Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 9, Number 280, Decatur, Adams County, 29 November 1911 — Page 3

Why is the soda crac ker to-day such « a universal food ? People ate soda , y ackers in the old days, it is true—but tney bought them ft om a barrel or box and took them home m a paper bag, their crispness and flavor all gone. - - i o-day there is a soda cracker which is the recognized staple — Uneeda Biscuit. Uneeda Biscuit are the most nutritious food made from flour and should be eaten every day by every member of the family from the youngest to the oldest. Uneeda Biscuit — I soda crackers better than any ever ma 'e before —made in th' I greatest bakeries in the world —baked to perfection — packed to perfection — kept to perfection until you take them, oven-fresh and crisp, from their protecting package. NATIONAL BISCUIT i COMPANY 1 r ADD ZEST TO YOUR THANKSGIVING DINNER There is nothing like the luxury of a good smoke after your turkey dinner. THE WHITE STAG A Seed and Havana cigar is just “the” smoke top oil with, . Take a box home with you tonight For Sale by All Dealers

DUTY OF THE PARENTS their responsibility for children NEVER ENDS Loving and Redeeming Thought and Action of Father and Mother Should Continue, Whatever the Conduct of Offspring. In early days in New England it was the custom of many fathers to give each son, on reaching his majority, ‘his portion” of the family fortune, fend the young man out into the world with paternal blessing, tell him to take •.are of himself and cease to be reiponsible for his conduct. In a sense, of course, this was folowing the teaching and practice of earlier peoples. That most of the sons ittained to Independence and positions of respect in the world was the general rule. The system was a part of the stern methods of dealing with family affairs. And it bred a race of stein men. In those days, seldom, if ever, were advertisements -so familiar in these later times—published announcing that the advertiser would not be "responsible for debts contracted” by anybody but himself. In the case of the sons, there was no occasion for such warning, for the whole situation was understood by the public. Changing times and manners have brought new conditions. When does responsibility of parent for care and conduct of offspring cease? Does the mere fact of a boy or a girl passing a s certain birthday anniversary end that I responsibility? Does any line of con- | duet- careless, frivolous, extravagant, , even criminal —silence the call of a boy or girl—or of the community—foi father or mother to continue loving, saving, rescuing, redeeming thought and action? Certainly, the boy and girl had no ■ least responsibility for their own be- I ing. They were not consulted. It could not be known that they would be gratified with the conditions and influences into which they were brought at birth and to which they 1 were to be subjected in early life. The tiny tot who falls and is bruised ] in the effort to walk is caressed and comforted by father and mother. When maybe IS or 16 years old, or even at- | talned to the stature of manhood or womanhood, the child—still a "tot” in experience and judgment—may seem to fall or fail in those elements of moral strength or discretion which make for successful life records. Must I the caressing and comforting parents be withheld? The sterner the parent in such a case, the more obstinate is the child : likely to seem. That responsibility I which is conceived in love, born in the spirit of devotion and nourished by purpose and hope for the best for the child never ceases while the parent lives. Miserable Toadstool, It is a pity that the edible mush- I room of our fields, the most liked and the commonest of all fungi, should be | forever under a ,n because ignorant j or careless people persist in cooking I I a few specimens of the death cup | Amanita, the commonest of poisonous i fungi, with their mess of mushrooms, I and dying suddenly in consequence. I The death cup amanita is the only | toadstool which could possibly be mis taken for the common edible mush- I room of the fields, the agarlcus cam- | pestris, which is not generally known i by its Latin name, and can get along 1 very well without it This field mush room abounds in the pasture lots and moms. After a heavy rain it can be gathered by the basketful. It is a nutritious and palatable food, which can be cooked and served In many ways, all enticing and satisfying, in its wild state it is more delicious than any cultivated mushroom. One who becomes well acquainted with it novel mistakes for it the poisonous fungi, which slightly resembles it in contour I and color, but is easily recognized by one who has a fair acquaintance with the fungi of the fields. j Value of the Hands. Twenty thousand dollars for the boy ; who lost both hands- the reward just I I sustained by the New Jersey courts— I I is little enough. It is about all that most persons 1 with two hands can do to earn a liv I ' ing at manual labor in these days ot ' ! ' high rents and high prices. There are ! ! few trades open to a man handicapped ‘ J by the loss of one hand. For him who ! is without hands there is forever no opportunity, no outlook. More than this, the handless man | must all his life have attendance. He cannot dret” himself He cannot feed • himself. The most intricate artificial hands can never perform a ienth of j the services rendered by nature’s exi cellent implements. He is cut off, too, from participation in most forms of pleasurable and beneficial physical ex- E i ercises and enjoyments. c The decision is especially note- 1 worthy as a new mark in the appar--1 ently increasing appreciation that ' courts and juries all over the country are showing as to the handicap of physical disability. Woman Stonecutter, - Miss Agatha Troy of Utica, N. Y., is j said to be me only woman in this ■ country who M a professional stonecutter. She acts as her lather s as- 1 I slstant as a granite and marble cut- 11 ter. She is Sicilian by birth, and though less than five feet high, is said j to be able to handle a five pound hammer with the ease and skill of any of the young men employed in her * father’s yard. 11

