Decatur Democrat, Volume 48, Number 12, Decatur, Adams County, 26 May 1904 — Page 7

e SAVAGE athletics. iralninK us » he ot the Canary Islands. tills »S e of a thletics one mlg,lt Jnk that no people ever showed so 1, interest in feats of muscular I “>ht and skill as those who have perfootball, but modern games and • the games of the Greeks at Olym- *■ '" ) iv have been more than matched me sports of peoples who are now pid in little esteem. A writer on the Cnnnrv islands gives an account of ti, e ir athletic training which makes even the college giants of today seem weak and effeminate. Tllt , canary islands were subjected . Spain about the time Columbus dis‘j/ered America. The conquest was due solely to the superiority of Euro “ weapons and not to better skill and prowess. The native soldiers were train ed athletes, developed under a •vstem which held athletic sports an important business, like military drill. Spanish chronicles have left us accounts of the sports of the islanders From babyhood they were trained to be brisk in self defense. As soon as they could toddle the children were pelted with mud balls that they might learn how to protect thejnselves. When they were boys stones and wooden darts were substituted for the bits of clayIn this rough school they acquired the rudiments of warfare which enabled them during their wars with the Spaniards to catch in their hands the arrows shot from their enemies’ crossbows. After the conquest of the Canaries a native of the islands was seen at Seville who for a shilling let a man throw at him as many stones as he pleased from a distance of eight paces. Without moving his left foot he avoided every stone. Another native used to defy any one to hurl an orange at him with so great rapidity that he could not catch it. Three men tried this, each with a dozen oranges, and the islander caught every orange. As a further test he hit his antagonists with each of the oranges. NOT TRUE TO THE POLE. The Variations In the Pointing of the CompaitM. We commonly say that the pole of the needle points toward the north. The poets tell us how the needle is true to the pole. Every reader, however, is now familiar with the general fact of a variation of the compass. On our eastern seaboard and all the way across the Atlantic the north pointing of the compass varies so far to the west that a ship going to Europe and making no allowance for this deviation would find herself making more nearly for the North cape than for her destination. The "declination,” as it is termed in scientific language, varies from one region of the earth to another. In some places It is toward the west, in others toward the east. The pointing of the needle in various regions of the world is shown by means of magnetic maps. Such maps are published by the United States coast survey. whose experts make a careful study of the magnetic force all over the country. It is found that there is a line running nearly north and south through the middle states along which there is no variation of the compass. To the east of it the variation is west, to the west of it east. The most rapid changes in the pointing of the needle are toward the northeast and northwest regions. When we travel to the northeastern boundary of Maine, the westerly variation has risen to 20 degrees. Toward the northwest the easterly variation continually increases until in the northern part of the state of Washington it amounts to 23 degrees.— Simon Newcomb in Harper’s. A Strange Case. In the latter part of IS7S a young lady died near Cleveland of a disease that had greatly puzzled the attending physicians, the symptoms being similar to rheumatism of the heart. The postmortem revealed one of the most remarkable facts to the medical profession. A large burdock bur was found securely imbedded in the heart directly against the posterior surface es the aorta. It was completely enveloped with cystic tissue, which bad also covered all the large blood vessels leading to and from the heart. There is only one way of accounting for the presence of the bur. It had been I re: thed into the air passages when the woman was a.child. Beecher and Emerson. One day Mr. Beecher was dining beside Emerson and said. "Mr. Emerson, when you are eating this fine beef, era you tell by the flavor what kind of grass the ox ate?” “Why, no. of course not!” “I am right glad to hear it.” replied Beecher, “for I have been feeding my congregation on Emerson for many a Tear, and I have been afraid they would find it out.” —Boston Christian Register. Tactful. “At what age do you consider women the most charming?” asked the Inquisitive female of more or less uncertain age. “At the age of the woman who asks the question,” answered the man, who Was a diplomat.—New Yorker. tpK and Downs. “Oh, well, every body has his ups and downs!” “That’s right. Just at present I’m down pretty low because I’m hard up.” “•Exchange. (*> Under the evolution theory a monkey needs millions of years in which to become man, whereas a man can make 8 monkey of himself in a minute.— Birmingham Age-Herald. a> t k_. in.

