Decatur Democrat, Volume 26, Number 21, Decatur, Adams County, 25 August 1882 — Page 4

Marion. Oh, have you seen iry Marion, Sweet lutnmer breoxee flying far, From sun U> inn, from star to atar, Have yon caressed her soft brown hair, Afcd klttert her feet and white arms Imre ? Then whither, tel! me, hath she flown, My little one, my lovee, ray own. My Marlon! My pretty, blue-eyed Marion! ( Whose small, white lianas swept o’er my face With such* dainty, tender grace, Who slefit so softly on raj' nreaat, And woke, a glad bird from hex oest. Bear ye no message, breezes say, From ner I mourn both night anil day. My Manoni ITave ye not seen my Marlon, O, sunbeams* as you dancing go From Helds of bloom to peaks of snow? She passed so quickly from my sight, Q Mv poor, sad eyes were dizzied quite, And but a moment could I see The white host bearing her from me. My Marion! O, little, loving, Marion! Is it in kingdoms faraway You wait for me both night and day? Is it in lands beyend the sun? In groves of spice and cinnamon’ Is it In gardens glad with bloom, And redolent with sweet perfume. My Manon? Ah, dimpled, darling Marlon! T fain would be the one to meet Your tiny, tottering, tipsy feet! I fain would run with outstretched arms, To soothe your childish, sweet alarms; Would smooth your skirts and comb your hair, And rock you in the mild, blue air, My Marion! O, laughing, Hr ping Marion! When I, on some autumnal morn. Go through the vales of tasseled corn, And purpling vinesand bending trees, And singing biMs and humming bees, Shall I not in some secret place. Behold you, darling, fact to face, M y Marion? O, pure and patient Maik»n! Or child, or maiden wuen I <*ome, Your face will be the same sweet one— The shy, glad welcome in yonreyes, My dream fulfilled of Paradise! But now, O. whither have you flown, My little one, ray love, my own, My Marion* —Kate Brownlee Sherwood.

AN APRIL SHOWER. “Raining again!” said Cdfton Durande. “Well, I might have expected it this shiny, showery weather.” The woods were all misty with the tender budding green of the spring foliage. Under foot crept the pink, perfumed stars of the trailing arbutus, while in sheltered nooks, where mossenameled boulders kept off the keen wist wind, and the sunshine poured iis balmy gold, the violets were covering the dead leaves with their dainty carpet of blue embroidery. Down in the ravine a miniature waterfall kept up its musical plaint, and a brown trout-slream wound and twisted among the roots of the trees, so exquisitely transparent that one could see the very stones and pebbles at the bottom. It was a picturesque little glen enough, and Duftinde was considerably annoyed at having to fold up his portfolio before he bad half completed his sketch. “I suppose it is a good mile and a half to the village inn,” said he to himself. “I wonder if there is a farmhouse nigh at hand where I can find temporary shelter.” Even as he stood hesitating and watching the brilliant fall of sparkling drops against the background of purpleblack clouds, the bowery screen of branches was parted, aud a light figure came down into the path—a gold-hair-ed, deep-eyed girl of eighteen, with a brown calico dress, tinv linen frills at neck and wrist, and carrying in her hand a gipsy bonnet, half filled with wild flowers. She paused and looked gravely at him. He lifted his hat with native courtesy. “It is raining,” said she gravely. “You will get wet.” ■Unfortunately, yea,” he responded. “Perhaps you can tell me of someplace near by in which I can take shelter?” “There is farmer Dakin’s barn.” said the woodland apparition; “but it is on the other side of the river, and the roof leaks like an old sieve. And there is our house just over the edge of the hill. I think you had better go to our house.” “If you will kindly admit me there,” said Mr. Durande. “I am—” “Oh, I know who ycu are,” said the girl, with a little deprecatory motion of her hand, “and I'm very sorry for you, indeed; and please,” with a lovely fluttering color coming and going in her cheeks, “I should like to be your friend, if you will allow me.” “With the greatest pleasure in the world,” said Mr. Durande, waxing more and more bewildered. "Then come this way,” said the nymph, floating gracefully on before, the purple-black clouds forming abackground for her exquisite face and figure, and the trees weaving an arch overhead. Clifton Durande was no contemptible pedestrian, but he soon found that he was compelled to use every effort to keep up with the girl. “I do not know whom I am to thank for all this kindness,” said Durande. a little constrainedly, when they had reached the house. “It is raining very hard now. and I should scarcely have known where t > find a shelter.” "I am Mattie Willett,” said the girl, with unconscious dignity. “Are you very tired? Please take this cushioned | chair—it is easier ti an the other. Sir down, and I will bring you some bre. a id milk presently.” Clifton Durande looked around him in a sort of pleasant bewilderment. F owers were blossoming in the windows—pmk prime ses. sweet-scented geraniums and velvet-petalled monthly ro«es; engravings, framed in pineconesand ru-tic work, hung on the walls: a bird warbled in its cage, and a blue-rib-boned guitar lay on the chintz-covered lounge, close b side a work basket full of sweet femii in belongings. “Am I in enchanted land,” he asked Lims df. “Is this a modern Utopia, an Arcadia of the nineteenth century, where wood-t-ymphs take pity upon the belated travelers, and all the world is hospitality?” He looked at pretty Mattie Willett as she came into the room with a bowl of milk and some slices of home baked bread, with evident admiration. “You are an artist?” said be. “No,” said she. “At least you admire fine pictures?” with a glance at the walls. “Yes.” “Do you draw or sketch?” he asked. “Oli. no.” “Did you ever try?” - “No.” “How shy she is,” he thought; “and how beautifully her hair grows on her forehead—real Scotch gold in its tints' I wouder how I shall manage to draw her out?” M ittie Willett might have been shy—perhaps she was—but she moved about the room with all the quiet self-imsse—-sion of an empress, aud as Durande’s eyes involuntarily followed her. he became more and more impressed with the odd fancy that he was iu an enebr tiled realm. •Why don't she talk?” he thought. “I will make her talk.” At that moment, however, a sudden thunderbolt seemed to cleave the air with its force, the air was all a-quiver

