Decatur Democrat, Volume 48, Number 15, Decatur, Adams County, 16 June 1904 — Page 7

■■> PATRIOTISM of ants. ■ Irhr ' u «ay« Willing to Die 81, uiv limes and in many ways the ** HL'v.’mmi nf ants to their commune has i, K tested. The rule Is we.i uigh InV' L’le of instant and absolute self BL m-ation ami surrender of personal r ulll appetite, life and limb to the welfare. The posting of sentl at gateways is customary, and BL'ev are apt to know first the apH "o'wh of danger. With heads and B'X rma antenme protruded from the IB” llil;u -. these city watchmen not only ■' spatHi within news of threatening ■“‘...j but rush out with utter abandon face the foe. With ants patriotism lEs not ■ second nature;” it is instlncM.” ~ inborn, seemingly as strong In the __ ■eullow antling as In the veteran brave. lt inll¥ t lie confessed, however, that Hit is rigidly exclusive. Racial catho- > Hlieity is not an emmetori.an virtue. ■ >„ H a re without that elastic hospitalH| t v which embraces and assimilates all “* ■foreigners. Even the slave makers Hlioid their domestic auxiliaries strictly ■distinct. I I It may be due to overmastering pa- ■ trimisin that one fails to discover indlr't Tjl i ua i benevolence in ants. Friend- ■-■< ■ S L. S and personal affection in the 11m■itel and specialized sense familiar - ■a:.-"i!g domestic animals are as yet un--3 noWn . And thus it is with other so■cial Insects.—H. C. McCook in Hap■per'a Magazine. I SALTS IN THE SEA. Four Varieties That Are Washed I Out of the Earth. - ■ why should the sea be salt when the and rivers are fresh? This is question that comparatively few peo■,..*stop to think about. They recognize fact, but do not take the trouble to about it. ■ There are four salts In sea water— I -.-hum chloride (common salt), magpotassium and calcium. These minerals and are washed out of the of the earth by the streams and to the sea In a state of solution. I I The water of the sea Is being con:.<y evaporated, and it comes to the as rain, snow, ball or sleet. But evaporation leaves the salt in the and as the streams are all the carrying more salt there the quan■tity is constantly increasing, but so that it is not noticed in the I I It has been estimated that if all the ■salt were obtained out of the waters the sea there would be enough to ■cover the continent of North America ■to a depth of half a mile. I I In some parts of the world the salt [■used by the people Is all obtained from [■tea water, but not where there are salt or salt springs, for the quality |Hof that obtained from them is much su■fcerior to that yielded by sea water. I Rns.tln* Cats as a Sacrifice. I I The eat, says Mr. Mill in his “Hls■t?y of the Crusades,” was a very Im[Bfortant personage in the religious fesof the times which he describes. [■At Aix. in Provence, on the festival of [■Corpus Christi, the finest tomcat in the ■■canton, wrapped like a child in swad[■dihig clothes, was exhibited In a mag[■nifleent shrine to public admiration. ■■Every knee was bent, and every hand [■strewed flowers or poured incense, and [■grimalkin was treated in all respects [■as the god of the day. [ I But on the festival of St. John, June poor Tom's fate was reversed. A of cats were put into a wicker [Kiasket and thrown alive Into the midst Hd a large fire kindled in the public [■tquare by the bishop and his clergy. ■Hymns and anthems were sung, and (■processions were made by the priests [■ fiiii i people in honor of the sacrifice. I Sources of Genius. I I The proportion of distinguished men women contributed from among [■tile families of the clergy can only be as enormous. In mere num[BL" I1 “‘ |,ler K. v cau seldom have equaled ■ ! ’ u tchers or bakers in their parishes, [■-' >l °ut of 1,030 cases of genius only (■two butchers and