Decatur Democrat, Volume 49, Number 36, Decatur, Adams County, 9 November 1905 — Page 8

Pleasant Mills William Roberson left last week for Frankfort, where ho has a pcsiton. Mrs. Harry Cordua and son of catur., spent Sunday here with her parents. James Watkins and family moved into their new house the first of the week. Dick Boyd and family of Deoatur spent Sunday here with J. R Boyd and family. The oyster supper last Saturday evening was a success, and was la-.gely attended. Charles Gage who has been absent during th summer, is here circulating among his triads. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathewson are moving into the house lately vacated by the Watkins family. The ladies of the M- E. church will a supper on Thanksgiving evening, November 31st at the hall. Mr. and Mrs,. Andrew Bonner, of Monroeville, Ind spent Bunday here with his brother Al Boner and family. Mr. and Mrs. Garman, and children, moved from Bobo last week and are occupying property at this place. The long courtship of Augustus H Smith and Miss Nettie Archer, came to a close Wednesday evening, of last week, when they were quietly married at the M. E. church parsonage at Bobo, by Rev. Swaney. We extend congratulations to the happy young couple. The quiet and secret marriage of Charles Schenck and Miss Wilma Cowan, which is said to have occurred about three weeks ago, have been found out but not too late we presume to offer congratulations. The contracting parties are both of this community, having been born and raised within two miles of Pleasant Mills, and are well and favorably known. They have our best wishes for the future. Linn Grove. __ JaoobJMesohberger and wife of Oklahoma, are visiting here. H. H. Groves and wife of Calladona, Ohio, are visitingjfriends in this vicinity. Forest Nichols died at his residence, one half mile west of town, at one o’clock Monday. William Schlaugenhauf is treating nis dwelling with a new ooat of paint. Leander Rohn is the artist. Daniel Schumacher and wife of Sterling. Kansas, are of friends. Tney for marly here. Lawrence Wattson moved on his father’s farm recently purchased of Mrs. Caroline Haughton in south French township. Emil E?ly moved from East Nottingham township, Wells county, to his own farm in French gtownship, Adams county Tuesday. Miss Bertha Stoker of Vera Cruz, died at the home of Biberstlne last Sinday. She was a niece of Mrs. Frank Nusbaum. Benjamin Meshberger has just finished harvesting his crop of corn. One week's time was d .•voted with a pone shucker to turn out the production es ovJr 1300 bushels. Friday evening. November 17th, the Linn Grove Junior band will give a concert in the Baptist chnroh. Some new melodies will be played. Everybody is invited to attend. Miss Tana Schlagenhauf pleasautly entertained five of her girl friends at six o’clock supper Mon- j day evening in honor of Miss Winona Hoffmann's birthday. After partaking of an elegant two-course supper the girls spent the evening singing, speaking and general conversation. The girls were Misses Stella, Liddy, Nellie Hunt, Clara Kathryn Meshberger. x Miss Schlaughenhauf and Miss SLofiEman. Thanking the hostess for the pleasant manner in which they were entertained, and wishing Miss Hoffman many more such birthdays, they departed at nine o’clock. Real Estate Transfers [Reported by Decatur Abstract and Loan Companyl Myrtle M Vizard toJHenry Smith. 80 acres sec 31, St Marys tp, S4OOO Harmon O Henry K Schuster, 140 acres, sec 22, French tp, *B*"’ Daniel Baumgartner to Jacob W Baumgartner, 12 acres, see 2, Wa

