Decatur Democrat, Volume 49, Number 31, Decatur, Adams County, 5 October 1905 — Page 6

SOME BETTER TESTSMETHODS BY 'AH OH TO DISTINGUISH THE GENUINE ARTICLE. The t »e of Pre«ervaU»e» With Fresh Meat—Coloring flatter In Many Sausage.—How to Detect Boric Acid In Meat Product*. It is a matter of commen information that oleomargarine is soruetitne' substituted for butter and that ranci 1 and badly made ' atur is jueur’y melted, washed with sola and churned with milk f >r the pn; aratiau of reno- , vated or process inner. Methods are avaiia: e which, with a little practice, may I*- emp. yed to dis ’ tinguisb between f» u. i utter, renovated or process butter and oleomargarine. The “spoon” test Las been suggested as a household test and is commonly : used by analytical chemi ts for distinguishing fresh :tter from renovated I butter or oleomargarine. A lump of i butter two or three times the size of a pea is plaoed in a large spoon and > it is then heated over an alcohol burn- ■ er. If more convenient, the spoon may ’ be held above the chimney of an erdi- * nary kerosene lamp, or it may even be ; held over an ordinary illuminating gas 1 burner. If the sample in question be ; fresh butter it will boil quietly with ' the evolution of a large number of i small bubbles throughout the mass j which produce a large amount of t Oleomargarine and pro-ess butter, on I the other hand, sputter and crackle. | making a noise similar to that heard I when a green stick :s placed in a fire. | Another point of distinction is noted if | a small pdrti on of the sam; ie is p.aced ! In a small b -ttie and set in a vessel of ; water sufficiently warn to melt the I sample. The sample is sept melted I from half an Lour to an hour, when it ! Is examined. If renovated butter or oleomargarine, the fat wiil be turbid. • wh.ie if genuine, fresh butter tne fat j will almost certainly be entiiely clear, j To manipulate what is known as the i Waterhouse, or milk, test about two j ounces of sweet milk is placed in a wide mouthed bottle, which is set m i e vessel of boilb-g water. When the milk is thoroughly heated a teaspoon- , fui of butter is added and the mix- I ture stirred with a splinter of wood until the fat is melted. The bottle is then placed in a dish of ice water and the stirring continued until the fat solidifies. Now, if the sample be butter. either fresh or renovated, it vri-1 be solidified in a granular condition and distributed through the milk in ■mail particles. If. on the other hand, the sample consists of oleomargarine it solidifies practically in one piece and may be lifted by the stirrer from the milk. Many persons believe that the great mass of the fresh meat sold on the market Is preserved chemically. This Impressi-tn is entirely unfounded. The : cold stosage facilities of the present : day make the use of preservatives i with fresh meat unnecessary, and the | larger packing houses do not employ tbem. It e< metimes happens that local butchers sprinkle preservatives over a cut of meet in order that tbev may keep it expos’d on the block or bang ing in a show window as an advertisement. The use of chemical pre servativet with fresh meat is confined to th.s practice alone. Preservatives are very commonly nse-d with cL -:q el meats and sausages especially fresh sausage. They are always employed w.th canned ' .enna and Frankfurtei sausages inclosed in casings with the ends tied. Where the ends are cut preservatives may be absent. The reason for this is that the temperature required f r the complete sterilization of sa-isages will either burst or distort th* skins when the ends are tied, whereas sausages with cut ends afford an c; portunity for the ■■cape of the water and steam. With many varieties of sausages both fresh and smoked, and with chopped meats of ail descriptions, coloring matter is sometimes employed. This idone partly for the purj >se of satisfy ing an mmaturai demand for a high colored article and partly sometimes to conceal the gray.sb color characteristic of oid meat, which should not be used at all. The preservatives employed with meat products are boric acid, borax and sulphites. To detect boric acid about a tabiesi»oonful of the ctoppe-': meat is thoroughly macerated with a little water. ;-re--ed through a bag and two or three tables; . zfuls of tne liquid placed in a sauce dish with sis- I teen or twenty dr ps of strong hydro- I chloric acid tor ch tablespooufuL The Bquld ITThen tUterel through filter paper and a i -.-e of tumeric paper dippel into it ; n 1 dried near a lamp or stove If bor. •.. .■ or l-.-rax were used for preserving the saia; e the tumeric paper should be chang 1 to a bright cherry red color. If too much hydro | chloric acid has been employed a dirty brownish red color is obtained, which interferes with the color due to the pres. nee of boric acid. Now. if a drop of household ammonia be added to the colored tumeric paper and it turns a dark green, almost biaek color, then boric aeid is present. If the reddish color, however, was caused by the use of too much hydrochloric acid, this green color does not form. The corrosive nature of hydrochloric •cod must not be lost sight of. It must not be allowed to touch the flesh, clothes or any metal.—New York Tribnne. He Asked For It. "Do you know that the coin you lent me was a counterfeit?” said the habitual borrower. “Oh. sure I do. You said that you : Meed cd it bad." A person suffering from chronic rheumatism should avoid dried fish, cooked oysters, pork, veal and turkey.

