Decatur Democrat, Volume 47, Number 37, Decatur, Adams County, 19 November 1903 — Page 7

r FOOTBALL. Old Fashioned School Game | Wherein Everybody Played. is no such spirit in the school Hj Q y as in old times. - They have a ■otball eleven, it is true, and it holds ■ head well up amongjts mates; a lit. K above ’em, too, most of the time—old school’s the old school yet, 1 K| ’em—but, after all, it isn’t the old Kne nor the old spirit. 1 go oat someKies to watch them and think. “Well, jX. a queer game they play now and ||lll football!'' They trot out in such famishing toggery padded and guard--1 from shin to crown, welted, belted. Lapped and buckled beyond recjognibn. And there's uo independence in [e play; every move has to be told Bi. It's as if they weren't big enough i run alone, and so they hire a big epmother of a university “coach," lio stands round in a red sweater and fils and berates them. Not a man anvers back: he doesn't dare to. They ju't dare eat plain Christian food, but ive a “training table" and diet like valids. I've seen 'em at a game not ire take a plain drink of water. When ley got thirsty they sucked at a wet >onge, like babes at' the bottle! It was not so in our day. No apron rings of a university coach were tied la us. We were free born men. When ye wanted to play we got together and rent down to the old pasture, to the big oak tree that stood near the middle if it, and there we Would “choose up” Lid take off our coats and vests and beckgear and pile, them round the oak Lid walk out on the field hnd go at it— Everybody—not a pitiful dozen or so, ivhile the rest stood with their hands n their pockets and looked on, but everybody! And irwas football: no playing half an hour without seeing the ball in the air cnee. We kicked it all [he time except when we missed it, bnd then we kicked the other fellow’s [bins. And when wo got thirsty we rent down to the spring aud took an honest drink out of an honest tin cup.— B. H. Teeple in Atlantic. THE DANDELION. Jh’o More Successful riant and None More Wonderful. Perhaps inme of our plants is more common or more familiar than the dandelion, and certainly none is more wonderful. First of all it is not a native, but .was introduced from Europe whence have come many of our worst weeds, fitted by centuries of struggle in cultivated fields to overcome the na- i live plants of a continent wherevcultiyation had previously been practically , unknown and where natives had had i no opportunity of adapting themselves ; to the conditions of civilized agriculture. One of the dandelion’s strongest points is the ability to obtain nourishment under strong competition and in situations. A deep, strong, perennial taproot draws all available nourishment and moisture from surface and subsoil, stores nourishment during the winter and enables the plant to start far and away ahead of most of its competitors. This same taproot is exceedingly bitter, which very likely protects it from destruction by moles and other animals. At least I do not remumber having seen a roo'

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In this list there are many gco< properties ottereu below actual cost ot We have other properties not listed here for rent, sale or tode < ash soon as advantage to buyer and seller, and I now have a law cai si P sale of wbat they want is placed upon the market It you art interestea in i e y call farm lands, business rooms, residences, mill machinery, tojn J* 1 hrJnprtipfi bv’number. Ad for one of our recent large discriptive lists. In inquiry rtier to prop d resb 'Phone No. 230. F- SNOW, Decatur, Indiana.

No. 57—Building]lots on Linn street . Madison street and Decatur street at from $135 to ‘ — Marshall street? at from f 150 to Siw i each. No. 96—A one-acre tract in northwest Decatur. goocT dwelling, stable, cribs, poultry house, etc. SISOO. No. 198—A seven acre tract, joins the northwest corporation line |of Decatur. Good location, on pike road. Price S7OO. No. 209—A 314 acre tract in south Decatur on stoned street. Plenty of good fruit and good buildings, price $2,150. No. 173—A 1514 acre tract in west Hoot township. one half mile from school, three fourths black land, no buildings, $776, No. 194—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 all new Fair grade of soil. Rural mail route. £ °0 No. 225—A 40 acre tract of first class black farming land. 3 miles southwest of Pleasant Mills, one mile from stone road, small bv tidings, $2,400. No. 245--A 40 acre 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 nearb’ new. Price $3,500. No. 218—A 46 acre tract four miles northeast of Berne on free mail route, a quarter ot a mile from the stone road, fair buildings, % black land. $2,300. * No. 237--A 60 acre tract at the st me road, near church and school house, soar miles southwest of Decatur. Good location, ordinary improvements, fair average land. srice $2,800. No. 151- An 80 acre tract southwest of Pleasant Mills, black loam, poor buildings some timber. In oil territory. S4OOO

