Daily Democrat, Volume 2, Number 291, Decatur, Adams County, 19 December 1904 — Page 4

in tilts 1i1t.4 ■near Bologna, there is a memorial tablet in the Municipal theater In be mem ory of a famous robber chieftain named Fassatore. The reason why the theater is the home of bis memorial is that in it was performed l:.s most fa mous exploit. in September. 1851. while one of ito sini's operas v; a being performed in (he presence of all the local l.e.iuty and fashion, Passat ire and his bind "bed up" the audience and robbed them of ail their valuables to the last penny. Perfectly C'onKcnlnl. Naggsby—When a man and his wife think the same thoughts simultaneously it is a sign that they are exceedingly congenial. Waggsby—So? Well, then, my wife and 1 are congenial all right, for the other night when she said that she wondered why I'd ever been such a fool as to marry her 1 had been sitting there in silence for half an hour wondering over the same identical thing.— Baltimore American. Saved the Trouble. She—They say that the best husbands are always thoughtful in little things. Are you that way, Mr. Smith? Smith—No. 1 don’t have to be. My wife always calls my attention to them before I have u chance to think.—Defrnl.t Froo Prpss.

Buy Meat Now AT YOUR OWN PRICES The meat trust is busted, and with it the prices. If you K’" are wise you will take advantagejof the prices we quote be- ~77~ l_ low. No limit to the] amounOof your purchase. Note closely the prices: Round, Sirloin and Porterhouse, best, peril). . >[|Oc Gnuck Steak, per lb 8c Beef Roast, per ®lb 5 to*7c Boiling’Beef,‘per lb 2,t Sliced lb 10c or 3 lbs. for 25c Pork and Chunk, per lb 7c Sausage, per lb . . ' ’ ' . lOCorj lbs. for’2sc Head Cheese, Blood and Liver Sausage, per lb . . 5c Bologna and Weinewurst. per lb 7 c Lard, per lb ’ • • 7c This is not cheap poor meat, but the very best that money can buy in a good market a?. . . . JAMES BAIN Monroe St DECATUR, IND. |WI Don’tlet the Christmas Stockings of y your loved ones empty simply because /« • you are temporarily short of money. 101* Come’to US / 1 • i we can help you fill them; we will loan I 111*1 Qllll ‘1 W vou 'L 006 ?- We will loau y° u Ss > s lo ’ IJ 1.1.1. $25, SSO, or whatever you need on your household goods, piano, team, fixtures or any other personal property with-out removal from your house, barn or store. You can have plenty of time in which to pay back the loan, from one to twelve month's time. You can pay weekly, monthly, quarterly, or as you may desire. You can make payments so small that you willjfnot feel them. Here are some of the terms of our weekly payment plan, allowing you fifty weeks to pay off your loan: 60c is the weekly payment on a $25.00 loan. $1.20 is the weekly payment on a $50.00 loan. SI.BO is the weekly payment c.n a s7s.ooJloan. $2.40 is the weekly payment on a SIOO.OO 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 City Amount Wanted Kind of Security you have Occupation All communications are held strictly confidential, Call on or address teFORT WAYNE LOAN €O. Established ! a 9B. Fort Wayne, Ind.

COAL Feed and Seeds Peninsular Portland Cement Gypsum Rock Wall Plaster We make a specialty of furnishing HIGH GRADE CLEAN COAL that will burn. j7~d. hale Phon*O Oor. Jefferson and 2nd Sts.

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Minnte Screws. “The fourth Jewel screw of a watoft is so small that to the nuked eye it will not look like anything more than a bit of dust." says a watchmaker, "and is probably the smallest screw made. It must necessarily be perfect in every respect, and the character of the work mansbip required on it is illustrated by looking at it under a powerful microscope. when it is seen that the thread average 2GO to the inch.' It is exactly four-thousandths of an inch 'n diam eter, and over 50,000 could be packed Inta a lady’s thimble with ease. Counting these screws is never attempted, of course, but 100 are weighed on a deli cate steelyard, anil the total number of an output is arrived at by comparing the gross weight witli the weight of these. Sueli tiny screws can only be made in large numbers by machinery, and the operation attending their man ufacture is one of the most delicate things in watchmaking.” — St. Louis The I’ottent’i Idea. Dr. Price-Price (diplomatically)—l don't know whether I sent you a statement of what —er—you owe me. Mr. Knox—Neither do I. Dr. Price-Price— Ah, you didn’t get it then? 1 guess I didn’t send you a statement. Mr. Knox —Ob, yes, but it looked more like a statement of what you think I possess.—Catholic Standard and Tin>»

