Decatur Democrat, Volume 25, Number 28, Decatur, Adams County, 14 October 1881 — Page 4

AT MILKING TIME. EDGERTOH. Blue-eyed Mary at the sate. How patiently the lass can wait While all the cows, who’vo had their till, Move slowly, at their own sweet will; One by one, in single Cropping by the way, the while, Jkiwn the well-worn path taey move, - From the pasture held above. "Ca Book! ca sock!” sweetly and clear, Falls softly an the listening ear, A.t Intervals too long between To Indicate the restless mien Os Mary in her business moodThe marvel of that neighborhood. And pattern girl through all those parts For business in domestic arts. Ordinarily, at the gate, She cannot bide to stand and wait The lazy movement of the cows. But goes to meet thorn —she and “ lowse, Claps her brown hands to make them run, While Towser, eagr j for the fun, Barks, frisks and plays round every one 'Till all the cows come scampering home. But now. wk X other thoughts at play, She kindly lets them have their way, Stares out a field with vacant look And calls out dreamily, ‘ca-sook,” While Towser, with his great brown eyes, Looks up at her in dumb surprise, Wag* c‘axlng’y his bushy tall, Theo glances at the empty padBut blue-eyed Mary heeds him notHer canine friend is quite iorgot— Now wakes she from her reverie. Till father Jones stept out to s°>e What’s keeping Mary at the gap, And wonders who can be the chap Off through the gloaming in the lane—“riurely that can’t be n. ighbor Payne!” • Mary, my girl where have you been* -And why are not the cows turned in* You loitered pet, this is not right, Your milking will be late to-night: It's time that we were ail In bed And I’ve not had my milk and bread; Come, Towaer, fly about, my chap, And bring your cattle to the gap. “They say the country's full of tramps The thieving, good-for-nothing scamps— A ml, if my eye-sight served me right. 1 caught a glimpse of one to-night A scuiking yonder in i-he road 1-d h .ped they d miss this neighborhood; I’ll goaod io >ae old B ill an<i Jack, And put them on the rascal s t rack' 1 - Why, father, that was only Fred, Who just ran over here, he said, To bring Che news’ and let me know That Sally Cooper had a beau; They’re going over Wednesday To see the circus actors play; Fred says the acting's real tine And Sallie ’ll have a grand good time.” ‘•i’d think old Cooper’d be ashamed— At lea t, he's greatly to be blamed— To let his daughter trapse and go To every passing monkey show; My daughter nev—what :s H pet Y You'er suffering from the headache yet, poor child! you’er in a sorry plight, We'll let the milking go to-night.” “ Why, father. Fred would like to come And bring bis two horse rig along To fetch me over to the show, If you’ll consent and let me go.” ” W by, yes, my child, why should you stay? I’ll not be mean and say you nay, Whore neighbor Cooper gives consent Must surely be quite innocent.

THE CITY OF PALACES.. Congressman Cox Sight-Seeing in the Historic City of St. Petersburg. St. Petersburg, August 10.—It is impossible to describe even a few ot the phases of this Russian life in a few hurried letters, or to make a proper review of the scenes and places which we have had time to observe. I might have made a more picturesque sketch of the military or dynastic church, wherein lies buried Russia, or her Czars. It would be a pleasure to recount more in detail the visit to the hut of Peter the Great, where he lived while planning this city. The boat and chair, which he made himself, attract our eye, while the sacred picturo under glass in the corner, set in precious stones and illuminated with candles, is considered so rare and talismanic that it attracts crowds, who kiss the glass covering. It is a famous picture of the Saviour, and lovely in its touching sadness. It has a witchery, for, being borne in front of the army, it incites to victory. Our next drive was to the place where the late Emperor was killed. There is a beautiful shrine under an Oriental kiosk-like temple over the exact spot, in front of which are candles are burning and devotees bowing and crossing. There seemed to be an unusually deep solemnity here; and even the guards and ministrants had a more serious and anxious expressidh. We "went to various other churches, all called“parish churches,” but splendid in dome of green or blue, and rich in decorations, golden decorations predominating, for even silver is gilded over. No images are allowed in the Greek churches, only pictures. So it is said, but it is hard for us to distinguish between them, Faces of the Saviour and Virgin apoear in beautiful outline and color, surrounded by golden aureoles and and by enameled and gemmed frames of rare handiwork. Our last visit on Sunday to church was to that of “Our Lady of Kazan.” Kazan is a town ’ on the Volga, and the reputation of its saint is such as to enrich her shrine beyond all others. The building—like most of the other churches—has pendent from its sides and in its chapels i flags of all nations, taken by Russia in battle. Considering what wars she iiad, at home and aboard, you can well imagine what an immense multitude of old, torn, moth eaten, yet ever-glorious ensigns, from Central Asia to Poland, are burg upon her sacred walls. The gates, balustrade, l and altar of Kazan Church are of solid | silver. Four fluted jasper columns adorn the altar. At its doors—as at ail the churches—are poor people, very ragged, and worn with pilgrimages from afar, who bow to you obsequiously, and present their black portfolios, with a Greek cross upon them, as credentials for their mission to beg for the distant parts of the empire, and their sp.ritual needs and monasteries. Upon our drives we notice some fine triumphal arches, copied after the classic models of those of other countries and other monuments, but none equal to the superb Alexander Column, erected in 1832, which is a solid shaft of red granite, the greatest monolith of the world. It is based on an enormous bloek of red granite. There is an angel on the summit. The monument is 154 feet: high, has a noble and inspiring grace | and grandeur. Other statues to Peter and Catherine, besides statues to soldiers and poets, make every square of this grand city monumental. There is also an equestrian statue o Nicholas. The horse is like that of General Jackson’s, in Lafayette Square, Washington, and stands up on his hind legs only. It is so much more elegantly and gracefully posed that I could not but compare it to the ' disadvantage of our own tavonte J charger! The effigies and places to • which such brief reference is made 1 we saw on our first Sunday. t>n 1 this second Sunday—and while I 1 write, we have some rest; but on no? day have we failed to find something ' about —Peter the Greet! In “the? Summer gardens” there is an old palace, where are all the relics of his handiwerk, such as chairs, cabinets and Chinese designs; the kitchen and bath-room have tiles of the old Dutch style, which he greatly i affected. The chimney is as huge as ; the room. Within is a prison, where , le . to have kept his personal h ‘‘omies Without benefit of habeas Ar clergv. It looks gloomy, corpus or . , e enis to be i»eeuliarwould have enjoyed ... en l.is own favorite ■ —"\roun<t of

