Daily Democrat, Volume 2, Number 300, Decatur, Adams County, 29 December 1904 — Page 4

Howell quotes ; s familiar a French proverb. "11 a qritlc sa eelnture" (He has given up bis girdle), which intimated as much as if lie had become <bankrupt or had »U his estate forfeited, it being the ancient law of France that when any man upon some offense ■had the penalty of confiscation inflicted upon him "he used before the tribu nal to give up his girdle, implying thereby that the girdle held everything that belonged to a man’s estate, as bis budget of money and writings, the keys of bis house, with his sword, dag ger and gloves." The fact that the girdle was used as a purse had much to do with its importance in general appreciation. We have an English proverb confirmatory of this appreciation. It is said. "Engirt, unblest,” and that It was in very common use is clear from the frequency with which the phrase occurs in old out of the way literature. Chambers’ Journal. Flower* of Good Cheer. Although Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes never practiced medicine, those who knew him intimately say that he cheered more sinking invalids, cured more sick people and did more good, even from a medical standpoint, than many of his young physician friends. The secret of his power lay in bis overflowing cheerfulness and kindness of heart. He scattered "flowers of good cheer” wherever he went. With him optimism was a creed. "Mirth is God’s medicine," he declared. "Everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness. anxiety—all the rust of lifeought to be scoured off i:y the oil of mirth.” mo" nronq’ni’ <<-•■ and not only defended himself successfully. but won a substantial victory from his aggressive antagonists and drove th< m from the battlefield of Buena Vista. Some time after the battle was fought and the Mexican war concluded General Taylor was criticised for having made no preparations for the retreat of his army in the event of defeat General Taylor promptly replied: "I made every preparation necessary for the battle of Buena Vista. I wrote my will, and so did nearly every man in my army. If we had not won that battle, we would have needed no lines of retreat. It was. from our standpoint, victory or annihilation. The oniy preparation necessary for the contingency of defeat at Buena Vista was that we should write our wills.” The Small 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 — Vhtlndelnhia I.edger.

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A LONG LOST CITY. Tunagra. the Site of the Modern Town of GreniHilH. 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 place, greatly renowned for the cockfights that were given there. It had the honor of being tue birthplace of Corinna, the great poetess of the fifth century before Christ, und 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 twentytwo centuries of silence 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 situated along the roads which led from the walls of Tanagra in the direction of Thebes, Chalcis, Harn la and Platae. 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 partied larly that the statuettes known today under the name of "Tanagra figurines” wore for the most part discovered. The Cocoanut Tree. There is no tree so widely distributed throughout the tropics as the cocoanut Even on remote atolls of the south seas, which geologists say were only recently formed by the subsidence of a volcano and the growth of coral up from its base, one finds the coeoanut. The parent tree leaning over the beach of one tropical island drops its fruit into the sea, to have the nut carried away perchance halfway round ths world. Then in some faraway place the waves cast the coeoanut ashore to sprout and propagate another forest after its own kind. The Apple. The apple is not considered to be t complete food in itself, but on the food list it has a value far above the nutriment it possesses. Apples aid the stomach in the digestion of other foode, and therefore the best results are obtained from eating them after ratb.-r than before meals. After partaking f an unusually heavy dinner the eating of an apple will be found to facilitate an early digestion and afford great relief from the sufferings attendant upon Indigestion.

