Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 13, Decatur, Adams County, 31 May 1906 — Page 7

Summer Vacation B Where? . >usands have the question answered to their te satisfaction by that magic word: ‘Colorado” nd of tpwny peak and turquoise sky— a mile high id inviting. r, camping, automobiling, golfing, any sport you like, ner eye, a stronger pulse, a rosier cheek: these of the arguments for Colorado. illy illustrated booklet on specially prepared and delicately tinted cover in three colors, sent lor three two-cent stamps. id is the way to go — only line entering both Colorado Springs and t from the East. all summer —a special reduction July 10 s Elks' meeting. Full particulars on request, strated Elks’ folder. US, Dirt. Pass. Agt, 9 Claypool Bldg., (MKjMIDmL typool Hotel, INDIANAPOLIS, IND. | 7 ———————J

Etiquette Among Forest Rangers. While In the forest reserve in which we hunted I met several of the forest rangers, all of them intelligent men. some with college education, men who seemed peculiarly adapted to their calling, who knew the mountains thoroughly, handy with an ax and gun and full of resources. A degree of ethics obtained among the sportsmen, guides, trappers and forest rangers that was interesting. When any one goes to a deserted cabin, in most of which would be found food, bedding, a stove, etc., it is proper .form, for him to stay all night, eat all be can put away under his.belt, if in dire need divide any supply of tobacco and matches he may find, but he must take away nothing else, since to carry off an article of llt- > tie value, such as hammer, hatchet, pinchers, snow glasses, screw driver, fish hook, pipe or other similar article might inconvenience the owner greatly when he happened along and wanted them and was forty miles or more from a source of supply. If a Related wanderer fails-to wash the dishes and leave a supply of dry wood sufficient to build a fire and cook a meal he is at once tabooed and his companionship is not sought ’after. — Northwestern Sportsman.' . \ The Sise of the Sun. The sun, provided we measure only the disk seen with the smoked glass, is 866,000 miles in diameter—i. e., 108 earths could be comfortably ranged side by side across .the" disk. To cover the surface would require many thousands. To fill the interior we should need 1,300,000. On a smaller scale we might represent thb sun by a ball two feet in diameter and the earth by a good sized grain of shot. Let the sun be hollowed out, then place the earth at its center and let the'moon revolve about it at its real distance of 240,000 miles. There would yet retrain nearly 200,000 miles of space bemeen the moon’s orbit and the inclosing shell of the sun. Indeed to journey from one side of the sun to the other, through the center, would take one of our Swift express trains nearly two and a half years. So vast a globe must be heavy. Since its density is only one-quartet that of the earth it only weighs as much as 332,000 earths, or two octillions of tons. The attraction of gravity on its surface would cause a man whose weight was 150 pounds to weigh two tons. i V. ! Vpaide D#wa. “So you don’t believe in college education?” - “No, sir. After graduation I nearly starved to death practicing law.” "But you look prosperous now.” “Yes, sir. I went into vaudeville and made a fortune balancing a barrel on my feet while standing on my head.”— Detroit Free Press.

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tdrigmige la France. There are several districts in France where the very nndidiit tongues still survive. Basque is spoken by about 100,000 persons, who are naturally proud of a language that is their exclusive possession, for it is unlike every other, spoken tongue, and the assertion is commonly made that to understand it one must have learned it in the cradle. This peculiar property gives in the mind of the Basque people support to their belief that it was the language of Adam and Eve. The same claim is advanced, though, for Breton. The Romans when they conquered Gaul compared Breton to croaking of ravens. About a pillion people speak Breton. Then there are Flemish, still spoken by a comparatively small number in northeastern France, Catalan in the Pyrenees-Orientales and Languedoc and Provencal, whose gradual extinction has been delayed mainly by the efforts of a few literary enthusiasts. Ancient Rosea. Flinders Petrie, the archaeologist, while excavating among some ancient Egyptian tombs, found a wreath of roses which had been bound into a garland and buried with the dead thousands of years ago. M. Crepin, the botanist and microscopist, made a- careful examination of this queer find and prepared a paper on it which he read before the Royal society of Belgium. From this paper it appears that in places where the flowers were matted together they still retained their color as well as a very faint odor. The species to which they belong is now extinct, but a rose resembling them in several particulars is still grown in Egypt and Abyssinia. “A Bare Bodkin.” “Bare” means "mere” as well as "naked,” and I cannot doubt that by "bare bodkin” Shakespeare meant “mere bodkin.” the point of the passage being with how contemptibly small an instrument we could, if we chose, put an end to life and all jts bother. "Bare” probably was used instead of “mere” J for the sake of effective alliteration. (Cf. with Hamlet’s "bare bodkin;” Richard H.’s "little pin,” 111, 2, 169.) For “bare” in the sense of “mere” I need cite only “bare Imagination of a feast.”—London Notes and Queries. \Four Days In the Year. There are but four days in the year when the sun and clock exactly correspond. In other words, there are. but four days of the 365 in which the sun is directly soQth at noon. The 15th of April and the 17th of June remember, \ August 31 and 24th of December. On these four days\(and none else in the year) \ The sun and clock both the same time declare.

