Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 24, Decatur, Adams County, 16 August 1906 — Page 3

J^^This^paper will forward fl your subscription to " | HOOSIERi fl i i —— i l■■l■..l I I New Democratic Newspaper I ™ y s• ■ ' . I ® • Published at Indianapolis, Indiana. riTHE PAPER it a Weekly and the sub- | i* scription price is SI.OO per year. It’s a a food newspaper and is more than worth I the price to all good democrats. Agents Wanted in Every Township I I ; . For Particulars Address , W. B, WESTLAKE. Publisher J HOMES FOR THOUSANDS One and a quarter million acres to be opened to settlement on the SHOSHONE RESERVATION Dates of registration July 16th to 31st. EXCURSION RATES Low rates from all points, less than one fare for the round trip from Chicago, daily July 12th to 29th via The only all rail route to Shoshoni, Wyo., the reservation border. W. B. KNIBKERN, P. T. Chlcajo & Northwestern Ry., Chicago: Please tend to my address pgmphleta,maps and information concerning the opening of the Shoshone er Wind River reservation to settlement. peeeoe • ••• Illi • • 11 •••» • ••• •••••• eeee •••» • ••• • ••• . (Cut out this Coupon) I* ■ =- ' — Vacation Days The selection of the Lake Shore £s Michigan Southern Ry. for your summer vacation travel will add very greatly to the pleasure of your outing. As a route for vacation journeys it is unexcelled, reaching promptly and comfortably by it” splendid train service the pleasant resorts along the south shore of Lake Erie, includirg its islands, Put-in-Bay, Cedar Point and Lakeside, Lake Chautauqua, the delightful St. Lawrence River region, beautiful Adirondack Mountains country, Lakes Champlain and George, the ■?' White Mountains, the Atlantic Coast resorts, New England and the woods and lakes of Canada. To select a spot for the summer‘rest anywhere in the above territory, assures an enjoyable vacation while in the diversified character of the places, one may suit his fancy and purse as best pleases Through trains are run over the Big Four .bloute in connection with The Lake Shore k • ’ & Southern Ry. Summer Travel Privileges accorded patrons of the Lake Shore include stop-overs at JLake Chautauqua, Niagara Falls, Lake Erie Islands, Cedar Point, and option of tn by rail or steamer between Cleveland and Buffalo. B Summer Books. The following books helpful for planning a vacation will be sent free: “ Summer Tours,” giving a select list of tours to t the east? " 'Quiet Summer Retreats,” containing a list of ummer boarding and camping places and furnished cottages, etc., with rates, etc., at esorts ’ , in southern Michigan and northern Indiana and along ■ae south shore of ’ Lake Erie? Lake Chautauqua,” illustrating and deer hing that noted resort, and “Travel P. ivileges,” explaining the various ttop-ove-s>, etc. Foy any desired particulars, rates, or other matter, or above books. s address, A. J. SMITH, General Passenger Agent, Cleveland, O. •

The.“man in the moon” must surely regard with amused contempt our vaunted athletic records. A good terrestrial athlete could cover about 120 feet on the moon in a running broad jump, white leaping over a barn would be a very commonplace feat. He would find no difficulty in carrying •six times as much and running six times as fast as he could on earth, all because the moon attracts bodies with Dr. H. E. Keller appeared at the Commercial Club last evening and explained the merits of his incubator, in which patent he is trying-to interest local.capital. A good sized crowd' ; was present and fruitful results may, Se expected soon.

Some one entered the corridor leading to the lockup at the Kokomo police headquarters Friday night, and smashing the lock on the iron doo? liberated five prisoners, two of whom were being held on the charge of grand larceny. The delivery was not discovered until morning, when a patrolman went to the lockup to take the prisoners to breakfast. only one-sixth the force of the earth. The Ladies’ Aid 'Society of the Presbyterian church will meet in the church parlors Thursday, August 16, at 2:30 p. m. All members are expected to be present, and all jnembers , of sister churches are most cordially (invited. ■' ' 2t

