Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 28, Decatur, Adams County, 13 September 1906 — Page 7

5 Agents AVanted| a * M' J < in every township in the county > | to take subscriptions to S J hoosier] I P >Vp . G \ * A Democratic AVeekly > f WCBSteS’. I' * ' SSS===3=ailA. tf"UL ■■" J.- 11 . rji-W < Published at Indianapolis, Indiana. S < Endorsed by the State organization and leading f 9 Democrats of the State. A Simon-pure Democratic J C newspaper such as Jefferson or Jackson would have f 9 published. j > W. B. WESTLAKE, Pul.li.ker S % 918-919 Majestic Building \ 9. AW temple tepy> 1 Indianapolis, Indiana, f ft. - <• ‘ /»’ ‘ './ „ . ■ J ' I 1 =2iJ f Summertime Places Over in the southern end of Michigan and adjoining it in northern Indiana is the ideal vacation land—a country of small, beautiful lakes, clear j running streams and shady woodlands. Here are delightful places for fishing, boating, bathing and kindred * pleasures, while the very atmosphere is expressive of a simple, restful, summer life in one of the most charming sections of the United States. »] Would you like to spend a few days in this region? You will be sure to have a good time and at a very modest cost. Board and rooms in farm t homes and smaller hotels at nates of from $5 to •$8 per week; also many furnished cottages for rent at reasonable rates. For reaching these resort places The Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Ry. trains will afford you quick service at a low cost. From June Ito Sept. 30 your local agent willjell you excursion tickets to any of these resort places over the railway leading from your place in connection with the Lake Shore, at low rates, good until Oct. 31 for return. “ Quiet Summer Retreats ” containing a large list of boarding places with rates, proprietors’ names and addresses, location features, camp sites, P furnished cottages, etc., will assist you in selecting a place and will be sent free on addressing A. J. SMITH, G. P. A., Cleveland, Ohio. B : (2) L f dwmond s | 1 1 I L^Jr. ZPj? I I ■ | nvc A .jh We make every style of shoe that 1 E ,,) » is worn. That is one reason why we J L can give you better value for the A money in Diamond Brand shoes B ; than is possible in factories making A only one kind of shoe. I As we operate five large plants, subdivided into seven I W specialty factories, every inch of leather can be utilized in I f 1 some department and we are enabled to grade our leather ■ bto produce uniformly the highest quality without waste. W Ask your dealer for Diamond Brand Shoes. \MAKZ MORE HNE SHOES THAN / ANT OTHER NOUSp IN THE 14 ============================ B (Buying a Cream Separatorl A little thought before buying a cream separator will save you a H J lot of hard work later on. Don’t be talked into buying a machine I g A with a high milk supply can — it’s like pitching hay to H I pour milk into one. Besides it does n’t cost any more H| I t 0 & et an eas y runn ' n ß H ■ -figyi U.S. Cream Separator 1 BH with a low milk tank that a child can reach, a simple I I lliiEhX b° w l t^iat ’ s eas ’!y washed, and a set of entirely enclosed H I gears, protected from dirt and danger. The-U. S. holds I ' 1 the World’s Reco. for clean skimming—it is the most I H [ -*' profitable machine tor. you. to buy, and will last a life I I l ■ I '' time. You’ll be interested to look over a U.S. For sale by I B CHAS - *ERtiNG, ACINT, OSSUN, INDIANA I B 11

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IN THE SHADOW OF DEATH. TbM Ap*roaeb of the Black Ride* i Does Not Incite Feat. As Sir Walter Scott lay dying he summoned his great friend to his side by a motion of his hand and whispered: “Lockhart, I may have but a minute to speak to you. My dear, be a good man. Be virtuous, be religious —be a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here.” Nelson in the midst of his gratefulness for having died victoriously for England thought for a dashing mo ment of his early record in its relation to the life after death. “Doctor,” he said to the 1 surgeon, “I have not been a great sinner.” On the other hand, there are innu merable Instances in the