Decatur Democrat, Volume 48, Number 20, Decatur, Adams County, 21 July 1904 — Page 6

Fritz Koenig is again in trouble. This time being sued by Mrs. Kate Erhart on an account, alleging that Fritz owes her fifteen dollars for labor done and performed. The trial is set for Wednesday. July 20th. Oil took another drop of three cents now making the price of Indiana's crude stuff 95 cents. The way the price of oil is going down is proving a great mystery to oil men, as the demand for the crude oil is greater than ever. The slump in price, however, does not stop the oil men from drilling and work in the oil fields is being pushed. The condition of the stone p a veinent about the court house fountain is in a terrible shape and is unfit for a lady to travel across owing to the loungers and loafers who make that their headquarters and see just how much tobacco juice they can squirt upon the walk. This should be stopped and the county officials take some steps in order to keep it in a sanitary condition. An Indianapolis man thinks he has discovered away in which artificial eggs can be manufactured, yolk, white, shell and all, and he expects to make big money in the winter season when the hens are laying off. He makes the yolk from sun flower seed, and the white from coal oil and shell from some thing else. Most people will prefer the real thing. At any rate there is no occasion for the hens to become alarmed. One week from next Saturday, July 30 there will be a meeting of the Wells County Democratic centra 11 committee. This meeting will be held in the city and is for the purpose of naming a date for the coming primary election for the purpose of nominating a sheriff to have a place on the ticket at the coming election. The office of sheriff will be the only one for which a candidate will be selected. The recent, court decisions regarding the tenure of office act have made it necessary to elect a sheriff at this time. There are numerous candidates in the field and the race without doubt be a warm one. At least seven men have signified their intention of trying for the honors. A new city directory just pubshed at Marion gives their popu lation to exceed 30,000. The growth of Marion is remarkable and shows that it continues to be one of the best of the old gas belt towns. At this many peopfe have moved out of Marion and this is true also of Elwood, Alexandria and many other places where gas was the foundation of a good live boom and upon which many bright prospects have been erected. But during the feast every one was making money' and none will come out of the fracus with his heels up. Other industries are fast taking the places of those which have quit and it will not be long until no change from the good old times will be noticed. Sheriff Butler is in receipt of information from the Wisconsin authorities offering a juicy reward for the murderer of Sheriff Harris and also information leading to the apprehension of one Jacob Moss, who broke jail at Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Both are noted characters and if you see them just drop the word. While the crowd on our streets was not very encouraging yet Johnson & Booh opened up their horse sale with a goodly sprinking of buyers. The sale occurred at the Erie stock yards, Fred Reppert and his tin horn making a street parade at one thirty. Thirty five head of good looking and good acting animals were offered and knocked off to the highest bidder. It was a good day for bargains and those in attendance seemed to know all about a good thing when they saw it never failing to take the advantage of a good horse for a little money. In the sales already given Johnson &.Boch have been unusually successful, selling everyone on hand and in all things carried out their agreement as advertised. Their last and best sale was at Portland where they cleaned up the platter quicker than you could say Jack Robison. They have also given sales at Redkey, Wincheser, Fort Recovery, Celina, St. Marys and several other towns and at each place they had a good sale. If it is possible to get supplied with horses they will continue these sales all summer and fall. The horse market {however is just little bit it difficult to keep a supply on hand.

