Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 276, Decatur, Adams County, 17 November 1915 — Page 2

THE HOLY GRAIL Story of the Green Cryetel Veto of the Ruins of Ceiaroa. Few places are more absolutely cities of the past than Ceaarea. Some one has apokeu of the remains of iU nncient glory us the “ruin of ruins.” The ueiUevaJ town which was twice rebuilt by the crusaders covered scarcely a tenth of the area occupied by the city as St. Paul knew it, and the ruins that we see today are chief ly ihe relics of the medieval city, which was itself built out of the ruins of the undent city. What a rich quarry Cesarea has lieeu for other city builders is shown by the fact that, though it has been drawn upon for all these centuries for marble and granite and sandstone, it is not vet absolutely exhausted, but still affords building material for the peasants of the vicinity. The green crystal vase which was found here when Baldwin 1., the great crusader, captured the city at the beginning of the twelfth century, says the Christian Herald, gave rise to the story of the Holy' Grail, which has inspired so many legends and poems, for Baldwin and his followers believed that It was the one that was used at the last supper by our Lord, when be gave his disciples the cup of wine and said: “Drink ye all of it. This do in remembrance of me.” SEX ATTRACTION. It Is the Controlling Force In About Every Human Effort. We cannot escape from the fact that sex attraction is the great event in human life. Sex is the controlling force in nearly all of human efforts. War, for instance, is only an exaggerated form of the sex Instinct. Neither literature nor art would exist in any appreciable degree without sex. Men work, fight, sing, paint, live and die for the love of woman. In only one field of human activity is there no taint of sex feeling, and that is science. Science is cold and dispassionate. It has imagination, but the imagination of the explorer and not ■ the lover. Science has only one aim and end—the discovery of truth. Science is another world from the hot earth of economic and military competition, which have for their ends the attainment of love and marriage. Through science mankind will gradually throw off some of the sex slavery and reach a new and possibly happier stage in its development.—Richmond Times-Dispatch. The Story of a Long Name. A northern man who was visiting in Baltimore stopped on the street one day to have his shoes polished. A bright eyed little black boy stepped forward to give the desired shine. Becoming interested in the little chap, the northerner asked his name, to y w hich the boy promptly replied: “Gen, sab.” After a few moments of silence the northerner continued. "I suppose that is an abbreviation for General.’’ The word “abbreviation” gave the little fellow pause. However, he was equal to the occasion and recovered himself. “No, sah.” he said: “’tain't ’xactly dat. Ma shore ’nough name am Genesis xxx, 33, So Shall My Righteousness Answer for Me in Time to Come Washington Carter, but dey jest calls me Gen for short.” —Youth's Companion. Antiquity of the Hog. The two most important and most intimately associated producks of Indiana are corn and hogs. The Chinese claim to have bred and domesticated the hog 4,000 years before the Christian era. The ancient Egyptians knew the hog, and this animal is depicted on their monuments. The use of the meat of the hog was prohibited by the Jews, and it was considered that in hot countries it produced skin diseases. The Moslems under Mohammedan law are also prohibited from using pork. The hog was unknown in America until introduced from Europe by the early navigators: In the South American forests are great droves of wild hogs, the descendants of hogs brought over by the Spaniards.—Chicago Journal. A Match For Him. A cockney angler, thinking bis highland boatman was not treating him with the respect dne to his station, expostulated thus: “Look here, my good man, you don't seem to grasp who I am. Do you know that my family has been entitled to bear arms for the last 200 years?” “Hoots; that's nothing!” was the re- * ply. “My ancestors have been entitled to bare legs for the last 2.000 years.”— London Mirror. Had to Cater to All. “I don’t like the way this hotel is run!” carped a peevish young traveling salesman. “Neither do I,” replied the landlord of I’runtytown tavern, “but I've got to entertain all the fools that come along as well as the sensible-people.”—Judge. Either Way. Sllicus—l can’t decide which one of those two girls I want to marry. Cynieus—Well, marry 'either one of them and you'll discover that you got the wrong one.—Philadelphia Record. All a Risk. “It's a case of love at first sight.” z “Well, maybe it will work out all right. I took four years to select my husband, and look what I got”—Detroit Free Press. Realize that doing good is the only t-wtainly happy action of a man's lif«. —Sir Philip Sidney.

