Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 81, Decatur, Adams County, 14 April 1903 — Page 4

Amusements. M< st everyone h is read Gen. Lew , ( Wallace's fascinating story of the ' "Fair God"and is familiar with the chirscteri-ti • of the noble race es Aztecs who ruled ‘ Mexico Ijefore Cortez intn dnced th ? horse. Coming down s* veral centuries later of the days of the hapless Maximillian we ■ ( find “ Agnila.'' the 1 ist of the Monte- t znma.s. in a royal slave. House ter rent ou Seventh street, j Inquire at Schmitt's meat market. 79d6 All the early varieties Irish and pure Jersey sweet sood potatoes. J. D. Hale. 76J6 ( If you desire house "painting, see I Alex Leßrun. Good work. Guaran- • lee given. 75d6 Seed Potatoes I have for sale pure ( early Ohio and early Roe seed pota- . toes. Peter C. Laureot. south Thir- j teenth street. Decatur, Indiana. 75dlm Dr. F. L. Richter will test your eyes free of charge. Glasses correctly fitted for poor vision, double vision, , headaches, eve strain, far sight, nearsight, cross eye and irregular sight. ( Consult him. < I Excursions. Personally conducted excursions ' via Missouri Pacific railway, to Colorado, Utah and Pacific coast points. . Very low one way and round trip rates to Texas. Old Mexico, California. Oregon. Washington and intermediate points. No change of ears ftrom ' St. Louis and Kansas City. Sandaid and ordinary Pullman sleeipng cars. Best dining car service. For particulars call on or address A. A. Deane. Jr.. T. P. A . Missouri Pacific railwav. 200 Sentinel building. Indianapolis, Ind. Drive With the Heel. A golf beginner almost invariably either "toes” the bail or cuts a clod from mother earth, it. instead of trying to hit the ball with the middle of. the club face, he aims at “heeling" it—that is, striking it with the beei (a club bead, being a freak, possesses a face, a toe and a Leeii—he will generally make a better abat. A practiced golfer uuconseiottsly makes the necessary allowance for the bending of the driving shaft but bad lie known dur ing l. t novitiate why be so often “struck Seo'ia-!.” as the caddie remarked to Balfour. be would probably have made i .ore rjpid progress.—Frank Broadbent In Strand. FMtprtwts. There's a <’ al f chara ter in the wear of a *Lo». Every clev-r d'.ectivt knows th • Gi-• a good dete-tire t!> . f - ■ and 1* ■ in « . ■ his man up pretty weli. esp'-rir’ly if the shoe be rathe: worn. That .* tl ■ ouiy thing a man can’t disguise. Lot* of first class de tective stories have been written or this, but tlc-re i« natbrng remarkable about it The individuality in a footprint U the Individuality of the wegrer, of a shea. — Shorter Grown. Candidate—l hare found aom"thing besides a candle that will answer that old riddle, "The loag-r it stands the shorter it grows." Frier d-What is it’ Cam: <late—A candidate. The lon get be stands for oScv the shorter he grows financially. - Baltimore American. — Look* For a D-.m-.tic Paradise. Mother —Does that young lady yon intend to marry know anything about housekeeping? Ser. Not a thing I'll be the happiest man alive. 1 don't believe she'll clean house once in ten years.—New York Weekly. The Paran It. Idealist—True happin>-o is found tn pur-uing something, not catching It. Ordinary Man—The man who pursues the last ar at night knows better.

