Daily Democrat, Volume 2, Number 288, Decatur, Adams County, 15 December 1904 — Page 4

Fare you ,<eady for| | Christmas? | ■ Ql JR line of Holiday Goods is now on display ■ K and ready for yonr inspection K U We are prepared to meet your wants with g ■ appropiate andjiesirable gifts for persons of ■ ■ all ages in expensive, or in-expensive pres g ents as you may desire. Our stock’has been S [ carefully selected from the best lines we a K could find, being careful to select only the B < newest, neatest, and mostj up to date ‘goods ; we could find. Come and see what an exten- ■ ■ sive assortment of good things we have for a Christmas shoppers * PRICES ALWAYS THE LOWEST g I Blackburn & Christen, | I the; druggists. I B liU'l Don’tlet the Christmas Stockings of I LT* ’ Flit 7 jour loved ones empty simply because R /« • you are temporarily short of money. R | I ()|* Come to L’S • | we can help you fiy them; we will loan R I vou money. We will loan you $5, 510, R • KJ » > ■ ' Uli Al > ’ $2->, 850, or whatever you need ou your w g household goods, piano, team- fixtures or any other personal property R I with-out removal from your house, barn or store. You can have R ! ■ plenty of time in wuieh to pay back the loan, from one to twelve R month’s time. You <• in pay weekly, monthly, quarterly, or as you a may desire. You can make payments so small that you will not feel I them. Here are some of the terms of our weekly payment plan, allowing you fifty weeks to pay off your loan: fiOc is the weekly payment on a 525.00 loan. 51.20 is the weekly payment on a $50.00 loan. 51.80 is the weekly payment c.n a ?75.00J10an. 7 52.40 is the weekly payment on a 5100.00 loan. Other amounts in same proportion. Courteous treatment, fair dealings and absolute secrecy guaranteed. Please use the following blank. Our agent is in Decatur every Tuesday. Date Your Name Wife’s Name Street and Number Olty Amount Wanted Kind of Security you have Occupation All communications are held strictly confidential. Call on or address FORT WAYNE LOAN CO. Established ' ’OB. Fort Wayne, Ind. Don’t forget that toys are a supreme delight for the children and we have them. Trumpetsail Sizes and all Shapes Dress dolls and dolls to dress; Kid body, wash and china libm dolls also jointed. Toys which comprise every form of amusement for the children. Our Chinaware is hard to beat at our prices. Remember we have the Largest Assortment of 10c candies in the City. Sixty different kinds to select your Christmas Candies from and any of these are the best in the citv for the price. Remember the place. BLUE FRONT, Three doors south of Moser's gallery. No single article in our store sells for more than 10 cents.

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Blackburn & Christen Holthouse Drug Co. W. H. Nachtrieb Smith, Yager & Falk ASK FOP A SAMPLE

I THE BEST PLACE—THE BEST PRICES For. . Mrs. M. A. BL’RDG, SOUTH »ECONI> STREET'. 1 ' 1 ■ ROY ARCHBOLD, DENTIST I. O. (). F. BLOCK. ’Pa n e-Office, 164: residence 245

