Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 26, Decatur, Adams County, 30 August 1906 — Page 2

Paint Which Lasts Painters, and all others who understand paint, know that white lead and linseed oil make the best paint. Good, lasting paint cannot be had if either pigment or oil is adulterated. Many of the so-called white leads su’d now-a-days have barytes, rockdust, silica, gypsum, etc., in them, and little real white lead. Linseed oil is also frequently adulterated. Such mixtures are dear at any price. Phoenix . Pure White Lead (Made by.the Old Dutch Process) is absolutely pure, and makes lasting paint. NATIONAL LEAD COMPANY Fteeman Ave. and 7th St., Cincinnati. O. For sale by first class dealers. A man from Marion writes the Merchants and Manufacturers’ Association that he wants to start some kind df 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.

’ ABYSSINIAN APES. They Have Chiefs, Guards and Sentries When on the March. Very similar reports are made from different parts of north Africa in regard to the monkey tribes that occupy that continent l?om Morocco to Abyssinia. Just how far tribal relations may have tended to vary the species is a question quite as important as that •f language. Some points of interest are found in an English book, “A Visit to Abyssinia.” Says our author: “1 have mentioned that large numbers of monkeys frequent these hills. They move about in organized bands, and their proceedings are arranged in the most orderly and tactical manner. They are difficult to approach unless It is gradually and cautiously done, but mounted on a camel I have succeeded in getting within a few yards of them when they were crossing the path ahead of me, about fifty in single file following their leader and looking with their manes like small lions. “Their movements are full of Interest and well repay observation. They have chiefs, sentries and advanced and rear guards on the march. The mothers carry their children on their backs exactly like the larger human creatures in these countries. They talk and chatter, the females being especially loquacious, quarrelsome and combative. These are clearly under the command of the elder males, whose gesture alone is sufficient to reduce them to obedience. They live in small caverns amqng the hills, but will most certainly avoid a direct return to their haunts If followed. “They are- less timid of men when these are mounted on camels than when on foot, experience having doubtless taught them that the former is usually traveling to a destination and that his steady, jogging pace is rarely interrupted by his curiosity. On one occasion, seeing a whole family tribe on the road home after a foraging excursion, I successfully tempted some of the younger ones to leave their ranks by quietly rolling pieces of bread and sugar at them, but the older members were above such weakness and went on In a stately way up the hill, disappearing over the ledge and reproving the youngsters as they retired.” ao Anawer Hiaay. 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 that 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 sal<L “what newspaper you belong to I would never buy it again.”—London Chronicle. Ecnoea. Every'one is familiar with the phenomenon of echoes, in a cave In the Pantheon the guide, by striking the flap of his coat, makes a noise equal to a twelve pound cannon’s report. The singularity is noticed in a lesser degree in the Mammoth cave in Kentucky. In the cave of Smellin, near Viborg, In Finland, a cat or dog thrown in will make a screaming echo lasting •om° minutes.

