Decatur Democrat, Volume 48, Number 48, Decatur, Adams County, 2 February 1905 — Page 6

THE GREAT TITIAN. Hi* W«« *ll Embracing Genin*, Courtly, Serene, Majestic. At once a genius and a favorite of fortune. Titian moved through his long • life of pomp and splendor serene and self contained. He was of old and noble family, torn at Pieve. in the moun tain district of Cadore. By the time that he was eleven years old his father. Gregorio di Conte Vecelli, recognized that he was destined to be a painter and sent him to \ eniee. where he became the pupil first of Bellini and then of the great artist Giorgine. From the first indeed he enjoyed every privi lege that an artist of his time could need. The doge and council of Venice ; recognized his ability, as did the dukes of Ferrara and Mantua- As the years went kip d-'s ‘nd emperors were his friends and patrons. In his home at Biri. a suburb of Venice, from which in one direction the snowclad Alps are visible and in the other the soft luxuriance'of the Venetian lagoon, he maintained a princely household, associating with the greatest and most accomplished men of Venice, working on until he had reached the age of ninety-nine years. Even then it was no ordinary ailment, but the visitation of the plague, that carried him off. aud such was the honor in which he was held that th? law against the burial of the plague stricken in a church was overruled in this ease, and he was laid in the tomb which he had prepared for himseif in the great Church of the Frari. No artist's life was so completely and sustainedly superb, and such, too. is the character of his work. He was great in portraiture, in landscape, in the painting of religious and mythological subjects. In any one of these departments others have rivaled him, but his glory is that he attained to the highest rank in all. He was an artist of universal gifts. His was an all embracing genius, courtly, serene, majestic. He viewed the splendor of the world in a big. healthful, ample way aud represented it with the glowing brush of a supreme master of color.— Charles H. Caffln in St. Nicholas. Would Rave Ewe For Hi» Eyes. "Want to get off again, do you?’ roared the boss. “This will be the sixth time you’ve been off this week. Wtats the trouble now?” "I want to get my eyes examined,” sullenly replied the clerk. "Well, get 'em carefully examined while you're about it You’ll be looking for work after Saturday night”— Pittsburg Post

■hip raw Iras ■ PREBLE TOWNSHIP. ADAMS COUNTY. Following is the financial report to the j Adviisory Board of Preble Townshiip, Ad- 1 ams county, Indiana, by C. W. Rupright, J trustee. Dated December 31. 1904. RECEIPTS. ‘ Treasurer Voglewede. Twp. fund . s2Bll 40 . Same, congressional 32 86 , -Same, liquor license 78 86 Same, surplus dog tax 52 26 * V'ra. Selby, dog tax 1 00 : H. D. Linneamire. same 61 00 . Charles Kieffer, same 1 00 Frank Trenary, same 1 00 ; H. D. Linneamire. same 1 00 ; Fred C. Gallemeyer 2 00 H. D. Linneamire 74 00 , Treasurer Voglewede 4259 68 Treasurer Voglewed. liquor license 78 37 Same, congressional 65 74 Wm. Gortrain, transfer Madison tp. Allen Co 18 00 John B. Wyss, same 7 5 00 Louis Boknecht, Root Tp 121 00 Treasurer Vogelwede. 53% yards of gravel 16 05 ■ Same. 222 yds., drege pit 66 60 John B. Wyss, 78, dredge pit 19 30 • Allen Co. treas. 63 yds., dredge ppit 18 90 N. W. Shorts. 1 trans. Wells Co.. . 9 00 DISBI RSEMENTS. G. W. Rupripht. serv. as trustee. . . .$2lB 00 C. M. Kenyon. Pub. An. Sett 8 00 R K. Erwin. 500 yds gravel 250 00 David Werling. road plank 10 29 L. G Ellingham, pub. Ann. Sett. ... 11 60 | Conrad Doehrman. road wk. No. 2. . 6 14 1 J. S. Bowers, stone for culverts ... 17 50 Kriegh & Graft, tile for highway.. 14 35 G. W. Rupright, bal. on gravel .... 255 06 Louis Worthman. sewer tile, Kirsch 2 80 ; Wm. Schwarz, repairing grades . . 