Decatur Democrat, Volume 48, Number 50, Decatur, Adams County, 16 February 1905 — Page 7

THE FIERCE BUFFALO HE is more than a match for the KING OF BEASTS. jn Fact. One Xxitin or Africnn Bull Is s<>t Afraid •<> Tackle Two Lions at Once anti Has Even Been Known to Kill an Elephant. The bulls of till the species of the eentis bos« are savage and dangerous nt times. The Romans knew so better sport than to see a powerful bull of the common domestic species toss a lion unless it was to see him toss a man. and bullfights are still the most loved diversion in all Spanish and Spanish-American countries. The .\merican bison used to be a fine tighter, the only indigenous animal which could whip him being the grizzly bear. But unquestionably the fiercest and most formidable gladiators of this genus are the buffaloes of Asia and Africa. Experience Las tang, t the lions of \frica discretion, and they never limit die buffalo singly, but always in pairs ,r companies. The buffalo is far larger and more powerful than the lion, and one good toss of his long, sharp, powerful horns, which frequently exceed twelve feet from tip to tip. is usually enough to kill lite so called "king of beasts.” In fact, one buffalo is almost i match for two lions. Once when Sir Samuel AV. Baker was hunting in Africa be found the dislocated skeleton of buffalo lying 'intermixed with the broken bones of a lion. He concluded from appearances that two lions had attacked one buffalo and that the buffalo bad killed one of them, but had finally succumbed to the other. Major Vardon and Mr. Os well once saw a buffalo bull carry on successfully a fight against three lions until be suddenly dropped dead from the effects of a wound which Major Vardon had pre viottsly given hint. Flje Asiatic buffalo is smaller anti less muscular than his African cousin, but he has his full share of prowess. He is more than a match for the tiger, which declines the combat unless urged to it by hunger. Even the domestic bull buffalo usually will whip the tiger. The Indian driver of a pair of large buffalo bulls plunges unhesitatingly into the darkest anti most tangled forest. aware that the tiger probably will not attack him when thus accompanied and that even if it should his team would make short work of the ferocious beast with their massive horns. It is said the buffalo sometimes kills ••ven the elephant, its mode of attack being to thrust its horns into the elephant's belly. This may happen sometimes, but can hardly take place often, as the great weight and strength of the elephant make it when enraged a foe which neither the buffalo nor any other animal can withstand. Buffalo fights and tights between buffaloes and tigers ire main features in the entertainments of Indian princes. Most species of wild animals usually get along pretty well among themselves, but tights between buffalo bulls are frequent and deadly. The victor in such contests always rancorously pursues the flying vanquished and tries to hook him in the rear. Sir Samuel W. Baker once came upon a pair of old bulls which, while fighting, had got their horns interlocked so they couhl not get loose. Having a rifle of great effectiveness, he killed them both at one shot. The buffalo is not only one of the most redoubtable of fighters, but is also the most ruthless and ferocious, whether its antagonist be man or some other animal. "Many animals charge when infuriated,” says Sir Samuel M . Baker, "but they can generally be tussled by the stunning effect of a rifle shot, even though they may be mortally wounded, but a buffalo is a devil incarnate when it has once decided on the offensive. Nothing will turn it. If not killed it will assuredly destroy its adversary. There is no creature iu existence that is so determined to stamp out the life of its opponent. Should it succeed in overthrowing its antagonist it will not only gore the body with its horns, but it will endeavor to tear it to pieces and will stand upon its lifeless form and

stamp it with his hoofs until the mutilated remains are disfigured beyond all recognition.” It is this ferocity of the buffalo which makes buffalo hunting so exciting and so perilous a sport. Experienced hunters are always careful not to stand in front of a buffalo which has been felled by a bullet and is apparently dead, for after every sign of life is gone it may spring to its feet and deal destruction in every direction. Baron Hornier, a Prussian. shot a buffalo on the White Nile several years ago. His native servant had just taken a position tiear lhe head of the animal. which was apparently dead, when it sprang to its feet and knocked the man headlong. Baron Harnier’s rifle being unload d. be courageously clubbed the weapon and tried to drive the buffalo off. The animal turned furiously upon him and stamped and gored him to death. The missionaries who found his body also found the carcass of the buffalo lying near it. and a little farther away was the body of his servant. No land animal except possibly the elephant loves water so much as the buffalo. In a wild state it frequents swampy ground, where it wallows in the water and plasters itself with mud. Its eont of mud when hardened in the sun affords it protection from the great gadflies which, especially in Africa. Realise it milch annoySa e. The buffalo does not lose its love of water when domesticated, and its practice of lying down in eiery stream it comes to even when hitched to a cart gets it many cudgelings ami cursings from its In dlan drivers. The buffalo’s usual way of affording

sport is as the hunted. The Cingalese of'Ceylon train it to be a hunter. A favorite game of the Cingalese is the swamp frequenting waterfowl. The waterfowls are accustomed to buffaloes being near and do not fear them. The Cingalese therefore teach the buffaloes to browse slowly toward the game, while a man with a gun creeps undiscovered behind them until begets within easy shooting distance.