with blue fire, and the rain began to descend in almost perpendicular sheets; and Miss Willett, still moving in the slow, graceful manner which was entirely devoid of anythin? like flurry or turmoil, passed leisurely into the other room. “Charley 1” she cried out joyfully, as if welcoming some one who had just entered from the outer door. "1 am so glad you are safe here at last. I have been so troubled for fear you should get wet.” “Wlnxs Charley, confound him !’ thought our artist, a sudden chill coming over the sunshine of his self-com-placency. “And why does she welcome him in that enthusiastic way. as different from the way she speaks to me as electricity is from snow? She has got a soul and a heart; she isn’t a mere beautiful automaton. Who is Charley, anyway?” “Wet? If” echoed a deep, cheery voice. “No clanger in the world of that, little Mat! But who have you got in the sitting-room? 1 saw a man's head as 1 passed around the corner of the house.” “Jealous, eh?” thought Clifton, with a grim smile. “I’m glad of it! Though, to be sure, who* one comes to think of it, she hasn't given him so very much ground for jealousy." “Hush!” Mattie responded, lowering her voice. “Don't speak so loud. It s that poor fellow from Carlin’s —the weak-minded young man, you know, whom his friends have boarded there. I never have happened to see him before, but they tell me he is quite harmless, and when I saw him standing there in the rain making no effort to go one way or the other, I felt sorry tor him, and brought him home.” “What! Carlin’s idiot ?” shouted Charley, in very evident consternation. ■les, Carlin’s idiot, if you will call him so—which is very rude and unchristian of you,” retorted Mattie. “But the trouble is, now, how to get rid of him. They say he never will go away unless you put him out by main force.” Charley, the inconsiderate wretch, indulged in a low, prolonged chuckle. “Now you have done it!” said he. “We’ll wait a little until the deluge holds up, and I’ll see how I can help you out of your dilemma.” But Mr. Clifton Durande waited for no such denouement. He to be taken deliberately, and in eold blood, for Carlin's idiot! It was too much for any man’s philosophy; and. catching up his sketching portfolio. he rushed out into the rain. “Perhaps I needed the lesson,” he said to himself; “but it was rather a sharp one. Carlin’s idiot, indeed !” He got home to Castleton Hall,where he was the guest of Mr. Alb-rique Castle. just as a superb rainbow was arching the dripping woods, and the sun broke in a blaze of glory from the west. It had been a long, rainy walk, and as he walked he had thought of only two things—Carlin’s idiot, and Mattie Willett’s fair, seri us face. “How she pitied me!” he said to himself. “There was a serene- gracious compassion in every word she said, every glance she bestowed upon me. I might have known it w asn’t intended for my own personality —clumsy, conceited blockhead that I was!” “Lillian.” he said to Miss Castle that evening, “have you invited Miss Willett to your party next week?” “Matiie Willett?” said Lillian, knitting together her pretty brows. “Oh, yes! She is old farmer Willett’s granddaughter, and she sings exquisitely and accompanies herself with taste on the guitar. She is a very sweet, cultivated girl. Bit what do you know about her, Clifton ?” “Oh,” said our hero evasively, “I have chanced to hear of her in my peregrinations. And who is Charley?” “He is her brother,” said Lillian Castle; and then Mr. Durande felt better. • But it was not without a certain malicious satisfaction that he bowed low to Mattie Willett, looking lovelier than ever in white muslin and pale blue ribbons, the night of the party at Castleton Hall, when Lillian introduced them. She looked at him with solemn surprise, evidently recognising him, in spite of his diamond shirt-studs, lavender necktie and elegant evening dress “You see,” he said with a smile, “that I am not Carlin’s idiot, after all. But I have to thank you for your gracious and gentle hospitality, all the same.” “I am very -orry I made such an awkward mistake,” said Mattie, coloring a little. “But I am not.” said Mr. Durande; “for it showed me the spontaneous charity and kindness of your nature.” And before the evening was over they were the best of friends. Mr. Clifton Durande’spicture of “Au April Shower over Glitter Falls” was hung up on the “Sight Line” in the next spring’s exhibition at the Academy, and Mattie Willett took an innocent pride in its beauty, as she stood in the crowd, leaning upon the arm of the young artist himself. “And to think that I, a simple little country girl, should be engaged to such a great artist!” she murmured, so low that the words could reach his ear alone. “An artist,” be responded, laughing, •‘but perhaps not so famous a one, after all, I shall never forget, Mattie darling, what a blow to my self-com-placency it wits when I discovered that you had mistaken me, the budding genius. for—Carlin’s idiot" “Please —please try and forget that!” said Matlie. “I wouldn’t for the world,” said Clifton Durande.