11 — ' ANATOMY OF AN OYSTER? The Bivalve’s Organa and Where They Are Located. Every oyster has a mouth, a heart a liver, a stomach and other necessary internal organs, including a set of cunningly devised intestines. The mouth is at the small end of the oyster’s body, near the hinge of the shell. It is oval in shape, and, though not readily discovered by an unpracticed eye, it may be easily located by gently pushing a blunt bodkin or similar instrument along the folds of the surface of the body at the place mentioned. Connected with the mouth is the canal which the oyster uses in conveying food to the stomach, from whence it passes into the curious little set of netted and twisted intestines referred to in the opening. To discover the heart of an oyster the fold of flesh which oystermen call the “mantle” must be removed. This is fatal to the oyster, of course, but in the interest of science and for the benefit of the "curious” it is occasionally done. When the mantle has been removed the heart, shaped like a crescent or moon, is laid to the view. The oyster’s heart is made up of two parts, just like that of a human being, one of which receives the blood from the gills and the other drives it out through the arteries. The liver is found in the immediate vicinity of the heart and stomach and is a queer shaped little organ, which is supposed to perform all the functions of a blood filter, JAVA’S ISLAND OF FIRE. - It la Really a Lake of Boiling,- tiuiibllti® Mad and Slime. The greatest natural Wonder In Java, if not in the entire world, is the justly celebrated “Gheko Kamdkd Guinko,” or “Home of the Hot Devils,” known co the world as the Island of Fire. This geological singularity is really a lake of boiling mud situated at about the center of the plains of Grobogana and is called an island because the great emerald sea of vegetation which *urrounds It gives it that appearance. The “island” is about two miles in circumference, and is situated at a distance of almost exactly fifty miles from Solo. Near the center of this geological freak immense columns of soft, hot mud may be seen continually rising and falling like great timbers thrust through the boiling substratum by giant hands and the again quickly withdrawn. Besides the phenomenon of the boiling mud columns there are scores of gigantic bubbles of hot slime that fill up like huge balloons and keep up a series of constant explosions, the intensity of the detonations varying with the size of the bubble. In time past, so the Javanese authorities say, there was a tall spirelike column of baked mud on the west edge of the lakevwhicb constantly belched a pure stream of cold water, but this has long been obliterated, and everything is now a seething mass of bubbling mud and slime. EYEGLASSES. How to Put Them on and Take Them Off Properly. There is nothing which more completely changes the effect of a pair of eyeglasses than the habit of crowding them on the nose with one hand. The best efforts at fitting and adjusting are all brought to naught by a person who has acquired that.habit. The proper way to take off glasses is to take hold of the bridge and lift off gently without dragging or pulling out of shape. To take off spectacles take bold of the right temple with the right hand and lift it off the ear. Then turn the head to the right and the left temple will fall off easily. The average- wearer of glasses when he Is cleaning them takes bold of the bridge. The consequence is that he gradually works the bridge out of shape, and every rub he gives the lens gives a twist to the bridge, and in course of time the bridge or the lens breaks when he least expects It. There are probably more glasses broken in this way than any other. The correct way to clean them is to take hold of one of the eye pieces where the glass is screwed on the outer edge and clean the lens, and then reverse the glasses, take it by the other end piece and repeat the process on . that lens. She Didn’t Sleep Well. A woman who lives in an inland town, while going to a convention in a distant city, spent one night of the joutney on board a steamboat. It was the first time she had ever traveled by water. She reached her journey’s end extremely fatigued. To a friend who remarked it she replied: “Yes, I’m tired to death. I don’t know that I care to travel by water again. I read the card in my stateroom about how to put the life preserver on, and I thought I understood it, but I guess I didn’t. Somehow I couldn’t go to sleep with the thing on.” —Ladies’ Home Journal. A Judge’s Advice. Recently a retired English judge was asked what was the most prominent conviction that remained with him after his long judicial experience, and he is said to have replied, •‘That every means should be tided for the settlement of a dispute before it be taken to the law courts.” Her Dilemma. Young Matron—Why so pensive, dear? Angelina—l’m desperate! Will adores me in pale pink, while Max says I'm an angel in blue. I can’t have but one gown, so you see my whole fiiture depends on the color I select. It is sending me crazy—London Tit-Bits. Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.

