Decatur Democrat, Volume 46, Number 40, Decatur, Adams County, 11 December 1902 — Page 5

I opera house to-mght. Don’t miss “Under Two Flags at opera house to-night. Christmas trees and tree trimmings, A] a * and candle holders at Martin candles 40w3 1 ittle drops of whiskey, little sips o f beer, make the mighty jim-jams, if you perse veie. Three millions of the inhabitants of the German Empire speak the Polish language. it costs $2,000 a month to feed the animals in the Zoological Park in the District of Columbia. Special prices for teachars and knrrh committees on all kinds of eSy at Martin & Co. 40w3 The Paris police seem to be all ri -ht While they investigate they aie holding on to M. DeKydsewski. Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever t Ve attitude of the body may be, the aSul is on its knees. The latest “fad” to make its appearance in medical circles is the daughter cure” for bronchitis. It was first prescribed by an eminent Italian physician. The appellate court of Kentucky awarded a new trial to Caleb Powers, who was convicted in the Goebel murder conspiracy and sentenced to imprisonment for life. Crops are being harvested somewhere in the world every month in the vear. South Africa and Peru harvest in November, and Bengal, Burmah and New South Wales in December. A dead dog is as much use to his master as well as a dead advertisement to the man who pays for it. Keep your ads alive and bristling with simplv told truths and carry conviction because they are true. Unclaimed letters in the postolfice belong to Miss Rupert, Miss Mary Hosier, Ira Johnson, Miss Orpha Brandvberry, Jacob Busting, Luella Corder, Mrs. Hattie Dennis, Crist France. Mrs. Lewis Keller, Mrs. Ra chel Johnson, Harry Billford, Esq. Oranges, the largest stock and best assortment, at Coffee & Baker's you ever saw, and prices to suit all nations and their pocketbooks. We can give you oranges to your heart’s content at wholesale prices in small quantities. Remember the old stand, follow the crowd, and you will not miss the place. 40w2 The corn husks are thin, the moss is about even on all sides of the trees, many quail are partially feathered out and the late summer has been unusually wet. This is a sure sign, according to the belief of the cold weather bureau, that the coming winter will be an open one.

You are Invited TO CALL AND INSPECT THE ELEGANT LINE OF Holiday Goods j»j»NOW ON DISPLAY AT OUR STORE,.*.* Presents suitable for old and young. Ihe stock this year surpasses any previous year, as our aim has been to have as many new novelties as possible and to select neat and tasty goods. We will be pleased to have you look at this beautiful assortment . . . iiSifflisß THE DRUGGISTS.—”

services. d local and family/ R J ° h “ “Under Two Flasrs ” , comedy drama will be pLsefflft Bosse s opera house tonight. andiil -LeWellen the Monroe brick time and tbe thermometer fell a L.u I nSfr'T iU '»'*? minute,‘m. Coffee & Baker have one ton of Bt " ct ly new, fresh nuts of all kinds they are bound to sell to somebody between this and Christmas day at the rowest prices ever offered in Decatur or anywhere else. We will make you prices lower than the jobbing houses for the next twenty days on anything in our line. 40w2 A costly mistake. Blunders are sometimes very expensive. Occasionally life itself is the price of a mistake, blit you 11 never be wrong if you take Dr. King’s New Life Pills for dyspepsia, dizziness, headache, liver or bowel troubles. They are gentle, yet thorough. 25c at Blackburn & Christen s drug store. j A country boy who leaving his home to seek his fortune in the city, and his father, when the time came for saying good bve, used the opportunity to deliver some good advice: “Beware of gamblers, son” he said; “they 11 skin you. Leave cards alone; don t touch ’em. They are worse than the plague. But if you mnst play, shuffle and cut, son, shuffle and and cut. They'll skin you just the same, son, but it will take them longer.” A woman or girl who wishes to learn home needlework the coming year will find a staunch friend in Conkey’s Home Journal (Chicago). In addition to its regular departments of short and serial stories, high-class needlework for either pleasure or profit, it gives its subscribers a lot of surprises in its December issue. It has put in several new departments which will be welcomed by its femin ine readers, notable among which is a fashion department showing hats, costumes, waists and furs which are not second to the styles shown in any other publication. The Journal’s fashion department is supplemented by an up to date pattern department. The other features of short and serial stories, special illustrated articles and music are up to their usual high standard.

