Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 6, Number 298, Decatur, Adams County, 15 December 1908 — Page 2

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Home Made Candv 2000 Pounds We are golqg to sell at lOceqts a lb. 500 Faqcy BoX 25g to $5.00 each The rqost complete liqe of Nuts, foreign aqd iq the shell aqd out of the shell. FRUITS OF RrLL KINDS JUstcorqeiq aqd see for yoUr self. Art IqterUrbaq Statioq COLCHIN & JOSEPH F'R tSE! EREEI One picture enlarged free of chirge by Lyman Bros with each purchase of one dollars worth of Lymans Vegitable Wonder Soap. Write me a postal, and I will call. SAM WYATT R. F. D. No 2 Decatur, Indiana. Sole Agent. BnnginyourwinterClothing And let Louis Madland clean and Dross them. HEMAKES THEM LOOK LIKE NEW. ✓ Located Above Model Cigar Store. L. MAILAND Christmas Goodies Are to be found at the PEOPLES RESTAURANT, and we have a line of ail kinds of Candies, Nuts Fruits, and unexcelled in the city, and we invite the public to give us a call. Special Pncesto Organizations Do not fail to callJand see us before buying JACOB. MARTIN, Prop. NOTICE From now until Feburary Ist. 1909, we will oil and clean your harness at the following reduced prices: Single Buggie Harness $ .95 Double Carrage ” $1 25 • ” Team ” ?2.00 Come in and see our Blizzard fronts. Blankets and Robes at reasonable prices. IATZ & STEELE HARNESS CARRAGE DEALERS N, 2nd. st. Decatur Indiana. Democrat Want .Ads. Pay Democrat Want Ads. Pay

OLDEN DAY SURGEONS They Were Exempt From Jury Duty In Capital Cases. IN A CLASS WITH BUTCHERS Thought to Be Too Bloodthirsty to Calmly Pass on the Taking of Human Life — Executioners Performed Operations and Acted as Doctors. When Great Britain's statute book was still in the Draconian stat* from which it was redeemed by Sir Samuel ; Romilly and the penalty of death was inflicted for the most trivial offenses, surgeons were exempted from serving on juries In capital cases. It must not be supposed, however, that this was because their profession was believed to make them too humane for such work as was then imposed on jurjmen. We are sorry to say it was for the opposite reason. They were exempted on the same ground as butchers, whose occupation, it was thought, tended to make them too bloodthirsty. This ought not perhaps surprise us, since two or three centuries ago executioners not infrequently performed surgical operations. This seems to have been particularly the case in Denmark. At any rate, we have more knowledge on this point in regard to that country than any other. In Janus some time ago Dr. K. Caroe of Copenhagen published a number of documents bearing on the subject. The most ancient of these bears date July 24, 1579. and is a license issued by Frederick 11. to Anders Frelmut, executioner of Copenhagen, granting him the right to set bones and treat old wounds. He wss expressly forbidden to meddle with recent wounds. In 1609 it is recorded in the municipal archives of Copenhagen that Gaspar, the hangman, bad received four rlgsdalers for thq cure of two sick children in the infirmary. In 1638 Christian IV. summoned the executioner of Gluckstadt in Holstein,' to examine the diseased foot of the crown prince. In a letter addressed to Ole Worm, a leading Danish physician of the day. Henry Koster, physician in ordinary to the king, complains bitterly of the slight thus put upon him. He says that for two whole months the hangman, "who is as fit to treat the case as an ass Is to play the lyre.” had the case in hand, and the doctor was not asked for advice, and. although the case went steadily from bad to worse, the executioner received a fee of 200 rlgsdalers and a large sliver goblet—“rewards." says the doctor plaintively, "which the greatest among us would not have received had he succeeded in curing the prince according to the rules of art” Again, in 1681. Christian V. gave a fee of 200 rlgsdalers to the Copenhagen hangman for curing the leg of a page. ,In 1695 Andreas Liebknecht the Copenhagen executioner, was in such repute or his treatment of disease that he wrote a book on the subject “in the name of the holy and ever blessed Trinity.” In 1732 Bergen, an executioner In Norway, was authorized by royal decree to practice surgery. Even up to the early years of the nineteenth century this extraordinary association of surgery with the last penalty of the law continued. Erik Peterson, who was appointed public executioner at Trondhjem in 1796, served as surgeon to an Infantry regiment in the war with Sweden and retired in 1814 with the rank of surgeon major. Frederick I. of Prussia chose his favorite hangman. Coblenz, to be his physician in ordinary. It might be suspected that this peculiar combination of functions had its origin in a satirical view of the art of healing, but in the records we have quoted we can trace nothing of the kind. Perhaps the executioner drove a trade in human fat and other things supposed to possess marvelous healing properties. He may thus have come to be credited with skill in healing, though the association surely represents the lowest degree to which the surgeon has ever fallen in public esteem and social position. Compared with the hangman, a gladiator and even an undertaker may be considered respectable.—British Medical Journal. "Painting the Town Red.” "That expression, ‘painting the town red,’ is not,” writes a correspondent, "the creation of some unknown cockney genius, as some would seem to infer. Its birth has been traced to The Divine Comedy.’ Dante, led by Virgil, comes to the cavernous depths of the place swept by a mighty wind where those are confined who have been the prey of their passions. Two faces arise from the mist—the faces of Francesca and Paolo. ‘Who are ye 7 cries Dante in alarm, and Francesca replies sadly, ‘We are those who have painted the world red with our sins.’ ’’—London News. Development. "Remember,” said the earnest inventor, “it isn’t so many years since the telephone caused laughter.” 'That’s true,” answered the man' who has trouble with central. “At first it caused laughter; now it causes profanity.”—Washington Star. Proof. Mrs. Sbetlpod—Hiram, some o’ them there hobos her stole the wash offen the line ag'in! Farmer Shellpod—Haow dew you know they wuz hobos? Mrs. Shellpod—Becuz they tuk everything but th’ towels.—Chicago News. If better were within, better would come out—German ..Proverb.

