Decatur Democrat, Volume 48, Number 36, Decatur, Adams County, 10 November 1904 — Page 7

' boy of the regiment. XVlth His DyinK Breath He Asked Garibaldi For a Coffin. ■\Vhen Enzo Ferretti entered actively into tbe Italian war of independence he was just seventeen. He left Parma secretly, deserting, as it were, bis father, mother and family to fight for his hero, Garibaldi. He walked over the Apennines without a penny in his pocket and, arriving half dead at Genoa, concealed himself on one of the ships bound for Sicily. When at his destination be emerged and gained the nickname of the “boy of the regiment.” From that time for some months he fought until the day for rest came. He was shot in the head and carried to the hospital in a dangerous condition. Everything possible was done for him, but it was evident that he was troubled, and at last It came out that he could not die happy because he had never seen his hero. "I have fought everywhere and sought always,” he exclaimed, “but I have never succeeded in seeing him. How can I die never having caught a glimpse of him?” Another preoccupation was that he feared he might be buried without a coffin. Morning, noon and night his cry was, “Let me have a coffin!” Tin very day he died, by a fortunate chance, Garibaldi arrived at tbe lies pital. Having heard Ferretti’s story, be stooped and spoke to him. The sick boy’s expressive face lighted up and he exclaimed: “Now I can die happy. Oh, general, let me have a coflin!” JOHN BANISTER. 4n English Violinist Who Won Fnm<In the Seventeenth Century. Public concerts pwe their direct encouragement to John Banister, who had won fame by bis playing or the violin and who succeeded the celebrated Baltzar as leader of Charles H.’s band of twenty-four violins. Pepys, in an entry in his diary for February, 1667, tells us the court gossip of the day—“how the king’s vialiin Banister is mad that the king hath a French- ■ man come to be chief of some part of ■ the king’s musique.” Banister's concerts at the close of the ■ year 1672 were advertised in the Lon- ■ don Gazette as follows: "These are to I give notice that at Mr. John Banister’s I house (now called the Musick School), I -over against the George tavern in I White Fryers, the present Monday will I be musick performed by excellent masI ters, beginning precisely at 4 of the ■ clock in the afternoon, and every after ■ noon for the future precisely at the ■ same hour.” I Four years later on we read again ■ “At the Academy in Little Lincoln’s I Inn Fields will begin the first part 01 ■ the Parley of Instruments, composed ■by Mr. John Banister.” The admission ■ was at this time as a rule a skilling, ■ and these concerts seem to have been ■held pretty regularly down to within a ■ short time of Banister's death, which ■took place 'n 1679. —Chambers' Journal. Ancient Jewelers’ Association. | Birmingham jewelers have beet. ■ famed since the middle of the seven- ■ teenth century. When Charles II ■ brought with him to England the ■ French fashion of wearing metallic ■ornaments Birmingham at once took ■the lead in supplying them, and the ■ city then commenced a career of pros ■perity which has never save for brief ■periods suffered abatement. Even ■Southey, who could scarcely find suffl ■ciently censorious language to describe ■Birmingham, allowed that it “excelled ■every other place in the world for ■watch chains, necklaces, bracelets, but ■tons, buckles and snuffboxes,” though ■be said, “they were dearly purchased ■at the expense of health and moral ■lty."—London Chronicle. The Liberty Cap. I When the Romans manumitted a ■Blate his head was adorned with » |fciuall red cloth cap. As soon as this ■vas done he was known as a libertiMius, or freedman, and his name was among others of the city’s invaded the capital, he hoisted a on the point of his spear to indi that all slaves who rallied around standard should be free. This Mbe origin of the liberty cap still used W** art as a symbol. Ichthyology. ■ “Never mind,” said her dearest “There are as good fish in the Dea as ever were caught out of it.” ■"I know it,” said the girl that had her cap for the foreign count and to get him, “but statistics show yat the lobster catch is getting smaller year.”—Chicago Tribune. Ancestor*. ■“We can’t afford to recognize them ■pesr ancestors were in trade.” Weren't ours?” ■“Of course, but our trade ancestors two generations farther back than —Exchange. ■ CHINESE PROVERBS. vain woman is to be feared, for will sacrifice all for her pride. ■& woman without children has not the most precious of her jewels. y* haughty woman stumbles, for she see what may be in her way. woman desirous of being seen by n is not trustworthy. Fear her always a silent woman ■pat is the wisdom of the woman holdeth '■t tongue. not woman that thinketb re of herself than another. Mercy dwell in her heart. mother not spoken well of by he' is an enemy of the state. She ■•bid not live within -the kingdom's

