Decatur Democrat, Volume 49, Number 11, Decatur, Adams County, 18 May 1905 — Page 8

Route One. Corn planting will be late this year on aooonnt of the wet weather. Charles Fuhrman and Robert Mann were Sunday visitors at Marion. The Mount Pleasant Epworth .League Society reorganized last Sunday evening. Delrna Ruckman of Hoagland, spent Sunday in this vicinity, the guest of his parents. Miss Edna Sheets is quite low with consumption, and is not expected to survive many days. Miss Elsie Fuhrman entertained a number of her friends at dinner Sunday. All pr esent report a good time. State Line. John J. Wolfe was at Van Wert, on business, Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Win Dudley were shopping at Decatur, Saturday. Mrs. Bert and Mrs. George Siew art were shopping at Decatur, Saturday. John Snyder and Peter Finkhouse were transacting business at Decatur, Saturday. E. W. Jackson and Ollie Gaunt w ere taking in the sights at Decatur, Saturday. Harmon Roth, of near Wolfoale, was visiting with William Drake and family, Saturday. G. R. Wood and family were visiting with his brother, Adolph and family, near Daisy, Sunday. Edward Stettler, of near Willshire, was calling on friends and relatives in this community, Sunday. L. A. Snyder and family, of near Wren, were visiting with Emory Kummel and family, of Dixon, Saturday. Misses May and Florence Harshman were visiting with Henry Ershman and family of near Bobo, Sunday. Dayton Gause and family, of near Willshire, were visiting with ’ Dennis Krick and family, of route eight, Sunday. C A. Standiford and daughter. Ollie, were at Wren, Saturday, calling on Mrs. Standiford’s father, Mr. Steve Merica, who is reported quite sick. Linn Grove. Miss Emma Witwer is visiting her sister, Mrs. Jacob Sprunger this week. George Beach and wife of Markle, Sundayed with A. Schlagenhauf and family. * A steel corrugated roof is being put on the engine room of the Pioneer mills. The Wabash river left its banks and has inundated a large area cf growing crops. Miss Nona M. Hoffman is the guest of Miss Ruby Miller, of Decatur, this week. Henry French had a force of ten teams hauling stone for his new barn the last of last week. We failed last week to report the marriage of Miss Ina Lindsey to Charley Arnold of Bluffton. The Adams County Sunday School convention met with tbe new mission church east of town. James Eng e, of Linn Grove, lodge 683, is representing the home lodge at the Grand lodge of the I. O. O. F. at Indianapolis this week. Mrs. Sylvester Fonts and Mrs. Sayler of Bluffton, held union services at the Baptist church for a few days, which were closed Sunday evening. F. A. W. Lindsey and wife, of Geneva, were visiting their daughter, Mrs. C- C. Fonts, last week. They report as being well pleased with their change of location. Edward Pontius, who died near Geneva, early Thursday morning, was buried at this place last Sabbath afternoon, being but eigh t days after the burial of his companion. His six brothers were the pall New Cure for Stomach Disease. There are so many people that have StomacTrouble. and have been taken so much medlr cine and can get no relief, and they nevef will because they don’t get the right kind oh treatment. The real cause of stomach trouble is your kidneys. You will have to get your kidneys treated and your stomach will get all right again. Under my New Discovery in treating the stomach by the kidneys my pat ents get better and cured, whereby the old method they try everything that hL been rec tmmended for the stomach, and no cure 03 much Uric Acid in tbe blood causes st< mach trouble, which I removed Hundreds of cures in and around Decatur have made, and is you have Stomach or Kidney Disease call at the Murrey House Thursday May 25,1 will be there. GEOBGE THAIN, M. D.