four bakers are defiascertained to have produced children as against 139 par[Bpons - The eminent children of the ■^ : ” r -"' outnumbered those of lawyers, and ai ’nty officers put together. ■ B° D tlle other hand, such is the eccenof genius that the clerical pro[E' ession Produces more idiots than any class. — From Havelock Ellis' I ■Study of British Genius.” I Flower, and Twilight. I L *^ S twilight approaches a garden fill"uth brilliant flowers the red flow- [■^ rs w tll first lose their gorgeous color [■r s diminishes, and then the [■F- asß an d leaves will appear grayish. [^P 16 ' as t flowers to part with their dis- [ ■■U'otive color, white flowers being left the account, will be the blue or ones. This fact is useful to such I B^ seets as ’ order to avoid their ene[■L 118, visit wild flowers in the twl11,,. tto Mischief. [ 8.. 't’lHle, are you and Ben In any mis- !■ , f out there?” [■ no ’” replied the boy. “We’re all [ B? ght tVe're jest playin’ ball with |r ome e ßgs the grocer left to see how times we can catch one before it [■ >r<a ks.”-CHcago Post B 1 Dangerous, [BL Some scientists.” began Mr. Gay ?nifi cantly, "consider kissing danger|^F Us Do you?” ■p‘ We 1 1" replied Miss Smart. "I think would be for you. My big brother r ■ within call.’’-Exchange. I is to lie untrue to the best know, and the best you know is to [ "'here you are and do what you i ■<! as We ll as you can.—Maltbie D.

A REMARKABLE ECHO wonderful sound effects in A NEVv YORK MONUMENT. The Famous UupiUtery nt Pina Ont ■Jone by the Soldiers* Shaft An Hlv. erslde Drive, Where Sound Hoile About Like a Bull. A big French motor car occupied by two men and two very pretty women whirred up Riverside drive late Sunday evening and at Ninetieth street drew up and stopped at the approach to the Soldiers and Sailors’ monument. It was long past the hour when the crowd of fashionable promenaders leaves the drive as the party of four stepped out of the big, vibrating machine and climbed the steps to the monument. One of the men was a millionaire w ell known in the financial district. The other was a great tenor. With tnem were the millionaire’s wife and a woman known in half a dozen European capitals as one of the greatest operatic coaches living—a woman who is a constant attendant upon operatic stars and a sharer in no small degree In their musical triumphs. If it had been made during a Sunday or a weekday afternoon, a crowd of fashionable folk would undoubtedly have had their curiosity piqued by the peculiar visit of four such well known people. The whole affair was so bisarre and the sounds which soon issued from the narrow entrance to the glistening white monument* were so strange that at any but a late night hour a crowd must have quickly filled the plaza around the marble shaft. A desire to escape any such annoying incidents probably led the visitors to choose the nighttime for their visit. “The average American is a consummate ass.” said the New Yorker as he guided the small party up the moonlit steps to the monument. “He travels to the utmost parts of the world, ■pends barrels of money and generally writes a book or two describing the marvelous things he sees, when by remaining right at home he could have seen sights of a similar kind which would have knocked the spots off the things on which he has wasted his patrimony and paragraphs of superlatives.” “But echoes, signor,” replied the tenor as he grasped the Wall street man’s arm. “Echoes such as we have in the baptistery! Never—except in the old cathedrals of Italy!” “That’s just what Americans say,” retorted the New York man. “They go into ecstatic raptures over European mediocrity without knowing that they live among the greatest collection of marvels in the world. Listen to this.”

