Decatur Democrat, Volume 48, Number 11, Decatur, Adams County, 20 May 1904 — Page 7

■ A matter of ■ very Kml>»rrn»»ln« For th* Bdy Who Liked Dock. ■ Tht . canvasback duck looked very ■ ~rinu t" the hungry dinner guest, ■ e '" n was sliced into tantnlizlnglju! pices. She determined to take ■® though a guilty glance at the y showed her that none of the othH guests bad ventured upon more Kh it one. The slices loomed up like KLle ducks as they lay before her. landed. Was everybody tit the K b <e gazing at them? To her horror. butler, instead of moving on, stood Holding the platter by her side. Was tone in his voice one of stern disap■L.l , r sarcasm? For there he stood asked: many?” ■ R) , r l end swam. Clearly it was sarHnsin. but the insolence of the man! ,'ioi.. .t to close the incident gracebj turning with a remark to her Not at all. Retribution was H ot t ,, i„. put away thus lightly. Again K' z cold, mocking voice in her ear: many?” ■ , vb.u’y at the table by this time ■, t;st be transfixing her and her two but she did not dare look up to The butler must be drunk. What K ftSt „ be done to avoid a scene? Just from down the table came the voice of the watchful host: Mrs. Dusenberry. aren't you Hn.i'.c ’ ' take some hominy with your U ek?"—New York Times. K I I THE JEWSHARP. Fira* Name Was Jew’s Trump, ■ but No One Knows Why. ■ The iewsharp has bee a with us for ■)... ; v than three centuries. We find in ■jakhiyt's "Voyages" a reference to the trade in jewsharps done by and Raleigh with the new Krorld. Earlier still the name was jew's but no one lias succeeded In ■racing historically the reason for elname. Various theories have been forward. The suggestion that it is a corruption ■f jaw's harp and the connection of it ■ritli the French "Jeu" are dismissed modern authorities ns "baseless and ' Professor Skeat thinks that the was given in derision and con■Liris a reference to the harp of David. ■iiriythe-Palnier maintained that it ight to be identified with “gewgaw,” at one time meant a flute. ■■ But the most likely solution of the is that the little instruments first sold in England and Scotland ■>y Jewish peddlers. Although Jews no legal status in England between ■ll.e times of Edward I. and Cromwell, ■|t Is known that many found their way ■o Great Britain, where their natural would be that of wandering Meddlers.—London Globe. DARING PIRATES. |III One Time the Japanese Were the | Vikinas of the Ena*. II In the eleventh and twelfth centuries ■gib- Japanese were the most dashing Ij) rates of the east—in fact, we might E>imost call them the vikings of the says a writer In an English jourMial. They used Junks —small ships a scrap of sail, but quite as sea■rortby as, for Instance, the little ves■els In which the Danes once raided Bur own coasts or as the craft which ■be Penzance fishermen have today. these Junks the Japanese roamed Mlie seas, going everywhere along the ■Ehinese main, ravaging the coasts, ■rading and bringing home priceless of art from China. I ■ was not until long afterward that ■be ruling authorities of Japan, under ■he great Emperor Hldeyoshl, decided Ml at it suited their purpose to shut off Mommunlcation with the outside world Bnd to live to themselves, trading among their own Islands. The Japanese vikings were reduced to ■iniple fishermen, and the period of inMernal feudatory wars began, for at ■hat time at least Japanese would fight Because they loved it Women In Japan. I In Japan a well bred woman does go to the theater until she is old [ Ind ugly. It is not thought proper for ■er to understand music. If she is re■fgious she Is termed "flighty.” She ■pends most of her time at home attending to her children and servants |"d performing all sorts of menial | Service for her husband and his famMy. It has been said that “a woman in ■span does not marry for a husband, ■nt to be unpaid servant to his fam■y.” tlreatness and Smartness. ■ “Which would you rather be —truly ■rent or really smart?" ■ “Smart, of course.” I “Why?” “Well, you may be truly great and io one ever know it, but if you're mart you can make people think that ou re great.”—Chicago Post. As to the New Family, Suburbanite—You don't think they Ver lived in the suburbs before? His life— Oh, no. When their cook threatbed to leave they treated the matter s indifferently as though they could et another one without any trouble.— •xchange. A Bad Fit. The Girl—What would you do, docm, if yo u saw a man have a bad fit in le street? The Doctor—Advise him to hange his tailor.—Yonkers Statesman. Handicapped. “He can’t tell the truth if he tries.” “Oh, yes, he can. But he tells it in ®ch away that it seems to be a lie.”— Exchange. A man’s success does not depend so luch upon his environment as upon J e man himself.—Maxwell's Talisman.

