Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 5, Decatur, Adams County, 5 April 1906 — Page 8

Homer Neailei'l'.ouser is clerking at the Fred Neaderhoi’se” store. ?f”s. John Simison, who has been ill for some time, is improving slowly. Mrs. Kosa and Mass I.la Baumgartner were at Decatur. Sunday, visiting. Andrew French and D. I - . Hoffman made a business trip to Bluffton, Friday. Nelson Gentis. who has been bartering at Decatur for sometime, was home over Sunday . Aaron Augsbei-tr, the jewelry man of Berne, was visiting last week with relatives at this p! t • John Augsberger, Jr., left Monday for Oklahoma, where he will take up a position in the oil fields of the west. Mrs. Emma Seeker and Chauncey Keller, of Bluffton, were visiting with Mother Ensby, of this place. Monday. Ed Heller moved his h > tsehold goods to Berne. Tuesday . We ’egret to lose so god a citizen. Ed Opliger and Charley Baumgartner left Monday, for Angola, where they will attend the Tri-State Normal College. Miss Della Bryan and Charley Cowan were at Bluffton Saturday, where they took the examination for teachers’ license. J. E. Beiberstine has sold his stock of goods to Fred Neaderhouser, of Berne, who will continue to do business at this place. Eugene Runyon, Albert Huser and Fred ixeaderhouser, of Berne, were at this place. Monday, for the purpose of invoicing the J. Beiberstine stock of merchandise. Our butcher. Charles Tremp, has opened up his meat market for this season, and has installed a gasoline engine to produce power to manipulate his machinery. The Story ot a Brook. To lovers of outdoors there are few things in the wide world which are more enchanting, more altogether de lighting, than just such a brook, whose course—whose life, so to speak—l hav« been trying to bring to the mind of those who know all its turns and whims and caprices in summer and in winter, in spring and in autumn, when much rain had maddened it and when none had caused it to shrink into a warped thing of nature without form and void.. We may be hundreds of miles from the brook which we know best, but we know it is flowing just as it used to do, and there is ever the thought that if we cannot see it in its daily moods there are others who may do so. And, no matter the name of the peaceful valley through which it flowed or where that valley may be, it was the brook of our childhood, and there is a brook, or ought to be, away back somewhere in the mind of every one whose heart and memory take him back to the scenes where at least some younger days were spent.—Outdoors. Wants and Needs The moment the monthly salary crosses the bare necessity line, that moment the horizon of wants begins to widen, says Harper's Bazar. For every dollar the salary increases the imagination finds a place for $2, $3, $1 or $5. A great part of the demands existing in the world today are romantic. How shall the imagination be schooled, where shall the line be drawn? It should be considered a part of morality to live within the income, but on every side there seems to be an attempt to stretch the SI,OOO income to a $2,000 scale, the $2,000 income to a $3,000 scale, $3,000 is made to do duty for $5,000 and $5,000 is thinly stretched to the breaking point to stimulate a SIO,OOO income. With every added dollar the horizon of wants will widen unless the imagination is wisely schooled Sadly do we need training to draw the line between wants and needs. » Needle W<-ar. Many people wear themselves out needlessly. Their conscience is a tyrant An exaggerated sense of duty leads a person to anxious, ceaseless activity. to be constantly doing something. overpunctual, never idle a second of time, to scorn rest. Such are in unconscious nerve tension. They say they have no time to rest, they have so much to do, not thinking they are rapidly unfitting themselves for probably what would have been their best and greatest work in after years. » A Short Sermon. No time or place is sacred to the enthusiastic joker. Duclos tells in his memoirs how the prince archbishop of Cologne asked license to preach in the royal chapel at Versailles when visiting Louis XIV. himself. All the court assembled. It was April 1. The prince archbishop mounted the pulpit in stately fashion, bowed from side to side and stood a moment as if collecting his thoughts, then shouted "April fools!” picked up his skirts and ran. Cruel. "I made these biscuits myself, David,” said Mrs. Copperfield, with honest pride. "They look very nice, Dora.” replied David, picking one of them up and making an effort to split it. "And they are still hot. How long ago did you—ah;—cast them?” 1 A Thoughtful Answer. "What’s the first sJep toward the digestion of the food?” asked the teacher. Up wont the band of a black haired l:*i!e follow, who exclaimed with eagerness: "Bite it off! Bite it off!”

