Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 16, Decatur, Adams County, 21 June 1906 — Page 2

Legal Advertising I APPOINTMENT OF EXECUTOR. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned have been appointed executors of the etate of Joshua Bright, late of Adams County deceased. The estate is probably solvent GEORGE H. BRIGHT. NELSON W. ABBOTT, Excutors. Merrvman & Sutton, Attorneys. May 28th, 1906. 13-3wks. NOTICE FOR BIDS. Notice is hereby given that the Common Council of the City of Decatur. Indiana. will receive sealed bids or proposals for the improvement of Second street, commencing at the north side of Monroe street .thence north to the corporation line of the city of Decatur. Indiana, sa;<! improvement to be with - modern paving blocks or bricks. The improvement of said Second street from Monroe street north to Jackson street to be 40 feet wide and from Jackson street north to the corporation line to be 34 feet wide, according to the drawings and specifications now on file in the office of the city clerk of said city on the 19th. day of Juae. 1906, bids to be received between the hours of eight o’clock a. in. and six o'clock p. m. Each bidder must file with the clerk of said city, when he files his bid, the usual statutory affidavit and deposit with him the sum of One thousand dollars, in money or certified check as a guaranty that he will accept said bid and carry out the construction of said work. The successful bidder will be required to give bond with surety to be approved by the Common Council insuring the faithful completion of said work according to the contract. The Common Council reserves the right to reject any and all bids and readvertise for bids for said improvement, this 23rd day of May, 1906. CARL O. FRANCE. 12- City Clerk. SHERIFFF’S SALE. State of Indiana. Adams County .«• In the Adams Circuit Court of Adams County, Indiana. The German Building Loan Fund and Savings Association. t vs. Jennie Case, Norman Case and William H. Niblick. No. 2602. By virtue of an order of sale to me directed by the Clerk of the Adams Circuit Court of said County and State, I have levied upon the real estate hereinafter mentioned and will expose for sale at public auction at the east door of the Court House in the City of Decatur, Adams County. Indiana, between the hours of 10 o’clock A. M., and 4 o’clock P. M., on the 22nd day of June, 1906, the rents and profits for a term not exceeding seven years, of the following described real situated in Adams County, Indiana, to-wit: Commencing at the north-west corner of inlot number 758. in Wm. H. Niblick’s of put-lot number 26 and part of out-lot number 25, thence south 132 feet, thence east 84 feet to the west side of Russel street thence north 34 degrees east, along said street 52 feet, thence north-west 148 feet to the place of beginning, comprising inlot number-75? and 758 in said sub-di-vision in the town (now city) of Decatur, in Adams -County, Indiana. And on failure to realize therefrom the full amount of judgment, interest thereon and costs, I will at the same time and in the same manner aforesaid, offer for sale, the fee simple of the above described premises. Taken as the property of Jennie Case ■ and Norman Case to satisfy said orde this 24th day of May, 1906. ALBERT A BUTLER. 13- Sheriff. APPLICATION FOR LIQUOR LICENSE Notice is hereby given to the citizens of the Second ward, of the City of Decatur. Adams County, in the State of Indiana, that I, Frank Bogner, a male inhabitant and resident of said ward, a person over the age of twenty-one years, a person not in the habit of becoming intoxicated and a fit person to be intrusted with the sale of intoxicating liquors, will make application to the board of commissioners of the County of Adams, at their July session for the year 1906, for a license to sell spiritous, vinous,. malt and other intoxicating liquors in less quantities than a quart at a time, with the privilege of allowing the same to be drank on the premises where sold. The place where I desire to sell said intoxicating liquors is on the ground floor of a two-story frame building fronting on Madison street, inlot No. eighty-two (82), which is one hundred and thirty-two (132) feet in length and twenty-one (21) feet in width, said room where liquors are to be sold, drank and given away is twenty (29) feet in width and forty-five (45) ieet long with front and rear openings and is part of inlot number eigr.hy-two (82) as the same is designate! in recorded plat of said City of Decatur. It I tana. 14 3t. FRANK BOGNER.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC LETTING. Notice is hereby given that the Board of Commissioners of Adams county, Indiana will receive bids for the construction of a macadam road in Hartford township in said county, known as the L. O. Bears extension two Macadam Road, up and until 10 o’clock A. M., on Monday, July 2, 1906, at a regular session of the Board of Commissioners, held in the City of Decatur, Adams county, Indiana, sealed bids will be received for the construction of said road in accordance with the plans, specifications and report of the Viewers and Engineer, which are ndw on file in the Auditor's office of said County, said roads to be teuilt of crushed stone alone. A bond must accompany each bid in twice the amount of the.bid filed, conditioned for faithful performance of said workand tiiat the bidder, if awarded the contract therefor wi]l enter into contract therefor and complete the same according to such contract and in accordance with the bid filed, AU bids shall be made so as so give the amount for which said road will be constructed for cash payable on estimates to be made by the Engineer in charge, not to exceed eighty per cent, of any one estimate out of the funds to be hereinafter raised by the sale of bonds as required by law. Each bidder will be required to file affidavit as provided by law. The Board of Commissioners reserve the right to reject any and ail bids. C. D. LEWTON, 14-3 t Auditor of Adams County. MANY CHILDREN ARE SICKLY. Mother Gray’s Sweet Powders for Children, used by Mother Gray, a nurse in Children’s Home, New York, breaks up Colds in 2 4hours, cure Feverishness Headache, Stomach Troubles, Teething Disorders, and Destroy Worms. At all druggists, 25c. Sampl mailed FREE. Address Allen S. Olmstead, T eßoy, N. Y.

