Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 4, Decatur, Adams County, 29 March 1906 — Page 7

Legal Advertising Continued from Page 2. , peitsch A Kunz r ianv James L w heeler Weeks EE Young Mi Kissiek Chas. II Brown ??'Rotki:i P L Mattax L *■' ujtndor A M Redding uWP.ivid F Haviland '?•„ \ inderson Chas. D Porter ftftft : r, L°’; D . r ? w w \V BriSJ? B k H. leeple A Harlow ‘ w c (Bendening ! rH 7el’>' M Schindler ' Hicheldeffer A R Shoemaker ‘ MEHut.on WFPyle ffiland P W Triplett ftike WC Campbell 1W Pease C O Liechty L' idPolm John M Holloway a P Hardison M m. F &ee jH Runyon M f Atwood frank Filer Burt Newcome i q m»s Newcomer Ois Roth lAEehrote Hiram Price Msenh Bucher John .1 Sehenbeck Johnßrand Christ Hofstetter obnJ Hobsith Robt. S Schwarz David G Schwarz Amos Hirsehy Daniel Stuekv David Hirsehy n‘ iv d Neusbam Peter Ban man Joel H Habegger August Heuselman SolomanHabegger I. E Lqichte )I Xeuenachwander (•Weuenschwander C*p Hirsehy Fred Schwarz Gotleib Gerber Isaac Lehman A M Neuenschwander Joseph Yoder John Brown Ingust Schug John Gerber EmilPluess Eugene Kneuss Christian Burgbaiter. Said petition wiil be presented to the Board of Commissioners on Monday, April, 2, 1906, the same being the regular April ,session of said board and at which time any taxpayer in Waoash township may appear and make such objections "as tiie law may provide for. C.D. LE'VTON, Auditor, Adams County, Ind Notice of sale of macadam ROAD BONDS. Notice is hereby given that I, J. F. Lachot. treasurer of Adams county, state of Indiana, will on Monday, April 2. 1906, at the room of the board of commissioners in th? auditor's office in the city of Decatur, Indiana, receive sealed bids for the purchase and sale of certain macadamized road bonds hereinafter described issued by the board of commissioners of said county for the construction of the roads hereinafter named as follows, to-wit: For the construction of the Decatur & Bluffton extension No. 3 macadam road in Kirkland twp, Adams county, Indiana, the entire issue of bonds for said road being in the sum of *3,520. being in twenty (20 f semi-annual payments, bearing date of March 15, 1906, and each bond being in the sum of >176 with 4 per cent interest, payable semi-annually with coupons attached. Sealed bids will be received until 10 o’clock a. m. of said day. Each bid must be accompanied with a certified cheek in amount equal to three 3 per cent of the amount of the bid, which check must be drawn against monies deposited in any reliable bank in said county; such check must be made payable or endorsed to the board of commissioners and shall be held as guaranty for the performance of such bid, and should such bid be accepted the said check shall be forfeited to the county, should the bidder faii to comply with the conditions of his said bid." Each of said bonds wiil bear date of March 15, 1906, and should the bonds be not ready for delivery on the day the said bids are received and accepted, the interest will ’’e refunded by the purchaser at the rate of four and one-half per cent from the date of March 15. 1906, until the date when the purchase price of said bonds are paid to the county treasurer and the bonds delivered. The above described bonds will become due on the 15th day of NovemDO', of each year, commencing on the 15th day of November, 1906, and are made payable, including interest, at the First National Bank. Decatur. Indiana, said bonds are issued exclusively for the expense of the construction of the above described roads pursuant (o the laws of 1897, Wand 1903. The amount of bonds to be sold including bonds already issued in said township for the free gravel and macadam roads is less four G per cent of the total valuation of saia township for taxation. Further particulars will be fttrnishM on application. Bids must be on each set of bonds ’cparateiv. J. F. LACHOT. County Treasurer.