visits by an excursion into the country, I should recommend two, one to Sarskse-sello, and the other to Peterhoff. We have made both. At the iirst are theplacesof the Czar and the Grand Duke Constantine. We go thereby rail. The drives in the parks are beautiful; wherein is a lovely’ palace where lived the Princess Dagniar before she became Empress. The armory here forms a museum of wonderful interest, for it has gifts of untold y alue from Spain to Persia, and beyond. Every kind of guns, sword and dagger is here; and those from the conquered sheiks and khans of Asia shine resplendent in jewels by the mass. The saddlecloths of the Orient, and especially the presents from the Shah ol Persia, are the richest known to any codection of the world. Among the mamfold things here to be seen are the lock and key found near the site of the Temple of Jerusalem; the jewelry of the harem of the Khan of Khiva—a wonderful collection for female adornment; Chevalier Bayards cuirass, a spear which opens after it enters the body; an alarm-dock which shoots oft agun to awaken the sleeper; the flags taken in the Hungarian insurrection of 1849; the baton of Schmayl, the Circassian chief, who fought Russia so many years; the emeralds by the quantity which the Shah of Persia sent to the Czar; the “horse furniture’’ of the Indian sheiks, and a circular knife which they use to hurl, which cut your head off before you could say your little prayer; and as a proper apex to this collection of curious gifts and gems—worth alone sixty millions of rubles — the sword of Mazeppa, the brave hetmen of the Poles, who w’lll never cease to ride through histrionic and hist ric dangers on that fierce, untamed charger of the desert!— [Correspondence of the New T ork Express. 8 8. Cox. Sitting Bull’s Message. The following speech was written down, at the dictation of Sitting Bull by M. William Selwyn, a full blooded Dakota Indian, who is employed by the Government in taking the census of the Indian tribes in Dakota. It was written out by him in the Dakota language and then translated by him, and, as he is a well educated young man, and an esteemed member of one. of the Dakota Indian missionary bodies, his words are to be relied upon. Yours respectfully, C. L. Hall, Miss. A. B. C. F. M. Standing Bock, D. T., Aug. 26, 1881. THE MESSASE. lam the son of the He-Tops (Four Horns, late a chief of the Uncapapas) and it is said that he was one of your relatives; so, then, you are a younger brother to me (sunkaehive . You area full-blooded Dakota, but you adopt the ways of the whites, and I hear that you have been employed by the Great Father. For the last few years, I have been in the North, where they are plenty of buffalo; for the buffalo were my nieans of iving. God made me to live on the flesh of the buffalo; so I thought 1 would stay out there as long as there were buffalo enough for us. But the Great Father sent for me several times, and although 1 did not know why he wanted me to come down, at last I consented to do so. I never, myself made war against the children of the Great Father, and I never sought a fight with them. While I was looking for buffalo, they would attack and shoot at me, and of course I had to defend myself or else I should die. But all the blame is put on me. I have always thought that the Dakotas were all one body; and I wanted to make an agreement with them to come and settle down. While I have been in the North, here and there, a good many little things have happened, and I have been blamed for them; but I know that I am innocent. Those men who have made the trouble ought to be blamed. Everybody knows that I was not going to stay at the North any- longer, but that when the buffalo disappearpeared I should make up my mind to come down.

Although you are a Dakota, you are employed by tho Great Father; therefore I want you to let him hear my words. When I first came down, white men came to me almost everyday to get some words out of me, but I said: “No! When I settle down I shall say some words to the Great Father.” I know that some white rascals have dealt with the Dakotas, and by their foolish ways have turned them. As for myself, Ido not want any one to do mischievously or deceitfully. So Ido not want to let any ordinary man hear my words. I tell the whites chat my words are worth something; and even if they were willing to pay me for it, I never made any reply. But as soon as I saw you I was well pleased. Although yon arc a Dakota you have gathered up many good words and put them in my ears. To-day I was wishing that some one would come in and advise me, and as you have done so, it i pleases me very much. All this people here belong to me and I hope that the Great Father will treat them kindly. I always thought that w-hen we came back and any of my relatives came to me with good words, I should I reply “Yes, yes.” To-day you have put "good words into my ears, end I have said “Yes.” In the futuie I hope I shall have some good honest reliable man with me. Interpreters have come to me often, following me up, and I have said, “No, I am not a i child; if I want to do anything I shall i take time to think it over.” It is said Spotted Tail was killed by mixing up with bad men. Often times a man has lost his life by being mixed up with bad men. But I wish that my people may be treated well, so that they may do rightly. I am the last one that has come in from the North, and yet 1 want to surpass the old agency Dakotas in what is right, and I wish that the Great Father would furnish me with farming implements, so that I can til! the ground. My brother. Iwish you would send this message to the Great Father right away, so that he will help me. Now I have confidence in you that you will be able to pay of my message. lam glad that you came to see me. It is a good thing for relatives to see each other. I have no objections to your numbering the people. Sitting Bull.

