Decatur Democrat, Volume 48, Number 42, Decatur, Adams County, 22 December 1904 — Page 8

Linn Grove. William Liddy moved into the house vacated by Rufus Kreps last Wednesday. F. A. W. Lindsey has purchased a residence property in the town of Geneva. H. W. Riddle, of Terre Haute, special agent for the Phoenix insurance company, made this place a business call last Friday. D. A. Baumgartner and James Kizer made a round trip to Bluffton last Saturday as also did Jacob Augsberger in company of wife, mother and sister on Monday. Route One. J. A. Fuhrman was a business visitor at Decatur Friday. John Reed returned home Thursday morning after a three weeks’ « visit with relatives at Cleveland. Andrew Stewart and wife, of Cleveland, are the guests of Mrs. J. H. Reed and family. The Mt. Pleasant Sunday school are preparing a good program to be given on Christmas eve. The new seats for the Mt. Pleasant church were placed in the church Wednesday. This adds much tc the beauty of the new church. School at District No. 7, will close on Friday, Dec. 23, for the holiday vacation. State Line. Adolph 'Wood, of near Daisy, Ohio, was visiting his brother, G. R. W’ood and family on the State Line last Tuesday. Fred and Philip Myers, of ' near W’ren, was in our vicinity last Tuesday. Wm. Connel, of Wren, was in our vicinity last Tuesday. E. F. Miller was at Wren, last Wednesday on business. Wm. Drake was at Wren last Wednesday. W. W. Stewart was at Decatur ast Wednesday. Otis Stevens had [the misfortune to cut his foot last Monday while chopping wood. G. R. W’ood was visiting his brother, Adolph Wood near Daisy, last Wednesday. Ihe general thing in this community among the farmers is butchering, and they are all busy at that. Mrs. Simon Treasler was a caller at Daisy last Thursday Berne Items. Dr. C. H. Schenk made a business trip to Geneva Monday. Thurman G?3schalk returned home Monday, after spending several days with friends at Markle. Ch is. Wright the rig builder, came home from Parker City, Saturday to spend Sunday with his family. Emil Franz was transacting business at Portland last Friday. J. T. Merryman, of Decatur, was a business caller here Monday. Otto Sohug left Tuesday for Fort Wayne, where he has accepted a position with the Adams Express company. Mrs. Brioe Grimmell and children returned home last week, after spending several weeks with her sick mrther at Bowling Green, Ohio. The stock ’ uye-s, Sprung.tr & Co.

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j shipped font car loads of stock > from here Saturday and business in : general, was very good. The stores were crowded morning until late at I night. TO WEAK WOMEN » 3 OF DECATUR AND VICIN s ITY i b , We Make the Following Proposition i “There are hundreds of women in this vicinity who are dragging themselves through life in pain and misery, without vitality, strength f or health,” said a member of the firm of Smith, Yager & Falk. “They get no happiness out of 1 life and are just in a oondtion to be ) attacked by almost any disease. They need a vitality-making and strength-creating tonic. “Now at our expense we (want to ask every such woman to try our , cod liver oil preparation, Vinol, which contains in a highly concentrated form all of the medicinal elements of cod liver oil, but no oil or grease. It is delicious to take, creates a healthy appetite, makes pure, rich, red blood and gives strength and vigor to every org an ’ of the body better than any medicine we have ever sold in our 5 store, and when a woman is in this condition it makes life worth p living. When we say ‘at our ex- * pense,’ we mean that if the medicine you buy from us and pay for i does not benefit you—we will refund every cent of it at our expense.” f Miss Mary A. Woodward of Indianapolis, Ind., writes: “I think Vi t nol is the best remedy in the world for a weak, tired, worn-out system. 1 was just in that condition when I r commenced to take Vinol. It gave me new life and energy, and after using three bottles I felt like a diff--1 erent woman. I feel well and strong and better than I have for j 1 years. I believe Vinol will do much more than is claimed for it.” We can only ask Decatur’women to try Vinol on our guarantee. ■ Smith, Yager & Falk, druggists. Real Estate Transfers [Reported by Decatur Abstract Company 1 Dr. Amos Reusser, files plat of 1 sub-division of outlots Nos. 9 and 10 in the town of Brene7subdivided in to eight inlots. Matthias Kirsch to Mary Draper, inlot 16, Williams, 1260. Samuel H. Teeple to Moses Schindler, pt sec 29 W’abash tp, 66 ! acres, $125. Henry J. Krehbeil to David ’P. Sommer, inlot 377, Berne, $350. Amos Reusser to Samuel Wittwer, inlots 466 and 467, Berne, $1,250. Anna J. Sprunger to Jacob J. Sprunger, one-half acre sec 33, Monroe tp, sl7l. Anna Clendenen to F. A. W. Lindsey, pt see Wabash tp, S6OO. T. Kelley, of Geneva, passed through our city last evening, enroute to Jacksonville, Florida, whree he expects to spend the cold winter months. JJ e l®fs by th® Clover Leaf route.

