Decatur Democrat, Volume 49, Number 2, Decatur, Adams County, 16 March 1905 — Page 6

bond He I* Painted. The house sparrow has been called a nuisance, a street gamin, a vagabond, a thief, a robber, and this by many so called bird lovers, yet. in my opinion, he is one of our most interesting birds. He is lively, bright, thrifty and brave. No one. not even li'* w --rst enemy Can gainsay this. He is also ever ready to help his own kind out of any difficulty Into which they may fall. One day, as I was walking up street past a large mill wh<re dozens of sparrows were collected, I saw some thing which has much increased my esteem for the so called little street gamin. It was in nesting time, and young birds hardly able to fly were quite common. As I walked on my at tention was attracted by one of these in the middle yf the road alone. He was sitting there and every little while giving out a little disconsolate chirp While I was watching him a delivery cart came down the street at full speed. The young bird was likely tv V crushed, but I was not the only observer of its distress. As I watched About a dozen sparrows flew down and gathered round it. I didn't know what was going to happen for the minut* but I was soon enlightened. The flock of newcomers fairly hustled the little one out of the way of the oncoming cart and into the safety of the ditch I don't know exactly how they did it they moved so quickly, but I think it was in the same way that a man is carried onward in a crowd. He helps himself a little, and the people around him sweep him forward. The little incident clearly showed that sparrows are not always as selfish and unfading as they are painted.—Amateur Sportsman. HOW HOMES ARt L.OST. They let their insurance run out They bought things they did not need because they were cheap. They subscribed for everything they could pay for on the installment plan. The father always intended to get his life insured, but died without doing so They did not realize how easy it is to get into debt and how hard it is to get out • Money enough went down in drink and up in smoke to have saved th< home. They tried to do what others expect ed of them rather than what they could afford. They thought it small to insist on having an agreement or understanding put in writing.

* They could not say “No" and could not afford to tell their friends, “I cannot afford it.’’ \Vt) C a the shoe began to pinch they *‘-?ally did not gee whore they could retrench.” Habit bad made luxuries geem necessaries,—Success, c ; The LanßOHge of India. Among the 145 distinct languages spoken in British India are some pos sessing only a few hundred words, others rivaling English, as Dr. Grierson says, or Russian, as I would say. in their CdpibCSLOSS. some In which every ~v"ord is a monosyllable, others it which some are elongated by agg’uti nation till they run to ten syllables, like da-pa-l-ocbo-akan-tahen-tae-tin-a-0 a Sontali word, meat ing "He who be longs to him who belongs to me will continue letting himself be made tc fight” Some of these divers tongues lack verb and noun, others are as com plex and systematic as Greek and Lat in.—Nineteenth Century. Unreasonable Woman. His wife asked him to read to het Taking up the paper, he turned to the woman's page and started with the first article that attracted his atten tion. It was by a distinguished med leal authority on the subject of correct breathing and began: “As a means for preventing wrinkles in the face it is certain that the prac tice of keeping the mouth shut is one of the most positive." “That will do. sir!" she snapped. “I asked to be entertained, not to be insulted.”—New York Tress. Metal Polish. Take eight ounces of Spanish whit Ing. which must be perfectly free from grit, and put in one quart of gasoline Shake up the whiting and gasoline thoroughly. You will notice the whit ing settles immediately, leaving thi liquid as clear as water. To remedy this and. further, to make it a bette. polishing agent, acd to each quart of the mixture thirty-two crops of oleie acid —no more, no less. Shake again •nd the whiting will not settle. Apply to gold, silver, nickel, brass, glass or any kind of metallic surface with a piece of cotton flannel, rubbing well. Polish with a place of same cloth.— Blacksmith and Wheelwright. Waterproofing Dresk Goods. One of the most important proc-esses osed for waterproofing dress materials is on the lines of the old alumina proc- ; ess. In this case the factor used is rosin dissolved in a large bulk of pe , troleum spirit. The fabrics to be proof- ; ed are passed through a bath of this solution and dried to drive off the I .solvent. Following this the goods are treated by pressing with hot polished ; metal rollers. This last process melts ’ the small quantity of rosin which Is deposited on the cloth and leaves each •Ingle fiber with an exceedingly thin , film of rosin on it Few Prayer*. Tern—Now, If all men would vote as they pray thia would truly be a happy world. Dern—But If that should ever happen you wouldn’t get the average nan to the polls once in ten yearc— CaUmUc SUndud.

tne Hawaiian® were, while under their ancient form of religion, it was but natural that superstition should gain a rooted hold, Ibe most curious and effective belief to which they were made subject was that a man can be prayed to death, a belief that survives among the natives to the present day. For the success of the tragical death prayer it was necessary to obtain some hair or a piece of finger nail of the intended victim. A priest was then employed to use incantation and prayer for his destruction. Always informed of the doom that the priest was invoking upon him. the victim generally pined away and died.

