Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 4, Decatur, Adams County, 29 March 1906 — Page 3

I Time Table I ER IE RAILROAD. . ||S EFFE November 12,1905 ■ » J DECATUR. ■ ** east bound HI vnrk Express. 2:38 a.m. ■ I v and Columbus ex,.K:5; a- m. ■ V r.'. Boston Ves. Inn. 3: 1" p. m ■ INo * . Fargo Express b:t» p. ui. ■ mu'iauqua and Buffalo ex a;3‘p m ■ S ° WEST BOUND ■s' Fargo Express 6:o; p. n , ■ Sunday, ■ IZoal y « m,t Monday ' H JOHN FLEMING. Ticket Agent.. ■ c L. Enos, Trav. Passenger Agent v ' Marion, Ohio Imo rapids i Indiana m. I w . sLih 1 "”»®T-l'«™ ESS"«S» ■ “ ■ r 12.51 am 7.14 am I l«pm 7’4fiptn i -,2am 8.15 am 2 13pm 8.45 pm ■ *';15am 9.42 am 3.4-ipm 10.15 pm k-,.: ■ 1 tt'ram sleeping car to Cincinnati ■ 1 Daily to ■ fc>.n<l North Daily Gd. Kapids ExSun ■ , r .... 1,20 am 7.59 am 3 17pm ■ , T u*w-ivi. 2.uoam 8.40 am 4.00 pm ■ l!c,r»ndi''r'<is- *l4sam l.Wpm 9.40 pm ■fpjmskc. 2.55 pm 9.30 pm 6.05 am .«’ liy 4.15 pm 10.50 pm 7.2>>am ■ FDamtra.n sleeping car to Mack City R and Mack lip t n Parlor car to G. K. and ■imping car G. R. to Mack City. -■toledo. st.louis & western r. r.co ■ "CLOVER LEAF HOUTt" H In eff. C» June 36. 1904. isaST, mrl-Oun-xtercial Traveler, dally... 5:20 am * 4*l) y. except Sunday. ..11 ; 58 a m K. i_D»y Express, dally - -- P m i-V-s height 2:30 pm * vVE-ST . :.ii y. except Sunday ...11 -a m < r’Gi Traveler, dan/ >:l2 p m Freight 10:65 a m B Like tine « western I’lme card trom Bluffton Ind. -!■ SOUTHBOUND 41-D*i.y excpt Sunday 7:15 am ■j'w-Da.« except Sunday 11:D a m except Sunday 5:35 pm runsi .rough to Indianapolis without arriving lu:30 a m Hlo i!leaves Indianopolis at ,:00s m. Huns ■■^a r) j;b nt change, arriving at BluffU n <2run v.a Muncie A 81.- 4 route

■ Anpoinir From World to World. ■ Few children reach the age of eight ■ars without having worked out a R nology of their own and their own ■stem of metaphysics, A group of ■rangsters of that mature age were King hoire from school the other day ■tei one I' to instruct the others Mat to do in case of a certain crisis. Bflii-ii the i nd of the world comes do Mi know what you want to do?" ask- ■ the manikin. “Well, you Me a little jump like this. The world Billslip out from under you. and you'll Mht on i.he <uie a-followin' it and be ■ right." Men the youngsters began the sort of jump that was ■tessary . ire them immortality.--Musas City Times. H Curioun Fixhinji. ■Vry cur. > is the method of fishing ■Hewed by the Chinese in the strait ■ Jlahuwi. The fisherman lets down ■os the side of the boat a screen of Bite canvas stretched on wood. The ■oal of mistake this for some >d <ttuction and try to leap ■* r it. with the result that the fish i:a . ti.e boat and are thus cap■Kd. This. '.,,’thod is employed by in their waters. 'entriloqulem In the Bible. ■ v filch is described ns - mi tiie belly," lias its first uha, as far as we are ,r ". in 1- tali xxix. 4. "And thou Bjltlebl- .Cu down and shall -qc-iik ■•h--:. cl. and tliy speech diail low or; - iie (ittsf, .> ;l j f] : v v ,;<■(> ns hath a familiar out < f the groin. 1. and thy out of ’ln dust." i;. |H Hesourcefal. oil’ lawyer to his ,w with ;dm. "Y •: ' ' i 'lfsWi.k HI evl-hl. the , ves are not cut.” X :.•.twt.cd t’io versatile jB”-’ 1 the !,..[• chin-hied wii'i ilea,. :■ ..i lt wi' t iwl'v y-r the V ’<’• i- I.on ion ITm' h. K, T r-.et s.ti.t Ilenpei!:. "I don't •.1 Meeker in surF 1 : *<•.- she’s : n a sarcastic orders me to do anyknow <!,.• war.: me 'o Co jus' s i ( P»site."~pi IHade:pbia 1 Hade:pbia Press. Him Experience. F” u hve art for its . ‘ •• ■ oi-’> Ari Ist—Why. fi" 1 ;" ' 1 ,1;e conclusion that W' : i- is j :i it._r.ro >klyn Life. bingnngr ib'entes the man. A f reii’tiqi Pia r.actcr finds its exJ 1 -I a eoars( » or re _ |B Wrast ology.- Bovee.

