Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 8, Decatur, Adams County, 26 April 1906 — Page 8

Legal Advertising I appointment or idiiimstk vroii Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed Administrator of the estate of Elizabeth Hart, late of Adams county, deceased. The estate is probably solvent. HENRY H HART. Administrator Schurger & Smith. Attorneys. April 20. 1906. »-3L NOTICE. All persons assessed in the Daniel Erwin ditch or in the Theodore Thieme ditch take notice that te n per cent, of your assessment on said ditch is due and pavable at the County Surveyor's office on the third Saturday of May. 1906. and one installment of ten per cent on the third Saturday of each month until said assessment is paid in full. L. L. BAUMGARTNERSuperintendent of Construction. LINN GROVE. L. L. Baumgartner, together with viewers passed over the .lame' Engle proposed pike last week. Mi's. Emanuel l.iddy and daughter, of Petroleum, visited friends here last Friday. Emil Bondilier, employed in a gla" factory at Dunkirk, returned home Wednesday. S. P. Hoffman and E. C. Runyon made a business trip to Bluffton Sab urday. M. M. Dunbar, of Warren, spent Easter with his parents here. Many of our young people attended the Easter entertainment at Salem Sunday evening. Junies Kizer was a Bluffton visitor Monday. Lewis Justus and Dana Brown, promoters of the Bluffton and Eastern interurban railway, were here Monday. **Mrs. John Mesehberger and Mi's. Leander Kohn were at Bluffton Manday. Mason Haughton and wife of Geneva, were the guests of Elmer Runyon and family over the Sabbath. The French Township Telephone wire was strung into town Monday. A part of the line is already being utilized. Arthur Sehaupp kit for Cincinnati Tuesday .to resume his studies in the school of telegraphy. JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP. George Brewster of this place and his brother Daniel of Berne went to Pulaski county, last Tuesday to attend the funeral of a sister. Misses Lydia Kuehn and Florence Miller of Chattanooga. Ohio, left for Fort Wayne last Saturday. Isaac Booher and wife spent last Sunday with their sick daughter. Mrs. John Fetters. John Case is building a nev. granary this spring. L. D. Wythan went to Wakeman. Ohio last Saturday to Visit relatives and friends. John Trippy made a new sled for Riley Ketehem. last week. 'Squire J. F. Ault went to Decatur last Saturday on business. Contractors Messrs. Frank Spangler and John Hoffman are framing a new bam for Amos Linsey. The structure will be 36 by 60 feet. Martin Reef and family called on friends in Jay county last Sunday. Preaching at Blue Creek church last Wednesday evening was well attended. There will be service- at the same place April 21. conducted by the Rev. Mower, of Geneva. Burl Rian is working for the Wakeman Oil Company this week. ••IN A BAD WAY." Maij ■ Header MIJI Feel Gratefal far TBia laferaatlua. When you back gives out: Becomes lame weak or aching: When urinary troubles set in Your kidneys are "in a bad way.” Doan's Kidney Pills will cure you. Here is evidence to prove it: John Amaden. corner Thirteenth and Medidian streets. Anderson. Ind., employed by J. L Bennet, agent for the Wheeler & Wilson sewing machines, says: "I had l-idney complaint for many years and my ba. k was seldom or never free from pain I often had attacks so severe that I did not care whether I lived or died I was entirely helpless and could not raise hand or foot for a week or more at a time. Even to speak out loud caused darting pains to pass through my kidneys When the attacks came on if I was tn a standing position I went down as if I was shot and I had to be . arried to bed It was impossible for me to move and I had to tie on a cot for several days. Mv kidneys seemed to cramp and congest and the pain was almost beyond endurance. Then it would let up for a time, only to start over again. T took everything in the way of medicine, but with little effect, and doctors who treated me. said I could not be cured. Doan's Ktdnev Pills being highly recommended. 1 got a box They proved the best kidney remedy I ever used. Two boxes cured me ” For sale by all dealers. Price SO Foster Milt .-n Co.. Buffalo. New York, sole agents for the United States Remembe- the fuse—DOAN S—and take so ether. .„_ _. a.