MONEMO LOAN THE DECATUB ABSTRACT & LOAN COMPANY. (incorporated) A large sum of PRIVATE ias been placed with ub io loan or diy property and farms. No delaj rr red tape in making loans. Lowes, rates of interest. We are able to clom ’ ill loans on the same day of ’eceivinj Application. Will loan i urns o' I SSO up, on one to five years time, witi privilege of partial payments. Tbit company can also furnish abstracts ol I rille on short notice to any piece ol real estate in Adams county. THB DECATUR ABSTRACT LOAN CO. Rooms 3 and 4, Siudabake block, 257dtf

FORMIDABLE GUNS. The lloinbarda I >rd by the Turk* la the Fifteenth Centnry. In 1478 Mohammed 11., in forming the siege of Scutari, in Albania, employed fourteen heavy bombards, the lightest of which threw a stone shot of 37(1 pounds weight, two sent shots of 5(:0 pounds, one of 750 pounds, two of S.-.o pounds, one of 1.2t'0 pounds, live of 1.5U0 and one of the enormous weight of 1.(110 pounds, enormous even in these days, for our 80 ton guns throw only a 1,700 pound projectile, our 100 ton throws one of 2,000 pounds, and the 110 ton throws an 1,800 pound shot with a high velocity. The stone shot of Mohammed’s guns varied between twenty and thir-ty-two inches in diameter, about the height of a dining table, 2,534 of them fired on tins occasion weighing, according to a calculation of General Lefroy’s, about 1.000 tons, and were cut out of the solid rock on the spot. Assuming twenty-four inches as the average diameter of the shot fired at the siege, the total area of the surface dressed was nearly 32.000 square feet. At this siege the weight of the powder fired is estimated by General Lefroy to have been 250 tons. At the siege of Rhodes in 14S:> Mohammed caused sixteen basilisks or double cannon to be cast on the spot, throwing balls two to three feet in diameter.—Chambers' Journal. WHEN A MAN STARVES. How It Feela to Go Without Food For Seven Diimn. For the first two days through which a strong and healthy man is doomed to exist upon nothing his sufferings are perhaps more acute than in the remaining stages; he feels an inordinate, unspeakable craving at the stomach night and day. The mind runs upon beef, bread and other substances, but still in a great measure the body retains its strength. On the third and fourth days, but especially on the fourth, this incessant craving gives place to a sinking and weakness of the stomach, accompanied by nausea. On the fifth day his cheeks appear hollow and sunken, his body attenuated: his color is ashy pale and his eyes wild, glassy and cannibalistic. The sixth day brings with it increased suffering, although the pangs of hunger are lost in an overpowering languor and sickness. The bead becomes dizzy; the ghosts of well remembered dinners pass in hideous procession through the mind. The seventh day comes, bringing increasing lassitude and further prostration of strength. The mind wanders.— Chicago Chronicle. —. SEEING NOISE. The Method by Which Sound Wave* \re Photographed. Sound can be photographed by taking advantage of the motion produced in a tuning fork. Sound travels in waves, each corresponding with an oscillation in the fork, which remains in a state of continuous vibration while the note is sounded. To photograph these sound waves a small mirror is attached to the cud of one of tile prongs. On this a powerful beam of light is projected by a lens, so as to strike it nt an angle of forty-five degrees. The light is again reflected from its surface, but in a new direction. and a very slight alteration in the position of the mirror makes a large one in the reflected beam. To take the photograph the light is turned upon the mirror in a darkened room, and the tuning fork is set in vibration. while a sensitive plate is rapidly passed in the path of the reflected pencil of light. On development the plate shows sound waves recorded as a wavy line, and each note has. its characteristic curves. The Mad AmbuNMndor. There was a tragic little scene immediately preceding the marriage of King Edward VII. when he was the Prince of Wales. With several of his royal relatives he was staying at the Prussian embassy in Rome, where his host was the German ambassador, Baron von Kanitz. Tlie responsibility of entertaining so many august personages under ids roof was too much for the ambassador, lie appeared at dinner one night in his dressing gown and slippers and to half the royalties of Europe exclaimed: “Is tills to go on much longer? I am heartily sick of it. and it must come to an end at once.” They carried him to his room and the next day removed him to an asylum, a raving lunatic. Hocking: nml Sleep. Dr. Manncolne. the famous Russian authority on sleep phenomena, says that rocking is an artificial method of inducing slumber. The process fatigues consciousness by a series of monotonous sensations and Incidentally deprives the brain of Its blood supply. Absence of blood from the brain makes sleep. The Influence of the lullaby is object lonable. but not equally so. A baby will go to sleep ttnnlded when it needs sleep. Iler Recommendation. Cliolly—Bo Miss Tartun loosened up and said a good word about me. did she? Archie-- Yes; she said that when one got better acquainted with you one found you were not half ns big a fonl ns you appeared to be. Exchange. Him ti IHntlnrt IdiHiiltigr. Addipus Don't you hate to be ns lean as you are? Sklnnleus No: sometimes I find It's a decided help. I .-nil cross my legs In a crowded ear without taking up any more room Hint I dhl before Chicago Tribune. The noblest question In the world Is. What good may I do In It?—Franklin.

