Decatur Democrat, Volume 49, Number 42, Decatur, Adams County, 21 December 1905 — Page 8

Linn Grove. Sterling P. Hoffman and sister, Nonia, were Blufftoa visitors last Saturday. Rev. J. T. Bachman of Berne, attended protracted meeting at this place over Sunday. The Evangelical people of Salem will give a Christmas entertainment Christmas eve. Miss Orvilla Bierie, Messrs. Rufus Mershberger, Irvin Shoemaker were the guests of Leone Coffin on Sunday. F. M. French and wife, Fred Sohlagenhaufof East Nottingham and Miss Lenora Huffman of this place, made an excursion trip to Chicago on Wednesday. Sometimes we think we have more than our share of troubles, Os which the quality is the very worse; But usually they result like a little boys’ soap bubbles. When they get the largest they burst. The engineer for the interurban ilne passed over the route Saturday and Monday, leveling, and found that Linn Grove had an elevation of eigtheen feet over Bluffton. The promoters of this enterprise are in ernst in their endeavor and in case the free holders along the line will make the small sacrifice of granting a right of way, the building of the road is a certainty. An election was held Saturday for the selection of road suprvisors Fourteen votes were oast in the first district, Peter Fox being the successful candidate. Courtney Runyon was elected in district number two, no opposition, votes oast fifteen. James Weller was elected over James Price in number three, while James Pusey was the victor over Oliver Shoemaker in number four. The expense of holding a special election for supervisors may seem 'meager, however, it is no small expense throughout the state, which does not pay when so small an interest is manifested. The legislation is an imitation of a childs’ works and paterned after the game of hide and seek. Air Preunre. At the level of the sea the pressure Os the atmosphere on the piston of an (engine is about fifteen pounds to the •quare inch, but decreases at higher altitudes. As this atmospheric pressure must be overcome by the steam (pressure before any work can be done, 8t is evident that at the diminished air pressure of high altitudes more work tan be obtained from a given pressure ts steam than at the sea level, or, in (Other words, an equally effective pres- ! Bure of steam can be obtained with (the expenditure of less fuel. The difference, however, is not great enough to be of any practical importance. Bounty For Scalps. During the French-Indian war of 6754 the French offered a bounty for British ecalps. In the same year a bounty of £IOO each was offered by the ■ authorities of the several colonies. In < 4755 Massachusetts granted a bounty of £4O for every scalp of a male Indian over twelve years of age and £2O each for the scalps of women and children, in 1764 John Tenn, grandson of William Penn and governor of Pennsylvania, offered a bounty of $l5O for svery "Indian buck” killed and scalpedJnst the V/a>. • <4 Thlft article sn.vs that a person resmed from drowning should be turned taco down ward and vigorously treated jwith hot app cations.” “That’s just th* way Johnny’s moth »r treats him v.Ten be has been swuntning.”—Heu?!o; Post. s»rr ioiuk. Jnswed—Do you know, old man, I flon't spend so much money now as I ■id before I was married. MooneyEow’s that? Juswed -Well, I don’t ■ave it tn Kiiwnd

SOME NEW ONES’ In addition to the already large list of real estate now on sale, the SNOW AGENCY has recently listed and now puts the following city property and farm lands upon the market. Call or write for large and more complete list R0.452— 1s a three-acre tract, io Blue Creek township; (air build- filfl Aft Ings; on public road •••• ™ “TW»W Ho. 477-Is a ten-acre tract, la B'.uj Crook township; good land, log 800 OO buildings WW»W Ho. 475— 1 s a forty-acre tract tn St. Mary's township;; fair frame 0(00 OO buildings; near school; good sized barn; running stock water fcIWsW Ho. 436— 1 s a good-forty acres on; stone road: near school; frame 0800 OO hiuse; drove well: goodlocation- fcW Wa w Ha. 473- lea No. I forty acre tract in Washingion township, one-half *JOOO OO alle of stone road; frame buildings ajfcWoW Ha 433— 1 s a etockof merchandise that can be traded for a forty-acre 8000 OO farm and balance cash payment Na 430—1 s a grain and feed grinder, cane mill and fixtures that the OAA OO owner would sell, or vould trade for other desirable property kn xay -Is » desirable five-room residence, near Madison st., west of 800 OO the railrotd; wood-louse, chicken-house and park, cistern, etc WWaW Ho 437— 1 s a comfortable five-room cottage on First st,, near .lacksou; ORA OO good lot and comfortable residence ws#vaw Nq 479—is a g v . , coin oottag ion Tenth st. near JeCl-rson; good barn, IOQO OO cistern, iruit. etc IfcWaW Ro. 431— Is a now eight-room, story Jand a-half resid. uce on bourne MGA st, w.. • .i itu; ciatern, static, chicken-house'etc Ro 433— I 1 - s 110-acre tract, near church and school—close to New Oorydor s d .n the oil field. This land is on the gravel pike; has aoout 25 ar- es of growing timber, a young orchard, 600 rods ot wire fences, afl e-room story and a-half house, with porches and good cellar 14> 18 feet; horse barn 20x30; hay barn for3o tons of hay. stock gAAA AA sheds 12x80 feet, double cribs, etc Properties listed and advertised without cost to the owner if left on the market for the time list id. Properties rented, bought and sold. S’*OW ACFNCY BANK