records of bi ography pointing to the fact that men die Without a thought of the world beyond. Charles 11. died thinking of “Poor Nell.” Sir Richard Grenyilk died with his mouth full of oaths, cursing the “traitors and dogs” who bad surrendered his little Revenge to the Spaniards. History is full of such instances. “Indeed, It is a memorable subject for consideration,” says Ste\enson “with what unconcern and gayety mankind runs on along the valley of the shadow of death. The whole way hr one wilderness of snares, and the end of it for those who fear the last pinch is irrevocable ruin. And yet we go spinning through it all, like a part* for the Derby.” A doctor tells me that in a very long ' hospital experience he has never known of a sensational deathbed. Tbo ap proach of death is, as a rule, doubted, and up to the last moment of consciousness the passing soul retains Ra conviction in the endurance of earthly things. Soldiers tell the same story. To dis Jesting seems the last act of courage possible to a fighting .man, and he makes the most of it. Endless are the j stories of soldiers dying in action with I t shout of humor on their lips. J Even more wonderful is the cold bloodedness of men going to the scaffold. To feel the edge of the ax war something of a jest in old days,, and there is the story of the felon going to Tyburn who blew the froth from hw last mug of beer because it always gave him Indigestion! And yet It is only in brief moment* that the true horror of death sweeps ©ver the soul. We do not think about it. We put it away from us. Humanity has made up its mind not to be frightened. Death indeed is even pre ferred before life. A hopeless infatuation for a painted doll will drive Fortunatus to suicide. Money troubles will fling a man under a passing ex press, and dyspepsia has loaded many a revolver. Life may be unendurable, but death Is not to be feared. Into the unthinkable mysteries of the universe a soul casts itself in a petulance and the waters of death close over, it with out a sound. What has become of that soul? Where is that consciousness gone—that personality, that individual force which differed the man from every other who ever lived? But the mob who watch the poor drenched and bloated and horrible • body wheeled away to the mortuary turn away without any realization of death. They go to their taverns and their merchandise, take up the old greasy and well worn threads of theb existence, and getting of food monop ollzes all their thoughts. Fear death? They fear nothing 1b the world. They are not even afraid of themselves.—Chicago Inter Ocean. Barefooted Waiting Maids In Japan. Unless there are ladies among the guests the wife and daughters of the host do not appear at dinner in Japan. Before the meal begins it is customary for them to bring small cups of tea and dainty confectionery, when they I take their survey of the party. If gen tiemen only are present the Japane hostess disappears after the greeting I Is over and does not return until the I guests are taking their departure. At a signal from the host barefooted waiting maids, dressed in graceful and prettily tinted kimonos, bring in lacquer tray, bearing tiny covered bowls. Bell fore setting the trays on the table the maids sink gracefully to their knees and bend forward till their foreheads touch the floor. Then they serve dinner, which is of several courses.— Smith’s Weekly. . MINING FOR-RUBIES. Vh« Primitive Method* That Are Still In U*e ln Burma. The system practiced for obtaining 1 rubies in the mining districts in Burma is of the most primitive description, says the Searchlight The mining shafts are simply holes about two feet s 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 tree» secured carefully against the sides by means of stout sticks. The mlnex 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 post about twenty feet high, called a maungdine, is fixed upright in the ground at a convenient distance from the pit, or dwin, and a long, thinner bamboo pivoted horizontally into the upper end of It s* as to project an eighth from the mine and the long arm toward the nine. J .

