Decatur Democrat, Volume 49, Number 1, Decatur, Adams County, 9 March 1905 — Page 7

AfSEASON'S pleasure. i ~~ 81 r °* 4 O:,< * Vfc Oninn 1,1 l*eno< ■ t »f Mli;d and Comfort. s:lt l ’ mvn in her favoriaß <' llilir *“ ! “' r °' vu rOOIU a,ui head bt.ti:. with a long sigh. “No Dot'ls eab ic *‘ how " glad 1 an > ■■ that I •’<* iua,ic last for tiie she : “Now I shall have mjßie p?’’' ■ 110 t l;l '“ l 'ibio:i pie . .-ire." ‘■A<«<l<-ar:“ sa;d bar mother reproach•q Beni it." retain .1 Mary. "Os eoßtso 1 ! ' :<e change of scene, but I SIS tirc.l o.' atL.ptlng my whole life to others. as 1 am expected to do us a -i-SHfaie guest” Le.-.rl" said her meti er “ThW how kind everybody bar to yot(" “They r.:e r.t to be—they were kin I,' jfarypii'i wearily, ‘yet J feel as if 1 iiad'bii cly escaped with my life, and ■ y° n I' 11 !K ’ ILlit ,!lat is uot j ust tlie right | nd <>f after feeling. “Let me tell yon, mother,” Mary centiMtod. "At the Fosters' I changed my iwnrs for rising, for retiring and forewinr tny meals. At the Lanes' I ’■change father’s polities—far of course 1 Inivtn't any of my own—ta please Mr. Mitre, and I bad all 1 could do to keep ’ ll changing my religion to pleasftl -. Lane. ■’“Atßlte .Jenkins' I changed all my I views|ibi'-nt wh it constitutes diversion to suit the family in general. At the ragesll entirely clian .ed my point of view Am erning music and books. And st the Nevins', where I was 111, 1 cbangifl my doctor and took stuff which 1 felt sure would puls. n me just to pie*<’ i hem. ’iw. “I9R<- cheese, which I abhor, and gave bp fruit, which 1 like, at the •3* Fisks’l I sivpt with closed windows at Great Lint Maria’s because she is afraid < f a breath of air. an ] I drank '■hventloite pints of hot water the four days I was at Cousin Th mins' to 'Hush ” mysmem.’ “Nu.’’ said Mary in a firm voice. “I '-1 W na mere visits for month •• to come . j Homeßeeping youth may have homely _ J wits, jut if I go about much more 1 shall jot have any wits at ail.”— r. ; South! Companion. En-esslre Grief. Lord lirampi.’ii related that once fttiileje wr.s plain John Hawkins lie fe-fcnSLl a man for wife murder. The % prlsot-pr’s two children, dressed in blaek®u.l sobbing violently, were in court. Km their grief and the lawyer's cio-;U®t speech combined to acquit the defenSnt. That evening at dinner lie mets’tt oM ini- bit;.nt of the neighbor. lioodKh • complimented him upon his speaHrllowever.” he added. "I think that I»y.m had seen what 1 dll when driving p t the ptis.mer’s cottage last week boa would not have painted the home iiik ueii glowing colors. The little children 1.0 sobbed so violently in court ; t'..i mm'ning and to whom you tuade |s::ch pathetic reference were riliiyindas:: an ash heap near their cotm. .key had a poor cat with a string-, r: .J its neck swinging backward >l.l forward, and as they did so h-’B “Thllßfe the way poor daddy will go, This tslthi- way poor daddy will go! 3“SucH Mr. Hawkins, was their ex cessivßri ief.” Er icnle.Me Superstitions. Araoßg the Bengalese it is said that ♦homing the name of the king of drives away snakes. "Ram! Ram!” drives away ghosts. Icho’era that attacks on Monday M f-' iturdr.y always proves fatal. Choleraic .at attacks on Thursday never endspatally. The flowering of the famine. In fanning if the fanlstrike the body it should be instantly knocked three times against the grobnd. When giving alms the giver and receiver should both be on V-V. the same side of the threshold. It is ' J bad to pick one’s teeth with the nit’ls. If a snake be killed it should imme (Lately je burned, for all serpents that I are so Unwise as to permit of having their liv. s taken are inhabited by the souls of Brahmans, which hope thus to escape and work mischief. The words “snake’T and "tiger” should never be used after nightfall. Call them "creepers" and “insects.” Never awaken a sleeping physician. Morning dreams always tome true. Wtjracn JQave* In I’nlcattne. Iff lljfesiliie the mother of men is the servantlof men. Being a part of the househoiu chattels, she is sold for as large a jam as 1.