Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 4, Decatur, Adams County, 29 March 1906 — Page 8

uiapuu, _____———— 3ton AND GOLI ah ere<’ ta» cThese famous stallions will stand the season of 1906 as follows: First three days of week at Treble; Last three days of week at the Conrad farm near Freidheim. TERMS—-$l sto insure colt with proper care io stand and suck. AUGUST CONRAD. Pleasant Mills Wm. Noll and wife visited friends in Ohio last Sunday. Miss Graco Tyndall spent Sunday with friends at Willshire. .• Dr. J. W. Vizard was a business caller at Decatur last Saturday. Miss Mattie Faller spent the fir t of the weekjwith friends in Decatur. C. W. Yagerj pays the highest price for butter sand eggs at his store. James McCullough has all chances to reason his case with reason. Samuel Durbin and family were the guests of W. A. Comer last Sunday. Oar postmaster, A. M. Fuller, made a business trip to the city last Monday. The auction sale was largely attended last Saturday evening and j proved a success. John Johns and family of Van Wert county, Onio, moved on the Cordua farm last week. J. Harshman and family return ed after a two weeks’ visit wi*h friends at Rockford, Ohio. Joe Comer says that he has made his last trip west, but he declines to give his reason. Wm. fi. Noll will leave May 1 for Marion, where he will attend school the coming summer. Weare informed that Rev. L. [D. Brown will preach at the U. B. church on next Sunday evening. E. W. France has a full line of up to date hardware, and his prices are the lowest He kindly asks tte public in general to call and take a look at his stock. Those boys who 'have been in the habit of destroying property about the grist mill are Known, and unless they desist from such practices they will have more • trouble on their hands than they will oare for. If you had seen Al Roebuck ont last Saturday mornijg you would have thought that he was foolish, but when the facts were discovered it was all on account of a young son that came to make his home with them. Mather and baby are doing fine. A message from W. H. Sheler from Benton Harbor. Michigan, says that the operation has been performed up in Mrs. Sheler and proved very successful. It is be-lievi-d sue will rapidly now, altfuan . f <• > irs-. there is al ways the danger of complications setting in. M’ S. a.Klor want to B->nt >n Harbor about a m >nt i ago and was taken ill soon as er arriving there. She was taken to the hospital and operated on bu ■ a second operation proved necessary. Her many friends here hope she will soon be able to return to them in complete health.

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P. 0. ORDER Bulletin Just Issued by the Department . Good Rods is all That Will Save the Rural Route Service From .Being Withdrawn. I The voters of Union Township hrve something to cause them earnest oonsideration, in this special order from the postoffioo department : Washington, March 27.—The postoffioe department has issued a bulletin announcing that rural free delivery service in many of the country will be temporarily withdrawn unless local authorities take steps immediately to secure impovement of the roads. The bulletin calls attention to the rule of the department requiting that all roads over which rural delivery is established shall be kept inlcondition to be £with’ facility and safety atj all seasons of year. That dispatch should cause any one opposing the macadam road elecfon to think twice. The roads Jn Union township do not]_fill the requirements of the department. Should an inspsctor today traverse the roads there, he would 'likely order the rural routes discontinued. A favorable election Friday will show to the department a disposition to improve the roads.’’This is no idle talk, but is one of the reforms, that the department will put into full force and effect. Public Sale. The undersigned will offer at paolic auction at his residence one mile north of Friedheim, eight miles northwest of Decatur, and three miles southeast of Poe, on the River road, at 10 o’clock a. m., on Monday, April 2, the following property, _ to-wit: Match team of bays, one mare, five years old, with foal; one horse, six years old; two young cows, will be fresh soon; one heifer and two cows, will be fresh in June; one bull, five steers, averaging about 700 pounds each. One new wagon, top buggy, break ing plow, springtooth harrow, corn cultivators, set britchen harness, buggy harness, new hay ladder, mud boat, chickens, five dozen Leghorns, hay and many other articles t > mention. O i airsums of $5 and under, cash in hand; over $5 a credit of nine months w : ll be give ll , purchaser giving note with approved security. Five percent discount for cash. Christian Amitutz. Fred Renpirt, auctioneer. L. C. Helm paid Charles Zeser ?13 for an injury received about three weeks ago He is insured in the Preferred Accident company, of Detroit.