An Ingenious Device. A Missouri farmer named S. H Terry, of Gutbrie, recently arrived ir this city with a model of a cable railroad, which embraces a number of im provements of his own invention, tha lie claims will be of immense advantagi to street railway companies. The firs' and most important improvement is i plan of laying the track by which the disturbance of the street or road ovet which it runs is rendered unnecessary By his plan the boxes and cable will I < placed upon the ties now in no use, im a saving of $90,000 per mile, he claims, will be effecied in construction. An other improvement is the removal o all difficulties attending upon crossings and switches. By a simple device when a crossing is reached, the botton flange of the side of the champ comes in couLwct with the top of the guide, s< that the clamp is raised til! it passes over the cross pope, and then ns soor as the guides are passed it drops witl its own weight and seizes hold of thi cable again. There is also an adjust ment on the ciamp by which an automatic switch can be worked when it is desired to run off on a side track. An other attachment to the clamp is I spring running on either side of its sufficient distance back to prevent ths shock which wouid occur without it every time the clamp takes hold of ths cable. To prevent the slipping of rais Ing of the cable from its position in th« grooves on the top of the ties, tnere art beveled clasps placed at points along the line where most danger of this hap pening is likely to be. One lever open: the clamp and brakes the car. Mr Terry says the Sonth Side Company has resolved to use his patent foi switches and crossings, and he has n< doubt that where new cable lines are « be put down in future his plan of lay tha track will be universally adop

Advertisements in Local Papers1 here is a class of people tn the world who think that newspapers are conducted by their proprietors for the mere pleasure of the thing. They also labor under the delusion that a “puff"’ for their place of business, or for any particular article in which they may deal, is an “item of news” and would, as the common expression of the dead-beat advertisers hath it, “go to fill up the paper ; just as if, as all newspaper men know, that there is 'not always enough and to spare of matter to crowd into the columns. Unfortunately, there are too many proprietors of journals who insert in their local columns items that are de facto advertisements, and should be paid for as such. The Rev. Mr. Snodgrass, B. A., etc., etc., gets a fur coat presented to him about Christmas time, and the editorial sanctum is, about a week before the interesting event comes off, invaded by a small army of influential female members of the Rev. S.’s congregation, clamoring for an advance notice of perhaps thirty or forty lines, which, of eouise, go “to fill up the paper,” and at the same time takes sundry shekels out of the proprietor's pocuets for composition. Then conies a long report of said presentation, taking up time and space—for what? Just wear and tear of type and no thanks! Every man whose hen lays a mammoth egg. every huckster who has the first strawberries of the season, wants a puff, but ail for nothing, and the paper has to run staff, pay wages, feed the proprietor and his bairns, for chameleon-like remuneration. As everybody who has had the luck, ill or good, to engage in the newspaper business knows, it is not the subscription list that keeps up a paper, because the latter is as bard to collect as borrowed umbrellas, and if the advertising patronage is all of the d. h. class, a paper soon goes to the wall. One of the most valuable adjuncts to a newspaper is a good advertising canvasser, and when he is a good one he is worth more to the proprietor than any other man on the staff. Pay him well, give him carte blanche to use his own discretion as to what contracts he makes: trust to his judgment. and keep clear of gratuitous advertisements, and the elements of success in a paper are secured. The writer of this at one time was connected with a little paper in Liverpool, England, called the Porcupine, that threw its quills around in a lively style. Hugh Shimmin, the editor and proprietor thereof, inaugurated a new departure. No contributor was allowed to accept a complimentary ticket f >r any sort of entertainment. Hence, free and unbridled criticism could be indulged in. Here they are trammelled with being placed under the thumb of a showman who comes along, floods the office with tickets, and the unfortunate mortal of a reporter is oftentimes obliged to stultify himself by saying that an affair is good, when he knows full well that it is worse than bad. For pity’s sake, let some journal start the ball rolling, and do away with this infliction of having to waste printer's ink, printer's time, and proprietor’s space, which is a portion of their capital, for gratuitous ads. If one paper would only have the pluck to set its face against it. the others world soon follow.— An Exchange. —•— “ Says The Coney Island Sewi“Among the waiters at one of the hotels on the beach are two Polish counts, an Austrian diplomat, a bankrupt brewer, a French magician, fourteen Italian tenors from Germany, nine cornet players, throe unappreciated German tra.edians, twentythree ladies’ hair-dressers, thirteen barbers, and five elder sons who expect to be heirs to castles on the Rhine. Such an array of promiscuous talent has rarely been combined, but many of them are poor mathematicians and are consequently very stupid in giving correct change.’’

