Daily Democrat, Volume 2, Number 144, Decatur, Adams County, 28 June 1904 — Page 4

THE LIBRARY. ft Should lie. So to Speak, the Au thor's Tool < he*t. In the gradual growth of every stu 1 dent's library he may or may not eon tlnue to admit literary friends and ad- i visers, but he will be sure sooner or ! later to s< ”d for a man with a tool ' chest. Sot.t.er or later eveiy nook and corner will be tilled with books, every window will be more o; less darkened, and added shelves must he devised. He may find it hard to achieve just the arraimement be wants, but be will find it hardest of all to meet squarely that inevitable inquiry of the puzzled carpenter as lie looks about him. "Have ycu a't tally read all these books?" The expo! t.d reply a “Tobe sure. How can you doubt it?” Yet if you asked him in turn. "Have you actually used . every tool in your tool chest?" you; would very likely be told: "Not one half as yet. at least this season. I have the others by me to use as I need them.” Now. if this reply can be fairly made in a simple, well defined, dis : tinc.ly limited occupation like that ot a joint r, how much more inevitable it Is in a pursuit which covers the whole range of thought ami all the facts in the universe: The library is the author's tool chest. He must learn as he grov. s older to take what he wants and to leave the rest.—Thomas Wentwo’th Higginson iu At! .title. THE COUNTERFEITERS. Vine Work of the Secret Service in Running Them Down. A secret service man tells of an experience of his whet cn a difficult case of counterfeiting. The district had been flooded with !>•* coins and spuri- | ©us notes, and it was his duty to Io- i cate tlie plant. At last they dropped across a newcomer who was living in fine style. He was educated and very ; twwerved, and when he got any mail he seemed quite indifferent whether any , one saw it or not. He would read his notes on the way home and throw the envelopes carelessly on the sidewalk. Not oiu> of them gave the ghost of a elew. Every morning about 7 o’clock a young milkman went to the man's house and left a quart of milk. He. too, was a newcomer, and this set the secret service man thinking. So he watched. A stout cook at the kitchen always took ti ? can of milk and hand j cd the milkman the can be had left the day before. The milkman, it turned out, was the go-between. The milk ; cans had fals? bottoms, and here Mr. I Fine Gentleman’s letters were hidden. An intercepted letter led inquiries to a bouse not more than a few blocks from poll- e beadquarters. Sure enough, there was the engraving and bad money plant of which the refined newcomer was the bead.—Kansas City Independent. THE WORD “CHAPEL." Ct Comes From Latin and Orlalnnllv Meant Cope or Canopy. The word “chapel" comes from the low Li.tin eapella, a cope or canopy, find w. s at plied to a recess or chapel attached to the altar. Ceed originally of the place where The cappa ot cope of St Martin was preserved, the word came in |he eighth ■century to signify any sanctuary where holy relics were kept and thence a consecrated building connected with a vhnrcb or cathedral. At this iMHiod also <1 um-stic oratories and places of worship for such corporate bodies ai colleges began to be called chapels. Apart trom Us present day meaning, ns applied to any place of worship which is not a parish church, such as a chapel of ease or a nonconformist chapel, the word denotes the ecclesiastical staff of a sovereign, the saerbd office recited by the pope with Its bocsehold and the working staff of a printing office, because the first one in England was set up by Caxton in Westminster abbey. Water Colon. Pigments have been used from the earliest times and are now used by all savages for decorative purposes. Bui the paint used in Babylon and Nineveh «nd in Pompeii was composed of pig tuents mixed, not with oil. but with water to which bad been added a little Clue, egg albumen or perhaps some times casein, which is albuminous matter from milk or the gluten from cereal trains. Glue, however, which was well known to the anelent Egyptians, was the most universal binding material. Such paints are now known as fresco jMuxits, or water colors.

