Decatur Democrat, Volume 47, Number 35, Decatur, Adams County, 5 November 1903 — Page 7

" I(1 jnpnn Sacred to the Goda. Irfe ’„ every temple in Japan are cery" , s that are supposed to be pe- ““ rh . loved by the gods and to be ~l'to them. Any one injuring or I “’ re ‘ to be injured one of them will i |?7down the wrath of the kami or | whose particular property It is. trePS be injured in the name of p the Kami avenges himself on ! nerson instead. So when a girl • t- that a swain’s love has cooled ’“L* thinks revenge would be sweet ,a ,, !;1 hes a straw manikin and calls it name. If she is very vengeful J „. qV 'aiso make one of her hated ’ I \t 2 o’clock at night (called the o f the bulb she rises, and. clad in 'white nightdress only, with high _ on her feet, her hair hanging Snnd crowned with an iron tripod, Hrhicli three lighted candles are she proceeds to the shrine of the god of the family. prniae Your Wife. fraise your wife, man, for pity’s ike praise your wife when she deEl s it! >t won’t injure her any, Egb it may frighten her some from ■Langeness. If you wish to make Efceep her happy, give her a loving E occasionally. If she takes pains ■ make you something pretty, don’t E it with only: Ejes it ’ s vcr -' P rett Y- "’on’t y° n Ej me my paper?” It will take you E, minute’s time to kiss her and ■ her she is the best wife in town. K, will find it to be a paying investK t -one which will yield you a large K n in increased care and willing K; fur y .nr comfort. Loving praise K lighten labor wonderfully and Kjijb. freely bestowed—Exchauce. 9 Animals amt Sight. Ethe water fishes see only at very HL range ■ ":t half their own This will seem, perhaps, tinK v to am-lors, although some of K i. -lances showing that see far. Snakes seem to mediocre sense of sight, for in-lance. does not see at a quarter of its own length. species are limited to oneKor mie-eighth of their length. Mpa:- I>. !’■ r off; they see at fifteen tin es their length. '.'J A Narrow Footing;. Ijr'-: I didn’t know Offiseekor ■ . experience as a tight rope He hasn't. Without it I don't see - rs ruling the feat of which jM) 'Ci!~ running on his own mer■•Baltimore American. 9 Under the Spell. Efcwny- A few short hours ago I ■ fitting with a girl, telling her she only one in all the world I ■ffireii. ami so forth and so forth. she believed you. she? iHkv could she help it? Why, I bemyself.”—Life. 9 Bravery. .Mtr.." wl; -m red the good woman i ' •' th- night, “there are bur townstairs.” Ago down. dear.” replied John T 1 V wouldn’t dare to strike

-4k- -4K- -A- -A- A- —urfh. mkobi E 1 * list there are many gcot properties otierea helow letml cost ot imurnvi'meni, properties not hated here for rent, -aie w in.ik ' >'i> traiisactH-iis tit a seller, and I now have a laru.- numl» r -.-I pur !v,- i- ... .-"o.i. is placed upon the market. If you are interested in the .; . o uess r. oms. residences, mill machi a or citj property. 2. large discriptive lists. In inquiry refer to properties ■>> number, au 9N0.230. J. f. SNOW, Decatur, Indiana.

- t. Ma ■ U r street at from iI:A to - WtliWeaeli. n(ir thwi ~r 'jV'JO'v. stable, cribs, poultry aerp ’raet, joins the north I;n e jot lieealur. Good P‘ke road. Price J7OO. Cre : , rai ’’ iu s 111,11 I’eeauu on Plen, V “f good fruit and pnee $2,150, Cre . tr a>'t in west Hoot town- ' Hffit’ from school. thr< e land, no buildings, 1776, t u’ acr, ‘ ,ract in good loeatio-1. foot and one-half miles tijo ear ' s l,!a °k land.ordinU act twc and a hall 'i'* bi-eatur. sand loam and yo,;n k timber, live-room fa , rm ' three miles northImprovements all new Rural mall route. n ract of hr” class black southwest of Pleasant r ’ lm stone road, small builiimiinl act near hie stone road. w '‘ st of Decatur; nutu1 ltni)rovernents ’ r-'- I '*' well Unproved of llon roe town. Good ■ ““Provements nearly new. J.? 1 , four miles northeast 11 ro <»te, a quarter ot a fair buildings. s . swift , a t she st ins road, bwar, °°! ho “se. four n Iles J’ bf'od location, ordA '-nts, f ttir avi . rage | and . ?ou, !iwest of Plea.-«'-Dl'.orv.'Wuio U ' ldiUg '

t^Eow C ? n ' P,eto DESCRIPTIONS and LIST of TOWN AND-CITY I KOI RBI |K w 4GKNCY.

