Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 25, Decatur, Adams County, 23 August 1906 — Page 2

J . • Old-fashioned Paint The good paint which lasted so well a generation and more ago, was simply pure white lead and pure linseed oil. Paint made of these two ingredients alone is just as good to-day as it ever was. The only point is to buy a brand which you can rely on. Phoenix ( Pure White Lead (Made by the Old Dutch Process) is guaranteed perfectly pure. It has the reputation of years behind it. If your dealer will not supply you, it will pay you to write to us. NATIONAL LEAD COMPANY Freeman Avenue and 7th Street, Cincinnati, Ohio For sale by first-class dealers. A man from Marion writes the Merchants and Manufacturers’ Association that he wants to start some kind of a factory here and would please like to have SIO,OOO furnished by the association. He wrote the request on a postal card. —Bluffton News. MINING FOR RUBIES, x Cke Primitive Methods That Are Still I Im Use In Burma. The system practiced for obtaining rubies in the mining districts in Burma is of the most primitive description, says the Searchlight The mining ■hafts are simply holes about two feet square sunk to a depth varying up to fifty or sixty feet The shoring up of the walls of the shaft is most crude, the sides being supported by posts at the corners and branches of small trees secured carefully against the ■ldes by means of stout sticks. The miner carries a tin pot similar in shape to a blunt edged cone on his head. He squats down in one corner and digs between his knees in the opposite corner. The earth, or byon, as the ruby bearing earth is called, is 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 pogt about twenty feet high, called a maungdina, is fixed upright in the ground at a convenient distance from the pit, or dwiu, and a long, thinner bamboo pivoted horizontally into the upper end of it sg as to project an eighth from the mine and the long arm toward the mine. Telling' Age and Sex by Pulae. “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 ninetynlve 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 pulao under fifty is fairly common.” A Cask's Capacity. Should you wish to get the capacity Os a cask you can do so in the following manner: Take the measurements from the bunghole to the bottom oi each end of the cask in inches. Average the two measurements. Multiply this figure by Itself twice. Then multiply the product by .002266, and the remainder is the number of gallons. Example: 31 inches, 29 inches (average 30 inches). 30x30x30=27,000, which, multiplied by .002266, = 61.182. The contents, therefore, are 61 gallons and a fraction. Pleasant Thoughts. “Make yourselves nests of pleasant thoughts,” counsels Ruskin. Bright fancies, satisfied memories, noble histories, faithful sayings, treasure houses iof restful and precious thoughts which care cannot disturb or pain make gloomy or poverty take away from us —houses built without hands for our eouls to live in—these things are not for earth alone; they are a part of the treasure that may be sent over. J No Chance to Forget. Benham—l don’t like your actions; you should remember that you are my wife. Mrs. Benham—l am not likely to forget it when everybody tells me how they pity me.—New York Press. Ute people in the flat above seldom call the baby what the fond parents situ— Somerville Journal.

"HOT ano cold water." How to Cse Theae Remedies to tho Best Advantage. Hot or cold water is excellent as an application for inflammation, conges tlons or abrasions but how many people know which to apply in particular cases while awaiting the arrival of medical relief? Not many, and the mis takes made in some instances are lu dicrous. f Take the barber, for example, who has cut his patron's face. He generally washes the face with a towel soaked In warm water, often pressing it right Into the injury, and then wonders why the blood flows from the cut so freely. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred If he had used cold water, and the colder the better, the blood would have ceased to flow from the injury al together, as the cold would have a ten dency to contract the openings in tho torn blood vessels. In all cases of such cuts or abrasions very cold water will at least reduce the amount of bleeding if It doesn’t stop it altogether, and yet, singularly enough, boiling water will have the same effect Water below the boiling point In creases the flow, but above that degree decreases it. In surface inflammations or congestions cold water ought to be used, while if the condition is situated below the surface hot water is necessary as an application because it draws the blood toward the surface and thus stimulates the circulation through the part where it is most needed. In cases of abscesses or pimples with pus forming in them, but which have not yet come to a head, the secretion of pus can be rapidly increased and the duration of the annoyance thereby decreased by applying hot water to them at frequent intervals. Where the eye is inflamed or smarts, after a period of eye strain, such as night work often induces, hot applications are the things for relief, but the water used should be gradually allowed to cool off toward the end. Tired eyes will invariably be rejuvenated by adopting this method of treatment, and many headaches resulting from such a condition may thereby be prevented or cured.—St Louis GlobeDemoerat BLEAK SHETLAND. Its Swarms of Sea Gulls and Its Lobo Tree. Up a little lane off Lerwick’s one street there is a garden. At least it is an inclosed space. In the middle of this space there is a tree. It is not a very tall tree; you could, in fact, toss a biscuit over its branches, but still it is a tree—the only tree in Shetland. And Shetland is proud of it. Children who are brought for the first time to see the wonders of one streeted Lerwick are shown this tree. This is not fiction. It is the only tree in Shetland. As there are no trees in Shetland, there are no birds, except, of course, the sea gulls, which you can number by the thousand. The sea gulls are the sparrows of Lerwick, and, as such, they have a greater share in the town’s life than have the sparrows of London. In the morning time you will note that a sea gull sits on every chimney pot. Sea gulls swoop and hover over every roof in the town. The air is full of their strange, high, plaintive, haunting cries. Their sad, shrill, long drawn cries are to Lerwick as the chattering of sparrows or the cawing of rooks are to us in England. Every house has its own familiar sea gulls and every street its own band of sea gulls. They never mix. The children in each house have a pet name for their cwn particular sea gulls, and, having called them to them by those names, they feed them every day. And each sea gull knows what is meant for him. No sea gull attached to one house ever seeks to eat the food scattered from the house next door. He does not dare; the other gulls would kill him. So all day long the sea gulls hover and call over the roofs of Lerwick. The people of the town, if they come across a little pile of rice laid upon the roadway, step over it with care. They know that it is placed there for some sea gull. And at night the sea gulls leave their own appointed chimney pots and fly gracefully away to their resting places on the rocks of the Isle of Noss.—London Express. " KEEP THE LIVER CLEAN." Don’t Overwork It and Give It a Beat Once In Awhile. A man of common sense and a doctor at that said: ‘‘The liver is misunderstood and underestimated in its functions, Jf it can Ve kept clean and active there is no reason why ,we should ever be ill a day, and we should live to be 150 or 200 years old. It is not necessary to rip this organ all to pieces with -ten grains of calomel to get it stirred up. The best thing to do is to shut off your food supply for two or three days, drop your whisky and claret, your tea and coffee, and give your liver a chance to rest. This should be done once a month.” It is well known, of course, that la olden times the liver was supposed to be the seat of the affections. Friends when they met in the morning did not salute each other with “How’s youi health?” but with “How's your liver?” Men take horseback exercise principally for their livers. A good shaking uj every morning drives away the cirrhoticbiliary encroachment. It is an erroi to assume that whisky alone produces ; cirrhosis. Overfeeding is more oftei the cause. If the digestive organs > would organize a union and work onlj • eight hours a day all of us would be , healthy and long lived. The trouble it we require the liver, stomach, bowels i heart, brain, muscles, nerves, kidneys • spleen, etc., to work all the time anc overtime. Wrong. Give them a rest.— New York Press.