GETTING IN THE WALNUTS. An n*iu.try Thnt Clo.e, California Country School*. ‘lhe first English walnut orchard in California was planted with seed from the Los Angeles mission gardens where the padres had started a few trees wi b nuts brought with them from Spain, ihe undertaking was a success from the first, and the acreage of walnuts i has steadily increased. The walnut 1 tree's early age of bearing, its long life ' «nd the steady demand for its product ■"’iid to make the enu-rprise deservedly popular. The walnut tree begins to bear when six or seven years old, and nothing is known definitely of its age limit of bearing. Fabulous stories are told of trees in Spain one or two centuries old bearing enormous crops. The oldest trees in California are still bearing, but deductions from the short history already made show that the tree is in its prim-- from its twenty-fifth to its thirtieth year. Fifteen hundred pounds of nuts to the acre is a good average yield, making seventy-five pounds tbe average weight from one tree. The harvest time begins about the middle of September and lasts nearly six weeks. The nuts begin to fall with the leaves, and the perfect cultivation under the trees leaves no chance for them to lose themselves among clods or weeds. Tbe brown dead leaves : alone hide the nuts. Under normal con- ' ditions they drop free from the outer | husk, or bull, through its irregular I bursting, and getting the nuts picked up u a simple matter. Sometimes the trees are well irrigated just before harvest time to insure the clean dropping of the nuts. Boys and girls, men and women, Japanese and Chinese, are all pressed into service, and on hands and knees the great orchards are gone over, not once, but several times, on account of the irregular ripening of the nuts. The trees are occasionally shaken during the season to loosen the nuts, and before the last gleaning they are “poled” to start the very tardy ones. This is done by tong, coarse bamboo poles, whose light weight makes them easily handled. In certain rural districts the public schools close regularly for a “walnut vacation.” The help of tbe children is needed, and the children are nothing ioath to replenish their diminished purses. Pails, cans and gunnysacks are scattered among the pickers, and when the bags are full they are carried to the drying grounds, where they are spread out on slat trays to dry.' Review of Reviews. Color. Color is very commonly looked upon as a definite quality. This, however, is only partly true. The more correct and scientific concept of color is that it is simply the name of a certain group of sensations by which we are affected. Thus we say “the rose is red.” It is more correct to say “the rose produces in us the sensation we call redness.” A man who is color blind will declare that it is green, showing that the color is not in the thing, but in the perception of it. So far, therefore, from retaining their color in the dark, objects cannot properly be said to possess it even in the light. “The rose is red” really means that the size and arrangement of its surface molecules are such as to reflect that particular part of the spectrum which we have agreed to call red. In the dark It is simply black or colorless, though it retains its capacity for again exciting in us the sensation of redness on being restored to the light, just as an empty glass retains its capacity for being refilled. The Roman’* Table. A dish was prized for its oddity, rarity or costliness. Mighty curious read ng are the accounts that come down to us of the great Roman “spreads.” such as that which Lentulus gave on his election to the office of flamen or that with which Nasidienus mocked Horace and his friends. The menus on those occasions would strike terror to the heart of a modern “maitre d’hotel” or “chef de cuisine.” What would be thought of a dish of echini, or sea hedgehogs, of thrushes served up on asparagus and a fatted hen for course No. 1: of haunches of wild venison and beccaficos (fig peckers, “Curruca hortensis”) for the second; of a sow’s udder, a wild boar’s cheek, a ragout of fish, ducks, hares, boiled teal, capers, furmenty and Picentian bread for the third? —All the Year Round. Marvelously Condensed. A lawyer of the good old southern type had argued for three court days without pause. His brief was a masterpiece of classical learning and legal erudition, but it was tiresome. “Major Sigsbee,” said the wearied judge at last, “without wishing to intimate in any way that the court would not be delighted to listen to your whole argument, I must suggest that the docket is somewhat crowded, and that If you could condense a little it might help your client’s cause.” The attorney smiled his acknowledgment. ”Yo' honoh,” he exclaimed, “the thought was in my mind when I prepared my argument! Suh, foh the next fo’ days my brief la a pebfect mahvel of condensation!” A Surprise In Store. Beggum (to himself)-I’ve got round that rich old great-aunt of mine at last She’s interested in benevolent schemes, and I’m helping her night and day to search out worthy objects. Today she said I’d have cause for rejoicing when her will was read. His Great-Aunt o herselfl-I had no idea my grandnephew was s<>od. It h £ terriblv to see so much misery In the world ’ How delighted he will be to find that all my money is to go to the -M-nort of tbe noor friendless orohan.

