Decatur Democrat, Volume 48, Number 24, Decatur, Adams County, 18 August 1904 — Page 8

Pleasant Mills N • Irwin Carter visited Sunday with a friends at Delphos. . 0 Rev. Scherioh, of Poneto, is call ing on old friends here this week. !l Mr. and Mrs. William Hill visit- ‘ ed Sunday with country friends. Mr. and Mrs. A. M- Fuller visited Sundav with friends at Monroe. I 1 Mrs. Frank Misters called on relatives in the country a few days last week. Bob Peter son and family of Decatur, Sundayed with John Noll und family. Dan Niblick and family of Decatur called on on friends near this place last Sunday. Chas. Harris and wife, of Econ- ! omy, are making an extended visit here with friends. The picnic that was held here hist Saturday passed off without j any notable events. The Sunday schools are making J preparations to attend the picnic at Monroe next Saturday. Miss Kizers, of Linn Grove, visited a few days here wih their uncle, Fred Bender, and family. Mrs. Will Cordua and son, of Decatur, vistied a few days here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Roop. There will be an entertainment given here three evenings this week, including Wednesday, Thursday and Friday evening. Cal D ivis and family, of Chicago, Visited here a few days last week with Mrs. Davis’ parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Boyd, cf this burg. Burton Fuller and sister Mary, ! took in the excursion to Toledo, | Wednesday of last week. Burt will remain a few days there with his brother, Albert, after which he will return to St. Louis, where ho has a position. Linn Grove. uncle, Marion French and family, of Domstic, last week. Mr. Basinger of Columbus, Grove, Ohio, is visiting here. Misses Winona Hoffman and Bessie Baumgartner visited their Eugene and F. O. Lindsey with their families visited Sunday at the parental home. Sterling P. Hoffman and Arthur Schaup returned from the Marion College last Friday. Father Cordua, of the north part of the o rnnty, made a social call on friends here on Monday. Daniell Baumgartner, Bert Heller Lawrence and Harvey Oplinger are attending the St. Louis fair this week. Tne I. O. O. F. moved~ihtb"their new home on Tuesday afternoon and will use it for meeting on Wednesday night. Lawrence Oplinger returned home from Angola last Saturday, where he attended the Tri-State Normal college. John Augsburger, Sr. has bought

PUBLIC SALE! We will offer fifty head of Native Horses at the “Fashion Sale Stable,” in Decatur, Indiana, on Saturday, Au£. 20 AT TEN O’CLOCK SHARP These horses range in weight from 900 to 1,750; age from 3 to 7; all halter broke and most of them broken to harness. All broke horses sold under a guarantee. SOMEVERY GOOD DRIVERS II — 111 — ~ I Will sell on six months’ time with a bankable note. Notes to draw six per cent, interest from date. McDaniel & Bates, Owners. FRED REPPERT, Auctioneer.

Mrs. Lena Neaderhousei’s residence j and will be numbered with our j oitzens in the near future. Henson Burgess, of Gore,- Ohio, 1 an aged veteran pioneer of Adams ! county, is visiting his daughter, Mrs. Jonh Hall and other kindred. Owing to an existing strike in the factory manufacturing some of our furniure, the dedication of our h ill h is boom p >stpmed indefinitely, isse.-, Heester, E/a Sayder and Misses Pearl Lookwood and Bert Rodding, of Bluffton, were guests of Miss Nellie Hunton the Sabbath. Daniel Yoder and family and Mrs. Samuel Neusbaum, of this place, visited their daughter and sister, Mrs. Stuckey of Allen county several days last week. Peter Baumgartner will merit first prize in a county contest in ( the laying of carpet, discarding all ■ machinery for stretching he simply 1 grips tne carpet with his hands, makes a leap frog surge and the carpet is ready to nail. The I. O. O. F. borrowed Peter for laying of j the hall carpet and found that he is a howling success. ANCIENT BABYLON. The Way the Excise Question Was Handled by Its Solons. A translation of King Hamourabi’s code, written about 2.250 years before Christ, gives us an insight into the life of the great city of Babylon at that remote time and of the way in which the excise question was handled by its legislators. Nearly all the dealers of wines and liquors at that time were women, as [ many of the laws translated from the , | code speak only of women as sellers of j drinks. Severe measures were taken against those who adulterated the | wines or mixed them with water, so as ! to safeguard the purity of the article , . for the use of the public. The barmaid was held responsible for all disorderly , scenes or drunkenness in her premises, and death was the penalty for those j who did not denounce all cases of drunkenness to the police. Those women who were employed in the temples were forbidden to enter public hostelries under penalty of death, and even drinking in private was forbidden to them. Special police officers were detailed for the enforcement of the excise laws In the city of Babylon, but then as well a* now the officers charged with this duty were, if we are to believe the code in question, either negligent in the performance of their duties or too willing to accept bribes from the barmaids in the shape of drinks or even money. Severe punishment is dealt out in the document to the police officers who shall accept bribes in connection with the enforcement of the excise laws of Babylon, but it is probable that then as well as now many of the fair saloon keepers found away to bribe the officers and evade the laws. With Respect to Fish Stories. Harry—Fish diet is said to be good for the brain. Harriet—That may be so, but going to catch flsb seems to be awful hard on the morals.—Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. Every Sunday during the continuance of the summer schedule one fare for the round trip to Fort Wayne and intermediate points. Eleven hous in the Summit city on Sunday.

