Decatur Democrat, Volume 48, Number 9, Decatur, Adams County, 5 May 1904 — Page 7

DO NOT DOfcE THE STOMACH £u re Catarrh by Natnre's Own Method.-Every Breath of Hyomei Brings Relief. Nearly every one who has catarrh k n OWS how foolish it is to try and cure it by drugging the stomach. Temporary relief may be given, but a cure seldom comes. Until recently your physician would have said the only way to cure catarrh would be to have a change of climate; but now with jjvomei you can carry a health giving climate in your vest pocket and by breathing it a few minutes four times a dav soon cure yourself. The complete Hyomei outfit costs but 11.00 and consists of an inhaler that can be carried in the vest pocket, a medicine dropper and a bottle of Hyomei. The inhaler lasts a lifetime, and if one bottle does not cure, an extra bottle of Hyomei can be obtained for 50 cents. It is the most economical of all remedies advertised for the cure of catarrh, and is the only one that follows nature in her method of treating diseases of the respiraory organs. The Holthouse Drug Company have sold great many Hyomei outfits and the more they sell, the more convinced they are that they are perfectly safe in guranteeing to refund the money if Hyomei does not cure. , Railroad Notes. Chicago to St. Paul Minnneapolis four daily fast the Chicago & North-Western Ry. The Overland Limited, solid train Chicago to Coast daily. Chicago, Union Pacific & North-Western [Line. Cheap one way excursion via IClover Leaf to al] California points (for $37.90 during March and April 1]904. T. L. Miller, agent. I $3.55 for round trip to IndianL polis via Clover Leaf April 25 and RS. account republican state conjvention. T. L. Miller, Ag’t. I Only 519.00 to Carthage, Mo., and beturn via the Clover Leaf route, May 117 to 23, account annual meeting Gerbnan Baptist Brethren. In addition to this the Clover Leaf will give passenlers a ten days’ stop-off at St. Louis ■o see the great fair. T. L. Miller, I&g?nt. ! On the first and third Tuesday of jvery month the Erie railroad will jell one way and ronud trip excurlon tickets to the west, northwest md southwest at very low rates, further information, call upon fcrie agents or write, C. L. Enos, T A.. Marion Ohio. I Humeseekers Rates from Chicago .1’ North and South Dakota. Every ■uesday until Oct. 25th, the Chicago Great Western railway will ■ell ronud trip tickets to poi its in |L above named states at a great ■eduction from the usual fare. For Bnrther information address J. P. ■liner, G. P. A. Chicago, 111. I Settlers Rates from Chicago to ■lints in Minnesota. North Dakota, Manitoba, Ontario, Saspatchewan »l Assiniboia. Tickets on’sale by B' Chicago Great Western Railway ■rery Tuesday in’MarctCand April. * r further particulars apply to B P. Elner, G. P. A., Chicago, ■ Through Pullman sleeping cars tc Bilifornia points via Iron Mountain rjute, leaving St. Louis 8:30 a. m. lv for Los Angeles via “True *uthern Route,” also tourist sleeping c irs on this same train for Los AnH des and San Francisco every Wed II today and Thursday. Beet winter r ute to California. For further inclination call on or address G. A. A. Jr., T. P. A., 200 Sentinel Big. Mdianapolis, Ind. ■The Chicago Great Western Railwill on the first and third Besday up to October 18, sell Mkets to points in Albera, Arizona, ■ Biniboia, Canadian Norh west, H Dorado, Indian Territory, lowa, H insas, Minnesoa, Missouri, Nebr ska, New Mexico, North Dakota, 4 dahoma, Saskatchawan, Texas, lah and Wyoming. For further H ormation apply to any Great M tstren Agent, or aJ. P. Elmer, G. Ma., Chicago, 111. beautiful map, valuable for Wf’ rence, printed on heavy paper, WfH inches mounted on rollers; Wed bound in clcth, showing M new island possessions. The Railway, Pacific cables, railway lines and features of Japan, China, Koorea and the Far Sent- in receipt of 25 cents in M»ps by W. B. Kniskern, P. T. in.