The party had reached the door leading to the interior of the monument. A solid cylindrical wall of marble and granite surrounded a slender room empty save for a half dozen dried wreaths lying on one corner of the sjone floor. W hen the whole party had wormed its way into the monument, the Wall street man hade them be very still and with upturned face intoned a low note. An echo was heard which rivaled those marvelous reverberations which have drawn travelers to distant parts of the world and have been the subjects of brilliant descriptions in the daily press and between covers. The note seemed instantly transformed into a moving ball of sound. Its journey to the distant stone ceiling could be distinctly traced. It seemed to be wafted upwaid like a ring of smoke or a cottony dandelion seed. The sound decreased until the note seemed to strike the sn ail, high ceiling, where it lingered a moment before commencing its downward trip. Gradually increasing in loudness, it came back to the floor of the monument, apparently as loud and as intact as when it was uttered. The whole wonderful incident occupied only a few seconds, but every stage of the sound's trip to the top of the monu ment and back was as pronounced and as easily traced as though it had been a butterfly or a toy balloon. “Magnificent!” exclaimed the tenor in tones of rapture and surprise. “I never dreamed such a marvelous echo existed outside the baptistery at Pisa.” His voice made a perfect riot of sound within the narrow shaft Countless tones going and coming in rapid succession produced an effect almost painful upon the ears of the listeners. At the request of one of the women the tenor sang very slowly and softly a few phrases of "La Donna e Mobile. ’ The effect was peculiarly beautiful Two men seemed to be singing, one a half beat behind the other. As in the Wall street man’s experiment, each note could be heard distinctly soaring aloft to the ceiling and back. At the return of each note in its original vigor and fullness the effect of a second singer was produced. The union of the bell like tones of the beautiful voice, the wonderful echo and the peculiar strangeness of the whole situation brought cries of delight Irom the two women. “I believe it is as fine as the one in Pisa,” said the woman who coaches prima donnas, “and to think that we never even heard of It before!” “Peculiar fact,” said the New Yorker, •triking a match and illuminating th* dark, cold interior. “New Yorkers never know anything about New York You can’t sit down in a hotel lobby or tn a club and speak of echoes but a dozen men will commence to dilate on some reverberations they have heard In some backwoods German or Italian town. But none of them knows of anything remarkable in his own town, the greatest city on earth."-New York Commercial Advertiser. All this ran quickly through Mary’s mind and brought relief, but it did not cure the uneasy sense, weighing like ; lead upon her heart, that she should take no chance with this man’s life and

NAPOLEON’S POLICE. fhey Were Well Watched to Injure a Full Measure of Duty. During ’.it reign of Emperor Napoleon I. at a dinner in Baris the conversation turned upon the emperor and his government. Ono of the company remarked that he was a great man, but was too fond of war. When the party broke up, a gentleman who was present requested to speak in private to the person who had made that observation. “Sir,” said be, “I pm sorry for it, but 1 must request you to go with me to the police.” "Why?” said the other in the greatest apparent alarm. "I have said nothing against the emperor but what every one must acknowledge, that he is too fond of war. There can be no barm in that.” "With that I have nothing to do. Y’ou must go with me to the police.” The other now began to show the strongest symptoms of fear. He entreated the police agent in the most pathetic language to have compassion on him. The other, however, stood unmoved by all his solicitation, when suddenly the man rose from his knees and burst into a laugh, to the utter astonishment of the informer. “You think you have caught me,” said he. "You are a spy of the police. So am I, and I was put over you to see whether you would do your duty.” THE COST OF A LEGACY. Sometimes It Doesn*t Pay to Inherit Money In Italy. In Italy it appears to be a somewhat expensive affair to inherit money—that is, if it be a small sum. Not long ago a young man died in the little town of Romagna who left 1 lira 58 centesimi, or not quite 34 cents. This sum, which had been deposited in the postoffice savings bank, became the property of the young man’s father. As the amount was so small, the father thought it unnecessary to make a declaration of the legacy as the law prescribes, especially as the stamped paper on which the declaration must be made would cost about 22 centesimi more than the / money involved. Three months afterward he received a demand from the local state treasury for the payment of 14 lire 48 centesimi (nearly s3l. Thinking a mistake had been made, he took no notice of this demand, with the result that later an official called upon him and demanded the immediate payment of 18 lire ($3.50). The father had not sufficient money in hand, so the official took possession of the man’s furniture. The cost of this seizure brought the total sum to 30 lire, which the poor man had to pay that same evening to avoid the sale of his goods by auction.

