Daily Democrat, Volume 2, Number 294, Decatur, Adams County, 22 December 1904 — Page 7

weeee®eeeeeeeeeeeeeee®eeee : Two Men : • A Girl Christmas * • ~ • By WILLIAM H. OSBORNE * • o J Copunght, t'MS, bu T. C. McClure « From one end to the other of First avenue there were many young women who had some claims to attractiveness. But there was none like Miss Salite Smith. She was the belle among belles. Miss Sallie spent some time one day in deep thought. F “Well, I don’t care,” she said to | herself, -Billy certainly can't think as much of me as Jenks, for if he does why doesn’t he show it?” Outward demonstratidu and mateI rial evidence count for everything in this world. And the situation that perplexed Miss Sallie Smith was a peculiar one. She bad two admirers who were strenuous ones. The name of one of these young men was William Burke. The name of the other was Jenkinson. It was a toss up between , the two. But tlie trouble was that ■while William Burke was the neater dresser and possessed a more attractive bearing, yet Mr. Jenkinson was a man who wooed Miss Smith in the approved ■ manner, by lavishing upon her a eon- | sideralile amount of coin. Miss Sallie Smith did not care so much about the amount of coin lavished upon her, but it was the only way in which—as things go in First avenue '.he only way by which she could measure the Quality and quantity of a man's atteu- I tlons. Burke couldn't be stingy, she felt, but he did not come to time, as ' one might say. Jenkinson, on the other hand, poured his wealth at her feet. Now. Miss Smith was such a good manager that up to date Mr Burke and Mr. Jenkinson had never met. But both gentlemen wore becoming so insistent that she determined finally that she would make a choice. She was really fortunate, for there are few girls who have two prop., ers hanging around every day in the week. She would give each man a fair chance. I judge of the devotion of each by the best standards, and then she would decide once and for all. Mr. Jenkinson was a trolley car conductor. Mr. Jenkinson hold before his mental vision this motto: ' The greatest good to the greatest number. The greatest number—No. 1." And, being a trolley ear conductor, it was up to him to put this motto into everyday practice. He had made up his mind that Miss Sallie Smith was the only girl In the universe, and it was his purpose to make her think more than ever that he , was the only man. Fortunately, the season favored him. It was the holiday time and tiie cars were crowdedovercrowded. Mr. Jenkinson laid out a little programme to commence a few days before Christmas and to finish up with Christmas itself. The important characters on the programme were himself and Miss Sallie Smith—a night or two at the theater, a dinner ailil nn east side diamond ring to wind up with on the day of all days, expensive luxuries for a man with his salary, but Mr. Jenkinson had away to fix all that. The holiday crowds helped him out. Mr. Jenkinson propounded to himself a problem in mental arithmetic: If 200 people on a car pay their fare and the Indicator hell is rung only 100 times, (1> Who will know the difference? ■(2) How much is there in it for the conductor? (3) How often must it be done to carry out the Jenkinson programme? It may be said at this juncture that Mr. Jenkinson was an adept. ! at this sort of game and also that he, had never been caught. Now. it was just about this time that I Miss Sn ith, who didn't really know just why, made up her mind to invite Mr. Burke and Mr. Jenkinson to coll, both upon the same evening, that even Ing beir-g the night before Christmas. They both accepted. In the meantime fate was mixing up things Just a little bit. Mr. Jenkinson was solving his problei i in a highly satisfactory manner. An incident will suitice to show his method. It was the* day before Christmas. His route ended at Fiftyninth street. Four blocks this side of Fifty ninth street lie turned Ids Indicator hand buck to zero. This was peculiar. because, us he had four blocks still to go. and in holiday season, too. | it is probable that it would b<> neees ] snry to ring up more fares. Ami it was , necessary. But he rang them up so i that they stood credited to the down | trip So fur he had been