A JOCULAR MONARCH. tvaa the Terrible Had Cold Blooded Notions About Jesting. Ivan the Terrible forgot neither his devotions nor his diversions. His palace alternately resounded with praying and carousing. For his pastime bears were brought from Novgorod. When from his window he perceived a group of citizens collected he let slip two or three of these ferocious animals, and his delight on beholding the flight of the terrified creatures, and especially on hearing the cries of the victims, was unbounded. His bursts of laughter were loud and long continued. To console those who were maimed for life he would sometimes send each of them a small piece of gold. Another of his chief amusements was in the c^m pany of jesters, whose <iuty it was to divert him, especially before and after any executions, but they often paid dearly for an unseasonable joke. Among these none was more distinguished than Prince Gvosdef, who held a high rank at court. The czar, being one day dissatisfied with a jest, poured over the prince’s head the boiling contents of a soup basin. The agonized wretch prepared to retreat from the table, but the tyrant struck him with a knife, and he fell senseless t£the floor. Dr. Arnolph was instantly called. “Save my good servant!” cried the czar. “I have jested with him a little too hard.” “So hard,” replied the other, “that only God and your majesty can restore him to life. He no longer breathes.” Ivan expressed his contempt, called the deceased favorite a dog and continued his amusements. Another day. while bo sat at tible, the waywode of Staritza, Boris Titos, appeared, bowed to the ground and saluted him after the customary manner. “God save thee, my dear waywode. Thou deservest a proof of my favor.” He seized a knife and cut off an ear. Titos thanked the czar for his gracious favor and wished him a happy reign.— Pearson’s Weekly. ► THE PHILOSOPHY OF LOVE.

