Decatur Democrat, Volume 49, Number 15, Decatur, Adams County, 15 June 1905 — Page 7

: WISDOM OF NOVELISTS. . yoll want to impress fools you respect their prejudices.-Antho I nr Hopesuccess in life rests upon one smal | ■« the secret of the entry into an g ‘‘ r uwu's mind to discover what Is- ° ssing there.— Seton Merriman. P To smoke a tine cigar, after a real ne r with a good friend, is about r« C heaven on earth as the average will ever find south of the sjarsjohn Bai n - « , i * Thei-e is nothing more fatal to a poI'tical career than brilliant impromp L and spirited orations. A states- ’ 1U - S words, like butchers' meat. Should be well weighed.-John Oliver, Hobbes. t young man thinks that he alone of trials is impervious to love, ana so the discovery that he is in it suddenly (Iters his views of his own mechanism It is thus not unlike a rap on the tunny bone.-J. M. Barrie. , Noun Versus Adjective. The current debasement of the lan niage. of which mention was made re-ri-ntiy by a correspondent, needs to b« utayed by occasional protests, says the London Chronicle. The education committees are being called in many quarters "educational” committees. This false refinement reminds one of the common inscription, “monumental ma loo,” which should be "monument mamo,” It is not tae artificer who Is monumental. Compare “numerical printer" for "number printer." People fear to use a noun as an adjective or rrongly prefer the adjective as mors ilegant. “War office” and “India ofice" are correct expressions, better than “military” or “Indian oflice,” jblle "colonial office” is not so good ai ‘colonies office” would be. Hungarian Forests, The Hungarian government does not | sell any part of its forests, but buys more each year. In some parts of ths SOiintry. as in the eastern region of the Carpathians, woods are found of sev>ral thousand acres in extent, consistag for the most part of red beech. [Tils is used for firewood, carriages, luvesand agricultural implements and j the manufacture of bent wood there are few fires, and they seldom lermanently damage the woods. There ire large resinous forests in Transylvania, but they are bot very accessible. 1 ind there are also some in the distric’ ■ if Marmaros, in the nor&east of the lountry. A Ml*'looted Proverb. Perhaps l; z English proverb or pro ! lerbial phrase is more frequently mis [noted than the one that speaks of hit ing a nail on the head. Unthinking eople almost always say the “right mil." which is absurd. The joiner who lit the wrong nail would be a "duffer" adeed. but an expert hand may now ad then hit his nail otherwise than lirlj on the head —Notes and Queries A WOODEN INTRODUCTION. low Gainsborongli Got Acquainted With Thicknesse. Gainsborough, the artist, was born it Sudbury, in England, and there ays Lord Ronald Gower, he designed lis first work of art. The orchard of lit father’s place had been repeatedly ilundered of fruit. No one knew who be thief might be until one day young laiusbotough saw there a rough look--0(1 man leaning his elbows on the nek wall. He made a sketch of the •How. and from this portrait the thief ras afterward identified. Later the boy cut out a rough figure rom wood and painted it in oils in the Ikeness of this man. The scarecrow ras known as “Jack reartree.” It robably represents Gainsborough's «t attempt at working in oils. It was the means of introducing the Mat to one of his most intimate fiends. Thicknesse. the lieutenant govfnor of the Landguard fort, near Ips fich. Thicknesse was one day walkwith a friend when he perceived that seemed to be a melancholy faced ouiitnmai). with his arn»s locked tost|w, leaning over the garden wall. He pointed nut the doleful figure to “ companion, who, it seems, was acoainted with it. He has been there all day," said the Menian. "I pity him. He must be Itlwr mad or very miserable.” Thicknesse insisted on approaching "retobe,] man and to his delighted orprise found him to be Jack I’earSo charmed was he with Jack A~' be lost no time in becoming acwith the author of Jack's be A*'. with the result of a warm and ■“wg friendship. ■ Doobtfnl Economy. ■/M course." he said, “I appreciate motive that actuates you in your t 0 along without a girl. A" 0 " ' g he said inquiringly as he ■RM. ■Taking everything into considers A,’; he went on. -"Is it true economy?' she demanded. e H. i hardly feel competent to ■“’jutlgnient on the question." lie rePhysician's bill for the treatment three cases of acute dyspepsia ■* fi'l'ipeil in the family during the K? 0 " 11 '- Xow - perhaps"- . lfl Was ust as as if lie ■L'. ,; ' ipd to Break it to her gently.— York Press. said Tommy Twaddles, look--11111 H's reading of "Terry til "what is a bootless at- ' lls th® sort - vour f’ttdiei ■J;.. to f?"t in withq-it my hearing ■JI/"’ 1 con.es Lome late f: >m tb.t "“■‘"■'Ted Ma Twaddler in-isiv.-.-1 doesn't stop to remove 'em at ‘ Jt of the stairs «v. He knows 0 Us e.—Cleveland l eader I

