Daily Democrat, Volume 2, Number 298, Decatur, Adams County, 27 December 1904 — Page 4

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CABS IN RUSSIA. Fares Are l.ow ir Yoa Are I p to the Tricks of the Drivers. In no European country are cab fares so cheap as In Russia, for there is no tariff at all. On the rank are half a dozen drivers on the boxes of tbelr droskles—tiny victorias, hung low and with just room for two If the two clasp waists after the Russian mode. If you know just about how far you want to drive you take the first driver and tell him where you want to go and what is the price offered. The etiquette is followed Invariably. The driver throws up his eyes in horror. He calls upon the saints to witness that so ridiculous a price must be doubled before be could look at it. You are not deceived. You walk on. And before you have gone ten paces the cabman Is after you, pointing politely to the seat In the drosky and, with a grin, repeating frequently tbs Russian equivalent for “please.” But if you are driving to a destination at an unknown distance It is necessary to ask the opinion of the first bellied, belted, bearded brigand on the box of a drosky. Then it is your turn to throw your eyes to heaven and call on the saints. A quick problem In division works itself out in your head. Threes into a ruble? And you put yourself up to a Dutch auction along the rank. “Hotel So-and-so. sorok kopeck!” you cry, with a leaning toward generosity. There is a race for you. You drive a long way In Moscow for a dime. Merit. His Fate. “I see that an eastern editor says that as a matter of fact women form clubs simply ns an excuse for eating and drinking between meals.” "Horrid thing! Is lie married or single?” “Why?” “Because if he’s either he doesn’t deserve to be."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. What'fi tbr Answer t Jokeley—Here's a conundrum for you. Cokeley—Let's have it. Jokeley —ls “time is money," what is an eight day clock worth?—Philadelphia Ledger. Greet Men. It is a matter of common observation that at the passing of the great men of each generation there is a pessimistic feeling prevalent that “there were giants in those days.” But the feeling has never had any warrant in the actual deficiencies of the oncoming generations. Orators have come and gone and statesmen have come and gone, and sometimes their immediate successors have not been discernible. But in time the men have emerged who have taken their places and who have improved upon the patterns they left. —Des Moines Register.

GOING INTO BATTLE. THE SENSATIONS OF A BRAVE MAN UNDER FIRE. How It Keels When the Rain of Bullets Hegins Its Putter of Death The Terror That Is Inspired by FaciuM a (h«rge of Cavalry. There is a muttered rumor in the battery that the hills yonder are occupied by the enemy. As we halt for u moment on the crest of the hill suddenly the spattering sound of rifle fire snaps the stillness of the morning air. The noise pulls me up with a jerk. My half finished sentence ends abruptly, and I feel a shock within me as of a tug upon my heartstrings. The talk has ceased on the instant. A curious silence falls upon us, broken only by a hoarsely whispered "We're in it!” from a comrade. My emotions are hard to analyze. It is not exactly fear I feel, but rather a kind of uncomfortable expectancy. 1 dare not look my fellows in the face. To do so would seem, I feel, like impertinent curiosity. But a furtive glance shows me each man bolt upright in his place, with features set and hard. The chatter of a Maxim upon the left swells into a clattering chorus, the irregular rattle of the rifle fire. In the cold gray of dawn it is a chilling, deadly sound. Then, with a thunder of thudding hoofs, a staff officer gallops up. "Walk—march!” The sharp command acts like a spark that tires the stiffened frame to life. "Trot,” and. with a jingle, jingle of accouterments, the teams, their wicked looking guns lopping behind them, plunge downward to the plain. The battery is itself again. Action quickens the sluggish pulse, and in the excitement of the descent the ugly jabber of the Maxim falls on deaf ears. At the bottom of the slope is an awkward gully, through which the teams scamper belter skelter and come up with a gallop on the level under a heavy fire. "Action front!" In a trice the guns are wheeled round and unliinbered. Now for the first time I begin to be conscious of the fire under which we are acting. All around 1 see little spurts of dust kicked up from the ground by some invisible agency, like gobbets of dry sand thrown up by the impact of colossal raindrops. Momentarily I hear the mellow thing wiling, like the deep vibrant note of a banjo’s tight strung bass, of an unseen bullet flying past me. Au uncomfortable sensation seizes me in the pit of my stomach, a kind of sickness that is hard to describe in precise terms. Quoth Henry at Agincourt: And he that hath no stomach to this fight. Let him depart. Gladly would I depart but that a sense of shame would keep me even were escape possible at my post. It needs greater courage to openly tly than to stay. Yet it is not physical fear that lays hold of me. To feel £bat one must needs confront an actual, tangible foe. 11 is r: tlier a mental terror with which tL.-.p invisible missiles of death fill me. there is no combating them. They come from nowhere, as it seems, and no man can say where they may find their billet. I am helpless. 1 can but stand still in my place, waiting, with sickening expectancy, to see whether I shall be hit. A gunner beside me falls. It is sudden and quick. Without warning his arms are flung wildly up into the air, and with hideous, gurgling groan he collapses. For a few seconds his limbs jerk convulsively, his hands tearing at the tufts of grass and his teeth savagely biting the dust. As suddenly the movements cease, and the corpse lies where it dropped. My gorge rises, and all things squirm within me. But things are not always thus. A man there was who described bls experiences of the South African campaign as "a long period of deadly monotony, relieved by Intervals of blue funk.” But most men get speedily used to the sensations of being under fire, lie is a callous soldier who can go unmoved through his first ordeal or. for that matter, can face in contemptuous mood the early stages of any action. But once through his baptism of fire or warmed to his work, the soldier recks little of bullets and shells. Use is everything. Thus, later, when I have become participant in a score or more lights. I find my early emotions gone entirely or at least so modified as scarcely to be worth consideration. A spirit of fatalism has succeeded those agonies of anxiety. It is Impossible to dodge the bullets. 1 urn here and the enemy’s fire is thick and hot upon me. if it is fated that I am to be hit, lilt I shall be. If not—tant mieux. I come to disregard the singing of the bullets and begin to have even a contempt for cover. If I wish to move from one point of vantage to another I no longer cast about for the seeniingty safest route. I am as likely to be hit one way as another, and 1 go straight in consequence. It happened once in South Africa that during an action the general In command, walking round Ills dlsposltlons on n tour of inspection, came upon a gun that had temporarily been ordered out of action. Seated on the trail, scorning cover, was a gunner deep In the blushing pages of u well known sporting contemporary. The general paused and gazed for a moment. Then he turned to the staff officer who accompanied him. "Modern warfare!" be remarked, pointing to the uncoii-cious gunner, and passed on. Think of the Infantryman. lying promt for hours. It may be In the same place, while the bullets tly. twanging over his prostrate body. He dare not disobey orders by raising his head.