ODD OCEAN FREIGHT. CARGOES THAT ARE CARRIED FREE FROM PORT TO PORT. Involuntnry PasMcnKern That at TimvM Travel on Shipboard—l niiecti and Animals That Noyage All Over the Civilised World. Many strange and weird things inhabit foreign bound ships in tbq form of animals and insects that are rarely suspected and never seen by the ordinary passenger. Most people are aware that the presence of rats on board ship is inevitable, whether the vessel be of wood or iron. Indeed, sailors consider them safe shipmates and sure signs that the vessel is seaworthy and not in danger of sinking. The sight of rats deserting a ship is sufficient to discourage any sailor from going on board for a trip; but, on the other hand, too many rodents on board spoil everything. Numbers make them bold, and instead of staying in the hold where the cargo is stored they invade the sailors’ quarters and even make their apearance in the captain’s cabin. But rats are not by any means the only strange visitors that travel in ships without the consent of either owner or captain. There are many insects that migrate from one quarter of the globe to another by means of the vessels which ply between distant ports. Indeed, the spread of nearly all kinds of living creatures lias been dependent on the ships of civilized nations. Winged pests and blessings have been steadily carried to new countries by this means. Not long ago a ship from one of the tropical countries was followed by a swarm of butterflies, which persistently hovered round the rigging of the vessel until the shore was lost in the mists; then the insects alighted on the I masts and decks. A few disappeared i in the night and were destroyed in the ■ water or reached shore safely. Some | of the others hid away in the cabins and hold of the ship. After a trip of some thirty days the vessel reached England, and from their hiding places in the ship a few of these butterflies emerged and flew ashore. Thus an entirely new species of butterfly was introduced into the country. Cockroaches are too ancient an importation to be worthy of more than a passing notice. Grain carrying ships are overrun with weevils, and these grubs do an immense amount of barm to the cargoes.

Ships engaged in fruit carrying from warm countries are often visited by a j miscellaneous collection of queer crea-! tures. Concealed in the bunches of| bananas there may be poisonous rep- I tiles and insects that have traveled | half round the globe. They may sting I or bite the hand of some receiver of ' fruit or they may be killed before they | have inflicted any harm. Sometimes, I however, they escape ashore, and if the ■ new country proves congenial to their growth and multiplication they may in ! a very short time establish a progeny I that will eventually spread in all di-1 rections. Poisonous snakes of the tspp-! ics have thus been introduced into■ lands where none was ever known to exist before. Moths of a destructive I nature constantly come to this and I other countries in the fruit ships, and their spread is only a matter of time and opportunity. They are visitors that cause no trouble to the sailors, who are very often not even aware of their presence on board, but they prove expensive to the farmers and inhabitants of the land where they become established. Even flowers and plants from other countries bring with them new migrants in the shape of bugs, bees and other insects. Concealed in the blossom or curled up leaf of the plants, they remain dormant during the long voyage, but when they reach a land where climate and surroundings are conducive to their propagation and active growth they come forth to establish themselves in the land of their adoption. Thus from the West Indies we have brought insects by the hundreds concealed in the beautiful Easter lily blossoms, and from all parts of the World strange insects hidden away in the cuplike bloom of orchids, which hunters risked their lives to secure, have bee* introduced in our midst to work destruction or add to our pleasures. Not all visitors on our incoming ships are obnoxious. Some ait of distinct value to our country, and their introduction in this secret way very often works out successfully problems of great public and commercial value. Most travelers to India and China will remember the revulsion of feeling with which they were seized on first detecting a scorpion or mosquito in their soup at luncheon or dinner. Some of the liners which are kept constantly for the traffic from Aden to Bombay and known as the Red sea boats are never free from these pests. With the tramp ships that visit the south Pacific monkeys and parrots are the most common visitors. It is a very frequent occurrence, after a ‘'tramp” has not touched at any port for a week or so, for the sailors to find that their food Is continually lielng stolen. They know at once that monkeys are on board. A vigorous search is instituted, with the result that at least one monkey is shortly afterward found, and sometimes half a dozen. These animals resist capture at first, but soon accept the inevitable and become in a very short time great chums with the sailors. When England is reached Jack takes them ashore and disposes of them for ready cash to dealers in the neighborhood of the docks. Many of the parrots brought to the country have been visitors on “tramp” boats.— London Tit Bits.