A Story of False Imprisonment. One of the strangest of stories of false imprisonment comes from France. A woman was sentenced to imprisonment for life for having caused the death of her husband and brother. The three had lived together at Malaunay, near Rouen, in a cottage, the lower part of which was used as a wine shop. When the woman was sent to prison other people took the wine shop, but the new tenants suffered, the man from fainting fits, his wife from nausea, from which she died. Another couple tried their fortune, but they, too, were overcome by the "spell of the accursed place,” as they thought it. They were subject to fainting and loss of memory. At last a scientific examination of the premises was made. Then it was found that adjoining the Inn was a lime kiln. In the wall dividing it from the cottage were many fissures, so that whenever lime was burnt monoxide of carbon escaped into the inn. This was the secret of the deaths for which the woman was suffering. She was brought out of prison afte*six years of servitude. A Doetvr «t the Old School. Father was a doctor, a genuine, hemp sewed, corn fed country physician of the gray haired class of our oldest school. He neither wore kid gloves nor practiced in them. His patients either had to get well or die, with no loitering on the way. He felt the pulse with one hand and poured castor oil with the other. “Put your trust in castor,” was father's creed, and he lived it and administered it. Castor oil was both his diagnoser and his curer. He gave it any way. If it worked, well and good; if not, he used some other lubricant or else administered liberal doses of more energetic concoctions. There were no milk and water mixtures in his medicine case. But castor oil first; castor oil, the disease seeking chaser of everything within its reach, and by the great tablespoon it reached about everything.— “Gumption.” by N. C. Fowler, Jr. When Folks Feared Gas. In the early days of the last century, when illuminating gas was first used in London, timorous people talked of the dangers of suffocation and of explosions to which the gas. which was still Imperfectly purified, exposed the citi zens. Scientists confirmed these assertions, and the first gasometers erected in London by Samuel Clegg so terrified the people that no workman would venture to light the gas jets which had been placed on Westminster bridge But Clegg soon overcame this difficulty by lighting a torch and applying it tc the burners with his own hands. On another occasion before a committee of the Royal society of London he bored a hole in the gas holder and put a lighted candle to it, to the great alarm of the spectators, but without causing the slightest accident. Gradually the eyes even of the most prejudiced were open ed to the truth. A Feminine Failing. I was being rowed across a Canadian lake by a party of Indians and was told I must not break the stillness or the spirits of the place would be offended. says a woman writer in the Indiana Farmer. It was a calm, cloudless day, and the canoe sped like an arrow across the smooth waters. Suddenly, when in the middle of the lake, I determined to prove to these simple folk the folly of their belief. So I lifted up my voice in a wild’ cry that woke every echo of the hills. The Indians were filled with consternation. They uttered no word, but, straining every nerve, rowed on in frowning silence. They reached the shore in safety, and I had triumphed. But the leader of the Indians looked on me In concern. “The great spirit is merciful,” he said. “He knows that the white woman cannot hold her peace.” Just a Misplaced Comma, An article on the milk supply of large cities in the British Medical Journal contains this remarkable passage: “The man having finished milking, his cow offered to take me into an adjoining room where the milk was cooled.” A Similarity. “He*s quite wealthy and prominent now,” said Mrs. Starvera, “and they say he rose practically from nothing.” “Well, well!” remarked Mr. Border. “That's j«.~+ what,l rose from—at the breakfast taule this morning.”

