Decatur Democrat, Volume 48, Number 8, Decatur, Adams County, 28 April 1904 — Page 7

Birs. h. e? IfW and MISS C. E. SWEITZER expert opticians of Dayton, Ohio, wiU be in Decatur at Burt House, Wednesday May 4, and remain one week or until Wednesday, May 11. Giving Free Examination of the Eyes. Vo One Urged to Buy Prices Reasonable Headache Knocked (Sky High by the Use of the Celebrated Crysto Vitrine Lens Retemscopic Tests Given in Critical Cases Have Successfully Fitted 892 People in Van Wert with Glasses and Overcome 225 Cases of Headache. During the past three years these Opticians correctly fitted the number )f glasses mentioned in towns below: Fitted 271 people in Springfield: 70S m Urbana; over 500 people in Xenia,' rer 800 people in Troy; 252 people in Piqua; 168 people in Sindey: 195 jeople in Greenville: 228 people in Saton: over 900 people in Wilmington; r>rer 1000 people in Lancaster; 860 teople in Circleville; 750 people in Washington C. H.; 400 people in Cbilicothe; and over 500 /people in Lebanon, Ohio. /’A' Z k Wr * About ninety-nine out of every hundred persons receiving medical treatment for nervousness, stomach trouble, headache and what they supposed to be neuralgia, are afflicted with defective eyesight and nothing more. An astigmatic eye most invariable causes aches and pains and nausa of the stomach of a kind that is very misleading to the sufferer and deceiving to the physicians in diagnosing unless the phydcian has special knowledge and experience in the art of fitting glasses. Astigmatic headache usually begins with shooting pains in the back of the eyes, finely reaching the top of the lead, extending down the back of the leek into the shoulders, and frequenty effects the spine to the extent that ihysicians often diagnose such a case Os spinal trouble. I Other symptoms of astigmatism are I sensation of hair pulling, a tenderness or soreness of the scalp, and dizziness, especially upon a sudden turnng of the head. Those who suffer with a slight decree of astigmatism experience much -rouble in reading or doing close work ongerthan thirty minutes without the vision bluring, or type running together or mixing more or less, causing ixcessive winking or watering of the eye. with perhaps a slight inflamatory tondition of the lids and a bloodshot byeball. All of these troubles can be entirely Overcome by the wearing of properly Corrected glasses, without medical treatment. If you are troubled with any of the oilowing symptoms, call at once and ■eceive a free examination: Headache—sensation of hair puling, chilly, creepy feeling extending lown the back of the head, neck and boulders. Aches over the eye or severe shootng pains in the eye, with often a lauseating feeling of the stomach vhen turning the head suddenly. Trembling spells, nervousness, extensive winking and watering of the syes, with often a slight inflamatory sondition. Bluring, mixing and coming together of letters, with often sudden Macks of sleepiness. TO PARENTS If Van Wert County, Mrs. Wm. Heath, Who Lives five Miles South of Ohio Citv, Says: I wish to tell through the papers p hat Mr. and Mrs. Lingerfield did for av daughter, Nancy, who is ten years 'ld. Ever since she had the whoopng cough, which was about four years go, she has complained of constant •ain in her head and eyes. I got jlasees for her but they were not satisactory. During the past year her roubles grew worse very rapidly as he constant pains and aches in her ‘ead and eyes were almost unbearble, which was affecting her nervous Vstem quite preceptibly. I was afraid he could not continue her studies at chool, as she would only studv a few Jinutes at a time, owing to the sharp ains which would shift to the back art of her head, neck and shoulders, road quite a good deal about Mr. and Frs. Linererfield’s work on the eye. So 'ally I had them fit her with glasses,