A WILY LAWYER. ’ The Way.He Slade HI. Opponent Win a Case For Him. Lord Brampton, a famous English cross examiner, told a story of how he once won a case on a technical ground when he had no defense. He forced a magistrate’s clerk to be put into the witness box by the prosecution to prove a purely formal matter. Now, having got him there, he cross examined him and made him practically admit that he “led his magistrates by the nose;” to admit also that they had refused bail by his advice and that a judge at chambers had afterward granted it, although the witness had come up all the way from London to oppose it. Then, asked the cross examiner, “You were in the room, sir, and did you not hear the learned Judge say there was not a rag of a case against my unhappy client?” The prosecuting counsel objected, and it was ruled out. But the jurors had heard it and had heard the answer stopped. The dissatisfaction thus adduced in their minds made them acquit the prisoner. Leaving the court that day, the prisoner s counsel asked his opponent, "Why did you object to that question?” The latter indignantly protested that his adversary when he asked it must have known that It could not be put. “Yes, I did,” was the answer; "but I knew you, too, and felt sure that you would object at the right time. But you should have waited for the answer, as it would have been ‘No!’ ” WHY COLORS FADE. The Action of I.lßlit anil Air la What Causes the < hanne. The fastness of color depends on the stability of the coloring matter as well as on that of the combination between the material and the color. Nearly all organic colors are bleached by the continued action of light and air. Light alone can cause changes and favors the formation of small quantities of ozone and hydrogen peroxide, especially in the presence of water, which is always to be found in all ordinary materials. These two substances are powerful oxidizing agents, readily giving up a portion of the oxygen contained in them, and this combines with or oxidizes the coloring matter, forming a body closelj- allied to it, but which is less intensely colored, and in some cases, if the action is carried far enough, the color is entirely destroyed. The chemical effects of the different colored rays vary greatly. Red, yellow and green are practically inert as bleaching agents, while blue, violet and ultra violet rays have a most powerful chemical action. This fact explains why materials which are usually won at night, and hence are exposed only to gas or candle light,do not fade rapidly, these llluminants not having a preponderance of the blue and violet rays, while sunlight, which contains a large proportion of these chemically active rays, quickly affects colored fabrics. Shocked the Cour*. A writer in “Law Notes,” speaking of the late John MacMahon, says: "MacMahon's style was painfully heavy, his utterance a little thick, and he was entirely devoid of humor. His hearing at times was not of the best, and for that reason he thought it was the best policy to agree with any remark that might be made by the Judge before whom he was appearing, even though he did not happen to hear what had been said. On one occasion he was appearing before a master of the rolls, who thought that MacMahon was arguing rather elementary law for such a court as bls. ‘You are speaking as if I were a mere tyro in the law, Mr. MacMahon,’ said the master of the rolls testily. ‘Quite so, my lord,’ said counsel airily, proceeding with his argument, oblivious to and regardless of what the judge had said.” Queer Custom. In China. A feature In the life of the Celestial when at home, says the author of “Society In China,” is the number of itinerant craftsmen who earn their livelihood on the street. Almost anything from the mending of a broken rice bowl to the most elaborate cue dressing may be obtained of one or another of these street travelers. Blacksmiths carry the implements of their trade about with them, the bellows so constructed as to serve also the purpose of a tool box and a seat when “off duty.” If a man’s Jacket or shoes need repairing he may hall a passing tailor or cobbler and possibly employ the time while waiting with the services of an Itinerant barber. Speaker of Parliament. It is not generally known that the speaker is always “Sir,” even to the highest officials of the state. No one approaches him with a hat on, and if an M. P. passes him in the street the M. P. makes obeisance. His invitations to dinner are commands which Involve the surrender of previous engagements and are not “accepted,” but "obeyed.” At his levee he stands looking very dignified in a black velvet suit and M. P.’s, former M. P.’s and peers make their bows and pass on. —London Tit-Bits. A Question of Strength. Gadsby—My wife will raise Cain with me if she discovers that I’ve been drinking. Jagsby-All you’ve got to do is to hold your breath when you go near her. Gadsby —Thats all right, but I’m afraid it’s too strong to be held.—Town and Country. No* Particular. Doctor (feeling Sandy’s pulse in bed) —What do you drink? Sandy (with brightening face)—Oh, I’m nae particular, doctor! Anything you've got with , ye.— stray Stories.

