Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 21, Decatur, Adams County, 4 February 1903 — Page 3

TIME TABLES 0. R. <St I. (In effect September 28, l!>02) TRAINS NORTH. Nc 5-Daily 1 :30 a m No 3—Dally (vxoept Sunday).. . 3:17 pm No 7—Dally (except Sunday? S:00 a m TRAINS SOI TH. No 2—Dally (i x.iept Sunday, 1:111 p m No 12- Dully (except Sunday)... . ; :17 a m No #—Dally. 1-2:25 a m CLOVER LEAF. EAST. No 6 —Commercial Traveler, daily . 3:25 ani No 2-Mall. daily, except Sunday 12 pu. No 4—Day E»press, daiiy .. U: l3pm No IB—Local Fl eight 1:10am WEST. No 3-Day Express, dally ... s:2&am No I—Mall, dally, except Sunday 11 ;25 a m No s—Commercial Traveler, dally 11:27 p m No 23—Local Freight 12:05 p m CHICAGO & ERIE. In effect September 22, 111(12. WEST. No 7—Express, daily, except Sunday. .2:22 a m No 3—New York and Boston Limited through coach Columbus and • Chicago IS:”-pm No 13—Wells Fargo Express 5.12 p m No 21—Marlon-Huntington Aco'm 712,, in EAST No S—Vestibule Limited for N Y 2:22a m No *22—Cleveland and Columbus 0:5- a m No 4—New York and Boston Limited through coaches Columbus „ .. «nd Chicago. . 3:24 pm No 14-Huntlngt’n IMeadville Expr's -:2U p m “Shucks" Shoemaker is at Fort Wayne today. William Lyman was a business vis itor at Frankfort today. H. E. Harb made his regular trip to Geneva this morning. S. D. Beavers made a business trip

to Fort Wayne last night. J. T. Merryman is at Geneva today where he is transacting legal business. Miss Cochran went to Bluffion this noon to look after some legal matters. | H. S. Heiner, of Bryant, passed through the city today on His way to Lima. John Fuhrman went to Monroe this morning where he .will work for several days. _ Frank Porter, of Geneva, was in city last evening attending a meeting of the K. of P. Miss Ida I rick, who has been visiting her parents for a few days returned to Lima today. M. Merica went Fort Wayne this morning where he will transact business during the day. Frank Gast, the cigar man is at Portland today looking afk>r his cigar business in that city. Frank Ofler went to Fort Wavne this morning where he will visit friend- for some time. A. E. Crawford went to Kokomo, today, in the interest of the Decatur Metallic Screen company. Can Baxter of the Journal-Gazette, office at Fort Wayne is in the city and will visit with his mother for a few days. The Ladies Aid society of the Christian church will meet at the home of Mrs. Jacob Buhler Friday afternoon at two o’clock. Alva Nichols went out on a hunting trip to Herman Gerke’s place. The weather is a little tierce, yet we predict a successful day for Nick. The young sou of Mr. and Mrs. John Baker on Mercer street who has been quite sick for the past two weeks is reported as a little better today. E. H. Leßrun this morning sold a fine , oon dog to Dick Elzey jr., receiving fifteen dollars for same. Dr. Leßrun has more of the same kind foj sale and they are the genuine breed. John D. Nidlinger shipped one of his famous Duroe Jersey sows, Margaret 20652, to T. C. Laveil, at Jack sonville, 111., this morning. Th? weight was 580 pounds, and the animal was one of the finest that Mr. Nidlingei had. , Last evening a number of girls attempted to surprise Miss Carrie Blosser. but she was equal to the occasion, and the surprisers were surprised. When the girls were enjoying what they thought a complete surprise, a ■umber of boys arrived, and then those who laughed last laughed best.

POPULAR CHEAP Excursion to Oklahoma, February 17, 1903 Be Sure And Join It. Don’t Miss It. 20 People Already Listed for this Trip. - C. F. WALTER REAL ESTATE AGENT. Decatur, Indiana.

