Decatur News, Volume 3, Number 1, Decatur, Adams County, 27 February 1901 — Page 8

CYCLONE, STORIES. ( \ t Straws that Penetrated a Telegraph Pole and an Oak Tree. A Philadelphia paper prints this story about a Kansas cyclone, told by an artist who used to live in that windy •In the path of the cyclone,” he says, jfo once saw a telephone pole which had ;i;< eu pierced Clean through by a straw, <r. iven right through 12 inches of wood by the wonderful force of the .wind, and •with the end sticking out at each side. |For weeks at a time, in Kansas, a feglity wind will blow steadily from b&e direction. That is what keeps the people thin— the roar and worry of the y|&hstant blowing of the wind. Against 'barn door fronting this wind you can prow a pitchfork of loose hay, and the fWind will hold the hay there for days and days— hold it there as though it Were glued. 1 have seen fences and plegrapli poles coated with pebbles till Kt a bit of wood was visible. The Hind of a cyclone burls the pebbles pit with such force, you know, that they imbed themselves in whatever they : This story of the straw and the telegraph pole reminds the writer of an Equally remarkable circumstance refitted by a St. Louis correspondent who visited Sherman, Texas, after the ter* lifie cyclone in May, 189(>. While there he saw a piece of straw which had fUnetrated an oak tree. Hardly less Remarkable was a freak of the St. Louis lyelone of the same year, when a Wooden beam was driven through an Jron boiler. i: Prairie Farmer Free. fetWe want to add 1,000 new subscribers our paper before New Year’s, and we 1 going to do it if a liberal offer will count for anything. We have just made Arrangements with the publishers of that great farm paper. The Prairie Farmer from Chicago, for a limited of yearly subscriptions and wo propose to give it one year to every one || ;oir old subscribers who will renew Hmreen now aiid New Year’s; and we Ptl give ft oiie year free to every new ifcbseriber who gets in his order to us Igfore New Year’s; paying one year in livauce. The Prairie Farmer is the ■dest farm and live stock papers published in the Western states. It comes pjeekly, and containing from sixteen to Hrfeiitv pages, and has departments for all members of the household. This great farm paper is now read by 100,000 [armors, stockman, dairyman and fruitpowers in the western and central Kies, and it is considered the old standby by its readers. You know what our pbi paper is, and we vouch that you Will be pleased with The Prairie Farmer fautev Tours to California. >.< . - prim Erie railroad is an important link in the great railway systems that con tied the Atlautic and Pacific oceans, and the passenger equipment of this popular toad is up-to-date in every appointment, (laving all the luxuries of modern travel Koffer tim t(|pusands who contemplate me" continent” this winter to “Land ot Sunshine and Roses.” This filing the closing year of a century of vonderful and astounding progress, brings to mind the gigantic undertaking joining the two great oceans with Upd ß of iron; American history, in its wiumphs of progress gives no event Jof more thrilling interest than the scene bn May 10, 1869, which attended the Buying of the last rail that banded the Pfltinent and welded the oceans. Over this and tne other great trans-continent-bl routes since constructed the unnumbered millions of future generations |iay travel in sumptuous palaces to the Hlpt perfect climate in the world and a pate rich with gold and precious jewels. : Round trip tickets by a great variety || routes, bearing limit of nine months with liberal stop-over privileges, are available aud particularly desirable for Siiifornia travel. | For complete information, write or ball oh Mr. M. A. Hamm, ticket agent bf the Erie Railroad company i .v Believes in Woman’s Rights. | It may now be said that the Empress Ks Russia believes in female suffrage, women’s clubs, the higher education of jibmen and her right to enter any