Decatur Journal, Volume 18, Number 22, Decatur, Adams County, 15 January 1897 — Page 4

Merit “Merittalks”the ■■■ || intrinsic value of ■ I Hood’s Sarsaparilla. ■ —— ■ Merit in medicine means the power to cure. Hood’s Sarsaparilla possesses actual and unequalled curative power and therefore it has true merit. When you boy Hood’s Sarsaparilla, and take it according to directions, to purify your blood, or cure any of the many blood diseases, yon are morally certain to receive benefit. The power to cure is there. You are not trying an experiment. It will make your blood pure, rich and nourishing, and thus drive out the germs of disease, strengthen the nerves and build np the whole system. Hood’s Sarsaparilla Is the best, i n fact—the One True Blood Furiiler. Prepared only by C. I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass. Hood’s Pills ' J J •! (Ehe Decatur Journal FRANK i VERTS, 'Publisher. I vrvl- tl-e roetefloe at Decatur, Indiana, as laM'mail matter. FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 1897.

Three republicans are contesting seats in the Indiana legislature. If they were honestly elected they should have them, if not they should not be seated on technicalities. Forty-five millions usually loaned by New York to the west were sent to London this year for investment on account of populistic doctrines and this helped to cause hard times. Brother Bryan seems to think the effort made by the republicans to bring about an international conference will result in benefit to demodracy. If he can secure any consolation in this he is welcome to it. Our democratic friends who are advertising the hard times so extensively should recollect that the democracy is 4 1 T~>! 1.4, Iff TT * I . * 11. in a couple of montfl| ana will then head away from the breakers. Those who are complaining at the quality of ‘‘confidence” should not forget this is democratic confidence. In tour years from now we will show you a lietter article, all wool and 87 inches wide. The hearings before the ways and means committee have been concluded, and the work of constructing a tariff looking to both revenue and protection has commenced. The republicans know why the people selected them and they propose to do it. Senator Blackburn puts forward Voorhees as the logical candidate “of the free silver forces in 1900. Voorhees is in intellect head and shoulders above Bryan and is a man of great executive ability, but he has many flaws in his record that would injure his candidacy materially. The imports of foreign cloths in three years, has increased from 16,000,000 pounds to 40,000,000 pounds, this throwing thousands of Americans out of work. The republican party is determined that these goods shall be made by American labor who will spend their earnings among Americans. Is that too American for you? Last week recorded the greatest Dumber of business failures for many weeks, and probably more than we will see soon again, 488. It is the clearing up of the docket, the failure of insolvent firms who have held on in desperation for months in the hope that returning good times would be so rapid they could recuperate. But the process of building slowly they could not endure. From now on a different tale will be told_ The republicans in the legislature should see to the passing of a just and liberal apportionment act. Let us kill the gerrymander, and by showing the people of Indiana that we de not care to take advantage >f victory convince them that we can be trusted to power Unless we can carry the state honestly there is no advantage in carrying it at all. The gerrymander has been a democratic method. Let them retain it with all the odium it bean.