terror more complete DESCRIPTIONS and LIST of TOWN AND:CITY . ♦ddresa the SNOW AGENCY.

m‘y kind h**” dlßtUrbed b - v of J’ Ut f“'' V a , smftll Potion of its food comes from the soil. Air and sunshine a rc 3ust as necessary, for the air is food and tin. sunshine is digestion for oui vegetable neighbors. Note the s uipe ot the leaves. Narrow at the base and widening at the outer end they form a dense rosette that not only gets for the dandelion all the air and sunshine coming its way, but smothers all but the most sturdy competitors. ,llere lies the secret of the dandelion’s presence in lawns and walks and open waste places, in lawns’ the grass is kept low so that it cannot overtop and shade the dandelion, while its own leaves lie so low and close that they are little hurt by the mower and can smother the grass underneath. — Harper’s Magazine. Ancient Child Burial. There was an order in the Church of England up to the year 1552 that if a child died within a month of baptism ho should be buried in his ehrisom in lieu of a shroud. The ehrisom was a white baptismal robe with which in mediaeval times a child when christened was enveloped. A sixteenth century brass in Chesham Bois church in Buckinghamshire represents Benedict Leo, ehrisom child, in his ehrisom cloth. The inscription underneath the figure stands thus: Os Rogr. Lee, gentilma, here lyeth the son, Benedict Lee, crysom whoa soule ihu pdo. —Westminster Gazette. An Expensive Error. The. commuter started up from his seat, twisted about, frowned and sat down again as the train moved. “Anything the matter?” asked the chap who had got on at the last station. “Yes.” replied the commuter gloomily—“yes, there is. For the second time this week the conductor has punched my meal instead of my railroad ticket I must get glasses for him or for myself!”—Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. Politeness. Little Elmer—Papa, what is politeness? Professor Broadhead—Politeness, my son, is the art of not letting other people know what you really think of them.—Town Topics. Merciful. Man—Oh, yes; she refused me and gave me no reasons whatever. Maid Isn’t she a saint?—Judge. Nature knows no pause in progress and attaches her curse on all inaction. A Curious Clock. In one of the chief watchmaking establishments in Zurich there is to be seen a remarkable curiosity in the way of watch or clock making. The timepiece is in the form of a ball, which moves imperceptibly down an Inclined surface without rolling. The length of this inclined surface, which is sixteen inches long, is accomplished from top to bottom in twenty-four hours. Then the ball only needs lifting to the top again. This extraordinary timepiece has no spring and therefore needs no winding. The hands are kept in motion by the sliding along an inclined plane.—London Globe.

No 25"—An 80-acre tract, two and one-half niiles northwest of Decatur, clay and sand lq«-r’.. fair buildings, fruit and timber Stool) No^E—An 80aet act,one half mile west ‘ of Salem. Blue township, old buildings, productive land, some black soli. $4.1a0. No. 163—Eighty acres, near stone road in Wabash township, oil laud, some timber, fair buildings, some black land, balance clay loam, $ll2OO. No 253—An 80 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, No 243—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, $6,400. No 244—A 95 acre tract of well improved oil gas land two miles northeast of Pleasant Mills. Some timber, a variety of soil, Price $5,350. No 224—For sale, a 108 acre tract of beech and ’ sugar land two and a halt miles east ot De catur. New house and barn. SSOO worth of 1 timber. Price $5,600. No 251—A 100 acre tract of average sugar land on the public road, two miles northSos Decatur. Fair improvements frame buildings, drove well. etc. Price $4,600 .. oin A3O acre tract of good farming land, N ?.',n biack san I loam and other soli, one mfle south of Bobo on the public road. Price SI,BOO. Bssswrar* Price $14,500. a ?4O acre tract. within two miles of stock farmprice $14,000.

