Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 45, Decatur, Adams County, 4 March 1903 — Page 3

TIME TABLES a. r. & i. (In effect September 88, emiSi TRAINS NORTH, No 5-Daily 1:30 a tn’ (No » Daily (except Sunday) 317 ~ ln No 7—Dally (except Sunday) 8:uo a m TRAINS SOI TH. No B—Dally (except Sunday,.. . 1:19 urn No 12—Dally (except Bunday) 1:17 a in jGtS-Dally . 12:25-1!" CLOVER LEAF. EAST, [No 6—Conimcn ial Traveler, dally... s:2r> arn ' No 2 - Malt, dally, except Sunday 12 5* n No 4—Day Express, daily 0:43 pm No 82—Local Freight 1:10a m | WEST. No 3- Day Express, dally 5:25 a ni No l-. Mail. dally, except Sunday II 25 a m No s—Commercial Traveler, dally u 27 n m No 83—Local Freight 12:05 p rn ’ — CHICAGO & ERIE. In effect September 22, 1902, WEST, No 7—Express, dally, except Sunday. 2:22 a m No 3—New York and Huston Limited through coach Columbus and Chicago I 2 p ln No 13—Wells Fargo Express r 12 p m : No SI--Marloii-Huntlngtou Acc'm .. 7:42 i EAST No B—Vestibule Limited tor N Y ... 2:22a m ' No 23—Cleveland ami Columbus 6:5s a m No 4—New York and Boston Limited through couches Columbus and Chicago ... 3:24 p m 1 No 14 Huntingt'n Meadville Expr's B:2U p m

Laura Whittier was at Fort Wayne j last night. R. B. Smith of Berne, was in the city today. A. J. Smith was at LaOtto today, I on business. Miss Dora Gibson was at Fort Wayne today. Abe Stuckey of Berne, was in the city on business today. Fred Gerber of Indianapolis, was here on business today. Mrs. Frank Peterson will visit her friends at Craigville for a short time. W. R. Edwards returned from’ Lima, last evening, where he spent a few days with friends. Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Jones will visit with Mrs. T. F. Auten at Fort Wayne for a few days this week. Mr. and Mrs. John Reynolds of Bluffton, returned home after a few days visit with friends at Geneva. George Archbold went to Fort Wayne last evening for an extended visit with Ins daughter, Mrs. Mary Hosier. The Ladies’ Aid society of the Christian church wil! meet with Mrs. Bowsman Friday afternoon at two o’clock. George Mclntosh went to Fori Wayne last night where he expects to! either buy a barber shop or secure a . situation in one. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Schroll take this method of thanking their many kind neighbors and friends for favors extended in their bereavement. Workingmen were busy today excavating for the large six-ton scales which are to be set up for Beery A Holthouse and will be ready for use in a short time. Wells county has gone into the bridge business on a big scale and at their April session will receive bids on fifteen such structures. They are arranging for building even more bridges than are mentioned above, during the year. The State Encampment of the G. A. R. and the W. R. C.and the Ladies I of the G. A. R., will Ire held at Anderson on May. 12, 13 and 14. Reports from A’iderfoa are that the ar aagements indicate that the State Encampment will be almost as big as a na tional encampment. Railroads will make a rate of one cent a mile to Anderson. The commissioners are winding up their session today in the allowance of accumulated bills. They alsoappoint ed Aaron Bricker as superintendent of the county line bridge, which will soon be under way of construction and will be paid out of the exchequer i of Jay and this county. J- D- Wiuans, Samuel Soldner and L. W . Lew ton were appointed as viewers on the ditch petitioned for by Clement Sheets.

Farmers, Attention!

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FRED REPPERT, AUCTIONEER. DECATUR, IND.