John Keller went to Monroe on business today. Miss Bessie Harruff is visiting with friends at Berne this week. John Falk is at Willshire this afternoon looking aftei business interests. Will Schrock went to Willshire this I afternoon where he will transact bus I I iness. Mrs. John Rieter will be the guest of her parents at Portland for a few . j days this week. Miss Mary Todd, of StVazee, who! has been visiting here, returned home ■ this morning. W. Williams wont to Bryant this' morning where he will be a business | visitor during the day. A. Behere and wife, of Elwood, returned home today, after several i days visit in this city. R. V. Jackson of Van Wert, return- [ ed home this noon after a short i business visit in the city. C. M. France made a business trip ! to Portland today. This may prove to bean extraordinary trip. I. Foster went to Willshire this noon and will be a business visitor ini that place during the day. * Albert Deem went toGrand Rapids I Mich., this morning and will make : his future home in Uiat city. M. Burns returned from Gosh- ■ en, Indiana, this morning, where he ! has been attending to business. Miss Rose Heintzlem returned to j her homo at Grand Rapids after making a visit with relatives in the city.

Delma Richards of Grand Rapids, ' returned home this morning after : visiting friends and relatives in this j cityNed Ofler of Fort Wayne returned this morning after visiting friends and relatives .in the city for several days. ■ Miss Gertie Marlow left for Sullii van, Indiana, this morning, where slie will visit with her parents for a few | days. H. C. Crabbier, of Fort Wayne, re- ■ turned home this morning, after spending several days in this city ou business. John Waggoner went to Monroe this morning, where he will be absent . 1 a few days looking after his business interests. The new signal post at the G. R. & - I. depot is being put up today and ?s ■ soon as it is up the building will be ready for occupancy. ) I Lew Baker returned to the city t from Marion this morning where he has been visiting relatives and friends for several days. Mrs. H. G. Wittenfelt returned to her home at Cincinnati, after an extended visit with her parents, Mr. \ and Mrs. D. G. M. Trout. i Miss Lizzie Heintzlem of Grand Rapids returned to her home this morning after making an extended visit with friends and relatives in this , city and vicinity. Ben KnSpke, Wm. Harding, Henry , Meyer and AJesdames Knapke, Harding and Meyer attended a banquet . given by the Fort Wayne C. B. L. I. last night at the St. Marys school house.. i An election was held at Warren 4 yesterday to vote a 2 per cent subsidy for the building of a traction line known as the Southwestern, from In- _ .dianapolis to Detroit, through that place. The road carried by a com- ' sortable majority and the town will • pay the two per cent. [ The Bluffton News of last evening . said: Did Locke, proprietor qf the . Bliss House, says that the allegation » in Henry Lewin’s reply to Miss . Cochran’s complaint for damages that the two went to the Bliss House and stayed all night, is false if he meant to imply that they stayed all ■ night together. Miss Cochran got a ‘ room at the hotel but Henry did not, ’ Mr. Locke says. Henry's answer is • about the warmest thing in the legal 1 line that ever came down the pike 1 find it made the other papers in the 1 ease shrivel up. Mock A Sons are • his attorneys.

ARRANGE PROGRAM, — I Delegates of District K. of i P. Lodges Meet Here. Arrangements Completed for the Meeting al Bluffton, February 25. A meeting of delegates from the K. I of P. lodges of this district w-as held ] in this city at the Pythian hall, this moraing. The object of' | the convention was to arrange for a I grand meet of all lodges of the dis-' trict which is to be held at Bluffton \ the 25th of this month. The program | for the day was arranged as follows: , Public Parade, 1:30 p. m. Escorting grand lodge officers and visiting brethren to Castle Hall. Music. •Invocation. L. A. Beeks,.Bluffton, i Lodge. No. 92. Music. Address of Wecome, C. E Sturgis. I of Bluffton Lodge, No. 92. Response, Geo.. W. Bergman, of I ] Portland, Ind. Vocal Solo. Pythianism from the standpoint of i a member of the order, A. S. Elzey, I ; of Ossian. Pythianism from the standpoint of I one not a meinbi’v of the order, J. A. Hindman, Hartford City. , Music. Pythianism from tfie standpoint of the home, Judge R. K. Erwin, Deca- , tur. Business session, 7:00 p.m. Castle] Hall. I )pening lodge ill special session by Bluffton lodge. Roll call of lodges, Frank Bowers. J. K. of R. A S. Reports of committees and miscellaneous business.

