Decatur Democrat, Volume 46, Number 21, Decatur, Adams County, 31 July 1902 — Page 4

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Mania, of Authors. In a recent article on the ••Mania of Authors” in the Revue Universe!le of Parts we are told that Darwin always practiced on his old fiddle before writing; Chateaubriand while dictating to his secretary was in the habit of walking in his bare feet; Schiller and Goethe could not write unless their feet were on ice; Lord Derby always filled his mouth with brandy cherries; Fenimore Cooter used to chew gumdrops; Byron filled his pockets with truffles; Theophile Gautier burned incense. An Insinuating Miaaive. He was a German student, and this was the letter he addressed to his uncle; Dear Uncle—A very strange thing happened yesterday. I went to see a tri-rd ct mine at the bank who knows your handwriting very well, and be thought you were ill. as I had not lately presented any checks signed by you. He tegs to be remembered to you, as also du I. and you might let my friend see your signature again. If you are very busy, you might send a blank check, and I will fill it in. Tours affectionately. KARL Scott. Scott believed that “Waverley” was his best novel and "The Lady of the Lake" his best poem. He and the Bal- i lantynes bad more than one lively discussion on the subject, but he would I never admit a change of opinion. He I knew "The Lady of the Lake" by heart and once repeated the whole to prove the fact—Literary Life. A Roush Ride. Physician (at I thought, you merely bad the measles? Patient-Well, isn’t that enough? Physician—Yes. but you are covered with bruises from bead to foot How do you account for that? Patient—Ob, they brought me here in an ambulance.—Chicago News. Her Noble Deed. “No wonder he loves her! Didn't she save his life?” "Mercy! How?” “Why. be said If she didn't accept him he’d go and kill himself, and she took him.”—Philadelphia Bulletin. J

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Lava Streams. It is scientifically reported that the 11 - - fr-.u V IS-' ■> ; we re so hot twelve yesc-s later that stcm w..s .--l :.g fr-'E. the er and crevices, while the lavsroeds from ! the eruption of Etna in 17*7 were found to be steaming hot just below ' the top crust as late as 1840. But still j more remarkable are the scientific re--1 ports of the volcano Jorullo, in Mexii co. This sent forth immense streams of lava in 1750. In 1780 the lava beds ' were examined by a party of scieni tists, and it was found that a stick ' thrust into the crevices instantly ig I nited. although there was no discomi fort experienced in walking on the < hardened crush Again some forty years after the eruption it was visited by scientists and reported to be steaming in many places, and even eighty- } seven years after the eruption two columns of steaming vapor were found to be issuing from the crevices. Sometimes the upper crust of such a stream i of lava cools so that plants and lichens 1 find precarious growth on the surface. while a few feet beneath the lava is almost redbot Her Mistake. Two elderly women and an old mam evident strangers in the city and who were carefully guarding a huge telei scope between them, stood in front of i the Grand for an hour the other day. I waiting for some kind soul to direct them to the residence of a friend they bad come to visit. The noise and bus- ; tie of the city evidently confused them, and they stood bewildered, not knowl ing which way to turn. Finally one j of the women plucked up courage to; address a man who was passing, say- j Ing. "Could you tell me where Will . i Blank lives?" “Who?” inquired the man. “Why, Will Blank. He used to live I next door to us at Linton, and we have . 1 come in to see him.” The man bad to acknowledge be had never even beard of Will Blank, and the old lady turned away with a scornful smile, saying. "Oh. I thought per-. baps you lived here.” — Indianapolis ' Bath. In Finland. One of the greatest trials a visitor In I Finland has to endure is a Finnish > bath. The method of procedure is unique. Divested of outer clothing and attired In a light and airy cotton garment, you are slung in a sort of hammock composed of cord above a large receptacle like the boilers in public, laundries. This is almost filled with cold water, into which at the right moment is flung a large redhot brick or piece of iron, which of course causes an overwhelming rush of steam to ascend and almost choke you. Then when that process Las gone on sufficiently long you are shaken out of your hammock, immersed in cold water, and after very drastic treatment you resume your raiment, sadder and wiser than before your novel experience.