There is a story that an Englishman In the service of Kamchameha I. having incurred the displeasure of a priest the latter proceeded to "remove” him by the death prayer process. The An-glo-Saxon, however, set up an opposition altar in derision and jokingly proclaimed that he intended to pray the priest to death. Alarmed at the threat and Ove-whelmed at the failure of his own incantations, the sorcerer died. prov!..g by his death his faith in his religion. The Social Capital. We do not think that either Washington or New York or any other city will ever become the social capital of the L'nited States as London is the social capital of Great Britain. Washington will come much nearer to it than it does at present, but the country is too big to have a social capital. Hordes of people will come to New York to make money, to amuse themselves, to study, to live their lives in the least restricted atmosphere that the country offers, but only very rich people will come here to find and occupy a place in organized society. Pleasant people will always find pleasant playmates here. There is no lack of good company for everybody that is companionable. But the charm of New York for people who still live cisewiietv is not in its society, but in its shops and sh.-ws, its sunshine, its oating and its drinking. It js pleasant. It grows finer every day. When it is finished it will be a marvelous city, but hardly the social capital of the country.—Harper's Weekly. PITH AND POINT. Don't run to the doctor too often. The tverage mistake will give yon less trouble if you come right out and admit it. Some people waste » lot of the present in thinking what they would do it they could live their lives over. Good luck and merit always travel together in one team and bad luck and worthlessness always in another. When mother goes to visit her Jpvghter she takes no party dresses, but you bet She takes her kitchen aprons. If 2 woman’s voice is sweet depends largely upon whether she is calling us to dinner or to get out of bed in the morning. When a woman reads of a horse 'champing restively on its bit” she doesn't know exactly what it means, but she feels that she often does it— Atchison Globe. The Governor** Wife. “Two men in Buffalo,” says a state official, “recently had a heated argument over the question whether the wife of a governor of a state had ah official title. One man contended that she should be addressed as 'Mrs. Governor So-and-so,’ while the other stoutly insisted that she was simply ‘Mrs. 31ank. wife of Governor Blank.’ Finaly they agreed to submit the question to the first man they should meet. He proved to be an Irishman. The case was put before him. and he was asked fcr a dee ! sion. “ ‘Noy .her of yez is right,’ said the Irishman after a moment's reflection. The wife of a governor is a govern ess ’’’—Collier's Weekly. Deaf as an Adder. The expression “deaf as an adder” is from the Psalms of David, where it appears in the following form: "Their poison is like the poison of serpents. They are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear. which will not harken to the voice of charmers, charming ever so wisely."’ East Indian travelers tell us that there is a widely prevailing superstition in tIA. ast to the effect that both the viper and the asp stop their ears when the charmer is uttering bis incantations or playing bis music by turning one ear to the ground and twisting the point of the tail into the other. Bad Teeth and Cancer. Walter Whitehead, the well known English surgeon, believes It possible that cancer may be due to bad teeth. Addressing the students of the Victoria Dental hospital, he said that to drain, trap and ventilate a house for a man with bad teeth was waste of money, for he polluted the purest air as be breathed it and contaminated the most wholesome food as be ate it The Knowledge That Pays, If you glance round at the work of some of our big men you will be surprised to see how many have made their reputation by doing one small thing, but doing it well. If a man gets to the front in one narrow subject the world credits him with knowledge of all tne rest It is, however, even easier to acquire a large general knowledge than an advanced special knowledge of one narrow subject. The specialty must not be too narrow either. It is often said that the pursuit of knowledge has a nobility of its own. But what knnw'ed e? No knowledge is worth obtaining for its own or any other sake unless it is or will probably be useful to man.—James Swinburne b> llectrical lieview.

