Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 294, Decatur, Adams County, 22 December 1903 — Page 3

rDM»NADA’( I Ophthalmic Specialist. I I Practice limited to the S tlon of defect* ot the eve. i;i HSM , s ■ tilted to relieve strain, u , lh |( ■ numerous fum-ilnmu syn,■ to Improve vision mid f,,, ■ accommodatlou due to ape. .fe ■ references the best, n ■ At Dr. Coverdale's office, at i.‘ ■ Decatur, Ind., * First Tuesday each month

SIGNS ARE OLD. In Ancient Greece They Were < , rd <»u linaineas llouara. The custom of marking a business bouse by means of a sign is of very ancient origin. In the great cities of the east and among the ancient Egyptians gucb a practice must have been unnec- i essary, as al) trades were classified and confined to certain sections of the city, and then all wares were exposed to full view, as they were displayed in open booths. The history of Grecian signboards is meager, yet tlie allusions of Aris tophanesand Lucian to signboards warrant our belief in their use by the Gneks. Atbenaus tells us, •'He hung the well known sign in front of his house.” Advancing to Roman times, tin r is abundant evidence of signs, as the dis cowries of Pompeii and Heraculaneniu amply testify. In the Eternal Ci.y some of the s treets derived their names from signs, just as hundreds of London streets have been so named. The Ito man street Vlcus I’rsi I’ileati was named from tlie sign. for. as the name indicates, it was the street of "Tlie Bear With the Hat On.” But it was not until late in tlie fifteenth <-entury that the custom gained a footing in England, first of all among the taverns and alehouses. Later camo the necessity of distinguishing between certain simps brought about by tlie fact that the houses wete not numbered and the people could not read word signs. Julian King Calford in St. Nicholas. *»kee Jumping. The great event of tin- skeeing chibs of the western states is the jumping contest. Only a skee runner knows th. >. motion. Below, the endless hill s s-nis to stretch on forever into the expanse of the valley, the steepnes* of tlie incline lost In its whiteness A I -ng breath and you star* Faster and faster ion go. till sudden.v a t’csli of

r —-—---— — Is Now all ready in every department for HOLIDAY TRADE. A“ ■■ •» ■»* w¥"*l a ELEGANT LINE OF LADIESJ, GENTS AND CHTL- fcy jfjwj Without any except i:i the in st ■ implete line of goods of all *3 fl ■ fl IB ’/ C, ’ DRENS’ HANDKERCHIEFS. Just came in this week ■ spix i rZr i- kinds f r < hi eents ever ffered, and as usual the prices i fhe holiday tbade, all new and desirable patterns; no HS Hu| are correct. FIRST, y u can be supplied with any and all the B™old, stale stuff in this department. We eqilite sure ti please you nK Mia new and up-to-date and Waistings the Bl — - I Iflg KW market affords Also Knit Goods <>f >ll kinds. Scarfs. Shawls, ■ |Or-r-| It DCrQrNTQ K'S nW Hood-. Tam-O'Shanters, Toques, Mittens and Golf Gloves for UOLrUL rnLOCII I O OL SjZaß Ladies and Children. In this department none should go away dissatisfied as this st a'k is all new and will certainly please. Ev- z~s i SILK UMBRELLAS, PARASOLS, MUFFLERS AND HOSE erybodv knows from past experience the* 'k* i<> headquarters for 4* 1 I ERY, BLANKETS, BED SPREADS, HOMEMADE COMaNH I Ujdllld, V>JLcVI4D L/lOIC FORTS and many other articles that go.to make up the more userTF R1 BBOIN S 3 /AIN I J L/A V>t, S 3 ful and appropriate Xmas gifts you can find here. LZv I—— h Bgj —| Then coming to the Important Part E3,jo* Assort ITTO nt j ’* ' - ' -.. M , - I Toys for Girls and Boys S Os Iron Toys of every kind, Banks, Animals, Table Linens from 25 yard t "> Wagons Sleds, Drays, Hook and Ladder Co., Fire DOLLS P Cyj tjRa Full 100-pi.ve din r t-fr .> t <SO set. Engines, and Everything in the Iron Toy Line. Os every Kind, Color and Price, cliwsse.! and undressed But I have in stock a few -t Et tins Also Wooden Toys—Cradles, Game Blocks, Beds, gg Xmastime: „ w v . PRICE, 1C TO 57.50 EACH Desks, Blackboards, Trunks, Steam Engines, . Plain wiiite 1 rench ( . T i , m xr No difference how many dolls the little girl has now, she f/’t' |S3 s|.7sperset Magic Lanterns, Mechanical Toys, Guns, Horses, wants another for Christmas and it suitable c,.b< rgo cart Eg Plain white French Chin , 7 in. h plat., Pianos, Toy Dishes, Toy Furniture, Stoves and to take it out riding. g rN® $ , -l. t SO per set in fact, everything made to make the children Other pieces that you may d.-ir. itthe-ame ', > happy at Xmas time. You can certainly find what 100 piece plain whit, trau-i i' cn 1 suits you for old or young from this, the greatest Hflfl SIO.OO p<- * - e ~]v dec. rat- stock of Xmas goods ever shown in Adams I have ready for the Christinas trade the best line of EU/J Every piece guaranteed J ' 1 Christmas books for young and old ever brought to Deca- wT* IfFU <<d. ~1. r 1 county. Make the children glad and tho older , ... ... . .. BAg •r B tur, and the prices this year are unusually low, and would ffsA rSll 100-oiece Haviland China dim-r. ••• > ones feel young by your kind remembrances advise Sunday school teachers who are wmting . In—ed in gold and colors,i ;dso . * * c n - presents to come in soon and select while stock is fresh .......t.i...... ... t 0 u "“ 11,18 y ear -- the •“ y~~ l,„i k* MU buy this in just the pieces you warn . . , ~■■■ _ RExMEMBER the place is IfCIS -1 With these lines I want t > mention I H PvE , . , aneciid thing l to — the immense stock an I variety of Kg |i ti i >K (i[ T T TS t those FAMOI S lhe PIUTEIU S. I l£\Sa ‘.'s* r * IH * • rlv .nd nee fr your- ’ I I E§ m'v J rH I I I rH ICSI simply grand 'i'." | B B w J B A k > To mention in detail all the good fe) EH| HERE you CERIA.' \' , . u , yjf 4. JL, ♦ nMs ♦ things I have for you to select from Usu your wants supplied from ' > f would take too much time and space, DHHsed stock. It will pay y on therefor must speak in general for the I DECATUR, INDIANA. |