Mrs. J. B. Glency of Berne was here this morning. Cyrus Hammel made a business trip to Bluffton today. Mis. Elizabeth Winn of Berne was here shopping this morning. Miss Myrtle Good has gone to MarI ion op an extended visit. Mrs. Hahn of Monroe was hereon a shopping trip this morning. C. M. France made a business trip to Indiauap >lis this afternoon. Werley Bess of Tipton, was in the c ty today enroute to Kokomo. M Hoover of Dasie, .passed I through here enroute to Bluffton today. | Henry Michaud returned to Berne | this afternoon after transacting busii ness here. Miss Bessie Copp went to Marion where she will visit with friends for a few weeks. ' Henry Gunaett will visit his brother George at Gas City for the remainder | of the week. Steven Mossman has gone to Plymouth where he will attend to important business. J. E.' Rank, driller for the New 1 York <te Ohio Oil company, was here today on business. Dore Freel of Bluffton, rented the farm of John Qlosere, neortheast of Berne, yesterday. Joseph Osborn of Swazee, who bought the Julius Hougk farm is moving his household goods today. E. L, Browne, traveling passenger gent of the Clover Leaf, of Toledo, transacted business here yesterday. John Stanley returned to his home ar Geneva this afternoon, after several | days visit at Paulding, Ohio, Clearence Edwards of Pittsburg who has been the guest of Miss Bdith Porter returned home this morning. Miss Martha Koldewey returned from Fort Wayne where she has been visiting with relatives and friends. Miss Aartie Welds is again on duty at the auditor’s office, after an absence covering several months with sickness. Mrs. Dennis Brandyberry of Monroe returned to her home this afternoon after spending the morning ! here. Miss Maude Comer who has lieen visiting her sister, Mrs. Tom Miller, returned to her home at Marion today. Reports from E. Woods now predict his recovery, as the signs during the last few days show a favorable indication in his condition. Mrs. Lewis Frist of Dowagis. Michigan returned to her home last night after an extended visit with realtives in this vicinity. Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Bowman of Alliance, Ohio, came to this city to attend the funeral of Mrs. John Woy ; who died Tuesday morning. Four hoboes are working out their fines todav, sweeping second street. A rigid enforcement of the law would ' make them all shy of Decatur. Mrs. William Reynolds of Noble, Oklahoma, who is seriously sick as > stated several days ago. is no better , and the chances for her recovery are very slight. Mrs. Dan Reynolds has gone to Noble to help nurse the sick. The funeral of Mrs. John Woy will be held Friday morning at ten o'clock ;at the M. E. church. Rev. D. F. Kain of Bluffton, will preach the funeral sermon, assisted by Rev. Rhoner. Interment will be made at the DecaI tur cemetery. The body may be > viewed from two to four and from six to eight o’clock tomorrow afternoon, at the residence. > D. W. Beery went to Cambridge City this morning where he will : attend the great Lackey horse sale I which will begin today. Cambridge i City is famous for these sales as only - thoroughbred animals are entered and some fast steppers often change hands. Beery A Holthouse have no • horses entered at this sale and it is : their intention to add to their stable from the list offered for sale.

I am prepared to cry I your sales and would | like to hook yours. I My calendar is at Brittson Brothers hard- | ware stoie, and we can complete arrangements 1 any time you call. « Satisfaction guaranteed and prices right.

Dad Michaud of Bertie, were among those who invaded the city on busi ness. He is the veteran auctioneer in and around Berne and usually has about all he can take care of. Dr. H. M. Aspy of Genova, was here attending a meeting of the board of pension examiners, their duties calling them together once every month. The usual amount of business for Uncle Sam was on the calendar. Mrs Jacob Schafer has received a letter from her husband, who is trying to recuperate his health at Ashville, South Carolina. The letter gives a flattering account of the benefits already received, as well as of the pleasures now on tap at this world famed health resort. The weather is of that perfect sort that makes a hoosier appreciate the real joy of life. The St. Mary’s river is still booming although at present the water is on a standstill. The water has steadily risen for the past five days until it is now, almost as high as it has ever been, since the days of scientific drainage. It lacks three feet from being over the road east of the Monroe street bridge and the Erie railroad now crosses over a bayou over a half mile long. Much corn fodder is seen floating in the stream and it is to be inferred that the Hood is attended with some damage. WITH THE SICK. Mrs. Henry Meyers is reported on the siek list. Mrs. Charles Elzey is quite siek with the grippe. Lew S. Waggoner is convalescing from an attack of lagrippe. Mrs. Barney Meibers who has been suffering with lagrippe. is improving very rapidly. Mr. and Mrs. Langenbaker of North Third street are both staying a siege of the lagrippe. Mrs. William Gilpen left for Willshire today where she will visit Mr. Harper and family. Henry Heller is reported today as somo improved, and his friends hope to see him at business again soon. Mrs. B. E. Harb has been quite ill, owing to the effect of lagrippe for some time past, but is much better at present. Mrs. W. W. P. McMillen is suffering with lagrippe this week. Her mother, Gaandma Ferry, is also ill with a severe cold. Mrs. Susan Hayes, who has been visiting with her father. Mr. Drapper, who lives northwest of town, returned to her home at Rockford, Ohio, today. Grandpa Gilpen is very sick at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Frank Dibble. He was first afflicted with the grip, but owing to his age severe complications set in and he is now in a very bad condition. Mrs. W. P. Riee was taken quite ill yesterday while visiting at the home of her daughter, Mrs. William Smith, who lives east of town. The attack is a relapse of lagrippe and leaves Mrs. Rice a very sick lady. You can buy shoes at your own price at Roop’s Saturday. 45-4 All members of the C. Y. M. S. are requested by the committee to attend a business meeting at the club rooms tonight at 8:30. Auction shoe sale at Roop's Satur day all day. 45-4 Big auction* sale of shoes at Roop’s Saturday morning, afternoon and evening. 45-4 The Snow agency comes out this week with a new list of farm lands. Did you notice the change of list in the Snow agency ad. A forty-acre farm for rent Snowagency. For Sale. Buggy pole and single set of harness. Dau Erwin. 44d12w2 For Sale. 120 acre farm, well improved, 2j miles of Decatur, J mile of pike; easy terms. Two residences in city will sell on monthly installments, Also one vacant lot, same terms. Dan Erwin, J. C. Moran, Studabaker building. 44J12w52t2 What the tide decs In the o>-enn or water storms do h the ocean of airdeleterious and poisonous germs are removed or killed. The noticeable smell of ozone after a thunderstorm and the Increased bodily comfort are well known. Storms, in Hie main, are due to the action of our atmosphere in resisting the escape of the radiant heat. Even at the equator great cold exists at the trilling height of four miles above sea level, which is reduced to three during the night. One week of continued night In the tropics would lock them In the grip of eternal frost and put an end to nil life. Now and again the upper fluid is punctured, so to speak, and through the breach so caused n downward rush with rotary movement Is made till equilibrium is again restored. Storms, therefore, arc essentially beneficent. both to health and life. They reshape for use the necessary life giving air and warmth as earthquakes do the crust of the earth. An Exception. “You know,’’ said the woman suf fragist, "they say 'the band that rocks the cradle is the band that rules the world.’ ” “Ridiculous:’’ cried lletipeck ’T'm sure my baud doesn't rule the world.*’ ‘-Philadelphia Press.