bash tp. S7OO Wm A Aspy to A J Pyle, lots Nos 131,192, 193, 194, 196, 197, 198, Geneva, SISOO F A W Lindsey to Emma Runyon, lot 10, Beuua Vista, S7OO Ernst Bloemker to Caroline Jabarg pt sec 34, Preble tp, SIOO Samuel Egly to Geneva 'Milling Co, pt inlots 255 256, Geneva, S7OOO Olive Parker to John F Musselman. 72 acres sec 6, Blue Creek tp, $5400 J M Pease to C V Rice, inlot 58, Geneva, SBOO Ephraim K Thompson to Will R Dorwin pt sec 34, Washington tp, SIOOO Luella Sullivan ot A J Moser <t Co, pt lot 226, Berne, S2OO Jno Schosenberg to Jesse King pt sec 17, Blue Creek tp, $1 Jesse King to Emma Baker, 40 acres, sec 17, Blue Creek tp, SIBSO John Hessler to Bernard Meyer pt sec 8, Kirkland tp, SSO Elizabeth Meyer to John Hessler pt sec 8, Kirkland tp, S3OO United States to Obediah Hartman, patent jfor 40 acres, sec 3, French tp Elizabeth Radamacher to CorneIlli us Radamacher, inlot 249, Decatur, $3300 Jacob R Schafer to Hiram Mann, pt outlot 90, Decatur, $75 B W Sholty to Julius Heiderman, inlot 9779, Decatur. SIOO John Maurer to John J Schenbeck, tp sec 4, Wabash tp. $1650 Henry L Warner to Burton Fuller, inlot 38, Pleasant JMills, SIOO Mary M Stone to L T Brokaw, inlot 460, Decatur, S6OO Caroline Hoffman to George W Brewste?. 80 acres, sec 16, Jefferson tp, SISOO Mary E Gault to Bulah Chape! M E church, pt sec 2, Kirkland tp, *SO Orpha E Wert to Wm E Singer, pt sec 2 and 3, Union tp, S6OOO W N Pond to Jno A Baumgartner, pt sec 35 Kirkland tp, S4OO Edith V Walters to Alice E Smith, lot 315, Decatur, S9OO BITS FROM THE WRITERS. The simple life does not need lentils ar cellular clothing. It needs those rarer things, gratitude and humility.— G. K. Chesterton. She wore far too much rouge last night aud not quite enough clothes. That Is always a sign of despair in a woman.—‘’Sebastian Melmoth.” Keep your head on your shoulders, it's bound to rest on some one else's occasionally. Still, keep it mostly on your own.—“A Pagan's Love,” by Constance Clyde. If you feel that you’ve really got to tell a secret, go somewhere where it's dark an’ you'll be alone. Then keep your mouth shut.—" The Middle Wall,” by Edward Marshall. Not that murriage is so beautiful, but it is necessary a girl should find that out for herself, so that she can turn her mind peacefully to other things.—"A Pagan's Love ” by Constance Clyde. The Guest and the Waitress. A dainty stranger wafted into the dining room of a hotel in Smith Centre ! the other day and as the chair was held back for him pulled out his handker chief and dusted the seat carefully. Pulling up his trousers, he seated himself, wiped the knife, fork and spoon : with a napkin, worried a few crumbs off the table and heaved a sigh of relief. Without hesitation the girl who stepped forward to take his order deft ly wiped the stranger's mouth, which had been drawn into a pucker of dissatisfaction at the imaginary untidiness abounding, and planted a kiss thereon that was plainly heard in all parts of the room. The dainty stran- I ger when he recovered ordered meekly, ate hurriedly and left quickly.—Kansas City Journal. Anecd/Ttei of Qalnn. James Quinn, a noted actor of Garrick's time, loved to dine, and was often fuddled in consequence when he went on the stage. G yee while playing with Peg Woffington, who was acting Sylvia, his daughter, in “The Recruiting Officer.” instead of asking her, ‘‘Sylvia, how old were you when your mother died?” he said “married.” Sylvia laughed, and being out of her cue, could only stammer. ‘’What, sir?’ “Pshaw,” cried the more confused Quinn. “I mean, how old were you when your mother was born?” The body of Duke Humphrey wt.s returned from Egypt, embalmed in the rarest wine and the richest spices. Upon seeing this Quinn soliloquized as fallows: Oh. plague on Eg.-pt's arts. I say! Embalm the dead! On senseless clay Rich wines and spices waste! Like sturgeon or like brawn shall I Bound In a precious pickle lie. Which I can never taste? Let me embalm this flesh ot mine With turtle fat and Bordeaux wine And spoil the Egyptian trade! Than Humphrey s duke more happy I. Embalmed alive, old Quinn shall dao, A mummy ready made. The Spoiled Child. “No," walled Tommy. “I don’t want that big pink necktie on.” “It doesn't matter what yon want.” replied his mother. “You must have it on.” “Well, if yen put It on me I’ll cry all over it an’ that' 4 .' spoil It.”—Ph'.ladeX ptia Press.

