Daily Democrat, Volume 2, Number 295, Decatur, Adams County, 23 December 1904 — Page 7

THE POOR OF BERLIN HOW THEY ARE SUPERVISED BY THE CITY AUTHORITIES. BcKKlnx Im Not t<> u,. Seen on Slreelx or the <ll>. n .. lt lt ~..N K(|J Misery Dare Nut Lie Uioul In t;.e Parka and Public Places. “What.” I exclaimed in Berlin, “are there no poor in this city? Are you altogether without rags and wretched ness ?” dear friend, * said the German, winking a heavy eyelid, “we are a very cleVet people. \\ e do not show our dust bins." .Beilin is ruled by municipal experts. It has its wretchedness and its despair, but these tilings are not permitted to Increase. To be out of work in Berlin is a crime, even as it is in London, but with tills difference—in Berlin the municipality legislates for labor in a fash' ion which makes idleness all but indefensible. The laws to this end may not commend themselves to English minds, for the Germans are not soft hearted in such matters, but they have this eu gaging recommendation, they succeed. Let a ragged man make ins appearance in 1 Tiedrielistrasse or the Lindens or in jmy of tire numerous open spaces, and a policeman is at him in a minute. “Your papers!" demands the man of law. The beggar produces bis documents. If it is proved that he Ims slept in the asylum for the homeless more than a certain number of nights he is forthwith conducted, willynilly, to the workhouse and made to labor for his board and lodging. Now, tile workhouse in Germany is not a prison, but the vagrant would as leave go to the one as to the other. The administration of the work house Is conducted with iron severity. Every ounce of bread and every drop of thin soup consumed by the workhouse ! man is paid for a thousandfold by the sweat of his brow. So it comes about that the man least dispo ■ I to work, the born vagabond, finds it more agreeable to toil for his bread in the market than to fall into the Landa of a paternal overnment. Berlin takes advantage of the system in Germany which numbers and tickets every child born in the fatherland. No man can roam from district to district, changing liis name and his life’s story with every Hitting. He is known to the police from the hour of his birth to the hour of Lis death. For a few pfennigs I can read the history of every person in Berlin. Therefore the municipality has an easy task. Every citizen's life story is known to them, and every vagrant is punished for his crime against the community. Moreover, every person of humble means is insured by the state. Even | clerks, shop assistants and servants J are compelled to insure against sickness and against old age. This insur- “ ance is effected by the pasting into a g book of certain stamps every week, and it is the duty of each employer to see that this contract is faithfully obeyed. And the state has at Beelitz an enormous sanitarium costing 10,000.000 marks (£500,000), where the invalided citizen is sent witli his pension In order to expedite his valuable return to the ranks of the wage earners. It pays the city of Berlin to nurse its sick and cherish its invalids. The whole object of the municipality is to secure the physical and intellectual well being of its citizens, and on this task It concentrates its labors with amazing energy. Berlin has a huge building resembling a factory where the unemployed, whole families, are received and proviSeA for, but no one must take ad van tage of this hospitality more than five times in three months. Consider this point of view, if you are homeless five » times in three months you are dubbed a reckless creature and packed off to the workhouse. Private enterprise has provided another asylum where the homeless may come five times in one month and where the police are not allowed to enter at night. I have visited this place and seen the people who attend it, some decent enough, others ■criminal in every line of their faces. ‘There are many of these desperate men in Berlin, many of these dirty. Tagged anil unhappy wretches, doomed from tlie day of their birth, but they dare not show themselves in the decent world as they do in London. They Blink into these asylums at 5 o'clock; they have their clothes disinfected; they cleanse themselves under shower Imths; they eat bread and drink soup, and then they go to bed at 8 o’clock like prisoners to their cells. Now, this system Is a hard one. for when once a man gets down In Berlin it is almost Impossible for him to rise. But it has this clear advant: ge-every-body feels that It is better to work than to full Into the hands of the law. Rags and misery dare not He about In the parks or scatter dissnse through the crowded streets. If there is any virtue In the unemployed the state will certainty develop It ns well ns It is possible to do so. There is i< central bureau for providing men with work, and when n man knows that not to work means the workhouse he solicits em ployment here and elsewhere with such a will as almost compels wages. In one year the state has secured employ meat for 50.000 men. | The citizen is provided with sanitary dwellings, with unadulterated food, with schools and technical colleges and with Insurance for sickness ami old age. For a penny he cun travel almost from one eml of Berlin to the other by electric tramway or electric Hi« afreet* nre clenti. brilHiiitly Ik ■ ed nnd noiseless; Ills cases and music halls are innumerable. He Hves In a palace. And all this Is the result of municipal government by «•*»«’’»« ln s tead of by amateurs.—London Mai

