Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 287, Decatur, Adams County, 14 December 1903 — Page 7

L PIE FACTORIES. ■rt CSS 9 Y WHICH THEY ha NDL2 immense product. S | i !<•'•'> Thousand Pies Xtadc E"b. , - iU "* “ Ms,, ‘“ Th * < “O' l tl , al ill»v» 111 ,ks Shop*. B. ijtj( to us ,lie lur » est l ,ie I*plants in a city would make | Mr, enlgl . Housewife who prides b>>r |j D her baking green with envy, e" ..... o f old fashioned domestic h n)iiA ei vi * , allU ot easily conceive of a system Lbich a barrel of apples and a bar Effiour can. figuratively speaking. L a t one end of a long bench and F* t t,e other end a thousand or less pies, but this system is in use i G the large pie bakeries. ie baking force goes on duty at 10 Lkiit night. During the day girls ■ L been paring and slicing apples j L pumpkins, and the foreman Ims , ’ spicing and sweetening the cook- ! i truit or mince, the custard, an L prepared tilling which have also L cooked by steam iu large stone L vats. W ben the bakers go on L the tilling is In place in front of l»re;it dough board iu tubs holding Ls barrel each, and the stewed apM in full sized barrels. At one end Ithe bench is a great stack of flour, utwhich stands a pail of water into sch a saucer of baking powder has n dumped- The dough mixer attkstbis heap and makes iu It a deep session, into which the water is md The embankment of flour is Bjdly turned into the water and ELj with the hands until a thick, Ly dough has been formed. This is tored along until a tall heap is formjit the mixer's right, and the knead > I spry young fellow, working with I iastrument resembling a plasterer s lowi. cuts off large masses and rolls jem until the mixing is completed ml then chops them into chunks of untie,sizes for forming bottom crusts, be men beyond roll the bottom crusts id place tbelli in the paus. which are nau.ed in large wooden trays, heaplone up'ii another iu stacks as tall 19 man. The stacks of trays are then mid to the tiller by means of a hook peri>->l in a ring iu the truck at the (tom The pies, whether 10.000 or 15.000 a jilt are baked, are all tilled by one tn. With a long bandied cup similar I that used iu dippiug milk froui a m be stands over a tub of stewed impkin. tuinee or custard and tills ss so rapidly that all of one man’s ne is required to bring the trays to is tide and that of another to take em away. He works like an automlun. a tilled pie resulting from every up and rise of bis two hands. Nearly hundred pies a minute look like an possibility, but he sends them to the n wbo put on the top crusts and the rringues at that rate for many minis st a siretch. He has. by actual it. put half a barrel of miuce meat topics w thin ten minutes. Tbc tilled pies go into the big wooden Ultothe men who cover them with stop crust or who put the meringue i w.th a conical shaped canvas bag eu at the smaller end. out of which ry squeeze the frosting on the fancy K. The fancy pies and the plain es do not come together again until tj meet in the delivery wagon about o'clock In the morning. Die top crust pies go to the drawite ovens nnd the pumpkins, cusrds. meringues and tarts to the older iiiioned ovens. where they are banrd with long, slender shovels. Out the larger drawplate oven is pulled ith a steel hook a plate of iron half an th thick or more already heated. The iraionieter in front of the oven shows temperature of 550 degrees. As •ny pies as will lie on this plate — oct 100 at a time—are placed on it dit is pushed into the oven. Tin tods of a dummy clock at the side are tto indicate the moment at which the king will be finished. Another plate then drawn out and filled, nnd the weding is repeated until the night’s •fit io finished. The pies, after baking. Into woo<len trays, as Ivefore. nnd r taken to the shipping room, where are counted and loaded Into the 't.ons f.r delivery. -Anout forty girls, boys and men by ■•ystem produce from 10.000 to 15.- ® Plea a day. They use about tift<*en ln*l« of four, six to ten barrels of fi'ies. nine or ten half barrels of luce meat, nearly ns much stewed ktfpkiß and perhaps half ns much rhos other fruits and custards, a bur Iff more of lard, about two barrels •'tttttr and large quantities of spices Icotrary to all popular notions on ’•Object, the wholesale manufacture Pies In g modern establishment is •fughly cleanly. Workmen are not to enter the work rooms In elr street attire or to change their i n 8 there. The use of tobacco at ’luges of the work is prohibited I 'lag on the floor or on or Into anyn 8 else In the work rooms Is exand emphatically forbidden *>lls are white, and the floors of We are dustless. Every scrap of Ming that can sour is daily washed ™ 'be vessels used for filling, from p cooking vats, from the trays nnd tb e D’nches. and they are all star--1,1 with stemn or boiling water J 1 shortening. sweetening nnd spin ’' ,lh ‘<’arefui]y | Ul) | accurately weigh o exact proportions. The baking "'I to n constant temperature. so 'here Is absolute uniformity, and in,,"' ®'*hig and flavoring, while " °n n large scale, are so conducted n uniform quality New Tribune. hrightiiess with you to the Worry should have no piner kl r .| 1 '? 1 ' lo °r t ' u,t "belters your wife ' i dreu,—Maxwell s Talisman.