| A SWELL AFFAIR | Opening of the New Hof-Brau House at Fort Wayne-Finest in the State. Neither the occasional nor the frequent visitor to Fort Wav no in the future, will find his visit complete without a call at th’ newly ■finished "’Hof-Brau Haus,' south 1 east corner of Calhoun and Columbia streets, which will be thrown open to the public about November 16. Hof-Brau haus is without comparison, by far the finest place of its kind in Indiana. It is a cigar store, sample room and case all combined and yet all separated, each accessible from the street in dependent of the others and all connected inside, also independent of each other. This magnificent public convenience was made possible through the enterprise of Henry A. Wiebke, proprietor of the well known Board of Trade saloon at 625 Calhoun street, who last spring purchased the old Henry C. Graffe corner, with a frontage of 'BO feet on Calhoun street and 20 feet on Columbia street. He at once set about to have the entire building remodelled after his own design and equipped it with exquisite tas'e and regardless of cost. He originally intended to occupy Jit himself, but later concluded ot lease it to his brother. Will C. Wiebke and Clem J. Rupple, known as two of Fort Wayne’s most expert caterers, who will conduct the business. It would be a waste of words to attempt to fully describe the actual architectural elegance of Hof-Brau haus—it is one of those things that must be seen to be appreciated. It will probably suffice to say that the entire room, or series of rooms, is finished in genuine old Dutch Panelled wainscoting seven feet high is placed on every wall; an old Dutch beam ceiling hangs overhead and an cld Dutch tileffioor lies . under foot. All the furniture, wainscoting and othar woodwork is of weathered oak, black as’ajpolitician’s character, built in old Dutch style and innocent of varnish—all finished in the real wood with oil only. Quaint little Dutch panels of beveled plate glass ornament the fixtures and quaint little senate Dutch windows give light to the rooms, augumented by hundreds of incandescent lights all about the place, while the chandelliers built with colored lantern effect and surmounted by an illuminated mug giving additional uniqueness to the lighting scheme and in the sample room there is a magnificent German silver work board, which has not been duplicated in this section of the west. So much for ,the fix tures. Entering from the main entrance on the corner one finds himself in an elegantly appointed cigar and tobacco store, presided over by Arthur G. Mosshammer, and passing from there to the middleroom you enter the sample room, where Will Wiebke and Clem Rupple will ba found, surrounded by.quaint elegance and the best goods the market affords, including some of the best known brands of imported and domestic beers and wines, not omitting the celebrated Centlivre brands. Passing through the next entrance you find yourself in the finest equipped case in Fort Wayne; finer than any ever before seen in that city and as fine as any similar establishment in the west, if not as large. The case departient is in charge of Frank M. Mosshammer and will be kept to the highest standard which the surroundings apparently demand. By this not meant that the prices will be high, but that the quality of goods and service will be second to none and the .'prices as low as raw materials will allow. The case will be a strictly short-order [establishment, where everything will be served from the modest sandwich to the autocratic porterhouse, or the humble fried egg to a terrapin soup, and the man with a dime will be served with the same courtesy as the man with a dollar. Everything about Hof-brau haus will be of the very best, the prices will be the most moderate and the service of the highest order of courtesy and efficiency. Hof-brau haus will be made a resort for ladies, gentlemen and families and will! at no time I tolerate questionable or objscticnI able characters of either sex.