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Weather Forecast. Rein tonight possibly turning to snow north portion. Wednesday partly cloudy. HOMEMARKETS. NOTICE TO .TERCHANTS. You are invited to insert in this column, free of charge, the price you will pay for any farm product. Accurate prices paid by Decatur merchants for various products. Corrected every day. GRAIN. BT E. L. CARBOL, GRAIN MERCHANT. Wheat, new J 68 Corn, per cwt, yellow (new. 48 Corn, per cwt., (new) mixed 46 Oats, new___ 30 Rye 40 i Barlev 40 Clover Seed 5 00 <a 6 00 Alsyke 650 700 Timothv 1 60 Buckwheat 65 Flax Seed 1 10 CHICAGOMARKETS. Chicago market closed at 1:15 p. m. today as follows: Wheat, May 5 76| Wheat. July 71 Corn. May 12 Corn, July 43; Oats, May 33f Oats. July..—— 30 May Pork -51 s 00 July Pork sl7 37 Sept. Pork SI7 05 May Lard, per cwt 9 90 Jujy Lard, per cwt 9 82 TOLEDO GRAINM.ttKEB. Changed every afternoon at 3.00 o'clock by J. D. Hale. Decatur. Special wire service. Wheat, new No. 2, red. cash $ 75| May wheat 76 July wheat 71J Cash corn. No. 2. mixed, cash 42| May corn 43 July corn - 4 < Oats, cash 33j Oats. May 30 ’ Oats, July _ 2-5’ R; -. cash 52 STOCK. BT FRED SC3EIMAN, DEALER. Lambs 5} @ 6 Hogs, per cwt $6 25 « 57 00 Cattle per lb 3} @ 41 Calves, per lb— 5 (g. 51 Cows 2 to 3J Sheep, per lb 2| (g 3 Beef Hides, per lb. 6 POULTRY. BT J. W. PLACE CO., PACKERS. Chickens, per lb .09 Fowls, per lb .09 Ducks, per lb 09 Turkeys, per lb .10 Geese, per lb HAY TARKET. No. 1 timothv hav (baled) No 1 mixed hay (baled) - No. 1 clover hav (baled) Losse hay $1.50 lees. WOOL AND HIDES. BT B. KALVEB k SON. V'OOl— 15c to 18 Sheep pelts 40c to 51 00 Beef hides, per pound 06 Calf hides 071 Tallow, per pound 04| COAL. Anthracite 5 9 00 Domestic, lump 4 75 Domestic, nut * 4 50 OIL TARKET. Tiona 51.65 Pennsylvania 1.50 Corning 13") New Castle 137 North Lima 1.14 South Lima 1.09 Indiana 1.09 Whitehouse 1.20 Somerset 95 Lacy 95 Barkersville 95 Ragland 55

OTHER PRODUCTS. BT VABIOCS GROCERS AND UEBCHASTS. : Eggs, fresh, per doz 12 Butter, per pound 12 Potatoes, per bushel 40 Liverpool market closed J cent lower on wheat. Corn closed J to J cent higher, MARKET NOTES. Estimate for tomorrow: Hogs 16.000 Wheat. JO'ars Corn.. 50 cars Oats 50 cars Receipts at Chicago today: Hogs 11,000 I Wheat 13 cars ■ Corn 122 cars Oats 125 cars The amount of grain exported yes terday from this country was: Wheat and Flour, 327,000 bushels; corn 146,000 bushels; oats 174,320 bushels. According to Bradstreet on the vis- 1 ible supply, decrease in wheat is 2.481,000 bushelsvcorn 2,1*4,000 bush els; eats 1,168,000 bushels. Wanted Girl to do general house .work at Al Fristoe’s. 80d3t