THE LIGHT BRIGADE. S Russian View of the Ride Into the Jnns of Denth. That the charge of the Light brigade seemed to onlookers a piece of magnificent folly is evident from all reminiscences of that day. First came the attack of the heavy brigade upon 3,000 Russian cavalry. Then later in the day the attempt to recapture seven guns taken from the Turks by the Russians in their first advance upon the redoubts led to the charge ot the Light brigade. “When we saw the English coming at us. says a Russian soldier, "there was but one thought. -What fools!’ we said. We never dreamed they would charge. Ivan Ivanovitch, a Russian survivor of the day, says in his “Recollections:” “We were so sorry for them. They were fine soldiers and had such fine horses. But the charge—it was the maddest thing ever done. We could not understand it. I had been in the charge of the heavy brigade in the morning and was wounded. We had all unsaddled and were tired. Suddenly there was a cry, ‘The English are coming!’ “Our colonel was angry and ordered the men to give no quarter. “I was lying down, with my wound bandaged, when I saw them coming. We thought they were drunk from the way they held their lances. Instead of carrying them under their armpits they waved them in the air. Os course they were easier to guard against like that. “Those men were mad and never seemed to think of the tremendous numbers against them nor of the fearful slaughter that had taken place in their ranks during that desperate ride. Then they neared us and dashed in among us, shouting, cheering and cursing. I never saw anything like it. They were irresistible, and our men were quite demoralized.”

GRANT’S SYMPATHY. Tribute of a Southern Woman to the General's Kindly Nature. The sympathetic side of General Grant's nature, as every one knows, was very strong. A few days after the surrender of Vicksburg a southern lady hurried to his quarters to ask for information about her husband, of whose safety she had heard conflicting reports. The general replied that he could not give her the information she desired, but that he would send an orderly at once to find out the facts for her. When the man returned with the news that her husband was safe the southern woman’s eyes filled with tears of gratitude, while tears of sympathy showed on the cheeks of General Grant. On another occasion—it was years after—at a banquet in Vicksburg given him when he was making a tour of the southern states one was heard expressing her gratitude to him for past kindnesses. As he replied to her two tears rolled slowly down his cheeks. For little children and old people General Grant showed special sympathy. Many who were small foes In those days remembered his way of drawing them to him and impressing a kiss on cheek or brow. One old lady who afflicted her friends by her propensity for smoking was often the recipient of a good cigar from him. The gift was fully appreciated, as the general's stock was always of the best. When be was ill In Washington she sent him some wild flowers “from the hills of Vicksburg,’' for which a letter of thanks was promptly returned. Subsequently, when she visited Washington, she was kindly received by the president, who. to her delight, presented her with some more of his good cigars.—Helen Gray in Leslie's Weekly. Crops. Gizzards and Stomachs. Insects are oddly constructed atoms of animated nature, as a rule, and it depends altogether on the species as to internal makeup. In bees the crop is called the honey bag.” Insects with mandibles usually have a modified form of the "gizzard” so topical in the common barnyard fowl. In some cages this miniature "gizzard” is a perfect wonder shop, its inner surface being provided with “pads” covered with “horns” and “bristles” in great profusion. The grasshopper’s “gizzard’ is lined with innumerable rows of teeth, very minute, of course, but well developed. true teeth, nevertheless. The same may be said of crickets and other Insects of that ilk. Acre of Mother Earth. An eminent scientist's estimate of the age of the world is "not so great as 40.000.000 years, possibly as littia as 20,000.000 years, probably 3o,O(M,000 years.” As not even the greatest scientists have been able to find out within 10,000.000 or 15,000,000 years kvw old Mother Earth is, it must be confessed that she keeps the secret of her age quite as well as do her charm .ng daughters. The scientists may at last come to the conclusion that, like ihe others, she is “only as old as she looks.”—Baltimore Sun. Rasped. “Do you shave yourself very close?” said the barber. "Not very,” said the victim. “I usually leave enough skin to fasten the court plaster on. but of course you didn't know that before you began.”Cincinnati Times-Star. His Theory. “It is better to rule by love than fear.” said the gqntle philosopher. “Yes.” answered Senator Sorghum; “it is people’s love of money that has made life easy for me.”-Washlngton Star. . Too much effort to increase our happiness transforms it into misery.— Rousseau.

