Decatur Democrat, Volume 49, Number 14, Decatur, Adams County, 8 June 1905 — Page 6

tut nrnfloroftT 'the secret service HOW THE STATE SPIES OF EUROPE DO THEIR WORK. Military Secret* Often Revealed by Local Papers to Watchful Governmeat Agenti — Hunuiu aud France Partial to Female Spies. When people read or hear of a secret service agent the picture of a mau armed to the teeth with revolvers and Stilettos, a mixture of a Sherlock Holmes and a Bill Sikes, rises before their eyes. Now. as a matter of fact, the best secret service agent in the world and the one most generally relied upon by the nations is the editor of the local paper. Let us call the town Greenbeach and assume that the government has decided to build a hidden battery close by. The editor of the Greenbeach Gazette will announce in his columns that Inspector or Captain So-and-so has arrived at the local hotel to superintend some work for the government. Next week tenders will be invited for bricks, cement and slags. The foreign Intelligence man. reading this news in Paris, Berlin or St. Petersburg, begins to chuckle, “This is going to be interesting.” A few months pass, while foreign eyes daily scan the paper for news of the battery. At last the editor gravely informs his readers that "new guns for the battery now building have arrived.” "Aha,” says the intelligence man. “our agent in London must have a look at that!” And accordingly one day a pleasant foreigner arrives at Greenbeacb. starts painting the cliffs, chats in the evening with the local topers at the bar and is a good listener when yams about the new battery are told. Finally he departs and sends his report to his chief, who hands it on to his expert branch for close investigation. As regards the spies of the secret Intelligence service, it is interesting to know that the supply largely exceeds the demand. For any one who has not been ir. the service himself it seems incredible what numbers of scoundrels, young and old. are to be found in most armies and navies who will willingly sell their country's secrets to the highest bidder. These and a few specially appointed agents ar® the main retailers of mil', tary secrets. There nre. further, the deserters, who. arriving in a strange country, generally without money, turn the knowledge they have acquired during their time of service into money by selling their country's secrets.

On this account of course prices are not so high as is generally believed For example, a government would rare Jy pay “several thousand pounds" for the purchase of a signal book. Was not the secret of the French field guns sold in 18l>8 to Germany for 5.000 francs (£200). and such a secret has a hundredfold the value of a signal book. Altogether the 1 fe of the secret servIce nr;n is not devoid of interest. He gets hardened to the business, and if it were not for the exciting fact that where other people deal in goods he deals in the lives of nations it would soon pall. Os course on the first occasions when you have been sent to a foreign country and carry papers in your pocket which if found on you would obtain for you twenty years' hard labor free of charge, it is difficult to keep perfectly at ease when talking to a high police officer or military official. In the end. however, you get used to it and careless till you are caught. The main agents of Russia and France are ladies, while Germany prefers men. So does Britain. The triumph of the French policy of employing female spies was celebrated in Italy when a well known lady of the French embassy managed to get the Italian minister into her toils. It was at the time Italy intended to occupy Tunis and to establish a protectorate there. The Italian fleet was preparing at Palermo. In only two more days it would sail, and Tunis would belong to Italy, when during one of the lovers' meetings the Italian minister let the secret out. The rest belongs to history. France arrived first and occupied Tunis. Here is another fact which may appear hardly credible, but is absolutely true: At the beginning of the South African war I had to consult with the intelligence department of a large German gun firm, and for fun the chief of the department showed me the record of the armaments of the Boers. Well, this record was true to the last line, while the report of the British intelligence department contained not even a list of guns sold to the Boers by British firms previous io the war. Great Britain has an excellent but small secret service. We pry less perhaps than any other power, but no important subject is left uncovered. We spend perhaps £5 against £SO by our continental neighbors, but much of our intelligence costs nothing, beuig accepted from honorary sources. For this reason it is frequently value’ess In the South African war many mis takes were made through inaccurate news and the employment of people who would go to any length to justify their employment for the time being. The compilation of facts is fairly easy in British possessions. Foreign officers can always secure admission to factories and dockyards, and the open ness of their treatment is not equaled in any other country.—London Ex press. Speedy Path to Pulchritude. “Doctor,” said the homely maid, “can you recommend something that will make me beautiful?” “Yes: inherit half a million.” replied the ,M. b. “Two dollars, please.”— Chicago News.

