Democratic Press, Volume 1, Number 34, Decatur, Adams County, 6 June 1895 — Page 7

BEST nr THE WORLD. tjaayww l\ \ xov tapraVAAq ana tat w H V cVrea’jneas ws wi-ja - A / \ <aX\w \s \xu\q awwaWeA^' ©THE RISING SUN STOVE POLISH in cake, for general blacking of a stove. THE SI N PASTE POLISH for a quick after dinner snine. applied and polished with a cloth. Morse Bros.. Props., Canton, Mass., U.S.A. Astronomy Hard on Eyesight. The dangers of watching solar phenomena, even with partial protection of voloren glasses, have been pointed out by Dr. George Mackey of Edinburg. Galileo lost his vision in this manner: Sir Isaac Newton's retina was permanently injured, and Dr. Mackay nas himself met with not less that seventeen cases of impaired sight as a result of viewing with the unprotected eye the e lipse- of 1890 and 1891. Beyond Their Skill. Mr. James Payn was once instructing some young lady friends in the art of scientific whist and they told him they played family whist in the evenings. “Do your people play the penultimate?’’ the novelist inquired of one of his fair pupils. "Not that 1 know of." she replied very sweetly: "Sophia plays the piano and Julia the harp: but we none of v.s play the penultimate.” Bunker Hill Monument. The monument cost rather more than *150.000. The corner-stone was laid Juno 17, 1825, just fifty year-after the battle, and the monument was dedicated June 17. 1843. Webster delivered the orations on both occasions. Not one woman in a hundred has a nice looking back. She either needs a bustle or nature gave her one too large. ■ Study common sense and comfort rather than custom and fashion.

YOUNG_GIRLS. • INTERESTING CONCLUSIONS. Mothers Agree on One Vital Subject. (arrriAT. TO OCR LADT RKADtBSj Young girls, to the thinking mind, are •ver subjects of the deepest interest. Some lead lives of luxury, while others : toil for mere existJ’ _I enee. Separate, howJ®-—, ever, as their paths in toa y " p ' NaL\ \ turp demands of them the same obei * K Kowi—r*yffvk y' dtence. All are subject to — . - r ■- V- $ A A 1 sical laws, and 1 H iVvVvA suffer in profl * *- I Inn W portion to IV, *' their violair r Young girls “ are reticent through modesty, and often withhold w hat ought to be told. Yet they are not to blame, for information on such subjects has been withheld from them, owing to the false interpretation of a mother’s duty. In such cases they should do as thousands of young ladies are doing every day: write to Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass., giving as nearly as possible their symptoms, and receive her freely given advice and timely aid. Lydia E. Pinkham’» Vegetable Compound is the young girl’s most trusty friend. It can be obtained of any druggist, and speedily relieves and cures irregularities. suspension, retention, and all derangements of the womb and ovaries. It banishes promptly all pains, headache, backache, faintness, nervousness, sleeplessness, melancholia, etc. A oung girls must know that self-preservation. w the first law of nature. The Greatest Medical Discovery of the Age. KENNEDY’S MEDICAL DISCOVERY. DONALD KENNEDY, OF ROXBURY, MASS., Has discovered in one of our common pasture weeds a remedy that cures every kind of Humor, from the worst Scrofula down to a common Pimple. He has tried it in over eleven hundred cases, and never failed except in two cases (both thunder humor). He has now in his possession over two hundred certificates of its value, al! within twenty miles of Boston. Send postal card for book. A benefit is always experienced from the first bottle, and a’perfect cure is warranted when the right quantity is taken. When the lungs are affected it causes shooting pains, like needles passing through them; the same with the Liver or Bowels. This is caused by the ducts being stopped, and always disappears in a week after taking it. Read the label. If the stomach is foul or bilious it will cause squeamish feelings at first. No change of diet ever necessary. Eat the best you can get. and enough of it. Dose, one tablespoonful_jn water at bedtime. Sold by all Druggists. ★ ASK YOL’R DRUGGIST FOR ★ ★ THE BEST ★ CHILDREN * JOHN CARLE & SONS. New York. *