ARTIFICIAL EYES. ■Hie First Ones Made Were Worn Outsole the Socket. As ■ arly as 500 15. C. artificial eyes were made by the priests of Rome and Egypt, who practiced as physicians and surgeons. Their methods of eye making are thus described: On a strip of flesh tinted linen, two and a quarter by one and a quarter inches, the flat side of a piece of earthenware, modeled life size and painted to represent the human eye and eyelids, was cemented. This linen, coated on the other side with some adhesive substance, was placed over the eyehole and pressed down. In brief, the artificial eye w’as worn outside the socket and. though a clumsy substitute, was probably appreciated by the Romans and Egyptians. In the ruins of Pompeii, destroyed in 79 A. !>.. an eye of this description was discovered. Not until the sixteenth century do we hear of eyes at all like those of today—that is. worn inside the socket. A French surgeon, one Ambroise Pare, invented three artificial eyes. One consisted of an oval plate covered with soft leather, on which an eye was painted. It was attached to the head by a strong steel band. It could have been neither sightly nor comfortable. The second device and the first known in history to be worn inside the socket consisted of a hollow glot>e of gold deftly enameled. The third eye devised by this ingenious gentleman was a shell pattern eye, much like that in use today, except that it was of gold and enamel. Pare’s inventions were followed by eyes of painted porcelains and colored pearl white, which became very popular. They were succeeded by eyes of glass, which soon took the place of all others and command popular favor to this day. Glass eyes were invented about the year 1579 and were crude productions of inferior workmanship, the iris and pupil being hand painted in a far from lifelike manner. Shakespeare mentions glass eyes in "King Lear,” where the king advises the blinded traitor Gloucester to “get thee glass eyes and seem to see.” QUEER OLD RUSSIA. The Firing of Moscow In the Tim * of lean the Terrible. One who traveled through Russia in 1698 wrote in Latin an interesting account of what he saw. This was afterward translated into English in part as follows: -The Muscovites are generally of a very strong constitution, both very tall and bulky. Above one-half of the year is taken up with their fasts, when the common people feed upon nothing else but cabbage and cucumbers, and these raw, only pickled.” Tne writer, Henry William Ludolf, has leanings toward vegetarianism, for he added, “This is an evident sign of their natural vigor, though it must also be allowed that they promote the digestion by the brandy and leeks which they use in large quantities, and questionless correct the viscous humors arising nr the stomach by such indigestible nourishments."

Giles Fletcher, an English traveler, saw Moscow fired by an army of Tartars in 1571 in the absence of Czar Ivan the Terrible. He writes, “There was nothing but whirlwinds and such a noise as though the heavens would have fallen.” According to Fletcher, numerous persons were burned to death, while crowds struggling to escape from the flames met, and the ensuing crush resulted in thousands of fatalities. He asserts that “there perished at that time by the fire and the press the number of 806,000 people or more.” This estimate, of course, was excessive. As a means of getting rid of the dead bodies, says Fletcher, the Czar Ivan ordered them on his return to be thrown into the Moskva, and the corpses dammed the deep and rapid river and caused it to overflow its banks. “Conuselor Therefore.” Sergeant Kelly, a celebrity of the Irish bar, had a remakable habit of drawing conclusions directly at variance with his premises and was consequently nicknamed “Counselor Therefore.” In court on one occasion he thus addressed the jury: “The case is so clear, gentlemen, that you eannot possibly misunderstand it, and I should pay your understandings a very poor compliment if I dwelt upon it for another minute. Therefore I shall at once proceed to explain it to you as minutely as possible.” A Mohammedan CnMom. The Mohammedans have the custom, when they receive a present, of thanking God first, then the giver. If you do them a favor they will say, “I thank God for your kindness to me.” Some may comply rather thoughtlessly with this custom, which they have inherited from their fathers, but many certainly say it with their whole heart. Amonff Friends. “Whew! What, Lottie Brown engaged? That proves what I’ve always said—that, no matter bow plain and badly tempered a girl may be, there’s always a fool ready to marry her. Who’s the poor man ?” “I am! ’—Life. The Camel’s Hump. The camel was the last of the animals to enter the ark. “Hey, there, you,” called Noah, “get a hump on yourself!" Then the camel promptly got its back up. aud that's how it happened.—Philadelphia Record. The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy Impute all their success to prudence and merit.—Swift.

