Daily Democrat, Volume 2, Number 125, Decatur, Adams County, 6 June 1904 — Page 2

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT. »TIBY UVINING. KXCBPT SCNDAY, BY U■ W G1 . ELLINGHAM. SUBSCRIPTION RATES, oarrler, per week 10c 1> carrier, per year $4 00 << mall, per month 25C »f mall, per year $2 60 Single copies. Two Cents. AflvertUlng rates made known on application ■ntered In the postoffice at Decatur. Indltaa. as second-class mall matter. J. H. HELLER, Managih. COUNTY TICKET For Joint Senator JOHN W, TYNDALL For Representative JOHN W. VIZARD For Prosecutor JOHN C. MORAN For Auditor 0. D. LEWTON For Treasurer JOHN F. LACHOT For Sheriff ALBERT A. BUTLER For Surveyor L. L. BAUMGARTNER For Coroner JOHN S, FALK For Commissioner First District DAVID OVERLING For Commissioner Third District MARTIN LAUGHLIN Invitations are being sent out for Indiana Press Day at the St. Louis World’s Fair, which is June 10. It is likely thnt the fraternity will be well represented on this occasion I I The contest for governor at the democratic state convention has the ear marks of being exciting. It is probable that several candidates , will be in the field and an interest ing contest waged. Newspa[>er stories now have it that Senator Fairbanks has unbended the knee and will accept the second place on the g. o. p. ticket. The story is still shaded in myst>rv and the real truth will not be known until the convention meets and acts. ———————— FOR SALE—Good steel range only used five months. Inquire at, this office. WANTED—Man, or good strong boy two or three hours a day' at residence of J. S Peterson. Strayed or Stolen—A bav mare, 4 years old; missed Saturday night. Send informatiob to E. H. Leßrun, Decatur, Ind. 125d3 For Sale—Ashery; well equipped and a money maker. A good investment for some one. Enquire of Chas. S. Niblick or French, Quinn, at Old Adams County Bank. ts WANTED—A good man with small family to occupy house at my stone quarry in Blue Creek township. He can have work every day and want him to keep three or four boarders. Goal garden if wanted, Good place for right man. Julius Hongk. 124d3

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MISSED US | Liberty Bell Route Changed and Went Through Fort Wayne. At the last moment the committee l having in charge the shppiment of i the old liberty bell from Indepen-I dence Hall, Philadelphia to the St. ■ Louis World’s fair changed their j , route and traveled over the Penn- ■ sylvania railway instead of the Clo- j - ver Leaf, thus preventing Decatur i people from seeing the famous old j relic. The bell passed through Fort Wayne early Sunday morning. ’ accompanied by’ a delegation of fifty persons, being prominent citi zens of Philadelphia, officials of the world’s fair and guards. The bell was in direct charge of messengers of the Adams Express company. The precious relic will be taken on a tour of exhibition through Wis,oonsin and Minnesota and then back into Illinois. It will remain j in Springfield Tuesday night and ! will arrive in St. Louis at Ba. m. on Wednesday. Notice. All persons owning property on ' 2nd street, West Monroe street, ■ First and Adams street, 3rd street, sth street, 6th street, 7th street, i Bth street, Russell & Chestnut : street. Mercer street, 2nd & Winchester street, Bowers alley sewer, . and Gregory alley, are hereby notified that all assessments that are | due arid unpaid on the above street, including the different alley improvements will draw interest from , May Ist of each year. k W. J Archbold, City Treasurer. 124d8 Poland China Hogs for Sale Both sexes, large, growthy fellows of a large litter; something that will do the farmers lots of good, at farm-: ers’ prices. These are all fall pigs sired bv U. S. Gold Chief, 22,539. : Joshua Bright, Decatur, Ind., route two. 125d12w3 LOST—Bunch of keys property of H. F. Steele. Leave at this office. For Sale- Double Standard Poll Durham bull, three years old May 6. !C. D. Kunkle, Decatur, Ind. 116d5 FOUND—A ladies' purse on Monroe St. Owner can have same by identifying it at this office. 121d6 Strong Testimony. . Gilmore Drug Co., Fletcher, Ohio. ' Gentlemen: Having a horse with a bad bruise on one of its Lind legs. I was indveed to try a bo»tle of your Caustic Oil, and as I got such good results from its use, I have used it for • many other ailments, such as lame , back, sore throat, fresh cuts, etc., and have found it just as beneiicial in all cases, in fact I would not be without I it, and can recommend it to anyone, ■ eitl e for man or beast. Yours truly, O. O. Lentz. D. D. S.. Piqua. Ohio. ' VOTIOB. To whom it may concern 1 You are hereby notified that an adjourned h term ot the Adams circuit court will be l»e---1 gun and held at the court home iu the city -of Decatur Adams county. Indiana, on Monday. June 20, 1904 ’ and continue as lang as the business shall re- , quire. • Py order of th* court, dated at Decatur. In Jana, June 2. 1904. >1 DAVID GEKBEK, Clerk.