SPECIAL XMAS BARGAINS! Every Item as advertised. All Winter Cloaks and Suits at LESS THAN COST. SPECIAL CUT PRICES IN FURS. Buy your mother, wife, sister or daughter a nice FUR or winter cloak for Xmas. All Cloaks less than cost. Make your selection early. Some Cloaks and Furs W Martclrttal PILLOW TOPS, z I S2O 00 Coats at SIO.OO SHAMS, (I ! i I #lB. 00 Coats at SIOOO DRESSER SCARFS, \ ' I ' $15.00 Coats at $9.00 POCKETBOOKS, . | \ $13.50 Coats at $8.50 SILK SHAWLS, A A $12.60 Coats at $ 7.50 UMBRELLAS. ( \ SIO.OO Coats at $ 6.50 KID GLOVES, // \ x. $ 7.50 Coats at $5.00 BLANKETS, / ; ■ $ 6 50 Coats at $4.50 FANCY HOSIERY, / [S I $ 5.50 Coats at $4 00 SHIRTWAISTS, < J —— . ___________________________ » Ail Children's Cloaks at away less MAKE OUR STORE //J than co « t Seb line ■ OUR HEADQUARTERS prices to suit your pocketbook. For Your Xmas Shopping We Can Show ] You The Largest Open Stock In The City. NIBLICK & CO.

Cosmic Horror. The two infinities of Kant did not chill or hurt him, but bis fearlessness Is shared by few. Only for a short instant. at best, will most persons consent to look open eyed at any clear image of fate or of infinity. Scarcely a friend of mine will look steadily at the clear midnight sky for a minute in silence. The freezing of the heart follows: the appalling shudder at the dread contemplation of infinity, which may be called cosmic horror, is more than can be endured. If those stars are absolutely and positively infinite then there is no up or down, and they knew no beginning, will have no ending. With any such staring gorgon of fatalism tlie surcharged attention is shaken, aud the chemistry of common life seizes upon the liquid crystals with avid hunger.—George M. Gould, M. D„ in Atlantic. A Scotch Paraon’a Clever Reply. When musical instruments were first used lit the services of the Scottish churches many strict Sabbatarians objected to tlie iniquitous proceedings. One of these persons, ou meeting tlie minister some time after leaving tlie "kirk” because of tlie introduction of a harmonium, said witli a sneer. “Well, and how is your fanner getting on?” (A fanner was a winnowing machine resembling tlie bellows of an organ in its working.) "Oh, splendidly." answered tlie reverend gentleman. "It's just keeping tlie good corn and blowing the chaff away.”—Spare Moments. No Judice nt All. “Isn't that young man fond of music?” exclaimed the young woman. “I don’t know,” answered Miss Cayenne. "Judging by tlie way lie will stand up and listen to himself sing by the hour, I should say he Isn’t."—Chi cago Journal. Slronic Diet. Veterinary So your new bull pup Is sick? What seems to be the matter with him? Owner—A little of everything. I guess. While we were away this afternoon he chewed up and swailowed tlie dictionary.—Detroit Five Press. The Smnll Children. “I wonder what it is,” said the family man, "that makes landlords and Janitors dislike to have small children in flats.” "The sninll children. I guess," replied tlie savage bachelor.— Philadelphia Ledger. If you wish to please people you must begin by understanding them. - Reade. Arrarli of Prom me. .Tlggston Don't yon believe that talk Is cheap. A friend of mine had to pay 15,000 for four words. Jnggson Great heavens! What were they? Jlggson “Will you marry me?"—Chicago Journal.

' tai KjuAg " t Hi , <9 K < I | Sian sigm Here I B Your Holiday ehopping ought to commence on a ■ B common scence basis, Useful presents are best ap ■ gs predated, and when the useful and beautiful are » combined, you have found your ideal present. *j B There are scores of appropriate presents in our H()LIDk\ ASSORTMENT. We can’t begin to S B enumerate all of them;’but here are a few hints: I I Smoking Jackets, £ New and Fancy ® I Fancy Suspenders, ■ Good as they are Pretty ■ A Wilderness of Beautful Neckties 1 | 10 to 50 cents "* , £ Plain and Fancy Mufflers i I 25c to $5.00 | I Warm Gloves for Riding or Walking I I 25c to $5.00 I I Suitcases, ■ . andiCaps B | and dozens of other articles that will please any&man or boy. ■ | Let r'ighther°e PPin ? *?■" TODAY I I Elzev & Vance, | I Corner East of Court House Decatur, Indiana I * • i ■ . ■ : .

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