Decatur Democrat, Volume 45, Number 39, Decatur, Adams County, 5 December 1901 — Page 10

AN EXPLANATION. If you'll make a diagnosis when you’re fueling aid and dreary, As you wcmi<l with any everyday disease; 1/ you’ll simply question science as io why you’re glum and weary And everything seems dull and ill at case. Perhaps you will discover, after devious calculi- | tions. The cause of all these symptoms whith ippall, | And you'll smile as you reflect, in spite ot various irritations. That it’s nothing but the weather after all. You’ll find a sigh denoting neither sorrow nor contrition; A tear drop’s not indicative of care. They are products of the meteorologies'. condition. Os extra moisture that fa in the air. So perhaps it’s not in reason fortune's chance to be reviling Or to vow life’s store of happiness fa small. For when the sun comes out again, again we will be smiling; It’s nothing but the weather after all. —Washington Star. SPIRIT SLATE WRITING. How the Mysterious Sentences Are Prepared In Advance. Spiritualistic slate writing, if cleverly done, always makes a marked impression on a magician’s audience because i it utterly bailies their efforts to detect the trick. They see a small cabinet suspended above the stage by means of cords or ribbons. It has an open front and is empty. The magician turns it around so that every part of it may be seen and taps it inside and out with bis wand to show that it is hollow. On a stand near by he has a small easel, a common school slate, a bottle of India ink with a quill pen in it and a few sheets of ordinary white writing paper. All these he passes around among the audience for examination. Then he fixes a sheet of the paper to the slate by means of wafers, places the slate on the easel and the easel in the cabinet, together with the bottle of ink, the latter having the pen still in it. Having allowed the audience to see the articles thus arranged in the cabinet, he throws a large silk handkerchief over it Mysterious sounds are Immediately heard, and the cabinet shakes as if some living thing had entered it When the sounds and the shaking cease, he removes the handkerchief. showing an inscription written in bold black letters on the paper and the pen not in the ink bottle, but I lying on the bottom of the cabinet. He j then removes the paper from the slate I nnd passes It around for examination, j when the writing is immediately reeog- ; nized as having been done with India ink. The explanation of the trick is simple. The writing was done in advance by the performer, the fluid used being n solution of sulphuric acid of the purest quality. To make the solution 50 drops of the concentrated acid are added to one ounce of filtered water. Writing done with this solution is invisible until exposed to heat. When so exposed, it comes out perfectly black.

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looking exactly like dried India ink. The heat is applied by means of an electric current running over wire with which the slate is wound. The cords by which the cabinet is suspended conceal copper wires, which conduct the current to the slate. Black silk threads suitably attached enable the performer to make tiie sounds in the cabinet, to cause the cabinet to shake and to jerk the pen out of the ink bottle. Several sheets of paper are prepared in advance, each with a different inscription. the iierformer telling one inscription from another by secretly marked pin pricks.—New York Herald. Keeping »t It. There is a very old but very good story about a boy who was engaged one winter day in putting a ton of coal into a cellar. His only implement was a small fire shovel. Noticing this, a benevolent old gentleman expressed surprise and commiseration. “My son,’’ said the gentleman, “you surely do not expect to put in all that coal with that little shovel?” “Oh, yes. I do." replied the boy cheerfully. “All I have to do is to keep at it.” There is a lesson in this story for young and old, and it is exemplified in the lives of the great men of the world. It is a mistake to suppose that the best work of the world is done by people of great strength and many opportunities. “Keeping at it” is the secret ot success. The Finlanders. No northern people are hardier or more spirited than the Finlanders, with their clear complexions and dark blue eyes. In spite of their harsh climate they have the most healthful living of perhaps any of the northern races and keep equal degrees of romance, daring and good feeling in their I natures. You do not find imagination, force and adventure in a race without coarse, plenteous fare, pure air and cleanliness. Hl* Only Request. It happened once that a faithful Moslem married, but when he saw his wife she proved to be very enprepossessing. Some days after the marriage his wife said to him, “My dove, as you have many relatives, I wish you would let me know before whom I may unveil.” “My gazelle,” he replied, “if thou wilt only hide thy face from me I care not to whom thou ahowest it” Extremes. Mrs. Crawford—So you haven’t found the course of lectures on cooking you attended to be of much practical use? i Mrs. Crabshaw—No, my dear. They either told you how to prepare terrapin and canvasback or else how to live on 15 cents a day.—Life. Japan is the largest consumer of rice in the world, the average being 300 pounds a person a year. The Americans use but four pounds per capita. i

A DOMESTIC COMEDY. THE VARIED RESULTS OF REARRANGING THE FURNITURE. Mrs. DlanL.’* Mania For < hanfinß the Appearance of the Rootni Brought Trouble to the Male Contingent and Sorrow to Herself. “Do you change the position of the furniture when you clean a room?” inquired housewife No. 1 of a friend In the course of a heart to heart talk. “Do I? Why, yes. indeed! I don’t feel as if the room is cleaned unless I change the furniture a little bit. Do you ?” “Well, I usually change the ornaments around and so forth, but in the Spring and fall I like to change everything in a room—completely alter the whole appearance of it. Then 1 fancy the things are all new, end they seem to look prettier somehow. But. do you know, my husband doesn’t like it at all!” “Neither does mine! Isn’t that singular? Men are so peculiar!” “Yes, indeed they are!” So many housekeepers share the views of these two that a story with a moral will not be out of place. It was the other night ouly that Mr. Blank went unsuspiciously up stairs to bed at an unusually early hour, leaving his wife reading in the sitting room. He had a headache and carried a goblet of water in his right band. Fearlessly advancing into the dark bedroom Mr. Blank suddenly felt both legs violently cut from under him. He clutched wildly at the air and said several things of an exclamatory nature. but there was nothing to save him. He went down. “Good gracious, Henry!” ejaculated Mrs. Blank, hurrying to the scene of disaster. “What is the matter? Where are you? Why don’t you light the gas?” Suiting the action to the word, she beheld her husband sprawling across the bed; the glass he had carried had discharged its contents across the pillowshams and shivered on the floor. Mr. Blank did the talking for the next ten minutes. He said that of all the blankety blank folly of which the mind conld conceive this of changing furniture around was the worst. He said it was a pretty thing for a man to walk into his own room and have to fall over things in the dark. He said he wouldn’t stand it; the furniture must be replaced where it formerly stood. “I shan’t do anything of the kind.” replied Mrs. Blank. “It looks very much nicer where it is. Why don’t you feel where you are going when you get into a dark room?” “S’pose you’d like me to crawl in on all fours!” snarled Mr. Blank. “I couldn’t feel where the bed was unless I happened to touch the footboard. I thought I could walk clear over to the