honest. His next move. however, was profitable. W hen he reached Fifty-ninth street he had received seven or eight fares which he duly rang up. Leaving those seven or eight credited to the down trip, the first Seven or eight fares he collected on the down trip he did not ring up. Why? Because, apparently, they were already rung up. This little scheme netted him 35 or 40 cents. This Is only one method. Mr. Jenkinson had not noted, however, that one of his passengers. s well dressed young mnn. engaged In rending the newspiqier. did not slight nt the end of the trip mid indicated that he bad passed his point of departure and had to go back. This you’ll’ -'an was n groat render. But he nt ' >se 0 Mr. Jenkinson’s car all ft..' way d v.i ne>-ly oar of the cro* I T t o-t V J' kin *1 ttende<l Mis* > He mill's. i* a* re ec I v ith ’nt tslrsm. »t e and MIM Rs.He md attended a erforni snee at the theater on th* dug pro ' vlons. Finally Mr Billy Bn-se. natty ns usual, turned up. As he entered ho s Introduced to Mr. Jenkinson. 11* ■<ed, stared, gave n short gasp and i shook bands He acknowledged

to himself that Mr. Jenkinson’s fee® had become familiar to him. Mr. Jenkinson evidently had never seen him. ■<ow, there was one thing that Mr Lilly l.urke could not help noticing and that was that Miss Sallie Smith bad a i eel, ed leaning toward Jenkinson, He (Billy Burke) seemed pretty "'■•l out ... i. Miss Smith had me -it to lie imp:<.'-tinl, but .’dr. Jeuk.nso’i's attentions bad really overpowered her. The hour of parting came. Mr. Burke, with a delicacy which he felt to be due to the occasion, left first. He walked slowly down the stairs and out into the street. He shook his head. "That fellow,” he exclaimed softly to himself. "But, after all. it's none of my business." He thought about it for a long while. Then, acting under impulse, he thrust his hand into his inside pocket and pulled out a yellow paper. It was a blank form which he had filled up. Vpon it appeared a date, the name of John Jenkinson, and some figures in the dollars and cents column. He hesitated an instant, then he suddenly tore it to pieces and threw it into the gutter. The next morning—Christmas morn ing it was- he stepped into an office, for no days were holidays to Burke. He passed over some yellow slips. A man looked at them and frowned. "You were on No. yesterday?” he asked. "I was,” Burke answered. '"You got a report against N ■. ? Jenkinson, his name is." Burke shook his head. “I have n ' " he answered. "Then," said the other man, “were through with you; that's all. Jenkinson skinned us yesterday more than we've ever been skinned, and. by George, it happened that Barker was spotting you while you were spotting Jenkinson. You can go. We don't want a spotter cahoots with our conductors; that's all.” Buf'ke turned red and white. He started in to explain; then he stopped. He thought of Miss Sallie Smith. Christmas night Mr. Jenkinson called upon Miss Sallie Smith. lie was not quite so brash as usual. But he had a little box in his hand. "Sallie.” he said, "I lost my job today. I don't know why. but I brought you a little"— Miss Sallie slopped him. "I know.” she said. She produced a paper. “That’s why." she exclaimed, "and I know, because I took the trouble to find out.” It was a clipping headed: JENKINSON, THE WORST EVER. The Trolley Company Fires Man Who Holds Holiday Knocked Down Fare Record. Jenkinson flushed, but he did not dare to lie. "They—they all do it,” he remarked. "I was caught; that's all. After all. Sallie," he went on, “I only did it because I wanted to get this for you." He exhibited the box. Sallie Smith stepped to the mantelpiece. She took down a bundle. It contained all the presents that Jenkinson had ever given her. She handed them over. "You can go." she said. "Any nian who would steal for me certainly doesn't have much respect for me." Jenkinson looked stupidly at her. "You may go." she said. Jenkinson went. Billy Burke came later. He was not so well dressed this time. "Sallie.” he said. "1 want to tell you something. I’ve always been ashamed to tell you what I was working nt. I— I'm n spotier on the trolley I had to be-I couldn't get anything else to do. They don't pay us. though, as well as they do the motormen