Send Down Grace. A little Portland miss, whose first name is Grace, had 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 slia 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 th<ee or four times, ‘Send down Grace,' but I sat as still as a mouse.” The Meaning of “Bridge.” The story goes that years ago, long before bridge was known in London clubs, two families who played the game under the of “Russian wbist” were living in neighboring houses at or near Greht 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; hence 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. The Deer’* Track*. 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. Exceptions 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 animals are always rounder at the toe than those of deer, making the tracks they leave easily distinguishable, > 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. - Sailor’* Story of Jungle Surgery. “There wuz this here black Kamerun gavage, naked as an animal,” said the sailor, “and there wuz this explorer in his pretty suit of white drillin’, and there wuz a Kamerun medicine man with a headdress o’ human bones. They stood under a palm tree. I sot on a log» and watched ’em. The medicine man put the right arms of the savage and the explorer close together and then, flourishin’ 1 dull lookin’ knife, he nicks a vein in the white a#n and then an artery in the black arm. The blood come a-gushin’ and a-gushin’ out of the black arm, and the medicine man scooped It up in the holler of his hand and rubbed it into the nicked white arm. He must ’a’ rubbed in a pint be fore he closed the wound. Transfoosiou o’ blood is what they call It. They say it saves a white man from jungle fever and from all the evils of the miasma, of the hot swamps, of the damp heat, the rottin’ vegetation. They say Stanley had black blood transfoosed into hls’n eight times. That is how he stood Africa. ? I know It’s a common thing for African explorers to go through the transposin' process.- And I’ll tell you a funny thing about it It makes the hair thicker and darker and It darkens the skin a couple of shades.” —New Orleans Times-Democrat. When Y«u Take » BatV When drying' Off after a bath stand In the bathtub in water up to the ankles. When rubbed with coarse towels until the body is all aglow, step out and wipe the feet. This prevents that uncomfortable chilly feeling experienced if one steps immediately out of a bathtub full of water on to the bath mat Love. We never can say why we love, but only that we love. The heart IsYeady enough at feigning excuses for all that it does or imagines of wrong, but ask it to give a reason for any of its beautiful and divine motives, and it can only look upward and be dumb.—Low ell. Surely. “Tommy Is such a sweet child,” said a doting mother, “that I often think it 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 tn perfect confidence, “Do you know mine 1 is the prettiest baby in the world?” “Well, really, now, what a coincidence!” said Mrs. Lammis. “So la • miner’ C*u*e and Bffeet. •Poor Jones is suffering ftotn melancholia.” “Why, I thought he was the editor «C , a comic paper.” , . j, . •He is.” . X..- <• .• . <-r*^- i&A- - '.AUr .A J

EAGLES IN BATTLE. THe Darina aud Skill at These Flerc* Birds of Prey. Ornithologists are inclined to discourage the idea that eagles are in the habit of attacking large animals, but a-contest witnessed by an observer dispels such a theory. The battle was between an eagle and a stag. The bird singled out from a herd one particular buck, which It succeeded in driving from the rest It struck the animal with its powerful wings, knocked it down and finally killed it A still more remarkable spectacle is well authenticated. An eagle attacked a fawn in the highlands of Scotland. The cries of the .Jittle one were answered by Its dam, which sprang upon the eagle and struck it repeatedly with its forefeet Fawn, deer and eagle rolled down a declivity, the bird was dislodged from Its hold and the fawn rescued. Many traditions are extant as to the carrying off of children by eagles. The most recent case bearing close scrutiny is one which happened in South Africa. A Boer farmer whose stock had been harried by eagles lay? In ambush for the robbers and saw one of them descend and carry off the five-year-old child of one of the Kaffir servants. He shot the bird, which, with the child still clutched in its grip, fell into a thorn bush The bird was dead, but the child was little hurt Two eagles will stalk a covert in concert. While one conceals itself the other beats about the bushes with great screaming, driving out its quarry for the hidden eagle to swoop down upon. An even more insidious method has been observed. An eagle seeing a eheep on the edge of a precipice flew at it, screaming shrilly and with forceful beat of wing hurled it into the valley below, where it could devour it at Its leisure. In the light of such records there is good reason for believing the legend of the eagle dropping a tortoise on the bald head of the Greek poet and so causing his death. Oldest Body of Haman Being. The oldest body of any human being reposes in the Egyptian gallery of the British museum. It is tlje body of a man who was buried in a shallow grave hollowed out of the sandstone on the west bank of the Nile in upper Egypt. This man must have hunted along the banks of the Nile before the time of the earliest mummied king which the museum possesses, before the time of Menes, who was supposed to have ruled Egypt at least 5000 B. C. There were previous to that time two prehistoric races, one the conquerors and the other the conquered, from which sprang the Egyptian race of the earliest dynasties. It Is with these remote stocks that this man had to do. Considering the condition in -whidh he was found, it Is evident that he was associated with a. late period of the new stone age of Egypt He was buried in a characteristic neolithic grave, wiQi, his neolithic pots and instruments of flint about him. There is of course no inscription of any kind on the pots, knives or grave, all having been long before the Invention of my written language.—American Antiquarian. « Telling Age and Sex by Pulse. “The female pulse always beats fast er 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 re- 1 spectlvely 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 puls# 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 follow-' Ing manner: Take the measurements from the bunghole to the bottom ot each end of the cask in Inches. Aver-1 age the two measurements. Multiply this figure by Itself twice. Then multiply the product by .002266, and the re-' mainder Is the number of gallons. Example: 31 Inches, 29 Inches (average 80 Inches). 30x30x30=27,000, which, j multiplied by .002266, = 61.182. Thu contents, therefore, are 6X gallon* and • fraction. A Papal 8011. A papal bull is published by the pope. It may be an edict, a decree or a rescript which contains an order or a decision to be publicly declared. It Is only indirectly that the word,“bull” is applied to the document itself. It belongs properly to the seal, without which the paper would not be recognized. This seal is rarely of gold or of wax. It was originally of lead and is still commonly of that material, i Lead was used for seals in the time of the ancient Romans and >.s still used for that purpose in Italy. The Italian name of this bit of lead is “bolla.” It - was in Latin “bulla.” Both the mate- 1 rial and the form have dropped out of sight The Roman bulla was a circular disk or a case like a watch or a circular locket. It was worn by boys or noble families attached to a chain which was’’wound several times round the heck and which-fell in front so that the bulla rested on the breast This object was frequently a little ease which contained some charm against sickness and the “evil eye,” which wai dreaded even more than disease. At a later time the bulla was worn by the sons of freedmen at Rome. Its usf was a mark of rank and gentility.