which have overcome her troubles altogether, as she can now study with all ease; and has done so for hours at ' a time since u-ing the glasses. She is quite proud of them and wears them all the time. 1 In consideration of my experience I 1 think it proper of me to warn parents 1 to be more interested in their children’s 1 eyes, and have them looked after upon ' the first complaint of the child, and \ thus avoid ruining the child’s eyes and health. HEADACHE. Nsrvousness and Stomach Trouble All Overcome, Miss Emma Fortney. Who Lives One and One-fourth Mile East of Dixon, Van Wert, County. Ohio, Says: “Who does not know the excruciat ing pain of sick or nervous headache? The throbbing, aching, wearing pain which makes the sufferer think life is not worth living.” Nearly everybody at sometime has had experience with this distressing malady, and the poor victims are only apt to seek relief in any remedy afforded,Jwhieh has surely been my experience, as I have taken every recommended remedy to get re lief from above affliction. I have doctored with specialists for nervous troubles, also for stomach trouble as I would become deathly sick at my stomach, but my efforts for relief were baffled in each case. My condition seemed to grow for the worse, and of late, I have been most wonderfully discouraged, as it seemed my affliction had baffled all medical skill and that I must subject myself to daily headaches and nervousness. As a final resort I consulted Mr. and Mrs. Lingerfield, who, upon an examination of my eyes, said they could overcome all the headaches and nervousness. Well, it is useless to say I had but little faith in their assertions, as I had been disappointed in so many instances. But I was willing to try, and in regard to results I can most emphatically say that such has been the case to my great surprise, for not in a single instance have I experienced a single ache or pain in my head or nausea of the stomach. Indeed, one seems like a renewed being to be free from these terrible headaches and nervous spells. Consequently, I consider the result obtained in my behalf a blessihg to me and am very grateful to these people for overcoming my troubles, and I, for one, most willingly stand ready to testify to their proficiency in correcting headache and nervousness and stomach troubles. Mrs. Judge W. H. Mozier, of Van Wert, Ohio, Says: It is surely with a degree of safety and surety that I can express the words of praise of the proficiency and skill of Mr. and Mrs. Lingerfield in the art of fitting glasses, owing to the satisfactory manner in which they have overcome my defect in my distant vision, which had become very annoying owing to the indistinctness of sight, which defect produced a constant strain on the nerves—-thereby weakening my closeby vision. Subsequently through appreciation of benefits received, I make mention of the above facts. Bright Light Caused Eyes to Pain and Water. Mrs. Wise, wife of L. H. Wise, the County Commissioner, of Van Wert county, says. It is in a sense of the most profound appreciation that I am prompted to speak in behalf of Mr. and Mrs. Lingerfield, the Opticians. For sometime I have been greatly annoyed with pains in mv eyes, especially when in a bright light; also a watering of the eyes, which was quite unpleasant. Thereby inasmuch as these afflictions have been overcome, I think all eye sufferers should avail the opportunity of consulting them while in our city. Mr. F. Seigel, One of Miami County’s Farmers, Who purchesed the old Fronefield ■arm, four and one-half miles southi west of Van Wert, Ohio, says: I have heard quite a good deal of Mr. and Mrs. Lingerfield as Opticians, who fitted many of my friends with glasses during their stay at Troy, 0., and at their Dayton home office, and also in regard to the successful manner they fitted my eyes. I feel quite safe in recommending them to all mv neighbors and friends as thoroughly competent people, and trust that all who suffer of headache and defective vision will consult them and be benefited, as many others have been, by their skill and knowledge of the eye. Mr. and Mrs. Lingerfield have the most perfect equipped and handsome ly furnished optical parlors in the State of Ohio, which are located in the New Arcade. Dayton, Ohio. During the past fourteen years, being assisted by their staff of opticians, they have fitted success! uly forty-three thousand people in the State of Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Lingerfield are manufacturing ■ opticians also. They employ none but - experts to grind their lenses, which are ground from the very finest material obtainable. Each lense is guaranteed to be of the most perfect and accurate curvatures, highly polished and perfect, am* perfectly focused, Mr. and Mrs. Lingerfield have fourteen towns they visit twice a year and they intend to include Decatur in their circuit. tl| lenses are warranted for two years, any change is made gratis du n ng saiJ time. Prices for glasses £2 to

COINCIDENCES. Tb« Odd Ways la Which Thin«, Come About lit This World. A story is being told of a man selling toys on a London pavement recognizing in a lady who bought from him his own daughter. Stranger meetings have been recorded. Late one night two men who had been dining with the late Duke of Edinburgh at Buckingham palace set out for their club and paused for <i moment at a crossing in I’all Mall. It was very late, and rain was falling, but there at the crossing was a tiny boy plying his brocni and asking alms. One of the two was a man -who never could resist such an appeal. He stopped to question the child. How came he to be there at so iate an hour, seemingly so friendless and destitute? The boy answered that he was, as he seemed, utterly destitute. He had walked to London from a town on the south coast. “And have you really no friends or relations in the world?” asked his kindly interrogator. ‘‘Well, sir, it’# the same as if I hadn’t,” replied the lad. “I have a brother, but I shall never see him again. I don’t even know if he’s alive. He’s a sailor, and I haven’t seen him for a long time.” At this the second man, who had not as yet spoken, showed interest. “What’s your brother's name, little man?” he now asked. “His name is , sir, and lie’s a signalman in the Bellerophon, but he's been away so long he must have forgotten me.” “Good heavens!” exclaimed his second questioner. “Why, that’s the name of my own signalman, and a tine young fellow he is, too, and now I notice there is a strong likeness between him and the boy.” The speaker was the commander of the Bellerophon. The boy had been granted toll rights over the crossing for only that one night; bis first questioner was the only man in a million who would have stopped in the pouring rain to question a crossing sweeper: his companion was almost the only man in the world who could have attested the truth of the lad’s story. It is only necessary to add that the two good hearted fellows took the boy in hand and saw to his being made into as good a sailor as bis brother.—St. James Gazette.