DROWNING 'S QUICK. Man Cannot Live I nder Witter More Than Two Minutem. “The story frequently repeated about professional divers who have been abie • to remain under water for over two minutes is silly,” said a doctor. “No one can remain under Water tha,t long ! without drowning, whether he is s j trained diver or not. At Navarino, where the sponge divers are reported | to be able to remain under water three j and four minutes, tests were made rej cently and resulted in conclusively I proving that none of them remained 1 down as long ns a minute and a half. | Ninety seconds seems a very long time ! to the watcher on shore, and it is about the limit of a diver's endurance under water. At Ceylon, where time tests were also made among the famous pearl divers, it was ascertained that few of them remained below the surface as long as a minute, and other tests made on the lied sea among the Arabs proved that a minute and a quarter was the longest they could endure without n fresh breath. “Ou the coast of England several years ago a diver, a trained diver, one of the best on the coast, renowned for ■ his endurance, went down and was pulled up so slowly when he gave the signal that he was under water about two minutes and live seconds. lie was drawn out of the water insensible, with blood flowing from his nose and ears, and it was only after long and arduous work that his recovery from the effects of that two minute stay under water was assured. Drowning is a quick death. Even though the water is kept out of the lungs, insensibility will ensue in one minute and complete unconsciousness in two. The stories of people who have been in the water five minutes being resuscitated are generally mistakes or untrue. A man could not be in the water five minutes without coming to the surface several times and be restored to Ute.”—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. HE MISSED THE BEARS. A Question That Rid President McKinley ot a Beaaar. No one asking assistance was ever turned away empty banded from the McKinley door, and many were those who applied. One day a rather old man, with every appearance of belonging to the species hobo, called and asked for aid. He was given a small sum ot money and. evidently thinking ne had struck a soft spot, returned the following day and from then on went back every few days until finally. on what proved to be his last visit the president came out while he was talking to a member of the household and, learning the man's errand, entered into conver&tlon with him. The man stated, in reply to the president’s question, that he was a naturalized American citizen, but was born in Switzerland. The president asked if he had ever been in Berne, and he said hf had lived there. The president then asked if he bad ever seen the bears. This question rather stumped the old man, and he stammered that he could not understand. The president merely smiled and passed on Now. as every one who has anj knowledge of Switzerland knows, the coat of arms of the city and state ot Berne is a bear, and in a pit in the center ot the city a number of live bears | have been kept for years out of mem- , ory and are likely to be so kept sos years to come, frequent bequests having been made for their comfort and many thousand francs being deposited In the banks of Berne for their maintenance. The old man. not knowing these facts, certainly could not have been from Berne and was a self convicted discipie of Ananias, and as he disappeared from the neighborhood it is to be supposed that some one must have shown him the joke.—Leslie'v Weekly. A man of business may talk of philosophy; a man who has none may practice it.—Tope.

GREELEY IN THE ROCKIES. The Way He Sobered I l> a Boisterous Hotel Crowd. In the • Memoirs of Henry Villard'' there is a chapter in which the author describes a meeting with Greeley in the Rockies. The "Tribune philosopher,” having met witli an accident which crippled him for several weeks, was an unwilling guest at the Denver House, the only ‘hotel" in the city, a rude shack of a building, with canvas partitions, the greater part given up to the bar and gaming tables, and therefore not a place eonluclve to the quiet and repose of invalids. Mr. Villard noticed a change gradually taking place in the usually benign features of the philosopher, his Christian virtues gradually losing control over him, until finally one day he lost his temper completely find swore at his disturbers "so violently that I dared not believe my ears. His wrath, however, did not culminate until the third night of his tortures. About 111 o'clock he got up and i limped into the barroom, where he, thus addressed the astonished tipplers: “Friends. 1 have been in pain and without sleep for almost a week, and I am well nigh worn out. Now 1 am a guest at this hotel. 1 pay a high , price for my board and lodging and i am entitled to rest during the night.; But how can 1 get it with all this noise going on in this place?” “Then,” adds Mr. Villard, "be addressed one of the most pathetic appeals I ever heard to those around him to abandon their vicious ways and become sober and industrious. He spoke for nearly an hour and was listened to with rapt interest and the most [ perfect respect. He succeeded. too. in j his object. The gambling stopped, and i the bar was closed every night at 11 o’clock as long as he remained.” THE CASPIAN SEA. One of the Remarkahk Physical Features of the Globe. One of the most remarkable physical features of the globe is the deep and wide degression in the nollow of which stands the Caspian sea and near to it the sea of Aral. The Caspian is nearly as large as France, and its surface is eighty four feet below the level of the Black sea. The sea of Aral Is nearly as large as Ireland and is very little over the sea level. Within recent geological times the vast expanse in which , these lakes are found was sea. Its floor has been gradually raised, and the waters filling the depressions are ail I that is left of an ancient Mediterranean. A strange feature of both bodies of water is that although they receive large rivers, especially the Caspian, into which the Volga, the Ural river and scores of streams from the Caucasus flow, both have for many years been getting shallower. Evaporation, for they have no outlet, exceeds the in-' flow. But, for some climatic reason probably, the sea of Aral and its neighbor, Lake Balkhash, have since 1891 been increasing in depth. Whereas the Caspian, like the Dead sea. is very salt, owing to the rate of evaporation, Aral and Balkhash are brackish only. These remnants of what was once a great sea opening into the ocean, as the Mediterranean does now. still contain marine fish and seals. Some of the latter survive in the Aral and Bai kal lakes, having gradually become fitted for their habitat, though it is no longer salt, but merely brackish, and,' in the case of Baikal, actually fresh 1 water. —London Telegraph. Very Versatile. Stage Manager—l think you are a trifle too stout to play Romeo. Heavy Tragedian—Why, my good man. I could play the part of an infant in arms! Art has no limitations, sir.— New York Times. Physicians are constantly discovering some popular pastime or mode of attire that Injures health. But the average of human life remains about the same.—Washington Star.

