for setting up in the church of the marble reminder of his sin in order that all future villagers in Plurien might be warned against the terrible enormity of allowing any distraction to interrupt the devout hearing of the mass. It is a curious story and reminds one that there has been an infancy in religion as well as In most other of the great motive powers of existence.—Glasgow Herald SOME QUEER NOTIONS. Odd Beliefs About Animals That Were Held by Our Ancestors. Our respected ancestors had some queer notions in regard to natural history. Old Sir Thomas Browne, in his "Inquiries Into Vulgar and Common Errors,” discusses many of these. “That a brock or badger hath the legs on ons side shorter than on the other,” he says, "though an opinion perhaps not very ancient, is yet very general.” This belief was received not only by theorists, but by most of those who had daily opportunity to behold and hunt them; yet Sir Thomas could not accept this belief, because it seemed “no easy affront into reason and generally repugnant unto the course of nature.” Wherever he looked he saw that the limbs of animals on the opposite sides of their bodies were of the same length and number and that none of them had an odd leg. One would think that the question might have been put beyond cavil by simply measuring the limbs of the animal, but perhaps they never thought of that. The worthy knight, however, could accept the basilisk, though it does net seem that he ever saw one and did not question its power to kill by “inflicting its eye,” as old Dr. Parr would have expressed it, upon its enemy. And why not? “For if plagues or pestilential atoms have been conveyed in the air from different resjpjis. distance'mive in't'eiteil each other, it the shadows of some trees be noxious, if torpedoes deliver their opium at a distance and stupefy beyond themsenes, we cannot reasonably deny,” he says, “that there may proceed from subtler seeds more agile emanations, which contemn those laws and invade at distance unexpected.' But there was a limit to the credulity of Sir Thomas, and as for the generation of the basilisk, that “it proceedeth from a cock’s egg hatched under a toad or a serpent.” he thought it a conceit as muHStiOds as'tu* and Stream. PITH AND POINT. It may be hard to be good—it is not hard to be kind. Genius has always received more applause than money. Presumption lies at the bottom of much that we call success. It requires no strength of mind to be mean—-it does to be generous. True greatness lies not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall. Keep your business to yourself or some other fellow will keep it for you. The public is a baby, depending largely upon the nature of the indulgence of its nurse. The higher a balloon rises the smaller it looks, and is this not true of many ambitious members of society? Failure in life is not loss of capital or the catastrophe of a business venture. Such things are accidents that may happen to all.—Schoolmaster. DON’T GET ANGRY. Fire in the heart sends smoke in the head.—German Proverb. An envious man waxes lean at the fatness of bis neighbor.—Socrates. One of the very best of all earthly possessions is self possession - G. D. Prentice. The fire you kindle for yo?r enemy often burns yourself more than him.— Chinese Proverb. The envious man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water and yet thirsty.—T. Adams.