Decatur Democrat, Volume 44, Number 40, Decatur, Adams County, 13 December 1900 — Page 8

«]t»THERE IS NO MISTAKEN | CHAS. F. TRUE certainly has the largest and best assorted stock of Christmas goods he or any one else has ever shown in Decatur. DOLLS by the cart load, and everything in the doll catalogue... Dollhouses, doll beds, doling cradles, doll wagons, and everything to make the little girls happy. BOY TOYS—Would not forget to please the small boys with every kind of “boy toys'’—Horses, gb Wagons, Sleds, balls, Toy Engines, Locomotives, Magic Lanterns, Guns, Drums, and all kinds of toys to fill the little boy with pleasure to overflowing. Sr BOOKS of all kinds for both girls and boys. My line of Children’s books this year is positively the best in the city. All new and entirely different and much cheaper than other years. STRICTLY up-to-date assortment of Pictures and Medallions, such as you have not seen in this city before. Call and make selections before they are picked over. Sr THE DECISION of everybody is that my assortment of French China and fancy dishes of every jsg description is the finest ever offered to the people of Decatur. It is really a feast to the eyes to look over this part of my store. gS FANCY GOODS of all kinds—Glove Boxes, Handkerchief Boxes, Tie Boxes, Cuff and Collar SI Boxes, Fancy Baskets, Pillow Tops, Mufflers, Kid and Silk Gloves, Handkerchiefs for the fiS thousands, Silk Umbrellas, and a thousand and one other articles not herein mentioned. ® CANDIES—WeII I should say. You never heard of True taking a back seat in any line of trade, ® did you? Candies.’ yes enough to supply you all, and I mean it when I say cheaper than ever O ALL I ASK is for you to look through my stock. I have the goods at prices that will sell them. and will take pleasure in showing you through my stock. Try me on your Holiday Goods ra? this year, and let me prove to you that I DO the very thing I advertise. M §5 Wishing you all a Merry Christmas IA Hi EC E 'T’BVI HE B and a Happy New Year. CHARLEd !• I RUE. | — _ V <

FOR THE NEXT STEP FOKEIGN ENVOYS IN CHINA HAVE NOW REACHED A FINAL AGREEMENT. NEGOTIATIONS WILL COME LATER A Formal Presentation cf the Agreement Will Be Made to the Chinese Plenipo’entiarici. After Which Efforts to Secure Peace Will Proceed. Washington. Dec. 10.—The next Important step in the Chinese situation will be the formal presentation to the Chinese plenipotentiaries of the agreement arrived at between the representatives of the powers at Pekin for rejiarntlon for the Boxer outrages, in just what manner this will tie done Mr. Conger has not informed the state department, although the probability is that tlie document will lie handed to the Chinese by the dean of the diplomatic corps. As has lss-n stated already, the agreement Is simply a statement of the terms upon which the powers will negotiate with China for final settlement and is laid before the Chinese officials as a matn-r of form. The wegotlatons for final settlement will come later, after the Chinese have been given a reasonable opportunity for the consideration of the conditions laid down by the jmhvers The complete agreement deciphered from the code Is now In the hands of the president. Officials decline to make its text public in advance of the receipt of information that it lias been formally accepted by the powers, although the advices which have hereto fore come from Minister Conger leave no doubt that this will be the case. The essential features of the agreement already have been outlined in the press dispatches. About Ready to Sign. Pekin. Dec. 10. All the foreign envoys except Sir Ernest Mason Satovv. the British minister, have received In Rtrurtions from their governments agreeing to the Joint note proposed at the last meeting. Another meeting will probably tie held tomorrow. Should the British minister have re-’ celved his Instructions to sign the joint note by that time, communlca tlon will be immediately opened with Prince Ching and LI Hung Chang, wlm are In dully touch with the court by the Chinese telegraph. ORDERS TO HURRY Something Unexpected Excites Naval Circles on the Pacific. Snn Diego, Cal.. Dec. ft. Admiral Kautz received orders yesterday afternoon to still without delay to South America, and In accordance with those

