Decatur Democrat, Volume 48, Number 22, Decatur, Adams County, 4 August 1904 — Page 7

Railroad Notes. fiver y Sunday during the continoeof the sninmer schedule one I for the round trip to Fort tone and intermediate points. fleve n hous in the Summit City on Sunday’ Wawassee Lake Ind. tickets on wk . until September 30. Return limit October 31st 1904. $3.10 for Zid trip. Rome City Ind. Season tickets good until October 31st $2.30 15 day ticket $1.95. Louisvile. Ky. Kn ghts of Pythias Biennial Encampment, August 16u 1904. One first class fare plus jicents for round trip. Tickets on 'I P Aug. 15th to Aug. 16th. Good Aug. 31. 1»». Russia -'Japan war altas 10 cents. Three fine colored maps, each 14x20; hound in convenient form for reference. The Estero situation shown in detail, issued by The Chicago & yorth Western R’y, mailed upon Receipt of ten cenfs in stamps by A. g Waggener, 22 Fifth Avenue, 1 Chicago IllsCheap rates for vacation trips from Chicago, round trip rates via Chicago Great Westren railway |IB t .QO to St Paul or Minneapolis |22.00 to Duluth or Superior 130.00 Io Denver, Colorado Springs or Pueblo Col $13.00 to Salt Lake City. These rates are good any day up to September 30th and on S nv train including the**Great Western Limited” finest train in the West. For rates to other western points for any other information write J. P Elmer GP. A. Ch cago. 111. Niagara Falls excursion, on Wednesday August 17, the Erie R. R. will run their annual excurison to Niagara Falls. $6.50 round trip from Decatur, Ind. Take advantage of the most popular excursion in America and visit one of the seven wonders of the world. For further information, write, C- L. Enos, T. P. A Marion, Ohio. $12.00 from Chicago to St. Paul or Minneapolis and return via Chicago & Great Western Railway. Tickets on sale August 8 to 11 inclusive, good returning until August 26. For further information apply to any Great Western agent or J. P. Elmer, G. P. A., Chicago, 111. On Wednesday, August 17, the Erie rail road will rnn an excursion to Niagara Fall and Atlantic City. Rate to Niagara Falls, $6.50; to Atlantic City, $14.50, round trip. Return limit August 28. Special train leaves Decatur at 2:00 p.m. For further information enquire of Erie agent or address, O. L. Enos, T. P. A. Marion, Ohio. Summc' outings in Wisconsin Over a hundred summer resorts located on the Wisconsin Central Ry. between Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Ashland, offers to the rummer tourists all attractions in Ue way of rest, comfort and recre->■-un. The hotels are modern and splendidly equipped for the busir “*s- Waukesha, Waupaca, Fificld lad a score of other resorts are famous. Beautifully illustrated bookfe. C. Pond, Gen. Pass. Agt. Wis. Dent. Ry., Milwaukee, Wis. Northern Michigan has never k u so beautiful as it is this summer. Your vacation is due end when looking over the map or a nice cool place to rest would ■ bo pleased to have you decide that i some one of the many resorts suit ’ Jon then ’ look up and talk it. 1 Brer regarding rates, time of trains, etc. You know the G. R. is the way to get to Northern Michigan real quick. J. Bryson Agent. A beautiful map, valuable for reference, printed on heavy paper 12x64 inches mounted on rollers; bound in olcth, showing lUr new island po: sessions. The Railway, Pacific cables, railway lines and Her features of Japan, China, f ’anchuria, Koorea and the Fai 1 Sent in receipt of 25 cents in ®mps by W. B. Kntskern, P. T r. Chicago & North Western R’y, Lh 'oago, 111. 1 FT < njtneseekers’ excursions via South i in connection with the ; iUobu & Cresent route to certain C 1 in Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina, Kentucky. I ’“ssissippi, Tennessee and Virginia 11 the first and third Tuesdays in I L*?b month—May to November, 1904 wusive, at the very low rate of one j. re for the round trip, plus $2. vkets are good going 15 days, and ’ r stop-overs south of the Ohio River ( final limit for return of 21 days date of sale. On the same dates ! >ae w ay settlers’ tickets will be sold 1 ® points in the same territory at one- ■ i‘s first-class rates, plus ?2 from .J 0 River gateways. For rates, and full information, call . v our nearest ticket agent, or write * McCullough, N. W. P. A., 225 street, Chicago, 111.