WAYS TO ADVERTISE. The Wise Man May Easily See Which Is tlie Best Method. If you have goods to sell, advertise. Hire a man with a lampblack kettle and a brush to paint your name and number on all the railroad fences. The cars go whizzing by so fast that no one can read them, to be sure, but perhaps the obliging conductor would stop the train to accommodate an inquisitive passenger. Have your card in the hotel register by all means. Strangers stopping at I hotels for a night generally buy a cigar or two before they leave town, and i they need some inspiriting literary foad besides. If an advertising agent wants your business advertised in a fancy frame at the depot, pay him about 200 per cent more than it is worth and let him put it there. When a man has three-quarters of a second in which to catch a train he Invariably stops to read depot advertisements, and your card might take his eye. Os course the street thermometer dodge is excellent When a man's fingers and ears are freezing or he is puffing and "phewing” at the heat is the time above all others when he reads an advertisement. Have thousands of little dodgers printed and hire a few boys to distribute them. You’ve no idea how the junk dealer and paper and rag man will respect you. A boy with a big placard on a pole is an interesting object on the street and lends a dignified air to your establishment Hire about two. Advertise on a calendar. People never look at a calendar to see what day of the month it is. They merely glance hurriedly at it so as to be sure that your name is spelled with or without a "p,” that's all. But don't think of advertising in a well established, legitimate newspaper. Not for a moment. Your advertisement would be nicely printed and would find its way into all the thrifty households of the region, where are the farmer, the mechanic, the tradesmen in other lines and into the families of the wealthy and refined, all who have articles to buy and money with which to buy them, and it would be read and pondered, and people would come down to your store and patronize you and keep coming in increasing numbers, and you might have to hire an extra clerk or two, move into a larger block and more favorable location and do a bigger business, but of course it would be more expensive—and bring greater profits.—Detroit Free Press. For Their Stomacha’ Sake. Sunday school treats must come round oftener in England than in the United States, for the dean of Bristol has included in his book. “Odds and Ends,” many stories of the hold of such festivities on the juvenile heart and stomach. The hand of a small boy wavered for an instant over a plate of cakes before he took one. “Thanks,” he said, after bis momentary hesitation, “I’m sure I can manage it if I stand up. Another boy. still smaller, who had stuffed systematically, at last turned to his mother and sighed: “Carry me home, mother: tut, oh. don't bend me!” The average boy in Yorkshire knows why he attends these feasts and does not relish being furnished forth scantily. A solicitous curate approached one who was glowering mysteriously. “Have you had a good tea ?” the curate asked. “No,” said the boy, in an aggrieved tone, laying his hand on his diaphragm “It don't hurt me yet.” Docks and Drakes. A schoolboy in Jewell City. Mo., vis assigned to prepare an essay on the subject of “Ducks.” and this is what he wrote: “The duck is a low. heavy sift bird, composed mostly of meat and feathers. He is a mighty poor singer, having a hoarse voice caused by getting so many frogs in his neck. He likes the water and carries a toy balloon in bis stomach to keep him from sinking. The duck has only two legs, and they are set so far back on his running gears by nature that she came purty near missing his body. Some, ducks when they get big have curls on their tails and are called drakes. Drakes don't have to set or hatch, but just loaf, go swimming and eat. If I was to be a duck, I’d rather be a drake every time.” It Was Just Possible. “I don't understand.” said Mrs Youngmother, “why it is that baby won’t go to sleep. Here I have been sitting and singing to him for the last hour, and yet he keeps crying and seems just as wide awake as ever." “Well,” said her husband thoughtfully, “I don’t know, of course, and perhaps I am wrong, but it may bt- that baby has a musical ear.” Where Man and Dost DiPftr. “Pedigree in a dog makes 1"..m valuable, doesn’t it?” “Certainly.” “Funny, isn’t it?” “What’s funny?” “Why, it's my experience that pedigree makes a man pretty darn near worthless.”—Chicago Post. Few Prayers. Yarn—Now. if all men would vote as they pray this would truly be a happy world. Dern—But if that should ever happen you wouldn’t get the average man to the polls once In ten years.— Catholic Standard. Their Good Offices. “I see they're advertising twenty-five cent lunches. What do they give you?” “An appetite for your dinner.”—Philadelphia Ledger. Chance is a word void of sense. Nothing can exist without a cause.—Voltaire.

