Daily Democrat, Volume 3, Number 200, Decatur, Adams County, 2 September 1905 — Page 2

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT ■Via* IVBXINO, IXCIPT tCMDAY, BT LBW <a. ■LLINOHAM. IUIIC»I*TION R AIT K • ■y carrlrr, i»r w»k toe By earner, prr year *4.00 H nail, par aaotitk (So By Ball, v< r ymr _ ... SI.SO Ulnyla copiM. Two Ceuta. Mvart'.alny rataaniade known .>n application Bntarr.i in th* pnaiofflcv at l*ecaiur, Indlaaa. a* aecond-olaM mall uiattar. 4. M. HELLER. MANAGER

SUNDAY SERVICES. Presbyterian. Rev. W. B. Cullio will preach in the Presbyterian church tomorrow morning. Subject—“l he Banner Unfurled.” Services will, commence at 10:45. No evening tervice. Evangelical. The second quarterly meeting of the Decatur Evangelical church will lie held at Calvary church on September 1 to 3. Rev. J. E. Stoops, of Van Wert, Ohio, will conouct the same. Tbe quarterly conference will be held on Saturday evening. Members and friends of the society will please accept this as an invitaatioin to attend the same A B Haist. Pastor. Methodist. The quarterly communion service will be held tomorrow at 10:30 a. tn., conducted by the pastor, assisted by Revs. W. H. Daniel and W. J Myers All our members and probationers should attend this service. The pastor will preach at 7:30 p. m. and conduct the same service for those who can not be present in the morning, and Mrs. Hunt of Winchester, will favor the congregation with a vocal solo. The Sunday school class service, Epworth League and Mid week service at the usual hours Official board meeting Monday evening and the Woman s Home Missionary meeting at Mrs. Gilpen's, 110 South Ninth street on Thursday. We shall be glad to meet yoi at any of these services of the church.

U. B. Church. Do you expect to attend one of thevtbcr schools ot *’>e city tomorrow? If not, you are invit'd to attend ours at 9:30. Good Mit is. it will be better if you are there and participate. Class meeting at 10:30. This to the worshipful believer is one of the best services of God » house. Yeung Peoples' servicj at 6:30 and preaching services at 7:80. Subject of sermon. “Co’»'*''rt and Hope of the Saripturea.' * Ouly three more Rab v irh» r.f the oonferenr? tear. Lit us make th««e three good days All welcome to all services. P<* tr. Terror at Shusha. •pedal Telegram To The Democrat Tiflis. Sjpt. 2—All ootnmunici. tion with Shushu is still cut off. Surrounding country is being terroriz d by tart ir hands and troops have hnn orderid to thv scene. Beat grade led coal oil for »ale at the B- zear. 18*36

The Great Jay County F'air SEPTEMBER 4th TO Bth. 1905. «■ ffift ' JP a T' 1 ' i; l r irii' 1 4. 'll H 1 I

Thp above half-tone cut is reproduced from a pbofcgta] b at the fair laa year looking from the amphitheater across the track to the judge's stand and band stand, showing numerous special free attractions that are given daily duriutr the big Jay County Fair. More and better attraction u.an ever before are in store for the patrons of the lav Countv Fair this year. Wednesday will be a big day. For this day only there will be a mammouth automobile parade with a score of cars on the race track, one of which is a swift racing car build expressly to enter the Vanderbilt International Cup Race: big horse parade and a splendid speed program. Attend the Jay County I air on Wednesday and you will want to go ajaiu.

THE LAST DAY Account of Friday’s Teachers’ Institute Sessions were Splendid and the Attendance During the Week was Wonderful.

