Democratic Press, Volume 2, Number 55, Decatur, Adams County, 31 October 1895 — Page 5

I V I i- V I M A / \ fl / *¥V‘ ° - ** >*■ ' 1 !<£«&,> ’ k 2fc-Js>’Z x V T ired. Weak, Nervous Could Not Sleep. Prof. L. I». Edwards. of Preston, Idaho, hi .s; “I was all run down, weak, nervous and irritable through overwork. 1 suffered from brain fatigue, mental depression, etc. 1 became so weak and nervous that I could not. sleep. 1 would arise tired, dlacourug. i and blue. 1 began taking Dr. Miles’ Nervine and now everything is changed 1 Bleep ■Mindly, 1 feel bright, active and ambit ious. I can do more in one day now than I used to do In a week. For this gr> it g «>d I give Dr. Miles’ Restorative Nervine the sole credit. It Cures.” Dr. Miles' N> rvim- Is sold on s positive guarantee that the first Untie will benefit. AlldruKgiats Mtll It nt fl.B bottb-s for *5. or It will be nent prepaid. on r< Ipt of price by the Dr. Mlle. Medical Co., Elkhart. Ind.

ADDITIONAL LOCALS. Good Booking apples at Coffee X Baker's. Mayor Quinn and wife Sundayed in Fort Wayne. Niblick & Son have a change of adv’t. Look ’er up. Zekiel Elzey of Murray, is now a reader of the Press. Harry Miesse of Grand Rapids, spent Sunday in this city. Jacob Schafer was a Fort Wayne visitor yesterday afternoon. Ehinger & Meyers have a fewnew words to say on clothing. Zekiel Elzey and wife of Murray, Sundayetl with relatives here. W. 8. Smith <>f Monroe, was in the city yesterday on breinees. For fresh oysters, see Coffee \ Baker. They handle the l»est. Gaze at the bargains in boots and shoes at Holt house's shoe store. Irvin Thompson of Geneva, was attending to business here Monday. The stone work on the Foreman business rooms is almost completed. • Jacob Wechter, trustee of Blue Creek, was a visitor in town Tuesday. Frank E. Erwin and wife of Berne, were Sunday visitors in this city. Coffee & Baker keep the beat crackers, XXXX. Don’t buy any other. Sam Diehl of French township, was gallivanting about town yesterday. W. A. Marsh of Blufftton, Sundayed with the family of Adam Gilliom. Bread, two loaves for a nickle; the best and cheapest at Coffee & Baker’s. Attorney Peterson of Geneva, was attending to business here Saturday. Mrs. J. T. Dailey went home to Bluffton Monday after a short v isit with relatives. Miss Mae Smitley of Hoagland, is visiting her sister, Mrs. W. 11. Reed, this week. Lew C. Devoss was attending to legal business at Lima, Ohio, the first of the week. Cooks and heaters, a nice line and at the lowest prices at Ellsworth, Myers & Co. Bread, two loaves for a nickel, at the Union Bakery. The best and cheapest in town. The usual reduced hunter’s rates from all Clover Leaf stations. Call on their nearest agent. Our new biilliant oak is the finest stove on the market. See it at Ellsworth, Myers & Co. For warm meal or lunch the Union Bakery is headquarters. Everything fresh and up to date. We still sell the White sewing machine and the famous Smith wagon at Ellsworth, Myers & Co. Call ami see our bargains in lap robes, blankets and whips. Just got a nice lot in cheap at Ellsworth, Myers &BCo. For sale or trade —Big Belgium stallion, lately owned by Ad Brown. It is full blooded and can be seen at the Red Livery Barn. Beery & Frtsjnger.

