Daily Democrat, Volume 2, Number 121, Decatur, Adams County, 1 June 1904 — Page 2

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT. ■ VBUY BVKNINO. EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY U« W O . ELLINSHAM. • ÜBSCRIPTION RATES. Bf carrier, per week 10c By carrier, per year $4 00 By mall, per month 25c By mall, per year $2.50 Single copies. Two Cents. »«rll*lng rates made known on application ■ntered In the postofflce at Decatur. Indiana, as secand-olaas mail matter. J. H. HELLER, Managir, COUNTY TICKET For Joint Senator JOHN W. TYNDALL For Representative JOHN W. VIZARD For Prosecutor JOHN C. MORAN For Auditor 0. D. LEWTON For Treasurer JOHN F. LACHOT For Sheriff ALBERT A. BUTLER For Surveyor L. L. BAUMGARTNER For Coroner JOHN S. FALK For Commissioner First District DAVID WERLINO For Commissioner Third District MARTIN LAUGHLIN RUSSIAN WEDDINGS. The Part the Bride's Brother Play* In the Ceremony. In no country in the world, says the author of "Wooing* and Weddings In Many Climes,” is the tie between brother and sister closer than it is in Russia. The brother is regarded as her guardian equally with the father and »« her protector even more. In many districts when the groom comes to claim his bride her brother places himself beside her and with a •tout stave or a drawn sword prevents ♦he groom’s approach. The twain often engage in much poetical barter, in Which the bride Incites her brother to extort a goodly price for herself, her veil and her beauty. Upon the wedding day the groom comes to her parents’ house and claims his bride. Then there is a touching little bit of ceremony, one of those pretty human comedies which are called 'empty shows and forms.” but are written In warm, tender emotions. The maiden kneels before her parents ■nd asks them to pardon her for any and every offense toward them of which she may ever have beer, guilty. They lift her up and kiss her; then they together offer her bread and salt, which •igmlies that while they live they will not see uer lack the necessaries of life. When she leaves the bouse its door Is left open to signify that sLe may return when she will; that her girlhood's home is still hers. WILD LIFE OBSERVATION. Most of Vs See Either More or Leas Than the Truth. Good observers are probably about as rare as good poets. Accurate seeing, an eye that takes in the whole truth and nothing but the truth—how rare Indeed it Is! So few persons know or can tell exactly what they see; so few persons can draw a right inference from an observed fact; so few persons can keep from reading their own thoughts and preconceptions into whal they see. Only a persoa with the seien title habit of mind can be trusted t< report things as they are. Most of ui ■ln observing the wild lite about us se« more or see less of the truth. We see less when our minds are dull or preoccupied or blunted by want of interest. This is true of most country people. JVe see more when we read the lives of the wild creatures about us in the light cf our human experience and Impute to the birds and beasts human motives hnd methods. This Is too often true of the eager city man or woman who salJJes put into the country to study nature.

} Jiff' tendency to sentimentalize n» ture has in our time largely taken tne place of the old tendency to demonize ■nd splritize. It is anthropomorphism In another form, less fraught with evil to us, but equally in the way of a clear understanding of the life about us.— John Burroughs in Century. Burn. a. n Munlclan. A very large number of Burns’ immortal songs were written to match ■iumlc that waa already popular, speaking of such composition, he says him■elf. "To sough the tune over and over is the readiest way to catch the Inspiration and raise the bard Into that glorious enthusiasm so strongly characteristic of our Scotch poetry.” Ou another occasion he refused to write for an unfamiliar air, saying that until he win master of a tune be never could compose for it. A recent writer has shown thut Burns was far more of a practical musician than is generally supposed. He was familiar with hundreds of Scottish national •ira. and ids letters to his publisher* ®ften contained precise instructions on purely musical details. wueu an uvertimid visitor from the city once commented to the poet Whittier upon the Insecurity that Memed inseparable from so many doors opening out from all sides of the large old country home, the master of the house •trove gently to restore confidence by plending that moat of tbeui w»n> locked at night. .