HABERDASHER. Tl»e Word Is Supposed to Meaa Tilings of Little Value. The word haberdasher first appears Ln the language as coming from haper tas, the name of a fabric mentioned in the Liber Albus along with wool, canvas and felt, as subject to customs duty, about 1419. A parallel and almost contemporary list has habertassherie. The word is supposed to mean things of little value—small wares such as buttons and tapes. Skeat derives it from the Icelandic haperbask—trumpery, pedlars' wares. In a register of burials of Ware in 1655 we have one entry: “Michael Watkins. London haberdasher of batts,” probably this being the first material of which hats were made. Chambers gives another meaning to the word. He says it is derived from the ancient name for a neck cloth, berdash, which is derived from beard, and tache, a covering. Hapertas was originally a cloth of a particular kind, the width of which was settled by Magna Charta. Hence a haberdasher was the seller of hapertasserie.—London Answers. THE LUDDITES. Authors of the Famous Stocking Frame Riots lu England. Early in 1811 bands of distressed stocking knitters in Nottinghamshire began a long series of riots, marked by most wanton mischief. Assembling in parties of from six to sixty under a leader styled general or Ned Ludd, disguised and armed with swords, pistols, hammers and axes and bound together by illegal oaths, they succeeded In smashing stocking frames in all parts bf England, and their daring outrages continued even when a large military | force was brought into the neighborI hood and two London police magistrates came down to assist the civil power. To such a pitch had this dangerous disturbance grown that a royal PfOola•mation was issued offering a reward of £SO for the apprehension of any of the offenders. Not until October, 1816, did this wholesale destruction and violence cease, by which time more than a thousand frames and many lace machines had been broken up and the i mischief bad spread into neighboring counties.—London Chronicle. Fire Thousand Distinct Langungres. Mr. J. Collier, writing on the subject, says that over 5,000 distinct languages are spoken by mankind. The number . of separate dialects is enormous. There are more than sixty vocabularies in Brazil, and in Mextcc the Nahua language has broken »p into 700 dialects. There are hundreds In Borneo. In Australia there is nc classifying the I complexities, and generally the number of dialects is in inverse proportion to the intellectual culture of the population. Assume that only fifty dialects on an average belong to every language and we have the colossal total of 250.000 linguistic varieties.- -Bearson’s Weekly. African Road Breakers. Engineering feats by big game in Africa are thus described by a recent explorer: “Elephant and rhinoceros tracks were übiquitous. These mon sters are certainly the best road break »rs in Africa. Among the hills some of the rhinoceros paths were extraordinarily well graded. Unfortunately the rhinoceros has a hide three-quarters of an Inch thick and so does not see the necessity of clearing the thorn bush from ovet his road An elephant is more considerate—he makes a clean sweep cf everrt'-’ng” Cosmic Horror. The two infinities of Kant did not ehill or hurt him. but his fearlessness Is shared by few. Only for a short in stant, at best, will most persons consent to look open eyed at any clear image of fat? or of infinity. Scarcely t friend of mine will look steadily at th' clear midnight sky for a minute in silence. The freezing of the heart follows; the appalling shudder at the dread contemplation of infinity, which may be called cosmic horror, is more than can be endured. If those stars are absolutely and positively infinite then there is no up or down, and they knew no beginning, will have no ending. With any such staring gorgon of fatalism the surcharged attention is shaken, and the chemistry of common life seizes upon the liquid crystals w ith avid hunger.—George M. Gould, M. D., Ln Atlantic. A Scotch Parson's Clever Reply. When musical instruments were first nsed in the services of the Scottish chinches many strict Sabbatarians objected -to the iniquitous proceedings. One of these persons, on meeting the minister some time after leaving tbe “kirk” because of the introduction of a harmonium, said with a sneer, "Well, and how is your fanner getting on. ’ (A fanner was a winnowing machine resembling the bellows of an organ in its working.) “Oh, splendidly, an swered the reverend gentleman. Its just keeping the good corn and blowing the chaff away. ’ -Spare Moments. yo Judge nt All. “Isn't that young man fond of niuale’” exclaimed tbe young woman. “I don't know,” answered Miss Cayenne "Judging by the way he will stand tip and listen to himself sing by tbe hour. I should say he isn t -Clu eago Journal. / Strong Diet. Veterinary—So your new bull pup •' Sick? What seems to be the ma.er with him? Owner-A little of , thing I guess. While we weie away | tins afternoon he chewed up and swab lowed the dictionary - Delro.t -re Press. „ - I

