Decatur Democrat, Volume 48, Number 43, Decatur, Adams County, 29 December 1904 — Page 6

THE SELFISH COUPLE. tt«Kbati<lß and Wives Who Refuse to Mlnicle In Society. Selfishness is the bane of all life. It cannot enter into life—individual, family or social—without cursing it. Therefore if any married pair find themselves inclined to confine them selves to one another's society, indisposed to go abroad and mingle with the life arqund them, disturbed and irritated by the collection of friends in their own dwelling or in any way moved to regard their social duties as disagreeable, let them be alarmed at once. It is a bad symptom—an essentially morbid symptom. They should institute means at once for removing this feeling, and they can only remove it by persistently going into society, persistently gathering it into their own dwelling and persistently endeavoring to learn to love and feel an interest in all with whom they meet. The process of regeneration will not be a tedious one, for the rewards of social life are Immediate. The heart enlarges quickly with the practice of hospitality. The sympathies run and take root from point to point, each root throwing up leaves and bearing flowers and fruit like strawberry vines if they are only allowed to do 80. It is only sympathies and strawberries that are cultivated in bills which do otherwise. The human face is a thing which should be able to bring the heart into blossom with a moment's shining, and will be such with you if you will meet it properly. The penalties of family isolation will not, unhappily, fall entirely upon yourselves. They will be visited with double force upon your children. Children reared in the home with few or no associations will grow up either boorish or sensitively timid. It is a cruel wrong to children to rear them without bringing them into continued contact with polite social life. The ordeal through which children thus reared are obliged to pass in gaining the ease and assurance which will make them at home elsewhere than under the paternal roof is one of the severest, while those who are constantly accustomed to a social life from their youth are educated in all its forms and graces without knowing it. Great multitudes of men and women ali over the country are now living secluded from social contact simply from their sensitive consciousness of ignorance of the forms of graceful intercourse. They feel that they cannot break through their reserve. There is, doubtless, much that is morbid in this feeling. and yet it is mainly natural. From all this mortification and this deprivation every soul might have been saved by education in a home where social life was properly lived. It is cruel to deny to children the opportunity not only to become accustomed from their first consciousness to the forms of society, but to enjoy its influence upon their developing life. Society is food to children. Contact with other minds is the means by which they are educated, and the difference in families of children will show at once to the accustomed eye the different social character of their parents. Hut I have no space to follow this subject further, and 1 leave it with you. with the earnest wish that you will consider it and profit by the suggestions I have given you.—•’Timothy Titcomb's Letters’" in Boston Globe. Minute Screws. “The fourth jewel screw of a water, is so small that to the naked eye it will not look like anything more than a bit of dust." says a watchmaker, "and is probably the smallest screw made. It must necessarily be perfect in every respect, and the character of the workmanship required on it is illustrated by looking at it under a powerful micro scope, when it is seen that the threads average 2GII to the inch. It is exactly four-thousandths of an inch in diaiueter, and over 53.000 could be packed intaa lady's thimble with ease. Counting these screws is never attempted, of course, but 100 are weighed on a deli cate steelyard, and the total number of an output is arrived at by comparing the gross weight with the weight of these. Such tiny screws can only be» made in large numbers by machinery, mid the operation attending their manufacture Is one of the most delicate things, in watebmaking ” — St. Lou's Their Goad Offices. “I see they're advertising twenty-five eent lunchos. What do they give you?” “An appetite for your dinner. Philadelphia ’jedger.