NAPOLEON’S POLICE. They Were Well Watched to Insure u Foil Measure of Duty. During the reign of Emperor Napoleon I. at a dinner in I'aris the conversation turned upon the emperor and his government. One of the company remarked that he was a great man, but was too fond of war. When the party broke up, a gentleman who was present requested to speak in private to the person who had made that observation. “Sir.” said he. "I am sorry for it. but I must request you to go witli me to the police.” “WL.v?” said the other in the greatest apparent alarm. "I have said nothing against the emperor but what every one must acknowledge, that he is too fond of war. There can be no harm in that.” "With that I have nothing to do. You must go with me to the police.” The other now began to show the strongest symptoms of fear. He entreated the police agent in the most pathetic language to have compassion on him. The other, however, stood unmoved by all his solicitation, when suddenly the man rose from his knees and burst into a laugh, to the utter astonishment of the informer. "You think you have caught me.” said he. "You are a spy of tlie police. So am 1. and I was put over you to see whether you would do your duty.” THE COST OF A LEGACY. Sometimes It Doesn’t Pay to Inherit Money In Italy, In Italy it appears to be a somewhat expensive affair to inherit money—that is, if it be a small sum. Not long ago a young man died in the little town of Romagna who left 1 lira 58 centesimi, or not quite 34 cents. This sum, which had been deposited in the postoffice savings bank, became "the property of the young man's father. As the amount was so small, the father thought it unnecessary to make a declaration of the legacy as the law prescribes, especially as the stamped paper on which the declaration must be made would cost aliout 22 centesMni more than the money involved. Three months afterward he received a demand from the local state treasury for the payment of 14 lire 48 centesimi (nearly $3). Thinking a mistake had been made, he took no notice of this demand, with the result that later an official called upon him and demanded the immediate payment of 18 lire ($3.50). Tl>e father had not sufficient money in hand, so the official took possession of the man’s furniture. The cost of this seizure brought the total sum to 30 lire, which the poor man had to pay that same evening to avoid the sale of his goods by auction. AN EARLY AIRSHIP. It Wan Bnilt In England In 1835, but Was a Fnllure. We are told by Peter Farley, who wrote as an eyewitness, that in August. 1835. the Eagle was officially advertised to sail from London with government dispatches and passengers for Paris and to establish direct communication between the capitals of Europe. This early type of airship was 160 feet long. 50 feet high and 40 feet wide, and she lay in the dockyard of the Aeronautical society in Victoria road, near Kensington gardens, then quite a rural spot. Built to hold an abundant supply of gas. she was covered with oiled lawn and carried a frame seventy-five feet long and seven feet high, with a cabin secured by ropes to the balloon. An immense rudder and wings or tins on 1 each side for purposes of propulsion completed her fittings. The deck was guarded by netting. After all this preparation and advertisement the Eagle never got beyond | Victoria road, for Count Lennox and his assistants failed to provide the necessary motive power. The Barber's Pole. The origin of the barber's pole, Itself almost now a thing of the past, origi- ! noted in the days of barber surgeons, ' wbea bloodletting was considered a panacea for most of the ills that flesh j is heir to. Thu pole was used for the I patient to grasp during the operation, I and a fillet or bandage for tying up the | arm. When the pole was not In use, the tape was tied to It and twisted round it, and then it wna hung up as a sign. At length, instead of hanging out the actual pole used in operations, a painted one with stripes round it in imitation of the genuine article and its bandages was placed over *)>« shop. Duck* and (.ppmf. Do geese "quack?” “No,” says the observant critic; "geese do not quack, but they squack." It is the ducks that quack, and the story of the goose going aliout from day to day with a “quack, qiliii k. quack," is declared to be without good foundation. There is, indeed, quite a difference in the vocabulary of these feathered creatures, but it requires a sharp ear to discover ’ the dlfferen'T. The Co«I. Ln urn—l don't know. George. It seems such a solemn thing to marry. , Have you counted the cost? George—i The cost. Laura? The cost? Bless me, I I’ve got a clergyman cousin that'll marry us tor nothing! A Prnrllvn! Connolurnr. Mrs. Cobwigger—What a beautiful collection of antiques you have, my | dear! Mrs. Parvenu should be. . My husbnnd knows nil about such things and had them made to order.— Judge. Harrowing Reaponae. The Grammarian It always makes T’ 1 ' wllen I hear a man any dont' when he should say “doesn't.” The Other Party Don’t It, though?Clnclnnatl Times-Star

