Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 295, Decatur, Adams County, 23 December 1903 — Page 7

VERY lengthy shaves Travel* Wan, Mile. Over the U<*>*uft<* Miiii’m fu<c. Tiie distance n num shaves in an !lv . ' .rage lifetime. th'-' distance his ra i( ‘r travels over his face, will be a stirprise to ih >st people, From a inultiude of examples all average measurepp.pt around the chin from oar u, ear i, found to be twelve and one-halt '.p.jje, From where the beard starts th*’liiroal ,o the chin and thence to the edge of the upper lip is four and „oe-half inches. Von must reckon that , tg ueiossaiy to give two strokes of ■j,e razor to each inch or fraction of ia. li in order Io cover all the surface and go ov -r each section o f the fl ce twice in oldcl to secure a clear, jfi’facc. So, multiplying the number of strokes by the number of times the ra„r j passed over the entire face, you jet the figure -1. and tour times the «o above mentioned measurements vives you the figures 50 and 18 respeci velj. vvtdch. added together, produce as. Therefore the average man. whether dark or fair, shaves 04 indies «-i i itrcnty tour hours. With these figures <Barrive nt the revolt that every matt searing only a mustache shaves _i.ih;s f,>et 4 inches per year. Taking, then, the average life at seventy years and ijat the fair man starts shaving at ghteen and the dark man a year ear er, or at seventeen, we have the fol■wing result. That a fair man. if be .res UH h< is seventy, will shave hi ■ the course of his life 20 miles (KXI yards 4 inches. The dark man. if he : lives till he is seventy, will shave in The course of his life 20 miles 1,340 raids I foot 8 inches,—Kansas city ■ independent. The foot Astray. William I'. Cody win once relating a s<i>ry which concerned an Indian who lad met with an accident iu a Buffalo I Bill show. It was necessary to ampu • ite the Indian's leg. and in the de ■ -iription of this operation C«xly was iilerrupted frequently by a young d<>< < who injected technical and medical ■ this Into the straight vernacular of ie scout. He was irritated, but ig I • ired the doctor. “A few days after •je operation." continued the narrator. • the Indian learned that bis leg had wn buried. With a whoop he le.qHil :rom h.s bed and Jnmped ujioti tl:<- doc •or with both feet." ‘Jumped with ImiHi feet after an ojs .mtion?" shouted the doctor, exulting i bls exposure of the great scout's sb--art story. "I said upon the ‘doctor with Intli rot,'" explained Cody, "in order to istingiiish him from the other hospital hysiciau. who had only one foot, bav ig pat the other into people's affairs 'ooften that be lost it.” The Waj Home. When the bishop of Truro. Dr. Gott, "as dean of Worcester his absent mindedness was so,notorious that he iraed tor himself the sobriquet of ' l>ean For-Gott." On one occasion be had invitevl some : leads to dine with him. On their ar val. a short time before the dinner Iriur. lie suggested that ill the interval f waiting bis friends would perhaps ke to walk through the grounds. After spending about a quarter of an ■ jur in admiring the flowers, shrubs nd greenhouses they suddenly came iou a door in tile garden wall. Abl said the dean to liis astonished -utsts. •Tills will be a much nearer ay for you to go home than by going uk to the front!” And. forgetting is invitation, he opened the door and >vrod them out Vr OfVeiiuirr Cravat. A good story of Whistler and his pe ‘ Uiatlties is told in the Free Lance. a gentleman went to Whistler with a "iter of introduction and sent up bl* "ml with the letter. The servant pres riitly brought down the card with n I >te in pencil on It—" Who is the great I’• Painter?” The visitor promptly I rote ' Whistler*' and was immediate I) shown upstairs. An amusing scene I 'Hoard, arising out of the fact that I Im-visitor was wearing a red necktie IHhlstler declared It interfered with tie I 'l" r »< heme of his room and "put him I " a Picture he was painting in quite a different "key.” Finally be obliged I >» to take off the offending cravat II '•'• lie would condescend to exchange •'lother word with him