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LIFE INSURANCE. Get Full,* Acquainted With the Terms of lour Polley. “What the average purchaser of life insurance doesn't know about the thing he is purchasing would till a good sized book printed with very narrow margins.” says an insurance expert. “For instance, I talked not long sines with a man who fancied he was insured for SIO,OOO on the fifteen year endowment plan. That is, he thought he had to make payments for fifteen years —which ' -as true—and that at the end of that time he could get $lO,000 in cash or take a part in cash and a part in paid up insurance, which, as it turned out, was not true. The rate he was paying was so very low foi what he said he was getting that J asked to see his policy, and when 1 looked at it 1 found, just as he might have found on a brief examination, that while he was insured for life, with only fifteen yearly payments, he could not get the SIO,OOO or any part of it for a good many years more. No insurance company in the world will permit the fooling of a patron like this if it can help it, and yet to attribute such a mistaken idea to fraudulent misrepresentation on the part of an unworthy agent would not always be fair. Many men who take insurance, and especially those who do not decide to go in until they have looked at it a long time, go in finally with a rush. They don't give the agent time to tell them what they are getting, and often don’t find out for years afterward. Another thing that many insured persons do not know is that a rebate on the first payment, a anged between the insured and the agent, sometimes renders the whole transaction invalid.” —Philadelphia Record. CHRISTMAS DAY. Wby the Festival Is Celebrated on Dee. 25. There are no definite allusions'in the writings of any of the disciples of Christ as to the date of his birth, nor has there ever been produced proof of any character as to the exact period in the year when Christ was born. There are, very true, occasional references to the event in the Scriptures, indicating that the Nativity occurred in the winter season. The institution of the anniversary dates back to the second century of Christendom, and it has been since uniformly celebrated by nearly al) branches of the Christian church with appropriate rejoicings and ceremonies. The frequent and somewhat heated controversies, however, relative to the date of Christ’s birth early in the fourth century led Tope Julius I. to order a thorough investigation of the subject by the learned theologians and historians of that period, which resulted in an agreement upon Dec. 25, and that decision seemed to have so settled all disputes that that date was universally accepted except by the Greek church. While this date was never changed, the reckoning of it is made according to the Gregorian calendar, which was adopted in the latter part of the sixteenth century, and upon which computations of time in nearly all civilized nations have since rested.—American Queen. Beggars In England. Beggars who feign diseases are no new thing in the streets of London. They existed in Charles H.’s time, only then the beggar was called a “ruffler,” a “huff" or a “shabbaroon.” If he was deaf and dumb he was called a “dummerer.” The woman who sung hymns and led borrowed children by the hand was called a "clapperdozen.” Vagrancy is no new thing, though it practically did not exist in mediaeval times. It was when the cities, ceased to be confined within their own walls and long before the days of policemen that the people got beyond the control of the aidermen and their officers and vagrancy became a regular profession. The first English law against beggars was made by Henry VIII.. who gave licenses to beg to the old'and impotent and ordered that all other beggars should be whipped and sent back to their parishes. A Costly Mistake Blunders are sometimes very ex pensive. Occasionally life itself is the price of a mistake, but you’ll never be wrong if you take Dr. Kirg s New Life Pills for dys-ptp-sia Dizziness, headache, liver or b-j wel troubles. They are gentle yet thorough. 25cat Blackburn & Christen’s drug store.