AN EARLY AIRSHIP. It Was Built In England In 183 S, but Was a Failure. We are told by Peter Farley, who wrote as an eyewitness, that in August. 1835, the Eagle was officially advertised to sail from London with government dispatches and passengers for Paris and to establish direct communication between the capitals of Europe. This early type of airship was IGO feet long, 50 feet high and 40 feet wide, and she lay In the dockyard of the Aeronautical society in Victoria road, near Kensington gardens, then quite a rural spot. Built to bold an abundant supply of gas, she was covered with oiled lawn and carried a frame seventy-five feet long and seven feet high, with a cabin secured by ropes to the balloon. An immense rudder and wings or tins on each side for purposes of propulsion completed her fittings. The deck was guarded by netting. After all this preparation and advertisement the Eagle never got beyond Victoria road, for Count Lennox and his assistants failed to provide the necessary motive power. The Barber’s Pole. The origin of the barber's pole, itself almost now a thing of the past, originated in the days of barber surgeons, when bloodletting was considered a panacea for most of the ills that flesh is heir to. The pole was used for the patient to grasp during the operation, and a fillet or bandage for tying up the arm. When the pole was not in use, the tape was tied to it and twisted round it, and then it was hung up as a sign. At length, instead of hanging out the actual pole used in operations, a painted one with stripes round it in imitation of the genuine article and its bandages was placed over the shop. Ducks and Geese. Do geese “quack?” “No,” says the observant critic; “geese do not quack, but they squack.” It is the ducks that quack, and the story of the goose going about from day to day with a “quack, quack, quack,” is declared to be without good foundation. There is. Indeed, quite a difference in the vocabulary of these feathered creatures, but it requires a sharp ear to discover the difference. The Cost. Laura—l don’t know, George. It seems such a solemn thing to marry. Have you counted the cost? George-,-The cost. Laura? The cost? Bless me, I’ve got a clergyman cousin that’ll marry us for nothing! A Practical Connoisseur. Mrs. Cobwigger—What a beautiful collection of antiques you have, my dear! Mrs. Parvenu —lt should be. My husband knows all about such things and had them made to order.— Judge. Harrowing Reßponwe. The Grammarian—lt always makes j me tired when I@iear a man say ‘ “don’t” when he should say “doesn’t.” The Other Party—Don't it, though?--Cincinnati Times-Star.

TAMING A HORSE. Three Articles That Will Subdue thw Most Savage Animal. There were trouble and excitement one day on a ranch in Colorado. A high spirited, half broken stallion was prancing about the yard attached to the rancher’s house. He . had just thrown a cowboy who boasted there was nothing on four legs be coulc not ride, and he was rearing and but king so that not even the pluckiest man on the ranch dared to approach. While the mm were standing around wondering what to do the rancher’s sixteen-year-old daughter came out of the house and calmly walked up to the excited animal. When lie saw her he ceased rearing, whinnied and stooa still. She just put her hand on his mane, stroked his nose and then vaulted lightly on Ids back and rode around the yard, to the amazement of the men. "How do you manage it?” one of them asked her. "Before you tackled him he" was as savage as a tiger.”' "It is simple enough,” the girl replied. "Any woman can handle a horse better than a man can. See this” —showing the man a small round object she had In her band—“this is horse castor. Horses love the smell of It and will go up to any one who has it “Any horse has sense enough to know the people who love it. That stallion began to quiet down as soon as he saw me. When I got near him he smelled the musty horse