Decatur Democrat, Volume 48, Number 6, Decatur, Adams County, 14 April 1904 — Page 7

INKING 'Cl. AY PIPES. 9 business about which most 9 A people know very little. H p r oces» of Mnnufneture Im Not s ;1) ;>!e a» Might He Imagined <!,<• Low Price of the FinishffroiD M j p rl ><',«<t— How They Are Made. 9 mt* 1110 little thin s ß seen ■" ll:li! y ■ * " llich uiost P''"l l|, ‘ k »ow ■: T little is the common, ordinary H In almost every cigar shop ■ in the mouth of every third ■taborer met and even in the nursery 9his ?il white little instruill cnt of ■ nl f,.rt and amusement may be seen. ■ C ° t few know, for instance, that most Betite clay pipes sold in this city of 9 domestic make are manufactured in ■®. . jersey. Woodbridge is the name ■ j llie queer little town given over to ■ this odd manufacture, and a trip I ttrougb one of the factories of that ■ settlement, to follow the pipe from the ■ time it is dug as clay ,0 tUe tilne U ■ arrears ready for the market, is luterI at the chunks and lumps of ■ clay as they are transported from the I banks to the factories, one would I hardly believe that the snowy, cheap I little article could have been manufac- ■ tnred from material so different in ■ color. The color of this clay before it I j S burned is dark gray, like cement; ■ nor is the process of manufacturing I ene of these pipes as simple as might I imagined from the absurdly low I price. As the clay comes into the fac- | torr it is divided finely and put to I soak in water for ten to twelve hours. I This soaking is to divide the clay to I jts smallest possible particles so that In the ensuing process it will not cake or lump and will work smoothly and evenly. This attained, the clay is put into a “pug” mill, where it is stirred by machinery until it gets stiffer and stiffer, finally becoming as stiff as dough. In this state the clay is roughly molded into lumps and distributed among the pipemakers, who begin the first step in the life of the humble creation. Grasping a small chunk of clay in each hand, the artist begins work to fashion roughly two pipes at the same time. Rolling the clay between a table and his palms, he quickly produces two carrot shaped and pointed rolls that bear little or no resemblance to the article when it shall be finished. With Incredible speed the fashioning of these rolls continues, for ahead of the expert is the problem of manufacturing something like seventy-five gross of pipes within the week. Then the rolls are put away to dry somewhat, and for ten or twelve hours they stiffen so that once shaped they will not fall readily to pieces. After that the clay is ready for molding. The ordinary mold consists of two pieces of iron hinged on the side and opening like a sewing box. Most of the little factories have numerous molds, from the common, unadorned sort that comes in two pieces and is intended for the ordinary plain pipe to all sorts of elaborate patterns that come in six or eight pieces and are made of brass and intended to fashion pipes tn imitation of wooden models that happen to be in vogue. The pipemaker grasps one of the shapeless rolls, tilts the fat end upward, which at once gives the suggestion of a pipe, and runs a wire through the pointed end, out of which the stem is to be pressed. This roughly fashioned clay is then put into the mold, which is jammed shut, while at the same time a plunger is pressed to enter the mold and to press out the clay so as to form the bowl. With .a dull knife the clay pressed out at the side of the mold is shaved off with a single lightning stroke by the expert, and then once more there must be a drying process, this time in a room heated to about 85 degrees, where, as before, the pipe is kept for twelve hours. Except that the pipe is of its original gray color and soft and supplied with the “burs” where the molded ends are joined, it is now practically finished. Then comes the process of shaving off the burs. At this stage the pipe still retains considerable dampness, so that the clay may be cut smoothly, while at the same time a wire is again drawn through the stem, so as to insure proper draft. All is now ready for the pipe In its final state except that it needs to be burned. For this purpose it is put into a cylindrical vessel twelve Inches high and as much in diameter. This is known as a “sagger.” Set one against the other, the pipes are adjusted solidly in the sagger, which will hold something like a gross of pipes properly packed. If the pipes consist of the more fancy designs—that is, merely pipe bowls that are to be provided with mouthpieces of wood or rubber —the saggers will hold as many as two gross of pipes. Nine of these saggers filled with pipes are known as a stand, and a medium sized kiln will hold twenty-one stands and will burn them all at the same time. For five hours the heat In the kiln Is kept at a moderate temperature. After that it is allowed to ruu up until at the end of twelve or fourteen hours it is driven to a white heat, which gives the pipes their spotless white finish.—New York Times. The Farm. Every farmer should own his farm. If he cannot own a large one, let him own what he can and gradually increase the size. Land ownership conduces to happiness, contentment and restfulness. One of the greatest hindrances to the prosperity of the tenant is that he is compelled to move frequently and therefore cannot accumulate.—Maxwell's Talisman. Re wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.—Chesterfield.