|TneFaliof the Empire = (Copyright, ISOS, by American Press Association.] The young soldier-king’s ambition was towering. At'thirty he found himself the first general of bis age. Not content with being master of his own kingdom, he sought to make himsel! master of all kingdoms within his reach. While the king’s traits were Napoleonic, there was one trait that was not Napoleonic. Napoleon, while he was a gallant never permitted any woman to influence him in matters ol government. He was not afraid of the fair sex and took no precautions against women. The soldier-king, on the contrary, feared their seductions. He was aware that they governed the world and considered that it would be Impossible for firn to build up the empire he intended if he were himseli governed by a woman. A bachelor, he proposed to remain a bachelor. And for fear that he would be captured he permitted only the homeliest women tc come near him. On one occasion when he was told that a young girl had come to his tent to beg for protection from his soldiers he asked, “Is she comely?” When answered in the affirmative he replied, “Then let her be veiled.” There was one petty duchy. Histeria still unconquered which was importani to the soldier-king. From its geographical position it was the main link in the states from which the empire was to be .formed. Though small, its conquest would be difficult, for its terri tory constituted an elevated plateau whose only approaches were through mountain defiles. The king sent a de mand for its submission. A reply was returned that the duke would yield tc the inevitable if the king would grant certain conditions. If not he would defend his dukedom till every man in it had been killed. The king then sent a messenger tc ask the conditions. A reply came that they would only be presented at a meeting to take place between the twe sovereigns. Midway up a defile leading to the duchy was a pocket well adapted for a place of conference. The duke proposed that be and the king meet there and discuss the terms by which his domain should pass under the king’s rule. The king might bring all the guard he wished. The duke pledged himself to go alone. The king, unwilling to be outdone in an exhibition of confidence, declared that he, too, would go alone and unarmed. AU these matters having been adjusted, the king rode, with a small guard, to the mouth of the defile, where he left them and proceeded tc the rendezvous. The duke was seen coming down the mountain, an old man with a flowing white beard and hair. Thfe sovereigns met at the door of a pavilion that had been erected for the conference. The duke produced a gold en key. unlocked the door and motioned the king to enter. When inside the duke relocked the door. This startled the king, but he said nothing. Surely if treachery intended he was a match for this feeble old man. Then the duke led the way into a handsomely furnished room, in the center of which were a tabic and writing materials. At one end of the apartment blazed an open fire. The duke thYew the golden key in among the burning logs. It immediately Ignited. For a moment the king stood in wonder at seeing gold burn, then rushed forward to rescue the key. He was too late. “It was of wood, your majesty.” said the duke, “and gilded. We are shut up here together for this conference. Neither can depart, for there is no opening except the door which is locked and no key with which to unlock it. Let us proceed to business.” As the duke spoke the last words he threw his hat on the floor, pulled off a white wig and false beard, divested himself of his ducal robes and stood before the king in superb dress, a woman of transcendant beauty. “I—l was to meet the duke,” stammered the king, drawing back. “I am the sovereign of Histeria. My father has abdicated in my favor.” The king put his hand before his face to shut out the vision of loveliness. “These are my terms,” continued the duchess, “the only terms on which I shall surrender. I will pay your majesty 500 pieces of gold annually as tribute for ten years.” The king made no reply, but, dropping his hands, stared at the symmetrical creature. Her features were those of a cameo, her complexion that of white and red roses, and her eyes were a marvel of loveliness. “Your grace,” he said, dropping on his knee, “I am at your mercy.” The duchess pointed to the writing materials. The king wrote: The Independence of the duchy of Histeria Is acknowledged and guaranteed. The duchess read and turned her great eyes, lit by a heavenly smile, on the monarch. Then, touching a spring in the table, a drawer flew open. She seized a key and started so/ the door. The king followed and caught her in his arms. She looked back, and her lips were pressed by his. When the king rejoined his attend- 1 ants he was a changed man. He knew that the lands he had conquered would ' always be liable to be wrested from' him without the duchy of Histeria. One by one they received back their sovereignty, and when the last was made independent it was announced that the king was about to be married. The soldier-king made the Duchess of Histeria his queen, and he did not get her till every country he had conquered had been made free. HAROLD OTIS.