MAINE CAMP KEEPERS. Men Who Draw Salaries For Simply Katins and Sleeping:. No set of men in the world has an easier or a happier life than do the “camp keepers" of northern Maine. They toil not, neither do they do much thinking, yet cu incomes not exceeding SIOO cash a year they really have a comfortable and enjoyable existence. These happy men are the keepers or caretakers of lumber camps during the five months of .the year that logging operations are suspended and the camps are deserted. When the work of cutting the winter’s crop of logs has been completed and the last of the crew has gone down the river to Bangor somebody must keep guard over the camps, the provisions that have been left over and all the valuable outfit, and must see that the property is not burned up or stolen by woods tramps or careless sportsmen. For this purpose the owner of the camp hires one of the queer, happy go lucky characters always to be found in the borderland between the deep woods and civilization. These men have no fixed place of residence and generally no family connections that they care much about, and they have a constitutional aversion for real labor. They are good fishermen, good shots and good woods cooks. They drink liquor when they can get it .without too much exertion, go without it when none is handy; do not need or care for many clothes and haven’t the least ambition to become wealthy. All they want is comfort, plenty to eat, plenty of tobacco, a good chance to hunt and fish and nothing whatever to do in the line of work on a regular schedule. This is the life of the camp keeper, and it is always easy to get a man to take the job. When the last logger is gone the keeper eomes in and takes charge. He falls heir to all the dime novels, illustrated papers, old clothes and tobacco that may be left behind. There is always enough flour, pork, molasses and tea in the camp to supply a dozen men for a year, and the keeper has his choice of fifty bunks to sleep in. He has a rifle, a fishing rod, a big jackknife. lots of clay pipes, a complete knowledge of the woods and a dreamy Indifference to all that goes on in the outside world. For a week or two after the departure of the logging crew the camp keeper is busy—overworked, in fact—for he has to “pick up the camp’’—that is, set everything in order and take a mental inventory of the stuff left over for his disposal. Having completed this laborious task, he settles down for a rest of a few mouths, which rest is interrupted only by fishing trips or excursions into the woods to look up places frequented by moose and door and to locate good gum bearing trees. This knowledge is valuable to him in the following fall and winter, when he hires out as guide to sportsmen. At the close of his camp keeping season he gets his SSO or SIOO all in a lump, and that will buy for him some clothes, a lot of tobacco and enough ammunition to last him until spring. In winter, except during the game season, when he may have a job of guiding, he rests from his exertions of the summer, and in spring he gets his camp keeping job again.—lndianapolis Sentinel. The Pikeman nnd Hix Weapon. The pikeman was covered with defensive armor, an iron headpiece, iron “back and breast" and “tasses,” a kind of iron apron protecting him from waist to knee. He carried a pike sixteen feet long, with an ashen shaft, an iron head and a blunt iron spike at the butt end, whereby to fix it in the ground, and, besides the pike, a rapier. The pike, from its great length, was a weapon which required deft handling in order to be of effective use and, as may be imagined, was excessively showy on parade. The modern lance exercise is a pretty sight enough, but the old piAe exercise, perfectly executed by a huge body of men, must have been superb. We are not surprised, therefore, to find that the postures or instructions for this exercise are extravagantly minute. To give one example, at the close of the instruction, on the word “Order your pikes,” we find after a mass of complicated details the following conclusion: “You place the butt end of your pike by the outside of your right foot, your right hand holding it even with your eye and your thumb right up; then, your left arm being set akimbo by your side, you shall stand with a full body in a comely posture.”—Macmillan’s Magazine. The Ideal In Everyday Life. The inward enthusiasm which gladdens us, sustains us, lifts us again when we fall, is more necessary than our daily bread. Man lives on the ideal. All of us have need of its sublime grandeur, which, while defying all comparison, yet associates itself with the smallest actions. Do not scorn any lowly labor. The secret of the true life consists in understanding the close relationship existing between that which is so wonderfully beauflful, so highly spiritual and the things seemingly so small, destitute of beauty and spirituality. The words “everyday life” recall the days of the week, the commonplace days, without variety or brightness. Days are not all one like the other. We have Sundays and holidays, which have an altogether different aspect from other days. There is a mental condition for holidays, and, having so long been under the dominican influence. a mood for Sunday, and. in the sweet contagion of hopes which each Sunday reawakens in us. some find the mountain and the forest, the harvest and the flowers, more beautiful on Sunday than on other days.—Harper’s Bazar.