■ 'Send Dawn Grace. ( A little Portland miss, whose first name is Grace, bad never attended church, being too little and too lively to be trusted there, according to the Kennebec Journal. But at last her mother permitted her to accompany an elder sister, giving her grave warnings beforehand. The rector of the church was a frequent caller at Grace’s home, and her mother feared that on this account she might take liberties. , “You must sit still,” she said; “and you must not say one word, but let Mr. Hammond do the talking. Now, remember.” Gracie behaved very well In meeting. As soon as she reached home she reported: , “Oh.- mamma, I did keep still—real still, and when Mr. Hammond called me right out in meeting I never stirred to go to him.” , “Called you? Why, child, he never called you in meeting.” “Yes, but he did, mamma. He said thaee or four times, ‘Send down Grace,’ but I sat as still as a mouse." The Meanins of “Bridge.” The story goes that years ago, long before bridge was known in London clubs, two families who played the game under the name of “Russian whist*’ were living in neighboring houses at or near Great Dalby in Leicestershire. The only road of communication lay over a somewhat dangerous bridge. It was a frequent occurrence for the departing guests to say to their hosts: “Thank goodness, it is your ‘bridge’ tomorrow,” meaning that the other party would have to cross the dangerous bridge the next night; is said to have arisen the title of “bridge.” We give this story for what it Is worth, but in our own mind we have little doubt that the modern name of “bridge” is merely a very easy corruption of the old title of “biritch.” The two words “biritch” and “bridge” have absolutely the same sound when spoken quickly, so that it is easy to imagine how the change came to pass.—London Saturday Review. < i The Deer’s Tracks. A deer if walking always places Its feet firmly closed upon the ground, and consequently the track is sharply drawn—that is, the hoof is not spread to any appreciable extent Excepr tions are sometimes the track of deer that are heavy with fawns, during spring and early summer, and those of old bucks during the rutting season. But even then the heels of their tracks are considerably closer than in tracks made by a hog or a sheep. The hoofs of the latter two animal? are always rounder at the toe than those of deer, making the tracks they leave easily dis- ‘ tinguishable, and if the difference is not discernible in frozen snow the fact that the trail made by hogs or sheep does not register should settle all doubts for the tracker. A deer if not ' wounded will always step with its hind foot in the track made by the front foot.—Field and Stream. i Some Puritan Names. 1 One of the customs practiced by our ; Puritan forefathers was that of inflicting ludicrous and terrifying names ’ upon their children. One Puritan damsel, when asked her baptismal name, answered, “Through-Much-Tribulation-We-Enter-the-Kingdom-of-Heaven, but ; for short they call me Tribby.” A?i- --‘ other unfortunate maiden bore tne ’ name The-Gift-of-God Stringer. A • sickly boy was christened Faint-Not-Hewitt Another labored under Fight- • the-Good-Flght-of-Faith White. A lit- ‘ tie girl who had a propensity for cry- ' Ing was at the age of eight christened » Weep-Not Billing. There also were 1 Thunder Goldsmith, The-Work-of-God I Farmer, Search-the-Scriptures Morton, Be-Courteous Cole and, worst of all, ' Kill-Sin Pimple. I t The Way He Viewed It. - “Good news!” cried the lawyer, wav--1 Inga paper above his head. “I’ve se- » cured a reprieve for you!” J “A reprieve?” replied the convicted ■ murderer indifferently. ’ “Why, yes. Don’t you see you ought s to be happy”— ’ “Ah,” replied the prisoner gloomily, 7 “that simply means a delay, and I’ve r always been taught that delays are » dangerous.” — Catholic Standard and Times. Kaay. Maisie—Aren’t you coming to ruy t party? Daisy—How can I when I’m Isl half mourning? Maisie—Oh, wed. come and stay half the evening.— - Cleveland Leader. • A Papal Bull. 3 A papal bull is published by the 9 pope. It may be an edict, a decree or 3 a rescript which contains an order or t a decision to be publicly declared. It 3 is only indirectly that the word “buil” I is applied to the document itself. It 9 belongs properly to the seal, without r which the paper would not be recog--3 nized. This seal is rarely of gold or of 0 wax. It was originally of lead and 3 is still commonly of that material. Lead was used for seals in the time of • the ancient Romans and is still used 0 for that purpose in Italy. The Italian 3 name of this bit of lead is “bolla.” It 'I was in Latin “bulla.” Both the mate- • rial and the form have dropped out of ” sight. The Roman bulla was a clrcu- *’ lar disk or a case like a watch or a P circular locket. It was worn by boys *• or noble families attached to a chain • which was wound several times round • the neck and which fell in front so that n the bulla rested on the breast. This 9 object was frequently a little case j which contained some charm against • sickness and the “evil eye,” which was la dreaded even more than disease. At a 3 > later time the bulla was worn by B, the sons of freedmen at Rome. Its use d was a mark of rank and gentility. • ’J-"- l. -r -' X. .■■■ ■ ■ t i i i • , • i -it j&fcX l > / ■v-e-.f,