A Melancholy Career. A young man who will some day Inherit an enormous fortune and who is being brought up as a “gentleman” was interviewed the other day. Among other things he said, “If I did not have my career cut out for me, if 1 were to lose my fortune, I should turn to the law and study some phases of it that interest me greatly.” Probably if the young man were actually thrown on his own resources be would res rt to something less entirely “elegant” and more useful. But. that aside, what is this “career” that he fancies he has “cut out” for him? To take care of his property—that is. to spend his life at an occupation similar to that of a watchman or a policeman, but far more mechanical and less exciting. What a' miserable, what a melancholy conception of a career! To spend one's life ac just making money is poor enough use of the one chance to live; to spend it at watching a heap of money—what dullness, what dreariness! And in a world teeming with op portunities to Ifve intensely, vividly, in terestingly, usefully!—Saturday Even ing Post. The First Metis, The early muffs were small and made of satin or velvet, lined with fur. The leopard skin came in with Queen Anne. There is a print of an Elizabethan lady with a small muff hanging from her girdle. Before this date it vvas probably looked upon as an eccentric novelty, at least in England. A full century before a Venetian grand dame had carried her lapdog in her muff, a fashion that continued for a long season and found its way into France. In Paris muffs for this express purpose, chiens manchons, as they were styled, could be bought id 1692 at the establishment of the Demoiselles Guerin, rue de Bac. French sumptuary laws condescended to notice such minor details as the color of a muff. The bourgeois was obliged to restrict himself to somber black. The noble might please himself. Inder Louis XIV., therefore, the manchon of the courtier was brilliant with gold lace and embroidered ribbons.

Churchyard Novelty. In the churchyard of the little Middlesex village of Pinner, England, there stands a monument quite distinct from all those which sufround it. It consists of a tall, square pyramid overgrown with ivy. through the middle of which projects a coffin made of stone. This monument was raised by a son to his parents, William and Agnes Loudon, as the inscriptions tell. They do not, however, tell why he chose to have his parents’ remains poised in mid air in the stone shell instead of being buried in the usual manner. This curious act is accounted for in a strange way. It appears that his parents came into some money which was to be theirs “so long as their bodies were above the ground.” When they died, therefore, in order that the money should not pass into other hands their son “buried” them in this curious manner, and, despite the apparent injustice, his object was attained. Windmilin an Newnpapers. In Holland births, marriages and deaths, instead of being recorded In newspapers, are indicated by windmills. When a miller gets married he stops his mill with the arms of the wheel In a slanting position and with the sails unfurled. His friends and guests frequently do likewise with their mills, in token of the ceremony. To indicate a birth the wheel is stopped with the arms in a slanting position, but at a more acute angle than for a marriage and with the two upper sails unfurled. Should a miller die the sails of his mill are all furled, and the wheel is turned round until the arms form an -upright cross, in which position they are left until after the funeral has taken place. The Mole Has Eyes. The majority of people believe that the mole is even “blinder" than the proverbial bat, but the naturalists know that :such is not the case. Sir John Lubbock and Carl Hess, the latter a noted German naturalist, by careful Investigation proved that the mole has eyes which are as perfect as those of a horse or an elephant. They are very small optics, to be sure (only one millimeter in diameter), but in the matter of reflection and refraction do not differ from the normal eyes in larger animals. Onr Locked Up Forces. It is the locked up forces within, that lie deep in our natures, not those that ore on the surface, that test our mettle. It is within everybody’s power to call out these hidden forces, to be somebody and to do something worth while in the world, and the man who doe» not do it is violating his sacred birthright.—Success Magazine. French Marriage Restrictions. It sounds almost incredible, but is none the less a fact, that a Frenchman under twenty-five years of age whose parents are dead and whose grandfather or grandmother Is alive cannot enter the married state without the written authority of both or either of them— Paria Latter to London Post. Stealing In Either Cane. There Is nor much difference in the guilt of the man who “kills time” when his employer is absent and the man who steals a dollar from the cash drawer.—Pittsburg Observer. Looks. Don’t think a man great just because he looks so. Seven dollars in small bills look bigger than a “fifty.”— Puck. If people could only find money as easily as they find fault we should be milliouaiies in a short time.