HIT BY A SHELL. A Writer In a Boer Ensagemenf Describes His d-'eelinirs. Soon th-.-lr gunners got our distance q — Ing over the eouv jy, says Robert MeI Caw in “A Pri-oner With De Wet" is i ■ the N:.tloaa' Magazine. Several wag -j I ons in front of us were blown up and the oxen scattered in wi ithing masses | on the road. The K dir who kd out team took fright and fired, the oxen ’ ; swerved as a shell burst in front ot : i them. the v. Loels clu.uly | into a deep rut, the heavy wagon j i turned completely over, grinding me ; | beneath its wt'z'at. My bead I arsting, I I was failing down thr.ugb blackness 1 > in the midst of a thousand crims-si ' serpents. Somebody held my heart, j in L.s hr.iid. was squeezing it. and | then — Thank heaven, this is death! Ages after there was a roar.eg of | : waters far beneath me. Then it thun ’ aered on my naked brain. A faint > I star was shining somewhere. It rushed ! I towar i _■ r aud big | ger, um 1 I was swr.lluwed up in it—and my ey.-s were open. The wagon I was righted. I was dripping wet, for. ; the drivers had thrown water upon me ■ . I heard the boom of the guns and the I crash of bursting shells. I tried tc I | rise, but my head seemed to fioat away j from me and I felt myself striking the ground, ut I did no’ feel myself fa..mg Th y .xtt-. i me *.u the wagon. . > and th? oxen moved oil. My head and i face were sticky with thick blood and I dust, and I was in such pain that I did ' i net know where the pain was. READ A GOOD BOOK OFTEN. g— But Let the Intervals Between Reading* Be Fairly Long, So great bss been the aifecuon of ; readers for ilie ’ :• >ks that Lave giventhem tli.it literature is fak off i press of gratitude toward noble books. . There hat e been countless compar.son* | and metaphors used to make clear the ‘ I relation between the book and the reader. Perhaps the most original was I hit upon by Coleridge, who compares j i an excellent book to a well chosen and I well tended fruit tree. He says. "We i may recur to it year after year, and it j will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification if only we our-1 selves return to it with the same healthiul appetite.” But, though his simile - pleases the fancy, it does not quite satisfy the judgment. While the fruit of a tree must yield much the same i Cavor always, the gratification we experience fr.-m reading must always; differ according to the condition of i mind of him who reads. It has been 1 =' ! id t’-.t a trave'er can bring home' v„.y „t -e lakes with him, which! mt.m mat the pleasure derive.! from traveling is en’.rely dependent upon the capacity of the traveler's mind. ■ One's taste may change and one's abib' ity to understand an! appreciate is con-1 stantly changing, all of which points, the moral th t it is an excellent thing' to read a g o! bc-:k often, provided the inter; I- between readings are fairly; long-St. N i-Mas. Postal Antiqnity. A recent i s usc-brn f certain postal grievances in the Brit.sb Louse of commons has recalled the history of the post. Posts are mentioned in Scripture. In Jo' ix. it is written, “My days are swifter than a post.” and > .gain in the bc-.-k of Esther, chapter ciii, letters were sent “by posts on I horseback.” The word, of course, here j means runner. To Cyrus has been ascribed the establishment of systematic couriers and post horses throughout Persia, and Augustus is credited with introducing Dost chaises at Rome. It was in the reign of James L that a p stal system was introduced Into Engl... “Hot E-oush to Roast Eggs." We often Lear persons make use of the metaphorical expression quoted in the headline when referring to an exceptionally hot day. Such an experiment may s -gn a little far set ched and out of the ordinary, but there ore many eases on rec-on! where scientists have actually co iked eggs by the sun's heat In ISJ7 when Id r- del was in South Aft. ..he --m by enfe-ure 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 Tse Far Clove*. Persons who get “qualms” when rldI ing in the cars or on boats can almost i certainly quiet 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 i and better means of accomplishing these results, but the value of the clove is that it occupies so little room, is sc ! easily carried about and can be sc readily got when wanted. His Miserable Lot. “Why don't you go to work?” "Lady.” answered Plodding Pete, “I'm on me way dere now. De trouble is dat when I'm in New York I bear about a job dat I kin git in Frisco. An’ by de time I gits to Frisco 1 finds de job is taken an’ I bears of another one in New York.”—Washington Star. Re Can. Indeed. “Can a man have a billion dollars and t<e honest?” "I should think so. He can >r“Well?” “Afford to be.”—Philadelphia Bulletin. Exit. Mary Ann—l've come to tell you, | mum. that th’ gasoline stuve has goat I out Mistress—Well, light it again. “1; can't Sure, it went out through th roofl"—Ex change.