WILLING TO HELP. ' An 01.1 Seaman’* Scheme to Wla Honor For a Favorite. An amusing story is told of an old seaman on one of the United States cruisers in the north Atlantic squadron. lie was not a person of wide afj sections, but he had a warm place in his heart for a young ensign who had been kind to him in many little ways. One day a landsman fell from the rigging to the water, and as he could i not swim he would have been drowned ■ but for a young officer who sprang in , after him and held him up till assist- ■ mice came. Later the young officer received a complimentary letter from the secretary of the navy. Every one rejoiced but the old seaman; he coveted the letter for his ensign. “That’s a nice thing to have, a letter like that,” he said a few days later. “You ought to have one.” “I don't quite see how I can get one,” laughed the ensign. “Well, see here.” said the old man eagerly. “Tomorrow night I’ll be in the main chains, fussing with something or other, and I might fall in, and you could jump after me.” “That would be very good of you,” said the ensign gravely, “but, you see, I'm not a good swimmer by any means.” “Ho. that’s no matter!” said the old seaman. “I’ll hold you up till the boat comes.’* CRACKED VOICES. A Lack of Muscular Control Is What CaaseN the Break, The pitch of the human voice depends primarily upon the number of vibrations per second of the vocal cords, and these, in their turn, depend on the length, size and degree of tension of the cords, which increase in length with the growth of the larynx. One of the deepest bass notes, from the greater length of the cords, has only eighty double vibrations a second, while a soprano voice can give 992 such vibrations in the same time. The size of a lad’s larynx is. roughly, that of a woman’s, but when the piping schoolboy is shooting up into manhood his larynx grows rapidly and the vocal cords become elongated nearly in the proportion of three and a half to two. The cartilages by which their tension is regulated also share in this growth, as is seen by the swelling of the so called “Adam’s apple.” Now, all these part* do not increase with equal rapidity; hence the muscu- ' lar control, which must be very exact, is rendered uncertain and the voice is said to "break.” A similar change takes place in the case of women, but very much less in amount, and a further compensation in the formation of the upper part of the larynx serves to disguise the effect. COLUMBUS’ CREWS. One Englishman and One Irishman Were Among Their Number. An Englishman and an Irishman were among the sturdy 120 adventurers who sailed with Columbus in the three small hundred tonners. This may have been due to the well known fact that nothing brings men of different races together more than maritime and commercial enterprise, or. still more probably, because they were swept in at Palos, when Columbus put the press gang to work, as he was authorized to do by Ferdinand and Isabella. The names of these men, as given by Navarrete, were Jallarte de Lajes, Ingles (probably Arthur Lake, Eng lisli), and Guillermo Ires, nature! de Gainey, en Irlanda (probably William Herries or Rice, native of Galway, in Ireland). These two men were among the fortv whom Columbus left behind in ' the fort constructed in Hispaniola be- ' fore he sailed for Europe, who all met their death at the hands of the natives before the great discoverer returned, ’ owing to their disregard of his express directions. The Cocoanut Tree. 1 There is no tree so widely distributed throughout the tropics as the cocoanut. Even on remote atolls of the south seas, which geologists say were only recently formed by the subsidence of ; a volcano and the growth of coral up ' from its base, one finds the cocoanut. ■ The parent tree leaning over the beach of one tropical island drops its fruit ■ into the sea, to have the nut carried i away perchance halfway round the world. Then in some faraway place the waves cast the cocoanut ashore to • sprout and propagate another forest after its own kind. 1 The Apple. The apple is not considered to be a complete food in itself, but on the food 1 list it has a value far above the nutriment it possesses. Apples aid the 1 stomach in the digestion of other foods, and therefore the best results are ob--1 \ tained from eating them after rather ’ than before meals. After partaking of an unusually heavy dinner the eating of an apple will be found to facilitate . an early digestion and afford great re--1 lief from the sufferings attendant upon indigestion. Too MnA Realism. “Do you not feel at times,” remarked ■ ' the fireside critic, “that realism can be | carried too far on the stage t i “Yes,” replied the tragic actor, with i ' B S igh.' “The last man I was working I for did ft. He wanted to pay us all ' off In stage money.”—Cincffinatl Times- _ I Star. Gunlng and Going. “Hello, Mike! Do you find much to do now?" . , I "Yis. I'm Jest after cuttin down a ■ 1 tree, and tomorrow I’ll have to cut It U p.”_Kansas City World.

