Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 8, Number 295, Decatur, Adams County, 15 December 1910 — Page 7

lAWMRace By WILLIAM EASTMAN Copyright. 1810. by American Prow Association. While traveling in Colorado i dined informally with a successful mine owner. Hla wife was a demur* little woman, who said nothing durtag the meal, her sole ambition apparently being to see thnt hia children had what they wished and what was beat for them to eat. After dinner, while sinokir ' with my host, 1 asked him if his wi.c. being such a gentle, feminine jlttle woman, did not find life In a new country distasteful. He smiled. “1 could tell you a stary about that ‘gentle, feminine little woman.’ ” he said, ‘‘that would make your hair curl.” ■•Do so.” I replied. “Lisa.” be began—"that’s my wjfewas born out here. Her father cnme out to mine. When she was sixteen years old she was out one day with her father and brother, who were prospecting. They had with them a horse of Tennessee racing stock and fleet as the wind. "While Lisa was flower gathering and her father and brother feeling about in the ground with their picks suddenly she heard a noise. She look-! ed up and saw her father and brother looking at each other, both very pale. ’ Then her father ran to Jack, calling to her at the same time to come to him, loosed the bridle rein, put her on him and said: ••■Ride for your life. A cloudburst is coming. Stick to Jack. He can outrun anything.’ “And. turning the horse's head down the gorge, he gave him a slap on his haunch, and away he went, with little Lisa astraddle of his back. “It was not far to a canyon communicating with tlie gorge they were in. and if Lisa could have turned her horse into it she would have been safe. Her father and brother, who) rode the other two horses, did this and had the satisfaction to see. the torrent boiling past them, they being on higher ground and out of its path. But in giving her the high bred racer they bad endangered her instead of giving her the best chance. Jack, hearing the torrent coming after him. became unmanageable through terror and shot right past the mouth of the canyon. “Fortunately Lisa bad been used to 1 horses. She knew her danger too. Jack was liable every moment to fall and was killing himself in the struggle. How he ever passed over the path he did 1 can’t imagine. I’vp been over it often since, and every time I wonder more. If he fell the torrent would be on him and his rider before he could get up and she mount him again, even if that were possible. If he became exhausted that meant death too. “Once, she says, she looked back to see what had become of her father and brother. She saw great trees hurled by a mad torrent against the rocky sides of the canyon. One sight ot such, a scene was enough for her.

M ARI TWAIN z- ~ V > M 1Z 77 Z 2 ;y Hew : X 'x.,j- .. ; ' i Prlc? Edition : rnvv way, at $50.00. This new edition is only SZXUV It had been Mark T^ai^ s ®ad© to ; American home, and he mace i ag.o l the firßt time - bring about this r ® r n^ i f^ ,e ° P yHghted "books are sold at the ' will not come again. ' But for Mark been before has a copyrighted library set issued at such a low figure. z < His Complete Works— / 25 Beautiful Volumes i " ar 1 t rain will be included in that group of writers / N#w y#rk C|t|f Brender Matthews says: ‘ Mark the excep tion of Count Tolstoi. Twain , heade dby Moltere and Cervantes. handed down to poster.y 7 Pte , M Mnd me for exwas the greatest of recent modern 4^^no ,’ ’Tom Sawyer,’ and through the trio of his works stylist than Stevenson or MABKJW ‘Pudd’nhead Wilson. Twa Hadleyburg’ is one of the finest /, Fdlt ion, twenty-five volThoreau, and his ‘ Man » hat M Co Twai2 himself wrote a preface Z mM t »u fnr five dav*'» works in English literature. MarK ... r itten the biographical / d j m „ y re t»ln the .st for fived. ■ . » .hi. rf ii <*-* .criticism of Mark Twain a were in proc . / not «re forth ’ he booka , r wlll remit the author at periods th. sod pr.e. 00. hess of writing. artl sts as Frost. /been mid. or. within thirty d.y., Ki There are beautiful pictures > )inst Kemble, Zment in foil. Newell, Smedley, rep silk book / and Opper. The binding is in ,j The books / cloth, with title labels stamped g • espe . are printed on white antique wove S i-hes. / _ 'HARPER A BROTHERS w| „ be, eo t upon du _ 12 . 8 10