A HEAL BOY WUNDER THE PHENOMENAL EARLY CAREER OF WiLLIAM PITT. ▲ltbesch Sickly and Delicate. This EnalKb L&d Was iatelleefually One of the Most lie tuarkatole loataa the World Hua E-.er Knows. One of the most remarkable boys the world ever -aw was TV :.!.;;m I n. He astonish? -i folk with Lis learning at the age of «e en. He itecame prime minister of England when Le v,..s twentyfour. He was a si -kly boy. but be tisak all the out of door exercise his delicate frame could bear and was as eager to study as most boys are to play. He would not let his weak body stop his work, and be was reading ancient history at an age when most children are reading stories written in words of one syllable. His father was the great Earl of Chatham, and the boy was brought into contact with ali the great men of the time in England. When be was thirteen years old be wrote a tragedy which be called ' Laureutiue. King of Clarlnium." At this age, too, be was able to read Greek and I-atin almost as well as be could English. He also was well kv formed on the politics of the day and on a variety of subjects about which only men of learning are supposed to know anything. At fourteen be was eble to take the works of Thucydides, written in Greek, and read page after page, turning it into excellent English as be read, and this off hand translation of his is said to have been almost without a flaw. His father spoke of him as "eager Mr. William, the counselor, the philosopher." At the age of fourteen be entered the great L'niversity of Cambridge in England and at once, in spite of bis youth, took a high piace among the students at that celebrated place of learning. When he went to Cambridge, the boy was in such feeble health that he had to be accompanied by a nurse, and all through his course there be was in so poor a condition, physically, that it was doubted if he ever would be able to finish the course. But bard study seemed to agree with him. and when he was graduated, at the age of seventeen, he was much stronger than when he entered the university. At an age when most boys are preparing to enter college, or. if they are very clever, have just become freshmen. young Pitt won the degree of master of arts from one of the greatest universities in the world and began the study of law. At twenty-one he was admitted to the bar. and the same year was elected a member of parliament to become prime minister three years later. While be was yet a law student and only eighteen years old be attracted the attention of prominent men by his ciear views on the questions of government, which then were perplexing the rulers of England. The boy was invited everywhere, and men bolding the most important oiEces listened to bis advice and asked bis opinions. His friends wanted him to go into parliament when he was twenty and ail predicted for him a brilliant career. It was curious to see this delicate stripling. a boy in looks and years, meeting the great and wisg men of the country as an equal and conversing on even terms with the most learned scholars of the day. Young Pitt used to like to listen to the debates in the British parliament, and Mr. Fox. the great statesman, meeting him once after a debate, was astonished at the manner in which the boy criticised the eminent men who had spoken and pointed out where they could have made tbelr argument •troeger. One of the hardest works to understand that ever were written is a book called “Cassandra." written by a man named Lycophronis. It is written in i Greek. A learned man placed the book ' in the hands of young Pitt when the toy was sixteen years old. and be read it at first sight, trans.at.ng into English as be read and explaining it in a manner which made the learned man deciare that had be not seen it be “would have believed It to he bey owl the power vs human Intellect.” When Pitt was sixteen, bis father declared that be would be a great statesman and was the hope of the country. Other folks soon became of his father's way of thinking, and that is why they put him into parliament when be was so young and made him prime m.niete: so soon after. He fulfilled all that was expected of him and ruled England during ttlrteee of the most eventful years of her history.—Detroit Free Press.

A Slander. “Bee here!" said the city editor. -Yon speak of the bride as being ‘led to the altar.' ” “Yea. sir. What of it?” replied the reporter. "What of it? Why, it's nonsense. There was never a bride yet who couldn't find her way there, no matter what were the obstacles." — London Tit-Bits. Mataral “Yes." concluded the medical raconteur. “she became insane through excessive dancing.” “One might say she was hopping mad. 1 suppose!” gurgled the cheerful Idiot—Baltimore American. A Difference. The Friend—ls yonr daughter happily married? The Fattier—Well, happily slie's married.—Kansas City independent Owl order !s the foundation of all good things.-Burke.

•WHEN KNIGHTHOODs ? WAS !N FLOWER • Or, T.f L:-e S: ot Charles Erar-ica tr.d Mary Toder, the Kirg’s Sistet, aod H -~*t. -g -ie F.tiga es His z.rgust Majesty Kirg Heory tic Eighth Mgr V R-cwnhea knd F.ead?-ed into Modem Enflieb From Str td»m Ce.4kouen« Memoir ED’.7!\ CASKODEN [CHARLES MAJOR] g