A» Prpya Telia It. Pepys tells in bis diary that in the reign of King Charles 11. a customer i bargaining with a London merchant for claret hired a confederate to “thun | <er (which be bad the art of doing open a deal board) and to rain and bail—that is, make the noise of—so as i Co give them a pretense of undervalu- , Ing their merchant’s wines, by saying this thunder would spoil and turn I them, which was so reasonaNe to the merchant that be did abate 2 pistolls l*r tun for the wine lu belief of that" ; An Easy Test. **l <rgten wonder Just what she thinks J *ne," said the young married man. “It la easy to And out,” said ths j •tderty married man. “Just sit down •*■“ her hat, and she will tell you what wbe thinks of you in less thun a mlp <**•**—Chicago Journal. Ker Little Snrprlee, "Don't stop me now, dear. Arctils’s Stolng to propose In « few minutes." "Hus he shown any symptoms?'’ "Certainly not! He doesn't know p yet. I’ve arranged It as a surprise for Ma.**—Brooklyn l ife. There are men who don't mind being kicked blue If they can only be talked • bout.—Eliot.

THE PRINCE’S WRAITH. An Apparition Whose Coming: Was a Sign of Death. King Gustavus IV. of Sweden, who ; reigned in the early part of the last I century, was taking supper one evening with the Prince of Baden and others, among them a Count l.owenhjelm. Suddenly. halfway through the supper, the I king let drop his knife aud fork and. I turning to Loweuhjelm. said. "Look! J on't you see?" at the same time gnz- I lug across the table. No cue under- , stood what he meant, and so be drop- | pod the subject. I..iter, after the I Prince of Baden had departed, the . king said to his companions: “When 1 asked you whether you saw anything. I had myself distinctly seen the double. or wraith, of the Prin-.t- of Baden enter the room and. passing round the table, place itself behind that princels chair, where it quickly faded away and [ vanished. You know," added the king, "the terrible import attached in our ! country to such apparitions, and. havi ing given you the key to what you may | well have thought unaccountable con- ! duet 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, w idle the court I was seated as usual at 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 his life.

CALIFORNIA’S CHARM. flow the Visitor From the EaM Finally Capitulate*. You will not find everything in southern California. You will 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 lias done more for this stretch of sea and mountain girt land than she has done tor any other spot on the globe. You may hare been charmed with California when you came, you may have been captivated after you had 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 n certain amount of hot water every day throughout the winter season. It lessens the tendency to take cold. Improves the circulation and 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, neuralgia, cold hands and feet, can be cured in half an hour by drinking slow ly one or two pirG of water so hot that it almost burns the throat.—Medical Brief.

Malay Poetry. The Malays possess a poetical nature and. like the Japanese, regard tb« writing of poetry as an art to be aspired to by anybody. Short couplets are their delight, especially those with a little moral attached. One founded on the weather tends to comfort a person who has been badly treated: “Now It Is wet, now it is fine. A day will come for retaliation." Then, again, of lovers they say, “As the owl sighs longingly for the moon.” A young and pretty brMe they speak of as being "like a sarong not yet unfolded,” an apt illustration when one thinks of tlie bright colors of new sarongs.

vondrnupti Milk Lack* Water. Steam emanating from boiling milk It condensed would become water. This may be seen lu the manufacture of condensed milk, which is only ordl nary milk boiled down until the water Is out of it. If a liquid which contains solid bodies in solution be evaporated, the solids are left behind. That this is so may be shown by adding to water that is to be distilled a trace of magenta and a little salt. The distilled water has no taste and is colorless. The magenta Is generally deposited upon the sides of the boiling vessel. A Scotch Tooth. Dentist (after struggling for twenty minutes in a vain endeavor to extract the tooth)—l must say you—you have the firmest tooth I ever had—to deal with. Patient—l'm In nae hurry. It's graun’ practice for ye. an’ It’ll teach ye that w». maun a’ work for oor livin’." Art Crltiel.m, Amateur—This Is my latest attempt at a landscape. May I ask what you ttilnk of the perspective? Artist—The perspective is its strong point. The farther awn,, you stand the better It looks.— Chicago Tribune. Luck In naslness, “I see that someliody says there la no such thing as luck lu business." "Ho u.ust be one of the lucky ocM who have svcceeded/’-Cblcnka Record I lllTuld.

