Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 296, Decatur, Adams County, 24 December 1903 — Page 6

HIS SECOND THOUGHT. The StnDriver \<*ted on II and saved His i*;i mm enters. Back in the good old days when nerves and nillroa.l* "/ore little known an old stage road r.-in front Lake Champlain Io Ogdensburg. N. Y . passing through ti e little lev It of Sodom. This village nestled in a valley be- | tween two great hills, over which tin- ! white ribbon of the road wound lyI’poti one of the trips of the stage the regular driv. who ■ id been al home for some weeks recovering from an illness. wa< riding inside, while the red haired, mild featured, big boned Irishman acting as his substitute oeeiipiod the driver’s seat upon the box. The day was n beautiful one. and the passeu- i gers were enjoying their drive keenly, their appetites increasing as the distance lessened between them and the town of Sodom, with its promised pause for refreshment. Suddenly as the heavy stage him bored over the brow of the hill, down which the road plunged at a sharp angle. running through the little town at ijs foot and ascending the hill beyond, the passengers became conscious that their pace hud been recklessly in- . creased. Faster and faster they went, ’’MJeshing down the hill at a rate rapidly becoming a furious one. Trees and pushes nt last IWAmP Tint a dizzying blur along the road. All clung to the reeling stage and held their breath in terror, Ciile on the stage raced, down the hill with ever increasing speed. Into the town, past the hostelry with the waiting host left standing in amaze at the door, past the post office without i pause, and out upon the road lead- | ing up the face of the hill beyond. ; There the pace slackened, and as the : incline grew more steep at last the i smoking horses came to a standstill. | With one accord the dazed passengers ■ tumbled out and surrounded the driver. ; .who now stood :;t the head of his I reeking leaders. "What is it, I’at? What Is it? Did I they get away from you?" came the breathless questions. "Nope," replied I'at with a set face. ' "It wor that, ’ pointing grimly before him. There lay the stage tongue drag ■ ping uselessly on the ground at the I heels of the horses and completely sev- ' eri'd from the coach. At a glance the regular driver comprehended the mean ing of the danger to which the passeu- ! gers of that stage, deprived of its sole i means of guidance, had been exposed, and. realizing the miracle of their os- , cal**, bo turned sick and fainted where ■'Te stood. Later, back at the inn. when the ex- ’ clteiuent had somewhat subsided and fresh horses were being put to the repaired coach, some one turned to I’at and a<l;ed: “rat, what was your first thought when the pole dropped?” “Well, sor,” ho answered, settling the quid more comfortably in Ids cheek, “me furst thought wor. Lord ha' mercy on our “owls!’ Thin thinks I to ‘ nieself, ■Confound a horse that can’t outrun a wagon!* and 1 licked the poor bastes all the way down the hill!”— Lippincott’s. \ ProKre»nivt I’.ditor. A very rich man once bought a news paper. It was an afternoon newspa per. and he was interested in it for ti month <>r two I >pe of his ideas was the publication of u noon <*dition that ; should* contain more news than the I noon editions of Ins competitors. He ; •thought bard on this problem and ( finally decided it would be a greet ‘ •troke to print the decisions of the • riSjdted States supreme court at 12 •"clock 03rn Jlonday when the court was In session. k This plait complicated somewhat by lhe fact that the supreme court does JU’.’tt until uoon. However, the "editor was equal to the emergency. He telegraphed to his W ashington correspondent, "See the supreme court at ' once and have them meet nt 11 o'clock 1 so we can get the decisions in our noon ! edition.’’ Saturday Evening Postj 4 A Discriminating lisa. * “Yes, the neighbor* •••mtdaiii about my dog." “Ifoes lie blip?' 1 “No, he's too afieetionate. He has the reputation of being a judge of beauty, and every time a pretty woman passes along the street lie frisks about extravagantly." “I should think the women would like that.” “Yes: but there are only two pretty women on the street, and the others complained." I'levehtnd Plain Dealer. Her Object. Mr. Snoodles Good afternoon. Miss Annex. Going for a walk? 1 hope I may accompany you? Miss Annex Yes, Dr Sargeant says wo must always walk with some object. and I suppose you will answer the purpose. Dherithtn. He Why is »ho suing him for divorce? She For diversion. He Diversion! She Yes: sl.e says being married 1* no monotonous. -Baltimore American. I n**<*i>n rn Mr. Affrighted, he turned on his pursuer. “Yon black thing, why do you follow n><‘ constantly? W hat are you?’ “I am your sunshine companion." mockingly replied hi* shadow, t'bl<ago Tribune. .Hist Wblntllnit. Nervous Employer Thomas. I wish yon wouldn’t w'-.iMle nt your work. Office Boy I ain't Working, sir. I'm only just whistling. An l you sure you nrr nil right mid those who don’t ItolleV" a* you do are ■II wrong ? .Yebru»»a Stale .Io trunk

USES FOR NETTLES? TUer Are Good to Uni unit I ui-nlsh Thread and < loiliing. T.iere w-is a time owe when the common nettle was not the usually despised weed it is now People did nor root it out of existence or shun it as a | nuisance, but cultivated it lor use as food, for clothing and for [taper manu- | facture. It certainly does not look inviting as a food and y t during the Irisl: famine hundreds of poor people existed entirely on it. cooking the young plant as greens. There was a method of I.lm iting It by •earthing up,’’ as is now used for sea kale. Animals, while refusing to touch tli<» growing nettle, devour it eagerly when made into hay. and in Russia. Sweden and Holland it Is mowed several times a year for fodder. The common name given to the nettle | in some languages means "that with which one sens." for the liber was used as a thread several centuries ago. In Kamchatka the natives use the thread for fishing lines and eordage. In France it is used for paper. In Hindustan anil China it is woven into grass cloth, ami the Scotch have prepared, spun and woven it into as good linen us the flax makes. The Chinese nettle yields a fiber as soft as silk, and there is now in Dresden a "China grass" manufactory devoted to the industry of weaving cloth from this and the common n >ttle.— Stray Stories. IteMonreel'ul Major Pond. Major Pond was never upset in diffiI cullies, once lie was traveling with lan Maclaren. There was a breakj down on the railway and the prospect I of a lecture engagement being missed ; and SLOOo lost. What he did was to ' telegraph a long and merry message to I the Itudienee about the breakdown, sayi ing be and lan Maclaren would bo ar- | riving not more than half an hour late. ■ Singing was provided to entertain the i audience. When the half hour was up in came another telegram more clieer- ■ ful than ever, saying that they were i coming along and that lan Maclaren i was determined to lecture to that au- ; dleneo if all the railways in the world , had broken dov. it- • The Americans are an emotional peO pie. nnd they were interested. Every' i twenty minutes in eame a fresh telej gram with something funny and bright i about it and always declaring that the ' great novelist was advancing. It was ; • half past 10 when the couple reached i I the platform, and the welcome given , them was hilari •u*. A Natural Weather Vane, It was an old belief that if the pre- | , served body of a halcyon or kingfisher : were suspended by a thread from the veiling its I ill would alway s turn to--1 Ward the quarter from « lienee the ! wind was blowing. Thus Barabas in Marlowe’s ".lew of I Malta" ays: “Jiilt non b.ow stands the wind' 1 Into what i| . •>< ,-ps niv halcyons ■ bill? Ha! To the east? Yes." Shakespeare also alludes to it in "King Lear" when Kent in his reply t > ! Cornwall rebukes those who "Turn their halcyon’s leaks With < very gale and vary of their masterr." In more modern days a stuffed kingI fisher has been seen hanging from the I beam of a cottage veiling at Bolley. ' near Southampton, and in other places of that neighborhood, where there Is a • klUdfed belief that if a dead kingfisher is hung up by its beak its breast will turn w Ith the ebb and flow of the tide. Cnsnlns M. Clay ■■ a Flffliter. General Cassiu* M. Clay fought many duels in his day, usually with his long bladed knife, meeting pistol or rifle equally with that trusty weapon. His physical strength was gigantic. He ■ was accustoUKsl to the Use of we:i|M>ns, i and ho was alway s <-p<d pud never insl ’ Ills judgment. For example, when an advol'Miry shot him and ho supposed ho wn# done for he inflatisl his lungs to ; the full, conscious that he would live , as long as he could hold Ills breath, then he drew ids knife and did his I bloody work. That was when be killed Turner. After all. sh aking musingly, reviewing his life, he confessiil to u re porter when lie was above eighty four that he wa* opposed on principle to the duel, thinking it n savage way to settle a difficulty. "But there are some cases for which it seems to be the only reme dy.” lie added. 