WISDOM OF NOVELISTS. If you want to impress fools you must respect their prejudices.—Anthony Hope. Success in life rests upon one small gift—the secret of the entry into another man’s mind to discover what is passing there.—Seton Merriman. To smoke a fine cigar, after a real dinner, with a good friend, is about as near heaven on eartli as the average man will ever find south of the stars.— John Bain. There is nothing more fatal to a political career than brilliant impromptus and spirited orations. A statesman’s words, like butchers’ meat, should be well weighed.—John Oliver Hobbes. A young man thinks that he alone of mortals is impervious to love, and so the discovery that he is in it suddenly alters his views of his own mechanism. It is thus not unlike a rap on the funny bone.—J. M. Barrie. Noun Versus Adjective. The current debasement of the language, of which mention was made recently by a correspondent, needs to be stayed by occasional protests, says the London Chronicle. The education committees are being called in many quarters “educational” committees. This false refinement reminds one of the common inscription, “monumental mason,” which should be “monument mason.” It is not the artificer who is monumental. Compare “numerical printer” for “number printer.” People fear to use a noun as an adjective or wrongly prefer the adjective as more elegant. “War office” and “India office” are correct expressions, better than “military” or “Indian office,” while “colonial office” is not so good as “colonies office” would be. Hungarian Forests. The Hungarian government does not sell any part of its forests, but buys more each year. In some parts of the country, as in the eastern region of the Carpathians, woods are found of several thousand acres in extent, consisting for the most part of red beech. This is used for firewood, carriages, staves and agricultural implements and in the manufacture of bent wood. There, are few fires, and they seldom permanently damage t’.m woods. There are large resinous forests in Transylvania, but they are not very accessible, and there are also some in the district of Marmaros, in the northeast of the country. A Misquoted Proverb. Perhaps no English proverb or proverbial phrase is more frequently misquoted than the one that speaks of hitting a nail on the head. Unthinking people almost always say the “right nail,” which is absurd. The joiner who hit the wrong nail would be a “duffer” Indeed, but an expert hand may now and then hit his nail otherwise than fairly on the head—Notes and Queries. The Expurgated Article. Swipsy (looking over bill of fare at cheap restaurant)—“Boneless chicken.” Wot’s dat? Muggsy—Ye blame fool dat’s chicken wid de rabbit bones all picked out’n it!—Chicago Tribune. The Man’s Mother’s Thonght. “Do you think she is a suita ide match for your son. Mrs. Bagstock?” •‘“Oh, no: but then I suppose be must marry somebody.” — Chicago RecordHeriikl. To give np of your own will what would cost too much in time and strength is not failure—it is success.

APHORISMS. Rest is the sweet sauce of labor,riutareh. To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.—Burke. Better a little chiding than a great deal of heartbreak. —Shakespeare. Repentance is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.—Milton. A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.—Maria Edgeworth. Think twice before you speak or act once, and you will speak or act the more wisely for it.—Franklin. There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard. The fearful are the failing.—S. J. Hale. There never was a person who did anything worth doing that did not receive more than he gave.—H. W. Beecher. Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object.—Hazlitt. Brain. The brain is an important organ, serving as it does to keep the head from collapsing. Almost ail styles of doing the hair call for a head of some sort Again, there is nothing like a head to set off a tine neck. Finally, we should feel rather foolish without our heads. For a long time scientists were unable to discover why it is that the brain is divided into white and gray matter. It remained for a clever French savant to solve the difficulty. “Quite likely.” said he, “the loud colors had not yet come in when man was created.” Fs. a'jology deals with the organic aspect of thought To psychology we owe the knowledge that calf’s brain makes good soup.—Puck. Sir Colin Campbell’s Commission. When the Duke of Wellington was in India he “discovered” the soldier who afterward became Sir Colin Campbell. That dashing warrior was in the commissariat service and had volunteered for an assault on a hill fort. The duke saw a little round man run up a ladder and. receiving a pike thrust at the top, roll down like a ball to the bottom. He was. however, up again in an instant and, running up like a squirrel, was the first or among the first in the place. The duke laughed, inquired about him and procured him a commission. Whittier's Safeguard. When an overtimid visitor from the city once commented to the poet Whittier upon the insecurity that seemed Inseparable from so many doors opening out from all sides of the large old country home, the master of the house strove gently to restore confidence by pleading that most of them were locked at night.

