Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 4, Decatur, Adams County, 28 March 1907 — Page 7

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CHICHESTER’S PILLS W THE DIAMOND BRAND. a .//■Bi/S. Endleo.' A»k your Drugirlat for /jX : cT4( PkSuk Chl-che»-ter’» Diamond frafllaMHek PUls in Bod and Gold — boxes, sealed with Blue Ribbon, \/ 4A ssWl Take no oth< r. Buy of your v rl ~ (K Druggist. Ask for CBLCHES-TER’S I C DIAMOND BRAND PILLS, for «5 \ K 9 yezrs rejrarded as Ben, Safest. Always Rewi X Hable. Sold by DrairciAte-every where. Chichester Chemical Co*, Phtbu, Fn. FASTIDIOUS WOMEN consider Paxtine Toilet Antiseptic a necessity in the hygienic care of the person and for local treatment of feminine ills. As a wash its cleansing, germicidal, deodorizing and healing qualities are extraordinary. For sale at Druggists. Sample free. Address . The R. Paxton Co, Boston, Mass. 8-.frSTl.Ci S eitdlsSH •RBYAL PILLS TIE DI AMOND BRAND. A dies! A;fc your Druggist for /a\ l-ehcter’n Pills Tn Red/AX Gold metallic boxes, sealedVV/ i Blue Ribbon. Take no other. sos your Druggist and ask for v [LCHES-TER’S ENGLISH, the AMOND BRAND PILLS, for 06 xs' regarded as Best, Safest, Always liable. Sold by Druggists everywhere. Chemical Pmladelphuu Pa» Children who are delicate, feverish and cross will get Immediate relief from Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Pliqa Xjxois B 3ujx«’n ‘joait eqi ao rav strong and healthy. A certain cure for worms. Sold by all druggists. 25 cents A guakantjwd CURB FOB PII.F.S. Itching, Blind, Bleeding, Protruding Piles. Druggists are authorized to re fund money If PAZO OINTMENT fails to in 6 to 14 days 60c Shake into your shoes Allen’s Fo®vEase, a powder It cures Tired, Aching, Callous, Sweating, Swollen feet. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample FREE. Address Allen S. 01mA N 'au«» i a» B. KaR KER’S I r® HAIR BALSAM I Cleanses and beautifies the hair. I t? v&i-Promotes a inxuro.it growth I Never Fails to Leslore l-rsy] Hair to its Youthful I Cures scalp dlr-'fl*-« ♦rti’lng. I -Oc.ard-'

FARMS Bought Sold and Exchanged CALL OR WRITE O. GANDY <D, CO. 205 West Berry St. FT. WAYNE, IND. CASTOR IA For Infanta and Children. Tin Klni You Raw Always Bought Bears the j? Signature of mot a Diplomat. Lady—Yes, I want a good parlor maid. Why did you leave your last place? Applicant—The missus was too bossy, ma’am. Lady—Too bossy! / Applicant—Yes, ma’am. She Was always telling me to do things instead of asking me to do ’em. —Houston Post. Mercury and Air. The reason that mercury rises and falls In the barometer Is that dry air Is heavy, moist air Is light, and the column of mercury is affected by atmospheric pressure. The tube of a barometer being open at the bulb end, the air when moist cannot support >the weight of the mercury. When the air . is dry, the mercury cannot resist its weight; hence the rise and fall in'dry and wet weather.

