Decatur Democrat, Volume 47, Number 31, Decatur, Adams County, 8 October 1903 — Page 7

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A Domestic Blend. A resourceful young matron had a gma ll dinner party. Covers were laid for six. and the dinner was charming. 1 Tie red wine was not too cold, the white wine not too warm and the black co tfee a masterpiece. At the begin n lng of the end of the dinner a cordial was served. It happened to be Crem4 Yvette, and when the husband tasted It he put down his glass with a look of anguish and was about to speak. His* wife's eye silenced him. Nobody f took more than the first sip of the' liqueur. After the last guest had departed the husband braved his wife’s eye an d spoke. “My dear,” said he, “what in the name of all unspeakable things was the matter with that liqueur?” His young wife smiled triumphantly. “Why,” snfd she, “'when I came to look at the bottle, Just before dinner, I found there wasn’t enough left to go round. It was too late to get any more, so I just added to it a bottle of violet toilet water. It was the same I color, and it had the same smell, and ■ I knew nobody would notice the difs ferenee. Wasn’t it good?”—Washington Post. The Jewish Tornli. Os the objects used in the Jewish ■ synagogue one of the most interesting ■ is the Torah scroll. The Delineator describes this as parchment scroll in Hebrew, mounted on wooden rollers, wrapped in a cloth of green velvet, emI broidered In silk, which is held by a t silver worked belt and covered with a mantle of black velvet embroidered in gold. The upper handles of the rollers are of carved wood and the lower of ivory, with silver bells on the rollers. The Jewish Torah, or the law, is considered by the people of this race the most important and sacred portion of the Scriptures. In order that it maybe kept alive in the minds of the people it is divided into as many “pericopes” as there are Sabbaths in the year, so that within a twelvemonth the entire book will have been read through. A manuscript copy is used, having been prepared by a professional scribe on parchment made of the skin of a clean animal—that is, one the flesh of which may be eaten.

L^:?T^< t 7 j* • - : In this list there are many gcot properties offered l °2^? ct “? a l 4°tJ a n! l a"tmns are an We have other properties not listed here for r< nt._sale or ttrai le. . , (I , isers , IS soon a s advantage to buyer and seller, and I now have a large num _■ tn the t>urcha-e or sale of what they want is placed upon the market. It you art mt ~r iln erty. write or call farm lauds, business rooms, reside aces, mill machinery, t nriinerties by number. Adfor one of our recent large discriptive lists. In inquity reter p 1 ■Phone No. 230. «*• SNOW, Decatur, Indiana.

No 57—Building'lots nr. Lino street. Madison s2>o each. Monroe and Marshall streets ai from ?‘SO to SICOO each. No. *•—A one-acre tract in northwest D< eatur. good dwelling, stable,• . - poultry house, etc. SISOO. No. llts—A seven acre tract, ioins the northwest corporation line Jof Decatur. Good location, on pike road. Price S7OO. No. 209—A 3*4 acre tract in south Decatur on stoned street. Plenty of good fruit and good buildings, price *2,150. No. 173—A 15*4 acre tract in west Root township. one half mile from school, threefourths black land, no buildings, $776, No. I'4—A twenty-acre tract in good location, in Union township, four and one-half miles from Decatur, nearly all black land, ordinary house. S9OO, No. 169—Thirty-acre tract twc and a half miles northwest of Decatur, sand loam and clay. 5 acres good young timber, five-room good house, SISOO. No. 201—A 32 acre farm, three miles northeast of Decatur. Improvements ail new. Fair grade of soil. Rural mail route. No. 225—A 40 acre tract of first class black farming land, 3 miles southwest of Pleasant Mills, one mile from stone road, small buildings. $2,400. No. 245—A 40acre tract near the stone road, about seven miles west of Decatur: number one land and good improvements, $3,100 No. 256—-A 40 acre tract of well improved land, two miles east of Monroe town. Good Quality of land. Improvements nearly new. Price $3,500. No 218—A 46 acre tract four miles northeast or Berne on free mail route, a quarter ot a mile from the stone road, fair buildings. S blaca land. *2,300. No. 23. --A 60 acre tract at the stone road, near church and school house, four mile* southwest of Decatur. Good location, ordinary improvements, fair average land. Price $2,800. A 5 177>5 n acre tract, southwest of Pleas- ?| Q \. loam, poor buildings - >me

umber. In oil territory. S4OOO D For more complete DESCRIPTIONS and LlSt ’ddressthe SNOW AGENCY.