THE COURT OF CUPID SOME DEFINITIONS OF LOVE, POETIC AND OTHERWISE. Differing: Tones That Blend Into u Harmonious Matrimonial Chord. Diverse Views ns to What Constitutes "The Ideal Woman.-' Tennyson says in the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. With tiie young men and women of Vigo county consideration of this interesting theme is not confined to one season. It has the right of way at ai! times and seasons. Definitions of love were being dis- I cussed when a refined woman said the most comprehensive and beautiful definition she had ever seen was written by Amanda Douglas. Here it is: "Love comes with truth in her heart and constancy in every pulse to sit down :ui everlasting guest in the hearts of those who truly welcome her. If there are sorrows and storms, she spreads her wings for an ark of shelter; if toil and care, she lightens them with her blessed smile. No room for regrets or jealousies, for i»)th are tree in deed and thought; no coldness, for she stands between them and the frosts of time. Year by year they grow into perfect accord t bringing heaven nearer with every dawn. "Can such love ever fail?" A jolly girl present said, "Love is a tickling sensation round the heart that cannot be scratched." A modest, blushing young lady remarked. "It is something indescribable, must be spontaneous, cannot be bought or coaxed into being and when it grows eold cannot be warmed.” Still we hear people constantly saying, "I learned to love him.” There is no subject upon which a man or woman, young or middle aged, provided they are not married, will become so animated as "my ideal woman" and "my ideal man." Usually the tall men and women admire those of medium or diminutive stature; the fat, the lean; the blond, the brunette; the jolly, the sedate. The union of two people with different characteristics, provided they agree on the fundamentals, makes a harmonious whole, the one furnishing the needed complement of the other. The lawyer prefers the woman averse to arguing. He gets his sufficiency of close reasoning in the courtroom. The garrulous man seeks a good listener. The conceited one admires the modest woman who enjoys burning incense before his altar. The man of few words picks out the woman of bright conversational powers. It is difficult to surmise from a man's general attributes what is his ideal woman. I asked a Terre Haute gentleman who has been much in public life and has been thrown with many brilliant women what was his ideal woman. I was surprised to hear him say emphatically not a convention woman or one who goes about delivering speeches and lectures upon a public rostrum. "My ideal woman is one who can hold her own in conversation witli other women and men of brains in the parlor, who is self reliant, yet looks to a nian and depends upon him: not too good to drink a glass of wine, to tel! a good story if the occasion warrants it. yet she must not be carried off her feet. She must be able to work both physically and mentally and be ashamed to follow in the wake of idle women." A society young man not’given to explicit statements lias confided this much about iiis ideal woman. She must be good looking. I’erish thu thought of sitting opposite an ugly woman at the talde one thousand and ninety-five times in a year. His ideal woman must not be bold, still not afraid of athletic sports: must be a good golf and tennis player, ride a horse with confidence, lire a gun. row with a steady stroke. "A superb look ing. well proportioned woman in the saddle is a sight for the gods." Anything but a namby p.-tmby woman, one afraid of her shadow, for this young fellow. There is a proverb that runs thus: “Whistling girls and crowing hens always come to some bad end." At least one Terre Haute gentleman thinks this is stii absurd statement. In fact, the ability to whistle well lie regards as an essential in his ideal woman. And she must have rich. gl.issy hair, luminous dark eyes, shapely handsand linger nails, dainty feet. be jolly and companion;) lie, a person to cheer a fellow up when worried and worn out with business. No bookworm or woman's suffrage advocate can be classed as his ideal. A lover of music, not the ultra classic, is an essential for this gentleman's ideal woman. A bold, dishing youth holds as his Ideal a worn nlj woman, even to timidity, but morally brave, one who will regard him as her ouk and clasp her soft tendrils about him for suiqsirt. This dependence, lie avers, will keep him at his best and les ideal refined, sweet, noble, human t'-.; an W. Ball iu Terre Haute t Juz. :te. His Apoloity. “You mustn't eat will) your knife," said the city relative reprovingly. "Exer.se me." answered Farmer Corntossel penitently. I thought they was regular knives. I didn't know they was only imitation, same as tin* pillow>!:aniß.”- Washington Star. She Did. Returned Traveler 1 hnve often thought of that young Mr. Tease and how lie used to torment Miss Auburn about lier hair. Did she e'er get even with him? old Friend—Long ago. She married libn. Illustrate.l Rita Nothing can he truly great which is not right -Johnson.