\\ ild buff aloes are highly gregarious. When a herd containing a number of calves is threatened by lions or tigers the bulls, if there be time, arrange themselves in a circle around the cows and calves, presenting a solid array of horns, and the enemy must be pretty hungry if be will then attack. Herds numbering f.i.X) or GO!) used frequently to be met with in Africa. Like other wild animals, they were aide to hold their own against savage man armed only with his bow and arrows and other crude weapons; but. like the lion the rhinoceros, the elephant and all other large game, they have been rapidly exterminated since Europeans introduced the practice of hunting them with firearms.-- Chicago Tribune. ART OF ENTERTAINING. Two Dreaded Guests and (lie Lesson Their 4 Isit Taught. I once invited two brilliant sisters to come and stay for a few days at our little bouse in the country, writes John Strang® Winter in Black and White. 1 don’t know why I gave the invitation; it was done impulsively and on the spur of the moment. As we walked away from the house my husband said to me, “Why did you ask them?” "i don’t know," 1 said blankly. "I don’t know what we shall do with them. I don’t know what we have at the other house to amuse brilliant women like these.” They arrived on the day we had fixed. We passed a happy evening, for dinner and«.country air round off tlie first day or a visit very easily, and the following morning when I came downstall's I found the sisters sitting in deck ehairs in front of the house. To me they addressed themselves straight. “Now, we just wanted to say something to you,” said one of them. "Would you please mind not entertaining us? We don’t want to go anywhere, and we don’t want to see any one. You’d feed us, we have no doubt, and your beds are delightful. Give ns these deck chairs, these lovely gardens, this perfect air. and we want nothing more. It is recreation and pleasure to us to feel that we can let ourselves go and do absolutely nothing. There is an old friend of mother’s who is staying at a house three or four miles away, and if you could make it convenient to lend us the pony cart no, not the carriage—we will go over and pay our rpspeetS to her. but otherwise, if you want to be kind to us, let us be absolutely idle all the time we are here.” I took them at their word, blessed them with all my heart, and they stayed a fortnight. When they left they declared they had never spent a fortnight to such good purpose, and we had become so fond of their cheerfulness and homelike company that we were loath to part with them even then. But think if I had tried to entertain them and they had submitted to be entertained and to have every hour parceled out! How dreadful! Premiums I pon Mnrrlnffe. In certain quarters of the world enticing premiums are put upon early marriages. Some years ago the mayor of a southern town in France offered a reward of #2O to every couple under the age of twenty-four who sought the matrimonial altar during bis term of office. The mayor expended many thousands of francs in the manner described. Many years ago. when the number of marriages in a certain Alsatian town was far below the average, the municipal authorities publicly announced that all persons who married within a certain period should be exempt from local taxes for the space of live years. An epidemic of marriages set in at once. A well known Austrian nobleman was anxious to encourage matrimony among the peasants on his estate. He undertook to provide each bridegroom with tobacco supplies for life and each bride with four pairs of gloves yearly. The offer acted like a charm.

Remarkable Feats of Strenerth. Louis de Bouffiers. who lived in the sixteenth century, could break a bar of iron with his hands. The strongest man could not take from him a ball which he held between his thumb and first finger. While standing up, with no support whatever, four strong soldiers could not move him. He remained as firm as a rock. Sometimes lie amused himself by taking on his shoulders his own horse, fully harnessed, and with that heavy load he promenaded the public square, to the great delight of the inhabitants. At about the same time there lived a Spaniard named Pietiro, who could break the strongest handcuffs that could be put around his wrists. He folded his arms on his chest, and ten men pulling in different directions with ropes could not unfold them. Augustus 11.. elector of Saxony, was a man of great strength. He could cany a man in his open hand. Corrected. When Lord Young of the Scottish court of sessions was practicing before that court he appeared on one occasion before I .ord Deas, who was accustomed to speak "broad Scotch." The printed “issue'' or statement of facts in the case had got very dog eared and dirty from much handling, and Lord Deas, holding it up with a disgusted expression on his face, exclaimed, "Maistcr Young. dae ca’ that an ishaiy?" Young, throwing up his hands in affected horror, replied: "Heaven forbid, my lord.' Icall it an issue.” • e *