mey Are Fearful of Speed and * Magnificent Spectacle. Snowslides are most frequent on steep mountains that have a bet-.y snowfall. With a billowy train cf snow dust boiling out behind and oveturning or crushing almost before they make an awful and mag cle. Their speed i£ ■ times so creat that trees alongside ar’ overturned by the swamping force •>< the ait which the slide has violently disturbed. There are many well authenticated instances where miners have been caught on the surface of a slide and by dexterous use of their skees have kept on top of the engulfing surface of the slide and come out uninjured. John Muir once rode down from the high Sierra on a snowslide. He was swished back down in a minute over a distance that had taken all day to c limb. One day while climbing up a steep snowy slope a slide started beneath me. and for a time I was on the surface of its upper edge, where the snow was about two feet deep. Wading a torrent will give some idea of the sweep of the coasting snow. The snow dust steamed and boiled up around me. and each time I struggled to my feet the rushing snow simply jerked my feet from beneath me. At last, almost smothered. 1 was dropped off the back end upon bare ground.—Enos A. Mills in Harper's Weekly. WEAPONS DECLINED. Virchow'. Odd Proposition When CbnllenKed by Biamarck. Dr. Virchow, the eminent man of science, had been sharply criticising Prince Bismarck, who. was then chancellor. At the end of a particularly severe attack Bismarck felt himself personally affronted and sent seconds to \ irchow with a challenge to fight a duel. The man of science was found in his laboratory, hard at work at experiments which had for their object the discovery of a means of destroying trichinae, which were making great ravages In Germany. “Ah.” said the doctor, “a challenge from Prince Bismarck, eh! Well, well! As I am the challenged party. I suppose I have the choice of weapons. Here they are!" He held up two large sausages, which seemed to be exactly alike.

"One of these sausages." he said. “L filled with trichinae; it is deadly. The other Is perfectly wbclesjme. Externally they can't Le told apart. Let bk excellency do me the honor to choose whichever of these he wishes and eat it. and I will eat the other!" Though the proposition was as reasonable as any dueling proposition could be. Prince Bismarck's representatives refused it. No duel was fought and no one accused Virchow of cow. prdice. « A LEPAGE PICTURE. The Work That Brousht She Artist Public Recognition. The label on a certain spring water still in use was des gnated by Du Maurier, who was probably not over nril f--r it. awl q Nsw York artist who b.'.o since feaiued disdneuou eked out the hardest part of bis early struggles by dcsigtriug advertisements for a commercial house. There have been many more perhaps, but the most conspicuous on record is Bastien Lepage, who through this very fact was forced into fame. He was pursued by unmerciful disaster through his youth in his efforts to study art. His mother worked in the fields to keep a sickly boy at school. At fifteen he went alone to Paris, starved for seven years, painted without success, but still—painted. He bad just finished a picture to send to the Salon when Paris was besieged, and be rushed with his comrades to the trenches. On the first day a shell feli into bis studio and destroyed bis picture, and another shell burst at bis feet, wound-Z-3 him. He was carried home and lay ill and Idle for two years. Then he returned to Paris and. reduced to absolute want, painted cheap fans for a living. One day a manufacturer of some pat ent medicine ordered a picture from him to illustrate its virtues. Lepage, who was always sincere, gave his best work to this advertisement. He painted a landscape in the April sunlight. The leaves of tender green quivered iu the breeze. A group of beautiful young girls gathered around a fountain from which the elixir of youth sprang in a bubbling stream. Lepage believed there was real merit in it. “Let me offer it at the Salon?” he asked bis patron. Tie manufacturer was delighted. “But first j-i.int a rainbow arching over the fountain." he said, "with the name of my medicine upon it” Lepage refused. "Then I will not pay you a sou for the picture." The price of this picture meant bread for months, and the painter had long needed bread. The chance of admis sion to the salon was small. He hesitated. Then he silenced his hunger and carried the canvas to the salon. It was admitted. Its great success insured Lepage public recognition, and his later work gained him a place among the greatest of living artists. A 'lark Twain AneedffZ... A friend of rhe humorist tells a story of the days when Mark Twain was a pilot on the Mississippi. One day Mr. Clemens missed his boat Instead of inventing an excuse he reported to his superior officer as follows: “My boat left at 7:20. I arrived at the wharf at 735 and could not catch It”—Harper'# Weekly.

