Daily Democrat, Volume 2, Number 303, Decatur, Adams County, 2 January 1905 — Page 6

E ' —r-ii-’s trousers often give rise to ITBBT lvir t deal of ridicule by reason of ‘ w ca bugginess nud wideness from the ' W os down. Ko one troubles to think ■■ ■ nt they may have been made in that ■ B.cay for some special purpose or other. B , Jack tars naturally have so mucK to do e with water that it is almost to be wondered that for working purposes they are not supplied with knee breeches, in which they would be able to paddle about without danger of damaging the leg portion of their nether garments, j As this innovation has not taken place, , the trousers are made very baggy so that they can be easily turned up well out of the water when work in the water has to be done. Were they provided with trousers of the same width all the way down the leg they would find it difficult to turn them up far enough without at the same time impeding their actions owing to the compression that would be caused. —Loudon Standard. A’o Words Wanted. Nora was a treasure of a servant whose habit of speech was often indirect. but was frequently picturesque and unexpectedly expressive. One evening "the master” was sitting in the library when the doorbell rang. Nora answered It, and on her return through the hall “the master” inquired who it was. “It was a young man, sor,” replied Nora. "Well, what did be want?” was the question. "Oh, he was just lookin' for the wrong number, sor.” — Lippincott's Magazine. Averting n Duel. The challenge to a duel is commonly regarded as the last word after pacific methods have failed to right the wrong of the party aggrieved. As we ill) | know, this is the hollowest pretense. I Bismarck and Rechberg, the Austrian premier, decided to tight upon a certain morrow. "Why not now?” said Bismarck. "We have our pistols here.” And they agreed to a duel there and then. But first Bismarck had to write a dispatch to his government givin: the cause of the duel. This ho askei. Rechberg to forward in ease he (Bismarck) fell. Rechberg read the report, and his passion cooled. “What you say is quite correct." he : remarked, "but is it really worth fight- I ing a duel for such a reason?" “That is exactly my opinion." said Bismarck, and the matter ended on the Education has many good results, but none that is more sure than the sense Ct power and self reliance with wbicß It Invests its possessor.

I w >7l j&|/b3 ( —■*■■ - /s£K^s^-^ a 'X ri „, — \ B It Restored Her Health I S \\ hen the digestive organs get wrong B B everything is wrong—it is' then that B I Dr. Caldwell’s I (LAXATIVE) K ■ I Syrup Pepsin I i|| Comes to the Rescue of wB Suffering Humanity. B B Miss Rose Huber, Secretary of the Young M B People’s Christian Temperance Association, U B and who resides at 505 East Eighty-eighth Ml street, New York City, writes: ’ B Pepsin Syrup Company, Monticello, Ill.: Ml Gentlemen—l regard Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin as far B above other remedies on the market for all troubles connected with the digestive organs. On account of irregular meals, taken nt unseasonable hours, I found that my digestion was all out of order. I had headaches, heartburn and a poor appetite. I doctored for three months, but I found no cure until my druggist |M told me of the many customers he had who had been cured by Syrup Pepsin, and he advised me to buy it. I took a dose the first night and awoke the next morning with a good appetite I ■ steadily improved, and after taking the third bottle found myself B entirely well again Yours sincerely, ROSE HUBER. B B Look carefully to see if Dr. Caldwell’s face is on the package - Igi B if It isn’t don’t buy it, but insist on getting the genuine. B B All drugglata. 50c and 91.00 pack a gas.