-er father can extort from the prospective bridegroom. She Is a thing, a piece of goods The father Ora flrsSborn son proudly calls himself •«ter thl boy's name, but Ills girl babe is not r< boned among Ids children. Her infjm shoulders learn to bear the burdens. Her little feet patter their fray to the fountain even from the motflment their tiny strength can support the weight of the jar. Her whole life is on*’ jf grinding, baking, fetching Water. Writing upon others. At twelve she is .said into married service. Grow-•-kt lag old In middle life, site may sei* her- ■ se lf supplanted bv a voungcr wife, often being r >bbed of her sons by tlae ; tuili ary*'coniterhition. and finally she * s put away as the List breath is leavIng HiO'iy.—Corwin Knapp Linsoa Magazine. _ Softoninc It. -Sootlik-I ' -.a mean by scyIhft tu • . t ;, j . f yon we;- saw? yfell. I've no rirmbt it did seem /a 1 .:. then, you know, ‘ : 'mny actors I have never seen!—licit m Transcript I- 1 Iteration. don't bee why you call him stupid. a clever thing quite often.” I “Exactly He doesn’t seem to realize ttffiiould be said only once.”— Press.

ANIMALS’ WANDERINGS. Connfry Monse and Town Mouse Fable Has Foundation lu Fact. The fable of the country mouse and the town mouse has a foundation in fact. Mice occasionally migrate l:i large numbers when food grows scarce and travel considerable distances to. fresh houses. Farmers in a part of Perthshire had a good reason to become aware of this fact when a couple o' years ago vast swarms of mice invaded their cornfields at harvest time. But the mouse only travels when it has to. The rat, on the contrary, seems to take a yearly outing, in very much the same fashion as do human beings. Rats are the most migratory creatures in the world. Troops of rats leave the towns at the end of summer and spend a month or two in the country, apparently in order to enjoy the change of food which the country affords at that time of the year in the way of fresh fruit and grain. Before the co!d weather sets in they are all back again'in their old quarters. Reindeer migrate with the same regularity as swallows. Tl.ey move south when winter sets in. but as soon as ever the snow begins to melt they travel steadily north, sometimes for as much as a thousand miles. To end a holiday by deliberate suicide is so strange a phenomenon that for a long time naturalists looked t pon the stories of the migration of the lemmings as an improbable fiction. Yet the facts are beyond dispute. At irregular intervals these ratlike creatures start out from their homes in the fastnesses of northern Scandinavia in huge droves numbering tens of thousands and trav el steadily southward. Death pursues them in a hundred forms. Hawks and other birds of prey hover above them. Thousands are drowned in rivers. Yet the rest struggle on until they reach the sea. They do not stop. They plunge in, swim out and struggle on until at last their strength fails and they drown. Not one ever returns from this Journey of death.—London Answers. A DIFFICULT PENANCE. Irish Piljcrinis to the Skelllff Rock* RiaX Their Lives. Ten miles off the coast of Kerry, in the west of Ireland, lie the Skellig rocks, one of which has been for years the scene of a difficult penance. A zigzag path leads up some 700 feet to a lighthouse, but 700 feet more must be climbed before the summit is reached, where stand the ruins of St. Finian's monastery and a cross of St. Michael. Here on the anniversary of St. Michael devotees risk their lives in performing theii - devotions. First they have to squeeze themselves through the Needle's Eye. a