Daily Democrat, Volume 2, Number 120, Decatur, Adams County, 31 May 1904 — Page 4

Notice to Stockholders. Notice is hereby given that the Mutual G rinan Fire Insurance Company of Preble Tp., Adams Co. ]nd., will hold their annual meeting on Saturday .Tune 4 19.04 in the school house at Freidheim, Preble Tp., one o'clock p. m. to select officers for the coming five years, president, vice president, secretary treasurer and two factorials, and to transact other imp rtant business. W. Gallmeyer, pres. C Homeyer, sect. 118d6 Notice. All members who intend to join the F. O. E. No. 245. at Fort Wayne, are hereby notified that the initation work will commence at 5 o’clock p. m. on June 1. After the work is over a big banquet will be served. All are requested to hereby take notice. Something like twenty-five applications have been filed from this place. Going to the World's Fair? If so. send for complete guide to the citv of St. Louis and world's fair grounds, containing maps and full information about hotels, restaurants, theatres and all points of interests. Published only by the Clover Leaf Route. Toledo. Ohio, and sent free on receipt of six (6i cents postage. FOR SALE— G'XmI steel range only used five months. Inquire at this office. NOTICE TO FARMERS and others who want stone laid. I will do your work for from 40 to 60 cents per perch, according to size of wall. Willis Grose. lOld Scliurger & Smith Attorneys at Law Abstracts of title made to order. ’ Farm and city property for sale. Private money to loan at the very lowest interest, with privilege of partial payments. Office in Niblick & Allison Block over Everett & Hite grocery store east of Court street, j Decatur, Indiana. Give us a call before you invest elsewhere. — - Insure Your Property in the Decatur Insurance Agency Gallogly & Haefling Fresh Mint Juleps and Smashes... Try them while they las k At Burt House Case

M. J. Krohn, Manager.

MONEY TO LOAN THE DECATUR ABSTRACT & LOAN COMPANY. (incorporated) A large sum of PRIVATE MONEY has been placed with u« Io loan on city property and farms. No delay or red tape in making loans. Lowest rates of interest. We are able to does all loans on the same day of receiving application. Will loan ia turns of 150 up. on one to five years time, with privilege of partial payments. This company can also furnish abstracts of title on short notice io any piece of real estate in Adams county. THE DECATUR ABSTRACT k LOAN CO. Rooms 3 and 4, Studebaker block. 2&~dtf

0. M MYERS. CHAUNCY R. HOSLEB Merchant Tailors If You Are in Need of a Spring JSuit, Now is the Time to Buy IL . have arl the LATEST and up-to-date patterns on the market and GUARANTEE a PERFECT FIT V» e f 10 all kinds of cleaning, pressing and repairing. Cali and see our line. 8 MYERS & HOSLER Over Brock's Tin Shop

Railroad Notes. Chicago to St. Paul Minnneapolis four daily fust trains via the Chicago & North-Western Ry. O t th J first an I thirl Taas day of every month the Erie railroad will sell one way and ronud trip excurson tickets to the west, northwest and southwest at very low rates. Further information, call ui>on Erie agents or write, C._L. Enos, T P. A.. Marion Ohio. Decoration Day excursions via the Clover Leaf Route. One first class fare plus 25 cents for the round trip to all stations on this line and connections east of St. Louis not more than 150 miles from selling station. Tickets on sale May 28, 29 and 30, 1904. Return limit May 31, 1904. See Agents, Clover Leaf Route. Commencing June l.the G. R. & 1. will sell round trip 15 day tickets to all tourists points in northern Michigan also to points on the Pere Marquette R. R., and Frankfort on the Ann Arbor R. R. at rate of one |fare plus 50 cents for the round trip. For information, call on or address. J K Breyon, Ticket Agent. Decatur Ind. Through Pullman sleeping cars to California points via Iron Mountain route, leaving St. Louis 8:30 a. m. ' daily for Los Angeles via “True Southern Route,” also tourist sleeping carson this same train for Los An- . geles and San Franeisco every Wed nesdav and Thursday. Best winter route to California. For further information call on or address G. A. A Deane. Jr.. T. P. A.. 200 Sentinel Bld Indianapolis, Ind. Special excursion to St. Louis via the Clover Leaf Route, account es dedication of the Indiana building at World's Fair Friday, June 3, 1904. Special round trip tickets good returning seven days from date us sale at Decatur. Ind., for <7.30 for all trains Thursday, June 2. 1904. Get full information of, agents. Clover Leaf Route, or address Geo. A. Ross. General Traffic Manager, Toledo, Ohio.