A FRIGHTENED ACTRESS. Whm Maliterpu Ran For Her Lite From Her Father. Malibran was an exceptional woman as well as a great singer, and she had an interesting and spontaneous temperament. The daughter of Garcia, she had a harsh and difficult master in her own father. When she was sixteen he one day came to her room and without any kind of preparation said to her, "You will mdke your first appearance with me on Saturday in ‘Otello.’ ” It gave her exactly six days for preparation. The child, terrified nearly into speechlessness, stammered that she could not possibly do it—what he asked was impossible. But Garcia could take no contradiction. All he answered was: "You’ll make your first appearance on Saturday, andnbe perfect. If not, in the last scene, when I am supposed to plunge toy dagger into your breast. I’ll do so in real earnest.” The frightened girl had to make the best of it. Her success was absolute, but one little piece of realism in her acting at the end was a delicious though entirely, unconscious piece of retaliation upon her father for a rather brutal method. Her Desdemona had been exquisite; she had made her what she was herself, a child. Innocent and submissive and adoring. But in the last act, when Othello strode toward her with uplifted dagger, la Mnlibran, truly frightened out of her wits, ran away from him and made for windows and doors, frantically ffylng to escape. When her father at last Caught hold of her. so real had the Whole thing become that, seizing the hand with’ which be was supposed to murder her, she bit it till it bled. Garcia! gave a cry of pain, which the audience took for a cry of rage, and the act ended int deafening applause for father and daughter. The Incident reveals la Malibran She was never, In one sense of the word, an actress at all. There was no studied counterfeit of emotions, but a woman with an extraordinary power of losing herself in the emotions of others.—T. P.’s Weekly. FORCED TO EAT BOOKS. Haman Beiuars Who Were Compelled te Devour Literature/ Among the causes that contribute to the destruction of books, says an Italian writer, Americo Scarlatti, there is one very curious one that may be called bibliophagia. No reference is intended to the mice that once destroyed in England an entire edition of Castell’s “Lexicon Heptaglotton,” but to human beings who have literally devoured books. In 1370 Barnabo Visconti compelled two papal delegates to eat the bull of excommunication which they had brought him. together with its silken cords and leaden seal. As the bull was written on parchment, says the Scientific American, not paper, it was all the more difficult to digest. A similar anecdote was related by Oelrieh in his “Dissertatio de Bibliothecarum et Librorum Fatis” (1756) of an Austrian general who had sighed a note for 2,000 florins and when it fell due compelled his creditors to eat It. The Tartars, when books fall Into their possession, eat them that they may acquire the knowledge contained In them. A Scandinavian writer, the author of a political book, was compelled to choose between being heheaded or eating his manuscript boiled in broth. Isaac Volmar, who wrote some spicy satires against Bernard, duke of Saxony, was not allowed the courtesy of the kitchen, but was forced to swallow them uncooked. Still worse was the fate of Philip Oldenburger, a jurist of great renown, who was condemned not only to eat a pamphlet of his writings, but also to be flogged during his repast, with orders that the flogging should not cease until he had swallowed the last crumb. Terror Saved Her. A tale of-a paralytic and a stroke of ■ lightning: For. twenty-two years a woman had beep paralyzed, unable to, leave W room. Ong night when she happened to be alone in the- house a. fierce storm broke. The poor woman, was terrified by the thunder and the blinding glare of the lightning. With an effort of which no one had believed her capable she struggled from her bed and to the house of a neighbor. ’Barely had she reached safety when the place she had just left was struck by lightning. The room in which she had lived so long was rent in two and everything in it was burned or smashed. Power of locomotion had been restored to the cripple just In time to save her life.—Chicago News. Her Advantage. Mistress (after many remonstrances on unpunctuality)—Really. Mary, you must try to be more punctual about serving the meals. When they are late your master blames me. Mary— Ah, well, mum, of course I can go, but you’re a prisoner for life! —London Pubch. Suspicions. Mr. Bilkins (looking up from the paper) — The eminent physician, Dr. Greathead, says there is -no exercise so condurive to health in woman as ordinary housework. Mrs. Bilkins— Huh! I’ll bet he’s married.—Tit-Bits... Apples Improve Clears. Possibly. the best way to Improve cigars is to place very thin slices of apple between them. This is a familiar ■ practice among connoisseurs. Any old apple will do.—New York Press. Nothing hardens the heart and conscience like the acquisition of a fortune at the expense of others.—Burlamacchi. ■ v" ' *