and the conductors. But they they’ve fired me. I’ll tell you. They fired me because I didn’t turn in the name of a—a man who knocked down fares. They were right. I didn’t. It doesn't make any difference why. But I'm out. and I've got to get another Job, and I'm glad of it.” Miss Sallie Smith gasped. “The man yon wouldn’t report." she asked—"was It John Jenkinson?” Burke's face gave him away. “How how did you know?" he asked. She paused a moment. "When did you first meet him?” she inquired. "Last night.” said Burke, flushing still, "was the first time. I didn’t want to" Sallie held out her hand. "BillyBilly." she exclaimed, "and you did It all for me for me?” She paused a moment. “Where nre your good clothes?" she asked as she looked at him. "I've got to toll you :ITI about it, Sallie." he answered. "You see. I al ways had to wear good clothes, and had to buy 'em and keep getting new ones, so that it would look ns If I was somelxsly, and they didn't pay me enough hardly to get 'em. Well, I got sick of 'em. And I tell you. Sallie. what I did. I up and pawned 'em, nnd—mid l-I did a nervy thing. I I bought yon this. I was afraid and I wasn't sure, but”— He paused, stuck his hand in his pocket and pulled out a ring "I haven't got n Job," he went on. “but”— "I don't care." returned Miss Sallie Smith. "You've lost your job. and you've pawned your clothes, and all for me I don't believe there's any mnn would do ns much. Title is the very nicest Christmas that I've ever had. So there!" ■ Jenkinson had not pawned his clothes, but ho had lost his job some what on account of Miss Hnllle Smith, but tb " wn* '' d’fference with n wide dlsth 'm- Ai: I Miss Sallie Smith decld) d for l.c.' o's "d for Billy B'.trks IS I II I I." ..■'■*■» *• It ( ItHli. ji., T!’*v mty d''<" i“e « a fre« bnz.tr, hut I'll Let yoi. .. I It ex pensive before you're thnw’l with It Rhe Nonsense! How can a thing be expensive If It's free? He Ensy enough. Just get mixed up In a fre* tight, for Inst.hut. and see Cntholl| standard.

BLACK JUMPING SPIDER. ’ | He la the Hungry Lit lie Tiger of His Fraternity. Whenever we think of spiders we j thin'; of webs, large wheel-like stretch- I < < or bulky mi'.-’.-es or dainty gossa-| mors spread on tie grrss ,<r in fence i corners, if tie spider dal it >t bi;".l its | snare, how world it get its d mor? I Spiders are rlways on ti e lookout for a hearty meal, and as ti ls means s.i; sething to eat almost or i.inic as big as themselves, with somewhat epicurean tastes into the bargain, they must be ever seeking food. The snare Weavers follow best the good poetic precept. “Learn to labor and to wait." but the little fellows that build no snares, that do not depend on waiting, must, if the temperature permits, be ever on the hunt. Let us see how they follow a revised precept, "Learn to labor and to hustle.” On the sunny side of this tree trunk, on the old barn door, among the pine needles, in the crannies of the stone wall, under the projecting end of the woollen steps, amid the evergreen honeysuckle on the south porch, in almost any half sheltered, half sunny spot, we shall have no trouble finding (lie little black jumping spider titles. that sei entists have renamed I’hidippus tripunctatus, though the three spots to which the specific name refers nre generally increased to five or more. This is the little tiger of the spider fraternity. So common and so active and so hungry is it that its list of victims grows very long indeed, even in its .hurt lifetime, and generally they are of a kind that makes the little tiger a great and worthy friend of man. Flies, bugs, very young crickets and grasshoppers. plant lice, tree hoppers, midges, gnr.ts. small moll’s ami caterpillars ti i ;e and many others are Its victims' by the score and by the hundred. It. too, spins a Web (what spider does not in some way?), a delicate, pure white, cottony bag. to shelter itself and eggs throughout the winter, and later, when the eggs hatch its young, the lit tie spiders swarm all over the mothei and all titrough the thick web. reminding one of the old woman who lived in a shoe. Our little attus will not ven ture far from home. Find one that seems a wanderer and hunt closely, and ten to one you will find the web near by. somewhere in a cranny or crack, under bark, under stones, in heeds of wild carrot, in curled leaves, in the disused lock or latch of nn ol 1 door or. like our little resklent of the honeysuckle, between two leave? which the web grands have drawn partly together. Get a straw and poke it into one end of the web. Out pops the small proprietor from a slit in the other end and. always turning face toward the enemy, prepared to beat a further retreat or stand and fight.