Decatur Democrat, Volume 49, Number 28, Decatur, Adams County, 14 September 1905 — Page 6

HIT BY A SHELL. V A W riter In a Boer Enpagemenl De* Ncribes Hiw Feeling*. Soon tLeir gunners gut our distance and shell.- were screaming ;ffld bursting over the convoy, says Robert MeCaw in "A Prisoner With De Wet” in the National Magazine. Several wagons in front of us were blown up and the oxen scattered in writhing masses on the road. The Kaffir who led our team took fright and boited. the oxer swerved as a shell burst in front of them, and, the wheels suddenly going into a deep rut, the heavy wagon turned completely over, grinding me beneath its weight. My head bursting. 1 was falling down through blackness in the midst of a thousand crimson serpents. Somebody held my heart in his hand, was squeezing it. and then— Thank heaven, this is death! Ages after there was a roarif g of waters far beneath me. Thon it thundered on my naked brain. A faint star was shining somewhere. It rushed toward me. gioaiug bigger and big ger. until I was swallowed up in it—and my eyes were open. The wagon was righted. I was dripping wet, for the drivers had thrown water upon me. I heard the boom of the guns and the crash of bursting shells. I tried tc rise, but my bead seemed to float away from me and I felt myself striking the ground, but I did not feel myself falling. They lifted me on the wagon and the oxen moved off. My bead and face were sticky with thick blood and dust, and I was in such pain that I did not know where the pain was. READ A GOOD BOOK OFTEN I But Let the Interval. Between Readlugs Be Fairly Long. So great has been the affection or readers for the books that have given them delight that literature is full ot proofs of gratitude toward noble books. There have been countless comparisons and metaphors used to make clear the relation between the book and the reader. Perhaps the most original was hit upon by Coleridge, who compares an excellent book to a well chosen and well tended fruit tree. He says, "We may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.” But, though bis simile pleases the fancy, it does not quite satisfy the judgment. While the fruit of a tree must yield much the same flavor always, the gratification we experience from reading must always differ according to the condition of mind of him who reads. It has been said that a traveler can bring home only what be takes with him, which means that the pleasure derived from traveling is entirely dependent upon the capacity of the traveler’s mind. One’s taste may change and one's ability to understand and appreciate is constantly changing, all of which points the moral that it is an excellent thing to read gg oJ book often, provided tile intervals between readings are fairly long.—St. Nicholas „ Postal Antiquity. A recent discussion of certain postal grievances in the British house of commons has recalled the history of the post. Posts are mentioned in Scripture. In Job ix, 25, it is written, "My days are swifter than a post,” and again in the book of Esther, chapter viii, letters were sent "by goats on horseback.” The word, of Course, here me.ms runner. To Cyrus has been ascr.bed the establishment of systematic couriers and post horses throughout Persia, and Augustus is credited with iutroJm-iug post chaises at Rome. It was in the reign of James I. that a postal system was introduced into England. “Hot Ennugrb to Roast We often hear persons make use ot the metaph trieal expression quoted in the headline when referring to au exceptionally hot day. Such an experiment may a little far fetched and out of the ordinary, but there are many cases on record where scientists have actually cooked eggs by the sun's heat. In 1'47 when Her -hel was in South Africa he cooked s by exposure tc the heat of the sun "until they were powdery to the center.” Sir J. C. Ross made a similar experiment in New Zealand. A V«e For Cloves. Persons who get "qualms” when riding iu the <-,i: - .>r on boats can almost certainly qu. t them by slowly chewing a clove or two. Indigestion, accompanied by formation of gas, nausea and dizziness, will often yield to the same simple measure. There are other and better means of accomplishing these results, out the value of the clove Is that it occupies so little room, is so easily carried about and can be sc readily got when wanted. His Miserable Lot. “Why don’t you go to work?” "Lady.” answered Ploldizg Pete. ‘‘l’m on me way dere now. De trouble is dat when I’m in New York I bear about a j »l> dat I kin git ia Frisco. An’ by de time I gits to Frisco 1 finds de job is t.J on an’ I bears of another one in New Yoik."—Washington Star. He Can. Indeed. “Can a turn have a billion dollars and be honest?” “I should think so. He can iy”“Well?” “Afford to be.”—Philadelphia Bulletin. Flit. Maty Ann—l’ve come to tell you, mum. that th' gasoline stove has gone ©ut. Mistress —Well, light it again. ‘‘l can’t. Sure, it went out through th’ roofi’’—Exchange.