CURIOUS WORSHIP. n. , , rr •*- The Custom of ThroMiuif Prayers at nn Idol In Japan. Along the sacred road of Nikko, in I Japan, is an idol about which centers one of the most curious worships iu the world. Upon the surface of the statue are seen little pieces of what appears to be dried paper. If you stand i by the idol for awhile and wait for a ; worshiper to come along, you will see ■ what these bits of paper are. The dev- I otee halts in front of the image, then i scribbles a prayer on a bit of the pa- j per. The wad lie then chews up into a ball and hurls at the god. if it bits the face and sticks, the prayer is sure to be granted, and the pious pilgrim goes away happy, if the ball sticks to some portion of the body, the omen is not quite so propitious, and if it falls to the ground there is absolutely no hope Such r n xle of prayer is even more curious tuaii the praying wheels of tlie Buddhists, who set the wheel revolving and reel off prayers by machinery. As John L. Stoddard, the lecturer, said: "One sees, of course, numberless strange rites connected with religictr n traveling about the world, but Japan is the only land I have ever visited where deities serve as targets for masticated prayers!”

THE BAD RUPEE. Bahram Got Hid of It, but Not the Way He Intended. “There lived in Rampur, India, a vender of sweetmeats named Bahram, whose wife had weak eyes." said the story teller. "One day this man went to see a friend at the bazaar, and he left his stall iu the woman's charge. ’Be careful, mind you. about the change.’ he said to her. But nevertheless when lie returned home he found that she had taken in a bad rupee piece. He could hardly sleep that night for rage and sorrow. In the morning he nr> ->» enriy, and. determined to get rid of the bad rupee, he set out through the town. Soon he met a boy. “ ’Boy.’ he said, 'do you know the sweetmeat shop of Ali?' (Ali was a rival vender.» ’Well, take this rupee, go to Ali i shop aud spend a pice for sweetmeats there. The sweetmeats you may keep; I want the change.' “The boy departed merrily and in a little while returned with his mouth full. “ ‘So you got the change without trouble. eh?' said the man as he counted it. ‘And did Ali make no examination of the rupee?’ “ ‘Oh,’ said the boy, ‘I didn’t go as far as All's. I got the sweetmeats at Bahram's shop.’ "—London Modern Society. ROCK FORMATION. In One Senwe Stones Do Grow, and In Another They Do Not. Rocks do not grow in the sense that plants do. They may increase iu size by means of accretion, and they may also undergo other changes. Old sea beds, lifted up and exposed for ages, become stratified beds of sandstone or limestone; volcanic ashes and lava atrewn over hills and plains become tufa, hard enough for building stone, and the pebbly shores of rivers and smaller streams may sometimes change into conglomerates. The simple mineral, however, does grow, especially when it takes upon itself the form of a crystal. A sparkling prism of quartz increases from an atom to monster crystals of varying length and size by what geologists know as a "process of addition and assimilation.” This process is wonderfully slow, but witu a mathematical exactness that is a surprise to persons even "well up" In the science of geology. In one sense Stones grow; in another they do not. The crystal may become longer and la: ger, but the bowlder on the roadside will not increase a hairbreadth in length or width in the next 10.000 years. Mo*t Horrible of AH Dreamt. No words are strong enough to point out the danger of slow poisoning by drugs which are often taken to procure sleep, whether it be an alcoholic nightcap, morphine, opium, chloral or any other. The medical man has recourse with reluctance to these as a last and temporary resort, aud only he can tell how many lives are wrecked by the 111 timed use of them and their subsequent abuse. Os all horrible dreams none Is so awful as those which n son 11 people who habitually use these false comforters. Better than all the drugs in the world for procuring sleep are simple food, a regular life and a calm mind.—Cassell's. Ita Hurtful Sedentary Habit, “I think,” said the meditative boy, ‘‘that a wasp would be all right If It didn’t get tired.” “Eh?” replied b’s father. “Wheredid you get that Idea?" "Why, one day I got a wasp on my hand, and while be was walking around he was all right. He didn't hurt till he stopped to sit down.”— Philadelphia Press. Hl* Impolite Query. "Women claim that the way to get on with a man Is to give him plenty of nicely cookt-d food." "Well,” answered Mr Sirius Barker Irritably, “why don't some of them try it?"—Wasoington Star. Cnttinn. Miss Cutting — That dog of yours see.ts to be remarkably Intelligent. Softlclgh—Yaws, indeed! I—aw—could not begin to tell you all he knows. Miss Cutting—No, gs course not.—New Yorker. We cannot control the evil tongue* of others, but n g" >d life enables ns to despise them.—Calo.