*Deakln~ \ *'L ,Oo, ® e f‘ er ' I><»rßO by the tS « h “ "" <1 ,w,rIUK hl '» 0,1 e nwk Several times he had stum knew vm reCoTered hltUMOlf. and she Knew this was her grea-est danger, derf ‘t ’ K 7 e ‘ COI "° 1 w "« a tw> de foot ordered by toy doctor to come .u breathe thp «n«n>t*ln air At tho time Lisa was cotniag down inX. y ° n IWM b * lt 'C artven 1B “ , ht wagon in the oppoMte direction by a man I had lilrtxl for the rairpose \Ve heard a roaring; but. 1 being n greenhorn In the country and thedriv er being stupid, neither of us knew what it meant. The road was .arrow Was tlle wot, ’’ , w«y and on C l. r inn<s ,he canyon's walk. "Suddenly I saw up the gorge • horse Coming llckety split and knew by fluttering skirts that a woman was on him. He couldn’t puss us at that gait owing to the fact that wo took up all but about three feet of the rood. Usn says he seemed to recognize the fact, for he slowed up of his own neeord. Just before Lisa reached us my driver seemed to catch the meaning of it all nnfl, jumping from the wagon, began to scramble up the side of the canyon. 1, not understanding what was the matter, sat still till the girl came up. 1 had never seen her before. but 1 was not likely to forget the picture. Her horse was white with foam; her hair had broken loose and was flying lu the wind. “ ‘A cloudburst!’ she cried. “I didn't know what a cloudburst j was. but at that moment caught eight . of its forward edge and didn’t need ■ any one to tell me. I had come west in a sleeping berth all the way from Ohio and was weak as a kitten. My cowardly driver was taking care of himself, but paying no attention to I me. The girl took In the situation. She was trying to squeeze her horse between the stone wall of the gulch and the wagon, but had presence of mind to call to me to get on behind her. One glance at that coming death gave me all the strength 1 needed, and I was on Jack in a jiffy. Then she let him go again. “We were a mile from her home, the horse was getting exhausted, and now I he had a double load. She knew well i enough that she was halving her | chances at taking me on, but we man- | aged to keep ahead of the flood, and | In a few minutes Jack mounted the rising ground that led to his stable. “And that,” my host concluded, “is the ‘gentle, feminine woman' you're talking about.” “She’s that and a heroine besides.” I supplemented. For the Judge's Information. The police court judge could not repress a smile when bls eyes rested on a card that was lying on his desk during a session of the court On it were printed two stanzas under the title “The Perfect Man,*' and be could aot but look at the motley gang of pcteoners who sat before him. A*4 he did not think the card bad been deopped accidentally. The veura mh*. There tea man wbo «W< Her emekee, nor chews, oer rweeea, Mfbe never gajnUea. never UfU, Stead shone «U aurtni nw ar* msairsu, i IS (RSsro tea maa who smr SMS Anything that Is net riglrt. KJs wife can toll juet where he W ; . IM rooming, •® en al«htt. ' Ba’s head.

FIRST CHILDREN’S BOOKS. Sheets of Horn Protvoted the Pages ' From Soiled Fingers. The earllrat English book for t hll- ‘ dren wan “The Bablna' Hook, or n I Lyltl Report of How Toting People Should Behave." The hern nooks ex-, isted la Blbwibeth'a retro. The writ i lag was covered with a sheet of born i la ardor te protect the lettering from 1 contact with dirty angers. T*e ehap book contained moat of the familiar anreery rhymes and storieo which have appertained to nursery loro for generations. They exhibit ■wry credo wooden tn. often danbed wfth tnaiw>r<wwbife color, and the comtnooeot paper as a rule who need. They wore hawked about by the chapman or peddler and eoat only a few pence apleee Th«y served to perpetuate ouch familiar dlttleo an 'fling a flong of Six peace.” which dates from the sixteeoth eoutury; -Three Blind Mice." In use. with music, la IflOfl; "The Frog and the Monse.” In existence in 1580. and “Girts and Roys Come Out to Piny.” which wap sung by the villagers In the time of Charlee 11. “Little Jack Homer." wo know, fs older than the seventeenth century, and last, but not least, “Luey Locket." the tune from which originate.] “Yankee Doo die.” A few of what were on I led “battledoor books" have been handed down to ns They were three leaved cards which were folded up into obloug pocket shaped vol ernes Those taught reading and numoeuls la the dame schools tn town and eouatry. The littie gilt books, as they wore called, adorned on the outside with gilt Dutch paper colored dowers, were much Itriaed gift books of that period. Children were employed eoioring such picture books by hand, one ahlld doing all the red In the series of Illustrations, another all the blue, snd so on. Os course they gained precision by repetition. but we very often find the tints overlapping ss if carried out by an inexperienced hand,—London Queen. Trial* of a Host, “I suppose you will give some elaborate entertainments this season?” “Yes," answered Mr. Cumrox; “I think we'll improve on those of last season.” “Weren't they all successful?" “Nope. It was my fault. I tried to make everybody have a good time, and the first thing I knew mother and the girls were complaining because they weren't sufficiently high class and formal.”—Washington Star. Why He Stepped. “You used to be an awful spendthrift.” “Yep. But I ain’t any longer.” “Ab! ReformedY’ "No; spent It all.”—Cleveland Leader. Me who has leet cwafldaaco can loue nothing more.—Botete. The Bote Sho Conte 80. "We’ve got to cut down our expe»Me" said Wood by “We are living la a style that uaakeo everybody think my income must bo twice as big as it te." “Well." his wife replied, “what more do you want, seeing that there is no chance for you to double your income?” —Chicago Record-Herald.