SAGACITY OF MR, SAGE. HI. Ileuoon For ItefuHlng to A dv„ nce Another Loan. One day a young man of Russell Sage s acquaint,-mce-in fact, the grandson 01 an old friend < lf l)t her days-ap-Tsm'r “ lUI 0,1 tlll> SUbject of a ' oan of 810 tor two weeks ami-got it He promised faithfully to return the money at a stated hour, and the promise was as faithfully kept. Mr. Sage had very little to say when be gave up the ten and quite as little when be got it buck. A week or ten days later the young man came to see Idm again and this time asked him for SIOO. Snaking all sorts of representations of what be would do with it. Mr. Sage refused to ante. The young man was surprised, not to say pained. *A»hy,” he exclaimed, “you know I’ll pay it all right. Didn't 1 say I’d have that ten for you on Monday, and wasn’t I there to the minute with it?” Mr. Sage beamed softly on the grandson of his old friend. "My boy,” he said, with no trace of unkindness in his tone, “you disappointed me once, and 1 don't want you to do it again,” “I beg your pardon, I did not,” argued the youth. “I said I would pay you back, and 1 did.” “Yes, my boy,” purred Mr. Sage, you paid back the W. a . and I never expected you would. Now. if I let you have a hundred I should expect you to pay it back, and you wouldn’t. One disappointment at my time of life is enough, my boy. Good morning.”—Collier’s Weekly. A Perugian Superstition. The girls of the Perugian highlands believe as firmly as any heroine of Theocritus that a person possessing a lock of another person’s hair can will pain, disease and even deatli to the owner of the hair, and thus when maidens give their betrothed lovers the customary plaited tress it is virtually their life and all their power of suffering that they give into those trusted bands. If the man should prove unfaithful and disease descend upon the unhappy woman, she is not. however, utterly lost The experienced matrons of her village have means to transfer the complaint to a tree, to an animal or to cast it into running water. The patient must rise in the early dawn, touch a certain plant in a certain manner, saying, "May thou wither and 1 flourish again,” or bind her complaint to a tree in a given fashion, taking care never to pass again before that tree lest the disease, recognizing its former possession, return to her again. Derbies. In the “Memoir” of Robert Chambers by his brother William is a delightful allusion to Peebles, their birthplace and a spot ever warm in the loving memory of Scotch residents. One of these, a man who had lived there all his life, was enabled by some uplift of fortune to visit Paris. When he came back his townsmen gravely gathered about him. “Noo,” said one, while the others listened, “tell us about it.” “Paris,” he began, “a’ things considered. is a wonderfu’ place; but, still, Peebles for pleasure.”

No 257—An SO-acre tract, two and one-half miles northwest of Decatur, clay and sand loam, fair buildings, fruit and timber SfaW \ o 2i9_An 80 acre tract, one •half mile west of Salem, Blue Creek township, old buildings, productive land, some black soil. H.liiO. No. 163—Eighty acres, near stone road in Wabash township, oil land, some timber, fair buildings, some black land, balance claj loam, $3200. No. 253—An SO acre tract of good land, two and a quarter miles east of Monroe, near stone road. House, barn and other buildings nearly new. *5,500. Kn “13—An 80 acre tract of black sand loam, northwest of Willshire. Ohio, a little timber, no buildings. *4.350. No 221—An (0 acre tract two miles south of Decatur on stone road, good buildings and black land. *3,400. No 244 —A 95 acre tract of well improved oil and gas land, two miles northeast of Pheasant Mills. Some timber, a variety ot soli, Price.*s,3so, No 224-For sale, a 108 acre tract of beech and N su’gar land two and a half o Decatur. New house and barn. ssoowortnoi timber. Price 15,600, No 251—A 100 acre tract of average land on the public road, two miles north east of Decatur. Fair improvements, frame buildings, drove well, etc. Price *..,600 No ”40- -A 30 acre tract of good farming land. Price 11,800. Vn >s2— A 140 acre tracf on the gravel pike. N Atout 'two miles Good improvements, feuiiffings worto Eighty acres black land. Price *9. iOO w 99®—A 120 acre tract near the gravel pike. NO northwest oGlecatun good improvements, one half black lanu No. 160-Anlß4-acre tract in Ma o £ e l?X 8 r Eri“ U hou n se d . frame cribs and barn. Price *14,500. X- a ”91 PTC rraM, Within two miles ot JS&SSI’.ffKS »"•■■ *• -- Price J 14.000