BABY RATTLESNAKES. From the Moment of Birth They Take Care of Themselves. The fallacies surrounding the rattlesnake begin with the very coming of tbe reptile. Many suppose that, like the garter snake, the bull snake, the members of the "racer” family and our other nonpoisonous snakes, the rattlesnake is hatched in broods numbering from-forty to eighty. Not so. Rattlesnakes are born into the world, as are all members of the viperoid family. in litters numbering from seven to twelve. Between the middle of July and the middle of August the babies appear. Lively, self reliant, dangerous little fellows they are, fourteen inches long, no thicker than a lead pencil, marked like the adult snakes and provided with a single button at the end of the tall, the first link in the series of rattles to be developed, ring by ring with each shedding of the skin. Motionless, eyes gleaming, the long mother lies extended across the back of a sand hummock beneath the fan like leaf of a dwarf palmetto, glaring coldly at her active, squirming babies. For a brief half hour she tarries; then she drags herself away, for from the first moment a young rattler enters the world he is independent of his mother and eminently able to shift for himself. Each young snake is a full fledged rattler, ready to hunt and ready to defend himself with the of death. Each flat, triangular little head is provided with the long, sharp poison fangs containing the jdentlegl venom of the mother enake.—Pearaon's Magazine. THREE GREAT AMERICANS. A Glimpse ot Emerson, Thorean end Hawthorne. Mrs. Rebecca Harding Davis says in her "Bits of Gossip" that Emerson as she met him in Concord in 1862 was a typical Yankee in appearance; “The tali, gaunt man with tbe watchful, patient face and slightly dazed eyes, his hUnds” clasped behind his baek, that came slowly down the shady village Street toward the Wayside that summer Hay was Uncle Sam himself in ill fitting uibTii plothes. I Bate often wonderel tinif non.’ ftf bis biographers have noticed the likeness?" Emerson said to Mrs. Davis: “1 Wish Thoreau had not died before you came. He was an interesting study.” She asked why, and after a moment he replied: "Henry often reminded me of an animal in human form. He had the eye of a bird, the scent of a dog, the most acute, delicate intelligence, but no soul. No,” he repeated, shaking his head with decision, “Henry could not have had a human soul.” Mrs. Davis remarks on Hawthorne's sh.-i ness and on his love of seclusion, which Indeed was a family trait: "Personally he was a rather short, powerfully gentle and low voiced, with a sly, elusive humor gleaming sometimes in his watchful gray eyes. The portrait with wljich we are all familiar, a curled barber shop head, gives no idea of the singular, melancholy charm of his face. There was a mysterious power in it which I have ne'er seen elsewhere in picture, statue or human being” ANIMALS’ WANDERINGS. Rat* the Most Migratory—Leniminffi Race With Death. The fat»e of the country mouse and tbe town mouse has a foundation in fact. Mice occasionally migrate in large numbers when food grows scarce and travel considerable distances ts fresh houses. Farmers in a part ot Perthshire had a good reason to become aware of this fact when a couple of years ago vast swarms of mice in vaded their cornfields at harvest time. But tbe 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. Whole troops of rats leave the towns at the end of summer and spend a mouth or two in the coun try, apparently in order to enjoy the change of food, which the county as fords at that time of the year in the way of fresh fruit and grain Before the cold weather sets in they are all back in their old quarters. Reindeer migrate with tbe same regu larity 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 tbe migration of the lemmings as an improbable fiction. Yet the facts are beyond dispute. At irregular intervals these rat-like creatures start out from their homes in the fastnesses of northern Scandinavia in huge droves, numbering tens of thou sands, and travel steadily southward. Death pursues them in a hundred forms. Hawks and other birds of prey hover above them. Foxes, wolves and man decimate them. Thousands are drowned in rivers. Yet the rest Strug gle 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 Asa th.—London Answers Coined In Bedlam. The phrase -'to sham Abraham” ..yras coined in Bedlam, or Bethlehem hospital. where there was at one-time av Abraham war I. the inmates of which upon certain days were permitted to go out as lieens- l b gcrtrs on behalf of the hospital. The-e mendicant lunatics were !:n" T "n as “Abraham men. and their • . -- j? - " lle I ! ' of the charitable was such that they had many unlicensed imitators, who. when discover !, were said "to have shammed Abraham.”