DIAMONDS and BONDS By DONALD ALLEN Copyright, 1905. by J. W. Muller

“What I wish to say to you,” said Sir John as he leaned across the desk and lowered his voice to a confidential pitch, “is that my business here must be considered sacredly confidential. There must be no possibility of its leaking out. You understand?” “Quite so, Sir John; quite so,” replied the manager. "I have been conducting this agency for over twenty years, and never yet has a patron of mine charged me with having given his secrets away. We are as inviolate as the grave, sir—as the grave Itself.” “I have met with some losses of late in buying foreign bonds,” observed Sir John as he drummed on the desk with bls fingers. “I see, sir.” “And at the present moment I am a little pressed for cash.” “That is liable to happen to all of us, air.” “I shouldn’t be if I didn't want to buy Lord Benson's steam yacht. He offered it to me at a low price last week, and I as good as closed the sale with him. I don't know that it's a good investment, but I rather passed my word, you know.” “Exactly, Sir John," smiled the manager, who knew that his patron was lying like a trooper all the time. As a matter of fact, Sir John, though a man of nearly fifty and supposed to be staid and uncorruptible, had become struck with a music hall singer and had quite lost his good sense. He wanted money to carry out some extravagant wishes of hers, and the steam yacht business was all in his eye. “My wife, you know.” continued Sir John, “has diamonds to the value of £15,000. If she would lend them to me for a few months I could raise £7,000 on them and get through and pay her back all right when certain investments mature. Yes, I could do that, but, you see—you know”— “But your lady objects to lending them ?” “That is the point, sir; that is the point. Indeed, knowing her as well as —oran @ o k -St’ ■■ '■ MW 1 m 1 “MADAM, YOU MUST HAVE WANTED TO RAISE A WAN." I do, I have not asked and shall not ask her to favor me. She left this morning to pass a couple of weeks at the house of Sir William Thorpe." “And what?” asked the manager as the other seemed to have finished. "It is a large house party, and I presume they will have a private officer down there to protect the guests. It one has not already been engaged I presume that one of your men, armed with a recommendation from me, would be taken on.” “Not a doubt of it, Sir John.” “And—and If he could get hold of my lady’s diamonds and bring them to me”— Then the two men drew nearer to each other and spoke in whispers, and at the end of half an hour they seemed to hive settled matters. The manager said It wwsT a case where he wouldn’t trust>a stibordmate.'-but would go himself. and two days later he was duly Installed at Sir John Thorpe's. He was a gentleman in speech and appearance, and with a party of twenty in the house he passed muster as an invited guest. He deceived all but one of them. Three years previously Sir John's wife had been visiting at a country

house where a robbery had occurred, and he had been called in, and, her memory for faces being good, she bad spotted him almost at once. She told him so to bis face and pinned blm down to it, and he was making ready to go and spare himself her contempt when she asked for a few words in private with him. The conference took place on a bench on the lawn with games going on all about them. “In order that you may understand what I want,” began the woman, “I must confess to you that I sometimes speculate.” “Certainly, my lady, certainly. That is not so unusual nowadays.” “I have a friend who has given me a tip on certain stocks, and if I only had £5.000 to invest 1 am sure of a great return within a few weeks.” “But there is Sir John.” “He does not believe in women spec-