PAINrULLY SEDATE. I t'rofcMMor'K llrcnina Party In the I'ari.M Latin Qnnrter. “It was difficult to imagine that I was in the he in of Paris, among people Iced ami b >rn in the capital." says a wri er te l ag if the section of the Latin uaar er ia which ti.i professors of the University of Paris have their homes. “These men, these luminaries of science, how different they looked among their womankind! Since then I have visited many professors’ homes and have found them all curiously alike. No matter whether the apart meat be on a second, third or fourth floor, whether it be an expensive or cheap one, the inmates are all alike, talk alike, dress alike, if you have seen one home, you have seen them all. Follow me to a fourth floor in the Rue Gay-Lussac. We are ushered into the drawing room. The furniture is ma hogany, always mahogany, and of a bad period. Tliere are no flowers, but a dusty fern in a majolica pot; on tlie mantelpiece a clock and a candelabra, with framed photographs in the spaces between; over the cottage pi ano the portrait of M. le Professeur in tlie green embroidered uniform of a member of the Academy of Science, with his dress. sword, over which he generally stumbles. But do not think t-liat the professors’ families ;. blind to beauty. They will admire and appreciate a work of well as or 1, but in their homes they commit beauty a negligible quantity. They also give very little attention to their bodies to the inner or outer man. I have often wondered whether the same tailor supplies them ail with their old fashioned eoats. “Nor dues the inner man fare much better. The cooks in their' establishments seem to be altogether different creatures from those we inivt elsewhere. 'lToy eschew siting, their gram mar is better, but their cooking is worse- very much worse—than in the homes of tlie less intellectual members of society. The women form a distinct type. They seem to belong to a past generation, and their dress Is in keep Ing witli tlie style of their hair. Liv ing among themselves, they appear to have no notion of what is occurring in the worldly part of Paris. Their dressmakers are ‘of the quarter.’ and their milliners make their hats with the odds and ends brought to them. Such a thing as a fashion paper never crosses their path. I am certain these ladies are much more interested in the latest microbe than in the latest hat. They have little notion of comfort. “An evening party nt one of their houses is a never to be forgotten en tertainment for tlie outsider. They still dance the schottish. but the greater part of the evening is devoted to what are called ‘society games.’ a gaping trap to the butterfly from across tlie Seine. I have forgotten tlie name of the fiendish game, but I re call that we were all seated in a ring—about thirty of us—old and young, and we had to answer questions and find out some antediluvian fact. To them it was child’s play, but if it had not been for tlie six-year-old child of the house who prompted me 1 slum Id have cut a poor figure. Imagine coining from tlie electric lights of the boule vards to tlie oil lamps of the profess ors' salon and being suddenly called upon to know that Dalmatia was con quered by Metelhis in 118 B. C.! De ligbtful evening!”

Retelling n Joke. A west side niiiu heard a joke, new to him. the other day. and the first thing he did upon reaching home for dinner was to tell it to bis wife. “Mary,” he said, "here's a new joke that's mighty good. One man says. The theater caught fire lust night.’ ‘Did they save anything?' the second man asks. ‘Yes,’ says the first, ‘they carried out the programme.’ Isn't that a good one?" His wife said it was, and next day she tried it on her grocer. “Mr. Blank." she said, "here's a new joke for you. Due man says. ‘Tlie tlie ater caught fire last night.' Another asks, 'Did they save anything?’ ’Yes.’ replies tlie first, ’they went on with the programme and finished it.' Isn't that a fine joke?" The grocer said it was excellent, but contidentially lie ncknowleilges that lie hasn't yet seen the point Kansas City Times A Rllnd linn's Blander. A blind man named Green made a curious defense at Birminghiim. England. to a charge of sinasbing n plate glass window worth He bad been blind, he said, for seven years. On the night in question he cried for assistance to cross the road, but no one came. Then lie heard some one at a distance and struck nt what used, when he could see, to be boards surrounding waste ground. He was astounded when he heard the sound of broken glasp. The jury acquitted him. and be was discharged. Lacked the Lawyer's Facility. Lawyer (to witness)—Never mind what you think. We want facts here. Tell us where .von first met this man. Woman Wltness-Can't answer it. If the court doesn’t care to hear what I think there's no use questioning mo, for I nin Utt a lawyer and can't talk without thinking.-Boston Commercial Bulletin. Practice Versns I'rrarhlna. “Yu i kin help lie cause of honesty n benp.” aal'l l'"' 11 ’ - “ ! ’T about It. I "t you kl:i help It a benp mo’ by u it danglin' rons' chicken under n liuii- y man's noic.”—We dilngton SI II r A num N not going I' l got i crown of righteousness just bec.liise he ghi's some poor fellow hie old straw, hat along about November. -Chicago Tribune.