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saining cats ano '■"•‘"•is F.V|»I Bnali „ IIM .. •'Lui.v explanations have 1... , '-'in of the e- ~ . . i ' eats and dogs" One s' i ' ‘'" llin » 1 "f the Pre, ~p !. /.! ", '* “ V,"'” | waterfall --u . entmloupe,” a nr en o-, *' """"i- a catadoupes," t!,a 1. X. ’•MUnnmion is I 1 '•" blossoms of Iho willow ; -,•■> a "M were I' .I . ' '■"‘""'lies of palm. : parts of r, i ' i "" 1 <lu " s solin' .. ~',n "bore they increase eri ,<r I' ''? u"' " April sbow ' 1,1 "v belief prevailed that the ■Un Ih <>uu.lit them. vrtlml' Sil>in " to northern ".■’bol-g.v, H1 winch the eat is said to b'”o great influence on the weather, •bbl sailors still have a saying. "The •at has a gale of wind in her tail” vvaen she is unusually frisky. Witches that rode upon the storms were said to assume the form of eats, and the 'tormy northwest wind is called "the ‘•'Vs nose" in the Harr, mountains '■ven nt the present day. 1 hen the dog is a symbol of wind, which in old Gernan pictures is figured ns the head of a dog or wolf from which blasts issue. 1 he cat therefore symbolizes a downpour of rain: the dog. strong gusts of wind, which accompany it. and so n tain ot cats and dogs" is u heavy ralu with wind. Evolution of th- Baronet, 1 lie sweynes-fcather (hog's bristle), which seems to have been tile original prototype of the bayonet, was n long rapier blade, fixed in a handle ami ear” lied in a sheath, which was given to a musketeer for defense after he lind discharged uis piece. Stuck by it* handji; in the muzzle of liis gun, it constituted a very efficient weapon for acting against pikemen. To iliminish his in*mjpbrance the swcyncs-feather and musket re.-t were combined, the latter formii g a sheath for the former, in the reign of .James 1 1 ovv a r<l the lai ter part of the civil war tiie use of the musket rest was abandoned. and it became the practice to "tick the dagger by its handle into the muzzle of the pie,-,- after discharging it. In ItiS) two rings were added by v-hieh the bayonet was placed on the muzzle without interfering with the tiring. This improvement, the invention of General Ala, kay, an llngllsh officer, was introduced into the French army by Aauban in 1703. By the English themselves it was not adopted until after the battle of Fontenoy (17451. where the advantages its use conferred on tiie I r-nch were only too painfully manifest, the I ink - < f Cumberland's army tieing defeated with the loss of l 15.000 men.— Pearson's Weekly. Ilia Own Manuscript. George Ade, in the tally days of his career, liefore the "Fables In Slang" had brought him fame, called one morning in Chicago upon a Sunday editor on a mission from a theatrical manager. "I have brought you this manuscript" - be began, but the editor, look lug up at the tall, timid youth, inter rupted: “Just throw the manuscript in th' wastebasket, please." hi said. "I'm , very busy just now anil haven't time i to do it myself." Mr. Ade obeyed calmly He resinned: "I have come from the theater, and the manuscript 1 have just thrown in the wastebasket is your comic farce of ‘The Erring Son.' which the man-1 ager asks me to return to you with thanks. He suggests that you sell it to an undertaker, to be read at funerals." Then Mr. Ad< smiled g'■•:! ..ml withdrew. “fapplna" Crows. , The following account is gives, in ' Country Life of the way in which pil ' ferlug i rows are dealt with by Italian agriculturists A hole of a cert tin depth I is dug In the ground, at the bottom of | which is plat-oil some decayed meat. A fume'! shaped wedge ol paper Is then inserted into the hole, the upper edge of Hu- piqiei leing coated with birdlime Maitre Corbeau” sees the i food, descends to grasp it. and when he- has firm bold of it be rises up again. His In'll.l is. however, swathed with the paper cap and in bis mad endeavor ■ to rid himself of it he cireh s up to extraordinary heights in the air. revolv ing constantly and at :o rapid a pace that, sium overcome with giddiness, he falls to tiie earth dean

ENGLISH AS SPOKEN. h Is In Scotland, Sajs a Clitic, That u la Heard at Its Best. Ihe query “Where is the prettiest English spoken?" is answered by ;i writer in tiie London News. and. strange to say, it is not in England, if the writer be accepted as an authorita- | live critic, it was th'- opinion of Sir Morell Mackenzie that those who should speak English most inusieally were the in habitants of lladenoeli, luverness-shire, Scotland. They had the reputation for centuries of being perfect speakers of English: but. the writer says, he must now go to the glens branching northward from the Caledonian canal to find Hie language spoken in its purity. "In tiie beautiful glen of Moriston iu