TOBACCO SMOKE. T. e Henson That Some of ’ll Is Bine nn<l Some Gray. smoke consists >f minute particles of solid or liquid matter suspended in the air, and its color depends partly noon the chemical constitution of such particles, but also largely upon their size. Exact experiment has shown that, as the size of minute particles suspended in air is gradually increased, they give rise to colors varying from sky blue down through the whole range of the spectral scale. This is the cause of sunset and sunrise colors in the sky. Its effects can also be traced in the ease of the two kinds of tobacco smoke, modified by the murky tints ot the carbonaceous products. The smoke given off from the heated surface of tlie burning tobacco in the bowl of the pipe consists of matter all of which has been highly heated and very fully oxidized and decomposed. It consists mainly of exceedingly small, solid par tides, exhibiting by virtue of their smallness a bluish color. On the other hand, that smoke winch has been drawn through the tobacco into the mouth of the smoker carriers with it a relatively large quantity of water and hydrocarbon, which are condensed upon the solid particles above mentioned. The relatively large size of such particles explains the well known grayish color of the smoke which issues from the mouth of the smoker.

GREEK SUPERSTITIONS. Some of the Old Mythological Belief* Stilt Prevail. “Some of tlie superstitious of the old mythologic religion still prevail among the peasant classes in Greece,” said t native of that country. ‘•.w are th' educate'] classes? without such beliefs, such as tliii I harm ensiles from looldfig at the moon over tlie right shoulder. The belief in the three fates, the evil eye, the vampires and the nereids is general. Dressed in black and appearing as old women, tlie fates are sup posed to come down from Olympus three days after the birth of a child and to hold a meeting to determine its fate. Consequently a table containing many dainties is set out for their invisible enjoyment. Especial care is taken lest the old ladies be enraged at not having enough good things to eat “No woman desires to be left alone after her child is born, believing that the ugly old women may become jeal ous and wreak some awful vengeance Smut is therefore smeared on the faces of the youngsters so that this jealousy may not become excited. “The .voting Athenian women frequently go to the ancient tombs near Athens and, calling upon the fates, beg them to reveal the identity of their future husbands, singing, ‘From the top of Olympus, where are the fates, where (s my own fate?’ "—Washington Post. THINKING TO DEATH. Melancholy Brood ins That Is Worse Than Disease. Thousands of people actually think themselves to death every year by allowing their minds to dwell on morbid subjects. The idea that one has some incipient disease in one’s system, tlie thought of financial ruin, that one Is getting on in life without improving prospects-any of these or a thousand similar thoughts may carry a healthy man to a premature grave. A melancholy thought that fixes itself upon one's mind needs as much doctoring as physical disease. It needs to be eradicated from the mind or it will have just tlie same result as a neglected disease would have. Every melancholy thought, every morbid action and every nagging wor ry should lie resisted to the utmost, and the patient should be protected by

cheerful thoughts, of which there is a bountiful store in every one's possession. Bright companions are cheaper than drugs and plasters. The morbid condition of mind produces a morbid condition of body, and if the disease does happen to be in the system it receives every encouragement to develop. We need more mental therapy.—Suggestions. Perfume* «« Dininfectantw. It is a well known fact that workers among lavender beds seldom take infectious ailments, and those engaged in the perfumery ttade are singularly free from them. A good perfume in the old days was considered an excellent disinfectant. The doctors then used to carry walking sticks with silver or gold knobs. These opened with a lid. disclosing a tiny vinaigrette box which the physician held to bis nose when entering rooms containing patients ill with any infectious diseases. Not Too Fast. “Don't you sometimes think we are living too fast?” “No. I used to, but I soon cured that impression. I moved out to a suburb and rode in to work every day on an accommodation train.” —Exchange. Men Mustn’t Be Selfish. A man should feel the obligation to bring gayety into the lives of all those whom he loves. The fact that the routine of the day has been dull doesn't excuse him for being glum and silent at bis evening meal.—Arthur S. Pier. Don’t Whine. “It doesn't pay to talk 'bout you troutaics.-” said I'nele Eben. “De mo' you ’hollers 'bout gettin' cheated in a mule trade de less chance you has of workin' de mule off on somebody else.” —Washington Star. Money may not make the man. but that doesn't prevent the man from trylug to make uv