Love is kindly and deceitless.—Yeats. Love can sun the realms of night.— Schiller. They do not love that do not show their love.—Shakespeare. Love’s a thing that’s never out of season.—Barry Cornwall. He that shuts out love in turn shall be shut out by love.—Tennyson. The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry.—La Rochefoucauld. Love is master of the wisest; it is only fools that defy him.—Thackeray. Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion.—Ninon deTEnclos. The magic of first love is the ignorance that it can ever end.—Beaconsfield. Man’s love is of man’s life a thing apart; ’tis woman’s whole existence.— Byron. It is impossible to love a second time when we have oned really ceased to love.—La Rochefoucauld. Bulow's Wonderful Memory. Bulow had a wonderful memory, aX was evidenced by his astonishing feat of memorizing Kiel’s concerto, which the man who wrote it could not accompany without notes. His accuracy was almost infallible. He was once rehearsing a composition of Liszt’s for orchestra in that cemposer’s presence without notes. Liszt interrupted to say that a certain note should have been played piano, f “No,” replied Bulow, “it is sforzando.” “Look and see,” persisted the composer. The score was produced. * Bulow was right. How everybody did applaud! In the excitement one of the brass wind players lost his place. “Look for a b flat in your part,” said Bulow, still without his notes. “Five measures farther on I wish to begin.” The Word “Asphalt.” Os deceitful ancestry is the word “asphalt.” Apparently it means “not slippety.” The Greeks themselves were tempted to derive “asphaltos” from “a,” not, and “sphallo,” make to fall or slip. However, the word is really of unknown barbarian origin—Phoenician, some say. Asphalt was in use very early in history. It is said to have been the slime with which the infant Moses’ ark of bulrushes was daubed and which the builders of the tower of Babel used instead of mortar. Butchery In War. In one of the Du Guesclin’s victories so many English were taken captive that even the humblest soldier among the French had one or more prisoners. The victors, however, fell to quarreling, and, ill feeling becoming rife in the French army in consequence of these quarrels over the prisoners, Du Guesclin ordered all the captives to be butchered, and the brutal order was carried out. A Cautious Lover. A correspondent of the London Globe tells of a gilded youth who left instructions at a jeweler’s shop for the inscription of an engagement ring he had just bought. He wanted it inscribed, “From Bertie to Maud.” As he left he turned back and added as an after thought, “I shouldn’t —ah—cut ‘Maud’ too deep, don’t you know.”

Close. She—Do you know I’ve induced my husband to give up cjgars? He—ls that so? Well, I’ve known him for seven years, and I never saw him give up one.—lllustrated Bits. It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who by their rivalry for greatness divided a whole age.—Addison.

. ASSUMING A VIRTUE. What Caa Be Done by Right Thinking and Self Control. Zopyrus, the physiognomist, said, “Socrates’ features showed that he was stupid, brutal, sensual and addicted to drunkenness.” Socrates upheld the analysis by saying, “By nature I am addicted to all these sins, and they were only restrained and vanquished by the continual practice of virtue.” Emerson says in effect. “The virtue you would like to have, assume it as already yours, appropriate it, enter into the part and live the character just as the great actor is absorbed in the character of the part he plays." No matter how great your weakness or how much you may regret it,- assume steadily and persistently its opposite until you acquire the habit of holding that thought or of living the thing not in its weakness, but in its wholeness, in its entirety. Hold the ideal of an efficient faculty or quality, not of a marred or deficient one. The way to reach or to attain to anything is to bend oneself toward It with all one’s might, and we approximate it just in proportion to the intensity and the persistency of our effort to attain it. If you are inclined to be very excitable and nervous, if you “fly all to pieces” over the least annoyance, do not waste your time regretting this weakness and telling everybody that you cannot help it. Just assume the calm, deliberate, quiet, balanced composure which characterizes your ideal person in that respect. Persuade yoiirself that you are not nervous or excitable, that you can control yourself, that you are well balanced, that you do not fly off on a tangent at every little annoyance. You will be amazed to see how the perpetual holding of this serene, calm, quiet attitude will help you to become like your thought.—Success.

