Decatur Democrat, Volume 49, Number 5, Decatur, Adams County, 6 April 1905 — Page 7

W ABY RATTLESNAKES. the Moment of Rlrth They P ’|fc Ta ke Care of Thenimelven. ■ fallacies surrounding tlie rattleE uegin with the very coining of Many suppose that, like .’^t r ter snake, the bull snake, the SgL s of the “racer” family and lt -r noupoisonous snakes, the ratis hatched in broods number- | SL in forty to eighty. Not so. Rat- ! are born into the world, as j members of the viperoid famiV M utters numbering from seven to ’weitt’ ' Skeen the middle of July and the of August the baliies appear. !9L self reliant, dangerous little they are, fourteen inches long, ■ . ker than a lead pencil, marked ike tie adult snakes and Provided agL single button at the end of the tail, P 1 ’ first liul< 111 the series of rat ' -lest' be developed, ring by ring, shedding of-the skin. Moo nless, eyes gleaming, the long lies extended across the back lfa |and hummock beneath the fan[ike Afof a dwarf palmetto, glaring -oldly at ber active - squirming baFor a brief half hour she tar- ■]...> she drags herself away, for trot®he first moment a young rattler pnter | the world he is independent of inlW’d'er and eminently able to shift for iJmsclf. Each young snake is a fuiiledged rattler, ready to hunt and reads defend himself with the sting f d®th. Each flat, triangular little

provided with the long, sharp M jgon fangs containing the identical of the mother snake.—Pearson’s THREE GREAT AMERICANS. 4 ot Eincr.on, Thoreau and Hawthorne. R»4>pcca Harding Davis says in her ’wits of Gossip” that Emerson as sbe wt him in Concord in 1862 was a typical Yankee in appearance: “The fall, Bunt man with the watchful, palientfiue and slightly dazed eyes, his |. 9 J»cbisped behind his back, that camjslowly down the shady village street toward the Wayside that sum tuer By was Vncle Sam himself in ill fittinJTbrown clothes. I have often wojßed that none of his biographers have noticed the likeness.” Eußs"n said to Mrs. Davis: “I wish Thoreau bad not died before you came. He an interesting study.” She asksOFhy. and after a moment he reI>liedß*'ll'“nry often reminded me of an anirp d in human form. He had the eye of ® bird, the scent of a dog, the mostßaute, delicate intelligence, but no s«l No,” he repeated, shaking ais beil with decision, “Henry could wthave bad a human soul.” Mntß'iavis remarks on Hawthorne’s Jivness and on his love of >eelus!on. vtueßdeed was a family trait: “Per •onalljThe was a rather short, power ully blit man. gentle and low voiced, vitb a sly, elusive humor gleaming 's'in his watchful gray eyes. Le polrait with which we are all faiiiiiar, la curled barber shop bead, ires no idea of the singular, melanIwly J arm of his face. There was a ■j.vsterfcus power in it which I have oisewhere in picture, statue |r uuffi|n being.” | Work nii.l i.origcvity. lAMßcai man who gave evidence in I division case testified as to lit' between brain work and kngMß’ in away that charmed the l.’vysOand will charm other brain l' jr WO One-third of the laborers in he is reported as saying. flßEun softening, and the average rural laborer dies much ii the hard thinking lawyer ■ ni M®evause his brain rusts from B k sit ekereise. “The use of lb- brain There is much in this. ■>djMHaii<l we believe that thormigli ■atinill as to lunacy would astonish | ise who imagine that it is the wear I“1 ttarbf high pres-uro think ng and ,nore diau all . vt biug ■ ;f ‘men mad. But some dis ■mt surely must be allowed in tie J'e of fiwyers, for instance—for the ct that the weaklings are killed or -iitened off early, while in the coun air ®ven a man of poor stamina <1 insußiciently fed can vegetate for long tifce: also worry must lie recked with. If hard brain exercise does t kill, Ihronic brain worry will, and two are too often associated noways.- Pall Mall Gazette. A Gigantic Wooden Stnfne. n tfaeSJapanese capital there is a "otic image of a woman, made of “1 and plaster, dedicated to Hachi- »■ the god of war. In height measures fifty-four feet, the head ue, which is reached by a winding irwayßn the interior of the figure, ng large enough to comfortably hold {enty per-ons. The figure holds a ?e Wooden sword in one hand, the de of the weapon being twentyen feetpong, and a ball twelve feet diameter in the other. Internally model [is fitted up with extraordi7 anatomical arrangement which to represent the different 'tious of the brain. A fine view of country is obtained by looking r, iigh one of the eyes of tlie figure. 9flkftradition says that during time of the Teshomeng rebellion. ; '22. hundreds of cords of wood “e piledßround it and fired, but that I 'acred jobject itself failed to burn T«l« Cancer In Time. —' ■fcnglish specialist declares that •iBK las yet to be said in oneor th • e-fourths of the cancer es when seen bv the operating surm. A general acceptance of the w that ea ncer has usually a preand that this stage is ' one in which an operation ought Performed would be the means many lives.