A beautiful map, valuable for I reference, printed on heavy paper, 42x64 inches mounted on rollers; edged bound in clcth, showing our new island pa sessions. The Trans-Siberian Railway, Pacific Ocean cables, railway lines and other features of Japan, China, Manchuria, Koorea and the Far East Sent in receipt of 25 cents in stamps by W. B Kntskern, P. T. M , Chicago & North Western R'y, Chicago, 111. Summer outings in Wisconsin ■ Over a hundred summer resorts located on the Wisconsin Central Ry. . between Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Ashland, offers to the summer tourists all attractions in : the way of rest, comfort and recreation. The hotels are modern and 1 splendidly equipped for the business. Waukesha, Waupaca, Fifield and a score of other resorts are famous. Beautifully illustrated booklets desc.ripjive of this region will be mailed upon application to Jas. C. Pond, Gen. Pass. Agt. Wis. Cent. Ry.. Milwaukee, Wis. The program for the dedication of the Indiana building at the World's Fair. St. Louis, which takes place at 2:00 p.m., June 3, 1904, is as follows: Music, invocation, report of the building committee to the Indiana Commission, Frank CBril. Chairman; tender of the building to the Governor, representing the people of Indiana, Henry W. Marshall, Vice Pres, us the Indiana Commission. Acceptance, Governor Winfield T. Durbin. Music, ad- : dress, Newton W. Gilbert 1 Pres. Indiana Commission. Music, America. Reception to the people from eight to eleven o'clock by the Governor and members of the Com- • mission.

LOST—Bunch of keys property of H. F. Steele. Leave at this office.

SAVAGE ATHLETICS. tonnh Training of the Nntiv-a of the Canary lalanda. In this age of athletics i no might think that no people ever showed so much interest in feats of muscular might and skill as those who have perfected football, but modern games and even the games of the Greeks at Olympia may have been more than matched by the sjiorts of peoples who are nowheld in little esteem. A writer on the Canary islands gives an account of their athletic training which makes even the college giants of today seem weak and effeminate. The Canary islands were subjected by Spain about the time Columbus discovered America. The conquest was due solely to the superiority of European weapons and not to better skill and prowess. The native soldiers were trained athletes, developed under a system which held athletic sports an important business, like military drill. Spanish chronicles have left us accounts of the sports of the islanders From babyhood they were trained to be brisk in self defense. As soon as they could toddle the children were pelted with mud balls that they might learn how to protect themselves. When they were boys stones and wooden darts were substituted for the bits of clay. In. this rough school they acquired the rudiments of warfare which enabled them during their wars with the Spaniards to catch in their hands the arrows shot from their enemies' crossbows. After the conquest of the Canaries a native of the islands was seen at Seville who for a shilling let a man throw at him as many stones as he pleased from a distance of eight paces. Without moving bis left foot be avoided every stone. Another native used to defy any one to hurl an orange at him with so great rapidity that he could not catch it. Three men tried this, each with a dozen oranges, and the islander caught every orange. As a further test he hit bis antagonists with each of the oranges. NOT TRUE TO THE POLE. The Variation* In the* Pointing; of the Compawa. We commonly say that the pole of the needle points toward the north. The poets tell us how the needle is true to the pole. Every reader, however, is now familiar with the general fact of a variation of the compass. On our eastern seaboard and all the way across the Atlantic the north pointing of the compass varies so far to the west that a ship going to Europe and making no allowance for this deviation would find herself making more nearly for the North cape than for her destination. Tbs “declination,” as it is termed in scientific language, varies from one region of the earth to another. In some places it is toward the west, in others toward the east. The pointing of the needle in various regions of the world is shown by means of magnetic maps. Such maps are published by the United States coast survey. whose experts make a careful study of the magnetic force all over the country. It is found that there is a line running nearly north and south through the middle states along which there is no variation of the compass. To the east of it the variation is west, to the west of it east. The most rapid changes in the pointing of the needle are toward the northeast and northwest regions. When we travel to the northeastern boundary of Maine, the westerly variation has risen to 20 degrees. Toward the northwest the easterly variation continually increases until in the northern part of the state of Washington it amounts to 23 degrees.— Simon Newcomb in Harper's. A Strange Case. In the latter part of 1878 a young bdy died near Cleveland of a diseass tuat had greatly puzzled the attending physicians, the symptoms being similar to rheumatism of the heart. The postmortem revealed one of the most remarkable facta to the medical profession. A large burdock bur was found securely imbedded in the heart directly against the posterior surface of the aerta. It was completely enveloped with cystic tissze. which had also covered all the large blood vessels leading to and from the heart. There Is only one way of accounting for the presence of the bur. It had been brenthed into the air passages when the woman was a child. Beecher and Emeraoa. One day Mr. Beecher was dining beside Emerson and said. “Mr. Emerson, when you are eating this fine beef, can you tell by the flavor what kind of grass the ox ate?” “Why, no. of course not!” “I am right glad to bear IL" replied Beecher, “for I have been feeding my congregation on Emerson for many a year, and I have been afraid they would find it out"—Boston Christian Register Taetfal. “At what age do you consider women the most charming?" asked the Inquisitive female of more or less uncertain age “At the age of the woman who asks the question,” answered the man, who was a diplomat—New Yorker. I pa and Dowaa. "Oh. well, everybody has his ups and gowns!” “That's right. Just at present I'm aewn pretty low because I'm hard up." —Exchange. Under the evolution theory a monkey needs millions of years in which to become man, whereas a man can m rfce a monkey of him--If in a minute.— Birmingham Age-Herald.