>'<i!ftr Plants. Climate affects th ■ Inhabitants of the sea just as it does those of the land. As arctic land plants cannot flourish at the equator, so in the Are- | tic and Antarctic oceans marine plants are found which are unable to survive in warm water. Among the most remarkable of these cold water plants are the laminariaceae. a kind of seaweeds which sometimes attain a gi gantic size, exceeding in length th-, longest climbing plants of the tropica) forests and developing huge stems like the trunks of trees. Investigations have shown that these plants flourish mi the coldest waters of the polar seas and that they never advance farther from their frigid homes than to th<» limits of “summer temperature” in the ocean. The genial warmth destroys them, just as a polar blast shrivels the flowers of a tropical garden. A Compromise. Young Matron (with theories on the care of children, to nurse)—Jane. Nurse Yes-sum. Young Matron—When the baby has finished bis bottle, lay him in ! the cradle on bis right side. After eat ing a child should always lie on the right side; that relieves tbe pressure on the heart. Still (reflectively) the liver is on the right side; perhaps, after all. you had better lay biin on the left side. No, I am sure the treatise on Infant digestion said right side. On the whole, Jane, you may lay the baby on his back until I have looked up the matter more thoroughly.” “HONEST INJUN.” How the Chickasaws Were Tnnp;?it the Meaning of the EipreMNloß. Among the earliest comers to the Hatchee country, in western Tennessee, was a Mr. Barnes, a blacksmith, who became a friend of the Chickasaw Indians and often mended their guns without charge. Barnes was a poor man, but obtaining on credit a donkey named Moses, which was valued at a considerable sum, he imported the animal and stabled it at the smithy, says the Youth’s Companion. It was the first in that region. One morning he found the door open and Moses gone. He followed a trail to the bank of the river and lost it. The stream was in flood, and he believed his valuable animal was drowned. Unless he found some way to raise the money to pay for it he was a ruined man. Two months later a trading scow came down tbe Hatchee from Bolivar and on the roof, spread out in the sun. was the hide of Moses, unmistakable in its soft and handsome grays. Barnes related his story to the trader and received the skin, which had been bought at Bolivar from a trader there. As no white man would have shot a donkey Barnes concluded that the Indians, who had never seen one, but who were then hunting on the Halchee, were the offenders. To trap them he tried a little stratagem. He organized a shooting contest and offered as a prize “the handsomest skin ever taken on the Hatchee, the pelt of a beautiful animal.” A Chickasaw brave was the winner of the contest and claimed the prize. Barnes brought forward the skin of Moses and spread it on the ground. “There is your prize," lie said. “Me shoot um! Me shoot um!” cried the winner, running to the skin and pointing to a bullet hole. Then he told how he had been wandering down the river bank and had seen this strange wild animal, like nothing he had ever seen before, breaking through the cane. He had shot it and sold the hide at Bolivar. He was delighted to get it back. This was what Barnes had hoped for. Standing, he addressed the Chickasaws. “My brothers,” he said, “you know me. I am a poor man, but I am a friend to the Chickasaw. I mend bis gun for him and deal fairly by him. This animal was my white man’s pony. I bought it far away and brought it here. It cost me much wampum, the price of many Indian ponies. To lose it will lose me all. It escaped me and went to the woods, and there a Chickasaw killed it. “When I am in Chickasaw country, J Obey Chickasaw law. When Chickasaw is in white man's country, he should obey white man’s law. White man’s law is that whoever kills my pony must pay me for it. What will Chickasaw do?” The Indians had listened attentively. When he had finished, they went to their ponies, tethered near by. The whites watched them meanwhile with intense interest. The Indians untethered their ponies and brought them up. “Take um,” they said. “Indian have only ponies. Give um all.” “How many?” asked Barnes. “You say how many.” Barnes appointed an appraiser, who selected a number of