It All Depends. A student long ago asked the president of Oberlin college if he could not be permitted to take a shorter course of study. “Oh. yes,” replied the president “but that depends upon what you want to make of yourself. When God wants to make an cak, he takes a hundred years, but when he wants to make a squash he takes six months.” — Instructor. Answered. “If a ship,” began the comedian with the rose tinted beard, “is 100 feet long and 40 feet wide and its masts are 100 feet idgh and the bo’sun is bowlegged, what does the capstan weigh?” “It weighs the anchor!” hoarsely shouted the audience as it grabbed the benches to prevent itself rising en masse and doing violence to the thespians.—Baltimore American. Oriental Hor&eahoes, The type of horseshoe common in the orient is a plate fitted so as to cover the entire bottom of the hoof, with a perforation in the center. The weight of the average horseshoe is threefourths of a pound. The native smiths usually cut these plates from sheets of wrought iron and rudely shape them for the purpose in view. Tot Tut. “The word ‘reviver’ spells the same backward or forward.” It was the frivolous man who spoke. “Can you think of another?” The serious man scowled up from his newspaper. “Tut tut!” be cried contemptuously. And they rode on in silence. Abanrd. First Neighbor—l am afraid my children bother you. Second Neighbor—What nonsense! Why, they are not over to my house more than eighteen hours out of the twenty-four! Reassured. He—l’ve tried my best not to make love to you. She—Well, you know what Browning says—that the only true success is constant failure.— Exchange.

No. 257-An SO-acre r tract. oi<,_ a n W acre tract, one -half mile west N lllue Creek township, old buildings, productive land, sume black soil. $4.1.A No. 163-Eighty acres, near stone road In Wahush township, oil land, some timber, tair bSildinTsome black laud, balance claj loam. Kn 253—An SO acre tract of good hind, two Ings nearly new, 15,500. x’ 04? \ n w'i R're tract of black sand loam, N northwest Os Willshire.-Ohio a littleUu.oer. no buildings, 41.350. An fO acre tract two miles south of lit7 C at u r on stone road, good buildings Md black land. iS.IOO. ->u A »5 acre tract of well improved oil Price $5,350, , , . ->24—For sate, a 108 acre tract of beech and ' ?X rlB of PitrhfV a'reSDlacK iauu -Jb-n No Ei L_ y A 120 acre near ’ i ‘ bia SnSe’bKck mud. J 9.00). house, Fame cribs and barn. Price »U.WO- c-.-r No Decatur on uiv j wind pun;p>, Ofblac® A good stock farm. ICO acres o* Price Ow.