Some Puritan Name*. One of the customs practiced by oar 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.” Another unfortunate maiden bore ths name The-Gift-of-God Stringer. A sickly boy was christened Faint-Not Hewitt. Another labored under Fight-the-Good-Fight-of-Falth White. A little girl who had a propensity for crying was at the age of eight christened Weep-Not Billing. There also were Thunder Goldsmith, The-Work-of-God Farmer, Search-the-Scriptures Morton, Be-Courteous Cole and, worst of all, Kill-Sin Pimple. TAe Way He Viewed It. “Good news!” cried the lawyer, waving a paper above his head. “I’ve secured a reprieve for you!” “A reprieve?” replied the convicted murderer Indifferently. “Why, yes. Don’t you see you ought to be happy”— “Ah,” replied the prisoner gloomily, “that simply means a delay, and I’ve always been taught that delays are dangerops.” — Catholic Standard and Times. “KEEP THE LIVER CLEAN.'”* Don’t Overwork It and Give It n Rest Once In Awhile. A man of common sense and a doctor at that said: “The liver is misunderstood and underestimated in its functions. If it Can be 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 /our health?” but with “How’s your liver?” I Men take horseback exercise principali ly for their livers. A good shaking up i every morning drives away the cirrhoticbiilary encroachment. It is an error to assume that whisky alone produces cirrhosis. Overfeeding is more often ! the cause. If the digestive organs would organize a union and work only eight hours a day all of us would be healthy and long lived. The trouble is we require the liver, stomach, bowels, heart, brain, muscles, nerves, kidneys, , spleen, etc., to work all the time and overtime. Wrong. Give them a rest— New York Press. A Hard Cut. i' Mrs. Newcast—l am thinking of taking a short holiday and visiting some * of the with my ancestors. Mrs. De Bleu Blood-Cutting— Oh. but slumming Is so horribly ont of date nowadays! THE BAKER’S DOZEN. Story o< It* Origin According to t>» Dutch Learend. Some persons, including a few qpeyclopedlsts, are. inclined to think that ( the baker’s dozen originated when heavy fines were considered necessary < to counterbalance light weights and ths 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 broomsficks 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 I for the moment, and he sat back, medi- ' tating 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. I “Give me a dozen New Year’s cookl*s,” she cried in a shrill voice. t The shrillness of her voice did not mean anything to his slow Dutch mind. ■ It only annoyed him. I “Well, then, ydu needn’t speak so 1 loud,” said Jan. “I’m not deaf.” “A dozen!” she screamed. “Give me a 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 bad trouble. Tjie 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 I wild. His trade took wings and settled in the shops of his rivals. Three I times the old woman returned, and •ach time was directed to the devil’s sanctum. At last, in despair, the baker called upon St Nicholas to assist him. The venerable patron of Dutch feasts delivered a lecture on charity, tellinf the trembling man to be more generous in the future. Then he vanished, and in his place stood the hag, who r» peated her demand for one more cakew Jan acceded, whereupon she exclaimed: “The spell is broken. From thia time one dozen is thirteen.” Taking z Os? 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 thirteen has been called a baker’s dozen.—New York Tribuno. *- -r • '•