Decatur Democrat, Volume 48, Number 42, Decatur, Adams County, 22 December 1904 — Page 6

MEXICAN DRAWN WORK. the Women Who Vlnke It According to Peon Contract. The woman who makes drawn work on a Mexican estate is not an independent worker to whom comes the money for all the work her deft hands accomplish. She is a woman whose father or brother or uncle or mother is in debt to the “great don.” She can do the drawn work, so the don’s agent supplies her with linen or lawn, a frame and the requisite implements and indicates the design that she is to follow, for, though you may not know it, there are fashions in drawn work quite as exclusive and quite as popular as there are in women's hats, for instance. When her work is done that poor woman cannot fare forth to market and offer it for sale. It is by the term of her peon contract perhaps already sold to the “great don,” whose tenant she is. Miguel, his agent, takes the work, by’ now as grimy as the overalls of an engineer. He has kept account of the time the woman has been engaged upon it, and for each of the many days she may have worked he gives her 7, 8, 9, at most 12 cents, but never the last amount unless she be a thorough mistress of her craft. Once a year the Mexicans for whom the women do this work, somew’hat as the sweatshop toilers of Chicago and New York drive their needles for a master, meet in solemn conference and determine what the prices shall be. So great is the popularity of drawn work generally that the supply never equals the demand, and the profits made by the Mexican masters of the drawn work trust, for it is really that, are enormous. The dealer pays these “operators” what they demand, and they demand much. Therefore the buyer pays S4O for a “cloth" that costs the "manufacturer" 12 cents a day. labor hire, for. say, ninety days, to produce.— Filgrim. THE FLAMINGO AT HOME. Observation Has Proved That Both Male and Female Incubate. Apparently two factors enter into the flamingoes’ type of architecture—they must build where there is mud and at the same time erect a structure high enough to protect its contents from any normal rise in the water due to .tides or rainfall. ' ■ After watching a nesting colony of flamingoes in the Bahamas for “nearly an hour” at a distance of 150 yards Sir Henry Blake stated that the females sat upon the nests, while the males stood up together, evidently near by. My dissections, however, showed that both sexes incubate, while continued observation from the tent revealed the presence of only one bird of the pair in the rookery at the same time. The bird on the nest was relieved late in the afternoon and early in the morning. The one. therefore, which incubated during the day fed at night, and his or her place was taken by another which had been feeding during the 'day, or. as Teter put it, “I do t’ink, sir, dat when de lady fillymingo leave de nest den de gen'leman fillymingo take her place, sir; yes, sir.” Morning and evening, then, there was much activity in the rookery. Single girds or files of as many as fifty were almost constantly arriving and departing, coming from and radiating to every point of the compass. Flamingoes in flight resemble no other bird known to me. With legs and neck fully outstretched and the com’’paratively small wings set halfway between bill and toes, they look as if they might fly backward or forward with equal ease. They progress more rapidly than a heron and when hurried fly with a singular serpentine motion of the neck and body, as if they were crawling in the air.—Century, v POINTED PARAGRAPHS. There is no one so hopeless as those who do nat make mistakes. No man can do anything against the grain. Woman can do it, but man can’t. A great deal of the friendship others have for you is like the come-any-time invitation. A man can get sick now almost as easy as he can sin, and you all know how easy that is. If a man can get into a bank after banking hours he considers himself a prominent citizen. There is something fine in the bravery of a new father who carries a baby through the streets in his arms. The first thing a girl does to a man after they are married is to get out his middle name, dust it off and use it as common as his first name.—Atchison Globe.

