Daily Democrat, Volume 2, Number 292, Decatur, Adams County, 20 December 1904 — Page 2

F A COONSKIN FARE. It Would Have I'uid the Traveler to Let the Change Go. Many years ago, as the story runs, when coonskins were worth six bits apiece in Arkansas and a regular fee Os two bits was assessed for ferrying a horseman across the St. Francis river, there came along a traveler whose entire capital consisted of but a single pelt, and the ferryman hadn't a cent of Change in his pocket. The traveler was bound to cross, but refused to pay three times as much as the man who passed before him or the one who was to come next. The ferry man would not wet an oar unless pay inent for his services was assured. Here was ample foundation for an ar gument, and presumably the opportu nity was not neglected. But a satisfac tory arrangement was finally reached the traveler getting value received foi bis coonskin by being wafted thrice across the stream. This of course would leave him on the right side, and neither party to the trade would bate cause for complaint. Such was the generous spirit of accommodation which obtained in these earlier days, such—but hold on a bit. On the second trip the ferryman chanced to inspect the eoonskin closely and found that it was by no means up to the recognized standard. Maybe it had been killed too early in the season or was not properly stretched. Anyway, lie decided that four bits was all it was worth, and the traveler frankly admitted the soundness of his judgment, acknowledged that he had received its value in the double ferriage and forthwith started on his fifty mile ride up the river to ths nearest pomt where it was fordable.—Field and Stream. The Stiver Tongued One. “So that's the silver tongued orator, is it?” said the man in the rear seat. “Wonder why they call him that?” “Because,” replied the weary listener, "silence, which is golden, is so much more valuable than his oratory.'' —Cincinnati Tribune. The Sninll Children. “I wonder what it is,” said the family man, “that makes landlords and janitors dislike to have small children in flats.” “The small children, I guess.” replied the savage bachelor.— jnoiadelnhia Ledger.

Buy Meat Now AT YOUR OWN PRICES The “eat trust is busted, andlfwith it the prices. If you 'T are ’y* se y° u vvil! take'advantigejof the prices we quote below. No limit to tbe£aniountPof your purchase" Note 7 closely the prices: Round, best, per lb. . j'|Oc Gnuck Steak, per lb 8c Beef Roast, per Jib 5 toJ7c Boiling Beef,Jper lb , g.togc Sliced Pork, per lb 10c>r 3 lbs. for*2gc Pork and Chunk, per lb 7c Sausage, per lb . . • • • . lOcJor 3 lbs. forJ2SC Head Cheese, Blood and Liver Sausage, per lb . . Qc Bologna and Weinewurst. per lb 7c Lard, per lb • • • 7 C This is not ehsip pur miat. but ths very best that monty ~i can buy in a geei m irket y , JAMES BAIN Monroe St. DECATUR, IND.

>| /btllkV tDon’tlet the Christmas Stockings of ILIA "11 v ▼ • J our loved ones empty simply because /* *' you short of money, 101* i ’Come’’to US / I • J ;we can help you fill them; we will loan I 11 I*l Ki 111 ’ vo " nlone y- "’e will loan you 55, 510, vJ ill lir I 111 ,$25, 550. 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 ean pay weekly, monthly, quarterly, or as you may desire. You can make payments so small that you will Vnot 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 525.00 loan. 51.20 is the weekly payment on a $50.00 loan. 51.80’is the weekly payment «..n a 575.00J10an. $2.40 is the weekly payment on a SIOO.OO loa •. Other amounts in same proportion. CJ urteoustreatment, fair dealings and absolute secrecy guaranteed. Please use the following blank. Our agent is io 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 10RT WAHE LOAN CO. Established VB. Fort Wayne, Ind.

A GOOD WIDE YAWN. ft Is a Splendid Reviver For the Whole Body. A good, wide, open mouthed yawn Is a splendid thing for the whole body. A yawn is nature’s demand for rest. Some people think they only yawn because they are sleepy, but this Is not so. You yawn because you are tired. You may be sleepy also, but that is not the real cause of your yawning. You are sleepy because you are tired, and you yawn because you are tired. Whenever you feel like yawning just yawn. Don’t try to suppress it because you think it is impolite to yawn. I‘ut your band over your mouth if you want to, but let the yawn come. And if you are where you can stretch at the same time that you yawn just stretch and yawn. This is nature’s way of stretching and relaxing the muscles. Don’t be afraid to open your mouth wide and yawn and stretch whenever you feel litre it. Indeed, if you are very tired, but do not feel like yawning, there is nothing that will rest you so quickly as to sit on a straight back chair, and. lifting your feet from the floor, push them out in front of you as far as possible, stretch the arms, put the head back, open the mouth wide and make yourself yawn. Those tense nerves will relax, the contracted muscles will stretch and the whole body will be rested. Do this two or throe times when you are tired and see what it will do for you. He Lost His Dignity. A pompous individual from the east, says a Texas newspaper, happened to be traveling in western Texas and stopping at a hotel, when trouble started among some cowboys, who prepared to conduct the argument with revolt ers. “Stranger," said a Texan to the pompous man, “it would be a good idee fur you to lay down on the floor till this dispute is settled.” “Lt does not comport with the dig nlty of a Boston gentleman of my professions.” said the pompous gentleman, “to wallow in the dirt on the floor.” “You may be right, stranger,” answered the Texan as he prepared to recline, “but my opinion is that you had better lose yer dignity fur the time bein’ than to have the daylights let into your system by a 44.” He lost his dignity.