WHAT THE LIGHTS TELL. Signals of Ships at Night, and What They Mean. A railroad train cannot turn to the right or left at will, for it is bound by the iron tracks to go the way they lead, and the trains coming toward it are guided in another set of tracks to pass safely by. Therefore the engineer may rush his train along over the guiding tracks, through the brightness of day or the darkness of night, with no fear save for the most j unforeseen and infrequent accidents. On the sea. however, a ship can go whichever way she is turned, and other ships may meet her coming from any direction. The broad ocean, I then, may be looked upon as covered with an enormous network of tracks crossingone another in all directions, where a ship may be switched from one track to anotherat will. In the daytime ships can be seen from each other, and be turned aside to pass in safety: for not only can they be seen, but the direction in which they are going is known. Still, even in the daytime certain rules must be followed to insure perfect safety. How then, do ships, pursuing so many intersecting tracks, pass the ’ others safely in spite of the darkness of the night? Imagine yourself on the bridge of i a big ship. It is really a bridge, | you know, high above the deck, ex- 1 tending from side to side near the i bow, and projecting a little beyond | the sides so that from each end a j man can see straight ahead without rigging or masts to interfere. It is | night, and very dark Even the j ship is only a long, dark shadow : under your feet. Over the sky may ■ be a pall of cloud, and you peer away 1 into the darkness, but cannot even - tell where sea and sky come together. All is inky blackness above and be- . low. Spreading outward from the I bow of the ship is a foaming, phos- j phorescent wave, which tells how | rapidly she is rushing onward over ' the unseen waters and into the dangers of the impenetrable gloom | In the middle of the bridge stands a man holding a wheel and gazing at: a compass lit up by a little lamp. With that wheel he turns the rudder to keep the ship steadily pointed in I the same direction by the compass. That direction is her track. Other ships may be on that track; other ships may be crossing that track ini the darkness. How are they to be avoided? On each side of the bridge stands a man peering continually into the gloom ahead, while back and forth, almost incessantly, paces a fourth man, an officer, who, like the others, i is continually gazing ahead or glancing at the compass. He is the officer of the deck. On him rests the re- i sponsibility of avoiding all other ■ vessels which may cross his vessel’s tracic or bo approaching her upon it. ; Upon his quickness and judgment > depends the safety of the ship. In the daytime he has seen one, two. | or perhaps a dozen ships around hi’ during a single hour, and he wknows that just as many may be around him during any hour of the night. How, then, is he to know ‘ where they are, and how to keep out j of their way? Their lights will tell. When you face towards the ship’s . bow the side at your right hand is , called the starboard side, and the side at your left hand is called the port side. On her starboard side a ship carries at night a green light, ; and it is so shut in by two sides of a box that it cannot be seen from the I port side or from behind. On her ■ port side she carries a red light, and it is so shut in that it cannot be seen from the starboard side or from behind. If the ship is a steamship she carries a big white light at her fore-mast-head, but if she is a sailing vessel she does not. This white masthead light can be seen from all . round except from behind. So long then, as the officer of the deck sees no lights, he feels sure that there are no vessels near him, I and paces his watch in security. _THE TARANTULA'S ENEMY. A Wasp That Never Fails to Kill the Deadly insect. Notwithstanding all the tarantula’s I great courage and pugnacity, there is one enemy the sound of whose coming throws it into paroxysms of : fear. This enemy of which it has such an instinctive dread is a large wasp known as the “Tarantulakiller.’’ It has a bright blue tody nearly two inches long and wings of a golden hue. As it flies here and there in the sunlight, glittering like a flash of fire, one moment resting on a leaf, the next on a granite boulder, it keeps up an incessant buzzing, which is caused by the vibration of its wings. No sooner does the tarantula hear this than he trembles with fear, for well he knows the fate in store for him when once his mortal foe perceives his whereabouts. This it soon does, and hastens to the attack. At first it is content with flying in circles over its intended victim. Gradually it approaches nearer and nearer. At last, when it is within a few inches, the tarantula rises upon its hind legs and attempts tograpple with its foe, but without success. Like a flash the giant wasp is on its back. The deadly fangs have been avoided. The next instant a fearful sting penetrates deep into the ' spider’s body. Its struggles almost cease. A sudden paralysis creeps over it and it staggers helpless like a drunken man, first to one side, then to the other. These symptoms, however, are only of short duration. While they last the wasp, but a few inches away, awaits the result; nor does it have to wait long. A seconds and all sign of life has <

