Decatur Democrat, Volume 49, Number 30, Decatur, Adams County, 28 September 1905 — Page 6

AN INDIAN LEGEND, The Way Ann-nb-liejn Made the A'esw Earth After the Flood. “I will tell you the story of Nan-ab-beju. He is the man who made the new earth after the big water came and covered it. "Big waters came, and there was nothing anywhere except water and the sky and the sun and the stars," said the old Chippewa. “Nan-ab-beju made a great raft and put on it some relic of everything that had been on the earth—specimens of each kind of animals, of all the trees, shrubs, plants, flowers, birds, rocks, and one man and one woman. In short, he did not leave anything except sand. He forgot to save some sand, and yet he could not do anything without it. He sailed out far into the flood and made a little island, very, very small. Then he found he had no sand. He made a very big line, longer than hundreds of deerskins cut up into ribbons and tied together. and be took a muskrat off the raft and tied the line to it and threw it into the water. The frightened rat dove down and down, and when there was no longer any pulling at the line Nan-ab-beju knew the rat was at the bottom of the sea. Then he began to pull the line up. At the end of it came the poor muskrat, stone dead,drowned. But Nan-ab-beju saw that the little black paws of the animal were clenched as if there was something in their palms and that the rat held tight hold of even after death. The little paws were forced open, and in them were found half a dozen grains of sand. One grain would have been enough for the great Nan-ab-beju. “Nan-ab-beju blew his breath on the muskrat, and its life came back to it. Then he mixed the sand in the little island that he had made and blew on that also. As be blew and blew Jt swelled and swelled until it was so big that Nan-ab-beju could not sec the sides or end of it in any direction. Nan-ab-beju was not quite certain whether he had made it as big as the old earth before the big water came. He had to make it as big as it had been—so big, in fact, that no man or creature could find the end of it. He had plenty of animals that could travel over the earth and find out how big it was, so he decided to take two huge buffaloes off the raft and send them to see whether there was any end to what he had made. The buffaloes ran cff with all speed, and Nan-ab-beju »at down and waited. In a few days the buffaloes came back and said they 1 ad found the end of the earth. So Nan-ab-beju blew and blew and blew on the ground again, and it swelled so fast that you could see it broadening. When be had blown until be was tired he took a crow off the raft and sent it to see if it could find the end of the earth. The crow was gone a very long time, but at last it came sailing back on the wind and said it bad flown till it was tired out and there was no sign of any end to the earth. "Nan-ab-beju, to make sure, blew again and swelled the earth a great deal bigger. Then he untied and uncaged and untrapped all the animals and drove them from the raft on to the land and left them free to roam where they might. He took all the trees, plants, bushes and shrubs and planted them around, and he blew the grass out of his hands as hard as he could blow it, so that it scattered all over. Next he let loose all the birds and beetles and bugs and snakes and toads and butterflies, and finally he invited the man and woman, both Chippeways, to go ashore and make the new earth their bunting ground. And Nan-ab--beju’s task was done.”—St, Nicholas. « 7*;- Titles In Germany. The question of title is She of the most delicate in Germany, a fact of "which the KtrilhgGl- !s constantly reminded in intercourse with tLe people, particularly with the women. Frau I’rofessor, Frau Director, Frau Doctor, are most particular about their husband's titles being attached to their own names. But when it comes to military circles it is different, and both men and women protest vigorously against this sharing of titles. Lieutenant von B. objects to having his wife addressed as Frau Lieutenant, which title belongs as well to the wife of Lieutenant Schmidt or Haff of a less aristocratic regiment.

Dumas' Scheme. Alexandre Dumas. Sr., was once visiting his son, who at that time lived in a villa near Paris. They sat in a tiny scrap of a garden behind the house under the one small tree it contained. It was a broiling hot day, and Dumas, who was very stout, said to his son: “I am suffocating with the intense heat.” “What shall I do, father?” “Suppose you epen your chambei window and let a little air into the garden,” replied old Alexandre, with gravity. One Exception. “No,” declared Mr. Nagget, “there never was a woman on earth who could refrain from turning around to rubber at s:ime other woman's clothes.” “No?” replied bis wife sweetly. “Didn’t you ever bear of Eve?”—Philadelphia Press. How She Took It. Adolphus Hunt—Don't you think it would boa noble thing for you to do with your wealth to establish a home tor the feeble minded? Miss RicheOh, Mr. Hunt, this is so sudden! Women and Smogtrline. Many a lady smuggles who would no more tip her ball into the better position at cro met than she would cut a throat or scuttle a ship.—Andrew Lang. Genuine benevolence is not stationary. but peripatetic. It goes about doing good.—Nevins.