instructions preparations wore hurd!;.' made and Isith the lowa and t < I’hilmhdphla left this port today. The cause for this tiurry order is not made public, but came as a great surprise to Admiral Kautz ami all naval officers here. Orders had been given to put I.<M i tons of coal on board the flagship for her cruise south, but this was canceled yesterday afternoon when only i.rlf the order had been delivered. Claims of ’hi* Telegraphers. Galveston. Tex.. Dec. 11. —President Dolphin of the Order of Railway Telegraphers has issued a circular on the strike situation which he nas telegraphed to all operators, assuring them that success will crown their efforts. He claims to have heard from operators as far west as California and as far east a« Chicago, and that at least 11.1 per cent of the operators on the Santa Fe 3r ,. out. Army Bill Passed. Washington. Dec. 7.—The house of representatives yesterday, at the end of a long sitting, passed the army reorganization bill by a vote of 1W to 133. Three Democrat*. Messrs. Hall of Pennsylvania and I'nderhill and Clayton of New York, voted with the Republicans for the bill, and Mr. McCall, Republican, of Massachusetts, with the Democrats against it. Otherwise It was a strict party vote. Cleveland Council Charges Bribery Cleveland. 0.. Dec. 11.—The special Committee of the city council which investigated charges of bribery In connection with the granting of a contract to the Gamewell Fire Alarm and Telegraph company, last night pre ferred formal charges against four memlsTs of the council. who. it is charged, each received pay for his vote on the contract. The council will sit as a court to try the charges. Charges of Irregularity. Washington, Dec. 8. Representative Mondeil of Wyoming has received a petition from A. N. Kepolka and A. B. Loweesilne of Hawaii stating that the election of the Hnwallgn delegate Wilcox was irregular. They ask that a hearing be given for the consideration of the points they make against his admission. Character Shown by the Nose. "Here Is an article jin the paper that says a woman s character can be determined by her nose.” “Well, there may be something In that but there’s a surer way. No one can make a mistake concerning a woman’s character If be will look at the noses of other women who meet her. The extent to which they turn if. nt such times shows Just what she Is or Ign’t”—Chicago Times-licrnld.

Friendly, bnt'lneffective. The Hague. Dec. 10.—Mr. Kruger received a message from the czar Friday night. It was couched in vefy friendly terms, but the fact that its ex is ctiee has been kepi a close secret is sufficient to indicate its author's intention to abstain from any active steps friendly to intervention. Blew Out the Gas. Rioux City, la.. Dee. B.—Andrew Kincanon, aged 20. whose home is at Graudbury, Tex., blew out the gas in his room at the Vendome hotel here and was found dead. Jupiter Warmer Than the Earth. The gigantic mass of Jupiter has a much larger warmth than that of the earth. It is the result of the molecular movement produced by the compression of the strata and must be greater the more powerful the masses, and hence the larger the pressure of the strata is. Jupiter surpasses the earth in point of mass 307 times, and for this reason the inner temperature or individual warmth of the planet is probably high enough to evaporate the water upon the surface quickly, so that water vapor forms the principal substance of the atmosphere of Jupiter. Water vapor is an excellent reflector and readily accounts for the bright radiation of light emitted by the planet.—Professor Hughes In Chicago Tribune. Iwk ward Compliment. There is such a thing as being too persistently complimentary. A candid and well meaning professor who had witnessed the performance of a little play in a private house in which his hostess had taken the leading part met the lady as she came from behind the curtain. “Madam,” he said, rushing up to her, “you played excellently. That part fits you to perfection.” “Oh, no, professor,” said the lady modestly. “A young and pretty worn an Is needed for that part.” “But, madam,” persisted the professor, "you Lave positively proved the contrary!”— Pearson’s Weekly. In ths» Dnmna. There wax once upon a time an Egyptian king, so it Is said, who built a pyramid and died of melancholy. His name was Dttmops, yet there are probably few persons who know that they are perpetuating the memory of his tragic history when they remark that they are "In the dumps.” Extraordinary Temerity. "I told that Boaton girl I didn’t like Emerson." "Was she displeased?” "Displeased? She got nearly as mad as she did when I said that Iteans could be baked without salt pork.”— Chicago Record. ,