IRELAND’S ANIMALS. Species of Frog, and Toad. Are Found In the Green Isle. It is not correct to say that there are no frogs or toads in Ireland, though it is very, remarkable that the common toad is not found there. The natterjack toad is a native of Kerry, though it does hot appear to be found elsewhere. It is an example of the mania which some people have for meddling witli nature that a Dr. Guithers in 1699 took the trouble to procure frogs' spawn from England, since which time they have multiplied in Ireland. But the common lizard is found in many parts of the island. The slowworm is not. Though the common toad and till recent times the frog were not found in Ireland, it is worth remembering that the English reptiles and batrachians are very local in yteir distribution. The natterjack toad is only found in certain counties. The edible frog was formerly only found in Foulmire Fen, In Cambridgeshire, and the sand lizard is most capricious in the choice of a home. The “beautiful green lacerta?” which Gilbert White saw on the sunny banks near Farnham are to be found there still, the males being of the green color, and also near Bourneudbuth and in Dorsetshire beyond Poole Harbor. Yet there are many suitable places where none are seen, and then they reappear again on some sandhills on the coast of Lancashire, near Southport. On the other hand, the absence of many species in Ireland which are or were commonly found in the larger island can only be explained on the supposition that they never reached the country. Among these are the wildcat, the polecat and the weasel. Yet the marten was always plentiful on the other side of St. George’s channel, and stoats abound in the west. Five of the fourteen species of bat found in England have not been taken in Ireland, neither is the common shrew found there or the water shrew or the mole, though the last is found in Anglesey. Only six of the fifteen British rodents are found in Ireland, and of these one, the squirrel, was probably introduced. Neither is the roe deer indigenous. In support of the general theory that the immigration of the English fauna was difficult in the earlier periods and subsequently checked altogether may be eited the analogous instance of the Isle of Man. There, as in Ireland, there are no moles, no snakes and no toads.— London Spectator. APHORISMS. Philosophy is nothing but discretion. —John Selden. All imposture weakens confidence and chills benevolence.—Johnson. The only wealth which will not decay is knowledge—Langford. Trouble teaches men how much there is in manhood. —Henry Ward Beecher. Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself.—A. Bronson Alcott. Human judgment is finite, and it ought always to be charitable.—Viliam Winter. Kindness in us is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.—Landor. Politeness is a sort of guard which covers the rough edges-of our character aud prevents their wounding others. —Joubert. The constant duty of every man to his fellows is to ascertain his own powers and special gifts and to strengthen them for the help of others.—Buskin. Speakinn Without Wwrdn. Spanish young ladies hold animated conversations with their lovers by means of a fan, which they always early. Italians use a flower for similar purposes, and a young girl who may be apparently idly pulling the petals from a rose is in reality making arrangements for perhaps a secret visit to the opera house with her lover. In Malta comparatively few people can read, yet nearly every one holds a prayer book when at church. The reason for this is that a prayer book language is in existence, and by carefully watching each other’s movements two persons can readily and secretly communicate with each other through the various positions in which the books are held being recognized as code words. Marital Ifs. Most homes would be far happier if men were as considerate of their wives as they were of their sweethearts. If each remembered .that the other was a human being. If they endeavored to be as agreeable as they were in their courtship days. If domestic trials and tribulations were not told to neighbors. If household expenses were in proportion to the husband's salary. If privileges taken were given.— American Queen. ’ The StrnteKj - of Samuel. Proud Father—l tell you, sir, that boy of mine will be a wonder! Friend (wearily) — What wonderful thing has he done now? Proud Father—Why, the other day he ate all the preserves in the pantry. I overheard him say as he smeared the cat’s face with the stuff, "I’m sorry, Tom, to do this, but I can't have the old folks suspect me!”—Smart Set. The Successful Man In Business. “That man is a great thinker,” was the admiring comment. "Yes.” answered Senator Sorghum despairingly, “but I have noticed that these very studious people aren't successful in business. What you want to be nowadays is not a great thinker, but a good guesser.”—Washington Star. Great Britafii got twfliof her posses sionsrfrom pirates, the Leeward i*»n4 s in Borneo and Sarawak in thef north west of Borneo.