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,1 AN EMPEROR’S TASTE. ' It Wn» the OrlKln of n Common SayInn In Austria. . An anecdote which was current of Ferdinand 1. of Austria at one time greatly delighted his subjects and gave rise to a common saying. One summer day he was burning n the Syrian mountains and was overtaken by a violent thunderstorm. He sought refuge in a farmhouse whose occupants were just then at dinner, and bis fancy was caught by some smoking dumplings made of coarse Hour. He tasted ■ taem, liked .them and asked for more, and when be got to Vienna. to the horror of the royal cooks, he ordered the same dumplings to be served up daily. The courtiers were scandalized that such a coarse dish should figure on the menu, and even his physicians remonstrated against the use of such food. The emperor had always been the most pliant of men, but he now showed that he had a will of his own and persisted in gratifying his new fancy. 1- inally the physicians pretended that it was dangerous to his health to be living on dumplings and insisted on Ills , giving them up. The hitherto docile sovereign stamped his foot and declared that he would never sign another official document if his diet were denied him. “Emperor 1 am.” he shouted, “and dumplings 1 will have!" To prevent a stoppage of the government machinery opposition was withdrawn, and his majesty clung tenaciously to his dumplings. Then the im- * perial phrase became proverbial, and thereafter when any one insisted on gratifying a silly whim some one was sure to say: “Emperor I am, and dumplings I will 1 have!" RELATING TO IRON. Discovery of the Mein!. According to Various Authorities, The Bible speaks of Tubal Cain as , the discoverer of iron and the father ■ of smiths. The Egyptians imputed to Hephaestus the same honor, while Pliny mentions it having been discovered ' by Daetyles on Mount Ida after the forests on the mountain side bad been destroyed by lightning. This was about 1.432 years B. C. Jeremiah and Ezekiel both mention iron in their Scriptural writings, the latter specially mentioning two qualities of the metrl and ! calling one bright iron, which was prob- . ably steel. M isos mentions an iron furnace, and i Job speaks of it as being taken out of the earth. Thousands of years before , the opening of the Christian era the Egyptians used iron in making sickles, knives and such things. Sparta first ■ used iron for money. Britain also used it as a medium of barter and exchange prior to the conquest by the Romans. The Britons before the time of Christ used to export iron t,o Gaul, and after the Roman conquest the conquerors established extensive smelting works, which existed at least as late as the Saxon conquest.—St. Janies’ Gazette. Racial Discrimination. A small French-Italian coasting steamer was proceeding on its way. The passengers were of various nationalities—English. American. French. Italian and one large German. Most of the male passengers were gathered in the smoking room when the.steward appeared at the door and with a bow announced. "Dinner, it is serve!” . The English and American contingent arose and started toward the dining saloon. The steward, seeing that his announcement bad not been understood by all. continued. “Messieurs, e’est servl!” and as a portion of the passengers still remained seated, “II pranzo e servito!” The French and Italians followed the English and Americans, leaving the large German in solitary state. “Himmel!” he muttered hungrily. “Is it dot no German mans gets somethings to oat on dis boat, hein —Harper's Weekly. The English of India. Applying f 11- a post in the police of the central provinces of India, a native wrote: "1 have a good long equiline nose', piercing eyelashes on a semyi! globular face and a good physique. : My family has a history that takes my ■ imagination back to three pedigrees. ■ when my grandfather was a millioner. ' | With the vissicitude and times matter change and my father was driven to the necessity to accept a schoolmastership. Ultimately he enjoyed bis well earned pension by the time he gave up 1 his ghost. In case my aspirations turn out a reality I shall as a matter of course be bound to prey God for your long life and prosperity." Conger Eels. i Conger eels hunt for the octopus and when found, proceed to browse on its ■ limbs. The octopus tries to hug the slippery, slimy conger tight, hut in vain, and, finding its limbs growing less, discharges its ink in the face of the foe and under cover of the turbid water beats a hasty retreat. It is to escape the too pressing attention of its foes that the octopus possesses the power of changing its color to correspond with that of its surroundings. An English Superstition. According to an ancient bit of Sussex folklore, when a bride returns home from church her single friends at once rob her of all the pins in her dress under the impression that every maiden who is lucky enough to possess one will be married during the course of a year.—London Express. Sometimes vegetable growth is very rapid The common mushroom attains its full size in less than twenty-four hours.