EGGS AS FOOD. Ttionch Nearly Half Water They Ar. Extremely Nutrition.. The white of an egg is nearly seveneighths water, the balance being pure albumen. The yolk is slightly less than one-half water. These figures apply approximately to the eggs of turkeys, >ens. geese, ducks and guinea fowls. To show flow nearly alike the eggs »f various domestic fowls are in respect to compus.t.on. the following figures are given by the department of agriculture: Hen’s egg—Fifty per cent water, 1G per cent protein, S 3 per cent fat. l>uck'si"gg—Forty-six per cent water, 17 per cent protein, 3G per cent fat. Go: se egg—Forty-four per cent water, 19 per cent protein, 30 per cent fat. Turkey egg—Forty-eight per cent water. IS per cent protein, 33 per cent fat. It should be explained that protein is the stuff that goes to make muscle and blood. Fat of course is fuel for running the body machine. Thus it will be seen that eggs, though half or nearly half water, are extremely nutritious. containing all the elements required for the building and support of the human body. But the old saying that an egg contajns as much nutriment as a pound of beefsteak is far from correct. It would be nearer the fact to estimate a pound of eggs as equal to a pound of lean beefsteak in nourishing power.—Saturday Evening Post.

MAKING CAMPHOR. A Simple Process With n Still More Simple Apparatus. “To make camphor,” said a chemist, "you put in chips at one hole, and out of another hole you draw the crude product in coarse white grains like salt. "Wherever camphor trees grow you will find camphor distilleries. They I are low buildings of mud brick, and their odor is so aromatic that it can be detected two miles off. "In each building there are a dozen fires. On each fire is a kettle of boiling water with a perforated lid. Fitted on the top of this kettle is an iron cylinder filled with camphor chips of the size of your little finger. Fitted to the top of the cylinder is an empty inverted jar. "There is your whole apparatus, a simple thing which works simply. The i steam of the boiling water passing up : through the cylinder extracts from the camphor wood its oil. This oil, mounting still upward with the steam, settles like a brine on the sides of the inverted jar it the top. This brine, when the fire goes out. dries into a substance like frost or snow. "White and aromatic, the frostlike substance is the crude camphor. It is scraped off the sides of the jar and re-1 fined and pressed into those attractivel balls and cubes that you buy at a high price eyerywhere."—Kansas City Independent, STINGING MOSQUITOES. Bird. Suffer More Front These Pests Thau Does Mun. “Birds suffer more than man from the mosquito.” a naturalist said. T-re-quently the mosquito can’t get at man, but birds lie can always get at. “The male mosquito is harmless. He never stings. It is the female who does all the mischief. Male and female alike live through the winter. “After the mosqmtohj egg is first hatched, the creature that issues forth is called a wriggler. The wriggler J lives in water, iu marshy pools, In the puddles and the ooze of low lying meadows. He is like a tiny snake, and he must come to the surface to breathe. “Hence kerosene as a mosquito exterminator. Ladle out kerosene on a pool of water and two tablespoonfuls will spread until they cover effectually fifteen square feet. This oily covering is air tight as a skin. If there are any wrigglers in the water under it they must die; they must smother. ’Some think mosquitoes feed on blood alone. This is a mistake. If a mosquito can’t get human blood or bird blood or animal blood, it stabs plants and feeds on their juices ’— Philadelphia Bulletin. Catching Cold. Very severe colds are caught indoms, the result of indigestion or foul air. A cold is frequently brought on by eating a hearty dinner, becoming mentally absorbed for two or three hours immediately afterward and retiring to a warm, close room. The food is not digested, the temperature of the body is raised by the exertions of the stomach, the sleep is broken, and the individual rises chilled and ill. Had relaxation followed the dinner and the room been supy.ied with refreshing air. everything would have been different. Wasn’t Wholly Convinced. "Waal.’’ said the old lady, “if the alrth is reouud and goes reound, what bolds it up?” “Oh. these learned men say it goes' around the sun and that the sun holds it up by virtue of attraction,” he replied. "Waal, if these high larut men sez the sun holds up the airth, 1 should like to know what bolds the airth up when the sun goes down 1 That’s I what’s the matter!” Hi* Misfortune. “I can argue with any one here.” said the conscientious man fiercely. “I can a gue"— "Oh. yes. you can argue," said the quiet little man in the corner. “The misfortune is that you can’t reason.” © MUJudired Hir.t. Lady A.—Here comes that dreadful man who sat next to i:.? at dinner. He hasn't the manners of a pig! Mrs. B. —How funny: I thought he had.— Punch.