The Patient's Idea. Dr. Price-Price (diplomatically)—J don't know whether I sent you a statement of what—er—you owe me. Mr Knox—Neither do 1. Dr. Price-Price— Ah, you didn't get it then? I guess I didn't send you a statement. Mr. Knox —Oh, yes, but it looked more like a statement of what you think I possess.—Catholic Standard and Tlm«« Plain Enough. “What was the trouble?” “He couldn’t swim.” “What has that to do with his fall ure?” “He got into a company where the stock was all water.”—Automobile. The Paternal Idea. Miss Roxley— I lost my heart last night, pa. I accepted Mr. Poorman Mr. Roxley—Huh! You didn’t loss your heart. You must have lost yom bead.—Philadelphia Ledger. Snare Others. “Yon talk an awful lot about your self. Catherine.” “Well, it keeps me from talking about other people.”—Detroit Free Press. Fight Will Be Bitter Fight will be Bitter. Those who will persist in their ears against the continual recommendation of Dr. King’s New£Disoovery 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 “Last fall my wife had every'symptom of consumption. She took Dr. King’s New Discovery afterjeverything else had failed. Improvement came at once and four bottles entirely cured her. Guaranteed by Blackburn & Christen. Druggists. Price 50c and sl. Trial bottles free. Mental Decision. The trouble with the most of us is that we do not know how to make up our minds, and often the fact is that we have not given our minds to the thought that requires us to determine about it. Why is it the sun shines aud sheds its warmth through one glass, but accomplishes nothing? Change the form of the glass through which it comes, let us make it convex, and first you will see the smoke, then the spark and then the flame.—Rev. T. V. MeI.PTWI Drench of Promise. Jlggston -Don’t you believe that talk is cheap. A friend of mine had to pay $5,000 for four words. Jaggson—Great heavens! What were they? Jiggson—“Will you marry me?” —Chicago Journal. A Frightened Horse Running like mad ’ down the street dumping the occupants, or a hundred other accidents, are every day occurrances. It behooves everybody to have a reliable salve handy, and there’s none as"good as Bucklen’s Arnica Salve. Burns, outs, sores, eczema'and pearing quickly under its soothing effect. 25c at Blackburn & 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 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. Y’ou can put vour 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 dvspepsia 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 hogsand chickens healthy and in as thriving condition as vou 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, inierest, 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. Schirmeyer, 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 $26.65 from Chicago and return. Lands from $4 to $1 per ..-re with free home stead adjoiniL . Come and see us over First National Bank Decatur Ind., We can also sell jou farms in Virignia, Mississippi 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. (l&w

the sickroom mirror You Mu>t Be DiMcreet In Allowing the Patient to I It. The looking glass, whether a plus or minus quantity, plays a more imnor taut part in the sickroom than mo-I nurses and physicians give it credit tor The patient who is allowed to look into one is likely to be frightened into a re lapse at sight of bis cadaverous appearance, while the one who is not allowed to look is similarly affected by the refusal. which be attributes to the fact that his face is too much for his nerves “All things considered. I think it a good plan to give a sick person a chance to look at himself occasionally, said a doctor. "Os course the indulgence must be granted with discretion If a patient is really looking seedy a turn at the looking glass is equivalent to signing bis death warrant, but if taken at a time when braced up by some stimulant or a natural ebullition of vital force a few minutes of communion with his own visage beats any tonic I can prescribe. It thrills the patient with new hope. It makes him fee) that he isn't quite so far gone as he had thought and that possibly a fight for life is, after all, worth while. “Being thus sensitive, a persistent withholding of