Commencing June Ist the G. R- & I- will sell 15 day round trip tickets to northern resorts on G. R. & i also to Frankfort Mich, and Ann Arbor and to points on the Pere Marquete R. R. from Grand Rapids at rate of one fare plus 50 cents for the round trip. Take lheG. R. & 1.-PanJHandk-N andalia route for World’s Fair at St. Louis, Mo. Just as cheap, just as quick and just as comfortable as any other route out of Decatur. Tickets on sale from now to November 30. For rates and information call on or address J; Bryson, Ticket Agent, Decatur, Ind., or C. L. Lock wood, G. P. AT. A. Grand Rapids, Mich. Harvest Hand Rates to Minnesota and North Dakota. Every day during August the Chicago Great Western Railway will sell tickets to points in Minnesota and North Dakota at the low rate of sl4 each from Chicago to parties of five or more traveling on one ticket. Special low rates for return trip. For further information apply to J. P. Elmer, G, P. A., Chicago, 111. $1.25 Chicago and return $1.25 Sunday, July 31st, the Erie R. R. will run a special excursion to Chicago and return 1.25 round trip Special train leaves Decatur at 6:00 a. m., arriving in Chicago at 10:45 a. m. returning the Special leaves Chicago at 6:30 p.m. For further information, apply to Erie agents. $27.50 Hot Springs, S.D . 30.70 Deadwood and Lead and return from Chicago daily, via the Chicago & North Western Ry. Correspondingly low rates from other points. The Black Hills region the great natural sanitarium of the west, is one of the most picturesque spots in the world and well worth a visit. Information and tickets can be secured from your home agent. Illustrated Black Hills booklet with valuable map mailed on receipt of. 4 cent in stamps by W .B . Kniskern, Chicago.

$50.00 Californi and return. Send 2 cent stamp for itinerary of special personally conducted tours to California, leaving Chicago August 18th and August 25th, via the Chicago, Union Pacific & North Western Line, account Triennil Conclave Knights Templar at San Francisco. SSO round trip from Chicago. Correspondingly low rates from all points. A. H. Waggener, 22 Fifth Avenue, Chicago, Ills. On the first and third Tuesday of every month the Erie railroad will sell one way and ronud trip excurson tickets to the west, northwest and southwest at very low rates. Further information, call upon Erie agents or write, C. L. Enos, T P. A., Marion Ohio. The Colorado Special—Chicago, Union Pacific & North-Western Line. This solid through train, only one night to Denver, leaves Chicago at 7:00 p. m., reaching Denver next evening at 9 o’clock. A perfectly appointed train. Another Colorado train leaves Chicago daily at 11 p. m. arriving Denver early the- second morning, ovor the only double track railway between Chicago and the Missouri river. The best of everything. The Chicago-Portland special leaves Chicago daily at 11 p. m. with through sleeping car service to San Francisco, Los Angeles and Portland. Tickets and full information can be secured from your home agent or ad dress A. H. Waggener, 22 Fifth avenue, Chicago, 111. augl World’s Fair Route

To St. Louis via Toledo, St. Louis & Western railroad, Clover Leaf route. Low round trip fares from Decatur as follows: . J 16.00 round trip. Going any day. Return limit December 16. 513.35 round trip. Going any day. Return limit 60 days from date of sale. 512.00 round trip. Going any day. Return limit 15 days from date of sale 57.30 round trip. Good only in coaches. Going an v Tuesday or Thursday. Seven days’ limit. Commencing May 17. Fullman palace sleeping cars, cate 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 ala carte on through trains. See T L. Miller, agent Clover Leaf route a Decatur, or address George H. Ross General Traffic Mgr, Toledo, Ohio. Going to th© W orld 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. I PR. P. L. FRITZ Dentist Office above Holthouse, Schulte & Co.’s clothing store. DECATUB, INDIANA. |

