Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 7, Number 297, Decatur, Adams County, 15 December 1909 — Page 3

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JOHNNY'S CHRISTMAS By SARAH BRYCE BOWEN (Copyright, !»,. b y Arnertcan 1 elation.] On Christmas morning while Jimmy ns trying hard to dress himself—the buttons were all too big for the holes, , old -be heard a sharp bark down•talra. Jimmy stopped at once, and his eyes and ears were wide open At another bark, half dressed, he dashed In ti° f ruo ‘“ nu<l do ' v,ls talrs. There the library he saw as pretty a little ‘n er “ e ' c ‘ r s,e PPed on four reet. Jimmy stood looking at the terrier and the terrier stood with his pointed nose and sharp eyes turned directly on Jimmy. Then byway of making Jimmy's acquaintance be wagged his tail. At that moment Jimmy's father came into the room and said: “He’s your Christmas present, Jim How do you like him?’ glim was so wrapped in admiration of his dog that he made no reply. Finally be gasped: “Is he really all mine, papa?" “AU yours, sonny. I intended to give him to you at breakfast, but his bark stood in the way. Come; we three will go up and finish your dressing. 1 suppose I'l have to help you now that your attention is diverted from your clothes. Come on. Zip." “Is that his name?” “That's a good one for him. don’t you think so? He looks as if his name might be Zip.” And Zip the terrier continued to be called. There is as much affinity between children and dogs as there is enmity between dogs and cats. From the moment Jimmy saw Zip he loved him, and from the moment Zip saw Jimmy he adored him. Jimmy began to go to kindergarten that year, and from the time he departed Zip did nothing but wait for his return. Indeed. he would have gone with his little master had the door not been shut on him when Jimmy went out. But as soon as Jimmy came home Zip resembled a rubber ball on the bound. He jumped all over the boy. his expression plainly denoting his joy. Then what times Zip and Jim would have together! They would romp till Jim was too tired to romp any longer. Then Jim would get out his toys, and Zip would sit by watching him. turning bls little head at Jim’s every motion. Jimmy's parents objected to the two friends passing the night as well as the day together, and this was a great hardship for both the dog and the boy. Many a time, notwithstanding great precaution, the family would awaken in the morning to find Zip and Jim in bed together. Jimmy’s mother threatened to send his pet away if he did it again. One morning Zip waited as he was always directed to wait for his chum to come down to breakfast. Jimmy did not come. Zip noticed that the father and mother looked anxious, and