MAT no r worop ’"water and Nourishment. The common snail has lungs, heart and a general circulation and is in every respect an air breathing creature. This notwithstanding, he can live on indefinitely without inhaling the least atom of air, that which is usually considered the essential to existence in all creatures supplied with lungs. Leppert says, "To all organized creatures the removal of oxygen, water nourishment and heat causes death to ensue.” \\ ben that statement was made he did not appear to consider the snail as one among the great host oi "organized beings,” for the experiments made by Professor Spallanzani prove that any or all the usual lite cua ditions can be removed in its case without terminating its existence or in any way impairing its functions. It is a fact well known that the com mon land snail retreats into his shed on the approach of frosty weather lit the fall and that the opening or mouth of the shell is hermetically sealed by a secretion which is of a silky texture and absolutely impervious to air and water. In this condition it is plain that lie is deprived of three out of the four elements of life mentioned by Leppert—viz, air, water and nourishment. Gulf Weed. In China and other parts of the east gulf weed is often pickled and used in salads. It is found floating in vast quantities in some parts of the Atlantic. Pacific and Indian oceans. Although a tropical plant, it is occasionally carried by winds and currents to the British coasts. The fronds are long, with distinct stalked leaves and air vessels which resemble berries. The presence of this weed on the Atlantic is regarded as a sure indication of the gulf stream, from which it takes its name.—Pearson's. Met Illa Match. “By the way.” said the lawyer, “your friend Mrs. Sharp was a witness in a case I had today. It was my painful duty to cross examine her.” "I should think." said his wife, “that she would undergo the ordeal as well as any one I know.” "She did. Before she got through with me 1 had to ask the protection of the court.”—New York Press. Go Anroau. “What makes you think they are rich Americans?" “Because they’ know so much more about other countries than their own.” —Town Topics. Not In His Line. Employer—You don't seem to be able to do anything. New Clerk—Well, I al- I ways had a political job until I struck Uns one.--Judge.

elrs' rriaif irv. I<-- t rv Husbands anil Wives Who Hold Aloof From Xelsliburs. I am acquainted with too many husbands and wives who, though all the world to each other, are nothing to the world. Their whole life is within their home. They gather comforts about them, they bear dainties to each other’s lips, they live and move and have their whole being in each other’s love. and. shutting out all the world, live only for themselves. I say 1 know too many such pairs as these. They are far too plenty. They cannot bear to be torn from their homes tor an afternoon. They take no interest in others. They’ never call friends and neighbors around their board, and they consider it a hardship to fulfill the common offices of social politeness to say nothing of hospitality. It is not unjust to say that this is one of the most dangerous and most repulsive forms of married life. It is selfishness doubled, associated, instituted, and it deserves serious treatment. Homes, like individuals, have their relations to each other, and. as no man liveth to himself alone, no home should live to itself alone. It is through the medium of homes that the social lifeblood of America is kept in circula-tion-through this medium almost exclusively. Every home should be as a city set upon a bill that cannot be hid. Into it should flock friends and friendships, bringing the life of the world, the stimulus and the modifying power of contact with various natures, the fresh flowers of feeling gathered from wide fields. Out of it should flow benign charities, pleasant amenities and all those influences which are the natural offspring of a high and harmonious home life. Intercommunication of minds and homes is the condition of individual and social development, and failing of this no married pair can be what they should be to each other. Exclusive devotion to business by day and exclusive devotion to selfish home enjoyments at night will dry up. harden and depreciate the richest natures in the course of a few years, and as soon as the man withdraws from the business of the world the world has seen the last of him and his family for life. They have no outside associations. It is as if they did not live at all. When they’ die, nobody misses them, for they have been nothing to society. As many doors are open as before, and social life feels no ripple upon its surface when the sand is thrown upon their coffins. There should glow in every house throughout the land the light of a pleasant welcome for friends. On every hearth should leap the flame that irradiates the forms and faces of associates. Neighborhood should mean something more than a collection of dark and selfishly closed hearts and houses. A community should be something better than an aggregation of individuals and homes governed by the same laws and sustaining equal civil burdens. Neighborhood should be the name of a vital relationship. A community should be a community in fed—informed with a genial, social life in which the influence of each nature, the power of each intellect, the wealth of every individual acquisition, the force of every well directed will and the inspiration of every high and pure character should be felt by all. A neighborhood of homes like this would be a neighborhood indeed, and none other deserves the name.—" Timothy Titcomb’s Letters" in Boston Globe. The Economy of the Bee. At one time the bees were male and female in equal numbers. The irresponsible male buzzed about, simply getting his own living, marrying and dying The responsible female not only got her own living, but that of her children. Somehow, by and by. they came to see the advantage of communal effort, and, just as women say to one another now. "If you’ll wash the dishes I'll wipe ’em,” one feminine bee said to the other, "I’ll be mother if you'll get the living.” It was a bargain, and the accommodating females took drones in to board. The queen of a beehive does not rule; she lays eggs. She does not mind the babies. She does not even do her own digesting, let alone getting the food. The attendants that surround her feed her with bee milk, secreted by glands in their heads. She has to be fed continually. for at certain periods she has the power of producing from 2,000 to 3,000 eggs a day, twice her own weight —four times, indeed, for more than half her weight is eggs. In her lifetime a prolific queen will lay 1,500.000 eggs. Carlyle la a Death Gasp. Carlyle—all unwittingly, I grantrings out the old world of misrule which was inaugurated by the first Adam—that world in which man's foolish wit and wisdom have borne sovereign sway, and human nature accord lugly shows Itself at best a mere battleground of heaven and hell. Emerson. on the contrary—but In like utter unconsciousness of bis mission, I admit—rings In that better world Inaugurated by the second Adam, In which at last the divine spirit is supreme, and our nature, consequently touched by that inspiration, brings forth Immaculate fruit—that is, all those spontaneous graces of heart and mind and manners which alone have power to redeem us to eternal Innocence, peace and self oblivion. In short. Carlyle is the last gasp of n world In dissolution, the death rattle of an ancient but always merely provisional and now utterly exhausted life of God In man, and there is consequently no outlook ot hope, but only of despair, In his filmy eyes for man's earthly future.—Henry James, Sr., in Atlantic.