History Ot This Ancient Landmark of London. In reading English history you will happen across numerous references tc Chating Cross, but the chances are you will wonder it the allusion is tc a real j cross erected as a memorial or simply a crossroad. Charing Cross was for- ' merly one of the noted landmarks of I Britain, and its history is an follows: ■ In November of the year 1291 “Good Queen Eleanor,” as she was termed by her loyal subjects, was called to join her husband, who was then making an expedition into Scotland. M ben Eleanor had got as far on her way as Grantham she sickened and died. Xhe remains must, of course, be buried at Westminster, and the funeral cortege started in that direction. During the time this royal funeral procession was slowly winding its weary way toward the capital thousands of people flocked to the wayside to get a glimpse of it. It was a great event in the history of the rural districts, and they did everything possible to make the solemn occasion a memorable one. Wherever the procession halted for the night or for other cause the people afterward set up a memorial. One of the longest stops was made at Charing, and subsequently a richly carved memorial cross was erected on the site of the camp. This was the Charing Cross of history. It stood until 1647, when the last vestige of it was destroyed during the civil wars of Charles 1., the vandals who destroyed the relic claiming it to be a monument of popish superstition. Charing Cross as seen today was erected by the Southern Railway company in the year 1565. r A SHIP WORTH TAKING. What the Capture of the San Philip* Meant to England. On the 9th of June, 1587, Drake, coming back from "singeing the king of Spain's beard in Cadiz." fell in with a huge vessel, which be captured. She proved to be the San Philipe, an East Indiaman owned by the king of Spain himself and then the largest merchantman afloat. Her cargo, valued at more than a million sterling of modern money, was in itself the most valuable ever captured, but there was something else even more valuable than the cargo. This consisted of the ship’s papers and accounts. which disclosed to the merchant adventurers of England all the methods and mysteries and the boundless possibilities of the East India trade. Indeed. It would hardly be stretching the facts to say that the morning which saw the capture of the San rhilipe saw also the dawn of our Indian empire. The immediate result was the formation of the East India company, which was not only the greatest commercial corporation the world had ever seen, but also the only one that ever commanded its own armies and fleets and wielded powers little less than Imperial.—London Spectator. The Early Astronomers. The early astronomers were all astrologers and claimed to be able to predict the future careers of various individuals by “casting horoscopes” showing the position of the planets at the time of their birth. The position and movements of the various celestial bodies were not only supposed to control the destinies of men, but were also thought to bring weal or woe, tempest or sunshine, upon the earth itself. A man born when the sun was In the constellation of Scorpio was believed to be naturally bent toward excessive indulgence of the animal passions. One born when the sun was in Pisces was predestined to grovel or be a servant, while one whose earthly career was opened when the great luminary was in Aries would be a great scholar and a man known to the world despite all opposing influences. Trinldnd'a Aaphalt Lake, The famous asphalt lake of Trinidad looks like a great black swamp surrounded with a fringe of cocoanut palms. A little railway runs across it, and men stand in it working, some on asphalt firm enough to support them, some on asphalt in which they keep sinking down an inch or two a minute, some on asphalt so soft it is like quicksand. The stuff looks like a cross between black mud and pitch. The lake is 110 acres In size, and its depth is tremendous. The thick asphalt, mixed with water, moves a little, and now and then an old tree comes slowly up from the depths. The men work with pickaxes, digging out the asphalt in lumps the size of pumpkins. Ropenmklng 2,000 Years B. C. The name of the first ropemaker and - that of the land in which he practiced his art have both been lost to history. Before the beginning of the historical period considerable skill had been acquired in that line.' Egyptian sculptures prove that the art was practiced at least 2,000 years before the time of Christ. Worse Than Broken. The American Tourist—l suppose I speak broken French, eb. Henri? The Waiter—Not eggsactly, m'sieur. You has a word describes it bettaire—let me see—ah, yes —it is pulverized.— Puck. The Mean Man! The late Max O'Rell gave this advice to bachelors: “Marry a woman smaller than yourself.” Many a man couldn’t find one.—Milwaukee Journal. Feminine Enteom When women like each other, they kiss; when they love, they do one another’s hair.—Lady Evans in London Mail.

MARKET REPORT. Aacurate prices paid by DecMur merchants for various products, Corrected every day at 2 o’clock.

