Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 18, Decatur, Adams County, 5 July 1906 — Page 7

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Dandies of Papua. Even the natives of Papua have their fine gentlemen, their dandies. To rank In this class the young man Is compelled to lace his waist arid to have a nose ornament of polished shell. But. as an explorer says, “very few young blades can afford to possess one. and accordingly it may be lent either for a consideration or as a very special favor. The possessor ofe one of these ornaments could easily buy a wife for it, and sometimes it is paid as a tribal tribute by one should he have-to pay blood money or be unable to give the statutory pig as atonement for a murder.” Papuan husbands, too, have a primitive way of dealing with their re calcitrant wives. A man named Gedon had a shrewish helpmate whom he attempted to tame according to this method: “He would pick up a billet of wood when she was halfway through a tremendous scolding and give her a terrific blow over the back. Thereupon ensued pandemonium. The other men and women would gather round, jabbering, but they would make no attempt to stop the beating once it had begun.” The Fashionable Dinner. Eight men exclusive of the butler are required to serve a dinner of twentyfour covers, one being allowed for every three diners. Another is stationed in the pantry to “run In” the courses. Absolute or der and silence... reign among these men, who perfectly understand the butler’s cabalistic signs. Electric signals pass constantly between chef and butler. From the seating of guests until the ladles leave not more than eighty-five minutes should elapse, for long dinners are considered bad form. Upon these occasions scarcely a .member of the domestic corps escapes some special duty. The housemaids assist the pantry maid. After each course twenty-four silver Plate® apd countless small silver must be cajrefully cleansed, wiped very dry polished with chamois before •' being put away. Nearly 200 pieces of engraved crystal ware must be washed and polished, and it is too costly and brittle to be hastily handled.—Everybody’s Magazine. The Drama of the Sunret. We hover tire of the drama of sunset. I go forth each afternoon and look Into the west a quarter of an hour before sunset with fresh curiosity to see what new picture will be painted there, what new phenomenon exhibited, what new dissolving views. Every day a new picture is painted and framed, held up for half an hour in such lights ' as the great artist chooses and then withdrawn and -the curtain falls. The sun goes down, long the afterglow gives light, the damask curtains glow along the western window, the fiast star is lit, and I go home.—From Thoreau’s »*w<"*«* ” . "i <»■ <■*!>»»■■ if i !■

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Wealth la Old Roman Times. Our wealth, as much as we boast ot it, is comparatively puny as compared with the wealth of men of old. There was Mark Antony’s house that was sold to Messala for over $500,000, and Scaurus’ villa was burned at a loss of over $12,000,000. Otho spent over $14,000.000 in finishing one wing of a palace commenced by Nero. Nearly $36,000,000 wris found in the coffers of Tiberius, and Caligula spent It all [n less than a year. Paulus could make a trifling present to the mother of Brutus of a pearl worth over $30,000. So let us be modest. We are a cheap people, even the wealthiest of us. I " 1 ■" ■ *". / Smoking the Nargile. A Greek thus tells how the nargile is smoked by his brethren: “Only pure tobacco is used in the nargile. It is grdwn expressly for the purpose in Persia. The weed there is called tumbeky. This kind of tobacco is first washed two or three times by the man who keeps the restaurant. He puts it under a faucet and squeezes the juice out. s Otherwise the tobacco would be too strong. Then, when the smoke of it is drawn through the water, the tobacco having, of course, been dried first, all the nicotine is deposited In the water, and a delightful and innocuous smoke is the result.” .' “~~~ ‘ ~~ The Test. * '“How do you like your new music teacher?” “He’s no good.” “Why, what makes you think so?” “Yesterday I played a common tune clear through, and he didn’t say it would take a week’s practice to offset the harm done.” t Surely. “Tommy is such a sweet child,” said a doting mother, “that I often think it I will be a miracle if he lives to grow up.” “It will,” said the candid neighbor, with a baleful gleam In his eye. A Coincidence. Mrs. Janson said to Mrs. Lammis in perfect confidence, “Do you know mine is the prettiest baby in the world?” “Well, really, now, what a coincidence!” said Mrs. Lammis. “So is mine!” Cause and Effect. “Poor Jones is suffering from melancholia.” “Why, I thought he was the editor of a comic paper.” “He is.” The More the Merrier. “I want to introduce you to a young lady—a very nice girl—and she’s worth her weight in gold.” “Stout girl, I hope.”- 'Leudon Tatler.

