Decatur Journal, Volume 18, Number 22, Decatur, Adams County, 15 January 1897 — Page 2

FROM THE COURT HOUSE. — - heal estate transfers. Edwin W. France to Conrad Gilllg, undivided 3 40 acres, Washington township, .$873.33. D W. Beery.to John Frislnger, 40 acres, St. Mary's township, SBOO. Thomas Felty to Daniel B Ford 51 acres, Wabash township, S4O. Jesse O. Smith to Jesse Williams, lot 179, Decatur, S7OO. Clement T. Bergman, part lot 142, Geneva, $3,500.' ’ PETIT jury■ * ' .David Steele, Kirkland township. Gallagher. Mallonee, Washington township. James E Louden, Monroe township. Henry Miller, Wabash township. Jacob About, Wabash township. C E Stuckey, French township. Conrad Gi'.lig, Washington township. , Jam s N An hbold. St Mary’s township. Henry Kohn, Washington town ship. JW Broadbeck, St Marys township. George Brown, Washington town ship. u.a E 11 Cowan, St Mary’s township. MARRIAGE LICENSES John Keller to Nannie Franks. George E Wemhoff to Rosa M France. NEW CASES. John S Wilt, et al vs Tiiuotny F Golden et al. note. SIOO. William A Kuebler et al vs Joseph L Anderson, note, demand SIOO, ass and bond In attachment.

Court commences Monday E. N. Tyrrill joined the Journal’s list, Monday. » Some of the young people are taking dancing lessons. William Schamerloh expects to erect a new house and barn in Union

township. The republican caucus Tuesday evening selected Charles W. Fairbanks for Senator to succeed Voor- ' I»*DW. What PEFFER’S NERVIGOR Did! 1 It sets powerfully and quickly. Cures when aH Others faU. Young men regain Tost manhood: old men recover youthful vigor. Absolutely ttuarr.ateeß to Cure Nervousness. Lost Vitality, impotency. Nightly » mlsslons l l.ostPower, either sex. Falling Memory, Wasting Diseases. and an tftttt of ttlf atmu or exautt and ■‘MUtcrUon. Wards Off Insanity and consumption. Don’t let druggist Impose a wonhlesa substitute on you because ItVlelUs n greater profit- Insist on having PREFER’! NERVIUOR, or send fur 11. Can be carried 1c vest pocket. Propald plain wrapper. SI per box. or <1 for HA, with A Positive written Uuarantee to Cure orßeftond the Money. Pamphlet 1 rco. Sold by druggists. Andrew PEFFEB MEDICAL. ABS’N, Chicago, Hl NOLI) BY SMITH A CALLOW. .; t Has for a Fifth of a Century Cured all forms of . . . ’ KIDNEY and LIVER DISEASES. THE DREAD BRIGHT’S Disease Is but advanced Kidney Disease. Either is Dangerous. Both can be Cured if treated in time with Warner's Safe Cure. Large bottle or new style smaller one at your Ask for j eithc r and accept no substitute. P. W. Smith. C. A. Dcgaw. CZ3 Prwident. Cashier. • B. HoiTßorsa. E,X.(EBiMcaa. Vice-President. Assistant Cashier. Decatur National Bank, DEC AT Ur, INDIANA. Capital Stock, $100,000., Surplus. - - 4,000. — OIREOTORS. J. B. HollhauM. J- H. Hobroek. J. Colter. P. W. Faith. C. A.Dugan. H. R. Molta. John D. lisle Interest given on time depohite

What They Say. Prof. Snow left Thursday fora business trip to Berne. All the factories at Hartford City are running full blast. Rufus jlllison left on a business trip to Berne Thursday. Mrs. Weisruantle, of Bluffton, is visiting friends in our city. And now Columbia City candidates wish to vote for postmaster, Receiver Pierce’s private car went through on No, 4 Sunday evening Hood’s Pills are the favorite family cathartic, easy to take, easy to operate.