particular one has noted the most exquisite speech it seems possible to imagine. There is an almost total absence of dialect atul vocal distiguremeius, though n qua'nt, delicately marked rise and fall of the loieg arc very faintly noticeable. The language used is extraordinarily pure and free from alien words, which is attributable tu the fact that the people acquire their English direct from books ami that so far dialect contaminations have not penetrated the glen." The writer Ims n good word to say of Celtic protiuneiatioii of English gon erally: "The charm of Irish English is undeniable. It has a softness that ap peals irresistibly to the ear, but unfortunately it is linked with a certain • lenient of dialect which just places it below perfection." Vut-kct l-'urnaceß, Curious hand furnaces are used in (lldna during tiie winter mouths, chiefly in the north, when the fire, in place of being In the house, as we have ft. Is carried about the person beneath the thickly padded cotton garments or f n the hand. At times it is placed beneath the chair on which one is seated. This contrivance, resembling the charcoal pans formerly used before the days of the pit coal by the Hertford shire straw plasters, was first intro dueed to our notice when resting nt a village iu the Fukien province, which, before we had investigated the cause, we noted ns a place remarkable for the deformity of Its inhabitants, old men and women with strange swellings projecting iu the most unaccountable places. Our speculations were, however. speedily set nt rest and the matter satisfactorily explained by an old gentleman, who removed his greatcoat and disclosed a small cop[>er furnace secured round his waist with a band and neatly covered with basket work. This artificial mode of beating the body is only resorted to in lime of extreme cold, as on ordinary occasions the people deem their thick clothing a suffl cient protection during winter.—Golden Penny. A People. The heart of Brittany never changes, but its face is rtyiidly losing many of its prominent characteristics with the leveling influence of the French repub li ■ It is only far out of the beaten track, now. or on special occasions, like I fetes, that you see universally the eos ! taint's and customs of Hie old Armorican p ninsttla. only an hour's journey from Quitnper. the mislernized chief town of Finistere. and you are among till- I'.igoudille* tl people TV I lose dress suggests the Eskimos and t'liinese. [ whose faces are strongly Mongolian in type and v. ho in language, customs and beliefs seem to have no relation with the rest ol Frame. More and more the picturesque problem •!,■.> pivneui is, coming to attrm t attention. Artists. | students and tourists alike are fasci noted by it Andre Saglio in ('entury. I V Stickler For Hank. It Is not in this country alone that the notion of equality prevails. The London Figaro reports tiie following instance: As a magnificent steamer, the prop erty of the I'eninsitlnr and Oriental company, was steaming into Southamp ton harbor a grimy coal lighter floated imnifsliatcl.v in front of it An officer on board the steamer, seeing this, shouted: ■•Clear out of the way with that barge!" The lighter man. a native of the Emerald Isle, shouted in reply. “Are ye the capttiln of Hint vessel?" “No,” answered the officer. “Then spake to yer equals." said the lighter man. “I’m the captain of this." A Ph il«»M<»ph*r. The old iimn was sitting on the root gazing plncidly m-ross the rushing waters. "Washed all your fowls away?" ask ed the man in the lioat. “Yes. but the dneks swam." smiled the old man. "Tore up your plum trees?" "Don't mind it much. They said the crop would be a failure." "But the flood! It is up to your win dows!" “Well, them windows needed washing anyway, n y friend.” Tonkli Ca«r« <*n«t More. ‘■Salvation seems to be mighty costly tn some, while It's free to others." growled Hie man who was asked tn contribute to the ehurcb. “Os course." replied tlie deaeon. "It's a bigger lot, to save some people than tl Is to suve others.” t'ldeiigo I'ost, Slbu«. Iriie Watchman I.isik a-liere! Don't you see that sign? it's big enough mid black euoiigli' It says. "No Smoking!" Agreeable Trespasser I know It doos. | my friend, but, really, you must not I believe in signs. Don't you see Hint I urn smoking nevertheli «s? t’im-intmtl rimes 81 nr. \ fool flatters himself: the wise man I flatters the fisd.- Bulwer.