THE PRINCE’S WRAITH. An Apparition Whose Corning Was a Sign of Death. King Gustavus IV. of Sweden, who reigned in the early part of the last century, was taking supper one evening with the Prince of Baden and others, among them a Count Lowenhjelm. Suddenly, halfway through the supper, the king let drop Ids knife and fork and, turning to Lowenhjelm, said. “Look! Don’t you see?” at the same time gazing across the table. No one understood what be meant, and so he dropped the subject. Later, after the Prince of Baden had departed, the king said to his companions: "When I asked you whether you saw anything, I had myself distinctly seen the double. or wraith, of the Prill' e of Baden enter the room and, passing round the table, place itself behind that prince's chair, where it quickly faded away and vanished. You know," added the king, “the terrible import attached in our country to such apparitions, and. having given you the key to what you may well have thought unaccountable conduct on my part, I now request you to keep strictly to yourselves what 1 have imparted to you.” The following evening and at the same hour, according to Count Lowenhjelm, v bile the court was seated as usual nt supper, the clatter of horse’s hoofs was heard in the palace quadrangle, and a courier was speedily announced, who brought tidings of a disastrous carriage accident in which the Prince of Baden had lost I his life. CALIFORNIA’S CHARM. How the Visitor From the East Finally CapitulateM. You will not find everything in southern California. You wpl miss the wide stretches of green in the open places, far removed from the dusty cities, the noble trees, the clear streams of water. the blue lake nestled in among the pine clad mountains. You will miss that splendid miracle the change of the seasons, when your whole nature comes into closer touch with the great mother heart of nature than at any other time in all the year. You will miss much. But when you have been here a year, when month after month of rare and beautiful weather blend into each other, when the sea wooes you and the flowers charm you and the brown mountains beckon you and the soft air soothes you, after a year has passed you find there are some compensations for the lovely things you have left behind you. You come to realize that nature has done more for this stretch of sea and mountain girt land than she has done for any other spot on the globe. Yon may have been charmed with I California when you came, you may I 1 have been captivated after you had I , been here a year, you may capitulate and consent to be captured by the time two golden summers have stolen over you.—The World Today. Hot Water. Cold blooded people, who have little thirst, will do well to make a business of drinking a certain amount of hot water every day throughout the winter season. It lessens the tendency to take cold, improves the circulation and i benefits coughs and Insomnia. Before going to bed is a very good time for this practice, as it warms up and relaxes the system, thus preparing the way for a good night’s sleep. Many cases of indigestion, headache. I neuralgia, cold bands and feet, can be cured in half an hour by drinking slow- | ly one or two pints of water so hot | that ft almost burns the throat—Medical Brief. Malay Poetry. The Malays possess a poetical nature and, like the Japanese, regard the ' writing of poetry as an art to be aspired to by anybody. Short couplets are their delight, especially those with j a little moral attached. One founded on the weather tends to comfort a per- j son who has been badly treated: “Now It is wet, now it is fine. A day will come for retaliation. 1 ' Then, again, of lovers they nor, “As the owl sighs longingly for the moon.” A young and pretty brhae they speak of us being “like a sarong not yet unfolded,” an apt illustration when one thinks of the bright cobra of new sarongs. Condensed Milk Lack. Water. Steam emanating from boiling milk ' ft condensed would become water. | This may be seen in the manufacture | of -condensed m!!k, which is only ordi- I nary milk boiled down until the water is out of it. If a liquid which contains solid bodies in solution be evaporated. I the solids are left behind. That this i is so may be shown by adding to wa- I ter that is to be distilled a trace of : magenta and a little salt The dis- ' tilled water lias .no taste and Is colorless. The magenta is generally de- , posited upon the sides of the boiling i vessel. A Scutch Tooth. Dentist (after struggling for twenty ■ minutes In a vain endeavor to extract | the tooth)—l must say you—you have 1 the firmest tooth I ever had—to deal | with. Patient—l'm in nae hurry. It’s I gratin’ practice for ye, an’ it’ll teach i ye that we maun a’ work for oor llv- | in’.” Art Criticism. Amateur—This is my latest attempt i nt a landscape. May I nsk what you think of the perspective? Artist—The , perspective is its strong point. The j farther away you stand the better it I looks.—Chicago Tribune. Lack In RniitnMß.

“I see that somebody says there is no such thing as luck In business.” "He must be one of the lucky ones who have succeeded.”—Chicago Record Herald.

