Decatur Democrat, Volume 49, Number 12, Decatur, Adams County, 25 May 1905 — Page 6

Hoch Must Hang. "'Chicago, May 19.—Johann Hooh. ■who by his own confession, is several times a bigamist, end who is charged by the police with having married at least forty women in the past fiftt-een years, was found guilty of murder todav and the death sentence recommended by a jury in Judge Koerstan's court. The crime for which Hock will be Jed to tn> gallows was the murder of his la«t known wife, Mrs. Marie WeickerHoch. Hooh had been married to this woman but a few days when she became suddenly ill and died. He then formed an alliance wi b the sister of the dead woman, Mrs. fisher, and securing the latter’s money, tied from Chicago. This woman, iu. quest of revenge, notified the police that Hoch had poisoned her sister and a search for H rch was begun. He was found two weeks later in New York and brought back to Chiciigo and confronted by several of his supposed wives. Daring the trial expert testimony was offered by the st.te that Hoch had poisoned the worn tn by administering arsenic. Today’s verdict was one of the quickest on record in Cook county, the jury having reached a decision in les? than half an hour. Three ballots were taken. Tae first ballot was unanimous as to Hoch’s guilt and then a ballot folio wed us to the punishment to be inflicted. Tnis ballot showed ten in favor of the death penalty and two for life imprisonment. A third ballot resulted in the twelve jurymen voting for the death penalty. TELECm riWUES. Washington, D C-, May 20 —Returns to the chief of the bureau oi statistics of the department of agriculture made up to the first of thi*mouth show the area under winter wheat in in cultivation to have | been about 29.723,000 acres. This ; s 1,432,< 00 acres, or 4 6 per ceu> ■ less thin the area sown last fall ; and 2,858 000 acres or 10.6 pct | emt moie than the area of winter wheat harvested last year. Os t t area abandoned or plowed nnibr 356,000 acres are reported from Kinsas. 205,000 acres (including c itting for hay) from California, an 1 102,000 acres from Missouri. Winona, Ind., M»y 20 —The feature of today’s meeting wa o the interest shown in the rep >rt of the board of aid. fir o tll->ge<. Ttwadecided to start a movement of this kind. G. R. & I. R >tne City excursion. Season tickets good until Ootober3lJ’ 12.30. Fifteen day tickets. $1 bu. Mexico nineteen hoars nearer Double daily through service, Iroi Mountain route. Ask ticket agents G.or A. A. Diane, Jr., T. P. A. 200 Sentinel Bldg., Indianapolis. General Assem >lv of thi Presbyterian church r in Uni'rd States al Winona Lake, Ind,. ’May 17 and 31. Grand Rapids railriad will sell round trip tickets at J 1.35 each May 15 to 23. Return limit June 4, 1905. |5 St. Louis aid return via Clover Leaf route on trains leaving Toledo, Saturday. May 27th; tickets good returning up to and including all trains leaving St. Louis. Monday, May 2yrh. See agents or address W. L. Ross, Toledo O. ts Decoration Day, May 30th. The Grand Rapids will sei; round trip tickets at 3 Cents per mile, or one fare for the round trip to. Tickets to be sold May 29 and 30th, good returning up to and including May 31, 1905. No tickets sold for a distance of over 150 miles. Several Indiana papers have published >he notice that the Michigan legi-lar ire had passed a fisherman’s 1 <ense lav, requiring all nou-rcsi ants fi-hei tnen to pay $25 for the p ivilege <>f fishing in the lakes and streams of Michigan This is an error. No such lapassel. 102d&w On May 29 and 30 the ETe railroad will sell excursion tickets to all poirfi within a radius of 150 miles from starting point at ratios one fare for the round trip. Tickets good returning until May 31st, inclusive. For furth t information, inquire of Erie agents or write O. L. Enos, Marion, Ohio. The Passenger department of the Toledo, St. Louis & Western R. R., “Clover Leaf Route,” has issued a booklet, entitled, “Get Out, or Get In,” from the pen of Mr. Elbert Hub- ; bard, of the Roycrofters, of East Aurora, N. Y. Copies of this booklet may be obtained by sending 4 cents in stamps to Walter L. Ross. General Passenger Agent, “ Clover Leaf. I Route,” Toledo, Ohio. |

