Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 8, Number 301, Decatur, Adams County, 22 December 1910 — Page 6

SPECIAL : FARES : WE.ST Via Clover Leaf Route, 1910. FROM DECATUR, IND. TEXAS AND RETURN, Homeseekers’ rates xfq J to Houston, Ft. Worth, Galveston and other V I 1•“ S principal points in Texas, in proportionate low . J v J y >. 1 /v J rates to intermediate points in the West. Tick*T e ts on sale Dec. 6th. and 20th, 1910. WINTER TOURISTS TICKETS to San An/\Z*\ tonio, Texas, and return.. . Proportionately low —c I || I rates to Mexico City, New Mexico, Florida, >, Jyl and Lonlsiana, on sale daily until April, 30th„ limited for return June, Ist, 1911. I ALL YEAR TOURIST TICKETS to California, Oregon and Puget Sound Points, on sale daily. Limited nine months returning. .. Courteous passenger agents meet all through trains, assist in the care of transfer of passengers’ baggage. A letter or postal card to H. J. Thompson, Agent, Decatur, Ind., or to this office, will get you time-tables and complete information as to service, sleeping car reservations, etc. .. E. L. BROWN , Dist. Pass. Agt. 6 Erie and Krause Sts., Toledo, Ohio.

FOR SALE OR RENT—At a bargain, my residence property on North 10th street. Inquire of Mrs. Relle Phillips Harmon. 292tf I Money For Christmas Don’t let the Christmas stockings of your loved ones go empty simply because you are temporarily short of money. . Call on or write to us. We can help you fill them. We will loan you the money in any amount: from $lO to SIOO, on household goods, pianos, organs, teams, fixtures,etc, without removal. You can have from one to twelve months’ time in which to pay it back, in small weekly or monthly payments, as you prefer. $1.20 is the weekly payment on a SSO loan for fifty weeks; other amounts at the same porportion. Remember this: Our dealings are confidential. You get the money without delay. Our rates are most reasonable. If you need money fill out the following blank, cut it out and mail it to us. Our agent is in Decatur every Tuesday. Name ... Address Am’t Wanted ■ Kind of Security ■ Reliable Private B n.Wjyne loan Company I 1 Established 189* Room 2 Bec- U ond Floor, 70* Calhoun Street. M Home Phone, 838 Fort Wayne, Ind

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SAVED AN IOWA MAN’S LIFE. The very grave seemed to yawn before Robert Maduen, of West Burlington, lowa, when, after seven weks in the hospital, four of the best phyai iclans gave him up. Then was shown the marvelous curative power of months of frightful suffering frem Ever trouble and yellow jaundice, getting no help from other remedies er doctors, five bottels of this matchless medicine completely cured him. | It’s positively guaranteed for Stomach, Liver and Kidney troubles and never disappoints. Only 50 cents at all druggists. SALE OF HOUSEHOLD GOODS. The undersigned will sell at public auction at his residence just back of the South ward school bouse, beginning at 1 o’clock, Thursday, December 22nd, the following property: Hard coal stove, range, bed and bedding, dining room table and chairs, rockers, carpets, rug, linoleum, canned fruit, kitchen utensils, bicycle, curtains and blinds, and other articles. All good as new, bought only last spring. 296t5 EMIL BAUMGARTNER. o WANTED —Furnished rooms for light housekeeping. For particulars call at this office. 280 t 3 WANTED —To nuy, a good family I horse. Must be safe tor lady or I children to drive. Inquire H. J. Thompson, agent at Clover Leaf.

When John Brown Wouldn’t Pol-Mnnenr la a favorite cast near Balmoral castle and was always held ns the special preserve of John Brown, who was the personal attendant of the late Queen Victoria. John was nn enthusiastic and inveterate fisher, and often the royal larder was Indebted to bls prowess for Its supplies of spring salmon when the rods of the other fishermen failed to bring them to the bank. It is authentically reported among anglers on Deeslde that when the queen wanted John lie was immediately at her cull except when angling, and at such times she would not disturb him. The tacit understanding between them is said to have arisen in the following fashion: Her majesty one day sent an Imperative message to the riverside desiring John to immediately wait upon her. “Tell her majesty," applied John in his usual Doric, “that I am rinnlu’ a salmon and I canna come.” The messenger came back to him in hot haste, saying that the queen desired to see him the very minute. “Well, tell her majesty this time that I am rlnnin' a salmon and I wlnna come.” And that settled it. Albatross and Magpie. Birds play a great part In good and bad auguries nt sea. The albatross Is regarded as a harbinger of good fortune and has been immortalized as such by Coleridge In “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” whereas the magpie is a bad omen. A friend of Sir Walter Scott, traveling by coach to London, entered Into a conversation with a respectable looking seaman, who remarked: “I wish we may have luck in our journey. There's a magpie.” “And why should that be unlucky?” “I can’t tell you that, but all the world agrees one magpie bodes ill luck, two are not so bad, but three are the evil one himself. I never saw three magpies but twice, and once I nearly lost my vessel, and afterward I fell from my horse and was hurt” Many seamen still believe in water spirits or sprites. In Bohemia the fishermen are afraid to assist a drowning man for fear of giving offense to the water sprite. Berthollet and Robespierre. It is said that the celebrated savant Barthollet In the most dangerous times of the republic sustained his fearless love of truth. Some days prior to the ninth Thermidor a sandy deposit was found in a barrel of brandy Intended for the army. The contractors, suspected of poisoning, were immediately arrested, and the scaffold was already prepared. Berthollet, however, examined the brandy and reported It free from all adulteration. “You dare maintain,” said Robespierre to him. "that that brandy does not contain poison?" As his reply Berthollet drank off a glass, saying, “I never drank so much before.”