The stock of gold in the world' increases 5 per cent per annum and the population only increases 1 per cent. The birds that quailed before the hunter’s gun now venture bravely forth as it costs a heavy fine to shoot them since New Year’s. Jackson had the ratio from 15 to 1 to 16 to 1, and thus “demonitized” silver more than 6 percent. And yet Bryan celebrated “Jackson day”. The attack of the Democrat upon the council for its actions instructing the school board to investigate the Moffett case was unjust. The council not only had the right to so instruct, but it in their opinion any doubts as to the conduct of any teachtrs in the public schools exists it is their duty to see that all doubt is cleared away. The school board is their creation and is subject to their government, their action probably was the result of a mis understating of the intention of the school board which we are convinced would have acted without the instructions, but they were entirely proper as an expression of the wish of that body in the case. The Journal has no criticism to make of either the council or the school board. They both acted promptly and entirely proper. The Democrat purposely misrepresents the position of the Journal. We do pot favor trusts. In the west the prairies are inhabited by a species of fox called a coyote, and etery night they howl until you would think bedlam was loose, yet they are the most cowardly of animals. The Democrat’s position on the question of trusts reminds us’of the coyote. They howl continually because some one else does not abolish them, but never offer a practical suggestion as to how it can be done. Trusts have thrived as never before under four years of dembcratic legislation. They area' condition of the times. Consolidation of individuals intp esFporations to engage in business Which no one of them has the means td pursue is the first step towards conciliation of corporations. Just where nuwine m® boTlrawm WTStOp merges into trusts is difficult to determine. Some Alexander will probably come along and solve the problem by cutting the Gordian knot, but he will not belong to the family of howling dervishes. A MOTHER KNOWS. Some Things People Don’t Think Os. “Just why it is that children at the breakfast table will beg for a little coffee day after day, I am unable to say, exept that they have a deeply rooted desire to have what their parents do in the way of food and drink, then I believe they naturally like something hot to sip with a spoon: at any rate, the’demand is there and I’m blest if it isn’t bard to get over, when one has three or four in the family, but we can’t give our young folks coffee to drink; everyone knows its effect on children and it seems almost criminal to set before the Innocents something w< know will harm them.” So speaks a thoughtful mother and to such the grain coffee, Postum, comes as a blessing to solve the vexed question. Dr. H. W. Pierson, “Medical Advance, ”6361 Stewart Ave., Chicago, says, “We know of your Postum and very much pleased with it. Decldedily opposed to the use of both tea and coffee.”

Foetum will pass for coffee with nine out of ten people !f they are not warned in advance. It has a deep seal brown of old Java and changes to the rich golden biown of thick Mocha when cream is added. It is made whoely and entirely of pure grains of the field, wheat, etc., such as intended by the Creator for man's use In this latlude. Postum, the health coffee can be drank as freely as water with out any of the ill effects of coffee, and in a week or ten days* time, the old coffee user will note a marked change in his feelings and flesh. It makes red blood in the natural way and agrees 'with babies or grown people. Made by the Poatum Cereal Co., Llm., of Battle Creek, Mich. Beware of fraudulent imitations u the original Postum Cereal Grain I coffee or Postum. The Journal and Farm News one year for SI.W. 77ie U. S. Gov't Reports • thaw Royal Baking Powder superior to all other*.

Geneva Items. HmU. The Herald com contest was decided, Monday. Wm. Fields. Andrew Miller and S’. W. Hale were the judges. They decided that John L. Judy had the best specimens of com. J. T. Burley 2nd. and Joseph Eckrote, 3rd. Christian Meitz, who has been in Tazewell county, Illinois, for the last two years, has returned t? Adams county and has moved on the Joseph Alt erson farm west of town. The cash rentpfsixdo’larsan acre demand ed for Illinois farms made it impossible to farm probltably there with tarm products so low. John Banning sold his grocery stock to Geo. Hartman, on Jan. Ist and the buisness will be continued at the same place by Mr. Hartman i n connection with his,jjueenswarestore. Mr. Banning did a strictiy cash trade and has lhe satisfaction of quitting buisness without a dollars worth of book accounts to worry over. How Protection Was Overthrown in England. Free trade was brought about in England in 1849 by deception, as it was in the United States in 1892. This is shown fully and clearly in “Protection and Prosperity,” the great tariff work. Speaking of the causes that led to the overthrow of protection in England, Mr. Curtiss says: Had the real purpose of Anti-Corn Law League been disclosed to the agriculturists protection could never have been over gtown. Had they proclaimed or admitted what they believed the result would be, the sense of fairness prevailng the masses of the English people would have made their triumph impossible. Had they told the farmers what they knew to be a fact, that the land would go out of cultivation, and that the food Supply of the English people would be brought from foreign parts, their speakers would have failed in their efforts. The blackest page in the history of the whole movement is the campagin “of education, ” as they called it, which was carried on among the farmers from 1842 to 1846, to convince XhantuLUm Advantages of free trade. While deliberately plotting fpF' tffe ruin of the tenant farmers, the Manchester manufacturers were professing to be their friends. The rural district were flooded with the literature of the League. Richard Cobden, John Bright, Colonel Thompson, and many other speakers, Were going from place to place, addressing meetings and arousing the people against protection. It would not do to tell the farmers that their land would go out of cultivation; that cattle, sheep, hogs, wheat, barley, rye, oats, and even butter, cheese, eggs, poultry, and in fact nearly every thing which they were producing, would be shipped into Manchester and the great commercial centers. There mission was to get the farmers’ votes, procure their signatures to petitions to parliament, asking for the repeal of the Corn Laws. The means used to accomplish this were most discreditable.