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COLOR IN FIREWORKS HOW THE BEAUTIFUL AND DAZZLING HUES ARE PRODUCED. It I. All ■ Matter of Chemistry, the Result of the Combustion of the Salts of Certain Metals — The Mechanics of Rotating Fireworks. The chief beauty of fireworks is their range of resplendent colors—ruby, sapphire, emerald, topaz, amethyst, aquamarine and scores of tints and shades between. How is all this evanescent glory of color obtained? The secret lies in directed chemical combustion by means of cases and compositions, the results of marvelous calculation and skill. The matter is simple enough to those who know. It is attained by the combustion of the salts of certain metals. In other words, the burning metals have each their characteristic color. Sodium gives off yellow flame; calcium. orange; barium, green; strontium, red; copper, green or blue, according to circumstances, and so on. Other familiar metals, iron, steel and zinc, give their tribute of colors. Iron filings give bright red and white sparks; copper filings, a green tint; zine, a fine blue; steel filings and cast iron borings, a brilliant fire with wavy radiations. Every one is familiar with the colored fires, but who would suppose that lycopodium, the delicate pollen of certain mosses, so fine that it is used to powder baby’s skin, furnishes a rose colored fire with a magnificent flame? These colored fires are called in technical language -fixed fires” and consist of slow compositions that may be piled in little cones ou a flagstone and lighted at the top. They burn slowly and there is no explosion. These compositions are made in many colors. Roman candles belong to the fixed fire class and are also called fusees. We all know the straight, slender cylinder or cartridge of the ordinary roman candle. It is packed as follows; First there is put in it a charge of fine gunpowder, and above this is placed a ‘■star.” These are simply balls of some special composition containing metallic filings, according to the color desired, made up with gum and spirits of wine. Stars and charges alternate until the cylinder is full. Each star ball is dried and dusted with gunpowder before packing. The first charge of gunpowder in exploding starts the stellar procession until one after another they blaze individually and vanish like falling stars. Next in order to the fixed fires come rotating fireworks—namely, wheels, fire wheels, bisecting wheels, plural wheels, caprice wheels and spiral wheels, all more or less complex. The colors of fireworks are a matter of chemistry: the no less important motions that display the beauty of these colors to the best advantage are a matter of mechanics. The man who is a first class pyrotechnist is versed in both sciences. The ordinary pinwheel is a simple example of rotating fireworks. It is a long ease packed with a fire composition and wound round a disk of wood. The outer end of the spiral is primed with an explosive material. When it is lighted it “kicks,” just as a gurf does when the powder explodes in the cartridge, and round and round flies the wheel, sending out flashes and showers of colored or golden fire. Some of the most dazzling and glorious effects in pyrotechnical displays are produced by rotating fireworks, for there seems to be no limit to the variety of arrangement of cases and compositions to produce multiple motions and transformation scenes in color in this class of fireworks. A third class comprises the ascending fireworks. Skyrockets belong to this class and may be simple or very elaborate. according to their garniture of stars, sparks, spirals, serpents or showers of gold or silver rain. A skyrocket consists of two parts—a body and a bead made separately and afterward attached to the body. The body is a straight cylinder of heavy pasted paper closed at the lower end so as to leave only a very narrow opening for the escape of the fire. A central hollow bore extends three-quarters of the way up the body, and all about this is packed the special explosive composition, the downward recoil of which sends the rocket rushing swiftly upward, guided and balanced by the light stick of willow wood. The head, a paper cylinder with a conical top. holds the special composition which is to form stars, serpents, spirals or what not A fuse in the top of the body explodes when the rocket reaches its utmost height and sets off this composition. the varying color, form and motion of which excite the “Ohs!” and “Ahs!” of the admiring crowds. The great spectacular displays combine the several classes—fixed, rotating and ascending fireworks. Temples, trees, ships, portraits, figures of men, beasts and birds, flowers, shields, and so forth, are represented by suitable frameworks of wood either wound with coarse cotton rovings about two inches tn diameter, impregnated with certain compositions and wet with snirits. or else they have attached to them lances or cases of cartridge pap«-r filled with various com positions, the whole placed in communication by conduits or small paper cartridges.— 1 outb’s Companion. a love of ju-t'ce ;s simply in a major tty of men the fear of suffering in justice.- La Rochefoucauld.