F_ L aim ■ p - 1 .. ~.. '*■ 'I 1 .— —■*—■——?■ ————TQ s GIFTS WORTH T — i AT THE VANCE, HITE & MACKLIN STORE t Santa Claus has deposited gilts for Men and Boys of all ages and sizes. Neckties 25 to 50c JerWyla Silk Mufflers 50c to $1.50 Handkerchiefs (Individual b’xs) 25 to s°c i ii Suspenders—Tie “ “ . ■ SI.OO Suspenders, arm-band, hose supporters ; ' (Individual boxes) . . . 75c and $| Gloves, all kinds ... 25c to Ss l /W £ n Fur Caps $2.50 to $5.00 Cuff Links-Combination sets 26c to SI. so W Bath robes — Smoking jackets $3 to Jersey Sweaters for men and boys from / A f A \ Sweater Coats 25ct055.00 I I Dress Shirts . . . . 50c $| and $1.50 Silk Handkerchiefs 25toQOc - Initial Handkerchiefs ... JO to 25c fc&l I— Overcoats and Suits,—Ail Sizes. Price and Quality Right Me Vance, Hite &

PUBLIC SALE. The undersigned w;« offer for sale at his residence one mile east and one-half mile south of Monroe and six miles south of Decatur, on what is known at the Mud pike road, beginning at 10 o’clock a. m., Tuesday, December 13, 1910, the following property: Horses —Two brood mares, bred to Percheron and Belgian stallions and one good gelding, five years old. One cow, a good Devonshire milker, four years old; also 3 dozen chickens. Implements—Deering binder, John Deere walking cultivator, 2 Shunk breaking plows, single shovel and 1 double shovel plow, 60-tooth iron frame harrow, spring tooth harrow, New Bremen breaking plow, Troy wagon, 2-seated carriage, hay ladders, pair bob sleds, 50 bushels Big Four seed oats, 25 bushels seed barley, 150 bushels corn in crib, 125 shocks corn in field, 125 shocks fodder in field, 10 tons of clover hay in mow, set of double harness, Buckeye walking cultivator. Cook stove, used but a short time household goods, Keller incubator and many other articles not herein mentioned. Terras —All suras of J 5.00 and under, cash in hand; over J 5.00 a credit of 9 months will be given, the purchaser giving bankable note therefor with approved freehold security to the satisfaction of the undersigned. No property removed until settled for. Four per cent off for cash on sums over $5.00. FRANK M. GILPEN. J. N. Burkhead, Auct. C. H. Lammiman, Clerk. --- —■ i » -—— 1 The old, old story, told times without number, and repeated over and over again for the last 36 years, but it is always a welcome story to those in search of health —There is nothing in the world that cures coughs and colds as quickly as Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. Sold by all dealers. o NOTICE. A package which was left at the Reuben Briner feed yard, near the river bridge several days ago, is held by Mr. Briner, and the owner can secure his property by calling at the feed yard. 289t2 o WANTED —Gentleman or lady of fair education living in Decatur or outside to travel for a merchandise supply house; experience unnecessary; salary, sls to 18 and expenses per week. Address, with stamp, J. A. Alexander, Decatur, Ind., Genl. Delivery.

FINAL NOTICE. I have disposed of my stock In the Holthouse Drug Company and by the terms of the sale have taken over all the accounts due the company up to November 1, is 10. I shall leave this locality about Leveuiber 10th. All accounts no< sett ed, iIC er by cash or by note within this time will be left for collection. 281t6 H. F. CALLOW. RHEUMATISM RELIEVED IN SIX HOURS Dr. Detchon’s Relief For Rheumatism usually relieves severest cases in a few hours. Its action upon the system is remarkable and effective. It removes the cause and the disease quickly disappears. First dose bene fits. 75c and JI.OO. Sold by the Holthouse Drug Co. wed&sat-3mo 0 Go< d results always follow the use of Foley Kidney Pills. They contain I just th,e ingredients necessary to tone, strengthen and regulate the kidneys and bladder, and to cure backache. The Holthouse Drug Co. o l LOST —Pair of tan kid gloves, large size. Finder kindly return to this office. !

n ii —: ii icnrrzzz]i //Have You Taken a Look at Oum 11 Xmas Presents Yet? H i JJJIF not, then stop any time whether you intend M to buy or not, as we have time to show the goods. We want you to look at our Xmas stocksomething never shown before to a great extent in this store. MT OUR stocks are now at their best and there are many good things which can be secured now which will be hard to find on Dec. 24.—Post cards! No end to theg ass’t. LACHOT AND RICE J

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NOTICE. We operate our feed mills every day and can grind all kinds of feed. Satisfaction guaranteed. Factory, N. Third street. 287t12 PETER KIRSCH.

SANTA CLAUS. 1 sthe beet judge of coal, and he knows a goodthing when he sees It, and the people of Decatur know a good thing when they try it "The proof of the pudding is in eating it.” That is the reason that our patrons never swerve from our yard when wanting to lay in their supply of coal. There is nothing to risk, for our coal is standard in quality and low in price. ’Phone 495. P. H. WAGNER.

The Bowers-Niblick Grain Co. is buying new corn as well as all other kinds of grain. 285t12 Full market price paid for all kinds of grain at the Bowers-Niblick grain elevator. 285t12