Rev. Hart does not expect to remove here from Columbia Citv until sp’ing. Spring will soon be here and the council should order quite a number of new walks. E. D. Moffett, former editor of tin Journal, was a candidate for a clerkship at Indianapolis. Mrs. robert Patterson returned Sunday evening from a visit with her daughter in Bluffton. James Bane has placed an engine in his meat shop for chopping up meat for bologna and sausage. Congressmen Henry and Overstreet and Senator Turple are members of the reception committee at the inauguration. Miss Grace Petersoa returned Thursday morning from a two weeks visit with friends and iclatives et Fort Wayne The Marion'-Leader has adopted the cash in advance system. The lexpenment will be watched eagerly bv other county papers. A conversational club has been organized with several young lady mem beys. Sophia Mangold presides and Hattie Moore records. [n the account of the award of the. st ck of candy at Coffee & Bakers an 8 in place of a 9 made Mr. Fuelling’s gt ess 857, It should have been 957. Don’t i worry about your health. Ki ep your blood pure by taking

JI od’s Sarsaparilla and you need not Lir the grip, colds, bronchitis, xMficbael ffin-rrn —"T aacago, evening to embrate the silver wedding of Mr. and Mrs. B. Wemboff and attend the Wemhoff-France nuptials. While a freight was passing] over the bridge near Veedersburg Friday a brakeman, supposing it to be past,Jumped from the train falling about 35 feet. He was badly hurt. The stockholders of the Decatur Creamery Co. held a meeting in the law office of Peterson & Lutz, last Saturday, and unanimously adopted resolutions to sell the plant. The Company has a capital of $6,000. The ice men ate again discouraged, just as there was a promise of ice another warm wave can e along and knocked it Into a liquid condition. A few more winters like this and an artificial ice plant will become necessary in Decatur.

Bluffton max as well give up hope of securing the division between Frankfort and Delphos. No. 4is now one of the best paying trains on the Clover Leaf and they will scarcely abandon the Toledo run for Bluffton’s sake. If they did Decatur would get It. M. E. church services at the court house next, Sunday. Sunday senooi at 9:15 a. m., Pr.-aching at 10:30 a. m . subject, “A stranger,” Junior League at 3 p. m.. Senior League at 6 p. m., preaching at 7p. m. The regular pastoral talk will be given in ihe morning and special services in the evening All are cordially invited. The total tax rate in this county is as follows: Decatur, $2 58; Gineva. $2.52; Berne, $2 22; Jefferson. $161; Root, $1.56: Hartford, $1.51: Union 1 and Preble, $1.46; Washington, $1.44: i Kirkland and French. $141: St. I Mary’s. $1.39: Wabash, $1.31: Blue Creek, $1 26; Moftroe, $1.21. The county taxes are 514 cents and state taxes 29y cents.

The Order of Pocahontas held a masquerade at their lodge mom in i the Niblick building, last Saturday I night The majority appeared in masquerade and to the Oae with the most complete disguise was given first honors, which were captuted by John | Kern and Joe Beery, disguised as twin farmers. Mr. Beeler, of Kern, Brittson Jt Beeler, was awarded second honors for tbe men. He represented a negro sport. Mrs. John Kern and Miss HatUe King were awarded first and second honors for tbe women. «