alatfng. He would not give me a dollar.” An "You could quietly pawn your diamonds." "But he would be sure to miss them. No. I must try another way. In fact, there is but one other way. If I were not sure that my speculation would turn out all right I wouldn’t try that, but the profit will be certain and large.” "Well?” queried the agent as bis companion sat looking at the toe of her shoe. “In Sir John's safe, in the library at home, is a large amount of Peruvian bonds. If I had a part of them I could raise the £5,000 needed and replace the bonds again in a few weeks. The house is closed just now, but it would not require a great effort to get in, and I have the combination of the safe. I was thinking, you know—l was thinking”— Then they dropped their voices to whispers, and when interrupted fifteen minutes later they seemed to have arrived at an understanding. Two nights later the country house was robbed. The singular part of It was that only Sir John’s lady was despoiled. All her diamonds had been taken, but no else had been robbed of •ven a stickpin. There was an outcry, but fortunately they had a keen detective on the spot, and he didn t wait for his breakfast before beginning to pick up trails. Before noon he decided that the most likely one led toward London, and he followed it. A day or two later he returned and secretly handed Sir John’s lady a pack, ago of Peruvian bonds. She was not taking on about her losses half as much as her friends thought she should, but the detective assured every one that his clew was most promising. He returned to the eity to follow it up. and three days later the lady received a telegram urging her to come home at once for a few hours. Three hours later she was climbing the steps of the mansion in Grosvenor square. Sir John had opened the house and was waiting for her. “Madam, you are here,” be said, with a wave of his hand. “Yes, I am here.” “And will you kindly explain, madam. when and where you had the stones removed from your jewelry and paste substituted ?” “What do you mean, sir?” “Don’t attempt any denial. Here are your jewels—your pretended jewels—of which you were robbed at Thorpe’s. They have been in my possession for a day and a half.. They are paste, madam, nothing but paste.” Sir John did not think to tell her that the boxes had been carried to three different pawnbrokers to secure a loan, and it was through them that he had learned the pasty fact, and she was so busy opening a package she had brought along that she didn't ask him. When she had laid a dozen or so Peruvian bonds on the table she pointed to them in a dramatic way and exclaimed: "And about these bonds, sir. You bought them at 106 for investment. 1 lent you £2,000 to complete the deal. Do you know what they are worth in the market today?” "About 109, I believe,” he replied. “Forty cents, sir, and still going down!” "But where did you get them? I have been robbed!” “So have I!” "Madam, you must have wanted to raise a loan. Tell me what it was for.” “You were in the same fix. What did you want thousands of pounds for?” "Here is your paste jewelry!” "And here are your forty cent bonds!” And a day or two later each received a bill by mail. The one read, "For stealing your wife’s diamonds,” and the other read, “For stealing your husband's bonds.” And the indebtedness was £IOO in each case.

Simplicity and Charity. We smile at th? childlike simplicity of the kind hearted man whose charity “believeth all things, hopeth all things," even of those whom the man of the world distrusts. "But,” as Dr. Holmes says, “the angels laugh, too, at the good he has done.” Dr. Dobbin, an old fashioned clergyman of Dublin, was noted for his kindness to the poor and for the simplicity with which he trusted them, as if they could be guilty of no deception. Once a man was begging at the clergyman’s carriage window. Having no change about him, he handed the beggar a guinea, saying. “Go, my poor man, get ere change for that, and I will .give-you a Shilling.” He never saw the'beggar’s face again. ~i One day his wife on coming home found him in the ball with bis hands behind his back, as if hiding something. She insisted on knowing what it was, and be timidly brought out from behind his back a roasted leg of mutton. He had quietly taken it from the spit in the kitchen to give to a poor woman waiting at the door. Some Disrnell Epigram*. The following are some of the little known epigrams cf Lord Beaconsfield collected by an admirer of Disraeli: “Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse that of others. “What we call the heart is a nervous sensation, like shyness, which gradual- , ly disappears in society. I “Nobody should look anxious except those who have no anxiety. “Women are the only people that get on. A man works all his life and thinks he has done a wonderful thing If, with one leg in the grave and no hair on his head, he manages to get a coronet, and a woman dances at a ball with some young fellow or other and pretends she thinks him charming. 1 and he makes her a peeress on the •pot.”