ANIMAL LANGUAGE. Bern Low Tha| e < anilol Hear •Most poop!,- suppose u luf)le to 1)? , ' l ’’ >ut " ls ""<• A mole can give efi’eenm H° i'" 1 " "'T n < t on the human ear at all and anh„ n' 7'"l S ° lO ' V 111111 that no human bemg can bear it. Yet .-, weai hear both these sounds ns plain-1 a sound registering machine-the phonan o-’npb—will show them both with ' scores Os other sounds you are deaf to J ..nr ' r"; 11 ° f ' lle n,ole is 11 nt w i' h 1“ " SI?S “ gootl ll, ' !11 wlllle shorn ". ~<1 ‘’ 1 - 1 "' 111 ' 1 . aud it can also ■ tat the top of its voice if hurt or • ■‘'■'icd; but. though it shouted and I uned in your ear. you wouldn’t hear • Ihe sound register, however, with its delicate pencil that marks the volume of sound on a paper, gives the Quality of both sounds. A weasel, too, which is one of the moles enemies, can bear these sounds through a couple of inches of earth and often catches the mole when hr throws up his hillocks of earth. Tin common field mouse, too. has a pm that is altogether beyond you. though you can hear him squeak plainly enough if he is hurt. A death’s head moth. too. can squeak, but that is done by rubbing his wings together and is not a voice at all. But the champion of all creatures for good hearing and one that can bear a sound that is over 100 degrees beyond your own limit is the common thrush, and you may often amuse yourself by watching hint at it. He can hear a lobworm moving underground, locate him by the noise and haul him out. Often you may see a thrush stand perfectly still on your lawn, cock bls ear and listen intently, then make a couple of steps and haul out a fat lobworm. Even the starling, which is about the size of a thrush, cannot do this, but he knows the thrush can. and. being a disreputable person, with no common honesty, he follows the young thrushes about on their worm hunts anil steals the worms from them as soon as they are caught.—London Answers. VIGOROUS OLD AGE. Plato died in his eighty-third year, nnd his last hour was devoted to intellectual work. Isocrates was ninety-four years old when he wrote his famous work. "I’anathenaikus." Tert'stius Varro lived to be nearly a hundred, and he continued to write up to the day of his death. Hiero. king of Sicily, lived to be ninety, and Masinissa lived to be still older and ruled for sixty years. Quintus I'abius was appointed augur when he was past middle age, and he held the office for sixty-two years. Cato Censorius transacted business until be was nearly ninety and retained to the end all his old time vigor. Gorgias Iximtium. the teacher of Isocrates and other distinguished men. was in excellent health at the age of 107 years. Chrysippus began to write his work on logic in his eightieth year. Clean thes taught his pupils up to his ninetyninth year. Sophocles lived to be nearly a hundred. and during his last days lie wrote the "tEdipus Coloneus." one of the greatest tragedies ever written. Arganthonius began to rule when he was forty years old and held power for eighty years, and In the third book of the ’History" Asinius I’ollio tells us that lie did not die until he was past his one hundred anil thirtieth year. Valuable Insect*. Perhaps there are few substances contributed by animals to the materia medica of greater value or more extensively beneficial than certain species of insects. Os these there are none more highly esteemed for medical pur poses than those beautiful, shining, green colons! insects known as blister ing beetles, or cantharides. Their corrosive action is so great that they frequently inflame and excoriate the hands of those who collect them, and on this property their chief medicinal virtue depends. They are genet ally used in the form of plasters or ointment. and in c.im’s of violent visceral inflammation their external use can scarcely be supplied by any other medicine. < arlom. Mo.lr of < oK-hiiis Tnrdes \ curious tinsle of catching turtles is practiced in the West Indies. It consists in attaching a ring nnd a line to the tail of a species of sinker tlsti known as the remora. The live