1 75 R. Ryse, Twp. supplies 25 00 Wm. Grate, repairing grades 4 45 August Schenman. tiles and labor 5 00 Uvraond Lee, 2 dump scrapers. ... 11 00 C. M. Kenyon, Pub. Ann. levy. ... 2 00 I E Fritzinger, cement for sewers. . 7 50 Martin Keifer, labor 9 00 Wm. Swarz, rep. grader 2 50 Fhed Schultz, labor Heckman pit.. 12 00 Carles Ewel, same 12 00 Sol Luginbill, cleaning Krutzman D. 2 50 Henry Koeneman, lab. Heckman pit 5 75 Louis Worthman. advisory serv.. 5 00 C. C. D. Schenman. same 5 00 H. F. Judd, same 5 00 Louis Kleine, lab. Drege's pit 150 75 Andrew Fuhrman, lab. Heckman pit 35 10 Ernest Dohrman, same 3 00 Clausmier & Archer. 1 steele sewer 30 00 Louis Kleine, labor Dreges pit ... . 67 50 Wm. Werling, same 19 25 ; Rudolph Linneamire. lab. Heckman 19 25 Chris Eickhoff, same 6 50 R. K. Erwin, 600 yds. gravel 300 00 Louis Kleine, using scraper 5 00 D. M. Geeting, 16 books 12 80 Henry Fruchte. plank and labor .. 11 25 Otto Ewell, serv. as supervisor.... 49 00! Fred Buuck, same 39 00 Wm. M. Welch Co., supplies 6 28 Clausmeyer & Archer, ballance .... 2 25 R. Ryse, same 66 89 , Chas. Ewell, cleaning ditch 1 00 Wm. Ehlerding, shoveling snow .. 2 25 Wm. Grate, serv. as supervisor .... 63 00 John S. Bowers, stone 7 50 "Kirsch and Sellemeyer, tile 2 10 Abe Boch, tax duplicate 6 50 Kriegh & Graft, tile 9 62 L. G. Ellingham. advertising 2 00 , G. W. Rupright, office rent 24 00 Same. serv. as trustee 240 00 Same, pt. pay for gravel & labor. .. 139 12 Martin Jaberg, teaching No. 3 187 00 Edward Fruchte, same No. 5 210 00 ■ Latta Summers, same at No. 1 135 I L. J. Bublitz, teaching No. 1 225 00 A L. Brentlinger, same at No. 6... 206 25

Sasa Coot* Money, When Fannv Kemble spent her Summers in Massachusetts she engaged a neighbor to drive her regularly about the country. On their first excursioß be began to discuss the crops the history of the people, when Mrs. Kemble said in her dramatic fashion. ’ Sir, I have engaged you to drive, not ta k. The farmer kept his peace and when the vacation was over sent m his bdl ••What is this item, sir?" she asked. "I do not understand it.” Mith equa. gravity he rejoined: "Sass. So. I don t often take it. but when I do I charge. The bill was paid, and it made a nrtn friend of Mrs. Kemble ever after.I Christian Register. — The American Finale. Our baldheaded eagle, so called because the feathers on the top of his head are white, was railed the Washington eagle by Audubon, the great naturalist. Like Washington, he is brave and fearless, and as his name and greatness are known the world over so can the eagle soar to heights beyond others. The eagle was adopted as the emblem of the United States in 1785. since when it has been use 1 on the tips of flagpoles. coins. United States seals and on the shield of Liberty.-Washington Star. Intirin*. “When I took you into partnership." said the indignant father. ”1 expected you to be untiring in your devotion to the interests of the business. ’ The son took one foot down from the desk long enough to strike a match to , light his cigarette. •1 think I have been.” said be. “You never have noticed me tire myself yet have you. pa?” Garden of the Soul. Each bud flowers but once, and each f wer t .s but its minute of perfect beauty. > in the garden of the soul i each feeling has. as it were, its flowering instant, its one and only moment of ' expansive grace and radiant kingship. Brilliant. “Did my diamonds call forth any comment?” asked Mrs. Cumrux. “Yes. indeed." answered Miss Cayenne. “I heard several people refer to you a» the human chandelier.”—Washington Star. Dear Things. Miss Sbugzer—What a self possessed woman Mis.- Passay is! Miss PepperYes. and I don't imagine she'd ever get a chance to dispose of the property. — I Cleveland Leader. I