ThO Rise In the River.' ' It Is little short of astonishing to see how little water is required to float the southern river steame r s, a boat loaded with perhaps a thousand bales of cotton slipping along contentedly where a boy eould wade across the stream. Once, however, the Chattahoochee got too low for even her light draft commerce, and at Gunboat shoals a steamer grounded. As the drinking water on board needed replenishing, a deck hand was sent ashore with a couple of water buckets. Just at this moment a northern traveler approached the captain of the boat, and asked him how long he thought they would have to stay there. “Oh, only until that man gets back with a bucket of water to pour into the river,” the captain replied. Presently the deck hand returned, and the stale water from the cooler was emptied overboard. Instantly, to the amazement of the traveler, the boat began to move. “Well, if that doesn’t beat thunder!” he gasped. The fact was that the boat, touching the bottom, had acted as a dam, and there was soon backed up behind her enough water to lift her over the shoal and send her on down the stream.— Harper’s Weekly. A Remarkable Career. General Sam Houston was not only a great Texan, but probably the most striking and commanding figure which has yet appeared in the public life of the far southwest — born iu Virginia, taken to Tennessee at an early age, whence, while yet in his teens, he went to war with Andrew JAckson against the Creek Indians; desperately wounded in the battle of the Horseshoe Bend; adjutant general of Tennessee and a representative in congress from that state; governor of Tennessee in his youth; married, separated from his wife in two months, resigning immediately as governor, self exiled for years among the Cherokee Indians, emigrating to Texas in 1832; member of the convention of 1836, which declared Texas to be an independent republic; general and commander in chief’of the army which achieved independence at San Jacinto; twice president of the republic. United States senator and governor of the state.— ’ C. A. Culberson in Scribner’s. John Doe Proceedings. “John Doe” proceedings were abolished by law in Great Britain In 1852. Previous to that time John Doe had figured in the old fashioned ejectment action for the recovery of the possession of land, together with damages for the wrongful withholding thereof. For various reasons of convenience and history dating from the reign of Edward 111. A did not proceed against B directly in such a case. Instead A delivered to B an entirely false statement from the fictitious “John Doe” that A had devised the land to “John” for a term of years, and “John” had been ousted from it by the equally fictitious “Richard Roe.” Then Richard informed B that he was not going to defend the action himself, but B must do it, and so on. Occasionally, byway of variety, "John Doe” gave place to one “Goodtitle.” Colombia River Thrice Named. The Columbia river has had three names. It was first called the Oregon. Afterward it was called the St. Roque, but when it was discovered by Robert Gray in 1792 it was given the name of his vessel, the Columbia, in place of the two floating appellations, Oregon and St. Roque. According to Whitney, the original name of the river was the Orejon, “big ear” or “one that has big ears,” the allusion being to the custom of the Indians who were found in its region of stretching their ears by boring them and crowding thepi with ornaments. " Why Is lit Here is a question in naval science which is to the average sailor man a riddle unsolved. Take a vessel of, say. 2,500 tons; place on it a cargo of 3,500 tons. This gives you a total of 6,000 tons. Hitch a little tug to this vessel, and she will yank the big craft along at the rate of six or eight knots an hour. Now put the tug’s machinery In the big vessel. It won’t move her half a knot an hour. Why is this? 1 - • ~ . V""

*'••’ ‘ . e . Summertime Places Over in the southern end of Michigan and adjoining it in northern Indiana is the ideal vacation land —a country of small, beautiful lakes, clear running streams and shady woodlands. Here are delightful places for fishing, boating, bathing and kindred pleasures, while the very atmosphere is expressive of a simple, restful, summer life in one of the most charming sections of the United States. Would you like to spend a few days in this region? You will be sure to have a good time and at a very modest cost. Board and rooms in farm homes and smaller hotels at rates of from $5 to $8 per week; also many furnished cottages for'rent at reasonable rates. For reaching these resort places The Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Ry. trains will afford you quick service at a low cost. From June Ito Sept. 30 your local agent will sell you excursion tickets to any of these resort places over the railway leading from your place in connection with the Lake Shore, at low rates, good until Oct. 31 for return. “ Quiet Summer Retreats ” containing a large list of boarding places with rates, proprietors’ names and addresses, location features, camp sites, furnished cottages, etc., will assist you in. selecting a place and will be sent free on addressing A. J. SMITH, G. P. A., Cleveland, Ohio. I

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