appeared from the tarantula: the once powerful legs curl up beneath its body, and it rolls over dead. Then takes place one of those strange incidents which illustrate the perfect adaptation to circumstances, everywhere so remarkable in the economy of the insect world. The wasp seizes hold of the now prostrate spider, and with little apparent effort drags it to a hole in the ground. Therein it completely buries it with earth, after having first deposited in its back an egg. which in course ol time changes into u grub, and lives upon the carcass upon which it was born. This grub in a short while becomes another tarantula wasp, thus adding one more to the ranks of the enemy of the spider race. The amount of slaughter which these large wasps inflict upon the tarantulas is almost incredible, and it is noticed that those to which the greatest destruction is due are the females. It can only be realized when it is known that though the female deposits but one egg in each spider, she has a large number to get rid of, each one of which she provides with a home, and its grub with future sustenance at the expense of the life of a spider. From the powerful character of the tarantula wasp's sting it may be inferred that they are dangerous to human beings. But this is not so. It never annoys them unless teased. Without a doubt it is man's friend, not his enemy, and much would dwellers in Mexico regret its absence were it destroyed. Skin Dressing by Women. In her tanning and skin dressing work the savage woman’s problem was to remove the dermis from the hide, and leave the hair adhering to the epidermis, with only a thin proportion of the true skin. If the work were creditably done the surface of the robe, frequently more than thirty square feet in extent, had to be uniform in thickness throughout, and she should not cut through the epidermis once. The whole must be as pliable, too, as a woolen blanket ; the problem was to reduce a hide of various thickness and twice too thick everywhere to a robe of uniform thickness throughout without once cutting through the outer part of the skin. Her tools for this varied with the locality. The Eskimo women scrape off the fat with a special tool made of walrus, ivory or bone and plane down the dermis with a stone scraper. The Indian women cut off bits of meat and fat and remove the dermis with a hoe or adze. In the good old days of savagery the Eskimo woman made her fat scraper of walrus ivory or antler; her skin scraper was of flinty stone set in a handle of ivory, wood, or horn, whichever material was easiest to , procure. But later on, it may be, i the whalers helped her with steel tools. The Indian woman had three tools, to wit: the stone knife for cutting away the flesh; the hoe shaped scraper for splitting the skin, and the grainer, a hoe or chisel like tool with serrated edge to roughen up the inner side of the robe and give it flexibility. Beside these, both Eskimo and Indian had hands and feet and teeth for pulling and pounding and breaking the grain. 11165’ had also a wonderful supply of pride in their work, and love of applause, which kept them up to the mark of doing the best that could be done with their resources. A Touching Scene. A very touching and dramatic scene was witnessed at the Underwriters’ Board room, on Nassau street, New York, recently, on the occasion of the presentation of a gold medal to Fire Patrolman A. S. Johnson, of Fire Patrol No. 5, in commemoration of his brave rescue of three lives from the Columbus avenue and Ninety-fourth street fire last month. The rescue was remarkable for its daring and perilous character. The three persons, Mr. J.W. Kern, his child and Miss Annie Prechtel, were hemmed in by the fire in the fifth story of the burning building. Johnson crept along the molding from the adjoining house and rescued them. Mr. Kern supplemented the gold medal with a locket studded with diamonds, and he gave such a touching and graphic description of the rescued people’s peril, their agony and their relief, that even the rough firemen present wept, while poor Johnson, who had struggled hard to chow gum and appear indifferent, broke down and failed to keep back the tears that fought their way to his eyes as resolutely as he fought his way through the flames. Honor to such heroes? Cured by Antitoxine. Flora Bearman, daughter of Maurice Bearman. of Peekskill, N. Y., was attacked with membraneous croup. No physician was called until the next day at noon, when the family doctor, E. P. M. Lyon, who is also the Health Physician of Peekskill. found the disease presumably so well developed as to preclude the possibility of recovery. He decided to try antitoxine. lie called in Dr. Perley H. Mason, who is also a health officer of the town, and who has had considerable success in curing diphtheria with antitoxine. Two doses of antitoxine were administered with no perceptible effect. Two more injections were made, and tne results were more apparent. The dose was again repeated and the child began to grow better. One injection was then made, and a day iter the patient was out of danger and has now recovered.