bureau. I tell you it’s a confounded crank you have on this subject. Some day you’ll precipitate a serious accident.” “If any one precipitates, it’ll be you, I should think.” retorted Mrs. Blank icily. And the furniture remained where it was. It was the next evening that Master Blank undertook to carry a pile of schoolbooks from the dining room to the sitting room. He had a bottle of ink In his hand, and he thought he knew exactly where the center table was. In the course of bis peregrinations in search of it, however, he came into violent collision with the glass door of the bookcase, which he broke. There were also inky traces discernible on the carpet when Mrs. Blank came In. This time there was some balm for her feelings. She could spank Master Blank and did it with the best will in the world. Her own downfall was not long in coming, however, although for a few days only minor inconveniences were met with, such as the abrasion of ank’es against chair rockers and slight bruises received by means of sudden contact with unforeseen obstacles. Last evening Mrs. Blank undertook to transfer the cage of her pet parrot from the window where it spends the day to the snug corner where it passes the night. She did not trouble to light the gas. and by some unaccountable mental lapse she had forgotten the precise point at which a tabouret, on which stood a jardiniere, was stationed. She charged into the tabouret with considerable force, was overbalanced by the weight of the cage in her arms and took a header with a resounding crash. The parrot shrieked, and, unable to distinguish friend from foe, inflicted a severe bite on her mistress’ finger. Mr. Blank came in hurriedly, picked up his wife and assisted in making an inventory of sundry contusions. Then they lifted the parrot cage, badly bent, and the jardiniere with a piece chipped out ot it and the tabouret somewhat scratched, and then Mr, Blank observed quietly: “I have just one thing to ask you. Mrs. Blank. Was I right?” “No, you were not!” retorted Mrs Blank savagely. “Serious accident? What’s serious about this, I should like to know? For goodness’ sake, Henry, don’t stand there trying to look like a martyr! If you must have the furniture moved back. I’ll move it!” And she did.—Philadelphia Record. Preoccupation. “Why do you speak so slightingly of that eminent scientist?” ”1 didn’t mean to speak slightingly of him.” answered the young man with the striped shirt front, “but it does seem peculiar to me that a man who knows just when the next comet will arrive and just bow far it is to the moon should be so utterly Ignorant when it comes to a question of when It’s time for dinner or what train to take to get to the nearest town.”—Bos-

Expresa Elevators. To the man who is accustomed to buildings where staircases are still useful as well as ornamental the speed of , the "express” elevators in New York j skyscrapers is disturbing. Recently j an "up state” man, who was being shown about the city by a friend, uas , taken at last up to the sixteenth story ; of one of the high buildings. He went I up in a "local” elevator, at moderate J speed, but even that caused him to I suffer many qualms before he stepped | out on the firm landing. In coming down to street level again they took an “express.” YY ith one switch of the handle and a few sparks from the con-1 trolling apparatus they were deposited ( on the ground floor. The city man j asked the other if “that was quick ! enough” for him. “Quick enough, he | exclaimed. “YVby, I might just as well have jumped.”—New York I’ost. A Ghostly Satellite. Tnder certain conditions there may | be seen in the night sky, exactly opposite to the place where the sun may i then be, a faint light, rounded in out- | line, to which the name “gegenschlen” lias been given. It has always been a : mystery to astronomers, but Professor i Pickering suggested that it may be a I remetery or meteoric satellite of the rarth. He thinks it may be composed | of a cloud ot meteors 1,000,000 miles , from the earth and revolving around it | in a period of just one solar year, so that the sun and the ghostly satellite are always on opposite sides of the ! earth. A Crank, on viotnea. Sir Harry Poland, a British magis- 1 trate noted for his brilliancy, was al- 1 ways careless in his dress. Once his family persuaded him to go to Poole' and order a fashionably cut suit. To the chagrin of the household Sir Harry looked more outlandish in the new clothes than in his old ones. His broth-er-in-law went to see Poole about It. “It is not my fault, sir,” the tailor assured him. “Every care was taken, but how could we fit a gentleman who would insist upon being measured sitting down?” And the only satisfaction that could be obtained from Sir Harry Poland himself later on was the dry comment; “Well. it’s my business and not yours. I like to be comfortable. I spend three parts of my life sitting down, and I preferred to be measured so.” Small Boy’i Divorce. Clarence, aged five, had been severely punished by bis parents for disobedience, and the next day, without saying a word to any one, he called at the office of the family legal adviwr, who happened to be a particular friend of the little fellow. “Well, Clarence,” said the man of the law after shaking hands, "what can 1 do for y.u?” “Please. Mr. Brown,” said Clarence, “I want to get a divorce from our family.”—Newark News.

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