WHY WINE FIRST TO HOST. In Ansericn n Mere Formality, but In Italy a Real Necessity. The wine was opened dextrously by the waiter, who before serving the guests poured a few drops into the host’s glass. “Why did this waiter give you a little wine before helping the rest of us?” asked a man of curious mind. "Oh,” said the host, "that’s always done.” "I know it’s always done. That does not answer my question, though. Here, waiter,” the man persisted, "you tell me why when you open a bottle of wine you pour a few drops into the host's glass before serving the guests.” The waiter smiled and answered: “It’s a matter of form, sir; an old custom, a politeness. Its origin lies in the fact that after the removal of the cork there might be left in the neck of the bottle a little dust or a few specks of cork. The first drops poured out would in that event contain the dust or the cork, and thus the guest were he served first might get this refuse; hence the host is given the first drops. “As a matter of fact, if you know how to open wine you have no difficulty in keeping the bottle’s neck clean. The custom, therefore, is a formality in America. In Italy, though, it is a real necessity, for over there they pour a little oil in the necks of their bottles of native wine before corking on the ground that this makes the wine air tight. No doubt it does, but it also in some cases gives to the first glass from the bottle a decidedly oily flavor. Therefore the first glass the host gallantly takes.”—Philadelphia Record.

HE WON THE AUDIENCE. The Way Fred Doualass Got the BeM of Captain Rynders. The inexhaustible sense of humor in Frederick Douglass kept him clear of any sense of gloom, as was never better seen than on the once famous occasion when the notorious Isaiah Rynders of New York, at the head of a mob, had interrupted an antislavery meeting, captured the platform, placed himself in the chair and bidden the meeting proceed. Douglass was speaking and. nothing loath, made his speech only keener and keener for the interference, weaving around the would be chairman’s head a wreath of delicate sarcasm which carried th" audience with it, while the duller wits of the burly despot could hardly follow him. Knowing only in a general way that he was being dissected, Rynders at last exclaimed, “What you abolitionists want to do is to cut all our throats!” “Oh. no,” replied Douglass in his most dulcet tones; "we would only cut your hair.” And, bending over the shaggy and frowzy head of the Bowery tyrant he gave a suggestive motion as of scissors to his thumb and forefinger with a professional politeness that instantly brought down the house, friend and foe, while Rynders quitted the chair in wrath and the meeting dissolved itself amid general laughter. It was a more cheerful conclusion perhaps than that stormier one—not unknown in reformatory conventions—with which Shakespeare so often ends his scenes, "Exeunt fighting.” — Thomas Wentworth Higginson In Atlantic, Which Is the Larger Income* Here is an interesting problem In mathematics: Two clerks are engaged, one at a salary which begins at the rate of SIOO a year, with a yearly rise of S2O, and the other at a salary commencing at the same rate, but with a half yearly rise of $5. In each case payments are made half yearly. Which of them has the larger income? Who is not tempted to say the former? Yet the latter Is the correct answer, for in the first year the first clerk receives SIOO, but the second clerk receives SSO and $55, which amounts to $lO5 in the year. The first clerk in the second year gets, to be sure, $l2O, but No. 2 gets SOO for the first half year and SOS for the second, or $125 In all. Gin In England In the Old Oaya. Before Intoxicating liquor was made dear by taxes and its sale was regulated by licenses the use of It In England was astonishingly common. Not only were there in London 0,000 or 7,000 regular dramshops, but cheap gin was given by masters to their work people instead of wages, sold by barbers and tobacconists, hawked about the streets on barrows by men and women, openly exposed for sale on every market stall, forced on the maidservants and other purchasers at the chandler’s shop, until, as one contemporary writer puts it, “one-half of the town seems set up to furnish poison to the other half.” In the Nursery. “Mamma, why do landladies object to children?” Mother—l’m sure I don’t know. But go and see what baby is crying about and tell Johnny to stop throwing things at people in the street and make George and Kate cease fighting and tell Dick if he doesn't stop blowing that tin trumpet I’ll take it away from him.—TitBits. Their Celebrations. Hicks—G ng to celebrate your wooden wedding, are you? Wicks—Yes. Hicks—Well. I guess I’ll celebrate my wouldn’t wedding. It was just five years ago that that girl from Chicago said she wouldn’t marry me. —Somerville (Mass.) Journal. Projnerly Diaffnnsed. Lush man —I’m troubled with headaches in the morning. It may be on account of my Wes. Perhaps I ne.,l Strom Dr. Shrude— No; I think you merely need weaker glasses and fewer at night.—Exchange.