A-LUCKY SHOT. i Hi-lting Moment In n Buffalo Hunt In South Africa. A hunter in South Africa tells the following story of an adventure with a buffalo: "I was in the net of des. nd-1 ilig the bank when ITinsloo. a Dutch hunter, who was lower d >wn the slope, saw the dark outline of the buffalo standing at bay behind the screen of reeds. Next instant, seeing it about to charge, he shouted. T>aar kom bij!’| ! (‘There l.e comes!') and tired, rattier at. random, I am afraid. Then, rusi.ing down the path by which he lit’..l advanced, he threw himself headlong into the reeds on the left. 1 his all happened in a few moments, but 1 had sufficient time to raise my rifle to my shoulder and fire as the enraged bull rushed straight at me through the reeds, with nose thrown forward and horns back. As 1 fired I endeavored to jump aside to escape the charge, but my feet got entangled in the matted grass, and I fell on my back, luckily, however, retaining my hold on the stock of my rifle. My first shot seem- , ed to check him for a moment, but the next he was rushing up the slope at me. I shall never forget the look in his fierce eyes. It was but a moment s work to draw back the bolt of my Mauser and to close it again, thus pushing another cartridge into the breech. I had no time to raise the rifle to my shoulder. There was barely time, just before he was within striking distance, to pull the trigger, with the stock under my armpit, while I lay on my back on the top of the slopIng ground. Without so much as a groan he fell in his tracks and rolled over into the muddy water two yards below with a great splash, shot through the brain.” CHEER UP. There Are Millions of People Much Worse Off Than You Are. Cheer up. The world is taking your photograph. Look pleasant. Os course ! you have your troubles, troubles you cannot tell the policeman. A whole lot of things bother you, of course. Business worries or domestic sorrows. ■it may be, or what not. You find life a rugged road whose stones hurt your feet. Nevertheless cheer up. It may be your real disease is selI fishness —ingrown selfishness. Your life Is too self centered. You imagine your tribulations are worse than others bear. You feel sorry for yourself—the meanest sort of pity. It is a pathetic illusion. Rid yourself of that and cheer up. What right have you to carry a picture of your woebegone face and funereal ways about among your fellows, who have troubles of their own? If you must whine or sulk or scowl, take ' a car and go to the woods or to the unfrequented lanes. Cheer up. Your ills are largely imaginary. If you were really on the brink of bankruptcy, or if there were no thoroughfare through your sorrows, you would clear your brows, set your teeth and make the best of it. Cheer up. You are making a hypothetical case out of your troubles and suffering from a self inflicted verdict. You are borrowing trouble and paying a high rate of interest. Cheer up. Why. man alive, in a ten minute walk you may see a score of people worse off than you. And here you are digging your own grave aud i playing pallbearer Into the bargain. ; Man alive, you must do your work. Smile, even though it be through your tears, which speedily dry. And cheer up.—Milwaukee Journal. Economy. "Economy,” said a Wyoming man, "is always admirable. A Cheyenne hatter, though, was disgusted the other day with the economical spirit of a visitor to bis shop. “This visitor, a tall man with gray hair, entered with a soft felt hat, wrapped in paper, in his hand. “ ‘How much will it cost,’ he said, ‘to dye this hat gray, to match my hair?’ “ ‘About a dollar,’ the hatter answered. “The tall man wrapped the hat up again. “‘I won’t pay it,’ he said. ‘I can get my hair dyed to match the hat for a quarter.' ” A Villain. Lady of the House (to her friend)— What do you suppose has happened? At the last ball my Elsa made the acquaintance of a young man who was obviously interested. He was a good match, so I sent him frequent invitations to dinner, and as I knew he was a great gormand I employed the best cook that was to be had. Her Friend— And your plan succeeded? Lady of the House—Well, not exactly. The vil- , lain found out and married my cook. Explaining? It. “His great contention is that all men I are born equal.” “That’s all right.” “But he seems to think he’s better than most men.” “Well, he means all men are born equal, but some are equal to a hundred others.”—Philadelphia Press. Definition of Genins. So far is genius from being “a transcendent capacity for taking trouble, first of all,” as Carlyle has it, that it is rather the capacity for doing without trouble that which other people cannot do with any amount of trouble.— Pall Mall Gazette. “Nine times out of ten,” says a philosopher, ‘ trouble is what we blame the world for when we did it all ourselves.”—Atlanta Constitution. Poverty wants things, luxury many, avarice all things.—Cowley.