QUEER OLD LAW. Eighteenth Century Edict Ajralaat Tobacco Chewi.f* In the code of laws passed by the towns of Windsor. Hartford and Wethersfield in the years 1738-39 may be found the following on tobacco chewing: "Forasmuch a-s it is observed that many abuses are crept in and committed by the frequent taking of tobaeko, it is ordered by the authority of this court that no person under the age of twenty-one years nor any other that hath not already accustomed himselfe to the use thereof shall take any tobacko until hee hath bought a certificate under the hands of some one who are approved for knowledge and skill in physicks that it is useful for him and also that hee hath received a lycense from the courts for the same. “And for the regulating of those who either by theire former taking it have, to theire apprehensions, made it necessary to them or upon due advice are persuaded to the use thereof, it is ordered that no man within this colonye after the publication hereof shall take any tobaeko publiqueiy in the streets, highways or any barnyards or upon training days, in any open places, under the penalty of sixpence for each offense against this order in any of the particulars thereof, to bee paid without gainsaying, uppon conviction by the testimony of one witness —that is. without just exception—before any one magistrate. “And the constables in the several towns are required to make presentment to each particular court of such as they do understand and can convict to be transgressors of this order.”— Pittsburg Gazette. HINTS FOR BRIDEGROOMS. Plenty of Ad-'ice For Brides, but Not a Word For the Men. A thoughtful young man of Washington was heard to decry the other day the fact that, while there is a deluge of “don’t” and "do” for the bride to follow, the bridegroom must shift for himself. "There is absolutely nothing to guide a man but his own awkward self. It isn’t fair,” he said. “From the time a girl is aid enough to detect sound she understands the importance of having things done properly at a wed ding, while the prospective groom is only something necessary to complete the picture. Nothing short of inspiration can get a man through a marriage ceremony gracefully. “In order to impress the bride and spectators that be is enthusiastic about it he appears with a sort of frozen grin on his face that you expect to melt at any moment and run down his collar. If he is too frightened to respond in a loud voice some of the bride's gir! friends will whisper that ’it was plainly evident he was unwilling from the start.’ Again, if he replies in a loud, stern voice another bunch in another direction of the church will huddle together and express how glad they are that they are not marrying him, while the attitude of many is that they are signing away their life and all worth living for. So I, for one, think it high time that somebody wrote a few hints on how to behave, that we men may appear enthusiastic about being mar tied without being ridiculous.”—Wash ington Post. Ancient Jewelers* Association. Birmingham jewelers have been famed since the middle of the seventeenth century. When Charles 11. brought with him to England the French fashion of wearing metallic ornaments Birmingham at once took the lead in supplying them, and the city then commenced a career of pros perity which has never save for brief periods suffered abatement. Even Southey, who could scarcely find sutfi ciently censorious language to describe Birmingham, allowed that it "excelled every other place in the world for watch chains, necklaces, bracelets, buttons, buckles and snuffboxes.” though, he said, "they were dearly purchased at the expense of health and moral ity.”—London Chronicle. The Liberty Cap. When the Romans manumitted n slave his head was adorned with a small red cloth cap. As soon as this was done he was known as a libertinus, or freedman, and his name was registered among others of the city’s “tribes.” In the year 203, when Saturnius invaded the capital, he hoisted a cap on the point of bis spear to indicate that all slaves who rallied around this standard should be free. This was the origin of the liberty cap still used in art as a symbol. Ichthyology. “Never mind,” said her dearest friend. “There are as good fish in the sea as ever were caught out of it.” “I know it,” said the girl that had set her cap for the foreign count and failed to get him, “but statistics show that the lobster catch is getting smaller every year.”—Chicago Tribune. Ancestors. “We can’t afford to recognize them. Their ancestors were in trade.” “Weren't ours?” “Os course, but our trade ancestors are two generations farther back than theirs.”—Exchange. Willing to Forget. “Then he doesn’t want to be called the Hon. Mr. Smith?” “No. It’s an unpleasant reminder that he used to be in polities, and with strangers it might hurt his reputation.”—Puck. It is supposed that the average depth of sand in the deserts of Africa is from forty to eighty feet.

