Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 287, Decatur, Adams County, 14 December 1903 — Page 8

7 11 fI M 0 I I r!j I I i I | HI \ i 0 h A i j n I ii u - Ill«— hi 'I *u*.a>—X4BMMKnirwiß—f ■•*>»* FOR ALL AT COLCHIN'S Christmas Store. CANDIES, NUTS, ORANGES ALL OF THE BEST THE FINEST Xmas Decorations You have ever seen. It costs nothing to see our line. Give us a call if only for friendship sake. Yours to serve, J. S. COLCHIN. Henning & Co..have a car load of tine Lehigh Valley hard coal at their yards. Yonr orders are solicited. 2863 d j

| I HOLIDAY RATES i I |j 'We Will Malic 500 Dozen | Imperial Photos on Bxlo mountings, at i I — $ 1.50 —I Regular price $3 00 Now avail yourself of the opportunity and get at least £ one dozen of these beautiful High Grade Photos at ■ 5 HALF PRICE. | Special Attention is called to our line of Burnt Wood Novelties, and ■ Framed Pictures, which wdl be sold at greatly reduced prices. Call early and select your presents and have them laid away. ! MOSER. Photographer I x t nnjv^njvuvnJVjnnrvuvnJv^nArirrinrinrtnriArinnrinnnnnnnnnnn Tu. I Rosse’s Opera Ttolise I I Monday Night, Dcg. 21. ! 1 — I 2 The High School Dramatic Club will ! present the clever Comedy Drama Little | Trixy | Under auspices of the Rathbone Sisters 5 g — | | PiiGGS, 25 and 35 Gents. uinAjiru;ji.'.njLru’AnAJuwiAjuuuuuuuunnnnux r Hl ■ * *

Weather Forecast. Indiana—Pair, continued cold; snow at night or Tuesday; cold Tuesday. BETTER THAN ORATORY. The Secret of One Clever I.awyer'n I nvary 1 nig Sueeexn. One of the most wmmon defects of a recently admitted lawyer is a striving for oratorical display. A successful older practitioner endeavors, on the other hand, to give die :-y a heart to | keart talk, 't he ways of an eagle ! n the air. of a serpent upon a rock, of a ship in the midst of the sea and of a man with a maid are as A 1> C compared with tlie methods usually pursued by tlie twelve good men and true. It seems a trille odd at first that a dozen individuals who separably are shrewd, sharp business men sh >uld collectively be guilty of the most absurd pe'formanees. but the fact must be reckoned on neverlhoh.’ss. A story is told of two farmers who were r--turning Lome, one of them from jury duty in a neigh boring town. "Lawyer Smith is a ".teat orator," said <>ne- "a perfect Ii tiiel Webster. My, how I hated t.i divide against Idm in the three cases be tried!" "How about Lawyer Jones, who was on the other side?” "Oil. shucks! Why of course lie win? all his cases. I beard every on ■ of ’em. and they were the simplest tilings. He just explained tilings to the jury, lie didn't have to do any hard talking at all. You couldn't help but agree with him."- Success. Bnnnunn. Not Pajamas. At a certain dinner [nirty a charming young woman was Heated next to an exceedingly deaf old man. She had done her best to interest him. but bad found it necessary to shout out each remark unto the third and fourth narration before the old man could catch the point. So the time drugged along till the dinner was waning and the fruit was passed. Tl,e young woman determined to make a final effort at being agreeable, so she threw her voice into saying: "bo you like bananas?” "How's that?" asked her neighbor in a surprised tone. “Ho you like bananas?" she repeated. "Well, my dear." he replied, "so long as you have introduced tlie topic. 1 will say that I much prefer the old fashion ed nightshirt.” However numerous may lie the opportunities of life they are never discovered by those who keep their eyes shut and their Lands idle.—Maxwell's Talisman.