BAD HABITS. • i Hie Women Who Didn't Want Them In ilerself or Others. Mrs. Jennings looked through her glasses at her sister, Miss Sprawle, with considerable severity. “This neighborhood has got into strange ways the last few years, or else I notice it more as I get further along.” she said, “and lest I should get into the same way I want you to remind me now and then, Mary. "If you find me backbiting like that hateful, stingy Annabel Powder or Lucy White, that had better look to her own saucy, bad mannered girl, and her boy, that’s the poorest scholar in No. 1, or if you catch me growing close fisted like the minister’s wife, that has never returned the cupful of granulated sugar she borrowed that time the delegates came, or long winded like Jane Larkin, who interrupted me in the very midst of my telling her about Sally’s twins and went on about her spindling grandson for most fifteen minutes without stopping, I want you should tell me frankly. “And that’s not all,” said Mrs. Jennings as Miss Sprawle opened her mouth to speak. “If you find me getting inquisitive like Helen Lane, that's asked m? three times when my birthday conies and what year I was born after my having to go to the town records to find out her age. I want you to mention it freely, and I shall do the same by you. “If folks don’t help each other, what’s the good of being set in families? You’ve got a little habit of interrupting. Mary, that’s growing on you. and I'm going to do what I can to help you break it up."—Youth's Companion. A TOUCH OF NATURE. Pathetic Story of a Mother of the Labrador Coast. Writing of the people of the Labrador coast, in Harper's Magazine, Norman Duncan tells a pathetic story of a poor mother whom he met sitting with her child outside the Battle Harbor hospital: “ ‘lie’ve always been like that,’ she said. 'He's wonderful sick. I’ve fetched uu out here t’ get the air. He doos better in the air, zur,’ she added; 'much, much better.’ “ ‘He’ll be getting better,’ said I. ‘Here in the hos’— “ ‘He'll die,’ she interrupted quickly. “I was glad that he was to die. It would be better for him and for her. She would forget his deformity; she would forever have the memory of him lying warm upon her breast, warm and lovely; for, in this, memory is kind to women. “ ‘You have —another?’ “ ‘No, zur; ’tis me first.’ “The child stirred and complained. She lifted him from her lap, rocked him. hushed him, drew him close, rocking him all the time. “ ‘And does he talk?’ I asked. “She looked up in a glow of pride and answered me. flushing gloriously, while she turned her shining eyes once more upon the gasping babe upon her breast: “ 'He said “mamma,” once!" “And so the Labrador ‘liveyere’ is kin with the whole wide world.” Women and the Theater. Avowedly women are both directly and indirectly the best friends of the theatrical manager. If he can please the feminine portion of his audience he is tolerably sure of success, for when a woman likes a play she induces her men folk to go to it. This being so. ought not women to be specially considered in all places of entertainment? But it is precisely on the opposite lines that the manager commonly proceeds. Men are encouraged to push and squeeze past and disturb and inconvenience ladies between the acts because smoking rooms are provided for them in most theaters. Women, on the other hand, are expostulated with and denounced if they wear hats at a matinee. —London World. Newton’s Accuracy. Newton’s law of gravitation, which states that two bodies attract each other with a force inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them, was made the subject of an exhaustive' investigation by Professor Brown of Haverford college. His calculations show Newton s laws to represent the motion of our moon to within the one-millionth part of 1 per cent, and he states that no. other physical law has ever been expressed with anything like the precision of the simple statement of this pne.—London Globe. Punishment by Proxy. A mother recently brought her little boy to school for his first time, and she said to the teacher: “This little boy is very delicate, as he is afther a- fit of harmonya on the loongs, but if he does anything bould, and I know he will, bate the wan next to him an' ’twill frighten him.”—Chicago Journal. Pupil “Here is a new pupil.” said the boy’s father, “I’d like you to keep in your eye." , . „ “I’ve a pupil to each eye already, replied tbe pedagogue. "However, IT! keep this one under the lash at any rate. - —Catholic Standard and Times. Its Strona Point. Amateur—This is my latest attempt at a landscape. May I ask what you think of the perspective? Artist—The perspective is its strong point. The further away you stand the better it , looks.— Chicago Tribune. “Forget yourself and be a gentleman,” may not be a new phrase, but it Is a good one to paste in somebody's ' bat—maybe your own.—New York Press.