WASTED INDUSTRY. S Mouse Task That Failed Bect*so of a Lack of Ingenuity. A number of white footed mice which I had in captivity, says a writer in Country Life In America, escaped from their cage to a cupboard in the kitchen, and thence through a hole in the plaster and between the laths to the walls of the house. Every they came out for food. One evening I saw a mouse come out of the cupboard. He found a hickory nut on the floor and attempted to carry it up the wall twelve inches to the hole in the plaster, but, alas, the crack between the laths was too narrow, and after fumbling with his burden for a minute or two he dropped it to the floor. Next he tried push it in ahead of him, and, failing in that, he went in himself, turned round and attempted to pull it in after him. Occasionally it would slip out of Lis paws and roll upon the kitchen floor, and then out be would come and repeat the whole performance. He tried it again and again, but with no better success. He kept at it until far into the night, and when I awoke at 7 o'clock the next morning the first thing that I heard was that mouse or another one fumbling ana dropping the hickory nut. Since then I have kept them well supplied with nuts. and. although they still spend hours in carrying them to the crack in the laths and letting them fall, they are always forced in the end to eat them in the cupboard. There is plainly a lack of ingenuity, because ten minutes’ gnawing would have solved the problem. Had the aperture in either case been too narrow to admit themselves they would have quickly widened it with their teeth, but to apply the same principle to get the nut through seemed to be a piece of reasoning entirely beyond them. HISTORY OF THE COACH. The First of These Vehicles Was Built In 1457. As popular as coaching is in some parts of the country, but little reliable information has ever appeared in the public press respecting its history and development. At the town of Kotze. in Hungary, in 1457, the first coach was constructed. This was soon afterward presented to Charles VII. at Paris. The first authentic record of a stagecoach in England shows that six of such vehicles were in use there in 1662. So popular did they become in that country that a few years later they were in general use on all the principal roads of the kingdom. Steam railways have to a large extent done away with the use of the coach as a link in the commercial chain, but as a means of furnishing the highest type of recreation the coach and four is as popular today in the British emigre and in J-'ranee as it w»r when

«jl k i hJIflJ® ft .3 tL n | gsW w | Cash Given Away to Usm of IO E a FFF id g sS Essa We are going to be more liberal than ever in 1904 to users of lion Coffee. Not only will the Lion-Heads, cut from the packages, be good, as heretofore, for the valuable premiums we have always given our customers, but h Addion to ths legoferf ms Prsmioms the same Lion-Heads will entitle you to estimates in our $50,000.00 Grand Prize Contests, which will | make some of our patrons rich men and women. Y’ou can send iu as many esnmates as desired. There will be I — TWO GREAT The first contest will be on the July 4th attendance at the St. Louis World’s Fair; the second relates to Total | Vote For President to be cast Nov. S. 1304. $20,000.00 will be distributed in each cf these contests, making | S4O 000.00 on the two, and, to make it still more interesting, in addition to this amount, we will give a g Grand Fiist Priw 58.900.e9 ■w* I wrtE»aE3g3Bnga opportunities us winnin.;abigcash prize. ;; Five Lion-Heads Printcd bJanks to | cut from Lion vote on found in ! Coffee Packages and a Z u A every Lion Coffee Pack- j 2 cent stamp entitle yot: a S c » ihe 3 cent stam P I (in addition to the reg- M i < -4 covers the expense of u!ar free premiums) / cur acknowledgment to t" «“ vote in N.. ; ■ you that your eseither contest: ti mate is recorded. I WORLD'S FAIR CONTEST PRESIDENTS!. VOTE CONTEST What will be the total Inly 4th attendance at the St. Louis What will bath? tot-1 Po-'til.-’- Vote east for President (votes World's Fair? At Chicago. July 4.1893. the attendance was 233.273. for all candidates comr-neu at tne election Noyember 8. ISM? m For nearest correct estimates received in Woolson spice C>>m- ItK Oe.ection. 13 i.S.l.6r>p s it, . . - President. F< r nearest cor pany's office. Toledo. Ohio, on or before June 3oth. 1? 4. we will reet estimates received mW o< son hpice Co. s. office, loledo 0.. give first prize for the nearest correct estimate, second prize to the on or before Nov. 5,19(V.w - wv. srive firs, prize for tnc nearest cornext nearest, etc., etc., as follows: rcct estimate, second p:;xe to the next nea est.etc..etc..as fol.ows. 1 Swnnd Pri-e 1 000 OO 1 Second Prize 1 000.00 2 Prises -1500 OO each '. .. . . 1,000.00 2 Prized—Ss.OO.OO each 1 *222*22 Prizes— 20000 ** 1,000.00 5 Prizes- 200 ' O " 1 000.00 IO Prizes— 100:80 “ 1,000.00 IO Prizes— 100.00 “ on Prizes 50.00 “ 1.000.00 20 Prizes— 50 00 1 -222'22 50 Prizes— 20.00 “ 1,000.00 50 Prizes— 20 00 " 1,000.00 250 Prizes — 10 OO “ 2,500.00 250 Prizes — 10 f O S'nnn'nn 1800 Prizes— 5.00 “ 9,000.00 1800 Prizes— 6.00 ShOOO.OO TOTAL, 120,000.00 2139 PHIZES, TOTAL, 120.000.00 —— || is 111 ——»■■■■■■! ■ rvr,--. 4279—PRIZES—427D .1 Distributed to the Public— $45,006.00—in addition to which we shall j to Grocers’ Clerks (see particulars in LIOM COFFEE esses) making?r*nd tetai es $50«00 r ’.OH. 9 COMPLETE DSTASLED 6si PACKAGE OF i LION COFFEE WOOLSON SPfe'F ro„ (CONTEST DEP’T.) TOLEDO, *O!«O.J