PITTSBURG MARKETS Union Stock Yards, Pittsburg, Pa. April 3-Hogs—Supplyl 5 calß market steady Heavy Hogs > © ® Buftal StoocK Market E. Buffalo, N.Y. April 3 Special Cattle—Receipts 4 cars; market slow £ Prime steers 1 ■ & “ Medium Steers — • • © 25 Stockers to beat feeders & 4 UU Cows © | Bologna bulls ....— • ©4 50 Hogs—Receipts 10 cars; market stodd v Good mediums & Yorkers © ° pj„ g © o *” Good Roughs 4.85 @ 5 20 Common Roughs 2.75 @ 5 20 Stags - 6 Sheep—Receipts 11 cars; market slow _ Choice lambs I • ©J 00 Choice westerns . @" 00 Choice yearlings . @ 6 50 Handy mixed sheep . ©5 90 C ill and common sheep, 3.00 @ 4.50 loledo Markets Changed every afternoon at 3:00 ) clock by J. D. Hale, Decatur special wire service. May Wheat ...I 844 July. Wheat 80.} Corn, May 46‘< Oats, cash 33| July. Corn 46] May oats 33 July. Oats 31 g Rye cash 65 Chicago Markets Chicago market closed at 1:15 p tn. today, according to Decatur Stock and Grain Exchange May Wheat S 78J July. Wheat 78 May. Corn ’ 45| July Corn ” 45] May Oats 31| July Oa*» 29 J May Pork 16 22 May Lard... 8 42 QRAIN. BY I. L. OABBOL, QBAIM MIBOHAII Machine shucked one cent leas. Corn New, delivered 57 O »ts, new 29 Wheat, Nc. 2 Red 79 Wneat, No. 3 Red 75 Barley 35 Rye No. U 60 Clover Seed 7 00 Alsyke - Q 6 15 B ackwheat 48 Flax Seed 80 Timothy - SI 25 Wheat, Flour, Etc. The Oak Roller Mills Quotations. Oak PateutJFlour, 54,00@4;40 Bran, per ton 120.00 Middlings, per ton 520.00 Rough meal, per cwt 11.00 Kiln dried bolted meal, per cwt fl .50 Screenings, No, 1, per bu 60 “ No. 2, “ .40 Chop feed, peY ton >2O 00 Wheat, No\2, per bu .79 Corrected every day by A. VANCAMP. HAY MARKET E. L. CARBOL No ITimothy Baled <B.OO Mixed Baled 6.00 Clover Baled 5.C0 OIL HARKEY. Indiana 89 Whitehouse... , 104 Somerset 89 Neodasha, (Kan.) 51 Barkersville,... ,95 Ragland ,49 Fiona >1,68 Pennsylvania.., 1,58 Corning 1,10 New Castie. 1,35 North Lima 94 South Lima 89 STOCK BY FRED SHEIMAN OEB LEB Lambs . .550@650 Hors per cwt @6.00 Cattle per lb 3| @5 Calves, Per lb 5 @6.00 Cows 1 3 Sheep 4@ 5 POULTRY BY J W PLACE CO chickens, young per lb 6| Fowls, per lb @6 Young Turkey @lll Old Turkeys g Young Ducks g Old Ducks g Geese 9 WOOL AND HIDES by b. salves a son. Phone 442 Woe,, unwashed Beef Hides 9 Calf 11 Bheep Pelts 25@ 1.50 Tallow 4 Minh 25 @ 3.00 Skunk .. 25 @ 1.50 Coon 10 @ 1.25 Possum 10 @ 40 Muskrat 3 @22 OTHER PRODUCT*. aT ARIOCS QBOOEBS ARD *IBOO IMYS ffigg freest, perdox | 13 , Lard q7 I Butter.per pound 17 l Potatoes, go