TBIBUTES TO WIVES' WORDS OF TENDERNESS UTTERED BY GREAT MEN. The 1 lomn me That Tom Hood Paid to the Partner of Hix Sorrow* and Joys-Jean Paul Richter’s Instinted Praise of Caroline Mayer. Few great men have paid more enthusiastic tributes to their wives than Tom Hood, and probably few wives have better deserved such homage, says the Chicago Chronicle. “You will think,” he wrote to her in one of his letters, “that I am more foolish than any boy lover, and I plead guilty, for never was a wooer so young of heart and so steeped in love as I, but it is a love sanctified and strengthened by long years of experience. May God ever bless my darling, the sweetest, most helpful, angel who ever stooped to bless a man!” Has there ever, we wonder, lived a wife to whom a more delicate and beautiful tribute was paid than those verses of which the burden is, “1 love thee, I love thee; ’tis all that I can say?” “I want thee much,” Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote to his wife many years after his long patience bad won for him the flower “that was lent from heaven to show the possibilities of the human soul.” “Thou art the only person in the world that ever was necessary to me, and now I am only myself when thou art Within my reach. Thou art an unspeakably beloved woman.” Sophia Hawthorne was little better than a chronic invalid, and it may* be that this physical weakness woke all the deep chivalry and tenderness of the man. And he reaped a rich reward for an almost unrivaled devotion in the “atmosphere of love and happiness and' inspiration” with which his delicate wife always surrounded him. The wedded life of Wordsworth with his cousin, “the phantom of delight,” was a poem more exquisitely beautiful than any his pen ever wrote. Mrs. Wordsworth was never fair to look upon, but she had that priceless and rarer beauty of soul which made her life “a center of sweetness” to all around her. “All that she Ims been to me,” the poet once said in his latter days, “none but God and myself can ever know,” and it would be difficult to find a more touching and beautiful picture in the gallery of great men's lives than that of Wordsworth and his wife, both bowed under the burden of many years and almost blind, “walking hand in hand together in the garden, with all the blissful absorption and tender confidence of youthful lovers. It never needed “the welding touch of a great sorrow” to make the lives of Archbishop Tait and his devoted wife “a perfect whole.” Speaking of her many years after she bad been taken from him, he said, “To part from her, if only for a day, was a pain only less intense than the pleasures with which I returned to her, and when 1 took her with me it was one of the purest joys given to a man to watch the meeting between her and our chi I dren.” When David Livingstone had passed liis thirtieth birthday, with barely a thought for such “an indulgence as wooing and wedding,” he declared humorously that when he was a little less busy he would send home an advertisement for a wife, “preferably a decent sort of widow.” and yet so unconsciously near was his fate that only a year later he was introducing lus bride, Mary Moffat, to the home he had built, largely with bis own hands, at Mabotsa. From that “supremely happy hour” to the day when, eighteen years later, he received her “last faint whisperings” at Shupanga, no man ever had a more self sacrificing, brave, devoted wife than the missionary's daughter. In fact, they were more like two happy, light hearted cjiildren than sedate married folk, and under the magic of their merriment the hardships and dangers of life in the heart of the dark continent were stripped of all their terrors. Jean Paul Richter confessed that he never even suspected the potentialities of human happiness until he met Caroline Mayer, “that sweetest and niojt gifted of women,” when lie was fast approaching his fortieth year, and that he had no monopoly of the resultant happiness is proved by ids wife’s declaration that “Richter is the purest, the holiest, the most godlike man that lives; * * * to be the wife of such a man is the greatest glory that can fall to a woman,” while cf his wife Richter once wrote, “I thought when I married her that I had sounded the depths of human love, but I have since realized how unfathomable is the heart in which a noble woman has her shrine.” Ont Went the Bandbox. Lord Ellenborough, the great English judge, was once about to go on circuit when Lady Ellenborough said that she should like to accompany him. He replied that he had no objection, provided she did not incumber the carriage with bandboxes, which were his utter ab horrence. During the first day’s journey Lord Ellenborough, happening to stretch his legs, put his foot through something below the seat. He discovered that it was a bandbox. Up went the window and out went the band- | box. The coachman stopped, and the ■ footman, thinking that the bandbox I bad tumbled out of the window by I some extraordinary chance, was going | to pick it up when Lord Ellenborough i furiously called out, “Drive on!” The bandbox accordingly was left ♦>’ the ditch side. Having reached the country town where he was to officiate as judge. Lord Ellenborough proceeded to array himself for his appearance in the I courthouse. “Now,” said be. “where’s Imy wig—where is my wig?” “My lord,” replied the attendant “it was thrown out of the carriage window."