A Rattlesnake lu a Bed. Mr. David Wagner, who lives half a mile south of Warren Centre, had an exciting experience Wednesday night. His mother is very ill and he has his bed on the floor in the front room, so as to be at hand to wait on her. The night before he had his bed near the front door, and Wednesday morning rolled the mattress and quilts in one corner of the room. At night when he opened the bed he found a savage looking snake eseonsed completely in the bed, but greatly excited at being disturbed. Mr. Wagner ran and got the stove hook and dispatched the snake, which was a large one with eight rattles. (South Bend Ind. Tribune.) Mr. Stanley Brown, President Garfield’s private secretary, who has resumed duties at the white house, at the request of President Arthur, says i that the late president’s affairs will Ibe turned over to trustees to be arranged and managed. It is understood, be says, that the trustees will eall for bills of expenses incurred during the illness of Gen. Garfield, as Mrs. Garfield and her friends regard these as private debts. Should congress decide tnat the debts are the debts of the nation, and assuiediy that will be the ease, the tustees will ■ turn over the bills.

HOOSIER MAIDENS. Experience of Two Indiana Girls Among Hie Apaches. The two daughters of Dr. Constant of Peru, Indiana, were guests at the Lindell last night. Both arrived hers yesterday evening, having come over the Topeka, Atchison and Saute l'e Railroad from New Mexico. Miss Fannie is a young lady scarcely out of her teens, with an expresive face and still more expressive tongue. Both she and her sister Gertie, who is the elder, have had a great deal ol border experience within a very short period, having been within thirteen miles of the battle with the- famous Indian commander Nina, in which George Daily, the celebrated mining expert, was killed. Miss Fannie helped him to buckle on his arms when he started out to tight the Indians in the Gavilon Canyon, and Miss Gertie, who was also present asked him whether he had enough cigars to last him till he got back. It was then Midnight, and the party were at Nut Station, where he was interested largely iu mines. He said he had three cigars, and that these would last him until 9 o’clock in the morning, by which time he expected to be back. “But,” said he, “the bullets will have to strike some of us, you know, and, boys, they are as likely to strike me as any of you.” They followed the Indians upthe canyon, striking the ambush at 9a. m., only a few of the party escaped. The body of Daly was brought back the next day lashed te a horse. The two ladies were guests of Mr. Daily, Miss Gertie has money invested in mines here, which she went out to look after, and her sister, who was a consumptive went out to get cured. Daily is said to have been a millionaire. He has spent most of his life on the frontier, and he understoo the treachery of the Indians, and before starting out in pursuit of them he wrote out, signed, and sealed his will and turned it over to Miss Gertie, to be delivered to his executor, a Mr. White, of Philadelphia,in case of his death. He said he had a dear little wife and four children, whom he would bring out there as soon as possible. The ladies also have charge of Turk, his favorite bird dog, which they are taking home to his wife. They also have some interesting relies of their own. A very fine silver mounted, pearl handled revolver, which has done service for the whites against the Indians, belongs to Miss Gertie. Miss Fannie has a bowieknife with which a United States officer split open the bowels of an Indian in a hand to hand conflict. The white blossoms of the soap weed, a plant resembling the Spanish dagger, is another of their keepsakes. The leaves of this plant are pointed with a thorn of a poisonous character. With this thorn they- prick the live bodies of their victims, and a slow and painful death is the consequence.

The ladies were bern, raised and educated in New York state, but three months on the frontier was sufficient to give them a deep seated dislike for the Indian. Miss Fannie’s idea of the Indian is taken from General Custer, whom the people of the territoryall adore. She says, “there are no good Indians but'dead Indians.” Both she and her sister learned to shoot accurately, as their lives were often in peril, and both of them became so used to danger that they think they had the bravery to defend their home against the savages. Miss Gertie took her pistol out of her valise and showed it. She said that if she had been on the Chicago and Alton train she would have shot at the robbers. Miss Fannie thought the government ought to murder the whole tribe of Apaches, ahd was so strong in her feelings against them that she came near closing the interview abruptly when the reporter mildly suggested that sueh a policy on the part of the nation would be undignified and unwarrantable. She expresses the strongest feelings against General Hatch. She says that his behrvior is not only criticised by the citizens, but by his subordinates, who say that he spends his time playing cards in Santa Fe while the Indians are out marauding. She says that a certain lieutenant told her that “Hatch sent him with thirteen “niggers” to fight forty-five Indians, and of course he did not find them.” As he said this he winked significantly. “But,” said the lady, “I want you to state that the “colored troops fought nobly.” “They did for a fact in the battle of the canyon. Hatch said Daly was a fool; that he ought to have stayed at home and let the ‘niggers’ fight the Indians, and that the citizens ought to : tay at home and let Hatch do the fighting. Yes! let him do it and he away in Sante Fe, having a good time spending money and riding in a carriage with his family! The people all over the Territory told us to tell everybody we could about how Hatch was neglecting things. Some of the officers wanted us to see General Sheridan and make a complaint against him.” About the country the ladies had much to say. The younger one remarked that in general appearance it looked like “the devil’s back yard,” as the officers expressed it. The climate was healthy, but it gave your face the color of a saddle. Nutt Station, where they were, is on the Atchison, Topeka,& Santa Fe Railroad, on the old Georgetown trail, fifteen miles southwest of Lake Valley and nine miles from the Miembres River. At this point, made remote by the irregular running of trains, Mr. Daly owned six hundred acres of mineral land, upon which the Sierra mines are located. He also owns an interest in the valuable mines at Lake Valley. All the houses here are of adobe. “I wish you would state in the Republican,” the younger lady- said, “that there were white men and Mexicans among that band of Apaches who killed Mr. Daly. The soldiers who escaped told me so.” Manners and Customs. “Man bows to custom as he bows to fate.” But front this we must not suppose that custom is everywhere the same. Neither are manners. If some genius were to undertake to compile an universal book of etiquette what a book he would have! The mannersand customs of our antipodes are as different as our positions on the globe. Some one has said: “Custom meets man at the cradle.” Not always. Cradles are unknown in some parts of the world. It meets the American Indian at a board, to which he is strapped and carried on the squaw’s back, or hung from the limb of a tree, that the breezes mayliter a* rock him to sleep. Strange I that an Indian should be an Indian when there is so much poetry about his infancy. The Lapland mother puts her infant in a basket suspended from the rafters, and lets custom meet it there. As she passes to and fro about her housework, she gives the basket a gentle push, thus keeping it in motion. ’ Oftenthe Hindoomother puts her infant to rest once and for ail inthe yielding w aves of the Ganges. Spartan infanta were examined to see if they were worth bringing up. If not, they were exposed to die. rs perfectly sound they suffered a worse fate —Spartan life. The Laplander baby is (buried in the snowwhile its mother goes to church. The Hottentot mother buries her infant in the sand, and lets it make sand pies for amusemen u Os course she leaves the anus and head exposed, and, of course, it is a perfect little angel, very rarely requiring paregoric. She also crushes it nose to make it flat, and