When Yon Loae Your Taatn, “When people lose their taste,” said a physician, "they retain their old likes and dislikes just the same. Miss Smith, for instance, can't tell a slice of roast beef from a fried onion, but she dis- , liked onions before her taste went, and therefore she won't eat them now. People lose their taste through severe Illnesses, and with the loss of taste the loss of smell nearly always goes; hence queer, cruel practical jokes. 1 know a woman without smell to whom a pint of onion juice was sent in a cologne bottle. She deluged herself with this onion juice and appeared in a crowded heated ballroom. "To a man without taste or smell all cheeses must be alike, yet old Brown low won't touch limburger. He says it would make him ill, and probably it would. It is very odd to hear these de ficient people praising and condemning food and drink. They do it. though. They do it as heartily as you or I. 1 have seen old Brownlow send away in disgust a glass of white wine, claiming it was corked, while at the same time he ate calmly an addled egg.”—Baltimore Herald. The Confusion of Wives. Occasionally the excess of wives in Utah leads to amusing consequences, as when one of the apostles invited a visiting gentile to dinner. The guest lost the address and looked up the apostle in the directory. He observed that his hostess, though she answered to the proper name, seemed unprepared

for him, and presently be heard her at the telephone. "Oh. Emma! Is John living at your house this week? Is he expecting somebody to dinner today ? Very weL. The gentleman will be there in a few minutes.” Then returning to the stranger she handed him a paper slip. “You came to the wrong bouse, sir. This is the address you want.” On another occasion a little girl came running into the parlor while a visito' was calling. “Mamma, mamma! Papa wants his suit ease packed. He is going to live with Aunt Emma this week.”—Leslie's Monthly. Meats nnd Digestion. Os all known meats veal is the hard est to digest, requiring five hours and thirty minutes. The Italians are a happy people. They are healthy am' hopeful. Their favorite meat is veal Veal in the New York markets must weigh exactly 120 pounds to the car eass to be perfect. That is the stand ard of quality and price. All sorts of tricks are resorted to to hit the mark precisely. The question is, What i.» best for the human race, food that re quires a long time to digest or a short time? Roast beef is digested in three hours. We Americans are great eat ers of pork, which is nearly as hard to digest as veal, requiring five hourand fifteen minutes. We are a nation ot dyspeptics, reveling in fresh bread, which takes three hours and fifteen minutes. China and Japan live on rice, which digests in one hour.—New York Press. Took Advantage of the Occasion. A barrister with a long experience of Irish juries tells the following araus ing story as illustrating their eccentricities: A man was charged with committing a murderous assault upon another as a result of some political differences. The assault having been committed at night, there appeared to be some difficulty in identifying the assailant, and. as a matter of fact, the counsel for the defense made out an excellent case for the prisoner, calling witnesses to testify that he was nowhere near the spot where the assault took place on the night in question. Everybody concerned fully expected that the jury would bring in a verdict of acquittal, yet to the general aston ishment the foreman announced that the prisoner had been found guilty “Rut.” be added, observing the genera! consternation created by his state ment, "not guilty of this