A WHISTLER STORY. The Climax a Dinner In Honor the Eccentric Artiwt. At the close of the case of Whistler’ against Ruskin, the former, finding hinlself very much in need of rest and recreation, decided to»make a southern trip. When he arrived in Venice his American friend thought to cheer him by giving a little dinner in his honor, to which were bidden several friends of the artist, principally Americans and some few Italians. During the meal there arose a discussion which left an opening for Mr. Whistler to use upon his host one of those keen, incisive, verbal thrusts peculiar to him, which left wounds extremely difficult to heal.- The whole company was startled, but the host merely smiled, seeming to notice oifly the brilliancy of the attack. Presently, however, the dinner came to an end and the foreign guests took their leave. Then the host turned upon Mr. Whistler and, in a voice trembling with suppressed anger, said: “Jimmie, do you know that you brutally insulted me tonight?” “Yes,” replied the artist thoughtfully. “Well,” continued the host, "I held my temper while there were others than our own countrymen present, but do you know what I shall do if ever you speak to me like that again?” “What?” “I'll grab the nearest water bottle and smash it over your head.” The rest of the company sat quite still, horror and dismay in their hearts, while their angry host glared across the table at his antagonist. After a few seconds Mr. Whistler said in a tone of childlike innocence: “Then I know what I’ll do. I'll never say anything like that to you again.”— London Academy. Courtship In Caracas. After the evening meal is finished the “padre” may go to his club or case, while the ladies, betake themselves’to the largo, open bay window. Lamg,s | are placed near them, and as you wander through the streets you plainly see | everywhere at the height of your own I eyes and quite near enough for a handshake long rows’ of these groups of women, now gayly and often brilliantly dressed, thickly powdered and bedecked with the quaint old jewelry of the country. Then by and by a young man appears in front of almost every window and converses with those inside. In most cases he is the suitor for the hand of one of the daughters of the house. Evening after evening he thus pays his respects to her family, standing for hours on the sidewalk, till the day arrives when the mother of his adored one believes the fact of his courting her daughter sufficiently advertised to the neighbors as well as to the community at large. Then only the doors of the housotare thrown open to him.— Otto von Gottberg in Harper’s Magazine. .

Rankin as a Gardener. Fond as Ruskin was of flowers, especially wild ones, he had his own ideas as to what a garden ought to be, and in his practical gardening was quite n landscapist. He liked making paths and contriving pretty nooks. Whenjie first came to Brantwood he would have his cojipice cut no more. It spindled up to great tail steps, slender aud sinuous, promising uo timber, aud past the ago for all commercial rise or time honored wont. Neighbors shook their heads, but they did not know the pictures of Botticelli, and Ruskin had made bis coppice into an early Italian altar piece. Then ha had his espalier of apples and a little gooseberry patch, and a few standard fruit trees and some strawberries mixed with flowers. In one corner there were beehives in the old fashioned pent house trailed over with creepers. Here and there were little hummocks, each with its special interest of fern or flower.—Good Words. Looking: Under the Hat. You seldom will find a brainy man with a round head. The head that contains lots of brains either is very long from front to back or else irregular. You can learn something of a man’s mental ability by the hat he wears. If his head is so bumpy that it seems as if- he never could get a bat to fit him he probably is a genius or a crack-a-jack iq, some particular line. If his head is long from front to back he is a clear thinker and smart as a whip. So if y 'ir ’ cey than your friend’s bat does and you are harder to fit be consoled by considering that your brain is worth more.—New York Press. A Race of Masked Men. The Touarags of the Sahara are one of the most curious races of mankind. The men never expose their faces to public view. They always wear a cloth mask, even when they are eating and sleeping. It is said that only one white traveler has ever seen a Touarag unmasked. They think they are dishonored if their faces are uncovered. Impressive. “Why did we arrive late and leave before the opera was over?” asked the youngest daughter. "It was very enjoyable.” “Os course if* was,” answered Mrs. Newricli. “but, my dear, we had to show people that we didn’t care whether we got our money's worth or not.” The Proof of the Pudding. “You can hardly persuade Miss Oldgirl that marriage is not a failure.” “Why? She never did-marry.” “But she tried to and failed.”—Smart 6et. Every bird, sooner or later, comes flown from its perch.—Schoolmaster.