Clear Case of Bunko. The manager of a New York theater tells the following story: During a performance of "Rip Van Y\ inkle ’ bj the late Joseph Jefferson the manager, who was standing in the lobby, observed a countryman hovering about the en trance in an uncertain way. I inally, as with a determination to go the limit, the countryman bought a ticket and entered the’ house. A little while after the manager happened to be in the lobby again, when the countryman came out with an expression of intense disgust upon his face. “Well, how do you like the show?” the manager inquired, with secret amusement. The irate farmer grew confidential. “Say, mister,” he replied, "I’m goin’ tew have a mighty hard time splainin tew Marandy what I done with them tew dollars, but you kin bet I won t tell her I paid it tew see an old feller fill up on licker an’ go ter sleep when I could ’a’ gone up ter ther tavern at ther Corners an ’a’ seen old Bill Hardtree dew it fer nothin’!”—Success Magazine. Frightened the Bride to Death. In the Church of Chrastian at Pisek, in Bohemia, a marriage was about to be solemnized between Anna Roslin, aged nineteen, and a youth of her choice. Bride and bridegroom stood all ready before the altar, where were lighted tapers. Before the priest could unite the bridal pair one of the tapers became suddenly extinguished. A loud shriek came from the bride, and she gasped “Meiue kerze ist erloschen! ’ (“My taper is extinguished!") and sank unconscious into the arms of the bridegroom. Immediately all attention was turned to the condition of the bride. Several attempts were made t> revive the poor girl, but in vain. The bride, In her chaplet and veil, died at the altar rails. The superstition of the villages of the plain is that if a lighted taper becomes extinguished on either side of the altar the person standing on that side of the altar where the light went out will suffer a dire calamity.— London News. Vailiuk People to Church. When I was examining the church bells of the East Riding of Yorkshire some years ago I came to a little place called Fordou. on the wolds between Malton and Bridlington. It was a very primitive place, quite cut off from the world, the few inhabitants hardly knowing the road over the hilltop to the next place northward. The diminutive building which serves as a church is built near the brow of the hill. It Las no tower, bell turret or bell cot. On inquiry I found that it had no bell. The parson came over on horseback now and then from a neighboring parish, tied up his horse outside the church, opened the door, put on his surplice and then walked to the top of the hill and cracked his whip several times, "and then we knaws as It’s time ti gang ti chotcb,” said my informant on the spot.—London Notes and Queries. Klug* Named John. John I. of the "eastern empire” was poisoned by a servant; John IV. was deposed and had his eyes put out; John V. ruled only in name and lived tn constant dread of assassins; John VI. was deposed and died in prison. One of the Swedish Johns was driven out of his kingdom by his subjects, and another was belittled and defeated at every turn. John I. of France had a short and disastrous reign, and John 11. was a prisoner of the English for yeats. A long list of Johnt have changed their titles when taking on kingly robes because of the superstition that a “John" ruler cannot b« otherwise than unfortunate. Amendment Rejected. “Laura.” said Mr. Ferguson, hurriedly explaining matters in the kitchen. “I didn’t want to bring the man home to dinner, but he kept staying and staying at the office, and I just had to ask him. You will have to put as Sood a face on it as you can.” “If you think I’m going to change ixy face on his account, George Ferguson.” said his spouse, red and angry, “you’ll have to think again! You may bring him out to dinner right now ’’’—Chicago Tribune. - What