! The Ladies’ Aid Sociey of the Beulah Chapel cliurch will give an enter- ; tainment on Tuesday, April 2, for the i benefit of the church. A fine program has been arranged and everyone is guaranteed their money’s worth. The admission will be fifteen cents for adults, and ten cents for children. Over in Huntington county the serenity of a country school was overturned a Jay oi c~o ago by a skunk, wb’ch had taken up temporary abode in trf teacXer's t and was discovert’! v ben scho 1 o,«n’d in • !»<• 1- x The ddktt J > s animal wn« fina! - ejected froii the premises, but t»«» tupils got a holiday out of the jt readings. Squire Smith on last evening performed his fifth wedding ceremony es the week, uniting John Rice and Mary Rice in the holy bonds of wedlock. This is the couple’s second attempt at marriage and they have patched up their differences and hope to live happily together. The ceremony was performed at the squire’s home in the presence of his family. A general order issued by E. R. Brown, department cemmander of the Indiana G. A. R., fixed the dates for holding the next state encampment at Ft. Wayne for May 22, 23 and 24, one day later than the dates originally decided upon. The change was requested by the Ft. Wayne committee. The order urges all posts within fifty miles of Ft. Wayne to attend in a body. Headquarters will be estab- 1 lisheZ in the Wayne hotel. Commander Brown of the G. A. R. of the country will attend the encampment on May 23, which will be the big day. Decatur dealers in millinery are now in the midst of their Easter openings and they are disposing of new spring headgear, which will be worn for the first time on Easter Sunday. The new spring hat this year differs materially from those of other years, as they all have the drooping rim, and the lady who has a turned up hat will be way out of date. However, the hats are .very pretty, flowers for trimming predominate, and taking it all in all, the hats worn by the fair sex this spring will be as pretty, if not prettier than those of former seasons. The dealers state that the sales are good. Fifteen ladies of the Antique Quilting club were royally entertained by Mrs. W. W. Stewart on Friday instead of Tuesday, as was announced, last week. Quilting, comfort knotting and rag sewing were in the order of the day. It is amazing what fifteen pairs of willing hands can do in a day. A fine twelve o’clock dinner was served and all did ample justice to the occasion, except one delicate member, whose appetite failed after eating the third piece of chicken. There being a newly wedded bride present, the younger members of the club gave her a grand serenade before adjournment. The club will meet with Mrs. E. W. Jackson of rural route 9, on Tuesday, March 26th. Those present were Mesdames J. Johnson, E. W. Jackson, S. Traster, J. Wolf, P. J. Frisinger, S. Lichtenberger, B- Workinger, M Woods, P. Workinger, and Misses Eva Stewart, Olive Standifrd, Bessie Jackson, Minnie Johnson and Ada Stewart. Invited guests were Mrs. D. Beil of Van Wert, and Mrs. ■ L. Snyder of Wren, Ohio.

- 1 I ■’ .. 1 ■’"? I • W©©mmgo By RITA KELLEY, Copyright, 1907, by Homer Sprague. > ..'■■■ — --O Eloise was having thoughts. That thpy were not pleasant thoughts was proved by the hurry with which she donned her tan ulster and close brown . walking hat and slipped out of the house. She hurried down brilliantly lighted Broadway, hoping that the new experience of being alone, unchaperoned, unprotected, amid the rush of life on all sides, might divert her mind. She was halted at last by a man with a megaphone. He was shouting: “All aboard for Chinatown! Right this way. Tickets two dollars. All aboard for Chinatown!” She looked up at the huge, ugly “rubberneck wagon,” now fairly transformed into a bower of beauty of red, white and blue electric lights and Chinese lanterns bobbing in the chill breeze. It seemed to offer surcease from the insistent, uncomfortable thoughts at the back of her brain. The old wagon in Its brave array held some of the allurements of fairyland and Its happy irresponsibility, and on the spur of the moment she whipped out her purse =LJ=lp^r' r ' If fe i ' fl * 1 “WHAT ABE YOU DOING HEBE?” HE DEMANDED. from hep ulster pocket, bought her ticket and climbed in among the lanterns well toward the front George had dared to Insinuate that she could not get along without him. He had acted as if he were as much a part of her life as her dally ride in the park, her nights at the opera, her cotillon favors. Worse still, there had been, too, the suggestion that he was so much a part of her existence that she could not get along without him. Other girls were wooed and hard won. She was taken for granted. And she wanted romance—“heart interest” she had heard It called when the drama was under consideration. All her life had the conventional been wrapped around her like a dun colored cloak. She would have freedom from conventionality—and George. A thrill of anticipation ran through , her as the big, clumsy vehicle wheeled cautiously and threaded its way down the crowded streets. Through the Tenderloin, the Ghetto, the Bowery—all those localities of which she hhd heard, but never seed—lt went. When it halted at last she was In the front of the party, still determinedly eager to get outside of herself. The conductor had taken her under his wing, and she felt very safe and sure. They had climbed up and up and up many winding, creaking, unsafe stairs to the joss house, a heathenish, garish place filled with a mixture of rare carvings, embroideries, ivories and apparently worthless junk. The conductor of the party waited to give his explanation until the loiterers had gone. “Ladies and gentlemen,” he said, “wait a few minutes, and I will explain this Interesting place. There are some people present who did not come with the party and who are waiting in the hope that they will get the benefit of what I am about to tell you.” A little woman in a blue tailored suit edged her way with asperity into the crowd. “Do you mean me?” she demanded. “I guess we have as good a right to be here as any one. And we’ll stay here till we are ready to go.” The conductor turned to Eloise for approbation. “The members of this party have each paid $2 for this valuable information, and it is not fair to them to allow you to hear this for nothing. I know your kind. You have been following us around just to get this Information free. Not a night passes but I have trouble of this kind, and it’s got to stop.” The little woman fought off her friends who strove to lead her away. “And who are you that you should talk to me that way?” she Cried. “Do you know who I am? I’ll have you arrested for insulting a lady. My brother is down now looking for a policeman. Do you hear?” she shrieked, maddened by her inability to impress the cool conductor. There a commotion in the doorway, and two men pushed through and thrust their fists under the conductor’s nose.