Stories of Prentice. George D, Prentice was a remarkably ' eandid man, illustration of which is given in tbe anecdotes which follow; I but these are only .. few of the hundreds to be told: Ones when coming out of a public building in Lusville he was about to i pass through a double door which opened bct i way... Like the sensible man he | was ho star; I to - push at the door half on his right. yotng man cominglrom j the opposite direction was pushing at; the si,me door, being his own left Prenti-e lost p ti '.nee, and throwing himself with ail his might against the door it flew open and the young man went sprawling ou the mosaic floor. ; Assisting the JrOutii to arise, Prentke I remarked: "Take my advice, my son. Keep to the right in your way through life, and you’ll never run against anybody but a blamed fool, and you needn’t apologize to him.” Will S. Hr.ys, tho famous Kentucky song writer, was in the latter days of the old Journal river reporter for The Democrat. Hays was a very sudden Jouog man, good hearted, jolly, witty, ut lacking somewhat in reverence, and he had a habit of calling persons, even Old enough to be his grandfather, by their given names. Visiting Prentice one day as a follow poet, after some desultory talk, Hays said: “I suppose, George, you have seen my last song.” Prentice koked up at Hays, who was seated cioss legged on Prentice’s table, and with a twinkle in his expressive eyes quietly replied: ”1 hope so, Bill.” Bill looked around for a second or two, as If something had tapped him, and then slid down the baluster rail to the front door.—-Chicago Times-Herald. yiHt Movements Luring a Revolution. I know tho men of the people in Paris too well not to know that their first movements in tfm< sos revolution are usually gcn-'icc •, and that they are best pleased to ept nd the days immediately following their triumph in boasting of their victory, toying down the law and playing ut i■■ iug great men. During that time it p.m rally happens that some government or other is set up, the police returns to its post and the judge to his bench, and when at last our great men consent to step down to the better known and more vulgar ground of petty and malicious human passions they are no long, r able to do so and are reduced to live simply like honest men. Besides, ,wc have spent so many years in insurrections that there have arisen among us a kind of morality peculiar to times of disorder and a special code tadays of rebellion. Accordingto these exceptional laws, murder is tolerated end havoc permitted, but theft is strenuously forbidden, although this, whatever one any say, dees not prevent a ■lrwM Jnhl (ifj.aUirJ.Y fro” occurring updifferent from And it will always contain a number of rascals who, tit far as they are concerned, worn tho morality of the main body and despise its point of honor when they aie unobserved.—“Reoollectiona” of Do Tocqueville. How Ik>«» C ither Boney. Bets gather hcr.ey by tho aid cf their "trunk,” ‘‘lower lip” or ‘‘tongue,” which is used ns an instrument for extract! i; tho nectar hum flowers. The "tongue” of a L.oisuot, as was once thougni to be th’. case, a tube through which sue juice i sucked, but it built more a’tcr tho fa -hion of a fine broom. With t is broom the leo brushesor laps the hoi :y or honey material from the flowers, leaves, e.0., and passes it down a groove in the upper surface cf the tongue to the tuproper. From that point the juice is conveyed through a minute orifice int i iiie ‘‘first stomach,” vulgarly calked “honey bag. ” The "honey bag” is a re 1 chemical laboratory, where, by -om mysterious piocess which has cot jot been explained by science the juices are converted into pure Lt coy. When the chemical process of transforming t.cir nectar into viscid honey has bwu completed, the bta disgorget it into <•: cl tho cells male for the purpose of a n c ptacle. For yens the microscopists ani the I eutomo. * 1.•••• been studying the;

bee’s later:,. . , bn its workings are nt pre* :rt •tl unexplained mysteries.—it. L Republic. Bv:l« .1 by Sand Storm*. Sven Emit, ... —orwegian traveler, has dis. overt < 0:1 the north side cf the Kuen Lun m- ’.-.it.iins, and in the edge of tiro great deeert of Gobi, the runs of towns which l.t thinks were buried by sand items nbo-.t 1,000 years ago The larges- town w.;- m irly miles long, and a canal corn,, ,t d it and th ■ eurrouudn g coni.tr ■ wi h the Kerija river. The house.! had walls of plaited reeds, coverc 1 with i.ij 1 a d then coated with white g . •! r. ai d on these plaster walls were w« ii»v- d paintings of men, auimah i.ut f<. rs Poplars, apricots and pin . ti>c- L. 1 vidently flourished there lafcr i. v 'on of the sand.--tian Fran is > C rcn.relo. Climbing. Selfish ambit .-1 .y help us to climb to the p. rot w . t ■ may be seen, but itnevii ;;d»us i.i c..tubing to-there we can * • 1 ■** Owner a man grte in tbe world u. > . .-i f »ifisb aim- the narrov. r his i. .. . vision bee met The hign -r be t := 1 tue pursuit if unselfish uii> th > i nbtr he can see arounc in. I: ;:..u* little whr tier weolirejra lift ' do not climb to ward a higher p-. .t cf vision.— butxlay School ’-limes. The m : ii bcirotropa cmnes from t ( i w rd* signify ug “twin ; { . . i tan.” It has *ug been aI- ’ f • . flvw-r -f lb heliotr !| s tun.., -■ • an- --g lay, »a. I);. ’ ' sue. an some sp .iea at tbit curious practue is