Finding Most Interestinc Chapters. Womeu as a class are credited with having no scruples about opening a book at the middle or end or anywhere else they may expect to find the most interesting chapter. A frequent feminine visitor at libraries was overheard revealing to a friend of her own sex her secret of locating at once the most thrilling chapter in any book, no matter how unfamiliar one may be with it “You simply close it tight,” she said, “and glance along the edge of the leaves. It is seldom, indeed, that you do not notice a distinct line, or even more than one, caused by a number of edges soiled slightly more than those about them. Open the book there and you have the best chapter.” A librarian explained this by saying that the reading and rereading of the particularly interesting chapters of a book naturally cause certain pages and their edges to be more soiled. Os course the longer the book has been in circulation the more distinct are the marks.— Philadelphia Record. A Bit of Fairyland. Cruising down Milford sound, New Zealand, when the clouds are clearing after a shower, the mountains are like fairyland. No longer grim and black and fearful, they are laced everywhere with the streaming silver of cloud born cascades. One day we watched the giddy journey of one of these cataracts. It sprang from the vefy top of the Lion rock, a 3,000 foot perpendicular wall. Long and slender and glinting like glass in the sun, it fell straight down over us, but never reached us. It had dropped, say, 1,000 feet, when it was caught by the wind, swayed this way and that, and finally blown clean away, dissolving in misty rain. We steamed right under it, or, rather, under the place where it ought to have been, and experienced the peculiar sensation of looking straight up at a waterfall that, as the launch skipper put It, “never fell anywhere.”—Four Track News. Batter as a Food. Butter is a hydro carbon, and all excesses of it are stored up as fat in the body. It gives energy and power to work to those who eat heartily of it. For any one afflicted with consumption butter cookery, if plenty of fat can be digested, is one of the best ways of curing the disease should it be in its early stages or of keeping it at bay if advanced. It is not economy to spare tiie butter at table even to the healthy people. Butter is not a simple fat composed merely of one sort. It is a mixture of no less than seven different sorts of fats, and no more complex oil can be taken than this. For ffyspepttc and liverish people good bread and butter, along with fruit, should invariably take the place of pie, pastry and biscuits. Pastry for such people is only another name for poison, and biscuits are as often as not baked with lard. * Elixabetn Carter, Bluestocking. Elizabeth Carter (1717-1806) was one of the original “blue stockings,” of whom a biographer says: “A perfect knowledge of French, acquired at an early age from a Huguenot refugee minister at Canterbury, was the foundation of Elizabeth Carter’s education. Her father taught her, together with her brother, Latin, Greek and Hebrew, though the slowness of her apprehension tired out his patience. Italian, Spanish and German she taught herself without any assistance, and later in life she set herself to learn Portuguese, but for want of books she made no great progress. Lastly she taught herself Arabic and made an Arabic dictionary, containing various meaning* of words which elsewhere had been improperly translated.” The Iconoclastic Baroness Howe. After Pope’s death the villa at Twickenham belonged successively to Sir Wiliam Stanhope, who enlarged It consider ably; to Mr. Welbore Ellis, aft erward Lord Mendip, and lastly to Baroness Howe. This lady was so much annoyed at the number of pilgrims who came to see the place that she razed It to the ground, cut down the trees and endeavored to obliterate all vestiges of its former distinguished occupant— London Notes and Queries. Names and Divorces. An Australian divorce court judge thinks that there is a subtle connection between high sounding feminine baptismal names and matrimonial unhappiness. He has noticed that the names which generally come under hl* judicial cognizance are Gladys, Gwendolen, Ermyntrude and the like and that he seldom dr never In his official capacity hears of a Mary or a Bridget. A Tone or a Joice. “Was that a bonafide piece that Ethelinda was playing?” asked Mr. Cumrox. “Certainly,” answered his wife. “That was a selection from Wagner.” “Well, of course I wouldn’t express any doubts In company, but half the time I can’t tell whether Ethelinda Is playing a tune or a practical joke."— Washington Star. Only Thinks So. “Does that young Featherhead play poker?” asked Robinson of a mutual acquaintance. “No,” was the reply, “but he thinks that he does, and we are careful not to Undeceive him.”—Cincinnati Tribune. fc A Retort-Courteous. Student—There must' be some mistake In my examination marking. I don’t think I deserve an absolute zero. ’ Professor— Neither do I, but It is the lowest mark I am allowed to give.— New York Times. Consciousness of error Is to a cortu In extent a consciousness of understanding, and correction of error is the plainest proof of energy and mastery,— der. *

