Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 14, Number 34, Decatur, Adams County, 9 February 1916 — Page 2

From My Narrow Little Window By THE HOOSIER OBSERVER Eye-Glasses-Or Self-Starter Autos?

The mails are flooded with these endless chain prayers. You doubtless all know what they are. An ancient prayer, very short is written on a card, and with it the direction that the recipient copy it and send it to ten friends within ten days. Failure to do so, will bring misfortune but compliance will bring a great blessing on the tenth day, the card explains. Well, of course, a lot of us got some endless chain prayers, with the others, and while we all believe in prayer, and never lay ourselves down to sleep without a prayer, we pooh-hoed the superstition attending the idea of calamity or special blessing attending the failure or compliance with this endless chain request. « « « • Nevertheless, some of us, no doubt in the spirit of the child who broke up his toy to find out how it was made, or pulled the diamond eyes out of the glass dog to see what made them shine so brightly, decided to keep up the chain-links and now we are waiting to see “what will happen, anyhow.-” • * • • I have reached the conclusion that we are going to “see” a great many blessings that we would not have otherwise. Superstitious, do you say? Not at all. I think that prayer is a , sort of “spectacles” or eye-glasses, ' through which we see more than the person who goes around with the ( “naked eye” or without the special ( prayer eyeglasses; rather than pray- ( er io, as many seem to think, a finely ] upholstered, finely finished Pullman ; car or self-starter automobile, on ( which you can ride luxuriously and without self-effort, to the haven of ( your desires. That eye-glass idea of prayer seems ( to be borne out by Emerson, also, . • i when he says in his essay on SelfReliance: “Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the ‘ highest point of view. It is the solil- ( oquy of a beholding and jubilant soul. It is the spirit of God pronouncing his ‘ works good.” Yhe self-starter automobile carriage idea of prayer that some have, I think, is what Emerson means when he says further: "But prayer as a means to effect a private ’ end, is theft and meatiness. It sup- ‘ poses dualism and not unity in nature ( and consciousness. As soon as the f man is at one with God, he will not beg. He will then see prayer in all f action. The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the ( prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prav- < era. heard throughout nature, though for cheap ends.” * • * * Prayer, as you may say. may be an auto-suggestion, or suggestion other-

FOR .SALE—Four acres corn fodder, in good condition. Just outside of city limits. —Schafer Hardware company. 2Stf

Tested and Proved prfffe $675 Kerosene-Burning Tractor $675 ' -THE light tractor has come to stay. Mogul 8-16, - 1 which we think is the best of them all, has more than a year of splendid success behind it Many thousands are now in everyday use. On farms where there used to be six, eight, and ten horses, there are now from two to four, just enough to handle the cultivatiug and other light work. Mogul 8-16 is doing the work of the rest There are but two reasons for this. The Mogul is more dependable than horses for heavy farm work. Mogul 8-16 does the heavy work tetter ana cheaper than horses. Come in skid see us, and we will show ydu why Mogul 8-16 does heavy farm work better and cheaper. We have a sample right here in • e «J? rc ’ so y° u can see the actual machine, not simply read about It. XV e are open every day. and it is no trouble, in fact, it is a pleasure, i° B i£^ y £ U rs h l? kej-osene-buruing Mogul a-16 tractor that wo cau sell lor $675 r. O. B. Chicago. •^tiafevJfitabctware Gb. wee: ttcw mowey

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wise, but not an automobile. When you pray for something, you have aII great desire for that for which'you I pray and you may be sure if you de I sire it strongly, you are going to bend II all your efforts yourself, toward se I curing the end, like the farmer who II kneels and weeds as he prays. You II al! know the power of suggestion tn II the child. When you leave home and II caution the child to be good and not II put beans up his nose, you may bell sure that the child is going to search II the cupboard high and low for beans II for that very purpose, and if there II are none in the house, he is going t'o 111 break open his bank, take out a nickel In and go out and buy the beans, him II self! J . Well, that very suggestion of look II ing for a blessing in that endless chain I] prayer compliance, is going to make II you see the blessings you have. Il ||| will make you search them out, high In and low. in life’s rich cupboard and 111 enumerate them, and that very “con-In templation of life from the highest 111 point of view," of which Emerson 111 spoke, is going to bring you the bles- In sings of “the beholding and jubilant In soul." This can also be taken nega 111 tively, and the contrast be the greater. H For instance, the person who fails to fll comply with the request of the card, 11 and is threatened with misfortune, if IN he be a person susceptible, may go IN around waiting for the calamity toll fall, and you may be sure that the II depressing things in his life will belli the ones that he will see. He will I bend his whole mind, or what little I mind a person of that kind may have. H upon the threatened calamity. His II spectacles will not be the clear eye- | glass of prayer and the “contentpla II tion of the facts of life from the high 111 c-st point of view" —hence the calam II ity in its very self, the failure to see II and recognize the blessings of the life. 11l Just as beauty lies in the eye of the || beholder, and not in that which wc II behold, just so the blessings of life in 111 seeing them and recognizing them. If II you go looking for flowers, you are not II going to see the weeds. I; • * * * Yes. we have reached the conclu- 111 sion that on that tenth day, when we In harvest our special blessings, it will || be a much bigger one than one “great II blessing promised,” just because we II ■ have been looking for them, and many II more than if we had not been looking I for them. And this from some, who 111 nave always pooh-hooed the supersti- 111 tious endless chain-prayer idea, work- II ing on the idea that what cannot be I cured, must be endured!

