Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 8, Number 301, Decatur, Adams County, 22 December 1910 — Page 2

(candiesl I We invite your attention to our g S Xmas Candies. We know they | g are the best in quality and price, j CHOCOLATE CREAMS B COCOANUT BON BONS K BUTTERSCOTCH KISSES B IB BUTTERCUP KISSES V STAR MINT KISSES LEMON KISSES Kg JELLY BEANS S JELLY BON BONS COCOA JELLY SQUARES ■* DOUBLE REFINED STICK B WRAPPED CARMELS . _i B I BURNT P’NUTS B P’NUT BARS fi P’NUT RICKS ■ FANCY CREAM DlPS—Assorted FlaVC'S. K *And a dozen different kinds O We have the largest stock of candies] in the || w city. Come early and get first choice. k S 10c per Pound to One and All. | S —i^—■ s 8 S At the Leading K I 5 & lOg Store I £ C. E. Baughman, Prop, BBBBBBBBBSBBBBB BBBBBBBBBBBBBEg w If a man should say, “Home cigars are no’good” ■ Just politely tell him he’s fibbin’. ■ E So, make good his damage which you easily could * By calling for Geary’s ROYAL RIBBON. —Geary Brothers. ■ ■ S B BBBBBiBBBBgBEIHE POST CARD iCOUPON Clip this coupon and bring it to] the office of The DAILY DEMOCRAT with 10 cents and receive one set of 25 Colored View Post Cards Tour of INDIANA. By mail 3 cents extra for postage, j ——M—W—— — j BUY I I USEFUL I CHRISTMAS I GIFTS I 1 1^^. Wto .“ toO I S Ladies Fur Trimmed Slip- QOn Efi B pers, all colors from . . Uuu v!i JU H w II Te just S ot an °ther shippment S VV Boots in Patent and Gun Metal. •.zsz: f j Peoples’J&jGerke’s |

Hi. Perf.et English. [ "Did you ever notice anything • cullnr in Professor W.’s apeech?" in- ! qulred n friend of the professor's. "Why, no; 1 don’t think I did." : “Well, ho would never lie guilty of • saying what you said Just m>w." ! "He wouldn't? What did I say?” “You said ‘I don’t think I did.' ” ! “Is there anything out of the way j about that?" “Yes. You didn't say what you j meant at all. You didn't mean that > you didn't think, but that you thought [ you didn’t. Professor W. is so careful ’ that he says exactly what he means • an<l nothing else. You do uot mean ' that you do not think when you say ■ that, but that you do think that such : and such is not Nearly everybody i does that, so it sounds queer when [ people speak as the professor does and ! Bay ‘I think I don’t’ instead of ’1 don’t ! think I do,’ as the average individual E would say. Another of the professor’s | idiosyncrasies is to say TH not’ where E you or I would say ‘I won’t.’ All those | little ways sound queer, but they’re abE solutely correct and Irreproachable. [ The professor uses more perfect Eng- : llsh than any one else I know.”—New 1 York Press. Bribery In English Elections. ' Bribery is a term which every candlI date for a seat in the imperial assemE bly dreads, for the law visits offendE ' ers against it with very heavy punishE ment. and more than one politician has [ realized that the game is not worth • the candle. | The would be M. P. must be very E careful not to give, lend or promise t money or money’s worth to Induce E an elector to vote for him or abstain t from voting for an opponent Neither E must he pay the day’s wages of any ! yoter or give him money for railway E fares or loss of time. If he does and [ is elected the candidate loses his seat, E and both he and the recipient of his g ill advised gift are liable to twelve E months’ imprisonment or a One not exg ceedlng £2OO. Even treating the wives E or relatives of electors may constitute ? ! an offense, and the quantity is immaf ; terlal if the intention is corrupt. ’ i The withdrawal of custom from a : tradesman, if done with a view to af- ’ fectin’g the man’s vote, constitutes un- : due influence, for which the punishE I ment is the same as in the case of : bribery.—Pearson’s Weekly. The Australian Stock Whip. 5 I The stock whip in the skillful hands : . of the Australian is not only an article t ■ of the greatest utility, but also a for- : i midable weapon. Owing to its great t i length—the lash varies from twelve to s i thirty feet—and the shortness of tbe I butt, which measures only eighteen ■ inches, it is an extremely difficult and ; awkward thing to wield, nnd the bet glnner is apt to hurt himself if he does I not exercise care when practicing. A I well trained stockman, however, can hit a cent every time at ten paces distance and with the dreaded lash in his hand, cracking like pistol shots, can keep a mob of wild cattle in check. If used with full force It will cut through skin and flesh like a knife, says the Wide World Magazine, but unless a beast shows distinct vice the stockman uses it more for the purpose of instilling fear than of causing pain. It can also be used as a bolas, a Patagonian form of the lasso, and an adept can catch and hold a beast by causing the lash to curl around its legs. Four and Its Multiple of Ten. The number four was anciently esteemed the most perfect of all. being the arithmetical mean between one and seven. Oniah, the second caliph, said. “Four things come not back—the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, the neglected opportunity." In nature there are four seasons and the four points of the compass. Forty, a multiple of four by ten, is one of the sacred numbers. The probation of our first parents in the garden of Eden is supposed to have been forty years. The rain fell at the deluge forty days and nights, and the water remained on the earth forty days. The days of embalming the dead were forty. Solomon’s temple was forty cubits long. In it were ten lavers. each four cubits long and containing forty baths. Moses was forty years old when he fled into the land of Midian. where he dwelt forty years. He was on Mount Sinai forty days and forty nights. The Israelites wandered in the wilderness forty years. The Saviour fasted forty days and nights before entering upon public life. The same time elapsed between the resurrection and the ascension.—Exchange. How Roberts Won the Victoria Cross. Roberts noted that a sowar of the squadron with which he rode was in great danger from a sepoy with a fixed bayonet. The contest of sword against bayonet would have ended disastrously had not Roberts intervened and disposed of the bayonet. That was barely done when he noticed in the distance two sepoys fleeing with a standard. He galloped after the rebels and overtook them, and then he had a close fight for the possession of the standard. He cut down its chief bearer. While wrenching the staff from the man’s grasp with both his hands the other sepoy turned his musket on him and fired. The muzzle was within a j few Inches of Roberts’ person, and there would certainly have been an end of him had not the musket refused to go off. As it was, he rude away ; unhurt with the standard, and for those two courageous and gallant acts In close succession Roberts got the J Victoria croes. — Cobban's “Life of Roberts.” ■The Cowe of Muscat. i Muscat la famed as the hotbed of • smugglers In the Persian gulf, the j nearj2£ desert tribes. being, regularly