rm mt airuic -Lu The Sarcaßtic Cabman. The whip flicking hero of this story had driven an irascible old fellow a good three mile journey. When the fate climbed stiffly out and slowly pro-dnc<*d-i! big pocketbook cabby drew a deep breath aud prepared to be sarcastic. A watchful constable standing near prevented all thought of h>s relieving his feelings by the use of picturesque terms. Cabby watched Lis fare make a lengthy mental calculation of thd distance be had been dri. en, select the exact legal fare, count it twice o'er and tffeu proffer it to him. with an expression on his face plainly indicative of "Now. then, you dare dispute it ami I’ll take your number.” But cabby didn't dispute it. Instead he promptly accepted it; but. slipping his hand into another pocket, be produced a farthing, which he handed t< the fare. "What's this for?” demanded the old fellow. "One farden. currint coin of the rellum, sir.” said cabby, gathering up Lis reins. "I druv yer jest the exact distance represented by arf of that there sbAel under the three mile you reckoned. I ain't got no arf farden about me. but it don’t matter. You can keep the change. I ain't mean. Goodby. sir. and God bless you. Geeup, ’orse!”— London Standard. A Dreaded Quilt. Queen Victoria was an expert and indefatigable knitter. During the Egyptian campaign she and the ladies of the household employed themselves in knitting quilts, which at the end of the war were sent to Netley hospital for the use of the wounded. One of these, made entirely by her majesty and bearing an elaborate V. R. in the center, was the coverlet par excellence of the institution and in universal demand for a time. In assessing the claims of the candidates for the honor of sleeping upon it the medical staff naturally gave the precedence to the most severely wounded, and as the most severely wounded was the one most likely to die very soon. alas, an evil omen attached itself to the distinc tion. the climax of which was reached one night when a poor soldier, feel ing something touching his bedclothes woke up with perspiration pouring down his face and cried out. "Oh, sir do anything you like with me. but for God's sake don't give me the quilt!”

The Mechanism of the Salmon. A salmon is marvelously adapted tr the conditions amid which it lives. I' can cleave through tons of water fall ing .perpendicularly, yet its fins and its tail, which seem to hold the pro pelling power, are not less fragile than the wings of a bat. it can be killed without injury to its contour, and a plaster cast of it can be made, yet no mechanism can devise an instrument which will lie in the water and move is it does, and no theory of dynamics ns exp&iined either its postures in •l.e voter or its motion. Simple in is organization as it seems, its movements are as mi'.mtable by any human •oid . ivam e r.s the flight of a bird has prosed to 1 e. The Debts of Millet. The father of M. 'asiiuir-Perier called on Corot one day and found him in the act of finishing a picture. “A masterpiece”' exclaimed the visitor. “I mnst have it.” "It is yorrs." promptly replied Corot "if you will agree to pay the butebe” nd baker Lilis of my illustrious bin poor friend. .lean Francois Miliet.” “Agreed." said ti e patron, weil pleas ed. The 1 ills were presented to him and they amounted to nearly JG.OO' 1 neither butcher nor baker having beei paid for twelve years. Hi* Idea of a Lady. An English cabman had brought su? against a woman for not paying tl< legal fare, and his constant remark wi.s “She ain't a lady.” "Do yo know a lady when you see one?” asked the judge. "I do. yer honor. ' Last week a lady gave me a sov’rin instead of a shillin', and I called out. Beg pardon. madam. I've got a sov’rin instead of a shillin'.’ and she shouts back. ‘Well, you old fool, keep the change and get drunk with it!’ That's wot I cabs a lady!" Piilnfolly Frank. An Individual recently went into a drug store and asked for morphine. The druggist objected to dispensing it without a prescription. “W.y?” asked ti e customer. “Do I look like a man who would kill himself?’ "I don’t know.” replied the druggist "If I looked like you I should be tempted!” A SuKgeotion. "I’m glad you like your suit,” said the tailor. “Yes. it’s a fine piece of work.” said Slopay. much pleased. “It’s certainly a credit to you.” “H'm! I—er—hope you won't forget that it’s t debit to you.”—Philadelphia Press. Headdres.e. In Africa. The married women and the men of the upper Mobaiigl wear their hall long and in braids, which are profuse ly adorned with colored beads woven In and out among the locks. This coiffure excites the astonishment of all travelers who see it Coquetry is tht privilege of the sex under the tropict as well as in civilized lands, and tb< women are very proud of tbeir bead dresses. The arrangement of tbeli r.air requires a number of days, and while it is in progress or when the.' fear that it will be disarranged they cover the hair with a finely woven ne of wood fiber. Ivory needles hand somely carved keep the arrangemen in position and give it a truly artist! aspect

