Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 11, Number 68, Decatur, Adams County, 20 March 1913 — Page 3

HAD TO ENFORCE THE LAW .Colonial Justice Could Not u "■"“wxV'XK;.'"" 11 ' h"/ ♦°l d < "l Kht * n Wlnter a traveler called at hi« house for lodging T > ready ho.pltallty of the justice was about being dt.played when the stranger unluckily uttered a word which his host considered profane Whereupon he informed his imert that he was a magistrate, pointed on tho nature of the offense, and ex plained the necessity of its being ex plated by sitting an hour In the stocks Remonstrance was unavailing for cusU m. at that time allowed the mavis, trate to convict and punish at once and In this case the magistrate acted as accuser, witness, jury. j udgo and sheriff, all la one. Cold as it was, ths worthy justice, aided by his son, conducted the travtyr to the place of punishment, an open spot near the meeting house where the stocks were placed Here the wayfarer was confined tn the Wual manner the benevolent executor of the law remaining with him to be., guile the time of its tedium by edify-’ Ing conversation j At the expiration of the hour he was recondncted to the house, ,g>d hospltalably entertained until the next morning, when the traveler departed —Green Hag. HEAT ASCRIBED TO BACTERIA Discoveries of Scientist May Account for Otherwise Mysterious Burning of Haystacks The familiar phenomenon of the heating of hay In the stack has usually been ascribed to purely chemical reactions. Recent researches carried out by Mlche, however, show that the process is a physiological one, due to bacteria and other lowly organisms. It was found that sterilized hay would not heat, but that if sprinkled with water contaminated with earth or ordinary hay it did so. A species of bacillus and a fungus were found to be chiefly responsible for temperatures up to 50 degrees centigrade For higher temperatures another species of bacillus was found to be responsible. The work of the bacteria In the heating of hay illustrates the curious fact that these organisms usually end by killing themselves. In the center of a large heated stack the hay is found to be sterile. And this Is attributed to the killing of the bacteria by the heat which they have themselves evolved. In other cases they are poisoned by the toxins which they themselves produce. Such Is Fame. Reginald de Koven, the composer of "Robin Hood,” left the Knickerbocker theater, New York, recently after a rehearsal of some new chorus people and visited a barber shop across tho street from the stage entrance. He climbed Into a chair and asked for a shave. "Rehearsing at the KnickerbockerT" asked the barber. “Yes,'' replied Mr. de Koven. “Actor?" "No.” "Stage mechanic?” "No." “What are you doing on the stage then?” “Did you ever hear of Hobin Hood’?" “Sure." "I composed it" "You did what?" "I said composed ft" “Aw, go on." said the barber. "Robin Hood la a race horse." Probably He DM. "Gene Stevens, being asked ts he knew a new story, deposed and said that ho did not, but that bo had a friend who was very sick and that the friend had had a good doctor, but that the doctor was puzzled about the case. So a consultation wm bald. Four other doctors came, looked wise, shook their heads, talked it over together and went away. Then the first doctor summoned the patient's wife. "I am sorry to tell you that your bnsb&nd is in a bad way," be said. "If he is religiously inclined I should advise that you send for a minister with, out delay." "Yea, doctor. Shall I get just one minister or will be need a consultation r—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Milking In Smoke. In parts of Finland mosouftoes aro BO thick that fires have to be mado of wet wood or green boughs and brush before the cows can be milkedA Finnish dairyman goes out into tha field and starts a fire at milking time. The cows know as well as the milkers what this little fire and big smoko mean and they run to get a good place'leeward of the fire so as to bo in great clouds of smoke. Finland Btmds out many million dollars of dairy stuff a year, yet the cows aro plagued by insects during the whole of the short summer of about twelve weeks, and get no rest from the bitew except when In the smoke. Changed His Tune. The other day a visitor surprised a professor, who was saying to his baby: "On-ny. no-ny, ’e musty tick his tootsy tootsies —” Just then be caught Bight of the ■visitor, blushed, and murmured: "Jto.no; you must not expose your pod al extremities by extending them beyond the protective covering of the blanket* or you will lay your system open to’ attacks at catarrhal atteo.