I Mrfnl WOod Lore. If you are lost in the woods sit down the moment you realize it and think it over. If you start off at random you wi'l be sure to walk in a circle. .\oue but the most experienced woodsmen cun keep n straight course, and even they go in a circle when they get really lost. If you know the direction of camp tie some strip of white rag to a tree and then start off. You can find the compass points by remembering that moss always grows on the north side of trees. Keep tying strips of rag to trees us you gu on. Then you can find your way back to the starting point if you should fail to strike the path that leads to safety Lucky Mmu. In crossing the ocean a father and son both became very seasick. The fit ther recovered quickly, but the son was ho exhausted with the attack that he sank into a state of apathy, from which it seemed impossible to arouse him. 'The steamer physician, thinking he would try a sudden shock, said: “I have bad news for you. Your father is dead!” The son. raising liis expressionless eyes to the doctor, replied, "Lucky man'." Oeltln* t'p Carly. “1 can't get up early." said a wealthy gentleman to his doctor. "Ob, yes. you can,” was the reply, “if you will only follow my advice. What is your usual hour qf rising?" "Nine o’clock." “Well, get up hair an hour later every fitly, and in the course of u month you will find yourself up at 4 in the morn ing.” Misers. “Dill yotl over notice that almost nlf the misers mentioned lit the papers are single men?" asked Mr. Watts. "Yes.” answered Mrs Watts. "Mar rled misers are too eomtnon to be worth mentioning." ■Everything ccmes to him who waits, but this doesn't include books that have been I'orrowed. No end to bargains. Racket store. Excursion rates on everything at Moser's gallery, I A great variety of ladies writing I desks, sold cheap at, L. Yager & Sons. 2907 d House for rent—Nine rooms, all mordern couvenonces. Inquire at this office. 259d6 To see them is to buy one. New thing in a foot rest. — L Yager &- Sons. 290d7 We have u fine line of Morris chairs, price to suit ail. See them at L. Yager & Sons. 2S)Od7 Henning & Cn.have a car load of fine Lehigh Valley hard coal at their yards. Your orders are solicited. 2803 d Our general stock of holiday goods in furniture is as complete as ?ver. l> i not miss seeing _it. L Yager A- Sons. 290dT Buy your winter's sop])ly of hard coal at the Henning A- C'o. yards. They have just opened a new car lead. V’ Two trains a day Chicago to C-ali i fornia. Oregon and Washington. Chicago, Union Pacific' A- NorthWestern Line. Notice Peter Kirsch is running his feed mill every day. ami will crush ear corn and grind small grain. Satisfaction Guaranteed dfit Lost—Gold plated chain and silver Masonic charm, tinder please leave at this office. Gist between Boston store and Fourth street. 289d6 The undersigned has his mail boxes and any of those who purchased may have their’s whenever they wish. Any one not having boxes can order one at any time. Jonathan Burkhoad, Agent. 290 2w To whom it may concern: The undersigned Ims Ixsen chosen to take charge of the property and settling of estate of Wjllmina Barrone, deceased, late of Union Township,, Adams county, Indiana. All ]»er -I sons luivmg any claim against thoj dec '.ised will fplense present the same t> in« and , IJ’will pay it John H Barrone Decatur, Ind., K. R. No. tl. 27bd6wl

n n Poultry Salo Barred Plymouth Hock Cockerels for sale nt SI.OO 1 each. These are large and extra fine breed from a first prize cockerel secured at the Portland Poultry Show last winter. Twenty years a breeder of I’lymouiu Boeks exclusively. Just shipped twenty-six pullets to I), I). Miller of Lima, t thio. JOSHI A BBKJIIT I 1 Decatur, Indiana. n Q t

50c dolls 35c. Racket store. Read Hensley’s ad. 35c dress dolls 25c. Racket store Have you read Hensley's ad vet r ; Cups and Saucers 5c to 25c. Racke 1 store. Santa Claus headquarters at th* Racket store. See Hensley’s new stock of jewlery. See his ad. Have you seen Hensley’s stock ol jowlery" Read his ad. J. S. Cvlchin has anything yon want in the Santa Claus line. Reau his ad. 287d10 Yon miss it by not taking advan tage of Hensley’s reduction sale. Read his ad. Chicago to St. Paul Minnnoapolis four daily fast trains via the Chicago &• North-Western Ry. Chicago & North Western is the only double track railway between Chicago and Missouri river. Two solid threugh trains daily Chicago to California. Chicago, Union Pacific Line The Overland Limited, solid train Chicago to Coast daily. Chicago, Union Pacific & North-Western Line. Money* to loan on farms at lowest rate of interest. Any sum, any length of time and privilege of partial payments. The Decatur Abstract and Loan Co., 257dtf, Private funds to loan on city property at lowest rate interest. Privilege of partial payments. The Decatur Abstract and Loan Co. 257dtf For Sale—A brand new |2O Wilson heating stove for soft coal. In good condition and will sell right. Inquire at this office. 263 d Ten dollars private funds left with us to loan on Decatur real estate,first mortgage. Low rate of interest. Will loan in sums of <SO upwards. The Decatur Abstract and Loan Co. 257dtf ’ Harmon Bosse is the duly authorized agent for the St. Louis Post Dispatch, the best paper published in the west. He has established headquarteis at Smith, Yager & Falk's drug store. Leave orders there or with him. 288d12 One fare plus 1'.’.00 from Chicago j round trip via Chicago Great Western rilway. To old Mexico, New Mexco, Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas. Nebraska and Colorado. Ampel return limits. Tickets on sale Dee. 15th, 1903; Jan. sth and 19th, 1904. For furthre information apply to J. P. Elmer. G. P. A.. J Chicago, 111. Florida? A'es, I m going. Well | there’s something new for you to I consider. The Southern Rai way in connection with the Queen and I Crescent Route will take you down I inv v.ay, and bring you buck an-i other for a slight advance in the reg- i ular tourist rate. Low round trip rates now in effect to all tourists points in Florida and the south. Good connection, through sleep ! ers, fine equipment, best of every-1 thing. For literature and full par- j ticulars, write J. S. McCullough,. | N. W. I*. A., 225 Dearborn st., Chicago, 111., (4. B Allen, A. G. P. A.. ! Mo.