CATCHING COLD. Suggestions That May Keep One From the Doctor. . A person in good health, with fair play, easily resists cold, but when the health flags a little and liberties are taken with the stomach or with the nervous system a chill is easily taken and, according to the weak spot of the individual, assumes the form of a cold or pneumonia, or it may be jaundice. Os all causes of cold probably fatigue is one of the most efficient. A jaded man coming home at night from a long day’s work, a growing youth losing two hours’ sleep over evening parties two or three times a week or a young lady heavily “doing the season,” young children overfed and with short allowance of sleep, are common instances of the victims of cold. Luxury is favorable to chill taking. Very hot rooms, feather beds, soft chairs, create a sensitiveness that leads to catarrhs. It is not, after all, the cold that is so much to be feared as the antecedent conditions that give the attack a chance of doing harm. Some of the worst colds happen to those who do not leave their house or even their beds, and those who are most; invulnerable are often those who ate most exposed to changes 'of temperatwte and who by good sleep, cold bathing and regular habits preserve the tone of their nervous system and circulation. Probably many chills are contracted at night or at the fag end of the day, when tired people get the equilibrium of their circulation disturbed by either overheated sitting rooms or underheated bedrooms and beds. This Is especially the case with elderly people. In such cases the mischief is not always, done Instantaneously or in a single night It often takes place insidiously, extending over days or even weeks.— London Lancet. :S : :■

. Fighting the Current. Papua has swift streams Weil stocked with fish. An explorer tells of Papuan fresh water mullet which sometimes weigh as much as fifteen pounds. “These fish are wonderfully provided by nature With an appliance which helps them to combat the extraordinary currents. At one moment you will see them being swept down resistlessly, but suddenly they shoot off into the quieter water and attach themselves to the rocks by a strong sucker near the mouth. There they hang just outside the current, their tails moving gently with it, and when they have recovered their strength they make another dash through the swifter waters.” Observance of the Sabbath. There was the minister of Tweedsmulr who on a certain Sabbath found a salmon stranded in shallow water and who, being unable conscientiously to take it out on such a day, built a hedge of stones around it and, returning on the morrow, claimed his prize. There was the old farmer who could not go to the kirk because he had neglected to shsrve on the Saturday night, and he would not profane the day by the use of any edged tool.—Macmillan’s Magazine. ' A True Fish Story. Here is a fish story told by a British nobleman: An Irishman had caught a big pike. Noting a lump in its stomach, he cut it open. “As I cut it open there was a mighty rush and a flapping of wings, and away flew a wild duck, and when I looked inside there was a nest, with four eggs, and she had been afther sitting on that nest.” Shocking Precocity. “What is the result,” asked the teacher of the primary class in arithmetic, “when you put two and two together?” “A kith,” lisped the curly headed little girl In the front row.—Chicago Tribune. There are many diversities of vice, but it Is one never failing effect of it to live displeased and discontented.—Seneca.

VICTORIA FALLS. '’ ’ Called “the Moat Beautiful Gem of the Earth’s Seenery.” The Zan;’<>eri river, carrying a hugfe volume of water two miles in width, as it reaches the western borders of Rhodesia precipitates itself into a cavernous gorge and thus traverses the northern plains of the country. This great drop in the river has produced “the most beautiful gem of the earth's scenery,” the Victoria falls. Almost twice as broad as Niagara and two and a half times as high, an immense mass of water rolls over its edge to precipitate itself in magnificent splendor 400 sheer feet into the narrow canyon below. Undeterred, the Rhodesian engineers, without detracting from the natural beauty of the surroundings, threw across the canyon a splendid 650 foot cantalever bridge and thus opened the way to Tanganyika, to Uganda, to Cairo. This .bridge, the greatest railway engineering triumph of Africa, deserves more than passing notice. It consists of a central span weighing approximately 1,000 tons, 500 feet in length and 30 feet wide. The steel work is of rolled steel weighing 490 pounds to the cubic foot. The end posts of the bridge are over 100 feet long. The pull on the anchorage apparatus is about 400 tons. The contract for the construction was obtained by an English flrm of bridge builders—the contract time fifty-five weeks. The work of erection, was carried on from both banks, th? material being taken across the river by means of an aerial electric railway. The elec trlcal conveyor of this cable way was capable of dealing with a ten ton load at a lifting speed of twenty feet per minute and a traversing speed of 300 feet a minute. An initial difficulty in the construction of the bridge was the securing of a firm foundation, and owing to the crumbling nature of the bank a much greater quantity of concrete was necessary than estimated. The construction was happily unattended by accidents of a serious nature, though a few slight accidents to body work and the replacing from England of one piece of steel work were recorded. In spite of these delays the bridge was linked up at 7 a. m. on April 1, 1905, or exactly forty-eight hours earlier than had been estimated a year beColonel Sir Percy Girouard in Scribner’s. Cured Him. “I wish my busband would not stay out at night,” said the little woman. “Cure him,” said her companion, “as a woman I know cured her husband, who used to stay out every night. One night he came in very late, or, rather, very early, about 3 o’clock in the morning. He came home very quietly. In fact, he took off his shoes on the front doorstep. Then he unlocked the door and went cautiously and slowly up stairs on tiptoe, holding his breath. But light was streaming through the keyhole of the door of the bedroom. With a sigh, he paused. Then he opened the dooi’ and entered. His wife stood by the bureau fully dressed. “ T didn’t expect you’d be sitting up for me, my dear,’ he said. “‘I haven’t been,” she said. ‘I just came in myself.’ ”