THE GOOSE TOWEH, Wherein Kln;r Vnldemnr flapped Hi. Di iirexpeet f i:l Dclegn (cm. In the early years of the fourteenth century the “free cities” — Hamburg, Lubeck and Bremen—sent a delegation of seventy-seven members to King Valdemar to demand increased rights and privileges in their trade with Denmark. The delegates were not very respectful in their language and demeanor, and the king, who was at Vordingborg, told them they acted like a drove of geese and clapped them into prison' In the tower, telling them they would stay there until they learned better manners. Over the heavy tower dooi ’ the king nut up a stone with the inscription ; Sieben und siebenteg Hause: Sieben mid siebenteg Ganse; Ware ntcht so viele Hause Hat ich auch nicht so viele Gsnse. Translated this reads: “Seventy (even houses and seventy seven geese, it there were not so many houses 1 w ould j not li.-ive so many geese.” On top ot the tower, which still j stands solid and strong, was place! a i big gilt goose, with neck outstretch efl ns if .t were hissing. Grave Trouble Foreseen It needs but little foresight, to tell, that when your stomach and liver are badly affected, grave trouble is ahead, unless you take the properyinedioine for your disease, as Mrs. John A. Young, of Clay, N. ¥., did. She says: “1 had neuralgia of the liver and stomach, my heart was weakened, and I could not eat. I was very bad for a long time, bur in Electric Bitters, I found just what I needed, for they quickly relieved and cured i me.” Best medicine for weak women. Sold tinder guarantee by Blackburn & Christen, druggists, at 50c a bottle. Farmers Take Notice. Are your hogsand chickens healthy and in as thriving condition as you would like to have them, if not, feed them Egyptian Hog and Chicken Cholera Remedy. Put up in gallon and half gallon cans. For sale at the old reliable drug store. Smith, Yager &Falk. 4Stf

'/£clove« | Hnll i I mwj Isl iim! EAST. No. 6. The Comm'l Traveler, daily. 5:05a. n No. 2. Mall, daily, except Sunday. . .11-37 a. a No. 4. Day express, daily ii:23p. tr N 0.22, Local freight 12:01a. n WEST No. 3. Day express, daily s:nf>a. n No. 1. Mai’, daily except Sunday .. .11:10 p. n No. 5. The Conun'l Traveler, daily.. 8:41 p.n No. 23. Local freight 12:01 p. m RAILROAD NEW EUE TIME TABLE. EAST HOUND NO. 8 2:38 a. m No. 22 ex Sun ..«:58a. m. No. 4 - 4:40 P- m No. 14 ex. Sun. 8:20 p. m. No. 10 9.50 p. m. No. i 4 does not carry baggage, and does not Carty passengers east of Marion, vhio. WEST BOUND No. T — 2:00 a. tn No. 9 2:57 a. tn No. 21 ex. Sun 10:10 a. m No, 3 - 12; 14 p. tn No. 13 - - s:s*ip m (except Monday's A days fot'g legal holidays No. 13 does not carry baggage. Grand Rapids & Indiana. In effect Sept. 25.1904 TRAINS NORTH. No s—Leaves Decatur I:3oam •• •• Fort Wayne 2:20 am “ •• Kalamazoo s:2oam Arrives (Jrand Rapids 6:45 a m •• •• Petoskey 2:10 p in “ “ Mackinaw City 4:15 pm N.o7—Leaves Decatur 7:59am •• Fort Wayne B:soam *• Kalamazoo 12:15pm “ Arrives Cirand Rapids 2.(5 pm “ •* Petoskey 9:35 pm •• “ Mackinaw City 10:50 pm No.3—Leaves Decatur 3:l7pm Fort. Wayne 4:20 p m •• Kalamazoo 8:05 pm Arrives Grand Rapids 9:40 pm Petoskey 6 05 a m ” ” Mackinaw City 7:20 am TRAINS SOUTH No. 6—Leaves Decatur 1:08 a m •• Portland .... 2:olam • *• Winchester 3:52 a m •• Arrives Richmond 3:3oam “ •• Cincinnati 7:lsam “ “ Indianapolis,, •■:soam “ “ Louisville 10:05 am - St. Louis I:3d pm No. 12 -Leaves Decatur 1:14 am •• •• Portland 8:15 a m “ •* Winchester.. 8:56 am “ Arrives Richmond 9:42 am - Cincinnati 12:20 pin “ •* Indianapolis 12:10 pm “ •• Louisville 7:10 pin “ “ St. r >u> 7:10 p m No. 2—Leaves Deca .r 1:16 pni “ •• P irtland 2:13 pm •• “ Winchester 2:50 pm *• Arrives Richmond 3:4opm “ •• Cincinnati 5:55 pm “ “ Indiananolis 11:55pm *• ‘ Louisville 7:00 am “ •• St. Louis 7:22 a m No.3o—Leaves Decatur 7:51 p m Arrives Portland, 8:55 | m No. 16—Leaves Decatur... .8 8:46 m •• •• Portland 9:45 i m *• Winchester 10’25 pm “ Arrives Richmond 11:15 pm 1:30 train sleeping car to Grand Rapids and Vfackinaw Dity. 7:59a. m. train parlor car to Grand Rapids and Mackinaw CJity 3:17. P- tn. train parlor car to Grand Rapids, sleeping car 0 Mackin? w City. Trains arrive from north at e;o*( a. m. z .i4a. m. 1:16 p.m. 7:51p.m. t, Bryson, Age. C. L. Lock wood, G. P. A Gr. Rapids, Mich.

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