THC PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE. Following are extracts from the message of President Roosevelt trans m-tted to congress last week, giving the most pertinent suggestions contallied in that document: The events of the last four years have definitely decided that, for woe or for weal, our place must be great among the nations,” says the president. “Ours Is not the creed of the weakling and the coward; ours is the «ospel of hope and of triumphant endeavor.” Trusts- Corporations, and especially combinations of corporations, should e managed under public regulation. Tariff —One way In which the readjustment sought can be reached Is by reciprocity treaties. Wherever tho tariff conditions are such that a needed change cannot with advantage be made by the application of the reciprocity idea, then it can be made out riaht by a lowering of duties on a given product. In my judgment the tariff on anthracite coal should be removed. capital and Labor—Each must refrain from arbitrary or tyrannous interference with the rights of others. This Is an era of federation and combination. Cuba— Cuba has become a part of our international political system. I urge the adoption of reciprocity with Cuba. Arbitration— Wherever possible arbitration or some similar method should be employed in lieu of war to settle difficulties. The Philippines—No policy ever entered into by the American people has vindicated itself in more signal manner than the policy of holding the Philippines. Navy—The Monroe doctrine should be treated as the cardinal feature of American foreign policy, but it would be worse than idle to assert it unless we intend to back it up, and it can be backed up only by a thoroughly good navy. Rural Free Delivery—The results following its introduction have fully justified the congress in the large ip proprlations made for its establishment and extension. Public I.ands—The remaining public lands should be held for the home builder, the settler who lives on his land and for no one else. Civil Service —It i» much to be desired that our consular system be established by law on a basis providing for appointment and promotion only in consequence of approved fitness. DELAY PROMISED Canal Treaty Cannot Be Ratitted Before Next June. Washington, Dec. 6. —If Minister Hart at Bogota is correctly informed no treaty providing for the construction of the Panama canal can be ratified by the Colombian congress before about June 1 next. He has reported that the congressional elections have been called for the middle of next March and Colombians here say that a period of at least sixty days is required to assemble a newly elected congress. and thc.i some time must elapse before it is in working order. Secretary Hay therefore has decided to allow the treaty to be ratified in Washington first, presuming that he succeeds in negotiating one. unless the senate interposes an objection, which is not anticipated. It is expected that early next week Dr. Herran, the Colombian charge here, will be given all the powers necessary for him to sign a treaty. Requisition For Aines. Frankfort, Ky., Dec. 9.—Governor Beckham has honored the requisition of the governor of Minnesota for the arrest of Mayor A. A. Ames of Minneapolis. who several days ago went to Louisville to locate. Detective McGrugh of Minneapolis came here with the papers. It is learned today that Ames yesterday left Louisville far the South, his destination a secret. King Will Go to Ireland. London Dec. The lord mayor of Belfast announced yesterday that the Early of Dudley had informed him that King Edward would probably pay a visit to Ireland in 19u3. This intimation coming through the lord lieutenant of Ireland, is regarded as practically an official announcement of his majesty's decision. Six Were Killed. Halifax. N. 8., Dec. B—The Canadian Pacific express for Montreal rolled down an embankment at Belmont, killing six persons, injuring a score of others and completely wrecking the locomotive, the postal, express and baggage ec rs and several passenger coaches. Barry Johnston Dead. Philadelphia. Dec B.—Barry Johnstone, the actor who last Monday night shot and killed Kate Hassett of Keith's Stock company and then shot himself, died Sunday at the Hannemann hospital Caught at Crossing. Laura. Ohio. Dec. 9—A Big Four switch engine struck a wagon at the crossing here last night, instantly killing George and Joseph Corner and fatally injuring John Corner. Fired On Rioters. St. Petersburg. Dec. 6. —In the riots w’hlch occurred recently at Rostoff troops fired on the workmen, killing twenty of ttWL _ Such is the flexibility of our language that a noble brute may be either n thoroughbred St. Bernard “ foreign fortune - " asblugtou T lines