KNEW ALL THEIR TRICKS. 1 Fradariek the Great Proved It to His Cavalry Offioere. “Gentlemen,” said Frederick the ’ Great after u review of bls troops, “I 1 am entirely dUsatUlled with the cavalry. The regiments are completely ' out of bund. There is no accuracy, no I order. The men ride like tailors. 1 1 beg that this may not occur again and that each of you will pay more atten tion to bls duty, but I know how things go on. You think 1 am uot up to your dodges, but I know them all and will recapitulate them. “When the season for riding drill comes on the captain sends for the sergeant major aud says: ’I have an appointment this morning at . Tell the first lieutenant to take the rides.' So the sergeant major goes to the senior subaltern and gives him the ifiessage. and thp latter says: 'What! The captain wtll be away? Then I am off hunting. Tell the second lieutenant to take the men.’ And the second lieutenant, who is probs’ iy : till in bed, says: What, both of them away? Then 1 will stay where I am. 1 wis up till 3 this morning at a dame. Tell the cornet I am ill aud he must take the rides.’ Finally the cornet remarks: ‘Look here, sergeant major, what is the good of tuy standing out there in the cold? You know all about it much better than I do. You go aud take them.’ “And so it goes, and what must be the end of it all? What can' I hope to do with sueh cavalry before the enemy?" — “History of Frederick the Great.” ONE OF BARNUM’S FREAKS. How ths Showman Piotursd the Queer Animal to His Friend. When P. T. Barnum was in the museum business in New York one of bis most jovial friends was Gaylord Clark, a famous litterateur in the days of our fathers. They were a well matched pair of practical Jokers. One day when Mr. I < 'lark dropped in at the museum, as was his custom, Mr. Barnum, apparently much excited, hurried his friend Into the private office and said: “Gaylord, I was about to send for you. I want your advice. I have a chance to purchase the most wonderful of all zoological freaks. It’s at first a perfect fish, then it changes to a four logged land animal, then it climbs trees and”— “Bah! You're joking,” interjected Mr. Clark. “On my honor I am not,” impres- : sirely replied the showman. “But the expense!” "Oh, hang the expense!" interrupted Mr. Clark, brimful of enthusiasm over the business project of his friend, “if you can get any such freak as that your fortune's made. But wfiats the thing called?” “Well.” replied Mr. Barnum, with just the faintest suggestion of a twinkle in his left eye, “it belongs to the batrachian family of animals and in the vernacular is called the—the—tadpole!” The Old Time Surgeon. Before anesthetics were known the surgeon's only expedient was to abridge his patient's sufferings by working rapidly. In this the old time surgeons did wonders. One day the celebrated surgeon Malsonneuve had to amputate the leg of a poor devil, who began to howl i in advance. “I’ll give you my watch,” i said the surgeou, “if the operation I lasts more than a minute.” The man accepted the offer, but was obliged to forego the handsome watch, as the operation took less time than it requires to describe. To amputate an arm at the shoulder is a most difficult operation. Dr. Langenbeck of Germany did it In two minutes. A young physician who came to see him perform the operation adjusted his spectacles to his nose so as not to lose a single movement, but when the spectacles were in place the operation was over. Improving on Shakespeare. A member of the business staff of Robert Mantel!. the actor, tells of a conversation he overheard “in front,” on the occasion of Mr. Mantell's production of “Hamlet" in a western town. “Oh. Har/jf," said the young woman. “I think it's an awful shame to drown Ophelia and kill Hamlet. They ought to have been married.” Whereupon Harry heaved a sigh and looked earnestly at his companion. “I ain't great on tragedy,” said he, “but that's how I should fix it.”—New York Times. Better Still. A young millionaire said to a beautiful girl on a moonlit night between two dances, “Don't you like that Shakespearean quotation: "The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel." “Beautiful!” she said. "Beautiful! But wouldn’t hoops of gold be better?” Philadelphia Bulletin. Time Enough to Begin, “You may laugh, but I can truthfully say that my wife and I have not had a single disagreemdht since we were married.” “That's a good deal for any married couple to say. When were you married?” “Yesterday.”—Balt imore Amerlca n. He Liked It All. Johnnie, aged five, liked to go to his grandma's to dinner. One day one of his aunties said to him, “Johnnie. I think the only reason why you like to cat here is because of the dessert you are sure to get.” “Oh, no”’ said Johnnie. “I like the dinner too.”