He Is the FraternityWhenever we snare, how would it M Sniders are always on the lo«k° u a hearty jueal, and as t- • thing to eat almost or quite • - Semselves, with somewha an tastes into the bargain, they m ever seeking foo<l mare we« follow best the good poe « “Learn to labor and to wait but little fellows that build no snares, do not depend on waiting, m as , temperature permits, he ‘ hunt Let us see how the.' te • vised precept. "Learn to labor and to t on the sunny side of this on -id barn door, amonj needles, In the crannies of the stone wall, under the projecting eml --I tl wooden steps, amid the evergreen honeysuckle on the south porch, m Umo any half sheltered, half sunny sp ; shall have no trouble finding t black jumping spider attus that entists have renamed Fhidlppi punetatus. though the three spots to which the specific name refers are gen erally increased to five or more 1 ids 18 the little tiger of the spider : t< ty. So common and so active and so hungry is it that its list of vatims grows very long indeed, even 1 short lifetime, and generally tin v are of a kind that makts the little tl| great and worthy friend of man 1 * ' bugs very voting crickets and grass hoppers, plant lice, tree hoppers, midges, gnats, small moths and eater pillars—these and many others are its victims by the score and by the bun dred. 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 little spiders swarm all over the mothet and all through 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 ami hunt closely, and ten to one you will find the web near by, somewhere iu a cranqy or crack, under bark, under stones, in heads of wild carrot, iu curled leaves, in the disused lock or latch of an old door or, like our little resident of the honey suckle, between two leaves which the web strands have drawn partly together. Get a straw and poke it into one end ot the web. Out pops the small proprietor from a slit in the other end ami. always turning face toward the enemy, prepare! to beat a furthi retreat or stand and fight.—St. Nicholas. An 01,1 Fashioned Clock. The oldest working clock in Great Britain is that of Peterborough cathedral, which dates from 1320 and is conceded to have been made by a monastic clo kmaker. It is tl.e only one now known that is wound up over an old wooden wheel. This is some twelve feet 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 w ighs thirtytwo hundredweight, and it is struck hourly by an eighty pound hammer. The g dug and the striking parts of the clock are some yards apart, 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 Core Pessimism. Hang these words on your bedpost or tack them iu your brain: I am going to become an optimist. From now on I am going to change - my entire fife and my entire style of think ii ’. I will endeavor hereafter to be generous in my view toward others, broad minded large spirited and kind, thinking war of everybody, mean of nobody, - and Ferlooking the little faults, believing that there are other qualities in the man that overwhelm the deficiency i "There is so much bad In the best of us and so much good in the worst -of us that it behooves each one ot us - to be charitable to the rest of us." I shall see the bright side of every--1 thing. I shall talk like an optimist, laugh like an optimist and move about like an optimist, conscious of the fact that I shall radiate sunshine and make every one around me happier.—Physical Cuii ture.