Artificial Ice Making. Notwithstanding that artificial refrigeration has so largely taken the place of ice, it is often desirable, even in small plants, to make some ice dor table and other purposes. In hotels and re-taurants this is particularly true, an<l nothing but the poor results that have ton oi.’tainc.l in the past has prevented this from being done more extensively. The old method was to put common filtered hydrant water into cans and freeze it into white, unattractive ice, useful only for cooling purposes, and hardly suitable for the table. Distilling and purifying apparatus is found necessary to make acceptable iee by this process, and the manifold duties of the operating engineer usually prevent the giving of proper care and attention to the various purifying devices, with the result that the quality of the product is quite inferior. There is now developed, however, a practical method of making ice in large or small quantities on the “plate system,” freezing outwardly from the refrigerating coils, excluding impurities into the residual water, circulating thia water by means of a circulating pump through filters to remove air and impurities, giving clean, pure crystal ice from water of almost any reasonably good quality. The ice is then harvested by a steam cutter, which pushes its square nose down in the tank and cuts off a slab of ice whenever required. A tank of th,a character, added to a refrigerating plant, is a most useful and profitable adjunct, especially considering that the high quality cf the product is chiefly a function of tho method rather than the skill of operation.—W. O. Kerr in Oassier’s Magazine. Max Muller's Father. My father belonged to the post-Goethe period, though Goethe (died 1882) survived him. He was born in 1794, and d : ied in 1827, and yet in that short life ho established a lasting reputation not only as a scholar, but as a most popular poet. His best known poems are the “Griechenlieder,” the Greek songs which ho wrote during the Greek war of independence. These Greek songs, in which his love of the ancient Greeks is mingled with his admiration for heroes sucli as Kanaris, Marcos Bbzzaris and others who helped to shake off the Turkish yoke, produced a deep impression all over Germany, perhaps because they breathed the spirit of freedom and patriotism, which was then systematically repressed in Germany itself. The Greeks never forgot the services rendered by him in Germany, as by Lord Byron in England, in rousing a feeling of indignation against the Turk, and as the marble for Lord Byron's monument in London was sent by some Greek admirers of the great poet, the Greek parliament voted a shipload of Pentelican marble for the national monument erected to my father in Dessau. His lyrical Schons Mullerin” and the “Winterraise,” both so marvelously set to muno by Schubert and others. He certainly had caught the true tone of the poetry of the German people, and many of his poems have become national property, being sung by thousands who do not know whoso poems they are singing.— “Recollections” of Max Muller. Well Meant. American wheelmen traveling alone in Europe have many queer experiences. A young man who was bicycling in southern France was pushing his wheel up a steep hill when he overtook a peasant with a donkey cart who was rapidly becoming stalled, though the little donkey was doing his best. Tho benevolent wheelman, putting his left hand against the back of the cart and guiding his wheel with the other, pushed so hard that the donkey, taking fresh courage, pulled his load up to the top successfully. ( The summit reached, the peasant burst into thanks to his benefactor. "It wasverygood of you, monsieur," he said. “I should never in the world have got up the hill with only one donkey."—Youth’s Companion. Inns In Hungary. Wayside inns in Hungary generally rejoice in very quaint titles. This one was called tho Dropperin, uud had the usual sign outside—viz, a long pole, with a wooden ring and a gigantic wine . bottle suspended from it The system of ; keeping the scores is primitive, but practical. The regular customers and the innkeeper each have a bit of wood I oallid rovas, with the name of the; perfun written on it, and every liter of wino consumed is marked by each making a notch on his respective bit of wood. When the score is paid off, both the rovas are burned. Consequently you hear th&peasants inviting each other to iugyonroviasmora, literally, drink on my "knotch stick,” which sounds most comical.—H. Ellen Browning in “Wanderings In Hungary." Unappreciative. A lady passenger in a Great Western tram in England was much disturbed in her attempts at a nap by some one ringing in the next compartment, so she acked the guard to interfere. That official did so and got laughed at for his pains, and the singing went on. At the next station the lady sent for the station master and requested him to succeed where the guard had failed. The station master went to the next compurrtnent, and immediately returned to ’ apologize. ‘T am very sorry, madam,” he s-.id, “but I really cannot ask your neighbor to stop singing. She is Mme. Patti.” Deer In London. Deer thrive and multiply in London. A year or two ago a few of these anin als were presented to the county council 'oth a request that they should be kept In Clissold park. So quickly did the < eer multiply that it was presently tcond poenuie to mttwfw • master of them to Victoria park, and further tkiaaiag ou baa boon frwinrf nona—y.