Railroad Notes. ft Wawassee Lake Ind. tickets on ft ■sale until September 80. Return ft limit October 31st 1904. *3.10 foi 4 i -ound trip. Rome City Ind. 4 tickets good until October 31st *2.3 15 day ticket 51.95- 4 Russia-Japan war altas 10 cents Three fine colored maps, each 14x2' ; hound in convenient form for refer , ; ence. The Estern situation shown in detail, issued bv The Chicago &' • North Western R’y, mailed upon £ receipt of ten cenfs in stamps by A. 4 H. Waggener, 22 Fifth Avenue, 4 Chicago Ills. Commencing June Ist the G. R I VJ I. will sell 15 day round trip tickets 4 to northern resorts on G. R- & I 4 also to Frankfort Mich, and Ann )| Arbor and to points on the Peie . Marquete R. R. from Grand Rapids at rate of one fare plus 50 cents for p the round trip. fi On the first and third Tuesday of g everv month the Erie railroad will p sell one way and ronud trip excur- p son tickets to the west, northwest g and southwest at very low rates. v Further information, call upon e Erie agents or write, C. L. Enos, T P. A., Marion Ohio. §50.00 Californi and return. Send b 2 cent stamp for itinerary of special 0 personally conducted tours to California, leaving Chicago August 18th and August 25th, via the Chicago fl Union Pacific & North Western Line, account Triennil Conclave Knights Templar at San Francisco. I 150 round trip from Chicago. Cor S respondingly low rates from all ? points. A. H. Waggener. 22 Fifth I Avenue. Chicago, Ills. *1.25 Chicago and return. Sun- ' day, August 28th, the Erie R. R will run a special excursion to Chicago and return. *1.25 round trip. Special tain leaves Decatur at 6:CO 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. O. L. Enos, T. P. A. Marion, Ohio. Northern Michigan has never been so beautiful as it is this J summer. Your vacation is due 1 and when looking over the map • for a nice cool place to rest would ; be pleased to have you decide that ■ some one of the many resorts suit ; you then ’’look up and talk it 1 over” regarding rates, time of 1 trains, etc. You know the G. R. &I. is the way'to get to Northern Michigan real quick. J. Bryson Agent. Cheap rates for vacation trips from Chicago, round trip rates via Chicago Great Westren railway *18,.00 to St Paul or Minneapolis I *22.00 to Duluth or Superior *30.00 ! to Denver, Colorado Springs 01 I Pueblo Col *43.00 to Salt Lake City. These rates are good any day up to September 30th and on any 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 0 igo. ‘lll. r A beautiful map, valuable for , reference, printed on heavy paper 42x64 inches mounted on rollers; ’ edged bound in ckth, showing our new island po sessions. The - Trans-Siberian Railway, Pacific Ocean cables, railway lines and > other features of Japan, China, Munchuria, Koorea and the Fai t East. Sent in receipt of 25 cents in 1 stamps by W. B. Kniskern, P. T M., Chicago & North Western R’y, Chicago, 111. Summc- outings in Wisconsin ’ Over a hundred summer resorts lo- - cated on the Wisconsin Central Ry. ’ between Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Ashland, offers to the s summer tourists all attractions in t the way of rest, comfort and recre- - ation. The hotels are modern and f splendidly equipped for the busi- • nesg. Waukesha, Waupaca, Fifield and a score of other resorts are famous. Beautifully illustratodbookJas. C. Pond, Gen. Pass. Agt. Wis. 0 Cent Rv. Milwaukee, Wis. Homeseekers' excursions via South r ern railroad in connection with the Queen & Cresent route to certain 4 points in Alabama, Georgia, Florida, North and South Carolina, Kentucky. Mississippi, Tennessee and Virginia on the first and third Tuesdays in each month—May to November, 19C4 ’ nelusive, at the very low rate of one 9 fare for the round trip, plus *2. Tickets are good going 15 days, and 2 for stop-overs south of the Ohio River witjr. final limit for return of 21 days from date of sale. On the same dates a one way settlers’ tickets will be sold ® to points in the same territory at one- ’’ half first-class rates, plus J 2 from Ohio River gateways. For rates, schedules and full information, call y on your nearest ticket agent, or write J. S. McCullough, N. W. P. A., 225 Dearborn street, Chicago, 111.