DESIGNING A HEAD. ”* Ar Intere.tlnK Tmunrlal Operntlnn by tire l-'u.iious Whistler. "\maziag " the favorite ejaculation of t'..e brilliant and eccentric artist, •Lunes MacNeld \\id. tier, is the word w. ich seems lest to ft the curious vn. i.iuation of | ersomil pecil iarilics—m; ;ci ievou ,v i. i. .. s. gay qnarie.s. harmless vanities ami remarkabi ■ artistic performance revealed ir. Mr. Mortimer Menpes' recent recollections of his "Master.” The eceeiaiicities of Whistler’s character were matched by those of his appearance, for he never dressed like anybody else, and he had, just over his left eye, a single lock of white hair amid a mass of black curls. His own interest in his appearance was great, for he re garded the composition of costume and coiffure with the same seriousness which he would have bestowed upon the composition of a picture, and indeed the result was unmistakably picturesque. “Customers ceased to be interested in their own hair,” says Mr. Menpes of Whistler’s entrance into a barber's shop. “Operators stopped their, manipulations; every one turned to' watch Whistler, who himself was supremely unconscious. His lialr was first trimmed. but left, rather long. Whistler meanwhile directing the cutting of every lock as he watched the barber in the glass. He, poor fellow, only too conscious of the,delicacy of his task, shook and trembled as he manipulated he scissors. The clipping completed, Whistler waved the operators imperiously on one side, and we observed for some time tl.e rear view of his dapper little figure, stepping br.tkward and forward, surveying himself in the glass. Suddenly he put his head into a basin of w e”, and then, half drying bis hair, shook it into malted wet curls. With a comb he carefully picked out the white lock, wrapped it in a towel ; id walked about for five minutes, pinching it dry, with the rest of his hair hanging over his face a stage which much amused the onlookers. "Still pinching tlie towel, be would then beat the rest of his hair into ringlets (combing would not have given them the right quality) until they fell into decorative waves all. over bis head, A loud scream would then rend the air. Whistler wanted a comb. This procured, he would comb the white lock into a feathery plume ami with a few broad movements of his hand form the whole into n picture. Then be would look beamingly at himself in the glass and say but two words. ‘Menpes. amazing!’ and sail triumphantly out of the shop."

POINTED PARAGRAPHS. An awkward man in society is usually a thoroughbred in business. The only case of overwork we know of, though many claim it, is that of the growler. A great many people tell not the way a thing is, but the way they would like to have it. Te win in this world you must have more confidence in yourself than you really amount to. Here is the mark of one who boards: Search him. and you will find some thing to eat in bis pockets. Give father credit for one thing at least—at his place at tlie table there •ire no wads of chewing gum ou tlie underside. When you attend a circus turning a somersault looks easy, and when you attend a lacture talking in public looks easy.—Atchison Globe. The Lease of Life. It is tlie inevitable law of nature that we must die. Tlie vital energy that is implanted in the body at birth is only meant to sustain it for a certain number of years. It may lie husbanded or wasted, made to burn slowly or rapidly. It is like tlie oil in a lamp and may be burned ont to little effect in a little time or carefully husbanded and preserved and thus made to last longer and burn brighter. It is a moot question whether every individual is not at birth gifted with tlie same amount of vital energy and of life sustaining power. 'Die probability is that each Is. Tlie circumstances of the environment from tlie cradle to tlie grave determine its future ilesfiny <lentlomnn's Magazine llml Company Tor Him. “What have yoi tc- say for yourself?" demanded the bailie of tliedrunk and disorderly. ‘ M-n verra surra, sir." returned the cbiiAte. "but a cam' up free Glesca in bad company.” “What sort of company?" “A lot o’ teetotalers." “Wlm-at!” roared the bailie. "You mean to ‘ ay, sir. that teetotalers are bad company?" “Well,’ rejoined tlie prisoner, "ye ken how 'twas. A had a hale mutcliin o' whusky wi’ me, an’ a had to drink it all to myself.” - London .Indy. Made tier Carinas. Wretch of a Man (at tlie eltibf—l say. you fellows, my wife went off to see her mother lately, intending to stay for six weeks, but I brought tier home In a hurry. Do yon know what 1 did? I sent her a paper every day with a paragraph cut out. and she was so full of curiosity to know what local news I was keeping from her that she came home nt the end of four days. His Brief Pleasure. Neighbor How long did you stay at the club yesterday, .Jones? Jones -Oh. the best part of the evening. Mrs. Jones Why. John, you came home In half an hour! Jones Well? Clevelnn I Leader. The Roni. Crawford—Did his lawyer tell Henpeck that ho couldn’t get a divorce? (’riibnhnw No. Illa wife did.—Town Topics.