HUTTON'S ONE RECIPE. It Included a Paper Cotter. Ink Eraser and Rubber Band*. Perhaps the most ingenious and the -most original of all schemes for procuring autographs was from a lady in a western town. She was raise g f unds for the building and support of a public library, and she bad conceived the idea of issuing a volume to be called "The Authors' Recipe Book " Authors from all over the country, the most distinguished of authors—alwaxs authors with a capital A—had been good enough to send her a list of the favorite dishes of their own construction, with their method of making them. The cookbook was one of the many forms of literature to which the recipient bad never turned his attention. He bad no more idea of cooking than he had of milking a cow or of harnessing a horse or of setting a hen or of build ing a dynamo. He did not even care what was co- ked for him so long as it contained none of the ingredients of tripe and none of the essence of tomato. But he was asked to contribute a paper, which she would Lave reproduced in facsimile, stating what he could prepare most to his liking upon a kitchen range or in a chafing dish, with bis manner of procedure. This quite nonplused him until he bethought himself of one particular and peculiar delicacy in the evolution of which he could safely trust his reputation as an expert. In reply, for which be received no thanks, be said: "Take a long paper cutter; attach to tne same by means of rubber bands and securely, an ink eraser; insert the ink eraser firmly into a marshmallow plug and hold the same over a student's lamp or study fire until the marshmallow begins tosizz. drops into the ashes puts out the light or burns your hand And eat while hot!” He has never seen a copy of "The Au thors' Recipe Book!”—Laurence Huttor in Critic. BULGING GUN BARRELS. The Ruin That la Wrought by Carelews Handling;. I have sold guns for ten years, ant in that time four of them have bac their barrels bulged, one by snow, oat by dirt, one by sand and one by some thing else getting into it. One mar. -rawling through a fence got a little snow in the muzzle. He could not re move it with bis finger, so concluded to wait and shoot it out. which be did. b-rt he fzuud a bulge like a pullet's egg on the end of the barrel. Another got some earth in the muzzle and shot it out, and he. too. found the same kina of a bulge on the end of his gun. Another fired bis gun at ducks, which knocked him over on his back and fairly got aw sv from him. When be pick ed up the gun found a narrow raised ba.ld around the barrel fourteen inches frSm the muzzle. In i’.:is ease a wad Lad probably lodged then. This customer thinks the manufacture-"!. ought to give him a new set of barrels. I tel! him if the barrels bad not been good ones it would have been a burst ir' stead of a bulge, which might have maimed or killed him. Another man ly ingon a point brought down a duck with a broken wing which scurried for the water. The man ran and struck the duck with the muzzle of the gun and in so doing got sand in it. He blew most of it out and shot out tl-c rest of it. Weil after that shot he foun 1 a little b.ist- r two inches from the muz zle about the size or a man’s littie finger. Moral.- Do not snoot obstructions of any kind out of your gun if you value your life or gun.—Uncle Dan in Amateur Sportsman.

The 9oul of the Tailor. The soul of the craftsman can express itself more fully and clearly in tailoring than in any other trade. It the tailor's thoughts are poetic, he can issue pastorals in colors that are charmingly suggestive of billside or meadow. foliage or waving grain. He can make his overcoats speak of bleak December. Lie dress suits of frolic and festivities, bis frock coats of dignity and wealth, his cutaways of self content and his sacks of strenuousuess and he can make Lis waistcoats jingle 'ike limericks, bis trousers sing of sun shine or cf rain and mud. his spring suits chortle of hope and joy and bis summer suits prattle of flowers. If be Is an artist, he cat; make overcoat, undercoat. waistcoat or trousers seem a sensuous liaze. a reverie in color, a riot of action or a vigorous portrayal of conflicting emotions in a decimated field of desedation, and if he is a musician be can impart to his sartorial creations an expression that suggests the bleating of a lamb, the clashing of cymbals, the rattat of a drum, the ragtime movement of a cakewalk, the wail of despair, the shout of triumph, the roar of a lion er the bray of an asa —Sartorial Art Journal.