Gov. Durbia and a number of tax commissioners went through our city Monday on a special train enroute from Indianapolis to Ft. Wayne, They ca.me in over the Erie rail road and were transforred here to the Grand Rapids. Governor Durbin stood on the rear platform of the train but made no effort to be interviewed or make a speech. No doubt had the trip been advertised the train would have been received by a large crowd. RICHMOND, Ind., May 16—Efforts to ascertain the condition of J. W. Terrell,the Bluffton murderer, now confined in the Eastern Indiana Hospital for insane, near the city, are unvailing. As a result of the assertions of some Bluffton people that Terrell has been shamming in sanity, there has been unusual interest in the developments in his case at the hospital, but absolutely nothing can be found out concerning the patient. Dr. Samuel E. Smith, medical superintendant of the hospital, was asked this afternoon regarding Terrell’s condition. Dr. Smith replied that he was not at liberty to talk on the subject. Hammond Mclntosh, an oil work er who has been empoyed in the oil field for several months, was seriously injured in a mysterious manner Sunday evening. About 9:30 o’clock he walked into the Big Four passenger station at Marion. Wounds on his face were bleeding profusely, his clothes were torn and he was hatless. He was in a semi conscious condition, and talked in a rambling manner. Patrolman Steele who was near at hand, closely questioned him concerning the affair. He told conflicting stories and the officer was unable to obtain any cause for the man’s injuries. At the police station where he was removed a short time later, he said that he had fallen off a Big Four freight train. Later he said he had never been on the train. His face and arms were badly bruised, and it is believed that he has a concussion of the brain. Dr. O. W. McQuown was called and his injuries were examined. While his condition is serious, the physician says that there is no reason to fear fatal rosults.

$50,000,001 Cash Given Away to Users of LION COFFEE We are going to be more liberal than ever in 1904 to users of Lion Coffee. Not only will the Lion-Heads, cut from the packages, be good, as heretofore, for the valuable premiums we have always given our customers, but In Addition to the Regular Free Premiums the same Lion-Heads will entitle you to estimates in our $50,000.00 Grand Prize Contests, which will make some of our patrons rich men and women. You can send in as many estimates as desired. There will be TWO GREAT CONTESTS The first contest will be on the July 4th attendance at the St. Loots World’s Fair; the second relates to Total Vote For President to be cast Nov. 8, 1904. $30,000.00 will be distributed in each of these contests, making S4O, 000.00 on the two, and, to make it still more interesting, in addition to this amount, we will give a ■ Grand First Prize efsssoooJo contests, and thus your estimates have two S ■l'lresrewTr-i™ opportunities of winning a big cash prize. # Five Lion-Heads Printed blanks to cut from Lion vote on found in Coffee Packages and a every Lion Coffee Pack2 cent stamp entitle you a S e - he 2 cent stam P | (in addition to the reg- covers the expense of ular free premiums) our acknowledgment to to one vote in yOU that y ° Ur e5 ’ either contest: ti mate is recorded. WORLD’S FAIR CONTEST PRESIDENTIAL VOTE CONTEST What will be the total July 4th attendance at the St. Louis What will be the total Popular Vote cast for President (votes World’s Fair? At Chicago, July 4.1893, the attendance was 283,273. for all candidates combined at the election November c, 1904 rLn For nearest correct estimates received in Woolson Spice Com- 1900 election, 13,959,653 peopl ? voted for President. For nearest cor ' pany’s office, Toledo, Ohio, on or before June 30th. 1904, we will rect estimates received in Woolson Spice Co. s, office. 3 oledo, 0., give first prize for the nearest correct estimate, second prize to the on or before Nov. 5.1904. wo w I give first prize for tho nearest cornext nearest, etc., etc., as follows: rect estimate, second prize to the next nea est,etc..etc.. as (glows: 1 First Prize 52,500.00 1 First Prize *?’222’22 1 Second Prize 1,000.00 1 Second Prize ... 1 000.00 I 2 Prizes $500.00 each 1,000.00 2 Prizes—sooo.oo each 1,000.00 » 5 Prizes— 200.00 “ 1.000.00 5 Prizes- 200 CO " 1 000.00 bj IO Prizes— 100.00 “ 1,000.00 10 Prizes— 100.00 1,000.00 M 20 Prizes— 50.00 " 1.000.00 20 Prizes - 60.00 1.000.00 II 60 Prizes- 20.00 “ 1,000.00 50 Prizes— 20 00 “ 1.000.00 fl 250 Prizes— 10.00 " 2.500.00 250 Prizes— 10.00 " 2.000.00 9 1800 Prizes— 5.00 " 9,000.00 1800 Prizes— 6.00 “ 9,000.00 fl 2139 PRIZES, TOTAL, $20,000.00 2139 PRIZES, TOTAL, $20.000.00 ■ Distributed to the Public—aggregating $45,090.90—in additten to which wa shall give 9 I ts Grocars*Clerks (see particulars In LEGW COFF£E eases) Majfega grandto'alof j COMPLETE DETABLED PARTICULARS m EVERY PACKAGE GF \ . LION COFFEE • I WOOLSON CO., (CONTEST DEP’T.) T< ji’L?.. d