MEXICAN DRAWN WORK. (lie Women Who Make It According to Peon Contract. The woman who makes drawn work on a Mexican estate is not an independent worker to whom comes the money for all the work her deft hands accomplish. She is a woman whose father or brother or uncle or mother is in debt to the "great don.” She can do the drawn work, so the don's agent supplies her with linen or lawn, a frame and the requisite implements and indicates the design that she is to follow. for. though you may not know it, there are fashions in drawn work quite as exclusive and quite as popular as there are in women’s bats, for instance. When her work is done that poor woman cannot fare forth to market and offer it for sale. It is by the term of her peon contract perhaps already sold to the “great don," whose tenant she is. Miguel, his agent, takes the work, by now ns grimy as the overalls of an engineer. He has kept account of the time the woman has been engaged upon it, and for each of the many days she may have worked he gives her 7, 8,1), at most 12 cents, but never the last amount unless she be a thorough mistress of her craft. Once a year the Mexicans for whom the women do this work, somewhat as the sweatshop toilers of Chicago and New York drive their needles for a master, meet in solemn conference and determine what the prices shall be. So great is the popularity of drawn work generally that the supply never equals the demand, and the profits made by the Mexican masters of the drawn work trust, for it is really that, are enormous. The dealer pays these “operators" what they demand, and they demand much. Therefore the buyer pays S4O for a “cloth” that costs the “manufacturer" 12 cents a day. labor hire, for. say. ninety days, to produce — Pilgrim. THE FLAMINGO AT HOME. Olmm ation Has Proved That Both Male and Female Incubate. Apparently two factors enter into the flamingoes' type of architecture—they must build where there is mud and at the same time erect a structure high enough to protect its contents from any normal rise in the water due to tides or rainfall. After watching a nesting colony of flamingoes in the Bahamas for “nearly an hour” at a distance of 150 yards Sir Henry Blake stated that the females sat upon the nests, while the males stood up together, evidently near by. My dissections, however, showed that both sexes incubate, while continued observation from the teut revealed the presence of only one bird of the pair in the rookery at the same time. The bird on the nest was relieved late in the afternoon and early in the morn ing. The one. therefoie, which incubated during the day fcil at night, and his or her place was taken by another which had been feeding during the day. or, as I’eter put it. “I do fink, sir, dat when de lady fillymingo leave de nest den de gen'leman fillymingo take her place, sir; yes, sir.” Morning and evening, then, there was much activity in the rookery. Single girds or files of as many as fifty were almost constantly arriving and departing. coming from and radiating to every point of the compass. Flamingoes in flight resemble no other bird known to me. With legs and neck fully outstretched and the comparatively small wings set halfway between bill and toes, they look as if they might fly backward or forward with equal ease. They progress more rapidly than a heron and when hurried fly with a singular serpentine motion of the neck and body, as if they were crawling in the air.—Century. A LONG LOST CITY. Tanngrn, the Site of the Modern Town of Grenada, In Greece. Gremada Is the name of the modern city in Boeotia, Greece, which occupies the site of the ancient city of Tanagra. The old town was a rich and luxurious piece, greatly renowned for the cockfights that were given there. It had the honor of being the birthplace of Corinna, the great poetess of the fifth century before Christ, and perpetuated her memory by a majestic tomb, on which she was represented five times crowned in remembrance of the five victories which she had gained in the lyrical contests with Pindar. Despite this comparative celebrity it appeared destined to the eternal sleep of forgetfulness when after more than twenty two centuries of alienee chance drew to it the attention of archaeologists. In 1870 the inhabitants of the neighboring villages while digging in their fields exposed to view some tombs which the French have assigned to the nineteenth century before the Christian era. The discovery of these first sepulchers was the cause of excavations. during which a quantity of other tombs were discovered, all aitnnted along the roads which led from ths walls of Tanagra in the direction of Thebes. Clialcis. Hernia and Platne. Among this mass of tombs belonging to several centuries the most interest attaches to those of the fourth century before the Christian era on account of their contents. It was In these particularly that the statuettes known today under the name of “Tanagra figurines” were for the most part discovered. "Well. I wouldn’t say ’comparatively,’ blit ‘relatively.’ They have a rich uncle of whom they expect great things."- Philadelphia Ledger. One Advnntaare, Rimer Do you really prefer to have long poems sent In to yon rnther than abort ones? Editor -Yes. When they're long, you see, I don’t have to think up any other excuse for rejecting them. ■ Exchange.