VASTNESS OF RUSSIA. The Great size of the Empire la Not Generally ItecoKnized. Few persons realize how vast is the area of the Russian empire. Into that enormous country you could put all of non-Russian Europe and yet only take up a little more than one-eighth of the czar's domains. Then you could add the United States, including Alaska, and still have almost enough territory left to place Canada in. In fact, the Russian empire comprises one-seventh of the land surface of the globe. Though not comparable in extent of territory with the empire of the czar, the United States seems of enormous area when compared with the European countries other than Russia. The state of Texas alone would take in Germany. Greece, Holland and Switzerland and still have room to spare. Belgium would simply be lost in the Maine woods. In fact, you could put two Belgiums into the state of Maine and have a state left as large as New Jersey. France could be stowed away up in Montana and Wyoming, with enough territory left over to take in Portugal. Sweden would tit into California, with lots of room to spare, and Spain would almost, but not quite, tit into Nevada and Idaho. To make Spain comfortable, we should have to borrow 4,000 square miles from Arizona, but that would still leave Arizona enough territory to take in Italy, leaving out Sardinia. As for the British isles, we could stow them away in New Mexico and have land to spare afterward. The dual empire of Austria-Hungary would be a more difficult matter to deal with, and in order to give it elbow’ room we should have to devote the states of Colorado and Oregon to it and then' borrow’43,ooo square miles from Washington, which would still leave Washington room in which to put the kingdom of Servia and have enough left over for a fair sized state. The kingdom of Roumania could be placed in Arkansas, with about 5,000 square miles to spare, and Bulgaria would have more than enough room in Oklahoma. Turkey's possessions in Europe are about as large as Missouri, and Norway could be placed in the two Dakotas. with lots of room left over. The pieces left over from the various states and territories mentioned would be more than enough to make an area as large as Denmark and the other odds and ends of non-Russian Europe not mentioned. But if we did not want’ to spare so much territory of the western states and territories, we could economize by placing Germany, France, Italy and Belgium up in Alaska, and the British isles could be distributed among the Philippines, Hawaii and Porto Rico.— Washington Post. He Lost His Case. “Judge Emerson, one of the most eloquent men Illinois ever produced, was once taken down completely in a speech at Decatur.” said an attorney of Chicago. “He had a case in which there were some peculiarly pathetic circumstances. the rights of a young girl whose property had been squandered and who was reduced to destitution being involved. Judge Emerson made the most of it, and as he closed his speech a solemn hush' had fallen over the courtroom. “Tears stood in the eyes of the jurors, and even the judge coughed sympathetically and bid his head behind the trial docket. His opponent, whose name I have now forgotten, saw that the spell had to be broken in some way or bis case was lost. Arising slowly to bis feet and in a voice of deep solemnity and with slow deliberation, he said, ‘Gentlemen of the jury, let us continue these solemn exercises by singing the One Hundred and Fifteenth Psalm.’ A roar of laughter followed from the audience, and Judge Emerson lost bis case.” Etiquette of the Smoker. The etiquette of the smoker is not observed in Philadelphia, according to a globe trotter. In many countries, especially in Spain and Cuba, where, such etiquette is most jealously guarded, a man who is smoking must be sure, when asked by another man for a light, to present his cigar or cigarette for the purpose. To offer a match is to imply the social inferiority of the man who asks for the light, so that between two strangers such an offer is a deadly insult and sometimes sufficient to cause a duel. When, however, the difference in social grade is so marked as to be visible in clothing and accouterment the match may be offered without offense. When the lighted cigar is offered it must not be thrown away until the man who has offered it has taken at least one puff. Otherwise the insult is greater than would have been the offering of the match.— Philadelphia Record.