ObbLY NAMED TOWNS QUEER TITLES THAT DOT THE MAPS OF UNCLE SAM. Th if** Xomcnrlntlve Peculiarity I* lot Confined to Any One Part of the Country, hut Lend* Itself Impartially to AH Section*. The mimes of some to#ns in the United States probably cause their inhabitants considerable vexations when away from home, says the Chicago Chronicle. These muies l..:ve certain peculiar meanings in everyday talk and as soon as they are mentioned they are apt to prompt troublesome questions by funmakers. For example, the man from Alone. Ky„ might have to exI plain to a stranger living in New York bow lie could do business if he were the only inhabitant and how the excise laws were enforced if the barkeeper, the toper, ti e policeman and the magistrate were all one and the same and in case there were more than one person ’n Alone if all were bachelors and old maids, t'iti.ens of Lonely. N. C.. and Lonesome. Ky.. would encounter much the same sort of questions, and all. of course, would finally be asked if they were once Jersey commuters. If a man hailed from Affinity. N. he would naturally be supposed to be married and bis home life an unpv.nctuated chapter of bliss. He would tv expected to wear as wide a smile as the citizen of Joy or Happy. Tex., or Paradise. Colo., with a temper as subdued as the inhabitants of Purity. Minn What would happen, however, if the man from Affinity should meet a man from Peace. Ala., would, indeed, be problematical. They might, after the fashion ot some westerners, boom the merits of their respective towns with such ardor that at last these representatives of Peace and Affinity would come to blows. They might at last develop as much disrelish for each other as the citizens of Cream. Wis., who should chance to take dinner with a citizen of Caviar. N. J. On the other hand, they might become as chummy as the townsmen of those three towns in the states of Colorado. Oregon and West Virginia which all bear the name of Crook. Any one coming from Eye. N. C. could hardly expect to join ti.e New York police force and find things eon genial. If he was a native of Lax Ala., or Blind Bay. La., on the eon trary. bis duties as a metropolitan blue | coat might prove congenial. If he said i be was from Sodom. 0.. he would molikely be told that his own town must need his services more. If be replied I that it didn’t, he might l>e recommended to try to get a position in Pluto Miss. Near the Greene river in Kentucky and several miles south of Lewiston there is a town by the name of Pig It has never been recorded in any history of the United States whether the characteristics of the people of Pig are any different from those of the people of Lamb. 111., or Cbickies. Pa. This is certainly to be regretted. It would certainly be interesting to know if the worthy burghers of Pig are any more hapny and contented than other human i beings, whet’.'r they have such ills as insomnia, nervous prostration or inel ancholia: whether there is any sale in Pig for appetirt and what the good peo- ’c do on Frid vs. Should a we an from Big Foot Tex., or Antiquity. 0.. adverti«° for :■ I husband it i- s fe to say she would noget as many answers as a woman fron I Be tty. W. Vs. The man who hade’ i '-'Tn Jug. Ala., might Li ve more d\ ficulty in being eiec cd to the Whit< Ribbon society than bis eontemnorar? from Dry Town. Cal. Ti e native c‘ Magic. Ala., would r.o doubt be we' corned by certain Wall street officer where a citizen from Fairplay. Wis would find the door shut. Should tl • woman from A’amode. Ga.. or Fas’ ion. Ga.. meet a woman from Jayvllle. 0.. the two might get into such . controversy tin t at the end they won’ both be believed to be natives of Loci: eyville. N. Y. Ti e citizen of Fossil Ore., unlik the citizen of Quick, Neb. would no doubt feel very much at Irmie in Philadelphia, and for much tl e same reasons the representative of Fact. Kan., would find a congenial at Biosphere in Boston. Vegetarians should go to Grass. S. D. Any one might think that Ice. Ga.. would become a more popular summer resort than Hell Hale. Colo. A jurymade up of men half of whom wenborn in Japan. Mo., and the other half in Russia. N. Y.. would be pretty sure to disagree. At any rate, they would not call in a man from Jingo. Tenn., for a peacemaker. Should the girl from Leapyear. Tenn., become dissatisfied with things at home there is little danger of her settling in Bachelor. Mich. Neither would the man from Langor. Minn., think of moving to Jump. O. A man may travel from Dan to Beersheba nowadays and think it a very short journey. There is a Dan in Kentucky and a Beersheba over the line ifi Tennessee. Neither is the trip from London to Pekin a long one in the United States. Ohio contains both a Pekin and a London, and it is not a long journey from Whisky Buttes, Mont., to Seven Devils, Ida. Cricket* In Japan. There is a large green cricket in Ja pan of which the children of that country are fond. It is sold in cunning little bamboo cages in booths on the streets and is loved for its cheery chirp. Several varieties of tree crickets are pure white, coming at different times of the year. Some have a note so loud and insistent that to have two or three playing theit fiddles in a gs.rden at once makes a noise almost deafening, while a species that comes late in the fall has an exquisite note like the quick ringing of a small bell. • There is no instinct like that of th* . heart -Byron.