—St Nicholas. » r .* — .... » < Aii 01*1 Fashioned Clock. The oldest working clock in Great Britain is that of Peterborough cathedral. which dates from 1320 and is con ceded to have been made by a monastic clockmaker. It is the only one now known that is wound up over an old wooden wheel. This is some twelve eet in circumference, carrying a galvanized cable about 300 feet in length, with a leaden weight of three hundredweight. The cable has to be wound up daily. The gong is the great tenor bell of the cathedral, which weighs thirtytwo hundredweight, and it is struck hourly by an eighty pound hammer. The going and the striking parts of the clock are some yards tipart. communication being by a slender wire. The clock is not fitted with a dial, but the time Is Indicated on the main wheel of the escapement, which goes round once in two hours. This clock is of the most primitive design, more so than the famous one made for Charles V. of France by Henry de Nick.—Scientific American. To Cure Pendmhm. Hang these words on your bedpost or tack them in your brain: I am going to become an optimist. From now on I am going to change my entire life and my entire style of thinking. I will endeavor hereafter to be gen erotts in my view toward others, broad minded, large spirited and kind, think, ing well of everybody, mean of nobody, and overlooking the little faults, believing that there are other qualities in the man that overwhelm the de tlcieney. "There is so milch bad in the best of us and so much good in the worst of us that it behooves cacti one of us to be charitable to the rest of us." I shall see the bright side of everything. I shall talk like nn optimist, laugh like an optimist and move about like an optimist, conscious of the fact that I slinll radiate sunshine and imtke every otto around me happier.—Physical Culture A Fnmon. Whistle. In the train ol Anne of Denmark, when she went to Scotland with James VI., was a gigantic Dane of matchless drinking capacity. He pos sessed an ebony whistle, which nt the beginning of h drunken limit he would lay on the table, and whoever was the last able to blow it was by general consent considered to be the "champion of the whistle." It happened, however, that during his stay In Scotland the Dane was defeated by Sir Robert Lauric of Mnxweltou, who after three days nnd three nights of hard drink ing left the Dane under the table and "blew on the whistle his requiem shrill." The whistle remained In the family for ninny years, nnd the last person who curried It off was Alexander Ferguson of Craig Darroch, son of Annie Laurie, so well and musically known. Bobbie Burns immortalized the subject In a poeiu entitled "The Whistle."

WON THE SOUTHERNERS. Henry Ward Beecher’si DlMplnjr at Tact und .Verve In Ilichmoud. Ono of the "nervleM" illustrations of tact is to the crealt of Henry Ward Beecher. After the war l.e made a lee-tl.-e tour oft! e south ;nJ appeared at Mozart hall. Riel.mon.l, with an address entitled "The North and the South." lie was rather doubtful as t > the reception he should have, but be knew wl.at l.e wanted ami w..s determined to get it. No applause we'" lined him as he appeared oa the platform, but a few hisses were heard in the gallery. In the better rows of seats were some grim ex-Confederates — General Fitz-Hugh Lee. General Rosser, exGovernor Smith, Governor Cameron and others. Beecher fixed his eye directly on Lee and said (I quote a newspaper report of the incident): "I have seen pictures of General FitzHugh Lee, sir. ami 1 assume you are the man. Am I right?" The general, slightly taken back by this direct address, nodded stiffly, while the audience bent forward, breathless with curiosity as to what was going to follow. "Then," said Beecher, his face light ing up. “I want to offer ybu this right hand, v. liicli In its own way fought against you and yours years ago. but which I would now willingly sacrifice to make the sunny south prosperous and happy. Will you take ft. gen era I?" There was a moment's hesitation, a moment of deathlike stillness in the had, and then Fitz-Hugh Lee was on his feet, ills hand was extended across the footlights and was quickly met by tlie warm gr.i p <n' the preacher's. At first iLce was a murmur, half of surprise and half of douhil'uiness. tn-m the audience, then there w,.s a liesha,ing clapping of Imnds. ami be:'..'