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A Case of the Ruling Passion. An old lady named Margaret Thompson, who died about a century ago, was a noted snuff taker, and was evidently determined to go to her i grave with a liberal accompaniment of the fragrant dust. She instructed that her body, after it had been placed in the coffin, should be covered with ; Scotch snuff and the will went on to < say: i “Six men to be my bearers who are ' known to be the greatest snuff takers I in the parish of St. James, Westmin-i: ster. Instead of mourning, each to | < wear a snuff-colored beaver hat. Six maidens of my acquaintance (named) < to bear my pall and to carry a box filled with the best Scotch snuff, to take for their refreshment as they go along. Before my corpse I desire the minister may be invited to walk and to take a certain quantity of the said snuff, not exceeding one pound. And ' I desire my old and faithful servant, Sarah Stuart, to walk before the corpse and to distribute every twenty yards a large handful of Scotch snuff on the ground and upon the crowd who may possibly follow me to my burial place. And I also desire that at least two ' ■ bushels of the said snuff may be dis- ■ tributed at the door of my house in Boyle street.—London Tid-Bits. A Phonographic Ghost. If you sleep in the house of a wizard, I you must be prepared for experiences out of the common. So thinks a gentleman who once passed a night under ; Mr. Edison’s roof. In the middle of the night he was awakened by the sound of a voice at bis elbow. “Midnight has struck!” it said, in hollow but resonant tones. “Prepare to meet thy God!” The guest was out of bed in haste. | He must be the victim of some hallu- ‘ cination. There was no one In the ; room. His would be a fine case for the i “psychical research” people. But even ; while these thoughts were passing through his head, he was making for j the door. In the ball he met Mr. Edison. who reassured him by saying: “Don't be scared, old man; it’s nothinc but a clock.” Not All Profit. A New York paper gives a story of a man who is very careful of his dollars. He is a farmer in comfortable circumstances, thrifty and honest, and is respected notwithstanding his painful exactness in money matters. He married a widow worth SIO,OOO, and shortly afterward a friend met him. “Allow me to congratulate you,” said the friend. “That marriage was worth a clear SIO,OOO to you.” “No,” replied the farmer; “not quite that much.” “Indeed? I thought there was every cent of ten thousand in it.” “Oh, no,” and the farmer sighed a little; “I had to pay a dollar for the marriage license.” THE LADIES. ’ The pleasant effect and perfect safety with which ladies may use the California liquid laxative. Syrup of Figs, under all conditions. I makes it their favorite remedy. To get the j true and genuine article, look for the name i of the California Fig Syrup Co., printed j near the bottom of the package. The First Free School. There were free schools among the Puritans and the Pilgrims, among the Dutch in New Amsterdam and the English in Virginia. There is a school in New York City now that was founded in 1633 by Adam Koelantsen. It is the oldest school in this country and was free when it was founded. Homeseekers' Excursion To the West, Northwest and Southwest. May 21st and June 11th at low rate.-. Ask agents of the Nickel Plate road. Remem- I ber we offer a perfect passenger service j with through sleeping cars between Chicago, Buffalo, New York and Boston. South America has the greatest unbroken extent of level surface of any country in the world. The llanos of the Orinoco are so flat that the motion of the river can scarcely be detected over an area of 200,001) square miles. No specific for local skin ailments can I cope in popular favor with Glenn's Sulphur Soap. “Hill’s Hair and Whisker Dye,” Black i or Brown, 50c. New Cure for Consumption. A lady who was dying of consump- j tion last summer is well now. She was | struck by lightning, and since has steadily gained in health. I believe Piso’s cure for Consumption saved my boy’s life last summer.—Mrs. Allie Douglas, Le Roy, Mich., Oct. 20, ’94. Never get $ bed intbe corner of a room: there should be open space on at least three sides. Colored porters have been placed in charge of day coaches on through trains of the Nickel Plate road to insure perfectly clean cars en route.

An Amusing Illusion. In the corner of a Philadelphia artist's studio is an ingenious arrangement of screens, upon one of which, over an aperture about the size of a face, is an inscription: “Likeness taken instantaneously.” The innocent visitor peeps through the hole and is astonished to behold an exact likeness of himself as a hump-back jailer in a scarlet coat, opening a prison door. The secret of this effect is simple. The jailer is a life-sized painting strongly rendered. The place for the face is cut out and a mirror inserted, reflecting the features of the spectator. The conception of the amusing fantasy is not original. It was imported from the st udio of Wiertz, the Belgian artist. A Happy Woman. At last I am a well and happy woman again: thanks to McElree’s Wine of Cardiff. 1 have suffered for four years from womb trouble of the most horrible kind. Twelve years ago I went to the San Antonio Hospital where they performed an operation, but it left me in a worse state than ever. I went to Dr. Kingsley and Dr. D. Y. Young, b it they gave me little relief. After spending $125.00 I was not able to leave my bed. and most of the time suffered pains to equal a thousand deaths. On the 10th of last October my friend Mrs. Stevens advised me to try McElree’s Wine of Cardui. The first bottle did me good, and 1 got more, and to-day I am a new woman: am able to do all my cooking and house-work, i am running a lioarding-ho se and doing all the work myself. I still use the Wine, and always Keep it in the house —it saved my life. Mrs. M. J. Meyers, Appleby, Texas. Are All Past Fifty. The lato Czar of Russia, who was past 49,was the junior of nine independent European sovereigns. The King of Denmark is 76, Queer. Victoria 75. the King of Sweden 65, the Emperor of Austria 64, the King of the Belgians 59, the King of Roumania 55, the Prince of Montenegro 58, and the Sultan of Turkey and the King of Italy each 50. Excursion Rates West, Northwest,and Southwest. Agents of the Nickel Plate are authorized to sell Homeseekers' Excursion tickets May 21st and June 11th. An unexcelled dining ear service and palatial sleepers on through trains between Chicago, Buffalo, New York and Boston. Most of the advice old people give can be boiled down into two sayings: “Wait.” and “You had better stay at home.”