Model Wives. In a wedding sermon entitled “The Rib Restored,” preached in St. Dioms 1 Back church, Fenchurch street, in 1655, ' by Richard Meggot. afterward dean of Salisbury, the preacher thus defined a good wife: "A help she must be in her family, being not only a wife, but a housewife I —not a field wife, like Dinah, nor a I treet wife, like Thamar, or a window wife, like Jezebel, but a housewife.” And another preacher about the same ; date, the Rev. Simeon Singleton, said that a wife should be at once like and unlike three things. “First, she should ' be like a snail, always keep within her i house; but she should not be like a snail, carry all she has upon her back Secondly, she should be like an echo, tc , speak when she is spoken to; but she I should not be like an echo, always to : have the last word. Thirdly, she should be like the town clock, always keep time regularly; but she should not be like the town dock, to speak so loud that all the town may hear her.”— T, P.’s London Weekly. — Patiently Wait For Her. A Missouri contemporary rises to remark: "Once I was young, but now I am old, and I have never seen a girl that was unfaithful to her mother that ever came to be worth a one eyed button to her husband. It is the law of God. It isn’t exactly in the Bible, but it is written large and awful in the miserable lives of many unfit homes. I’m speaking for the boys this time. If one of you chaps conies across a girl that, with a face full of roses, says to you as she comes to the door. ‘I can’t go for thirty minutes', for the dishes are not washed yet.’ you wait for that girl. You sit right down and wait for her, because some other fellow may come along and carry her off. and right there you lose an ang 4. Wait for that girl and stick to her lil.e a bur to a woolly dog.”—Kansas City Journal. Carlons Bird Habits. It is a well known fact that if the young of almost any kind of bird are taken from the nest before they can fly the old one/ will feed them attentively if cage in which the little birds are inclosed is placed somewhere where the parents can reach it. and a popular but err mcous belief is current that they do this for a time, and end by poisoning the young ones. This, however, is a mistake, the fact being that at a certain ae of a young bird's existence, when it is naturally able to begin catering for itself, the parent birds, also quite naturally, cease to attend it, and then, if the birdlings are shut up in the cage and their custodian has not thought of placing some food at their disposal they necessarily die. not from poison adminl;.l ’y the pbut from starvation. »- > ’I i.e Storthing. Norway’s legislative body is known ' S 3 tire* storthing, which means th“great court" and should be pro- j nounced to rhyme with “courting.” Tl>« ' second part of the word is identic [ with the English word "thing.” as the. Scandanavian languages. Iff jKHßnon| with .w ,-Sa.vpn, have the same w 4 for and ••council.*’ In mod err English a trace of the second sense survives In the word "hustings,” which came to mean the public platform upon which a candidate appeared at election time, though originally the “busting” was the council at which the candi date was elected, the "house-thing ” or bouse council. How Thermometers Are Made. A small glass tube blown into a bull at one end is partly filled with mer cury. The mercury is boiled to expel the air and fill the tube with mercury vapor and then the tube is hermetical )y sealed and allowed to cool. The gradations are found as follows: Th. instrument is immersed in ice watei and the freezing point is found and is marked. Then it is placed in water, which is allowed to reach the butline point, and so 212 degrees is found. The spans between are marked by matiie matical calculations Monkeys and Knots. The monkey s intelligence has never been able to arrive at a point which enables that animal to achieve the un tying of a knot. You may tie a monkey with the simplest form of common knot, and unless the beast can break the string or gnaw it in two be will never get loose. To untie the knot requires observation and reasoning power, and. though a monkey may possess both, be has neither in a sufficient degree to enable him to overcome the difficulty. Handing Out a Hint. School Dire ctor (to teacheri —We were thinking of having a nice motto framed and put over your desk to encourage the children How would "Knowledge Is Wealth” do? Teacher—That wouldn’t do at all. The children know how small my salary is. and they might draw conclusions of their own. Sullivan and Booth. It is a pathetic as well as a humorous remark that Laurence Hutton in his reminiscences attributes to John L. Sullivan. When the news came of the death of Edwin Booth the great fighter in sincere sorrow remarked, "Weil, there are only a few of us left!” Aakinsc Too Much. He With the Whiskers—Say. feller, why don’t yon wear two glasses instead of only one? He With the Mon-ocle--’Why, deuce take it. y’ know, a fellah has to see, doesn’t he?—Cleveus»; Leader. Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home the truth. Don’t ■whip with a switch that has the leaves on It if you want to tingle.—Beecher.

