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an abode of the dead. lot « cemetery, but the Great British MuMeum, To say that the British museum is a lead museum may sound like flat blasdieiuy to those old habitues of the innjtution to whom its atsmosphere is almost the breath of their life and to jihoni its treasures of antiquity and urt are certainly the nourishment of heir minds and souls. But apart from his little band of devout worshipers at he shrine of learning the British museum seems to me quite dead—as dead is a door nail. I have been there many H time, and I went there again and n-alked through long and silent galleres peopled only by the gods of Egypt. India, China, of ancient Greece and Home and thronged only by those wonderful works of sculpture wrought by cunning hands long crumbled into the dust of past ages, but whose spirit of beauty and reverence still lingers in these heroes and heroines of old renown. In some of the rooms one may see a few nursemaids relieving the tedium of their daily walk through Blooms!),:: by bringing their little charges to the museum, where they may amuse themselves and get material for bad dreams while the nurses themselves have a quiet gossip. In the holiday season also one may' nee troops of Americans passing swiftly through the galleries, “doing” the mu seum with wonderful dispatch and commenting with western levity upon the relics of ancient civilization and the bones of prehistoric men. But the Londoner does not come. The time that he can spare from lunch hour be devotes to a walk up Cheapside, the Strand or Holborn, “to look at the shops." The day's work done, he takes the first train home. On a Saturday afternoon he prefers a matinee, a game of tennis or cricket or a few hours on the river. I do not blame him altogether. but the fact remains that the British museum is to him an abode of the dead, which he regards with the same repugnance as a tomb.—Philip Gibbs in London Mail. FARMER IN WINTER TIME. Steady Job* Are Feeding the Stock and Keeping? Warm. The great steady winter jobs on an American farm in the north nowadays are feeding the stock and keeping warm. And keeping warm nowadays means hauling coal. When I lived in the country, it meant cutting wood. It want for our large family constant teaming day after day from the woods to the wood yard and a wood pile that nust have covered a quarter of an icre. It meant toward spring the coming of men with a horse power and iuzz saw to cut firewood/a nd that was dmost as interesting an operation as thrashing. There were other stirring days when the lake bad frozen hard and the icelouse was tilled, involving ice cutting and more teaming and more precarious hitching on behind loads and going hack in empties. And early in the win ter there was the momentous and gory tilling of pigs. Oh, that was indeed a itirring time! They kill a pig every second, no doubt, in Chicago now- *

A. _ —*■- Hit- - x S* A- —<*—*/ .. —tA—/.1.. sfcii -U-i.'ly. J R 4 ? -•• ri WKRBM% bM®IS h ti :\a.Ta^Z22a^».^.— J k In this list there are many gcoc. properties ottereu below actual cost ot improvement. Mare other properties not listed here for rent. sale or . rade. ■ a-h transa. nun hi h -■rand seller, and 1 now nave a large numi.. ..n em-ii pwrcba ....- 'ha - they want is niacedTTbOn tie' market it v»i are Interested in tue put-ha-i »«ie »t H lands. business rooms, residences, mill machinery, town or ci'J Ptopefy - wr ‘ t « " r moneof our recent large discriptive lists. In inquiry reter to properties by number. Ad iresg 'Piione No. 230. .». F- SNOW. Decatur. Indiana. “Bk=kSSSS'S rorn 1450 to SIOOO each. >j o 219— An W acre tract, one half mile west one-acre tract in northwest Deea- ‘of Salem Bluei Creek eksldl MIW good dwelling, stable, cribs, poultry mgs. productive land, some black soil H.iw, “°use, etc. *ISOO. N() i«g_Eighty acres, near stone road in wa- « ‘ P‘£- “““- "’cation, on pike road. Price STOO. loam, f-eoo. acre tract in south Decatur on No * r a "f le Vealt%f' o M^ n roe%el? g °° d frU,t “ U ‘ > “»**"* “‘b" Io 1( u . no buildings, H.J.A). inrninn t 7 enty u‘ acre tract in good location. An M) acre tract two miles south of s SiS2- - - - 10. 169. u-ir Kn 244—A 95 acre tract of well improved oil o>ilesnnr.K flCre . tract twc a f‘? 