Decatur Democrat, Volume 52, Number 52, Decatur, Adams County, 30 December 1909 — Page 8

I 111 YEAR GIFT, By BEVERLY WORTHINGTON. (Copyright, 1909, by American Press Amo-' elation.] ’’ ’* 1 ' ■;> ?r “Mr. Bickford,” paid the president, •you are »we», 1 suppose, that tide business is solely for making money. What pays goes; what doesn't pay toes hot go. Besides, my stockholders keep me up to making dividends. If I don’t pay dividends my head goes off. ; We can get your work done for half es the salary we pay you. We shall not need your services after the Ist of January.” “But, Mr. Tinkham, I’ve been with you sixteen years. I’m now thirty-six. Places are being filled by younger men. I fear I may not get another.” "That is your misfortune.” . ■‘■4, “I don’t know what I shall’’-- 1 “I have no time to listen to what, your future may be. I have other matters to attend to.” J. Bickford fretted over his discharge’ till It made him ill. One day a chum said to him: r “BtekfSHf, I tell you what you do. You’ve got $1,600, I know. Spend half bf lt having a good time. Resign your position, and go off where you’ll find something to distract your attention from this bugbear. When you feel strong: osmo back and go to work at anything you can get to do. If you stay bene ybu’ll go under."' | Blokfosd took the advice. He went i to putting up at a hotel where he paid! $5 a day tor his board, and stayed there a month. Instead of getting matters-into a better he got them 1 into a worse fix. He fell desperately in love. .; . The object of Bickford’s affection was Miss Maida Tibbetts, a young giti ] who was staying at one of the less pre- ( tentlous hotels. It was more quiet and ] •omfortable than the caravansary 1 where Bickford was staying, and ] Miss Tibbetts’ mother, an Invalid, was ’ with her, and the house was better * fitted for such a person. Nevertheless 1 from appearances there was no money 1 in the Tibbetts that he was playing «a contemptible ( part in making it appear by the j amount that he daily expended for, ; board that he was opulent when in reality he was without Any income ’ whatever. But in his affair with Miss \i Tibbetts be found at least a temporary < mental relief from his troubles and t tiad no heart to break with er till he, 1 was obliged to. When bls, S3OO was fcpent, except enough B bU railway J ticket home, he found himself ,io po- j sition to make an explanation. He c told the girl the facts,, , Probably she would nt# him for what he had done had it not j been for her repugnance to the treat- , t inent he had received. L “These modern ways of doing busi-j Bess,” she said, “are execrable. As < Soon as a mean map has established a * M business he canltoliSML it 1 him ofc directors, to j pretends to be responsible. J This in turn gives hlm an ostensible ( excuse to ran the bustapsa-without.a { soul. Then he gits rid of those who, have helped him'-build it up and re- t places.them by cheaper, men, mejje-'t cogwheels in the great macl tinebehas ,1 been constructing.” . u The question between Bickford and * Mses Tibbetts was what should they! do. They loved, and Bickford could S support a wife. Miss Tibbetts j Mm an ardent believer in love as a basis of .matrimony, with or without Money. She said that when she got tack to the north she thought she Mold find something among, her reiaifrto tor-Bickford to do. H«had S3OO < tabank at home, which, with somep of hers, would last them tor sjpfcL months. Biqkfprd saw that she , iiyored the plan of being married ttianand there, arid, with many mlshe consented, He had come fWay without any income with which Wf support even himself. He went 'leek with a wife requiring—so he contfdered it—a tor greater Income than jprgta, ‘ ■ ‘‘Ufii. Biekfdi-d after the marriage JnMatefl on remaining a month longer in j Florida. Her mother Heeded to Stay! there and would stand the additional j oxpense.The young wife s <flfi a deal of writing and