■■ -■ ,j r England the Persian ambassador t o eourt demanded, but was denied, p. ece deuce over all other foreign tires. He revised to go t- court caua Ing it to be re; <■«'. :..t 'T' ill. He met the prince rece.it at t.. hMsc of the Lady SalisbWT <>• “ time. Tai -a nd?0 " royal bigl .iess ly not going to court, he said. “Now. > !r. my sovereign, he el * ■ ■ me w'm# Igob.ck to Persia. -- 0 s- '-' mg. be made a- pass toward Lis head. exiuvsCig de ipitation. The prince tried to appear e L.m. "But, s . you stiil am,rj| «>tb me. Lou have nol invited me to your I arty tomorrow night.” The ritice ex; mined that P was only a ri.ildren's party, but tin ambassad <r might come if he chose He did cLooso. fur be went and. being the only ambassador there, led all the guests, thus see ring heavily for Persia, which made bjia comfortable about ths neck again.

neathi-lng Faded Ink. Faded ink oL old documents, papers, parchments, Jtc.. may be restored so as to render Ae writing perfectly legi ble. Hie process consists iu moisten tag the paper with water and then passing over ti e lines a brus.i waich has been welted with a solution of sulphide of ammonia. The wiring wi.l immediately appear quite dark in color, and this color in the case of parchment will be preserved. Ou paper, however the color will gradually fade again, hut on a fresh application of the sulpb'de of ammonia it will reappear. Writing executed iu ordinary iuk which has been rendered illegible by age may bt restored by carefully moistening it with an infusion of galls or a solution of ferrocyani le of potassium slightly acidulated with hydrochloric acid Care must be taken to apply the liquid so as to prevent the ink from spread mg. Snndy’s Initiation. A Scottish gillie was Invited by the laird to take a pull nt his flask after gaffing the first fish of the day. "I cauna triuk oot a bottle.” protest ed the gillie, with a frown of disap proval.

“Aweel. try. Sandy." sr.id the laird encouragingly. And Sandy tried—tried so thoroughly that the laird gazed in mingled awe and admiration as the whisky gurgled and gargled out of the flesk down the swarthy throat until. wNii scarce a heel tap left in it, the “pocket W: ’ s h;:B ' ’ back to (he owner. "Hoot, Sandy, maybe ye were richt maybe ye canna trink oot of a bottle,’ gt'ped the laird, with a mighty sigh, “but, th. mon. ye'd soon learnF- - Bally's Magazine. Could Be Happy II We Wished. If in a less fortunate time than ours when the resources of mind and body were less varied and plentiful than they are now. men and women took delight in life, warmed both hands at its fire and filled their hearts with joy and gladness, may we not conclude that they were happy simply because they lived, as we might, in the right way, and put to tbeir right uses that which was provided for them?—Christian Register. When ike Ere* Tire. One makes ■ groat xstake by Baying th»t the eyes i -v sad that the retina, er r-< 4 jMrt. _ of the eye is fatigued. 1- 5 B the _se. for the retina hanty e- .-xs tired. The fatigue is in the irmec iz-.l other muscles attached to . .1 tae muscles of aeco sa.zama surround the lens of eye " «s a near object has to 1-e ' • it this muscle relaxes and allows - to thicken, increasing as refn pyver. The Inner and outer ire used in covering the eye os the . ject to be looked at. the inner t*-iug especially used when a r o&.e-t is looked at. It is iu the three m > les mentioned that the fatigue is feiL and relief is secured temporarily by closing the eyes or gazing at far distant objects. The usual indication of strain is a redness of the rim of the eyelid, betokening a congested state of the inner surface, accompanied by some pain. Sometimes this weariness indicates the need of glasses rightly adapted to the person, and in other cases the true remedy is to rub the eye and its sur roundings as far as may be with the band wet in cold water. Accurate Clock*. Every part of the clock down to the minutest detail has been the subject of study and improvement, and they are made and adjusted with such pre cision and delicacy that in testing them the question is within how small a fraction of a second will they run. Not content with their marvelous per formance when under normal eondi-1 tions. some of the finest astronomical clocks are surrounded by glass or metal ci-ses in which a partial vacuum is maintained, and in order that the cases may not be opened or disturbed the winding is done automatically by means of electricity, the frequency of the winding in some cases being as often as once every minute. Tbess clocks are set up in especially con etrected rooms or underground vaults, where they are free from jar or vibration. where the temperature and ‘bat ometric conditions remain practically constant and where every possible pre caution is taken to further minimize the errors of the running rate. "Why, you old villain, you killed h« In the market bouse in the last act You know it well enough. You are a hypocrite as well as a villain.” The laughter and applause that greeted this unexpected turn in the performance made it necessary to ring down the eartaio.—Harper's Weekly.