compresses its lips to make them thicker, in the fond hone and belief of increasing its beauty. When an Abvssinnian male child is born, a man outside thrusts a spear through the window into its mouth to make its tongue sharp; this operation is not considered necessary in the ease of the girls. Whether the operation has any good results or not, I can not say. But if it has we ought to adopt it in this country. The birth is further celebrated by swarms of women setting upon every man they meet and assaulting and worrying him till he purchase his escape. Beer is a common currency in these transactions. In addition to flattening the lips and nose the Hindoo mother also pulls out the ears of male infants to make them stand out from the head. This exceeded in hideousness only’ by’ the torture to which the Chinese girls are subjected in the compression of their feet. So much for the customs that govern ami torture infancy in foreign lands. In America, the instruments of torture most frequently used are pins and paregoric. Abyssinia is a poor place for school teachers. The customs of that place do not favor them. Girls are taught to carry water from a well. The education of the boys is the same, only the knowledge of carrying aqua pura from the reservoir is omitted. The Abyssinians believe that the devil enters the body of young girls. Os course all efforts to civilize them have met with utter failure. The remedies employed for this occupancy of his majesty of hell are various, although a horse whip applied to the lower part of the back is found to be the best in severe cases. Egyptians are taught to drink coffee. smoke tobacco, and lie about their neighbors. Os course dunce caps are unknown. The advocates of an exclusively practical education should go there! The Spartans were the onIv nice of antiquity that practiced co-education of the sexes. No wonder the men were brave. Till a boy goes to school with a bevy of mischievous girls, he is ready to face anything. The first thing they taught a young Spartan was to steal. Girls and boys went alike to boxing and wrestling school —at morning, noon, and night. During the days of chivalry, female teachers were all the rage, and the young candidate for knighthood was saught by the ladies of the castle. How delightful school must have been! The Romans were the first to establish public school, open to both sexes. While from them we have derived this idea, it lacks one important feature, for in the Roman schools morality was inculcated as the first and most important study. Law, as well as custom, allows the boys and girls of many nations to marry at from fifteen to eighteen years of age; some at from eight to twelve. Hindoos marry the boys at ten the girls at eight. Abyssinian boys marry at twelve. They’ marry the girl whose father cart provide them with the most oxen. The chosen fair one, who need not be over nine years old, is not seen by her adorer before the period of the ox-bar-gain and the marriage ceremony. On the auspicious day she is carefully washed by her female relatives, her hair dressed after the most approved aashion with butter, and her person rrayed in the most attractive toilet. She is then carried to the ceremony on the back of a male relative. Marriage was an institution highly prized among the Romans, who had severe lawA against celibacy. In Greece old bachelors weie subjected to a heavy fine, and, in addition, it was the custom in Sparta for the magistrates to strip them naked and chase them around the public square in winter. It did not matter if the old bachelor had popped the question a dozen times, he had tosubmi t to the penalty. And then, they had no leap years, either. Surely the world is getting worse. At their marriage the Spartans chanted a hymn, the burden of which was, “1 have escaped the worse, I have chosen the better.”“lu Greenland the young man gets the minister to pop the question, and he will never take “no” for an answer. He does the popping gratis, trusting to his chance of performing the ceremony’ to get his remuneration. In the United States the young man stands on the corner and smiles; she comes along and smiles; they eat some ice-cream, heave some sighs of prodigious size, and straightway there is a chance for a divorce suit. Circassian widows wear the bladder of an of an ox on top of their regulation black caps. Wonder if this was not the origin of the “smoker.” The beauty-spot was actually’ derived from the Abyssinian women. That is all, however, that I shall say about their dress, which is very simple. In fact, it does not furnish sufficient matter for a remark. That country invariably presents a poor opening for dressmakers. But my article is long enough already, and I am not liaif done. Perhaps at some future time I will say something about manners and custems of dress, eating, and religion.

CAPTIVE AMONG SAVAGES. Late Sydney papers, received bythe steamer Australia, give a pathetic story of the rescue of a poor Italian sailor from captivity among savages on one of the Si lomon Islands. He was one of the survivors of the FrenchItalian emigration expedition under the Marquis de Rey-es. The following is the story of the rescue: Capt. McLaughlin, who explored several islands of the Solomon group, discovered a white man, naked, among the savages. After considerable stratext- m he got alongside the canoe containing the white man, who was ultimately, with some difficulty and danger, purchased for three American hatehets. It was discovered that he was an Italian named Luigi Boern, who had been fifteen months a captive with the savages. When he found that he was about to tie liberated his joy knew no bounds and he became almost frantic. He embraced Catitain McLaughlin in an agony of joy-, while the savages surrounded them, shouting, yelling and brandishing their weapons. Luigi Boero believed that he was {utterly lost. He imagined that he had been with his captors three years. He, with five unfortunate mates, left Liki harbour to go on a cruise in an open boat. Three days afterward they struck a reef. The boat unfortunately was, broken and they fell into the hands of the natives. He got separated from his companions, whom he onlysaw once afterwards, when they had a fearful tale of suffering to relate. They were treated worse than dogs. They were slaves of every- one in the village, and made to do horrible work, always being treated with the greatest ill-usage, and obliged to work in the boiling sun, with their skin peeling off. When enfeebled and sick they were cruelly beaten and tortured. Three months prior to the arrival of the steamer Genii, Laigi heard that all but two had succumbed to ill treatment and want of food. Capt. McLaughlin, after rescuing Luigi, sailed for Bronga, Inville and other islands, where he heard of another white man in captivity, but was unsuccessful in rescuing him. It is supposed this unfortunate Italian is th o only survivor of his six countryman who started with him. It may be that one of the other is still in captivity among the savages. This tale is causmg an extrordinary sensation in Sydney. Bradlaugh is confined to his house with a renewal of the attack of erysipelas.

