Decatur Democrat, Volume 41, Number 2, Decatur, Adams County, 25 March 1897 — Page 6

X. In the... Rain Storm the man got very wet. The wetting gave him a cold. The ' cold, neglected, developed to a cough. The cough sent him to a bed of sickness. A dose of Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral, taken at the start, would have nipped the cold in the bud, and saved the sickness, suffering, and expense. The household remedy for colds, < coughs, and all lung troubles is I ' > Ayer s \ 1 ] Cherry ■ I ' Pectoral. ; ~ i Sm 4 far tha “Carebook.” too pages free.

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, I BARGAINS! • X " ■ FOR EVERYBODY. 0 ~ ■ J. THOS. W. LUGKEY, ■Who has been confined to his room most of the time on account of poor health, will start, in a few weeks, on a western trip in search of better health; hence the stock of goods now on hands and situated in the Luckey Building, will be CLOSED OUT IT PRIVATE MO AIICTIM SAI*. REMEMBER w M aiil Fixtures all so al Yow Ow Price. AMONG THE STOCK IS 1,300 lbs. Pacli.age Coffee. Such as Lyon, Arbuckle, 4-X, Jersey, &c., all going now at 15c per package. 4,000 pounds Sugar, Reduced to Wholesale Cost. 2,000 Bars Soap, Ivory, Santa Claus, Jackson, Lenox, Bannar, Star and Brown Soaps, at 4c per bar, and other less noted at 2ic per bar. The Majority of Shelf Goods, At one-half the former retail price, or a consid erable Less than wholesale cost, but then it is any way to . CLOSE OUT QUICK I And first come will be first served, for when a line is once -—-— -out, no more will be-replaced. So comeearly and quick, and don’t forget your money, for at such a sacrifice nothing will be charged or allowed to leave the store until paid for. / , " - • ‘ ...

THE OLD CLIPPER SHIPS. •onaattana Wot S. B. H«4 N.w*4*y« ma Bl—d Kaoerd RrMkinc LAiwn. “Owe of the ycmngctnra asked me the ether day,” said the old skipper, "if I had ever been to Europe on a record breaking liner. I told him I hadn’t and never wanted to go there that way. It is juot a question of engineers ai>d took- j ora, mere landsmen, on a big liner, and l I’d rather ship before the. mast, even on I one of your lubberly 40 day, steel, square ' riggers with bows like a canalboat, than go on a steamship. It would be jnst about as interesting to me as a trip ou [ a railroad train. “The kind of sailing I like it will never be the privilege of you young fel- i lows to indulge in. You will never j know the fun of having a clipper craft as sharp as a steamboat under your feet jumping across the seas under a press of j canvas never seen on ocean going sailing vessels now adays, with her rigging as taut as iron bars, and your shipmates holding your hair on your head. “ ‘What suecan’t cany she may lug,’ was the tex*; at sea then. I remember when I was <in the clipper Northern Light we carried stu'n’sails slap into Boston harbor, making the famous passage of 76 days 4 hours from San Francisco. Our ship worked like a basket, ; but we had shipped a double crew for the run, and one crew did nothing but pump i&ip. There was some cracking on of sail when ships of 2,000 tons or more had all their top hamper whisked over the lee side while the skipper was turning to spit over the taffrail. Even after that some of the ships made good passages. It’s a funeral nowadays to lose a topgallant mast.”—New YorE® Sun. r

Planked Whitefish and Shad. Planking fish is, as a rule, confined to clubhouses, where large, open fires are accessible, but Mrs. S. T. Rorer, in The Ladies’ Home Journal, tells how pranked fish may be served to perfection in the smallest and most modest home in America. “The peculiar flavor imparted by the beating plank makes the fish more delicious than when cooked in any other way. If one has a gas stove, the method is quite simple, but the oven of a coal ■ range may also be used with success. Secure a two inch plauk the size of the oven, made from hard wood, oak or hickory. When ready to use, put it in the oven until it is so hot that yon cannot bear your hand on it for an instant. Have the fish split down the back. Put it, skin down, on the hot plank. Dust with salt and pepper and baste with melted butter. In an ordinary coal stove, put it on the oven bottom, close the oven door and bake for 30 minutes, basting two or three times. When the fish is done, take it from the oven, garnish with parsley and lemon and send it to the table on the plank, placed on a Japanese lacquer tray just a little larger than the plank. Whitefish may be planked in the same way. ”

