Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 21, Number 1, Decatur, Adams County, 1 January 1923 — Page 5

LOCAL NEWS

Fred Asclibaui her visited his sister, < Mias Mabel Azhbailcher, at Bluffton, yoatenJay. Mlsa Mabel has been eon fined to her bed for the last six months , and her condition does not seem to' be much Improved. i . Col. Buaeho returned today from Michigan where he has been arranging i»‘waeks circuit of pure bred hog sales to be held One week in February. He reports some tine herds of hogs. Miss Amelia Fuelling, of Fort Wayne and Miss M. Mcßee, of Lafayotte, Indiana, are spending ew Years with the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fuelling. Banker Joe Winteregg. of Berne, was a visitor in the city today. Die Heller left yesterday for Indianapolis where he will visit a day or two, going to Bloomington tomorrow to resume his work at the state University. iss Lois Peterson left today for Indianapolis. She will be the guests of Miss Genevieve Miller for a day or two before returning to the state university at Bloomington where he is n student. Herman Hollman and Edward Dorn aeif made a business trip to Fort Way no this morning. . T.' C. Corbett of Fort Wayne was) louljipg up old friends here Saturday

rfMID the vicissitudes ts this changing time and with the consciousness of temporariness that comes with the flight pf a V ea, > d' s pleasant to think of the enduring character of the best thing in life, unfailing love, as does the writer and the game are ours as time flits by deals us chances on the uncertain stage, But, while our wisdom may increase with age, Clubs promise most to our insistent youth, # And diamonds glitter to oifr later gaze,; But melancholy spades our hopes amaze *;• And leave them buried after all, forsooth. We count the riches of the passing days, Our gains, our losses, and our gain withal, \ 4 Our greatest gain, the one that once so small, Ever increasing, stays with us Joy after joy approaches and departs, But we have kept the fellowship of hearts! 7 •*'" —Timothy Barry - • HU.W.'ttN MWAhI UNION - A; ItSHISN XCAFutt. II A Happy New |l Year |> i The old year is valuable for I the experience we have gained; -M . the new year for the opportun- | it its it holds in store. • To our depositors and friends I we extend the season’s greet- | ings. It is our hope that they « will prosper in a material way, | and gain a greater wealth of I contentment and satisfaction i than they have known before. lUfst'KaYiongl 'Bank . Capital and Surplus 000.00 -■ N iDjgcqtur; Indiana

evening. ■—,-.-o The first form of an automobile made Its appearance in the United I States in 1795. according to an advertisement appearing in the Columbian Sentinel of Boston. October 14, 1735. It was heralded as the first moving carriage to appear In this country and the admission charge was three shillings. Contractors who own the site on which London Bridge is built threaten to remove It, offering to set it up again in another place. To which proposition, lovers of old London reply, "A monument is not of masonry alone; it is the masonry plus the site,” A unique feature in the ventilating system in the council chamber of the London County Council's palace at Westminister is that each member is able to control his own immediate atmosphere. A control button below his desk feeds cold or warm air from a maze of pipes beneath the floor which lead to noiseless fans, water sprays, thermometers, dynamos and a network of brass pipes. A sudden change hi the outside temperature is automotically conveyed to sensitive instruments so that they promptly adjust their efforts toward maintaining an eyen temperature inside.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, MONDAY, JANUARY 1,1923

ear’s DreaWl/ Bm Halter’ ~ t-.y — .. ■ (NOTM-Tbis article, prtntsd in the Boston Globe In lIM. predieted many things which have become a reality in much lees time than apUclpated )

HIS New Year's eve while I lounged with nothing else to do, I scanned each column of \ the Globe and al- ‘ most ere I knew a greeting dimness stole across the

printed page; I dr«w It nearer, and behold! 'twas yellowed o’er with age My hands, I found, had wrinkled grown, my locks were changed to gray; my form wan bant, my vision dim. nty teeth had passed sway. And as I gazed I heard a voice. ‘‘Good morning, grandma, dear I I wish you many, many times a Happy, Glad New Year.’’ Then tall men said they were my sons, and daughters fair to see told me this wasn't ninety-three, but nineteen forty-three. Said f: “My memory has failed: how goes the world today V “You shall go out this afternoon and see the town,” cried they. At that the tears flowed down my cheeks. Quoth I, “The days ate ended when these poor eyes could g<e> the sights.” "Oh, no! we’ll have them mended.’’ A grown-up eon then seized a knob and gave three pulls upon it:

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"The lenses cryatalllne have grown too flat with age," he said. "We must put new ones in." With that he hypnotised my mind in some peculiar way, such rare sweet visions floated by, then quickly passed away. I woke, my eyes were strong and well, and hastening to depart we paid the fee and entered next a gallery of art. But as to pictures, when I turned, so very strange they seemed, I thought the artist must have sketched the stories he had dreamed. "We never think of painting now," my guide said, with a laugh. "These ara but landscapes in the moon, taken hy photograph." "What! are there people In the moon I" "Oh, yes. indeed!” said he. “Here is a lunar telescope; look through and you will see." J gazed, and to my great surprise distinctly saw them walking. I listened at another tube and there I heard them talking. "You see," said he, "we've learned to catch such swift, intense vibrations in the thin etijer that we hear their slightest intonations. You look surprised," my son went on. "I’ll show those eyes of yours a sight worth while, our famous scheme that beats the Paris sewers. These little gutters ramify through all the streets and streets and catch the rain and hall and melting snow. These tiny gratings mutch, conducting down to pipes beneath, which take ft miles below straight towards the center of the earth, where the great heat, you know, will turn it into steam of course, and 1 up it comes again, by other pipes, to 1 spin and weave and cook and print for I men. It feeds the factories through I the land with no expense for fuel; It ! polishes for artisuns full many a precious jpwel. We’ve laid large pipe* through all the streets to warm the winter weather, so rheumatism’s out of date apd done with altogether. ■ "Xow, auotber, we will go and lunch In Afric’s sunny clime," and drawing out hw wat£h he said, "I see there’s ample time. The sub-Atlantlc tunnel's done; we’ll take It over there. The cars are sent through every hour hy the force of compressed air." He placed me on a cushioned seat within tp egg-ahuped car. suspended In an Iron tube. I fait a sudden Jar, and then, to my astonishment, conscious of nothing more, I found that we were standing upon the farther shore. And soon we reached a. city near the Mountain* of the Moon. (They told me Ethiopia would be admitted soon as. one of the United States; for Chiun .late had been.) We fotjud a .plabu to order lunch, by three tall men brought In. They, served us well, but spoke tio word, white gravely low. Quoth me* “I thought that slavery was done w|tli long ago." "So 'tis ” said he. "Then who." I ggked. "are these three stalwart fellows?"

“They are not human, mother, (Jeer: they're only tame gorillas.’' Much as 1 feared the tunnel then. I feared gorillas more, and glad was I to come again back to our beloved shore. “When home once more my son re marked: “You’ll want to see the play

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frieze. Beside it stands the telephone and you can hear with ease.” “What Is a dloscope?" I cried. “A small, objective lens, so placed as to command the stage (as all the world now kens), connected by electric w-lre with yon white plate of glass that’s framed In panel on our wall, and over this will pass the scenery and actors both until the play Is through. By electricians it was tried in 1882.* Rut that is quite old-fashioned, so I'll show you something new. You'll want to ride In my balloon directly after , tea; I’ll take you. If you're not too tired, up to the Polar sea." His kindness overpowered me. and I began to weep, when someone shouted In my ear, “You are crying in your sleep." The Globe had fallen on the floor, I the lamp was growing dim. so what niy son might yet have said is known to none but him. •A fact. The Idyll oj a Tuq Boat Bq Christopher Q. Hazard ($. »»22. W»aterilNew»paper Union.)

“The car will be here at once, mother; put on your bonnet." And while he spoke the coupe came; 'twas wonderful to me. how faster than e'en fabled horse wos electricity. My son just turned and touched a screw; you'd think I’d lost my mind If I should tell how fust we flew, for we left the wind behind. We went to see the surgeon first.