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CHILDREN IN THE HOME. They Brins Anxiety, but Very Much More Comfort. The children of the family—one is apt to look on them as burdens, bothers and expenses. When the baby comes, be it ever so welcome, the mother has more work to do. As it grows into childhood and on to maturity it is more and more care, worry and expense. And so the little children, those innocent trespassers, are borne with as patiently as possible until they grow to a successful manhood or womanhood. Few stop to think deeply about this, or it would be plainly seen how erroneous the impression. The children of the family, instead of being burdens, are burden hearers; small saviors who are daily means of grace, and who lead the world worn parents once more into the paths of innocence and peace. A baby’s tiny hand clasped around his mother’s finger has stilled heart throbs of sorrow and of bitter trouble; a baby’s arms around his father's neck have brought to the man's weary brain a renewal of that love which is all that makes life livable—Philadelphia Telegraph. BLOWING OUT A CANDLE. The Effect a Puff of Breath Ham on the Flame. A burning candle is a gas manufactory on a small scale. The wax or tallow is' converted by the heat of the flame into gas, and in that form enters into chemical combination with the oxygen of the surrounding air. This chemical union causes a very high rise in temperature in the elements concerned. In fact, it produces what we know as flame of fire, which Is simply the white hot molecules of carbon and oxygen. The gas making process is started by the match in lighting the candle and is afterward continued by the flame itself. Our breath acts in three way: (1) It carries away the particles of gas bodily. (2) It lowers their temperature at the same time, so that they are no longer capable of entering into chemical union with the oxygen. (3) The breath contains carbonic acid gas, which is incapable of supporting combustion and so helps to extinguish the flame. in tue lilt.e tow. v-- "mnaiua near Bologna, there is a memorial tablet in the Municipal theater to the memory of a famous robber chieftain named Passatore. The reason why the theater is the home of his memorial is that in it was performed his most famous exploit. In September, 1854, while one of Rossini’s operas was being performed in the presence of all the local beauty and fashion, Passatore and his band “held up” the audience and robbed them of all their valuables to the last penny. Perfectly Congenial. Naggsby—When a man and his wife think the same thoughts simultaneously it is a sign that they are exceedingly congenial. Waggsby—So? Well, then, my wife and I are congenial all right, for the other night when she said that she wondered why I'd ever been such a ■fool as to marry her I had been sitting there in silence for half an hour wondering over the same identical thing.— Baltimore American. ** Saved the Trouble. * She—They say that the best husbands are always thoughtful in little things. Are you that way, Mr. Smith? Smith—No. I don't have to be. My wife always calls my attention to them before I have a chanee to think.—Detroit Free Press. Japanese English. At a recent exhibition Os pictures in Tokyo, Japan, the following notice was posted: “No visitor who is mad or intoxicated is allowed to enter in, if any person found in shall be claimed to retire. No visitor is allowed to carry in with himself any parcel, umbrella, stick and the like kind, except his purse, and is strictly forbidden to take within himself dog or the same kind of beasts. Visitor is requested to take care of himself from thievly.” A Costly Mistake B Sunders are sometimes very ex pensive. Occasionally life itself is the price of a mistake, but you’ll never be wrong if you take Dr. Kirp s New Life Pills for dyspepsia Dizziness, headache, liver or bowel troubles. They are gentle i yet thorough. 25cat Blackburn & Christen’s drug store.

Stork to Benevolent Desire. A benevolent neighbor of ours is sometimes put to it to decide whether her good intentions do not cause quite as much trouble as they cure. The other day she was visiting in the tenement of a very poor family, in whose wretched home she found a litter of puppies better eared for than the children and a basketful of kittens absorbing the attention which might have been profitably devoted to the mopping of the floor. While meditating how she could best offer some gift of money which might be wisely applied to immediate necessities the eldest daughter of the one room home abruptly asked: "Say. Mrs. X., wouldn't you like to buy two of these puppies? You can have them for $4.” Glad of an opportunity to contribute the $4 to a household where it was evidently much needed, she was opening her purse, when she thought to inquire, “Mary, what will you do with the $4 if 1 give it to you?" "Pay the dog tax on the rest of the puppies,” was the prompt but unexpected reply. The problem of poverty is not how to get money to the hand of the poor, but how to get it to stay there.—Chicago Interior Fight Will Be Bitter Fight will be Bitter. Those who will persist in their ears against the continual recommendation of Dr. King’s for Consumption, will have a long and bitter fight with their troubles, if not ended earlier by fatal termination. Read what Mr. T. R. Beall, of Beall, Miss., has tojfsay: “Last fall my wife had every'symptom of consumption. She took Dr. King’s New Discovery after’feverything else had failed. Improvement came at once and four bottles entirely cured her. Guaranteed by Blackburn & Christen, Druggists. Price 500 and sl.'[Trial bottles free.