Htt FEVER FOR 27 TEARS Well Known New England Woman Cured of Hay Fever—Cure Was Lasting. The thousands of discouraged people who dread the approach of Summer because thev have hay fever and ‘cannot find relief from it. will read with interest and gratitude the following statement from Helen S. W illiams of Mansfield. Mass. "For 27 years, from the month of August untill heavv frost. I have been afflicted with hay fever, growing worse and’worse each vear. until o' late years I was unable to e.tletd tt my work during that period. "Last summer I fortunately gave Hyomei a trial, and I am bappv to say that it entirely cured me. and I have had no occurrence of the disease since. This letter is only one of the many that have come to ti e propietors of Hvomei, and the results following this treatment have been so remarkable that it is prooosed at the annual convention of hay fever sufferers to recomend Hyomei. Bv breathing the germ killing and healing balsams of Hyomei, any one can have at any moment of the dav, either at their home or office, a climate like that of the White Mountains. The complete outfit costs but SI, extra bottles 50 •. The Holtbouse Drug Co agrees to refund the money to any hav fever sufferer who uses Hyomei without benefit. The Evil of Inheritance. It is not so bad when a r ch man cuts off bis heirs for spite. Inheritance has worked enormous mischief ever since there were fortunes to leave. In most cases it i« a misfortune to be an heir.— St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Tench on the Calf. It’s pretty tough on the fatted calf that it should have to suffer for the sins of the prodigal son.—Philadelph.a Record. Are You Engaged? Engaged people should remember, chat.after marriage, many quarrels, an be avoided, by keeping their digestions in good condition with Elec trie Bitters. S. A. Brown, of Bennetts rille S. C., says: “For years my wifej suffered fntensely from dyspepsia, j complicated torpid liver, untilli she 10-t her strength and vigor, snn 1 became a mere wreck of her former elf. Then she tried Electric Bitte-s, which I e ped her at once, and finally made he--ntireiv well She is now strong n 1 healthy. Blackburn and Christ, n druggist, se”s and guarran- ’ tees them, at 50e a bottle.

: To Cure a Cold in One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets, e^ er y Seven Million boxes sold in past 12 months. This signature, 25c.

H®K®o im iffid® |a To the Pacific Coast—to California, Oregon, Washington — round-trip, long transit and return limits, liberal stop-over privileges. 3 The rate is practically on the basis of one fare for the round ~ trip. Os course, if you wish to visit both California and Oregon or Washington, the cost is slightly more. These reduced rates are in effect on certain dates in months \ ? of May to October, inclusive. They apply from all Eastern points > ] i Chicago, St. Louis or Memphis gateways. The Rock Island A' I System will take you up in either Chicago or St. Louis, or at hundreds ;JjV I °f other Middle West points and carry you to the Coast in through J] Standard or Tourist Sleepers with unexcelled Dining Car service. The Rock Island also affords a choice of routes: on the “Scenic k ‘ Z route you can stop off in Colorado—see Salt Lake City—visit r ¥ Yellowstone National Park; on the “Southern” route you can go Ii I via Paso, thru New Mexico, then “up coast” to San Francisco I;I -• and on to Portland or Seattle if desired. I ‘'l®** s^or *’ these Pacific Coast excursions offer an unusually good f• W ' ,'• •IWV A3 chance to see our western country in a comprehensive manner. ■ 'l■' ■ i » you <^es * re to 8° on ly as f ar as Colorado, there are excursion I i C:| rates in effect to that section and return, all summer long, A','i'. specially reduced June 30 to July 4, August 12 and 13, i v•/ Mi August 30 to September 4. Extension trips to Ogden |aS— 1/ i In\\u • mA' 4 31 1 or and return at low cost also. eMm 'l’u-Cj V\\\V l> IIJ A From September 15 to October 31, 1905, one-way -I' I * k tourist or “ colonist ” ticketswill be on sale to California and i ■ ' JMi A the Pacific Northwest—about half regular fare. J i pk If interested, (end name and address on this coupon, designat.ng SSIIIRnL nk which booklet wanted and to what point you plan to go. Name probate 7 /I date of start also, so we can advise definitely with respect to rates, e c KT fl IrlCrid VsT| ll Ilf ■ /■'WAv Saad booklet and rates. Name Address Address ■ JOHN SEBASTIAN, _2 ® Pass, Traf. Mgr., Rock Island System, ^ 6 -yOy CHICAGO. 4 W Destination,