WHEN IS A MANI2IT ! Think a Moment Before You Attempt to Answer the question. “It is often said that law is applied I common sense,” said a professor of the Yale Law school the other day. “While it is true that law principles originated in common sense, the law itself is the combined experience of many men, for no two men uninstructed in law will agree as to what is applied common sense. . “Then there are many rules of lavr which undoubtedly have a common sense origin, but, conditions having changed, history fails to disclose this origin. Yet these very rules must be retained in order not to shake personal and property rights. Therefore no man can depend on his own uninstructed common sense to know the law. “To drive this statement home I have frequently put to an incoming law class the question, ‘When does an Infant become of age?’ The answer is always unanimous, ‘When he is twen-ty-one years old.’ “The next question appears rldicu-< lous to some and makes them laugh, while others set their alleged common sense as work and never with correct result, ‘When Is a man twenty-one years old?’ “One student says, ‘On his twentyfirst birthday,’ but of course he does not mean it, for he Is about a year out of the way. Another ventures, ‘On the twenty-first anniversary of his birthday.’ This sounds better, but even if correct is not specific enough. ‘When he has completed his twenty-first anniversary,’ ‘At the beginning of that day’ and ‘On his twenty-first anniversary, at the precise hour of his birth,’, are other answers. “And then I surprise the guessers by saying that they are all wrong. “In computing time it is a general rule that the law disregards part of a day. In applying this rule, suppose a man was born just one minute before midnight on Jan. 2, 1880. “At midnight he had lived but one minute, yet the day on which he was born was ended and the law considered him one day old. So in computing the twenty-one years which a man must live in order to reach bis majority we do not begin with the moment of birth, but with the commencement of the day of his birth. “Now,-since we must start with the first moment of Jan. 2, 1880, it is perhaps natural to say that this man did not become twenty-one years old until the close of Jan. 1, 1901. Mathematically speaking, this is true. “Twenty-one years in that sense requires that the last moment of Jan. 1, 1901, should have arrived in order to make the man of age, and obviously he was of age at that point of time. But here again the rule Is applied. “As the man was of ege on the last moment of Jan. 1, the law disregards the entire part of the day intervening between the first moment and the last, and consequently he became in law twenty-one years old on the first moment of Jan. 1, 1901, the day preceding the twenty-first anniversary of his birthday. “This rule is a part of what is known as the common law and is applied tn this country In all states where the common law of England has been adopted and remains unchanged by statute. A man may vote or make a valid will on the day preceding the twenty-first anniversary of his birthday, although the right in the one case and the capacity in the other are given only to persons who have reached the age of twenty-one years.”—New York Sun. • Undertaker For Pet Birds. 11 ‘ An old branch of business conducted by a New York establishment devoted to supplying and boarding feathered pets is that of bird funerals. Children who have lost their canaries or other songsters through disease or accident bring the little cadavers there to be laid out in becoming style. Tiny coffins just large enough for a bird are kept in stock; also quantities of pale pink and blue eetton. The latter is used for filling the bird coffin, and on It the bird is Mid. The effect when birdie’s remains are “decently” composed upon the pink and blue is excellent, sufficiently so to console the little mourning master or mistress. The children then convey their coffin away for interment. Funeral expenses are light.— New York Press. Perfumes. Perfumes have been used from the earliest times.. The burning of perfumed incense* was one of the rites ot the Hebrew and pagan religions, and perfumes of various Notts were used by nearly all the nations of antiquity. Both the Romans and the Greeks were skilled in making perfumery. It was from the Arabs, who possessed the art of preparing perfumed waters, that the use of perfumes was introduced into mediaeval Europe. y Duffer—One is born every minuve, you know. Puffer—Yes. but they’re not listed till they get old enough to think they are aot— lndianapolis Star. Why There Are So Many 8m 1 ths. At the time of the adoption of sur names every artisan whose work required the striking blows on metal was known as a smlter or smith, and the community therefore had its blacksmith, whitesmith, goldsmith, silversmith, arrowsmith and several others of the same character. The number of Smiths of the present day may therefore be readily accounted for when we remember that each of the different kinds of smiths was as much entitled to the use of his trade name for a cognomen as any other artisan. John the blacksmith and John the coppersmith were both known as John the smith, an appellation which naturally resolved Itself Into the family name of John Smith,