:: A Matter of j Holly A Chriytmaj -j* C. Hlair Eaton J. T Copyright, 1908, by T. Blair Eaton They sat before a blazing fire on the hearth. Thurlow, leaning forward in his chair, toyed idly with a pair of brass tongs, and Miss Wentworth industriously arranged chestnuts on the fire shovel. They were quite alone in the room. One after another the other guests had sought the dining room, where now Freddy Carver’s comfortable voice could be heard stridently demanding candles to wax the floor with. “I hope I’m not overseltish in keeping you here to toast the chestnuts,” said Thurlow to the girl. “Perhaps you prefer to dance.” “There’ll be time enough for that,” she replied. "Freddy Carver will keep them going until midnight.” "They're off,” said Thurlow as the labored notes of a violin, a clarinet and a piano floated in to them. A gust of wind whistled sharply outside, and the tire answered it by EtfW! BO V. SHE WAS STANDING BENEATH IT, HER EVES VPTVIiNED. leaping up defiantly. The girl listened and smiled. "Doesn't that sound Christmasy?" she said. "It seems to me the ‘p?ace on earth’ spirit and all that sort of thing thrives l>est in a low temperature." the man suggested. “Christmas without a shiver or two isn’t Christmas." "It needs that and a house party here the Oaks and Freddy Carver to start the dancing,” she supplemented. ■ 'ihal we may have the fire and the chestnuts all to ourselves,” he hastened to add. She laughed and flushed in the shadow of the ingle nook. "Selfish.” she chided. “Us your society," he explained. The hand with which she held the fire shovel over the log trembled a little. One of the chestnuts dropped into the flames and sputtered merrily. Thurlow settled back in his chair and for a time gazed steadily at the fire, seemingly lost in reverie. "She was all in white,” he declared with sudden irrelevance. "Who was ‘all in white?’ ” Miss Wentworth asked. "Eh?" said Thurlow. “A girl I was thinking about, a nice girl, one Christmas eve like this." "Oh!" said Miss Wentworth. “She was standing beneath the library chandelier,’’ Thurlow went on. "There was a bunch of mistletoe Just over her head." "Careless little girl,” she commented “Then he came along," said Thurlow, “and saw her standing there." "Did he see the mistletoe?" Miss Wentworth asked. “Eh? Yes, lie saw the mistletoe,” said Thurlow. There was silence between them for a moment. Freddy Carver’s voice was proclaiming in tones of resignation, I “Well, the Virginia reel. then, it you insist.” "He was very young." Thurlow sntd at length, “and the combination made him feel >ery strange." "The combination?" she inquired. I "Yes the girl and the mistletoe, you know," said Thurlow. "Made him de- ' termined to go out and lay the world by the heels, and some time some Christmas eve under the mistletoe to bring It back to her und lay it at her feet." “Ami?" she said encouragingly. "And.” repeated Thurlow, “he went, out the world was thoughtless. It refused to be laid by the heels according to hla plans. But through It all-even when he had to save his cigars to smoke before possible clients and content hlms- ls with s cob pipe at other times he conjured up the picture of the girl and the mistletoe and went at it He’s nt It yet. poor devil!" The fire shovel iny on the log and th" chestnuts were scorching. Miss Went worth was looking straight at them, but made no attempt to rescue them. "Wns he sure one world would satisfy her d iminds?" she asked ironically “PerUtps she wanted two or throe" Thurlow was silent. “Perhaps she didn't want even one world," Mi's Wentworth said gcntl’.

“It's good poll-y to bring one world at least," said he. “Good business policy," she mocked. "You see,” he explained, "she bad wealth and position’ and every eligible man in Mie county at her feet, und"— "And the memory of a Christmas eve and a bunch of mistletoe.” she in-terruptc-d. Thurlow made vicious Jabs with the tongs at thi' burning logs. Hi' succeeded in upsetting the fire shovel and spilling the chestnuts into the blaze. The girl had turned her head from him, but he had a glimpse of one little ear flushed red. Thurlow suddenly laughed harshly. "Goodness!" be said. "Just imagine his coming back to her on Christmas eve, with no worlds, no anything, save his worthless self! Imagine that! How ridiculous it would seem to her! She would laugh!” She turned to him. Her eyes blazed, and something suspiciously like tears glistened on the lashes. Her bands were clinched. “She’d be a wicked girl if she did." she said hotly. Thurlow turned his eyes to the chandelier. In the flickering light of the fire he studied it carefully for several moments. Then he turned to the fire again. “Thank hea en. it’s holly up there on the chandelier! If it were mistletoe I'm afraid—l'm afraid he might come back—tonight—without bis world in cow.” Miss Wentworth rose. She. too. looked thoughtfully at the chandelier. “Oh, you foolish boy!” she said, laughing softly. “Did you ever see holly with leaves like that and—and—white berries?” She was standing directly beneath It, her eyes upturned, her face glowing red in the firelight. “Dear, it’s—it's"— Thurlow sprang from the chair. • ••••«• Some minutes later Freddy Carver pulled the portieres apart. “Aren’t you dancing?" he inquired. "Come on out. And for heaven’s sake stop scenting up the whole house with burnt chestnuts!” A Harnilpsa Idiosyncrasy, Mrs. Compton looked at her old friend with a slightly defiant gaze. “So you heard I’d married into a peculiar family,” she said slowly. “Well, I won’t deny but what the Comptons have got some ways that aren’t Just like everybody else’s. But my husband is just about the same as other folks most o’ the time.” The old friend gave her the smile of one who is open to conviction, but said nothing. "He’s got one little peculiarity,” said Mrs. Compton, moved to confidence by the smile. "It’s known in the family, but I don’t speak of it outside. However, you being an old school friend and living way out west, I feel different.” The smile grew more encouraging and sympathetic. "It’s nothing that worries me—not really.” said Mrs. Compton hastily. “It’s just a little habit Silas has got into. When he’s riled, instead of say Ing much be goes up to the garret and takes everything out of my old piece bag and puts it on over his bead and ties it round his waist good and hard and sits there till he feels better. I suppose some folks would call that a kind of a peculiarity, but 1 never take any notice of it. only I tell him he’s got to put the pieces back, and he does.” THE RAILROAD FIREMAN. Ruildingr a Fire In a Locomotive la Not an Eany Job. The average citizen manages to set the bouse in an uproar every time b<* has to make a fire in the beater, but Ills Job is a trifle in comparison witli what a railroad fireman faces when a new fire has to be built in a locomotive. As a starter about 200 pounds of wood are necessary to fire up the ordinary engine. The wood used is old railroad ties cut Into convenient blocks, i When the lire box has been lined with wood it is drenched with* oil, und the match is applied. As soon as the fire gains headway forced draft is applied, the operation necessary being performed In the | roundhouse, where all apparatus for quickly producing high temperature is at hand. When a good bed of blazing wood lias been produced the fireman gets busy with bis shovel, placing coal in even layers over the flumes. This part of the work is hard on the back, and the aggrieved individual whose woes arc evident to the whole block when lie labors with the heater would go down and out in the first minute at it. Ender the forced draft it Is only u few minutes before the coal lias been reduced to a sheet of embers at white beat, and by this time there Is enough steam pressure generated to permit of the locomotive being moved tinder its own power. Continuous resort to the shovel on the part of the fireman does tiie rest. It Is only about once a month that a new tire is built in a locomotive while In service. The balance of the time the fire is kept alight by being banked when (he Iron horse Is not on the road. —Philadelphia Iter-ord. WMere Mnn and On* Diller. “Pedigree in a dog makes t’.,m valuable, doesn’t It?” "Certainly.” •’Funny. Isn’t It?” “What’s funny?” “Why. It’s my experience thet pedigree makes a num pretty darn neat worthless.” Chicago Post. Few Prayer*. Yorn- Now, If all men would vote as they pray this would truly be a happy world. Dem But if that should ever happen you wouldn’t got the average man to the polls once in ten years.--Catholic Standard.