received a number < if letters, with the contents of Which Her husband was not made acquainted. J ■ When the 'extra month had passed • they all packed their trunks and went back north. . , 'I They arrived in the city In the' morn- ■' ing of Jan. 1. Miss Bickford sent her ■, mother home in a carriage, while she . and her husband remained in the bust- ( nesfi district, where they breakfasted, f. After breakfast the young wife told < her husband that she bad a position, ’ tor him and would make the final ar- .1 rangements before going home. She 1 led the way and stopped at the build-. ’ lag where he had been employed, } 1 “What does this mean?’ asked Bick- ' ford. ~;t l “Take me to the president’s office.” ' I “But this Is New Year’s morning. , He Will not be here.” - ' r •] “I think he will.” Bickford led her to "Mr.. Tlrikham’s private office. True enough, the president was there, evidently waiting for something.’fn a mystified condition, :■ I . “Mr. Tlnkham,”- said the wife, “you have been notified, I believe, that the purchaser of a certain block of stock recently giving the purchaser the con- ’ tool of this corporation wished- to see ’ ybu this morning at your offices- I am that purchaser. I desire to put the ’ concern in other hands for the ensu-1 tag year. I would li# your resigns-1 tion.” •- -ijvi 1 “And whom do you propose to ppt in my place?” cried the astonished man. '* • ”” “I shall give ft as a New Year’s pres- • ( ent to my husband, Mr. Bickford." f

SHERIFF’S SALE. The State of Indiana, Adams County, 88. ‘ In the Adams Circuit Court of Adams County, Indiana. , John W. MeKean vs. Mary A. Loch, Noah A. Loch et al. No. 7794. By virtue of an order of sale to me directed by the Clerk of the Adams Circuit Court of said County and State, I have .levied upon the real estate hereinafter mentioned and wil expose for sale at public auction at the east door of the Court House in the City of Decatur, Adams County, Indiana, between the hours of 10 o’clock a. m., and -4 o’clock p. m., on Saturday, January 8, 1910. The rents and profits for a term not exceeding seven years, of the following described real estate, situated in Adams County, Indiana, to-wlt: Inlot number one hundred and nine-ty-five (195) In the first addition to the T t own (now City) of Decatur, l County of Adams and State of Indiana, as the same Is designated on the recorded'plat of said town (now City) except three (3) feet off of the north side thereof of even width. : >5 And on failure to realise therefrom the full amount of judgment, Interest thereon and costs, I will at the same time and In the same manner aforesaid, offer for sale the fee simple of the above described premises. Thiten as the property of Mary A. Loch, Noah A. Loch, et al., to satisfy said order of sale this 9th day of December, 1909. - 50t3 ELI MEYER, Sheriff. 'ii~w ?ir~ i—■"-» ..in' | BHERIFrS • , ..r, ■ .k • The State of Indiana, Adams County, 88.'A - < * ' •*, S ’ I nthe Wells Circuit Court of Wells County, Indiana. J " , Charles Page VS Christena R. Niblick, admx, et aV' -No. 8«74. T> ' 1 By virtue of an execution to me directed by the Clerk of the®Weflfe Circuit Court of said’ Gbfinty -and State, L have levied upon the real estate hereinafter mentioned and will,,expose for sale at public ahetiofi at the: east door of the Court House inutile City of ecatur, .Adams iana, betwteen the hours of 10 ( o'clock a. m. and 4 o’clock p. m., on Friday, January 7, 1910. The rents and profits for a term not exceeding seven years, of the following described real estate, situated in Adams County, Indiana, to-wlt: x j Inlots numbers 569, 570, 571 and 581 in Bremerkanip’s & Derkes’ subdivision of out-lot No. 157 and part of outlot 158 in Joseph Crabb’s western addition to the Town (now City) of Decatur, Adams County, Indiana: Also Inlots numbers 558, 559, 560 and 561 in Glass & Rice’s sub-division of outlets numbers 151, 154 and 155 in Joseph Crabb’s