tunnel in the rock thlrten feet long, the passing up which is* like the ascent of a chimney. Then they creep on all fours up the Stone of Pain, on whose smooth surface one false step is fatal; then, getting astride the Spindle, a rock 1.500 feet above the Atlantic and projecting some ten feet, each pilgrim must “ride a cock horse to St. Michael’s cross,” say a Paternoster and shuffle back as best he can —Pearson’s Weekly. Hams. A mother sent her twelve-year-old daughter to the pork butcher with money to purchase a ham. "Tell Mr. — that I want a ham exactly like the last two I bought,” she said, and when the litt.e lady arrived at the shop she delivered the message thus: "Mr. ——. mamma says she wants another ham off the same hog as the last two she bought.” How many of us wish that when we accidently pick up a .first rate bam the same hog could keep on pro during its like for time and eternity! As the butcher says: "Hams run peculiarly. We may have 'em all fine for a month or two; then they suddenly get tough and dry and hard and altogether disappointing.” — New York Press. Antiquity of Brewing. The ancient Egyptians >ml practised the art of brewing several centuries before the Christian era. as did also the ancient Greeks. Spaniards and Britons made a fern'ented drink from wheat, which was used in Spain under the name ceria, and also in Gaul. Tacitus tells ns that in his day. about 100 A. D.. beer was the common beverage and that the Germans understood how to convert barley Into malt. Six hundred years later Charlemagne gave orders that the best brewers should always accompany bis court. A-Continnonn Round. “Blivens seems very proud of the fact that he has a Lank account." “Yes; it has developed him into a financier of the continuous type. ’ “How is that?” “He checks his money out just for the pleasure of putting it back ng tin. —Cleveland Plain Dealer Stories of the Gravediggers. Grimly numerous is the tale of the gravedigger who complaint'* that he did not get constant work. “But. George.” said the minister, it ton were to be constantly employed in the duties of the office you would soon bury the whole parish.” "That micht be. sir. *Jmt hoo am I to kee< a wife and family- unless I get regular work? ’Deed,®sir. I ha vena buried a leevin’ soul for the last six weeks.” , Harder still was the case of another gravedigger who was asked to reduce his fee' for digging a grave because, “mind ye, Janies, she was an auld woman and was sair spent.”—Chicago Tribune. A i-atiEie. Miss Snowflake—What did Jim Jackson git married for? Miss WashtubGoodness only knows! He keeps right on workin'.—Puck.

How tn Shoot o ftntflrr. The writer once saw an Indian kill n rattlesnake in a very peculiar inau- ' nor. The rattier was about ten feet from the Indian, who was resting the rifle on his knee, apparently taking aim. I Vi'hcnever In* moved the weapon a few inches the snake would move ; around ami get exactly in line with it. ■ Then, to show how the thing was done, the Indian moved about the snake in a ‘ circle, and the reptile moved as if ita : tall were a pivot, always keeping its ; Lead and body in line with the gun. The Indian then agreed to bandage his eyes and shoot the snake in the mouth. The writer bandaged the Indian's eyes, and, holding the gun by his side at arm's length, the latter pulled the trigger, and the ball entered the snake’s mouth and passed the whole length of its body. “How did you take alm?” was the query. "The snake be take alm,” was the reply. We have talked with nn old hunter i on this proposition, and he claims that a rattlesnake will always range directly in lino with a gun or stick pointed ul it.