Matters were getting into a pretty tangle at the palace. Mary would net speak to the king, and poor Catherine was afraid to come within arm’s length of her. Wolsey was clad to keep out of her way. and she flew at Buckingham with talons and beak upon first sight As to the battle with Buckingham, it was short, but decisive, and this was the way it came about: There bad been a passage between the duke and Brandon. in which the latter had tried to coax the former into a duet the only way of course to settle the weighty matters between them. Buckingham, however, had had a taste of Brandon s nimble sword play and. bearing In mind Judson’s fate, did not care for tty more. They had met by accident, and Brandon, full of smites and as polite as a Frenchman, greeted him. “Doubtless my lord, having crossed swords twice with me. will do me the great honor to grant that privilege the third time and will kindly tell me where my friend can wait upon a friend of his grace." “There is no need for us to meet over that little affair. You had the best of it. and if 1 am satisfied you should be. I was really in the wrong, but I did not know the princess tad invited you to her ball.” "Your lordship is pleased to evade." returned Brandon. "It is not the ballroom matter that I have to complain of. As you have rightly said, if you are satisfied I certainly should be. but it is that your lordship, in the name of the king, instructed the keeper of Newgate prison to confine me in an underground cell and prohibited communication with any of my friends. You so arranged it that my trial should be secret both as to the day thereof and the event in order that it should not be known to those who might be Interested In my release. Y’ou promised the Lady Mary that you would procure my liberty, and thereby prevented her going to the king for that purpose, and afterward told her that it had all been done, as promised, and that I had escaped to New Spain. It is because of this, my Lord Buckingham, that I now denounce you as a liar, a coward and a perjured knight, and demand of you such satisfy _tion as one man can give to another for mortal injury. If you refuse. I will kill you as I w.,ukl a cutthroat the next time I meet you." “I care nothing for your rant, fellow. but out of consideration for the feelings which your fancied injuries have put into your heart. I tell you that I did what I cculd to literate you and received from the keeper a.promise that you should be allowed to escape After that a certain tetter addressed to you was discovered and fell into the hands of the king, a matter in which I had no part As to your confinement and noncommunicatioD with your friends, that was at his majesty's command after be had seen the letter, as he will most certainly confirm jo I say this for ujy owfi sake, not* that I care wlat you may aay or think." This offer of confirmation by the king made It al! sound like the truth, so much will even a little truth leaven a great He. and part of Brandon's sails came down against the mast. The whole statement surprised him. and most of al! the intercepted letter. What tetter could It have been? It was puzzling and ret be ds red not ask-

f QIS Ilipß pAP\r & ,e!l v*ere my rruna can wau upon u frltrul of hU gract." A» the duke »«» about to walk away Brandon Mopped him: “One moment, your grace; I am willing to admit what you hare er.id. for ( am not now preis r“d tn <Ol Tadict it but there la yet etotber matter we bare to settle. You atta< ked t. ( p on horseback and tried to murder Be in order to abduct two ladie* that night over In Billingsga te. That you cannot deny. I watched you fellow tie Indie* from Bridewell to Grouche'a. and saw your face when your mask fell off during the melee a* plainly a* I see it now. If other proof I* wanting, there I* that sprained knee Upon which your horse fell, causing you to limp even yet. I am sure now that my lord will meet me like a man. or would he prefer that I should go to the king and toll him and the world the whole shameful story? I hare concealed it heretofore thinking it my personal right and privilege to settle with y OU." Buckingham turned a shade paler as he rt'ollcd. “I do not meet such as von

on tne ni'.d ot honor, and hare no lean of your s!'.n<!“r injuring me. He felt secure la the thought that the girls did not know who had attacked them, and could not corrolioratc Brandon in his accusations, or Mary, surely, never would have appealed to him for help. 1 was with Brandon—at a little distance. that is—when this occurred, and after Buckingham had left we went to find the girls in the forest. We knew they would be looking for us. although they would pretend surprise when they saw us. We soon met them, and the very leaves of the trees gave a soft contented rustle in response to Mary's low. mellow laugh of joy. After perhaps half an hour we encountered Buckingham with his law-yer-knight. Johnson. They had evident.y walked out to this quiet path to consult at 'tit the situation. As they approach- d. Mary spoke to the duke with a vicious -parkte In her eyes. “My L->ru Buckingham, this shall cost you your bead, ilemember my werds when you are on the scaffold. - ! rc ycur neck fits Into the hollow of the block." He stopped, with an evident desire to explain, out Mary pointed down the path and said: "Go. or I will have Master P-randon spit you on his sword. Two to one would be easy odds compar d with the four to one you put against him In Billingsgate. Go!” And the battle was over, the foe never having struck a blow. It hurt me that Mary should speak of the odds being two to one against Brandon when I was at hand. It is true I was not very large, but I could have taken care ot a lawyer. Now it was that the lawyer-knight earned his bread by his wits, for it was be. 1 know, who instigated the next move, a master stroke In Its way and one which proved a checkmate to us. It was this: The duke went at once to the king .and in a tone of injured Innocence told him of the charge made by Brandon, with Mary's evident approval. and demanded redress for the slander Thus it seemed that the strength of our position was about to be turned against us. Brandon was at once summoned and promptly appeared before the king, only too anxious to confront the duke. As to the confinement of Brandon and his secret trial, the king did not care to bear. That was a matter of no consequence to him. The Ins- ; portnnt question was. Did Buckingham attack the princess? Brandon told the whole straight story exactly as it was, which Buckingham as promptly denied and offered to prove by Lis almoner that he was at his devotions on the night and at the hour of the attack. So here was a conflict es evidence which called for new witiiesses. and Henry asked Brandon if the girls had seen and recognized the duke. To this question of course be I was comp lied to answer no A and the whole accusation, after all. rested upon I Brandon’s word, against which, on the t other hand, was the evidence of the Duke of Buckingham and his convenient almoner. All this disclosed to the full poor Mary’s anxiety to help Brandon, and. the duke having adroitly let out the fart that he had just met the princess with Brandon at a certain secluded spc< in the forest Henry's suspicion of her partiality received new force, and be began to look upon the unfortunate Brandon as a partial cause at least of Mary's aversion to the French marriage. Henry grew angry and ordered Brandon to leave the court, with the sullen remark that It was only bls services to the Princess Mary that saved him from a day with capers on the nlllorv.