AS WEFSEOFKHANDS THE PREFERENCE FOR THE RIGHT AND ITB SIGNIFICANCE. 1B Primitive Times It la Probable That Both Heads Were Equally Used—What the Hiero*ly»hica of the Efrnllaju Teaeh Va. ’ The fact that some persons are left handed may start the question whether the hnman animal was always right handed, for abnormality often indicates a “trying back” to an ancestral condition. Now, when we look at our language, and that in the case of man is a fair test, we find how strongly the comparative force exhibited by each of the hands has left its mark on our common expressions. The right is the "ruling” hand; the left is the “worthless” or the “weaker” hand if we* regard t>“ derivative meanings of the names, -n words imported from the Latin a certain ability is called “dexterity,” or right handedness, while that which has an evil or unsuccessful Influence becomes “sinister” or left handed. In like manner if we look at words from a French source we find that a clever person is “adroit” because be has right banded qualities, but a clumsy person is “gauche” because bis work Is left banded. It is evident that when our race became so far advanced as to frame words for ideas and things the rule was that the members of it were right handed. And if we examine other languages we find proofs that such a rule existed among the people using theifi. Th'ere is, however, good reason for thinking that man originally could use either hand equally Well. “This seems a hazardous statement to make about a remote ancestor in the age before the great glacial epoch had furrowed the mountains of northern Europe, but nevertheless it is strictly true and strictly demonstrable. Just try as you read to draw with the forefinger and thumb of your right hand an imaginary human profile on the page on which these words are printed. Do you observe that (unless you are an artist and therefore sophisticated) you naturally and instinctively draw it with the face turned toward your left shoulder? . Try now to draw it with the profile to the right and you will find it requires a far greater effort of the thumb and forefinger. “The hand moves of its own accord from without inward, not from within outward. Then again draw with your left thumb and forefinger another imaginary profile and you will find, for the same reason, that the face in this case?, looks rightward. Existing savages and our own young children whenever they draw a figure in profile, be it of man or beast, with their right band, draw It almost always with the face or head turned to the left, in accordance with this natural instinct Their doing so is a test of their perfect right handed ness. “But primitive man, or, at any rate, the most primitive men we know personally, the carvers of the figures from the French bone caves, drew men and beasts on bone or mammoth tusk turned either way indiscriminately. The inference is obvious. They must have been ambidextrous. Only ambidextrous people draw so at the present day, and, indeed, to scrape a figure otherwise with a sharp flint on a piece of bone or tooth or mammoth tusk would, even for a practiced band, be comparatively difficult” (Allen). In connection with this passage it is interesting to examine the reports of the bureau of ethnology, where It will be seen that, although the majority of profiles executed by the North American Indians follow the rule, many faces also turn to the right, and it is found that left handedness, or, rather,, ambidexterity, is very common among these tribes. But doubtless the reader will notice that iln writing his hand moves from left to right and not from right tp left. Here is an apparent .violation of the principle laid down in the quotation given from Grant Allen. It is, however, more apparent than real. If you study Egyptian hieroglyphics you will find that profiles invariably look to the left. Hebrew, Arabic, Hindoostanee and other ancient languages read from right to left. In these, as in some modern tongues, we have to begin the book at what is to us the wrong end. The reason of this is that the early languages were inscribed, not written. A tablet of marble or a brick formed the page. The right hand could therefore carve or impress the symbol In the natural way and pass on. With the introduction of wax tablets of papyrus and in later times of parchment and paper, a difficulty arose, for if the hand began at the right and worked leftward It would obliterate its own work. Hence the habit of writing from left to right, so that not only may the writing be clean, but also that it may be visible. With writing from left to right came also reading in the same direction, and one result of this is very curi- . -ous. We have become so accustomed , to mofing the eyes from left to right that we instinctively look at things in ■ that way. Close your eyes in a roomand then open them. You will find, un- ■ less you make a positive effort, that . your eyes take In the objects on the , left hand first and then move to the Tight. This is the way tn which we view a landscape or a picture. The painter follows the habit of the writer and works from left to right to avoid “smudging” his wort, and it has been remarked that when several compositions enter into one picture, as in some of the ancient altar pieces, the chrono- . logical order runs from the upper left hand corner to the lower right hand I ■ — - ... _ 1