—Exchange. Redeem Your Past Fallnrew. You may say that you have failed too often, that there is no use in trying, that it is impossible for you to succeed and that yon have fallen too often even to attempt to get on your feet again. Nonsense! There is no failure for a man whose spirit is unconquered. No matter how late the hour or how many and repeated bis failures success is still possible. The evolution of Scrooge, the miser, in the closing years of his life, from a hard, narrow, heartless money grubber, whose soul was imprisoned in his shining b.enp of hoarded gold, to a generous, genial lover of Iris kind, is no mere myth of Dickens’ brain. Time and again, in the history of our daily lives, chronicled in our newspapers, recorded in biographies or exhibited before our eyes, we see men and women redeeming past failures, rising up out of the stupor of discouragement and boldly turning face forward once more.—O. S. Marden in Success. A Rextrietcd Essay. The puzzle department of London j Truth called for a competition in accounts of a round of golf eont.lining i uo letter “a” or "u.” Here is a good specimen from the many replies received : "I know nothing of golf. Some people do. or pretend to. However. 1 visit the links, for I like to look on. Slow work, yet good for the liver. They bit some kind of sphere into boles on the green, then seek for it. Some find it in ' them, some do not. Men who win grin. Men who lose bless everybody, sotto voce, being too polite to <io so before people. Women who lose despise the she winners. Their verdict is. 'ill dressed objects,’ 'wizened things.' 'no chicken.' Men do differently, for when liniskcd they drink together in good fellowship, then mizzle —to ul.ie, not repine.” The Reporter Succeeded. In New York on one occasion a reporter made several vain attempts to see J. Pierpont Morgan. b~th at his office and Iris residence. Finally his opportunity came. He was interviewing unotl'.e • financier and incidentally came into posi ession of the latter’s card. He kept it; then, going to Morgan's resi dence, he sent in bis own card in company with that of the financier. This ruse was sticcessft.'. and he was shown into Morgan's presence. When the reporter had stated Iris reason f >r the call the fi-nan icr said: "Do you know, young'man. t-ktrt-wt least ten reporters have tried to see me today witli reference to this question? I have declined to see any of them." The re porter smiled and replied. “Yes. sir. I know that, for 1 was the whole ten” He got Lis iiip’/viewEarly American Theatrical*. The earliest attempt to introduce theatrical performances in this country <tas made a'.iout I*!S<> in New Lagland. bat Increase Mather wiot* and spoke so forcibly in opposition to the project that it was speedily abandoned The first theatrical performance in New York city of which there is any clear record was given March 5. 1730. Tht theater was on Nassau street, between John street anil Maiden lane, and tire play was "Richard III.." Thomas Kern the Junior manager of the company, enacting the part of Richard. A Serioux Qnextion. “Mamma." said five-year-old Nellie, “I’d like to ask your advice about something." "What is It. dear?" queried her mother. “After I get through school what would you advise me to do while l'::t waiting to be married?” asked the lit tie miss. Why Great Xovcl Writers Are Scn—e. The number of great novel writers is small. A deep experience of the world and human beings is given to few. because few can bear the suffering which Is its price, and fewer still have the moral courage to tell the truth. —Jomt Oliver Hobbes. Her Reserve. “T trust. Miss Tappit.” said the kindly employer to his stenographer, “that you have something in reserve for a i rainy day.” “Yes, sir.” answered the young wom- : an; “I am going to marry a man named j •1 u« rirat. Miss Sharpe—l celebrate my fourth birthday tomorrow. Miss*Old- . age—lndeed! And-isn't it singular?— eo do I. Miss Sharpe—OU but 1 eel* brat* mine for the lint tiu>»