hvettea tncouragement. “I remember." said an old naval officer. "hearing of an incident on board of a ship which was commanded by a religious captain who wouid not allow the mate to use profane language or violence toward the crew aud where the work and discipline were carried on more by moral suasion than by force, with the result that things went very slowly. The men did not jump to the braces or rapes, aud the general work of the ship was slow. "While at ai.cb.or one dav in the liar bor of Rio two of the sailors, leaning over the rail, were watching work going on on board of another ship anchored close to them, where the opposite system prevailed. The air on that ship was lurid with the language of the mate, aud the men were treated with a violence that was far from necessary but tlie work went on quickly. The sails were furled aud the yards braced in a smart and seamanlike manner. As they listened to the sulphurous orders of the mate one of the sailors ou the good ship remarked seutentiouslv to the other: “ ‘Bill, d’ye see now what it is we want aboard here? We want a little encouragement" ” Cupid and the Reernit*. “Cupid is one of the best recruiting officers that Uncle Sam has," confided one of the sergeants attached to the recruiting headquarters. "Back of nearly every enlistment there is a woman in the case. Lovers' quarrels chase a lot of fine lads into the service. Your romantic youth gravitates to the recruiting officer after a serious break with his sweetheart as naturally as a duck takes to water. It seems to him the most fitting way in which to sacrifice himself when love's young dream is apparently dispelled. Way down in his heart he nursed the idea of making his erstwhile inamorata sad. and it’s the army or navy, with the possibility of death iu battle, for him. Again, other first class material is recruited by the desire of young fellows to sport a uniform before their girls. In such eases Cupid does his recruiting through vanity. But in both ways he manages to fill up big gaps in the ranks of l u cle Sam’s fighters.”—Philadelphia Record. Earnins Their “Dot.** The manager of a large dressmaking establishment in New York says: '1 suppose that the most un-American Im migrants we get in this country are not the Chinese or the Poles or the Hungarians, but the Parisian seamstresses. milliners and lingerie work ers. These women come Lore to save the price of a 'dot' out of our high American wages. It takes from twe to five years to do that. Ir. ill that time they never mix with Americans never visit a theater, never make the first attempt to learn the language Some of them go to the French church on Sundays: otherwise they never leave their rooms except to shop. This prenuptial period in New York is just a time dropped out of their lives. They talk of nothing day after day but what they'll do when they <iet back to Paris and begin to live again.” Why ConKhinjx Weakens You. A patient German scient t of a sta tlstical turn of mind cal< ulates that the amount of energy expended by a person who coughs once every quarter of an hour for ten hours is equivalent to 250 units of heat, or the nourishment yielded by three eggs or twe glasses of milk. Coughing is thus seen to be au expensive luxury. The rea son for the waste in force entailed by it. or one reason at least, lies in the fact that, while in normal respiration the air is expelled from the chest at the rate of four feet a second, in violent coughing it may attain a velocity of 300 feet. Stransre Mountain Sickness. If mountain sickness should come upon you your bitterest enemy will lead your horse for you. The symptoms are those of habitual drunken ness. All the limbs shiver, and in the bloodless face the eyes have that extraordinary look of insanity which is. 1 think, caused by an inability to focus them. The speech comes with diffi culty. and in cue case that I saw the mental coherence was as obviously at fault as the physical. — Landor’s "Lhassa.” A Te«l of Love. Among the Arabs of upper Egypt the youth who proposes for a girl must submit to a whipping at the hands of all her male relatives. "And.” says a dry narrator, "if he wishes to be con sidered worth having he must receive the chastisement, which is sometimeexceedingly severe, with an expression of enjoyment." Not infrequently it is the maiden herself who imposes the test. Spoiled Hl* Appetite. Baron Graham once asked an epicure how many oysters he should eat in or tier to create a good ap; etite for dinnei and was told to eat away until he be came hungry. The baron, who never saw a joke, ate ten dozen and then plaintively remarked. “ 'Pon my word, I don’t think I am as hungry as when I began.” CstHor. "Good gracious:" exclaimed the mint sauce. “1 should think you'd be ashamed to masquerade as ‘spring lamb.’ ” "Well,” replied the roast, "it does make me feel rather sheepish."—Catholic Standard and Times. An Idle Jest. “Pa, what is an -idle jest? ” “One that the newspapers hav, t't yet got bold of and worked to death.” —Cleveland Leader. “No fool was ever so foolish but some one thought him clevsc "