r “Walton's Angler.” This Insignificant duodecimo volume, net remarkable for any especial literary merit beyond an cosy. cheerful, chatty good humor, interlarded with technical information about a strangely fascinating sport, occupies one of the topmost niches in the huge temple of British bibliographical fame. -Worth its weight in gold" is a very inadequate expression. The number of sovereigns its value represents overbalances many copies. Its companion volume, the second part, by Charles Cotton, was not issued from the press until twenty-three years later and naturally increases the already stupendous price when found with the earlier work. ’ The perennial popularity of “IS alton’s Angler" is very remarkable. Seldom a year passes that does not witness its reissue in some form or other, either delicate and dear for the cqp noisseur's shelves or commonplace and cheap for the traveler’s pocket. Ther» is a charm about the book which time apparently cannot destroy. How to Make Beeswax. The following recipe for beeswax can be vouched for: After the combs have been put through an extractor or crushed aud strained through a win cloth the wax is put in a copper or porcelain lined kettle, with cold water enough to cover it, and boiled for half an hour, or longer if it seems necessary. When the wax is taken from the stove it is strained and poured in a vessel previously dipped in cold water. To make a round cake of beeswax pour the melted wax in a bowl that has been dipped in cold water. To make wax sheets use a board threeeighths of an inch thick, dampened with warm water, then dipped in the melted wax two or three times. The board is next put in water to cool for a little while, after which it is taken out, the edges trimmed with a sharp knife and two sheets of wax peeled off. To make these wax sheets the wax must not be too hot or it will crack. Sound Waves. The sensation cf sound, as is well known, is produced by a certain to and fro or wave-like movement of the air striking upon the drum of the ear and so setting it in vibration. Each sound wave consists of two portions, in one of which the air is compressed beyond and in the other rarefied below the average pressure. If two sound waves are traveling in the same direction, but one of them starts half a wave length behind the other, the compressed half of one will fall upon the rarefied half of |be other, the average air pressure will remain undisturbed, and the two sounds will combine to produce silence. If a sounding tuning fork be slowly rotated near the ear four positions will be found in which the sound will be barely audible. This is due to such interference of sound waves as has been described. How to Cut Class. Glass can be cut without a diamond, and the way is very simple. Dip a piece of common string in alcohol and squeeze it reasonably dry. Then tie the string tightly around the glass on the line of cutting. Touch a match to the string and let it burn off. The heat of the burning string will weaken the glass in this particular place. While it is hot plunge the glass under water letting the arm go under well to the elbow, so there will be no vibration when the glass is struck. With the free hand strike the glass outside the line of cutting, giving a quick, sharp stroke with any long flat instrument, such as a stick of wood or a long bladed knife, and the cut will as clean and straight as if made by a regular glass cutter. Napolecn Before the Convention. When Barras introduced Napoleon to the convention as a fit man to be intrusted with the command the president asked: “Are you willing to undertake the defense of the convention' 5 ” “Yes,” was the reply. After a time the president continued : "Are you aware of the magnitude of the undertaking?” “Perfectly,’’ replied Napoleon, fixing his eyes upon his questioner, "and I am in the habit of accomplishing that which I undertake." First Great Depression. “What, may I ask, was the keenest disappointment of your career?” asked the anxious interviewer. The great financier stared coldly at the ink bottle. “It was when I was four years old, I think.” he drawled. ' when I woke up one morning and found my red balloon shrunken to onefourth the size of the day before.”— Detroit Free Press. Man and the Dox, We are alone, absolutely alone, on this chance planet, and amid all the Y>rms of life that surround us not one. excepting the dog. has made an alliance with us. A few creatures fear us, •uost are unaware of us and not one loves us.—From a Maeterlink Essay. Supplied a Deficiency-. Mr. Goodman—James, the gentleman you gave as reference teils me you’re not very truthful. Jimmy (the office boy)—Well, say, yer sich a truthful guy ycrsel’ yer need an ablebodied liar like me round der place.—Philadelphia Press. Their Deoeent. “Ob, yes,” she said proudly, “we can trace our ancestry back to—to—well. I don’t know who, but we’ve been descending for centuries.”—Philadelphia Telegraph. A Juvenile Throat. Mother— Tommy, an angel is watching over you. Tommy— Aw, ma, don't be conceited'—Chicago News. 9