THE CURVED BALL. It Is llir Atmosphere Which Chmi Its IJceeotrie Shoots. Most any ten-year-old youngster can ' curve a ball, even tinea, h he does not know why he can do so except that the leather must he land in a certain way. Possibly a hail dozen of the! major league Swirlers know something about the science of the curve, but comparatively few understand why ( they can produce their "benders.'' The Scientific American gives the following as the scientific explanation of the matter: “Tlie pitcher in tlie field tells us that tlie ball curves because he gives it a twist, but scientifically this will not do. Why will the twist make the curve? If a ball were thrown in a certain direction and if the force of gravitation were not at work Hie ball would continue on in a straight line forever. Some force of resistance is then at i work when a ball is made to deviate in j u curve from its straight course. If a feather is dropped in a vacuum in an exhausted receiver of an air pump it will drop like a shot, (but if it is dropped out in the air it will go down irregularly ami... slowly, shifting' from . side to side. . “It is the atmosphere which causes tlie ball to curve. Bearing in mind that the atmosphere is a compressible, elastic gas. we find that when tlie Uiill leaves the hand of tlie pitcher witli a rapid rotary motion it ‘impinges upon a continuous elastic cushion,’ and this moderate resistance, or friction, changes its course in tlie direction which is given to Hie rotary motion. Take an outshoot of a right hau led pitcher, for instance, lie impresses upon tlie I .11 a rapid centrifugal rotary motion t > the left and the ball goes t> ti e left i.e ■ausc 11ie'atmosp|m : c. compressible ami elastic, is packed Into an e , -t.e etishn just al.cad of the ball by the swift forward and rotary motion, anil tl.e friction, which is verygreat in front of tlie ball, steers it it: the direc;: in which It is turning.” A NOTABLE MEETING. Held In the Intercut of “Woman** Right*** In 1701. The first recorded public meeting in the interest of "woman's rights" was held in the town o*' Medford. Mass., in 1701. The gallery of the church was occupied by the young unmarried people of the congregation, one side and one half the front gallery being given to the young men. the oilier side and the other half being given to the young women. But in the seating in this eventful year the young men were given the entire front of the gallery its well, and the young women were onlyallowed one side of the gallery. Then it was that things began to happen. Treatment like this wasn't t ■ be tolerated even for a moment. The blood of the future mothers of the Revolution was fully aroused, and the young women made such an uproar and commotion that it speedily became a town matter, and a town meeting was called to restore to them their rights in half of the front gallery. The young men of the day were bitterly opposed to extending any new privileges to women, and the fight extended beyond Medford. Shortly after the introduction of "piles" into the churches, by which families were separated from the remainder of the congregation. the selectmen of the town of Newbury gave permission to a group of young women to build a “pue” in the gallery- of the church upon their own side of the house. This extension of privilege was resented by the young bachelors to such a degree that they broke a window of the church, forced an entrance and hacked the pew In pieces. For this act of sacrilege the young men of Newbury were fined $lO each and sentenced to be whipped or pilloried. But they were manly enough to confess their folly and ask pardon, so this part of their punishment was omitted. So you see the “woman’s rights" movement isn’t a modern one.— Boston Herald.

Tire Reni Shlllnlah. The shilL-iiiih. accounted Ireland's national weapon of defense, was originally a common blackthorn stick, but in modern times it has been replaced by the more wiry usli sapling. The real shillnlnh is a young shoot of the sloe shrub or bfi'ckthorn pulled by the root from the crevice of some rock. After being trimmed it is placed in the smoke of turf peat, which softens the hard fiber, and when it has reached a con dlllon as pliant as rubber it is straight ened. When cooled In the air it be comes us strong and firm us iron. The trimming process is then contlnueil, and when it is desired to make n lenticularly handsome weapon the spus, so effective In a melee or faction fight, ure ornamented with small brass nails. Knt urn I I’rcirrrnre. Miss Violet hud made a rapid font Oi' the European continent and found little to impress her. either favorably or otherwise. "You say you saw nil you wanted to of Italy.” said a friend on Miss Violet’s return to her native heath In Kansas. “Wlint did you think of the lazzaronl?" “Don't talk to me about It." snld Miss Violet briskly. “I’d rather have n good dish of plain American macaroni baked with cheese any thne." MlatMk<*ii Kliulnraa. Jack—Hello, old num! Awfully glad to see you. Here, take off that coat and put on this smoking jacket aud make yourself comfortable. Dick Hence take It! Do you mean to Inalnuiile that I don't feel comfortable in a dress suit? Simplicity has always been held to be n mark of truth. It la also a mark ' of genius. Schopenhauer.