I Weather Forecast. Friday fair, warmer, fresh west [ Winds, MARKET REPORT. Accurate prices paid by Decatui morchanls for various products. Cor reeled everv dav. We will begin buying new corn, Wednesday Dee. 28 GRAIN. HI B. L. CARBOL, GBAIN MERCHANT , Corn yellow new I 56 Coro, Mixed new 54 Machine shucked one cent less. Oats, new 28 Wheat, No. 2 1 10 Wheat, No. 3 1 05 Barley 40 Rye No. 2 73 Clover Seed 6 70 Alsyke 1 @6 80 Buckwheat 48 Flax Seed - 80 Timothy SI 25 Buckwheat 40 CHICAGO MARKETS. Chicago marketclosed at 1:15p. m today, according to Decatur Stock and Grain Exchange. July Wheat 99 Wheat, Dec. I 12J Wheat, May 1 142 July Corn 45; Corn, December 45] Corn, May . 452 July Oats 312 Oats, Dec 29j Oats May 31 j Jan. Pork 12 17 Jan. Lard 6 77 TOLEbtl GRAIN MARKED Changed every afternoon at 3:OC o’clock by J. D. Hs.e, Decatur Special wire service. Wheat, new No. 2, red, cash fl 174 May wheat; „ 1 182 July Wheat 1 01] Corn.cvsh ... 46 May corn 46 July corn 4* ] Oats, cash 32| May oats 32] July Oats 34 Rye, cash 83 OTHER PRODUCTS. ST VARIOUS GROCERS AND MERCHANTS Eggs, fresh, per doz 9 24 Lard 07 Butter, per pound 14 Potatoes, new .. 40 Onions 75 Cabbage per 100 lb 50 Apples, per bu 5j STOCK. BY FRED SCHEIMAN, DE LEH Lambs J 4 00@ 425 Hogs, per cwt 3 75@ J 4 00 Cattle per lb 2 3 Calves, per lb 3j @ 5 Cows j Q 2 POULTRY. BY J. W. PLACE CO. : Chickens, young, per ib 7@7 I Fowls, per lb 6J : Young Turkey 11 — j Old Turkeys 8 HAY HARKET. No. 1 timothy large (baled) 5 8 °0 No 1 ” small ” 7 00 No 2 ” $1 00 less No 1 mixed 1 50 less No 1 clover 1 50 less WOOL AND HIDES. BY b. kalver a son. Phone 442 Wool, unwashed ia»o23 Coon 10 @ 1 50 Skunk >0 (fl) 1 40 Opossum 1C 65 Mink _ f S 260 j Muskrat f 13 I Beef Hides 08 i Calf ’ 10 l Sheep Pelts 25 (fl. 1 25 Tallow ..... O1 OIL HARKET. Indiana yy Whitehouse 1,20 Somerset yg Neodesha, (Kan.) 7Q Barkersville joy Ragland ,so Tiona 11.70 Pennsylvania 1.55 Corning 1.22 New Castle 1,47 North Lima 1.(14 South Lima yy COAL—Per Ton Prices of coal on and after Decernlier Ist, until further notice will be as follows: Hocking Lump, per ton $3 80 Virginia Splint 4 00 Indiana Lump 3 go Domestic Nut ’ 3 go Washed Nut ’ 4 (JO Pittsburg Lump 4 00 Pocahontas 4 50 Kentucky Canned goo Anthracite...., 7 Charges for carrying coal—2sc per ton or fraction thereof; up stairs 50c per ton, fIARKET NOTES. Liverpool market closed eteady. Wheat } cents higher Corn. ,J cents lower Beceipte al Uhicagi loday: H'*- 15000 Wheat l 4car , Corn 4Oscar* Estimate for tomorrow: 5) heat 20-an .Corn 212-ar I Oats

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