WHISTLER’S BREAKFASTS. i They Were Famous Functions When the Artiet Wat In Fund*. ► An Invitation to one of Mr. Whistler's , “breakfasts" wits prized by many per . suus almost as much us a royal com- , muud, more by some. Mr. Whistler , brought together about his duinty, long. ' narrow breakfast table in its long. I narrow room with pule yellow washed walls a symposium of those persons in London most noted for wit or endowed | with rare original talent of some kind I Sprinkled hem nnd there for the sake, no doubt, of half tones were others , whose chief qualification was the power of chastened and judicious apprecia- ' lion. These symposiums were held by } Whistler tn ills splendid studio, 33 Tite street, nt present the studio of Sargent. Whistler did not steadily occupy that ' i place-, which a depleted treasury some j times caused him to forsake temporarily. According to the widely known stor.4 when the came in to dis[tossess him for debt he pressed them into service as extra men to help serve one of his famous breakfasts, after which he would retire to a low, ramI bling workshop up an alleyway off the I Fulham road. There in solitary quiet he would bring forth another masterpiece to startle the world and f-jrnisli him with the means of re-entering beautiful Tite street and taking up the thread of his more princely existence. : — Princess Lazarovich-Hrebelianovlcfc (Eleanor Calhoun) in Century Maga I zine. CREMATION IN INDIA. The Brahman’s Funeral Pyre and the Ceremony of Burning. After the body of a Brahman has ibeen anointed with sesamum oil thr big toes are bound together and thr two thumbs. It is then lashed to a lit ! ter made of two long parallel poles. t< : which are fastened seven transverse ; pieces of wood. The shroud is very simple, a large piece of cloth wrapped , round the body and bound with rope.' l of straw. If the dead Brahman leaves a will his face is not covered; other wise the shroud is brought up over tin bead. The burning ground, or ghat, is usu ally near a river that those who have | taken part in the ceremonies may purl , fy themselves as quickly and as eiisfh ias possible. Before erecting the fu • neral pyre a shallow pit is dug and ■ partially filled with dry wood; the body i is covered with splinters of dry wood ! and sprinkled with panchagaria, an it; : flammable liquid, and placed on th: 1 pyre and covered with branches and I roots, like a hut. | The nearest relative or heir then i takes a lighted taper and sets fire to I the four corners of the pile and leave' , at once to perform the ceremony or purification. The carriers, being of the lowest caste, remain uutil the body i ■ entirely consumed.—Westminster Ga ' zette. A Paradoxical River. On the African shore, near the guK of Aden nnd connecting the lake of Assal with the main ocean, may br found one of the most wonderful rivers in the world. This curiosity doer not flow to but from the ocean toward inland. The surface of latke Assrd itself is nearly 700 feet below the mean tide, and it is fed by this para doxical river, which is about twenty two miles in length. It is highly prob : able that the whole basin which tire lagoon partly tills was once an arm ' of the sea, which became separated therefrom by the duning of loose sand The inflowing river has a limited vol utne, being fullest, of course, at high tide, and has tilled the basin to such I an extent that evaporation aud supply exactly balance each other. Three True Steels. Iron and carbon steel, vanadium steel and tungsten steel are pointed out by Professor J. O. Arnold, British metallurgist, as the three true steels. The second kind is iron and carbon steel with 5 per cent of vanadium, the iron carbide having ceased to ex ist, aud vanadium carbide lieiug present aud the third kind is iron anti carbon steel having 11.5 per cent of tungsten, the iron carbide having been expelled by the tungsten. Iron and carbon steel hardens at 730 degrees C , vanadium steel just below 1,450 degrees. its melting point, and tungsten steel at 850 degrees to 1,200 degrees.— San Francisco Chronicle. Weather Effects. The weather affects man in mon: ways, it appears, than many suspect. For example, it is believed that pres sure variation due to fluctuating winds hrtve peculiar pathological effects, that certain electrical conditions of the air induced by low atmospheric pressure have a pathological effect on nervous subjects and that solar radiation ha; peculiar effects which vary according to the season. His Strong Point. Employer—What special qualifiestions have you for business? Applicant —Every place where I ever worked I reduced the firm’s expenses before I left. Employer—Ah. an efficiency expert! Applicant—No; I usually started in at $8 a week and when I quit I was getting $5. —Judge. Babies' White Clothes. According to a London oculist, if white clothing for babies could b‘ abolished, in a generation there would ' be a 20 per cent decrease in the number of persons with defective vision. The Heaviest Meal. “When do yon take the heaviest meal of the day?" asked a bachelor of a mar ried man. "When my wife cooks it,” came the reply.

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