Married Angell. A domestic wife is merely a woman When we marry for love we don’t marry a woman. We marry an angel, i celestial, ethereal being with wings and a halo. As you value your happiness never remove the wings and halo. —Arthur Law. Her View. * She—There is no excuse for a man dancing badly. He—But if he cann-at dance otherwise? She—Oh, that merely would be an excuse for not dancing at all.—New York Press. — • Wot 111. Own. “Is the bouse you now live In you own?” “Not now.” “You have sold it?’ .*1 • “No: got married.” Command great fields, but cultivate small ones.—Virgil.

MEN and THE’R hair. PeculiarHle. That Pu»«le the Barbe. Who Notices The secretive, taciturn barber wa. finally induced to talk. He remarked. ••I've noticed one peculiarity about n customers that I could never quite ex, plain—the less hair a man has the more attention he pays to it. "There's a man who comes in nearlv every week for a hair cut. an if 1 shaved him dean from the back of his collar to bis forehead you U never know that I d touched Dm. Begot a short, light co r.'C. fringe that plays around um.er the nm like the soft, fluffy umge ;- - lJ " those shawls the women wear oxer their shoulders, but you'd think, to Lear him. that he could braid it aud do it up in coils. Wants me to be particular and trim it close on the neck and around the ears. I humor him. of course. I take a handful of somebody else's hair and sprinkle it on the cloth I put on him, and then I snip the at gently for ten or fifteen minutes aud make’ a great ado when I whisk him »ff. ■ And when be leaves the chair and savs he mustn't iet it grow so long again I say it was pretty long. I hope the Lord will forgive me. Nine out of every ten of the baldbeads are that way, but men who’ve got plenty of hair will keep away from here until they look like edges of an old fashioned hayloft. It's curious, aud. as I said. I never could account for it. —Providence Journal. Jack Sheppard as a Teat. Jack Sheppard bad a great hold upon tin- imagination of the people of bis time. The fact that 200,000 people witnessed his execution at Tyburn on Nov. 18. 1*24. "upon the tree that bears twelve times a yeare” is some witness to bis grim popularity. But one of the strangest tributes ever paid him was t r.,. sermon preached upon him in s Loudon ehurch. ‘Oh. that ye were all like Jack Sheppard!" began the preacher, to the stupefaction of bis congregation. He went on to draw a parallel between things of the fiesh and those of the soul aud - to point out that the genius shown in Housebreaking might have been bestowed upon "picking the locks of the heart with the nail of repentance.”

GRAND LOW RATE EXCURSION. — To 'Niagara Falls and Seashore Re. sorts, Via Clover Leaf Route. The popular yearly excursion to <iaeara Falls and the Jersey Coast Reeorls, via Clover Leaf Route will >e run on the following dates: Lugust 2 and 16 To Niagara Falls and return. Lugust 2 aud 10—To Atlantic City, Ocean City, Sea Isle Citv. Cape May, N. J., and other Atlantic coast resorts. All tickets good returning twelve ays from elate of sale. See nearest Clover Leaf agent for ates, or address W. L. ROSS. Gen. Pass Agt Toledo, Ohio.

CALIFORNIA Do you want to live where the climate is mild the year round — where labor is never oppressed by stress of weather, and where animal vitality is never lost by mere conflict with cold ? Do you want to live in a region where the resources are more varied than in any other equal area in the world, where the division of great ranches affords a fine opportunity to get a Small farm that will assure you a competence? Do you want to live where, with a minimum of labor, you can grow profitable crops of grapes and small fruit, oranges, lemons, olives, prunes and almonds, alfalfa and grain, where crops are sure, business is good and capital easily finds profitable investment ? Then go to California, where both health and opportunity await your coming. The Chicago, Union Pacific and North-Western Line Soeci^ y in^ Ween C ? lcago and the Missouri River, throuehoi? round ’ tri P rates are in effect via this line colonfst low rafj r mmer t0 < .- various Pacific Coast points, and tember andmrtnh2 ne ‘^ ay J lCKets will be on sale during Septo make the trin wbl< : b give an u °usual chance for settlers to maxe the trip at a minimum of expense. Francisco, 0 ard C are °P erated through to San ben h in , Pullrain toufi . t ,?a“S Chicago & North-Western, Union Pacific and Southern Pacific Railways. w. B. KNISKERN, ' I P. T. M. C. & N.-W. Ry., Chicago, 111. FILL IN THIS COUPON rate»“Jnd booklet *’ ™ ,p * * nd f ” B ANO MAIL IT TO-DAY. , r NW4B4 ® -