A USEFUL WIZARD. The Glassmnker Has a Picturesque Trade. The gl:)<--worker is tiie wizuru of useful .iris. Before his st:-:,A at the county fair the caution to look out for pickpockets, often reiterated on the way to the annual gathering, is swallowed up in tiie wonderment aroused by the astonishing marvels wrought by his deft hand and a blowpipe. Here a touch and there a pat. and then suddenly the tiny champagne glass seems to till with a film of rosy wine. "Who will have this? Only 5 cents!" cries a glassblower, holding the little stemmed bowl upside down to show that, like the pitcher of old, hospitable Philemon and Baucis, it can never be emptied. A nickel is thrust up by some one in exchange for the little souvenir of the wizard’s art. and It is next seen standing on a parlor mantel many miles away from the fair grounds serving as a memento of the fair and a sample of the wonder beheld that day. Ln his w orkshop the glassworker and his crystal liquid become more fascinating. The roomy building is full of the mystery of an ancient alchemist's laboratory. The glow from the mouths of many furnaces dazzles the eyes. Here and there men with mighty wands tipped with white hot masses swing them daftly about or. putting them to their lips, conjure the gleam- | ing tips until they do their bidding, ex- I panding into great cylinders or disks or growing into delicate globes. Here is a man standing before the fiery mouth of a furnace. He has in I his hand a long rod, and his face is shielded from the singeing heat and the glare by a shield which lie holds in place by a plug grasped between his teeth. He dexterously twists his blowpipe in tliewliite hot gummy glass until it has collected on its end an ovoid mass weighing from twenty to forty pounds. Revolving the ball in the glowing pot for a moment until it becomes symmetrical. he lifts it forth and plunges It into a pear shaped mold. Then the blower, the master workman o? the place, takes the mass and begins to play with it. He blows a big bubble of air into the glass ami then another and another until the solid sphere is swelled Into a great decanter. Now swinging the white hot bulb like a giant pendulum in the depths of a yawning pit beneath his feet, now blowing through the tube, now thrusting it again into the furnace, at last the mass becomes a thin shelled cylinder as long as the I man himself. After being cut and ' rolled as one would cut and roll a sheet iron cylinder into a flat piece of metal, and annealing, this piece of i glass will be cut into window panes. In another workshop a workt an is rolling and smoothing a coil < f the ' spark'ing fluid nt the end of his blow- i pipe on it polished slab. Thon ho blows ’ through his magic wand, and a sphere i begins to blossom from the tip. It i grows and flows from the point of i cons ■•■ t over the shining surface. A :■ w of keen edged grindstones are , ti" ■ swiftly in another room, Bo- ' fore ■ h s ands a workman with bis shirt - lee- es rolled to his armpits. A ' long :H.ron p”ot< s his clothing. Ini his hands he holds a heavy piece of i glassware. Lightly, but firmly, so that the wins stand out on the backs of Lis lends, he presses it upon the od'.e oft! e stone. With surenc . of pres sure be deftly curves the glass, facet upon facet, jewel upon Jewel, until the whole piece has become a massive setting of gleaming diamonds which some day will shimmer on the table of a fine house. Ami to his nrt the glassworker adds something of the alchemist's art. Mixing a little gold with the glass, he turns it into the richest of rubies, violets and an amber that is solidified sunshine. He adds a little iron and draws from his glowing furnace glass furnished with all the colors of the rainbow. All in all. he is one of the wonder workers of the twentieth century.—New York Tribune. Argentine \ ineynrd*. Wonderful yields of grapes are produced in some Argentine vineyards. "In one vineyard, covering five or six acres, a small tram road ran up the middle." writes a traveler "I asked what that was for. nnd when told that it was to bring the grapes to the wine press I wondered why they were not carried in baskets. When 1 learned that off these five or six acres eighty tons of grapes are gathered each year I ceased to think of the tramway, and my wonder was turned to the marvel of the earth's productiveness. Eighty tons were the average yield, after house servants, farm and garden servants and peons who drive troops of mules up and down the mountains with ores from the mines had eaten their fill, and the house dogs and the dogs of the servants nnd peons and also a vast number of the little silver gray foxes which crowded in yearly from all corners of the desert during the grape season and birds that came from all places. There was enough and plenty for all of these and then eighty tons besides.” A Bit of Hoar's Wit. As a wit Senator Hoar had few superiors. though ho believed the floor of the senate not the place to display It. One of the occasions when he violated this rule wns during a speech by William V. Allen of Nebraska, who made n record of talking for ten solid hours Toward the end of a long speech Senator Tillman of South Carolina Interrupted Senator Allen with a correction. He said that Allen pronounced nd Infinitum us If it were "ad Infinny-tum." Allen contended that that wns the proper way nnd appealed to Mr. Hoar ns an authority. The latter. of course, supported Trtlvun. “But,” he said, "1 suppose the senator from Nebraska gave the short sound to the T in order to save the time of the senate."