fRIDAY MORNING For the tit th and last day institute ojiened thia morning promptly at 8:30 with opening exercises by Prof. Baumgartner and Stalker. The regular work was then taken up by Prof. Holland on the subject of “The Order of Study in Shakes jieare s.” Tne object of the talk says the professor is for the reading for the tea hers themselves We are not students of Shakespeare. liecause having read one of his plays. We should read them in order to get a Shakespearian vooabulaiy. in the study of Shakespeare do not read tbe commentaries too soon for in teaching I do not like for some one else to do the thinking for my students. We must be able to see the characters acting in Shaespeare for his works were all written for the stage. Au order for the stuivof Shakespsare:—l. Merchant of Venice; 2, Julius Cae Mr: 3, As You Like It; 4. Macbeth 5, The Tempest; the Tempest is hard for children to underst vnd. •5, King Lear. 7, Othello; 8, King Henry V; 9, Romeo and Juliet; 10. Richard III; It is historical and fairly correct, not all plays are, but this cue is. 11, A Midsummer Night's Dream; Some think it a parody of Romeo and Juliet. 12, Last but not least, comes Hamlet. There is not enough of Shakespeare read. Prof Brown of Valparaiso was present and gave hie compliments on the good sense shown by the act of the institute going to the stir. In speaking of “New Education” he siad: Tbe libraries of and Jabratories are tbe second factors in promoting it. In dealing w ith tbe method of tbe "Recitation, he -aid: “What makes the ideal recitation 1 " “Every teacher must have away and a good order of method is as follows: First, preparation; second. presentation; third., comparison; fourth, generalizvtion; fifth, application. Preparation pertain-* to the work done before and during the recitvtion by brh teach w and pupil. Tue problem of the teacher is in the recitation is to get the pupil to discover the law ‘To me, says the professor, “The assignment is a very important thing.” Show the children how to study, for in tact it is tbe most you can do for him. An assignment should at always be definite. I ■ should be concrete. During recitation both tea'■her and pupil must

be active. Bal the method may be inductive or deductive The I question should be pitched to the whole class. Generali/, it ion not only causes the child to see it. I but to UM in a number of cases. ■Do n<>t omit application or the greatest part of the recitation Is missed, for it is the most practical i of the list. NOTES. The enrollment has reached IC3. Men, 90; ladies, 77. Arrangements for tbe first town chip institute wer® made today. Tbe south half of the county meet at Berne. Saturday, September 23; north half Decatur. September 1«. FRIDAY AFTERNOON. Prof., Stalker gave an interesting talk on "Meaning of Culture.” Some of hie thoughts on tbe subject are. "Many people are edu ; cated but not cultured. The person who is cultured see- and ap predates beauty and art. The greatest thing in culture is selfsacrifice. With it is growth ‘A good illustration', says the professor. ‘is tbe life of Christ.' Humility is another charac-er of culture. Humor is another quality. Another is to b? able to do things. If I were to name three or four who had all of these qualities in Amer ica, I would name Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln had a sense of humor, much bettei than anyone else Also he was humble. Toe cultured man is always ready tn stind the teat of a hero in any calamity NOTES Institute is closed for this year, and the general thought is that it has been the best for years. A card of appreciation was tendered to the superintendent and instructors. The agents say that the teachers are all t iking one or more journals.

CONVENES MONDAY Circuit Court will Besin to Grind After Lont> Vacation. Court convenes Mondav for thi September session, after a vacati/n of nearly three months. Toe docket is well filled, and while there are no ewee of vary greC importance, there are a number of considerable lor il interest. Nearly fifty new rises have been tiled during vacation, and seveial wll likely be added to the list Mondav. Toe jurv will report for duty'September 18, two weeks from next Mondav. Peaches. A car load of tine peaches at Colchin's Monday moruing. Buy early to buy cheap. 200dl If you wish a tirkt-olass piano at a less price than your local consignment dealers pav for such a piano, write to John Cuioingha-n, Portland. Indiana, who is selling a* wholesale prices in Adam* ooui*y. ■You can save <IOO by doing so.

“Steal Mot Ttola nook." Student* of sociology who are fond of tracing buck the customs of Intter day man to the practices of hit remote ancestry will note with Interest tlie fact that there la authority ut least tint* year old for the entry. "Steal not this look for four of shame ' by which schoolboys proclaim their ownership of a work. In a curious volume in the Bodleian library, formerly belonging to the monastery of Robcrtsbrtdge in Sussex, Is the following Inscription: "This book Iwlonga to St. Mary of Robertsbridge. Whoever shall steal It o’ sell It or In any way alienate It. let him be anathema maranatha.” In the course of the fourteenth century tbe tsok came Into the possession of John, bishop of Exeter, who seems to have been somewhat troubled by tbe Inscription as being likely to give rise to injurious suspicious with regard to himself. Accordingly he wrote nndcmeatb It under date 1327. “1. John, bishop of Exeter, know not where the aforesaid house Is. nor did I steal tills book. lint acquired It In a lawful way."—London Advertiser.