“Well, I wouldn't say ‘comparatively,’ but ‘relatively.’ They have a rich uncle of whom they expect great things.”—Philadelphia Ledger. One Advantage. Rimer—Do you really prefer to have long poems sent in to you rather than short ones? Editor—Yes. When they’re long, you see, I don’t have to think up any other excuse for rejecting them.— Exchange. The Silver Tongued One. “So that’s the silver tongued orator. Is it?” said the man in the rear seat. “Wonder why they call him that?” “Because,” replied the weary listener, “silence, which is golden, is so much more valuable than bis oratory.” —Cincinnati Tribune. A Frightened Horse Running like mad r down ' the street dumping the occupants, or a hundred other accidents, are every day oocurranoes. It. behooves everybody to have a reliable salve handy, and there’s none as'gocd as Bucklen’s Arnica Salve. J Burns, cuts, sores, eczema’and'piles disappearing quickly under its soothing effect. 25c at Blackburn <fc Christen's drug store.

GOOD SPIRITS. Good spirits don’t all come from Kentucky. Their main source is the ’ liver —and all the fine spirits ever I 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 I at the same time. Your liver must be I 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 dys- I pepsia or indigestion. It has been a favorite household remedy for over ’thirty-five years. August Flower will make your liver healty and active and thus insure vou a liberal 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 of Interest. Money loaned at five per cent, interest, payable annually or semi-an-nually, at option of borrower, with privilege of partial payments at any nterest paying time. No delay in making loans. F. M. Schinneyer, Decatur, Ind. 9tf

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 ..'■re with free home stead adjoiniL , Come and see us over First Nation u Bank Decatur Ind.. We can also se’l you farms in Virignia, Mississipir Tennessee and Arkansas. Excursion 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

Among the finishing business in commissioners’ court, was the appointment of Frank Hisey, A. JSipe and L. C- Miller as viewers upon a petition for ditch presented by J. F. Snow. The ditch will traverse a small portion of Wabash township. Revolution Imminent A sure sign of approaching revolt and serious trouble in your system is nervousness, sleeplessness, or stomach upsets. Electric Bitters will quickly dismember the troublesome causes. It never fails to tone the stomach, regulate the kidneys and bowels, stimulate the liver, and clarify the blood. Run down systems benefit particularly and all the usual attending aches vanish under its searching and thorough effectiveness. Electric Bitters is only 50c, and that is returned if i t don’t give perfect satisfaction. Guaranteed by Blackburn & Christen, druggists. A beautiful map, valuable for reference, printed on heavy paper 42x64 inches mounted on rollers; edged bound in olcth, showing our new island poi sessions. The Trans-Siberian Railway, Pacific Ocean cables, railway lines and other features of Japan, China, Munohuria, Koorea and the Fai East. Sent in receipt of 25 cents in stamps by W. B. Kntskern, P. T, M. Chicago & North Western R’y, Chicago, 111. $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 H’ s 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. Homeseekers' excursions via South ern railroad in connection with the Queen & Cresent route to certain 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, 1904 nclusive, at the very low rate of one fare for the round trip, plus J 2 Tickets are good going 15 days, and for stop-overs south of the Ohio River with final limit for return of 21 days from date of sale. On the same dates one way settlers’ tickets will be sold to points in the same territory at one half first-class rates, plus $2 from Ohio River gateways. For rates schedules and full information, call on your nearest ticket agent, or write J. S. McCullough, N. W. P. A., 225 Dearborn street. Chicago, 111.

PARKER’S hair balsam !£■ Cleanses and beautifies the hair. Promotes a luxuriant growth. Never Fails to Restore Gray Hair to its Youthful Color. ST’’ .. Cures sca'.p diseases & hair falling. 50c, and at Druggists Arkansas Texas Louisiana An ideal country for cheap homes. Land at $5 $lO, sls, acre; gro«s corn, cotton, wheat, oats, grasses, fruits and vegetables. Stock ranges 10 months in the year. Southeast Missori, Akansas, Louisiana and Texas are full of opportunities — the climate is mild, the soil is rich, the lands are cheap. Low home-seekers’ rates —about* half fare —via the Cotton Belt twice a month — first and third Tuesday. For descriptive literature, maps and excursion rates, write to L. H. SCHAEEER, T. P. A. Cotton Belt Route CINCINNATI OHIO. EAST. No. 6. TheComm’l Traveler daily. 5:05 a. n> No. 2. Mail, daily, except Sunday...ll-87a. m No. 4. Day express, daily fi:23p. n> No. 22, Local freight 12:01 a. m WEST No. 3. Day express, daily 5:05a. m No. 1. Mail, daily except Sunday ... .11:10 n. m 5. T’-crpmrn’l Traveler, daily . s4ip. m No. 23. Local freight 12:01 p. m