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imperial bints. The superintendent of the imperial silk manufactories at Hangchow, in China, states that the expenditure of the Chinese Conrt upon silken fabrics has within the last two years attained unheard-of During the year 187 S alone silks of variou. qualities valued at $400,000, wholesale price, were supplied to the imperial palace—among them 1,300 pieces for the use of the servants in the Emperor's gynecenm alone, the greater number of which piece, he believes to have been fraudulently disposed of by sale to retail silk dealers or to lenders of money upon portable propertv. The above sum of $400,000 does not comprise the cost of gorgeous silken robes and other garments supplied to the Empresses and court ladies, many of which cost over $5,000 apiece. Sev. Buty illustrious dames, matrimonially and otherwise connected with the Brother of the Sun and Moon, are especially furnished with unlimited costumes from the imperial factory in question, and their outlay annually in silk dresses is estimated at another SS'J<J,OOO. When one ot these ladies dies Iter entire wardrobe is buried with her, aud thus enormous sums are annually wasted.

SPRING GreetinG : . ( / 4 b I Daily receiving my Spring Stock of dry goods, MOTIONS, clothing, 1 groceries % queensware, * Ao., &c. < Ao., An, »4 m •* ’*"* drfy »U oumpMlUow. NrK ML folkwing >rW -, Drew Goods as Low as Bc. I wish 1® cat! y® ar attention to the Folwell Cashmeres which we Canrantee all Wool from «H>c to 51.83. Ala®, our Jamcwtown Dress Goods, which are insured to wash and hold their color from ttOe u>.

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Whoa There Stop!. and CALL AROUND AT PHILLIP WARNER’S If you want to buy Clothing under cost. We have marked Everything—: Down, Way Down. Until they can’t get any lower. Our stock of Furnishing Goods is large and MUST BE SOLD. Be sure to see us when you are in town, and you will agres that we are selling BargainS. DON’T FORGET THE PLACE, 8. GATE’S OLD STAND, SrUDABAKER AND ALLISON’S NEW BLOCK, IN WEST SIDE OF SECOND STREET—ni l Why Not Tempt Fortune? ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COSTS NOTHING. SIXTY THOUSAND DOLLARS AND OVER PAID TO Ob'R CITIZENS WITHIN A SHORT TIME BY THE LOUISIANA LOTTERY ASS’TIOKj LISTEN ! TICKETS GIVEN AWAY EVERY PURCHASER OF Clothing, Hats, Etc., amounting to 9 iO or More Presented with a Ticket Cratli Sam, Pete & Max, FORT WAYNE.

JOHN W. ROUT. WM M. BURDG “Th Fornax Mill,” ROUT <& B’CTIDC, PROPRIETORS, The FORNAX MILL has recently changed hands. The present proprietors are JOHN W. ROUT & WILLIAM M. BURDG, the latter, one of the best practical Millers in the country. The change means business—means that repairs and new machinery will be put in, to enable it to com pete in all respects with the best mills in this or anv othei country as to the quality of its work. The Mill is so located it is convenient of access to the public, whether town or country patrons. We arc located on the river, just one square and a half from the Court House, and near the central business portion of the town; have « large and commodious yard, with stable conveniences for feed and water for our customers, not found elsewhere. All of the old customers of the FORNAX MILL are invited to call and renew their acquaintance and give us their patronage. We on our part assure them that no pains will be spared to give satisfaction in every particular, as to quantity and quality of our work. We will at all times pay the highest market price in cash for all grain suitable for our business for flouring pur poses. Customers are assured that they can get their work done without delay, all statements to the contrary notwithstanding The Mill will be in motion every business day. Rout Burdg, have taken out their saw mill a double one, which with its pulleys aud oelcs is complete ' readv to attach power, will be sold very cheap. They will put in iU plac « large stream corn ,heller, and that very soon. ROUT & BURDG. •i 2J-49