BREAKINGLOG JAM THE PERILS AND HARDSHIPS OF THE HEROES OF THE “DRIVE.” A Work Without Glory and Yet «» Danßerous a» FiK<>tin® F ire — The Expert “White Water Me." aud Their Skill nn<l Darinff* Among the occupations which are brimful of danger und in which men take their lives in their hands is log driving.” It is a work without glory, yet it is as dangerous as that of the fireman and, one is tempted to say, as that of the seacoast life savers. Certainly iu the Adirondacks, Maine, Michigan, Canada and wherever it is carried on each year a large number of lives are lost, considering the few men employed. It is an employment in which the man’s safety depends on his skill, coolness and quickness in perceiving what to do at the right time. The chief danger is the breaking of log jams In midstream of a rocky rapid. The logs always pile up against the rocks that are not covered by the flood and form a long pile two or three rods wide, anywhere from one to thirty rods long and perhaps six or eight logs deep. Thus a jam may contain 5,000 or 10,000 logs. To break a jam of this kind the boss sends or takes out three or four of the best men in the log driving crew. These experts are men known as “white water men” because of their ability to ride standing up on a log through water that is splashing and foaming over the rocks. They land at the upstream end of the jam. where one of the men remains with the boat while the others go to the lower end of the jam to pick away with their peaveys, or levers, the logs close to the rock against which the jam rests. They seek for the “key log,” which when pried out starts the jam moving so that it either “hangs up” again or breaks to pieces. When the men see that it is breaking they run over the heaving, bounding tangle of logs to the boat at the head of the jam. A slip or a misstep means a fall between the grinding and tossing logs. The logs may become so separated that it is impossible to reach the boat. If this happens the “white water man” must make good his name by making his way to the shore without getting wet or maybe killed. Perhaps the floating timber spreads apart to such nn extent that he is compelled to stick to a single log. and here it is that he best shows his ability as a log driver. He balances himself on the upstream end of the log, steadies himself upon his spike shoes and steers clear of the rocks before him. The men on shore stop to watch. He may ride to safety and he may not. Some years ago on the West Canada

creek, in the Adirondacks, a foreman | of a log driving crew who would never I send his men where he did not dare go 1 himself went out with two volunteers to break a jam in exceedingly swift and rough water. With some difficulty they reached the pile of logs and, after ■ a time, succeeded in starting them go- I ing. The logs started much faster thau expected and were soon scattered iu , such a manner that the two men could not get to the boatman and boat at the head of the jam. They did the best they could to keep their feet and to ■ work their way toward shore. The foreman was the more skillful of the two and kept his log fairly steady, ; but the other man was having a hard ; time to keep on top. Having come ; within fifteen or twenty yards of the | shore, the foreman braced his peavey : against the other man’s log and then gave it a shove, which sent it toward shore with the man. In doing this the foreman's log was sent far out into the raging stream. He bad intended to work his way back again while he was “cuffing” his log to stop it roiling, but it struck a rock. He was burled into the air and came down headforemost upon the bowlder. His body was found some days later a mile downstream. Although the “white water man” is skillful in riding a log. it is obvious | that be cannot ride over a waterfall or through an extremely rough rapid. When a jam farms above a waterfall or rough rapid, as is often the case, the danger of "busting” is greatly increased, since here it is absolutely necessary to get to the boat or to the shore. When one considers that in breaking jams the drivers are often compelled to ride to shore on a log, the danger can readily be seen. Gene Mcßeth, one of the best drivers that ever rode a log. met his death on Mill creek in just such a situation. A “whig jam,” so called because extending from shore into the stream, had “bung up” above rapids that could not be passed even by a boat With two other men Mcßeth went out on the logs and began picking them loc»e in search for the “key log.” After working an hour, all at once the jam leaped forward and was in full motion. The men turned and started up the jam, Mcßeth in the lead. When they reached the single place over which they could pass Mcßeth stopped to help his less able companions and to let them pass ahead of him. It was a fatal move on his part, for the other two men had just time to jump ashore Into the water waist deep. When his turn came it was too late. He bad saved his friends, but now there was a ride for his life over the tangled mass of groaning and tossing logs. When he saw what it all meant he turned about, held the peavey as a balancepole tight in both hands and faced the hopeless fight for life. The mon on shore ran along the stream, unable to render him aid, and watched the greatest log riding they had ever seen. At times he would jump ’’-ist high to another 1 g that he g.t n.drer shore or to at ok