“One of the common, everyday furs which are taught in the schools Id America is that which relates to th* introduction into the western beiai spnere of African slavery." writes s critic. “The school histories which t.is schoolgirl aud scnoolboy study say that it dates from ill 1 or 1620. when t Dutch sea captan sold the English settlers the first African. Tie yea> 1501, however, is the date of the ea E est reference in American history to oe groes coming from Spain to Americ.122 years before Albany. N. Y.. wa’ settled by the Dutch and 106 years hefore Jamestown. Ya., v. - - settled the English. In lot'. n ' of Spain wrote to Crando. iLvu governor of Hispaniola. ‘I will send more negro slaves, as you request.’ In *fty negro slaves were sent to work in the mines of Hispaniola. There is a record of King Ferdinand’s response to a request of Las Casas, bishop of La Concepcion, in Hispaniola, that mo:e negroes should be imported. He raid. •There are already many negroes on the island.’ This was in the yeai 1514.” z_ Terrific Race With Death. ‘Death was fast approaching." .vr trs Ralph F. Fernandez, of Tampa Fla . describing his fearful race w ith ieatb. “as a result of liver trouble and heart disease, which had robbed ' me of sleep and of all in’erest in life, j I had tried many diffe ent doctors and several medicines, but got no benefit, until I began to use Electric Bitters. So wonderful was their "ffect. that in three days I felt like a new man. and today I am cured of all my troubles " Guaranted at Blackburn and Christens Drug Store; price 50c

I 10,000 People in I I One Week 1 Accepted our offer to pay the druggist one-half the cost of a FULL SIZED BOX of 19 1 Nu-tri-o!a Blood & Nerve Food I ■ Doubtless-manv of tb“«e tboueht 12.00 a box too high bnt it wasn’t, and to M prove it to them we placed a box in their hands at just HALF PRICE. Now K they know for themselves, what a wonder-worker Nutriola is. WE NOW EXTEND THIS COUPON I OFFER TO YOU r ■ To The Nutriola Co.. Chicago. 111. wj . . . Gentlemen:—l have never tried Nutriola And we go a step further. an( j j accept vour liberal offer to send an m W We will seudyou an order g(M»d orriHr f ( , r ONE-HALF cost of a M f r <»ne-half the price of a full as advertised ■ sized box of Nutriola. you pay ■ the other half. After you have V used it if not perfectly satisfied. Name H ■ the cost is nothing to you. The O druggist will band you back fl your n;<-ney on request, and we St. &No fl M will pay him. Don't delay for M fl this offer is limited. fl M Citv and State— THE NUTRIOLA CO., Chicago, 111. L—__———i K NUTRIOLA PREPARATIONS are Sold and Guaranteed by SMITH, YAGER & FALK Decatur, Ind