8h I .nrtvasland two miles northeast of Pieas.i"5 s , nort hwest of Decatur, sand loam and and gas iann. c timber a variety ot soil. s acres Koo<l young Umber, five-room ant Mills sou-e timber, a variety Jo, l house, 11500 Price 55.350. ’0 2m_A •>. _ No 2M-For sate, a 108 acre tract of beech and ►asi ..A,? - acre farm, three miles north- ‘ _.,„ ar ] Hn d two and a half miles east ot Dehu. Pf P ec atur. Improvementa all new. i.utur. New house and barn. ssooworth of grade of soil. Rural mail route. s2*oo tim pe r . Price 15,800. * £; A , W Bcre tr act of first clnss black No . 251 -A lO> acre tract of w a 'C™‘ rP 8 £ land. 3 miles southwest of Pleasant land, on the public road two mites nort S^& mlle Bto - 8 “ 8 “ bi ild - «ou?se^°n Pre ii tra0 ’ neart , l,e stone road. '™am'a!?d’other soil, one ix-rnnJ? Tc s “tiles west of Decatur: num- ~.1. ~f Bobo on the public road. J r° Be land and good improvements, J 3.100 south ot boom v 40 a cre tract of well Improved N 252- A 140 acre tract on ''“f 1 gravel pike. lualitv^r? 1 eseasv °f Monroe town. Good * spout two miles northern from Decat 1 ■ I‘r>cc%?«ian<l' 1 ‘ r >cc%?«i an<l ' ltu P r °vements nearly new. g ()( , a improvements fundings worth id. . Mhe?™™ a « re tr act four miles northeast w ”®st o , f h i) l vawr. g'lwd S| !v fo> e m °'!i ,r9 ' > mail route, a quarier ot a within five m , lle- 1. hla ,.t | an d. J 9.000. "ad. fair buildings. 4 si Mary’s ‘’f ehtrdi'i'd ’ r h Ct at the rt ' ne r °| d ' 1 Umber'brHk house, frame cribs and barn. , . th , twomite9of fair average land. x we*i SST u iildi drove wells and wind pumps, i st MilU M a p C L r ? Tr ** 'toil’llwest of Plea- ;' . , h iiUi A good stock larm. l a l Sn k t^ r P r^ ll ' Jlag ’ ’° me ty. ’f-orv. *4OOO AND.CJTY PROPERTY 4b e . a ' mor e complete DESCRIPTIONS and Lio lof the SNOW AGENCY.

- sV: making as a domeVti . S '' ppos,> Boa P' . i uomestic industry is n« dead as household spinning. f u those times of wood tires and wood ashes all Our f reSP ? Cti . ng fnmilips made soap Out family had an outstanding kitchHk S T ,h:,t X ashes w U ? S . ? U ’ behind !t in whlcb tubs for i ii- < ’ ac led aud convenient tubs for bolding the soft soap. A very I handsome substance is soft soap of the a pteasing T n 7 eowpk ‘ xio m and a Pleasing exercise it used to be for watch 0 P D s S tO Z iF “ With a stick a,ld watch its undulations. All the superwi°s U b \° f “ eat froua our kit chen " as a ‘m'd mto soft soap in those nearby old times.-Harper’s Magazine. The Badger’, Digging AblHtv. The sportsman naturalist, St. John one day found a badger in a trap not much injured. Tying a rope to its bind leg, he drove the animal home—strange to say, the captive beast jogging steadJ y along in front of him and giving httle more trouble than a pig going to market. On reaching home the animal was put for the night into a paved I court, where it seemed perfectly secure | “Next morning." said St. Johu. ••he was gone, having displaced a stone that I thought him quite incapable of moving, and then, digging under the wall, he got away.” The Bitter Troth. Husband (looking up from a book)— Do you know what I would have done if I had been Napoleon Bonaparte? Wife—Yes; I know. You would have settled down in Corsica and spent your life grumbling about bad luck and hard times.—Philadelphia Telegraph. His Attractiveness. He—l can't understand how you should be so taken with Mr. Blakley. There is nothing striking about tlie man. He is just ordinary. She—l know, but he is ordinary in such an extraordinary degree!—Boston Transcript. Always In Stock. A chemist was boasting in the company of friends of his well assorted stock in trade. “There isn’t a drug missing." be said. “Come, now,” said one of the bystanders byway of a joke. “I bet that you don’t keep any spirit of contradiction, well stocked as you pretend to be.” “Why not?” replied the chemist, not in the least embarrassed at the unexpected sally. “You shall see for yourself.” So saying be left the group and returned in a few minutes leading by the band—his wife!—London Tid-Bits. The Canary. Do not give your canary bird sweets. It is said to develop an asthmatic tendency. aud as with the human voice after sugar is eaten the notes lose their liquid purity, becoming rough ami eventually shrill. Caged birds are very susceptible to drafts, and even in warm weather care should be taken to hang the hand—his wife!—London Tit-Bits.