There’s a Whole I Summer s Comfort Al,e,d for you if yon OXFORDS now. Further. „,o“ they are the proper caper. Our stock is the largest, and «e can suit you aUrny pace. ■ SOLD ONLY BY Charlie Voglewede THE SHOE SELLER 123 N. Second St. Decatur, Ind. T —THE Arion Quartet IS COMING They Study to Please, Instruct and Entertain The quartet is composed of R. G. Upson, C. S. Parker E. H. Pontius and A. M. Cummins, and they guorantee to famish charming music and choice readings. They will give their entertainment at the M, E. Church, ’Thursday Evening June 9th, at 3:15 Come and Enjoy a Feast of Song

TOLEDO BLADES. t'hoae ot Modern Make Not Comparable With the Ancient One*. Toledo blades ure still made in the government weapon factory, but tboso of modern production do not compare ; with the ancient work. It seems to be i a lost art. The genuine Toledo blades, I made by the Moors, were so c last ic and tough that they could be curled up like ' a watch spring. You can see them in ’ the armory at Mjdril, but only ordinary swords nnd bayonets for the I army are made there today. The secret seems to have been forgotten. The 1 steel came from England. It is the; same as is used for ordinary purposes, and, as in Japan, where the art reached an equal degree of superiority, the difference in the product lay in the! skill of the armorer and the process he used. In the secondhand shops of Toledo and of the bric-a-brac dealers you can buy old swords for reasonable prices, but genuine ones, made before the sixteenth century, when the best were produced and the art began to decline, are very rare and are promptly picked up by connoisseurs whenever they are offered. Tin- names of the old makers are as well known as those of the painters of great pictures, and a sword made by Nicholas or Dune or Don Isio or Correnties in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries is worth several times its weight In gold. Each armorer of Toledo In ancient times, as in Japan, had his cipher, which is to be found on his blades, and there was as much rivalry among them as there is today among the opera singers Julian .10l Hei, the IIIOSt fßmoug of the Moorish swordmakers slw aT t out the figure of a dog on the blad.-s of his swords n.. u hlit nnd Mw rlllo, who was also famous used a wolf for bi, coat of arms. The swordmakers of Toledo had a guild for mm tual protection, but they worked sop n . rately. Ea. li bad his own secrets for refining and tempering steel, which he mlttai 7 from hi * rlvalf '' but ,rans - ' ." 0 118 '■•"l'li n, who inherlt.-d the business,—<'h lcH g 0 Beeord-Herald , ane Had Felt. . ee here’" exclaimed Mr. Chlbb uphi.‘•ch.,,?' ‘!“ K neXt mortlln * that all change w-is gO ne. "During your nliht 1 lt Whea 1 Carae othej thin h y °° reDlark < > 'l among man tSJk?" * WOman fp “ la wb «« noSng.T^? to b »- x, s rr" - Ice Interferes With War. St Petersburg, Feb. 17.-A dispatch received here from Port Arthur <ie Chin wV ’ h T JtpanMe are 'aal'aß at Chin-Wang Tao, a port on the southern

Private funds to loan on city property at lowest rate interest . Priviege of partial payments. The Decatur Abstract and Loan Co. 25*dtf NOTICE— I shall te prepared to do all kinds of ;>aper hanging from now on. Any person needing work done call or phone Chas. Railing. South 11th St. 118dfi Found—A pocket book containing a small amount of change owner can have the same by calling -n Mrs. 8. Acker on 11th Monroe >t. by proving property. FOUND—Sorrel horse, weighs about 900 pounds, had heavy w rk harness on when found. Owner of same will please call at Peters- n and claim his property. Ten thousand dollars private funds left with us to loan on Decatur real estate, first mortgage. Low rate of interest. Will lo_in in sums of |SO upwards. The Decatur Abstract and Loan Co. 257dtf Frank Mills has received the agency for the Saturday Evening Post one o' . the best weekly magazines printed in > the world. He will deliver it to ycu each week for five cents or will take ' years subscriptions for 51.25 per year i Leave your order with him or at F i V. Mills grocery. Sdiurgcr & Smith j • 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 par 1 tial payments. Office in Niblick A Allison Block over Everett A Hit* grocery store east of Court street * Decatur, Indiana. Give us a call be j fore you invest elsewhere. r — t _ 4 Insure Vour Property i in the Decatur : Insurance Agency t ’ Gallogly & Haefling