HERE’S A GOOD JOB — Two Cold Blooded Mississippi Murderers Go Cursing to the Gallows. PAID THE EXTREME PENALTY Ashley Cocke and Tom Lauderdale Deservedly Put Out of the Way for the Ruthless Killing of a Railway Engineer Last December. Greenville. Miss., July 23 —With curses on his lips, with eyes bloodshot. and with the expressed wish that the people of Greenville perish in the fires of hell. Ashley Cocke died here yesterday. With him. but silent- ; ly, Tom Lauderdale also met his end. - Both were convicted of the murder of Engineer G. M. Wray, were hanged from tbe same gallows, and the swing of a double trap sent both men to their doom. Cocke died boasting that he would be in bell in a few minutes and damning everything and everybody. He said that those who had planned his murder would meet their end and that 111.000 had been deposited in bank. 31.000 of which would be paid for the death of each of the eleven men who prosecuted him. The execution I was witnessed by 6,000 people. Before the time for the execution i both men appeared defiant. Cocke esI pecially being very abusive to everyI one. while both cursed continually. ! After the death warrant had been read to the men in their cells. Cocke yelled i through the window to the great crowd i which gathered outside to witness the execution; "Damn you. don’t be impatient, we are coming.” When the sheriff and the doomed men mounted the scaffold Cocke again began to berate those about him. and turning to the crowd, said: “It's all a plot to kill me; damn you all. damn everybody. I'm going to die like a man. "I am killed for nothing, but I am the bravest man In the state of Mississippi. There is SII,OOO wafting for anyone who will kill the eleven who made this plot I will be revenged, for everyone of this eleven will be killed and no questions will be asked. They have murdered me, but revenge, revenge, revenge!” Before he could say more the black caps were adjusted. "Are you both ready?" asked the sheriff "Yes.” yelled Cocke through the folds of black. ’’Damn you people of Greenville, go to hell, all of you!" The trap was sprung and tbe men dropped into apace. Marcowl Not tbe Man. London. July 26—The Saturday Review says a startling denouement followed Prof. Thompson's attacks In the Review on the validity of the Marconi patents, in which the professor said an Italian naval officer named Solari was the real Inventor of the wireless telegraph system. It says: "The Official Journal of the patent office July 16 contains a brief notice of a very unusual character. It announces that Guglielmo Marconi, who. Sept 10, 1901, had filed a patent in his own name for this Invention, now seeks leave to amend the application by converting It into an application for a patent for an Invention communicated to him from abroad by the Marquis Luigi Solari of Italy.” On tbe Posting Winds. Queenstown. July 26. —Clarence H. Mackay, son of the late John A. Mackay. who was a passenger on board the Cunard line steamer Campania from New York July 19, which arrived here yesterday, received the news of his father’s death by wireless telegraphy at 3 p. m.. July 24. from the westbound steamer Saxonia of the same line. The wireless news created the greatest sympathy for Mr. Mackay among the Campania’s passengers. Crime ot a Bride. Woodsfield, 0., July 28.—Mrs. Everett Spence, aged nineteen, Sunday morning killed her husbalnd, aged twenty-one. and then killed herself. She shot her husband while he was asleep and then used the same weapon on herself. They had been married less than two months and were both well connected. It Is thought that she was temporarily deranged. Woman's Horrible Death. New York. July 28.—Mme. Edmund Bern pis. who before her marriage a year ago nas Miss Louise Rutherford of Brooklyn, was set upon by two hunger-maddened Great Dane dogs which had been secured to guard her husband’s country bouse at Annecy Lake, and so terribly injured that she died two hours after the attack. Coma Rica In Danger. San Jose, Costa Rica. July 28. —Subterranean roarings resembling thunder are frequently beard In this city and In Alajeula. a town eleven miles distant. They are believed to be caused by the Poos volcano, nineteen miles northwest of here. Quantities of ashes have fallen at San Pedro, a village near the volcano. BP- Fell Into Boiler. Dyersburg, Tenn., July 28 —Will Young and Dan McAuliff met a terrible death while repairing a steam pipe at a mill here. The scaffolding on which they were working gave way and they fell into one ot the boilers and were literally cooked, the flesh dropping from them In large pieces when they were pulled out