Exemplification of secret work, E. H. Chadwick, grand instructor. First rank work. Decatur lodge Second rank work, Hartford City lodge. Third rank work, Portland lodge. Closing lodge in regular form. i The following orders of the district - were represented here this morning: 1 Portland, James H. Davis; Decatur. E. Burt LeuharLand Charles Elzey; Bluffton, L. E. Roush and H. E. Robison; Berne, C. W. Campbell; Roll, Levi Frazier; Ossian, O. W. i I Reed, The other lodges of this groupe, | Montpelier. Hartford City, Red Key, | Dunkirk and Pennville were not i represented, but information from | those places is to the effect they expect to attend the big gathering at I Bluffton. The Bluffton lodge is putting forth every effort to make the i convention a successful one, and cer-' tainly merits the support of the other orders. NOTICE K. OL P. A called meeting of the K. of P. lodge will be held Thursday night for rank work. The attendance of everv member is earnestly requested. ' J. L. Gav, C. C. I ’ I Samuel Franks went to the oil fields I east o£ Portland today . to do some * repairing on the machinery. Mrs. Z. 0. Lewellen of Monroe, and Mrs. John Mayer spent the dny with C. T. Raineir and family. H. H. Hower of Pleasant Mills, returned home this noon, after spending the day in the city on business. James Watkins of Pleasant Mills, returned to his home this afternoon after transacting business in this city. Emanuel Schnitz returned to this city from Fort Wayne, where he has been doing some work for A. Van Icamp. The oil men from Van Wert on their wav to' Montpelier boarded over night with Sheriff Butler and were sent on this morning. Wash Gilpen went to Schumm, | Ohio, this noon where he will look after business interests of the Decatur Egg Case Co. The section hands of the G. R. A I. railroad were again ordered to Sinnmitt Hill this morning to clear away another landslide. The road here makes a big cut through yellow clay, and owing to the recent heavy rains . and thaws the embankment caved in and completely blocked traffic. Isaac Schumacker made a special , trip to Fort Wayne tixlay to get some mop chains for the Burt house, i The home dealers do not keep this ' article in stock, and often times goal mops are thrown away simply for I want of a chain, which wears out much before any otfcer part. The local dealers depend on selling a new ' ! mop each time, instead of keeping on ! hand a supply of sundries. A pretty sweet love affair is current here today concerning a Bluffton girl 1 and Decatur young man. It seems that the young man was very anxious to have a picture of his “tootsie woot sie,” and the young lady was also very anxious that he have 'one. But this very loving young man was broke a presumption here arising that he had spent all his money on fashion i able stationery, and communicated his I predicament to his lover! one. Therei fore she sent him the necessary money enough to buy a very handsome mina turn of herself, but like all loving young men should do, he, in his wild ecstacy, remembered her, the giver of I his joy, and bought two cheap ones, and sent her one.

1 SUCTION PRICES I | 81.00 Kabo Corsets i i 75c and 50c Corsets | $1.25 and SI.OO Kid Gloves. 'IsX I I 75c Kid Gloves . . I I 15c and 10c Childs Hose 5c 30c and 25c Window Shades I | 10c Window Shades. | 25c Underwear '. 5c I 20c Underwear 10c I | 50c Men’s Shirts. . . . ■ i ■ 35c Men’s Shirts 20c I ® Laces and Embroideries, Glass and Queens- | fe ware at your own price. I OPEN EVENINGS. I I 1 he New Fair Store. I I i