<A» RAILROAD NEW ERIE TIME TABLE. EAST BOUND ~40 p.m. No. S:2op. mNo. 14 4 : 40 p. w No. 4.. R;SS a. m. No. 28 ; :? a. m No ' B ’ wasf BOUND 3:ftjain . N >. 9 10:10 a. m. No. 21 - i.' 14 p.m. No. 3 — 5:56 p.m. No. 13 - g oo a. m. No. 7 _ Grand Rapids & Indiana. In effect Sept. 25.1904 TRAINS NORTH. Ro s—Leaves J.’2:20 a m •• “ Kalamazoo.. •• Arrives Grand Rapids •• " ■■ Petoskey... - P " “ “ Mackinaw City 4.15 pm N.o 7—Leaves Decatur :• •• Fort Wavne “,50 am Kalamazoo “ Arrives Grand Rapids 2:05 pin “ “ Petoskey >• •' Mackinaw City 10:50 pm No. 3—Leaves Decatur 3:17 p m •• " Kalamazoo 8.05 pm •• Arrives Grand Rapids •• ” Petoskey ® : ?s, am " ” Mackinaw City TRAINS SOUTH No. 6—Leaves Decatur ,V 2? am Portland 2:01 a m . “ Winchester 3:5-am Arrives Richmond 3:3oam •• “ Cincinnati 7:15 am “ " Indianapolis 6:50 am “ “ Louisville 10:05 am •• “ St. Louis 1:30 pm No. 12—Leaves Decatur 7:14 am “ “ Portland 8:15 am •• “ Winchester 8:56 am " Arrives Richmond 9:42 am " Cincinnati 12:20 pm •• Indianapolis 12:10 pm “ “ Louisville 7:10 pm •• “ St. ’ JUis 7:10 pm No. 2—Leaves Deca r 1:16 pm “ Portland 2:l3pm •• " Winchester 2:50 pm “ Arrives Richmond 3:40 pm •• Cincinnati 5:55 pm •• “ Indianapolis 11:55 pm <• “ Louisville 7:00 am •• St. Louis 7:22am No.3o—Lea ves Decatur .... 7:slpm “ Arrives Portland, 8:55 pm No. 16—Leaves Decatur....» 8:46 p ni •• Portland 9:45 p m “ Winchester 10:25 pm " Arrives Richmond 11:15 pm Nos. t> and 5 daily. " 2, 3 and 12 dally except Sunday. No. 30 dally except Sunday to Portland. •• 16 Sunday only. No. s—Sleeping car to Grand Rapids. Travise City. Northport and Mackinaw City. No. 7—Parlor car Grand Rapids to Mackinaw City—Daily to Grand Rapids No.3—Parlor car Richmond toGrand Rapids Sleeping car to Mackinaw City. No. 2—Parlor car to Richmond and Cincinnati. J. Bryson. Agt. C. L. Lockwood. G. P. A. Gr. Rapids Mich i axative {Quinine tires a Cold in One Day, Grip in 2 Days 2? pl/ J?/ on every box - 25c

Weak Men Mads Vigorous, f KMT I3~W SWSS&r What PEFFER S NERVIGOR DM ' It acts powerfully and Quickly. Cures when al others fail. Young men regain lost u.antoodiuk men recover youthful vigor. Absolutely .Guar anteed to Cure Nervousness, Lost Vitality. Im potency. Nightly Emission*, Lost Power either sex, Failing Memory, Wasting Dis and all effects of self-abuse or excesses anc Indiscretion Wards oil insanity and consumption Don’t let druggist impose a worthless substitute o; you because it yields a greater profit. Insist on havng PEFFER’S J* ERViGOR. or eend for it Car 1 l>e carried in vest pocket. Prepaid, plain wrapper, 111 per box, or 6 for $5. with A Written Guar* iinteetoCnreor Refund .Money. Pamphletfrej PEFFER MEDICAL ASS’N. Chicago, 111 Sold by Blackburn & Christen FOR QUICK CASH SALES /Mortgage Loans. Money Loaned on favonUe terms. Low Rate of Interest. Privelege of partial payments, Abstracts of Title carefully prepared. F. M. SGHIRMEYER, Gor'. Second aqd Madison ®te* Decatur, Indiana. 1 ♦ -TV' ■' 'All a b jOb* DON’T BE A SLAVE lo the Liquor or Drug Habit When a speedy, harmless and permanent Cure is within the reach of all? THOUSANDS of happy, prosperous and sober Men testify to the efficacy of the Cure j as administered ai ; THE KEELEY INSTITUTE MARION, INDIANA 1204 ». Atlants Street i | Confidences Careful!? Guarded 3 ’