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“A Star Out of Jacob.” In the time of the reign O s Hadrian, about a d. 130, a Jew appeared among he peopl of Palestine claiming to be a a uiessiah—the “star out of Jacob”which Balnr.ni predicted in his prophecy. (See Numbers xxiv, 17) This a Jewish messial s name was Simeon Bar-Cochebu, which latter name in the Hebrew language means "son of a i. star.” This individual who so blatanto !y proclaimed himself to be of divine . o.igiu took Jerusalem by storm (A. 1). 11 1..2) and actually commenced the ren building of the temple. He took the government in hand ami issued coins and perf timed many other public ofi flees. One of these coins, now in the British ijiuseum. has an enlarged star upon one side and upon the other a i Hebrew legend meaning “The Deliverer of Jerusalem.” The Jews, it is said. > lost 600,000 men defending this men siah at the time when the Roman gov ei ninent attempted to [tut down the • popular delusion. In Roman history Bar-Coclieba is known as “Coziba of , Barchocheba.” The enemies of the i | son of a star” changed his name to i, ‘Bar-Cozeba,” which in the Hebrew I means “son of a lie.” i | —— _ A Speedy Recovery. I On one of the visits of the American J fleet to English waters Admiral Erben t was in command, with Captain Alfred j T. Mahan, the writer on naval affairs, i as his flag captain. One morning Cap- • tain Mahan came to his admiral with i an invitation to dine with a duke which he had received. “I can't accept.” said Captain Ma- | han, “as they forgot to invite you.” “I should say you couldn't.” growled I the admiral. “I'll answer for you.” Whereupon the admiral wrote: , “Admiral Erben, United States navj, “ regrets that Captain Mahan, his flag i captain, cannot accept tlie invitation of the Duke of Blank, Captain Mahan is [ on tli" sick list.” II An hour or so later a messenger from 1 I the duke returned with invitations for the admiral and the captain, whereupon the admiral wrote again: "Admiral Erben accepts witli pleasure the invitation for Captain Malian i and himself. He wishes also to adJ vise the Duke of Blank that he has ! | taken Captain Mahan off the sick list.” I I Curioun Storage of Hay. An English traveler through Kashmir found in practice there a novel method of putting fodder up for winter use. The country lies in a valley among the Himalayas. The chief in--1 (P-istry of the people consists in raising fine wool and in making this into fabrics which have carried the name of tl.e country all over the world. A curious custom in some places is that of hanging quantities of hay up among the brandies of trees. Why it was done was more than I could guess, till my guide informed me that in winter the snow lie.; five and six yards in depth and that the supplies of hay, which now look only as if they were meant for camelopards, are then easily reached by the flocks of sheep which abound there. MitiaatCireci:istance. A Scotch i.aiilie recently advanced to the bench had a criminal placed before him accused of some very modest violation of the law. Os course the baillie knew the prisoner well. He heard the charge stated. “John, man. I'm sorry to see you here. We'll just line you half a crown.” The clerk here intervened. “But the charge is not yet proved; we have not heard the evidence.” Then the benignant baillie: "Ah, well, John, my man, as the charge is not proved we'll just fine you an eighteenpence.”—London Telegraph. Mars and Saturn. If, Mars and Saturn reflect the same proportion of the light which falls upon I their surfaces the smaller and much I nearer planet would look three times ! as bright as the much more distant I and much largi r Saturn. As a matter I of fact, there is no great difference bei tween the two. It is inferred froiq this : fact that the visible surface of Saturn j consists of clouds, since no surface of land and water would reflect so much , light as that plan t gives. j:p Is Deliberate. ' 1 Mrs. Sparks -Your husband it a v«>ry deliberate man. im't he'.- M:s. Slow- | man—lnde; jhe : Mrs. Sparks—Did ! vou ever know him to do an.vthjng in J a burr ? Mrs. Slnvinan-Ne-er! He plans every movement with the utmost 1 F.'li' o-a- on and lingers stu-liously over . i ever.-.’ detail. 1 have often thought that ’i if lit- ever <'!'■< mi.ldenly it will be an . ■ awful sh >ck to him. Xt hell Ite.-Ith Cools ur» «ttnc. There is :> curious superstition in Jatnaica that if a death occurs in the house all >lie water in it is poisoned at once dud must be thrown array, the reason given l>eing that “death” cools 1 his -sting” after destroying life in the first water he finds, and as no one can ' tell death being invisible— what jar be may choose it is safest to throw II ail away. Carefal people to save trou . I ble even carry all water out cf ths ■ house immediately before a death U expected.