| THE ISLE OF WIGHT.] IT GLEAMS LIKE A DIAMOND ON THE I BREAST OF THE SEA. The Be«ntie» of Cowen, the Fashionable English Resort. Where Nothing Ever Gets Dirty—V. hat Oue May I See on the Historic Island. The Isle of V. ight is shaped like sdiamond, at-.i 1. ea diamond it g.>. .m- : j and fl;.ekes on t'ae breast of the -ev i | I ite a diat- .q..- too, it is the luxury 01' the rich. As your steamer approaches the ro >4 | stead of Cowes j ?u might well -upp -« ! the little town to be a fashionai-ie ham let tar inland on the bank of a river The esplanade looks as near to tht water as a towuata. and the greei I woods that rise behind the white • houses are as th.-.-k'.y Lunched and , brightly verdant as the unsalted trees iof Pangbourne. The coarse beamed I dark sailed smack of the sea fisherman is a rare sight on those social waters I Everywhere you behold among hover I ing gulls and rocking buoys the craft | of pleasure and the shipping of de i light. White yachts, with sails as . white as summer clouds, ride then ■ with the grace of swans, and whits steam yachts, with brasswork flas. ing blindly in the sun. rest royally at I i anchor off that little shore. I Nothing ever gets dirty st Cow- s I The tamarisk wh: h lifts its fine featl. ■ ers above walls at the sea's edge is as i i clean as the sails of the yachts. Th-- ’ , roads of red gravel make neither muo 1 nor dust and lie is tLly as gar den path-. The Virginia creepers, i ' which swarm up the pillars of white I . houses, overspread the tiers of ba’I conies and almost cover the dark red j j tiles of the roofs, are every whit as | : green an-' every tittle as radiant as | ■ the shaven lawns - ' Flowers there are at every point of | view—red geraniums, golden caieeolari j as, blue lobelias, crimson hyssop, cijed i dar pinks, roses of every hue and ferns ; of every form—gr owing in neat flower j beds. lifting their bright colors above ' garden walls and swaying sently it ■ baskets bung from balcony and sill. The windows of the shops are as polished as a lady's mirror and shine I in the sun. Prosperity waits behind those cor nters of pit nty and puts itself : completely and genially at the cotn- ! mar.! of the wealthy. The butcher and the greengrocer announce to the passerby that French and German are . spoken in their establishments. The i yacht of the most necessitous million- i I aire can obtain in those narrow, clean j ' streets all that she desires. Royal warrants, as big almost as the shops them- • selves, gleam over step fronts, and ar-! ' tistic signboards obtrude from the i smart little doorways. The shine of ! the sweet windows is a magic induce ment to buy. On the esplanade, where is a tall white flagstaff at every few paces, and waiting at the little granite stairs washed by green w t -rs. you meet no burly and rough clrtd fishermen, but only the white capped, blue jerseyo’ hands from rue crews -f yachts in the roadst- r. d. Fresh faced, well groom-, i ( girls walk there with indulgent papas : and jolly schoolboys in flannels, carry-1 and red c-Lerr.es. stroll down to the dingey at the stairs, munching as th-y go. There is no haste and no exertion I at Cowes. At half past 12 on a lovely morning I heard in my hotel the voice i of the man; -- res- giving an order to one of the mai-ls. “Her ladyship says." she cried, “that she must half a hip bath in her room immediately, or else she won't be down for luncheon.” Foolish and lazy little ladyship tc lie abed on such a good morning in sc fair a plate as this diamond of the ' seal For it is not only the esplanade. I'the bright shops and the pleasure of a , saunter to Egypt point which are within the reach of the visitor tc Cowes. The whole Wight is within s drive of the Medina. You must go to Newport, and. paying the tax which was demanded -of me. not requested, for entering the church, you may see the lovely memorial which Queen Victoria set there to the poor little Princess Elizabeth, who died of a broken heart beside an open Bible for love of Charles I You may also go to Carls- . brooke and enter the splendid castle ! where that poor little princess died and where ter unhappy father was imprisoned. Yon may see the donkey Ja ob 'immoned by a word from grass I nibbling under fig trees to enter the big wheel cf the well and draw up nine gallons of water fr:m the invisible spring at which those royal prisoners quenched their thirst. But you. if wise, wiil quench your thirst with tea under the spreading trees of the Eight Bells’ pleasure gardens in the village below, listening there to the comments of enthusiastic Amer.cans an-I watching the elderly gentlemen playing bowls on a smooth lawn, as King Charles played that ancient game in t£e castle on the hid.—London Mail. A Croiier In * Fisht. Formerly the archbishops of York bad the privilege of claim mg two casks 1 of wine from every vessel of -twenty ! tons burden entering the river Hull. The merchants of the port came to view this claim as an oppressive tax, and by unloading their ships in the Humber evaded the officers employed to collect these obnoxious dues. Finding Lis revenue diminishing. ArchbisL- ' op Neville, in 1375, determined to assert bis rights and proceeded to Hull | with his attendants to enforce tbem. The mayor of Hull. Sir Thomas de i Wa;tham. with his two bailiffs and a large num der of citizens, met the ec- : clesiastics. end from hot words the two I . parties came to blows, when the may-1 i or snatche I from the •rc-hbishop his ' j crozicr and used it so vigorously in ■ the free fight which followed mat it was broken into aeveral pieces.