a tumbling wave with a he »» u ' back. Again be would jump * ” * U tossing lo>to another, and mJ„ I log swung about which would > “J struck his knees he jumped clear It as it passed under hlln and (?,?,?! back on his log. Once he fell to J hands, but was on his feet in stunt. la au The men on shore were unable to r„„ as fast as the stream, and when th?? last saw him he was still ou his now jumping, now riding with all J strength and agility, ever trvlne t I near the shore. When they found J poor man, a. week later, all his nJ! were broken, some of them twice »,?< numerous bruises covered his body but some way or other, not a scar d’isJ ured his face.-New York Tribune, HOLBEIN, THE ARTIST. Hla Early Training and HI. Wld Range of Genin.. Born at Augsburg, almost at the very end of the fifteenth century, tweutv-J years later than Purer and twenty years after the date usually gi vea a ’’ that of the birth of Titian, Holbein was ■ child of the high renaissance and' •lowly as the renaissance crept northward, fell early under Italian Influence At Basel, where he began his independ! ent career at the age of seventeen or eighteen, this Influence must have been greatly strengthened in some way and reached its visible height about 1526, just before his first journey to Eng land. The multifariousness of his work during these early years is somewhat surprising to us who have learned to think of him as almost exclusively a portrait painter. Here is an all round artist who can turn his baud to anything and in the absence of steady employment is very willing to do so. Book illustrations, portraits, designs for stained glass, anything from initial letters to altar pieces, he is glad to do, and be does them with a wonderful fertility of invention and a precocious mastery. The earliest are decidedly German in accent, reminding one not a little of Durer. but almost from the first there is a finer taste in ornament and iu architecture, a greater freedom of movement, a more Italiauate costume and a more concentrated composition, while the study of light and shade becomes early a visible preoccupation. There Is a whole series of bis cartoons for glass in the museum at Basel which are worth attentive study, aud the designs for the shutters of the Basel church organ, there preserved, seem to me admirable in character, in decorative propriety and in beauty of line—far finer than anything of the same sort by Durer or by any other northerner. As for his little woodcuts of the “Dance of Death," every one knows them, and every one admires them. No one else has packed so much action, so much energy, so much fancy, Into such small compass. These tiny blocks are among the world’s masterpieces of designs.—Kenyon Cox in Scribners.

Haiulet. Hamlet, prince of Denmark, is, of course, best known as the hero of one of Shakespeare’s greatest plays. The time when he lived is unkuowu. Some historians say 500 B. C., others -viy at 700 A. D.,’and there are son: ■ v.-ho say he never lived. Shake-spare's play was based on the Danish story f Amlet, whose history is recor .ed in SaxoGrammaticus. twelfth ceut'ity. Belle Forest adopted the stors in lebl. among a collection of novels he began at that time. From him the 1.. tory of Hamlet was translated. the earliest edition bearing the date IGOB. The characters of Laertes and Ophelia are wanting in the original. Some events that transpired in Shakespeare s time must have brought the old legend before the poet’s mind. The murder of Darnley and the marriage of his widow, Mary Stuart, to Lord Bothwell furnishes a counterpart of some portions of Hamlet. The theme of tragedies generally at the close of the sixteenth century was revenge. The tragedy o Hamlet in Shakespearean form appeared in 1601-02. His grave is shown at Elsinore, the scene of the play, and there is a garden near by called "Hamlet’s garden.” Big Came »• the NileA traveler on the upper Nile £i’« this picture of big game that abounds there: “Os wild animals elephants taxe the first place; there are enormous herds of them, and the ivory 's o, <- greatest size- A big wan t down from the flanks of E-”” 11 ‘ uses a-remarkable elephant road, w a Is apparently used only during ' s son of migration.. This herd freqmn crosses the Nile at the southern end or the lake-like extension near Vade Hippopotami come next in size an _ to be found iu countless nuiubt ” the Nile. When the tributary rivers are in flood they go a long way them. Were it not for the fact th tiie Nile they are extremely dang, and cause considerable loss o they might well be preserved, o do little other harm-a very small Is sufficient to keep them out or ration.” Woman'* Work. A lady doctor writing to tbe „ L ®“ A Chronicle on “Women Workers . i the following unanswerable stat “If you come to estimate a day a • even in foot pounds, the vvoina cleans, bakes, washes and tax school six children, carries water I tramps up stairs and down for » • • hours a day. need not fear comparison as to kinetic energy even with a working eight hours' „„««nrv? True, but is all this quite neo • I asks Punch. Could not her ‘ I)ied sometimes go to school unae v and unbaked? And why ®" s on carrying tramps up andloo - all that time? Is it even fair o poor unemployed?