SAVED THeTaNDS. How De CoNniiiN' Great Speech Hap« pened to Be Delivered. The longest speech on record Is believed to have been that made by Mr. 1 de Cosmus in the legislature of British Columbia when a measure was pending tile passage of which would have taken from a great many settlers their lands. Do Cosmus was in a minority. The ine.-isure had been held back till the eve cf the close of the season or session. Unless action was taken te- . fore noon of a given day the act would LUI. De Cosmus got tlie floor at 10 a. m. and began a speech against the . bill. Its friends supposed he would be done by t o'clock. At 2 o’clock he was saying, “in the second place.” At 3 lie produced a fearful bundle of evidence and insisted on reading it. Then the truth dawned. He was go- , ir.g to sjvak till noon the next day and kill the bill. Then they made merry over it and tried to shout him down, but that gave him time and breathing space. They finally settled down to watch the combat between the strength of will and weakness of body. They gave no mercy, no time for dinner or wetting lips witli water and no sitting down. Members went to dine and sleep in squads, but De Cosmus went on. Day dawned. The speaker was alternately dozing and trying to look wide awake. At last noon came, and a single man was triumphant. Although his voice had sunk to a husky whisper, his eyes were bleared and bloodshot, bis legs tottered under him, his baked lips were cracked and smeared with blood. De Cosmus had spoken for twenty-six hours and saved the lands. THE BANANA PLANT. Each Tree Produce* Only One Bunch of the Fruit. The banana plant is not properly a tree at all. It has no woody fiber. It is a large, green, fleshy plant, with big leaves six or eight feet long <%nd sometimes two feet broad. It grows to a height of ten to fourteen feet or even more, according to the variety of plant and the soil and climate. Each tree produces one bunch of fruit only, which is really tlie terminal bud of the plant, just like an ear of wheat or barley. It has no branches, and when the fruit is ready, which is twelve or fifteen months from the date of planting, the tree is cut down and done with. But while it is growing up and maturing its fruit it is at the same time sending up from its roots other young plants or suckers — perhaps eight oi Hire of them. Each of these will produce its own bunch in turn, some of them in a couple of months after the parent plant, and there will thus be a regular succession of fruit. Many of these suckers have to be dug up and planted elsewhere, or they would be too thick on the ground. And there is this peculiarity about the banana: You can plant it at anj season, and the fruit ripens all tlie year round. When once a banana field has been planted out, al) that is necessary to be done is to keep it clear of weeds and keep thinning out the mult.plying suckers. A Curious Wooden Watch. The most: curious timekeeper perhaps that has ever been made in this country was the work of one Victor Doriot. who lived at Bristol, Ti';in., in the last century. This horologii ul oddity was nothing more or less than a wooden watch. The case was made of brier root, and tlie inside works—all except three of the main wheels and the springs, which were of metal — were made from a piece of an old boxwood rule. The face, winch was polished until it looked like a slub of finest | ivory, was made from the sliov.hier ! blade of an oid cow that had been killed by the ears. “Doriot’s queer ' watch,” as it was called, was an open I faced affair, with a glass crystal, and ■ was pronounced an elegant piece of workmanship by all the watchmakers in east Tennessee. A Wonderful Memory, Eortensitw. the great Roman lawyer and orator, had a memory of extraor- ! dinary scope and tenacity. After composing a speech or oration he could repeat it word for word exactly as lie had prepared it. On one occasion lie went to an auction, v. liere tlie business was carried on during an entire day. and at evening, for a wager, lie wrote down a iist of tlie articles that had been sold and the prices, together with the names of the purchasers, in the order in which the purchases had been made. Algebra. science of algebra is said to have been the invention of Mohammed of Buziana about 850 A. D. The science was introduced into Spain by the Moors. The first treatise on the sub- ' ject in any European language is believed to have been that by Luca Paccoli in 1494. The first English algebra was written by Robert 1 ecorde. teacher of mathematics, at Ca.-ibridge. about 1557. He was the first to use the sign j omirnicv