and fell professions. She is an enthusiastic ftvocate of the many movements startfed by members of her sex for the betp|*inent of society. The Czarina holds plat almost all of the great reforms of pie world have been brought afyrnt by npmen, and that they are just becoming conscious of their power aud possibility. Under her imperial patronage ■jjeieties for the development and edu[gation of the females are growing numerous in St Petersburg, and even spreading through the jealously guardpi realm of the Czar. pSince the Czarina has become so deeply impressed with the importance of [women’s dubs and societies the Czar ordered that full reports of all such pieetings shall be prepared for her peIlk. — An Observant Lan. 1 “How does it come,” tin- pretty grass [widow asked, “that you never marp“Well,” said the rich bachelor, “you be, I had five brothers.” r“Yes?” ' r ■ i-'All older than myself. In fact, my ■Brother who is next to me in the famp was ten years old when I was ■htn ” rt’But I don't see what that had to do mkh your prejudice against matriJbT',, ifiryf **■'/ '.<■*% "' » - I, “Walt! They got married before I Ixmld have a chance, and I’ve always Ep l a habit of noticing things.” she walked away. " Hjgjg 11-Worry is a greater enemy to the face ihait the smallpbx. B

.' ■■■ ■ FROM MANY SCLHCL3. Gray horses live longer than those of my other color. The life of an Australian native rarely exceeds 50 years. The pouch of a pelican is large enough, to hold seven quarts of water. White blackberries and green rose* have been propagated in Louisiana. The Czar lias 27,000 wood police, who each cut £45 worth of wood a year. New Zealand, unlike its six sister colonies, has no currency of its own. Laplanders are swift and graceful skaters. They often skate 150 miles a lay. Camel’s milk is said to be very helpful to consumptives. It is palatable and nourishing. American tourists in Japan are said to number three tithes the .total of all other foreign travelers. The fastest flowing river in the world is the Sutlej, in India. Its descent is 12,000 feet in 180 miles. Among the 153,000 inhabitants which the last census gave to New Mexico, there were 20,000 Indians and 50,000 Mexicans. The Mississippi River each year washes away an alarming amount of shore, equal to ten square miles of territory S 6 feet deep. Electricity as a motor for regular railway trains has been found 15 per cent, cheaper than steam in the experiments recently made at, Berlin. The German Emperor has been known Ho change his costume twelve times ii) eighteen hours. His wardrobe contains more than I.OQO suits. In various parts of Ireland are branches of co-operative creameries where capable women as manageresses are paid as high as 20s. a week. Th<e difference between the tallest and the shortest-races in the world is one foot and one-half inch, and the average height is five feet five inches. Dead ancestors are said to occupy too much of the arable land of China. Famines would be less frequent if the country was not one vast cemetery. The Salvation Army received a gold medal at the Paris‘Exposition for its American exhibit, showing its methods in reclaiming the fallen and outcast. At the Paris Exposition Ontario as a province captured 263 awards, including five grand prizes for education. Ontario received the only first medal for education. The first swarm from a bee hive is always led by an old queen, the second by the oldest princess, who is obliged to go in a harry, owing to her younger heirs emerging from their cells. At n college for the blind at Norwood the Miniates are all taught to ride a cycle. The machines are built to seat from six to ten persons, and are steered by the instructors, who take the front seat.. r A French plumber named Garaud undertook a short time ago to ride a bicycle round the stone coping of a house at sixty feet above the street, and successfully accomplished the foolhardy feat. THE DOMESTIC FELINE. The Black Cat Is Generally Regarded as Uncanny.