Martin Jaberg, same at No. 4 1.4 00 Mindwell Case, same No. 6 • 193 50 j Jesse M. Kelly, teaching No. 6 207 00 1 Mindwell Case, same at No. 6. . . . 272 80 Martin Worthman, same at No. 4 . . 235 00 ■ Latta Summers, same at No. 1 .... 100 00 : F. J. Bublitz, same at No. 1 193 50 Jesse M. Kelly, same at No. 5 193 50 j Robert Case, brooms 70 j W. M. Welch Co., 2 b’rds 2 27 Old Adams County Bank, interest. 54 5 00 Robert Case. 2 transfers 36 00 Louis Kline, gravel and repair 10 20 Wm. Grote, repairs on No. 5 2 50 Krick & Eickhoff. wood & repairs.. 19 20 Martin Jaherg, institute work 11 70 Edwad Fruchte, same 13 50 Jesse M. Kelly, same 14 70 Kent Parks, janitor services 39 75 Mindwell Case, institute work .... 15 48 Martin Wothman, same 13 50 Lota Summers, same 13 50 c. tv. Rupright, enumeration .... 22 00 H. S. Judd, wood 3 20 F. J. Bublitz, institute work 12 50 Louis Kline, w-ood 18 00 Old Adams County Bank, tp. ord. etc 527 66 R. Ryse, school supplies 25 00 Christ Schutz, posts and 1ab0r.... 950 Robert Case, brooms 50 Samuel Jaberg, wood 24 00 Henry Gallmeyer. wood 51 20 Henry Knapp, fence 9 90 Kent Parks, cleaned No. 6 5 00 M. E. Smith, painting 35 00 Steele & Draper, maps 6 78 Wm. Hilgeman. wood 67 50 Smith. Yager & Falk, pitch 9 00 Louis Kline, fence and posts 12 42 Anna Judd, cleaning S. H 3 00 W. M. Wech Co., hyloplate 8 08 Louis Kline, cleaning S. H 4 00 E. M. Ray, supplies 2 90 Wm. Grote, cleaning S. H 3 50 Mindwell Case, song books 6 52 Robert Case, supplies 2 95 J. Henline & Son, labor 6 50 Kent Parks, serv. as janitor 6 50 Irvin Brandyberry, supplies 14 70 Christ Eickhoff, he labored 3 00 C. W. Rupright, handling school b’ks 5 00 Nick Wyss, gravel . . 32 10 R. Ryse. for sewers . 135 19 Otto Keifer. hauling gravel 65 Wm. Sellemeyer. tile 8 10 Otto Ewel, labor 20 50 R. K. Erwin, bal. on gravel 15 88 Fred Schneler, labor 1 50 Henry Deohrman. sewer bulkheads. 15 00 Geo. Close, hauling gravel 66 20 Wm. Selby, same 52 60 Benv Butler, same 95 20 •John Singleton, same 53 20 C. A. Fuhrman, same 73 20 Warren Reed, same 84 20 Geo. Arnold. Read tax receipt .... 75 Geo. Ehret, hauling gravel 19 30 R. C. Mahnensmith, same 10 20 Theorlore Ewel, hauling sone 1 00 David J. Dilling, same 90 Mart Grote, same 27 34 Wm. Grote, labor on road 10 25 John Rupright, plank and timber. . 18 00 Herman Reese, gravel 21 25 i Ed Gallmeyer, gravel 9 75 E. Fritzinger, cement 3 40 C. C. Scheuman. gravel 8 25 Henry Fruchte, serv. as supervisor. 45 00 . Otto Ewel. labor 57 40 Wm. Heckman, same 9 00 Same, gravel 150 00 Fred Buuck, labor 31 95 W. D. Harrod, labor 17 25 Charlatta Drege, gravel 83 00 Wm. Witte, gravel 11 75 Edward Reppert. hauling gravel ... 410 , Chas. Hobrock, hauling stone 4 94 Calvin Miller, freight on stone .... 236 45 R. K. Erwin, bal. on gravel 175 75 Treasurer Voglewede, sur. dog fund 20 40 Otto Ewel. sheep killed 10 00 C. Koeneman, same 6 50 I Henry Fuhrman, same 29 40 C. Schultz, same 5 25 Christoff S'hultz, same 54 65

«<>«—«• * Awful Bre.kf.**. rt wa« at one time arranged that Dante Gabriel Ro-etti, his brother William and Swinburne and George Meredith should live together in a certain house. Meredith happened to see Dante Gabriel Rossetu at. Ibreak fast and changed his plans. Mered.tb himself tells the story. "It was pas. noon." says he. "Rossetti had not ye. risen, though it was an exqmsne On the breakfast table on a d. . rested five thick slabs of bacon, upon which five rigid eggs had s: >wly bleu to death. Presently Rossetti appear ed in bis dressing gown, with slippers down at heel, and devoured the dainty repast like an ogre.” That meal was too much for Meredith, aud he sacrificed three months' rent rather than see it repeated. The Sphinx'* Riddle. The riddle which the sphinx propounded to the Thebans and the solution of which she made a condition of | her withdrawal from the state was as j . follow- "What animal has one voice. ( at first four, then