a mirror convinces the patient that he must be too horrible for contemplation, and he promptly decides that the best thing for him to da is to give up the ghost and get out of the way. That is one mistake hospitals were apt to make up to a few years ago. When 1 was a young fellow, gettiug my first practice after gradua tion, I served on the staff of several hospitals, and in all. especially in the free wards, those aids to vanity were strictly forbidden. The deprivation went bard with many of the patients particularly the women, and when I came to have a little authority among doctors and nurses I advised a judicious application of looking glass treatment. I still advise it both in hospital and private practice, for I find that a little reassurance as to the state of the complexion and the appearance in general goes a long way toward effecting a cure.”—New York Press. A Resemblance. “What do you think of my historic novel?” “It resembles some of the most successful works of its kind,” answered Miss Cayenne. “In what respect?” “In being neither novel nor historic.” "-Washington Star. 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 van h under its searching and thorough effectiveness. Electric Bitters is only 500, and that is returned if it don’t give perfect satisfaction. Guaranteed by Blackburn & Christen, druggists. ETHH PARKER'S SflH HAIR BALSAM Cleanses and beautifies the hair. MB Promotes a luxuriant growth. Never Faile to Restore Gray Hair tc its Youthful Color. Cures sca'.p diseases & hair falling. soc,and sl.ou 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.O.SCHAEEER, T. P. A. Cotton Belt Route CINCINNATI OHIO. • I EAST. No. 8. TheComtn'l Traveler daily s:oSa.m No. 2. Mall, daily, except Sunday...ll37 a. m No. 4. Day express, daily.... 6:23 p n> No. 22. Local freight :..12:01a. tn WEST No. 3. Day express, daily s:osa.tn No. 1. Mail, daily except Sunday... 11:10p m No. S. There—n-r rave j cr 5.41 p m No. 23. Local freight 12:01 p. m

RAILROAD NEW ERIE TIME TABLE. EAST BOUND „ p ffi No. 10 — ..-jo p. m No. p. tn No. ""6:58 a tn. No. 22 j. 47 R m WEST BOUND 3;(Ka m N’- 9 -- .10:10 a.m. No. 13 2 00 a. Hi. Wo. 7 Grand Rapids & Indiana. In effect Sept. 25,1904 TRAINS NORTH. No s—Leaves Decatur .• Fort Wayne “ .. *• Kalamazoo • , :2U a DI Arrives Grand Rapids .. •• Petoskey »:60pw .. " Mackinaw City 4:15 pm N 0 7—Leaves Decatur nl ‘ ’.. ■■ Fort Wavne B:.>Uam •> •• Kalamazoo I h : l. pnl “ Arrives Grand Rapids " : ®?pni “ •• Petoskey ,? : £i pm .. •• Mackinaw City 10:50 pm No. 3—Leaves Decatur ? ; .U P ? .. • • Fort Wayne 4:20 pm •• •• Kalamazoo 8:05 pm “ Arrives Grand Rapids 9:40 pm •• ” Petoskey 6:05 a m •• •’ Mackinaw City 7:20 am TRAINS SOUTH No 6—Leaves Decatur •• Portland 2:olam • “ Winchester 3:52 am •• Arrives Richmond 3:30 am •• Cincinnati 7:15 am •• •• Indianapolis 6:50 am “ “ Louisville 10:05 am “ “ St. Louis 1:30 p m No. 12—Leaves Decatur 7:14 a m •• Portland 8:15 am •• •• Winchester 8:36 am •• Arrives Richmond 9:42 am •• - Cincinnati , 12:20 pm •• •• Indianapolis 12:10 pm •• •• Louisville 7:lopm “ •• St. 1 _>uis 7:10 p m V- 3—Leaves Deca r I:l6pm Portland 2:l3pm •• •• Winchester 2:50 pm •• Arrives Richmond 3:40 pm •• - Cincinnati 5:55 pm ■■ - Indianapolis. 11:55 pm •• Louisville 7:ooam •• •• St. Louis 7:22 am No. 30—Leaves Decatur 7:51 p m “ Arrives Portland, 8:55 pm No. 16—Leaves Decatur... 5 :46 p m •• •• Portland 9:45 pm “ Winchester 10:25 pm “ Arrives Richmond 11:15 pm Nos. 6 and 5 daily. •• 2, 3 and i’2 daily except Sunday No. 30 daily except Sunday to Portland. ■■ 16 Sunday only. No s—Sleeping car to Grand Rapids. Travise City. Northport and Mackinaw City. No. 7 —Par lor car Grand Rapids to Mackinaw City—Dally to Grand Rapids. No.3—Parlor car Richmond to Grand 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 axative firomo Quinine ires a CoM in One Day, Crip in 2 Days ©n every j£Z box- 25c