Winona Lake, Ind. Fifteen day ticket sale May 10 to September 30, H. 95. Season tiedets May 25 to September 30, limit October 31, $2.55 Mexico nineteen hoars neares Double daily through service, Iron Mountain route. Ask ticket agents G.or A. A. Deane, Jr., T. P. A. 200 Sentinel Bldg., Indianapolis.

A Guaranteed Cure for Piles Itching. Blind. BleedingorProtudingPilesT Druggist’sretun money it PaZO OINTMENng fails to cure any case, no matter ot How loou standing, in 6 to 14 days. Firs’ applicatias gives ease and rest. 50c. If your druggist han't it s nd 50c instamos and if will be forwar rded postpaid by the Pans Medicine Co., St. Louis m; TOLEDO, ST.LOUIS & WESTERN R- R.CO "CLOVER LEAF ROUTE’’ In effect June 36.190*. EAST, o »—OommerelAl Traveler, daily... 6:17 a m 03— Mall, dally, except Sunday ..IS.OI a m O 4—Day Express, dally 7:34 p na 0 38—Looal Freight 16)0 pn> WEST <0 3—Day Express, dally 5:53am to I—Mall, dally, except Sunday . 11:39a na Io s—Commercial Traveler, dally 9:11 p m Io S3—Local Freight 9:50 a m RAILROAD NEW ERIE TIME TABLE. & EAST BOUNE) -..——2i38 am, 22 ex. Sun— 6:68 a. m. Xo. 14 ex, SUU. 8:20p.m. •Qi Id —9.50 p. m. No. r 4 does not carry baggage, and does not arry passengers east of Marion, Ohio. WEST BOUND TO. 7 2 00 a m 40. 21 ex. Suu —10:10a. m .■<o. 3 12;44 p. m <0.13 - 5:56 p. m except Monday's & days fol’g legal holidays No. 13 does not carry baggage. Grand Rapids A. Indiana. In effect April 23. 1905 1 |>o s—Leaves Decatur 1180 am “ Fort Wayne...., 2:2C»m Ka1amaz00........... 5:20a ni . '* Arrives Grand Rapids 6:45am Petoskey 2:50 pin “ Mackinaw City 4:15 pm 3’,0 7—Leaves Decatur 7:59 a m Foft Wayne 8:50 am Kalamazoo 12:15pm “ Arrives Grand Rapids 2:05 p m Petoskey. .. ..... 9:35pm “ Mackinaw City ~.10:50 pm No. 3—Leaves Decatur 3:17 p m Fort Wayne ....... 4:3" p m Kalamazoo . . •’ Arrives Grand Rapids 9:40 pm Petoskey 6.05 a m ” Mackinaw City 7:20 am TRAIN? SOUTH No. 6—Leaves Decatur 1:08 am Portland 2:olam “ Winchester 2:37 am • Arrives Richmond 3:30 am •• Cincinnati 7:lsarn “ “ Indianapolis 6:50 am “ “ Louisville 10:0.5 am “ “ St. Louis l:’4pm No. 12—Leaves Decatur 7:14a m •• Portland 8:15 a m “ Winchester 8:56 am “ Arrives Richmond. 9:42 am “ *• Cincinnati 12:20 pm “ ‘ Indianapolis 12:10 pm “ “ St. r JUis 7:10 p m No. 2—Leaves Deca .r 1:1’ pm *• “ P inland 2:13 pm “ Winchester 2:50 pm *' Arrives Richmond. 3:40 pm “ •• Cincinnati 5:55 pm “ •* Louisville 7:00 am “ “ St. Louis 7:44i a tn Arrives Portland 8:55 pm No. 16—Leaves Decatur 7:46 p m •• •’ Portland 8:45 p m •• winchester 9:25 pm! “ Arrives Richmond 10:15 pm j i: 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 • Mackinaw City. Trains arrive from north at r.oB a. m. ~14 a. tn. 1:16 p. in f. 