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Byron's Fatted Goose. One of (he stories concerning the traditional dish of roast goose on M - ehaelmas day refers to Lord Byron, says an English newspaper. The poet always insisted in keeping up 6iu*cusr toms in small things, swell as having not cross buns on Good Friday and coast goose on Michaelmas day. This last fancy had a grotesque result when he was in Italy. After buying a goose and fearing it might be too lean Byron fed it every day for a month previous to the festival, so that the poet and the bird became so mutally attached that when Sept. 29 arrived he could not kill it, but bought another and bad the pet goose swung in a cage under his carriage when he traveled. 7he Absent Jack. Hie wife of a Washington street merchant is very fond of roses, especially of the brilliant varieties. By way of reminder she said tv the husband the other morning before he started for business: “I see, my dear, that Jack! are becoming cheaper.” “That may be true,” said ihe husband absently, “but I have known men who would have been willing to pay SIOO for one to put with the two already in their hand.”—lndianapolis Sentifiel. The Dictionary. “Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read,” says Emerson in bis essay on books. “There is no cant in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestion, the raw material of possible poems and histories. Nothing is wanting but a little shuffling, sorting, ligature and cartilage.” Bound to Be Ladylike. 'Ethel—What did you do when Gus proposed to you? Mabel—l was so surprised I puckered up my mouth to whistle, but then I remembered that would be unladylike, so I hurried and pressed my lips against his to keep myself from whistling. A shell from a 12 inch gun makes Its flight of nine miles in forty-two seconds.

TRV ST I 1 B com sy/wp B 77>c Great Spread f cr Daily 'Bread. SOIL PREPARATION. j The treatment of soil for the (trowing of nursery stock has been made a subject of scientific study bv The Greening >’.'>-r-,v.v.;l*. whose advertisement appears in anofbfij: column of this paper, and who want an agent to represent them, selling their general line of nursery stock in this county. Their immense tract of over 7uo acres is laid off in plats, and they make it a point to rest every acre at least once in five years. They employ an eiI pert from the Agricultural College, and every I year a certain amount of the soil in each plat I is analyzed and when found deficient, the proper fertilizer is applied. It is not out of the ordinary to see over 100 acres ot their nursery planted in cow-peas. Four crops are turned under in succession and a good cover of stockyard manure and fertilizer applied. Last year The Greening Bros. Co. made a contract with the Stock Yard Co. of West Detroit. Mich., and purchased several train loads ot manure, as well as an immense amount of Armour fertilizer. This explains why their trees grow, They have a reputation throughout the Middle West unsurpassed. Prospective planters will do well to correspond with them. _RAIIuROAD—_ World's Fair ST. LOUIS, MO. I e Miss Baughman returned to her ! school duties at Angola after a few 1 days visit with’Lee Vance and wife. For Sale—Will sell my property, twelve acres on West Monroe street, good .buildings, 300 fruit trees. Good garden farm. Price reasonable. Julius Htiflgk. 3fw-L_