the dog was himself correspondingly worried. He ran this way and that way. butting bls nose against a door that confined him, and when a maid opened it without thinking Zip sprang through and ran upstairs into Jim's room. There lay Jim In bed looking red and hot. His mother was bending over him anxiously. Zip sprang up on to the bed. The mother ordered him off, but one look from Jim changed her Intention, and she permitted Zip to remain. But Zip had to go when the doctor came and was kept out of the room for the rest of the day. in the morning Jim, was a little better, and his Christmas dog was let into his room and up on to his bed. where be licked the boy’s hand, looking at him with melancholy eyes, as though his heart would break. But he wus not permitted to remain long. Jimmy was too ill. Indeed, there were times when be probably did not know that his pet was with him. Zip was put outside, but remained at the door, looking up wistfully as people went in and out, as if for a bit of comfort as to bls friend’s condition. Jimmy grew worse, and it seemed that he would pass away shortly before the dying year. The day before Christmas after the doctor’s morning call Zip saw Jimmy’s mother in tears. She had been told that the crisis would take place during the next twenty-four hours. Zip could not be driven from the door all dSy. In the evening he saw by the expression on the faces of those nursing Jimmy thaj; something important was taking place. It was 7 (/clock. The dinner table was set below in the dining room. On the sideboard was a dish of fruit, including some Malaga grapes. But no one seemed inclined to eitt, and the room was deserted. The door of Jimmy's bedroom ojiened, and a trained nurse came out. A few minutes later Zip bopped up on the sick boy's bed with a bunch of grapes in his mouth. Jimmy’s mother was about to take Zip in her arms and set him outside when her boy opened his eyes. Seeing Zip and the grapes, he put out his hand, trying to break off a grape, but was too feeble. There Jimmy’s mother plucked a grape and held it to her boy’s lips. He swallowed it and with his eyes asked for more. Grape after grape was eaten by the patient till the last one on the bunch was gone. Then the boy slept, with Zip in his arms. At 10 o’clock the nurse took Jimmy’s temperature and discovered that it was nearly normal. At 11 the doctor came and was astonished at the change in the boy’s condition. In the morning Jimmy ate a good breakfast and, hearing the word Christmas spoken. asked for his presents. That was a happy day for all, especially Zip, who had turned the scale. Made His Ideas Flow. I used to write for a medical periodical. On returning home one day after a very heavy day’s work at the hospital and feeling completely exhausted I found a note from the editor. "Flease let me have an article on such and such a subject tdhight” 1 sat down with pen and paper before me, but not a word could I write. Then 1 lay back lazily and began to speculate as to the cause of my want of ideas. 1 thought: "The brain is the same as it was yesterday, but yesterday I was not tired. Perhaps it is the feebler circulation that prevents the brain from acting. If the blood does not go up to the brain I may bring the brain down to the blood.” I therefore placed my head flat on the table, looking sideways at the paper, and began to write easily. On raising my bead again every idea fled, so I placed my head again down on the table and finished the article with my head in that position.—Sir T. Lauder Brunton in Practitioner. His Time Wasn’t. “Time is money.” “Cut that lie out!” "Why do you call It a’’— •'Say, I’ve just done ten years in the penitentiary and come out busted!”— Cleveland Leader. Knowledge, in truth, is the great sun in the firmament Life and power are scattered with its beams.—Webster.

INSTINCT Ai«u i.USON. An Interesting Illustration of ths Two Traits of Monkeys. An illustration showing the difference between instinct and reason in monkeys camo under the observation Os David Starr Jordan, the famous naturalist. At one time he had two lively Macacus monkeys called Bob and Jocko. These were nut and fruit eating monkeysand instinctively knew just how to crack nuts and peel fruits. At the same time he bad a baby monkey, Mono, of a kind that had the egg eating Instinct. But Mono had never yet seen an egg. To each of the three monkeys Dr. Jordan gave an egg, the first that any of them had ever seen. Baby Mono, descended from egg eating ancestors, handled his egg with all the inherited expertness of a long developed instinct. He cracked it with his upper teeth, making a bole in it. and sucked out all its substance. Then, bolding the eggshell up to the light and seeing there was no longer anything in it. he threw it away. All this he did mechanically, automatically and just as well with the first egg as with any other be afterward had. And all eggs since given him he has treated in the same way. The monkey Bob took his egg for some kind of nut. He broke it with his teeth and tried to pull off the shell. When the inside ran out and fell on the ground he looked at it for a moment in bewilderment, then with both hands scooped up the yolk and the sand mixed with it and swallowed it. Then he stuffed the shell into his mouth. This act was not instinct; it was reason. He was not familiar by Inherited instinct with eggs. He would handle one better next time, however. Beason very often makes mistakes at first, but when it is trained it becomes a means far more valuable and powerful than instinct. The third monkey. Jocko, tried to eat his egg in much the same way that Bob did; but. not liking the taste, he threw it away.—St. Nicholas.