ponies equal in value to the donkey. These the blacksmith sold to his neighbors. The Indians gave up their hunt and went back to their villages, poorer, but satisfied. They had maintained, for their tribe at least, some claim to the title, “Honest Injun.” Follow Your Dream*. “To compel our thoughts to follow the memory of dreams and on no ac count to revert to any subject of wak ing thought, pleasant or otherwise”— that is a woman’s formula for sleep. “If we have already slept in the night,” she says, “we should, in trying to sleep again, recall the dreams of the previous sleep and carry them on. If we have not slept, then it is necessary to go back to old dreams, which is rather more exertion and less certainly successful. But even this is far better for sleep than allowing the memory to revert to any waking thoughts or to the familiar old devices of counting a hundred or picturing sheep, etc.”

1 ' THE PRINCE’S WRAITH. An Apparition Whose Coming Was k Sir'll of Death. Kin" Gustavus IV. of Sweden, who reigned in the early part of the last century, was taking supper one evening with tlie I’rim-c of Baden an i others, among them a Count Loweubjelm. Suddenly, halfway through tlie supper, the king let drop his knife and fork ami turning to Loweubjelm, said. "Look! Lon’t you see?” at the same time gazing across tbe table. No one understood what he meant, and so be dropped the subject. Later, after the Prince of Baden had departed, ths king said to his companions: “When I asked you whether you saw anything I had myself distinctly seen the double, or wraith,’of the Prince of Baden enter the room and, passing round the 1 table, place itself behind that prince's chair, where it quickly faded away and I vanished. You know,” added the king. “the terrible import attached in our country to such apparitions, and, having given you the key to what you may ! well have thought unaccountable conduct on my part, I now request you to ; keep strictly to yourselves what I ha'« ! imparted to you.” The following even ■ ing and at the same hour, according to Count Lowenhjelm, v- ile the court was seated as usual at supper, the clati ter of horse's hoofs was heard in the palace quadrangle, and a courier was ; speedily announced, who brought tid- ■ : ings of a disastrous carriage accident in which the Prince of Baden had lost his life. CALIFORNIA’S CHARM. How the Visitor From the E-mI Finally Capitulates. You will not find everything in south ern California. You will miss the wide stretches of green in tlie open places, far removed from the dusty cities, the noble trees, the clear streams of water, the blue lake nestled in among the pine clad mountains. You will miss that splendid miracle the change of the seasons, when your whole nature comes into closer touch with the great mother heart of nature than at any other time in all the year. You will miss much. But when you have been here a year, when month after month of rare and beautiful weather blend into each other, when the sea wooes you and the flowerscharm you and the brown mountains beckon you and the soft air soothes you, after n year has passed you find there are some compensations for tlie lovely . things you have left behind you. You i come to realize that nature has done more for this stretch of sea and mouni tain girt land than she has done for any other spot ou the globe. You may have been "harmed with . California when you came, you may have been captivated after you had been here a year, you may capitulate and consent to be captured by the time two golden summers have stolen over you The World Today, > WAYS TO ADVERTISE. Tlie Wise Man May Easily See Which Is Hie Best Method. J If you have goods to sell, advertise. Hire a man with a lampblack kettle and a brush to paint your name and I number on all the railroad fences. 'lhe I ears go whizzing by so fast that no I one can read them, to be sure, but perhaps the obliging conductor wouid , stop tlie train to accommodate an in . quisitive passenger. > Have your card in the hotel register . by all means. Strangers stopping fit , hotels for a night generally buy a cigar or two before they leave town, and I they need some inspiriting literary fond . besides. If an advertising agent wants your i business advertised in a fancy frame l at the depot, pay him about 200 per 3 cent more than it is wortli and let him put it there. When a mini lias three-quarters of a second in which to t catch a train he invariably Steffi to 5 read depot advertisements, and you. 3 card might take his eye. 1 Os course the street thermometer dodge is excellent. When a man’s fingers and ears are freezing or he is puffj Ing and “phewing” at the heat is the time above all others when he reads j an advertisement. 