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■w • • Jintjcs * | Wooing I • Bj CLRRA.N RICHARD 6REENLtY.._ ♦» ® Copyright. 1902. b> the S. S. McUure Comwio ® . Past the green banks of the canal went the broad scows laden with market stuff, propelled by the strong arms i of peasant women. Against the blue 1 of the sky tlie weather gray of the ’ windmills li.-.rred the sunlight into shifting shadows. Jufrow Jintje had dropped her knitting in a tangled mass, flinging herself 1 back against the slant of the bank to blink at the sun; Lazy Jufrow Jintje—so tlie maidens of Vaarken called her—--1 truly an alien, for under tlie close white cap that she hated with all her soul the little black curls crept out to frame ’ the sweet curves of file dimpled cheek, 1 warm with the sun kissed olive of another land. ’ In the squat red brick house whose shining brass railed stoop led out to ’ the market square dwelt Mevrouw van Verck, old and wrinkled, but straight as an oak. There had come to her womanhood, wifehood, mother- [ hood and sorrow, for Nicholas van I erck. the stalwart, laughing son of 1 the old house, had fled from the quiet j ’ j and quaintness of the fatherland j without ever a word. The darkness of >e silent years had passed when one .light, as the sea raged against the ! dikes, the wanderer returned — not ! alone, for he carried the child that was destined to lie at once tlie pride and plague of Mevrouw van Verek s lone- ’ ly life. A few months later Nicholas I van Verek. strangely old and broken, 1 ! yielded up his turbulent soul, as much a mystery to Vaarken as before he reh turned. The old woman and the child *>ved on together, and tlie red brick ‘ mansion kept its secrets well. The years rolled on, the gypsy years 1 ’ that stole the little laughing child with her witching, dark face and left in her stead a demure young maiden of ’ dreams, Jufrow Jintje. scarce sixteen, [ had her rebellious little bead full of old tales tiiat Katrinke, the serving ■ woman, had whispered at dt.sk through 1 the curtains of her whue lied when mevrouw bad thought the child fast asleep. There was ever a faint, elusive • memory of some other time when, in 1 place of tlie grassy banks of tlie slow • canals, tlie weary order and i-leauli-1 ness of Vaarken, came bursts of wild j music, whita tents flapping in the I - breezes, the glow of scarlet and gold, I ■ with warm, red lips upon her own. I ' Dimmer and dimmer, lint a- tin* childish things slipped by out of tlie mea- • gerness of everyday was born a i-enais- ’ sauce of the past as the girl struggled 1 daily to remember. Foolish Jufrow Jintje! As if the fatted kine were not , ’ better than the tents of Kedar! Oh, weary, weary days—mevrouw, ’ upright in her high, carved, oaken < - chair, knitting, always knitting, 1 I only looking over her spectacles long enough to reprove tlie girl for her idleness, and the silence of it bouse ’ where laughter is forbidden where 1 • one goes softly in penance for an tin- j I known sin! Bhe hated the close cap, tlie solier garb of tlie burgher maiden. : Better tlie flash of peasant color mid the tinkle of their glittering orna- ’ inents. Tlie flame barred sunset died across • tlie Hat, gre n meadows as tlie women • cluttered away from the wasliing • place. Still Jintje sat listless, her big. • dark eyes looking out from under their long lushes straight into distance. The tinkle of a guitar rippled over ! tlie water, ami a man's rich tenor sing 1 ing some lilt of stranger musii- nearer, 1 "Non tl scordor tl ml.” To Jlntje’s oar 1 the words were nothing, but the pas--1 siou of tlie music mid the voice ah, , j she hnd heard that voice in dreams! I The guitar ceased, but the splash of . oars came in its stead. The song was I now a Venetian barcarole as the light , I skiff shot into view between the droop- ! Ing alders that fringed the bank. Tbe. craft was strange to Jintie's