■ PIANO EXPERIMENTS. Playing by Sweeping the Strings With a Feather. Open wide your piano so that the wires are exposed. Over the wires place sheets of music, and when you strike a tone you will find that it has a rattling sound. If now you play a tune in the same maimer, with the sheets of music still lying on the strings, it will sound as if the instrument were a banjo. Anyhow, it is a gvxi imitation. Now remove the music sheets and press down gently, but firmly, the keys belonging to any cord. Take the simple cord C. E. G. for example. The keys must be pressed down without sounding them and held down while seme one gently brushes the strings with a feather or a straw. The effect will be as if the cord were played far away and is heard by you as very soft tones. Change the cord, always pressing down the keys without sounding them, while the feather still sweeps the strings lightly. In this way you may modulate or play a slow piece, and the effect will be very beautiful, indeed, as if heard from a great distance. The reason of this is that ordinarily a damper rests against each string, but when the corresponding key is struck or pressed down the damper is raised. In sweeping the strings with the feather, lightly, only the strings that are undampered sound, the others , being held mute by the dampers, but if the touch of the feather is too heavy even the other strings may sound, so your care must be in making a light and delicate touch. Now press down a key gently and hold It. Strike very hard the octave above this key. but do not hold it after striking the tone. When the wire of the tone struck has l>een sufficiently dani[>ered. so that it does not sound so loud, the pressed down key will be bean! to ''sing” clearly, even though it was not struck. This is because every note struck is composed of several notes, being in reality a cord in Itself, and each note contained in that cord causes the corresponding note in the keyboard to vibrate, or "sing.” in sympathy if held down hi like man- , ner. 1 The other notes that will sound under these conditions will always be the fifth above the octave, the second oc- | tave and the third and fifth above that, i and these tones that sound are called , “overtones." For illustration, if C in the lower j part of the piano be struck, any or all j of the notes that follow will sound if < their keys are first pressed and held 1 down.—Philadelphia Press. ] POINTED PARAGRAPHS. _____ ’ When you are all done but finishing, you are just half done. 1 If you have time to boast about be- 1 ing worked to death, you have not: much to do. Some people are so unfortunate that; their troubles make people laugh in-: stead of cry. A man who underestimates himself j may be tiresome, but he is not a circumstance to the man who brags. People may disdain a compliment, but they feel a tender little spot in them where it hit and refused to be dislodged. It is a theory growing in conviction that the man who says a mean thing •bout another Isn’t as mean as the man who carries It The man who travels over the path behind you wisely looks at your footprints und sees where you could have avoided many a pitfail. — Atchison Globe. ~ JSrGTiy, -rsrew" Tiny Trees. The midget of the whole tree family is the Greenland birch. It is a perfect tree in every sense of that term and lives its allotted number of years from 75 to 130 just as other species of the great bireb < family do, although its height under the most favorable conditions seldom exceeds ten inches. Whole bluffs of the east and southeast coast of Greenland are covered with "thickets" of this diminutive species of woody plant, and in many places where the soil is uncommonly poor and frozen from eight to ten months a year a "forest” of these trees will flourish for half a century without growing to • height exceeding four inches. Straaffe Daaeea. Queensland’s government aboriginal •ettleinent on Frazer's island bolds a weekly dance for the blacks. Among - the bandies of old clothes sent to the ' settlement there are often ball gowns, so the gins sport decollete dresses. Neither sex wears boots. The sexes have to dance separately.—Sydney Bulletin. Shrewd Gaea*. Senior Partner—We must be careful not to give Billings any more credit. He’s evidently losing money. Junior Partner —How do you know? Senior Partner—l beard his remark today that “life is full of ups and downs." No man ever admits that until he begins to strike the down.—Philadelphia Press. Rejected. “I have called." said the confident' young man. with a manuscript sticking ; out of his pocket “to see whether there Is a vacancy in this office.” “No.” replied the melancholy edltot as he looked round the place; “I'm sorry to say there is none. Even the waste paper basket is full.” A Ckaage. “Well, well.' There goes Miss Strong Whan I saw her last she was posing M a bachelor girl. That's her hobby." "All that's changed now. She drop ped her tubby for a hubby.” —Ex 9