assault, me lord. This is the spalpeen who stole Biddy McCarthy’s pig last year, and we foind him guilty of that!” West Point's Battle Monument. On the shaft of Battle monument at West Point appears the following inscription: “In memory of the officers and men of the regular array of the United States who fell in battle during the war of the rebellion this monument is erected by their surviving comrades." On the pedestal of the monument appear the names of all the officers of the regular army who were killed in action in the civil war or who died as a result of wounds received in action. The names of all enlisted men who wete killed in action or who died as a result of wounds appear on bronze girdles surrounding granite spheres which form a part of the base of the monument. The shaft is surmounted by a figure of Victory design ed by Frederick Macmonuies. Overe<! ocafpfl Hindoo®. There exists among India's educated classes a mad desire for professional vocations. Take a walk in certain streets in India, and you will observe a perfect panorama of signboard depicting professional callings, and the bust ness houses are principally conspicuous by the.r absence.—Times of India. siopped tn«- uoto. In the sixteenth century, it is alleged ♦here was a successful effort made tc stop rain by the use of gunpowder Benvenuto Cellini tells us in bis memoirs that when Margaret of Aus tria entered Rome it rained heavily “I pointed several large pieces of ar tillery iu direction shbere the clouds were thickest and w hence a del uge of water was ®ready pouring then when I began to fire the ram stopped, and at the fourth discharge the sun shone «"♦ ”

Why We Have One Sided Men. Faculties must be exercised or they will not grow. Nature is too good an economist to allow us to keep any faculty or function which we do not .employ. We can have just wbat we Us» and that will constantly Increase. Everything else will be gradually taken away from us. Man becomes strong and powerful and broad just in proportion to the extent and bealthfulness of tlie activity of his faculties, and it must not be one sided, not an exercise of one or two faculties or one set of faculties, or the man will topple over. Balance in life comes from the health ful exercise of all the faculties. One reason why we have so many one sided men in this country is because they pursue one idea, exercise one side of their nature, and of course they cannot retain their balance. This Is one of the curses of specialties They are a good thing for the race but death to the individual who pur sues his specialty at the expense of the development of the all a round man.—O. S. Marden in Success Maga zine. Needed No Introduction. “It pays sometimes to know a littie of the family history of your clients,” said a business woman the other day "It would have saved me from making a blunder if I had known tlie relations that formerly existed between two men wjio met in my office. Their business was practically of the same nature, and as 1 was obliged to leave them together for a few minutes while I attended to some telephone calls I thought it would be more agreeable if I introduced them. They responded rather stiffly, but I put that down to temperament and went into my inner office. When I returned a quarter of an hour later the younger man dis patched his business as quickly as pos sible and got out. The other said: “ ‘I was not aware that you were ae quainted with my ex-brother-in-law.’ “‘Brother-in-law?’ I asked stupidly. “ *Y’es. My sister got a divorce from him last summer.’ "—Brooklyn Eagle. Schooln In France. The Flinch system of education is intensely national. Its plan is exactly the opposite from our own school system. With us the local community controls primary schools. In France the local community has no voioe in the matter. The French system is the most centralized, the most strictly regulated, the most autocratic and the farthest removed from democraticideas of any school system in existence. The exact uniformity of the schools is almost unbelievable. The minister of instruction, sitting in his office in Paris, can tell at any moment just what fable of La Fontaine each child of a certain age throughout the whole of France is reciting. Teachers are not allowed any latitude at all. The result <s to leave both teachers and scholars almost completely lacking in mental originality.—F. A. Vanderlip in Scribner's. THE SCHOOLTEACHER. How a Yonnff Man Fresh From College Makes His Start. A young man fresh from college who decides to become a schoolteacher has many things to consider. The piofession, if it can he called a profession, is still unorganized. No standard of ex cellence, no diploma certifying ability is required. Methods of teaching in public schools in New York state are very different from those in Colorado, and those in Utica are different from those in Buffalo. There are private schools of all kinds. There are almost as many methods of teaching arithmetic as there are of teaching vocal music. To obtain his first position he or diuarily joins an agency. He takes to the agency his record at college, supplemented by as many pleasant recommendations from his professors as possible, pays bis yearly fee and promises the agency a certain percentage—s per cent usually—of his first year's salary. Occasionally his college will find a place for him in one of the schools that prepare directly for it. At any rate, h“ will find without great difficulty a position that will support him. Perhaps it will be in a little denominational boarding school, where lie will teach thirteen different subjects during his first year, as one man I know did. If he survives his first year successfully and with some measure of content in the work he is likely to be a teacher for the rest of his life.—Leslie’s Monthly. ♦nine people Are Blind to Chances. It is a dangerous thing to wait for opportunities until it becomes a habit. Energy and inclination for hard work ooze out in the waiting. Opportunity becomes invisible to those who are doing nothing or looking somewhere else for it. It is the great worker, the man who is alert for chances, that sees them. Some people become so opportunity blind that they cannot see chances anywhere—they would pass through a gold mine without noticing anything pre-cious-while others will find opportunities in the most barren and out of the way places Bunyan found opportunity in Bedford jail to write the greatest allegory in the world on the untwisted paper that had been used to cork his bottles of milk. A Theodore I arker or 1 Lucy Stone sees an opportunity to go to college in a chance to pick berries. One boy sees an opening to his ambition in a chance to chop wood, wait on table or run errands, where another sees no chance at all. One sees an opportunity to get an education in the odds and ends of time evenings and half holidays, which another throws away.—Orison Swett Marden in Suecess Magazine. When an old maid bumps her head against the door in the dark she never has to worry over the way people will wonder if her husband did it.—Baltimore American.