Fyes, but she half rose to greet the man ♦hat propelled it after the English fashion. As she stood out tnll and slight from tlie green wall behind her Dering paused involuntarily. Then, seeing that it was one of the burgher maidens, he would have gone on, but something in the appealing childish face riveted his attention. Ten minutes later the boat was moorfid close in. He was seated at Jufrow ! Jlntje’s side and by the aid of his broken Dutch was struggling to make her understand. That evening was one of many evenings when Jufrow Jintje strove with the strange tongue, awkwardly at first. Then, as a half forgotten mother tongue, the English words took meaning, and she listened wonderingly as L'ering told her of the wild jungle, the forests of palm, the great elephants that wrought like men, the glitter of the eastern land where the languorous golden days droned into the glory of tropic nights These stories were a queer medley of broken Dutch and unfamiliar English, but Jnfrow Jintje listened and longed. At last she told him of her “other country” that she knew and yet did not know, tlie secret of which was locked in mevrouw’s breast. As the summer days grew to their end Dering awoke with a shock to the position into which he had drifted. Already curious glances followed the girl, and tlie maidens of Vaarken hushed | their chatter when she came among them. Others knew of the little nook in the green shadow of the alders, and whispers of tlie doings of Jufrow Jintje and the stranger were growing louder. One day lie waited long in the little boat, and she did not come. Then be shipped his oars end strode with determined air up the street, across the market place to the red brick bouse. Mevrouw’s high pitched voice came to him as he mounted the stoop: "What manner of maiden art thou? Answer, thou shameless one! Out es the mire of tile English camp in the heathen laud my son brought thee home. Like mother, like child. I want no more of thee. Begone!" Than the old voice broke into piteous we<*ping, and Dering heard a low sobbing that eame ever nearer as the great door 1 swung ajar 11 ml Jintje crept through into tlie dark. Denig caught lie slender figure is | ills arms, where she struggled like a ! friglitcn.d wild tiling. Hut ho held ■ her elo ;e and rang peal after peal on tin* eld brass knocker, while overhead the old voice cried: "Katrinke. Ka trinke. haste, quick! The child hath I taken my foolish word and is gone | into the night." Then, as tlie friglitI oned fnci* appeared :r an tipi er win i dow. Hering u: •■overcd his head and. ! with tlie girl 'till held tightly against : his In-east, spoke in stn-ii wise that tlie : great doer was flung wide. Mevrouw s 1 anger had melted into smiles, for was ■ not the stranger a kinsman of Jufrow Jintje, by right < f tlie unknov.ll mother? She Inugiiod ami wept in a breath ' as she told tlie story that Jintje hnd 1 hungered to bear through all tlie years I of her life. There was a flush of shame on the old face as she told that her love for i the child had prompted her to bide all I truce of her mother's kii tired.'as she . had hoped to mold her into a Dutch ' inu!d‘'li, «U'-h IIS she herself hat! been, j Nicholas had told her very little of the brief fuels, ami mevrouw hnd deemed it best never to let tlie child know , and now came a Derlng. and tlie in art ' of tlie child hnd known its kin. Then* were busy days in (lit* old red I brick of tlie market square. The st w- ! ing women wrought in the upper ixtoins piles of white linen household gear and dainty robing, nil for Jufrow Jintje. Vaarken forgave tlie maid her uaelessness when it beard the wedding bells and knew that Jufrow Jintje was going out from among them former to the "other laud." Vnreuial DlaclpllmeNervous Parent—Stop that! Haven t 1 told you the last fifty times I bad to correct you for that 1 wouldn’t speak to you rgsiu about It?—lacs Angeles Herald. r. nW—— ■ w