' SMUGGLING for fun. gnat For the Sake of “Gettla* Ahead” of the Government. Smuggling for fun sounds ridiculous, but customs inspectors who have spent the greater part of their life in the service of the government say there are those who do it. Persistent efforts to detect those who would defraud the government have been re warded by the almost total extinction of the professional smuggler, but ail efforts have availed little against the traveler abroad who purposely conceals some article of value simply for the fun of “getting ahead” of the government The government detectives put smugglers in four classes. The first is the thoughtless smuggler; the second, the occasional traveler who tries to smuggle; the third, the professional smuggler, and the fourth, those who smuggle for fun. The professional smuggler has long since ceased to trouble the federal officers seriously. The odds against him are so great that he has turned his ingenuity to some safer method 1 of dishonesty. The last, the smuggler for fun, is a bother. Usually the duty he is attempting to save is hardly enough to pay for the trouble of detection. What people smuggle covers everything that can be hidden. Costly gems and jewels form the greater part of the dutiable property seized by the customs officers. The few professional smugglers confine themselves to diamonds. The smuggler for fun is as apt to try to get in a pair of gloves, a bit of lace, drugs or expensive cosmetics. Lace, silk and .bits of bric-a-brac find their way infto out of the way places in the trunks or grips of the occasional travelers who think it perfectly justifiable to avoid paying the duty. Trained agents in every European city know of every purchase of gems or costly cloth destined for this country. Weeks before the purchaser reaches this side of the Atlantic his name, address and the exact quantity of goods he has purchased are in the hands of the officers on this side. His failure to mention an article of tha slightest yalue immediately brings him to the attention of the inspectors, and he is fortunate to escape with no more severe punishment than the confiscation of the dutiable property. To detect the amateur smugglers requires keen detective work on the part of the local customs officers. An especially quiet looking man who arrived a few months ago had concealed a beautiful diamond in the heart of a lump of tobacco. The customs officer, who had put this passenger down as one of the honest travelers, had his suspicion aroused when he saw him make a frantic grab for a half plug of tobacco that he had accidentally dropped. Before the passenger could reach the tobacco the officer had planted his foot upon it and-of course discovered the stone. A smartly dressed woman who had been abroad for the summer limped so painfully as she came down the gangway from the steamer that the customs officer who had been detailed to inspect her luggage was moved to ask if she had suffered an accident on the way over. She replied that she had. Before he completed the examination of her score of trunks he had excused I himself, sent another officer on board and learned from the purser that the woman had not limped at breakfast that morning. She was asked to accompany one of the women inspectors to a private examination room, where a magnificent ring was found In the toe of her boot. > Intuition more than anything else aids the federal detectives in their work.—New York World. Little, but Immense. . Although General Joseph Wheeler was a chieftain of tremendous force when in battle, he was, as everybody knows, small in stature, slight in build and of unassuming appearance I as a civilian. Shortly after the United j States had declared war against Spain and while the preparations for sending the army to Cuba were in active progress a stranger in Washington observed a number of distinguished senators gathering around a little gray bearded man whom they had encountered at the steps of the capital and shaking his hand with enthusiasm. “Who’s that little old chap they’rs making so much fuss over?” he said, addressing an elderly, stoop shouldered man who was standing near him and looking at the group with kindling eyes. “Little!” exclaimed the other. “That’s Fighting Joe Wheeler. If ever you’d been in a big battle and seen him coming toward you at the head of a galloping army of wild men, as I have, you’d know better than to call him little! He’s as big as toe side of a house!” ’ Fishing For Rattlers. Hunters have an ingenious method of capturing rattlesnakes, whose oil is believed to be a cure for deafness, and as such commands a big price. They go about on warm days, carrying a ■long fishing rod and a line, with a sharp scythe, and when the reptile is discovered, usually asleep near a loose edge of rock, it is prodded more or less gently with the rod. Like any other sleeper suddenly Interrupted, the snake wakes up angry, makes a dart at the nearest irritating object, which Is the fish hook dangling near his head from the end of the rod, and very accommodatingly allows the sharp hook to pene trate its jaws. The’man with the rod holds the entrapped reptile at a safe distance while his comrade moves up and severs the snake’s head from the body. The latter Is then deposited in a bag, and the hunters go in search of fresh game. —- - I