AVidt to the Albany Penitential'). J had formed the opinion that pris 038 were all dark, damp, dirty places and was therefore pleasantly surprised at, the exterior and interior of this one. The building stands on a hill, in frontofthe structure is a beautiful sloping lawn; the grounds are large and well kept. Immediately in front of the building and on either side of the avenue is a number of handsome old trees, and in front of the entrance is some well arranged beds of choice plants. The building is large and constructed to form a hollow square. It is painted a light yellow, which gives it a cheerful appearance. The square or court inside is fresh and green witii a fountain playing in the centre. The cells, in spite of light, air and cleanliness, are damp and cold, owing, I presume, to the prevalence of iron and stone in the construction. The walls are all glitteringly white with white-wash and all the woodwork—even in the work-shops—look-ed clean enough to eat from. The bedding of the men is of some dark colored material and during the dav hangs up against the wall. In the women’s cells, however, the narrow beds are netttly made and covered with a light spread and the pillow cases looked as smooth and white as if newly put on, although it was Friday. Tnvre were many little pictures and ornaments on the walls of the majority of the women’s cells, but 1 noticed that few of the men’s cells were so ornamented. One large room contains 20 bath tubs, with a cold and warm water faucet to each tub, and once a week every prisoner is required to take a bath. In the kitehen and bake shop, order and neatness prevailed. Rows and rows of nicely browned loaves of bread that smelled as if delicious, had just been taken from the oven, large tables held stacks of the tin pans and cups in which the prisoners receive their food. A number of women were sitting on benches paring potatoes. As the immense range was red hot and the day very warm, I thought that it would have been more humane to have allowed them to sit farther back, for they were quite close together and facing the range. In the workshops the men were working under contract making shoes; in one shop they’ were making boxes in which to pack the shoes. We were shown specimens of the convicts’ work; the shoes were as handsome, tine and well made as any I had ever seen. One man does not make an entire shoe, but each one does a certain part of the work. When one partis finished it is passed on to some one e se, perhaps into another shop. I have forgotten the exact number of shoes made in a day, but 1 think it was several thousand.

It was impossible to form an opinion of the prisoners, for they all sat with their backs to us,and the prison rules forbid them looking up. or around when visitors enter. Should a prisoner be at work in a room which you enter, or you should meet one, he will immediately turn his back to you, clasp his hands and bow his head until you have passed out of sight and hearing. The men’s faces are cleanly shaven and their hair closely cut. Their dress consists of a coarse, white cotton shirt, a pair of coarse grey pantalopns, a blue, cloth jacket and a round sailor eap of the same material as the jacket. The women are allowed to retain their hair and arrange it to suit themselves. Their dress is of dark, red calico, high in the neck, and short in the sleeves for warm weather. Some few wore aprons and some handkerchiefs around their necks. In their workshops they were emyloped with sewing and various other feminine occupations. There were few women, compared to the number of men, and I noticed quite a number of colored prisoners of both sexes. Two colored female prisoners had toddling babes with them, and the little ones looked healthy and happy. The gentlemanly- official who accompanied us. gave us some interesting statistics of the prisoners and their labor, but I -have forgotten most of them, or I might give them here. In general, the prisoners obey the rules readily, and the officers have very few punishments to inflict, tor aside from the fear of punishment, they understand that good behavior and obedience to the rules will shorten their term, and to a man confined in prison, one day- off his term is omething. This is a United States prison, and there are convicts from many states confined here. Prisoners cannot see any one—outside of the officials—until they have served 30 days; then they may- see their friends for a short time. Thev cannot write but once a mouth, and then only one letter. Friends maywrite when they choose, as the prisoner’s reeeive their mail every Sunday morning. Friends may also send anything in the line of eatables once a week. I had almost forgotten to mention the chapel and hospital. The former is a large well lighted, and well ventilated room or hall, with a seating capacity of about a thousand. A large platform held a pulpit and an organ, and when we were there, the room was nicely decorated with flags, etc. In the hospital the rows of beds were elean and fresh. Only a few beds were occupied. One poor fellow- was propped up in a chair, evidently in the last stages of consumption. In this portion of the prison there is a library from which the inmates of the hospital have free access; others who wish may obtain one or two books once a w-eek. The workshops are light and airy, none of the men looked overworked, and altogether we came away well impressed with the strict, yet humane management of this prison. Not many years ago I visited a prison in a large city in this state, where all of the officers or guards in the workshops carried a small “cat-o-nine-tails,” and the men looked sullen and rebellious, but I saw nothing of the kind in Albany.

Genera! Garfield’s Portrait’. In the Bureau of Engraving and Printing a very fine likeness of the late President Garfield has been placed in the hands of an engraver. The engraver selected is one of the best among the several artists employed in the bureau. The purpose is to place this engraved portrait of General Garfield in the plate of one of the principal government issues. Bui for the prohibition of the law against placing the portrait of a living person upon our notes and securities the engraving of General Garfield picture would Fave been completed immediately after his inauguration as President. The engraving is taken from a photograph furnished by Mrs. Garfield, which was executed by an artist in Painesville, 0., and aided by a large photograph executed in Cleveland. Pan-Li-Fu, Chines-? ambassador a Berlin, has been accredited to Vienna His two official papers are addressed, one to the emperor of Austria from the emperor of China, and the other to Baron Haymerie fr.m a Chinese minister of foreign affairs. Both are written in Chinese, and the one intended for the emperor is magnificently inscribed upon an immense sheet of yellow silk, which is arranged in a roll in the old papyrus fashion. Pan-Li-Fu is said to be accomplished in tjie German language and literature.