Farmers Take Notice. Are vour hogs and chickens healthy .ndVaa tbriVing would like to have t pn^ nd thicken them Egvptian H g j Cholera Remedy. rut P “ P Ai e at the end half gal.on cans. - Y B|fe r ol reliable drug store. Smith. Ajiger F d a 1 k. Low Rate •’ Inter**’Monev loaned at five per cent- in .erest, pavable annually or semi-an-nually. at' option of borrower, with privilege of partial payments at any nt-rest paving time. No delay in making loans. F. M- Sehirmeyer, Decatur. Ind. circus performers. To Them the Circus I* « ' ery Se * riouN Iffuir. To circus people the circus is a very | serious thing When a bareb ..-kr.de slips to the ground after a ' miersau t or’.-- loftv tumbler misses the should..: | it is U.s business to land ou the au.ience 's all sympathy, as if feeling >t self how it is to fall before »o many people. Very little the performer cares tor all the vast multitude. His mind is on the superintendent, bis particular superintendent, who is watching bun , at tl.e side of the arena, aud who. when he goes off. is sure to ask very pointed lv bow his eye happened to be inac- ; curate or his muscles infirm. There is l no place ill the circus for performers who fail. Even the clowns look a little bit senous behind the scenes. But perhaps that is ouly because the brack lines they paint on their whitened visages are always so glum and solemn. And what a wilderness of fun making people there are in the latter .lay circus * the Bumpkin, the Loon, the Harlequin, the Grimacer. the Merry Andrew, the Austrian Looby, the Zany, the Pierrot, the Punch, the Motley fool and finally I the German Broad I ace, whose name is Paddy Burke! One of the clowns was sitting on his trunk in the dress- , and rubbing It on his cheeks so as to ■ make a most funereal expression. The small boy asked him what kind of a I clown be was. He said that be was , just "Funny Friskey,” and he got his I visiting card out of his trunk. It read. . "H. Friskey. Clown aud Comedian.” and it bad a heavy gold rim. which made it very imposing. In the four corners it s; id Europe and Asia and Africa and America, which showed that H. Friskey’s fame had reached the four corners of the card. Vntil you saw his merry capers in the ring you i never could believe that a mau with i such a serious face and such an imposing visiting card could be either funny or frisky—Metropolitan Mags- ) tine Two Blessed Factor*. Beautiful is tl*e activity which works for good, and beautiful the stillness I which waits for good: blessed the self sacrifice of the one. blessed the self for- I getfulness of the other.—Robert Coll- | yer

CLOVER LEAF W Lo * TOLEDO. ST. LOUIS 4 WF J* RAILROAD “CLOVER LEAF Season 1905. Tucsds's of April. M av “’*><; Ist ftre. via "Clover Leaf K O a^.. Ju «* « J B. P.O E. Annual Meet ” July 11-13. Very low far '“ s from Toledo via rail or b!£ l op,l W l ? h J Cbataumia. N. Y., Excursion.' , Zsth. Exceptionally i, « Julj its, edhy the ’clover lei’TrVMt Bions ur toest Baltimore Md.. Christen En<u tion. July 5-10; rates one fa?'’" 1 ' round trip. PiustiT •Os I Sgn Francisco, Los Ange ie . . ore For the various I ventions to be held on the I during the summer the Clove, > clfc oZ will offer exceptionally low rI, Leaf verse routes, side tripsami », , »itU elegee. P loH, ’«i»a (>. A, R. Fares to Denver Col e low rat. oi one cent p- r m sale Aug JS to Sept./ P^„. tort| i«etX one route and return another ,e ," Ch a desirable side trips from f" arranged for those at tending Epworth League Convention at t. Wtll ' Tow round trip excursionsfa^‘I e 'tn stations to Den .er. on -h.- o. VtH ii S. Diverse routes. stop^ e '“ n ;„* '« S granted icc Slde ,4 California, Pacit tog,, T onsale via ail ru - b Good ? Stopover privleges at pleasure. ® Ott < Pullmoi Polocc Sleeping (or , , cl ninyCba.r and ■ afLCars ‘ fN * » ala-carte), high back seat c.'LT * r "t through trains. Fur rates apply to nearest Ticket Agent Confidentlap If vou contemplate ASY POINT write vs for epi* NATION r «CIAt, I IF!k 'V. L. ROSS General Passenger Agett E L. BROWNE. voiMo.Ona Traveling Passenger Agent T L MILLKR\nn Lecatar,

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