He Needed. A father recently received the following note from a young man: Dear Sir—Wood like your doter Jessie’s baud in marage. She and I are in luv, axia x tnimc I nede a wife. Yures, HENRY. The father replied by letter, saying: Friend Henry—You don't need a wife. You need a spelling book. Get one and study It for a year. Then write me again. The Choxen. “Some men,” remarked the assumptive citizen, "are born to lead.” “Yes.” answered the cautious perM'n. "but the trouble is that every roan who feels a disinclination to do actual work takes it for granted that be is one of those men.”—Washington Star. Wot Difficult. High Priced Doctor—You are now convalescent, 4nd all you need Is exercise. You should walk ten to fifteen miles a day. sir, but your walking should have an object. Patient—AU right, doctor. I’ll travel around trying to borrow money to pay your bill. Not to Be Repeated. “Yes,” an old Indian fighter was saying. “the Sioux done something to me that they could never do again.” “What was that?” z “They scalped me.” Jealousy is the greatest of misfortunes and the least pitied by those who cause it.—Rochefoucauld.

— Arrow Shields. The other day I saw a little modern book, in a green cover, on a table In a drawing roun. I picked it up. It was about the early French m Canada, and my eye fell on a copy of a drawInc bv their leader, Champlin, oi Champtain The scene represented was an attack by the native allies o< the French, the Algonquius, on a tort held by Iroquois. The Algonquius advanced through showers of arrows under shields nearly as tall as themselves, like doors with rounded tops. Now vou may see exactly the same sort o. shields in a picture of a lion hunt, inlaid in gold and silver, on the bronze blade of a dagger found by Dr. Schliemann in "the grave of Agamemnon. These monstrous Mycenaean shields cause much discussion amor.g the learned Why were they so huge? The Algonquins used the very same shields, hung from their necks, and the reason was the same —their battles were battles of archers, and nobody can parry a shower of arrows with a smaller shield. Shields grew small in Greece as bow and arrow went out and sword and spear came in.—Loudon Illustrated News. The Fiddle Drill. The “fiddle drill" is one of the oldest stonecutting tools in existence. It is said to antedate Greek sculpture and is in use today in about the same form as it was 2.000 years ago. As its name implies, its action resembles a fiddle The drill is of two pieces. In one hand a carver holds the drill stock, which is like a carpenter’s brace, except that it is straight instead of having a crank. In the other hand lie holds the “bow.” which is strung with a brass wire and which is given a turn around the aril’ stock. To use the drill the carver places the drill stock against his breast, holding it with his left hand, and with his right lie draws the bow back and forth, fiddle fashion. This imparts a rotary motion to the drill stock, and the drill Is ground to cut in either way it turns. The fiddle drill is used in the finest work, in crevices where the sculptor could not reach with bis chisel and hammer without endangering the carving. The Worrying Habit. I asked a physician what cure he would suggest for the worrying habit. “I would prescribe common sense.” he said. “And if a man or woman hasn’t got a stock on hand and can't cultivate one no doctor can give it to him or her. This worrying nonsense grows. The best means to cure it lies in the hands of the woman herself. If she will just call a little common sense to her aid, resolve not to borrow trouble, to be cheerful and think upon the best side of things, she will live longer and retain her beauty longer. Every woman wants to keep beautiful to the last. Why does she take the course which is sure to make her yellow skinned, dull eyed and thoroughly unlovely?” Why, indeed?—New York Globe.