I earnestly desire the immediate return of all cases and bottles. Wm. Mersman. 14fid2w2 A Kansas paper advises all women who go to the World’s fair to wear a short skirt just as short as the law will allow. The advice is of doubtful propriety. Down on the pike, presumably under the domination of the law’, there are skirts so abbreviated that a wide hem would obliterate them. A Cough Charmer. Mr. Tyler, of the large wholesale drug house of Strong. Cobb & Co., Cleveland, Ohio, says Dr. Marshall’s Lung Syrup, is a cough charmer, the merits of which have long since been realized by thousands of people. Nothing can equal the results obtained from the use of this great medicine, its cures are in exact ratio with the number of cases in which it has been used, and unless you give it a trial you cannot convince yourself of its true merits. Sold everywhere by Druggists. Price, 25, 50, and SI. ~ NOTICE. I am doing shoe repairing and am located in Kauffman & Smith’s harness shop, next door to Schlegel’s blacksmith shop. Bring in your shoes if they need any repairing. Peter Center. Brutally Tortured A case came to light that for persistant and unmerciful torture has perhaps never been equaled. Joe Golobi -k of Colusa, Calif., writes. “For 15 years I endured insufferable pain from rheumatism and nothing releived me though I tried everything known. I came across Electric Bitters and it’s the greatest medicine on earth for that trouble' A few bottles of it completely relieved and cured me.” Just as' good for Liver and Kidney troubles and general debility. Only 50c. Satisfaction gauranteed by Blackburn & Christen, Druggists. Notice to the Public. Cataract and all diseases of the eyes cured without an operatihn by Dr. G Thain. It makes no difference how loag you have been blind or how sore your eyes are, you can be cured: also, deafness or hard of hearing can be re. stored. Consultation and examination free. Dr. Thain will return here again and be at the Murray House, Thursday, Aug. 7. 51tf Farm Lands That Are Cheap in Dollars But Rich in Soil. Dick Townsend has completed arrangements whereby you can go to Mandon, North Dakota, for 126.65 from Chicago and return. Lands from $4 to $1 per acre with free home stead adjoining. Come and see us over First National Bank Decatur Ind.. We can also sell yo farms in Virignia, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas. Exour - sion rates to North Dakota any day during the week, except Saturday and Sunday for three or more. Dick Townsend over National Bank Residence 422 Jefferson St. Phone 109. d&w For sale or trade.—l have some very good farms for sale or exchange. Also a list of city property for sale at a bargain, Money to loan on farm or city property at five pier cent. P. K. Kinney, the new Studabaker block, Decatur, Indiana. 48 m 6 Agents Wanted.—For the thrilling, sensational book and wonderful seller 'T'he Chicago Theatre Disaster.” 400 pages, memorial volume full of startling illustrations, stories of marvelous escapes, heoric rescues, list of 600 dead, etc. Price 81.50. Only book Tremendous seller for agents. $7.00 a day average, country or town. Send 12 cents postage for fine outfit, terms and instructionsand make money fast. C W. Stanton Co., 325 - Dearborn street Chicago, 111. 48 GOOD SPIRITS. Good spirits don’t all come from Kentucky. Their main source is the liver —and all the fine spirits ever made in the Blue Glass State could not remedy a bad liver or the hundred-and-one ill effects it produces. You can’t have good spirits and a bad liver at the same time. Your liver must be in fine condition if you would feel buoyant, happy and hopeful, bright of eye, light of step, vigorous and successful in your pursuits. You can put your liver in fine condition by using Green’s August Flower—the greatest of all medicines for the liver and stomach and a certain cure for dyspepsia or indigestion. It has been a favorite household remedy for over thirty-five rears. August Flower will make your liver healty and active and thus insure vou a lilieral supply of “good spirits.” Trial size 25c; regular bottles 75c. At all druggists. Farmers Take Notice. Are your hogs and chickens healthy and in as thriving condition as you would like to have them, if not, feed them Egyptian Hog and Chicken Cholera Remedy. Put up in gallon and half gallon cans. For sale at the old reliable drug store. Smith, Yager &Falk. 48tf Low Rate es Interest. Money loaned at five per cent, interest, payable annually or semi-an-nually, at option of borroweMg'with privilege of partial payments at ary* iiterest paying time. No delay'* making loans. F. M. Schinneyer, Decatur, Ind. 9tf