A Guaranteed Cure for Piles. Itching Blind. Bleeding or Protuding PilesT Druggist’srefun money if PAZOOINTMENng fails to cure any case, no mai ter ot How loou etauaing. in 6 to U days. First spplica'h s gives ea>e and rest. 50c. If your druggist h;<n't it s nd 5 c. insiamne ana o will be lorwarrdud postpaid by the Paris Medicine Co., St. Louis Mo j CLOVER LEAF. in effect June 36,1904 EAST. j »—Oommerctel Traveler, dally... 6:17 a m J t—Mall, dally, except Sunday ..12 dam u 4—Day Express, dally 7-34 p m o 93—Looai Freight l1:0 1 pm WEST 0 3—Day Bxpreee, dally 5 53* m fj I—Mall, dally, except Sun lay .. 1 39a m 0 s—Oommercl*! Traveler, dally 911 pm .. ..T.n»«l 9-.511 a m RAILROAD NEW EHIE TIME TABLE. EAST BOUND io. 8 2:38 a. m. <O. 22 ex. Sun 6:58 a. m. 0. 4 4:40 p. m. 40. 14 ex. Sun 8:20 p. m. io. 10 9.50 p. m. No. i 4 does not carry baggage, and does not arry passengers east of Marion, uhio. WEST BOUND 'O. 7 2:00 a. m < 9 2:57 a. m 40. 21 ex. Sun 10:10 a. m lio. 3 - 12; 44 p. m except Monday’s & days fol’g legal holidays i No. 13 does not carry baggage. Grand Rapids & Indiana. In effect Sept. 25.1904 TRAIN* NORTH. Xo s—Leaves Decatur 1:30 a m ' •• “ Fort Wayne 2:20 am j “ Kalamazoo s:2oam Arrives Grand Rapids 6:45am “ “ Petoskey 2:50 p m “ “ Mackinaw City 4:15 pm N.o 7—Leaves Decatur 7:59 a m Fort Wayne B:soam ” Kalamazoo 12:15 pm “ Arrives Grand Rapids 2:05 pm “ •* Petoskey 9:35 pm “ “ Mackinaw City 10:50pm Vo. 3—Leaves Decatur 3:17 p m " •• Fort Wayne 4-Jopm “ “ 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 2:01 a m Winchester 3:52 am Arrives Richmond 3:30 a m “ ” Cincinnati 7:15 am “ “ Indianapolis 6:50 am “ “ Louisville 10:05am “ “ St. Louis l:3o p m No. 12—Leaves Decatur 7:l4am “ •* Portland 8:15 am “ •* Winchester 8:56 am “ Arrives Richmond. 9:42 am “ *• Cincinnati 12:20 pm “ “ Indianapolis 12:10 pm “ •* Louisville 7:10 pm “ “ St. r ouis 7:10 p m No. 2—Leaves Deca r 1:16 p m “ “ P irtland 2:13 p m •' “ Winchester 2:50 pm *• Arrives Richmond 3 40pm “ •• Cincinnati 5:55 p ni “ “ Indiananolis 11:55 pm “ •* Louisville 7:00 am “ “ St. Louis 7:22 am No. 30—Leaves Decatur 7:5] p m “ Arrives Portland, 8:55 p m No. 16—Leaves Decatur... 1 8:46 p m “ “ Portland 9:45 pm “ Winchester 10:25 p . “ Arrives Richmond 11:15 i f 1:30 train sleeping car to Grand Rapids and dackinaw Dity. 7:59 a. m. train parlor car tc >rand Rapids and Mackinaw City 3:17 p. m. rain parlor car to Grand Rapids, sleeping car a Mackin? -v City. Trains arrive from north at 08 a. m. z .i4 a. m. 1:16 p. m. 7:51 p.m. Bryson. Age. C. L. Lockwood. G. F.A Gr. Rapids. Mic ROY ARCHBOLD DENTIST I. O. O. F. BLOCK 'Phones — Offioe 164. residence 245 MANN &CHRISTEN, Architects. Are prepared to do any kind of work in their line. Persons contemplating building can save times, trouble and money by consulting them. Office- MANN & CHRISTEN, Bowers Block. Monroe st. Aichlteci AUCTIONEER For Good Service See L. H. GAGE (Speaas German and English) Auctioneer and Sale Crier. Rates J4.PC Sales over SSOO 80c per SIOO. Leave address at Berue Witness Office, Berne, Ind lTn N & PATTON Carpenters, Contractors and Builders Slate Roofers and Galvanized Gutters. Shop, Corner Ruggand Market Streets. Linn & Patton J. D. HALE DEALEH IN Seeds, f+aY, Wool, Oil Salt, Goal, Lime, Gerneql Fei’tilizei’s. Office and retail store store southeast cor ner of Second and Jefferson streets. JyV Your patronage solicited. 1 H. O. WELLS, M. D., SPECIALIST. 723 CLINTON’STREET, [FORT WAYNE - " Cures Piles. Fistula, Fissure. Stricture o. the Rectum. Irching. Bleeding. Ulceration. Constipation and all diseases of the Rectum. Also Rupture. Dr. Wells will be at the Murray hotel, in the forenoon, and at the Shamrock hotel in Geneva in the afternoon, on the first Tuesday in every month. In order to introduce his painless treatment, he will give one treatment free to all who call tc see him.