THE COSSACKS. A Favorite Camp Story Through Which General* Are Criticised. Unlike other Russian soldiers, the Cossacks are very intelligent in military matters and do not hesitate to criticise ' their generals freely among theffiselves. They have bitter tongues and a genius for satire. There is a favorite story’ which has been told in Cossack camps for generations. It is handed down from father to son, the names being changed to fit the military commanders of the day. Freely translated, it runs something like this: The war god of Russia was asleep In heaven one day when he was awakened by the confused clamor of two hosts in battle on the earth beneath. He shouted to the Angel Gabriel; “Look out and see what my Cossacks are doing.” “They are fighting the Turks, and Prince Potemkin is leading them.” “Oh, that's all right,” said the war god. “He’s a good man.” So the deity went asleep again, only to be awakened by another turmoil. “What’s that?” he asked sleepily. “They are fighting the Turks again under Suwarow.” “He's a fine fellow. They'll do all right.” And so the story goes on interminably around the campfire, each man adding the name of his favorite commander until at last ode of them makes the Angel Gabriel mention the name of some general who happens to be regarded by the Cossacks as a duffer. Then the next man makes the war god reply in accents of great alarm: “Oh. my beloved Cossacks! They must be perishing under that man! It is time I interfered. Hasten, Gabriel, and bring me my long boots, for I must go down at once and save them.” TURTLE FLESH. The HandsomeNt of the Anininln Gives the Worst Meat. No one really knows how large a turtle may grow, but certainly there does not appear to be much if any exaggeration attached to the statements of Pliny and Strabo, who, describing the chelonophagi of the Red sea, say that they utilized the shells of the turtles they had eaten as roofs to their huts and boats for their feeble voyages. Strange to say, the handsomest turtle, the hawk’s bill variety (Chelone imbricata), furnishes the worst flesh, being so strongly flavored with musk as to be almost uneatable. This peculiarity would seem to point to a diet of squid since these mollusca are exceedingly musky. But it may not be out of place to remark here that turtle flesh, even of the best sorts, is not nice.- As Sam Weller’s pieman hoarsely whispered, “It’s the seasoning as does it.” A diet of turtle steaks or of hashed turtle or of turtle soup, au uaturel, would soon sicken any one but a savage. For sixpence or its equivalent in most of the West India island towns one can get a heaped plate of turtle steak with bread or jams or sweet potatoes ad lib. But I never knew even a hungry sailor who wanted more than one meal a week of it, for all its cheapness. The fact is that in the cult of turtle soup we are following (a long way off, it is true) the example set by the Chinese, who love gelatinous soups and pay fabulous prices for the nests of the sea swallows, the holothuria, or sea slug, and the sharks’ fins because of their gelatinous qualities. — Frank T. Bullen in Leslie's. Queer Drunken Manias. An English sheriff who died some years since kept a record of the curious cases of drunkenness that came under, his observation. Several habitual cases had developed odd manias. One woman who had been arrested 107 times for drunkenness in twenty-eight years, had a mania for breaking windows when she was intoxicated. An old soldier, suffering from a wound in the head, always stole Bibles when he was tipsy. Another man stole nothing but spades, while one woman’s fancy ran to shawls and another's to shoes. A man named Grubb was imprisoned seven times for stealing tubs, although there was nothing in his line of life to make tubs particularly desirable to him. Industrial Economy. A locomotive engineer on an eastern railroad said one day to his two firemen, “Suppose you fellows work as if you, and not the company, were paying the coal bills.” During six months, merely by careful firing, the men caused a saving in coal, over the average consumption of the engine, equal to almost four times the amount of wages paid the men for that period The engine was the same; the men worked differently.—World’s Work. He Hud u Way With Him. Jane Seymour was boasting to Anne Boleyn. “Henry has just asked me for my hand,” she remarked. “That's nothing,” retorted the queen, “he has just asked me for my head.” Subsequent events showed both ladies granted the request.—New York Tribune. Not Proposing. Maud—l’m afraid I intruded when I dropped in on you unexpectedly the other evening. Mr. Spoonamore looked as if he were proposing. MabelWell. he wasn’t He was only posing. —Chicago Tribune. His Sense of Feeling. "Are you sure that mule is blind?” "Yes. suh—in his eyes he is, but yon des orter see him feel fer you wid his heels."—Atlanta Constitution. You may be busy, but if you have time to tell your troubles you are »ot busy enough.—Atchison Globe.