~ W'LLINC TO HELP. An Old Seawall'. Scheme to Win Honor For n Favorite. An amusing story is told of an old Beaman on one of the United States cruisers in the north Atlantic squadron. He was not a person of wide affections, but he had a warm place in his heart for a young ensign who had been kind to him in many little ways. One day a landsman fell from the rigging to the water, and as he could not swim he would have been drowned but for a young officer who sprang in after him and held him up till assistance came. Later the young officer received a complimentary letter from the secretary of the navy. Every one rejoiced but the old seaman; he coveted the letter for his ensign. “That’s a nice thing to have, a letter like that.” he said a few days later. “You ought to have one.” "1 don't quite see how I can get one,” laughed the ensign. “Well, see here.” said the old man eagerly. “Tomorrow night I’ll be in the main chains, fussing with something or other, and I might fall in, and you could jump after me.” “That would be very good of you," said the ensign gravely, “but, you see. I'm not a good swimmer by any means.” “Ho, that's no matter!” said the old seaman. “I'll hold you up till the boat comes.” CRACKED VOICES. A Lack of Muscular Control Is What (aiififs the Break. The pitch of the human voice depends primarily upon the number ot vibrations per second of the vocal cords, and these, in their turn, depend on the length, size and degree of tension of the cords, which increase in length with the growth of the larynx. One of the deepest bass notes, from the greater length of the cords, has only eighty double vibrations a second, while a soprano voice can give 992 such vibrations in the same time. The size of a lad's larynx is. roughly, that of a woman's, but when the piping schoolboy is shooting up into manhood his larynx grows rapidly and the vocal cords become elongated nearly in the proportion of three and a half to two. The cartilages by which their tension is regulated also share in this growth, as is seen by the swelling of the so called “Adam's apple.” Now. all these parts do not increase with equal rapidity: hence the muscular control, which must be very exact, is rendered uncertain and the voice is said to “break.” A similar change takes place in the case of women, but very much less in amount, and a further compensation in the formation of the upper part of thq larynx serves to disguise the effect. COLUMBUS’ CREWS. One Engliuhman and One Irishman Were Among Their Number. An Englishman and an Irishman were among the sturdy 120 adventurers who sailed with Columbus In the three small hundred tonners. This may have been due to the well known fact that nothing brings men of different races together more than maritime and commercial enterprise, or, still more probably, because they were swept in at Palos, when Columbus put the press gang to work, as he was authorized to do by Ferdinand and Isabella. The names of these men, as giver by Navarrete. were Jallarte de Lajes Ingles (probably Arthur Lake, Eng lish), and Guillermo Ires, uaturel de Gainey, en Irlanda (probably William Herries or Rice, native of Galway, in Ireland). These two men were among the forty whom Columbus left behind in the fort constructed in Hispaniola before be sailed for Europe, who all met their death at the hands of the natives before the great discoverer returned, owing to their disregard of bis express directions. The Coeoaunt Tree. There is no tree so widely distributed throughout the tropics as the cocoanut. Even on remote atolls of the south seas, which geologists say were only recently formed by the subsidence of a volcano and the growth of coral up from its base, one finds the cocoanut The parent tree leaning over the beach of one tropical island drops its fruit into the sea, to have the nut carried away perchance halfway round ths world. Then in some faraway place the waves cast the cocoanut ashore to sprout and propagate another forest after its own kind. The Apple. The apple is not considered to be a complete food in itself, but on the food list it has a value far above the nutriment it possesses. Apples aid the stomach in the digestion of other foods, and therefore the best results are obtained from eating them after rather than before meals. After partaking ot an unusually heavy dinner the eating of an apple will be found to facilitate an early digestion and afford great relief from the sufferings attendant upon indigestion. Too Much Realism, "Do you not feel at times.” remarked the fireside critic, “that realism can be carried too far on the stage?” "Yes,” replied the tragic actor, with a sigh. “The List man I was working for did it. HtP wanted to pay us all off in stage money.”—Cincinnati TimesStar. Cf-mtnr and Goin*. “Hello. Mike! Do you find much Si do now?” • “Yis. I’m jest after cuttln’ down a tree, and tomorrow I'll have to cut it up.”—Jvansas City World.