The “Tale ot a Tab." One of the most ancient of all sea "yarns" is one that ships have escaped from the fearsome monsters of the deep by throwing them a tub to divert their attention. In mu<b the same way that a landsman might sacrifice a garment in order to escape a bull. In Munster's "Cosmography.” published in 1544. there is a picture of a vessel escaping from a whale by this stratagem. while the earlier editions of Swift's "Tale of a Tub" have a similar one. These stories were usually told in such an incoherent way that people became skeptical of their truth, and when a pleader named Tubb put a cause before Sir Thomas More in outrageously rambling language that chancellor jocularly remarked. "Here is a tale of a tub." Thereafter the expression became part of the slang of the period until much later it was raised to a higher rank by tiecoming the title of Swift's famous work. Style* In Africa. The women bore a hole in their top lip and gradually increase thia until it is able to inclose a disk of wood two and even three inches in diameter. A Mubira woman came to call on us whose disk measured two and fiveeighths inches across. The size of the wood inserted proclaims the rank of the person. Peasants are only allowed to wear pieces of stick of the same dimensions as a match. The weight of tbe wood causes the lip to fall down over the mouth, and in order to eat it is necessary to lift up this shutter with one baud while the other conveys the food to the mouth. Frequently the lip breaks under the strain put upon it, in which case tbe disconnected ends are carried back and tied to tbe ear.—“On tbe Borders of Tygmy Laud.” The Catamaran. The catamaran, made of a hollowed Lg. shares tbe popularity of the Massoola boat with tbe fishermen of Madras. Tbe rickety looking contrivance can weather any storm in tbe skillful native bands, and letters are sent by this means to ships in tbe offing when other communication with tbe shore Is impossible. Tbe catamaran requires steering with a paddle through tbe raging surf, and. though tbe boatman may be frequently dashed out of tbe rude skiff by the violence of the waves, he leaps into bls frail Imrk again with the efficiency of long practice, and tbe catamaran. flying over the crest of tbe great billows which threaten Instant destruction, accomplishes tbe perilous voyage, in safety. A Hint For Lovers. Being "in love is very different from loving and may be only a seltisb emotion, which is tbe direct opposite of loving Being in love without loving is bondage—sometimes pleasant and sometimes painful, but always bondage, says Leslie's Monthly. True loving means freedom—freedom both for ourselves and, as far as it is iu our power to give it, for all whom we love, for when we truly love another human being we love him for the sake of his best strength, his best use and his best happiness, and not at all for tbe sake of ourselves.

Costly Curd.. The Empress Catherine, noticing that the beautiful Mile. Potocka, who bad lately come to court, bad no pearls, immediately commanded a fancy dress ball, to which the girl was bidden to come as a milkmaid. Then while Mlle. Potocka was dancing the empress slipped a superb necklace of pearls- Into the pail she carried and at her exclamation of wonder said, “It Is only the milk which has curdled." — Sydney Smith's Wit. 1 “By Jove,” said a-country squire who bad got the worst of an argument with Sydney Smith, “If I had a son who was a donkey I'd make a parson of him Straight away!" “Possibly,” returned the wit, "but your father was evidently ofia different 1 mind.” Could Tell In n Moment. Mr. Munn E. Baggs—Now, then, you know what kind of a house 1 want. ' Wbat will It cost to build it? Architect—Why—urn—what was the amount you originally Intended to put Into the building?—Chicago Tribune. Sl«ter«-ln-lnw. Jinks—Wbat tender care your wife takes of you—always worrying about your health. Blinks—Yes; I have my life Insured In favor of my sister.— New York Weekly. The truly sublime is always easy and always natural—Burke. i

amusements ROBERT SHERMAN presents MISS CORA H. DRAKE and the DRAKE STOCK COMPANY OF TWENTY CAPABLE PERFORMERS IN A REPERTOIRE OF NEW PLAYS AT BOSSE’S OPERA HOUSE 1- WEEK Monday AUG. 28 LADIES FREE MONDAY NIGHT Prices 25 - 35 - 50

EiwaMns ■ Msn.trr Elrphaat. The Indian elephant named Fritz it the zoological gardens of Berlin wai Europe s largest aulmal until it dually bad to he killed for distemper. Dr Schilling was appointed hangman. First he tried strangulation by means of ropes and pulls s, but the roj>e> broke and tbe elej ant remained in tact. Next lie trie I poisoning Ths animal was given folder of fresh ba nanas, which was devoured with a relish. Then a few bananas were dippad In carbolic acid, but no amount of coaxing could make Fritz "go" them Finally sb siting was tried. Tbe heaviest big game rifle was procured ami a shot was tired into the left armpit Tbe elephant merely looked around in surprise, tbe bullet having flattened against the fioukler blade. Then a Maxim gun was puiiei up. A fusilladt of projectiles was pumped into the blj beast under tbe right armpit Tbe ele phaut went down like a bouse. In its death struggle, which was studied by many scientists, it broke all its chains and reduced pan of tbe iron fence in the paddock to scrap iron.