X4ke Finding: Money Finding health is like finding —eu those think who are sick. W hen vou hare a cough.cold, sore throat, or chest irritation, better t promptly liseW.C. Barber, of Sandy Level. Va. He sat s: “1 had a terrible chest trouble, enused by smoke and coal dust on mv lung': but. after fim.ing no relief 'in other remedies, I was cured bv Dr. Kings New Discovery for Consumption. Coughs and Colds. Greatest • ale cf any cough or lung medicine in the world. At Blackburn A Christian’s drug store; cOc and SILO guaranteed. Trial bottlefree. VEGETABLE CATERPILLAR. A Curloon Combination of Animal and Plant Life. Vegetable caterpillar is the name given to a fungus—Cordyceps robertsiifound in New Zealand. It exhibits a curious and mysterious combination of animal and vegetable life and is in I variably found associated as a paraI site with the bulrush caterpillar. How the spores of the fungus enter the in sect, which has never yet been met with as a grub or moth, is not certainly known. Sir Jose; li Hooker suggests they get lodged in its neck as it buries itself. At any ra.e, th? fungus springs from the heal us the buried insect and gradually absoibs its inside till the whole body becomes full of purely veg etable tissue, though in outward appearance it remains unchanged, head legs and claws being seen clearly in detail. The pulpy vegetable matter has a nutty flavor and is eaten with relist by pigs and greedily devoured by the Maori wood hen. The fungus, aftet growing to a height of about six inches, dies and dries up. — London Standard. Sn reastic. At the sidewalk of one of the feny bouses in New York recently stood a i police vehicle, backed against the curb 1 awaiting its load. Walking leisurely in i the center of the pushing, racing mob I from a landing ferryboat was a tramp, all rag-, but placid of manner. At bis : side walked a bluecoat, who led him to , the waiting patrol wagon. As the . tramp was about to enter be bethought j himself, and, standing on the wagon ' steps, he leaned far out to one side and to the driver be called in the drawling I »oice of a bored boulevardier, "Home, 1 James’” Got Off 'heap He mav well think, he has get off! cheap, who after having contracted! < oastipati. n or indigestion, is still able I to [.e.-’fcdy n store his health. Nothing I will dr- this but Dr. King’s New Life i Fills. A quick, pleasant and certain i cure for he«4-jche. constipation, etc.! 25c at R’a kbu la .d Christian’s drag store: gnaraiiteeo.

Winona Lake. I nc <, . | -icket sale May 10 to Se ph >mt D da y , 11.95. Season tickets V®^ 30 ’ . September 30. limit October 31 JL '-'tiS For Sale-Eighty acre iar m , ed on the North Blue Creek tn ’ [ road, two and one-half m il eß ; shire known as the James M a t ’ farm. If sold at once a be had. For particulars see Or ■ dressßobert Maloney, i ura l -out , Bprn °’ ’ A Guaranteed Cure for Itcbing.Blind. BleedingorProtudio.pn ’ Druggist ei-elunmoni-y it PaZOoIxTX 1 ..' 87 fails to cure any case, do matter ot‘n\„ , standing, in ti to U day-, Fir-- a, i 101,11 gives ease andreet. 50c, If your druwt«'> n't it s nd.s.'C. instamus ana it will '*■ rded postpaid by the Pans Me.nei De ir ' St - Loti’s Mo Telegraph Operators in Demand" This information comes from al] parts of the country. High salaries and quick promotions. Att-nd Sharp's school of telegraphy at Huntington Ind., and success is sure. Write for big catalogue today. Special fall term begins Sept. 4th. TAKE A TRIP WEST. | Special Inducements this Season. Spend your vacation on the Pacific Coastoriu almost any of the western states this summer at lew cost. Round, trip excursion tickets via Ruck Island System are on sale certain dates throout the summer. You so out via Colorado, visiting Yellow Stone Park and returning southern route byway of El Paso, or visa versa. A long run limit and cheap rates for side trips to every point of interest, full particulars i literature and Rock Island folder, from i John Sebastian, Passenger Traffic Managerßock Island System, Chicago Cure a Cjld iu One Day I Take Laxitlve Bromo Quinine Tablets. Al I Iruggitts refund the mor.et If It fails n cure R. w Gmve olvnarnre <n , ach ' v 1 _ Farmers Take Notice. Are your hogsand chickens healthy ind in as thriving condition as you would 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 ! reliableble drugstore. Smith.-Yager i & Falk. 48tf

H PARKER’S HAIR BALSAM CleaEFro ar.d beaat.fiea th? hair. Promote! a luxuriant gruwt!.. Never Fails to Restore Gray Hair to i*s Youthful Color, j Curts sca’.p d sest-es A; hair fific.ft”'’ ftl " •»* nr’jfr'rxs