QQLD WAVES. They Purify the Atmosphere and Benefit the Human Sy.tein, The cold wave, so much dreaded by most people, is really a blessing in disguise. it charges the atmosphere with fresh oxygen and a surplus of free electricity which produces a most exhilarating ami beneficial effect upon mankind. Torpid energies are aroused, physical vigor and resistance increased, by the advent of a cold wave to such an extent that any incidental damage Is more than made up for. The American climate has always been recognized as a strong factor in causing the aggressiveness and enterprise which have lifted our people into the first rank among nations and made us commercially supreme. The cold wave, with its results of increased energy and vigor, is a meteorological phenomenon peculiar to this country. The chief of the weather bureau at Washington explains the origin of this wave. It appears that with a high pressure system, rotating with great velocity, large volumes of cold air are drawn down from above the clouds, so that the cold wave is “homemade,” being simply a product of motion. The system of motion originates in the northwest, but the cold air comes from above the clouds. The cold wave is not only useful for its beneficial effect upon the human system, but as a cleansing and purifying agency. It dissipates the deadly carbonic acid gas, the product of respiration and coni bustion. and the foul effluvia of decaying matter, increasing atmospheric circulation generally and thereby relieving stagnation.—Medical Brief. A Water Teat. It is one of the easiest things in the world to tell pure water from the impure. If you want to test the color of the water just fill a colorless glass bottle with the water and look through it at some black object, and the distinctiveness with which you can see the object will give you an idea as to the amount of clay or sand there is in the water. Then pour out one-half the water. cork the bottle tightly and set it in a warm place for about twenty-four hours. Remove the cork and smell the air in the bottle. If there is an offensive odor, even the slightest, the water is unfit for domestic uses. Well water, no matter how bright and sparkling, is nine times out of ten putrescent. Then, as a matter of course, decomposition is sure to set in in a day or two if you put the bottle in a warm place. A Slap at Whistler. A young San Franciscan, the owner of a large and valuable collection of autographs, once wrote to James Mac Neil! Whistler, politely requesting bis signature. The letter was sent in care of the London Royal academy, with which the famous American painter was at outs. After four months the letter was returned to the San Francisco address from the dead letter office in Washing ton. Covering the envelope was the word, repeated numberless times, “Unknown.” The Real Force. “Man does his best when he is hard put to it. Necessity, you know, is the mother of invention,” said the observer of men and things. “Yes,” replied the benedict, “but if necessity were invention’s motht r-in-law then you’d see how invention would have to hump itself.’-Philadel-The institute held Saturday at the Central school building, finished the instructive work for teachers and now every school in Adams county is down to business. As was stated the institute Saturday was simply to perfect the proper organization for the work of the year. The attendance was large and every teactier Btemeu tim/ocA. ..».** idea of making the best of their efforts. County’ Superintendent Brandyberry has prefect control of the Adams county school system and is starting upon a successful year in the history of our public schools. Rev. H. Theo. Wilkens, pastor of the St. Marys Catholic church has chosen a unique and clever m inner of paying out the expenses of putting in the $5,000 heating plant Each .quarter a- collection will be taken up for this fund until the entire bill As P a collection was taken *up Sunday and amounted to $325.37. The plant will be’finished Thd.rsdayjand will be one of the best tobe found anywhere in this section of the country. The church should certainly be proud of the Sunday cultection given even before’the work isjjonipleted and a test given. David B. Studabaker celebrated his tenth birthday Monday afternoon by entertaining a number of his little friends including Dan Tynall, Robert Peterson, Kenith R Don Falk Reba'and Robert Quinn. Neva Brandyberry,‘Marge'ret* BMCMarie Crawford, Hazel Harrod, Fanny and Diet Heller, Carl France. NVorna I I vail Winifred fund M MillerX,Elling- ! h am’ The event oecurred__ after ! school i Moser.