Wolaele>*a Opinion of the Chinese. It was Lord Wolseley wbo regarded the Chinese as the greatest race in th« world. His opinion was formed about 1800, when be was in China, and h« never renounced it. He said to a rep reseutative of the Strand Magazine "The Chinese people possess all tht elements of Itelng a great iieople. The; have courage, physical power and ab solute contempt for death. Today it that country soldiering is looked dowr upon. Onlj - the ’failures in life’ entet the army. Let a Bismarck or a Na poleon rise up among them, and in twe generations they would be the greatest nation and conquering power in tht world. They only need a leader. Give them progress, and they will conquer. Three hundred years ago they were the head of the world, but their r row th was stunted. China wants a modern man with modern ambitions. Let their leader come, and they must revive again." Wooden Toothpicks. "Stop chewing toothpicks, younj man, if you value your life.” said a physician to one of his patients. “You unconsciously swallow little shreda of the wood, which are not digestible and which become compact In the stomach. Finally you are annoyed by a hacking cough and the spitting of blood and you do not know what is the matter with you. You imagine you have consumption or some similar affliction when it Is only the foreign substance in your stomach, that makes the strongest protest against your carelessness or ignorance In allowing it to accumulate then 1 . Stop chewing toothpicks and swallowing quack nostrums, and by taking ordinary care of yourself you will live out the allotted threescore and ten years." A Storm on the I’liclflc. Tlie captain of a San Francisco tug thus describes a storm on the Pacific: "When I say that the waves ran mountain high I am not exaggerating the situation in the least. The tug would be poised on the crest of a sea and then be plunged down into a valley of water which seemed a mile below us. At times the moon would come out through the clouds, and in the uncertain light the waves .eemed twice as high, 'lhe wind was blowing a perfect hurricane, and our lee rail was under water ad the time. The angry sea appeared raging alsive. below and all around us, and nearly every wave into which we dipped would wash over the tug. It was Impossible to remain aft, for the lower deck was flooded.”

“Eleetriaed." The startling physiological effects of electricity upon the human system fully warrant the use of the word as a superlative term to express euthuslas tic conditions. This expression must have come Into use at an early day soon after Franklin made th/static electrical machine a matter of general knowledge, tor Thomas Jefferson in bls autobiography stated, “Paina’s ‘Common Sense' electrified us” Thom Paine's book was Issued Jan. 1 1..6, and as Jefferson's autobiography was founded on his diary it is probable that the sentence was written by JesUew° 81 tht ' BUme time ' _Elei 'trical Ke-

Notice. To comply with the'laws of the state and city board of health. I will positively not allow any spitting no the floor in the Bosse opera house. A penalty of |5 tine is attached, and any person caught spitting on the floor will be prosecuted. Yours for health, J W. BOSSE. Manager NOTICE 1 will start my cider mill next week, and will make cider every Tuesday and Friday until further notice. P. KIRSCH, Factcry north Third street. 188d6 Notice. 1 have plenty of money to loan on farms. D. B. Erwin, Attorney at law. Papers Lost—l lost valuable papers in the interest of the heirs |of H. J. Davidson and Elizal>eth Davidson, sometime the forejiart of 19C4. Anyone having any knowl edge of said papers will please re port to J. R. Smith south Tenth street, or to this office, "and oblige Janies R. Smith. Straw hats cleaned as good as new, by Robert at the Burt. Railroad Excursions. G. R &I. Koine City excursion Season tickets good until October 31, 12.30. Fifteen day tickets, I 1.90. Mexico nineteen hours neares Double daily through service, Iron Mountain route. Ask ticket agents, G.or A. A. Deane, Jr., T. P. A. 300 Sentinel Bldg., Indianapolis. <22.75 National Encampment excursion. Round trip to Denver. Pueblo or Colorado Springs via the Clover Leaf, August 29th to Sep teml>er 2, 1905; return limit Sep ■ temljer 12th. Tickets can be extended until October 7, by depositing ticket and paying a fee of 50 cents. T. L. Miller, Agent. Hiawatha, the Indian’play, will be given at Ya-Way-Ga-Mug, near Petoskey, Mich., from July 4 to September 4, 1905. Illustrated (folders can be' had by calling 'phone 9 or writing C. L. Lock wood, Grand Rapids, Mich., or calling at passenger station. No one who goes to Northern Michigan should fail to see this play given by Ojibway Indian aotorsy fas fillirs give skHOh of pla with illustrations. Get one. J. Bryson. Agent. 127 d 3mo

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