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AMERICAN AUDIENCES. Men nnd Women and Their Effect IpoD Public Meetingn. American audiences are strangely alike in some things and strangely dissimilar in others. A good committee will take as much paius in the arrangement of its audience as of its speakers. An audience seated without crowding is seldom enthusiastic. Neither is an audience whose hands are occupied with bundles or umbrellas, an audience largely composed of women or an audience in a cold room. The easiest audiences to address, the most responsive and inspiring, are those composed of men crowded and packed together and warm Women naturally do not applaud or cheer. They are by instinct more self restrained in the public expression of tbelr emotions than men. Every public speaker is complimented by their presence, knowing that their quiet word at home is oftentimes more effective* in results than the most enthusiastic shouting on the street corners by the other sex in a public meeting, however. the audience gets its cue from those nearest the speaker. I remember well two audiences, both from the same social class, both crowded, both in large theaters and both largely attended by women. One happened to be in Colorado, one in Massachusetts. In one meeting the orchestra was reserved for women. In tlie other meeting the men had the orchestra and tlie women had the lower gallery and all the boxes. In both cases the audiences were entirely friendly to the speakers. The second meeting was marked by wild enthusiasm, the first one by respectful attention. In the second ease the mass of men in the orchestra urged on the speakers l>y continued applause. In the first case the men in the galleries who started to applaud were checked because between them and the speakers was a mass of absolutely silent femininity In the orchestra. 1 do not say tbnt one meeting was less effective than the other, but the differ ence in the strain on the speaker was marked.- From “The Spellbinder,” by Colonel Curtis Guild, Jr., in Scribner’s. _ Fruity. “She's evidently the apple of his eye.” “He told me she was a peach.” “So? Well, nt any rate, they are a fine looking palr.”-Indlanapolis News. Tlie Seed of Modish Soda Mint. Under ordinary social and gastronomic conditions there Is probably a great deal more heartburn than heartburn lugs.—lndianapolis Newii. Advise an old man to marry a woman young enough to be his daughter, and he may nsk if you take him for a fool, but he will not be offended.—Atchison Globe.

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A Little Too Mach. “A wife has a right to expect much of her husband,” remarked the philosophically inclined person musingly. "Yes, I suppose she has," replied the meek ap|iearing man with wilted looking whiskers; "1 suppose she has, but when she expects him to live up. stead ily and without swerving, to the motto on her first husband's tombstone I somehow think she is expecting more than she really ought to expect from a common, everyday, earthly man.” Qunlflfled. “Yes, he’s sure to make a grand president for the college. He’s bad so much experience." ”1 didn't know be was a prominent educator " “He Is i't. He wan an Insurance agent, and he can coax money out of a stone wall.”—Washington limes Desperate. Doctor To remove your mother-in-law In tier present condition to the hospital would. I am afraid, prove fatal. Henrlpeck —Well, let's try It any-way.-Kansas City Independent Inline \rrlio»lty, “Don’t you think that Mrs. Cbataon Is quite a brilliant conversationalist? “Oh, quite! She can express less In Bore words than any one I ever met.”

Why r One of the wonderful things is that a woman of fair Intelligence will paint her cheeks like a clown's and appear on the streets. Why does she do it? Does she imagine that people think the paint Is bloom of youth? Does she not know that people laugh at her? There are two things that people are quick to notice—when a man wears a wig and when a woman paints her cheeks. —Atchison Globe. The Oculist. Patient—l can't sts- that there’s a thing wrong with my eyesight. Oculist Jonnlftyse — The most positive proof that you need glasses, my dear sir, when you are unable to see anything so plain as that! Loe Angeles Herald. Mrs. Gimp Is Miss Stitcher much of a dressmaker? M'ss Piping Splendid. She never has to make a dress over more than two or three times. Boston Transcript. There I" no case on r<”ord of a man having cqmmltted a crime with a pipe or cigar In his mouth. This Is the best day the world baa •ver seen. Tomorrow w ill be better.—