— Childish Beliefs. I Yes, children believe plenty of Queer things. I suppose ail of you have had the pocketbook fever when you were little. What do I mean? Why, ripping up old pocketbooks In the firm belief that bank bills to an Immense amount were hidden In them. So, too, you must all remember some splendid Unfulfilled promise of somebody or other, which fed you with hopes perhaps for years, and which left a blank in your life which nothing has ever filled up.—Holmes. Man’s Many Wants. How many ways there are tn which our peace may be assailed, besides actual want! How many comforts do we stand in need of, besides meat and drink and clothing! Is it nothing to "administer to a mind diseased” —to heal a wounded spirit? After all other difficulties are removed, we still want some one to bear our infirmities, to impart our connaence to, to encourage us in our hobbies (nay, to get up and ride behind us), and to like us with all our faults. —HazlitL The Human Frame. A physician says that the human frame may be compared to a watch, of which the heart is the mainspring, the stomach the regulater, and what Jwe put in it the key by which the machine is wound up. According to the quantity, quality and proper digestion of what we eat and drink will be the pace of the pulse and the action of the system in general. If the machine is disorganized, the same expedients are employed for its readjustment as ! are used by the watchmaker. Fruit Trees on German Roads. Fruit trees are planned by the roadside in parts of Germany, but not, as (might be supposed, for the appease-[n-eut of appetities of passers-by. The | trees are watched closely, and at the end of the season the fruit is sold. | The amount stolen is very small. The ’warning is succinct, but not too blunt, being merely the words, “A good man injures no tree,” posted on a board at intervals along the roac. > Coincidence In Deaths. A queer coincidence attends the i death of Rev. J. H. Hammond of -Great Comberton, near Pershore, England, who was killed when flung from 'his horse a few days ago. Curiously 'enough the two previous rectors of (Great Comberton met their death in a similar manner. Liquid Glue. An excellent cold liquid glue is j juiade as follows: Dilute 2 to : (parts crude nitric acid with 40 ,to 50 of water, soak in this 25 parts of glue for twenty-four hours and then heat the mixture until it is homogenous. The quantity of acid used depends on the quality of the glue. I — China to Have Airships. China's military councillors and the minister of war have decided in a j conference to send officers to Engi land to acquire technical knowledge iof air machines to enable them to construct and to fly airships on return to China. The Resemblance. j The Little Chap—“ We’re getting up I a tug-o’-war between the married and I single men. You’re married, aren’t ; you?” The American —"No —I’ve just been seasick, that’s why I lock that way!”—London Opinion. Gentle Intercourse. Mr. Jones —“Mrs. Brown and her next door neighbor, Mrs. Green, don’t , ispeak any more.” Mrs. Smith —"That’s 'good; the rest of the neighbors will I |now be able to take a nap in the afternoon.” No Grief About It. - Marks—“My dear aunt had not been > dead 24 hours when her parrot died |too.” Parks —“The poor bird died of grief, I suppose?” Marks—" No. Poison.”—Boston Transcript. Our Feelln't, Says a fashion writer in an article on fancy blouses: "For there are always days, even in summer, when one does not feel like a white blouse.” More likely a gray goose. Good Advice. Rub elbows with the least of the world’s people, If you would quicken your brain and soften your heart. — Exchange. I - I Slices Boiled Egg Evenly. An implement has been Invented for slicing a boiled egg evenly—a more difficult task than generally is supposed. The One Best Method. There are innumerable methods of courting, but the best method is to be j-ich.—Frank Richardson. Reasonable to Suppose. The boy who was started wrong is probably father to the man who habitually stops at nothing—Puck. See-Saw. As a rule, the melancholy youth makes frivolous old man, while jolly boy grows serious with age. j