With his eye to the ground he looks along the level of the plain to where > the sky line rims it or the hills from which the enemy’s fire is coming in close it. For foreground he has some coarse grass, the blades of which he idly tries to count again and again, and for middle distance the inartistic boots, perhaps—if in close order—of a comrade lying some few feet ahead to right or left. Steadiness under fire, however, is not the only thing which the soldier must learn. War holds other things to shat ter the toughest of nerves. We speak not of certain sights and sounds whirl’ those who have witnessed and heard them will recall to mind. This is nol the place to paint too vividly the hor rors of battlefield and hospital. But heaven grant the soldier may nevei have to face a charge of cavalry. Tc stand and watch the wild rout of de moniac horsemen sweeping onward, tc hear the swelling thunder of hoofs as the vengeful horde rushes down upon him, to catch with unfaltering eye the glint of bare steel brandished fiercely—these are the things at which the stout est heart may quail. Worse still the foot soldier’s plight when the square of which he forms a part breaks up in disorder and stays not to receive the shock of the charge Panic seizes him. His self control is gone. Reason deserts him. Flight flight, flight, is the one idea that rages in his mind. Like a startled hare lie turns and flees, whither he knows not. Hot foot the cavalry pursue. He hears the thud ding of the hoofs behind him, and, screaming in his agony of terror, he flings away rifle, bandolier and belt in his blind endeavor to escape. Louder and louder drum the thudding hoofs it) his ears. As he stumbles on he throws a glance of terror over his shoulder His pursuer is on him now. He sees the snorting nostrils and bloodshot eye of the giant war horse as it seems tc prance about him and peering around its neck the tierce face of his enemy with grim, set features, distorted iutc a frightful look of inhuman savagery. His eye catches the gleaming of bur nislied steel, and as he looks along the leveled lance that points toward him so unerringly he sees the elbow crook ed to launch the vicious thrust. His heart seems near to bursting, his head is singing and his mouth is parched and dry. He hears the deep panting ot the horse behind him. and as he feels its hot breath upon his neck lie staggers. lurches forward. With a wrench of the wrist, the horseman gallops on —A. E. Johnson in Royal Magazine. A Fron’s Appetite. The frog’s capacity for enveloping bis comrades and assimilating them was once shown by an incident which occurred under the observation of one of my acquaintances. He had returned from the country with a lot of frogs, large and small, which lie had obtained for one of the New York educational institutions. I have forgotten how many there were, but they numbered over twenty, I am quite certain. These he put into a large bird cage, the wires 1 of which were close enough together to prevent even the smallest from es cdplftg- On the third day he went to 1 see how bis captives were doing and found, greatly to his surprise, that all had disappeared with the exception of two old "mossbacks.” and they were eying each other askance, apparently 1 in doubt as to which would be the "last survivor of the whole ship's com- ’ pany.” as he expressed it. As an insect catcher the frog is quite expert, even such quick moving species 1 as the dragon fly often falling victims to its dexterwy. Fishes are also often captured, and good sized ones, too. a • fingerling trout having been found in the stomach of a frog which was not more than six inches in length.—Forest ’ and Stream. i — Make Year Food Medicine. The garden is a great medicine chest. Be your own doctor aud look to your own slight ailments. If you are wakeful, eat lettuce. For affections of the skin and for yel- ’ low skin eat onions. Onions are also I good for colds, coughs, scrofula. For a torpid liver eat freely of asparagus. For malaria and general breakdown 1 eat cranberries. If nervous and irritable eat plenty of > celery. ’ For constipation eat fruits ripe and ’ healthy fruits. Fresh fruits are good: so are tigs and dates. Raisins are beneficial. When the body is In good condition keep it In good condition by denying i the appetite what has once Injured the body. One can do everything for himself by eating the right thing and not ! too much of it, and by leaving alone • the wrong thing and all of It. He can t do more than the doctors can do for I him when he Is flat on his back In lied. —Philadelphia Inquirer. I Aaklnu John Sherman n Question. ' t There is a story that was told when t Secretary Sherman ran the treasury • department. A young woman worked - in one of the branches of Mr. Sher man's establishment. She had a brother In the war department. Secretary 1 Sherman had an idea that reform was > necMsary In the family, and he sent for the girl. ' "My dear young woman." lie said. “I > am informed that two of your family s are at work In the departments here." r "Yes." she answered. I "Ami that is against our rules." 8 “Yes.” “Which of you can best be given up, young lady?” 1 "Mr. Secretary," she finally answerl' ed. with a smile such as a pretty department girl can sometimes call to her • assistance, "you are nt the head of the p treasury department and General Sher- ? man Is nt the head of the army. Which • of you can best be given up, Mr. Secretary?”