WAR AGAINST FENCE SIGNS Has Been Inaugurated in Cass . County Farmers in Cass county are about to inaugurate a crusade against the tree and fence advertising, especially the former. They say that bill boards are nailed upon their shade trees and other trees wherever they are to be found and greatly injuring them. A number of the farmers have agreed to tear down every sign of that kind that is nailed to trees as fast as they are put up. They say they have stood it just as long as they are going to. A prominent fanner says the farmers are reading the local papers, a great many of them taking the daily and others getting the weekly editions. They not only read the news, but they look over the advertisements, too, and they expect to find all of the leading business men among the advertisers. They assume that a man who has not enterprise enough to patronize his home paper with his advertising, but sneaks around and sticks up bill boards/ making the farmers’ premises look unsightly, doesn’t deserve the farmers’ trade. From all such they expect to withdraw their, trade. THE BAKER’S DOZEN. Story of It* Origin According to tha Dutch Legend, Some persons, including a few encyclopedists, are inclined to think that the baker’s dozen originated when heavy fines were considered necessary to counterbalance light weights and the bakers, in order to insure full weight, took the precaution to add an additional unit. Some have called it the devil’s dozen, because thirteen was the number of witches who used to ride their broomsticks to the “black mass” of Satan. • The baker’s great book in the Astor library has another story of Its origin: Jan Pietersen of Amsterdam was a good churchman, but nevertheless he was afraid of being bewitched. On the last night of 1654 he sat in his bakeshop trying to keep out the evil spirits by priming himself with a glass of good spirits. Sales had - been brisk. There were no customers in the shop for the moment, and he sat back, meditating on the gains he would make on the morrow, when the fresh New Year’s cakes were put on sale. He was startled by a sudden rap. An ugly woman pushed the door open. “Give me a dozen New Year’s cookies,” she cried in a shrill voice. The shrillness of her voice did not mean anything to his slow Dutch mind. It only annoyed him. “Well, then, you needn’t speak so loud,” said Jan. “I’m not deaf.” “A dozen!” she screamed. “Give me ■ dozen. Here are only twelve!” “Well, then, twelve is a dozen.” “One more! I want a dozen.” “Well, then, if you want another, go to the devil and get it.” The hag left the shop, but from that night Jan had trouble. The shop seemed to be bewitched. His cakes were stolen. Either his bread was so light that it soared up the chimney or so heavy that the supports of the oven gave way beneath the burden. His wife became deaf; his children went wild. His trade took wings and settled in the shops of his rivals. Three times the old woman returned, and each time was directed to the devil’s sanctum. At last, in despaiy, the baker called upon St. Nicholas to assist him. The venerable patron of Dutch feasts delivered a lecture on charity, telling the trembling man to be more generous in the future. Then he vanished, and in his place stood the hag, who re peated her demand for one more caket Jan acceded, whereupon she exclaimed: “The spell is broken. From this time one dozen is thirteen.” Taking from the counter a gingerbread effigy of St. Nicholas, she made the subdued Dutchman lay his hand upon it and swear to give more liberal measure in the future. Since that time thirteep has been called a baker’s dozen.— New York Tribune. Th« Diver Bird. A Dantzic correspondent writes: While swimming on a lake with her brood of five a diver bird was shot and, although mortally wounded, collected her young ones and dived for their safety. When her dead body floated to the surface the five little birds were still clinging with their beaks to her wings, but all had been suffocated by remaining too long under the water.— London Mail. ‘ \ Kin me iiawK. Man has sinned more than any other animal in trifling with nature’s balance. Clover crops and the killing eE hawks artf’ apparently,, unrelated, yet the hawks eat the field mice, the field mice prey on the Immature bees, and the bees fertilize the clover blossoms. The death of a hawk means an overincrease of field mice and a consequent destruction of the bees.—Country Life In America. A person may not merit favor, as that Is only the claim of man. but he san never demerit cnarity, for that is , the command of God.—flterne. Hearsay Evidence. ’ “See here, Jokely, I’m .surprised to find you writing such bitter, cynical t things about married life.” ... . I “Well—er—Benedict, you see, the fact I»—er”— I “Oh, don’t apologize. It Isn’t that | What surprises me Is how, not being married, you know all these things.”— Boston Transcript |

HOW FARMER WAS ROBBED Show People Worked Wells County Man on Old Scheme. Since a prominent farmer of Wells county was worked on the electric belt game on Van Amburg show day there l has been considerable talk as to the modus operandi of this particular game. The game is worked in several different ways but in this case it was practically a hold-up. The victim went to the show ground in the afternoon. He was accosted by two well dressed strangers, who, after a pleasant conversation, asked him as to his health. He told them that he was as good £s a man of his years could be expected to be with the exception that he had a running sore on his leg that had bothered him for years. Here one of the men puled an electric belt from his valise and in a long spiel convinced the farmer that it was just the thing for his sore leg. On inquiry as to the price he was informed that the belts were not sold by the men then and there operating but that ftiey were merely advertising them, that they gave one to any wealthy and influential man in the community. Right there Mr. Farmer got chesty and told them that he had as much influence to the square inch as anybody who belonged to fifteen lodges and owned two fine farms..