Mrs. Earl Sutton Sundayed at Bluffton with her parents. John France ami Sim P. Beatty were at Willshire Monday. Miss Lucy Ashbaucher of Bluff ton, visited relatives here the first of the week. The young daughter of Scott Hughes has been quite sick with scarlet rash. {[Mrs. J. <’. Patterson and Mrs. .!• A. Dunean are at Winchester visiting relatives. Mesdaims Jeff Bryson and R. K. Allison were at Berne yesterday visiting relatives. . Sheriff Ashbaucher was attending to official business near Monroeville jestenlay. Miss Emma Jackson is again on duty at the Boston after a typhoid illness of two weeks duration. The health of Miss Jennie Bollman is improving much to the gratification of her many friends. For a good job of plumbing and gas fitting, call on Townsend & Cox, next door to gas office. Telephone 69. Parties during attendance on the circuit court will find the Is st meals in town at Martin’s Star Bakery. A great clearing sale is going on at Holthouse’s shoe store, where bargains can be found in ail kinds of foot wear. If you want to see a nice stock of gas fixtures, call on Townsend & Cox, next door to gas office. Telephone No. 6'J. Oystei are down to twenty cents at Coff< e Baker's. They also sell the XXXX crackers for seven cents, four pounds for a quarter. James Carpenter has been appointed foreman of the bridge gang, t<> take the place of James Gilson, who met death at Ceylon two weeks ago. Jeff Bryson is allowing his blonde whiskers to circulate, all of which is a direct and unwanton violation of the valuation and appraisement laws. We have a few buggies of our own make, we are selling at cost, as we must have the room, also road wagons cheap at Ellsworth, Myers & Co. Notice to Tax Payers. Your taxes are now due. The books will be closed November 4th at sp. m. Positively no receipts will l>e made out except the money is paid in advance. Dan P. Bolds, Treas. THE VICTORIOUS WHEEL. It lii Capturing: the Royal Ladle* of Europe. The bicycle, according to the London Queen, is pushing its triumphant way into the most exclusive and impenetrable circles of society. Among royal ladies, the first convert was the beautiful Queen Margherita of Italy, who is sueh an enthusiastic wheel-woman that the cycling elub of Milan recently presented her with a golden bicycle—the first in the world. Il >r everyday wheel, however, is of English make. The duchess of Aosta was among the earliest of women riders, and it is said was taken to task for it by the king, her uncle, but succeeded in converting both him an I the queen before the matter was ended. The young queen of Holland rides, while the princess of Wales and her daughters ride tricycles at Sandringham, and even appeared in the parks of Denmark on tandem tricycles. With such high examples, of course, the ladies of the nobility are not left behind; and some of them possess very beautiful wheels of ivory or silver plate and oxidized metal. Lady Dudley owns one enameled in white, witli lining of blue and gold, and ivory handles. Rut with all this magnificence these ladies probably reap no more pleasure or benefit than the untitled American who spins along democratic roads on a plain black and nickel wheel, the equal for tlie time being of any duchess or queen of them all. BACK YARDS ARE WASTED. Old Gardener Tells How the Space Can Ho Well Vtlllzed. An old gardener told a Cincinnati Times-Star reporter that the most wonderful thing about city folks is their ignorance of what they could do with the little stripsof ground surrounding their houses, and especially with their back yards. "They are not big enough for lawns,” said he, “so most people just use them to walk on, but if they had some gumption they could enjoy many a garden delicacy of their own raising. A strip twenty feet long and a foot wide against the wall would furnish enough grapes for two toeat. The next foot would supply them with peas; the next with beans; the next with radishes and turnips and lettuce; one bush in each of the four corners would produce plenty of gooseberries; another foot in width would supply all the strawberries, another foot raspberries; another, blackberries; another a month’s supply of potatoes; another, sweet potatoes; another with several fine messes of corn, and so on. There arc ten feet planted, but give what I have named twenty feet, as almost any city backyard could do, and they would grow wonderfully. A back yard twenty by twenty would raise plenty of small truck for two people, yet bow many back yards are wasted!”