A Famous Whistle. In the train of Anne of Denmark, when she went to Scotland with James \ 1., was a gigantic Dane of matchless drinking o apni .fty He possessed an ebony whistle, which at the beginning of a drunken bout he would lay on the table, and whoever was the : last able to blow it was by general consent considerecfto be the “champion of the whistle." It happened, however, that during his stay In Scotland the Dane was defeated by Sir Robert I-aurie of Mnxwelton. who after three days and three nights of hard drink--1 Ing left the Dane sailer the table and blew on the whistle his requiem shrill,” The whistle remained in the family for many years, and the last person who carried it off was Alexander Ferguson of Craig Darroch, son of Annie Laurie, so well and musically known Bobbie Burns Immortalized the subject in a poem entitled "The Whistle."

in the I capital. sap a ° f i in q"M ,ter IU '' ~ is i ln ve their < ■ r e8 j home-. . I ' - tbn, . so rs mu” ■ j •p ’■ U'l ’ ■ , i “ a no matter whether the apa • tourth i . ,n expensive or 1 alike. H you hive ~ | axe seen them alls ushere.l into U The furniture is mat bad ■ ° Jot’ dustv fern in a majolu a 1 . tg" I J 7; the green .nrtuolU. f - f with his dress sword, oter which W generally stumbles But do not thlak I that tl <• professors fan « | .... work of art as well as y« . . em.sidec beauty eh a l,.i give very little at ten m. to t.ieir bodies- to the inner or outer man. 1 have often wo. samj tailor supplies ” r old fashioned coats. ,! c- the finer ma- fare much better, rhe cooks iu tlie.r establishme. ts seem to be altugetliii d, ,et(.n ereat. res from those we meet elsewhere. They eschew slang. ■ 11 ■ - r -tm * 1.. r lull I . : IS

homes of the less intellectual members u s sc. lety. The women form a distinct type. 'I bey seem to belong to a past generation, and their dress is in keeping with the style of their hair. Living among themselves, they appear to have no notion of wliat is oe> lining in , the worldly part of Paris 1 heir dtessmakers are ’of the quarter.’ and their I milliners make their lints 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 at one of their houses is a never to be forgotten entertainment for the outsider. They still dance the schottisb. but the greater part of the evening is devoted : to what are called ’<■'••lety games.' a i gaping trap to the butterfly from! across the Seine I have forgotten the I mime of the fiendish game, but I re- i 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 the six year-old child of the house who prompted me I should have cut a poor figure. Imagine coming from the electric lights of the boulevards to tile oil lamps of the professors’ salon and being suddenly called upon to know that Dalmatia was conquered by Metellns in IIS B. ('.! De ligbtful evening!" Hetellintc n Joke. A west side man 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 last 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. one man says, ‘The theater caught fire last night.’ Another asks, 'Did they save anything?' 'Yes.' replies the first, 'they went on with the programme and finished it.’ isn’t that a fine joke?" The grocer said it was excellent, but confidentially be acknowledges that he hasn’t yet seen the point.—Kansas City Times.

WONDERFUL INSECTS. The Marvelnua W»y> ot Vnricn, ' Specie* ot Ante, Lieutenant. Colonel Sykes saw at Poonan ants carrying out grain to dry Id the sun. Dr. Lincecum in Texas found ants which planted a certain seed bearing grass, reaped It und carried the grain Into their cells, where they stripped it of chaff and packed It away. The paper relating this was read by Darwin before the Llnnaean society. Another observer has told us of ants which grow mushrooms. The foraging ants of Brazil and western equatorial Africa are terrible creatures Elephants and gorillas fly before them; the python takes care not to indulge in a meal till he lias satisfied himself that there are none of them about. They have a “leisured class,' much larger creatures, which accompany their march, “like subaltern officers in 11 marching regiment;" they are not fighters, however. One curious conjecture ns to their function has bmi made, They nre Indigestible, and birds spare the whole army lest they should get hold of one of these tough JlT'’ " u .I 111 "’ U nnl,t b * “Uowed. looks a little too strange. Slaves the ants certainly have, but they do not make slave raids; the larIni , tll ®2" f " rlor roce are carried off and hatched out. The crowning maro™ihn°JTT' ’’ that ,lie Br,tto '' alases fight for hlm.-Lomlo > Specta-

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