f — —’ • The children’s friend—iTe Jayne’s "Tonic Vermifuge off Drives out blood impurities. Makes strong nerves and muscles, Gives tone, vitality and snap. \ Get it from your druggist

TO CATARRHSUFFEREiiS flyomei Guaranteed to Cure by The Holthouse Drii§ Company or Yoor Money Refunded The popularity and increase in the sales of Hvomei are unique in the annalsof medicine. Such astonishing cures have been made by this by this remedy that the proprietors have au- I thorized The Huithouse Drug Co. to ] sell everv nackage of Hvomei under an absolute guaarantee that it will cure catarrh. If it does not the purchaser can have his money refunded The Holthouse Drug Co. Hvomei is no ordinary remedy. It is the cnlv method of treatment that] sends by direct inhalation to the most | remote part of the air passages, a ball; samic air that destroys all eatarrha . germs in the breathing organs, en -; riches and purifies the blood with ad- ' ditional ozone, and makes a permanent and complete Cure of Catarrh. The complete Hyomei outfit costs’ but-51.00 and contists f an inhaler a medicine dropper, and a bottle cf I Hvomei. The inhaler lasts a life time, and if one bottle does not cure, I an extra bottle of Hyomei can beob-1 tamed for 50 cents. It is the most economical of all remedies advertised : for the enre of catarrh, and is the only i one that follows Nature in her meth- ; ods of treating diseases o the re spiralorv organs. Breathe through the inhaler for a few minutes four; times a day. and veur catarrh is s cmed. That is all. If not cured. The Holthouse Drug company will . 1 refund your monev. Low Rate o« Interext. Money loaned at five per cent, interest. payable annually or semi-an-nually, at option of borrower, with I privilege of partial payments at any nterest paying time. No delay in ! making leans. F. M. Schinneyer, Decatur, Ind. 9if i

To Cure a Cold in One Day in Two Days. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Seven MHUon boxes sold in past 12 months. This Signature, bOX. 25C.