JAMAICA'S MYSTERY. THE FINGER OF FATE IN THE FALL OF HER CAPITALS. Tranrcdles That Ari- Written In tho History <f Iler 'tutae.l « itie— Tivo of Them \i;nistieU t ucrly From O.< the Face of tile i-ur.li. There exists iu Jamaica, in the West Indies, a universal -iipei station that a curse rests upon any town chosen to be its capital. Slime 1560, when the first chief c ity whs found, d. no fewer than three capitals have been ruined in mysterious and tragic ways. Two have vanished utterly from tlie face of the earth. Some of the more superstitious of the colonists, brooding over the strange history of their country, fear that Kingston, the present capital, a city of ,i.'.<;;o inhabitants, will share the fate of its predecessors. Tlie first capital was Sevilla ?»'ueva (New Seville), otlierwh ■ called Seville d'tlro (the Holden Seville). on account of its marvelous wealth. It was founded by Hon .Lian d'Esquivel and Di., o, a son of Christopher Columbus. In a few years it became Lie greatest Spanish city iu the new world. Thither flocked the blue blooded but impet unions nobles of Castile, eager to rebuild their family fortunes at the expense of the poor Arawak. Cathedrals, palaces and monasteries, rivaling those of Spain in splendor, were erected. The marble streets were crowded with gayly clad courtiers and Indian slaves, who toiled for them ami brought them tribute from mine and jungle. Then in a night, the city vanished, and no one can tell today what happened to it. No survivors and no records wen l left behind to tell the tale. Today one can see. buried in tropical jungle, a mile of marble pavement.and a few broken columns and arches. Nothing else remains of the Golden Seville, onee so pros[>. twnis and splendid. except a few contradictory native traditions. These traditions variously ascribe the destruction of the city and its inhabitants to a mutiny of the oppressed Indians, an earthquake, a sudden visitation of millions of red ants and an attack by French hue- , caneers. The very memory of what was once the greatest city of the new world has almost perished. Even in j Jamaica few people know anything j about the Golden Seville. The Spaniards made Saint Jago de la I Vega, now called Spanish Town, their second capital. Time and again it was devastated by hurricane and plague, harassed by Indian revolts or ransacked by adventurous picaroons. Gradually it sank from its high estate until now it is merely a squalid village. When the English conquered tlie island they made Port Royal their real capital, though Spanish Town remained for some time the official seat of government. The emporium of the Indies and the Spanish main, tlie market for the ill gotten gains of 10.000 buccaneers. Port Loyal soon became the richest and wickedest city of the new world. At the height of its splendor and Its vice it was destroyed within the siaice of two minutes by an earthquake. "The ground opening in Several Places at onee,” wrote an cyewltiless in 1602. a few days after the catastrophe. "swallowed up Multitudes of People together, whole Streets sinking under water witli Men. Women and Children in them; and those Houses which but just now appeared the Fairest and Loftiest in these Parts and might vie with tin- Finest Buildings in the World were in a moment Sunk in the Earth, and nothing to be seen of them; such Crying, such Shrieking and Mourning I never beard, nor could anything in my Opinion ap|>ear more Terrible to the Eye of Man. Here a Company of People Swallowed up at once; there a whole Street tumbling down, and in Another Place the Trembling Earth opening her Ravenous Jaws, let in the Merciless Sea. so that this Town is become a Heap of Ruins. Several People were Swallowed up of the Earth, when, the Sea breaking in before the Earth could Close, they were washed up again and Miraculously saved from Perishing. Others tlie Earth received up to the!'- Necks, and then Closed upon them anil squeezed them to Death, witli their Heads above Ground, many of which tlie Dogs Eat; Multitudes of People Floating up and down, having no Burial. The Burying Place at the Palisadoea Is quite Destroyed, the Dead Bodies being washed out of their Graves, their Tombs boat to I’ieees and they flouting up and down; it Is sad to think how we have Suffered. “The Earth hath sHll fits of Shaking, with very much Thunder and Lightning. and dreadful Weather; yet this had so little effect upon some People here that the very same .Night they were nt their Old Trade of Drinking and Swearing: breaking up Warehouses; Pillaging ami Stealing from their NclghlKirs, even while the Earthquake lasted, and several of them were destroyed In the very Act; and indeed this Place has been one of the Ludest In the Christian World, a sink of all filthiness, mid a mere Sodom.” Old Port Royal lies burled beneath the sen. Tlie present town of Port Royal, a place of no importance except ns a coaling station, was built utter the earthquake, a fire and a landslide having destroyed the few houses left standing. Kingston was not founded until the early part of tlie eighteenth century, but it has already been thrice destroyed by fire and seven:l times ravaged by hurricanes. The Inhabitants tintnrnlly wonder what catastrophe will happen next. Many men have ’> -on cnn'ibln nf do Inga who tiling, but very few a gen crons thing.-Pope.