Big Alllgaton. At the end of a chapter on alligator! in his book, “Hunting and Fishing in Florida,” Mr. Charles B. Cory, curator of the department of ornithology in the Field Columbian museum, Chicago, gives an entry which he once saw in the register of the Brock House. In the old days, when transportation was more difficult than it is at present, the Brock House was about the end of civilization and was a 24 hours’ trip by boat from time a great resort for sportsmen, who were attracted there by the fishing and shooting to be had in the vicinity. The old register, which extended back a great many £ears, contained some queer records, some of them of doubtful veracity. Among others, some one had written:

"March 19, 1872, filled a large alligator, the largest seen here this year. The stomach contained a boot, a piece of pine wood, a fisherman's %oat and some small fish. ” Immediately beneath this record was another, evidently added by some wag: "March 24, killed a much bigger alligator than the one mentioned above. The stomach contained a gold watch, SIO,OOO in government bonds and a cord of wood.” On the next page, written in a neat, unobtrusive style, was inscribed the following: "Shot the biggest alligator ever known in Florida. The stomach contained the remains of a steam launch, a lot of old railway iron and a quantity of melted ice, proving that it existed during the glacial epoch'” Outoide Decoration of French Houses. Ferdinand Mazae, in The Architectural Record, explains sculpture as applied to Paris houses. “Twenty years ago, ” Mr. Mazas says, “the external ornamentation of French houses was, in general of a very sober character. ” Today decoration is very much in fashion and not always discreet. M. Paul Heneux, having been intrusted with the erection of the new town hall at Les Lilas, a charming little placdfnear Paris, conceived the idea of treating all the sculpture of the building with lilacs. The capitals, the balcony, the friezes and the flower work placed above the dormer windows represent nothing but sprays, bunches, leaves and petals of lilac. The brackets of the windows are also formed of flowers of the same spring shrub. As to the baluster of the grand staircase, it represents a trellis with branches of lilao climbing over it. Yet the architect has avoided monotony and has produced the most graceful variations upon this single theme adopted by him. We will .also mention a house designed by M. Paul Heneux. In tbis case all the sculpture has been inspired by the profession of the owner, who is a druggist. The fronts Is of the dormer windows of this hopse are ornamented viith garlands of pnjllqws and poppies. lAe frieze is comIflftßßßWftiun ill* iff Wni rer medialnaT plants figure. Finally, the first story there is an escutcheon that recalls the origin of the fortune of the owner, who is the disseminator of some kind of ointment or elixir. A Wellh Rip. Every nation has a Rip Van Winkle of its own, but the Welsh story of Rip is unique. He is known as Taffy ap Sion. One morning Taffy heard a bird Binging on a tree close by his path. Allured by the melody, he sat down until the music ceased. Wheu be arose, what was his surprise at observing that the tree under which he had taken seat had now became dead and withered. In the doorway of his home, which, to his amazement, had also suddenly grown older, ho asked of a strange old man for his parents, whom he had, left there, as he said, a few minutes before. Upon learning his name the old man said: “Alas, Taffy, I have often heard my grandfather, your father, speak of you, and it was said you were under the power of the fairies and would not be released until the last sap of that sycamore had dried up. Embrace me, my dear uncle—for you are my uncle—embrace your n:phew. ” Welshmen do not always perceive the humor of this somewhat novel situation of a youth—for Taffy was still merely a boy— belhg hailed as uncle by a gentleman perhaps 40 years his senior.—Lippincott’s.

A Physician’* Pigeon*. The carrier pigeon has been put to a new use by a doctor in Scotland who has a large and scattered practice. Says the London Globe: When be goes on long rounds, he carries a number of pigeons with him. If he finds that some of ins patients require medicine at once, he writes out prescriptions, and by means of the pigeons forwards them to hie surgery. Here na assistant gets the messages, prepares the prescriptions and dispatches the medicine. If, after visiting a patient, the doctor thinks he will be required later in tbs day, he simply leaves a pigeon, which is employed to summon him if necessary. To this enterprising physician the keeping of carrier pigeons means a saving of time, expense and labor. Skeleton* With Tail*. A discovery of wonderful interest to the followers of the Parwinian theory of evolution was made not long since net-r tbe little village of Sinaloa, Mex:o, while workmen were preparing the gr. und of a new coffee plantation. This wonderful ethnological find consisted of hundreds of skeletons of what some believed to be a prehistoric people of a very low order of intelligence. Each of the skeletons is provided with the boots of a long, thick caudal appendage, which in life turned up, like a squirrel’s tail,—-Bt. Louis Republic. There are many families of tbe mosquito, one entomologist saying that there are K bi: tbe United States. Ten days are required to make tbe voyage between New York and A meter

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