STRAIGHTENING AFRICAN KINKS •err.t ot a Mew Orlran. Woman for fiatlafylng Vanity of < olorml llvnutlaa. “I alsimliiatn straight hair," exclaims the Caucasian Iw'auty, and "! hate kinks,” groana the fascinating lady of color. No. forthwith, the mind feminine starts out In search of ways and tneana to make kinks coma and to make kinks go. With glue, paplllottes, plaiting nnd hurtling the maiden of the straight locks endeavors to make her head adornment take on graceful waves, ' while her sinter of the dusky hue dreams of the day when kinks will be under control. In times past the lady of color was wont to divide her woolly appendage into many little tufts, which were drawn as straight as possible, and tightly wrapped with cord or shoo string. It is true this gave the head a porcupiny appearance during six days of the week, but on Sunday a visible parting and symmetrical topknot repaid the damsel for her week of suffering to lie beautiful. But, nowadays, the “new woman" among the Afro-Americans cannot appear at the lecture, the woman’s club or the soel'ty meetings with the horny week-day headsof the past. “Necessity is the mother of invention,” fits this case as so many others. A secret has been discovered for not only straightening out the kinks, but to keep them straightened out for six months at a time. The secret is in the possession of an enterprising colored woman, who makes ! her home in New Orleans, and who, it is said.doesathrivingbusiness in smoothing ont the knotty tresses of her sisters. As she gets five dollars a head, and there is no lack of trade, this kink i specialist has a veritable bonanza. In this one respect, at least, the darkskinned would-be beauty has the advantage of the pale-faced ladle, who aspires to rippling hair. While the I former has to undergo hair manipulation but once in six months the latter's locks have to suffer daily treatment. A DISCOURTEOUS LAWYER. lie Dl«l Not Art Like m Grntleinan from Virgin!*. In Kentucky an unfortunate meri chant saw bankruptcy confronting him. and to save a portion of his propj erty he invoked the name of his wife and the assistance of a friend. The ’ creditors instituted proceedings to re--1 cover certain property, and in the ! course of the proceedings his friend, | a native of Virginia, was put upon the 1 stand. All went well, says the LouisI ville Post, until the witness was subjected to a rigid cross-examination by a ' lawyer, himself a native of Virginia, j The witness went blundering along at such a rate that his lawyer felt it necessary to interfere and tell him that he was not required to answer questions which would criminate himself. After the elose of the case, which resulted disastrously for our accommoi dating friend from Virginia, he ex- ; pressed indignation at the humiliation jto which he had been subjected. “I was never in my life treated with so little courtesy,” he said. "The opposing counsel did not net at all like a gentleman, sir. I expected entirely different treatment, especially as I learned that he was from Virginia, and lie knew I was from that state. No. i sir. in the old days no Virginia gentleman. sir, would cause another Virginia gentleman the slightest embarrassment because of so paltry a matter, nor would he seek by set Interrogatories to make him contradict himself. No, sir, it is unpardonable, sir, and all for the purpose of increasing the dividends of a few Yankee clients whom he never saw. I am convinced, sir, that your lawyer never came from Virginia at all, sir; be must have come from West Virginia.” TOMB OF MARY AND LAZARUS. An Interesting Tombstone Discovered in Palestine. In a recent issue of the Journal of the Herman Palestine society. Prof. Gelzer, of Jena, discussed an interesting tombstone discovered at Cesares, in Palestine, and which first appeared in the Revue Biblique, published at Jerusalem. The inscription reads: “Monument belonging to (or dedicated to) Mary and Lazarus." The language is Greek, and the inscription dates from the fourth or fifth century. The original editors, the Dominicans of Jerusalem, thought that it was merely a monument of two persons bj’ the names of Mary and Lazarus. Gelzer, however, is of opinion that the Biblical persons of these names were intended, especially also in view of tiie fact that Mary’s name precedes that of Lazarus, lie draws attention to the fact that in ' the first half of the fifth century the 1 discovery of apostles’ and prophets' ; tombs was "a flourishing aud manifestly also a lucrative branch of industry." At that period it was claimed that the bodies of Joseph, Samuel, Zaehariah. John the Baptist, and other Biblical men were found, and many of these pseudo relies were transported to the capital city of Christendom, Constantinople. It is not impossible that at this period also the pretended remains of the sister and brother from Bethany were transported to Cesurea, which in the ante-Chalcedonian period —i. e., down to 451 —was the metropolitan center of the church In Palestine. Salt Make* Sagar Sweeter. Who would think of making sugar sweeter by the addition of salt? Such, however, is asserted to be the case by Prof. Zuntz at a late meeting of the Physiological society of Berlin. From his experiments he finds, that if to a solution of sugar there be added a slightamount of saltand water so weak that it excites no saline taste, the result is extra sweetening of the sugared water. The weakest of quinine solution is said to produce a practically similar result. The explanation given of the above seeming incongruity is that the ever so feeble saltness or bitterness impartsan increased sensibility to the sensation of taste by the simultaneous stimuli, and hence an appreciation of additional sweetueaa.