Por a Merry X-mas GO TO T aflue ’ s rOl Shoe Store ), — 11 ■ We have the best Articles that is on the Market to make a Christmas Present with. Think of the many fine slippers for men, ladies and children. Or A Fine Dress Shoe t— —— AND FOR BARGAINS - [ SsSp ) y We have them of the’low- A-/ 5 ® 'S est of the low. Come in and see some of our warm V-/I goods. k Ladies warm lined shoesat 98c Felt Boots for Men at $ 1.63. First Quality SNAGPROOF Rubber Boots $3.25. I will sell my warm goods all the way through at A BARGAIN this Me nth. COME WHILE THEY LAST. It’s The Old Reliable Place Where They All Go Fred Tague's s s to o re

INDIAN SUMMER. Jtn llitue and Warmth Dae to the “Aerial Galt Stream.” Formerly the smokiuess and tbe Somewhat greater degree of warmth and other characteristics of “Indian summer" were thought to be caused by mountain fires or the burning of fallen leaves. Scientists have now proved, however, that the hazu and increased warmth are due to tbe annual formation of what has been called the “aerial gulf stream," or “vapor plane.” This high current, generated in equatorial seas by ascending masses of vapor charged air. flows northward through tbe upper atmosphere, oversweeps the southern and gulf states and descends toward the earth or ocean as it approaches New England and Canada on its journey toward the po lar circle. In the afternoon and night, when the earth throws off the heat received during the day. especially in the autumn weeks, when the temperature is declining and the capacity of the air to receive and hold moisture is on the decrease, the presence of this mantle arrests radiation. Covering the remaining vegetation and harvest with a shield, it protracts the grain ripening period to meet the necessities of the higher latitudes. It has been shown that the first recorded appearance of the term “Indian summer" was in 171 M. It seems to have been well known and recognized at that time. In New England it was supposed that the term came from the prevalance of the southwest winds, whirl), the Indians thought, were sent as a mark of favor by their peculiar deity, Coutanowoit. However, in many parts of the United States it was the India ns'especial huntingseason. Among the Indians of the northwest it was the period between the gathering and storing of summer supplies nnd the selection of winter quarters in the haunts of the large game; heme it was the period of migration. The term “Indian summer" Ims been adopted by English speaking peoples throughout the whole world. The season Is well defined in England. It is peculiar also to central Europe. In the old world ns well ns the new it is characterized by dry fogs, a glowing sky. absence of heavy rain and mild tcn:pcrntu: ,n . In England Its early mime was “Allhallow Hummer.” In \Vnles and Bel glum It Ih known ns “St. Michael's summer.’’, in Germany as "St. Gall's Hummer" nml the “summer of old women." in Bohemia ns "St. WencesInus’ summer." in Swollen as “St. Bridget’s summer" nnd in Lombardy as “St. Theresa's summer.” Indian summer is especially noticeable in the far northwest of this continent.' In Vancouver and other portions of British America there is a aecond growth of verdure lasting until after Christinas. From the northern states of the Union It extends north to the arctic circle. Chicago New-:,

THIS WEEK Bargain Sale Not cheap shop-worn goods, but new, clean, up-to-date MILLINERY $12.00 Hats at $5.98 6 and $7 Hats at 3.98 4 and $5 Hats Bt 2.98 3.50 Hats at 1.98 2.50 Hats at 0.98 Come in and See For Yourself. MRS. M. P. BURDG MILLINERY STORE 134 So. Sebond St. Have You? Been in to see our line of USEFUL Xmas presents. Come early this week and take a look while our Lines are com p'.ete. Oar Store hubna crow lad With Bayers and w« are giving special values in all our lines. Come and See our new Style soles for slippers, shoe forms to keep your shoes in their original shape Leggins and overgaiters. Soft velv ety leather slippers for men, fur trimed slippers for ladies. Warm lined shoes and overshoes. These are presents that will please ana make the receiver wish you a Merry Xmas Ail goods exchanged after Xmas. „ ■■ I, CHARLIE VOGLEWEDE, THE SHOE SELLER Same Old Place 123 N. Second SL