Special Low Excursion Rates Via the Clover Leaf Route Season 1904. Homeseekers to west and southwest, Ist and 3rd Tuesday in each u-Dnth. Triennial Conclave Knights Templar, San Francisco, Cal., Sept. sth to 9th. i Sovereign Grand Lodge I. O. O. F. San Francisco, Cal., Sept. 19th to ksth. Louisiana Purchase Exposition (World’s Fair) St. Louis, Mo., April 30th to Nov. 30th. Stop-over Privileges at St. Louis on all tickets to and from the west. Write for rates and particulars to GEO. IL ROSS, Gen’l Traffic Manager. Toledo, Ohio. T. L. Miller, Agt. 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. Published only by the Clover Leaf Route, Toledo,’Ohio, and sent free on receipt of six (6) cents postage. World's Fair Route To St. Louis via Toledo, St. Louis A Western railroad, Clover Leaf route. Low round trip fares from Decatur as follows: 816.00 round trip. Going any day. Return limit December b . 813.35 round trip. Going any day. Return limit 60 days from date of sale $12.00 round trip. Going any day. Return limit 15 days from date of sale. 87.30 round trip. Good only in coaches. Going an v Tuesday or Thursday. Seven days’ limit. Commencing May 17. Pullman palace sleeping cars, case and free reclining chair cars and through day coaches on all night trains. Buffet and free reclining chair cars and through day coaches on all through day trains. Meals served a-la carte on through trains. See T L. Miller, agent Clover Lea f route a Decatur, or address George H. Ross General Traffic Mgr, Toledo, Ohio. THE GREAT SOUTHWEST. MANY SEEKING HOMES WHERE LANDS ARE CHEAP AND CLIMATE IS MILD. Low Rates for Homeseekers and Colonists Twice a Month. Many farmers in the Northern and Eastern states are selling their high priced landsand locating in the Southwest —in Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas. Manv who have been unable to own their homes in the older country are buying land at the low prices prevailing in the new country--85, $lO, sls per acre and up. These lands are mostly cut-over timber lands, some of them possessing a deep rich soil producing corn, wheat, oats, clover, cotton, fruit and vegetables. Well improved farms are scattered throughout this country. Many places with small clearings and some improvements can be bought very cheap. Our descriptive literature gives a fairly good idea of this country. It tells about the soil, crops, climate, people, schools, churches, water and health. It contains maps showing locations of counties, towns, railways and streams, and gives names and addresses of real estate dealers in the towns. Reduced rates for homeseekers and colonists are in effect first and third Tuesdays of each month, byway of St. Louis, Cairo or Memphis and the Cotton Belt Route. Let us send you our literature and quote you rates. Address E. W. Laßeaume, Gen. Pass, and Ticket Agent, Cotton Belt Route, St. Louis, Mo. I^****’—' * — — - H' kfA J 431R(1M EAST. No. 6. The Comm'l Traveler, daily. 5:25 a. m No. 2. Mail, daily, except Sunday...ll Ni a. n: No. 4. Day express, daily 8:43 p. tn No. 22. Local freight 1:10 a. tn WEST. No. 3 Day express, daily 5:25 a. tn No. 1. Mail, daily except Sunday . .11:25 p. m No. 5. TheComm’l Traveler, daily . 9:19p.m No. 23. Local freight 12:05p. m <jfp> RAILROAD CHICAGO & ERIB. In effect June 19, 1904, WEST, -To 7—Kxnreee, dally 2:00a tn No 9—Buffalo and Chicago limited 3:02 am <u 4—New York and Chicago Limited through coach Columbus and Chicago daily 12:44 n m <0 I!—Wells Fargo Express except . « JJ on . day e, 6:50 pm io 21—Marion-Huntington Acc'm.. 10:10am EAST No. 48--Chicago and N Y limited 11:21 p m ■o 3—Vestiouie nuntteo tor n x ::4?am Bo 22—Marion and Columbus except Sundav .8-58 am I Io 4—New York and Boston Limited through coaches Columbus and Chicago 4.51 pm No. 13 will not carry baggage, 3 and 4 has | ibrourh coach Columbus to Chicago • No. 14—8:20 Carry passengers between Hammond and Marion.