Weather Forecast. Indiana Fair in north, showers in j south portion Tuesday: \\edne-’da.' showers with rising temperture: fresh I northwest winds shifting to south. MARKET REPORT. Accurate prices paid by Decatur I merchants for various products. Cor i reeled every day. GRAIN. BT E. L. CARROL, GRAIN MERCHANT. New Corn yellow 64 New Corn, mixed Machine shucked one cent less. Oats, new Wheat, No. 2 Wheat, No. 3 1 9* Bariev “ Rye No. 2 Clover Seed Alsyke @ 4 Buckwheat 48 Flax Seed I Timothy f CHICAGO MARKETS. Chicago market closed at 1:15 p. m today, according to J D. Hale’tspecial wire service, as follows: Wheat, May 96 Wheat, July Septemlrer wheat B<Jl Corn, May ' i Corn July - 4< Corn, September 4 1 1 Oats, May 41 j Oats, July i Oats, September 301 May Pork 11 20 July Pork . 11 60 Sept, Pork 11 82 ' Mav Lard, per cwt 6 50 July Lard 6 Ejj Sept Lard 6 71 TOLL JO GRAIN MARKETS. Changed every afternoon at 3:00 o’clock by J. D. Hale, Decatur Special wire service. Wheat, new No. 2, red, cash—>l 091 May wheat 109. j July wheat, 89 September wheat; 85 ; Cash corn, No. 2, mixed, cash- 53 Corn, July 53 : May Corn 50J I September corn 492 Oats, Cash 43.1 , May Oats 43.1 Flats, July 401 September oats 31| Rye, cash 75 OTHER PRODUCTS. BY VARIOUS GROCERS AND MERCHANTS ' Eggs, fresh, per doz I If Lard 7 \ Butter, per pound 12 Potatoes, new 1 25 Onions 15 Cabbage per 100 lb 1 50 Apples, per bu 8( Sweet Potatoe, per bu 71 STOCK. BT FRED SCHEiMAN, DE LER Lambs 4@ 5 00 Hogs, per cwt |4 00@ Cattle per lb 3 @ 3| 4 C«lvm per lb 3j 4 Cows 2 & 2i Sheep, per lb @ 3 R '“f Hides, per lb 6 H h . 8 @ 13 POULTRY. BT J. W. PLACE 00., PACKERS. Chickens, young per lb. 6j@7 Fowls, per lb Ducks, per lb 6<<r 7 I Young Ducks 6@7 Young Turkeys, per lb 12 Geese, old per lb 5@6 Geese, young, lb 5@6 HAY HARKET. No. 1 timothy hay(baled) No 1 mixed hay (baled) No. 1 clover hay (baled) WOOL AND HIDES. BT B. KALVEB a SON. I Wool, unwashed 17t022 Sheep pelts 25c Io 1 (0 Beef hides, per pound 06 Calf hides or Tallow, per pound 03| OIL 71ARKET. Tioua 11.80 Pennsylvania 1.65 Corning 1,45 New Castle 1.52 North Lima 1.16 South Lima 1.11 1 Indiana 1 11 < Whitehouse 1,30 Somerset 110 Neodasha. (Kan.) L 25 I Barkereville 1.09 Ragland? 66 COAL—Per Ton Anthracite | 7 50 Domestic, nut 4 m) Domestic, lump, Hocking 4 00 Domestic lump, Indiana 3 80 Pocahontas Smokeless, lump 5&o iIARKET NOTES. Liverpool market closed steady. Wheat, j cent higher. Corn, | cent higher. Receipts al Chicago today: Hogs 12000 Wheat 29 cars Corn 684 cars Cattle 80000 j Sheep 3000 Estimate for tomorrow; Hogs 23000 I Wheat _____ 8 care Corn 302 care Oats...————__— . 126 sare ])R. P. L. FRITZ Dentist Office above Hothouse. Schulte & Co.’s clothing store. DECA r 18, INDIAN*.