castor in my clothes, for I always carry a little piece in my pocket. “That pleased him so much that I was able to stroke his head. While doing so I rubbed his nose with a few drops of oil of cumin, which I had poured into the palm of my hand. Horses positively love that scent. Then, did you notice that I put my hand into his mouth? The object of that was to pour a few drops of oil of rhodium on to his tongue from a tiny vial which I always carry. “With these threh articles any horse can be tamed. Where do you get them? Well, the cumin and rhodium can be bought at any drug store; the horse castor must be cut from a horse’s forefoot. It is a warty growth there.” It is a fact that horses are very fond of these scents. They are often used by women in the tropics and west in the training and breaking of horses.— New York Commerical Advertiser. BRAHMAN PROVERBS. He that committetb no evil hath nothing to fear. Mix kindness with reproof and reason with authority. Os much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety. The first step toward being wise is to know that thou art ignorant. Envy not the appearance of hannl-

$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 L/ion Coffee. Not only will the g Lion-Heads, cut from the packages, be good, as heretofore, for the valuable premiums we g have always given our customers, but In Addition to the Regular Free Premiums j the same Lion-Heads will entitle you to estimates in our $50,000.00 Grand Prite Contests, which will g make some of our patrons rich men and women. You can send in as many estimates as desired. There will be I TWO GREAT CONTESTS | The first contest will be on the July 4th attendance at the St. Louis World’s Fair; the second relates to Total 9 Vote For President to be cast Nov. 8, 1904. $20,000.00 will be distributed in each of these contests, making $40,000.00 on the two, and,' to make it still more interesting, in addition to this amount, we will give a ■ Osohsl Eiwa# CS AAA ftO t 0 f^e °ue who is nearest correct on both I UlullQ KIISI I nz@ OI contests, and thus your estimates have two ■ 1 1 111 ■ 'ifjgf opportunities of winning a big cash prize. Five Lion-Heads Printed blanks to I cut from Lion v °t e on found in Coffee Packages and a every Lion Coffee Pack2 cent stamp entitle you age. The 2 cent stamp KW W ? few si (in addition to the reg- y covers the expense of ular free premiums) our acknowledgment to to one vote in wMI you that your esei ther contest: UlflU timateis 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 8.1904? In For nearest correct estimates received in Woolson Spice Com- ISOOelection, 13.959,653 people voted for President. For nearest corpany’s office. Toledo, Ohio, on or before June 30th. 1904. we will rect estimates received in Woolson Spice Co.’s, office. Toledo, 0.. give first prize for the nearest correct estimate, second prize to the on or before Nov. 5.19<M. we will give first prize for the nearest cornext nearest, etc., etc., as follows: rect estimate, second prize to the next nea est.etc..etc.. as follows: 1 First Prize 42.500.00 1 First Prize 42,500.00 1 Second Prize 1,000.00 1 Second Prize 1,000.00 2 Prizes—4soo.oo each 1,000.00 2 Prizes - 4500.00 each 1,000.00 5 Prizes— 200.00 ” ...1,000.00 5 Prizes— 200.00 ” 1,000.00 10 Prizes— 100.00 “ 1,000.00 10 Prizes— 100.00 ” 1,000.00 20 Prizes— 50.00 “ 1,000.00 20 Prizes— 50.00 “ 1.000.00 50 Prizes— 20.00 " 1,000.00 60 Prizes— 20.00 “ 1.000.00 250 Prizes— 10.00 " 2,500.00 250 Prizes— 10.00 “ 2,500.00 1800 Prizes— 5.00 “ 9,000.00 1800 Prizes— 5.00 “ 9 ; OOO.OO 2139 PRIZES, TOTAL, $20,000.00 2139 PRIZES. TOTAL, 420,000.00 4279—PR1ZE5—4279 Distributed to the Public—aggregating $45,000.00—1n addition to which we shall give $5,000 to Grocers* Clerks (see particulars in LIOU COFFEE cases) making a grand total cf $50,000.00. COMPLETE DETAILED PARTICULARS IN EVERY PACKAGE OF . LION COFFEE WOOLSON SPICE CO., (CONTEST DEP’T.) TOLEDO,-OHIO.