two and at last three feet?" CEdipus discovered the answer to be "man," who in infancy, from using his hands as well as his feet in wall. may be said to have four feet (all fours., in after life employs but two. and in old age to these be adds a staff, which may be reckoned a third. Upon this solution being given the sphinx is said to have thrown herself headlong from the citadel. - The Simple Lite. In my wanderings on foot when I walk through the provinces of Europe and talk to the people and fish and learn I find that what people lack most in life is simplicity, the poor man as well as the rich. It consists not in : plain dress, but in plain living, in simplicity of heart, of personal beliefs aud respect for the beliefs of others.—Rev Charles Wagner. PrcpnrednfM. Begin the morning by saying to thyself. I shall meet the busybody, the ungrateful. arrogant, deceitful, envious and unsocial, but I. who have seen the nature of the good, that it is beautiful, and that of the bad. that it is ugly, can be injured by none of them.—Marcut Aurelius. Came For Sorrow. Brown—Smith is down with brain fever. Green —You don't say so! Brown —Yes. The doctor says if he recovers iis mind will be a blank. GreenWell. I'm sorry to bear that. He owes

J. E. Spangler, same 5 45 Dr. J. E. Grandstaff, med. att. ... 4 00. I 1 SUMMARY 1 Ballance on hand last settlement. $139 8 78 j Receipts 564 02 < Total of ballance and receipts .... 9262 80 ( Disbursments 8111 26 ■ Ballance 1151 54 I State of Indiana, Adams county. S. S. ] The undersigned upon his oath says that , the within is a true and complete showing of , all the moneys received and paid out as he ' verily believes: that the various items of ex- , penditure have been fully paid in the sums j stated, and without express or implyed agree- ( ment that any portion thereof shall be retained by or repaid to him, or any other per- ‘ son: and that he has received no money nor ar- j tide of vaule in consideration of any contract made bv him as trustee. G. W. RUPRIGHT, j Tp. Trustee. : Subscribed and sworn to before me this the 2 dav of January, 1905. C. C. D. SCHEUMAN, Chairman of the Advisory Board. TOWNSHIP FUND. Balance on hand last settlement . .$ 471 31 Receipts 1742 22 Total of balance and receipts 2213 53 Disbursements 2212 35 Balance 1 18 TUITION FUND. Balance on hand last settlement . $ 278 08 Receipts 1494 50 Total of balance and receipts .... 1772 58 Disbursements 1330 75 Balance 441 83 OCAL TUITION Fl ND. Balance on hand last settlement. . . $ 182 23 Receipts 1402 45 Total of balance and receipts .... 1584 68 Disbursements 1201 80 Balance SB2 88 SPECIAL SCHOOL FUND. Balance on hand last settlement . $ 29 10 Receipts 1629 05 Total of balance and receipts 1658 15 Disbursements 1643 81 Balance 44 34 ROAD FUND. Balance on hand last settlement. .. S2OB 77 Receipts 507 90 Total of ba.ance and receipts 836 67 Disbursements Balance 59 ->g ADDITIONS ROAD FUND. Balance on hand last settlement. . SIOB >9 Receipts .... 826 90 Total of balance and receipts . " 935 79 Disbursements ... ’ ' " " »«>•»« DOG FUND. Balance on hand last settlement $l2O 40 Total of balance and receipts ... $261 40 Disbursements .. ' Balance /*„ 22 1 • • • 14 9 1 3 TOTAL of ALL FUNDS. Re' a e?pt e s° n Betlement • 78 1 n°eh' Os balance and receipts’ .’'. ’. ’ i 9262 80 Disbursements .... ’ ’ Balance . 11l 26 1 1151 54 | JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP I n... K„ n . y . * 1 DISBURSEMENTS. ‘ Harshber £er, school direct ! 500 > Dora Awspaw. wood -2’ ‘ ® r Relley. institutes ... 1A o’< 1 "D. B>i- -master, same - > J. L. Cottrell, wood 94 > Mark Moran, institutes .. "n si ‘ Bnrk. same > | Jesse Snydej. same / ig 20