Weak Men sSade vigorous criw irsw What PEFFER’S hERVIGOR Did It acts powerfully and quickly. Cures when al others fail Young men regain lost manhood; ok men recover youth tul vigor. Absolutely Guar anteed to Cure Nervousness, Lost Vitality Impotency, Nightly Emissions, Lost Power either sex. Failing Memory, Wasting Dis eanes, and all effects o* self-abuse or excesses am indiscretion. Wards oft Insanity and consumption Don’t let druggist impose a worthless substitute oi you because it yields a greater profit. Insist on having PEFFER’S NERVIGOR. or send for it Car be carried in vest pocket. Prepaid, plain wrapper per box, or 6 for $5, with A Written Guar antee to Cure or Refund Money. Pamphlet fret PEFFER MEDICAL ASS’N. Chicago. ill Sold by Blackburn & Christen FOR QUICK CASH SALES Mortgage Loans. Money Loaned on favoivUe terms, Low Rate of Interest. Privelege of partial payments, Abstracts of Title carefully prepared: F. M. SGHrIRMEYER, Oof. Second aqd Madison sts. Decatur. Indiana. V;a vmML DON’T BE A SLAVE tiii ii iiiimm To the Liquor or Drug Habit When a speedy, harmless and permanent Cute is within ihe reach of all? THOUSANDS of happy, prosperous and sober Men testify to the “flßcacy of the Cure as administered ai THE KEELEY INSTITUTE HABkON, INBUNA 1204 S. Adams Street Corfirferr/’s Cartful!? Guarded

ROY ARCHBOLD DENTIST I. O. O. F. BLOCK ’Phones — Office 164, residence 245 D. D. HELLER & SON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. OBicaoygr Blackburn & Christen's drug store DORE B, ERWIN, ATTORNEY AT LAW. OrriCF..—Corner Monroe and Second General practitioner. No charge for consul tation AMOS P. BEATTY ATTORNEY AT LAW And Notary Public. Pension claims Drose cuted. odd Fellows building. * mspr os*MERRYMAN & SUTTON. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, DECATUR. IND. Office—Nos. 1, 2. 3, over Adams Co, Bank, We refer, by permission to Adams Co. Bank BCHURGKR * SMITH, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Notaries. Abstracters, Real Estate Agenti Money to Loan. Deeds and Mortgages wrltten on short notice. Office in Allison block second story, over Fristoe's Smoke House Decatur. Indiana. J, Q. Neptune. D. D. 8. C. E. Neptune. D. D. 8 '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 P'E RT, Sale Crier and Auctioneer. DECATUR. - - - --- INDIANA Speaks English, r German, Swiss and Low German. MANN & CHRISTEN, Architects. Are prepared to do any kind of work in their line. Persons contemplating building can save titues. trouble and money by consulting them. Office— MANN & CHRISTEN, Bowers Block, Monroe st. Architect LINN & PATTON Carpenters, Contractors and Builders Slate Rooters and Galvanized Gutters. Shop, Corner Ruggand Market Streets. Linn & Patton AUCTIONEER For Good Service See L. H. GAGE (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, Ffray, Wool, Oil Salt, Coal, Lime, Cernent Fei'tilizei'S. Office and retail store store southeast cor. ner of Second and Jefferson streets. t#' - Your patronage solicited. 1 H. O. WELLS, M. D., SPECIALIST. 723 CLINTON STREET, FORT WAYNE. Cures Piles, Fistula. Fissure. Stricture o\ ’he Rectum. Itching. Bleeding. Ulceration, ( onstioalion and all diseases of the Rectum. /• Ibo Rupture. Dr. Wells will be at the Murray hotel, in the forenoon, and at the Shamrock hotel in Geneva in the afternoon, on the first Tuesday in every month, in order to introduce bis painless tn itinent. ne will give one treatment free to all who call to see him. PA M R "«Dr. W! .lian> " r ’- dia ° ™ e 1 B ■ EXointni' : ' ; ■ !' ure „^ l !R?4 B 9 ■ 1 --'d Itching § E g ImPlles. It absnro the tumors. ” ■ Ballays the itch p SBas a poultice. P'’ 1 ’ B lief. Dr. IVil.iams’lndi: “ ment is prepared for Pi csanultia Ing of the private parts. Every tOT warranted. druggists, by mail on r ceipt of price. 50 cents and sfi.W’. V.ilLl’n’a MANUFACTURING CO.. Props. Cleveland. Nachtrieb & Fuelling DOCTOR E. J. Beardsley, General Practice and Surgery. But Special Attention given to Eye Esf Nose, Throat and Chronic Diseases. Expert in Plttiag Glasses. Thoroughly equipped for treating Eye Throat and Catarrhal eases. CALLS answered, day or night. OFFICE—over postoffice. RESIDENCE—cor. Monroe and Ninth its Office Hours—9 to 11 a. m. 2 to 4p. m I $250.000. $250,000 to loan on improved farms at lowest rate of interest, we can place your lean at a lower rate of ' interest and less expense than any other Agency in he city. The hcaliiißsifcCt & Irir Cinpsny Rocme3 rrd 4. Siudabalier Block