J. ■The Wg y or of Des Moines Hon J, M. Brenton, Mayor of lowa’s capital and J ! prominent factor in the political and social life of the 1 WEs state, is a man who has the courage to speak his mind, B WbS and to his fearlessness is largely due his political success. His statement regarding the 'merit of NffiiL'SwJ g Dr. Caldwell’s i p? (LAXATIVE) I Syrup Pepsin! M will ba received with confidence by all who know him. H Read Mayor Brenton's Frank Letter. I have used Dr. W. B. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin and consider MR “ among the most valuable remedies on the market to day. Luckily, I have been in very good health all my fife and it is M qply yery rarely that I ever take any kind of medicine. Occa- M m sionally it becomes necessary for any man to take some k'.ad of E| 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 I have been attending a banquet. I just take about a spoonful of the remedy and then I lie down to peaceful slumber, confident that I ,vll 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 troubles I have faith enough in the remedy that I wouid M tr Y R f° T them. Very respectfully, J- M. BRENTON, Mayor of Des Moines, la. ** Caldwell's Syruo Pepsin Is a family remedy tor Constipation, 'c W® " Indigestion, Sick Headache and Stomach Troubles. Im Druggists Sell It, &Oo and SI .00 Bottle. M V INTER IS HERE are you going south? AjCiS Southwest by tbe> Clover p-’.jkyLeaf Hud Cotton Belt Route. fl j) K * Excursion rates for a2l day Y' 11 ket al about HALF FARE / JANUARY 3, 1905 Callon immigration agent of the Cotton Belt Lines for iufuimatiou in regard to rates, aud the Snow Agency for descriptions of the White River Valey and Grand Prairie lands of Arkaneas. 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

The Buffalo Commercial records that a customer asked one of the women at the counter in a Main street drug store if he could take home some tooth brushes -‘on approval." The somewhat astonished young woman answercil that she did Hot believe that the firm would allow It "Now. possibly that strikes you ns improbable." said the man in charge of the pharmacy conn ter. "but only last week I personally sold to a w.nnan a toothbrush. Vester day she brought it back and said it hurt her mouth anil asked if we would be willing to exchange it" Silt ion. Mrs. Upniore You found a house to suit you at last, did you? Mrs. High inns Yes. I found one yesterday morning, and I ainiised myself the rest of the day by going around among the real esta'e agents and asking them If they ,'iad im eligible flat to rent to a family with fourteen children. You don't know how much fun It was to watch them go into conniption fits Chicago Tribune. Still In Service. "Can't yer do a little somethin' fer nn old soldier?" whined Tired Tlfllns. "Well. I don’t know.” replied the portly citizen. "If you can show your discharge papers. I may do soinethlng for you." "I tialn't been discharged yet. boss.'' replied tlie hobo. "It's soldier of fortune I ain."—Pittsburg Post. Wasn't WUr. J.—So you told Mrs. Cunningham that she looked ns young as her daiigh ter. I suppose that caught the old lady? B. Yes, but It lost me the daughter Stray Stories

IWE WILL PIANOS, ORGANS and Sheet Music AT COST Until January Ist, 1905. W. E. SMITH & Company For Sale—Four-year-old driving horse, well broke; also 2 two-year-old draft colts coming two years old. DAN ERWIN. 284d2wks 1 have some No. 1 timothy and mixed hay, baled in large bales, that I will sell and deliver in Decatur at your resi nee in ton or half ton lots, ohe. han you can you get it at the w ouaes. It will pay you to see D. E. STU DA BAKER a a Payment Contracts issued by I1 II the AStna Life Insurance Co., V of Hartford, Conn., earn profits enough to cancel six of the | a payments, thus reducing the |/| number of payments required to ’ ■ and guaranteeing a profit of more than ■ es upon money actually inAll vested, besides the profits ■ " / further to accrue, in compliance with the terms of the contract For further Information see Jonh Scnurger or Mrs. L. M. McEwen.