NANNY ANTT THE CUB; i m 4 THnlikM es a Baar Vhak Waa •woklad by a Gaaft. ) The beer that figuree in the ttory ia : known m Jack, and he belong! to i Lewia Ford, who formerly owned a goat ranoh high up on the Oerro Colorado ; mountain, overlooking the lovely valley ■ of the Ran Joaquin. Ford found the beer when ft was a ! eub, aoft, round, shining and blank. Being wifelew, eMMtan and alone, ba adopted the tiny eub and serried ft home. Ones these, Frond seen fewnd 1 that a foster mother meet be prvrided | for the infant, and ae a frightened, i trembling, blearing ahe goat was I brought to the house to take the place i erf the parent he so missed. It was only after moot combined force afid persuasion the goat could be induced to adopt | as her own the nnkidlike orphan placed in her care. But the time came when foster mother and foster child were as happy and content in their relations to each other m if the sight of a nimble footed, blue haired “nanny” suckling a clumsy black bear cub was of the most ordinary condition of affairs. The bear waxed fat on goat’s milk, and a more docile, tractable beast never grew up under the guardianship of a humane and 1 loving master. In the earlier days of his adoption the baby was a baby in truth. t He would not be left alone, and it would have been a harder heart than Ford’s that could have resisted the pitiful whimper of the little fellow whenever he thought that he was to be left alone in the house. Had there been any to see it in those days they would have witnessed a strange sight. The great, Abroad shouldered man, following his ' nock as they graced ou the bunch grass—sometimes five or six miles from home —and as he walked the steep mountain side, where it was so nearly perpendicular that it seemed that only the goats themselves could gain a foothold on the rocks, carried the eub in his arms. When Jack grew older, he was trained to herd goats. Previously a number of dogs had helped Ford, but the bear and the dogs could not agree, and so the dogs had to go. Jack took their place well, and they ware never missed. For several years the bear continued to help Ford until the latter sold his ranch and prepared to go to hie old home in Europe. Then a number of his neighbors tried to buy the bear. Ford refused to sell him and said that if ho could not take Jack with him ha would not go. The difficulty about shipping the bear waa overcome, and now he and his master are living contentedly ia the old country, enjoying the fruits of their long, lonesome stay -in the California mountains.—San Francisco Call v— —— — — Wacwr ea Teuc Toa Bulow. “I have followed the youthful developing period of your son’s life with cognizance and sympathy, without exercising any other influence upon him than that of my example as an artjst and of my most cautious advice. I have observes! that his love of art, and especially of music, is based upon no mere transient excitement, but upon great—indeed, uncommon — powers. It was with my special concurrence, and indeed at my suggestion, that he went on with his law studies with undiminished zeal, as there is nothing so repugnant to me as a musician who is that alone without any higher general culture. At the wish of his family he applied himself also to the study of jurisprudence. Full of devotion to his mother, he tried hard to.take an interest in this study, which, in reality, went dreadfully against his grain. And now what is the perfectly clear and evident result of all his pains and experience? Simply the outspoken, absolute conviction that the more be sets the one thing against the ether the more he feels that it is art ah » •—in other words, music—that he love unceasingly. This one thing, my dear lady, stands first and foremost as an undeniable fact, and I cannot doubt that, when once yen yourself are convinced of this wish of your son to devote himself entirely to music, you will make it your own wish also.”—“The Early Correspondence of Hans von Bulow.” How Peen Are Summoned. Englishmen returning home after long residence in the colonies are often amused and puzzled by some of our antiquated forms and ceremonies. The other day I came across a returned Canadian,, who had been much impressed by the terms of Lord Salisbury’s circular to bis followers in the house of lords, where the premier “ventures to express the hope that it may be consistent with your lordship’s convenience to be present in your place upon that day”—the opening of parliament. My Canadian friend suggests that if a member of parliament requires to be reminded of his duty to be present when parliament meets, the intimation, instead of taking the form of “venturing to express a hope that it may be consistent with his lordship’s conveniences,” would be more' effectually expressed as a hint that if the member is not present he will incur painful consequences.—London Truth. A Novel Occupation. An occupation which does not figure in labor statistics, nor in the social economy at least of America, is discovered in the following advertisement, which appeared in the Blackpool Times, an English newspaper, in the last days of 1896: “Youngman, of dark complexion, is prepared to ‘let in the New Year’ at any house in Blackpool between 12 and 9 a. m., at 2 shillings each without refreshments.” The explanation of this cryptic notice lies, it seems, in a local superstition that the first visitor to a house in the new year, if he happens to be of a dark complexion, brings it good luck. 1 ‘ Inconvenient Ear.. “How’s your arm?” asked Tommy of the young man who calls at the house. “It’s all right. Why?” ’Cause I heard mother tell sister that she peeked into the parlor the other night and saw your arm out of place.” —Detroit Free Press.