How She Made a Profit. In Taris a gentleman who is very I fond of fine paintings bought for 15,000 francs a work entitled "Tbe Bride of I Abydos’ and was congratulating bim- ' self on becoming its possessor when be suddenly remembered that his wife disliked very much to see him sp» nd L<s money in this manner. "How can I avoid a scene?" he asked | himself. "If I say that the painting - cost 15.000 francs, there will be an awful time, and so I’d better say 7.0U0. No; I’ll say 4.000.” By this time he bad reached home, and when be saw his wife be told her unblushingiy that he had just secured a beautiful work of art for tbe nominal sum of francs. At this good news she seemed more disconcerted than pleased, but said nothing, and the painting was hung up. Next day the gentleman was obliged to go to the south of France, and when he returned after a week’s absence bis w ife met him with a beaming evffntenance and said: "I've done a good stroke •< business while you were away. You know that painting you bought for 3.U00 francs? Well. I sold It yesterday for 4.500, a clear profit of 1,500 francs!” Hard LaaMll In Good Manner*. School chaff is wholesome in most cases, but it may cramp what should not be cramped. As to the chaff which a man gives -.nd gets at a university, however, we do not think there can be two opinions. It must do good, and it has not the opportunity e f doing harm. Only those receive it who lay themselves open to receive it. The quiet man who wishes to read or to think apart need hardly ever come into contact with his fellows unless he so chooses. The swaggering or bumptious man, tbe opinionated man the offensive man—these are certain to be chaffed, and the chaff usually goes home; not at once perhaps, but it usually gets there in tbe end with satisfactory consequences. The personal remark way be rude, but rudeness is often a very salutary weapon. It is certainly one of tbe most valuable instruments of English education. Indeed it may seem a strange thing to say, but It is surely true that continued experience of calculated, formularized and well intentioned rudeness teaches people to be polite.—London Spectator. Shifting the Responsibility. An Irishman who traded in small wares kept a donkey cart, with which be visited tbe different villages. On one occasion he came to a bridge where a toll was levied. He found to bis disappointment be had not enough money to pay it. A bright thought struck him. He unharnessed tbe donkey and put it into the cart. Then, getting between the shafts himself, he pulled tbe cart with the donkey standing in it on to tbe bridge. In due course he was bailed by the toll collector. “Hey, man!” cried tbe latter. “Whaur’s your toll?’ “Begorra,” said the Irishman, “just ask the droiver.” Ted and the Text. The golden text for a certain Sunday school was, “And the child grew and waxed strong in spirit” (Luke ii, 40). Little Ted's hand went up like a flash when the superintendent asked: "Can any of these bright, smiling little boys or girls repeat the golden text for today? Ah, how glad it makes my heart to see so many little hands go up! Teddy, my boy, you may repeat IL and speak good and loud that all may hear.” And they all heard this: "And tbe child grew and waxed strong in spirit like 2:40.” A Well Satisfied GtrL At an old fashioned revival meeting the minister approached Minnie, who was only ten years old, and urged her to go forward to the "mourners’ bench” for prayers, as many of her young friends bad done. “No, thank you,” said Minnie, holding back. “But why?" questioned tbe minister. "Don’t you want to be born again?” “No,” replied Minnie. “I’m afraid 1 might be born a boy next time!"