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' I supplied with arms despite the efforts of the British patrol. But to the writer, reared on a Missouri farm, the odd antics of the cows of Muscat seemed nothing short of freakish. They actually eat fish. No grass grows, so the wily Arab tenches 1 his family cdw to subsist on dates and dried fish. The milk tastes queer to a foreigner, which is probably why the Arab likes It. He also claims it Is richer aud makes more butter, but most ridiculous of all is the deception practiced on cows when the calves are “weaned." A calfskin or sometimes a goatskin is stuffed with rags and tied not far from where the mother cow is anchored. This effigy of her late lamented offspring soothes her nerves and keeps her from “going dry." according to Arabic tradition. — San Francisco Chronicle. A Surprised Lion. The man eating lions ditLnot always .ivew— ■ A CHRISTMAS By MAUCIA [Copyright, 1910, by American Press Association.] Dear cousin jack - Pray come to spend The Holly days with your true Friend, In Hopes that Weather wiil permit. To your good Parents Pa has writ. And you and Ned and Frank can ride t, Your Ponies by the Chariot’s side. I am desired to say that Nan Expects such Sport with Cousin Fan. || She has a Doll from London Town, With an Egret and Tabby Gown. She is so proud* But, Jack, we Boys Can think of better Things than Toys. Ma! begs Ms love. Prt y answer quick. Your faithful, loving, COUSIN DICK. P. S. —There came gilt Gingerbread From England in a Box: for Ntd There’s a Dragoon; for Francis, toot But, Jack. I’ll save King George for you. * * * * * * *

i get their own way. Five Sikh carpenters made a staging eight feet high, and on this they fixed their sleeping tent. Each night they ascended by means of a ladder, which they drew up after them. They were warned that it was not high enough, but were content to believe that God was all powerful. One night they left the edge of the ladder projecting beyond the end of the staging. A hungry man eater on the prowl observed this and, thinking he could not find a meal more conveniently elsewhere, determined to try how a carpenter tasted. Calculating his spring, he leaped lightly on to the projecting ladder, which, unfortunately for him, instantly tipped up and toppled over, both falling heavily to the ground. The lion bolted; so did all the men. making for the nearest trees.—From “In the Grip of the Nyika,” by Colonel J. H. P. Patterson OF LONG AGO FIELD THE yellowed letter, xo it runs. Oft read by sons and sons of sons. Above the formal sheet, outspread, Dick bent his curly, ribboned head, With tight grasped goose quill moving xlow. That Christmas season long a.go. . 'Twas sealed and Ant-one must confess, ‘ 11l sealed: a. finger burnt. I guess 1 I Black Pompey rode 'twixt kith and kin, ti With ebon face and ivory grin. To bear xuch letters to and fro In Christmax season long txgo. Our fancy paint/ the Yuletide sport At hospitable Holly Court — How Dick and Nan and Harry ran To welcome Ned and Frank and Fan And Jack, with apple cheeks aglow. In Christmas season long ago. What mirthful games, what generous cheer. What xirloim huge, what cider clear, What •’puddens”—Dicky spelled it thus— What nut brown turkeys odorous. What big mince pies in spicy row. In Christmas season long ago I Kr round the hearth the circle./ /miied What log fires roared ’neath mantels tiled. Where, figuring forth the Scripture tale. Blue Jonah fed the azure whale I What singing sounds, what genial glow. In Christmas season long ago! What rtortex told ax snug they sat By Cousin This or Uncle That, Till Dicky vowed to go to xea, But Jack a soldier bold would be. Fight for the King and make a show In xcarlet coat, long, long ago. AH passed, like scenes in shifting fire, And sailor Dick grew up a /quire. While-strange the change the swift year/ bring— Bold Jack fell fighting ’gainst the King All vanished like the melting snow Os Christina/ season long ago.

A B ARG A I N! In Second-Hand Goods. I have the H. S. Porter stock for sale AT ONE-HALF of it, “Sold under the hammer value.” C; All of his accounts during his temporary absence are payable at my office. 2nd. st. Decatur, Indiana. C. L. WALTERS, Atty. FOUND—A gold necKiace, SaturdayFOß RENT—A good five-room house night. Owner can have same by call on John street; has cellar; also waing at this office and identifying, andter in house. See Fred Scheimann. paying for this ’ad. 295t12 I i | Look Here | f| Do you know that the B H bestj)lace'„ in the city 8 to buy your Xmas can- p dies is at the G. R. &L 1 5; restaurant. I handle || Sthe Famous, HE-MI-LA candies, best on the § J, market. M ANDREW HARTING 1 I i f