LOST —Between Bellview farm and 11 Dent school, a green silk waist, I ■ partly made up. Please leave at this I office. 33t3 I

We Need The Money You Need The Shoes

AT PEOPLES & GERKE Men’s, Women’s and Children’s Shoes and Oxfords Commencing Thursday, Feb. 10,1916 Gloses Saturday Night, February 19,1916

In order to make room for our Spring Footwear we have decided to put on one of the greatest Sensational I rice Reducing Sales of its kind ever held in Decatur. We will close out our entire stock of Shoes and Oxfords, regardless oi cost, nothing resen ed. Price is no object. We need the money. You need the shoes. Remember, we have more bargains than those li>;td here. Don t let these opportunities escape you. Come in and see the wonderful savings this great sale otters you.

• 200 Pairs Women's Red Cross Shoes, in Vici Kids and Dull Kids, Button or Blucher, high or low heels, s+.oo values, Sale Price $3.49 A Broken lot of Red Cross Shoes ir. Patents, Dull Kids and Vicie, Button or Lace, different styles, $4.00 and $5.00 values. Sale Price $2.98 60 Pairs Women’s Welt Shoes in Cloth and Leather Tops, latest styles in Gun Metals, Patents and Dull Kids, $4.00 values, Sale Price $2.98 75 Pair Woman's Shoes, extra High Cloth Tops, Lace, Short Vamps and High Heels, Patents and Gun Metal, $3.50 values, Sale Price ....... .$2.09

SPECIAL. See the wonderful bargains of Women’s Shoes in Patents, Gun Metals and Kids, QQ at tPIoiFO --m. asarr jujnaBrHMBnBnBBMBVMSBX.

Our Children’s and Misses’ Department are Most Comnlete

Children’s Shoes in Patents and Gun Metal, Cloth Tops, Button or Lace: Sizes 11 V2 to 2, d* "1 A Q Sale Price Sizes to 11 £iA Sale Price $ Aevv Sizes 5% to 8 UM "I A Sale Price Children’s Shoes in Vici Kid, Patent Tips, Button or Lace: Sizes W. 4to 2 (Pl 9 A Sale Price SPECIAL. Now’s the time to buy Oxfords, Strap Slippers and Pumps. A big cut on all styles.

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THIS MAMMOUTH SHOE SALE

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Vomen’s Fancy House Slippers, with or without fur trimmed OA all grades, SI.OO up to $1.50 values C«.’C

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Sizes 8 1 /* to 11 t?! 1 A Sale Price $1.19 Sizes s’/ 2 to 8 Sale Price 9oC 36 Pairs Women’s Gun Metal Shoes, Button er Lace, $2:50 values, rr»-j Sale Price $1.98 GROWING GIRLS’ SHOES. 75 Pairs Shoes in Guo Metal and Patents I or Button, Cloth Top or Leather Ton’ nJ row or broad toes, $3.00 values, eftex ’ j'J s “'“ Pricc $2.49 I

per cent reduction will be I given on all Women’s and Children s Heavy School Shoes.

RI’BBERS. RUBBERS. 1 All Women’s Sandals First Quality: 75c values ’’ Sale Price 69C ' < 65c values . A 1 Sale Price 4“C S < * , |*i> rtns High Top Shoes in Gun ! Metals and Patents: ' - 1 Slz c cs . lll/2t02 d»l no 8 s * Pri «- $1.98 - Sizes 81/;, to 11 . I 5310 Wee ....$1,69 } SiZys sLtoB J S il-i I)..: i ti

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This Sale for Cash Only

48 Pairs Women’s Hand Turn, > Flexible Sole Shoes in Vici K.ds and Patents, high or low heel. $3.50 values, Sale Price .. $2.69 24 Pair Women’s Fat Ankie Shoes, Vici Kid, Lace or But rt ton, $3.00 values, Sale I Price >....5241 B C 60 Pair Women's Warm Lined s Shoes, in plain toes or tips. ’ Lace only, $1.50 to $2.00 val- _ ■ ues, Sale Price 93c I OLD LADIES’ COMFORT SHOES I A good reduction will be given lon all Nurse and Comfort Shoes. i