4 llrnntltnl Tua** On n grand day in the nW 'ehfvalrlc times, when thd lady of wdh knightly heart was phslgist by name, when it came to St. Leon’s tiffin he lifted the sparkling ' Up on high nnd gave them 1 this: "i drink to one." he said, "whose image never may depart, deep carved on the human heart, till memory is dead." With that he paused as if lie would not brenlhe her name in careless mood thus lightly to another, then bent • ; his noble head ns though to give that word the reverence due and gently said. "My mother!" 1 l-’atal Plans. She- I believe every matt Is the architect of his own fortune. He Yes. but the trouble I* most nmn 1 spend so mm h time mi the plans that they have mme left for building.- Ex change. A Har«l Snbjeet tn Handle. Deuber 1 will guarantee to pnlnt I anything called for Dealer Good! Do me .1 speaking likeness of a dumb waiter.—New 'oik Titneti. The pnrk siirrotindlr.g Blenheim pal ace Is ‘g.'tat acres In extent and twelva miles around Guilt hns very quick ears to nn acetl | eallou Flelditig

TURNER’S AMBITION. Tli<‘ (areal Painter Achieved It by IcarM of Self Sacrifice. Turner euukl not bear to soil a favor- , it< painting. He wa> always invlan ! i-holy after such it transaetion. "1 lost ' one of my children this week." he would l sadly exclaim. At a meeting at Somerset House it was decided to purchase his two great pictures, the "Rise" and the "Fall of Carthage," for the Na tional gallery. A Mr. Gritliths was commissioned to offer S.".OW for them. "A noble offer." said the painter. “« nol le offer: bin. no, 1 cannot part with. : them. Impossible.'’ Mr. Griffiths. greatly disappointed, took bis leave. [ ’.lT.rncr ran after him. “Tell those gen- ' ti men.” he said, “that the nation will I most likely have the pictures after ail.” Long before this Turner had matured a purpose which continued to be Ills dominant idea while life lasted. This ! was to bequeath to his country a Tur- i ner gallery of pictures and to amass £IOO.OOO to build and endow an asylum for decayed artists. It was for this great object that he denied himself all pleasures that cost money, all luxuries. His resolve, once made, could not be shaken. On one occasion he was offered £IOO,OOO for the art treasures locked up in the "den.” “Give me the key of the house, Mr. Turner,” said a Liverpool merchant, “and here is the money,” “No, thank you,” replied Turner. “I have refused a better offer." And that was true. By his will he bequeathed £140,000 to found an asylum for poor artists born in England and a magnificent art collection in his country. This latter bequest was, however. coupled with the condition that his ‘'Rise" and "1 all of Cartilage” should be hung in the National gallery between Claude’s "Seaport" and "Mill.”— Golden Penny. The WiliiiinKton Giunt. The "Long Man of Wilmington,” popularly known as the "Wilmington Giant.” is a rude, gigantic figure of a man 24U feet in length, with arms extended upward and in each hand bidding a long staff in a position parallel with the body. The distance between these staves is lid feet. The figure is well proportioned and reclines with both legs outstretched. It lies carved on a bold bluff of the downs facing the y ■ aid and forms a conspicuous laud mark for miles round, especially when ; the light falls on it at a particular an- ] g!e. Tl re is a similar figure at (’erne Abba*, in Dorsi miiire. and, as both ar_ near religious houses, it is supposed that they may have been the work of the inmates. The slope to the south of ti e priory, on which the figure is cut. bends downward at an angle of fifty degrees, and the giant was originally marked out by removing the turf and vx|io*ing the glaring white chalk beneath. In course of time the outlines became grass grown and could onlj be seen at e.tlain seasons, so in 1873 a movement was set on foot for remarking the whole figure. This was sueeess!u.,y accomplished, the outline living plainly marked out by white bricks.