ARTIFICIAL EYES. Tiie First Ones Made Were Worn Outside the Socket. As earlj’ as 500 It. artificial eyes were made by the priests of Rome and Egypt,,who practiced as physicians and surgeons. Their methods of eye making are thus described: On a strip of flesh tinted linen, two and a quarter by one and a quarter inches, tiie flat side of a piece of earthenware, inatleled life size and painted to represent the human eye and eyelids, was cemented. This linen, coated on the other side with some adhesive substance, was placed over the eyehole and pressed down. In brief, the artificial eye was worn outside tiie socket and. though -i clumsy substitute, was prob ably appreciated by tiie Romans and Egyptians. In the ruins of Pompeii, destroyed in 79 A. !».. an eye of this description was discovered. Not until the sixteenth century do we hear of eyes at all like those of today—that is, worn inside the socket. A I’rem-h surgeon, one Ambroise Pare, invented three artificial eyes. One consisted of an oval plate covered with soft leather, on which an eye was painted. It was attached to the head by a strong steel b:::: ’. It could have been neither sightly nor comfortable. The second device and Hie first known in history to be worn inside tiie socket consisted of a hollow globe of gold deftly enameled. Tiie third eye devised by this ingenious gentleman was a shell pattern eye, much like that in use today, except that it was of gold and enamel. Pare’s inventions were followed by eyes of painted porcelains and colored pearl white, which became very popular. They were succeeded by eyes of glass, which soou took the place of all others and command popular favor to this day. Glass eyes were invented about the year 17/79 and were crude productions of inferior workmanship, the iris and pupil being hand painted in a far from lifelike manner. Shakespeare mentions glass eyes in "King Lear." where the king advises the blinded traitor Gloucester to "get thee glass eyes and seem to see.”

QUEER OLD RUSSIA. The Firing of Moscow In the Time of Ivan the Terrible. One who traveled through Russia in 1698 wrote in Latin an interesting account of what lie saw. This was afterward translated into English in part as follows: “The Muscovites are generally of a very strong constitution, both very tall and bulky. Above one-half of. the year is taken tip with their fasts, 'when the common people feed upon nothing else but cabbage and cucumbers, and these raw, only pickled.” The writer, Henry William Ludolf, lias leanings toward vegetarianism, for he added. "This is an evident sign of their natural vigor, though it must also be allowed that they promote the digestion by the brandy and leeks which they use in large quantities, and questionless correct the viscous humors arising in the stomach by such indigestible nourishments.” Giles Fletcher, an English traveler, saw Moscow tired by an army of Tartars in 1571 in the absence of Czar Ivan the Terrible. He writes, "There was nothing but whirlwinds and such a noise as though the heavens would have fallen.” According to Fletcher, numerous persons were burned to death, while crowds struggling to escape from the flames met. and the ensuing crush resulted in thousands of fatalities. He asserts that “there perished »at that time by the fire and the press the number of 800,000 people or more.” This estimate, of course, was excessive. As a means of getting rid of the dead bodies, says Fletcher, the Czar Ivan ordered them oU his return to be thrown into the Moskva, and the corpses dammed the deep and rapid river and caused it to overflow its banks. “Coniixelor Therefore.” Sergeant Kelly, a celebrity of the Irish bar. had a remakable habit of drawing conclusions directly at variance with his premises and was consequently nicknamed “Counselor Therefore.” In court on one occasion he thus addressed the jury: “The case is so clear, gentlemen, that you cannot possibly misunderstand it, and I should pay your understandings a very poor ccfaipliment if I dwelt upon it for another minute. Therelore I shall at once proceed to explain it to you as minutely as possible.” A Mohammedan Custom. The Mohammedans have the custom, when they receive a present, of thanking God first, then the giver. If you do them a favor they will say, "I thank God for your kindness to me.” Some may comply rather thoughtlessly with this custom, which they have inherited from their fathers, but many certainly say it with their whole heart. Among Friend*. “Whew! What, Lottie Brown engaged? That proves what I’ve always said—that, no matter how plain and badly tempered a girl may be, there’s always a fool ready to marry her. Who's the poor man?” “I ami”—Life. The Camel** slump. The camel was the last of the animals to enter the ark. “Hey. there, you,” called Noah, "get a hump on yourself!” Then the camel promptly got its back up. and that's how it happened.—Philadelphia Record. The power of fortune confessed only by the miserable, for"he happy impute all their success to prudence and merit.—Swift. $ * *