• report ’' you,*’ th£y'yelTed,'“f6r insulting a lady_”. Elotee turned Sick. She pushed out of the excited crowd, past the two emaciated, imperturbable old Chinamen behind their little trinket counter and fled to the balcony overlooking the main street of the Chinese quarter. It was horribly low. She shuddered at the thought of where she was and under what protection as she gazed down from the lantern hung balcony into the street crowded with Chinese in their native dress—their pig faces, i long cues and long nailed fingers holding paper bags filled with vegetables. “Eloise!” She jumped at the sound of her name and a man’s step on the balcony and pressed back against the wall of the house, staring with wild eyes at the man before her. “What are you doing here?” he demanded. “Why, you have never been out like this! What does it mean?” Sfife gathered her forces suddenly for retaliation. “What if I haven’t?” she said, somewhat breathlessly. “I am old enough to do as I choose—and—lt is not in the least your affair what I do!” She pu,shed past him into the Incense laden interior to have the conductor present her with a package of joss sticks and a slip of paper covered with Chinese characters. “A fortune,” he said gallantly. “Ask your Chinese laundryman to read it for you.” “I haven’t a Chinese laundryman,” she exclaimed passionately, ‘•and I never will have one!” She ran almost blindly down the stairs and into the street, trusting to her instinct for locr, lity to guide her to the nearest subway station. The orientals fell back in wild astonishment at sight of her fleeing figure, r.:!-’. a few fat old fellows said unintelligible thjngs to her which caused a roar of laughter. Her. cheeks were burning, her breath was coming in gasps, as she came into the little square marking the one time wickedest place in New York. All at once she felt that she was being followed. Quick, light footfalls were coming behind her,, were keeping pace with hers, and terror clutched her heart. A few drunken men sprawled on the park benches. To return was impossible. She could never find the “rubberneck” party. There was nothing to do but keep on as best she could. She emerged from the park ready to drop with exhaustion and was obliged to slow down to get her breath. To her relief she found the steps had stopped, and no one was in sight. She went on and on through the better streets of the wholesale district and at last saw the twinkling lights of surface cars ahead. She reached for her purse. It was gone! She stopped stock still on a corner, frozen with horror. Alone at 11 o’clock at night on a deserted street, with no money and home miles away! The ills of her guarded, pampered life showed uppermost in this dilemma. A less favored girl would have known what to do. She stood there dazed, helpless, till the sound of rapidly approaching footsteps startled her into action. She sprang forward. “Eloise!” A man’s voice echoed her name commandlngly among the skyscrapers. She collapeed all in a heap on the curbstone. “You—you—lovable girl,” he said, looking down at her limp person Struggling for breath. “Oh, George,” she panted, “I didn’t know it was you!” He sat down on the curb beside her. “I thought you did,” he said. “And there wasn’t any real danger?” she asked, wide eyed. “Oh, what a simpleton!” “None at all except from the ogre me,” he laughed shortly. “Oh, George, you are simply fine!” “You didn’t think so last week this time,” he said relentlessly. “But you didn’t Insist,” she pouted. “A girl likes to be convinced.” “Oh, you—you—l will say it—foolish girl!” he said, with adoring eyes. The Word “Explode.” “Explosive” was first used in its modern sense In the first quarter of the nineteenth century. “Explode” in the sense of “blow up” or “go off” is scarcely a century older. Before that people talked of a ball being “exploded” from a gun, the Clouds “exploding” lightning or a volcano “exploding” lava, but that was very much nearer the word’s original sense of driving away with scorn. "Explode,” in fact, is literally to clap away and was a technical word for driving an actor off the stage by contemptuous handclapping. That is the real meaning of an “exploded Idea.” Her Glance Backward. In a Broadway car long past midnight a robust, motherly woman sat with a well grown boy of about fifteen beside her. The boy had fallen asleep, and his head rested heavily against her shoulder. A man entering the car was cordially greeted by the woman and was about to slap the boy on the knee when the mother interposed. “Don’t wake she pleaded. “He’s so big now that he Is ashamed of doing childish things. This is the first time in a year that he has been my baby boy again. Let me enjoy it” —New York Globe.