The Overland Limited | the fast electric-lighted daily train between Chicago and California via the Chicago, Union Pacific * NorthWestern Line. is the most luxurious train tn the world, leaving Chicago daily Sum p in. I ess than three days en route. Butut smoking cars, barber and bath, standard and private compartment sleeping cats, dining cats, observation and library car, Booklovers' Library and telephone. I* Two other last trains leave Chicago daily for San Francisco . Los Angeles and Portland Il 111 s p ■ , . ’ r.iuipniFni iif hiitftrt smoking iinJ library »ars, I« ■ ■•■ i.' Ing ' i i• z, >’ if if n .. room I andtourist sleeping i.ns.ttrJ dining mis f.i l.i I < trit-setvkel. t The "Bent of Everything 1 Ml na »( ' 11. k, th tn llllh fi lie biMjk <*ii < .ilifvM in.i. uiltrtuoi «all or ‘IH «Uu„tr If flfl* *'• ! Trirrtlaj »gt Chlcaia, aCAN WRr JULMMUjU!I lillnoll w l «a *0 .5 ° S

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— ROY ARCHBOLD, DENTIST. I. O. O. F. BLOCK. ’Phones -Office, 164; residence, 245 'Phones—Residence 312. Office 103. Yeafs of Fred Reppert Live Stock Auctioneer. Speaks English, German, Swiss and Low German. DECATUR, INDIANA. Weak Men Made Vigorous r-’t>js7 tsntixr trswrr What PEFFER S NERVIGOR Dttf! It acts Powerfully and quickly ('arcs when all i ouiie th fail. Young men regain lo«t manhood; old in*-r. re.-<.ier t ..v: '• ><. •-. A uct-tj t«n;»r anteed to Cure >erv<>u»ne«n, Lunt vitality liii|H>teu< y, Nightly EmiMion«. I,oat Power, either nex, Falling M«*mnry. Wasting Dta en*iH, and all effete of setf-uhuar or rxc(a»rt and I in<i»>crctu>n Waids on Insanity and consumption Don't let druggist impute a worthier t-übHfltute on j you it y jeki- a greater profit. Insist on hav . Ing I'EUEK'S NER VIGOR, or nend for it (an |be carried in vent jss'keL Prepaid, plain wrapper. $1 per box. or O f<»rsA. with A Written Guar autre to < are or Refund Money. Pamphlet free PEFFER MEDICAL ASS’N. Chicago. HL For sale by Blackburn & Christen. 1 ■■■" ■■■ I — ■■■■ Music! Music! You Can Buy all the latent and up-to-date MUSIC that you desire, at reasonable prices. Leave orders at Nachtrieb’s drug store. W. E. Smith. Music! Music! MONEY TO LOAN THE DECATUR ABSTRACT & LOAN COMPANY. (incorporated) A largi sum of PRIVATE MONEY has been placed with us to loan on city property and farms. No delay or red tape in making loans. Lowest rides of interest. \\ e are able to clone ■ill loans on the same day of receiving application. Will loan in sums of >SO up. on one to live years time, with privilege of partial payments. This company can also furnish abstracts of ' title on short notice to any piece of 'real estate in Adilins eolllltv THE I DECATUR ABSTRACT .< LOAN I CO. Rooms 3 and I. Studntuiker I block, 257dtf