Letter List. List of letters remaining unclaimed at the postoffice in Decatur, Indiana, for the week ending January 9, 1897: Chas Harding, Ed Hardebeck, Jr, Joseph Grass, Wm Overlay, Boy Malford, Mary E Clark, Nettie M Tobey (2), John N Barnett, Albert Strahl. Persons calling for any of the above will please say “advertised.” Public Sale of Poland China Hogs. „ On my faru. in Union township, Adams county, Indiana, nine miles northeast of Decatur, and five miles southwest of Dixon, Ohio, on Thursday, January 28, 1897, 15 brood sows safe In pig, 4 boars that will weigh 250 lbs. each, 5 August pigs that are fine, and 7 September p gs that I will sell for ft edera. A pedigree will be given for every bog sold for breeding stock. Ccme to sale whether yon buy or not. My bogs are as well bred as any in the land and will make as much meat to the amount of feed give i as any hogs in this country regardless of breed or color. Sale commences at 10 a. m. Terms:—*s and under, cash; over $5 a credit of nine months will be given, the purchaser giving note with approved security. L. H. Bailey. To Trade. A good 7 loom house In Marion, Indiana, to trade lor good residence propeity in Decatur, Indiana. Also some good lots to trade. Add rem W. H. Worden, 609 East Second street, Marion, Indiana. 21-4

A COSTLY MISTAKE. ■ Sevei Years Wasted la Trying to Care Bright’s Disease. a This man spent seven years in following out a mistake. , He tried to cure kidney disease without curing the cause of it. Ana when he had spoiled seven years of the prime of his manhood, his disease . was only seated deeper. He had almost ’ lost the chance of ever being cured. There are thousands of others doing as he did—victims of kidney disease who are trying false cures. This man writes his letter to them, he says. He wants them to profit by his error, and let his costly experience serve in place of theirs. . “I have been using Dr. Shoop’s Restorative for what doctors called Bright’s Disease and Sciatica. I have tried many doctors, and also , spent two years at one of the best health resorts in the country, but without relief. Since taking the Restorative I have been wonderfully benefitted, and my health is already better than for the last seven years.’’ That is part of a letter from E. K. Preuitt, of Dorsey, 111. Seven years before, that medicine would have been a thousand times more certain. The easiest time to cure kidney disease is when you first feel it—when your urine is first clouded —when your kidneys first pain—when you first feel weakness, or backache or dizziness. Start then to cure the cause. The inside nerves are wrong—that system which operates both the stomach and the kidneys. 1 Kidney disease can never be permanently cured till those nerves are vitalized. They must be strong enough to make the stomach and kidneys work right. 1 Dr. Shoop spent a lifetime in making a ’ remedy to cure these nerves, and his . Restorative is the result of it Write for Dr. Shoop’s book about his experience with kidney disease. It is free. Dr. Shoop will also answer any questions free. Dr. Shoop’s Restorative costs gi.oo per bottle at Druggists, or by express, pre- • paid. Six bottles, >5.00. Address Dr. Shoop, 717 2d X St.,Racine, Wls. • I — » - - - ’ Wronged! 1 Are you one of the number that were duped? If vou are, why do you * continue it? J Thos. W. Luckey ' helped up hundreds, whj not you? ' He sells goods at no higher prices and * many times at much lower prices than any other first class store, and if you deliver your own purchases he gives you 5 per cent discount, (le) buy 20 cents worth, pay him 19 cents and 1 deliver the purchase yourself. Here ‘ Is a chance for the farmers who are 1 forced to help keep up the enormous ’ expense of free rich-very but share none of the benefits. And the city school boy can make many a dime too bv ' going to Luckey’s when you are sent down town for goods. Remember the place and also that regular prices will 1 be charged when goods are wanted de--1 livered.. 1 , „ 1 Rheumatism Cured in a Day. 1 “Mystic Cure” for rheumatism an t neuralgia radically cures in 1 to 3 days. Its action upon the system Is I remarkable and mysterious. It removes once the cause and the disease immediately disappears. The I first dose greatly benefits; 75 cents. . Sold by Holthouse & Smith, drugj gists, Decatur. 30y