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An inscription ON A FAN. a I r- - - - ja [Original.] My friend Charnley keeps in a glass case set up on brackets against a wall In his smoking room at home a paper and bamboo fan. There is nothing about it to indicate 'hit it is of especial 1 value. Indeed. 10 or 15 tents would be a good price f>r it. It is spread out to show some Chiucae characters daubed I across its face. It occurred to me that this 'nscription might have something to do with the care taken in the fan’s preservation, and on« evening after dinner while in the rwiu where it was I asked Chumley if It were not so. “I shoul.l think so.” he said, knocking the ashes off his cigar. “It's all in the inscription.” “Well, out with it” I knew by his expression there was a story coming. “You remember some years ago.” he began. “I was obliged to go to C’aiiia on busin.ss. I needed oiil.v to visit Pe- , king, Nankin and a few other points. In going from Nankin to Khaifcng 1 met with an advei.trre. I was on horseback and well urmcd. Hearing a commotion on the road before me, I spurred on and found a mandarin being robbed by a couple of bandits, who were trying to kill him before taking his money. His position was very plain to me, and, dashing among them, I fired at both of the assailants in rapid succession, purposely missing them, since I didn't care to kill any one and probably be delayed by doirig so. The robbers ran away, and the mandarin’s servants slunk back to him. He was the most grateful man you ever saw. Since we couldn’t speak the same language, he could only thank me with his eyes, which told his feelings plaiu enough. He picked up that fan, which during the melee had fallen In the road, shook the dust off it and, taking a writing stick, wrote that inscription across Jti face, handing the fan to me. “I supposed that he Jbad written his thanks. - - < f . 7c “‘Glad to have your autograph,’ I said, though I knew he didn’t understand me, and we went on together in silence till we reached the next village, where we parted with many farewells which neither understood. Then I went on alone. “I heard a great deel about the rising wrath- in China against the foreign devils,’ but didn’t suspect it Was a premonition of the celebrated Boxer movement then about to. break out. Reaching a mission riattod ih.a small town, I concluded tp ret&fai with the family of Mr. Fisk, its manager, for a few days. On the afternoon of my arrival his daughter Evelyn, a girl of twenty, saw me using the fan. She . could read the talCMlßtloa, Os course, and said to met, ... “ ‘Take care of that Don’t lose it as you value your life* “I asked her why, but at the moment she was called away, and I did not see her for some time. I don’t remember whether when I did see her I had forgotten the matter or had no opportunity to ask again. At any rate, it was very Soon after that we heard shrieks up the street. Every one present turned white, knowing that a mob was murdering the Christian converts. The noise came rapidly our way, and Mr. Fisk, his family and servants gathered in the living room In consternation. I got out all my weapons, but Mr. Fisk shook his head. Nevertheless I thought that 1 might as •"’<'ll die defending my countrymen, e-ne-cially as it would be pleasanter than dying without action. “Nearer came t’.ie yells and shrieks till suddenly we saw through t’ e window a gang of cutthroats coming, doubtless, to the station. At fiat moment Evelyn, who had been out, rushed in looking like a ghost. “‘The fan! The fan!’ she cried. ‘Wh4re is it?’ ‘“What fan?’ “ ‘The one you had yesterday.’ “I remembered that it was in my room and from Evelyn's eagerness about it knew that It must be of importance, so I ran there, snatched it from a table and ran back again into the living room. Evelyn pushed me to the door, crying: “‘Open it! Hold it up!’ . “I did as she directed just in time to | face the ugliest gang of fanatics I ever saw or expect to see. Their leader, an Immense man, waa about to dash in, with an ax raised above his head, when he caught sight of the letters on the fan. He stopped, lowering his ax. while those behind him seemed to be paralyzed by the inscription. Then the leader, calling for a writing stick, wrote something over our door, and the mob rushed on, yells and shrieks following In its wake. “They had no sooner started away than, the strain on Evelyn having been relaxed, she fainted, and I caught her in my arms. Laying her on a couch, I went out’ to look at what the Chinaman had written on the door. The characters were the same ns those on the fan. When Evelyn revived she told me their meaning, ‘Respect this man and those with him.’ “The signature was that of a mandarin, Chang Lang, very influential with the Chinese people, since he had been opposed to foreigners. “We remained safe under the protection of the fan till we could get away.