* **Fecatur. INP. ' j Fashions Sun is Shining Here, The men who pride ’^jjSSSSSS^ ** 1 * I themselves on keeping Clothing Specialists liu touch wi* uw W. !, . C. I.' „ l «h 0 I consMcr q ” alit - v ’ fiM wear”—that kind of clothing which has heretofore eeni o I t a i] or j n g an d p e rfcct fit the shops of the merchant tailor-and the very best shops at that. ■ 6 ? Ht They employ experts in each department. nar , m , nt equally important as Their buyer of woolens devote* his entire time to that department, H J P spending a large part of his time fair, reasonable prices ! at the mills, designing and originating new and exclusive pat- will fie delighted with ’ ▼ • "e .«■ terns. Their pattern designer, whose our mammoth showV’ it is to create "Clothes r n v , Styles,” travels extensively for lilg OI all that S new I tbat purp ° ' ' I and u P-to-date in ready. pSlf M ZZ/ Z n Clothi "g' M n’s WnKfcc..' .\jaaw — ‘ n wi cam a commits wa or If , . I fine business dress JEfisS® KSHS s lit prices range from I :• j£2 CoATSthatktC? CLOTHING with M $5.00 tO S2O 00 * ' ‘ tbeir stupe. Individuality. Boys Clothing ’^ so P ut a snns^’ne i nto small b°y’ s heart. Buy one of our snit =s2s=d Prices SI.OO to $5.00 L<THEHUBSt 111 _ ~

For Sale —Double Standard Poll Durham bull, three years old May 6. C. D. Kunkle, Decatur, lud. U6ds Mrs. S. Acker, corner Eleventh and I Monroe streets, has a few nice cabbage and tomato plants for sale. Call at once. 116-31 FOUND—Sorrel hors Q . weighs ! about 900 pounds, had heavy work harness on when found. Owner of | same will please call at Peterson and claim his property. Special excursion to Marion Ind via the Clover Leaf route rate $l.OOl for round trip Sunday, June sth and Sunday June 12, 1904,. Take' jan outing and visit your friends, i Get information of local agent. I Clover Leaf Route, or address W. jL. Ross, Genera) Passenger Agent, Toledo, Ohio,

sownr New Fast Electric-Lighted Train throughsolid without changeUtween Chicago, Superior and Duluth, with all modern devices for the safety and comfort of patrons. Buffet smoking and library car, Booklovers Library, Pullman drawing room Bleeping care, free reclining chair cars and day coaches and excellent a la carte dining car service. Electric lighted throughout, with individual reading lamps in every berth. 1 Leaves Chicago 10.00 p. m. daily. Pullman sleeping cars and free reclining chair cars to St. Paul and Minneapolis also on this train. Tht Bfjt of Etioriitbing. A. H. WAGGEM k. Traveling Agent 22 Fifth Avenue. Chicago, In J

Ten thousand dollars private funds left with us tn loan on Deca tur real estate,first mortgage. Low rate of interest. Will in sums of |SO upwards. The Decatur Abstract and Loan Co. 257dtf Special excursion to Toledo via, I the Clover Leaf Route, Sunday, June 5 and Sunday, June 12. 1904. 1.25 round trip from Decatur, Ind. Very low rates to intermediate j points. Visit Like Erie Resorts. ' Get full information of local Agent. | Clover Leaf route.

' ———— = -___ ■ THE— Arion Quartet IS COMING They Study to Please, Instruct and Entertain The quartet is composed of R. G. Upson, C. S. Parker, E. H. Pontius and A. M. Cummins, and they guorantee to furnish charming music and choice readings. They will give | their entertainment at the M. E. (hurch, Thursday Evening June 9th, at 3:15 Conte and Enjoy a Feast of I’lt EO BCIiEXMAN'H Palace Meat Market " Beef, Veal and Pork^ 1 Canned Meats, Fish, Dried and Salt Meats uniformed cUTT ER s P'« S,ore Block DECATUR I- Second Street INDIANA

Painters Attention! The Great Northern Indiana Fair Association will receive bids to paint the unpainted barn at the park. The association reserves the right to reject any or all bids Bids will be opened June 11. Address all bids to C. D. KUNKLE. Sec'y . Decatur. Ind.