— Brooklyn Life. The Giant Squid. Undoubtedly tbe giant squid has frequently been mistaken for a sea serpent In all qualities which can render a marine monster horrible this huge and frightful mollusk may be said to compare favorably with any creature of fact or fiction. When full grown, it weighs 10.000 pounds, having a body fifty set long and two arms each 100 feet in length, as well as eight smaller tentacles. Enough to Settle If. A wag after having witnessed an unusually villainous performance of “Hamlet” remarked: “Now is the time to settle tbe Shakespeare-Bacon controversy. Let the graves of both be dug up and see which of tbe two turned over.” It W»wt Off. Mrs. C.—l wonder where In the world the alarm clock has gone? I saw It on tbe table yesterday. Mr. C.—lt was there yesterday, but I heard It going off this morning. Suffering. To suffer an hour with and for one we love brings us nearer In spirit to him than many years of joyous companionship, for only in sorrow does the heart reveal Itself. The World ns We Find It. Fudd—Tills Is a bard world. | Dudd—And yet everybody Is looking for soft places in it—Boston Tran■crlbt

A Mean Throat. “Ten thousand dollars for a dog. be exclaimed as be looked up from bis newspaper. “Do you believe any one ever paid any such price, Maria: "I’m sure I don’t know. James, she returned, without stopping her needlework even for a moment. "Does the paper say that much was paid?” "Yes. There’s an article on valuable dogs, and it s speaking of one that was j sold for SIO,OOO. 1 don't believe it." "It may be true. James.” she said ' quietly. "Some of those high bred an i imals bring fancy prices, and there’s . no particular reason why the paper should lie about it.” "1 know that Maria, but just think of it just try to grasp the magnitude cf that sum in your weak feminine mind. You don’t seem to realixe itfor a dog! Why. bang it. Maria, that’s more than I'm worth!” “I know that James, but some are worth more than others.” She went on calmly with her sewing while he fumed and spluttered for a moment and then dropped tbe subject, especially the weak feminine part of it The Indian Creation Legend. The earliest source for the religion of India is tbe hymns of tbe Rig Veda, the date of which is now fixed at about 1000 B. C. In one of these hymns we encounter as tbe creator I’urusha, who is simply a “magnified man.” A pantheistic turn, however, is given to this conception under the influence of which I’urusha becomes the "all in all" and is identified with the universe, with what has been and what shall be. All gods, animals and castes are parts of him. Tbe mcon is bls mind, the sun his eye. from his mouth sprang Indra and Agni and from his breath Vayu. space from his navel, heaven from his bead and tbe earth from his feet. This emanation theory when freed from its primitive elements beccmes pantheism pure and simple. In accord with this view the source of creative activity is carried back in other hymns to “desire.” We read in Vedic literature that “desire is the seed cf the mind.’ — MorA Fair Esehanfr. Clerical Customer (arousing himself from nap in barber's chair)—Finished, eb? Barber—Yes, sir; quite some time ago. Clerical Customer—lndeed! Tbep I must have been indulging in a quiet nap. Barber—You surely have. sir. Clerical Customer—lt was certainly very kind of you not to awaken me. The rest has done me good, and I am very thankful to you for what was really a very refreshing sleep. Barber—Don’t mention it. sir. It’s only a fair return. I attended your church last Sunday. What They Were Hawking. At an exhibition of paintings in London in one of the galleries hung the notable picture “Hawking In tbe Olden Times.” An elderly farmer and his wife paused before this picture, viewing it with evident satisfaction. “John,” said tbe old lady, “what’s that?” John then turned over the leaves of the catalogue he carried. “They ca’ it 'Hawking I’ th' Owden Time,’ ” said he. “Hawking! Why. what are they hawking?” she inquired. “I dunno.” he replied, “but I sped they're trying to sell them birds.” . r The Bridal Wreath. The bridal wreath is usually formed of myrtle branches in Germany. It is made of orange blossoms in France as well as in the United States. In Italy and the French cantons of Switzerland it is of white roses. In Spain tbe flowers of which It is composed are red roses and pinks. In the islands of Greece vine leaves serve the purpose, and in Bohemia rosemary is employed. In German Switzerland a crown of artificial flowers takes tbe place of the wreath.

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