"* -"I —.a . ~, , g Mv.'_ Fisk brought his family back to America, and I came with them.” “Knowing,” I said, “that Mrs. Charnley*s first name Is iake it that the fan covers a romance as well as having saved your lives?” “In that you are right, but if it hadn’t been for the fan we should not have lived for the romance.” ELLSWORTH EMERSON. The Gambler’s Hand*. '~ “That man is a ‘night worker,’ probably a faro dealer,” said a detective to a friend as the two stood on a street i corner the other afternoon, while the person alluded to by the detective passed by. “Know him?” asked the friend. “Not replied the detective, “but I may later.” “How do you know he’s a faro dealer, then?’ “I don't know it,” was the reply, “but that he is in some such business is evident from the peculiar pallor of his face, which you may have noticed. You wouldn’t get that particular shade if you worked in a bank or at a desk all day long. It’s the artificial light and the bad ventilation that do it, I guess. Keeping in the noise of the rattling chips keeps out the air in i r:ost cases, and those dealers work as Lteadily and as regularly as anybody else. Perhaps you noticed, too, that his hands were smooth and clean, in far better condition than yours or mine or the average business man’s. The professional gambler may not like his pallor, but he takes great pride in his hands.”—Philadelphia Record. Cowbirds Unnatural Parents. The cowbird is the only bird that we have in this country which is unnatural in its parental duties. It never builds a nest for Itself, but lays its eggs in other birds’ nests, thus forcing the rightful owners to assume parental duties. It- it sagacious enough to choose the nests of birds smaller than itself, so that its young, when it is hatched, being inevitably the largest of the brood, must necessarily receive the lion’s share of the attention of its foster parents. The birds thus afflicted resort to various means to rid themselves of this unwelcome addition to their litter. The most Ingenious method is that frequently used by the little fellow wabbler, who will often build a substructure on top of her original nest, thus burying the eggs of the cowbird and often some of her own with it. Nests have frequently been found with two of these substructures in cases where the wabbler has twice been visited by the cowbird. George Needed a Barrel. The old courthouse had been replaced with a new one, though a very creditable sentiment prompted the citizens of Spottsylvauia to make It of the same architecture as the old. By a great effort the old county records were preserved and survived the war records, antedating the Revolution by 100 years or more. One, dated 1766, cites that: • “Marye 'Scott and Clarissa Drury have thys daye been made to receive fortye and slxtye lashes, respectively, for stealing the clothes of one George Washington, Gentleman, whilst said George Washington, Gentleman, in washing in the Rapidan river.” All who In youth sat at the head of the parental table and confronted a steel engraving of the dignified Father of His Country may cry ont in protest against sending the decorous Washington home in a barrel, but Spottsylvanla county has the records to prove It — Metropolitan Magazine. About the Ice Family. Whenever a polar expedition is In progress v.e hour of ice floes, pack ice, sailing Ice and other things of which the reader in a temperate climate has only a hazy idea, which makes him miss the interest of the news. An “ice field” is an area of frozen snow or water so large that the limits are invisible and unknown. On the other hand, a “floe” is a mass of ice pethaps very large, but whose boundaries are seen by the explorer. When such floes become broken and the pieces are wedged together by the wind and the currents they form “pack ice,” the terror of the arctic voyager. When a ship gets caught in a mass of pack ice there it remains fast until contrary winds or currents break up the pack, and then we have “sailing ice.” A Fatal Advertisement. ,! Vestrls, the great dancing master, died at eighty-three, and it was said he would have lived till hundred but for a sudden and mortal blow hi the shape of an advertisement One day he asked for a newspaper, probably for the first time in Ms life. Scarcely had he opened the sheet when his eyes lighted Upon the following: “Wanted, a professor of dancing at Calcutta. Must be a skillful chiropodist at the sasee time.” He took to his bed and never left it again alive. Long Legged Birds. Long legged birds have tails so short that they seem to be out of proportion to their bodies. But there is a reason for the short tails. Birds, while flying, and often while walking, use their tails for steerage purposes. When birds with long legs take to flight, they throw their legs behind In a manner that causes them to serve the same purpose as a tail. Criticism often takes from the tree caterpillars and blossoms together.— Richter. j -■ 1 1,1