big 'crouGim' the j,ilup ofr 18 cotu -1 your Xr'vif'h kU 7 i,llu *” t ! into the a^S^nr 8 i take 1,,', lil:llt bess and feebleness °, f ■'••'"•limbs, and your 11 the Intoxication of soarin-i into space i rm,, i u I . ealh-d I ■ ° lg '■■ eon,is you are second 'of't! .” li,st ‘or half a ' that B eems iV to b “ t |V p l ‘ v ’ n hnrd !ls lron I Shod- V ‘ g - vou 11,1 electric ■•Kt to i's"T 1 " .. - ''Uh toot seems glued to Itn f ,aw shoot. ' first hr ii' i At last you ca,ch your lotiL-er 1,1 '■ v ke “ llic< -'ough; then a | g one toil nre master of the n( re n ! "e’"""' " f ” 1 ""“ 1 ><-d feet or . '' " ‘ ‘unsh the victorious course Lite lSr™ ~deU CU,ve - Coantr y A Weird Incident. years ago the following strange Then "i *" a " eSt Cnd club: there lay on the table in one of the ooms a list of members who had put ho" ’e'" nam< ' s r ” 1- hit approaching house dinner. A workman on a ladder, who was putting the finishing b.uchea to the f the ceiling, let fall -i single tiny splash u s rwl paint, which , uroppci on tin- first name on the list I a '" l o,) litcruted it as if with the stroke Ot a pen. Some of the members who this occurrence thought it a 'v>-y bad omen; others, like Hamlet, dei augury. But. curiously enough, 11 -.uber whose name had thus been 'hruek out was taken ill the next day ■""1 died m the < lub on the night before the dinner was to have taken place.— , Golden Penny. Valuable Share*. . J 1 in' shares of the New Hirer corpora-' tmn ar-the must valuable in the world, | ii n.ns of them usually | “I"’>i Um market. Formally years : sold ..t io apiece, and J indeed Charles 1. reassigned ins king's I K ‘ ' ,si " ‘•"Hipniiy ,u return for a , perpetual annual payment of £SOO, . I "‘ih'h sum, under tlie stylo of the! , "king's . ,og." is s ti|| llai d. How bad , -i L;i:_ in that was is shown by tlie . | dividend fo* years past having ’awr- , ag< d over i'J.iw.ij p. r share, while a few , I years ago one of the shares was sold 1 for £l22akh» by public auction. The ac-i tual face value of tlie shares is £loo.— i London Standard. .Miss casaaye i trust you win con-1 ! sider my criticisms, dear, as coming | from a friend. Vera Perte -Oh. I will. 1 look upon ! yon as the oldest, the very oldest, i friend I have. Brooklyn Life. < Thin Spread. 'i Kwatei - It’s more or less true that, as tlie old saw Ims it. “Charity covers a multitude of sins.” Hardhead But never if it's our chai- ' Ity and other people's sins, i’biladel- : | nbla Press.