A OF BIT LIFE. A mMob ari wiShta tho dear ] And Mac eo SMoqr Novoa boCcve. A uaaa *o daily *oU pawod ky, Na tore nav pleaooro 1H Ma Be* whoa ba keaed Uo avervy oeag Ko wMoMed 00 ho wee* 0(004. A weiooo by Mm wtariew wop* For ewe who io the ehorehyeird Bop*. Bal wteon upon her boartac Ml The* Meno rio knew and loved eo wwM. the toed of bnralo< teere waa atari, And aeon a eons her Npo oeoorod. I ■or noMtebeo bleed Mbe tender otorite Med aeMr (etned the ewoo* oeriohh Bn aN doy long that one eons teee N* joyouanesa from door to door. A GREAT RIVER. Marco Polo's Report Concerning the SBgantlc Yaug-tae-Kiang. Noah Brooks quotes the following from the great Venetian traveler in his series of St. Nicholas papers, “The True Story of Marco Polo:" And I assure you this river flows so far and traverses so many countries and cities that in good sooth there pass and repass on its waters a great number of vessels and more wealth and merchandise than all the rivers and all the seas of Christendom put together. It seems indeed more like a sea than river. Messer Marco Polo said that he once beheld at that city 15,000 vessels at one time. And you may judge if this city of no great size has such a number, how many must there be altogether, considering that on the banks of this river there are more than 16 provinces and more than 200 great cities, besides towns and villages, all possessing vessels. Messer Marco Polo aforesaid tells us that he heard from the officer employed to collect the great khan’s duties on this river that there passed upstream 200,000 vessels in the year, without counting those that passed down! Indeed, as it has a course of such great length and receives so many other navigable rivers, it is no wonder that the merchandise which is borne on it is of vast amount and value. And.the article in largest quantity of all is salt, which is carried by this river and its branches to all the cities on their banks and thence to the other cities in the interior. The vessels which ply on this river are decked. They have but one mast, but they are of great burthen, for I can assure you they carry, reckoning by our weight, from 4,000 to 12,000 can tars each. In going up stream they have to be hauled, for the current is so strong that they coald not make head in any other manner. Now the towline, whioh is some 300 paces in length, is made of nothing but cane. ’Tis in this way: They have those great canes of which I told you before that they are some IS paces in length. These they take and split from end to end into many slender strips, and then they twist these strips together so as to make a rope erf any length they please. And the sopes so made are stronger than if they were made of henjp. Electric Eyee.

The latest adjunct that science giveo to the surgical operator is an electric eye. Strictly speaking, it is not au eye at all, but rather a sort of searchlight, which is used to aid the human eye in delicate surgical operations. Oftentimes surgeons are handicapped in their work by the fact that they cannot see distinctly the parts upon which they must operate. The formation of the human body is such that in many instances no light can be put directly upon the particular part of the human anatomy that is to be operated upon. The eye can see to the extent of human capability, but in intricate operations, however strong the light in the operating theater may be, the rays lack that penetration and power of concentration so necessary to delicate surgical operations. Professor Charles E. Quimby, of Bellevue hospital, New York, has patented this new aid to surgery. From an ordinary electric light wire a connection is made with this device, which fits the face much in the manner of a pair of spectacles. The appliance in itself consists of two small incandescent lamps, which are fitted one above and the other below the eye of the operator. They are so adjusted that the rays focus at a point sufficiently near the ordinary point of vision to throw all the power of the electric rays upon the point desired. It is practically a portable searchlight adapted to the operating theater. The lamps are in the form of an annular glass globe, with an illuminating conductor. An insulated backing, consisting of a metal leather lined band, which passes around the Aead, prevents the heat from affecting the wearer, and at the same tiihe holds the light in position and prevents any possible effect that otherwise the electricity might have upon the wearer. The lights more nearly resemble long glass tubes than anything else. Within these tubes are placed the lamps, which can be adjusted to any desired angle. When a direct downward ray is desired, a small reflector is fixed above the light and the rays thrown in the desired direction. —San Francisco Examiner. ■ — Saved a Licking. The butcher’s boy who had called to deliver a parcel had thoughtlessly left the garden gate open, and the 7-year-old ruler of the house called after him: “Here! Come back and shut that gate!" The butcher’s boy stopped, but showed no inclination to obey the command. “I don’t have to!” he shouted defiantly. “Yes, you do,” insisted the 7-year-old. “You come right back and shut it now, or somebody’s going to get the worst licking he ever had. ” The butcher’s boy came running back, full of fight. “He is, eh?” he said. “Well, who’B going to lick ’im, eh?” “Mother is,” calmly remarked the youngster. “If you leave that gate open, I’ll be certain to go out into the street. Motker’ll see me, and I’ll get licked. Shut it tight, please, to I can’t got out” And the butcher’■ boy did. —ChieefO Timee-Herald. Bto Vuaa*—BO—Rri————* 111

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