PRODUCES OIL. — A Well Stands Idle Years and is Now Productive. Farmers and capitalists about Kingsland are wild because an oil well drilled over eight years- ago has | suddenly become a producer. The new well drilled in three weeks ago proved no good after the shot and the citizens had the “blues” in goal style. However, there were those who have I argued for some time that there was 1 oil in the old well and while the dril lers were there yesterday to remove their tools from the new well they ■ tested the old. The result was a good i showing of oil and stock in that com munity has jumped several degress. 1 The well will produce about fifteen . barrels a day. Amusements. Hal Reid's latest success,“A Homespun Heart,” is at the Grand for a three days’ engagement, with matinee talay and tomorrow. The opening performance was given last night. Hal Reid’s pastoral dramas have secured a - firm hold on the affections of the theatre going public, and “A Homespun Heart” is without doubt the best he has ever produced. The story deals with the simple, yet honest and upright people of the rural districts, but as the play progresses the scene is shifted to the city. The cast was selected with an especial view to the fitness of the members for the various ' characters, and the audience was exceptionally well pleased last night. A record breaking run is predicted for this attraction and the advance sale ’of seats has been heavy. Marion News. - Harris & Floyd’s production of I Hal Reed’s masterpiece. “A Homespun Heart," will l>e the attraction at . Bosse’s opera house on Thursday, February 5. Critics of the Chicago dailies, where this play t opened the season, have ranked this gem of rural | love stories with such stage classics as Way down East, Shore Acres, Peace ful Valley, Sag Harbor and The Old ' Homestead. There is not a dull * moment in *‘A Homespun Heart.” The action of the play, while laid in a rural community, does not drag for an instant. It deals with i homespun |>eople. their love, life and trials. The atmosphere of the play is wholesome and points to an excellent moral. Tn the east are such well known character portrayers as Louise DeWitt. Lulu Epsey, Lucille Allen Walker, Estelle Howard, Daniel E. Dickers. Stanley G. Wooks, Azttek L. Evans. Will M. Chapman and Charles W. Porter. NAPOLEON’S AWFUL HAND. One Theory of the Great Man's Failure at Waterloo. Napoleon, according to Alexander Dumas, lost such battles as he did lose i because he wrote such n fiendish hand. His generals could not read his notes and letters, typewriting had not been Invented, and the trembling marshals, afraid of disol my lug and striving to In- ; terpret tha indecipherable commands, i loitered, wandered and did not come up to the scratch, or not to the right j scratch. Thus Waterloo was lost. Cannot you fancy Grouchy handing round Napoleon's notes on that sanguinary Sunday? “I say,” cries the marshal to ids ald-de-cnmp, “is that word Gembloux or Wavre? Is this Blucher or Bulow?” So probably Grouchy tossed | up for it, and the real words may have been none of those at which he offered

ms conjectures. Meanwhile on the left and center D’Erlon and Jerome and I Ney were equally puzzled and kept on sending cavalry to places where it was | very uncomfortable (though our men seldom managed to hit any of the cav- : alters, firing too high) and did no sort of good. Napoleon may never have been apprised of these circumstances. His old writing master was not on the scene of action Nobody dared to say, “Sire, what does this figure 'of a centi- * ped mean, and hqw are we to construe , these two thick strokes flanked by blots?” The imperial temper was peppery; the great man would have torn off his interrogator's epaulets and danced upon them. Did lie not once draw his pistol to shoot a little dog ‘ that barked at his horse? And when | the pistol missed tire the great soldier threw it at the dog and did not hit him. The little dog retreated with the bon- | ors of war. Such was tho temper of Napoleon, . and we know what Marlborough thought of the value of an equable temper. Nobody could ask Bonaparte to write a legible band, so his generals lived a life of conjecture as to his meaning, and Waterloo was not a success, and the emperor never knew why. Os all his seven or eight theories of bis failure at Waterloo, his Imudwrithig was not one. Yet if this explanation had occurred to him Napoleon would certainly have blamed his pens, ink and paper. Those of Nelson at Copenhagen were very bad. “If your guns are no better than your pens,” said a Danish officer who came in under a flag of trued before the tight and was asked to put a it -sage- into writing, “you had better retire.”—Andrew Lang in Longman's Magazine. SICKROOM PHILOSOPHY. Never confine a patient to one room if you can obtain the use of two. Never play the piano to a <■ k person u you can play on strings or sing. Never stand and fidget when a sick person is talking to you. Sit down. Never complain that you cannot get a feeding cup it' there is a teapot to be had instead. Never red fast to a sick person The way to make a story seem short is to tell it slowly., '> er fudge the condition of your ( patient from his appearance during a conversation. See how he looks an •hour afterward. . Never put a hot watt r boli>. tin- akin. Its effi ‘lent j tient’s sat ♦ both enhanced by surrounding the bottle with flannel. Never allow the patient to takt; tile temperature himself. Many patients art* more knowing than nurses where there is a question of temperature. Hot CroMN Iltinn. In its early days, when, it is to be hoped, It was more toothsome than it is now, the hot cross bun played some i part in converting tlie people of these islands to Christianity. I'jc. in l upland was in the habit of eating cukes in | honor of the goddess of spring, and Christian missionaries found that though they could niter the views of the people in reference to religious matters they could not Induce them to withhold from the consumption of con fectionery. So they put the sign of the 1 cross upon the bun of the Saxon era and launched it upon missionary enterprise which has extended through the intervening centuries and survived till now.—London Tit-Bits. Never leave an umbrella standing on the point in the ordinary way when «<t. The water trickles down, spoiling ; , the silk and making the wires rusty. It is also a mistake to open it and leave it standing, as thia stretches the silk, 1 making it baggy so that it is Impose!* bio to fold It smoothly. The proper ! way is to shake out as much of the water as possible, then stand the umbrella on its handle to drum.