THERMOMETER DEGREES. The Invented by nud AmjHitied by Fahrenheit. Why should the freezing point be marked 32 degrees and the boiling point 212 degrees on the Fahrenheit thermometer scale? Most students know that its inventor divided the space between these points into 180 degrees instead of tlie simpler 100 degrees used in the Centigrade system, but few understand how this number e.aine to lie chosen. A writer thus ex plains the matter: The thermometer was really invented ! by Sir Isaac Newton. He started his scale with tlie heat of the human body and used ;.s his instrument a glass tulie filled with linseed oil. The lowest figure on the scale was the freezing point and the highest point boiling water. Tlie starting point of this scale, as mentioned, was the heat of the human body, which bo called by the round number 12, as the duodecimal system was then in common use. He divided the space b-tween tlie freezing point and tlie temix-ratnre of the body into 12 points and sttifid that the boiling point, of water would be about 30. as the temperature must be nearly three times that of the Luman body. When J'alirenheit took up the subject a few years later be used t|ie Newton instrument, but. finding the scale not fine enough, divided each degree into two parts and so made the measure between tin- freezing and boiling points 2-1 parts instead of 12. Fahrenheit then discovered that lie could obtain a lower degree of cold than freezing, and. taking a mixture of ice and salt for a starting point, he counted 24 jaiints up to body heat. By this measurement be i obtained 8 for the freezing point and 53 for the boiling point. His scale now read: Zero, freezing, 8; body heat, 24, and boiling water. 53. It will be noticed that this scale Is identically that of Newton's, only starting lower and having the numbers doubled. It was with this scale that Fahr nheit worked for a long time, but finally. finding the temperature divisions still too large, he divided each degree \ into four parts. Multiplying the numbers just given by four the thermometer scale now in use results. The chance choice of Newton of the figure 12 to represent the body beat determined the present thermometer scale, even as the yard, foot and inch measures originally came from metisj tires of parts of the human body, and as the width of a railroad carriage was ! determined by. the track, which in turn was determined by tlie width between the cart wheels necessary to I bear a load which could comfortably I be drawn by a mule.—American In- 1 ventor. Reeovereu. "Hid your busband recover after his railway accident?” “No.” replied the widow, “but I did — $30.0W.”~ Houston I’ost.

The Success of De Bion Its. The secret of tlie marvelous success of M. de Blowitz as Paris correspond ent of the London Times is said to have been due to the absolute and complete confidence with which he inspired the statesmen, the politicians ami the diplomats with whom he was brought in contact ami which lie never betrayed. They all felt that they could depend absolutely on his discretion, no matter hew great the icmpttil'mn from a journalistic point of view to d-> other- ] wis<. When the Huke beonzes while play- i i Ing billiards at the Qt’ ii d'ltrsay after dinner one evening suddenly received the news of the purchase by the Brit- I Ish government of tlie kliedive's stock ' in the Suez Canal company and. wild , with rage, broke forth into frantic ' threats against the English govern- 1 ment. charging M. de Blowitz to make 1 known bis indignation and the tact ; that he was bent on retaliation, the 1 correspondent of The Times, w ho had been one of the party present, although he saw the value of the news, made 1 no use of it. The next day he met the duke, who bad recovered his senses and who, grasping him by both hands, exclaimed: "I shall never forget what you have done for us. You have sacrificed journalistic success to your sense of duty and to the cause of peace." Tbo Tall Gwinn of Yucatan. The sisal grass of Yucatan is one of tlie most remarkable vegetable prod nets known. It grows in long blades, sometimes to the length of four or five feet, and when dry the blade curls up from side to side, making a cord which is stronger than any cotton string of equal size that has over been manufactured. It is in great demand among florists and among manufacturers of various kinds of grass goods, but as soon as its valuable properties become known it. will have a thousand uses which are now undreamed of. Hopes, ords, lines of any description and any size may be manufactured of it, and a ship's cable of sisal grass is one of the possibilities of the future, it is almost impervious to the action of salt water and is not readily decayed or disinte--1 grated by moisture and heat and will in time prove one of the most valuable productions of Central America. Hard rtenrl.-il. ‘Toor Bickers has a very hard heart- ! ed wife,” said Trivvet. “What’s the trouble now?” asked I Dicer. “She not only broke the broomslick ! over bis head, but mode him go to the I 1 Store and buy another. ’ The Gallant Juil;<<-. Magistrate Next case! Wlio've w ' got now? Constable — Joseph Biggins, alias “Skates.” Magistrate—Ladies first. We'll have j Alice Skates take the stand. PbiladelI phia Ledger.

I Holiday I fgs MaaaBMOHBanaBBMaBHB 1 Good s I ■MMHMBHi snaav ■MDrMMMKn,S 3 3NKM IK .'WJ —roraiMP—uwi 1— S *3 o B S g Our Display is a I 1 t S Popular Success B H B B 5 w Ji ■ 1 PLEASES. BECAUSE IT IS I ■ Il fresh, new and novel: it satis- B B ■ * Iles, as customers are c« n- ■ stantly buying. S ■ Don't fail toseeonr line of Medallions B Albums, Books, Bibles, Smokers' artig eles. Necktie Boxes, Fancy Ink Stands, I Traveling Sets, Music Bolls, Glove ami ■ B Handkerchief Boxes, Lamps, Stationery, | Dojs, Games, and many other gilts that Q 6 cannot be here enumerated. B Onr stock contains a great variety ol g appropriate presents for everybody. ■ 9 We are prepared to meet your wants in the most satisfactory manner, and at v I The Fairest Prices I ===:— -i! — | ! Blackburn I ] Christen | C THE DRUGGISTS | - - -■ -.1 1 T --mr.- _ B 1