5 Have thousands of little dodgers . printed and hire a few boys to disj tribute them. You’ve no idea how the junk dealer and paper and rag man will respect you. , A boy with a big placard on a pole J Is an interesting object on the street “! and lends a dignified air to your establishment. Hire about two. Advertise on a calendar. People j never look at a calendar to see what day of the month it is. They merely glance hurriedly at it so as to be sure that your name is spelled with or 3 without a "p,” that’s all. , But don’t think of advertising in a ■well established, legitimate newspaper. Not for a moment. Your advertisej ment would be nicely printed and t would find its way into all the thrifty r households of the region, where are the , farmer, the mechanic, the tradesmen In other lines and into the families of tue wealthy and refined, all who have articles to buy and money with which , to buy them, and it would be read and pondered, and people would come down to your store and patronize you and . keep coming in increasing numbers, and you might have to hire an extra clerk > or two, move into a larger block and ; more favorable location and do a big- ■ ger business, but of course it would be f more expensive—and bring greater profits.—Detroit Free Press. For Their Stomach*’ Sake. r Sunday school treats must come round j oftener in England than in the United , ■ States, for the dean of Bristol has iut eluded in his liook, “Odds and Ends,” many stories of tbe hold of such festivities ou the juvenile heart and stomacu.

Speaket of Hrlinihent. It Is not generally known that tbt speaker is always "Sir,” even to the highest officials of the ,’tste. No one approaches him with a lim on. and if an M. P. passes him in the street the M. P. makes obeisance His invitations to dinner'are cqirmiiiiJs which Involve the surrender of previous engagements and are not “accepted,” but “obeyed.” At his levee he stands looking very dignified in a black vei vet suit, and M. P.’s, former M P.’s and peers make their bows and pass on —London Tit-Bits. Health and happiness to be found at the winter rasorts of Florida and the South. To seek and find the Southern Railway in connection with Queen & Crescent route the short and direct line to principal points, with through sleepers, dining cars and convenient schedules, In fact the best of everything on our up to date board. Low winter tourist rates again in t tfeot, and look here! Variable routes! You can go one way and return another, at a slight increase in rate. For particulars write J. S. McCullough, 225 Dearborn street, Chicago, 111.

gm i i ’I ffTTffiTl uUUiHLII!] New Fast . Train througujolid without change between ■ | Chicago, Superior and Duluth, with ■ I all modern devices for the safety M 4 and comfort of patrons. Buffet ra j smoking and library car, Booklovers Bs i'S Library, Pullman drawing-room ra sleeping cars, free reclining chair Ps , - cars and day coaches and excellent gs >£ ala carte dining car service. Electric lighted throughout, with individual reading lamps in every Sd ' Derth - ® Leaves Chicago 10.00 p. m. daily, a) Pullman sleeping cars and free |% k reclining chair cars to St. Paul and fe. Minneapolis also on this train. Ig) Tbe Best of Everything. A. H. WAGGENER, Traveling Agent, ■ 22 Fifth Avenue, Chicago, 111. e Ik'