second western addition to the Town (now City) of Decatur, Adams County, Indiana: Also outlots numbers 115 and 116 In Joseph Crabb’s western addition to tiie Town (now City) of Decatur, Adams County, Indiana: Also commencing at the southwest corndr of the southeast quarter of section 36, township 28 north ot range 14 east, to County, Indiana, running thence north 180 rods, 34 K thence sbuth 160 rods, thence West bO rods to the place of beginning, estimated to contain 30 acres of land. And on failure to realise therefrom the full amount of judgment, Interest thereon and costs, I will at the same time and in the same manner aforesaid, offer for sale the fee simple of the above described premises. Taken aS the property of John W. Vail to satisfy said execution this 9th day of December, 19M. 50t3 ELI MEYER, Sheriff. APPOINTMEN TOF EXECUTOR. . -Vs'OW-.'r 1 Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has beqn appointed Executor of the estate of Michael Kuehm, 8r„ late of Aijamp tfderiased. The estate is MICHAMi KVEHM, Jr.; -n f. : 'jjxeeiitor. " Dec. 1, 1909. Dore B. Erwin,’Atty. M y 49t3 r.'» O l"—— ■ NOTIC «W%^ E,MTB -. The State oft tadllMto* Adams County, S - In the Adams, November term, 19087" " «' Perry T’ EVertiart vs. Kate- Marquart et al. . NO. To quiet title. ft appearing from affidavit filed in the above entitled cauSe, that Kate Marquaft, George. Marquart and William Railing, of the above named defendants are non-residents of the State of Indiana. ' ' < Notice is therefore hereby given the said Kate Mar quart, George Marquart and William Railing that they be and appear before the Hon. Judge of the Adams Circuit Court on the 21st day of February, 1910, the same being the 13th Juridical Day of the next regular term thereof, to be holden at the Court House in the City of Decatur, commencing on Monday, the 7th day of February, A. D., 1910, and plead by answer or demur to said complaint, or the same will be heard and determined in their absence. ■ Witness, my name, and Seal of said Court hereto affixed, this 21st day of December, 1909. . (Seal) JAMES P. HAEFLING, Clerk. Peterson & Moran, Attorneys for Plaintiff. 51t3 —o — .. —— APPOINTMENT OF EXECUTOR. Notice Is herey given that the undersigned has been appointed Executor of the estate of Herman Buettner, late of Adams county, deceased. The estate Is probably solvent. WILLIAM GOLDNER, Executor. David E. Smith, Atty. December 16, 109. 51t3 —o— : NOTICE OF ELECTION. Notice is hereby given 'to the lot owners in the Decatur Cemetery Association that there will be an elec--1 , • ' ' . 'w. . vV.

the City of Decatur on the 6th Day of January* 1910, at 7 o’clock p. m., for the purpose of electing seven trustees for the Decatur Cemetery association for the ent suing year. J. H. STONE, 52t2 Seo’y J). C. A. e" • — r ' MEETING COUNTY COUNCIL. j • \ Notice is hereby given that the County Council of Adams County, In- <- dlana, are notified to meet at 10 1 o’clock, on • Friday, Januaiy 7, 1910, } for the purpose of reapportioning the 1 funds of .the county that have reverted to the general fund. t C. D. LEWTON, Auditor. 1 Professor Withaus of Berne ar- . he was engaged in giving musical In- > structlon during the day. ; Albert Hudson left Wednesday for , Bluffton, where he will spend several ' days visiting friends. 1 Mrs. Orval Harruff went to Linn ( Grove Wednesday and will make a : short stay with her parents. 