' RUN BY MOUSE POWER, A Thrifty Scotchman's Scheme For Operating His Thread .Mills. Thrift is generally acknowledged to be one of the leading characteristics of the native of Fifeshire, and it never was more forcibly exemplified than in the person of David Hutton, a native of Dunfermline, who actually proved that even mice, those acknowledged pests of mankind, could be made not only to earn their own living, but also to yield a respectable income to their owners. About the year 1820 this gentleman actually erected a small mill at Dunfermline for the manufacture of thread —a mill worked entirely by mice. It was while visiting Perth prison in 1812 that Mr. Hutton first conceived this remarkable idea of utilizing mouse power. In an old pamphlet of the time. “The Curiosity Coffee Room,” fee gave an account of the way in which the idea dawned on him. “In the summer of the year 1812,” he wrote. “I had occasion to be in Perth, and when inspecting the toys and trinkets that were manufactured by the French prisoners in the depot there my attention was involuntarily attracted by a little toy house, with a wheel in the gable of it that was running rapidly round, impelled by the insignificant gravity of a common house mouse. For 1 shilling I purchased house, mouse and wheel. Inclosing it in a handkerchief, on my journey homeward I was compelled to contemplate its favorite amusement. But how to apply half ounce power, which is the weight of a mouse, to a useful purpose was the difficulty. At length the manufacturing of sewing thread seemed tLe most practicable.” Mr. Hutton had one mouse that ran the amazing distance of eighteen miles a day. but he proved that an ordinary mouse could run ten and a half miles on an average. A halfpenny’s worth of oatmeal was sufficient for its support for thirty-five days, during which it ran 73(5 half miles. He had actually two mice constantly employed in the making of sewing thread for more than a year. The mouse thread mill was so constructed that the common bouse mouse was enabled to make atonement to society for past offenses by twisting. twining and reeling from 100 to 120 threads a day. Sundays not excepted. To perform this task the little pedestrian bad to run ten and a half miles, and this journey it performed with ease every day. A halfpenny’s worth of oatmeal served one of these thread mill culprits for the long period of five weeks. In that time it made 3,350 threads of twenty-five inches, and as a penny was paid to women for every hank made in the ordinary way the mouse at that rate earned ninepence every six weeks, just one farthing a day, or 7s. 6d. a year. Taking sixpence off for board and allowing 1 shilling for machinery, there was a clear yearly profit from each mouse of G shillings. Mr. Hutton firmly intended to apply for the loan of the empty cathedral in Dunfermline, which would have held, he calculated, 10,000 mouse mills, sufficient room being left for keepers and some hundreds of spectators. Death, however, overtook the inventor before this marvelous project could be carried out.—Edinburgh Scotsman. A Surprint**! Dake. Just after the late Duke of Richmond and Gordon received the latter half of his title—lie was created Duke of Gordon in January, 187 G—he was sent to this country as president of the . I.< ... .?«<■ exposition. While in this country be heard of a certain picture owned by a country woman in which he thought he might be Interested, and so wrote to her. using the official stationery of the commission and signing himself, as a peer does, simply by the names of his title. "Richmond and Gordon.” Much to his surprise and a good deal to his disgust—for he had precise ideas as to his dignity as a duke—the letter which he received in answer to his was addressed, “Messrs. Richmond & Gordon,” and began. “Gentlemen’” At the Sociable. Mr. Sliptongue —I have not met your wife. Is she here this evening? Mr. Hansome—Yes, but just at this moment rhe is engaged over there at the piano. Mr. Sliptongue (with affected enthusiasm) —Ah, I see! She is that goddesslike beauty who is playing an accompaniment for the mountain of flesh who is singing. Mr. Hansome (stiffly)—My wife does not play; she sings.—London Telegraph. Why. “Lillian is not sure that she loves Walter. Sometimes she thinks she does, and at other times she’s convinced she doesn’t.’ “And yet she is going to marry him? “Oh. yes, that’s all settled.” “But if she is not sure she loves him why doesn’t she break the engagement?” „ „ “Because she is twenty-seven. -Kan- ; gas City Journal. Fixing the Illume. “The trouble ain’t with the farm, : said the old man. “If the farm didn’t have to do anything but support itself, It could be made to pay, but it don t seem to be able to carry the burden of us livin’ on it. so I reckon we’re to blame.”— Chicago Bost. Losing an Opportunity. “The curtain goes up at 8:15, so we’ll be lust in time.” > “But if we have a box it really seems a shame to be so punctual.”-Brook!yn Life. Some people watt you to give them ’ ’ everything for nothing, including your life your liberty (your labor) and yom pursuit of happiness.—Schoolmaster. | I