FIGS OF SMYRNA. she W*y They Are Crown, Gathers*. Sorted and Packed. In Smyrna the fig district is largely along the line of the Smyrna-Aidin railroad. The best grades of fruit (termed •rbeilli) come from Inovassi. Figs from Naali and from Sultan Hissar are also highly valued, although the skins are somewhat thicker. Trees begin to bear in their sixth year and are in full vigor in the fifteenth year. Fig trees on the taiow plains yield fruit which is both tArger and richer In saccharine matter. They often suffer, however, from an excess of moisture in unusually wet seasons, when groves on blgher ground are less harmed owing to the facilities for drainage. The fruit ripens about the middle of August, when it is picked and dried in the open air for from three to six days, Lt is then packed in sacks of about 250 pounds each, two of which constitute a load for a camel, and transported to the nearest railroad station. After arrival at Smyrna camels likewise transport the sacks to the wai of the dealers. Carts are not employed' In this connection, as the fruit is liable to be damaged when the sacks are piled one on the other. The arrivals from the country are promptly bought up by the various packing houses, who have each a large corps of employees, chiefly women and girls, for the operations of sorting, washing, drying and packing the fruit This means work for many thousands in Smyrna during the months of September and October, and the average degree of prosperity among the lower classes during the entire year is largely dependent upon the amount of money set in motion during this short period. The sorting of the figs is carried out with great care. Color, but more spe daily size and thickness, or, rather, thinness, of skin, guide the classification. The inferior grades, the so called “hordas,” culls or refuse, are eliminated and sold for purposes of distillation. A certain quantity of this grade is exported to Austria and Hungary and used as a substitute for chicory. The delicate flavor of Vienna coffee is due to the presence of dried fig powder. The better grades are prepared for export in various ways. The least ex pensive Is packing in linen or other bags and Is used usually for the less valuable qualities. The finer grades are subjected to a certain manipulation before being tightly packed in boxes containing from one to eleven pounds. During the manipulation the workmen continually dip,their fingers in sea water. As a result the fruit is better preserved and the sweetness is not diminished by long keeping.—New York Herald. . Not Eligible. America has the credit of being the land of boundless opportunity, but one of the early Chicago lawyers discovered, even in this country of glorious freedom, a barrier to his career. The story is vouched for in an old pamphlet on the Illinois bar. Edward D. Baker was a young man of some parts and of intense ambition. Walking one day in the woods, a brother lawyer discovered Baker sitting on a fallen tree weeping bitterly. On being pressed to tell the cause of his grief he replied: “I have been reading the constitution of the United States and find a provision in it that none but native born citizens can become president I am of English birth, and so I am not eligible!” Notwithstanding this disability Baker had a brilliant military and political career and served hl adopted country well. He was a member of the Illinois legislature and was elected to congress from that state both before and after the Mexican war, in which he served. Later he removed to Oregon and was sent to the Unted States senate from that new state. He left the senate to enter the army at the time of the civil war. He fell at Ball’s Bluff, pierced by nine bullets, because, as he said before he died, “A United States senator must not retreat” ______ THE RESTLESS MORO. He Is Never Happy Unless on a Marauding Expedition. The Moro is brave to fearlessness, a born pirate and essentially a first class fighting man. He is never happy unless on a marauding expedition and stealing from his neighbors, friends and foes alike. The chief who Is the most successful thief is the most respited and the most powerful among chiefs. The Moro trades with bis neighbors on market days in the various coins of the realm and foreign moneys. At other times he is a free ocean rover, extending his trading voyages as far north as the Islands of Negros and Panay, south to the Celebes and Borneo and westerly to the Palawan. He is the in ist successful of smugglers, and a little net of piracy when chance offers goes without mention. The Moro is the most perfect of aquatic beings, the most skillful small boat sailor or large “prau” navigator extant. He can no more drowa than can a fish. There Is no record of a drowned Moro. He can dive to the bottom of the sea at depths of from twenty-five to a hundred feet for the valuable mother-of-pearl Shell, and his life is largely lived •t sea from infancy. Along the coast many of the Moro villages are built over the water.—Colonel Owen J, Sweet, U. 8. A., in Harper’s Weekly. Akin. "Do you think that marriage is a failure, Mr. Askin?” said Miss Elder to a young man whom she knew to be engaged. "I haven’t got that far yet,” was the frank reply, "but I’m pretty well convinced that courtship Is bankruptcy.”— London Tit-Bits.