RUBIES, .... ■tee PrietMive MctkmAa That Are Still la Dm la Bsrms. * The system practiced for obtaining rubies in the mining districts in Bur-j ma is of the most -primitive description, says the Rearchlight The mining shafts are simply holes about two feet square sunk to a depth yaryipg up to fifty or sixty-feet. The. shoring up of the walls of the shaft’te most crude, the sides being supported by posts at the corners and branches of small trees secured carefully against the Bides by means of stout sticks. The miner carries a tin pot similar In shape to a blunt edged eone on his bead. He squats down in one corner •nd digs between his knees in the opposite corner. The earth, or byon, as the ruby bearing earth is called, te conveyed to the top as fast as it is excavated in small buckets let down from above. The apparatus for raising and lowering the buckets is simple in the extreme. A stout bamboo post about twenty feet high, called a maungdlne, is fixed upright in the ground at a convenient distance from the pit, or dwin, •nd a long, thinner bamboo pivoted horizontally into the upper end of it s« •s to project an eighth from the mins and the long arm toward ths mine. Tellimg Arc aid Sex by Pmtae. “The female pulse always beats faster than the male,” said a physician, “and from birth to death the. pulse speed steadily decreases. I have no doubt that by the pulse alone I could tell readily a healthy person’s age and sex. Babes at birth have a pulse that beats 160 times a minute in the case of girls and 150 times a minute In the case of boys. At the age of four or five the pulse beats will have fallen respectively to 110 and 100. Maidens’ and youths’ pulses average ninety-five and ninety; mature Women's and men’s average eighty and seventy-five; elderly women’s and men’s average sixty and fifty. An old woman’s pulse rarely if ever sinks below fifty, but among old men a pulse under fifty is fairly common.” A Caak’a Capacity. Should you wish to get the capacity of a cask you can do so in the following manner: Take the measurement! from the bunghole to the bottom ot each end of the cask in inches. Average the two. measureihents. Multiply this figure by. Itself twice. Then multiply the product by .002266, and the remainder is the number of gallons. Example: 81 inches, 29 inches (average 80 inches). 30x30x30=27,000, which, multiplied by .002266, = 61.182. Tht> contents, therefore, are 61 gallons and a fraction. "" regular LIVING. What Nature Demands In Return Fm Good Health. First of all, one thing that nature won’t stand is irregularity. We cannot safely bottle up sleep tonight for tomorrow night’s use, nor force our stomachs one meal because we expect to eat sparingly the next, nor become exhausted in working night and day, expecting to make it up later. Nature does nothing before her appointed time, and any attempt to burry her invariably means ultimate disaster. She takes note of all our transactions, ■ physical, mental and moral, and places every item to our credit. There is no such thiug as cheating nature. She may not present her bill on the day we violate her law, but if we overdraw our account at her bank and give her a mortgage on our minds and bodies, she will surely foreclose. She may lend us all we want today, but tomorrow, like Shyluck, she will demand the last ounce of flesh. Nature does not excuse man for weakness, incompetence or ignorance. She demands that he be at the top of bis condition. Nature’s machinery, ns ! t exists ia .. the human body, is most < omplicated and delicately adjusted. No machinery constructed by man can compare with It in thd perfection and proportion of all its working parts. Every machinist knows that his wheels and cams and gearing 'must rqn absolutely true and with uniformity or they will soon break down. It is the same with the machine that keeps the human body going.— New York American. Comets' Tolls. Clearness of the atmosphere has much to do with the apparent length of comets’ tails. In clear tropical skies or In the rarefied atmosphere of mountainous countries the tails of such bodies can be traced much farther than they can by European observers or those of temperate America. The apparent length of such appendages by no means indicates anything of their real length, and it often happens that those which appear tlie longest are realiy the shortest. This is due to the different distances which comets hold with respect to the earth. While the great comet of 1861 had a tail which stretched away more than 15,000,000 miles, its apparent length was five times that distance. The great Donati comet, with a tail which appeared only half as long as that of 1861, was really 50,000,000 miles in length. The comet o* 1861 was only about 13,000,000 miles from us, while Donati’s was * at least, four times as. remote, a circumstance that would account for its apparent lack of tail. The great comet of the year 1080 and that of 1843 each had a tall of enormous length. The length of the tail of that of the last mentioned date has been estimated at 180,000,000 miles—the longest of any comet that has yet been observed. The comet of 1080 had a tail 90,000,000 ■files in length. A person may not merit favor, as that is only the claim of man, but he can never demerit charity, for that te ■ the command of God.—Sterne.