Among animals the most uncanny tWng is the cat—and the most uncanny of the feline race is the black cat—which certainly has a presence calculated to call up a familiar demon. In the first place cats are supposed to he possessed of nine lives. How or why this peculiar plurality of life should belong to the creature is not explainable, but its electrical qualities alone give it an uncanny interest. Then witches are always attended by black cats, and we find this a native superstitution, Salem town, in goodly Massachusetts, having some rare old folklore stories to tell in the twilight about ancestral witches and righteous judges who doomed them to death. No Salem family will tolerate a black cat. Salem mothers watch their sleeping infants to protect them from a sly visit from the animal of nine lives, which they say is fond of lying on the sleeping infant to inhale its breath. When told that it was the probable weight of the cat that proved fatal they shake their heads in ominous silence. Poe's horrible tragic story of the black car made the species more unpopular than ever.' Hawthorne has the most grewsome description of a stealthy grimalkin crossing the streets and looking up at the window of the parlor in the House of Seven Gables, twisting its lithe tail, and licking its chops, as if it scented the dead man sitting in upright state in the, parlor. How this sly small tiger ever won its way into the stronghold of the domestic circle and the human heart, when it has neither affection nor gratitude, can only be explained on the basis of hypnotism. All cats are hypnotic. Their eyes alone are studies in occultism. Their spitting, sputtering fur is charged with electric force enough to shock the human system, and they are so hedged about with unwritten ethics and superstition that no one dare kill them or abuse them for fear of a judgment. And they are not even edible. Once give a woman a compliment and she never loses sight of it. An Atchison woman is stil keeping a compliment alive which was given to her ten years ago about her figurg. Since that time her figure has lost whatever symmetry it may once have had, but whenever figures are under discussion the Atchiciu woman trots out her compliment. When a brakeman speaks his mind freely to a man, particularly to a man he dislikes, or “has it in for,” Jie says he “gave bim the whole works.”

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Schedule io Effect March 6. 1900. | TRAINS LEAVE DECATIP AS FOLLOWS:: WEST No. 5, vestibuled limited, dai-) ly for Chicago J 12:38 p m 1 No. 3, Pacific express, dally } for Chicago * j 2,:25 a m No. 1, express, daily, except j Sunday,’ Chicago...... j 10:43 a m 5 No. 31, 'local, daily, except) Sunday f 10:10 a m 1 No. 13. Weils Fargo iim. ex., 1 ) * daily except Mondajy and v 6:15 p m day after legal holiday.... ) EAST. | No. 8, vestibuled limited, dai- ) ly New York and Boston.. f 7:57 pui No. 2, express, daily, except j Sunday, for New York .... j 1:55 pin No. 12, express, daily forNdw j York .... f 2:25 am No. 30, local, daily, except) Sunday i 10:10 a r. Through coaches and sleeping cars to New York and Boston. Trains 1 and 2 stop at all stations on the C. & E. division. Train No. 12 carries through sleeping cars to Columbus, Circleville, Chillicothe Waverly, Portsmouth. 