Weather Forecast. Wednesday fair, warmer; light to fresh east to southeast winds. MARKET REPORT. Accurate prices paid by Decatur 1 merchants for various products, Cor- , reeled every day. GRAIN. BY E. L. CARROL, GRAIN MEBCHA’e . New Corn yellow I 63 New Corn, mixed 611 Machine shucked one cent less. Oats, new 39 Wheat, No. 2 95 Wheat, No. 3 92 Barlev 40 Rye No. 2 — 45 Clover Seed 4 ' Alsyke @ 5 00 Buekwheal 48 Flax Seed 80 Timothy f 95 CHICAGO MARKETS. Chicago market closed al l:lbp. m : today, according to J. D. Hale’s i special wire service, as follows: Wheat, July 84“ September wheat 804' Wheat, Dec. Corn July 472 Corn, September 48) Corn, December 441 Oats, J uly 38’ ' )ats, September 31 Oats, Dec. 32* Julv Pork 12 60 Sept. Pork 12 90 July Lard 6 87 Sept Lard 7 07 TOLEW GRAIN MARKETS. Changed every afternoon at 3:OC o’clock bv J. D. Hale, Decatur Special wire service. Wheat, new No. 2, red, cash—fl 00 July wheat, 88| September wheat; 86J j Cash corn, No. 2, mixed, cash. F 0 Corn, July 50 September corn 504 Oats. Cash 421 Oats, July 40j September oats 32 Rye, eash 68 OTHER PRODUCTS. BY VARIOUS GROCERS AND MERCHANTS. Eggs, fresh, per doz I 15 Lard -7 Butter, per pound 10 Potatoes, new 1 25 Onions *5 Cabbage per 100 lb 1 E0 Apples, per bu 8 f Sweet Potatoe, per bu 7? STOCK. BY FRED SCHEIMAN, DE LER Lambs 5 00 Hogs, per cwt fl 25@ 4 75 Cattle per lb 3 @ 3| 4 Calves, per lb.; 3} @ 4 Cows 2 @ 2? Sheep, per lb @ 3 Beef Hides, per lb 6 I ish 8 @ 13 POULTRY. BY J. W. FLACE 00., PACKERS Chickens, young per lb 6|@7 Fowls, per lb 6(d6j Ducks, per lb 6@7 Young Ducks 6@7 Young Turkeys, per lb 12 Geese, old per lb 5@6 Geese, young, lb s(ri6 HAY ZIARKET. No. 1 timothy hay(baled) No 1 mixed hay (baled) No. 1 clover hay (baled) WOOL AND HIDES. BY B. KALVER & SON. Wool, unwashed i8,0i3 Sheep pelts 25c to 1 10 Beef hides, per pound 06 Calf hides 08 Tallow, per pound 034 OIL FIARKET. Tiona fl 72 Pennsylvania 1.57 Corning 1.37 New Castle 1.44 North Lima 1.(8 South Lima 1.03 Indiana 1 03 Whitehouse 1.02 Somerset 1.06 Neodasha, (Kan.) 1.25 Barkersville 1.09 Ragland 66 , COAL—Per Ton Anthracite $ 7 SCI Domestic, nut 4 OCj Domestic, lump, Hocking 4 00l Domestic lump, Indiana 3 8(* Pocahontas Smokeless, lump 55 a HARKET NOTES, Liverpool market closed steady B Wheat, § cent higher. Corn, j cent lower. Receipts al Chicago today: Hogs 15(B Wheat 21 cB Corn 623 cß' Oats 211 <B Cattle :B Sheep ](■

Estimate for tomorrow: J Hogs y Made Vigorous NOTICE TO FARMEIK SS* and others who want laid. I will do your nrrrrms .J™*? for from 40 to 00 PEFFER $ NERVIGOR D|rfl perch, according to s»" rlX'W’J'* , wh ™ «>' wall. Willis Grose. ])R. P. L. FRITZ Dentist Office above Holt house, S<Bi >.. r i>oi!Ve rJrM Co.’s <lnthing DKCATCB, indiM For sale hr PI,. 11 \ * **’ Jj ror sale by Blackburn A Christen.