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MOHAMMEDANS AND DOGS. They Take IBjtrtieular Pains Not to Come in Contact. In Egypt dogs are never permitted to enter the dwelling of a Mohammedan, and if one is found in a mosque he is Immediately put to death. In consequence of this excommunication from the society which this animal seems so instinctively disposed to cultivate. Egyptian dogs live, for the most part, in the open air. feeding upon garbage and any other filth that chance throws in their way. Yet they are found to be faithful protectors of the property and even persons of the very men by whom they are thus despitefully treated, although, Sonini remarks, it is extremely curious to see the pains taken by a Mussulman and a dog when they happen to meet to avoid coming in contact with each other. Notwithstanding this state of persecution, dogs are remarkably numerous in the towns of Egypt. The species is a large one, about the size and make .of the greyhound. As a proof of the Mohammedan prejudice against this useful animal, it is sufficient to state that they regard the terms Christian and dog as synonymous—both, of course, in the most opprobrious sense. As a singular contrast for their dislike for dogs, the Egyptians have ever held cats in greatest veneration, and in ancient time even worshiped them. And historians tell us that Bubastis and Atribes, two towns in Egypt, the former a votary of cats and the latter of mice, contracted on that account so strong an antipathy to each other that the inhabitants were never known to intermarry, although only a few miles asunder. In some parts of India, too, we are told, they have a similar reverence for grimalkin, as the only crimes punished capitally there are the murder of a man and a cat.—New Orleans Tlmes-Democrat. An Oversight. “Why does Mrs. Clubwoman look so sad?” “The world’s injustice to woman has just struck her forcibly again.” “How was that?” “She happened to think that Martha Washington isn’t called the ‘mother of her country.’ ” —Cincinnati Times-Star. Addendum, Kwoter—He thinks he’s still youthful. Well, you k”'»w the old sayiug, “There’s no fool J... ”i “I'l fool.” Newitt—Yes, and when : Id fool dyes his whiskers there’s nobody fooled but the old fool. —Philadelphia Press. He Knew the Distance. Asked how far off he thought heaven was, the old colored brother replied, “Hit ain’t no furder dan I kin fly es I fcot faith enough ter git de wings en de 4evil don’t set fire ter ’em on de way!” —Atlanta Constitution.

THE FiRE CROWD. A* a Bule It likes a Dig Blaze and CrawkinK Walls. “There is one curious thing connected with fires,” said a thoughtful wan, “and that is the fact that while the fireman is always a hero in the public estimate and while men and women have all kinds of admiration for these brave fellows they yet want to see them get the worst of it in the fight against the flames. It is an interesting fact that the average man and woman are not at all anxious to see the firemen get the fire under control. They would much rather see the flames spread until the affair developed into an immense conflagration. Mind you, the trait is not at all vicious. There is no malice in it. It is simply the love of excitement and adventure, things that are so deep rooted in human nature that we may not control them at will. Besides, we want to develop our heroes to the limit. We want our firemen to fight a good fight against long odds and under great difficult)**. We cannot quarrel with this feeling in the human makeup. After all, it is what one may call the poetry of human nature. and without it this old system of ours would be dull and prosaic indeed. Os course, you will always find a few persons around a fire who are directly concerned in the fight the firemen are making. They want to see the flames put out. In the case of some of the spectators it means bread and meat It means the loss of a position or maybe the loss of home. But 1 was speaking of the vast majority of men and women who gather to witness a fire. The fire is the thing with them. They want to see a big blaze and hear the crash of the-walls and all that sort oi thing. Did you ever take the trouble to analyze a fire crowd? In the first place an alarm of fire will draw a crowd quicker than anything in the world. Whenever the bells begin to clang and the engines go rushing down the street you will see men, women and children rushing this way and that in order to see as much as may be seen of the fire and lire fighters. The hour of day or night does not make so much difference. The crowd will get there in some way and for some reason, though the great majority of the persons have no sort of interest other than idle curiosity. Once on hand, they want to see a good fire, and that’s why I say they want to see the flames get the best of the firemen. They will go away and talk about what a game fight the fire laddies made. Human nature Is a curious thing, is it not?”—New Orleans Titues-Democrat. Not to Be Thought Os. Mrs. Newlywed—Yes. Harry has only one fault, dear fellow! He will smoke cigarettes. Mrs. Oldgirl—Why don’t you break him off it? Mrs. Newlywed —And leave me nothing to r.cold him about? No, indeed!—Cincinm.ti TimesStar.