TRICKS WITH CARDS. SKILLFULLY DONE, THEY WILL AMUSE ! AND MYSTIFY YOUR GUESTS. How to Tell Every Card In the Pack With Its Hack Turned Toward You. The Thirty-one Trick — A Clever Way to Tell Drawn Cards. I This undoubtedly’ is one of the best j illusions performed with cards, as it not only brings the whole pack into use, but is also legitimately founded upon arithmetical principles. By this trick you are able to tell the whole pack of cards with the backs toward you; also to sort them after being cut any number of times in the mere act of dealing them out in a row. It is performed thus: A pack of cards being distributed on the table, with their faces uppermost, they are picked up one by one in the following order: C, 4,1, 7,5, king, 8, 10, knave, 9,2, queen. Repeat the same series of every’ thirteen cards. Four times over will of course complete the pack. That the above order may be remembered, the following words are used as a guide to the memory and they are Intended to enumerate the cards: 6 4 1 The sixty-fourth regiment beats the 7 5 king seventy-fifth; up starts the king, with 8 10 3 knave eight thousand and three men and 9 2 queen njnety-two women. Hence this trick Is said to be done “by words!” The pack being arranged, it may be handed to any of the company “to cut.” with the proviso that this operation be done whist fashion—that is, by taking a portion of the cards off in a mass and placing the lower division on what was before the upper one. This done fairly and properly, it may be repeated any number of times, as the audience may think fit. You then take the pack and by a feint catch sight of the bottom card. Having learned this (it may be done at a glance, in a second of time), you have the key to the whole trick. Then commence it by dealing the cards out in the ordinary way, but in thirteen heaps. Having dealt out thirteen, begin again and cover them; then go on as before. When finished there will be of course four in each heap. Now every heap will contain all four of the same denomination, as the four knaves in one heap, the four sevens in another, and so on. The thirteenth, or last heap, will be of the same denomination as the one at the bottom which you have contrived to see, and, according to whatever that card is, all the suits will follow, but in the reverse order, as the words above indicate. Thus suppose the eight was the bottom card. Then on dealing them out they would be in the following order: King, 5,7, 1,4, 6, queen, 2,9, knave, 3, 10, 8, and you begin reciting in the mind the words you use from that passage in the sentence, working from right to left, which the card indicates in the above. You would say: 8 10 3 knave Eight thousand and three men and 9 2 queen 6 4 ninety-two women; sixty-fourth 17 5 regiment beats the seventy-fifth; up king starts the king with, etc. Here, of course, is your starting point. The same principle bolds good whatever the card may be. Any person asking for a card, all four of every suit may be found in the same heap and can be quickly turned up as soon as required with a little practice, to the utter astonishment and wonder of the company. By taking up the cards In the same order as before, but all of one suit, you may easily discover the position of any one card that is demanded. A fine trick with cards is called “thir-ty-one.” It Is played with the first six .*• ... ’• 4-110 o/MK in rmv deuces in another, the threes in another, then the fours, fives and sixes, all laid in rows. The object now will be to turn down cards alternately and endeavor to make 31 points by so turning or as near to it as possible without overrunning it, and the one who turns down a card the spots of which make him 31 or so near it that the other cannot turn down one without overrunning it wins. This trick Is very deceiving, as all other tricks are, and requires much practice to be well under“i.;.’ .-mrr --- -•» to end with the following numbers—viz, 3, 10, 17 or 24. For example, we will suppose it your privilege to commence with 3 and your adversary would add 6, which would make it 9. It would then be your policy to add 1 and make 10. Then, no matter what number he adds, he cannot prevent you counting 17, which number gives you the command of the trick. We will suppose he adds 6 and makes 10. Then you add 1 and make 17; then he adds 6 and makes 23, you add 1 and make 24 Then he cannot possibly add any num ber to count 31, as the highest number he can add is 6, which would only count 30, so that you can easily add the remaining 1, or ace, and make 31. There are, however, many variations to the trick. A clever way is here given in which to discern one or more drawn cards. Turn unperceived the bottom card of a pack face upward; then let several of the company draw a card. Reverse the pack rapidly, so that the bottom is now the top card, and thus all the other cards are turned face upward unseen by the spectators. Hold the pack firmly in your fingers and request those who have drawn to replace their cards in the pack. Thus all tlie drawn cards will lie with their , i faces downward, while all the other ' cards will lie with their faces upward. ; I You now step aside, select the drawn : 1 cards and show them to the company. | —Boston Herald.