PHIL MAY’S BARGAIN. An Experience the Artist Had With a Roving; Conjurer. An amusing story is toid of the artist Phil May and an English coni’rer at a fair at Stratford-on-Avon. Phil was in the crowd which had gathered to watch a very clever gentleman who was wrapping up sovereigns and half crowns in pieces of paper and selling them for 2 shillings. The "sharp” had a beautiful face—such a face as Phil May loved to draw. So he sketched him furtively. Ihit the gentleman saw him and made a speed) forthwith. “If that there qelebrited portrit painter with the tight breeches on will ’and up the picter, the equally celebrited benefactor to ’oomanity wot is givin’ away quids for coppers will reward 'ini accordingly,” he shouted. Phil, with a twinkle in his eye, handed up the drawing. The conjurer was delighted .with the sketch and pinned it to tlie tailboard of his cart. With another preliminary speech, he threw three sovereigns, three half sovereigns and several half crowns into a piece of paper, screwed it up and handed it to the artist. “You’ll be president of the bloomin’ R’yal academy some dye, young man,” said he. “Here, catch!” “A bargain’s a bargain,” said Phil, walking off with the packet of gold and silver. He confessed afterward when he opened the packet and found two pennies and a halfpenny in it that it was the most entertaining commission he had ever been paid for. Men Who “Were Literature." Balzac and Hugo were the last of the great men whose inspiration was unceasing and who did not make literature, but who were literature. Balzac wrote a great story at a sitting —a sitting that lasted for eighteen hours. All that while he wrote, for no secretary could keep pace with him, and all that while he lived on black coffee. Then he slept for thirty hours. Hugo wrote “Hernani” in a month, and we can think of Balzac and Hugo as we think of the great Venetian living in the glory and exultation of constant creation. Veronese must have improvised ‘‘The Marriage Feast at Cana” with extraordinary ease, and I like to think he painted the immortal fiddler in a morning and went out in his gondola in the afternoon thinking he had done a fair day’s work. That was how men wrote and painted in the great times before science beckoned them away from the beautiful.—George Moore in Lippincott’s.

Brig;n<»li and His Age. On one occasion Bianchi, the noted teacher, went on the stage to see Brignoli. the famous singer, whom he found pacing up and down like a madman, humming over his part. “Why, Brig, what is the matter with you? Are you nervous?” he asked. “Yes, I am nervous.” was the reply as he walked harder and faster than ever. “But, Brig, you ought not to be nervous. I've heard you sing the part 200 times. I heard you sing it thirty years ago.” “Thirty years ago! Who are you that should know so much?” “Who am I? You know who I am, and I know who you are.” “Very well; you know what I am, but I am sure you do not know what you are, and if you wish I will tell you. You are a fool!” A Bogus Bear's Ham. Sir Richard Owen, the eminent anatomist, often had his skill in identifying bones ~. ’"A-ieJM anii neighbor, Lora John Russell, sent him a specimen for this purpose, and the professor quickly pronounced it the thigh bone of a pig. This explanation of the query was subsequently offered by Lord John: "President Buchanan had sent from America to the English statesman the present of ‘a choice bear’s ham,’ and the family had breakfasted off it several times witli much enjoyment. Somehow or other, however,' suspicion was aroused, and the bone was sent to their scientific neighbor, with the result stated.”—Pall Mall Gazette. Wlien v<su «»«sy Hieesv. When you buy cheese bear in mind that all good cheese will be mellow to the touch, yet firm. The rind will be of an even tint, elastic and free from puffs, and a sample -will reveal a firm, close, buttery grain of a nutty flavor. Cheese which feels so hard that you cannot dent it with your finger tips on the rind is either sour, salted too heavily, skimmed or cooked too much. On the other hand, if the rind breaks upon pressure or does not spring back readily when the finger is withdrawn this indicates an oversoft article, caused by the slack cooling of the curd or a want of acid. At best it will have an insipid flavor and will “go off” as it ages. An Unappreciative Listener. A well known lawyer whose first name is James has a brother whom he visited lately. His brother has a daughter, aged four years, whose mother had lectured her a few days before for telling “stories.” The lawyer, thinking to entertain the little one, took her on his knee and told her two of his best folklore tales. Instead of being charmed, as he expected, "she never smiled, but when he had finished slid from his knee, ■with a solemn face, and. going to her mother, said: ‘Mamma. Uncle Jim will go to the bad place sure. He has just told me two big stories.’ ’’-Kansas City Journal. Fixe Hogs for Sale.—The under signed has for sale at his home, on the J. U. Goodwin farm. Pleasant 'Mills, Ind., two full blooded Berk shire boars, four weeks old, that can be purchased at a right price. ' 34t2 Levi Haver.

