Daily Democrat, Volume 2, Number 270, Decatur, Adams County, 23 November 1904 — Page 4

JAPANESE FARMERS. If the Man’ll Lot He Hurd, Hi* Wife’s la Still Harder. If the lot ot a Japanese farmer be hard, that of his wife is infinitely harder, She not only does an equal amount of labor in the held, but the care of the household and the responsibility of the children also rt . t upon her shoulders, Froi.i earl:.’ t infancy a Japanese girl is taught to be obedient to her parents and when she is about to be married her mother gives her thirteen rules by which to steer her bark on the rt ggctl sea of Japanese married life. Among them are the following: ! ••Be always kind to your mother-in-i law and sisters-in-law.” ‘‘Get up early,! stay up late at night and do not take' a nap in the daytime.” “Be a good housekeeper, be economical in every-1 thing.” It is well for the happiness of the girl who is about to become a farmer's wife that the last two commandments have been so instilled that she is prepared to regulate her life by them. The first to rise, she is sure to be the last to retire, and when the male members of the family may be seen stretched on the floor taking their siesta the patient housewife may be seen mending some garment or else laboring in the field. It is scarcely necessary, however, to train her to be economical, for that Is compulsory. Before the farmer has awakened from his heavy sleep bls little wife creeps from under the mosquito net, and, performing a hasty toilet, prepares the morning meal. When the other members of the family arise, the beds, which are heavy quilts placed on the floor, are carefully rolled up by the busy housewife and placed in the closet, there to remain until again requ liv'd. As there Is so little furniture used in a Jap .m > house, and especially in that of a pc-i it.’., ore would naturally think that the d ime tie duties would be very light. Such, however, is not the case. When the bedding has been removed, the meal is then served in the same room. All file members of the family squat on the floor. The millet or rice, which the principal and oftentimes only article of diet, is brought in in a wooccn br.ckct. and the wife ladles it out. serves her husband first and oftentimes waits until the whole family has finished before she partakes of the food terself. When the husband has gone to the field the wife removes the dishes and washes them, together with any pots that may have been used at the neighboring well or in the stream that flows just outside her cottage door. These canals or streams are a great labor saving institution in Japan and are used for many and varied purposes. The farmer, tired and dirty after his day's work, refreshes and cleanses himself by a plunge into the running water. As one travels through the country at one point one may see a woman Going the family washing in the stream. Farther down the road the tired, travel stained pilgrim may be seen refreshing his weary feet by laving them in the same water. At other points travelers slake their thirst, dusky urchins disport themselves, and the overworked wife cleanses her dishes in it.—Ada L. A. Murcutt in Pilgrim. The Bnnlne** ClerKymnn. A young minister was called a few days ago to a church in a thriving eastern city. His predecessor had Iteeu a well known preacher whose sermons had attracted large congregations, but whose expressed belie; was that the clergyman's single d' ty was the spiritual welfare of his pe >pF. The church had failed to meet current expenses for several years, and its considerable debt was increasing with mechanical regularity. The newcomer was not a wonderful orator, but he had a firm mouth and Jaw. Within tv. > years he was at the head of a smoothly running business organization whose departments were handled by men who understood their work and did it, which discount? I ;>s bills and reduced its old indebtedness. The church hail become a working church. "The church,” he said one day. "is a teni'ioriil 'ire inizaiion doing an on tireiy practical work. Business integrity is as necessary to its continuance and definite achievement is as nec-es.-ary to its advance as in any other temporal organization.” "Your predecess >r was right, however,” sp >ke up one of bls leading members. w iii, a smile. "lie always said the Lord would provide; the Lord did provide you." Leslie’s Monthly Magazine. Ufowlem Anienitirm. From the earliest times Mohammedan historians, except when In subjection, in describing the death of a Christian, do not say "be died" or "he was killed,” but he went to Julianna.” I They do not say of a Christian that he was drowned, but they say, “The ' dog went through water to tire." Not that these elegant phrases are con- ' fined to Christians. It Is sulllelent for a man to be not a Mohammedan to entitle him to “pursue the road to the realms of perdition,” or to have bis Lead "struck from bis «tllthy Isxly, so that the world may Is? gladdened by , being cleansed from bis polluting ex- ' istence.” When the army of Islam goes to war with the Sikhs it Is called "extermination of the hellish, good for nothing Guru." The faithful, when they die, drink the snarab (which they ought not to do), or shcrliet of martyrdom. Sometimes they pluck fruit from the fig tree of Immortality. On the contrary, their enemies (may their months be crammed with mud) are Mnt In swarms to hades and the land purified of their existence The fact I* that the religion of Mohnmmed is a fighting religion. It is meant for conquerors, and for conquerors In the act es conquering. —Saturday Kevlew.