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[The Labor! of getting I ■ 1095 Meals | “ confronts some one in every 1 home each year. Whoever the (fe work devolves upon should know about BabcMaver— a woman-eav-thout the long and weary - eUng. chopping, boiling, and mixing, a woman can — lake rotnce pie. fruit pod- w lit cake that will be the d» a ■r household. Since None a id everywhere there is no ■ ofmakingyourownmince ■ ofmakingyourown yeast. ■ one package—lo cents. ■ te no substitutes. I 4rar uaU* itU eayw. • ■ KEEKELLAWCU CWs X Sy re rase. E. X. H C.'AtS Witt‘it AU. tL« ; >ISPJ fa tbne. See »i£ a -Mt -Sji

GREAT SACRIFICE SALE. This being the first of the year we have gone through our stock and have taken out many articles that we are selling than manufacturers price. Notice the priced of a few of these articles.

‘ MEN’S SUITS. Men’s Suits, $6,50. worth from s9'to sll. $3.50 buys a suit that formerly sold at from $6 to $lO. ’ M r n’s Clay Worsted suits $7.50, worth $lO OVERCOATS. Men’s Light Colored Ulsters, well made and lined. $5.50. Retail price $lO. Men’s overcoats and ulsters worth $lB. This week only sl2. We will sell you any kind of an overcoat at from $2 to $5 less than It is worth.

REMEMBER THE PLACE Kern, Brittson & Beeler. 1 A New Broom Sweeps Clean. m IF ww w w w AT THE & DOYGOODS & GROCERIES nd < Old Stand of < uj tttrrttl Mrs Is the Place to Get Bargains Every Day in the Week. "Call and See Me. CARPETS > OIIEEISWHE nd j * nd LICE CUITIHS. *’ , Have whaf you Nm() • UICIEII. Jacob Fullenkamp.

I JR. J Q. NEPTUNE, Dkcatvb, Ixduwa. la located over Oilliom A Case’s shoe store, and Is prepared to do all work pertaining to the dental xofession. EVGold filling especially. By the use of Hayes’ Hypnotic he is enabled ’o istract teeth without nain. All work warranted J. 1). HALE.u*'" Grain, Oil, Seeds, Coal, Wool, Lime, Sadi, Fertilizers. Eleva tors on the Chicago k Erie and Clover Leaf railroads. OSes and retail store southeast corner of Second and Jefferson streets. M-lv W YOUR PATRONAOR SOLICITED. 8. PETERSON. DBCATVN. - - - INDIANA. Renas 1 and I Anthony Holthowoo Bloek

SHIRTS We have a large of work shirts that other persons will ask you from 40 to 50 cents for, In this sale 25 cents. Splendid all wool shirts worth from $1 to $2 50. 1 Your choice 75c. COATS and VESTS Men’s heavy Chinchilla coats and vests that sell the world over for $5 are being clcsed out for $3.50. FELT BOOTS Men’s all wool felt boots with SNAG PROOF perfection 92.25 Men’s Anti-Snag or Belting Rubber Boot. . . $2.75

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