proverb. “Ila (H. haß given "P “ n lf be ha d become e’ bis estate forfeitbtTbPeing t£ anSent law of France haJ tb \TS uS Ids g ni:e. ikying thereby that the girdle held ever., tI.HL, j" was used as a purse had much to do with its importance in general ap weciation. We have an English pro £b confirmatory of this It is said. “Engirt, uublest, and tLa. It was iu very common use s ciea. from the frequency with txhich tb phrase occurs in old out of t e . literature.—Chambers* Journal. Flowers of Good (beer. Although Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes never practiced medicine, those who knew him intimately say that be cheered more sinking invalids, cured more sick people and did more good, even from a medical standpoint, than many of bis young physician friend* The secret of bis power lay in bis overflowing cheerfulness aud kindness of heart. He scattered "flowers of good cheer" wherever be went. With him optimism was a creed. "Mirth is God s medicine.” be declared. "Everybody ought to bathe in it Grim care, mo roseuess. anxiety-all the rust of lifeought to be scoured off by the oil o' mirth.” _ lanrarx Book. Thlerci. “No public library is safe from book thieves. Iu the big libraries they have spotters to watch men who ask for rare editions, but iu the small libraries we must depend on the girls employed who happen to detect a thief by chance. If possible we catch the book thief before be reaches the door and ask him if he has uot forgotten to have the volume checked off at the registry desk. It he is an old hand he says: “'I have forgotten my card, but 1 will bring it around tomorrow.’ "He bauds back the book aud disappears to reappear iu that particular library no more for many months. The majority of book thieves do not steal novels. They go after works of reference. almanacs, year books and S'.’/'i things, that most of them probably need in their business, but cannot afford to buy. That is why such vol umes are nailed down in many libraries, I b->v-,> actually ’tnowa a woman to get away with a city directory miler her cloai:."—New York Pres?. Native, of the San Blas Coast. The natives of the San Bias coast, part of the western coast of South America, have many peculiar customs. The Indian boy after his marriage becomes the slave of his father-in-law and must submit In all things to bls will until emancipated by his own ■laughter's marriage, when he sets up his own home and becomes then:* forth master of his son-in-law. The men are- very jealous of their women, and in case of war or other grave danger their first step is to kill the'r wives aud children. They believe dreamt, and insanity to be the work o. evil spirits, and the Creamer upon telling his dream is killed. The insane are burned alive. They allow no for rigner to sleep in one of their villages, Great Men. ft Is a matter of common observation that at the passing of th# great men of each generation there is a pessimistic feeiing prevalent that "there were giants in those days.” But the feeling has never had any warrant in the actual deficleneiei of the otlcomlng generations. Orators have cotte and gone and statesmen have come and -gone, and sometimes their immediate successors have not been discernible. But In time the men have emerged who have taken their places and who have improved upon the patterns they left -Des Moines Ka«riat«» Farmers Taxe Notice. Are your hogs and chickens healthv -nd in as thriving condition as you vould 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 >1 reliable drugstore. Smith, Yairer Fdalk. 48t f

*33 Pacific Coasj </ Tickets on sale daily, March 1 to May 15, Chi- 11 SI cago to San F rancisco, Los Angeles, Portland, |l ■ I Tacoma, Seattle, \ ictoria and Vancouver. || g| Correspondingly low rates from other points. I ■ a Pa; ’y and personally conducted excursions in through Pullman II ■1 tourist sleeping cars from Chicago to Portland, San Francr<o and II >1 Los Angeles without change. Double berth only i '.oo. fl tnolce of routes. Meals in dining cars (a la carte), 'v- r jpf nrTna tion as to the resources and opportunities, the “ c v !ima ? e and kindly soil of the Pacific Coast, how to JW V^\ S rn h c W “&!’ takes and what « costs via the Chicago, a Union Pacific and North-Western Line. Booklets and folders gSf postpaid on receipt of 4 cents in stair is. An agents sell tickets ria this line. “B est °f Everything, P flljJ A ' cNER. Trat-elir.g Agent. ' 1 1 11 22 Frfth Avenue. Chicago, Hi.

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