bearers, who also performed that duty at the funeral of Mrs. ‘Pontius. Edward was 44 years of age. The Bluffton Evening Star passed this place last Thursday loaded with ladies, headed for the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Crisman, east of this place, where they pleasantly spent the day regardless of the inclement weather. Peter Hoffman acknowledges the receipt of a friendly letter from Peter Hoffman, the present coroner of Cook county, Chicago, The : grandparents of the latter came to I America the same year as the parents of the former, 1842 Will Cordua is busily engaged today in moving his household effects from Second street to Short Sixth street. Grandmother Ellis, of Indianapolis, and Mrs. Mary Ellis and daughter, Violet, of Redkey, arrived last evening and are guests of ' M r. and Mrs. Lase Ellis. The ball game between the teachers and post officials billed for this afternoon, was postponed on account of wet weather. Fred Vaughn this morning came into the Old Adams County bank and deposited several bats, including money, marbles and chalk, and stated that if the betting indicated anything the game would be worth going miles to see. Just when the game will be played depends mu ch on the weather. The Rosenthals will play the Delphos, Ohio, team Sunday at Steele’s park, if the grounds are anywhere near go 3d condition and the fans may look for a red hot contest. Delphos oomes highly recommended and the Rosenthals will be forced to their limit if they win. All members of the local team are in excellent condition and anxiously awaiting the coming contest. Attorney L. C. Devoss Tuesday 1 filed a new divorce case, enti tied Anna Williams vs Albert Williams. The principal charge alleged is abandinment and the complaint shows that the couple were married at Lima, Ohio, December 11. 1889, and lived together as husband and wife until December 5, 1898, when the husand left his wife and has since refused to live with her. Three children were born to the union, a girl now aged ten years, and two boys, aged respectively twelve and eight years The defendant now has possession of the ; three children, but in ther com- ! plaint Mrs. Williams alleges that he is an unfit person to care for the daughter, Laura, and asks that the ' court give her the custody of the ' child. Mrs .Williams also asks judgment for alimony in the sum of tIOOO and for all other proper relief. Clover Leaf Shops, Toledo. St. Louis & Western Railroad Company, Legal Depart- ' ment. Toledo, Ohio, May 12, ’OS. Clark J. Lutz, Esq., Attorney. Decatur Indiana. Dear Sir:— The president has requested us to investigate the title to the property, which the city of Decatur is to convey to this company for the contemplated improvements at ' that point. Wil] you kindly fur- I nish us the necessary abstracts at your early convenience, as we understand that the company is anxious to go ahead with the work without delay. Yours very truly, Clarence Brown, General Solicitor The above is an exact copy of a letter received by Attorney Lutz, and proves that the matter of Decatur securing a division and the Clover Leaf improvements has by no means been abandoned. The astracts are being prepared and will be forwarded at b onoe. Engineer Skinner, of Frankfort, was here yesterday, preparing a report of the property included in the deal as stated in our yesterday’s issue. No definite time as to the commencement of the work can be g.ven, but from the tone of this letter, the work will certainly be in progress before long. Mr. Skinner informs us that new track is being laid on the western division of the road and the intention is to bring the lighter steel rails taken up there to this point for use as yard switches. While it is rumored that the appropriation for the improvement has been made by the Clover Leaf directors, nothing definite can be obtained as to that fact at present.

Specials by Wire. Winona, Ind., May 17 —The general assembly of the Presbyterian church—the court of last resort of this religious organizationopens its meetings here on Thursday, May 18, and until the 27th will discuss measures of importance to 2,000,000 communicants. The