A GENEROUS CRITIC. Story of John Oxenford* a Once FamouN London Character. John Oxenford was for years the leading theatrical critic of London. Mr. Oxenford was troubled with a serious bronchial affection, which occasionally disturbed the audience, for he refused to give up his beloved theater, although desperately ill. A certain rising young actor was very anxious to obtain Oxcnford’s valuable opinion on his work, and the tender hearted old gentleman literally left bis bed and came down to the theater on a bitter cold night to do a good action to a clever youngster. In the middle of one of the actor’s finest scenes on came the cough from the Oxenford box. It continued so long that it unnerved the actor, and he came to a dead stop. To the surprise of everybody he advanced to the front and said, "Ladies and gentlemen. I am sorry to say that unless the old gentleman with the irritating cough retires temporarily from the theater I really cannot go on. I forget everything. It is painful so to address you. but I am powerless in the matter and place myself in your hands." The disturbance at once ceased, and the box was empty. When the cur tain ’fell a friend rushed around and breathless, said to the distressed actor: “Do you knew what you have done? Do you know who it was that you turned out of the box?” "I neither know nor care.” was the reply. "Why, it was John Oxenford!” The actor was paralyzed, but lie got his good notice all the same. The veteran critic went home coughing to praise the young actor who had turned him out.

JUDGING DOGS. The Rules by W hich the Different Points Are Valued. The average man is greatly puzzlffl to find one dog awarded a first prize and another, which to him appears to . be quite as fine a specimen, awarded I no prize at all. A man who knows the -, relative values of the different points in ali breeds of dogs is a veritable walking encyclopedia. Generally speaking, the best dog is one which comes nearest the standard ( of requirements for its own particular 1 breed, about 25 per cent of the points • being usually awarded for tine bead proportions, an equal number for legs and feet, a similar number for body and color and the rest for symmetry. In the Dalmatian, for instance, thirty points are given for color and markings. while head, eyes and ears have : only fifteen; the bulldog, on the other . band, has forty-five for head and ears, ‘ while coat and color amount to but five points; the collie has twenty-five for coat, color being immaterial, and twen-ty-five for head and ears. The St. Bernard has forty for head and ears and five each for Mat and color. The Pomeranian has but fifteen for head and ears, forty-five i»oints going for coat, color and tail, with fifteen for appearance. It may be set down as governing in all breeds of dogs that whatever is the typical feature of that breed is the feature m>on which stress is laid in the allotment of points.

The Ant's jCow. The aphis, one” of theTEost widely distributed species of insects known to the entomologists, is sometimes referred to as the ‘"ant’s cow.” The aphis actually gives milk, although the creature itself is so small that it is estimated to weigh but the one one-thou-sandth of a grain. Out .of the back of the aphis project two hollow tubes. These connect with duets in the body, which secrete a sweet liquid. When Ute tubes are touched the liquid exudes in small drops. The ants know this, and they make a regular business of tickling the tubes of the little aphis to make her ‘‘give down her milk.” The ant is very fond of this saccharine food and will •'milk*' a hundred aphides in the course of an hour. Why He Resigned. The French Baron Rothschild once had in his service a valet named Alphonse. first class, but an acknowledged “red.” This vaiet obtained permission once a week to attend the meetings of his Socialist lodge. Suddenly the baron noticed that Alphonse no longer desired this off night and. inquiring into the cause, was informed that the valet's late Socialist colleagues had worked out a calculation that if all the wealth of France were divided equally per capita each individual would be the possessor of 2.000 francs. “Monsieur,” said Alphonse, with digi nlty, “I resigned. I have 5,000 francs!” I —Argonaut Henpecked Hs«b*nds. Henpecked husbands are found even ri India. A writer says: “To live as I nave done in a Hindoo house, especially when the real house mistress is a masterful and deeniy religions widow, who is grandmother to the babies and mother to their parents, is no longer to ! wonder at the absolute terror with I which men speak of the “stri achchar.’ For the men of India are. poor souls, the most henpecked in the world.” Too Maek Heart. “And you rejected him?” “I did.” "He has the reputation of being a large hearted man.” '•That’s the trouble with him. He is too large hearted. He can love half a dozen women at the same time." Domestic Ftaance. Mrs. Knicker—Can you get money from your husband? Mrs. Bocker— No. By the time I’ve paid the cook for a good dinner before I ask him I’m just even.—Harper’s Bazar. Music ia the prophecy of what life la io be. the rainbow of promise translated out of aeeing into bearing -Mrv U M. Child.