A WONDERFUL INSECT. i Bn, Coinimniea Not Wanted Where the < ueujo FlourlNheji. Have you ever heard of the cueiijo? If you are one of those unfortunates who are in the habit of grumbling at gas bills you will wish that the place was swarming with cucujos, so that the gas companies might be circumvented. The cueujo is the firefly of the tropics, and it is the most brilliant of the whole tribe of light giving insects or animals. Thirty-eight of them yield one candle power. Photographs have been printed by two minute exposure of bromide plates to their illumination. People in Cuba confine them in paper lanterns for going about the country at night or for indoor lighting. Sometimes they attach one of the insects to each foot for traveling in the dark to serve as a guide to the path; also they use them as ornaments for the dress and hair. Cucujos are beetles beginning life as grubs. Skipjacks or springtails they are sometimes called because when placed on their backs they jump over with a clicking sound. A small species of the same family is found in Florida and Texas. They have two luminous spots on the thorax and another on the abdomen. Damp evenings are most favorable to the light giving, the object of which is presumably to attract a mate. The young larvae feed largely on snails, to which their bite is poisonous. The luminous organs are developed before the insects leave the eggs. Now. a theory formerly held was that these fireflies stored up light in the daytime for emission at night, as is done by the so called luminous paint of calcium sulphide. But it was found that they shone as brightly as ever after being confined for ten days in darkness. Some that were carried from Cuba to Havre in the pitch black hold of a vessel were brilliant on their arrival. A more striking disproof, however, was afforded by a batch of larvae hatched in the dark from eggs laid in the dark on a piece of rotten wood, the young insects being kept in darkness for the first six months of their lives. They shone as brilliantly as any of the Other fireflies.—Golden Penny. ODD NOTIONS OF WOMEN. Kosa Botjheur treasured a small lead image of St. Anthony of Padua as a lucky charm. Caroline Herschel firmly believed that if she met a crosseyed beggar in the /morning it presaged the discovery of a new star that night. George Eliot was a slave to the influence of the hunchback and clubfooted man and did no literary work upon the day when she saw one. Lady Millais, the wife of the great painter, was convinced that the crack of doom would sound for any one who stepped on a crack in the sidewalk. Harriet Beecher Stowe believed that it was bad luck to throw away a tooth brush which had outlived its usefulness. and to the anguish of her household preserved every one that she had ever used. Queen Victoria cherished a number of superstitions, and among them she believed that the removal of her wedding ring would .surely bring calamity and that a pet Manx cat would bring good luck to the royal household. Worth Hi, Weight In Gold. The maharajah of Travancore was. on one occasion at least, north his weight in gold, for be was weighed against a pure mass of the king of metals, and. after the scales were balanced. the mass of gold was distributed in charity. This custom, called “Tulabhara,” is one of great antiquity and is said to be traceable in Travancore to the fourth century. It is not unknown in other parts of India, though, of course, gold is only used in the case of wealthy persons, humbler folk Lcing content to weigh themselves against spices or grain. On the occasion mentioned the maharajah weighed a little over nine stone. The Brahmans, it is .said, wished to defer the.ceremony in. the hope that the-maharajah might more nearly approach the weight of his father, who did not undergo the rite until forty-seven years old. when he- wetsbed-fewteefr-afi'l -three-quarter stone.—Golden Penny.