Weather Forecast. Wednesday fair; colder MARKET REPORT. Accurate prices paid by Decat in merchants for various products. Cor rected every dav. We will begin buying new corn, Tuesday Dec. 27 GRAIN. BV t. L. CARBOL, GBAIH MSRCHAHT. Corn yellow new I 54 Corn, Mixed new 52 Machine shucked one cent less. Oats, new 28 Wheat. No. 2 1 09 Wheat, No. 3 1 04 Barley 40 Rye No. 2 73 Clover Seed 6 60 Alsyke @ 6 75 Buckwheat 48 Flax Seed -8( Timoihv 11 2? Buckwheat 40 CHICAGO MARKETS. Chicago market closed at l:15p. m today, according to Decatur Stock and Grain Exchange. July Wheat 98| Wheat, Dec. 1 11 ; l , Wheat, May 1 141 J uly Corn 46 Corn, December 46| Corn, May 45* July Oats, 312 Oats, Dec 29| Oats May 31g Jan. Pork 12 57 Jan. Lard 6 87 TOLEDO GRAIN MARKED Changed every afternoon at 3:00 o’clock bv J. D. Hale, Decatur Special wire service. Wheat, new No. 2, red, cash fl 17| May wheat;.... 118 J July . Wheat 101 Corn, cash If J May corn .... 46j July corn 47 Oats, cash 321 May oats 321 July Oats 34 Rye, easji 83 OTHER PRODUCTS. BY VARIOUS GBOCIBS AMD MERCHANTS. Eggs, fresh, per doz f 28 Lard 07 Butter, per pound 14 Potatoes, new 40 Onions 75 Cabbage per 100 lb 50 Apples, per bu 5j

STOCK. BV FRED 30HEIMAN, DE LEB Lambs $4 00@ 4 25 Hogs, per cwt 3 75@ |4 00 Cable per lb 2 ig 3 Calves, per lb 3| @ 5 Cows i 2 POULTRY. *"~a BV J. W. PLACE 00. Chickens, young, per lb 7@7 Fowls, per lb - —. 6J Young Turkey 10— Old Turkeys 8 MAY MARKET. No. 1 timothy large (baled) 3 8 Ot No 1 ” small ” 7 00 No 2 ’’ 11 00 less No 1 mixed 1 50 less No 1 clover 1 50 less WOOL AND HIDES. st a. kalver a som. Phone 412 Wool, unwashed fa to 23 Coon 10 @ 1 50 Skunk 20 @ 1 40 Opossum 10 (a 65 Mink — F @2 50 Muskrat i ttt 13 Beef Hides _... 08 Calf ’ „ 10 Sheep Pelts 25 @ 1.25 Tallow 04 OIL MARKET. Indiana 99 Whilehouse 1.20 Somerset 96 Neodasha, (Kan.) 70 Barkersville 1.09 Ragland 60 Tiona $1.70 Penusyivania 1.55 Corning 122 New Castle 1.47 North Lima 1.04 South Lima 99 COAL—Per Ton Prices of coal on and after Decern ber Ist, until further notice will be atfollows: Hix'king Lump, per ton $3 8( Virginia Splint 4 0< Indiana Lump 3 6( Domestic Nut 3 60 Washed Nut. 4 00 Pittsburg Lump 4 00 Pocahontas 4 50 Kentucky Canuell 6 Os Anthracite 7 50 Charges for carrying coal—2sc pei ton or fraction thereof; upstairs 50 per ton. MARKET NOTES. Liverpool market closed steady. Wheat, i cents lower • Corn J cents lower Receipts al Utiicagv today: I Hoge 12000 Wheel. 100 can C >rn 1050 can Oats , —250 car CattleJ 8000 Sheep 20000 Fstimals for tomorrow: Hogs ISQ()< V- heat I (lean Ccrn 107(lean I Data 135»n

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