AT PROPER PRICES the Snow Agency cjm sei: vour farm or city oroportv. It may be advertised or not. just as you prefer. Y<»U WILL BE AT N EXPENSE if your propertv is left with the arency for the time listed We are now offering 1 5 000 ACKEB OF INDIANA FARM LANDS for sale in tracts of from six to 100 acres each We have some of the best locations to be found on the market. To illustrate—No 330 is an 8 acre tract on the proposed traction line, near the corporation line of Decatur, on stone road and free mail route. The improvements consist of a two-story six room brick house with good cellar. A lot of bearing apple, pear and other fruit trees, wind pump, garden &c. A number one location and can be bought lorsl. s do; or. No 353. which is a 95 acre tract on’he stone road and free mail route, within one mile of district school or two miles from graded school, church, market. &c. This is a productive farm of which about one* half is black land. It is fairly well drained and fenced. No open ditches; 169 rods of new wire fence, some young timber •in orchard, ordinary bnib ings. consistingof sheds cribs, barn, residence. &c. Priceif«san acre. Send for descriptive lists. WE CAN ALSO FIT VOL OUT with a good farm of from 40 acres to 6.000 acres of tirnbi ror prairie land in Arkansas Missouri or Toxas, as we now have 90.000 acres on Hip market. These farms vary in prices and improvements, from the ordinary log and plank buildings to the host modern frann or brick stru turns To illustrate—No. 908 is a 55 acre tract of co-d land, all under fenc*- and seven miles from the city, with 30 acres under cultivation. The improvements consist of a barn, good three room plank house. &c. PriceSl.OOO. Or No. 912. which is a 205 acre trait of first-class sand v loom soil. 105aeresof which is in a high state of cultivation and 100 acres in creek b >ttom and partly cleared. This farm is amply fenced. 1s one and a half mile from th»* countv seat. < n a public road, near a good school and church. Has ihieeacres of orchard and a fine spring of water Ihe fundings consist oi a good six room residvnev with cut. cr- te cellar, etc • carriage sheds, and a barn 36x10 and one 36x100 feet in size This farm can be bought for $5,200 If you wish to buy. sell or rent property call and examine our lists and prices. New prop ertiesput upon the market each week. Phone 230 J. F. S?iOW Decatur, Ind. FREE ,GO IDE TO CITY 0B AND WORLDS ST. LOUIS- FAIR. - PUBdl Srtfets-BY THE ROUTE CTOL-E: <±><f<3l—l'l O. Seno Six Cents Postage: For ItFREE REC LINING > AND CAFE CARS ON - — ALL THROUGH TRAIN DIRECT (TO ST.LOUISI

What “Churro" Itenlly Mean*. The word “qhurm" is from tlie Latin “carmen.” Originally it meant incantation. To charm a person is to I>ewitcb him. In "Julius Ctesar,” act iii.. sc- ne 1. "I charm yon.” seems to mean “I adjure you.” When we speak now of a charming woman we do not imply that --lie sings an incantation to us. but there is a pretty figure of speech in our use of tlie word. We mean that site has the same command over us as if the iucantati' n were sung and we were bewitched. A Fair Test. Briggs—l believe the time is approaching when every question will be submitted to arbitration and all people will agree. Griggs—Well, if you wish to be undeceived, just make an attempt to settle a dispute between the owner of a house a:>d a tenant.—Brooklyn Life. As to the New Family. Suburbanite—You don’t think they ever lived in the suburbs before? His Wife—Oh. no. When their cook threatened to leave they treated the matter as indifferently as though they could get another one without any trouble.— Exchange. A Bad Fit. The Girl —What would you do, doctor, if you saw a man have a bad fit in tbe street? The Doctor—Advise him te change his tailor.—Yonkers Statesman. Handicapped. “He can’t tell the truth if he tries.” “Oh, yes, he can. But be tells it in such away that it seems to be a lie.”— Exchange A man’s success does not depend so much upon his environment as upon the man himself. -Maxwell’s Talisman. A Ill'll. Borern (11 p. m.)—Yes. I’m a perfect martyr to insomnia. I’ve tried everything I ever heard of, but I simply can’t get to sleep at night. Miss Cutting (suppressing a yawn) —Did you ever try talking to yourself after going to bed? Cause For Cheerfulne**. Cranky Husband (at a reception)—l wish you were as lively as that woman over there. Wife—Humph! No wonder she's jolly. She’s a rich widow. Served Them Rlaht. He—They have dropped their anchor. She (on her first trip)—Serves tlmm right. It has been hanging over the side all day long. Al! men are equal the day they are born and the day they are buried. Fore.KiKht. De Garry—As you intend to marry her. why did you consent to her riding a bicycle when you are so opposed to It? Merritt—Well, I knew she would have her way in the end. and I calculated that by giving in now her father wouid have to pay for the bicycle. Nothing is farther from tlie earth than heaven; nothing is nearer to heaven than earth.—Hare.