MAHOGANY WOOD. . The Way It Came to Be t'ked In the Making of Furniture. Chippendale owes his reputation to the fact that he published a book of designs with over 200 copperplate engravings, so that today any one who I wishes may get them and reproduce them exactly or with such changes and improvements as suit his fancy. That they are capable of improvement Chippendale himself was the first to declare. Chippendale was one of the first makers of mahogany furniture. Before his time this precious wood was valued only for the medicinal qualities it was supposed to possess. The idea of making furniture of mahogany wood appears to have been the result of chance. A certain physician in London had a great many mahogany planks, and. wanting a candle box, he sent for a cabinetmaker and instructed him to use the mahogany for the required article of furniture, lite man objected that the wood was too hard for his tools, and the doctor told him to get harder tools. The man did so, and when the doctor saw the box he was amazed at its beauty. Patients and friends talked about it, and at last the Duchess of Buckingham came to see it. She was enraptured and persuaded the doctor to give her wood for a similar box. As a result mahogany got to be the fashion. HORSEPOWER. The L'nlt n> It Wan Oi-igl tinted and Defined by Watt. When steam engines were employed to drive mills, pumps and other machinery which had been previously driven by horses, it was natural to attempt to express the work done by them in terms of the working power of the horse. James Watt was the first to define the unit of horsepower, which by experiment he found to be 33,000 foot pounds a minute. In other words, a one horsepower engine would raise 33,000 pounds one foot every minute, and so on proportionally to the number of "horsepowers” indicated by the engine. He arrived at this conclusion by observing the work done by heavy dray horses in breweries working eight j hours daily and found that a horse going at the rate of two miles and a half an hour could raise a weight of 150 pounds by a rope led over a pulley, which is equal to 33.000 pounds raised one foot' in one minute. Watt, for the credit of his engines, selected horses of more than average power. THE ELDER TREE. la Day* Lons Gone by I* Was Held In Disrepute. In olden days to be crowned with elder was a disgrace. In an old play we read, “Laurel for a garland and elder for disgrace.” This may hare been due to the story which Shakespeare has noticed that Judas hanged himself upon an elder tree; Well follow’d; Judas was hanged on an elder.—" Love s Labour's Lost." This legend was generally accepted. Ben Jonson in “pvery Man Out of His Humour" has, “He shall be your Judas, and you shall be his elder tree to bang on,” and Nixon in his "Strange Footsteps,” “Our gardens will prosper the better when they have in them not one of those elders whereupon so many covetous Judases hang themselves.” Shakespeare also makes it an emblem of grief: Grow patience And let the slinking elder, grief, untwine His perishing root with the Increasing vine.—"Cymbejine.” —London Telegraph. Miseries of the Bed Sea. In the waters of the Red sea the cessation of the engines on a steamer for an hour means extreme physical suffering for passengers. For a day it would involve absolute torture. The wind which prevails every day is a hot. asphyxiating blast, and its continuous directions are from north and south toward the center. As a result every passing vessel is subjected to two days of almost intolerable heat, followed by two days of comparative comfort, but Instances have been known of crowded liners being compelled when traveling with the wind to turn round and steam back for an hour or so in order to give the passengers even a brief respite from the sufferings induced by the dull. dead, unbearable atmosphere. | —London Tit-Bits, DHlnnce, A little boy in Deering, Me., was brought before his father recently and accused of killing a chicken. "Who told you about it?" asked the boy. "The ben did." said the father. Nothing more was said that day, but the next morning the hen was found dead, and the boy. being accused of killing It, admitted it, saying in defense, "Yes, I did kill the hen. and I'll kill every hen that tells on me.” Jnatlfied. City Editor—Why do yon say he ran into the police station “puffing and blowing?” "Puffing" and "blowing” are synonymous, ’'snorter—Not nt all. There's a vast difference—for Instance, between puffing a man up and blowing him up. Philadelphia I.edger. Hi* Matrhea. "You told me this horse had won hnlf a dozen matches against some of the itesf horses in the country. He can't trot a mile In six minutes to save him.” "It was In plowing matches that he took the prizes, sir." A look of intelligence in a man is what regularity of features Is In women; It is a style of beauty to which tho most vain may aspire.—La Bru▼ere.