1 ronton, and Ke nova, via Columbus, Hocking Valley & Toledo, and Norfolk & Western linea. *No. 13 will not carry any baggage. J. W. DeLong, Agent. WEST BOUND. No. 3 3:50 a m Local 1 3:45 p m No, 1............." ....11:03 a m No. 2. 9:17 p m EAST BOUND. No. 6 5:18 a m No. 2 12:07 p m Local. 7:05 a m No. 4 7:0,4 pm For further particulars, call on nearest Agent of the Company, or aildresß C. D. WHITNuY General Traffic Manager, TOIJEDO, OHIO THE G. R. & i. Schedule in Effect December 2. 1900 TRAINS GOING NORTH STATIONS | fNo. 5 | *No. 3 [ *NmT Cincinnati.. 8:35 pm 10:15 am Richmond... 11:10 pm 12:50 pin 5:40 am Fount’n City 1:08 pm 5:58 am Johnson 6:06 am Lynn 1:21 pm 6:llam Snow Hill. ••• C:l6 amWinchester . 12:02 am 1:39 pm o:27am Ridgeville... 1‘2:’20 am 1:57 pm 6:44 am Portland.... 12:39am 2:l7pm 7:osam Briant 2:31 pm 7:20 am Geneva 2:40 pm 7:26 am Berne ;. 2:50 pm 7:35 am M0nr0e..,.. 3:ospm 7:47am Decatur.... I:3oam 3:l9pm 8:00am WilHams 3:33 pm 8:11 am Hoagland 3:38 pm 8:15 am Fort Wayne 2:20 am 4:15 pm 8:50 am Kendallville. 3:15 am 5:15 pm 9:51 am Sturgis 4:10 am 6:50 pm 10:53 am Kalamazoo.. 5:20 am 8:10 pm 12:20 pm Ga’ndßapids 7:45 am 10;45 pm 2:10 pm Howard City 11:58 pm 3:28 pm Reed City... 10:17 am 1:08 tin 4:40 pm r Cadaliac .... 11:40 am 2:25 am 6:00 pm Petoskey ... 2:50 pm 5:35 am 9:15 pm Mackinaw .. 4:15 pm 6:55 am *Daily, except Sunday. fDaiiy | TRAINS GOING SOUTH STATIONS | *No. 2 j fNo. 4 | |No. 6 Mackia 9:00 pm 1:30 pm 8:10 am Petoske 10:30 pm 2:50 pm 9:35 am Cadillac..... 2:30 am 6:40 pm 1:30 pm : Reed City 3:29 am 7:45 pir 2:30 pm \ Howard City 4:40 am 3:55 pm I Gr’nd Rapids 7:10 am 11:30 pm 6:50 par 1 Kalamazoo.. 8:55 am 1:00am 8:40 pm , Sturgis 10:12 am 19 9:51 pm , Kendallville. 11:07 am TiNo ‘ 10:43 pm Fort Wayne. 12:30 pm 6:55 -am 12:06 am Adams Hoagland... 12:57 pm 7:19 am 12:29 am William*... I:o3pm 7:24am... Decatur. '.. 1:19 pm 7:37 am 12:47 am M0nr0e...,. 1:32 pm 7:47 am 12:57 am Berne 1:44 pm 7:57 am 1:08 am i Geneva 1:52 pm 8:05 am 1:18 am Briant 2:00 pm 8:12 am 1:26 am Portland.... 2:l7pm B:2Bam I:44am RidgeviHe... 2:35 pm 8:50 am 2:08 am Winchester . 2:50 pm 9:07 am 2:28 am Lynn 3:06 pm 9:25 am 2:48 am . Johnson 9:30 am ..^ r Fount’n City 3:20 pm 9:39 am 3:03 am Richmond .. 3:40 pm 10:00 am 3:25 am 1 Cincinnati .. 6:25 pm 7:15 am t Daily. fDaiiy. ex. Sunday. *Daily, ex. Saturday from Mackinac City. JEFF BRYSON. Agent. ~ C, L. EOCICWOOB, G P. A S r CENT MONEY TO LOAN. I have money to loan on good city property and improved farms at 5 per cent per annum, with privilege of partial payments. This is the lowest rate of interest ever offered in this state. Paul G. Hooper. I Dr. Fenner's K PNEYI “ * Backache Core," Fur an Kidney, Bladder aud Urinary Troubles, Lame Back,Heart Disease,Bkin Disease, Rheumatism, Bed Wetting, etc. Unfailing in Female Weakness. By dealers. Sfc.sixe by man WcFredaniagiY.