NOTICE TO OUR MANY CUSTOMERS, gs our entire I ir competi- I of this city. I tto reduce a rto do this I ;icle at cost I Y. This is I ne but we 1 3 advertise. I Big Bargains in Stoves and Ranges Brittson, Meyers & Co. [[—j--|f m w , W m| p | |||_ I HI, ES.’SKIBT ~

“AS BOLD AS A LION.” Rather Sny Bold >i' a Partridge If ■ lou Mould Be Exact. The only expktl i.i ■ i the adage, i "Ab bold ns a lion." is that the lion's magniiicent. muscular body. Ins noble head, great inane, the fact that he is n wild beast and still more probably—bis deep throated roar that sounds sc i extraordinarily bold have made him feared for generations. Hut the lion belongs to the family of cats and is not bold. To those who know best he is not brave even in the hour of dan- , ger. The lioness, who is smaller, less terrible to look upon and is without a mane, is brave in defense of her young, but she. too. is not bold. She is merely bolder than the lion. In comparison with any animal that can face danger and tight “fair” the lion is a coward. To prove it let us see for a moment how it is that the lion chooses to hunt his prey. The lion does not hunt. In the reeds and grasses near some pool in the jungle lie lies hidden where he knows that other animals will go to drink. Catlike. he leaps upon his victim, striking it with his powerful paws. Then his great jaws break the neck of the unfortunate creature he has taken by surprise, and the lion boldly entries off the carcass to devour It where be will. The folk who live on the outskirts of jungles in the lion's country sometimes lose their sheep and goats when a hungry lion can muster courage to go near a human habitation in bls search for food. He goes at night and stealthily. Who knows but that his heart goes pit-a-pat and his big limbs tremble at every sudden noise? The natives of \ India and of Africa know, however. I that they can frighten away a thieving Hon by tire and torches If cornered and forced to tight he will do battle savagely, but he doesn't seek nn open j fight, and any traveler will tell you that aa a rule the “king of beasts*' bolts on sighting a man. To be as bold as a partridge —as brave, unselfish, daring, heroic, as a partridge—is something one might be proud to boast. No lion defends its young with the courage of a partridge. The lioness at bay will turn In defense of her cubs, will tight the enemy, will spring at him furiously; the partridge will leave Its little ones quite unprotected In the nest, or wherever they may be In hiding, and will offer herself to spare them. It is not the unthlnk ing heroism of excitement. The bird knows what she is doing and the dan ger. She schemes to attract attention to herself, but she manages to lead the dogs on.and she escapes. We nt least have never heard anything in the life history of the partridge so sad as that the mother bird has been taken at that supreme moment. Under the very nose of the dogs she will flutter and limp, with drooping wing, to deceive tb»uj into the belief that she is lamed uud tannot fly. New York Mall.

' 4‘.: ■ * If I Sian mi Heie I « 1 our Holiday shopping ought to commence ou a B I common sconce basis, Useful presents are best ap g predated, and when the useful and beautiful are ■ combined, you have found your ideal present. * There are scores of appropriate presents in our I HOLIDAY ASSORTMENT. We can’t begin to ■ enumerate all of them; but here are a few hints: I Smoking Jackets, g New and Fancy 1 I ancy Suspenders, ■ Good as they are Pretty ■ A Wilderness of Beautful Neckties 1 10 to;so cents f Plain and Fancy Mufflers 1 25 c to 15.00 I Wann Gloves for Riding or Walking I 25c to $5.00 I Handkerchiefs, Umbrellas, Suitcases, | Sweaters, Hosiery and Cuds H and dozens of other articles that wilt i ■ that wdl please any man or boy. I Ltt ngh[ h \ h r? Pm ? be « ln TODAY I I Elzey & Vance, I ■ Comer East of Court House n . i> ■ I W Decatur, Indiana I