In Love With Little Mario. Celia Logan recalls the visit of the Baroness Burdett-Coutts to America, ' whither she followed the once famous tenor, Mario. At that time the Baroness was not a young women, nor was she even handsome. She looked from 30 to 40 years of age. Her features were thick and irregular, her complexion muddy and of thick texture. She was of medium height and exquisitely moulded, having especially fine rounded, sloping shoulders, over which she invariable wore a truly regal camel's hair shawl. She always dressed plainly in a dark silk or cashmere dress, and every night that Mario sang, Miss Coutts sat in [he stage box, entirely alone. She was dressed so simply, her manners and appearance being so •nassuming and the reverse of being striking that opera-goers of that day took little notice of her beyond an occasional surmise as to who she was. She would sit half-concealed by the curtain the whole performance through with a rapt expression on her faee. as if she were fairly enchanted by the tones of the heavenly tenor. The performance over, she would stand a few moments as if waiting for the recall, and as Mario would near the stage-box she would bend on him a look full cf admiration, which he returned, while Grisi’s black eyes flashed fire on them both. Then Miss Coutts would glide away to her cariage. Miss Logan continues: To those behind the scene in those days this romantic story was well known—the ties that kept Mario fast chained to Grisi, even when he had wearied of her, and would gladly have exchanged his lyric honors to become the husband of the rich English women who had come so far not to lose one note of that heaven given voice. Apart from his divine gift of song, Mario was one of the handsomest men ever c orn, although he was a trifle undersized. Grisi, too, was a perfect type of a lovely Italian—eyes and hair like his, dark as midnight, and in person beautifully formed, although at this time she was stout and somewhat passe. Although the trio were seemingly on the most friendly footing, Miss Coutts’admiration for the great singer being supiwsed to be merely that which she might feel for any wonderful artist, such as she has lately showh for Irving, the actor. Grisi was terribly jealous, and it was was said at the time nothing but the fear of losing Mario altogether caused her to put a restraint upon herself. I remember, however, one night there had been a domestic scene between the singers, and Grisi came to the theater in a pent-up fury. The opera was “Norma.” Grisi as well as Mario was in splendid voice, and they seemed to be trying to outdo each other. At length Grisi approached her betrayer. Stretching forth her arm to the fullest extent she pointed directly to the Lox in which the lone woman sat, and thundered fort: “Thou yet shall feel the anguish which has broken this poor heart!” Mario turned his back on Grisi, and Miss Coutts drew further behind the curtains. The words being in Italian were not generally understood by the audience, but the verdict was that a more splendid piece of acting had never been given by any lyric artist.

At a recent meeting of the academy of science, in Paris, a communication w-as read from a man who announced that he' had discovered a mode of inoculating vines as a protection against the attacks of the phylloxera. Poker has ruined Dr. E. J. Hoffman, of Louisville. He had a large practice, was an active Methodist, and his reputation was excellent. Becoming infatuated with the game, he neglected his patients to play- it, borrowed ali the money he could to meet his losses, and finally forged checks, amounting to $2,000, for which he is now- in jail. His ehurch loses S6OO. I’lilcago. Grain—Wheat, demand active and excited, opened weak and lower,closed firm at outside prices; No. 2 Chicago spring, $1 34 36‘ 4 ; No. 3 do, $1 20. Corn, demand active, very excited and irregular, opened weak and lower, closed firm at outside prices, No. 3, 63 @64c. Oats, in fair demand, opened weak and lower. closed firm at outside prices; N0.2,45%c. Rye, dull and lower: No. 1, $1 ob. Barley, dull, weak and lower; $lO9 November. Provisions—Pork, demand active, opened weak and lower, closed firm at outside prices cash; sl7 80@17 85 October and December; sl7 85@17 87 l 2 November; sl7 75@17 85 year; sl9 32>£ @l9 35 January. Lard, demand active, opened weak and lower, closed firm at outside prices; sll 80 cash; October, sll S 2' a @ll 85: November, 11 75; year, sl2 27^@12 30. Bulk meats, shoulders, $8 00; short rib; $9 70; short clear, $lO 20. Whisky—Quiet and unchanged at $1 18. Hogs—Receipts, 13,000; shipments, 3,700, 10@2 c lower; mixed packing, $6 00@6 40; light, $6 10@6 45; choice heavy, $6 50@7 20. Cattle—Receipts, 4,000; shipments, 3,700; steady; exports, $6 40@6 90; common to choice shipping, few-, $6 00. Sheep—Receipts, 100; nominally firm.

New York Produce. Flour—Dull; superfine state and western, $5 00(36 16; common to good extra, $6 00@6 70; good to choice, $6 80@9 00; white wheat extra, $7 75@ 9 75; extra Ohio, $6 70@8 75; St. Louis, $6 50@9 75; Minnesota patents, $8 00@ 9 75. Grain —Wheat %to lc lower and closed heavy; ungraded, $1 31@1 38; No 2 Chicago, $1 38@1 39; ungraded red, $1 16@1 53; No 3 do, $139@146; No 2 do, $1 49@1 50; new, $1 51Jj>; old, $1 53; mixed winter, $1 46; ungraded white, $1 38(31 50. Corn opened to lower but closed firm; ungraded, 65(366’^e; No 3, 69@70c; new and old yellow, Oats lower; mixed western, 45@48e; white western, 50@ 58c. Eggs—Fresh very firm at 24@24%c. Provisions —Pork dull, weak and unsettled; new mess, sl9 50(319 75. Cut meats dull. Lard, prime steam, sl2 00@12 50. Butter—Firm for choice at 13@37e Cincinnati. Flour —Easier and quotably lower. Grain—Wheat, fair demand and lower: No 2 red, $1 Corn, irregular; No 2 mixed, 69 l -j@7o}jc. Oats, unsettled ; No 2 mixed, 44%@46)£c. Rye, weaker; $1 Barley, steady and firm and unchanged;. Provisions—Pork, dull and nominal. Lard, quiet; sll 87j£. Bulk meats, dull ami unchanged. Bacon, easier; clear rib, sll 25; clear, sl2 00. Whsiky—Strong; $1 15; combination sales of finished goods, 776 barrels on a basis of $1 15. Butter—Steady and unchanged. Hogs—Ouiet; common to light $5 25 @6 65; packing and butchers, $6 30@ 7 a). Receipts, 710; shipments, 869. *. — New York Drv Goods. Export demand for sheetings and drills is active and generally advanced. Cotton goods firm: drills again advanced by agents. Prints in light demand. Indigo blueprints advanced to 10 cents. Spring cassimeres and worsted coatings largely sold ahead. Toled.. Grain —Wheat, firm; No 2 rtd Wr‘ bash spot October, $1 14X- Conation; No 2 spot, 75c. Oats, dull and nominal, spot and October