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LOST FOR AGES. DlNcQvery of a Burled City in Turkestan by a Party of I’ruMianw. In Turkestan, on the right bank of the Amon Diara, in a chain of rocky hills, near the Bokharan town of Karki, are a number of large caves which, upon examination, were found to lead to an underground city, built apparently long before the Christian era. According to effigies, says Information, inscriptions and designs upon the gold and silver money unearthed from among the ruins the existence of the town dates back to some two centuries before the birth of Christ. The underground Bokharan city is about two versts long and is composed of an enormous labyrinth of corridors, streets and squares, surrounded by houses and other buildings two or three stories high. The edifices contain all kinds of domestic utensils, pots, urns, vases and so forth. In some of the streets falls of earth and rock have obstructed the passages, but generally the visitor can walk about freely without lowering -his head. The high degree of civilization attained by the inhabitants of the city is shown by the fact that they built in several stories, by the symmetry of the streets and square, and by the beauty of the city’ and metal utensils and of the ornaments and coins. Draining n TjUa Tne Fanfnlla of Rome announces that the project of the draining of the Trasimenian lake, which has been talked about for more than two thousand years, will at last become a fact. A syndicate of capitalists has bought up tlie territory surrounding the lake, and the immense undertaking will be started this year. The circumference of the lake, in which there are three small islands, is more than thirty miles. Its depth averages nine feet. It is proposed to finish the work inside of two years, and it is to cost twelve million lire (two million four hundred thousand dollars). Treasure In » Burial Ground. Near the battlefield of Marathon, m Greece, a prehistoric burial mound recently opened yielded eleven old Mycensean vases, two of them gold, and some gold earrings. At a place called Krikella, where the Gauls were driven back by the Greeks in 279 B. C„ and over twenty thousand of them slain, a bronze helmet has been found, and at Lycosura the mosaic floor of the temple of Despoina has been laid bare. In the center two lifelike lions of natural size are depicted, surrounded by successive ornamental borders. Capital »120,(XM). Established 1871 THE OLD ADAMS COUNTY BANK Decatur, Indiana. Does a general banking business, makes collections In all parts of the country. Buys town, township and county ord vs. Foreign and domestic exchange bought and sold. Interest paid on time deposits. Offlcer»-W. 11. Niblick, President: I). Studebaker, Yice President; R. K. Allison. Cashier, and U. 8. Niblick. Assistant Cashier.

WHEN AT BERNE AT THE CITY AND BAKERY RESTAURANT FOR LUNCH OR MEALS. We have made several changes and improvements and are better prepared than ever to meet all the wants of the public in our line. Remember we keep Groceries, Cigars and Tobacco at the lowest prices. Yours, EICHENBERGER & PLEUSS Successors to Sholley & Bicbeuberger. N. B.—All those knowing themselves indebtedto the firm of Sholley & Eichenberger will please call and settle. GREAT ATTRACTIONS IN Fail and Winter Clothing The greatest line of Men’s, Boys’ and Children’s Suits and Overcoats can be found at our store. All the latest Styles and Novelties are in. New Goods! New Styles! Bost Quality and at the Lowest Prices. Come in and look at our Fall and Winter Stock of Clothing, and get our price before buying. Yours Respectfully P. HOLTHOUSE & CO. D. E. STUDEBAKER, Agt. Hone line to. ol lurges! d Bost II lie World. Writes Insurance on all kinds of Farm Property. Collections of all kinds carefully attended to. All wishing to borrow money will benefited by calling and seeing me. Best of references. DECATUR. INDIANA.