THE COMET’S TAIL. It May Be Described as a Current of Gaseous Particles. What is a comet? Up to tlie time of the Renaissance a comet was universally supposed to be a vapor in the atmosphere, presaging pestilence, wars and tlie death of kings. The Danish astronomer Tycho Bralie was tlie first to show that comets lay in tlie celestial spaces beyon 1 our atmosphere, and Newton proved that the heads of domets obeyed tlie law of gravitation, like other celestial bodies. We can notv say witli considerable assurance that a comet's head consists of a swarm of meteors surrounded and interspersed with a gaseous atmosphere -which renders it luminous and therefore visible by continuous internal discharges. When the atmosphere disappears and tlie discharges cease the head becomes invisible, and the comet becomes a simple meteor swarm. The most puzzling thing about a comet has always been its tail, and it is only within recent years that we have begun to know enough about matter in a finely divided state to be able to offer any satisfactory explanation for it. Its most obvious peculiarity is that It does not obey the law of gravitation. That the tail is gaseous is clearly proved by tlie spectroscope, the banded spectrum having been traced to a distance of 3.000.000 miles from the head of Swift's comet (1892. 1). According to the modern theory of electricity, tlie sun is a negatively charged body, from whose surface vast numbers of minute bodies called corpuscles are being constantly repelled at velocities not far from 100.000 miles per second. These corpuscles, electrons, or ions, as they are sometimes named, are rather crudely called negative electricity. Those corpuscles that strike the comet immediately attach themselves to the gaseous molecules surrounding the head, charging them negatively ami causing them to be repelled at high speed not only from the outer molecules forming the head, but particularly from the direction of the negatively charged sun. The successive envelopes sometimes seen surrounding the nucleus of a comet may indicate .either some special activity going on within the comet itself or they may indicate tlie effect of successive waves of corpuscles shot out from the sun. A comet’s tail may therefore be described as a current of gaseous particles receding from the head, each particle or molecule carrying a negative electric charge. A certain amount of impalpable dust of a particular grade of fineness probably accompanies the gaseous stream. In at least one case this dust was present in sufficient quantities to produce an appreciable effect, but it did not extend to the extreme end of the tail.—Professor W. H. Pickering in Harper's Magazine.

Dust on the Ocean. “To talk of a ‘dusty* ocean highway sounds absurd, but the expression is perfectly accurate,” states a writer. "Every one who is familiar with ships knows that, no matter how carefully the decks may be washed in the morn ing, a great quantity of dust will collect by nightfall. You say, ‘But the modern steamship, burning hundreds of tons of coal a day, easily accounts for such a deposit.’ True, but the records of sailing vessels show that the latter collect more dust than a steamer. On a rec -it vuya e of a sailing vessel—a jour:, y v’.’. h lasted ninetyseven days—twenty-four barrels of dust were swept from the decks'. The captain war a man of scientific tastes and made careful observations, but could not solve the mystery. Some, no doubt, comes from the wear and tear on the sails and rigging. but that ac counts for only a small portion. To add to the luystory, bits of cor!:, wood and ve ‘et ' de fiber are trequently found in th’-, s ilu- t. Where does it come from ?'—Keren News. U-:r by Law. “While in 8.-.-... i <>::.• hot day." wild a traveler. • I stepped into a combi.r. tion beer garden and restaurant and ordered a gbi-s .>; beer and some frun. The waiter sb ok liis 1 n.l. ‘“You won't ;--t fra t and liner to gether in Berlin. 1? :t.' be said. " ‘“Why rot?' -. id I. “‘lt is again, t th ■ law. - ill? repli. ’. ‘""nr.' i- t ’ " !: ■'•' many that . > one ' b >?■ and fruit to th‘t If a i : ‘tt: break tb.i law he ! Ills! I is a ■. <td law.’ the '■.-.ilt.r r.c. ic.l. T based on good ■■.. u:: l s Pi-. r :ac fruit don't mi.‘.'. They arc ' i for thstom.". h. Sometin: ■ ■ they c:'■ ’d - h. “Since that til:. -." the m.’.ri n ended. “I have never mixed bar aud irult. It is a stran ;e id -... isn't it. to have food laws like tint? Stmnose congress should pass a 1 iw forbidding the eating at the same meal of ice cream and lobster or mince pie and plum pudding. What a howl would go up, eh?" —New York Press. Sponue Flsbinq;. The Greeks are considered the principal sponge fishers, and it takes much experi nice, skill and hardihood to qualify a man for a first class place among sponge divers. Many of tin- most valuable specimens are found at a depth varying from ten to thirty -five fathoms. To aid in the descent the divers make ute of a triangular stone with a hole in one corner, through which a rope is spliced. On reaching the deep ■ ea gardens, where the rock ledges are clothed with marine growths, the diver retaining a hold on -his rope, dexterously 1-rooks away the holdfast of the sponges and places them under his arm until a sufficient load has been gleaned, when a pull on the rope- signals his companions above that be is ready to ascend, and be is then hauled to the . I -sir • hi, ocean treasures.