A Strange Lake lu Oregon. Several citizens of Jacksonville, Oregon, have recently visited the Great Sunken Lake, situated in the Cascade Mountains, about seventy five miles northeast from Jacksonville. This lake rivals the famous valley of Slnbad the Sailor. It is thought to average 2,000 feet down to water all around. The depth of the water is unknown, and its surface is smooth and unrutlled, as it is so far below the surface of the mountains that air currents do not affect it it. Its length is estimated at twelve or fifteen miles, and its width ten or twelve. There is a mountain in flic center having trees upon it. It lies still, silent and mysterious in the bosom of the everlasting hills, like a huge well scooped out by the hands of the giant genii of the mountains in the unknown aces gone by, and around it the primeval forests watch and ward are keeping. Tlie visiting party fired a rifle into the water several times at an angle of 45 degrees, and weie aide to note several seconds of time from the report of the gun until the ball struck the water. Such seems incredible, but is vouched for by our most reliable citizens. The Lake is certainly a most remarkable curiosity.

Sarony, the famous New Y’ork photographer, says: “Women are sometimes a perfect torment to photograph. They always know just how to pose themselves, and bring articles with them that are supposed to render them attractive, but which would enly make them look hideous. Finelooking people do not always take the best pictures. Prominent features and expression are needed. A clean-cut nose and chin can make a picture attractive. The only correct picture is the full faee, ami is the most difficult to take. Sarah Bernhardt for the sum of SISOO sold the privilege of taking her photographs. She was not a good sitter, she was always in a hurry. A California lady came and had her dress taken, said it cost SSOOO next day had another and so on for days. Maud Branscombe used to be paid for her sittings; on the street she is not pretty. The best sitting pictures were those of Fanny’ Davenport Governor Hoyt, of Pennsylvania notifies the insurance commissioners that he will not issue any more letters patent to mutual assessment assurance companies. As the governor construes the law, the business is not conducted legally.

A. G. HOLLOWAY, M. D, PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, DECATUR, INDIANA. Office in Houston's Block, up-stairs. Will attend to all professional calls promptly, right or day. Charges reasonable. Residence en north side of Monroe street, 4th house east of Hart’s Mill. 25jy79tf R B. ALLisex, F’lvs’t. XV. H. Niblick,Cashier, b. SruDA bakeb, Vice Pres’t. THE ADAMS COUNTY BANK. DECATUR, INDIANA, This Bank is now open for the transaction of a general hanking business. We buy and sell Town, Township and County Orders. 25jy79tf ~PETERSON & HUFFMAN." ‘ ATTORNEYS AT LAW, DECATUR, INDIANA. Will practice in Adams and adjoining counties. Especial attention given to collections and titles to real estate. Are Notaries Public and draw deeds and mortgages Real estate bought, sold ami rented on reasonable terms. Office, rooms 1 and 2. I. O. 0. F. building. 25jy79tf ’ franceTking. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, D EC ATUK ,IN DI AN A. E. N. WICKS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, DBCATVR, INDIANA. All legal business promptly attended to. Office up stairs in Stone's building 4ih door. v25n24 year 1. a R. FREEMAN, M. 1). HYSIAN &IoP SUR GEN. DECATUR, INDIANA. Office over Dornin & Holthouse's Drug Store Residence on Third S reel, between Jackson and Monroe. Professional calls promptly attended. Vol. 25 No. 22. ts. ar T. AILEY, ATT’Y AT LAW $ J. P., DECATUR, INDIANA. H’ill Practice in Adams and adjoining Counties. Collections a specialty. v24n29tf S. G. HASTINGS, M. D. HOAIOEOP.I TH IST PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, DECATUR, INDIANA. All calls day or night promptly attended to. Office in Studabuker's builjing, first door south of Court House Square. Vol. 25 No. 14.

THE DECATUR WOOLEN MILLS | RUNNING AGAIN! Having purchased the Eicher Woolen Mills we arc prepared to announce to the public generally that we have for sale at Bottom Prices at our factory on the corner of Ist and Jefferson streets a fine line of strictly ALL WOOL GOODS, Os our own Manufacture. We ea rnest ly solicit all former patrons of the Eicher Woolen Mills to come and see us, as we expect to reciprocate your patronage by honest, fair dealing. We will pay you the highest market price in cash for your wool, or make any exchange for geod£ Call and see our stock of FLANNELS, BLANKETS, S ATT [NETS, JEANS and STOCKING YARNS before purchasing elsewhere, we promise to furnish you a better article for LESS MONET! Than you can buy anywhere else. MYERS BROS. Decatu * May 5, 1881. ts

KENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE. / Wkendall'slW Qsravin cugtfy It cures Spavins, Splints, Curbs, Ringbones and all similar blemishes, and removes the bunch without blistering. For man it is now known to be one of the best, if not the best liniment ever discovered. We feel positive that every man can have perfect success in every ease if he will only use good common sense iu applying Kendalls Spavin Cure, and preserve in bad cases of long standing Read below the experience of others. FROM COL. L. T. FOSTER. Youngstown, 0., May 10, 1880. Du- 11. J. Kksi'ai.l x Co., Gents,bad a very valuable Ilatubletonian colt which 1 prized very highly, he had a large bone spa,in on one joint and a smaller one on the other which made him very lame: 1 had him under the charge of two Veterinary Surgeons which failed to cure him 1 was one day reading the advertisement of Kendall's Spavin Cure in the Chicago Express, I determined at. once to try it and got our Druggist here to send for it, they ordered three bottles; I took them all and thought 1 would give it a thorough trial, 1 used it according to directions and by the fourth day the colt ceased to be lame, and the lumps had entirely disappeared. I used but one bottle and the colts limbs are as free .com lumps and as smooth as any horse in the Slate. He is entirely cured. The cure was so remarkable that 1 let two o.' my neighbors have the remaining two bottles, who are now using it. Very respectfully, L. I FOSTER. Perseverance Will Tell. Stoughton, Mass., March 16, 1880, B. J. Kendall k Co., Gents:--In justice to you and myself, I think I ought to let you know that I have removed two bone spavins with Kendall s Spavin Cure, one very large one, don't know how long the spavin had been there. I have owned the horse eight months. It took me four months to take the large one off and two far tie small one. I have used ten bottles. Tie horse is extremely well, not at all stiff, and no bunch to be seen or felt. This is a wonderful medicine, it is a new thing here, but if it does for all what i thas done for me its sale will be very great. Respectfully yours, CHAS E PARKER. KENDALL’S SPAVIN CURE. Acme, Mich, Deo 28, 1879. Dr B J Kendall & Co. Gents:—l sent you one dollar for your Kendall's Spavin Cure last summer which cured a bone spavin with half a bottle. Tie best liniment I ever used. Youis respectfully, HOMER HOXIE From Kev I*. hi. Wronger Presiding Elder of the St Albans Dsstrict. St Albans, Vt, Jan 20, 1880. Dr B J Kendall & Co, Gents:—(n reply to your letter I will say that my experience with Kendall s Spavin Cure has been very satisfactory indeed’ Three or four years at.o 1 procured a bottle of your agent, t nd with it cured a horse of lameness cause 1 by a spavir Last season my horse became lame and I turned him out for a few weeks when he became better, but when I put him on the road he grew worse, when I discovered that a ringbone was forming, I procured a bottle of Kendall's Spavin Cure and with less than a bottle cured him so that he is not lame, neither can the bunch be found. Respectfully yours, P N GRANGER.

Statement Made Under Oath. To whom it may- concern—ln the year 1875 I treated with Ken lall s Spavin Cure, a bone spavin of several months’ growth, nearly half as large as a hens egg, at I completely stopped the lameness and removed the enlargement, I have wo-Led the horse ever since very hard, and ne»,r has been lame, nor could I ever see aty difference in the site of the hock joints since 1 treated him with Kendall's Spavin Cure. K A GAINES. Enosburgh Falls, Vt, Feb 25, 1879. Sworn and subscribed to be ore me this 25th day of February A D 1879. JOHN G JENNE, Justice of Peace KENDALL’S SPAVIN CURE On human flesh it has been ascertained by repeated trials to be the very best liniment ever used for any deep seated p,in of long statnding, or of sho-t duration. Also for corns, bunions, frostbites, or any bruise, cut or lameness- Some are afraid to use it on human flesh simply because it is a horse medicine, but you should remember that what is good for beast is good for man. and we know from experience that “Kendall’s Spavin Cure ' can be used on a child 1 year old with perfect safety. Its effects are wonderful on human flesh and it does not blister or make a sore. Try it and be conv’nced. What is Good for Beast is Good for Man. BEAD ITS RFFXCTS ON HUMAN FLESH 1 Patten's Mills, Washington co, N Y, 1 February 21, 1878. / B J Kendall, MD, Dear Sir:—The particular case on which I used your Kendrll's Spavin Cure was a malignant ankle sprain of sixteen months standing. I had tried many things, but in Tain. Your “Kendall Spavin Cure ' put. the foot to the ground again, and, for the first time since hurt, in a natural position. For a family liniment it excells anything weever used. Yours truly, REV M P BELL Pastor M E church, Patten’s Mills, N T. Bakersfield, Vt, Dec 23, 1879. B J Kendall & Co, Gents--I wish to add my testimony in favor of yo r invaluable liniment, “Kendall's Spavin Cure.” In the spring of 1872 I slipped on the ice and sprained my right limb at the knee joint 1 was very lame and at times suffered the most excruciating pain. I wore a bardage on it for over a year, and tried most everything la my reach, but could find nothing that would give me permanent relief. W hen I overworked it would pain me very much. In April 1878 I began to think I should b" a cripple for life; but having some of “Kendall s Spavin Cure'’ thought I would try it. I used one-third of a bottle, and experienced relief at once. Die pjin left me and has not troubled me since. 1 feel very grateful to you and would recommend ‘Kendall's Spavine Cure to all who suffer with sprains and rheumatism. Yours truly, Mrs. J. Boi tell. KENDALL S SPAVIN CURE, Kendall s Spavine Cure is sure in its effects, mild in its action as it does notblist er, yet it is penetrating and powerful to reach any deep seated yain or to remove any bony growth or any other enlargement if used for several days, such as spavins, splints, curbs, callous, sprains, swellings, any lameness and all enlargements of the joints or limbs, or rheumatism in man and for any purpose for which a liniment is used for man er beast. It is now known to be the best liniment for man ever used, acting mild and yet certain in its effects. It is used full strength with perfect safety at all seasons of the year. Send address for Illustrated Circular which we think gives positive proof of its virtues. No remedy has ever met with such unqualified success to our knowledge, for beast as well as man. Price sl. per botlte. or six bottles for $5. All Dbiooists have it or can get it for you, or it will be sent to any address on receipt of price by the proprietors DR. J. B. KENDALL & CO. Enosburg Falls, Vermont, vol. 25. no. 23—1 year. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGIST’S.