Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 97, Decatur, Adams County, 23 April 1915 — Page 5

THE NEW Adams County Directory Now being compiled by the publishers of the Farm Journal, will include not only the city and towns, but also every farm in the county, and a numbered road map different, from any map you ever saw, with other new features of interest to business men. i Get Mr. M. E. STRAUP, the county manai ger, to call and explain them to you.’ His address is P. 0. Box 212, Decatur, Indiana. Wilmer-Atkinson Company | Publishers of the Farm Journal PHILADELPHIA. — —■■■■■■■■ 'I HUH ■■■!■ —JI Become Acquainted With this International Harvester Engine VZ’OU will not be 1 a^e t 0 a KBra more nearly perfect K@ ' 1 'jl/ engine built for •* fS&K Sir *' V\ standard power use Vthan this TH C side I shaft engine we are '\ J/ready to deinonit '' a strate an< l ex P^ a ' n T-. ". _ .4- L /$■ to you. Every part c has received the same accurate care and finish in building, and nothing in the line of modern improvement is lacking. . . To mention just a point or two here — The cylinder is so designed that tire ignitor is the only part fastened to the cylinder head, and it can be easily removed. All parts liable to heat are always in contact with cooling water. A hand hole located in the bottom of the cylinder is provided for cleaning out any sediment that mav be deposited. .... . . . • . r This engine is built to operate on several kinds of fuel, including kerosene, so that you may choose the most convenient, and get your - power at lowest cost. We are ready to explain every detail at any tune. Schaub-Dowling Cc. The Ankor Holth ill! IIMBT'II’WTiTf BtStififfi SELFBALANCING JET mil „ nAn „ dra THE BOWL OWn THAT ill NEVER WOBBLES ! i aIL A practical, reliable, simple common sense separator, that appeals to'every dairyman, because— IT GETS ALL THE CREAM <Jefiaferhardware Go-

|F&OD FOR STRANGER j SOUTH AFRICAN NATIVES HAVE A HUMANE CUSTOM. Field lg Set Aglde on Which Supplleg Are Grown and Stored in Readinegg to Appease Hunger of Chance Visitor. In South Africa, among the natives, there is a custom which has never been mentioned by any traveler in his tales. In the Transkei, Basutoland and Bechuanaland, nearly every fair-sized village has a held set aside for strangers. Iu a village where the king resides, usually his chief wife is told oft to cultivate this field and store away all the product in the upper part of her hut, and If in any adjacent village some chief woman is saddled with the work, no man of the tribe is permitted to touch any food thus stored. The king’s wife, or whoever cultivates the land, takes her share of the product and makes her living out of It, but all over and above the amount actually consumed must be set aside and preserved. She may not trade with any other wife of the king. This field is known as the ‘‘Strangers’ Field.” Whenever a stranger comes to the village ho makes known his wants to the king and he is immediately relieved. The best hut fn the village is set apart for him, he eats the food of the stranger’s field, and the wife of the king prepares th4 food for him with her own hand. He remains a week, or a month, or any reasonable length of time, and his departure Is never hastened. Sometimes he stays long enough to become a members of the tribe. An amusing feature of this custom is the fact that indigent members of the tribe occasionally leave the village and go to other villages and become strangers, so that very often when a familiar face has been missed from a certain village and anyone asks where So-and-So went or what became of him, the inquirer has been gravely informed that So-and-So was poor and became a stranger. Some lazy men go around from village to village, and whetKihey return to their original kraal they spin the yarn that they have been working in the mines! Then again one often can run across So-and-So in a distant village living on the fat of the land as a stranger and being treated to royal hospitality. There are no beggars in Africa. When a man becomes too poor to get along comfortably he makes a circuit of the adjacent villages as a stranger. Saved Victoria’s Life. Lieut. Col. Gordon Wilson, who was killed at the front near Ypres recently, was, when he was a boy at Eton, instrumental in saving the life of Queen Victoria in March, 1882. \\ hen a young man named Roderick Maclean attempted to fire a pistol at the queen on the platform of Windsor station, Wilson, with his umbrella, struck up the assailant’s arm, for which act he was summoned to Windsor castle and personally thanked by the queen. The boy’s act gave rise to a clever pun. It was suggested that he receive a peerage, and Basil Young, the engineer, remarked that if this were done his coat-of-arms ought to be an umbrella, with the motto: “Pour la Heine.” As a subaltern he rode in famous midnight steeplechase at Melton. . He served with distinction iti the South African war, and was an aide-de-camp of Geneni Baden-Powell throughout the siege of Mafeking, being several times mentioned in dispatches. Activities of Women. New Mexico is the only state in the Union which has no suffrage organization. Less than 10 per cent of the young women in a large city have normal bodies. Approximately 6,200 women arc employed in the garment factories of Indiana. Fifteen women to every 100 men in Minneapolis earn their living by labor. France has 18 women inspectors of labor, while Austria has five and Belgium one. Mrs. E. J. Clinton of Portland, Ore., is considered an expert on card filing systems. Women very often do farm work tn Sweden while their husbands sit back and smoke. If New York state grants equal suffrage nearly 3,000,000 women will share in the franchise. Missouri has over 60,000 women workers, of whom about 10,000 live away from home. Crocodiles Live Long. Crocodiles are very interesting because they are survivals of an ancie«? and vanished epoch. They resemble closely some of the saurians that walked on the earth and swam in the ocean during that age of reptiles which, according to the geologists, came to an end many millions of years ago. It is probable that these creatures live longer than any other animal in the world. There is a crocodile in the embassy garden at Mutwal, in Ceylon, which is known to be 155 yea - s old, though Its age when first captured could not be ascertained. Domestic Paradise. Mother—Does that young lady you intend to marry know anything about housekeeping? gon—Not a thing. I’ll be the happiest man alive. I don’t believe she’ll clean house once m ten years.—New York Weekly.

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