— “ Hd Metric*. A bundle of Ucorice rWt "’^ ) ” U on ri cks of tobacco brown up the counter, and the sai.or ana begun to chew- its end. ••I have seen the ptace stuff grows wild. " be sai . TanfsaVi^o'• replied the drug- i is along the banks." said the sail “of the Tigris and the Euphra’"' Tto licorice is a wild plant in those parts. It stands three feet h uh. ato its roots reach ti e water. j and miles the licence pattbw- -P - J and the smell of them fills tut air. , Is a <weet. heavy smell. I in th-e parts they cut the licorice • PIIP XuJrly. and they use the poor.! crooked, iim-erfevt m ‘ . ! Tbe good, clean, straight suw the. bundle up-just like this buQ,llt I | and ship to England andl Arne.ricai Some of tbe sticks go to dru-..- ■ be sold cheap or given away, but mos ! of them, nearly all of them, go to tn 1 snuff and tobacco manufacturer- ! for? Why- to to used in adulter-I mean in flavoring tobacco and snu Baltimore Herald. The Warning In a Sneeie. "As a general thing sneezing is nacre's warning to get warmer in some way or other, and quickly, is the gist of an article by Dr. W. R. Conant in Modern Medical Science. “The question of temperature and ventilation." he says, “is one of the most difficult winter problems, to much depends upon circumstances and individual idiosyncrasy that it is bard to lay down any definite rules. An indoor temperature which is suitable for . a vigorous person or one in active motion is dangerous for one who is delicate or sitting and doing head work exclusively. t .. -As a general rule, it may be said that a temperature that falls much below 70 degrees at four feet from the floor is dangerous for sedentary work-> ers. and any one who continues sitting when he feels chilled does so at the risk of his life ” Never H«<l a Chance. “What is the greatest speech that Congress ever developed?'! “The greatest speech." said the statesman with the disappointed look, "was never delivered. I wrots it myself — Washington Star. i — i The art of putting tbe right men in the right places is the first science of i government. —Talleyrand.

—, g>n jf C* nnt r■, “ e -S tc Pompeii forth. We are indebted fnjit yMr , excavations were just *«*>• when th ! of cinclnnatlaul( beglD s n Jn g wbat bad been the pantry of found in o j preserved figs* < 8 bOU *s Xued aLd they were found t ° o a to fr«Taud good, investigation to to rre» put IDtO showed that the figs ]eft jars in a ea A an j then sealed Pompeii twenty centuries ago. Tbe Courtesy of Morin the battie of Feugbuangcheng the Japanese took among their captures wo enormous Chinese ' uses vs tb.r teenth century workmanship. On earning that they were a pr««I to General Kuropatkin. General Kuroki nromptlv dispatched them to the Rua K outposts with a Polite note endMax the Bowers of friendship blossom high in these vases. In r reolv he referred to the Jai>as "a people of generous friends whom I visited in peace, of magnanimous foes in war. at whose hands even defeat is no disgrace. A Qnnlnt Story. The Irish solicitor general, speaking the other day upon delusions, told a ' storv of a north of Ireland Protestant who’ was perfectly sane save on one point. Tb s stanch Protestant harbored ■ the delusion that one of bis legs be , longed to a Roman Catholic, and there ; fore when he went to bed every night be used to leave the Catholic leg out- | side tbe blanket byway of punish- j ment A Souvenir Spoon. Aunt Jane-Edith, didn't I see Mr. j Sweetser kissing you in the hall last. night? Edith-Yes, but it was only in j remembrance of former days. Aunt ' Jane—A sort of souvenir spoon. I suppose you mean. —Boston Transcript. Sarcastic. Buggins—See here, porter, this mirror is so dusty I can't see myself in IL ' Hotel Porter (who has not been tipped by Buggins)—Strikes me you ought to be mighty thankful, 'stid o’ makin' « fuss about it. —London Tit-Bits. on and UH. Xnobbs-They say poverty eeged \ film on to the stage. Snobbs— Yes. and the gallery egged him off.—Princeton Tiger.