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The two farms, the . strangers said, were beneath their notice,' land, couldn’t be carried along with a circus, and before they could give him a belt they must see that he had thecash. He went to the bank; and got it, counted it- to Show' them, that;, he, had the right amdrinf, but while he was countng one of them took it to count it for himself. The farmer was dumfounded but when the crook put it-J* his grip-he still w.i< unable to move. The artist with the grip and his money went cantering awhy, but the other assured the farmer that his friend would soon be back as he simply went to get a receipt for him to sign, showing that he had got the belt. The farmer is still waiting for to sign the receipt. A moment later he turned his head and stranger No. 2 had vanished. The farmer who made this foolish surrender of his money is no fool, or at least he. cannot so be counted reckoning from his former life, fie has always been a conservative busiiness manager, a good fanner ,and the I loss of the $1,250 will not ruin him.— Bluffton News. i ■ ■ —. I Mother Gray’s Sweet Powders for Qhildren. used by Mother Gray, a nurse I in Children’s, Home, New York, breaks ud Colds In 2 4houra, cure Feverishness Headache, Stomach Troubles, Teething Disorders, and Destroy Worms. At all druggists, 25c. Sampl mailed FREE. Address Allen S. Olmstead, Teßoy, N. Y.

MARION NORMAL COLLEGE One of Indiana’s Good Educational Institutions I One of the best Normal Colleges in the State of Indiana is located at Marion, Indiana, the Marioq> Normal College. The grade made there in any department are accepted by those oi‘ higher learning No matter what State Normal and by all institutions course is desired, whether th<?V?lassical, * mathematical, business, telegraphic, shorthand, teaching of anything else including law, it may be pursued to advantage ther,\ The excellent principles, Prof. C. W. and Mrs. Boucher, together with the excellent faculty they have gathered around them, and the really creditable student body that belongs to the M. N. C., all are hard workers, this being their record. The moral status is high, and no parent need fear to send son or daughter to this really excellent College. Students have already enrolled for the coming term, from Cuba, from Hawaii, and from South Africa, and there are representatives from almost all parts of the United States. Os course, there are representatives from every county n Indiana and from many of of the counties of Hlinois, Kentucky ’ and Ohio. One of the matters of just pride with the Marion Normal

.■ ’ — .-V 1 1 College is the high rank its gradu- ' | ates are attaining’" in all the profesjsions and in business life. ,Not a j week passes but the management is .| called upon to furnish stenographers, , telegraphers, bookkeepers, teachers, , and business inen in every departmnt, i and business’ womdh in all the lines j of activity. It is generally recogniz- , ed that a recommendation from the , Marion Normal is not a mere form, I and no one is recommended who does ; not win the right to be thus named by . real, hearty work. A catalogue of , this excellent College may be had on application. Blessings of Work, Thank God every morning when yon i get up that you have something to do that day which must be done, whethdr 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 i a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.—Charles Kingsley. Baalnesa Education. Nothing will stand you in better stead in the hard, cold, practical, everyday world than a good, sound business education. You will find that your success in trade, occupation or profession will depend as much on your general knowledge of men and affairs as on four technical training.—Suceeua Magazine. ...... '-••' j - ■ ’' ■ • ' i Jw . 4 vt