this was pract;q» y the only means ot Jjcomot in those < ■ untries. Stagecoaching in America was almost coext nsive with the settlement of the colonies, and in the early history of the country there were few if any places of any Importance that did not welcome the sound of the coachman's horn as one of the fascinating incidents of pioneer life. As civilization pushed itself westward the stagecoach was ever in the lead of those agencies which blitzed its pathway. These vehicles, as well as their equipments, were comparatively crude in their construction and unpretentious in their appointments. but they admirably served the purpose for which they were intended and laid the foundation for the popularity of coaching as a pleasurable pastime developed in later years. Coaching parties had been popular in England and France for several generations before they were introduced in I this country, yet the sport is sg wholesome and enjoyable that It r.-.nnot be doubted that in time it will become as popular here as it is across the 4.Uantic. -Illustrated Sporting News. TRIALS OF DIPLOMATS. They Were Many In the Early Days of American History. There exists a popular tendency to overrate the delights and to underrate the hardships of the diplomatic life; but. however much opinions may differ on this point, there can be no doubt that the office of an American diplomatist in the days of the Revolution was no holiday pastime. If he was not already in Europe, his Journey to his post was beset with perils graver than those of the elements. In the eyes of the British law American revolutionists were simply ‘•rebels,’’ the reprobation of whose conduct was likely tv be proportionate to their prominence and activity, and the seas were scoured by British cruisers, the dreaded embodiment of England's maritime supremacy. Deane went abroad secretly before independence was declared, but when his presence in France became known the British government asked that he be seized and delivered up into its custody. Franklin sailed for France on a small vessel of war belonging to congress, called the Reprisal. On the way over she took two prizes, and more than once, on descrying a suspicious sail, cleared for action. Had she been captured by the British, Franklin would have had an opportunity to test the truth of his remark to his associates in congress that they must “either hang together or hang separately.” John Adams, on his first journey, took passage on an American vessel; on his second he embarked on the French frigate Sensible and landed at Ferrol, in Spain. Jay committed his fate to the American man-of-war Confederacy and. like Adams and Franklin, reached his destination. —Harner's Magazine.

IG Joint Affliction. When the Halliday twins were babies their mother always referred to them collectively. This was natural enough, for tljey shared everything, from their baby carriage to chicken pox. As they grew a little older, there were slight differences between Elnora and Eudora, but Mrs. Halliday took no account of them. When they had reached the age of seven, she stiil referred to them in away which struck casual listeners as amusing. “Where are Elnora and Eudora?” asked a cousin, who had come to spend the afternoon. "The twins have gone with their father to have one of their teeth out,” said Mrs. Halliday calmly. — Youth'* Companion. — No Questions Asked. Old Brother Cooley is a colored philosopher. but he is superstitious in the extreme He tells this story: "I once wuz in a bouse that wuz haunted, but I didn't know it. Dar wuz a bright fire burnin’ in de room 1 wuz in. w’en all era sudden de do' opened, en a man with his throat cut shuck his head at me! Now. I knowed right well it wuz a ha’nt, en de only thing ter do wuz ter ax him. Tn de name er de Lawd. what does you want?' ” "And did you ask him?” "No. sub! Bless God. I wuz too feared dat he'd tell me!”—Atlanta Coostirution. Mortified to Death. “Os course, doctor, German measles are never serious.” “I never met but one fatal case.” “Fatal?” “Yes. It was a Frenchman, and when he discovered it was German measles lie had mortification set in.”— Philadelphia Tress. Stuck on Himself. Kate—Charley and Bessie are very fond of each other. Bertha —Rather say they are both very fondtnf Charley. It is a case of two souls with but a single thought, you know.—Boston Transcript. Waterways. Bacon—l hear your uncle is to lecture on “Our Great Waterways.” What does he know about waterways? Egbert—Why. he was in Wall street for six years!—Yonkers Statesman. Going to the World's Fair? If so, send for complete guide to the city of St. Louis and world’s fair grounds, containing maps and full information about hotels, restaurants, theatres and all points of interests, i Published only by the Clover Leaf Route, Toledo, Ohio, and sent free on receipt of six (6) cents postage.