Decatur Democrat, Volume 49, Number 11, Decatur, Adams County, 18 May 1905 — Page 7

the gray wolf. n.« Conning ” Marvelous, and He Is 11 ' HifHeiiH to Catch. Tlie cunning of the gray wolf is marvelous and jt is most JitHcult t 0 cateh ua ppiug. He somehow seems to w that iron is associated with man I X piece of iron anywhere will keep p iul at a distance. If you shoot an antelope, for instance, and just put vour spur on the carcass you may leavt it as long as you like and no wolf wili touch it. A pocket handkerchief will do as well. Lobo, a great gray wolf who was the king of the pack at Currumpaw, a vast cattle range in New Mexico, was a thinker as well as a ruler. His pack ate nothing but what they had killed themselves, and thus poison was no good. At last a thousand dollars was 6e t upon his bead. This brought • noted wolf hunter from Texas, wit! his pack of great wolfhounds. But a"ain there was failure. Then two other hunters came with subtly devis ed poisons to work his undoing. Then 1 came on the scene. First I tried poison, and there was no combination of strychnine, arsenic and prussic acid which I did not use. I put the poisons in cheese melted together witli kidney fat, and during the whole process I wore gloves steeped in hot blood. And 1 scattered the bait all over the ranch. The next morning 1 went out and found Lobo's tracks, with the bait gone. I was delighted. I followed the track and found another bait gone and yet another. Then I found the three baits piled upon another one and covered with filth. Lobo had evidently carried the first three in his mouth and had taken this means of expressing his utter contempt for my devices. But Lobo's downfall came about through a big white she wolf who w T as always with him. I manr ed to catch her in a trap. Then I knew we should soon have Lobo. Night after night he came around the homestead and mourned his mate in long, plaintive howls. I knew be would try to find her body. I set 130 strong steel wolf traps, and in one of these I caught him—a martyr to constancy. And that was the end of Lobo.—lnterview With Ernest Thompson Seton. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. The easier people make money the easier they want to make it. Among the many mysteries of childhood is why grown people cry when they are glad. There are some people who think they have discharged their full duty tti you by praying for you. What do you use most during the day? Do you use the little white lie almost as much as your shoes? When a man makes one mistake he usually follows it up with three or four before he recovers his balance. Don't be conceited: get any map of the United States, and do you find any mark on it to show that you sre on earth? Every one admits that rich people are not happier than the poor, or as happy, yet every one is striving to become one of the miserable rich.—Atchison Globe. Two Ways of Dtiing Ru Minetto. I have seen in London only one office where there is any real enthusiasm. And the employees seldom have any interest in the business beyond drawing their salaries. In most of the factories, and even in the offices, they are taught a certain round of duties, and they are allowed to do nothing else. They seldom suggest improvements for fear of losing their places, where in America they'd soon lose their places if they didn’t make suggestions. Here it's the firm in its private offices and everybody else doing as little as possible and never stepping out of the rut they're put in, and there it's everybody working together, coats off. and the head of the concern glad to listen to the office boy and to do as he says if it means re •ults.—Vanity Fair. A NOTaBLE DWARF. The Witty Debut of Bornlwankl, the Famonu Little Pole. A very notable dwarf was Borulwaski, the Pole, of whose debut the following story is told: As a boy of fifteen, when he was just one inch higher than a two foot rule, he was presented to the Empress Maria Theresa, who was so charmed by his grace and good looks that she seated him on her lap and gave him a hearty kissl. “And what do you consider the most interesting sight in Vienna?” she asked the boy. “What I now behold,” fie answered. “And what is that?” “Why,” said the tiny courtier, “to see so little a man on the lap of so great a lady.” Naturally a youth who exhibited such a ready and courtly wit had a distinguished career before him. From that day Borulwaski became the pet of the courts of Europe. He was a special favorite of Stanislaus 11., who took him to Eng land and introduced him to George 111. and his family, and for more than half a century he made his home in England. Borulwaski, who at his tallest was a yard and three inches high, had a sister whose head vstis just level with her big brother's shoulders. He wau not only a handsome and courtly man, but a scholar of repute. He lived in five feigns and was laid to rest in Durham In 1837 side by side' with the Falstaff ian Stephen Kemble. Self Sacrificing; t.nve. Lover—You are worth your weight 1b Bold. The Girl—Then you'd better jiurry. for I’m taking antifat.—Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. An Impeachment. Grump— How dare you tell Phibbs that I snore? Mrs. Grump—How dare you accuse me of telling fibs?—New lork Times.