It Was All Arranged. A London barrister used to tell of an instance that occurred in bis own experience of trial by jury in Wales. A well known local solicitor named Garnons was concerned in a case. While counsel was addressing the jury its members quietly turned from him. pul their heads together, and then the foreman addressed the judge. "It’s no use. my lord, for the gentleman in the wig to talk any more, as we agreed in the Blue Lion last night to vote for Mr. Garnons of Rhiwgoch.” Write, and Draws. Kippax —And who is your favorite author, Mrs. Softly? Mrs. Softly—My busband. Kippax—Pardon me. I didn’t know he wrote. Mrs. Softly—Ob. but be does, and so nicely —checks! —Town and Countiy. Quite Different. Tess-So she lias fallen in love *is?i an English nobleman. Jess—Y’ou don’t tell me? Tess— Surely you've beard. jess—No. I merely heard she was engaged to marry one.—Philadelphia Press. Dividing Her W.dglit. “Don’t stand on that delicate table tc hang the picture. Martha. It’ll break. You’re too heavy.” “Oh, no, I'm not, mum. It 11 bear me. I’m standing only on one foot.”Pblladelphia North American.

LIGHTNING IN THE RQCKIES It I, One ContluuoiiN, Dar.rllng, Awe Inspiring Performance. If the reader of this has never been in a mountain thunderstorm at an elevation of 7,000 feet or more he has missed an experience that will doubtless should he ever pass through it add several gray hairs to bis head. To me a thunderstorm back east held no special terrors, and frequently I have been : in such a demonstration without feeling any especial nervousness. Up here on the Rocky mountains things are different, and I confess now to live ■ in awful, abject terror of a thunderj storm, especially at night, in my tent. I I suffer this terror notwithstanding ! the fact that so far the storms have in ■ every instance except one gone around or beneath us without even raining enough to wet the ground. But it is the “going around and beneath” that gets on to my nerves. In the first place imagine what it is to be one and one-half mites nearer a rip roaring thunderstorm than one is at Pittsburg. There you have occasional flashes of lightning; here it is one continuous, dazzling, awe inspiring performance. The lightning strikes, too, for it is no uncommon thing during a storm to hear the rocks splintering and cracking where one especially vigorous bolt has landed. Add to this nerve racking exhibit the most awful detonations of thunder that you can imagine and a "straight blowing” wind that sometimes makes the flaps of your tent play a ragtime melody, and you have some idea of a mountain thunderstorm. The thunder is worse than the sound of a mighty battle. It bangs up against the mountain side and reverberates and rolls off into one ear splitting concussion after another until you. lying quaking in your tent, fully believe that the next “boom” will split the mountain and valley in twain and land you in China or some other seaport town. I lay one night aud with chattering teeth counted five distinct thunderstorms come up to the edge of the plateau on which my tent stands and each time go through with an electrical performance that would give a stone man a dumb ague, and through it all not a cupful of water fell on my tent. Later on in the night, when I had about regained something like my usual majestic calm of mind, it began to rain steadily, and the thunder and lightning didn’t even whisper. They had doubtless gone off down the canyon, scaring some other poor tenderfoot half out of his wits. These electrical displays are not seemingly much dreaded by the people who live in high altitudes. They comfortingly declare that a tornado or cyclone is unknown in the mountains. But sometimes these mountain storms go off through a canyon to the foothills and the plains. Then there is something doing.—Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. Odd Th inns Sold In New Yorlc. Drinking water is sold by the barrel to tramp steamers, sailing vessels and pilot boats. » Kisses may be bought occasionally at church fairs. Reduced gentlewomen sell their social influence, acquaintanceship and knowledge of good manners in the guise of chaperons. Superstitious persons buy relics of prisoners condemned to dgath, and abnormally curious persons buy personal belongings of notorious prisoners from jail employees. Astrologers and fortune tellers sell rabbits' feet, madstones and moonstones. Hairdressers and ladies’ maids are frequently offered money for locks of hair from the heads of famous society beauties and popular actresses. The big hotels sell unspoiled scraps of food to cheap restaurants. Florists sell four leaf clover for good luck.