TIMBER IN RIVER BEDS. Fortune Awaits the Inventor of a Method to Recover It. “If some scheme could be devised,” said a Stillwater (Minn.) man. 'by which the sunken logs which fill the bed* of rivers and creeks in the logging sections of this country could only be recovered, immense fortunes wouid be made. Along the St. Croix waters it is estimated that logs enough are imbedded in the sand of river bottoms to keep mills running for years. Under present conditions the loss is total, for no successful method has ever been devised to effect this saving. “Occasionally logs cut years ago are forced by the washings of floods from their sand beds and driven upon the shores, where the action of sun and wind dries them out sufficiently so that they will float down stream, but the percentage of logs recovered is small, and millions of dollars' worth of prop- i erty is lost beyond recovery until some , enterprising genius invents a machine or process to recover the timber. “At Stillwater logs occasionally come to the sorting booms bearing marks in use half a century ago. and when they appear the old lumbermen grow reminiscent of men who have been long forgotten, but who were important operators in the pioneer logging days of Wisconsin and Minnesota. “No possible estimate can be made of the amount of timber thus lost, but lumbermen estimate that the rivers of Wisconsin, in the value of the logs buried in their sands, have fortunes of millions of dollars if the logs could be recovered. Wisconsin has been one of the big pine states, and your Chippewa, Wisconsin. St. Croix and Menominee rivers and their tributaries contain fortunes in sunken timber. “Strange as it may appear, the value of the timber is not lessened, even after it has been submerged for half or quarter of a century. Efforts have been occasionally made to recover sunken logs. At one time a company was organized at Stillwater to dredge streams and thus recover some of the timber, but the plan did not work with any great degree of success, this method being found too expensive. Some one will come along some day with a plan, and this immensely valuable product, now lost, will be recovered.”- Milwaukee Sentinel. Very Versatile. Stage Manager—l think you are a trifle too stout to play Romeo. Heavy Tragedian—Why, my good man, I could play the part of an infant in arms! Art has no limitations, sir.— New York Times. Thysicians are constantly discovering some popular pastime or mode of attire that Injures health. But the average of human life remains about the same.—Washington Star.

$50,000.00 Cash Given Away to Users of LION COFFEE We are going to be more liberal than ever in 1904 to users of Cion Coffee. Not only will the Lion-Heads, cut from the .packages, be good, as heretofore, for the valuable premiums we M have always given our customers, but I In Addition to the Regular Free Premiums 8? the same Lion-Heads will entitle you to estimates in our $50,000.00 Gmnd Pri.r'* €ontestfi, which will E make some of our patrons rich men and women. \ou can send in as niauj' ls:.. nates as dcsixed. There wi 1 € TWO GiR'EAT CONTEST S B The first contest will be on the July 4th attendance at the St. T.o’-'ic F.ii’: the second relates to Total U Vote For President to beejst Nov. 8,1 1. $20,000.00 will be distrr uted in each of these contests, making S $40,000.00 on the two, a::d, to make :c f.;.l more interesting, in r.ds.:tiou to • ....s amount, we g. V F -a • r ' *1 ■' <to the one vho Dgarest correct on both H reU-3 VI contests. c d y ... er:.mat -s have two Vc ~xGTcr •?**«■••’' - » yi c pnortuuitj c x ..... castipi izc. | Five Li9n’Heads ‘ blanks $ cut from Lion '/ ; - > vote on-found m -• Coffee Packages and a every Lion Coffee Pack= u a cent stamp entitle you U; '? age. «he 2 cent stamp (in addition to the reg-covers the expense of £ ular free premiums) our acknowledgment to |tn one vote in > ca that your es» 1 either contest: timateis recorded. WORLD’S FAIR CONTEST PRESIDENT?.-.’. VOTE CONTEST What will be the total July 4th attendance at the St. Louis What will be the tetri Ponnlar Vote cast for Presidentfvotes World"s Fair? At Chicago, July 4.1893. the attendance was 253.273. for ail candidates combined ‘nt the e.'.-cnon Noyewb vr 8 1«4? For nearest correct estimates received in Woolson Spice Com- 191 X) election, 13.959 to.ipcopi vo cd for President. n nanv’q office Toledo Ohio, on or before June 30th, 1904, we will rect estimates received m V oolson Spice Co. s ; z'*’ give sfirst 5 first prize for the nearest correct estimate, second prize to the on or before Nov. 5.194 4w- will give first prize for the Rarest cornext nearest etc . etc., as follows: rect estimate, second prize to ttenext nea est. etc.,etc as follows. 1 First Prize 52.500 OO 1 First Price J 2,500.00 1 £»*=:: LBf I|:og88 10 Prizes— 100 OO “ 1,000.00 IO Prizes- 100.00 " J nnn’nn 20 Prizes— 50 00 “ 1,000.00 20 Prizes- 50.00 ” 1 -000.00 50P?lzIs- 20 00 " 1000.00 50 Prizes- 20 00 “ 250 Prizes- 10.00 “ 2.500.00 250 Prizes- 10 OO 2.500.00 1800 Prizes— 5.00 “ 9,000.00 1800 Prizes- 5.00 2139781ZES TOTAL. 120,000.00 2139 PRIZES. TOTAL. i20,000.0< FT4279—PRIZES—4279 Distributed to the Public—aggregating $45,000.00—1n additkn to which we shail give $5,060 to Grocers’ Clerks (see particulars in LlQti COFFEE cases) making a grand iolal of $50,000.00. COMPLETE DETAILED PARTICULARS IN EVERY PACKAGE OF LION COFFEE WOOLSON SPICE CO., (CONTEST DEP’T.) TOLEDO, -OHIO,