TESTS BY TORTURE. rhe World la Slot Yet Free From Barbaric Practice. England, as all tile world knows, was the last of civilized countries to abolish the test by torture as a regular legal institution. A historian who has made a special investigation of modern methods of torture has discovered that the barbaric practice is still common -in many out of the way corners of the globe. The early English system, too, has been widely imitated. Even in the time of Henry 111. the torture trial was in vogtie. First camcthree days of preparation by fasting and prayer. On the solemn day a caldron was made to boil in church, and a stone was placed apparently in the boiling water. Two juries of twelve men apiece were present in the interest of accuser and accused. Both sides tested the water, and if they agreed that it was boiling the accused thrust in his bare arm and took out the stone. His arm was then wrapped in cloth and sealed. On the third day the priest inspected the arm, and if it was perfectly healed the accused got off. It seems as if the testing representatives may have been tampered with or the examining priest may have been corrupted. The same preparation was carried out when the other method was tried, which was the carrying of a redhot bar of iron for three steps. The hand was then sealed and examined as before. It has been suggested, as many people escaped scatheless, that the priests had a secret cure for burns or for preventing burns. But such a secret must have been known to the chemists, and the chemists of today are ignorant of any such remedy. As late as 1174 a man was condemned to the boiling water. In all cases the accused had been declared guilty by a jury, and even if be succeeded in the ordeal he was often banished. In southern India there is a curious case of domestic ordeal. The natives would plunge the arm in boiling oil and come out scatheless. It is well known that the hand, protected by its natural moisture, can be placed in molten metal and not be burned. A missionary tells of a native who was very jealous of his wife. At last the poor woman, wearied by his reproaches, offered to undergo the ordeal. The husband boiled the oil himself, that there might be no error, and bade her insert her hand, keeping it there till he gave her the word to extract it. He let her hand remain in the oil for some time, and when she took it out there was no sign of burning. Knowing the furious jealousy of the man, the missionary had no doubt as to the temperature of the oil. In Arabia there is a more stringent though less dangerous test. A woman carried hot embers in her veil for twenty yards. If her veil did not burn, her innocence was established. It is well in considering these things to remember that the “fire tests” were the great conjurers’ tricks from the time of the Greeks to that of the red Indians. In the rituals of all old religions treading on hot coals, embers, burning stones, etc., was a common rite. It exists in Bulgaria today. In Borneo a Chinese meat firm intended to establish a business not long ago. The European inhabitants of the place were astonished to see the street covered for some distance with redhot embers and a respectable Chinese merchant walking thereon with naked feet. His object was to ascertain by this means whether or not this would be a favorable place to establish his business.- A traveler in Fiji recently photographed natives walking barefooted over redhot stones. The bamis of dry ferns about their ankles were not Flogging. The Jewish rabbis had a legend which carries corporal punishment back to the days of our first parents, which is quaintly reflected in that modern schoolboy's play upon names, “Adam Seth Eve Cain Abel.” Os course there is, too, the warning of Solomon, “He that spareth the rod hateth his sou.” or the old Egyptian proverb, “The back of a lad is made that he may hearken to him that beats it,” but if we must go on history alone the earliest records belong to the Bomans, who practiced flogging in sev eral degrees of severity. There ffvere the ferula, a flat strip of leather, a comparatively mild persuader; the scutica, a harsher instrument of twisted parchment, and the flagellum, a cruel scourge of leather thongs. Diamonds on Board Ship. Millions of dollars' worth of diamonds are imported into this country every year. In carrying packages of such tremendous value over seas extraordinary precautions are taken. They are immured in strong safes and so carefully guarded that not an instance has ever been recorded in which diamonds have been lost or stolen, though a man could easily walk off with half a million dollars' worth of gems in his waistcoat pockets were it not that it is one of the most difficult undertakings in the world to commit such a theft or even to find where the gems are stored on shipboard. The Barber's Foie. The origin of the barber s pole, Itself almost now a thing of the past, orlgi nated in the days of barber surgeons, when bloodletting was considered a panacea for most of the ills that flesh Is heir to. The pole was used for the patient to grasp during the operation, and a fillet or bandage for tying up the arm. When the pole was not in use, the tape was tied to it and twisted round it, and then It was hung up as It sign At length, instead of hanging out the actual pole used in operations, a painted one with stripes round it in Imitation of the genuine article and Ita bandages was placed over the ebop.