’ SIMPLE HEALTH RULES. Temperance. X<» Worry, n Youthful Mind. Plenty of Sleep. A famous New York physician, now hale and handsome 'at seventy-five, ' sums up tis half a century of medical : practice and observation in these , simple rules of health: First.—Be temperate in all things, in matters of amusement or rft’.dy as ! well as in regard to foods and drinks. | To be temperate in al! things, howi ever, does not imply that one must bv i prohibitionist about anything. Second. -Don't be afraid to go to sleep, for sleep is the best restorer of wasted energies Sieep a certain number of hours every night and then remember that a sho.'t nap during the day is a safer rejuvenator than a cocktail. Third.—Don't worry either about th* past or the future. To waste a single hour in regret for the past is as senseless as to send good money after that which has been irrecoverably lost. To fret oneself about what the future may have in store is about as reasonable as to attempt to brush back the tide of the ocean with a broom. Worry, of whatever kind, banishes contentment, and contentment is a necessity of youth. Fourth.—Keep the mind youthful. Live in the present with all the other young people, don't get to be reminiscent. Let i'be old people talk about the past, for the mere act of thinking about old things reminds the mind of' its years. Reminiscences are dangerous. whether they be soothing or sweet or sad, for they characterize old age and must be sedulously avoided by those who would be ever young. Fifth.—Keep up with the times. Don't fall behind the procession. To accomplish this learn one new fact every day. The mind that is satisfied to live upon the lessons it learned in its youth soon grows old and musty. To keep young it must be fresh and active—that is, abreast with the.times. The old methods of thought and the old facts may have been correct enough once upon a time, but that time has passed. Today they are obsolete and only amusing as relics of antiquity. To remain young., therefore, one must keep the storehouse of the memory clear of all such rubbish. Throw away one of the mildewed relics every day and replace it with some newer, fresher and more up to date fact. Here, then, is this New Y'ork physician's secret of perennial youth in a nutshell: Be temperate! Don’t be afraid to go to sleep! Don't worry! Keep the mind youthful. And —keep up with the times! It is not a difficult rule of life to follow. It is ever so much easier than wandering about strange lands in search of hidden springs. It is somewhat pleasanter than stewing over ill smelling crucibles. Moreover it has the advantage of being thoroughly practicable, which makes it well worth trying.—New York World. Xenophon as a Doi Fancier, Xenophon opens his disquisition on hounds by an enumeration of all the defects, physical and moral, which a hound should not possess, wherein it is easy to recognize all the failings which are still us. Leggy Weedy bounds, flat sided hounds, flat footed boa.uls, undersized hounds, headstrong hounds, flashy hounds, sulky hounds, dwellers, babblers, shifters—all are faithfully portrayed and un compromising!}- condemned. "Hount’rf with such faults as these, whether dv* to nature or to bad training, are of lit tie worth. They are enough to disgust even a truly keen sportsman,” A good bound should have a light, 'email, sine-', y bead, a long, round, flexible neck broad chest, free shoulders, straight, round, wiry fore legs, straight knees, round sides, muscular loins, full flanks, but not too full. His thighs should be firm, compact and well let down, his feet round and his stern long, straight and tapering. Such is Xenophon's description of a good hound. It seems to us not amiss for the fourth century before our era.

Chicory. “The reason that the root of chicory, the blue tlower which covers waste places ill over the northwestern states, is not a good substitute for coffee is that we have no alkaloid in chicory,” said a Chicago chemist. “Moreover, we have no oil. Chicory contains a, quantity of resinous matter and ai' quantity of matter closely resembling the narcotic principles obtained from the common lettuce. The milky juice contains a narcotic element. Although not eligible as a substitute for eoffee, chicory can be used for adulterating coffee, and many people who get accustomed to the taste of the mixture prefer it to pure coffee. In former times the prejudice against chicory was so great that English laws were passed against adding it to coffee, but I believe there is no restriction in England or elsewhere now. The use of chicory never got enough foothold in America "to make it significant in the volume of trade.”—Milwaukee Free Press. The Greatest Singrer. Probably the most remarkable singer of all time was Farinelli, the beauty of whose soprano voice remains unequaled. It was of large compass, •hree and a naif octaves, exceeding the "ordinary range by six or seven notes. His debut at seventeen at Rome in 1722 was extraordinary from bis competing with a trumpet player in sustaining and swelling a note of astonishing length and power. For fifteen years he traveled extensively, and be reached Spain in 1737, intending to stay a few months, hut Temain'rg twenty-five Fears. Philip V. of Spa’r had fallen into a profound melancholy, and the queen found Farinelli’s vob '• the only re:: ly