MISPLACED SWEETNESS. Mamma Suffered on Account of Her Son's Lovemaking, She was pouring tit a tea that afternoon. and ehe looked unusually bewitching. He was sitting at her left in a Isiwer of palms that almost concealed him. He was bolding one of her hands under cover of the tablecloth, while she tried to pour with the other. Sbe did not look at him as be talked, but be knew by her color and the little quiver of the hand he was holding that sbe heard everything he said. “Dearest." he murmured as she seat I one cup off without a spoon and another filled only with whipped cream, I "dearest, if you don’t mind my saying all this to you. just drop a spoon. Couldn't you manage it?” A clatter of silver and more color In the girl’s face as. in stooping to pick j up the spoon, he kissed her hand. Spurred by this success, he went on, “Dear-1 est, if—if you return it—that is, if love me. you know—Just put three lumps of sugar into the next cup you pour— ‘y-e-s’—or, if you don’t, two, to' spell ‘no.’ ” One, two. three! The tiny cup was almost full, but in her haste to liidej her confession she covered- the three! lumps hastily with chocolate and cream i and sent them off. He asked his mother, as they drove! home that night.eif she had enjoyed herself. "I gh! No!" was her disgusted re-! ply. "Such horrible stuff to drink as they gave one! Why, my cup was halt full of sugar!"-M. 8. Holbrook in Vibration. "Vibration Is the great bugbear of; this business,’’ said one of the best Informed stationary engineers In New Orleans. “It is governed by fixed laws, of course, but they are so subtle I and intricate that it Is next to impossible to master them. They have a most! important bearing, howc er, on the life of machinery. I have Known valuable | engines to Jar themselves literally to pieces for no apparent cause. Some slight error In adjustment had set up a Vibration that was communicated from part to part, like a contagious disease, until the whole plant waa affected. “A «»ondy tremor of thgt kind will not only wear out the parts, but it causes what we call ‘structural changes’ In the metal Itself. Wrought steel will gradually lose Rs toughness and elasticity and Itecome as brittle as cast iron. When It is fractqged, the interior will -have a strange, granulated appearance, and the worst of it Is that' the alteration may be going on for months without the knowledge of the most careful engineer alive. That is i the secret of the breaking of a great many propeller shafts at sea. "There are different ways of stopping vibrations, and one of the most curious is to set up a counter tremor in the opposite direction. One neutralises ' the other.”—New Orleans Tluies-Detno-

Make a Pet of the Rat. “As a matter of fact,” says a courageous writer In the Boston Transcript, “the common rat is a vastly more intelligent creature than the squirrel or the average cat. I am more than half convinced that the resources of the rat as a household pet would if fairly tested prove very great The rat is undoubtedly capable of a higher and more intimate form of domestication than that which be now commonly assigns to himself. He is at present a resident of our houses on unwelcome terms, and be makes himself, quite naturally, as much an enemy of the household as possible. “Let the rat be welcomed and made a friend of the family, as has been done In a few cases, and he becomes a different sort of fellow altogether. No longer forced to steal bis food, he becomes a playmate and a companion. The sleek and well groomed gray rat Is, barring the ordinary baldness of his tail, quite as pretty and graceful a creature as the squirrel, and there is no reason why we should not become so much accustomed to the appearance of his tail that in time we should regard it as quite orn • nental.” A Morocco superstition. In a paper to the Anthropological institute Dr. Westermark showed from Investigations in Morocco that the Arab ginn. or gnun. is regarded as a special race of beings created before Adam, of no fixed form and assuming, like Proteus, who was perhaps a personage of the same extraction, almost nny shape they please. Bad ginns attack men. but are kept away by salt or steel and verses of the Koran. The author supposes that the belief in glnna has come down from a gaitless and Ironless age, but was absorbed and developed at a later time under the Influence of Islam. To Punish Johnny, Francis Parkman, the historian, had a Mosaic Idea of justice. A friend met him one day walking along the street leading a street boy with either hand. “What in the world are yon doing, Parkman?” asked his friend. “I found that Johnny here had eaten all of the sppie instead of dividing with bls little brother. lam going to buy another for the younger boy and make Johnny watch him while be eats It." Whnt Waa Wanted. “Please, 1 want a peunorth of—er—er —1 went:—er—er”— "Hove you forgotten what you came for?" “Yes; that’s what I want.” “What?” “Camphor.”—Moonshine. Ruby’s Need. Mamma—We must get a nurse for the baby. Papa—Nurse nothing! What he tmpds Is a night watchman.—Exchange,

...WITH... nr u n J * J - ? And malice toward none, with the VERY LOWEST prices, and in a position to know I am correct on Dinner Ware, Toilet Fancy China Lamps, Albums, Toilet Cases, Dolls, And a general lire of Holiday Goods, To make you all merry on Christmas, and cause you all to look forward to the coming New Year with Ilappiuttoo, knowing you can always get real bargains at Ju JJV ■ V L-t v With holiday greeting to you all in advance. D. D. COFFEE, Prop,