Mb® ww — *. ■...' y 3 |4iß H To the Pacific Coast—to California, Oregon, Washington— J round-trip, long transit and return limits, liberal stop-over ■■££%*- -jf privileges. 43 The rate is practically on the basis of one fare for the round gMßMgffigT trip. Os course, if you wish to visit both California and Oregon or Washington, the cost is lightly more. \ These reduced rates e e in effect on certain dates in months \ ' I of May to October, inclusive. They apply from all Eastern points J i via 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 I of other Middle West points and carry you to the Coast in through 4'- .< \ iAr Standard or Tourist Sleepers with unexcelled Dining Car service. The Rock Island also affords a choice of routes: on the ‘‘Scenic |F '; ' route you can stop off in Colorado—see Salt Lake City-visit ftf Yellowstone National Park; on the “Southern” route you can go | I via El Paso, thru New Mexico, then “up coast'’ to San Francisco I, I and on to Portland or Seattle if desired. I yr* I” s h or L these Pacific Coast excursions offer an unusually good I. W- y7l chance to see our western country in a comprehensive manner, w '■ '• | ’ -< y° u desire to go only as far as Colorado, there are excursion ■ I: rates in effect to that section and return, all summer long, A-;' . Y=*l specially reduced June 30 to July 4, August 12 and 13, i Uux. v~ I/> ui August 30 to September 4. Extension trips to Ogden IsT/ bl V\\\ "1 ’‘ 1 \ OF and return at low cost also. pv'jlj ftA . V M ''.!i ■. k From September 15 to October 31, 1905, one-way uT 1 wJ. '\ I V c l tounst or “ colonist ” ticketswill be on sale to California and gSLJy? *mL I interested, send name and address cn this coupon, designating w hich booklet wanted and to what point you plan to go. e ! I |^ a * e °f start alto, so we can advise definitely with respect to rates, etc. I|| I jjp booUe ‘“* rU “- * Name 48c Address Addreu JOHN SEBASTIAN, Pass. Traf. Mgr., Rock Island System, UaTe about \ RQuvc_ lO' CHICAGO. bastion

The Cine Scarecrow. The farmer’s scarecrows were all garbed in blue. “A blue scarecrow,” said the man. “does more good than ten ordinary ones, for birds hate and fear blue as you and I hate and fear typhoid and consumption. A profess >r pointed out to me that blue was the thing for birds. At first I was unbelieving, but I experimented and found that profess r to be right."—Philadelphia Bulletin. Resting the Heart. “Rest your heart now and then during the day,” said an instructor In gymnastics. “But the heart can’t be rested,” a pupil objected. "It works incessantly from birth to death.” "It rests the heart to lie down." said the instructor. “Every night's sleep of nine hours saves the heart the lifting of X-'-Ott) ounces of blood. Considerable rest there, eh ? “When we lie down, you see, the heart's action becomes slower—slower by ten strokes a minute. Thus in an hour •'.<») strokes are saved and in nin» hours 5,400 strokes. Each stroke pumpi six ounces of blood, and therefore ir nine ’ .ours the heart is saved the labor of r /mping 32,400 ounces. “ .‘he heart often requires a rest”— Philadelphia Bulletin. Ran the Hole Out of Town. A lecturer recently told of a Russian he saw some years ago in Manchuria whose methods of achieving results were not according to the usual code. The Russian bad a well in bis front yard which he concluded to fill up He began digging a bole by the side of the well, throwing the dirt from the new excavation into the well. "In th.- course of time.” said the speaker, “the old well was filled, but there was a hole alongside as big m the first. The Russian went fartfiet away and dug anothei hole to fill the second. He continued this process of digging one hole to fill the other until be literally ran the hole out cf town.”

A Guaranteed Cure for p llg I Itching. Blind. Bleedin;. rF ., n ,. ’ I Druggist srefunmoney ;i PA/i.JHWKIw ■ fails to cure any case, standing, in 6to 11 day- ;• looj I gives ease and rest. c 'l - ‘ I n i tas-nd.Wc < ins ! a r; .n» ai ;.: • L'l'WtlJ I rded postpaid by the Paris Medicine Jj”*- I St ' Lo ' J is M o I For Sile-Eighty acre farm. 2? I ed on the North Blue Creek macad I road, two and one-half miles from Wfl I shire known as the James Malon ' I farm. If sold at once a bargain',? I J°\ f Pa i rticulari see J dressßobert Maloney, rural route 3 Berne ' 15-3m’ TAKE A TRIP WEST Special Inducements this Season. Spend your vacation on the Pacific/ Coast orin almost any of the western states this summer at lew cost. Round trip excursion tickets via Rock Island System are on saie certain dates throout the summer. You go out via Colorado, visiting Yellow Stone Park and returning southern route bv wav o f El Paso, or visa versa. A long 'r Un limit and cheap rates for side trips t 0 every point of interest, full particulars literature and Rock Island folder, from John Sebastian. Passenger Traffic Managerßock Island System, Chicago Farmers Take Notice. Are your hogsand chickens healthy and in as thriving condition as you would like to hare 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,-Yeger Falk. 48tf

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