1 Fred Belt left Wednesday afternoon I for his home at Hillsdale, Mich., after visiting with relatives here. ’ Elijah Mann left this morning for . Angola, where he is looking after some important business. • R Lynn Shoemaker, who has been visiting with relatives at Marion for the past several days, has returned home. Dan Beery left today (or Angola, where he was transacting some business pertaining the Decatur Horse Sale company. Mr. and Mrs. M. V; B- Archbold and son, Hell, returned- Tuesday to Fort Wayne after a visit with her parents, Mr and Mrs. J. L. Edger . Mrs. Josephine Rod of Toledo, Ohio, who has been visiting in the city with Aer; mother, Mrs. Anna Volmer, for several days, has returned; to her home. • - j • James R. Zimmerman of Butler, Ind., who is running a five and ten cent store at that place, is in the city for a visit with his parents. He will also visit friends at Peterson. Mr. and Mrs; Cornelius McGough and daughter, Amelia, and nephew, Lee Meyens; of Willshire, Ohio; passed through the city Tuesday, afternoon on their way to Huntertown for a visit Mrs. Walter Koos and children returned to their home at Wayne after visiting with relative east of town. She waw aecompartied by her sister, Miss Faye will visit there. ' I Fred Bell of Hillsdale, Mich., who has been making a shorti vlslt to this city, left, toy ?ppcatur, where he will make a short visit with friends before returning home.— Bluffton News. A slight error was published to last eventag's issue, regarding Ithe musical, which is to be given this evening. Miss Clara Terveer will render a voeal solo instead a violin solo, as was announced. Mrs. John Rice unfortun|ltol7 lost her gold nose glasses last' Siipday, I while going from the Methodist church to the John Vail hmtifi. ow-| Ing to the heavy snow which covered I the ground at that time, it Is probable I that the 8| asseß ’WiD not be found un-| U< lb. .now KU PM.rf «.r. C. S. Brlnneman, M«al ot tto t. A. I Snyder cqippSfiK which! Wants to contrast with We||» timers for'tqtipktoes, sayp- the] UH matoes, |7. for September- Waptofid Bluffton NephLyv.. ' r; » ■ •> m.. NO kachache or kidney PAINS. ziness and lack of energy, try Mother Gray's Australian-Leaf, thOpasant herb cure. As a regulator It has no eual. At druggists, or by mail, 25c. Ask today. Sample free. Address,’ The Mother Gray-Co., Leltoy,.N. Y. ■' The condition Os Robert Sparer, candidate for clerk at the democratic primary, ’is Improved this morning and Mr. Saurcr expects to be out and I continue its canvass within a short I time. The attending physician believes the fever will leave him in a short time.—Bluffton Banner. o ■ ■■ WEN RUBBERS BECOME NECESSARY And your shoes pinch, Allen’S FootEase, a powder to be shaken into the shoes, is just the thing to use. Try it for breaking in new shoes. Sold everywhere, 25c. Don't accept any substitute, . ;><- » o —\ The most welcome Christmas gift at the home of Mr. and Mrs. yesta Brokaw, residing on the Peeples farm east of the city, was the seven and one-half pound boy, left there by the stork in its flying trip. Mrs. Brokaw was Mrs: Daisy Lewton before her marriage. Take a hint, do your own mixing. Rough on Rats, being all poison, one 15c box will spread or make 50 to 100 litle cakes that wiU kill 500 or more rata and mice. It’s the unbeatad ble exterminator. Don’t die In the! house. Beware pf ' imitations, pub-’ | use uevjcw. . .

I EMIGRANT WEDDING. , LlfllUlinill IILUUIHUI .1 By GWENDOLEN ADAMS. ' and neonle from b* d 1 tn th H itj ed States. It to a place apparently as bar© of romuncG fts an ash heap. But " is romance. Painters and poets like to • I lull t- J -X g || * I countless romances a mony ini migrant’s 1 I th ® h Dni f ed Sta ? s - 1 eyed young Armenian who came buri riedly into the New York barge office. 1 nuHnnflllt a d an in t '' a. a* j, a- ' ' rp c ■ • ■ a* . pin ce •oe looKing for. h a at once DeeKvneu m cue. u tree cmn oi cue uoor* and several dark complexioned feUots advanced. y “These are mv witnesses.” said the yonug man. “This is the clerk* sad this Is the pritot. Give me my girt, and I "will marrv her at :once so that you need not be afraid that the gov* erament will have to take car| > ,h«.“ .