Arragements have been completed for the dedication of the beautiful Indiana building at tli»s St Louis exposition at 2 o’clock on the afternoon of June 3. If is practically finished now the last of the contractors leaving tomorrow evening and congratulations on the appearance and interior arrangement of the building are heard from all sides. Every one’;in Indiana! is invited to attend the dedicatory exercises. Formal invitations will be sent to no one within the state. The committee is trying to arrange for a special railroad rate from Indiana cities to the exposition for the dedication. RICHMOND, May 13—It will be remembered that something over a year ago a man named Crowe was in this city and Wayne county for the purpose of organizing a local chapter of the new school teachers’ order styled Pestalozzi. (irowe benefits of the society to the teachers and several gave him ‘notes for $7.50, which, it is understood, were never paid. The object of the organization was ostensibly to get better pay for the school teachers. The promoters or organizer got the indorsement of high educational authorities in Indiana, and then he got several county superintendents to vouch for him. In fact, some superintendents joined the order. Then he went to the teachers and told all about the advantages of combination, the influence of numbers and the potency of organization. While they were in raptures over a proposed rise in pay, the organizer for membership. In a day or so the application turned up as a note for $7.50 and the teachers had it to pay. Several counties are now reporting, and they all want to know what they are going to get for the $7.50 which each teacher who applied has had to pay. The Greenfield Republican says: “Hancock county teachers admit the visit of the organizer cost them money, and that they are still waiting for results which will probably never materalize. ”Mr. Crowe was in Decatur several days and his scheme was supposed to be a good one by nearly all teachers. His home is at Portland.

Mr. Midland, a representative of the Chicago University, is in our city trying to arrange for a lecture course here next winter, and is endeavoring to get some society here to take hold of the project. In all probability he will be successful and the course arranged. An immense throng of people filled the auditorium and lecture room of tho Methodist Episcopal church Sunday night, the occasion being the baccalaureate sermon to the members of the graduating class of the Decatur High School. The church platform was beautifully decorated with potted plants and flowers and about the seats occupied by the class hung gold and purple banners, the class colors. The class composed of Misses Marie Patterson, Fanny Hite May Coverdale, Midge Smith and Messrs. Harry Andrews, Ray Allen, Bert Segur, Charles Knapp, Albert SellemeAcr, Argo Brushwiller and Charles Merryman and accompained by the faculty marched into church in a body and occupied tho places designated. Mrs. Ella Bell played an organ voluntary which was followed by a hymn,“All Hail the Power of Jesus.” Rev. Heist read a scripture lesson from Proverbs, fourth chapter. Another hymn, “Blest be the Tie,” was followed by an appropriate prayer by Dr. E. J. Beardsley. The choir sang a beautiful anthem after which Rev. E. A. Allen of the Presbyterian church delivered the sermon. His text was from Proverbs “Get Wisdom, get Understanding and for get it not-” Rev. Allen congratulated the class upon the work of this school life and the honor they had attained by their continuance at study. His sermon or talk rather was most appropriate and contained many words of advice to the class members who have prepared themselves for an entrance into the busy hustling world. It is the commencement and the education the class has received has only fitted them the better for the battle. The services closed by singing the hymn “Jesus Lover of My Soul,” and the benediction by Rev. Heist. The commencement services will be held at the opera house Friday evening.