| A WOODEN INTRODUCTION. How Gainaborouffh Got Acquainted With Thicknesse. Gainsborough, the artist, was born at Sudbury, in Englund, and there, says Lord Ronald Gower, he designed his first work of art. The orchard of his father's place had been repeatedly plundered of fruit. No one knew who the thief might be until one day young Gainsborough saw there a rough looking man leaning his elbows on the brick wall. He made a sketch of the fellow, and from this portrait the thief was afterward identified. Later the boy cut out a rough figure from wood and painted It in oils In the likeness of this man. The scarecrow was known as “Jack Peartree.” It probably represents Gainsborough's first attempt at working in oils. It was the means of introducing the artist to one of his most intimate friends, Thicknesse, the lieutenant governor of the Landguard fort, near Ipswich. Thicknesse was one day walking with a friend when he perceived what seemed to be a melancholy faced countryman, with his arrts locked together, leaning over the garden wall. He pointed eut the doleful figure to his companion, who, it seems, was acquainted with it. “He has been there all day,” said the gentleman. "I pity him. He must be either mad or very miserable.” Thicknesse insisted on approaching the wretched man and to his delighted surprise found him to be Jack Peartree. So charmed was he with Jack that he lost no time in becoming acquainted with the author of Jack’s being. with the result of a warm and lasting friendship. Doubtful Economy. “Os course.” he said, “I appreciate the motive that actuates you in your efforts to get along without a girl, but”— “Well?" she said inquiringly as he paused. "Taking everything into consideration,” he went on. '"ls it true economy?” “Isn’t it?" she demanded. "Well. 1 hardly feel competent to pass judgment on the question." he replied. "I have just received our family physician’s bill for the treatment of those three cases of acute dyspepsia that developed in the family during the last month. Now, perhaps”— But she was just as mad as if he hadn’t tried to break It to her gently.— New York Press. BOSSE OPERA HOUSE Wednesday, November 23. Those Clever Comedians Williams and Stevens Present the Funny Musical Comedy, “THE HOTTEST COON IN DIXIE” 40 PEOPLE 40 PEOPLE 40 PEOPLE CAR LOAD OP SPECIAL SCENERY BRILLIANT ELECTRIC EFFECT SEE A Good Musical Comedy. Pretty Girls, Pretty Costumes, The SIOOO Radium Fountain, The Enchanted Glenn h;e a r Famous Dixie Quartette, Funny Commedians, Prof. Smith’s Imperial Band, New Songs, Latest Dances, Chorus of Pretty Girls Big Street Parade at Noon. See it Prices 25, 35, 50 Seats on sale at Holthouse Drug Co’s

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The G. R. &I. will sell to all local stations Nov. 23 and 24 good for return Nov., 28 at rate of 4cts per mile one way mileage, for round trip.. Wil) also sell on same dates with same limit to points within 150 mile radius on connecting lines at one and one-third fare fpr round trip. Fort Wayne 90 'cents, to Berne 50 cents, Indian- | apolis |4.45, Cincinnati $5 40. J. Bryson, agent. Strong Testimony. Gilmore Drug Co., Fletcher, Ohio Gentlemen: Having a horse with a i bad bruise on one of its hind legs, I I was indvced to try a bottle of your I Caustic Oil, and as I got such good ; results from its use, I have used it for ! many other ailments, such as lame I back, sore throat, fresh cuts, etc., and ' have found it just as beneficial in all ' cases, in fact I would not be without it, and can recommend it to anyone, either for man or beast. Yours truly, 0. 