—New York Press. A Fashionable Woman** Confession. Nobody finds it more difficult to spare time for reading titan the very idle, yet every woman in society religiously orders every new book from her library, even though site sends most of them Peek without - having—even- cut tire leaves. If it is "a book every' one is talking about she skims through the opening chapters, dismissing the volume with a single observation at a dinner patry' and forgetting everything about it a month after she has returned it. Most of us remember the books of our youth, but if any one were to ask me the titles of the novels 1 read a couple of years ago no definite impression would be aroused.—"A Countess” in London Telegraph. Sounded BigrKer. Merchant—That new clerk of yours refused an offer from me. How did you induce him to come to yon? Smoothley—Perhaps you didn’t offer him enough. Merchant—l told him his wages would be $lO to start. Smoothley—Ah! I told him his salary would be $lO to start.—Philadelphia Press. The Extent of Hi, Interest. “They say your new son-in-law is a handsome fellow.” “1 never looked to see.” “That’s strange.” “Not at all. My daughter picked him out. and all I bad to do was to pay for him.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Reassuring. “But how can I be sure.” said the beautiful heiress, “that you do trot want me merely for my money?” “Darling." replied the duke, "if I can ' have you I shall never worry about . money any more.”—Chicago RecordHerald. Money is. not the balance of power, gentlemen.’’There are those scales in which an ounce of integrity is worth a ton of gold. Schoolmaster. *’ ~ '

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HOW SLEEP MAY BE WOOED Movement, of the Feet Will Quiet the Nervous Benin. Most of the mental devices for wooing sleep have failed because they have nearly always tried to resort to “local treatment.” In other words, they have made a homeopathic attempt to stop thinking by thinking about something else, a process which might also be called “elimination by substitution.” But all thinking, spontaneous or forced, draws more or less blood to the brain, prevents deep inhalations and bars the gate to the kingdom of dreams. Any device, on the other hand, which will make one take deep, long breaths spontaneously, the invariable forerunner of sleep, may be counted upon as a genuine remedy for insomnia. Even deep breathing which is forced is bet ter than any purely mental attempt to win steep, but if the deep breathing can be produced involuntarily one is sure of a passport to Nodland. After several nights of experiment to this desired end the writer decided to apply the principle adopted by the masseurs, who begin their manipulations “at the point farthest from the seat of difficulty.” which in the case of insomnia would be the feet. Lying on the right side, with the knees together and considerably flexed, the victim of insomnia should begin to pedal both his feet slowly up and down, with the movement entirely in the ankles. The pedaling should keep time with the natural rhythm of respiration and be continued until it is followed by deep and spontaneous breathing. Several people who have tried this remedy report that involuntary deep breathing invariably begins before they have pedaled up and down a dozen times. In obstinate cases of insomnia the patient may need to keep up the pedaling two or three minutes or even more, with Intermissions, if necessary. The treatment may also be I varied by moving the feet alternately instead of simultaneously, though the latter method has proved the more speedily efficacious in the cases knowv to the writer. The explanation of the result obtained is probably simple. The blood is pumped from the bead, and with the removal of brain tension a' general relaxation follows, with a sequent deep respiration and its resulting sleep.—Good Housekeeping.