•Ton have plenty of courage!” exclaimed Robespierre. “I had more when I signed my report," replied the chemist, and here the matter terminated. Fiddling and Skating. The celebrated violinist Joachim during n winter residence in northern Germany was In the habit of watch* ing the skaters on a fine piece of water beneath his windows until one day it occurred to hiiu to try the exercise himself. As he had never yet donned a pair of skates he put himself Into the hands of a man who provided skates and instruction In the art on the brink of the water and was soon equipped and started ou the Ice, the master leading his pupil. Finding no difficulty In keeping his balance under these circumstances. Joachim felt sure he could go alone, desired his leader to leave him and the next minute was sprawling on the ice on his back. “Aha!” said the teacher triumphantly as he raised his pre trate pupil. "You see it is not quite so easy as playing a fiddle!” The Bridal Wreath. The bridal wreath is usually formed of myrtle branches in Germany. It is made of orange blossoms in France as well as in the United States. In Italy and the French cantons of Switzerland it is of white roses. In Spain the flowers of which it is composed are red roses apd pinks. In the islands of Greece vine leaves serve the purpose, and in Bohemia rosemary Is employed. In German Switzerland a crown of artificial flowers takes the place of the wreath. A RARE COIN. It la Called a “Miaatrtka” and la Vary Seldom Seen. “See this penny 1 got today at the postoffice,” said the cashier. "There aren’t five other pennies like it in the United States.” Ho handed out a cent piece with the die impression half off the face of the coin and with a big half mooa of blank metal showing along one side. "They call it a misstrike,” he continued. “Perhapa once in 10.000.000 times the two little notched fingers on the minting machines that grip the blank disk and draw it forward to the die fail to spring away. In this case the left hand finger stuck and pushed the coin halfway over the die. That Is how the impression is only half on the disk. “You can see the raised edge on the blank portion of the metal." the cashier went on as he took up his pen. "It Isn't everybody knows that each coin goes under the dies twice. The first time it is struck with a blank, dome shaped set of dies to put an edge on the disk. Then it gets tbe regular die with the familiar head on it. I “What’s it worth? Oh. I’ll say prob-

ably $25 or so. T see it’s been In circulation for nine years. It's a wonder some coin collector husn t nabbed firm going to keep it as a rarity.”— New York Timex. SENSE OF HEARING. Sound Wave* and the Way They Act Upon the Ear*. The detection of the direction of a sound by tbe sense of bearing Is. like, the rapid focusing of the eye on objects at different distances, one of those instini five operations which are continually done without any conscious method. Sound waves traverse the air as ripples stir the water, and tbe ear by experience acquires sortie slight power of detecting the direction in one case, as the eye does with far greater accuracy iu the other. Usually we unconsciously receive assistance from other senses as well. Often we fail to locate at once some hidden source of sound, such as a singing bird, and then our Instinctive Ingenuity displays itself. The intensity of sound is, of course, by no means so great behind a screen as in front of it. and every one carries with him the screen of his own head, which may prevent a particular sound from being heard so well by one ear as by the other. If. then, the head is turned until this inequality disappears and both ears hear equally well we i know that we must be directly facing or turned from the source of sound, and our previous rough idea of its whereabouts generally prompts us to face it. Wind and Temper. There is a closer connection between wind and temper than at first sight appears. A coldish wind has a bracing effect and, on the whole, is beneficial. In countries where hot winds occur periodically, on the other hand, these are regarded as a nuisance, if not a curse. Every oue almost gets cross, weary and done up and has a headache daily. In Egypt th* season when crimes ar* commonest is when th* hot khamseeu blows. Nearly always during a sever* sirocco tbe Arabs in Algeria were restless, if they did not attempt an actual rising. Tbe solano. which now and then rushes across tbe Mediterranean in fiery blasts from Africa, upsets every one in Spain and is the worst wind in that country. And even in the Pearl of tbe An- ; tilles the fierce hot wind is such a pest that it is recorded of a family living in Havana that they made it a rule in the household to preserve absolute silence until the wind disappeared. It was the only plan they could think of to avoid family quarrels. Easily Granted. Tommy—Ma. can I have two pieces , of pie this noon? Ma—Certainly, Tom--1 my. Cut the piece you have in two.— Somerville Journal.

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