SOURCES OF MEDICINES. ft hat Various Dru«r» Look Like In Their Crude State. Upon going into a pharmacy and looking over the mysterious jars and bottles and boxes that line the shelves did you ever wonder where on earth all of the drugs came ffbm and how they appeared before they were ground up and made into oils or dried or pulverized or crystallized into queer shaped lumps? Each jar and box seems to hide some secret which you immediately become curious to solve. How many different lauds do they represent? And after they leave the jars that hold them now’ what are they made into? Who. for example, would connect a great pile of dry. thin twigs neatly tied into small bundles with sarsaparilla These twigs are the creeping roots and rootlets of a prickly shrub that grows in Jamaica, and they are worth from 10 cents to 50 cents a pound. Somewhat similar in appearance is ipecacuanha, which also conies to us in dry twigs, which are part of the trailing root of a plant found in the damp forests of Brazil. These roots receive no preparation save drying before they are shipped off to the United States. They are packed in large sacks, and the workmen who open the bales must beware of breathing the pungent, irritating dust given off and which is productive of unpleasant results if incautiously inhaled. Castor oil. too. is hard to recognize t in the pretty little brown beaus spot- I ted with black and with polished skins that arrive in bags from India. They , look far too attractive to suggest the much hated dose of our early days. Aloes, the base of many nauseous medicines, may be seen in its crude form as a solid mass resembling brown sealing wax. packed in heavy i wooden boxes, from which it is chipped out in flakes with a chisel and hammer. , It is of different qualities and prices. ■ according to whether it comes from ■ : Arabia. Socotra or the West Indies. : and may bring any sum from $4 to $45 per hundredweight. Aloes is the juice of the big fleshy leavds of the • plant of that name. This juice is press- j ed or evaporated from the leaves and ■ poured into chests or kegs in a semi- ! ; fluid state, hardening presently into ! a solid block. Not infrequently it is inclosed in the dry skins of monkeys | and in this strange form brought to market. One of the most interesting of drugs , is opium, both on account of its awful potency and by reason of its great value. A case of opium, about 225 , pounds, is worth S4OO, roughly. The ' 1 case is of rough deal, lined with tin. and contains s number of soft, dark lumps, like large handfuls of dough. I packed very closely together in a quantity of dry, chaffy seeds. The opium which reaches America is of two qualities, one for medicine, the other for smoking, and comes from Persia and Asia Minor, China and, India. Another costly and all’ important drug is quinine, which arrives in its crude form as large slices of bark, packed either flat or in "quills”—that is, curled round upon itself like a roll. —Philadelphia North American. The Ocean's Temperature. The extreme range of temperature in the ocean never exceeds 52 degrees F., yet temperature has played a more important part in the distribution of marine organisms than in that of the air breathing and warm blooded animals of the land. The surface waters of the ocean have five well marked tempera-, ture areas—an arctic and antarctic cir-. cumpolar belt with a small range and ; a low tempera t tire, a yircu|ntropical I belt with a small range anj a high tem-' perature and two intermediate areas with large annual ranges of temperature. Vertically, the ocean may be divided into the superficial region, extending down tp about 100 fathoms, and the deep sea. The surface region, especially near the land, has a variety of conditions and an abundant fauna and flora, but plant life is absent in the uniform conditions of the deep sea, although animal life is abundant. The warm surface waters of the tropics have many species, but relatively few individuals, while the reverse is true in colder regions. Dr. John Murray accounted for all the various facts in marine life distribution by supposing that in early geological times the whole globe had a uniform climate and an almost universal fauna and flora. The coral reefs of the arctic circle in the paleozoic period were probably formed when the water had a temperature of about 70 degrees F. Polson a Blessin<. Strangely anomalous as it may appear. the existence of active poisons in the animal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms of nature has done more for the development of modern civilized man than have all the other innocuous * elemental things which aboriginal man found to his hand. These active poi- i sons were man’s first stimulus to firstl adaptatiou of poison to the uses of 1 man. The aborigine found himself at once the hunter and the bunted of ere- • atiou. Whether as hunter or the hunt-1 ed. he was a pygmy compared with i many of the carnivorous beasts in bis environment. He saw that, whereas his own considerable physical force I and power were as nothing to some of . these creatures, the fang' of the serpent was all compelling. Where the’ poisonous serpent struck with poisoned fang and killed its quarry he saw it eat without discomfort or injury. To kill his own food through the venom of the serpent must have been one of man’s first elaborated mental processes. As this aborigine applied the venom of the serpent to his arrow and , later blended tt with the poisons of the vegetable world he may be said to hare grown in mental stature.—Tech■leal World Magastne. —— - (

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_ . . ■ — 1 11 — HER EXPERIENCE AT FRISCO I - 4. » - She was in the Fateful Palace Hotel, But Escaped Without Injury. — Mrs. Horace Stilwell made happy : her many Anderson friends Sunday I afternon by unexpectedly arriving at I her home, after a most thrilling exI prienee in San Francisco. Her story of being awakened in the Palace Hotel and of the terrible panic and fear that followed that awful quake, seems almost unreal. Her baggage ik all gone, and herself, sister and two children, went through all the privations of hunger and other exposure for two days. They finally got passage on the ferry, crossed the bay and left for home without delay. She dispatched six messages home, but none arrived until yesterday. A telegram found Mr. Stilwell at Rawlins, Wyoming, and he is now homeward bound, happy in the thought that his wife and family are safe. For two days the only food they had was a few crackers, spending the day in the park, and at night sleeping on the floor in a residence near. She arrived home tired and exhausted, but apparently with no bad effects that might be expected from such a fright and exposure that was experienced . during the trying days that followed I the earthquake and fire. Mr. Stilwell will not be able to reach home for i two days or more, but the j>eace of I mind he is now exj>erieneing must be | relief and happiness enough for one I mortal man. NEWS FROM HER BROTHERS Mrs. Heller Receives Good News From California. — Mrs. D. D. Heller received a mee- . sage Monday from Berkley. California. stating that her two brothers, Andrew and James Corbus, who lived in San Francisco and wefe there during the recent catastrophe, had reached Berkley safe and well, and that a letter had been forwarded telling of the terrible experiences of the past few days. Mrs. Heller and Miss Corbus, a sister, who lives here, have I been anxiously awaiting news from , their relatives and the message this a most welcome one. • -*■

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'I The funeral servics m 'l.-B Dviliinger were held the St. Mary’' Cati.'hi -B vr Wilken A lareeß was present to pay l-*~ ..i-i ■ of respect to the dvcea't ....<!■ Wilken spoke at bthe past life of the de.-, used. B .mcnt was made in tin St. cemetery. The flora! ’ beautiful and profuse. B MOTHERS OF DECATIB Are Your Children Thin. Ailing? If So. Read “Vinol will make ci. '' robust and rosy or we money. Il Is there a mother will ignore such a c •' this? You risk not o' pay for all the V 5:.... if it does no good. There are plenty < around us who are th::. ■' anil tired all the time. I'■ ' do this, and don't wa’ ■' not blame the childre- "' • strength, no blood. ■ growth takes all the;: - Vinol is just what It is a delicious - tion. and children strength, make' Bl vitality as nothing a severe sickness ' that will build your ■ Vinol. The following lef'.r - hundreds which we from mothers teiltns-’ done for their children. Mrs. E. M Oswalt et Ohio .writes: “My came so poorly that I take her from scho< ' ' no appetite, tired al; ’ weak. „M e had tried, s ' cines without benet't. Vinol. however, she - ss B| ever; she has gained mVI rosy cheek' and good apt going to school even day We want to say to every Decatur that Vinol wtH little ones up into y fr healthy children. Isold anything equal ’ ■■ 'for this purpose, and .Bfl vour money if it l& Falk, druggist*. Bj