I Christmas Bargains WE CERT AINL Y HAVE THEM IN making' our selections we visited the different markets and selected only the Latest Styles and Best Quality to be found. Therefore, we have only Good Bargains to offer, and plenty of them. Good Goods that cost you no more than inferior goods. See us early as we have SOME SPECIAL GOOD BARGAINS that cannot be deplicated anywhere. ? • $ Well, they have simply taken a DROP, s I Ivvwt We want everybody to see our stock. We can convince you that we do just what we advertise. REMEMBER THE PLACE The Holthouse Drug Co. = Next Doer to Boston Store. —

WHEN CNE IS A GUEST. The Pleasures of Visit liik and thr Duties of the V isitor. It is a pleasing sensation to wake up in the morning ami Ceci that one is a guest. Strange wall papers ami strange furniture surround one's lieu, and there is a strange view out of the window. Ail tlie jostling demons of worry, anxiety and respon sibility* whether domestic or professional, who stand rcadv to crowd upon our consciousness vanish in the unfamiliar environment. We have got away out of the claws of the usual and lie blissfully waiting for a knock at the door which shall have an unfamiliar sound. Downstairs we find new faces, new pictures, strange books, a fresh stand- i point. Life has a new savor. We taste It everywhere—in the atmosphere and In the conversation, even in the bread and the salt. Our first sensation is that everything depends upon somebody else. It is nothing to do with us whatever happens. Hut presently the old' truism of our childhood. that every situation in life has its duties, come, back to our mind, and though with our waking thoughts we cast off those of the home dweller we must Immediately prepare to take on those of a guest, at least if we are constitutionally con Bcicntlous. which. n!n«. »ll gnos-.s nr* not. They may indeed lie divided by this conscience test into visiting sheep mid visiting goats. The motto of the conscientious gu- st ; Is Mme. Mold's well known saying. "It' Is a shame to eat another man's bn m 1 3 ’. give him nothing in return!" Such n one should be a Joy to his hostess, but in the holiday world of hosts and guests, as in workaday life, good intentions do not always Insure success. The conscientious sometimes fail where the uncouscientlous succeed.-London Spectator. TURKISH PROVERBS. To the well mau every day Is a feast day. Today's egg is better than tomorrow's hen. The master of the house is the guest’s servant. Two watermelons cannot be held under one arm. He who has not rest nt home Is In the world's hell. The month Is not sweetened by saying honey, honey. If you have to gather thorns do it by the strungi r's hand. With patiotux' sour grapes become sw >et and (lie mulberry leaf satin. By lite time I’te wise man gets mar vied the fool has grownup < ulidren. He not so s wef • that you nre blamed for It t> r so gentle that you are '"ampled u;,ui I r it. Give a swift 1., r-o to him who tells the truth. HI that ■oins I; ■ baa told It be may ride and c. ■ aj >.