t The Great Northern Indiana ♦ t F 7 A1 R =: A ft ■h at Decatur, Indiana, * Uug. 30-31, Sept. 1-2.1 A It will be the Greatest Fair in the history of North ft ft Eastern Indiana. For Premium Lists and other information address ft C. D. KUNKLE, Secretary, ft J Decatur, Indiana, ft

*27.50 Hot Springs, S.D . 30.70 Deadwood and Lead and return :rom 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 pioturssque 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. $1.25 Round Trip to Toledo. Including 25 mile ride on Lake Erie, via the Clover Leaf and White Star Line Steamer Owana, Sundays, August 21 and 25. Visit Walbridge Park, Lake Erie Park and Casino, I Farm Theatre, etc. A ride on Lake Erie on the Steal Steamer Owana is one long to be remembered. Get information of agents, Clover Leaf route MARKET REPORT. Accurate prices paid by Decatur merchants for various products, Cor rected every day. GRAIN. BY E. L. CARBOL, GRAIN MERCHANT. New Corn yellow $ 75 New Corn, mixed 73 Machine shucked one cent less. Oats, new 31 No. 3, White Oats old 31 Wheat, No. 298 Wheat, No. 393 Barley4o Rye No. 2 62 Clover Seed 5 75 Alsyke @ 6 00 Buckwheat4B Flax Seed 80 Timothy fl 25 CHICAGO MARKETS. Chicago market closed at 1 :ll p. m loday. according to National Commi sion Co., special wire service, as I followsI Wheat, Sept, oldl 09| September wheat new 1 08} Wheat, Dec. 1 09 Wheat, Mayl 11 > Corn, September 55 j Corn, December 54| Corn, May 531 Oats, September34| Oats, Dec. 36} Oats May 38g Sept. Pork 11 57 Sept Lard..._ 6 87 TOLEDO GRAIN MARKETS. Changed every afternoon at 3KX □’clock bv J. D. Hale, Decatur Special wire service. Wheat, new No. 2, red, cash>l 10 September wheat;l 10} December Wheat 1 11 g Corn cash 58 September corn 57| December corn 5 L Oats, Cash 35} September oats ?5| Oats December 36} Rye, cash72' OTHER PRODUCTS. BY VARIOUS GROCERS AND MERCHANTS. Eggs, fresh, per doz| 17 Lard 7 Butter, per poundlo Potatoes, new 50 Onions 75 Cabbage per 100 lbl 50 Apples, per bu 8( Sweet Potatoe, per bu 7f STOCK. BY FBED SOHEIMAN, DE LEB Lambs 5 Os) Hogs, per cwt 15 00 5 25 Cattle per lb 3 @ 31 4 Calves, per lb 34 @ 4 Cows 2 @ 2} BY J. W. PEACE CO. Chickens, young, per lb 61®7 1 Fow's, per lb— 6(a6J Ducks, per lb Young Ducks 6(5:7 Young Turkeys, per lb 12 1 Geese, old per lb 5@6 1 Geese, young, per lbs@6 HAY nARKET. 1 No. 1 timothy hay(baled) I kUT-—UT 58 00 @ NO N I No 1 mixed hay (baled) ! w t 16 00 @ > No. 1 clover hay (baled)

WOOL AND HIDES. I ' BY B. KALVEB a SON. I ’ S 8 Wool, unwashed ■fine'’ Sheep pelts a Beef hides, per pound B Calf hides I Tallow, per pound I* 1 OIL HARKET. Kg h Ti0na...... | 165 IcfL PennsylvaniaKnw r Corning I she: New Castle gThe North Lima ” lxo | r ld Whitehouse 123 Somerset Neodasha, (Kan.) 4] I who Barkersvillel99 gfadi Ragland | Way COAL —Per Ton lowu Anthracites fi 75 I kill? Domestic, nut 3go | a g o . Domestic, lump, Hocking 3 40 Domestic lump, Indiana 320 1./, Pocahontas Smokeless, lump 400 l tor ' ...Legal Advertising■ I V°TICE TO NON-RESIDEaNTS. I Lddi State of Indiana, county of Adams. S 8: [One, In the Adams circuit court. September