ROY ARCHBOLD dentist I. O. O. F. BLOCK ’Phones-Office 164, residence’ 248 D. D. HELLER & SON ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Officaover Blackburn & Christen’s drug 8 t« f DORE B. ERWIN. ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office.-Corner Monroe and Second Utlon DraCtltlOner ’ N 0 cha W for cTns AMOS P. BEATTY ATTORNEY AT LAW And Notary Public. Pension claim, cuted. Odd Fellows building. 9 Prose. MERRYMAN & SUTTON. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, DECATUR, IND. Office—Nos. 1. 2. 3, over Adams Co Bank We refer, by permission to Adams Co. Bank BCHURGER A SMITH, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Notaries. Abstracters, Real Estate Agent. Money to Loan. Deeds and Mortgages writ ten on short notice, Office in Allison block second story, over Fristoe’s Smoke Hnnt. Decatur, Indiana. ÜBe » J, Q. Neptune. D. D. 8. C. E. Neptune, fins 'Phone 23. ’Phone 236. Neptune Brothers, DENTISTS. Rooms 1,2, 3,4, Spangler Building, Decatur, Indiana. Office 'Phone 207. Lady Attendant English. German and Swiss spoken. FRED REP PER T, Sale Crier and Auctioneer. DECATUR, - - - -'- - INDIANA Speaks English.'German. Swiss and Low German. MANN & CHRISTEN, Architects. Are prepared to do any kind of work in their line. Persons contemplating building can save times, trouble and money by consulting them. Office— MANN & CHRISTEN, Bowers Block, Monroe st. Aiehitect LINN & PATTON Carpenters, Contractors and Builders Slate Rooters and Galvanized Gutters. Shop, Corner Rugg and Market Streets. Linn & Patton

AUCTIONEER For Good Service See L. H. CAGE (Speaks German and English) Auctioneer and Sale Crier. Rates 54.00 Sales over 5500 80c per 5100. Leave address at Berne Witness Office, Berne, Ind J. D. HALE, DEALER IN Seeds, F+ay, Wool, Oil Salt, Coal, Lime, Cement Fertilizers. Office and retail store store southeast cor, her of Second and Jefferson streets. Your patronage solicited. 1 H. O. WELLS, 31. D., SPECIALIST. 723 CLINTON STREET, FORT WAYNE. Cures Piles, Fistula. Fissure. Stricture o\ the Rectum. Itching. Bleeding. I Iceration, ( onstioation and all diseases of the Rectum. Also Rupture. Dr. Wells will be at the Murray hotel, in the forenoon, and at me Shamrock hotel in Geneva in the afternoon, on the first Tuesday in every month, m order to introduce his painless Ireatinent. ne will give one treatment free to all who call t see him. P. M B Dr. Williams'lndian Pile ■ 8 1 E SKOintmeiit w ill cure Blind. 3 F ana Iw"’”® ■Bl Lpaes-I’-a bson,sthet,) IS ■ M H— allays the itch i. . 3 sfciB „S a poultice, gives >n?! an 8 lief. Dr. Wil.i-am- ln<luiuFileO‘M- ■ ment is prepared for Pilesand Ing of the private parts. T-very bo warranted. By druggists, by m. ■« ceipt of price. 59 cents and tN IL MANUFACTURING CO.. Props.. Cleveland, on Nachtrieb & Fuelling. DOCTOR E. J. Beardslej, General Practice and Surgery. But Special Attention given to Eye E* r Nose, Throat and Chronic Diseases. expert In nttiog Glasses. Thoroughly equipped for treating Eye. sr Throat and Catarrhal cases. CALLS answered, day or night. OFFICE—over poetoffice uvntbste RESIDENCE—cor. Monroe and Ntnrn Office Hours—l) to 11 a. m. 2 to 4p. m. | $250.0007 $250,000 to loan on improved farms at lowest rate of interest, we. can place your loan at a lower rate o interest and less expense than any other Agency 111 he city. The Decatur Abstract & Loan Company Rrcms 3 »nd 4. Studabaker hl