Subsroibe for the Daily or V eekly Democrat for 1905. bend your friends for a Xmas gift. MARKET REPORT. Accurate prices paid by Decatui merchants for various products. Cor reeled everv dav. We will begin buying new corn, Wednesday Dec. 21 GRAIN. BY E. L. CABBOL, GRAIN MERCHANT Corn yellow new I 54 I Corn, Mixed new 52 Machine shucked one cent less. I Oats, new 28 Wheat. No. 2 1 08 I Wheat, No. 3 —1 03 Barley 40 Rye No. 2 73 ' Clover Seed 6 70 Alsyke @ 6 75 Buckwheat 48 Flax Seed 80 Timothv JI 25 Buckwheat 40 CHICAGO MARKETS. Chicago market closed at 1:15 p. tn ■ todav., according to Decatur Stock i and Grain Exchange. 1 T-,!y Wheat 98J i Wheat, Dec. 1 131 Wheat. May 1 H; 1 July Corn 45 ; | Corn, December 4 ft { Corn, May 45“ July Oats, 311 I Oats, Dec 29J I Oats May 31 § Jan. Pork 12 57 Jan. Lard 6 87 TOLEDO MARKETS. Changed every afternoon at 3:00 o’clock by J. D. Hale, Decatur. Special wire service. Wheat, new No. 2, red, cash 51 16 May wheat;.... 1 171 July Wheat 1 OOj Corn, cish 45.1 May corn 45| July corn 46f Oats, cash 32 May oats 32 July Oats 33| Rye, cash 83 OTHER PRODUCTS. B? HDHU'i) MEBOH4NT3. Eggs, fresh, per doz $ 28 Lard 07 Butter, per pound 14 Potatoes, new 40 Onions 75 Cabbage per 100 lb 50 Apples, per bu 5j STOCK. BY FBED SCHEIMAN, DE LEB Lambs $4 00@ 4 25 Hogs, per cwt 3 75@ |4 00 Cattle per lb 2 3 Calves, per lb 3| @ 5 Cows 1 @ 2 POULTRY. BY J. W. PLACE CO. Chickens, young, per lb 7@7 Fowls, per lb 6} Young Turkey 12— Old Turkeys 8

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HAY MARKET. No. 1 timothy large (baled) $8 nn No 1 ” small ” 7 M No 2 ” 11 00 less No 1 mixed 1 50 less No 1 clover 1 50 less WOOL AND HIDES. by b. kalveb k sow. Phone 442 Wool, unwashed 45»023 CP 00 ’. - 10 @ 1 50 Skunk...- 20 @ 1 40 Opossum 10 fa 05 Mink 50 @ 2 50 Muskrat 3 @ 13 Beef Hides qs Calf ’ , 10 Sheep Pelts 25 @ 1,25 Tallow.. 04 OIL HARKET. Indiana 99 Whitehouse 120 Somerset 90 Neodasha, (Kan.) 70 Barkersville 1.09 Ragland go Fiona $1,70 Pennsylvania 4.55 Corning 122 New Castle 1,47 North Lima 1.C4 South Lima 99 COAL—Per Ton Prices of coal on and after December Ist, until further notice will l>e as follows: Hocking Lump, per ton S 3 80 Virginia Splint 4 00 Indiana Lump 3 60 Domestic Nut 3 60 Washed Nut 4 00 Pittsburg Lump 4 00 Pocahontas 4 50 Kentucky Cannell 6 (X) Anthracite. 7 50 Charges for carrying coal—2sc par ton or fraction thereof; up stairs 50e per ton. ...Legal Advertising... VOTICEOF APPLICATION FOR CHANGE OF NAME. To Whom It May Concern: Notice is hereby given ii.it I have applied to the Judge of the Adame c rcuit court t» have mj name changed Irotn Herman August Jack to Herman August Yake. and that said application will come up forbearing at the first day ot the April term, 1905, of said court. IT? HERMAN AVGUST JACK. Dated Dec. 21. 1905. D. U. Ekwix. Attorney for Petitioner 42t3 VOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR -A CHANGE Or NAME To Whom It May Concern: Not.ce is hereby given that I ’ave applied to the Judge of the Adams circuit court to have my name changed from Ferdinand Julius Jeck to Ferdinand Julius Yake. and that said application will come up for hearing at the first day of the April term, 1906. of said court. FERDINAND JULIUS JACK. Dated Dec. 21. 1905. D. B. Erwin. Attorney for Petitioner -2-3 VOTICE OF ELECTION. Notice is hereby given to the stockholders and lot owners In the Decatur Cemetery Association that there will be an election held at t ... Office of D E. S< ot». in J. H Stones store building, ever Elzey & Vance's clothing store, in v .e c.ty of Decatur Indiana or the sth day o' January. 190.'., at 7 p. m. of said day, lor the purjaise oi electing seven trustees tor the Iteeatur Cemetery Association for the ensuing year. J H STONE, Secretary !>■ catur Cemetery Association. Dec. 12.1904.