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Henry was by uo means sure th., his suspicions concerning Mary’s h P were correct, and in all he had beaVJ he bad not one substantial fact un U which to base conviction, h,. i )a() Wn seen her with Brandon since th ° avowal, or he would have had a f F in every look, the truth in ee ry tion. n demonstration in every g|. 11( ," Site si-emrd powerless even to atteiiwi concealment. In Brandon's Landsoi', manliness and evident superiority tl*' king thought he saw 11 very clear >,,.7 sibility for Mary to love, and ww] there Is such a possibility for a cir , she usually fails to fulfill expectation? Now, all this brought Brandon into the deep shadow of the royal frown and like many another man be sank Lis fortune in the fathomless depths of a woman's heart and thought bimsnir rich In doing it. 1 [TO BK CONTINUED.} STEADY ATMut.-G.ERE, A Prime Reqatafte For the Stadr •( Planet Surtaee*. Astronomical science Is divided naturally into two parts, that pertaining to the stellar universe and that pertaining to our owu Immediate family O s planets. The latter are the only leklies in the heavens of which we are aware that at all resemble eur earth, and they are all, comparatively speaking, our near neighbors and have, therefore. a much more personal and popular interest than the stellar universe at large. The study of their relative motions was virtually completed during the last century, so that at the present time the astronomy of the planets is confined chiefly to a study of their dim- nsions and surface comlitious. For this study there is one paramount requisite, and that is a steady atmosphere. With a good atmosphere important results may be obtained even with a small telescope of only five or six inches diameter; but without such au atmosphere the very largest telescoix- will |>e of no avail. This is not the case iu other departments ot astronomy; for many kinds of observations on the stellar universe the quality of the atmosphere is of little account. provided only that it Is cloudless and transparent; but for the planetary and lunar astronomy a steady atmosphere is the fundamental requisite. To understand what is meant by a steady atmosphere we have only to look at some object across a hot stove or along the line of a railroad track upon a summer day. There is a shimmer in the air. a wavering motion, with which we are r.ll more or less familiar. This wavering is always present in our atmosphere, although we usually cannot see it; but when we magnify the image ot a planet in a telescope l.ow times we magnify the atmospheric tremors in the same proportion, and they are then not only conspicuous, but they Interfere very seriously with our observations. In some parts of the world the atmosphere is much more steady than in others, and it is evidently a matter of the highest importance for the astronomer interested in planetary research to find where these places are situated. To illustrate the importance of this matter I may say tliat situated in out of these favored spots I saw night aft er night with a five inch aud even vrith a four inch lens planetary marking* and details that I have never seen even with the largest telescope iu Cambridge.— VV. H. Pickering in Century. — i Clerical Frugality. In the faroff days of 1766. the year In which Goldsmith wrote his immortal “Vicar of Wakefield.” the Universal Magazine contained this obituary notice: “Lately. Rev. Mr. Mattinson. curate of Patterdale, Westmorland, for sixty years. The first infant he christened was afterward bis wife, by whom be had one son nnd three daughters, all of whom he married in his own church. His stipend was forty years £l2 and for the last twenty not £2O per ann. Yet he died at the age of eighty-three worth £I.OOO. £BOO of which was saved out of his stipend." The correspondent of Notes ami Queries who quotes this astonishing n "rd of frugality asks if Goldsmith may m't have received the first impetus t > the comiKisition of his novel by re.idw» this announcement