£ ; ... Whose Roof Are You Under? < ■?. Jl Why not bu} a lot and build a cottage of your own. Building lots from SBO.OO to $500.00 i good location. : : . ' No, .12*. Is a nice bulldlnjt ■ n High street at J 225. No. 354. A large lot on 'left -treet. good location, brick side-walk, at Wi>. No. 325. Is an impr'ved kin South Market street; good brick side-walk, lariro tr .. nice location. MlO. 1 ’ lr uittree s , i No' 329. Is a business lot IN. rth Second street, near Monroe, fI.NX). Several other good :fn- lots imt herein atlvertlsed. The following an the large number :ti -ently listed properties now on sale by the Snow A_- (! 'y w ,J * N 0.327. Is a convenient 111 cottageon North Third street. On gas and water school. Price MSO. I "«r nnes. near I No. 314. A five room cettl i North. Eleventh street. Full lot, brick side-walk, shade, summer kitehwte, Prlce?477s, * *“ a Ple No A nice five ro. ■if age on Indiana street, in good location. House hlights, te . Idiom . si and city uater, small stable, some fruit trees, sunn, , ■ .' ric park and line maple «• Price fl 060. --wuier sit, |, 611 No. 3hi. An eight ro. ii . F.v and a half residence on south Eleventh street kitchen, stat I vn water. T N 0.325. a six room st. rid a half residence property on full lot in the village ~t Good stable and eulitable residence. Price fl.ouo.u). e 1 ,e - N I Preble township neat fair folio s, large Ik barn, wind wheel, dwelling house etc, Good ‘“Sf ' | N 0.315 Isads arretrFar necatur. in go<>d location, near the Piqua road; fair at, of soli—no buildinßriue e.->2.U) pt r acre. ir i i*Uty No 319. Is a 115 sen >|mthe stone road within a mile and a half of a good tow n , ■ . Snow Agiy Phone 230 Decatur, Ind.

Louisvile. Kyliuhts of Pythias I Biennial Encanfi'nt, August 16-1 29, 1904. Ooejuluss fare plus 25 cents for ros r ip- Tickets on sale Aug. lathing- 16th. Good returning AnJ 1904. St. Louis, ■ Democratic National Convcw. July. 6 1904. One first ela-w pin- 25 cents for the round ■ Tickets on sale July 2nd 6th. Good returning 15 (*rom date of sale. |

Sehili & Smith Atwys at Law AbstracJldl® made to order. Farm am* property for sale Private J 4° loau at the very lowest iutC' privilege of partial pay ml Llffiee in Niblick & Allison Everett & Hite grocery t east of Court street, Decaturi’ a ' Give us a call before youß elsewhere.

! Aflnsas iTs Llisiana Bal country for cheap hj'and at $5 sio. sls, a g ows com, cotton, Joats, grasses, fruits jgetables, B< ranges 10 months ■year, Bheast Missori, AkanIBouisiana and Texas BU of opportunities— Bimate is mild, the soil ic 1 , the lands are cheap, xhv home-seekers’ rates Bout half fare—via the ■m Belt twice a month—- ■ and third Tuesday. for descriptive literature, b-s and excursion rates, Le to 0. SCHAEEER, T. P. I. Cotton Belt Route CINCINNATI, OHIO.

Garden Seeds XIKT BULK Lawn Grass Seed, Flower Seeds, Spring Bulbs J- D. HALE riloile o

MONEY TO LOAN THE DECATUR ABSTRACT & LOAN COMPANY. (incorporated) A large sum of PRIVATE MONEY nas been placed with us to loan on and farms. No delay or red tape in making loans. Lowest r ?. , ° f lntereßt are able to ch «e all loans on the same day of receiving application. Will loan i 4 turns of b>U up, on one to five years time, with privilege of partial payments. Thit company can also furnish abstracts of title on short notice to any piece of I??* estate in Adams county. THE DECATUR ABSTRACT £ LOAN W. Rooms 3 and 4, Studebaker block ’ 257dtf

'Phones— Residence 312, Office 103. Send your dates in early. Fred Reppert Live Stock Auctioneer. Speaks English, German, Swiss and I Low German. DECATUR, INDIANA. Eyes Examined Free and Headaches Cured by Dr. J. Burke & Co. of 221 S. Michigan St. South Bend, Ind., Who Has Never Been Excelled in Fitting the Eyes where others have failed. Will be at the Burt House soon. 'W'atoii for date boy ARCHBOLD, dkntist. I. o. O. F. BLOCK. Phones—Office, 164; residence 246 Insure Vour Property in the Decatur Insurance Agency Gallogly & Haefling