Grand Rapids & Indiana. In effect June 26.1904 TRAINS NORTH. •• “ Kalamazoo.. •• Arrives Grand Rapids m “ - Maeki.mw City . 11:10 am No. 7-Leaves Decatur ii'viam •> •' Kalamazoo. •• Arrives Grand Rapids -.'6 P ™ .. •• Petoskey ”•*'P n1 ■■ Mackinaw City 9:85 pm No. 3—Leaves Decatur. “ •• Kalamazoo • Arrives Grand Rapds ™ •• " Mackinaw City ......:»am TRAINS SOUTH No. 4-Leaves Decatur. Portland a m “ Winchester . ’L an ‘ •• Arrives Richmond ra “ •• Cincinnati «:15am *. J,.diarapolis. ... 6:50 am “ “ Lou'BVille 10:05 s m u •« gt. Louis 1.30pn» No. 12-Lcaves Decatur !? Portland 8:15 am • • Winchester •• Arrives Richmond , ! ni •• Cincinnati 12:2upm ♦» Indianapolis 12:10 pm •• •• Louisville ‘ : !S pm “ •• St. Louis :10 pm No. 2— Leaves Decatur 1:1 ' P ni •• •• P ntland 2:11 p tn »• “ Winchester 2:44 pm »• Arrives Richmond 3:35 pm •• •• Cincinnati... 5:53 pm “ *» Indiana! olis •• Loul’villi .:00 am •* “ St. Louis 7:22 am No. 30—Leaves Deca’ur 7:51 p m •• Arrives Portland b:aspro No. 16—Leaves Decatur ... ? x :46 p m •• •• Portland 9:45 pm •» “ Winchester 1025 pm “ Arrives Richmond 11:15 pm Nos. 4. 5 and 7 dailv. • 2. 3and 12 daily except Snnd * y No. 3u daily except Sunday o Portland. •• 16 Sunday only. No. s—Sleeping car to Grand Rapids. <'ity. Northport and Mackinaw <’i?y. Mining cat Gsand Rapids to Mackinav- City: No. 7—Parlor car Grand Rapids to Mackinaw City—except Sundav No.3—Parlor car Richmond t< Grand Rapids Slf eoing car to Mackinaw City No. 4 Sleopingcar to Cincinnati. Indianapolis. L aiisville and St. Louis. No. 2- Parlor car to Richmond. J. Bryson. Agt. C. L. Lockwood. G. P A. Gr Rapids Mich. PARKER KA!R BALSAM. -tfwCleanses and beaut ;.ea the hair. Pr'Huotes a luxuriant growth. kWN ver Fails to Beetore (Tray -- Hair tc its Youthful Color. axative firomo (Quinine ires a Cold in One Day, Grip in 2 Days -C on every bo ’ i - 25c Weak I3sn Made Vigorous rwrw/ What PEFFER’S NERVIGOB Dili It acts powerfully and quickly. Cures when al others tail Young,men regain lost manhood:ok men recover youthful vigor. Absolutely Guar an teed to Cure Nervoncnees, Lost vitality 1 in potency, Nightly Emission*, Loe t Power either sex. Failing Memory, Wasting Diseases, and all of self-abuse or cieessf ani Indiscretion. Wards oil insanity and consumption Don’t let druggist impose a worthless substitute o; you because it vielJs a greater profit. Insist on having PEFi ER’S N ERVIGOR,or sendfor it cat be carried m vest pocket. Prepaid, plain wrapi»er $1 pF-r box, or 6 for with A Written Guar antee to Cure or Refund Money. Pamphlet fre* PEFFEB MEDICAL ASb’N. Chicago. 11l Small siz£ 50 cents Sold by Blackburn A Christen. Decatur. FOR JUICK CASH SALES TO World’s Fair feT. TjOVIS, Ma 1904 Mortgage Loaqs. Money Lowed on favonlle terms. Low Rate of Interest. Privelege of partial payments, Abstracts of Title carefully prepared. F. M. SGrtIRMEYEft Gor. Second and Madison sts. Decatur, Indiana. DON’T BE A SLAVE To the Liquor or Drug Habit heu a speedy, harmless and permanent Curp is within the reach of all? THOUSANDS of happy, prosperous and soderMen testify to the efficacy of the Cure as administered at THE KEELEY INSTITUTE INDIANA 1204 S. Adams Street Confidences Carefully Guarded