THE GRAVE OF ELIA. Hutton s Effort to Find the Tomb of Charles Lamb. Button’s "Literary Landmarks, of Loudon” was largely a labor of .ove aud was the result of years of hard work. Mr. Hutton gives this example of the difficulties that stood in his way: "Another Sunday afternoon I devoted to a pious pilgrimage to the grave of Charles Lamb at Edmonton. As usual, nobody at Edmonton knew anything. The churchyard is not a small one, and it is entirely filled. The sexton and the griivcdigsrcr and a few persons wau* dering about couid give me no information. Most of them had never heard of Mr. Lamb, and I could not find the sacred spot. Naturally I applied to the rector, and as he left the vestry door after service leaning on the arm of a pretty young woman I approached him, raised my hat and asked politely if he could tell me where Charles and Mary Lamb were resting. Really he could not say! And I. forgetting the day, the place and his sacred office, cursed that rector for his criminal ignorance. “ ‘Great heavens,’ I said, ‘you ought to be ashamed of yourself! In your care have been placed the ashes of one of the foremost men in the whole history of English letters. And you don’t know where they are! They have made your churchyard and your parish distinguished all the world over. I have come 3,000 miles to visit Charles Lamb’s grave, and yon. the rector of the church, don't know where it is! You ought to be heartily ashamed of yourself.’ And I turned upon my heel and left him standing there speechless and confounded.” Half an hour after the above incident occurred and while Hutton was groping around the graveyard in the twilight the rector came to him, hat in hand, apologized most humbly for bis ignorance, which he had corrected in the meantime, aud conducted him to the grave of the immortal Elia. THE MALE CRICKET. Carlons Treat He Develops For the Lady of Hi» Choice. In the American Naturalist J. L. Hancock gives an interesting description of some of the habits of the striped meadow cricket. The most striking part of the account deals with the allurements which the male crickets possess. When he wishes to attract the female the male cricket raises his fore wings vertically above his bead and by rubbing them over each other produces a high pitched singing, or, perhaps better, shrilling. 55'hen the female’s attention has been attracted she goes to the male and proceeds to take advantage of the refreshments offered. Upon the u ate’s back, situated well forward en ths thorax, is a little aepresston or well in which a small quantity of semifluid material is secreted. Climbing up on the male’s back, the female eats thia apparently delicious morsel with great eagerness. It is evidently something especially choice which is formed there for her especial benefit. This proceeding suggests that treating as a means of winning a lady's love is not confined to the allurements of ic» cream and soda water. — Collier’* Weekly. Clever With Uer Month. To write and even to sew by means of the lips and tongue alone would seem a sheer impossibility, and yet Dr. Rubinstein of SS’ertheim-oa-Main, a medical expert of reputation in Germany, according to the London Globe, vouches for having himself seen an authentic instance. The case was that of a young girl, paralyzed in all her limbs from the age of seven to fourteen, when she died. This afflicted little creature, by a triumph of will and patience than which, in its own way, few finer achievements have been recorded, trained lips and tongue to do the work of the hand, and to do it well, for she could not only sew, but could do it with neatness and speed, even arranging pieces of light stuff in their places by tlie same means. In three weeks she embroidered designs in silk *n a piece of canvas «ome yards long.