f j»si jgjj" | 2 ? Built I Without i ■JH Brick I B St without Joints. S fl Wil M 1 All work guar- | IS ® anteed. Price, 50c per wfgilg-ggt; ■'? barrel, plus the ; ; gravel. Leave Orders at Hale’s Warehouse. I MILTON DONART, D=“tur, ind. | Fort Wayne Fair BIGCER, BETTER, BRIGHTER. October 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17. The Fort Wayne Fair Association refers with pride to the unqualified success of last year’s Fair, the Best held in Northern Indiana in years. This YEAR’S FAIR it is already assured will be BIGGER and BETTER in EVERY way than last year’s. THE PRICE THE SAME - . 25 CENTS The Premiums, 50 per cent. Bigger, $ 7,500 00 Racing Purses, Bigger, - 4,000 00 Free Attractions, Bigger, - 2,000.00 Total, ------ $13,300.00 Every Day Will be the Big Day. The Mile Track is one of the Fastest in the World Trotting, Pacing and Running Races Every Dav ■ | | | Twenty-one Railroads reaching every town I OOIC within 100 miles of Fort Wayne, will sell round LU Vai 11 X/1 V Trip Tickets FOR ONE FARE. Tickets good returning to and including Monday, October 19 THERE WILL BE More Fine Cattle, More Fine Horses, More Fine Hogs, More Fine Sheep, More Fine Poultry, More Fine Produce, More Fine Fruit, More Fine Implements, More Fine Displays, More and Finer EVERTHING than shown at any County Fair in the State. FREE OPEN AIR VAUDEVILLE. KING and QUEEN SAMAYOA The Great Highdiving Horses. Wonderful Acrobat with his ROSAIRE Circles of Knives. Slack Wire Demon. THE ROUEN S 3 ROSSIS Trapezists and Ring Walkers Comedy Acrobats. OTHERS — Coming, >—Band Concerts, Etc. All Free— —r,-—. q r The Best 25c Fair Q " Ever Held. " For Information or Premium List, Address W. A. JOHNSON, Secretary. ALEXANDER JOHNSON, President.

WHALES AS THEY DIVE. Something About the Habits of the Ocean Monsters. Both whalers and naturalists have usually held that when whales “sound” they descand to great depths, says Knowledge. One writer on the subject estimates that the larger members of the group dive fully a thousand yard;. In a memoir published in Belgium Dr. Racovitza challenges this belief and the maximum depth to which any whale can dive and that many :s>ecies cannot reach anything like that limit. Says the wrher: Why should whales want to go to such depths? All whales sound for the purpose of obtaining food, and in the profound darkness of 1,000 yards what foorl could they get? Those species which feed on animalcules might, per haps, obtain what they Want. But bow about the species which feed on fishes and cutties? At a depth of 1,000 yards they certainly could not use their eyes to detect nonluminous species, and we have no evidence whatever that they feed on the self luminous deep sea fish and cutties, if. indeed, there be any of the latter. On the contrary, the available evidence indicates that they feed on ordinary light dwelling fishes and cuttles which live in much shallower zones. But this is not all. It is known that the effects of a pressure of more than three atmospheres prove fatal to human life; and, although we may believe that whales can stand treble this pressure, or nine atmospheres, which would occur at about ninety yards’ depth, is it conceivable that they could resist the effect of ten times the latter j pressure, or ninety atmospheres? MoreI over, does it seem possible that a whale whose body is only slightly heavier than water at ordinary pressure could i exert the muscular force necessary to i propel that body to a depth of 1,000 '« ?

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EXCLUSIVE TERRITORY Please notice the advertisement of The Greening Bros. Nursery Co. of Monr ■»/» Mich., which appears in another column of tms paper. They advertise for an honest, reliable man to represent them in this county, selling their general line of fruit and ornamental trees, plants etc., as well as their Trade marked specialties — the Winter Banana apple. Banner and New Prolific peaches. Brusseler Braune cherry and Cream Beauty Rose. These latter are protected by trademark tags, and can only be secured from this nursery. The Greening Bros. Co have a very fair proposition to make to their agents. They pay a liberal commission and have a certain territory alloted to each agent. Should an inquiry come to the office from fruit growers in a territory where they are represented by an agent, the inquiry is immediately referred to the agent and he is instructed to call at once on the prospective buyer. A letter is also sent in response to the inquiry, stating that they have an agent covering that territory who will call at once. As a result of this first-class business proposition they have representing them in a great many places in the Middle West, agents who have been working for them ever since they began business in 1883. They want an honest reliable agent in this county. Their catalog is a beauty; send for it, The latest thing out in the way of photo novelties at the penny Photo Gallery. 217d6w2 Mrs. Harry Cutting who has been visiting for a few days with her parents have returned to her home at Bluffton. ... ■ - . .—