assembly will be made up of 650 ministers and lay men who are prominent in affairs of the Presbyterian church, and it is thought enough interest will be taken in the work to attract 350 or 400 more, so the total attendance may be about 1 1000. The list of notable men who are coming is a long one. Ex-Pres-1 ident Grover Cleveland has been asked to attend the sessions of the j assembly, and it is thought here he ■ may come. John M. Harlin. of the j Hinted States supreme bench, will be here to promote the idea ofl building a great, cathedral in Washington, an idea in which he is particularly interested. As a preliminary to the regular assembly work, there will be a foreign missionary conference afternoon and evening of Mayl 7, which will be led by the Rev. Arthur Brown, secretary of the board of foreign missions, of New York. The assembly will open with a sermon at 11 a. m. by the retiring moderator, the Rev. J. Addison Henry, of Philadelphia. The election of a new moderator will take place in the afternoon, and the temporary clerk will make the report of the ' committee on arrangements. In the evening there will be an observance of the sacrament of the Lord’s supper. A popular meeting for the discussion of Sunday school work will be held on May 19. Affairs of the board of aid for collages will be discussed at a popular meeting on May 20. The new moderator will preach at the audtorium on the morning of May 21. Indianapolis, May 17.—As the result of an arrangement consum mated today all telephones con trolled by the L’nited Telephone 1 company will hereafter be operated ' in connection with the Central Un- ; ion Telephone company. The Uni ted company owns exchanges and toll lines in Wells, Grant, Blackford and Huntington counties, Indiana. The transaction is the largest and most importaint in telephone circles in Indiana in many years. The United company’s holdings include exchanges in Marion, Hartford City, Huntington, Bluffton, Montpelier and Upland, as well as toll lines connecting practically every village and hamlet in the four counties. The company has 5000 subscribers. By terms of the i deal the United Telephone company secures connection with the toll I lines of the Central Union telephone company and those of the American telephone 'and telegraph company which cover practically all of the states east of the Rocky mountains. This company has heretofore been operated in connection with the independent telephone companies in Indiana. London, May 17.—Arthur F. MoIntyre, alias Thomas, of St. Louis, Mo., who was arrested here last month on an extradition warrant, sailed for New York today in the custody of Deputy Sheriff Killain. Mclntyre was formerly the head of a grain speculation concern in St. Louis. His absence from that city was discovered Dec. 27th, last, when he failed to appear in court, in which he wasjunder sentence of eighteen months’ imprisonment in the penitentiary after conviction for fraud. Cincinnati, 0., May 17.—A terrible panic aboard the steamer Island Queen occurred today. A windstorm hurled the boat about, breaking the rudder and sidewheel, rendering her helpless. She crashed | into a barge and for some time it was feared she would sink. A thousand excursionists were aboard enroute for Louisville and the crew had a fierce struggle to prevent people jumping overboard. Chicago, May 17.—Gompers slept until noon, then called on the mayor and assured *bim he would attempt to end the strike this afternoon. Several members of the em-ployers’-hesociation were called into the conference. jgplumbus, 0., May 17.—Secretary Taft, who will bound the keynote at the republican s tate convention here next week, wi 1 be boomed for president at once by the Ohioans. |

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BOOKS. What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticised for us.— i Lowell. Books are men of higher stature and the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.—E. B. Browning. We should make the same use of a bo-.k that tbe bee does of a flower. She steals sweets from it, but does not injure it.—Colten. Books are the masters who instruct us without roiis and ferules, without hard words and anger, without clothes or money.—Richard de Bury. My maxims are never to begin a book without finishing it. never to consider it without knowing it. and to study with a whole mind.—Buxton. A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It is not offended at your absentmindedness nor jealous if. you turn to other pleasures.—Beecher. Peculiar Occupations. The trade of toothstainer. followed in eastern Asia, is as odd a calling as any. The natives prefer black teeth to the whiter kind, and the toothstainer. with a little box of brushes and coloring matter, calls on his customers and stains their teeth. .The process is not unlike that of blacking a boot, for a fine polish is given to the teeth. The pigment used is quite harmless. In Arabia the trade of “gossiper” has many followers. The “gossiper” collects ah the news, tittle-tattle, jokes and stories he can get hold of and then goes from house to bouse retailing them. If he has a good manner and can adapt his recitals to bis audiences he makes a very fair income. A Chinese Trick. An English gentleman who resided in 1 China for many years tells the following story in illustration of the peculiar knavery of the Chinese character: A stout gentleman well known in China was some years ago feted at Taiwan for two or three days, “the observed of all observers," he being an immense man and a good specimen of a transatlantic Anglo-Saxon, but the series of crowded visits he received at length became troublesome, and he found he was being made too much of. The fact > was he was being exhibited. • charge being made for the exhibition. Ain-nran AwKarani-e. Americans are not the most impudent persons on the face of the earth. Nevertheless on occasion they can give points to those of some othe: nations. A traveler in Korea was dis covered taking snapshots of Russian soldiers and promptly arrested. “Have you been photographing my soldiers?" inquired the officer. “Yes, and I should like to take yours Permit me!" Snap, and the thing was done. The Russian laughed, and the two men fell Into conversation, whereupon tbe American said that he had recently been in Port Arthur. “Port Arthur!" exclaimed the Russian. “Impossible!" "Oh. no; not impossible. Your compatriots escorted me in.” And. pulling some photographs from his pocket, he added. “I took these snapshots of your torpedo destroyers as they scooped down upon the little boat I was in.” The Russian looked from the man to the pictures with undisguised amazement. “Those are certainly our boats," he admitted “Perhaps you know their names and will oblige me by writing them on the backs of tbe pictures.” Like the queen of Sheba before Solo I mon. there was no longer any spirit in the Russian. Meekly be took the prof sered American pencil and upon the I American’s prints wrote the names of | the Russian torpedo destroyers. The Unfinished Cornice. People who v ass the Rothschild man Sion In the fashionable quarter of Lon J don often notice that the end of one I »f the cornices is unfinished. Every one asks why. The explanation is a rery simple yet suggestive one when it i is known. Lord Rothschild is an orthodox Jew and every pious Jew’s house, tradition ■ says, must have some part unfinished, io bear testimony to the world that its occupant is only, like Abraham, a pilgrim and a stranger upon the earth. The incomplete cornice upon th« mansion seems to say to all who hurry by in the streets bent on amassing worldly wealth or going along with the madding crowd in the paths of folly, “This is not Lord Rothschild’s home; he is traveling to eternity.” We. too.’ should remember that we are travelers. Dean Stanley left as an inscription to be placed on big tomb these words; The inn of a traveler on his way to Jerusalem.” In Livht Distress. A new term was beard tbe other day. An old lady and her two daughters eame into a millinery store. ’The young ! women wore mourning hats. The old I woman said to the clerk: “I want a mourning hat. for I am in mourning. But my flatter here.” indicating, “is a wiflder of two years’ standing, and she ' is in light distress. Give her a hat with i blue feathers on it.”—Chicago News. Schoolboy Humor. Etc. is a sign used to make believe ! you know more than you do. The equator is a menagerie lion running around the center of the earth. The zebra is like a horse, only striped and used to illustrate the letter Z. A vacuum is nothing shut up in a 1 ~ Detaitiens by London School Children.