Willie Daridson. chalk 20 Jacob Zehr, well 106 00 j D. H. Goble, school visitor 10 00 j E. M. Ray, dictionaries 60 90 [ P. K. Kenney, insurance 65 50 i S. B. Kiger, erasers 3 37 Gilliom Lumber Co 21 17 Wabash T. P. Jay Co., transfers .... 20 00 Ed Terry, director school 10 00 W. Woodruff, cleaning house 2 50 Schragg Bros., stove and fixtures . . 32 23 Geneva Lumber Co., lumber 68 50 W. M Dillivan. fence 25 00 Edd Terry, repairing S. house .... 20 35 Phil Schugg, chimney blocks 4 2 00 John Muter, serv. Direc., rep. 5.... 19 50 J. L. Yaney, pump. rep. wells 24 50 Bartty Burk. Hauling stove 1 50 Josiah Engle, brick, material etc. . . 28 80 Frank Betz, bldg, fluesc 5ch001.... 250 Berne Gr. & Hay Co., coal, other rep 57 17 J. A. Anderson, erasers 3 00 J. T. Kelley, attend, institutes 8 18 J. W Kelley & Son, 2 stove fixtures 45 45 D. Zehr & Spicher, well 92 50 Edward Amspaw, wood 30 00 T. F. Rian. B. coal house, oil floors. 38 vO Edward Amspaw. wood 13 88 Alta Curies, wood 16 15 Josiah Engle, wood 28 30 John Huffman, rep. out houses .... 12 95 J. L. Yancey, well hauling 102 00 Same, attending institutes 2 56 Jesse Buckmaster, same 2 71 P. A. Macklin, transfers 24 35 Ottis Burk, institutes 7 68 Minch Co. window shade 2 00 J. W. Snyder, institutes 8 10 James Kenney, selling school books. 5 00 J. L. Yaney, putting in well 102 00 John O Doneli, pt. pay superv. work 24 25 Geo. F. Huffman, tile 5 65 ( H. S. Passon, road work 2 00 1 John O Donnel, supervisor work . . 31 10 I Michael Kuhm, serv. as supervisor. ■ 25 00 i Jacob Runkel, road repairs 6 50 ! W. M. Kerr, road lumber 65 00 Joe Laux, road tools 4 50 Berne Grain & Hay Co., tile 30 00 Kirsch & Sellemeyer, same 5 55 Bartly Burk, road work 1 52 Jacob Knipper, same 6 24 Berne Grain & Hay Co., tile 16 25 Bowers Briggs, stone 151 01 Sam Wickey, blacksmithing 2 00 Same, same g oq Elmer Ludy, road work 6 00 S. M. Wood, ditcheing 4 55 Elmer Ludy, road work 116 00 N E. Bloser, same 3 07 Chas. Hollingsworth, same 98 G. B. Mower, same 1 74 Peter Kenney, same 1 50 Berne Brick Co., brick 13 20 Abe Hocker, smithing 1 go Alice Keller, teaching 47 gg J. T Kelley, same ug 32 J W. Snyder, same 50 ojj A. W. Buckmaster, same 114 og L F ney ' same • • 300 00 n T n - Same 185 13 Ottis Burk, same go Same. . ''FF'F.39 24 Edna Kirchbaun, teaching 105 75 J. W. Syder, same ’ 274 00 Margaret Moran, same . = same ;;; •• • ,2 Millie Davidson, same ” ‘ isq s . Della Bryan, same ’ 49 J. W. Snyder, same 100 00 Jesse A. Buckmaster, same’../” 157 J L. Yaney, same ” 1’ J. M Snyder, same ’ ’ L G. Ellingham, printing 7 00 Same, printing . . " ' ‘ Decatur Journal, same ...///” 9a? Rak/ Fetters ’ serv - on Ad '*- B'd./ 10 on -Martin Laughlin, same 9 so Reel, serv. as supervisor 11; on R ar wX»d ith |r ha L d ' repairi ”8 tools 7 785 B. Woodruff, director r eo. McKean, ditch transcript .. / 159

MATCHING THE Odd Pa.tlme .nd ll ß . la I Slum. „ f I. (lnd()0 '«* In the little, swarming „ Whitechaiiel road, down thrown*!® ditch aud Bethnal Green. is the pastime of thousand? business of scores of men themselves to a sweet voiced rivalries of brown birds caged on the w>|; W public house whose reputation -sH respectability timorous of intm?'® The hard faced "east end?’*' H chief joy is a bloody "limited’/W go” in tbe prize ring y f a '’ Whitechapel, may be seen net; J in the back room of another ting in breathless sdence and locked doors, with a kind, while bis linnet sings a ? 3 y for “pleasant song" and a st*te?S shillings a •: ie. When the referee says ‘•Xo.