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bay but does not ipake any port. Shifting as a weather i vane, he is as contradictory. He stiirted upon the road ; to a profession, bit landed in a brickmaking concern. Then he concluded that he wus nienf.t for big business, I but he tried to siirt too high up. A chicken farm wak his next employment and it netted him a large amount of costly experience. He now thinks of trying mining, hut will undoubtedly dig up disaster. If he ends as a good shoeblack It will be at the bottom, where he ought to have begun, and he I will be nearer to true progress. The tug boat that was proceeding up I the river was named “Patience.” It was tugging a long following of canal i boats at a slow pace. It was making ; Its way towards a definite point and over a prescribed and limited course. And it was going to get there. All its energy was pledget! to perseverance in the practice of the proverb, “It’s doggedness as does it." The eagle over the pilot house had its wings ! spread, although it could not fly yet. ' The boy who stood at the bow said, • “I’m only a ship’s boy now, but I’ll be I a man tomorrow." Can success find such a leap year ass will enable it to land at the end of a I twelvemonth without plodding towards It from its beginning? Is there an. j recipe that will enable a young fellow like Andrews to obtain his father’s j position and wealth without pursuing | Ills father’s path of long and patient i toll? Must not the well of a bucket shop run dry? Can a gambler finally i break the bank? And ran a Jack-at-all-trades bo :> , master of any? No! The times call | for specialists, rather than general practitioners. It will be a New Year i Indeed for everything in general when | It becomes something in particular. I Better the patient, persistent tug bout . than the more exciting but less profit ; able airplane. Tbe.slilp's boy of today j must precede the captain of tomorrow. NEW YEAR’S CALLS From old Dutch times to the middle of the Nineteenth century New Year’s day in many American cities was tievoted to the universal Interchange of visits. Every door was thrown open and it was n breach of etiquette to omit any acquaintance in the annual calls, when old friendships wore renewed and family differences amicably settled. NEW YEAR GIFTS The custom of giving and receiving gifts on New Year dny, which orlghiat- I ed in Rome, still survives hi France i and Scotland, although in most conn fries the excltunge of gif's at Christ- ' mas has taken its place. WHAT SHALL WE WRITE? : ‘. j ' . What shall we write on the ifairi new page called 1928? Can we not! make it a record of golden deeds?— i Youth's Companion. THE JULIAN CALENDAR Itj the Julian calendar New Year day 1 occurs’ 12 days later than in the j Gregorian and the countries in which the Greek ehtfrch predominates observe the holiday on January 13.

at the Olympian theater; it Is their matinee.” “I think I'd Ilka to stay Indoors," I said, "and rest awhile." "Oh, well, you need not leave the house," he answered with n smile. "We do not go to theaters like the canaille. I hope. Just darken, close the drawing - room, open the dloscope and you will see the actressen, the cornices and

matter with Ajidrews is that he cannot seep upon any one course. Hejrtacks all over the

FATHER MADE IT AND IT CHARMS ME A Sonnet L have an original sketching Os an island home-place by the sea To some its appeals are as nothing But it’s held a groat treasure to me. The words written in it tire faded The picture is ragged Mjici blurred But a mother's hand o'er it rested And a father's hand penned each word: 'Tis so in original nature Mountains springing up bloom In the eyo With a glory beyond the creature And lovely teneath heaven's blue sky; The sublime artist all men tuay see But, FATHER made it and it Charms me. Copyright 1922 by the author. Rev. Leonard W. A- Luckey, Ph. D., New York City. a WANT ADS EARN—s—s—s s—s—s—WANT ADS EARN—T—s—s WANT ADS EARN—s—s—s "— 0 ■ NEW YEAR’S DAY THE storm-wind sank, the moon rode high. Set round with silver haze, Where, late, gky-spaees wonderfifl Showed green as chrysoprase. Within the old gray church anon The gathered folk would sit; I met the old year on the hill, And hade farewell to It. The woods around stood stark and dim. Hut at my feet white birds Fluttered, the wraiths of kindly deed And sweet, remembered words. Above me. from Orion’s belt. A great gem flashed and fell; Was it a seraph prince sped by, Michael, or Gabriel? Then, though my lonely heart must mourn I-’or some that come no more. White sails of Hope I seemed to see Set to a sapphire shore. As he who dreamed a New World sailed On an uncharted sea, From Palos with his caravels I.ured by a mystery. So, under flaming Aslan skies. Or by the still, white Pole. That Great Adventure, the New Year. Beacons the human soul. —L. M. Little In Boston Herald.

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Wednesday-Thursday J ■ • Coming Wallace Reid fl ■* I Douglas Fairbanks “The World’s V LO. B “The Three Champion” Musketeers” TWO DAYS—TODAY AND TOMORROW i I •? - l n ; J 'bfarq Pfckfarf in 'Throuqh rkeDackDoor' kccalls Io us how warm and real and Unable and divine a tiling it is to he just hum.an Kl, ’?'rnt ' , <an 110 niorc grow up than Peter Pan and that is why thiough lhe Back Door is just the type of charming picture you want to SCCe —ADDED ATTRACTION— Starting of a series (not a serial) Sherlock Holmes Adventures.'Each a complete story. Admission 10c and 25c

Auction Sales Every Evening Cor. of Second & Monroe Stfl. Reppert Auction School Bring in anything you want to have exchanged for money. No charge for selling. Attend the sales. Combination farm sale, Bellmont Park, Jan. 11. Bring in your livestock and machinery and anything else you want to sell. Call phone COti and tell us what you have. S■■ .1 I 111 I 111 I till ..II ■ I I IISIISSS— A Happy and Prosperous New Year is the wish extended to each and everyone by the Old Adams County Bank I Save a little and be Prosperous in 1923