’GOT AS GOOD AS HE GAVE. <tt How Philanthropist Corcoran Wai Answered by a Woman. The late W. W. Corcoran, the millionaire philanthropist of Washington, who gave to the city the magnificent art gallery which bears his name, was very fond of telling how he was once overmatched by a wealthy maiden lady from whom he desired to purchase a piece of property. Mr. Corcoran was the owner of the Arlington hotel, at the corner of Vermont avenue and II street. Adjoining the hotel property on the H street side was a handsome brownstone mansion, owned by the maiden lady. The lot upon which the house was built extended back to I street, a distance of four hundred feet, and abutted on the rear of the hotel property. Mr. Corcoran found it necessary to enlarge the hotel property and with this end in view desired to purchase the rear end of the lot owned by the maiden lady. As she was very wealthy, he knew that a large price would not be any special inducement and for a time was at a loss to know exactly how to approach her. He finally concluded to go straight to the point, and therefore addressed her the following note: Dear Miss C.—How much will you take for your back yard? We wish to enlarge the Arlington hotel. Yours sincerely, W. W. CORCORAN. Promptly came the reply: Dear Mr. Corcoran—How much will you take for the Arlington hotel? We wish to enlarge our back yard. Yours cordially. Spencer and Music. Mr. Herbert Spencer cultivated what he called the “receptive sense” in respect to music and was wont to speak with more than a little bitterness of the general desire to be a performer One performer who had been chosen to play Beethoven for him was thunderstruck on arrival at Mr. Spencer's residence at being asked to render an extract from one of Sullivan’s operas. Light music had a vharm for the philosopher’which light literature never had. An Apt Pupil. Teacher—James you were late yesterday morning. Pupil—Yes; but, as you were saying to the class today, we should let bygones be bygones. Teacher—But have you no excuse to offer? Pupil—ln that same talk you said that one who was good at excuses was usually good at nothing else. Under the circumstances I think it better for me not to do anything that will lower me in your estimation — Boston Transcript. A Reminder. Mother—Johnny, on your way home from school stop at the store and get me a stick of candy and a bar of soap. Father—What do you want of a stick of candy? Mother—That's so he’ll remember the soap.—New York Weekly.

fHE SICKROOM MIRROR. You Must Be Discreet In Allowin* the Patient to Ise It. 7 be looking glass, whether a plus or minus quantity, plays a more important part in the sickroom than most nurses and physicians give it credit for. The patient who is allowed to look into one is likely to be frightened into a relapse at sight of his cadaverous appearance, while the one who is not allowed to look is similarly affected by the refusal, which he attributes to the fact that his face is too much for his nerves. “All things considered, I think it a good plan to give a sick person a chance to look at himself occasionally,” said a doctor. “Os course the indulgence must be granted with discretion. If a patient is really looking seedy a turn at the looking glass is equivalent to signing his death warrant, but if taken at a time when braced up by some stimulant or a natural ebullition of vital force a few minutes of communion with his own visage beats any tonic I can prescribe. It thrills the patient with new hope. It makes him feel that he isn’t quite so far gone as ho had thought and that possibly a fight for life is, after all, worth while. “Being thus sensitive, a persistent withholding of a mirror convinces the patient that he must be too horrible for contemplation, and he promptly decides that the best thing for him to da is to give up the ghost and get out of the way. That is one mistake hospitals were apt to make up to a few years ago. When I was a young fellow, getting my first practice after graduation, I served on the staff of several hospitals, and in all, especially in tha free wards, those aids to vanity were strictly forbidden. The deprivation went hard with many of the patients, particularly the women, and when I came to have a little authority among doctors and nurses I advised a judicious application of looking glass treatment. I still advise it both in hospital and private practice, for I find that a little reassurance as to the state of the complexion and the appearance in general goes a long way toward effecting a cure.”—New York Press. An Isolated Church. In the valley of Westdale Head. In Cumberland, England, a strange little church nestles amid a group of the highest of England’s mountains. It is over 400 years old and has two windows, and the pulpit is lighted by a pane of glass having been inserted in a hole in the roof above it. There are only eight pews, of which seldom more than two are used. The little bell, hanging loose in the open belfry, may on stormy nights be heard mingling its tones with the wind and thunder. But for the belfry it would hardly be known to be a church. This little gray edifice Is described as the most isolated church throughout the whole