— London News. Bia \o*r« In Fnvor. In .la]ain the nose is the only feature ■which attracts attention. The nose determines the beauty or ugliness of the fu<e. according ns it is big or small. This is probably due to the fact that difference ir, no.we constitutes nU-ut the only distinction between one Japanese face and another. The eyes are Invariably black, the cheek bones high and lh»‘ chin reved'ng. In Japan a lady who has a hug. proboscis is always a great beauty and a reigning b"lle. There are » few large noses among the natives, and lucky is lie or she upon whom nature lavishes oqa In all Japanese pi- fures representing the supposedly beautiful woman the artist invariably improves on nature by d' l-leling this feature ns abnormally developed. ••Suite” Tower. i Evi-r> one Is familiar with varioqs spite feltecs or houses, blit it is safe to say lhat quite the most costly and elaborate enterprise >tf this kind in the World is the fiinion* " aiuhon-e tower, in Yorkshire, England. Its builder. John Edwaisl Walldioits.', was the owner of a dyeworks in that valley. Next to tils estate lay that of an Eng fish find. The two quarreled, and Uainliotise built the tower so that he ivwihl always overlook his neighbor’s grounds, although they lay much higb<er than his own. The tower is nearly 300 feet high ami cost $30,000 to build I »<•<! to 11. Jnniili was giving the details of tin episode. "But." they said, "did your wife believe you when you said you bad In ,-n thr. e days in the whale?” “Yes." he refnrmsl “She said I had given her much more improbable ex CUSI-S liefore." With a linppy smile he went downtown Io liny her n handsome present.Harper’s Bazar. Just n tines*. "I saw you out walking with your w ife yesterday." "I didn't know you know my wife.” "I don’t." "Th -n wbnt makes yon think It was I she that you saw me with?" ' You didn’t ap|iear to tn- “flying nny lliillg to her." Chicago Record-1 l<-fald A Fniulls ot liillarticr. "He seems to be quite an important personage now." "Why, he always was. and so were the other member* of hi* family " "Nonsense.” "Not nt all. He ■tnrtcd ns janitor tn a lint, his brother I* a p<dl entnn. and i lls sister Is a cook holy ." Exehnnge. Pollienmts 1“ like Rn air en«hloti there's nothing lit It. but It ritsiti tba Jo,Ms wimiWf'illy. Gannett.

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Cai’iiht With the ..... "S 1.-IS wuz tlown to the city an’ bad to i-i-nd for money." "Get bunkoed?" "Nope. He pasted his money to the inside of the bosom of his shirt, and when he went to come home the landlord wouldn't change his shirt.’’—Exchange. I'.\plnined. Baxter—Funny, isn’t it? Where we say a num puts his foot in bis mouth, the French say he puts liis foot in his nose. Foster iff course. Tlmt’s all owing to the nasal sound in so many of the 1 .eOch notd“.- Boston 'I r.iusct Ipt. All l» the Family, Adams—Do you believe it is a sign of good luck to find a horseshoe on the road ? Jolinsou-Of course. It is a sign of: good luck for some black smith.—De-! •roit Free Press. . J Toys of all kinds. Racket store. Look! look! look! Read Hen-j sley's ud. Set) Volbhin for candy, nuts, Xmas ‘ trot*, trimmings and toys. Lost A gold plated watch chain with gold ring of watch and silver Masonic charm attached, between the Boston Store and Fourth street. Finder please leave same at this office. Monroe Agent. Mr. Jonathan Burkhead has been appointed agent for the Daily and Weekly Demucrat for Monroe and vicinity and is authorized to take subscriptions and receive mon ey. ts $25 DOLLARS REWARD. We will give a reward of $25 for | any kind of spavin or splint, sweenev, capped heck, bowwl tendon, wind; galls or any similar ailments that cannot tie curefl by the use of Gilmore’s Caustic Oil It lias been so thor oughly tested that we know it will do al! we claim am! more. We have so much faith in the curative powers that we guarantee every bottle to give satisfaction or money is refunded. Price 50c per bottle. Gilmore Drug Co., Fletcher, Ohio. Ise Gilmore’s headache powders. Solti by ail drug giirts. Four Fast Trains Chicago to St. Paul Minneapolis. Via Chicago & North Wetseran railway. Leave Chicago U:on a.in.. fi:3o p. in. (Northwestern Limited electric lihgted tlifoubgout) 10:00 p. in. nnd 3:00 a. in. Fast schedules luxurious equipment, dining ear sriwiee unequalctl.For tickets,rate* and sleeping car reservations apply to your no irest ticket agents ot nd. rtret*. A. H. Waggoner, 22 Fifth I Avenue, Chicago. 111.

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