0. Lentz. D. D. S.. Piqua. Ohio Special Low Excursion Rates via CLOY ER LEAF ROUTE. Seasen 1804. To St. Louis World’s Fair, April 30th to Noveniln r noth. I M Sv» M >n ticket* good Io return until Dt-cemtn-r 15th. one Hnd one-third fare. Fifteen Day tickets, one I tare plus *3.0(1. Couch excursion tickets sold every day except Fridays and Saturdays. at about one cent per mile. Chicago Live Stock Show, November 2th h to bee 3rd at one fare plus for the round trip. Tickets good until Dec. sth. if deposited with commissioner on day of tn rival. M Homeseckcrs Bales to West and Southw.sl lai andl 3d Tuesday In uh to and Including April. HIM, g.umiy redu red rates. Hunters' Rates Season H>O4, to Maine Michigan, Canada and Wisconsin dally until Nov I,th. limited to dais but not exj;;<;>9nlt Dec stl, To mi a„„ r i. Arkansas. Indian I nrruory and the Southwest dally until bee Hint, good .*!»» day*. y Morion, Ind,, Nov 17th to :mih State Conveiiliun I M < ’ A —One lure plus 25c iii.ni p Unis In ludlanaonly. Thanks ving Dav Rates Nov 24th. one umi iu<- lr fare for the mind trim ' " Mid Nov . (nlilornln. ,at t toast Tourist tickets t «ule via Ini a. Good 9 months. yer I-111, of ten dsys within lull of tlt V. t .1 owed nt st. Louis on all I Agency I<U *** *’* de P ,wllln lt with Joint Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars, free reel ni ng Chair and Case Cara (Meals rerved s lu carts). high back »est coaches on all through trains. For rates and information apply to nearest Ticket Agent, or addreS W. L. Rosa. General PHaaengpr Agont. M. A. CHAMBERS. I’oledo, Ohio. Traveling I'assonger Agent. _ , F ‘■•"'fs>rt. Ind. T. 1,. MILLFK. Agent, — Decatur, Ind,

I mliJi Ik New Fast Electric-Lighted Train i S Ibrougujolid wkhuulchangelei.'veu , ■ I ■ Chicago, Superior and Duluth. v b 9 I H all modern devices for the f i ; | ; B and comfort of patrons. I : 3 smoking and library car. Book: i Library, Pullman drawingn I sleeping cars, free reclining • • . r 9 cars and day coaches and excellent ! 3 a la carte dining car service. Electric lighted throughout, v « i ■ individual reading lamps in ev ry > ■ M berth. : S Leaves Chicago 10.00 p. m. daily. 2 H Pullman sleeping carsand free * d reclining chair cars to St. Paul and , 9 Minneapolis also on thia train. 9 Tha But of Etitrything. ■B A. H. WAGGENER, Traveling Agent, 3 22 Fifth Avenue, Chicago, 111 111 HWsM JV BUY A PUNCHING BAG. Put it up in ynnr home, any room will do. Con be put up in a few minutes’ time. Punching the bag is the greatest of all exorcises, anti will give you strength und development. Its practice improves the appetite, accelerates circulation and aids assimilation, quickens the eye sight and improves the complexion. There should b« one in every home. I will put one up free of charge and give you a starter how to use it. Prices range from $1.50 t<> ♦ 1.00 per bag. I hlho have some of the lattest syle of boxing gloves for sale. Address, P. J. Pitts, physical trainer, agent, or leave order* at <i. Rosenthal’s clothing store, 127 Second street, Decatur, Ind.