FIRES AND INSURANCE What Being Burned Out May Mean to a Business. DAMAGE ONE CANNOT COVER. Enormous Losses Caused by the Suspension of Operations and the Drifting Away of Trade That Are Not Appreciated by the General Public. “I suppose you heard that Blank & Co. were burned out from the roof to the basement last night?” remarks the man in the car. “No!” exclaims the friend who hasn't seen the morning paper. "I suppose they carried insurance T’ “Oh, yes—a hundred thousand of it!” returns the first speaker, at which his friend settles back with the comment that everything is ail right then. This is the layman's conclusion almost invariably. Some big concern 1 burns out, but with insurance to an I amount seeming to cover the loss the average man is disposed to feel that it is ail right. He doesn’t stop to think of the enormous risks of a business which cannot be covered by insurance and which for weeks, months or years after a fire are crippling and perhaps ruinous to the fire victim. Take, for example, a highly organized factory plant in prosperous times which has been turning out a vast specialized product from the hands of thousands of expert workmen. This plant fitted with costly machinery, is covered by insurance upon its visible, material assets. Fire sweeps it and lays everything in hopeless ruin. If every piece of machinery, every building and all material adjuncts of the plant have been covered to full value in such a plant will the reader dare make a rough guess (as to what the limitations of loss may be? Only the other day I stepped into a bookbindery, unostentatious in its street signs and occupying a fifth floor in an obscure street In the elevator shaft was that peculiar odor which marks the track of fire and firemen days and weeks after such an accident “Most of the fire was next door,” explained the proprietor, “hut I guess the smoke and the water were about as bad for us. Sometimes it is almost better to have the fire yourself than be next door to it.” Which seemed to be especially true of book material. Where smoke and soot had failed to blot and ruin the stock, water from the engines in the street had flooded it until ruin alone was descriptive. Everything had been closed down, workers in the plant were idle, and the proprietor was the adjustment of the insurance which he had been carrying. But in the extent of this insurance itself was a knotty situation. Ordinarily the house had carried policies which would have left it the minimum of risk on its machinery, stock and materials. Ordinarily a still further blanket policy was carried for the purpose of covering the normal amount of book material on hand owned by others and contracted for rebinding. But only a few days before the fire the house had received a consignment of $5,000 >rth of lawbooks to be bound. These volumes, aside from intrinsic value, represented so much of other value as to make the risk abnormal for almost any season. And these books were ruined. Before receiving them the binder had asked the owners to take out a policy for themselves protecting them against such fire loss. The firm had not done so. and when the fire damage came the disposition of the owners was to bold the binder for them under one of the binder’s blanket policies. On this one disputed point, taking it Into court will some one make a guess as to what this one feature of the fire may cost the hinder, who to all purposes was “insured.” if it should be settled in the supreme court after five or seven years, for example? But in the case of the big manufactory, with its Imported special machinery, Its season of rush work and Its enormous and fluctuating stock of material—if on the morning after the fire the assuring companies settle in full for the visible losses, how much has the company been damaged? Os first consideration, perhaps, ia the enormous payroll of the concern. If most of the mechanical work of the' plant has been done by pieceworkers, still the necessary force of directing employees on salary is a problem. The determination of the owners is to start up anew. Tried and proved employees must be retained while the work of rehabilitation goes on. They must be paid even if they are to do no more than wait Settlement of some kind must be made with contractors who have been supplying raw materials from the hands of other thousands of workers. No matter what the clauses in contracts providing immunity in case of fires, strikes and acts of Providence. every line of business affecting the welfare of the manufactory has been affected. The plant is a total loss. Before it can be rebuilt the ruins of the old factory must be cleared away. In the meantime all those customers of the manufactory who have been pressing for the filling of contract orders find themselves shut out of any chance for receiving them. They turn at once to other competing establishments for the work. Not only does the burned out firm lose all chance of profits from this work, but it is running a long chance of losing some of Its 'oKest and best customers of years’ standing.-Chicago Tribune.

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