THE GRAVE OF ELIA. Hatton’s Effort to Find the Tomb of Charles Lamb. Hutton's "Literary Landmarks of London” was largely a labor of ,ovs and was the result of years of hard work. Mr. Hutton gives this example of the difficulties that stood in his way: “Another Sunday afternoon I devoted to a pious pilgrimage to the grave of Charles Lamb at Edmonton. As usual, nobody at Edmonton knew anything. The churchyard is not a small one, and it is entirely filled. The sexton and the gravedigger and a few persons wandering about could give me no information. Most of them had never heard of Mr. Lamb, and I could not find the sacred spot. Naturally I applied to the rector, and as he left the vestry door after service leaning pn the arm of a pretty young woman I approached him, raised my hat and asked politely if he could tell me where Charles and Mary Lamb were resting. Really’ he could not say! And I, forgetting the day, the place and his sacred office, cursed that rector for his criminal ignorance. “ 'Great heavens,’ I said, ‘you ought to be ashamed of yourself! In your care have been placed the ashes of one of the foremost men in the whole history of English letters. And you don't know where they are! They’ have made your churchyard and your parish distinguished all the world over. I have come 3.000 miles to visit Charles Lamb’s grave, and you, the rector of the church, don't know where it is! You ought to be heartily ashamed of yourself.’ And I turned upon my heel and left him standing there speechless and confounded.” Half an hour after the above incident occurred and while Hutton was grop ing around the graveyard in the twilight the rector came to him, hat in hand, apologized most humbly for his ignorance, which he had corrected in the meantime, and conducted him to the grave of the immortal Elia. A VOCABULARY TEST. Some Words Stranjcre to You That Are In the Dictionary. The number of obsolete words that are to be found in Webster’s Dictionary is considerably larger than people have any idea of. The following letter, written by an alleged poet to an editor Who bad treated his poetry with derision, furnishes some idea of them: “Sir—You have behaved like an impetiginous scrogle! Like those who, envious of any moral celsitude. carry their ungicity to the height of creating vymposicaily the fecund words which my pollymathic genius uses with überty to abligate the tongues of the weetless! Sir, you have crassly parodied my own pet words as though they were trangrams. I will not coascervate reproaches—l will oduce a veil over the atramenatal ingratitude which has chamfered even my indiscerptible heart. I am silent on the focillation 1 which my coadjuvancy must have given you when I offered to become your ' fantor and adminicle. I will not speak i of the lippitude, the oblepsy, you have shown in exacerbating me, one whose genius you should have approached with mental discaiceation. So I tell you, without supervacaneous words, nothing will render ignoscible your conduct to me. I warn you that I would velllcate your nose if I thought that any moral diarthrosis thereby could be performed—if I thought I should not impignorate my reputation. GJ, t-ichygraphie scrogle, baud with your crass fquinate fantors; draw objectations from the thought, if ”0" can, of having synchronically lost the existimation of the greatest poet since Milton.” And yet all these words are to be found in the dictionary—Chicago Journal. Multiple Screws. Multiple screws were used as early as the American civil war on certain vessels known as "tin clads” on the Mississippi, their adoption being necessitated by the shallow draft. The great advantage they possess in securing a vessel against total disablement and for maneuvering soon made them the rule in the navy. They were much longer in coming into use in the mer chant service. Rut since the era of the very large transatlantic steamers, beginning with the Paris and New York and the Teutonic and Majestic, all very large vessels have been built with twin screws. The Wis. The wig is older than civilization, for the savage used one to make him more formidable on the field of battle. The French revolution killed the article as a piece of headgear. Before the guillotine fell in France the wigs which adorned the heads of its victims cost $l5O to S2OO. The costly decoration lingered a long time on official heads in England. So recently as 185 S Archbishop Sumner found it necessary to wear one at the marriage of the prin cess royal. A Consistent Career. “I can remember when the wealthy Mr. Hidem didn’t have a dollar of his own.” said the man who disparages. “Well,” answered the misanthrope, “it is said that he is still doing business entirely with other people’s Collars.”—Washington Star. Ant’s Ancestry. "What makes Judge Ant so stuck up? Is be any better than the rest of us?” “Is he! Why, say. the judge is a direct descendant of the ant that the sluggard was sent to.”—Puck. Never held :iy one by the button or the hand in or.ler to be heard out, for : if people are • -“willing to hear you you had better hold jour tongue than th m —Chest rrfield.

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