VICIOUS SEA SNAKES THERE ARE FIFTY VARIETIES, ALL OF THEM VENOMOUS. With the Exception of the Cobra and Bush mast er of Africa, No Serpent on I md Kill* So -Lly ar.d Terribly as Do Tho*e of the Ocean. Fearlessness is one of the most striking characteristics of sea snakes, and ii a/..1s greatly to the danger that is to be apprehended from them, for it often leads them to attack fishermen and swimmers, and even to climb up the anchor chains and through the hawse holes and attack the crew, and as the bite of every one of the fifty known varieties is fatal there i • great fear felt of them in the ocean spaces which they inhabit. These fifty varieties are all classified under the general title of thanatophidia. None of them is able to live anywhere except in ocean water. Every variety and subvariety is as poisonous as the cobra or the bushmaster of Africa. Indeed, with the exception of these two land varieties, there is no snake on land that kills so swiftly and so terribly as do the sea snakes. Owing to their fatal weapons and their case and. celerity in swimming there are practically no enemies which destroy enough of them to diminish their numbers. Almost ail the thanatophidia are beautifully colored, even more gorgeous than any of the land snakes, witli the. possible exception of the coral, crass and carpet shakes. They are banded, striped, speckled and blotched with green, olive, yellow, blue and black and present a most brilliant spectacle as they are seen swimming below the surface of the transparent blue of the Indian ocean. When they are swimming at the ordinary rate of speed they seem to undulate all over. They do not wind through the water as the eel does, but their locomotion resembles that of the caterpillar except that it is far more graceful, and as they move and twist the colors play, along their sides and backs as they do on the dolphin. When they dash at their prey at full speed they move like au arrow, with their heads and necks thrust straight before them if they are swimming under the surface, or, if they are darting along the top of the water, with their heads elevated just enough to clear the waves. When they are racing along thus their sole means of locomotion is their broad, paddle shaped tail, which is peculiar to all the sea snakes and farms the only striking difference between them and the ordinary land serpent. This paddle is used like a steamer's screw and lias immense power. Bent sideways it will stop the snake immediately as if the creature had anchored suddenly. When dozing or resting over reefs, which are common in the coral banks, snakes hold fast to the rocks or bottom with their broad tails and will often sway in this way for hours in calm weather. Men may have recovered from the bites of these serpents, but there are certainly none on record. Most of their victims are Malay and other native fishermen, and shore dwellers aud physicians rarely get to see them. Statistics are not kept in that part of the world, so it is impossible to ascertain how many are killed in this way each year. Travelers say that there is hardly a fishing village which has not its tale of death to tell. Scientists once held to the opinion that the deadliness of the bite was due not to the venom, like that of the land snakes, but to some property that caused blood poison, as does the bite of many fishes which are not poisonous in themselves. But this opinion was (hanged after the medical men on board the British warship Algerine had made careful observations of a sailor who had been bitten. They proved that the snakes were directly poisonous and that they carry fangs charged with venom exactly like the cobra. The open ocean is the home of the sea snakes. They do uot even ascend the rivers. Their favorite haunts are the arms of the sea, which separate the islands of China, India and the south Pacific seas. They don't stay near the shores, but remain at some distance from the land. They are incapable of much movement on land, and after wriggling about aud biting savagely they will stay still till they die. They are found in many parts of the world —hi the Indian aud Pacific oceans, from Cape of Good Hope and Madagascar to the western shores of Panama aud from New Zealand to Japan, in the bay of Bengal aud the sea around Nieobars. Molucca. Timor and New Guinea.-New York Herald.