. Beumer had united the band ol Hose, i E. l.e ■ . nephew there were c . i':s si-ch as were never before heard in old .'.i.rz.'.rt, though it had been the :e of many a war and political mceiaig. But this was only the beginning of the enthusiasm. When the noise bad sufiiciently subsided, Beecher eontiu ued: “When I go back home I shall proud ly tell Unit I have grasped the hand of the nepl.ew of tlie great southern chief tain, I shall toil my people that 1 went to the Confe'lei'ate capital with a heart full of love fir the people .vliom my principles once obliged me to oppose, ami 1 was met halfway by Ike brave Southerners, who can forgive as wel’, as they can tight.” Five minutes of applause followed, ami then Beecher, having gained tlie hearts of his audience, began h;s lec ture nnd was applauded to the echo. That night bis carriage was driven to his hotel amid shouts such as have never greeted a northern man in Richmond si:i ’e the war.—Marshall I’. Wilder in St. Louis Republic. Gaided by Parrota. Before the eagle was selected as our national emblem Benjamin Franklin urged the claims of the turkey. It was purely American, he said, which the eagle was not. It was a proud and generous bird, and it was good eating, if Franklin had known more about our early history he might have spoken for the parrot. When ('olninbus sailed westward over the unknown Atlantic he expected to reach Zipangu (Japan). After several days' sail from Gomera, one of the Canary islands, be became uneasy at not discovering Zipangu. which according to his reckoning should have been 210 nautical miles more to the east. Afler a long discussion he yielded to the opinion of Martin Alonzo Pinzon, the commander of the Pinta, and steered to the southwest. Pinzon wa# influenced in his opinion solely by a flight of parrot® which took wing in that direction. It was goal hick to follow in the wake of a tloek of birds when engaged upon a voyage of dis eovery, a widespread superstition among Spanish senmen of that day, and the great navigator was thus guided to the new world. lutrreMt In the I-Ihmln«*». There sire larger birds than the flamingo and birds with more brilliant plumage, but no other large bird is so brightly colored, nnd no other brightly colored bird is so large. In brief, size and beauty of plume united reach their maximum of development in tills remarkable bird, while the open nature of Its haunts and its gregariousness seem specially designed to display Its marked characteristics of form and color to the most striking advantage. When to these more superficial attractions is added the fact that little or nothing Is known of the nesting habits of this singular bird, one may In a measure at least realize t! c intense longing of the naturalist not only to behold a flamingo city, without ques tlon the most striking sight In the bird world, but nt ti e same time to lift the veil thr.nigh which the flamingo's home life has been but dimly seen. Century. ’••rrrndrr. After General Robert E. Lee's last attempt was made with Gordon and Fitz Lee to break through the lines of, the enemy Colonel Venable Informed General Lee that It was not possible, j He said. "Then there is nothing left me but to goHiid see General Grant." when some one near him. hearing this, said; “Oh. general! Whnt will history aay of the surrender of the army In the field?" He replied: "Yes. I know they will say hard things nf u«. They will not underffand bow we were overwhelmed by num-1 bers. Rut Hint is not the question,] colonel. The question Is, la it right to surrender this army? If It Is right, then I take all the responsibility." And he did. "Rncollei tlons and Letters of Qsneral Lee."