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Home Influence. It was during the reading lesson in one of our public schools that a little lad read in a jerky, expressionless way, “Mamma, see the hawk.” The reading was so very poor that tlie teacher said, “John, you know you would not talk that way to your mother.” “No’ui,” replied the lad. “Well, now,” said the teacher in a kindly way, “you read it exactly as yon would say it to your mother.” And here is his reply: “Look. mom. at that there hawk!”—Philadelphia Ledger. Sailors Are Fond of Sweet Things. Sailors are very fond of sweet things, and to one who knows little about them it is surprising to learn the quantity of candy they consume. In the ship’s store are kept buckets of this article, which is one of the chief commodities in exchange for which a sailor parts with his poekot money. On large ships several thousand pounds of candy are frequently consumed on a cruise.—Gunton’s Masazine Got Along Without It. “Did you ever have mal de mer on your way over to Europe?” asked Mrs. Oldcastle. “No. Josiah took a bottle or two of it along, but when I’m seasick none of them kind of things ever does me a bit of good.”—Chicago Record-Herald. Fscless Telling. “You can always tell an Englishman,” said the Briton proudly. “Os course you can,” replied the Yankee, “but it doesn’t do any good, because he thinks he knows it all.”—Philadelphia Ledger. necoming nixcourngcd. He—Your father did not object to our Bjarrlajsto as much as I Ind •X| cb ,1 *'She—Oh. poor papa has given up the idea of being too particular.—Brooklyn ■£, Good and Strong. Butcher—Wasn’t that a good steak I sent you yesterday? Customer—Oh, it was a good, durable steak.—Life. MU • ■ «—* — • 1 ■ —

the new table delicacy pleases the palate and JHHS VBB satisfies the stomach. HH Delicious and nutrigney tious. At all grocers, M9MH tag 10c, 25c and 30c. CORN PRODUCTS CO., New York and Chicago. /SyraS WINTER BANANA APPLE. An apple that has the flavor of a Banana has been creating a furor in the fruit (trowing districts and has stood the severest tests. The tree is hardy and will succeed in very cold climates. Its wonderful productiveness will bring quicker and larger returns than any other apple in the orchard. The fruit has a richness of flavor t hat cannot be described: it surpasses in aromatic taste the choicest pear, plum, apricot, peach, cherry, or any other fruit grown. If placed in a room a specimen of this apple will send out an aroma of sweet perfume. The fruit is a beautiful shade of yellow mottled with rich bright red, and the tree is very beautiful for a lawn or shade, the leaves being nearly double the size of other apple sorts. The Greening Bros. Nursery Co. of Monroe, Mich., who are acknowledged to be the most up-to-date nurserymen in America to-day. are the exclusive propagators of this apple. They want an agent to represent them in this county. Purely Conventional. “Agatha,” said her mother, “I dor.’t like to hear a daughter of mine tell even a conventional lie. You know yon can’t bear Aunt Becky, and yet when she came the other day you said. ‘Auntie, how glad I am to see you!' ” “That wasn't a lie. mamma.” answered Agatha.“ That was an exclamation.”—Chicago Tribune. Marrying For Money. "I married for lub de-fust tin d Ebenezer Snow, “but dis time I marries for money, an' don't you forget it.” “Your bride elect has money, has she?” “Yes, sub. Dat girl has no less dan $34.78 in de savin's bank, for she showed me de book.” — Detroit Free Press. 4