.JM ..1.. -Ji y I BW, W S T° the Pacific Coast—to California, Oregon, Washington — 1 round-trip, long transit and return limits, liberal stop-over privileges. The rate is practically on the basis of one fare for the round tr *P- Os course, if you wish to visit bof A California and Oregon or Washington, the cost is slightly more. 1 These reduced rates are in effect on certain dates in months ’ 1 of May to October, inclusive. They apply from all Eastern points L • V * a Chicago, St Louis or Memphis gateways. The Rock Island Zz I System will take you up in either Chicago or St. Louis, or at hundreds T 1 ot h er Middle West points and carry you to the Coast in through Standard or Tourist Sleepers with unexcelled Dining Car service. MnJl R° c k Island also affords a choice of routes: on the “Scenic” P '4 • route you can stop off in Colorado—see Salt Lake City—visit K -If Yellowstone National Park; on the “Southern” route you can go I t i V * a P as0 ’ New Mexico, then “up coast” to San Francisco r • 'a on t° Portland or Seattle if desired. I Bl In short, these Pacific Coast excursions offer an unusually good W'k I A. chance to see our western country in a comprehensive manner. 1 : •■ 1 -,.J • kk-'j If you desire to go only as far as Colorado, there are excursion 1 rates in effect to that section and return, all summer long, m specially reduced June 30 to July 4, August 12 and 13, T nv* Z (■fll A u t> us t 30 to September 4. Extension trips to Ogden iiK/1 Illi w ° r ~ a h Lake and return at low cost also. 1 V ii ' From September 15 to October 31, 1905, one-way Hl I Os/ ’ tourist or “colonist” tickets will be on sale to California and t a*'' m dL th® P ac if* c Northwest—about half regular fare. interested, send name and address on this coupon, designating Iflk which booklet wanted and to what point you plan to go. Name probable \ | <^te ,tart a l‘°’ *° we can advise definitely with respect to rates, etc. i y - 'j if I ill! tl I Send CuSorai'* boo| det usd rate*. « Name ' > Addre “ Address JOHN SEBASTIAN, Pass. Traf. Mgr., Rock Island Sy.tern, . ~ ~ E route° CHICAGO. U,re * b0 “‘ — Destination / L_

Daring me summer lhe G. K- & 1. will sell tickets for train 7 at a special round trip Sunday rate of one fare to all stations when journey can be tn ide within the day. Saved by Dynamite Somtimes, a flaming city is saved bv dynamiting a space that the lira Can’t cross. Somtimes, a cough hange on so long, you feel as if noting but dynamite would cure it. Z « .?’[ a - T .’ of Calhoun. Ga., writes: "My wife had ave y agravated cough, which kept her awake nights. Two phvsicians Kings N- « Dircoverv fir Consumption Cough- ami Colds, which eased her cough, gave her sleep, and finaby cured her." Strictly scientiffic cure for Bronchitis and La Grippe at Blackburns and Christen’s drug store, price 50c and 8100 a Bottle; guaranteed. Trial bottle free 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 end half gallon cans. For sale at the ol reliable drugstore. Smith. 'Sager Fdalk. <Btf Low Rate ot Intereat. Money loaned at five per cent, interest. payable annually or semi-an-nually, at option of borrower, with privilege of partial payments at any ntereet paying time. No delay in making loans. F. M. Schirmeyer, Decatur, Ind, 9tf

CLOVER LEAF TRIPS Special Low Excursion flai !s TOLEDO. ST. LOUIS & WESTFRv RAILROAD COMPANY. “CLOVER LEAF ROUTE” Season 1905. Tuesdays of April. Mav “nd j‘®‘ M fares via "Clover Leaf Route.’’ “ e at ll) » B. P. O. E. Annual Meeting H>.<r„> „ July 11-13. Very low fares N 7 from Toledo via rail orboat, p ual rouie Chatauqua. N. Y.. Exeurs'ons Julv 28th. Exceptionally low rates win K th ani i edby the "Clover Leaf" for"‘maions. ese e xcu r . Baltimore. Nd.. Christen Endeavor <• tiou. July 5-10; rates one fare pl Us round trip. " us 11 for California, rscit Coast Tourist onsale via ail ret-vs. Good 8 Stopover prlvleges at pleasure. “ on tiiß, Pullmo I Poloce Sleeping Cars cliningChair and Case Cars (MeiiaT? rs a la-carte), high back seat coaches ßerVHl through trains. For rates tnd in f X°L! 11 apply t 0 ° e » re « o Ticket Agent, or addr c i General Passenger Agent. E. L. BROWNE. oledo, Ohio. Traveling Passenger Agent T. L. MILtER Agent Decatur, led Confidential! If you contemplate a trie any point write ue for special iX? MATION. San Francisco, Los Angeles and Portlard Ore For the various meetings and ms’ ventions to be held on the Pacific cSs,' during the summer the Clover Leal u, will offer exc< ptionally low rates with verse routes, side tripsand stop-over nriv eleges. p lv ‘ G. A. R. Fares to Denver. Col. Extremely low rate ol one cent per mile for tickets, » sale Aug 29 to Sept. 2. Passengers can ro one route and return anothe r Especially desirable side trips from Denver ar“ he’nv arranged for those attending this meeting' Epworth League Convention at Denver verv low round trip excursions fares from all stations to Den, er. on sale. Tone * to July 3. Diverse routes, stop-overs ano side tries granted

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