ANIMALS’ WANDERINGS. Country Mouse ni.d Town Mouse Fable Has Foundation In Fact. The fable of the country mouse and the tflwn mouse has a foundation in fact. Mice occasionally migrate in 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 of 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 cold weather sets m they are all back* again in their old quarters. Reindeer migrate with the same regularity as swallows. They 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 upon 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 theii homes in the fastnesses of northern Scandinavia in huge droves numbering’tens of thousands and travel 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. Aa the Guide Understood It. A party of hunters in the wildfi of North Carolina, wishing to cross the lake upon the banks of which they were encamped, made the necessary preparations. Then they asked the guide if he could row. “Ro'?” he queried in answer. “Ro’i No. I reck'n not. Reck’n I never tried it.” Under these circumstances the partv made arrangements to do the rowing themselves, and were consequently astonished when the guide, stepping into tfie boat, seated himself at the oars and prepared to be the motive power. “Why.” exclaimed one of the party. “I thought you said you couldn't row?” The guide was plainly puzzled and could be heard to repeat to himself several times “Ro’i Ro’l” “I reck’n'd you all meant ro' like * lion. I can't do that But pull an o’, why, I’ve done that all my life. I ■borely can pull an o'.”—Louisville Courier-Journal. Three Kinds Men. Here is a classification of men expounded by a spinster in an article, “The Truth About Man.” “Men as a whole.” she says, “may be roughly divided into three distinct species—the bold, the shy and the tough.” The first class includes “those self assured males” who fall in and out of love with every other woman they meet; the second class is made up of “the world's good fellows who have a great reverence for all women and silently adore one for .''fe without telling het so,” and the third species “is concerned only with getting on and making money, is absolutely indifferent to women ?nd marries only as a matter of expediency. The first of these we unhesitatingly condemn and find irresistible; the second we admire profomdly, praise svllhoirt stint and Ignore utterly; the third we dislike, despise and—marry-” Thaekeray's “Strike” For a “Ralae.” I hereby give notice that I shall strike for wages (he wrote to the proprietors of Fraser's Magazine). You pay more to others. I find, than to me. and so I intend to make some fresh conditions about Yellowplush. I shall write no more of that gentleman's remarks except at the rate of 12 guineas a sheet, and with a drawing for such number in which his story appears—the draw Ing 2 guineas. Tray do not be angry at this decision on my part. It is slm ply a bargain which it is my duty to make. Bad as he is, Mi-. Yellowplush is the most popular contr'butor to your magazine and ought to be paid accordingly. If he does not deserve more than the monthly nurse or the Blue Friars I am a Dutchman.—Jamw Grant Wilson's “Thackeray.” Do Animals ThinkT The following facts, which I saw with my own eyes on repeated occasions, fully convinced me that animals have the powers of memory and thought. I once had a three parts bred black and tan terrier, which slept in a basket in my bedroom that opened into the nursery. One of my children was from ill health very fractious, and whenever Tiny heard it cry she would go into the nursery, hunt about until she found a squeaking rag doll, take it to the side of the cot and. sitting up, shake it to amuse the<-hild. If in doing this she did not display powers of memory, thought and reflection I utterly fail to see to what her clever performance could be attributed. —London Globe. "Did the critics "like your performance of Hamlet? “The critics,” answered Mr. Stormington Barnes, “liked it. But a large number of persons who assume to be critics did not.”—Washington

During the summer the G. R. & I. will sell tickets for train 7 at a special round trip Sunday rate of one fare to all stations when journey can be made within the day. Mexico nineteen hours neares Double daily through service. Iron Mountain route. Ask ticket agents Gor A. A. Deane, Jr., T. P. A. 200 Sentinel Bldg.. Indianapolis. From March Ist to May 15th the Erie railroad will sell tickets to the Pacific coast and intermediate points at very low rates. Ask agents for particulars.