life. Weber sums the main points to ba observed by those desirous of a long life as follows: First, moderation in eating drinking and physical indulgence; second, pure air out the house and within/third, the keeping of every organ of the body, so far as possible, in constant working order; fourth, tegular exercise every day in all weathers, supported in many cases by breathing movements and by walking and climbing tours: fifth, going to bed early and rising early and restricting tbe hours of sleep to six or seven hours; sixth, daily baths or ablutions, according to Individual conditions, cold or warm or warm followed by cold: seventh, regular work and mental occupation; eighth, cultivation of placidity, cheer i fulness and hopefulness of mind; ninth, j employment of tbe great power of the mind in controlling passions and nervous fear; tenth, strengthening the will In carrying out whatever is useful and In checking tbe craving for stimulants, anodynes and other injurious agencies —British Medical Jourpal. Diwad vantnces of an Even Temper. It is usual to envy the even tempered people—those who Are never unduly elated or cast down, who “knit on plain" all the time. If one like that sort of thing it would be equally natural to envy tbe animals—cows and pigs, for • Instance—whose serenity is seldom disturbed. For my part I think those even tempered people lose nine-tenths of tbe pleasure of existence. Tbe depths of grief and gloom into which impulsive people are thrown are amply made up for by the equally unreasonable and unreasoning joy into which they spring ■t tbe slightest possible excuse, and the sorrow of a quarrel with a dear one is paid for in the delight of "making up.” Parents are very apt to impress on their children the beauty of this even disposition, but *o far as I can see the only benefit derived from it is an unwrinkled complexion.—Donahoe's Magazine, The conee naromrier. •■■Ever notice what a fine barometei a cup or couee makes?” a restaurant keeper asks in the Sun. We have. When it’s weak and cold a storm P sure to toll >w.—Albany Journal. Soft. He—Yaas, you know. I want to fine something to take up my mind. SheHave you tried blotting paper? One of the greatest wonders in this world is what becomes of all the smart children when they grow up. Cleared For Action Wnen the body is cleared for ac- I tion, by Dr. King’s New Life Pills, you can tell it by the bloom of health on the cheeks: the brightness of the eyes: the firmness of the flesh and muscles; the buovaucy of the mind. Try them. At Blackburn & (Juris j tian’s drug store, 25 cents. $33 tr Pacific Coast. Tickets will be on sale from cago, via the Chicago, Union Pacific | and North-Western Line, during the, autumn months at this low rate. Cor responding!}’ low rates from other points. Daily and personally conducted excursions in Pullman Tourist sleeping cars, through without charge to San Francisco, |Los Angles and Portland, only 87.00 for double berth. Full particulars on application to W.B. Kniskern, P. T. M., C. &N. W. Ry., j Chicago.