WILL RELIEVE COMMON ILLS Simp'# Home Remedies That May Be Means of Preventing Serious Attack of Sickness. ,S a ha PPX medium between ‘ er * n g in silence and haunting a doctor s office. The drug habit is not ? , but ef l“ally foolish is It to let His become Illness. H'-re are a few simple home Feme--68. harmless, generally effective and inexpensive. A bad cold can often bo broken if a teaspoonful of powdered ginger tn a up of hot milk is taken at the first lymptom. Another quick cure is a half teaspoonful each of bicarbonate of soda snd aromatic spirits of ammonia taken in a half cupful of hot water as soon as you feel the cold. A bad headache can often be cured by drinking a half glass of cold water In which has been squeezed the juice of halt a lemon and a half teaspoonful ot soda. Bruises and cuts can have no better treatment than to apply turpentine immediately. It will sting, but it will cure. Cloths wrung from turpentine and hot water can be frequently applied. For a cold in tho chest rubbing with turpentine and lard is excellent. For a burn there is nothing better | than carrom oil, which is nothing more I than equal parts of linseed oil and lime water. To prevent Infection in a cut peroxide should be applied at once. Equally good 1b pure alcohol.—Boston Globe. NEW VERSION OF HAPPENING Rumor That "Higher Critic” Has Unearthed a Revised Account of Solomon’s Famous Deed. History is becoming more unreliable all the time. The other day a “higher critic,” excavating in the Peloponnesus, unearthed the following revised account of one of King Solomon’s famous verdicts. It seems that there was a child which was claimed by two women, and the case was brought before Judge Solomon for decision. According to the old version of the story Judge Solomon, after careful consideration, proposed that the child be cut in two and half given to each woman, whereupon the real mother protested. It now appears that this Is not what he did at all. He was still shrewder. Instead of cutting the child in two on the spot, he ordered that it be capitalized. Thereupon a company was formed and the stock equally divided between the two claimants. He then put the child to work in a sweatshop. Both women, satisfied, went away and lived in ease and affluence ever after on the proceeds.—Life. "St. Sophia” a Misnomer. Some may have wondered who was the St. Sophia who gave her name to the great church at Constantinople. It is not named after a saint at all, its correct designation, Agia Sophia, meaning 'House of Divine Wisdom.” According to tradition an angel inspired this name. Shortly after the foundation of the church had been laid by Justinian, a boy set to watch the workmen's tools was visited by a celestial figure with wings reaching to heaven. "Go and tell the emperor,” commanded the angel, “that this church is to be named ‘The House of Divine Wisdom,’ ’’ and on hearing the boy's story Justinian obeyed the angelic command. Novel Reaeons. Some men write novels because they have got into a mess with a woman and want to see how It looks on paper, or to explain their real motives, or to find away out. Other novels are really intimate letters Intended for one reader only. Others—and these aro largely those written br women—create tlje kind of life which the writer would have fired had she ever had the chance; execelse* in what may be called the Consolation School of Fiction. But the greater number are written because lomo one else wrote better, and the Imitative faculty Is so strong in us.— “London Lavender,” by E. V. Lucas. Progress. All our institutions, thoughts, sent!uents and methods are slowly changing with the advancement of clvtllzaI lion. As time passes, the progressive ' Individuals and nations lay aside one rror and superstition after another. Feudalism, chattel slavery, divine right of kings, titles of nobility and militarism have already become antiquated relics of the past Our science is daily growing more complete, religion more liberal, inventions more perfect, trade and industry more expansive and unified, comforts and conveniences more general, education more popular and governments more democratic. —Colorado Springs Gazette. Still Got Good Credit. A laboring man, who often runs counter to the police, was picked up a few nights ago, almost literally, too, for he had difficulty in keeping the sidewalk and street from bumping together. “Why, Thomas, Thomas,” said the policeman in a reproving tone, “what in the world does this mean?" "What’ does dis mean, wha’ does dis mean, wha’ does dis mean?" said Thomas, with the rising Inflection, in an Injured tone of voice. “Why, yo’all iorter know sholy wha’ dis mean! It means Ah still got good credit In mah home town—dat’s what hit mean I"