boy archbold ' ■ dentist ■ I-o. O. F. BLOCK ’Phones - Office 164, residence 245 ■ D. D. HELLER & attorneys at (.aw ’ Offica over Bia,-kbun, A , 15 . r . jgsire DORE B. ERWIN. Hu ATTORNEY AT LAW. I Orri-r.—Corner Monro.- Iu „] <,... General piKCtiti.nn r. N,. . ; s ’reei Mttation ‘ or consul, n AMOS P. BEATTY ' ATTORNEY AT LAW And Notary Public. Pe ns f..cured. Odd Fellows buUdini- ■ s< MERRYMAN \si TTi-n. ' H 1 ; ATTORNEYS AT LAW, I DECATUR. IND. Offiee-Nos. 1. 2. 3, over A<! ain > Ka - ■ Me refer, by permission to a : ni; ~ ,■ b f| BUHURGEK & SMITH. Hr ATTORNEYS AT LAW. I Notar es Abstracters, lb•«' F--,,,. A „ .More.v to Loan. Heeds an,l V ■ ten on short notice, otlic. , a second story, over Er.st,,. , H ,j k ‘ H tl Decatur, Indiana. üßt , ’ — Hv J.Q Neptune D.D.S. E ■ ’Pnoae23. 'Phone Neptune Brothers, ■ DENTISTS. Rooms 1,2, 3, 4 Spa, . . r I, Decatur, Indiana. HE. Office ’Phone 107. I - Atte c d aal English. Germa n and S a «-.|...k tn H FRED REPPERT ■ j Sale Cfkr arid Auctioneer. E DECATUR, :mu A \ a Speaks English. r G, rti.hi, ■ and Low Gerruau. 1 ■ MANN & CHRISTEN, Architects. ■< Are prepared to do anr kind of work in their line. Persone contemplstirg ■ can save times, trouble and M 1 money by consulting -iiem. Office— MANN A. CHRISTEN |t Bowers Block. Monrot st. Aiehiteet H - ■ t LI N N & P ATTON I Carpenters,’Cent-actors and Builders E‘ Slate Roofers and Gal- Hl vanized Gutters. Shop, Hi Corner Rugg and Marlet H Streets. H> Linn A Patton, H AUCTIONEER I For Good Service See H L. H. CAGE I (Speaks German and Ei’viishj H Auctioneer and Sale Crier !i SiJO K Sales over 8500 80c per Bii*' Leave ■ address at Berne Witness < »tlice. I Berne. Ind. H J. D. HALE, I DZAI.BR in ■ Seeds, H-ay, Wool, Oil I Salt, Goal, L ime. Gemenf I Fertilizers. ■ Office and retail store store -oi.theastcw. ■ ner of Second and Jefferson stru ts. ■ per" Your patronage solicited. ■ H. O. WELLS. M. IL I SPECIALIST. ■ 723 CLINTON STREET. FORT WAYNE. ■ Cures Piles. Fistula. Fis- .re ' - ! ■ the Rectum. Irching. Blvedinu -ration, M Constipation and all disra-' - ■ rb3 k ‘: ■ Also Rupture. Dr. Wells wl. at the M Murray hotel. In the sorer. < ! nnn at tne m Shamrock hotel in Geneva m th* df’ern -'D. K on the first Tuesday in ey. r> ‘tith M order to introduce Ids pain. 5 ’ : *‘ n ’ , M will give one treatment frte tu ... A . n see him. M B ■ pc* Dr. Will::,: ■ I I [X -I ‘4,A S 5 IwPil.s. I. ■ ■V I I allays .J..",;. ■ as Sfa.s a poultie-. - 11. ■ P I lief. Dr. Wil..an.- jj. ■ ■ ■ mentis prepared ' H M Ing of the private purr- > B " warranted. By druv:.- « ■ ceipt ot price. 59 cent, and WiILW I ACTURING CO.. Drops.. ' ■ Nachtrieb A Fuelling. ■ doctor I E. J. Beardsley, I General Practice and SurflcrV ■ But Special Attention given t' Eve. Ear ■ Noee, Throat and Chronic Diseases. K Expert in FittiQU Glasses. | Thoroughly equipped for treating Eye, 4 ■ Throat and Catarrhal cages. K GALLS answered, day or night. H OFFICE—over poetoffice v- n *h«tl B RESIDENCE—oor. Monr<>v an-N.n - ■ Office Hours--9 to 11 a. m. 2 to 4p- m B $250,000 to loan on ■ proved lowest ra te l ■ of interest, we can place | your loan at a lower rate o I ■ interest and less expense g than any other Agency 1U Q the city. I The Decatur Abstract I & Lean Compsnn I RoomsS and 4, [StL'dabsl' 61 ®' J ■