CAVE it up Labor Commissioner Strikes a Snag at South Bend.' South Bend, Ind.. Feb. 4.—State Labor Conimi-iou r Schmid hits had a fruitless conference with General Manager Smith of the Indiana Railway c -npany relative to settling the strike of conductors and motormen. When the commissioner found he could accomplish nothing, he started for Indianapolis. The company gave no signs of relenting toward the strikers, but say that new men can have life-loug places if they will do their duty. Goshen Th< indications here are that the strike of conductors and motormeit is over. The city ears are all in operation. It is doubtful if the strikers get their old places back. Shot Through Church Window. Bluffton, Ind., Feb. 4.—A bullet hole in a window of the Pentecost church is, evidence that an attempt was "made to assassinate, or at least to frighten, John G Robinson, a deacon of the church He was lighting the lamps for evening service when someone shot thiough the window. He says he knows who fired the shot, but has not caused an arrest to be made. He has thrown a number of young men out ol the church for disturbing meetings, and it is thought that one of these shot at him. The bullet barely missed bis head. Cleaning Up in Mazatlan. Mazatlan. Mex.. Feb. 4. —There were four deaths from the plague and eight new cases yesterday. There is no abatement in activity on the part of Governor Canedo and authorities in the mat ei ol ■ anitai y work, < h an*ng ■lrain disinfecting and turning infected houses. Railroad Detective Shot. Hammond. Ind., Feb. 4.—George Jones, a railroad detective, remonstrated with two negroes who were hiding in boxears, when one of them shot and fatally injured him. James Nel " was trust, ! Revenue Business Booming. Torre Haute. Ind., Feb. 4.—The collections'in the Seventh internal revenue district in January were 11,879,* 817. which was ?lt)2,000 more than in January a year ago. Mosquito Held Blameless. Bonn. Feb. 4. The report of the Italian commission which lias made a tuily o! y< : >w lev, r in B 1. insl published It rejects the theory that the disease Is transmitted by mosquitoes In Grasp of Blizzard. Oma! a hi, b Ft b t Fot ■tv< my hours a storm of wind and snow has raged over Nebraska and western lowa, forming the worst blizzard that has visited the state for years. BRIEF DISPATCHES The anthracite coal famine is believed to be over. .1 M. Seward, a real estate broker of lew Angele*. *ia my*toriou*iy murdered. Ami,, Such and Annie Walter*, "baby farmer*. " were hanged at Ixmdon. A bntuillon of Mexican regular*. .’an strong, wa* atnbuahed by Yaqul Indian* and practically annihilated* John Breeding "hot and killed .!•■—„• Pickering near Mlddle*lturo, Ky., the result of a quarrel over a girl. The navy department ha» ordered a couple of crulaer* t<> Honduru* to watch American Interoat* during Um revolution there. A work tram mi Um B A <>., wa* wrecked nt Akron, O. ami Conductor Mile* wav pinioned In the wreckage and reacted to death Cha* Gurley, the negro atayer of Hoale Htggin*, wa* banged in the jail-yard at st. Louia in the prewnee of *everal hundred poraona. The German Amha**ador at London ha* In formed hl* government of the popular protect tn Great Britain cgalnct the Borman alliance