■ The of Des Moines Hon J. M Brenton, Mav <>r of lowa's capital and j prominent factor in tin- political and social life of the 1 I state, is a man who has the courage to speak his mind, | and to his fearlessness is largely (hie his political success, His statement regarding the merit of I Dr. Caldwell’s ▼ jfej (LAXATIVE) ■ Syrup Pepsin! ® will bo received with confidence by all who know him. Read Mayor Brenton's Frank Letter. 23 I have used Dr. .B. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin and consider HH it among the most valuable remedies on the market to-day. Luckily, I have been in very good health all my life and it is only very rarely that I ever take any kind of medicine. Occastonallv it becomes necessary for anv man to take some kind of a laxative and stomach remedy and Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin is the best I have ever used. I like to have a bottle of Syrup Pepsin handy at the house to take after 1 have been attending a banquet. I just take about a spoonful of the remedy and then 1 lie down to peaceful S-ft' slumber, confident that I will feel all right in the morning. If I had been seriously ill and cured, my testimonial might do you more good, but I can say that it helps me along in the small way I need help occasionally; and if I had worse WL tßjjdjles I have faith enough in the remedy that I wouid H try it for them. Very respectfully, J - BRENTON, Mayor of Dee Moines, la. Dr -C*ld«fll's S»ruD Pepsin Is a remedy fcr Constipetion, B I n a <restion, Sice Headache era Stomach Trcyplas. 1* Druggists Sell It, 500 and SI .00 Bottle® I /TVi INTER IS HERE ARE YOU GOING SOUTH? Or Southvc-t by Clcvt r Leaf and Cotton Belt Route. fl Zll‘ Exctirs on inter, lor a'zicay t// 11 ket.at about half fare * JANUARY 3, 1905 Callon immigration agent of the Cotton Belt Lines for infoimation in regard to rates, and the Snow Agency for descriptions of the White River Valey and Grand Prairie lauds ol Arkansas. New rail road lines have placed much valuable timber land and prairie farms upon the market. For additional particulars address the SNOW ACEIMCY, Decatur, Indiana

Child Torture. The British Nathmul S > iety For the Prevention of Cruelty to Children has a remarkable museum where, within glass case, is a collection of imple inents of torture. S’ :ips of every de scription are there, sticks, clubs and ropes, with the knots still lu them, that once held cb.lidish wrists fast There are al ■ > twisted hooks, bamboo ennes and a chain with a padlock by which mi I I'.x'clle chihl was for years fastened to n post. Hanging by itself Is a s'. ; w basket two feet long and a foot deep in which twins were found on a baby farm. Close Cnlenlntlon. Extremes tom b in commercial eccentricities. and the land of the palm is not s i different from that of the pine in the oddi.les of its small traders. It was a Canada grocer who owned that it never paid him to keep white sugar. “It I get a barrel, folks buy it up so fast It's gone in less'n a week." said lie. "Don't pay. 1 tell ye; it don't pay!" A traveler in the Philippines gives (Ids experience on the island of Negro®. He hud gone to the open air market, where the native women sit squatting lu n row. prepared for the long financial arguments Hist follow the custom er'® first mention of a price. "How much?" naked the visitor, pointing to some iiinngia’s. "Three vents each." was the answer. , There were six mnugoes in the has 1 ket, nnd the traveler took them all and laid n twenty eent piece (n the seller's lap. Hut she angrily snatched them buck and also returned the coin. "They nre 3 cents If you buy them separately," said she. “If you buy the lot you will have to pay 5 cents, for I slinll have none to sell to other peo-

WE WILL SELL PIANOS, ORGANS and Sheet Mesic AT COST Until January Ist, 1905 W. E. SMITH & Company. For Sale—Four-yonr-old driving horse, well broke; also 2 two-year-old draft colts coming two years old. DAN ERWIN. 284d2wks I have some No. 1 tt-nothy and mixed hay, baled in large bales, that I will sell nnd deliver in Decetur at your rest rce in ton or half ton lots, Chi'i ban you can you got. it at the w • uses. It will pav you to soo D. K STUDABAKER A A Payment Contracts issued by 111 the ACtna Life insurance Co., U of Hartford, Conn., earn profits enough to cancel aix of the * ■ payments, thus reducing the In. number of payments required to and guaranteeings profit of more than ■A v l upon money actually in- /| 11 | vested, besides the profits i W I further to accrue, in compliance with the tsrtns ot the contract For further information see Jonh ’lenurger or Mrs, L. M. McEwen.