ness in any man, lor tnou knowest nor i his secret griefs. Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger. It is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast. Consider and forget not thine own weakness, so shalt thou pardon the failings of others. The heart of the envious man is gall and bitterness.’ The success of his neighbor breaketh bis rest. This instant is thine. The next is in the womb of futurity, and thou knowest not what it may bring forth. As. a veil addeth to beauty, so are a man’s virtues set off by the shade which his modesty casteth upon him. As the ostrich when pursued hidetb his head, but forgetteth his body, so the fears of a coward expose hitu to danger. Training a Beagle. With regard to the training of a beagle, he has to be treated on quite a different plan from the setter and pointer. In their cases a great deal ot work of training is to conquer natural propensities, whereas with the beagle • you encourage him to go on and do all be can in seeking and chasing when I found. Y’oung dogs are usually put down with an older one, and a very few lessons suffice. It comes as natural to a beagle to run scent as for a terrier to kill rats, and if there is no apparent inclination one lesson usually provokes it. The less one interferes s with a beagle running a line the better for the dog. so long as he is not potterI Ing in one well tested place, but casting all about when he has lost the trail.— Field and Stream. SOLAR HEAT WAVES. The Son and the Hot Stove Pour Ont the Same Kind of Energy. So far as I know no reasons at all for doubting the high temperature of the central body of the solar system have I ever been found. There are in general three distinct ways in which heat can ! be transferred from one body to an- ! other—conduction, convection and radi--1 ation. The first two are dependent | upon the presence of matter. The latter will take place across a perfect vacuum. We may receive heat from a stove bv all three methods. If we place out hands upon it we receive heat by conduction; if W’e hold them above it they are warmed by convection, the b/?at being brought to them by the rising current of hot air; if now we stand in from of the stove we still feel its warmth, the sensation in this case being produced by the heat waves which it emits. These waves are similar to the electric waves used in wireless telegraphy, differing from them only in their length. They bear the same relation to them as the ripples on a mill pond bear to the Atlantic rollers. With the in- | struments at our disposal at the present time we can measure the length of

cnese waves as accurately as we can measure the length of a table with a footrule, and we ean prove that they will pat/s through a vacuum, a plate of glass or a tank full of liquid air without losing their ability to warm our hands. We find, however, that if we pass this radiant heat through certain substances —water vapor, for instance —its intensity is diminished owing to the fact that some of the waves have been absorbed. It is possible to determine the exacl length of the waves of heat which have been remored by absorption in the vapor, and if we test the radiation which comes to us from the sun we find that wares of this same length are absent, the water vapor in the earth’s atmosphere having refused to transmit them. This fact, taken alone, is pretty good evidence that the sun and the hot stove are pouring out the same kind of energy.— K. W. Wood in Harper’s Weekly. CHINESE PROVERBS. A vain woman is to be feared, for she will sacrifice all for her pride. A woman without children has not yet the most precious of her jewels. A haughty woman stumbles, for she cannot see what may be in her way. A woman desirous of being seen by men is not trustworthy. Fear her glance.

Respect always a silent woman. Great is the wisdom of the woman that holdeth her tongue. Trust not Ibe woman that thinketh more of herself than another. Mercy will not dwell in her heart. A mother not spoken well of by her children is an enemy of the state. She should not live within the kingdom's wall. She Had to Forgive. Mrs. Winks—Mrs. Ayres and her husband have had a dreadful quarrel just because she gave him a letter to mail and he carried it around in his pockets for a week. Isn’t it too silly of her? Mr. Winks—Maybe that would make you mad too. Mrs. Winks—Oh, John, I wouldn't lose my temper over a little thing like that. Mr. Winks—l'm glad to hear you say it, my dear. I just recall that I’ve still got that letter you gave me last Wednesday.—Philadelphia Press. The Art of Growing Youn<. To retain the spirit of youth while age weakens the body is a splendid thing. There are Uiose of whom we aay “He never grows old.” Their hair may be whitened, their faces wrinkled •nd their shoulders bent, but in heart they are young. "If “their strength is labor and sorrow,” their lively interest in the things that concern those of younger generations gives no indication of it Their tenderest and Inmost thoughts may be of the past, but they live in the presents—Springfield Eaton.