Vanilla. It is curious to read that vanilla was employed by the Aztecs of Mexico as an ingredient in the manufacture of chocolate prior to the discovery of America by the Spaniards and that it was brought to Europe as a perfume with indigo, cochineal and cacao ten years before the arrival of tobacco on our shores. The name vanilla is derived from the Spanish vaina, a pod or capsule. Dampmr described it as a little pod full of small black seeds and like the stem of a tobacco leaf, so much so that his men when they found the dried pods at first threw them away, “wondering why the Spaniards should lay up tobacco stems.” — Chambers’ Journal. The Canadian Line. The boundary line between Canada and the United States is marked with iron posts at mile intervals for a great part of its length. Cairns, earth mounds and timber posts are also used, and through the forests and swamps a line a rod wide, clear of trees and underwood, has been cut. Across the lakes artificial islands have been made to support the cairns, which rise about eight feet above the high water mark. —Exchange. A Miser's Wish. Greedylot. who is rather miserly, was recovering from a long illness. "How was it. doctor,” he asked one day. “that I was able to live so many weeks without eating?" “Why, you were fed by the fever.” “Are you sure?” Then after a moment’s reflection. "I wish I could give l t to. mj- servants.” Speaking? Their Minds. The queer thing about the people who boast of always speaking their minds is that they nearly always have such disagreeable minds to speak. Did you ever hear any one preface a -w.-, pliment, a commendation «r anything gracious ~ pleasant by saying, “I always must speak my mind?"—Woman’s Life. On the Common Hiahn-ay. We are learning that a standard of social ethics is not attained by traveling a sequestered pathway, but by walking on the thronged and common road where all must turn out for one •■other, and at least see the size of one another’s burdens.— Jane Addams. Foolish. By six causes a fool may be known Anger without cause speech without profit; change without motive; inquirt without an object; putting trust in a stranger, and wanting capacity to distinguish between friend and foe. Puzzled. Johnnie—What does that notice gay over there, mother? Mother-It says. “No dogs admitted.” Johnnie- But the dogs can’t read, can they? How are they to know?

..Legal Advertising,.,. XTOTII’E op FINAL SETTLEMENT ESTATE, 1 if Notice is hereby given tn the creditors «nd legatees of Jesse A. Fulxman. dectiS? to a |ip» ar iu the Ada ins Circuit Ci tin hTte.. Decatur. Indiai a, on the 19th day of a,,! 1906, aud show cause, if anv. w|,. ft 11 final set,lenient accounts with tt L ”” tateofsaki deci dent should not be anpp . s ' ed, and .said heirs are notified to there make proof ■ -f heirship, aC(i their distributive shares JJAMES 1.. GAY. Administrator. J. \V. Teeple. Attorney. D uatur. Ind., March. 28,1900. pj Notice of sale of macadam ROAD BONDS. Notice is hereby given that I. J, p Lachot, treasurer of Adams county state of Indiana, will on Monday, April 2. 1906, at the room of the board of commissioners in the 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 West Washington No. 4 macadam road in Washington township, Adams county Indiana, the entire issue of bonds for said road being in the sum of 53,640, being in twenty (20) semi-annual payments, bearing date of March 15, 1906, and each bond being in the sum of $lB2, with 4j 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 check 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 will 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 be 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 November 1906, and the 15th day of May. 1907, of each year, commencing on the loth 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 to the laws of 1897, 1899 and 1903. The amount of bonds to he sold including bonds already issued in said township for the free gravel and macadam roads is less four <4) per cent of the total valuation of said township for taxation. Further particulars will be furnished on application. Bids must be on each set of bonds separately. J. F. LACHOT. 2t3 County Treasurer.

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BEN BLAIR 'pHIS is a picture of the young ranchman who came out of the West—like another Lochinvar —after the girl he loved. <L He looks as if nothing could stop him —which is the quality that we like best in the hero of a story, after all. C. “Ben Blair” is making • tremendous stir. Five editions— thirty thousand copies— have been printed. <[ Nothing more vigorous, fresh, and exciting, or more Western has been published in years. Ask your bookseller if this is not so. BEN BLAIR