MARKET REPORT. Accurate prices paid by Decatur merchants for various products. Corrected every day. GRAIN. BY E. L. CARROL, GRAIN MERCHANT, New Corn yellow J 55 New Corn, mixed 53 Machine shucked one cent less. Gttts, uew 33 Wheat, No. 2 82 Wheat. No. 3 79 Rye s(j Barley 50 Clover Seed 5 55 ■Alsyke @5 40 Buckwheat 48 Flax Seed 80 Timothy $1 25 CHICAGO MARKETS. Chicago market closed at l:15p m. today, according to J. D. Hale’s special wire service, as follows: W heat, December 79” Wheat, May 81’ Wheat, July J . 771 Corn, December 415 Corn, May 43 Corn July 431 Oats, Dec-ember 34 j Oats, Muv Jan. Pork jn 50 May Pork . . .7*ll 80 January Lard per cwt 6 42 TOLEDO GRAIN MARKETS. Chanced every afternoon at 3.-00 o’clot'k H J. D. Hale, Decatur, wire service. Wieat, new No. 2, red, cash | 88 Detember wheat „ Kg May wheat _..77Z " Cash -orn, No. 2, mixed, cash. 45 ' torn, )ecember i-tl | May Orn Lil ~~~~ 371 Oats, Daember May Oats " Rye, cohTllL,!!!... 58 4 °IIER PRODUCTS. BY VARIOU»j ROCI!rs 4ND MIBOH4!|tB J*-4f k*s, fresh, wr Jog, _ • ... ; Butter, per jx lu j ; ' 1 Potatoes, nev 11 Onions 'J (Cabbage per 06 ib..‘.7.: EOc 1 Apples, per bt '!.* ; Sweet Potatoe,,,., bu 7’.77.... 75 WOOl AND HIDES. nr 1 ” ALTER ‘ soxWool, tin wash* Sheep pelts _ Beef hides, tier 1 “ lx ' io *6 Calf bideZ. l 7?’ ouud Tallow, per pq»,, < on 111 - Ugh • 15 tn 12,’, 1 1’poMulH I Muskrat 10 to fid Miuk.....717 6to I* ■ f »o to 82.00

STOCK. BY FRED SCHEIMAN, DEALER I Lambs 4@ 4 50 Hogs, per cwt J 4 25 Cuttie per lb 3 @ JQ Calves, per lb 5 @ Cows 2 @ 2| Sheep, per lb 2 @ 21 Beef Hides, per lb ,jj POULTRY. BY J. W. PLACE 00., PACKERS. Chickens, young for lb fiw7 Fowls, per lb. fw/fi Ducks, per lb ti Young Ducks 708 Young Turkovs, per lb. 12« 13 Geese, old tier lb. 5 Geeee, young, lb 6ig7 HAY fIARKET. No. 1 timothy hay(baled) t „■ iviO •No 1 mixed hay (baled) I J 5.00 @ Jti.2f> No. 1 clover hay (baled) _ COAL— Per Ton Anthracite J 7 00 Domestic, nut A 00 Domestic, lump, Hocking 4 00 Domestic lump, Indiana 3 80 Pocahontas Smokeless, lump 590 OIL fIARKET. Tiona J 202 Pennsylvania 1.8” Corning 1.67 New Castle 1.74 North Lima 1-T South Lima 1-® Indiana Whitehouse 1$ Somerset 1.32 Ncodasha. (Kan.) Bcrkersville Rugland $ fIARKET NOTES. Liverpool market closed steady. Wheat, i cent lower. Corn, { cent lower, Receipts at Chicago todav: Hogs -’BOOO Wheat.. I>T car * Corn 182 «r« Oats 11)7 Cattle 'IKIOO Sheep.,,,,, SuOOO Estimate for tomorrow: Hogs tK00() Wheat... - H" '■ Br ’ Corn Oats W uro Look! look! look! Read l!,n sley's ud. Excursion rates on everythin)-’ ll Moser’s gallery. See Gregory A; .Miller for l»n!'' vertising on barns and sheds- -• 1 "