/ r '• ■ - . DANIEL D. HELLER, Judge 26th Judicia Circuit. David E. Smith - Prosecuting Atty. Elmer Johnson, - Clerk Circuit Court. Daniel N. Erwin ... Sheriff. Noah Mangold - - - Auditor. Jonas Neuenschwander - « Treas. Thomas Gallogly - - Recorder. Wm. E. Fulk - - , - Surveyor. Irvin Brandebury - Supt, of Schools. Elias Crist - - - Assessor. PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS. R C. V CONNELL, Veterinary Surgeon and Dentist, Graduate of the Ontario College and To ronto Dental School Treats all diseases of domesticated An- x imaln. Calls promp ly attended to Day or Night. Surg-ry and d ntistry a q specialty. Free exainination of your ( ] hor e’s mouth. Office corner Second and Jackson streets; telephone 11. Residence South Fourth Btreet; telephone 130ATTORN EYS-AT-LAW. || - LOUIS O. DEVOSS. Attorney at Law. Office over News Office, ——«r — 1 PAULO HOOPER, J » Attorney at Law Decatur. L - Indiana MISCELLANEOUS. J. D, HALE..., Crain, Seeds, Wool, Hay, Salt and Coal E. Cor. Jefferson aud Second, GUS SCHLEGEL & SON. -■ ’ y „ jl jj PRACTICAL HORSE SHOERS NORTH SECOND STREET, DECATUR Smoke.... the “MARKET GIGAK’’ Manufactured by **#* — -Charles Sether. FEED koldeway TRUSTEE OF UNION TOWNSHIP OFFICE DAY Tuesday of each week, at residence -*■ — LOUIS BOKNECHT TRUST! OF ROOT TOWNSHIP. Office day every Tuesday, m At Residence. . * . , Decatur, Ind. FRED REPPERT, SALE CRIER AND AUCTIONEER. Speaks English, German, Swiss and Low German Address . . . DECATUR, INDIAN Ax G. W.RUPRIGHT, TRUSTEE OF PRE9LE TOWNSHIP. .. Offi'ce Day.. WEDNESDAY OF EACH WEEK. ... AT RESIDENCE . . . CHURCHES. EVANGF.LICAL—Sunday school, 9:15 a m., A. Van Camp, superintendent; preach, ing 10:30 and 7:00; Junior Y. P. A., 2 p. m., /Hettie Gillion, director; Senior Y. P. A., 6:30 p. m., John Buhler, teacher’s meeting Tuesday evening at 7 o’clock; prayer' services Wednesday at 7 p. m.. John Buhler, class leader, Friday at 7p. m., J. W. Bucks, class leader. D. Maktz, Pastor. BAPTIST—Sunday school, J):30 a. m.; preaching,lo:3o a.m. and 7:00 p.m. Junior Union meeting, 2:30 p. m.; B. Y. P. U„ 6:30 p. m.; prayer meeting Wednesday, ■ 7p. m. F. J. 'Gathers Pastor. METHODIST—Sabbath school, 9:15 a. m: preaching, 10:30 a. m. and 7:00 p. m; Junior League, 2p. m: Ep worth League devotion at 6-30 p. m. Prayer meeting Weduesdav evening at 7 o’olock. C. G. Hudson, Pastor. UNITED BKETHEREN— Sunday school 9:15 preaching, 10:30 and 8 p. m; Juniors, 2:80 p. m; Y.P.C. U, 6:30 p. m. Prayer ana praisemeeting Wednesday evening at 7:30 o’clock. J. Q. Kline, Pastor. REFORMED—Sunday school, German. 9:30 a. m: preaching, German, 10:30 a. m; Y. P. S. C. E., 6:30 p. m.. English, evening services, English, 7 :00. ) E. W. Kruse, Pastor. PRESBYTERIAN—Sunday school, 9:15 a. m., John W. DeLong, superintendent; preaching 10:30 a. m. and 7:00 p. m; Jun- . ior Endeavor, 2:30 p. m., Miss Nettie Moses, superintendent; Y. P. S C. E. at 6 ;80 p. m. H. C. Ducket, Pastor.B ST. MARY’S CATHOLIC CHURCH—First mass, 7:00 a. m ; second mass, 9:30 a. m; vespers, 6 p. m. Sun time. Theo. Wilken. Pastor. i CHRISTIAN—Sunday school,* 9:15 a. m; prehching 10:30 and 7:00 p. m; Christian Endeavor, 6p. m. Rev. HuntEb, Paste r GERMAN LUTHERAN.—Services every other Sunday at 2 p. m., in the Christian church. ZZZm Rev. Heinze, Pastor.