EASY MONEY. Picked Up by the Sharp Chap Who Bet on a Word. Just byway of showing how easy It is for some men to pick up a few dollars by their wits a young fellow strolled into a case the other afternoon and. joining in conversation that was being carried on by convivial spirits, declared be was the most "infortunate” individual on earth. He immediately began telling a story of his personal troubles, but before he had got the narrative well under way there was a chorus of Interruptions, and tbe talkative young man was politely informed that bis English needed revising, since be should have used tbe word "unfortunate” instead of "infortunate.” The newcomer insisted that infortunate was the correct word to use, and the argument waxed warm. Finally, with a show of beat, tbe young man who started the trouble declared that while he had only a few dollars he would wager them that he was correct. So anxious were his friends to lay wagers with him that he did not have money enough to meet all the demands, but be succeeded in putting up sls in separate small bets. The men who were certain that the garrulous young man was wrong in the use of the word infortunate sent out for a dictionary only to find that they bad been "stung” on a "sure thing” bet, tbe big book on spelling showing that infortunate is perfectly proper and means unfortunate. "Yes,” said the winner of tbe bets as be pocketed bis new portion of wealth. "I have won money on that before. I collected $lO this afternoon on a similar wager.” — Philadelphia Record. Flying Fishes. A dazzling silvery splendor pervades tbe surface of the body of the best known species of tbe flying fish. Tbe summit of Its head, its back and its sides are of azure blue. This blue becomes spotted upon tbe dorsal fln. the pectoral fln and the tail. This fish is the common prey of the sea birds and tbe more voracious fishes, such as the shark. Its enemies abound in air and water. If it succeeds in escaping the Charybdis of the water the chances are in favor of its meeting its fate in the Scylla of the atmosphere. If it escapes the jaws of the shark it will probably fall to the share of the seagull. Too Honest. Woggs—Young Smith has failed in business again. I’m sorry for the boy, but too close adherence to high principles ruined him. Boggs — How so? Woggs—He advertised, “Our product is thoroughly tested before it leaves the factory." which is a very hard thing to live up to when you are manufacturing dynamite.—Puck. Quite at Home. Bacon—And did you feel at home traveling in Russia? Egbert—Oh, quite at home. When the brakemen called out the stations I couldn't understand then) any better than I can over here. —Yonkers Statesman. Thousand Dollar Illustration Income, $1,000; expenditure, $999.99 —happiness. Income, $1,000; expenditure, $5.000.90 —misery. Income. $1,000; expenditure, $1,500— gay time.—Puck. Poor Living. Madder Brown—There goes old Dauber. He’s living on his reputation. Maulstick—No wonder he looks so thin. —lllustrated Bite.

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MICROBES IN THE SCALP. The Latest Explanation is That Microbes Cause Baldness. Professor Unna of Hamburg, Germany, and Dr. Sabourand, of Paris, FYance, share the honor of having discovered the hair microbe. Baldness is not caused through a few weeks’ work of these hair microbes, but is the result of conditions brought about by their presence. Baldness may not occur until years after the microbes began work, but it Is certain to come sooner or later. The microbes cut off the blood supply. They feed on the fatty matter about the roots of the hair, through which the blood is absorbed. Finally the fatty matter is consumed, the food supply of the hair is gone and it starves and finally dies. Resccrin is one of the most effective germ destroyers ever discovered. Beta Naphthol is a most powerful, yet absolute safe germicide and antiseptic, which prevents development of germ matter, and creates a clean, healthy condition. Pilocarpine, although not a coloring matter or dye, is an ingredient well established for its power to restore natural color to human hair when loss of color has been caused by a disease. Borax, because of its well-defined softening and cleansing properties, is most useful in the treatment of the scalp and hair diseases. Glycerine acts as a stimulant to the hair bulbs, and has a soothing, healing and nourishing influence. Alcohol is indispensable in medicine because of its antiseptic, stimulating and preservative qualities. We want every one who has scalp or hair trouble to try Rexall “93” Hair Tonic, which contains all these ingredients. If it does not give you complete satisfaction in every particular, we will return every penny you paid us for it, for the mere asking and without question or formality. Os course you understand that when we say that Rexall “93 Hair Tonic will grow hair we do not refer to cases where the roots are entirely dead, the pores of the scalp closed, and the head has the shiny appearance of a billiard ball. In cases like this there is no hope. In all other cases of baldness Rexal “93 Hair Tonis will grow hair, or cost the user nothing. Two sizes, 50 cents and |I.OO. Remember you can obtain Rexall Remedies in Decatur only at our store,—The Rexall Store. Smith. Yager & Falk. decll

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