From March Ist to May 15th, tto Erie railroad will sell ticke s to tint Pacific coast, and intermediate points at very low rates. Ask agents fur particulars. EAST. Vo. Thp Comm'] tier, daily. 6:*: a. n So. 2. Mail. fiaily »*x< > nt. buflda) ... • • " ? f > No. 4. ox pref’s, daily 7 33 n n No. 22. Local tie ig hr. 12:10p n WEST No. 8. Hay express dailv. •’ i. n So. 1. Map, daily “v''* !*’ 1: a 'o. 5. Th< < uujld’l Traveler, daily..lb 08p. m N x Loew] ? t Vu'a 11 <O> RAILROAD HEW ESIE TIME TASEE. EasP hOUN’l* 'o. S 2:38 a. w 10. ex Sun - r»:sßa. in. ix 1 4:40 p.m. V ». Bex, Sun W:2»)p N .V_. „ u.su p. m, No 11 does not carry h itffaage. and does n it arry passengviseabt of Mun h, uhiu. BOUND f 2*oi v <n : /i. ’ ... . 257a. n* I lo 21 ex. Sun I‘* Oa. ni ;•>. 3 12:44 p. tn n*SE p • “xrrjjt Mond.i At days fol's holidays Nn. IB a nut carry baggage. Grand Bupids & Indiana. Id etfeci be* r. 25. I‘.mm -Kn •N > N»> ui h . No 5— LtMVO De atur.. 1 30 a rn “ •• 10:1 v<ayno 2;2t'a ni •' *' Kai-niHZoo s.2<'ain “ A i rives' .rand La. id* m *• • PetosKt y 2: ” p in “ *' Mackiribw t\ty 4:*spfn N.o 7—Leaves • icattir 7 ;s'.* a rn Fort Aavne • • Kai-anazou ~ l‘-*:lnpin Anr ves (.* and baplds 2 ' 5 p ri. Peiosi ey p ni ‘ Mackinaw<‘ity pm No. 3—Leaves D»-riUur 3:’7 p m Fort Wayne 4:2 j, n. •• " KalaniM/oo >*:U5 p rn Arr-ves Grand Kupfds 9*40 p m ’■ Petoskey a rn Mackinaw City 7:2<»atn TKA IN> >UI b No. C —Leaves F»ecaiur ’ ih a m •• ’ Poriluiid 2:o’- a ni • *• Winebe.-t* r 3:52 a in •• Arrives Richmond 3 3'o a m “ ” Cincinnati 7:la am “ " Judihi Hindis • :5h an« “ •• Lou'hviile lU.'ODMTn •• •• St. Lou'S 13 Plb No. 12,—Lea ves Deca’or 7:l* am •• ’‘t rt'aiid 8:15 a n. •• ‘ Winch' st * r >*:•'»» e» m •• Arrives hi- bmom 0:42 a tn •• iinemn.il 12.2 V pin •• ” I iHHsn;t!M>lis 12:t0pn Lmisvllle 7:0-pm “ S r - ‘ JU‘S 7'll'T (j No. 2—Leaves Der i r L:!6 p m P HtJa id 2:i< i« i Wim h' sTe 2:.'<) p n *• Arrives Ri •hur nd 3 40 t n •• " < .'i-' iiinati 5:55 p n ’• *• 1 ndlHca rolls II: pm L' liiFvtll * 7:00 ‘ *• m. L'>«ds 7:22 an» \'n 30—I or i ecti'ur ‘••51 pm “ arrives P<»rtian t s -s'* p »• No. 16—Leaves I 'c< ttu r... .* 8: !<• nrr •• " Port 1-itid .. b: 4 • j.) pi Wim-hf s't r !•• 25 p rn Arrives Richmond o m 1:50 train sleeping cev to Grand Rapu’s nnd ’’“fkinaw Ditv ” cou.m tram pastor tar to Irand Rapid* and Mack maw ci 1 v r>7 ’> ni. ,r t»prior c.ar t<> Grmd Rapids cat •n v Citv Trains arrive frnm north a’ 0 5 a. in. , .14 a. in. 1:16 p. ni. “ S' n n» Br.son, Aye. C. L. Lock’ <x>d G r.A G*- Ran’ds wic HOY ARCH3OLD DENTIST I. O. O. F. BLOCK ’Plnno3 — Office lf> l, resilencc 215 MANN & CHEISTEN. ArchiTectß. Are prepared to do an-, kind of woi ki ■ their line. Persona rot.tempi uu g building can ‘•avf liutrs trou ivMiid money by conriii’ina them. Offire— MA N N & C H KISTF >. Bowers Block. Monrot at. auctioneeb For Good Service S*-h L. H. OACE (Spra ks Germ; n ar d Er xi'sh) Auctioneer atid Sale Crier. Hates Si.*" Sales over 551)0 Stle per ?100. Leavt adrijetis at Berne Witness Ofllee, Berne, Tod LINN & PAT TON Carpenters, Contractors and Builders Slate Hoofers and Galvanized Gutters. Shop, Corner Kuggaud Market Streets. Linn Patton J. D. HALE DEALFK IN Ser.de. H-av’. Wool. OH Salt, Goal, Lirne, Cerncnt I-cftilizei's. Office xml re*a I xtore store •outhenst ooi • ere* Sneond >e i .1.-ff<-rs >i) -treets pair-.imue Hobcited. 1 H. O. WELLS. 31. 1).. SPECIALIST. 723 CLIHON STREET, FORT WAYNE. Cures Piles Fstu’a. Fiss tr“. S r cturn o. th,. R'cniin. I’chinsr. ?'!••♦ -dinir. ITH-ra Inn ConstHin’ '<m and all dl • ds<*s < f »b<. Rectum Also Rupture. Dr. "ells will mi h» Murrev hotel, iu tic* forenoon, h tai at ♦».. RhHrnw’k bo'ol ‘' Geneva in Gm rn<M»‘> on ’be firs’ i < e\mrv mo» th It ej i..r to introduce Ms vMnless treatment. I » will rive one triH'ment free to ail who ckII u s«’v him.

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