CURE CATARRH BY BREATHING The Hoithouse Drug Co. Offer to Return Money i if Hyomei Treatment Fails to Cure Catarrh Without Stomach Dosing. I : If for a few minutes four times a 1 day you breathe Hyomei, all ehtarrhal germs will be destroyed and the ir- , ritated mucous membrane restored > to health. With every Hyomei outfit there is a neat inhaler which can be carried in ' the purse or pocket. Hyomei breath- . ed through this contains the same > healing balsams that are found in the air upon the mountains, where catarrh is unknown. It destroyes all catarrhal germs in the air passages of the head, throat and nose, and makes a positive and permanent cure of catarrh. The complete outfit costs but sl,l while extra bottle ot Hyomie can be[ obtained for 50c., making it one of 1 the most economical of treatmets for i catarrh. The Holthouse Drug Co. believe so 1 ■ throughly in the merit of Hyomei,. ' that they guarantee to return the | money if it fails. This is certainly . the strongest evidence they can give > of their faith in the Hyomei treat- ' meat. It enables anyone to use Hyt emei without risk of spending money for nothing. Ask the Holthouse Drug Co. to t show you a Hyomei outfit and ex- ’ plain to you what a simple and easy • way it is to relieve and cure your caarrhal troubles. NOTICE. i lam doing shoe repairing and am located in Kauffman & Smith’s har- ( ness shop, next door to Schlegel’s . blacksmith shop. Bring in your ’ shoes if they need any repairing. Peter Center, t ACCOUNTS ARE DUE. • Having purchased the interest . of Samuel Acker in the clothing - store of Acker, Elzey <fc Vince we ' desire to state that we would con- ’ sider it a favor if all people knowj ing themselves indebted to the old - firm would call at the store and set- ’ tie that we may properly adjust ; our books. Thanking you for ’ past patronage and hoping for a ’ continuation of same and assuring 1 you fair treatment we are, ’ Yours to please j Elzey & Vance. Railroad Notes. The Overland Limited, solid train i Chicago to Coast daily. Chicago, . Union Pacific & North-Western f Line. ; Cheap one way excursion via , Clover Loaf to all California points i for $37.90 during March and April r 1904. T. L. Miller, agent. c Lowest Rates ever made from Chicago to the southwest, via Chicago Great Western railway. One way for round trip tickets on > I x ' sale March Ist and 15th; April sth > and 19th. For further informa- ■ tion apply to J. P. Elmer, G. P. A., ' Chicago, 111. t On the first and third Tuesday of • every month the Erie railroad will 1 sell one way and ronud trip cxcur- ’ son tickets to the west, northwest ; and southwest at very low rates. ' Further information, call upon • Erie agents or write, C. L. Enos, T ] P. A., Marion Ohio. ’ Settlers Rates from Chicago to • points in Minnesota, North Dakota, Manitoba, Ontario, Saspatchewan and Assiniboia. Tickets on sale by 1 the Chicago Great Western Railway ’. every Tuesday in March and April. . For further particulars apply to , J P. Elner, G. P. A., Chicago, 1 ni. 1 Homeseekers Rates from Chicago t to North and South Dakota. Every Tuesday until Oct. 25th, the Chi- ‘ cago Great Western railway will sell ronud trip tickets to poi its in the above named states at a great.

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