-./l watch is started, but this mean that tbe birds are y« (..? j in any rivalry. They sit on the? perches in silence, and the tTj?, in silence watching them, | one of the rivals pipes up h; 8 ~y I lay. This is called the “lead od’j 1 first note of a song is vailed the? kle.” Perhaps the bird which ?i| the “lead off" may stop “chuckle” aud not finish his S ; stimulus is enough to start the 1 j bird, however, and he in t cra his “chuckle" and then witk» I break performs the w!. •of j, I ! toire of ten “pleasant ■-onas.'’ •The sulky bird is frenzied at hi -?, j periority and to make tip for IstS ; sings as if its heart would I scorers are busy now “dia!kig®| , scores" as fast as their pencils | To the untrained ear the tomnttf;|® , Ing notes is hopelessly interna ' | and even when one bird is . i alone it is impossible to tell wks ; song ends and another begins. This sweet piping absorbs tbert- . tion of the audience, while just> the closed door a horde of Lloand and slatternly women are ihx themselves more sodden, wifi s phemous and vulgar merriment. The birds are all of purity soda | nient and sweetness that canbeij'ifl in this east end "pub," and tie | as gladly as If green fields wtnjfi *nv. ronment.— Outing. — Amared. Newman—l met your wlfetdt tbe first time. and. for one •?. | found she was outspoken. Bea | You surprise me! By wbom!-? delphia Press

J. C. Moran, ditch atty ; C. O. Rayu. paper cards Decatur Journal, printing I Michael Kuhm, Jr., supervisor ' I W. T. Ludy, hauling coal ; E. M. Ray, tp. supplies | Baumgartner Bros., brick Frank Ryan, road work John Muter, same V John O Donnel, sup. bridge work . | J. M. Peel, supervisor Same , Geo. Reynolds, same Wm. Harshberger. director E. J. Kenney, goods . C. W. Muter, goods I Amos Houser, broom t : S James Kenney, serv. as trustee •• I John Odnell. supervisor Emma J. Amspaugh, sheep killed ... | J. M. Wood, same M B. Miller, same John Butcher, same ‘ Chas. Duer, same E. D. McCuulum. same | J. H. Voglewede ® Abe Boch, poor SUMMARY Ballance on hand last settlement. .I- | Receipts M 2 Total of ballance and receipts . ■ J.- f. Disbursments .-'j Ballance S State of Indiana, Adams count}. g The undersigned, being duh > his oath, says, that the within complete showing of all the and pail out. as he verily bel! ® ' the various items of expenditure have been fully paid in lhe sa “ s wihtout express or imp lye; 1 any portion thereof shall be . i repaid to him, or to any othe pe 1 that he has received no mon . * of value in consideration 01 j made by him as trustee.- J Subscribed and swort to befc.e m j day of January, v | Chairman of the Ad' - L TOWNSHIP FUND- I I Balance on hand last settlenien 1 Receipts " dn Total of Balance and receipt* ? » Disbursements ll'Ki Balance TUITION FUND. ,■ Balance on hand last settlemen lf''W Receipts si!-® Total of balance and receipts . » : Disbursements i Balance SPECI AL M Htlt’L K ' , 1 I Balance on hand last settlement- . ■ 1 Receipts ilijH I Total of balance and receipts •• • Disbursements Balance ROAD FUND. > Balance on hand last settlemen . J Receipts ' 1> : ■ , Total of balance and receipts ; g Disbursements? !'■ 1 Balance LIBRARY FUND ( J Balance on hand last settlemen ■ ' Receipts 1 Total of balance and receipts ■ ' Balance DOG FUND- I Balance on hand last settlemen 1. ■ , Receipts . .<■ 1 Total of balance and receipts , Disbursements J'H i Balance 3 TOTAL OF Al l H j. ■ 1 Balance on hand last settlem - (, '■ 1 Receipts ~ »('!■ ' 1 Total of balance and recei 1 Disbursements . Balance