fish is then thrown overboard and immediatelv makes for the first turtle lie can spy to which lie attaches himself very firmly by menus of a sucking apparatus arranged at the top of his bemT Once ntta- bisl to the turtle. *o Ann 18 his grip that the fisherman on drawing the line brings home both turtle nnd the sucker. Keonomlesl In Theory. supine my wife Is the most economical woman that ever stepped. {jflfJv's: she never si«mds money fo?anything that she does not say ah. will save It In something else. linle - Ami dm's *l |e „ Transcript. M the IHniier Port,. .. snri , lv are not going yet. Mr Parvy N<*'-" ‘von Slav for the feast “ B "’ "' ,| rtow ofsourtof reason mid H'< , , v(> *

cEFT HANDED WICKEDNESS. IleKultn of a n I nunual InveNtijratlun by I’ig feN.Ntjr ItoinbroMO. Professor Cesare I.oinbroso, the I tab inn scientist skilled in detecting traces of abnormality, explains in the North American ll< view the imperfections of the left handed. People who are more agile with the left than with the right hand are most numerous among “women, children, savagts and criminals." The percentage is about 4 per cent among men (operatives and soldiers), 5 to 8 per cent among women and about the same among lunatics. But among criminals Professor Macro form! 111 per cent of the men and 22 per cent of the women left handed. Swindlers offered a greater percentage, no less than 33, and murderers and ravishers only from 1) to 10 per cent. Professor l.ombroso also discusses the far more complex subject of “left sidedness. Certain people are more sensitive upon the left side than upon the right. This condition has no connection with left handedness and is highest in lunatics. 44 per cent. Parrots are left handed, and so are li ns. Rollet found in twenty-seven monkeys the left shoulder heavier than the right. Women, children and primitive races make gestures and simple movemeats from right to left. This is why women button their garments in a different direction from men and why early languages, like the Arabic, are written from right to left. Very old chronometers were wound from right to left, not from left to right, as at present. However, Professor Lombroso hedges by saying: "One can without difficulty find among good men real left handedness. as among the greatest evildoers there are some who have not that characteristic. 1 do not dream at all of saying that all left handed people are wicked. but that left handedness, united to many other traits, may contribute to form one of the worst characters among the human species.” Not So Very Weak. The train was on a windy pass in the Rockies. There were in the car a few miners, two cowboys, a woman, who looked ill. and a man clothed In very British tweeds. He was evidently used to roughing it and sat beside the open window indifferent to the cold air that swirled into the car. Behind him sat the woman, shivering. Across the aisle was a large boned westerner. He did not seem to mind the wind himself, but he gave a kind, solicitous glance toward the woman. After an hour of shivering she leaned forward nnd asked the man in front of her to close the window. He paid no attention to her request, except that he looked straight ahead ami said, ad dressing himself to the world ..t large. “Americans seem to be a weak lot." Then the tall man across the aisle rose slowly. His head came just under the bell cord. He reached across the tweed suit, pushed the owner of it rather rudely into the corner of the seat, laid hold of the window catch with bis big thumb and finger and sent the window down with a slam. “1 guess we ain’t so very weak, pardner." he said. Mr*. Grundy. The first mention of Mrs. Grundy is found in Mortm/s < lever omedy “Speed the Plow." Farmer Ashfleld. at table with his jug and pipe, is talking to his wife on h»r return from market. "Well. dame, welcome whoam. What news does thee bring vroiu market?” "What news, husband? What I always told you. that Farmer Grundy’s wheat brought 5 shillings a quarter more than ours did.” “All the better foor lie!" “Ah, the sun seems to shine on purpose for him.” “Come. come, missus, as thee has not the grata 1 to thank God for prosperous times, dan't thee grumble when they be unkindly a bit.” “And I assure you Dame Grundy's butter was quite the crack of the market.” “Be quiet, wool ye? Always ding dinging Dame Grundy into my ears: •What will Mrs. Grundy say?’ What will Mrs. Grundy think?' Canst thee be quiet? Let ur alone and behave thyself pratty!” Grern l*in«*nppl«* sloicc. The juice of the green pineapple is accredited in Java, the Philippines and throughout the far east generally with Iteiug a blood poison of a most deadly nature. Health mentions it as the substance with which the Malays |>oi son their creeses and daggers anil as the “finger nail’’ poison formerly in use among aboriginal Javanese women almost universally. These women cultivated a nail on each hand to a long, sharp point, and the least scratch from one of these was certain death. luduliElnti n Grnlaa. Our ancestors were more indulgent and respectful to the eccentricities of men of genius than is the present generation. Byron was accepted and patiently tolerated w hen he chose to sit in moody silence throughout a dinner party given in his honor, scowling contemptuously at the delicious food before him. while ho sipped vinegar and munched n cracker. Showing Him t|<. Servant—There’s a gentleman downstairs. ma'am. Mistress Show him up to the draw (ng room. Servant But lie tins come to clean the chltubly. Mistress Then show him up the chimney. provide for the worst; thi best will save Itself

> DR. CANADA < | Ophtha'mic Specialist, n 5 s g — p | PractJcf limited to the <• ■ rm t|(D. of lief, ci.s of th eye Glusst-s B W fitted to i li v< s’raiu. with its M M numerous functional Bymp'om- : Vt M to impr- v vision »nd for loss of ■fi accommodation due io age. 0 JI REFERENCES THE BEST. H n At Dr. Coverdale’s office, at 0 O Decatur, Ind., ■ M Fiist Tuusd y each month of Read Hensley’s ad. Bring us your buggies. Gregory 6 Miller. 261-24 t See Hensley’s new stock of jevvlery. See his ad. For sign writing of al) kinds call on Gregory & Miller. Work promptly done. 261 -2-lt Yon miss it by not taking advantage of Hensley's reduction sale. Read his ad. Lost-Black lap robe, new, on North Second street. Leave at this office. 276 d Work guaranteed iu all lines of carriage painting and lettering. Gregory & Miller. 261-24 t House for rent—Nine rooms, all mordern convenences. Inquire at this office. 259d6 Two solid threugh trains daily Chicago to California. Chicago, UnionPaoiftc & N jrth-Wetern Line LONDON IN 1700. When Traitors* Heads Idorned London Bridge nnd Temple Bar. London in 1700 was a comparatively small city of about <>oo.ooo Inhabitants, the rough and ill kept main roads to which had been but slightly improved since Tudor times. The ghastly spectacle of many of the trees ou the Southwark road bending under their burden of banged men had indeed been slightly modified, but none the less the decomposing heads of “traitors” still filled the atmosphere about London bridge and Temple Bar with myriads of baneful microbes. Our immediate forbears were evidently not overparticular about sights and smells. They were accustomed to see men sitting in the pillory pelted with rotten eggs and possibly included among their immediate circle not a few who had been deprived of their noses and ears for expressing too freely their opinions, political and religious. The drains were in an appalling condition. The innumerable churchyards were so full of coffins that they often projected through the turf. Bear and bull baiting, dog fights and boxing matches were attended even by royalty as late as 1820, and five years later all the “dandies" in London were paying high prices to stand in the carts round Tyburn to behold twenty-two of their fellow creatures hanged for misdemeanors which in our time would be punished with a few days’ imprisonment.