Double Flowers. Nearly all the double flowers of gar dens were first found wild. Double buttercups, double primroses, double daisies, double roses aud many other things were first discovered among their wild fellows and introduced into the gardens. The florist, however, can produce double flowers. He watches this tendency in nature. If a flower usually has five petals, and he discovers that some of the stamens have somewhat of a petal-like character, the pollen is taken from these flowers and others in a norma) condition fertilized with this pollen, "’he tendency, once started, is then given to the progeny. Almost any species of plant will in this way be callable of producing double flowers. It is surprising that, with this i knowledge, mor 1 ? attempts at this line iof improvement in ordinary garden flowers are not made. There is as much difference between genuine patience and sullen endurance as between the sinil, of lovaanl the iiialk'iotiAjgnashing of the teetu.—W. S. , Bl urn er.

TIMBER WANTED 5,000 cords Linn (Basswood) bolts. Can use trees 4 inches or larger. Buy standing timber or cut and ricked. Giles L. Smith 750 W. Murket St. Indianapotie. Ind i axative Uromo Auinine JL/nm ammi '—ll ■ nw •gres a Cold in One Dey, Crip in 2 Days LA box. 25c ■ »v iHlams’Tn^Di’'T’iif. lli»ra 13 u L will cure Blind rA Mr- I Bleeding and Lulling L- H It absorbs the tumois. p allays the itching at one- aett fe? ki poultice, gives in o m t e ■ lief. Dr. Williams’lndian Pile OintKJ ■ ment is prepar d for Piles and Itch lJ Ing of the private parts. Every box i> warranted. B.\ druggists, by mail on re ceipt of p’”. -e. 50 cents and MANUFACTURING CO., f'rops.. Cleveland. Ohio Nachtrieb & Fuelling. DGCTOK WgK E, J. Beardsley, General Practice and Surgery. But Special Attention given to Eye Ear N « e. Throat and Chronic Diseases. Expert in Titties) Glosses. thoroughly equipped for treating Eye, Ear Throat and Catarrhal cases. CALLS answered, day or night. OFFICE—over postoff.ee. KESI ’ >KNCE—cor. Monroe and Ninth stt O flee Hout a—9 to 11 a. m, 2t04 p. m Cincinnati, Richmond & Fort Wayne Railroad Company. Richmond, Ind., March 15, 1906. The Annual Meeting of Stockholders of the Cincinnati. Richmond & Fort Wayne Railroad Company will be held at the principal office of the company, in the City of Richmond, Indiana, on Thursday, April 5, 1906, at 10 o’clock a. m., for the purpose of electing eleven directors and transacting such other business as may properly come before the meeting. S. B. Liggett, Secretary.

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FRED REP F. Sale Crier and Auctioneer. DECATUR. ------ INDIAN Speaks English. German. Swiss and Low German. AMOS P. BEATTY ATTORNEY AT LAW And Notary Public. Pension claims prosecuted. Odd Fellows building. 1 DORE B, ERWIN, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office.—Corner Monroe and Second street General practitioner. No charge for consul fation MERRYMAN & SUTTON. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, DECATUR, IND. Office—Nos. 1. 2. 3, over Adams Co, Bank. We refer, by permission to Adams Co. Bank BCHURGER & SMITH, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Notaries. Abstracters. Real Estate Agents. Money to Loan. Deeds and Mortgages written on short notice Office in Allison block second story, over Fristoe’s Smoke House, Decatur. Indiana J, Q. Neptune. D. D.B. C. E. Neptune, D. D. 8 ’Pnoae 23. ’Phone 236. Neptune Brothers, DENTISTS.. Rooms 1. 2. 3, 4. Spangler Building, Decatur, Indiana. Office 'Phone 207. Lady Attendant English, German and Swiss spoken. MANN & CHRISTEN, Architects. Are prepared to do sny kind of work in their line. Persons contemplating building can save times, trouble and money by consulting them. Office— MANN & CHRISTEN. Bowers Block, Monroe st. Architect Mortgage Loans. Money Loaned on favontUe termt Low Rate of Interest. Privelege of partial payments, Abstracts of Title carefully prepared. F. M. Gor*. Second aqo rftadisoq sta. Decalin'. Indiana.

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