Presence of Mind. Mme. Rachel, the great actress, was resting alone in her dressing room one night preparatory to going on the stage when a man suddenly entered and, drawing a dagger, said he was going to kill her if she did not at once consent to marry him. The actress saw at a glance that the man was mad and meant what, he said. So with the utmost coolness she replied: “Certainly I will marry you. I wish nothing better. Come with me to the priest at once. I have had him come here for the purpose.” She took his arm, and they went out together—to where there was assistance, of course, and the man was immediately put under arrest.—Philadelphia Record. Protection. Mrs. Albee—Of course, you married Mr. Bebee for love? Mrs. Bebee— Well, yes, I suppose you would call it that I married him to protect him from no less than three widows in our street. If I hadn’t snapped him up one of them would have been sure to get him. Impatience. In all evils which admit a remedy Impatience should be avoided, because it wastes that time and attention in complaints which, If properly applied, might remove the causA—Johnson. Vocabularies. The English language, according to a German statistician who has made a study of the comparative wealth of languages, heads the list with the enormotis vocabulary of 260,000 words; German comes next, with 80,000 words; then Italian, with 75,000; French, 30,000; Turkish, 22,500, and Spanish. 20,000. Butterfly Farms. Most people when they look at a magnificent cabinet of butterflies, gleaming and glowing .with a hundred iridescent hues, think that each butterfly was caught by hand—caught after a chase of a mile of two under a net or a hat As a matter of fact, butterflies are raised on little faring, like chickens. There Is such a steady butterfly demand that it pays men to raise them. These men, experts in the employ of museums, as a rule, know larvae as a chicken farmer knows eggs, and. they have no difficulty in selling at a good profit all the butterflies they grow. The stock room of a butterfly farmer is a rare and beautiful sight. It is a room of glass, filled with sunshine, and in the brilliant light hundreds of the Ipvellest butterflies flutter and float. In the profound silence their colors seem to sing, sc bright are they, so splendid.—Minn?

s r* He Had Already “Et.” “I know a western Kansas town where the rules of etiquette are purely upofl a logical basis,” said a man from the short grass country the other day. “The,daughter of the hotel keeper at whose hostelry I was living was to be married. I received an Invitation. At about 11 o’clock in the evening the wedding supper was spread. An old lady came down the table side, passing the viands to the guests. When she reached my plate she skipped me and began again with the next mau. The old lady had seen me eating my supper as usual at 6 o’clock. “ ‘You’ve et,’ she said as she gave me the go by. Things began to look dubious for me. Then an old man came along with more food. He also had seen ine eating at the usual evepIng hour. He shied around me with a look of surprise that I should be at the feed rack again and said, ‘Why, you’ve et’ , “Everybody had been ‘saving up’ for the occasion so that they might eat like heroes at that wedding feast. The fact that I had not been missing any meals nearly ostracized me In that happy gathering.”—Kansas City Times.