‘-l; ,>r;gp sort of nonsense are you giving mer said the interpreter. ! “1 am an Armenl»n.' Toehkowbjk/fm an Armenian too. Why dor you keep me waiting? Didn’t 1 tell you that 1 am ready to marry her ?” x. “See here, you crack brained lonatie, I am employed to interpret what yoo say from Armenian into English! Talk in your native tongue and stop the long roil in ris/’ ’ “Huh! 1 not speak English. Fbeen in this country three yeara” Then Ha nnmmpnnAd In bin ndnntpd tongue and rattled his r s and bounced his b’s. An officer cried, "Call the. madam.” The “mother of Immigrants” made her appearance, and to her the young man told his story. Women are more keenly sohsitive to roTnsnce than men I and it was not long before the matron ] scented a love affair under the rattling fs and bouncing b’s. It was this: | Three years, before the young aspirant for honors in the English tongue bad come to America from Armenia. His name was Vahl Krthorlan. He left at home a pretty sweet-1 Her cheeks flecked like two roses hind dark lace. ;. 't; “What do you mean, Toshkowfil?*' Tasked the lover, terrified. “Hare you changed? Don’t you want pe after the long voyage across the ocean?’ : “Yes, Vahl, but there are so many princes looking at us. I am ashamed.” “Well, well! Then we will be married at once. L told these gentlemen . that the president need not fear having to take care of you; that I am earning good wages and will do that myself. See, here are the witnesses, and there is the priest Come, let us be married.” . ' . The custodian ot the government’s interests would not permit the marriage within the barge office, so the party adjourned . just without the walls. The clerk, in order to make sura that the girl did not escape unmarried and call upon the president for a liv-. ing, kept her in sight till the ceremony 1 was performed. After it was over the “princes” went back to their dally avocations, consisting chiefly of terrifying immigrants with fear they will have to be turned back to enduro' another trip in the steerage to find themselves again at the end of the Voyage in the despotic lands from which they have vainly tried to escape. Little Toshkowhi found herself free to go “out into America.” ' 7 ■JBo the sentimental part of this re mance ended. Perhaps it is well that it did. It must have been difficult even w£’ e e™ rri re 8e a f tSl th “ | kowhl, do you love me?’ and bear fa I jjjy, “Yra. I lov. you, Vahl Kriho.]

I bLe7 realS do’thi II who’s got self sopfidence enough to ’TOu don’t know what you ca* do ‘I tW you try Some men try end feiL > down town on a Tenth atreet car. | I firrieveu woman rouoweu cue umucKy I

] anßwered - ~L! Lm e* *“•”. "Aw, that’s no good.” said he and tossed the treasure (?) Into the street, j”*-“• man. And who can blame herr—rnlladelpbia Times. -.'"'J 1 . 1 .m. — lot * j ; wtamd* *«akrr. miwMnsi high mightinesses nossessed nreviaion how strenuous might havA been tihs •■w** wMWMvwv a*«.a*a** r »*•’« v*wm Twelotton pasMdttuhtbe newlrifr g> < 2 ; lj* . k™ • ■ 477. S?theircontrS JtorwUth.West India company, that money melting * * t'hfl fi * dl toX moreSre to | SM«o foot of Npw : Xort: biy there is no other sale on record where the advance in value lias been , *< ■■•■ - An Armorclad Nest. In the Argentine Republic, says a writer in the Strand Magazine, where the summers are long and hot, it ls customary to leave the windows open both day and night during the hottest part of the year. A bird, taking advantage of this, proceeded to build a nest in my room, fixing It firmly to one of the Venetian blinds over the window. The eggs were duly hatched And the young birds fledged. On taking down the empty nest 1 found It to be practically armorclad, the outer part being composed almost entirely of old rusty nails woven in among the hay. «wef thau slxty-slx baa baeu usea, i sides some Wire and pins taken from my dressing table. The bird was about the size of a robin and very tame. .4 . -?• *" > '» 'k 1 '"— ;J J ’ I Not 8a Bad. -I asked my class of snAll boys if any could tell me the meaning of the word •apprentice,’” said a teacher recently. “and an looked at me blankly until one lad arose. I “'Can you tell me.wjiat apprentice toeans?’ ” I repeated. , "Ties, It means practicing work.’” "-Exchange. . —- ,r< ’ W , ’we are now exactly, a thousand