.Legal Advertising Mil'll 1: ll* Hll>l>i7h?7~ Notice is hereby given tint th., p Mi of f'.unty Commissioners ~f . county. Indiana, will re. V i . I,ids for tlte renting of t |,e ~|j grounds for the season 1 ure purposes up to and until Monday. May 7, i«o«. R All bids must be tjled in th,. office not later titan 10 o'. 10. k A contract will be awarded ~M| highest responsible bidder The Board reserve< the right tl , . ject any „nd all bids. 0 Successful bidders will be rem,', enter into contract and give It;.- faithful performance of his ; , hl 5-3 t. C. 1). LEWTON, Auditor NOTICE OF LET TIM,, I Notice is hereby given that ti... Boar® of County Commissioners of count.' . Indiana. hav p adopt,..! , llH | , posited in the Auditor's offi,‘ county plans and specifications 1.,, ~ ■ repair of roof at County Jail ■ A more particular description of sa i.M work may be obtained from 1 r . ~j now on file in said auditor's Therefore, on Tnesfltiy, April 17. ItMut, I at the room of the county commission ■ ers in the auditor's office of said ,-., un B tv, at ten o’clock a. m.. sharp. ~f sai jB day. sealed bids will be received for thsi construction of said work. Ea. I, brjß must be accompanied with the pronerH affidavit as required by law. and t,v , ■ good and sufficient bond payaid. t>, th(i ß State of Indiana, in an amount equal tul bid. which said bond shall be signedß by at least two resident freehholdersß of the state ot Indiana. wl><». r -suonsi ■ liility shall he certified to ;.s . eoui rw tß by law or by a steely company n> th>B approval of said board. The lieaid le I serves the rigr’it to reject any ami jnl Lids. I MARTIN LAUGHLIN, « I HA VID WE RUNG. * I WILLIAM MILLER. I Board of Commisioners of Ad-1 ants County. I Attest —C. D. LEWTON, Auditor 5-2 t I

Public Sale. The undersigned will sell at his residence, 7 miles northeast of De oatur, 5 miles south, 1 mile west of Monroeville, known as the old Wolfe farm, at 10 o’clock a. m. on Friday, April 6, ‘5 head of horses, consisting of one brood mare, 12 years old, due to fold now; general purpose horse, 10 years old; ’gray horse, 10 years old; bay horse, 9 years old; driving colt, 3 yearsold; cow with calf by her side, bull oalf, year old in June; brood sow, will arrow April 8; heavy log wagon as good as new; 3-inoh tire farm wagon; Osborne mower which has onlv cut twenty acres of grass and s a good as new; hay loader, hay rack, as good as new, log bunks, log chains, log hooks, set of farm harness, set single buggy harness, 4 tons of hay, geese, turkeys, 9 double cords of wood, etc. Terms —ss and under cash, over $5 nine months’ time. Five per cent off for cash. Cnarles Barrell. Ferd Reppert, Auctioneer. >lbfr and Saturn. If Mars and Saturn reflect the same proportion of the light which falls upon their surfaces the smaller and much nearer planet would look three times as bright as the much more distant and much larger Saturn. As a matter of fact, there is no great difference between the two. It is inferred from this fact that the visible surface of Saturn consists of clouds, since no surface of land and water would reflect so much light as that planet gives. He Is Deliberate. Mrs. Sparks—Your husband is a v tt ry deliberate man. Isn't he? Mrs. Slowman—lndeed he is. Mrs. Sparks—Did you ever know him to do anything in a hurry? Mrs. Slowman—Never! He plans every movement with the utmost deliberation and lingers studiously over every detail. I have often thought that if he ever dies suddenly it will be an awful shock to him. Indifference. Indifference may not wreck the man's life at any one turn, but It wiii destroy him with a kind of dry rot In the long run. To keep your mind already made up is to be dull aud sosBlllferous; not to be able to make it up at all is to be watery and supine — Bliss ~'anniiu' p ‘Friendship of Art”

UfIITMAMQ Whi,e p| y moulhR ’ cks ’ nUrriVlnHu Rose Comb Black Minorus EGGS FOR HATCHING W. P. R. Pen No 1, scoring 93 to 94' 4 , $2 per 15; Pen No. 2, scoring9l>., to 92 1 ,, 01.50 per 15; Rose Comb Black Minorcas, #1.50 per 15. Eggs from best hens with “Trap Nests” record, 85.00 per 15. T. A. HOFFMAN, WILLSHIRE, OHIO. TITON AND GOLIAii wwl These famous stallions will stand the season of 1906 as follows: First three days of week at Preble; Last three days of week at the Conrad farm near Freidheim. TERMS—SIS to insure colt rfith proper care to stand and suck. AUGUST CONRAD.