VUitinK Cards. The Chinese, who seem to have known most of our new ideas, used visiting cards 1,000 years ago, but their cards were very large and not really the prototypes of our visiting cards, as they were on soft paper and tied with ribbon. Venice seems to have been the first city in Europe to use cards. Some dating from the latter part of the sixteenth century are preserved in a museum there. The German cities followed the 1 enetinn custom 100 years or so. Then London followed suit—actually followed suit—for the first visiting cards in Great Britain were playing cards or parts of such cards bearing the name of the bestower on the back. They were first used in England about 1700. We do not know when they were first used in this country, probably not long after their first introduction mte British society.

Living on a Few Cents n Day. The problem of living on a few cents a day is not so difficult of solution if one cares to limit oneself tc the actual necessaries. For instance, we could point to the workers in the turpentine forests, who labor hard from sun to sun on a bill of fare that costs not more than sor 6 cents per meal. The average ration of a turpentine “hand” in the woods per week is five pounds of bacon or pork, one peck of corn meal, one quart of molasses and a pint of salt. The value of this ration is about $1 to sl.lO. The real problem, then, is not really bow cheaply may one live, but how many of the extras of eating one is willing to do without. — SavaiWab News. High Pews. During the reign of 'William and Mary in England a worthy bishop complained to the latter that the ladies of the court were wont to fix their eyes on their neighbors rather than on him during his discourses. It apparently never occurred to the divine that the fault might lie in the sermons them- I selves. By consent of the queen high * pews were Introduced to prevent wandering eyes. “As for the young ladies for whose spiritual welfare they were devised,” says a writer, “their indignation was only surpassed by the rage of their admirers.” From that time high pews were commonly placed in churches. A Doubtful Compromize “I've worn out six pairs of shoes." said the collector, “coming after you with this bill.” "Don’t let that bother you.” replied the editor "I’ve got an old pair that”! just Ct you.” Making Himself Agreeable. “Uncle George says I was born with a silver spoon in my mouth.” “A spoon in that little mouth! Oh, 1 see—it was one of those after dinner coffee spoons.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. 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

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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—ss, $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. Red need rates for homeseekers and colonists are in effect first and third Tuesdays of each mouth, byway of St. Louis, Cairo or Memphis and the Cotton Belt Route. Let us sejid you our literature and quote you rates. Address E. W. Laßeaume, Gen. Pass, and Ticket Agent, Cotton Belt Route, St. Louis, Mo.

ANNUAL Ninc,nna Fslls EXCURSION via Lake Erie & Western RAILROAD Personally Conducted Niagara Falls Excursion in connection with the LAKE SHORE & MICHIGAN SOUTHERN RY., Thursday, Aug. 4th Tickets good returning on C. & B line steamer, Buffalo to Cleveland, ifi desired. Also SANDUSKY and PUT-IN-BAY ; side trips to Toronto, Thousand Islands, etc. For tickets, rate, time and pamphlet containing general information, call on any ticket agent of the above , route, or address H. J. RHEIN, G. P. A., Indianapolis, Ind.

Special Low Excursion Rates Via the Clour Leaf Route Season 1904. Homeseekers to west and southwest, Ist and 3rd Tuesday in each month. Triennial Conclave Knights Templar, San Francisco, Cal., Sept. sth to 9th. Sovereign Grand Lodge I. O. O. F. San Francisco, Cal., Sept. 19th to 25th. 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. H. ROSS, Gen’l Traffic Manager, Toledo, Ohio. T. L. Miller, Agt.

■ From Chicago daily, June Ito Sep--9 tember 30. Correspondingly low H rates from all other points. 3 Two fast trains per day. The S Colorado Special, solid through train, H over the only double-track railway ■ between Chicago and the Missouri SI River. Only one night from Chicago; ■ two nights en route from the Atlan- ■ tic Seaboard via the S Chicago, Union Pacific y and North-Western Line H Send two-cent stamp for folders and ■ booklets, with list of hotels and board- ■ ing houses, rates and much valuable ■ information concerning railway fares, S scenery, climate, etc. .... » All agents sell tickets via this line. ■ A. H. WAGGENER, Traveling Agent. H 22 Fifth Avenue, Chicago, 111. nw36s (OMOiLLs B