FIRMLY BELIEVE IN MASCOTS — People of the Stage Probably Are, as a Body, the Most Superstitious on the Earth. It Is well known that aviators are | the most superstitious beings in the world, or, rather, in the air. But cer- ' tainly actors and actor-managers run them very closely in this respect A piece now running in London al- ' tributes the whole of its success to the mysterious appearance every night of a little, sad-faced man who lounges near the theater till the house is filled. So confident is the managemept that I this human mascot brings luck that, to keep him by them, they bribe him with choice cigars to lounge there every night. But even this, as an extraordinary pxample of the lengths to which superstition runs away with the most level-headed people, is beaten hollow by the marvelous array of mascots said to control the success of a new play just starting. To begin with, the leading lady pos- ■ Besses a huge black cat mascot, which sat sedately by her on the first night. A lucky feline Is also the mascot of one ot the adaptors, while the owners of the theater in question stake their luck on several curious amulets In their possession. Not content with this, the princlpal actor, who is also the manager, was lent for the special occasion of the first night, a magnificent watch of eastern workmanship. HAS ITS ROOTS IN CONFIDENCE So True Friendship Elevates Two Hearts Above Sordid Struggles cf Their Time. As the love of Romeo and Juliet elevated their souls above the strife of their houses, so can friendship elevate two hearts above the struggles of their time, though the individuals be ever engaged in it; while those friends who happily walk the same path cheer and strengthen each other by their mutual example; and since essential confidence can exist between good men only, they propel each other in the path of virtue, for it is a primary law of all intercourse, that if two or more of the same inclination, pursuit or character —good, frivolous or wicked —are brought in close contact with one another, in the same direction they will propel one another still more rapidly. Friendship must rest on mutuality, it is one of its essential qualities; for one of its requisites and blessings is the enjoyment of confidence —a luxury to xgood men; and Aeschylus is right .when he says that kings suffer one evil, they do not know how to confide in friends; while the reason that was given of Trajan’s having friends is that he was a friend of himself.— Francis Lieber. Keep Your Individuality. The idea that there is a kind of inequality for a woman in minding her own business and letting man do the same, comes from our confused and rather stupid notion of the meaning of equality. The uneasy woman has always taken it for granted that man is happier than woman. It is an assumption which is at least discussible. The man who praises the works of the Creator as all wise not infrequently treats his arrangement for carrying on the race as if it were unfit to be spoken of in polite society. A woman is very prone to look on marriage as a merger of personalities, but there can be no great union where an individuality permits itself to be ruled. The notion that a woman's happiness depends upon the man—« that he must "make her happy"—is a basic untruth. —Houston Post. Supreme Sorrow. All the bodily pangs and labors which motherhood and mother-care have cost age after age is the least of their giving. All the patient toiling which millions of mothers have imposed upon themselves when they alone have reared and fed their children, all the watchful nights, the tired steps—all that mothers have denied themselves for the sake of their children. is not the greatest of their sufferings. That is their greatest sorrow which a man has expressed in the poem wherein the mother throws her heart at her eon's feet, who, as he angrily stumbles over It, hears the heart whisper, ‘Did you hurt yourself, my child?”’—Ellen Key, in the Atlantic. For the Parent’s Eye. Sympathy is a gift We are born with it or without it as the case may be, but it can be cultivated from a very small beginning, and no parent, however cold and dispassionate toward the people in this busy world of ours, should allow the possibility of sympathy between himself or herself and the child to be cut off without making a hard flghA. Personality, culture, dignity, understanding and quiet, peaceful sympathy—these are needed more than rooms “ceiled with cedar and painted with vermillion," and these, when exhibited in a home, give it the magnet-quality, from which children once under its influence can never ea-' cape.—Mother's Magazine. Character In Streets. Bacon—l see there is no street in London named after any of Dickens* characters. Egbert—Perhaps not; but some ot them have Twist enough to them to be so named.

Doo-coa (YOU WILL NEED MONEY 1 I ROH CHRISTMAS I H Tou Mill Be Sure To Have It H i if fflMEagaga, i ■■win If you join the Ohl Adams County Bank’s Christmas Saving Club which started March 17th 1913 Tt B costsnothing to join. You can’t lose a penny. You have everything to gain. H Out Christmas Saving Club is a co-operative plan to help one another save money for Christmas bv IE pajinga little every week into a fund for 38 weeks, when the money will be divided among the members E? according to the classes they have joined. Members will receive interest at the rate of 3 per cent ner an- if num ’ provlded the y P a Y m ever y week for the full period. 1 P an ft S In case you discontinue payments you will receive L J the full amount you have paid when the Club closes- ▼ about December 15th, when the fund will be disbursed W Q and everybody belonging will get their money. A Y 5 cents starts you, 2 cents starts you, 1 cent starts you, T n Or you can reverse payments A rC c 1’ jC w„ ek ’ “ c 2nd. week, 3c the 3rd. week, 4c the 4th. week, 5c the sth. week jr fl 6c the 6t r week so on for 38 weeks, and two weeks before Christmas we will mail you a check for the A gg amount due you with interest at 3 per cent. H Or in Class 2. Pay 2c the Ist. week, 4c the 2nd. week, 6c the 3rd. week, and so on, and we will mail J|| you a check two weeks before Christmas for the amount due you with interest at 3 per cert. Or in Class 5. Pav 5c the Ist. week, 10c the 2nd. week, 15c the 3rd. week, and so on, and we will mail ■ you a check two weeks before Christmas for the amount due you with interest at 3 per cent. B Payments must be made every week, or may be made in advance Everybody is Welcome To Join I o*C9| I THE OLD ADAMS COUNTY BANK Q V\ Resources Over 1 Million Dollars WEZSM II 1 11 MB r^rgFß'' 1 ' - ir<x