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D. D. HELLER & SON, ATTO tXi YS AT LAW. Oflicaover Blackburn & Cbrlsten'sdruc store J, Q. Neptune. D. D. S. C. E. Neptune. D.D. 8 ’Phone 23. 'Phone 236. Neptune Brothers, DENTISTS.’ Rooms 1,2, 3,4, Spangler Building, Decatur, Indiana. Office 'Phone 207. Lady Attendam English, German and Swiss spoken. FRED REPPERT, Sale Crier and Auctioneer. DECATUR, - - - --- INDIANA Speaks Swiss and Low German. DORE B. ERWIN, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office.—Corner Monroe and Second street* General practitioner. No charge for consul tatlon AMOS P. BEATTY ATTORNEY AT LAW And Notary Public. Pension claims prose cuted Odd Fellows building. ’ MERRYMAN & SUTTON. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, DECATUR. IND. office—Nos 1. 2 3. over Adams Co. Bank, We refer, by permission to Adams Co. Bank BCHURGER & SMITH, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Notar es. Abstracter*. Real Estate Agents Money to Loan. Deeds and Mortgages written on short notice. Office in Allison biock second story, over Fnstoe’s Smoke House Decatur. Indiana WeakMsnlliladevigorous I’-’iiAV M PEFFER’S NERVIGOR Did It acts powerfully and quickly. Cures wtien a. •there faD. Young men regain lost mantood: ol nenrecover youthful vigor. Absolutely Gua’inteed to Cure NervousneMH, Lost vitality Impotency, Nightly Fniission*. Lost Pou* cither sex, Failing Memory, Wasting ea»es ( and all effects of self-abuse or excesses a.. indiscretion. Wards oft insanityaud consumptlo; Don’t let druggist impose a worthless substitute o you because it yields a greater profit. Insist on bax Ing PEFFER’S NER VIGOR, or sendfor it Ca be carried in vest pocket. Prepaid, plain wrappe i per box, or 6 for $5, with A Written Gnat mteefoCureor Refund Money. Pamphlevfrt VEFFEB MEDICAL ASS’N, Chicago. 11) Sold by Blackburn & Christen Mortgage Loans. Money Loaned on favomt'e 'erms, Low Rate of Interest. Privelege of partial payments, Abstracts of Title carefully prepared. F. M. Gos. Second <u|o Madison ate. Oecatuf. Indiana. DOCTOR E. J. Beardsley, General Practice and Surgery. But Special Attention given to Eye Ear ■foee, Throat and Chronic Diseases. Expert In Pitting Glasses. 'horoughly equipped for treating Eye. Ear Throat and Catarrhal cases. CALLS answered, day or night. OFFICE —over postoffioe RESIDENCE—cor. Monroe and Ninth sts Jffice Hours--9 to 11 a. m. 2 to 4 p. m axative firomo Quinine ires a Cold in One Day, Crip in 2 Days /C j/ on every box. ssc

$250,000, $250,000 to loan on improved farms at lowest rate of interest, we can place , your a lower rate of interest and less expense than any other Agency in ’ he city. The Decatur Abstract & Loan Company Rooms 3 and 4, Studabalrnr Block - - AGS'"' .SA' I DON’T Bl A SLAVE To the liquor or Drug Habit V hen ;* speedy, hirmle-s and : permanent Cure is within the reach of all? THOUSANDS of happy, prosperous and .soderMen testify to the efficacy of the Cure as administered ai : THE KEELEY INSTITUTE HAIhON, INDIANA 120 4 S Adams Street Confidences Carefully Guarded ■ —rw in— ■r~ Arkansas Texas Louisiana An ideal country for cheap homes. Land at $5 $lO, sls, acre; gro»s corn, cotton, wheat, oats, grasses, fruits and vegetables. Stock ranges 10 months in the year. Southeast Missori, Akansas, Louisiana and Texas are full of opportunities — the climate is mild, the soil is rich, the lands are cheap. Low home-seekers’ rates —about half fare —via the Cotton Belt twice a month — first and third Tuesday. For descriptive literature maps and excursion rates j write to L. 0. SCHAEEER, T. P. A. Cotton Belt Route CINCINNATI OHIO.