CULTIVATING THE CHILD. . I How Any Trait May Be Fixed la a Normal Human Being. There is not a single desirable attribute which, lacking in a plant, may not be bred into it Choose what improvement you wish in a flower, a fruit or o tree, and by crossing, selection, culti vation and persistence you can fix this desirable trjit rrevocably. Pick out any trait you want in your child, granted that he is a normal child, be it honesty, fairness, purity, lovableness, industry, thrift, what not. By surrounding this child with sunshine from the sky and your own heart, by giving the closest communion with nature, by 1 feeding him well balanced, nutritious 1 food, by giving him all that is implied ' in healthful environmental influences | and by doing all in love you can thus cultivate in this child and fix there for all his life all of these traits—natu- ’ rally not always to the full in all cases at the beginning of the work, for heredity will make itself felt first, and, as in the plant under improvement, there will be certain strong tendencies to reversion to former ancestral traits, but in the main with the normal child you can give him all these traits by patiently, persistently guiding him in these early formative years. And, on the other side, give him sou air to breathe, keep him in a dusty sac tory or an unwholesome schoolroom ot a crowded tenement up under the het roof; keep him away from the sunshine, take away from him music and laughter and happy faces, cram his little brains with so called knowledge, all the more deceptive and dangerous because made so apparently adaptable to his young mind; let him have associates in his hours out of school, and at the age of ten you have fixed in him the opposite traits. He is on his way to the gallows. You have perhaps seen a prairie fire sweep through the tall grass across a plain. Nothing can stand before it; it must burn itself out. That is what happens when you let the weeds grew up in a child’s life and then set fire to them by wrong environment.—Luther Burbank in Century. THE GOLDFINCH. i -- Changes In Plumage That Are Puzzling to the Novice. Most every one in America is acquainted with the goldfinch, but many , people know the bird by the name of lettuce bird on account of its bright yellow color. Goldfinch is a very appropriate name, as the bright yellow of the male when in breeding plumage Is like burnished gold. The female goldfinch is more modestly dressed than her mate. The changes in plumage of the male are very interesting ; and to the novice somewhat puzzling, i Until the student becomes acquainted with the bird he may wonder why he 1 sees no males during the winter. Ths . truth is at this season the flocks ot ! supposed female goldfinches are really iof both sexes, the male bird having asJ sumed to the previous fall, usually by the end of October,'a plumage closely 1 I resembling that of the female and i young bird of the year. The male re-1 . tains this inconspicuous dress until ' I late in February, when one can no- ’ ; tice a gradual change taking place in i some of the birds. This renewal of feathers is actively continued through March and April, and by the first of 1 May our resplendent bird is with us I again. The song period; with the male I goldfinch’continues as long as he wears > his gold and black livery, for it commences as early as the middle of March and ends late in August. Goldfinches are very cleanly in their habits and bathe'frequently. Their nests are exi quisite pieces of bird architecture, the inside being lined With the softest I plant down. The mother bird is the builder, her handsome consort during, the nest building time devoting most of his efforts to singing to cheer his industrious mate.—Philadelphia Press. Grant's Presence of Mind. An instance of great presence ot ( mind was narrated by John Russell , Young, says a writer in the Grand i Magazine. Once during the civil war, | when Grant was in subordinate com- , mand, he was reconnoitering alone near | the enemy’s lines. Suddenly he found himself confronted by one of the Confederates’ pickets, who was for arresting him. “Sho! Sho!” said Grant, with j the utmost coolness. “Can’t you see I am reconnoitering in the, enemy’s uni- ' form? Don’t make a noise. I shall be I back directly.” And he walked away ’ quietly until out of the picket’s sight, then ran as nimbly as he could. Duet la ftne'i Eyea. To “cast dust in one’s eyes” perfectly explains Itself. It is, however, in-' teresting to know that Epamlnondas at the battle es Tegea defeated the j Spartans by masking his movements with a large body of cavalry. He caused the horsemen to gallop to and fro in front of the enemy In such away as to raise a cloud of dust and so veiled the movements of his infantry and enabled them to take up a new and more advantageous position. A premier's Wit. __ ’ A woman once told Lord Palmerston . that her maid, who had been with her , In the Isle of Wight, objected to going ; thither again because the climate was ] not “embracing” enough. “What am I ■ to do with such a woman?” she asked. , “You had better take her to the Isle of ( Man next time,” said Lord Palmerston. < Infrequent. Kind Lady—l have nothing but some lobster salad and mince pie. You sure- j ly don’t want that for your breakfast? ( Weary Walker—Oh, dis is me dinner, | mum. I had me breakfast day before • yesterday.—Cleveland Leader. | i Winged time glides on Insensibly and t deceives us. and there is nothing more t I fleeting thin years.--Orid. ] I ~ - 1-