I AjU ON 1 An Interesting Illustration of the Two Ad illustration- sbowltJT’the differ- ! ence between instinct and reason In monkeys came under the observation of David Starr Jordan, tbs famous naturalist At one time be bad twb lively Macacus monkeys called Bob and Jocko. These were nut and fruit j eating monkeysand instinctively knew just bow to crack nuts and peel fruits. At the kame time be had a baby monkey, Mono, of a kind that had the e& eating instinct But Mono bad never yet seen an egg. To each of the three monkeys Dr. Jordan gave an egg, the first that any of them had ever seen. Baby Mono 4 descended from .egg eating ancestors, handled his egg with all the inherited expertness of a long developed instinct Be cracked it with bls upper teeth, making a hole in lt,and sucked | out all its substance. Then, holding ' the eggshell up to the light and see- ’ Ing there was no longer anything in 1 it he threw It away. All this he did mechanically, automatically and just as well with the first egg as with any other be afterward had. And all eggs since given him be has treated in the same way. The monkey Bob took bls egg for some kind of nut He broke if with his teeth and tried to pull off the shell. the ground he looked at it for a moment In bewilderment, then with both hands seooned nn the volk and the sand mixed with it and swallowed it Then be stuffed the shell into his D „„ 9 _ Beason very onen maxes mistakes at first, but When It M trained it becomes a means far more valuable and powerfulthan Instinct > . The tUfad monkey, Jocko, tried to eat his egg in much the same way that Bob did; but, not liking the taste, he threw it away.—St Nicholas. ‘ , f EASY MONEY. Picked Up by the Sharp Chap Who Bet I on a Word. Just byway of shewing how easy it I is for some men to pick up a few doi-i Jars by their wits a- young fellow I strolled. fato a case the other after-1 noon and, joining fa conversation that ! wad being carried on by convivial! spirits, declared be was the most "in-1 fortunate”’individual <m earth. Hal immediately began tefltag a story of I his personal troubles, but before he! had got rhe narrative well under way! there was a chorus ot interruptions, I and the talkative young man was po-l lltely informed that hjs English need-1 ed revising, since be should have used I the word “unfortunate” Instead of “in-1 fortunate.” j The newcomer Insisted that 1 the argument waxed "warm. Ffaany,| wiiu a snow or Dear, ibb young maul who started the trouble declared that I ..ktl. k.A ~ Alites.— fa. 2. ■

while be bad oa|y a few dollars he! 8o anxious were his friends to lay I wagers with him that be did not hovel wwgposv vwes-M MOM* '*"*• mvv MWVWto money enough to meet all the de-1 UlciUU3« mUI U“ Bu(Xct«UvU XU **ir B 'vp'bo corta in that tho XsC-AgA. ' | .J— •. _ -I I " t>° thi™ a” bet I r s^v Bl inrortunate u perrecuy proper anam as be yw fprtiondfl sriZV • 'I. I -J < : ■* a- ■ I A daellng sllvery Tbs summit of ita beads itonack andl AL •sb ' JvaV * ’4- - n nii~a jhiXil w .gm fha aharlr Itn BtbM chances/are in tovor of Ito meetiXK Its! fate in the Scylla of the atmosphere.l If it escapes the jaws of the shark it| > H ~ Toe Honegh bwtalwlgSm 8 I’m sorry for the boy® hut too closo to tilirh pies ruined mm. Boggs — How both ttftortftivHncw Avnfimffa _PriAlr uractunng dynamite.—tuck. ■ Quite at Home. Bacon-And did you feel at home! traveling in Russia? Egbert-Oh, qultß at home. When the brakemen called® out the stations I couldn’t iindewttondß them any better than I can over here® -Yonkers Statesman. ® ' • ~ ■ St Thounanrl nn'lah llliieteaiiAn ' w Income slooo* e dltn * W&tal —happiness ’ Income, U 000; expenditure, sl,OOQ.p<® -misery. ■ Income, >1,000; expenditure, gay tlme.-Puck. M.«.r Br£»-SX*i OM i>. J fxAv Ffto’n Hvln<p nn hla