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Nothing to complain of v' —the woman who uses Pearline. NothV p, ing to complain of in the washing and cleaning line, anyway. And 1 -T f I certainly the proprietors of / / Pearline can't complain. If B / you only knew how many women, (I 1} LJ/ ever V day, are making up their l\l ' m ’ n d s that the old, wearing, tearing, tiresome way of washing doesn't / . P ay! . 11 s g row ' n g bigger than ever—the success / ot P ear bne; though it has to fight not only against all kinds of poor imitations, but against a sort of superstition that anything which can save so much labor must be harmful in some way. Peddlers and some unscrupulous grocers will tell yox TT T “this is as good as n or “the same as Pearline.’’ ITS W CXA FALSE—Pearline is never peddied; if your grocer send* ▼ou an imitation, be honest— send it back, OO JAMES PYLE, New York. WHEN YOU WANT TO LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE OF THINGS, USE SAPOLIO

In 1572 somebody sent Catharine de Medici a box of powdered tobacco leaves. She acquired a taste of the herb, both chewing and snuffing, or rather smelling it, and for many years the plant was called in France herbe de la reine. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is a constitutional cure. Price 75 cents. Sleep is nature s season of repair; the more quiet and unbroken the sleep the more perfect its work. NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION MEETING. Denver, Colo., July 5 to 12, 1895. For this occasion the Wabash Railroad has made a rate of one fare for the round trip to Denver plus $2.00, added for mem- . bership fee. For full particulars in regard to this meeting, time of trains, rates, route, etc., , call upon or write to any representative of the Wabash R. R.,or connecting lines, or C. S. CRANE, , Geu'l Pass. Jt Tkt. Agt., Wabash R. R., St. Louis, Mo. A girl is willing for her mother to wash her other articles of clothing, but her shirt waists must go to the , laundry. Success in Life Depends on little things. A RipansTabule is a little thing, but taking oneoceasionally gives good digestion, and that means good blood, and tlial means good brain and brawn, and that means success. Feather beds are not only unwholesome and uncomfortable, but they harbor and transmit disease. Commeni ING Sunday May 19th, the day . coaches on all through trains of the Nickel ’ Plate road will be attended by a colored ' porter whose services are placed at the dis- ! posal of the patrons of that line. The pur- . pose of this additional equipment is to m- • sure scrupulously clean cars en route.

I XH THE BABY'S LIFE depend* on the food t it gets. Insumuient nourishment is the < ause of much of the fatality aiming infants. Improper food brings on indigestion. If the food is right ' the digestion will be good. and “Ridge’s Food 4, is the best. There is nothing “just as good" or • nearly as good.” It is the best in the whole world. Have yon a baby? life depeudt upon how it in fed. Sold by Druggists. 35c up to $1.75. WOOLRICH & CO., PALMER, MASS. □ I 3 enreu many thousand canes pronounced hop’-less From first dose symptoms rapidly dii-zppear. and in t*n days at least twothirds <>f all ; mptem - an- removed Imm»K •>? f testimonials of miraculous cures -ent FREE. Ten Days Trea men! Furnished Free by Mail. DR H H. GREEK & SUMS. SPECIALISTS ATLANTA. GEORGIA. HOMESjnthISOUTH. Good farms; Hue climate; low* prices: easy terms. A<l dress D. 11. KOGAN, < olonizatiou Agent Q A (. R. B M BIRMINGHAM, u \ HITrUV?* Thomas F. Simpson. Washington, if* 11 IFNI Jb I N- • art's fee until Patent »b- • ” " w tained. Write for Inventor's Guide. F. W. N. C. - - - - Ao, 23—95 When Writing to Advertisers, say you saw the Advertisement in this paper.