-——————————————_ LOOK AT THIS 1 I ■ I ; PIANO SALE AT YAGER BROS. ANlj | i REINKING’S ‘ I , 'jmarv-~~ -•>wwiiiytinm.uuraist ■ I 1 Onflow 1 n U ' ** BLOB.* 11,I 1 , • ' fl ’ | gfl ■ ' '■ " ’ V HI I —...(w- Bl 1 s f ui in fl I II - 'T' 1 i ■i ' -W L i ' We will sell you a fully guaranteed Piano for $150.0® ; and take it back should you become dissatisfied at price yoifl ; paid. The reason we can sell these so cheap we have cu® “ ofi the foreign Salesmanagers profits, we give you benefi® :of usual high price of piano salesman. Do not buy a pianw ‘ until you have seen our selection as 12 different styles, anjl of them sold on easy payments from $5.00 a month upL Bring in your Piano puzzle scheme certificates we will re- ■ deem them. Do not be deceived with them come in we ‘ will explain the scheme and redeem the SIOO.OO certificate : for any instrument we have on the floor. Why not st buy your piano from your home merchant who will treat you fair and honest. It will cost you nothing to see them. | Come in and hear them played. You will be better satis- , tied to buy from your home merchant who will treat ’ you ’ fair and honest. Come in and see us. I THE HOUSE Oh' QUALITY UP-TO-DATE I FURNITURE MEN ’ YAGER BROS. AND REINKING

NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that the tin dersigned trustees of the School Citj J of Decatur, Indiana, will offer for sale at public auction, at the law office of ! j Dore B. Erwin, in Decatur, Indiana, in the City of Decatur. Indiana, on i Wednesday, November 29, 1911, < at 10 d’cloek a. m., the following de 1 scribed real estate in the City of De-

' RMSHKi et “sn r n imn n, ,»U - . L-.———J I—J I LOWEST Prices n ■ IRmSl'’ BEST“arIOES I | This Week at the Boston Store I I OW/sl I INCOATSAND FURS O' | F feM f\\ Sealettes, Valours Venetian f* || V/U Ivl Bro ? d Noth and Novelties in p ■ WiJ j<J jjA y\ Ladies coats, also a big line of I H I I Purs that we have reduced in U B 1J— price for this week. g I 0 j ’ 1 All|Ladies, Misses and Child- 0 | rens coats’: and furs can be ■ ■ j| 1 bought at a big reduction this H » V I week. We have the goodsand fl I ' s 1 ® j the prices are right. Come in IJ IlwffllW and see them. No trouble to j B- I ®« i M s!iw goods. u p I ®l«' n g THE boston stores

catur, Adams County, Indiana, to-1 wit: Inlot number one hundred Hire(lo3) In the original plat of the town ' (now city) of Decatur, Adams County, | Indiana. Said sale will be to the highest bid-! der for not less than the lull apprals- j ed value, which is $3,000.00, and the | terms are cash on day of sale FRED V. MILLS,

IRWIN BRANDYBERRY, OSCAR L. VANCE, J Trustees School City of Decatur, In- ' diana. . 262t20 i NOTICE —For bargains iu farm, city and other real estate deals, it would : pay you to become acquainted w ith j the bargains of the P. K. Kinney real j estate agency before buying, over interurban station. 269t3