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if DANGEKsTF DIETING M —2_ ■ UNDERFEEDING TO WEAKEN HEART’S ACTION. i ! Usually Appetite Is a Measure of Health, and the First Sign of Illness In n Man or an Animal Is Loaa of the Desire For Food. Professor Alexander Haig, an English dietary expert, has written from London to the medical fraternity of New York warning Americans against the popular belief that the average man eats too much. He says that'the increasing number of deaths from heart failure is largely due to underfeeding. The notion that science is a more unerring guide than is nature is constantly gaining ground. In the good old days men drank when they were thirsty and ate of whatever they wished ’ until their hunger was satisfied. Now science condemns such foolishness as ' primitive. It prescribes one glass water one hour before meals and one glass one hour after meals—no more, no less. If you happen not to be thirsty at those times, no matter, drink that amount anyway. If perchance you are thirsty and would like two glasses you must not yield; it is only nature' that : prompts you, and nature is an unsafe guide. Or, you may be “abnormally” thirsty at meals; nevertheless do not drink then. As to our amount of food, we are , directed to consume so m.iry grams of the proteins, so many grams of the carbohydrates and so many grams of fat, while we hear learned discourses upon large calories and the supreme importance of exactly maintaining our nitrogen balance—whatever that may mean. I have purposely not mentioned the precise numbers of grams of the differI ent food elements, for the simple reai i son that our eminent authorities have . | sot yet agreed upon this important . point. All give different figures. 11 Scientists, however, following the I Ipad of Russell H. Chittenden, Ph. D., liL. D., Sc. D., have pretty well agreed that the average man eats twice more . than he needs. If half his customary 14 amount of food does not satisfy him i it ought to, they say, and it will even- ,, tually, provided he keeps on suppressing his natural and therefore unscientific instincts. But just here lies a danger. It is 1 true that one can accustom himself to ; a much smaller quantity of food than that to which he has been habituated and that eventually he will desire that smaller quantity and no more, but i when he attains to this condition his digestive power will have been reduced by one-half. As a result he will lose from ten to thirty pounds in weight; that is to say, his muscles and organs will decrease by so much in bulk and strength. Now, if the heart deceases considerably in strength there will always be danger of its collapse, particularly if it be subjected to any extra strain, a.i when one runs for a car or rapidly up a flight of steps. Excitement alcnj may be fatal to a weak heart. Rigorous dieting to reduce weight is always dangerons. A better plan is to work off the superfluous flesh by exercise. Lack of sleep has a depressing effect on the heart, for during sleep cerebral circulation diminishes, when the blood can devote itself to the rest of the body. Eating before-going to bed, particularly if one Is Up late, is a good practice, it being most favorable to thorough body repair that the blood at night be rich in nourishment. - Accustoming the digestive organs to a small amount of food results in a decline of appetite, whereas our object . should be to increase appetite and thereby strengthen our digestive powers by judicious exercise in the open air or in a well, ventilated room. If the doctrme tlpit a small appetife is preferable to a large appetite be ■ true—and this is* what “economy in nutrition” teaches —then open air exercise, which manifestly increases appetite, must be .injurious to health. Or why should we exercise to increase ap- - petite if we may eat only so much? The notion is wholly absurd. The first stan of illness in a man or au ani-

mal is loss of appetite. And usually 1 appetite is a measure of health. To build up the heart and muscular system generally we must vigorously exercise the muscles. It is not enough that one should stuff himself; it is all important that he should desire every morsel he eats, and this he will do only if he undergoes general physical and mental exercise. Food that is ingested, and evendigested, will be absorbed only by those organs that need It—that have been exercised. This fact explains why many persons that are good “feeders” are yet inadequately nourished. If they are braip workers and take no physical exercise their brains absorb what nourishment they need; the rest is excreted. Magnificent as are the results of brain work we must bear in mind that there could be no result without the co-operation of the body, and that the body in its turn depends primarily on the Integrity of its heart, lungs and stomach.—G. Elliot Flint in New York World. ——w——T" 1,1 ■ 11 * Men of the People. The American tradition is the experience of the world everywhere. There is Washington and there is Hamilton, gently born and gently bred, but somehow the heart turn? rather to Franklin and to Lincoln, as of more hope for the common men “God made so many llowel.s in Harper’s Weekly. It requires a great deal of boldnesi end a great deal of caution to make • great fortune, and when you have gri it it requires ten times a* much wit t» keep it—Rothschild. no Answer nanay. This is only worth the telling, writes a correspondent, because it contains a retort which, though a triumph of inconsequence, seems to me quite unanswerable. I happened to be reading some obvious newspaper proofs in a train when the good natured man next to me, with the intention no doubt of making himself agreeable, asked, “Ah, are you connected with the press?” I intimated briefly and perhaps not overcourteously that It was none of his business. He persisted (hat it was a quite civil inquiry, which I met with the remark that I had not asked him whether he was a clerk or a shop assistant. As he was obviously neither, this nettled him. “If I knew,” he said, “what, newspaper you belong to I would never buy it again.”—London Chronicle. Buffalo Cnlve*. Buffalo calves, as a rule, are born in April and May. They are active, vigorous little creatures, mild eyed as domestic calves, but possessing much greater strength and endurance. In a few seconds after birth they can get on their feet, and in twenty minutes they are fit to fight for their lives. Usually it is unnecessary for them to defend themselves at this tender age, as a buffalo cow is quite capable of attending to any business which may arise in connection with the defense of her precious baby.—Washington Star. Blessings of Work. Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day which must be done, whether you like it or not Being forced to work and forced to do your best will breed In you temperance, self control, diligence, strength of will, content and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know. —Charles Kingsley. Business Education. Nothing wilj stand you in better stead in the bard, cold, practical, everyday- world than a good, sound business education. You will find that your sue-, cess in trade, occupation or professionwill depend as much on your general! knowledge of men and affairs as on your technical training.—Success Magazine. Pleasant Thoughts. “Make yourselves nests of pleasant thoughts,” counsels Ruskin. Bright fancies, satisfied memories, noble histories, faithful sayings, treasure houses of restful and precious thoughts whichcare cannot disturb or pain make gloomy or poverty take away from us .—houses built without bands for our souls to live in—these things are not for earth alone; they are a part of the treasure that may be sent over.