The Fate of Cities. Some ancient cities have disappeared. The archaeologist digs through the sands of the desert, the accumulations of vegetable mold and the debris of human habitation in a search for the palaces of great kings, the markets of wealthy traders and the homes of a once numerous people. The massacres of ancient warfare may explain some of these dead and buried cities. The inability of people in early history to deal With the sanitary problems of a congested population may have been a contributing cause to their destruction. Cities may have died because their people could not live. But in most cases a change in the routes of commerce will be found to have diverted the stream of nourishment from a city and left it to die of starvation. Yet the Eternal City and Athens, Byzantium, Jerusalem, Antioch and Damascus illustrate the tenacity of municipal vitality, even though a long succession of centuries brings great changes in the .methods and subjects and courses of traffic.—Philadelphia Record. / 1 • . ■ — Superstitions of Farmers. Farmers “stick to the moon” in regard to planting corn and other crops. Some of them will not under any circumstances plant corn on moonlight nights, claiming that corn planted then will produce a tall stalk with‘a short ear. Others just as successfully plant when they are ready, when nights are dark or moonlight, as the case may be. Other notions are indulged in, such as throwing the cobs in running water to keep corn from firing. Some farmers would under no consideration burn pinder hulls, the seed of which is to be used fer planting. They must be scattered along a path or highway, to be trodden upon in order to secure a good crop. Green butter bean hulls must be thrown in a road after being shelled for table use from day to day to insure a goo<| crop the following season.— Charleston News and Courier.

Any One Cap Spell Shakespeare. One is not in danger of misspelling the word Shakespeare. Some one has discovered 4,0Q0 ways, of which the following, as they actually appear in old documents, are examples; Shakspere, Shaxpere, Shakspire. Schaxper, Shakespere, Shagpere, Schakspeyr. Shaxespere, Shaxpur, Shaxper, Shaksper. Schackspeare, Saxpere, Shackespire, Shakespire, Shakespeare, Shakaspear, Shakspeaz, Shaxpeare, Shakspeere, Shaxpure, Shackspeyr, Shakspear, Schakesper, etc. If the chirography of Shakespeare himself is any authority twenty-two of these ways are correct. The Miracle. Woodland—What is the difference between a wonder and a miracle? Lorain—Well, if you’d touch me for $5 and I’d lend it to you it would be a wonder. Woodland—That’s so. Lorain —And if you returned It that would be a miracle. Had Her Guessing. Margie—l wonder If Mr. Smartly meant to give me a left handed compliment? Rita— Why? Margie--He said these artificial flowers I am wearing just match my hair. POOR HANDWRITING. One of the Cause* That Downed Napoleon at Waterloo. The nose of Cleopatra had- a marked influence on the destinies of the ancient world. The handwriting of Napoleon 1., we are assured by recent historians, had h similar effect upon the evolution of the modern world. He did not write; he scrawled. By reason of this, among other causes, he lost Waterloo. Grouchy could not read with exactness his decisive message. Was it “bataille engagee” (battle is on), or “bataille gagnee” (battle is won)? Grouchy chose the latter significance and, not believing it necessary to press forward, arrived too late. So much for the curl of a letter, a pen stroke or an Illegible swell to an “a.” This question was brought forward by the writing master of the elder Dumas. “Remember, Alexandre.” the master said to him, “the great defeat of the emperor was due only to his scrawling hand. If you wish to succeed in the world be careful of your heavy and your light strokes.” So if Napoleon had known how to write legibly or if he had taken the trouble to do so his descendants would reign today in France and we should not have had the republic. It appears historically established today that Dumas’ writing master was right. And on such slight things rests the fate of empires.—Crl de Paris.