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ROY ARCHBOLD, dentist. I. O. O. F. BLOCK. ’Phones—Office, 164; residence 245 'Phones—Residence 312. Office 103. Send your dates in early. Fred Reppert Live Stock Auctioneer. Speaks English, German, Swiss and Low German. DECATUR. INDIANA, Arkansas Texas Louisiana An ideal country- for cheap ; 1 homes. Land at $5 $lO. sls, acre; grows com, cotton, | wheat, oats, grasses, fruits I and vegetables. Stock ranges 10 months ’ in the year. Southeast Missori, Akan- 1 sas, Louisiana and Texas are full of opportunities—the climate is mild, the soil I is rich, the lands are cheap. Low home-seekers’ rates i —about half fare—via the j Cotton Belt twice a month—- ' first and third Tuesday. For descriptive literature, I maps and excursion rates, write to L. O.SCHIEEER. I. P. Cotton Belt Route CINCINNATI, OHIO.

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INSURE WITH THE “Graham Agency Company” One hundred companies failed as a result of the Chicago and Bos ton conflagrations, and others have failed because of Baltimore. But the “Graham Agency Com panics'’ paid in full the loss in the above fires, and have never failed to pay 100 cents on the dollar. GRAHAM & LOWER, AGTS. Office over Tague's Shoe Store. L. E. DOLCH, Solicitor. Phone 239. , Garden Seeds XTV BUIuH. Lawn Grass Seed Flower Seeds. Spring Bulbs J. D. HALE moile o Weak Men Made Vigorous Who, FEFFER'S NERVIGOR Did! It »rt» powerfully and qnl<-*ty Cures when ill Uirrß fa.il. \ouug men rrgwia k*t manto*l; old aenrecoverjouthrul ri<or. Absolutely Guaryiteed toCuru Nanou»nMi, boat Vitality. Irnttotency. Nightly * miMlon«, Loat Power, either sew, Falltnc Memory. Waatiutf Ulieaace, ur . jU (ftclt of Hlf ibvc of and inducr ii©,* Ward* off insanity and cooeumpcion. Don’t <et aniggist impuae a worthless wubetitute on JOU because it rielde e wrvater profit Insist on bating HEVFEIf s N ERVIGOK or ewfifor it can be carried in vwt pocket Prepaid, clam wrapper. 11 per l«i or S for sa. with a Wrlttwn Goar autre tot ire or Keiund Money. Part.|Lletfr*e PKt t EK MIDICAL *M% CUMO, lU. For sale by Blackburn AChristen,