MBS. VANCAMP’S MOTHER DEAD - - I • Message This Afternoon Gave the Sad News. Mrs. Anson Van Camp received a message early this morning from New York City, announcing the death of her mother, Mrs. de Cinq Mars. The message did not state the cause of death, but Mrs. Van Camp is inclined to believe that her death was very sudden as she had recently received letters from home, none of which disclosed the fact that her mother was ill. She was seventy-one' years of age and was of French descent. Mr. and Mrs. Van Camp expect to leave this evening for New York City to be in attendance at the funeral. Mrs. Hiram Gregg returned today from Fort Wayne, where she was visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Fred Zollars. The following letters remain uncalled for in the post office: Oliver Wall, William Scheiman, Mr. Templeton, Dorbie Schaffer, Eh Paxson, Henry J. Smith, William H. Hoile, John Kourt, Mrs. Orpha Elzey, Solomon Bixler, Lora Baxter, Mrs. Charles Eiting, Mrs. Nettie Martin.

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Blessings df 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 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 your technical training.—Success Magazine. The Lava Lake of Hawaii. One of the large volcanoes in Hawaii has a large lake of liquid lava in its crater or hollow. This seething, boiling mass looks like redhot bottle glass to the naked eye, but under the microscope pieces of the original rocks of very minute size may be detected. Where it has cooled in curious festoons along the “coast” it resembles slag from some mammoth furnace. The Cantankerous Member. Elder Keepalong--When we hear of these terrible calamities happening in other parts of the world, deacon, ws ought to be exceedingly thankful that our lot Is cast in a favored land. Deacon Ironside—On the contrary, elder, I feel like resenting it What right have we got, I’d like to know, to be better off than other people?— Chicago Tribune.

Bl PARKER’S HAIR BALSAM | Cleanses and beautifies the hair. I Proniotei A luxuriant growth. ■ Never Fails to Bestore I Hair to its Youthful Color. I Cures »calp diseased & hair and <I.OO at Druggists Comets' Tails. 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 1 real length, and it often happens that those which appear the 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 Donatl comet, with a tail which appeared only half as long as that of 1861, was really 50,000,000 miles in length. The comet of 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 tali 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 pas yet been observed. The comet of 1080 bad a tail 90,000,000 miles in length.

Hlppooeatlc Era In Medicine* Richard Coie Newton declares that •ven in the early days of the Hippo* cratic era the art of surgery eschewed all fosms of superstition and philosophical conjecture, attaining practical results by direct methods. At a very early age the profession of medicine was fully recognized in Greece and in many cases was generously rewarded. We read of swindlers and cha/lutans in those days too. Patent medicines were also sold. The Hippocratic oath, which for over twenty centuries has remained practically unchanged, is an evidence of the sagacity, the sense of professional hofioi- and responsibility and the clear thinking of the Greeks. Hippocrates was born on the island of Cos in 460 B. C. A large collection of. writings, evidently the work of many physicians, whose identity Is unknown, has been ascribed to the pen of this.* leader. The Greeks were wonderfully brilliant in medical attainments, for they studied nature and her methods and shook themselves free ’’from a monumental load of ignorance aud superstition. The synchronous development of mind and body was the fundamental rule, both of health and sdu* cation.— Medical Record. Four Daya Tn the Year. There are but four days in thdßyear when the sun and clock exactly correspond. In other words, there are but four days of the 365 in which the sun is directly south at noon. The 15th of April and the 17th of June remember, August 31 and 24th of December. On these four days (and none else In the year) The sun and clock both the same time declare.