Strange Cure For I.nnncy. Our forefathers were so fond of the whip that they seem to have regarded a cure for lunacy and even for smallpox. The accounts of a Huntingdonshire parish, under date 1691, have the entry, “I’d. in charges taking up a distracted woman, watching her and whipping her next day, Bs. Gd." and a few years later eightpence is paid for "whipping two people yt had the smallpox.” “Bang beggar” was evidently no mere fancy name for the parish beadle. He fhor iugi.lv earned the title in the days of his greatness. Tlie name outlasted the whip and tlie brutal performance at the whipping post or tlie cart’s tail. Fifty or sixty years ago “bang beggar” was still the provincial name for a beadle in several of the midland counties. A Cheshire glossary defines a “bang beggar” as “a beadle, one of whose duties it was to take up and drive away any beggars in the district and prosecute them as the law directs.”—London Graphic. Fox and Flea*. Reynard is a knowing animal. The foxes are much tormented by fleas, but when the infliction becomes too severe they know how to get rid of the insects. They gather from the bark of trees moss, which they carry to a stream that deepens by degrees. Here they enter the water, still carrying the moss in their mouths, and, going backward, beginning from the end of their tails, they advance by slow degrees till the whole body, witli the exception of the mouth, is entirely immersed. The fleas during this proceeding have rushed in rapid haste to the dry parts and finally to the moss, and the fox. when lie has, according to his calculation, allowed sufficient time for all the fleas to take their departure, quietly op :is his mouth. Tlie moss floats off down the stream with its burden of fleas, and when it is out of jumping reach the f ,x finds its way to the bank, much relieved. Tl.e Date Stransrer. An attorney in I’hilmlelpl.ia who makes a specialty of prosecuting suits against railway companies growing out of injuries due to accidents on the line tells of the trouble experienced in the cross examination of an Irish witness. This witness had evidently been carefully coached by counsel for the company, for tvhen the question was put to him, “Was the man found on the track a total stranger?” the wary Celt replied: “I should say not, sir. Seeiu' that his left leg was gone, I should say. sir, that he were a partial stranger.”—Woman’s Home Companion. Suspicions Fervor. “■Well, brother.” said the deacon, “that was a fine prayer you made last night.” “Thank you, deacon. I am very glad to hear you say so.” “Yes. it was a splendid prayer, long and fervent. And, say. what have you been doing anyway? Yon can confide in me with the utmost confidence. I wouldn't betray you for anything in the world.”—Chicago Record-Herald.

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; CURES SICK-HEAOACHE | Tablets and powders advertised N N as cares for siek-headache are gen- x x erally harmful and they do not cure x x but only deaden the pain by putting J F the nerves to sleep fora short time F F through the use of morphine or F * cocai ile. F J Lane’s Family* t Medicine J F the toni -laxative, cures sick-head- F F ache, not picrely stops it for an F F hour or two. It removes the cause F Fof headache and keeps it away. j# F Sold by all dealers at 25c. and 50c. F

Another great man has treken into print. His name is Weather wax. He asserts that he can pickout eggs that will produce roosters and that will produce hens. He guarantees not to miss it once in one hundred times. It is a cinch that he can hit it on roosters for they will all be “roosters” if they live long enough. Weatherwax claims that he can make any one wise to his discovery in five minutes. Asked t J define the word “gen tieman,' a wise guy, who sb ed close to the truth, replied follows: “A man who s clear: >th it side and outside; wh > • i ier looks up to the noh the poor ; who can lose i > >ut squealing and win wire . g. ging who is considerate f n, children and old p -opl ; is too brave to lie; to to cheat; too honest to v u ft too humane to opp’ ■: ;w man, and who tak» s but h s s» are of the world and lets other people have their‘n. Let’s see; can vou count the gentlemen in the state of Indiana'?, A married man woke up the other morning to find his wife going through his pants pockets where he kept his money. When he asked her what she was doing she stammered and said she was sewing on a button that appeared to be missing, and what did the mean old son of Adam do but get right out of bed and fled two bittons on his coat, three on his vest and three on his underclothes that were just ready to drop rft and sit there and make that woman sew them on, remarking al! she r me upon the thoughrfulness of su :h a loving little woman who would crawl out of bed on a cold night just to see that her husband’s clothes were in good repair.