No Millionaire,. No Progrw A country without millionaires will have few if any railroads, no modern sanitation, none of the devices and assistants of modern science. Poverty, ignorance, superstition and despotism are invariably the lot of the common people in any country where millionaires have not appeared or do not remain. Nobody can do very much for himself without doing something for others. No....num..ever a. qidjreil n million in legitimate business without benefiting the community perhaps to the extent of many millions. Millions nowadays' can come only with tin ac tive. ■er.eeptitrn.’i 1 e:rp::--:ty for 'merrss ful business. Successful business does not mean, as it did in the middle ages, the power to rob your neighbor. It means the power to serve the public better than your neighbor can serve it. Necessarily this comes through the development and use of superior machin ery or better methods for producing wealth and doing business.—Gunton’s Magazine. A Costly Mistake. Blunders are sometime very expensive. Oecss on-1 ally life itself is the price of a mistake, but vou’ll never be wrong; if vou t ke Dr. King’s New Life Pills for dyspepsia, dizziness, headache, liver or bow 1 troubles. They are gentle yet thorough 25c, at Blackburn & Christen’s drug store. d I The Tri State Normal College and Business University, of Augola, Ind.,, offers for a limited time a 11 months business course for? 90, this pays board, furnished room in private family, tuition and use of machine. Ask for catalogue. L. N. Sniff. A. M.. Prest., Angola, Ind. 38 2w To improve the appetite and strengthen the digestion, try a few doses of Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets. Mr. J. H. Seitz, of Detroit. Mich., says, “They restored my appetite when impaired, relieved me of a bloated feeling and caused a pleasant end satisfactory movement of the bowel*’’ There are people in this com muaity who need just such a medicine. Fer sale by Holthouee Drug Co. d <

3 1 feS) RAILROAD. TO ; World’s Fair 1 ST. LOUIS, MO. : .1004 [CORN SYRUP J is not a molasses, but a pure, ■ wholesome syrup Jit to rat. H Allgrocers,loc,2sc,soc. I fProduct M tor Daily Bread. q 0 New York and Chicago. i

Better Than a Plaster. - A piece of • I flannel dampened with Chamberlain’s Pain Balm and bound on the affected parts, is better than a plaster for a lame back and for pains in the side or chest. Pain Balm has no superior as a lin iment for the relief of deep seated, musj cular and rheumatic pains. For sale by Holthouse Drug Co. d $2.00 more than half fare from . Chicago via Chicago Great Western to points in Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. Tickets on sale Dec. Ist and 15th, 1903; and January sth and 19th, 1904. For further particulars apply to J. P. Elmer, G. P. | A., Chicago, 111. Our patrons are delighted with Dr. Marshall’s Lung Syrup, ami they say that nothing equals this medicine for coughs, colds and all throat and lung troubles. Several new cases have been added to the list that have been cured, where other medicines have failed to do the work. Dr. Marshall’s Lung Syrup is taking the [ead, for a genuine cough medicine it never fails to cure. The first dose gives relief and is guaranteed to give satisfaction. Sold everywhere. Price 25, 50 and 51.00.

i YOUR MONEY REFUNDED i ' ! If iiyomei Does Not Cure You of Catarrh, Say The Holthouse Drug Co. ' | In advertising that they will refund I the money to any one purchasing a ■ i Hyomei outfit who can say that it has ’ i done them no good in the treatment ?'i of catarrh, the. Hpithoqse Drug Co , I mean exactly what the guarantee says. ■ j Os course the percentage of cures by Hyomei is neariy one hundred or, j else we could not afford to make this I unusual offer. But if the treatment should not be adapted to your case j there will be no questions or quibI blings when you go to get your ' money. That the beginning of catarrh is . due to the presence of germs in the ! air passages is now admitted by ev- | ery phpeician. It stands to reason i that catarrh cannot be cuied unless these germs are first destroyed. The Hyomei treatment kills the catarrh ; germs even in the minutest air cells i soothes and heals the irritated mu eous membrane and makes complete I aud lasting cures in cases that have ■ resisted the usual methods of treatj ment. Catarrh einnot be cured by medicines administered through the stom ach. Hyomei is the only natural method and it has made cures that seem miraculous. The complete out fit costs but-SI and c i‘-tyts of an in i haler, which will last a lifetime, aud sufficient Hyomei for several weeks’ treatment. Additional bottles of Hyomei can be procured for 50c. * The Holthouse Drug Co. give their i personal guarantee with every Hyo- , mei outfit they sell to refund the ‘I money if it does not cure. There is ! no risk whatever to the purchaser of cHyomei.