FOR SALE—FuII-blooded Indian Runner duck eggs at 75c a setting of 13 eggs. The only duck that lays the year around. Will deliver at Decatur. —R. N. Runyon, Decatur, R. R. 3; 'phone 8-L. • 66t3 FOR SALE —(rood dwelling house, 3 lots on 13th St., one square from brick street.— J. H. Elick. 53t.. MALE HELP WANTED — Railwaymail clerks, carriers wanted, good pay, fine positions. Pay for your instruction after you receive position. Liberty Institute, Dept. 76, Rochester, N. Y. 15-22-29-5 FOR SALE —Combination book case and writing desk. Call at 232 South Second street. 64tf ft n ft! m Fred Quallmann, Warren, ■ Kllllr M,ch says: “ A,,er ,he UI! UU I doctor had given up the ~~ — case, my child was cured Hlinrn of Croup by KIRCHNER’S LI IK TII GREEN MOUNTAIN OIL wVlim Given internally.” Sold by FOR SALE BY CALLOW & RICE. PILES! PILES! PILES! WILLIAMS’ INDIAN PILE OINTMENT Will cure Blind, Bleeding and Itching Piles. It absorbs the tumors, allays itching at once, acts as a poultice, giveH instant relief. For sale by all druggists, mail 50c and 11.00 WILLIAMS MiG. CO., Props., Cleveland, Ohio For Sale BY ENTERPRISE DRUG CO. HAVE Just received a shipment of Bock Beer in Bottles. (Case of 3 doz. 51.50| I. A. KALVER Telephone 581 NOTICE Mortgage exemptions are due to be filed on and after March, 1 1913 until May 1, 1913. I have had several years experience in making mortgage exemptions and am equipped to do work in every way. When you aie ready to file vour exemption give me a trial. WILL HAMMELL Over Vance & HiteS tori

lllllllllllllllllllliiiiiillll!IIK!ll!!!!]Ei!!IJ The Last Course Must Be the Most Attractive When people are hungry they are les, critical of what is set before them than they are when the dessert appears. This course must be attractive to eye and palate alike —a light and tempting sweet, in distinction from the substantial dishes preceding it. You can make such desserts with Knox Gelatine. For today try——Blanc Mange with Almondt—— 1 envelope Knox Sparkling Gelatine. 3zk cups cream or milk, h pouml almonds. 1 cup sugar. Soften gelatine in S cup milk or cream five minutes and dissolve by standing in hot water. Pound the almonds, after blanching, with part of sugar; add rest of sugar and part of cream. • Let stand hour or more, then press through napkin. Add to this almond milk, the dissolved gelatine and rest of milk or cream, turn into mold. Serve with cream, TwoPackagot— Ptainand Aeidalatxd. Both Making Two Quarts (X gallon) of Jell,. With the Plain Sparkling, lemons are used for flavoring; but with the Acidulated package comes an envelope of concentrated lemon Juice —a great convenience when too busy to squeese lemons, Both contain a tablet for coloring. Let as tend you the Knox Recipe Book and enough Gelatine to make one pint —enough to try most any one of our desserts, puddings, salads, jellies, ice creams, sherbets, caudles, etc. Ktcift booh free for your grocer'e name—fmt tamf.t tor Ic itsnif, CHAILEB B. KKOX CO. ♦** Knn An. JohuiUwn. «. T. feHiSTimiriilii WnHinlll FOR SALE —Cheap, 130-egg incubator; in good condition; call 'phone No. 70. 67t8 GOOD 7 room house on High street, hard and soft water and artifical gas, a Bargain if taken soon. Good 7 room house on West Monroe st. Plenty of fruit, hard and soft water and electric lights A bargain don’t miss it. Northern Indiana Real ! ' Estate Agency

ONLY a few more days till Easter, are you going to have a new pair of shoes or oxfords? Suppose you come to our store and try on a pair of our new Spring Shoes. • PEOPLES & GERKE 1 I II J W 1 W k ram Xa /JM W iJtS~ - I g m ! * ill* S w SCENE IN THE LAST ACT OF “THE LIGHT ETERNAL" COMING TO BOSSE OPERA HOUSE TUESDAY EVENING.