term, 1904. r Christopher Byer I Brpr vs I No. 6765. Elmira Garwood, > Robert Garwood. Suit to Quiet Title Rosella Garwood, et al J ■aDI It appearing from affidavit filed in the above K?'' entitled cause, that Robert Garwood. Arthur Byer. Floyd Byer, Cecilia Byer. Guy Byer. K“JDewey Byer, and Arlie Byer of the above K named defendants are non-rcsidvnts of the state of Indiana. K[e, Notice is therefore hereby given the said k Robert Garwood. Arthur Byer. Floyd Byer, Cecilia Byer. Guy Byer. Dewey Bver, v and Arlie Byer, that they be and appear before the Hon. Judge of the K ' Adams circuit court on the 2Sth day K.j ( I of September the same being the Wr twenty-first juridical day of the next rgu- Bv( lar term thereof, to be holden at the court K bouse in the city of Decatur, commencing on Monday, the sth day of September A. p., 1 I9t<4. and plead by answer or demur to said B complain ß , or the same will be heard and de- M termined in their absence. K 1 i—i Witness, my name and seal -f said B' -J seal - court hereto affixed this Ist day I —v— I of August, 1904. KJ DAVID GERBER. Clerk. H By 8 Paul Baumgartner. Deputy. K' Schurger & Sjniih, Ati’ys tor plaintitT. -.'-3 ■ KTOTICE OF MACADAMIZED ROAD | PETITION. I Notice is hereby given that Jacob.M I’sler, S ! William Nusbaum and others have ti.- i t eir B i petition with the Board of Com inis-! oners oi R • Adams county. Indiana, for the improve- ■ J meet of a public highway bv grading ana ■ r macadamizing the same and commencing at ■ . the souibeast corner of the northeast «iuar- ■ f ter of section twenty-two (2t’) in t< wnsnip ■ twenty -six (’26) north, range thirteen 3 | in said Adams county, in the State of Djd.ana ■ thence to run east on, over, along ana upon ■ the public highway to the southy est corner ■ of the northwest quarter of section twenty. ■ in township twenty-six north, range t'lurte n ■ east, including all that portion ot -a;<i nit • ■ way located and situated on the io\sn>n p ■ line between ihe township ■ f I reLcn ana ■ ) Monroe, being a distance and lengt h 1 I rods, more or less. The entire length or >a | proposed improvement being three miies, ■ more or less. I Said petition iss’gned by more than a.ma- I i jority of those whose lands abut 'P°° I ’ proposed improvement prayed for m ■ s jpn j I ‘ tition. Said petition will be presented to tne i board of c mmissioners of Adam' conn y. i i Indiana, on I Monday, September 5, 1904, | ! That being the September session of s»id - board, and said board will be ®s'' t ’d 'Y I I petitioners herein to act on said pc " accordance with the act of the Genera. , bl v of the state of Indiana, apprt vt o Marut 9, 1903. Acts of 1903. page 265. the fantebeins entitled An Act Concerning Gravel ami ‘ Dated August 2,1904. i Jadob Musbler. . . ; WILLIAM NVSBAOL.et 01 M ) ) ’ B.OY ARCHBOLD, ? DENTIST. I. O. O. F. BLOCK. ’Phones— Office, 164: residence 245 5 Eyes Examined Fre® 1 and Headaches Cured i Drs. Burke 4 Lemontree of 221 S. Michigan St. * South Bend, Ind., who have been making regul ar C to Decatur every sixty days wii 6 here soon. 0 J ■W'A.'X’OII FOR