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 ifi their line. Persons contemplating building can save times, trouble and money by consulting them Office— MANN & CHRISTEN, Bowers Block, Monroe st. Architect A U C TIONEER For Good Service See L. H. CAGE (Speaks Germau and English) Auctioneer and Sale Crier. Rates J4.N) i Sales over SSOO 80c per SIOO. Leave address at Berne Witness Office, Berne. Ind L=l N N & p;a tto n Carpenters, Contractors and Builders’ Slate Roofers and Galvanized Gutters. Shop, Corner Rugg and Market Streets. Linn & Patton J. D. HALE DEALER IN Seeds, f+ay, Wool, Oil ] Salt, Coal, Lime, Cement Fertilizers. Office and retail store store southeast cor. ' ner of Second and Jefferson streets. {af-your patronage solicited. 1

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D. D. HELLER & SON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW Offica over Blackbury & Christen's drug store J, Q, Neptune, D, p.S. C. E. Neptune. D.D. 8 'Pnaqe 93. 'Phone 236. Neptune Brothers, DENTISTS.Rooms 1,2, 8, 4. Spangler Building. Decatur, Indiana. Office Phone 207. Lady Attendant English. German and Swiss spoken. FRED REPR ER T, Sale Crier and Auctioneer. DECATUR, ------ INDIANA Speaks English,JGerman. Swiss and Low German. DORE B. ERWIN, ATTORNEY AT LAW. I Ccruef ana second street* j General practitioner. No charge for consu' tation AMO3 P BEATTY ATTORNEY Al LAW And Notary Public. Pension Clalff.s prose cuted. Odd Fellows building < MERRYMAN i 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. Notaries. Abstracters. Real Estate Agents Money to Loan. Deeds and Mortgages written on short notice. Office in Allison block second story, over Fristoe’s Bmoke House Decatur. Indiana Weak Men Made Vigorous ivm? rawiwf What PEFFER’S NERVIGOR Did It acts powerfully and quickly. Cures when al ; I others fail. Young men regain lost mani ood; 01. men recover youthful vigor. Absolutely Guar ■ anteed to Cure Nervousne«e, Lost Vitality ' linpotency. N ijrlitly Emission*, Lost Power ! either sex, Failing Memory, P asting Dis eawes, and all ejects of self-abuse or excesses ant indiscretion WanUs off Insanity and consumption i Don’t let druggist wnpose a worthless substitute oi I you because it yields a greater profit. Insist on bav t ing PEFFER’S >ER Vl<iOß, or send for it Car J be carried in vest pocket. Prepaid, plain wrapper $1 per box,or 6 for $5, with A Written Guar 1 lutee to Cure <*■• Refund Money. Pamphlet ire. PEFFER MEDICAL ASS’N. Chicago, 1U Sold by Blackburn & Christen Mortgage Loans. /k’oney Loaned on favonl'e lerma. Low Rate of Interest. Privelege of partial payments, Abstracts of Title carefully prepared. F. M. Oof. Second aqa Madison st®« Decatur. Indiana. DOCTOR t J ' Beardsley, General Practice and Surgery. But Special Attention given to Eye Ear Nose, Throat and Chronic Diseases. Expert In Eittiog Glasses. Thoroughly equipped for treating Eye, Bar Throat and Catarrhal cases. CALLS answered, day or night. OFFICE—over postoffice. RESIDENCE—cor. Monroe and Ninth ste Office Hours—9 to 11 a. m. 2to 4 p. m l axative firomo Quinine lures a Cold in One Day, Crip in 2 Days on every CO, box. 25c

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