MARKETREPORT. Accurate pnoea paid by Becalm BHrchanls for various products. Cortectsd every day al 2 o’clock. Buffalo StouK Market E. Buffalo, N. Y. Nov 7 Special— Cattle—Receipts 10 cars; market slow Prime steers $ . @5 25 Medium Steers @ 4 75 stockers to best feeders . @4 25 Cows @ 3 dokgns bulls @ 3 E0 Cows, fancy 42.00 @ 53 00 Common to good 22.00@ 4000 Hogs—Receipts 35 cars; market lower. Sood mediums & heavy's . @5 15 Yorkers @5 0) @ 5 Oo 3ood Roughs 4.85 @ 5 00 Common Roughs 2.75 @ 4 00 Btapj 6 3Q Sheep—Receipts 20 cars; market steady. Choice lambs J . @ Choice westerns 5 25 Cull lambs @ 5 50 Choice yearlings 6 25 dandy mixed sheep. . @5 50 Jull and commo- ehßep_ 3.00 yj 4.00 PITTSBURG MARFETS Union Stock Yards. Pitsburg, Pa. ov . 7—Hogs—Receipts 25 jars Tirket lower. Beavy Hogs J , @5 2 5 Medium . @ 5 10 forkers @ 5 10 I r >>(fhi @ 5 05 5 s g 5 CO

Chicago Markets Chicago marks! closed at f-n m today, according to Decatur ? and Grain Exchange Ur S ‘°<* Hay Wheat t Jan. Wheat... ’’’* Jec Wheat Hay Corn Jan. Corn H Jec Corn Hay Oats ” Si Jan Oa*« 32; Dac Oats Jan Pork i<>3 Jan Lard 7 P loledo Markets Changed every afternoon at > clock by J. D. Hale, Decatur spJS Tire service. r 81 lay Wheat t Ql , Dec Wheat ~ ® July. Wheat g -orn, May Dec corn Date, cash old July. Corn ” May oats ” Dec oats " g.,, JuJy- Oats g Bye, cash STOCK BY FBED SHEIMAX, DEB LER Lambs 550@650 Hogs per cwt -■ @135 Uattle per lb .. . gi Calves, Per lb L @s® "ows j 3 Sheep 4@ 5 POULTRY BY J W PLACE CO chickens, young per lb gi Fowls, per lb gi Young Turkey 12 s Old Turkeys 9 Young Ducks 7 Old Ducks 7 Geese • • g WOOL AND HIDES by b. kalveb a sox. Phone 442 Woe . unwashed 30 Beef Hides 9 Calf „ n Sheep Pelts 25@ 1.50 Tallow HAY MARKET E. L. CARBOL Mol Timothy Baled 57.00 Mixed Baled 5.00 Clover Baled 4.50 GRAIN. BY I. L. CABBCL, GBAIM MZBCkAH Machine shucked one cent less. Corn New, delivered 50 Oats, new 28 Wheal, No. 2 Red 83 Wheal, No. 3 Red 78 Barley 56 Bye No. 2 59 Clover Seed .. 6 80 Llsyke C 6 16 Buckwheat 48 Flax Seed, 80 Timothy — 11 00 OIL MARKET, Indiana 91 Whilehouse 106 Somerset 91 Neodasha, (Kan.)... 53 Barkersville... ,97 Bagland 49 Fiona. ......11.71 Pennsylvania.. 1.61 Doming 133 New Casio. 1.38 North Lima £6 South Lima 91 OTHER PRODUCTS. df VABIOUB QBOCKBS AMD MIBCHAMU Egg fressh, perdoi I 18 Lard O 9 * Buller, per pound Potatoes, raw 40 ...Legal AdvertisiMAPPLICATION FOR LIQUOR LICENSE. To the citizens and inhabitants of the town of Williams, in Root township, and to the citizens and inhabitants of said Root township. Adams county. Indiana: Notice is hereby ?iven that I. John Hey. a male inhabitant of the state of Indiana, over the ase of twenty-one years and a person not in tne habit of becoming intoxicated, will make application to the board of cdileissloners of said county of Adams at their next regular session, commencing on the nrst Monday in December. 1905, for a license to retail spirituous, vinous, malt and other intoxicating liquors in less quantities than a I quart at a time, with the privilege of allowing the same to be drank on the whereon said liquors are to be soldpremises are situated as follows, to wit In and at the building situated on the D " rt “ 20 feet of inlot number 40. in the orig nai pia» of the town of Williams, in Root town*n:p. Adams county. Indiana, as the same > re ' corded and designated on the recorded of said town. Said room in which tbe appocant desires to sell said intoxicating - is the front room, eround floor, in the one an one-half story frame building on said iniot and on the north 20 feet thereof afore Said room being feet wide and A' feet i length, iron ling on Perry street in said t(,rt of Williams Said applicant desires a -J'? keep a lunch counter and cigar stand in sa* described room and sell cigais and tooatL tberem. 36-3 JOHN HEY. Applicant - —— —- TO CONTRACTORS. Notice 13 hereby given that the unlersign*»d. superintendenfof the construct b-n . the Christian E. Leichty Ditch, in \Va--a? township Adams county, Indiana, will «»n Saturday, November 25,1903 at 10:30 o’clock a. m.. at the office of the County Surveyor, in the City of llec J tu '!, n . satd county, receive sealed bids tor the ™ st ruction of said ditch, in accordance n reports, plans and specifications there’ . nowon file in said cause. Bids w:.I be r celved and contracts let as follows: Ftom station 0 to station 76 and 10 the lowest and beet bidder or bidders. Bidders will be required to file with bids affidavits as required by law• U P'. forms furnished by such superintendent, a each bid shall be accompanied with a -i and sufficient bond in a sum e. ( jal b ’■ amount of such bid. conditions, fort, t ■ ful performance of said contract, am. - . such bidder will enter into contract it same be awarded to him. such bond tew ■ (proved by said superintendent. The said supeMitendent reserves the n-b---to reject any and all bids. No bids will be accepted in excess o' timated cost of such work. <»r in exce-- • benefits found. t I. I. BAI M , 3€-2 Superintendent Cf Constrt,