CLOVER LEAP. In effect June 26.1904 EAST, o 6—Commercial Traveler, dally... 6:17 am <0 B—Mail, dally, except Sunday. ..18 01 a m 10 4—Day Express, dally 7:34 p m 10 22—Looal Freight 1:00 pm WEST to 3—Day Express, dally 5 53a m <0 I—Mall, dally, except Sunday .. 11:39a m Io 6—Commercial Traveler, daily 9:11 pm Io 21—Local Freight 9:50 a m RAILROAD NEW ERIE TIME TABLE. EAST BOUND to, 8 2:38 a. m. to. 22 ex. Bun_ - 6:58 a. tn. to. 4 - 4:40 p.m to. 14 ex. Sun 8:20 p. m. to. 10 — 9.50 p. m. No. :4 does not carry baggage, and does not arry passengers east of Marion, Ohio. WEST BOUND to. 7 2:00 a. m to. 9 - 2:57 a. m 10. 21 ex Sun 10:10 a. m 10, 3 - 12;44 p. m 10. 13 5:56 p nr except Monday's & days fol'g legal holidays No. 13 does not carry baggage. Grand Rapids & Indiana. In effect April 23,1905 TRAINS NORTH. No s—Leaves Decatur 1:80 am Fort Wayne 2:20 am *• Kalamazoo 5:20 am Arrives Grand Rapids 6:45am “ ” Petoskey 2:60 pm “ •• Mackinaw City 4:15 pm N.o7—Leaves Decatur 7:59a m Fort Wavne B:soam Kalamazoo 12:15pm “ Arrives. Grand Rapids 2:05 p m “ “ Petoskey 9:35 pm “ “ Mackinaw City 10:50 pm No. 3—Leaves Decatur 3:17 p m Fort Wayne 4:20 pm “ “ Kalamazoo 8:05 pm Arrives Grand Rapids 9:40 pm ” Petoskey 6.05 a m ” Mackinaw City 7:20 a m TRAINS SOUTH No. 6—Leaves Decatur 1:08 a m Portland 2:01 a m • *• Winchester 2:37 a m Arrives Richmond 3:30 am “ ” Cincinnati 7:15 am 1 “ “ Indianapolis 6:50 am “ “ Louisville 10:05 am “ “ St. Louis I:*4 p m No. 12,-Leaves Decatur 7:14 a m “ •• Portland 8:15 am “ “ Winchester 8:56 am “ Arrives Richmond 9:42 a m “ Cincinnati 12:20 pm *• - Indianapolis 12:10 pm “ “ St. r juis 7:10 p m No. 2—Leaves Deca r I:l6pm “ •• Portland 2:l3pm •• “ Winchester 2:50 p m *• Arrives Richmond 3:40 pm “ •' Cincinnati 5:55 p m “ “ Louisville 7:00 am “ “ St. Louis 7:46 a m No. 30—Leaves Decatur 7:51 p m “ Arrives Portland, . 8:55 p m No. 16—Leaves Decatur 7:46 pm “ •• Portland 8:45 pm “ Winchester 9:25 pm “ Arrives Richmond 10:15 pm 1:30 train sleeping car to Grand Rapidsand Mackinaw Dity. 7:59 a. m. train parlor car to Stand Rapids and Mackinaw City 3:17 p m. rain parlor car to Grand Rapids, sleeping car • Mackins w City. Trains arrive from north at :o8 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 — Office 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. Architect AUCTIONEER For Good Service See L. H. GAGE (Speaks German and English) Auctioneer and Sale Crier. Rates $4.00 Sales over SSOO 80c per SIOO. Leave address at Berne Witness Office, Berne, Ind L I N N & p;a tt o n Carpenters, Contractors and Builders! Slate Roofers and Galvanized Gutters. Shop, Corner Rugg and Market Streets. Linn & Patton J. D. HALE DEALER IN Seeds, t+aV, Wool, Oil Salt, Coal, Lime, Cernent Fertilizers. Office and retail store store southeast cor. ner of Second and Jefferson streets. jay Your patronage solicited. 1

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