IwOOL GROWERS ATTENTION Do not engage or sell i your wool to anyone before seeing us, as it will mean more money to you for your wool. F > er Pound* B. KALVER & SON DECATUR.

MARKET REPORT. Accurate prices paid by Decatui uerehants for various products. Cor ected every day at 2 o’clock. Buffalo StocK Market E. Buffalo, N. Y. May 16 SpecialCattle—No cattle here, all cleaned up inquiry good. E x P° t rt 16.00 @ 6 50 r air to good fat cows.... 3.10 (a 485 ' Stockers to best feeders 3.00 @ 1 50 k n 4.00 ot 5 00 Bologna bulls 4.25 & 4 >SO Cows, fancy 45 00 @SB 00 common to good 20.00 @ 42 00 Hogs—Receipts 10 care, market 20c higher; demand good. Good mediums & heavy's 5.65 @ 5 70

Yorkers B Pigs f ’’OB Goal Roughs " <’ Common Roughs. !r/ i> OoH Stags Sheep— Receipts 10 earssteady. Choice lambs sauvs ■ Choice westerns k m Cull lambs -! ' f/ 6 'Ol Choice yearlings ’ Handy mixed sheep ® J -.till and common sheep ;) PITTSBURG Union Stock Yards. P iUsb May 16.—Hogs—Receipt m market higher. Yorkers @ 5 5 Chicago Markets Chicago market closed at 1-u May Wheat . .., July Wheat " 1 Sept. Wheat May Corn July Corn Sept. Corn ’’ May Oats July oats ■;% p °L k • A Toledo Markets Changed every afternoon at 3-on □ clock by J. D. Hale, DecatursperiS wire service. Wheat, new No. 2. red cash. 11 m Mav Wheat ....■•. July Wheat.7.”.“. J Sept, wheatgjl Corn, cash ’’’ May corn ’ July corn' S Sept, corn y, Oats, cash May oats 33 Julv oats 3[i] Sept. oats....'•• 39 Rye, cash ;g GRAIN. BY a. L. OABBOL, GBAIN MSBCHARI Corn yellow new | 5] Corn, Mixed new g Machine shucked one cent less. Jatg. new 23 Wheat. No. 2ft a neat, No. 3 91 Barley . 31 Rye No. 2.© Clover Seed 5 Alsyke —g 6 251 Buckwheat flax Seed.S) Timothy| ft BuckwheatM OIL HARKBT Indiana 81 Whitehouseft Somerset il Neodasha, (Kan.) Barkersville.B6 Ragland .62 Tiona ....11.16 Pennsylvanial3l Corning. .. . ft New Casiie, 1.23 North Lima 36 South Lima 31 STOCK. BT FBBD 80H1IMAM, DI Lil Lambs@6 00 dogs, per owt. 4 75@ |o 00 Cattle per lb(2 * Calves, per lb@ ’ Oowb 1 g 3 POULTRY. BI J. W. PLACI 00. Chickens, young, per lb fowls, per lb*4 Young Turkey 10“ Old TurkeysHAY HARKET. No. I timothy 50 No 1", ’ 2 No 1 mixed No 1 eiover » ’ * Loose hay 1 25 less WOOL AND HIDES. by b. kalvib a sos. Phone 442 Wool, unwashed3l Muskrat 3 & 1 Beef Hides Calf ’J® Sheep Pelts - @l j® Tallow- 04 COAL—Psr Tos Prices of coal on and afier De« 111 ber let, until further notic* will w follows: , jq Hocking Lump, per ton Virginia Splint q Indiana Lump, in Domestic Nut Washed Nut... . Pittsburg Lump Pocahontas- qq Kentucky Cannell Anthracite oL.ner Charges for carrying coal- e* ton or fraction thereof; up s,B ‘ rß per ton. OTHER PRODUCTS. BY vxsrotjs 33J3133 4*o Eggs, fresh, per dot * $ Lard ja Butter, per pound — 35 Potatoes, new jq Onions 30 Cabbage per 100 lb go Apples, per bo