--Saturday Review. Convenient Fetters. Leo Deutsch, a Russian political exile who was permitted to return to bis home, tells in his book, "Sixteen Years In Siberia." tales not only of suffering, but of lenient treatment by his jailers. In Siberian prisons often the harshness of tne discipline was considerably relaxtu. On one occasion, to the vast amusement of the prison authorities. Deutsch appeared before the governor with his fetters tied up with a piece of string, nnd It appeared In l bad only assumed them for the moment. But the complaisant governor was afraid of a visit from high quarters. "Then if an Inspection is made you will be wearing your fetters.” lie asked, laughing. “Os course.” replied Deutsch. “You see. I’ve come to you in full dress." pointing to his tied up chains. Ou another occasion Deutsch's bag wns stolen, it contained, among other articles of a convict’s attire, the indispensable fetters. and tie bad to apply for a new pair. "Take care you don’t lose these!” said the officer as Deutsch packed them among his luggage. Greek Itonea, We learn that the nose of Socrates was not Greek, but such as Greek art Ists usually assigned to satyrs. Occasionally. ns In n beautiful group of a satyr playing dice with a nymph on a bronze mirror, they gave satyrs another kind of nose. The noses of the la dies in the Tanagra terracotta are of all agreeable orders of nose, not necessarily Greek. The chances are that the Greeks varied us much as we do In their noses, while the tradition of their art preferred the conventional straight nose, in the same way the kind of Ro mans who had their portraits done on coins and gems were Just the sort ot energetic, conquering people who have Roman noses everywhere, like William of Orange and the Duke of Wellington —Loudon Sat:.,uay Review. In n Unit Wnr, Mary I'm sorry to hoar that rou've not been feeling well. What seems tj be the matter? Jane — I suppose I nm run down Why. for the Inst month I haven’t been able to put any heart even into rny shopping.—Brooklyn Life.

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ROY ARCHBOLD, DENTIST. I. O. O. F. BLOCK. ’Phones - Office, IG4; residence, 245 'Phones —Residence 312. Office 103. tjftht Yeafs of Fred Reppert Live Stock Auctioneer. Speaks English, German, Swiss and Low German. DECATUR, INDIANA. Two trains a day’ Chicago to Cali forniu, Oregon and Washington. Chicago, Union Pacific & NorthWestern Line. Found—A pair of new over shoes. Owner can have same by’ calling at this office, describing same and paying for this notice. 285d3 Monroe Agent. Mr. Jonathan Bnrkhead Ims been appointed agent for the Daily and Weekly’ Democrat for Monroe ind vicinity and is authorized to take subscriptions and receive money. ts The Overland Limited. The luxurious electric lighted daily train for San Francisco, Los Angelos and Portland leaves Chicago 8:00 p. m daily via Chicago, Union Pacific & North Western Line. Less than three days enroute to the Pacific Coast. The best of everything. Two other fast trains leave Chicago daily’ 12:30 p. in. and 11:35 p. tn. For illustrated booklets, reservations and full particulars apply to your nearest ticket agent or address, A. 11. Waggoner 22, Fifth Avenue, Chicago, fl). CHEAP RATES SOUTHWEST. Southeast Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas HotueHeekers’ Opportunities Here's your chance. Very low one way and round trip Southwest this winter- about half the regualr fare, twice a month—nearby date are Dec. 15, 1903 and Jan. 5 and 19, and Feb. 2 and 16, 1904. Good time to visit Southeast Missouri, Arkun sas, Louisanna or Texas and pick out a location. Round trip tickets permit stopover on the going trip, return limit 21 days. Write and toll us your starting point and where you want to go. We will tell you exactly wliat your ticket will cost, oneway or round trip we will see that your baggage is ohockod, and that you arc comfortably located on flic right train. Write for our illustrated descriptive literature , maps, lists of real estate agents, and let us help you find u better home in the country along the Cotton Belt Route. Write today to E. W. Laßeaume, T. P. and T. A.,Cotton Belt Route, St. Louis,Mo.

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