i A QUEER POKER GAME IT WAS PLAYED BY TWO STOCKMEN IN A DENVER HOTEL The Tarn That Came When the Fortunes of Both Men Were Piled on the Table—A Side Bet and a Card That Was Not Shown to the Board. The old St. James hotel in Denver was one of the landmarks of the city for over a quarter of a century, and many famous sporting men were among its guests. Numerous stories i are told of the “stiff” poker games that | used to be played there in the late . eighties and early nineties of the last ' century. A game was played one night between two stockmen, a, banker and a mining man. The story goes that the mining man and the banker played until they were “ail in,” leaving the two stockmen to battle it out. It came up to the “consolation” jack pot, and those who had lingered to see the finish were not disappointed when they expected something spectacular to take place. The stakes were running high, the ante being SSOO, with no betting limit. One of the stockmen opened for $2,500 and was promptly raised before the draw. Then there followed a series of raises and counter raises until the pot contained $11,600 before cards were drawn. *Gi’ me that one,” blandly announced the man who had “seen” the last raise. The dealer slipped one card across the table, laid the deck down, relighted his neglected cigar and said unconcernedly, “I’ll play these.” Then the betting commenced in earnest. The player had opened, and be led off with $2,500 as a “feeler.” The dealer raised a like amount, and the other fellow followed suit. It was plain that one or the other cf the men was going to lose his fortune. Checks were written, torn up and made out for larger amounts, and finally mortgage papers on real estate and cattle were passed into the pot. Finally one man said to the other : “Say, Henry, I'm going to stay with you until everything I’ve get, right down to the clothes on my back, Is represented on the table. Now, I’m In doubt as to some of my property holdings, so I’ll make you a proposition. Give me until tonight (it was then 4 a. m.) to find out just where I stand and we’ll play the hand out. Meantime let us seal up my hand in one envelop®, yburs in another and the deadwood still another. We'll leave the three envelopes in the office safe, to be delivered to both of us together." The other player agreed, and envelopes and sealing wax were sent for. The hands and remaining cards in tha deck were duly sealed and deposited as per arrangement. Meantime friends of the two players ! endeavored to get the men together on I some sort of compromise proposition, . knowing full well that neither could afford to bank his entire fortune on a poker hand, leaving his family destiI tute, but both men were obdurate and would listen to no proposition to spilt the pot. An interested and expectant group gathered in the lobby about 8 o’clock in the evening, among them being the man who had opened the pot. They talked together tn a friendly manner, speculating upon what would happen when the man who went to look s up his assets returned. While they were talking he walked In. “Well, Henry, I’m ready to resume our little argument,” he announced to a matter of fact tone. Then the crowd I repaired to the room where the game had been played. The man announced that he had $33,000 to “play back.” Securities and certified checks representing this amount were piled on the table. Then, and not until then, did either of the men show signs of nervousness. The opener had drawn a , check for $33,000 and started, to tear , it out of the book when the other man said in a slow, deliberate voice: “Looks a little strong for either of ■ us, doesn’t it, Henry?” “Well,” rejoined the other man, toy- ( Ing with the chedk, “what would you consider a fair proposition at this stage of the game?” ! “It’s not gambling, I know,” said the other, “but If yon want to split the pot and”— T ‘ “She’s split,” calmly announced the ' man who bad opened for $2,500. The currency, gold, checks, mortgage papers and securities were equally divined. Not a word was spoken. Silently the man who opened took up the envelopes, tore them open and laid the two hands on the table, faces dowu- ' ward. • “Bet you a cigar I had you beat,’’ he bantered. '» “You’re called,” said the other, turning over four cards. Jacks and sixes. The opener also turned .over four.cards. They were jacks and sixes. “I’ll bet you,” said the dealer, “a thousand dollars that I’ve still got you beat.” The other man peeped at a corner of his buried card, toyed a moment with, a stack of currency and shoved SI,OOO to the center. Then, without waiting for the man he had called to show his hole card, he turned up a four spot. The dealer looked at it, smiled, touched the bell and put his hand in the deck. He never told what the other card was.—Denver Times. Lights of London. A farmer who visited London for the, first time was walking aipng Oxford street, filling his pipe,* when a matchboy came up to him with the usual “Lights, sir?” The farmer took a box from the boy, extracted a match, lit his pipe and-hahded the box back to the astonished lad, passing on with the remark, “Lor, what a wunnerful place ‘.o be sure!”

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