Some curious examples of the egg laying habits of certain frogs are red lated by naturalists. The female one species, a species which was re! cently exhibited at a meeting of the! Zoological society, carries the eggal about in her mouth until they arel batched. When the young emerge they! are tadpoles, but fully formed, though.! of course, diminutive frogs. An Amer I lean tree frog, again, has a pouch! along the whole extent of its back, in! which the eggs are carried until hatch-1 ed. It is the Nototrema marsupiatuml of zoologists, the name referring' tol this curious habit The case of the! Surinam toad is equally curious. 10l this species the male places the eggs,l ene by one, in hollows in the loose skinl on the back of the female, where they I are developed.—London Globe. . ( Waiting: to Be Found. Lost one evening in a side streeFoa Charing Cross, a small terrier came | for the next six days at nightfall to the same spot waiting to be “found” and! scanning eagerly every passerby. The! constable on the beat got to know te»r| wistful little face and the bright silvetl collar she wore quite well, but she was I never to be seen by daylight. It wasw only on the sixth evening, half starved I and weak with waiting, that she al-1 lowed herself to be captured and taken j to the dogs’ home at Battersea, where! she was eventually claimed by her J owner.—St James’ Gazette. Her Gift. A Lancashire vicar was asked by therj ehoir to call upon old Betty, who waslJ deaf, but who insisted In joining in thej solo of the anthem, and to ask her only! to sing in the hymns. He shouted intoft her ear, “Betty, I’ve been requeued to speak to you about your singing!” At last she caught the word “singing” and replied: “Not to me be the praise, sir. It’s a ‘gift.’ ” . . a« Justice. “Why is Justice represented with * bandage over her brow?” “There is a classical reason for it;’* said the lawyer, “but t® my mind it serves chiefly to Impress the frequency with which Justice gets a blaSk eye,”-* Washington Star. Doing; Their Best. “Didn’t I understand you to say they keep a servant girl?” “Certainly not. I said they try to* As soon as one goes they get another.” —Philadelphia Press. Speech is too often not, as the Frenchman defined it, the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal. —Carlyle. ' DEAD MEN’S SHOES. Peculiar Beliefs About Them That Exist In the Old World. “Dead men’s shoes” is a common expression, but means much in many parts of the old world, where the boots of the dead are accorded much im-j portance. • , In Scotland, in the northern parts dfl England, in Scandinavia, as well as in j Hungary, Croatia and Roumania, the! utmost care is taken among the lower 1 classes that each corpse is .provided I with a pair of good shoes before being! laid into the ground. If the dead peril son happens to be a tramp and to have J been found dead barefooted there will I always be some charitable soul to fur-j nish a pair of good boots for interment! along with the corpse. " ■J| An inspector of police in Scotland has 1 been known to purchase of his own ac-1 cord a new pair of boots and to place! them in the grave, reopened for the,! purpose, of a murdered stranger who! had been inadvertently Interred bare-1 tooted the day before. . This practice, which likewise prevails ! among the Tsiganes as well as in many j parts of Asia, is attributable to the be;! lief that unless the dead are well shod I when buried their ghosts come back to! haunt the locality where they breathed I their last in searph of a pair of boots. 4 '■ The shoes are popularly supposed to y be needed to pass in comfort and! safety the broad plains which the de-1 parted soul must traverse before it ? can reach paradise. Among some nations these plains are declared to be covered with furzes, thorns and mo-' rasa, while other races say that they consist of burning sands. Those plains of suffering are popularly credited with forming a sort of antechamber to helL It is for this reason that the boots of the dead are called “hell shoes” in Nor- j way, Sweden. Finland and Denmark. A Good Reason. 'J Two Irishmen were digging a sewer. One of them was a big, strong Tian about six feet four Inches in height. I and the other one was a little, suny man about four feet six inches. The * foreman came along to see how the work was progressing and noticed that one of them was doing more work than, ~ the other. “Look here,” he cried, “How i is it that little Dennis iDugan, who is' only half your size, is doing nearly ■ twice as much work as you, Patrick?” > j Glancing down to his partner, Pat re-; It plied: “And why shouldn’t he? Ain't he nearer to it?” ( « Fixtures. ' k. One day four-year-old Fred climbed* upon a chair to reach something he ‘ Wanted. “You must not get on that chair with J your feet, dear,” said his mother. o Fred looked down at his feet, evidently puzzled. “Why, mamma,” he ;i said, “I can’t take ’em off!” How Not To. “Please read our paper,” annotated 1 the editor in returning the manuscript “I do,” wrote back the contributor, “and my stuff is designed to show that., I know what Is the matter with your I old paper.*—Philadelphia Ledger. . ——-;